It read as a troll-y, spammy kind of message and, frankly, a ridiculous one. Video games are, without any question, one-thousand times as or more creative than they've ever been. Immersive, exciting, beautiful. Is it a trap to get people to say the names of video games to attract links or hits or something? Is it like an SEO-bomb or something?
-----Original Message----- From: Edward Crosby <[email protected]> To: theuniquegeek <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 8:11 am Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] I hate all modern video games Totally agree. Is it me or did this original thread seem completely random? [email protected], are you a spammer? -- Have a Better One, Edward Crosby http://about.me/edwardcrosby ----- "There are no atheists in foxholes or firmware updates." Merlin Mann > As much as I love classic arcade games, I gotta take exception to this > notion. FPS games brought a greater emphasis on plot and storytelling to > video games than the classic scrolling shooter. Have we forgotten the > foundation that the original Half Life set down? > As for creativity, the FPS perspective has generated more than it's share > of new concepts- Myst, MDK, the Need For Speed franchise, Portal, Left 4 > Dead; all added something new to the gaming experience. There are dozens > of titles I'm omitting here. > This isn't to say I don't miss unusual games like Tempest (just bought it > for my iPad via the Atari game app), but to claim that creativity died > with the introduction of FPS platform games is silly. > > On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > >> let's hear it for Space Invaders!!! >> >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I first played video games in 1987, and I used to love those games on >> my old computer. >> Ever since Quake happened, and it spawned a whole GENRE of "first >> person shooters", I've started to hate the PC game scene. Can we not >> bring creativity back? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Make friends from around the world who share your tastes - >> www.tasteconnect.net >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
