Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I Want My MTV
For a little stretch of this timeline, everybody who had haircuts like Luke Skywalker could get laid.
And there were plenty of guys that were probably forced to have Luke Skywalker haircuts, like the dudes on Battlestar Galactica heh.
Now, back in the days when Star Wars came out, there wasn't any such thing as VCRs, so if you wanted to see Star Wars, you had to go to a movie theatre and just remember the stuff you saw there, y'know, 'cause you couldn't just purchase it and watch it over and over again as many times as you wanted and totally desensitize yerself to the shit.
And that made things even worse for TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, 'cause if you missed one of those shows, that was it, baby, I mean, who knows when the TV was gonna play that show again heh.
But nowadays both of them things is no big deal, y'know, 'cause you know you can always record junk or buy the DVD or catch it the next time they play it or watch it on On Demand or whatever.
Its not "special" like it used to be, where it was sorta a big deal to go out to the movies and see Star Wars.
It was more like going to the circus, it was more like Star Wars was visiting your town or something.
Or, in the case of Battlestar Galactica, you knew every other Battlestar Galactica fan in the world was out there somewhere in the dark watching the same show as you.
Well, mebbe not in the whole world, but whatever, you know what I'm saying, it sorta explains what the appeal of watching something playing on TV is even though you own the DVD and you coulda watched it whenever you want.
Its that old fashioned movie magic heh.
Saturday morning cartoons were another thing like that, before there was a bunch of cartoon channels and the Disney DVD babysitter, there was only a couple hours a day you could watch cartoons, and there wasn't jack shit to watch as far as cartoons went on Sunday.
And the only times they played cartoons during primetime was a "Special Presentation" reserved for holiday junk like that Charlie Brown Christmas thing, and we'd get all excited and shit, 'member?
I mean, we liked that Charlie Brown Christmas shit even though it sucked some serious ass, that's just how starved for cartoons they kept us ahaha.
But now its like, shit, there's cartoons everywhere, man, big deal.
I have no idea how to recapture some of that old fashioned movie magic and apply it to games (or anything else), I mean, I thought about it for at least thirty seconds now and I got nuthin.
Mebbe Live Events could be sorta like that, if they were done a little better, y'know, like, "its Friday Night Online!" or something.
But it made me think that you COULD recapture some of that old fashioned movie magic in games by having movies play in a movie theatre inside a game.
Y'know, 'cause you can't record those or buy 'em on DVD unless the game has that innit too.
Although I guess you could "bootleg" it with a screen capture program or something, but whatever, the point is you could play old (or new) episodes of Battlestar Galactica inside a game no prob.
And sorta simulate that 70s movie magic.
Oh sure, it wouldn't make sense in an Ork game, but its kinda weird to think about all the scifi games that don't have anything like that, seeing as how TV screens sorta pervade our current universe.
And sure, it takes "extra effort" to implement something like that in a game, especially if you are gonna create your own content, insteada just managing your players creating content, or getting a deal with whoever to "relay" episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard or something.
Same thing with radio and shit.
Another thing it made me think of is the way a game that does have TV or Radio or Movies and ads in it always tries to do comedic little things with it.
Y'know, 'cause they know they don't have time to do anything good, so they just make a quick little joke out of it.
Or they figure people are here to play a game, and not watch some damn thing on TV.
But what if somebody did do something really great with it.
Something that was even better than the game you were playing heh.
Something that would turn all those lame-ass "adventurers" into proper couch potatoes like us.
But you had to play the game to watch it.
That kinda shit almost did happen in Max Payne and Vampire Bloodlines, I mean, I know I never missed a show in Max Payne heh.
Hey man, they could have real live commercials and everything, skies the limit, really, I don't have anything invested in this dumb little idea that ain't got nothing to do with the stuff that really matters to me.
Y'know, like helicopters.
I just think its weird that people got their own personal houses in games but no TV heh.
No wonder nobody wants to hang out there, its like spending some end-of-the-world break-out-the-acoustic-guitar hello-silence-my-old-friend sent-to-your-room time or something ahaha.
"Hey, wanna come over to my cave and stare at the wall?"
See, something like that makes me think that maybe the sword-n-orc games ain't got it so good afterall.
I mean, I sure as hell don't wanna hear a bunch of goddam minstrels play anything on Minstrel Radio or whatever they had back in them days heh.
When we could be watching Southpark or the New Battlestar Galactica or whatever on our virtual couches with our virtual buddies.
Heck, there's no reason that virtual movie theatres couldn't charge real money and play real movies.
Don't ya think Tarantino or Elvira or somebody would be turned on by the idea of "virtually" hosting some kinda limited-audience Grindhouse thing like that?
There's bound to be some out-of-work aging actor dude or something totally willing to host that kinda in-club shit heh.
I mean, worst case, think Danny Bonaduce and Gary Coleman or something ahaha.
And fer the love of mike, if people with Luke Skywalker haircuts can get laid, anything is possible, y'know?
And there were plenty of guys that were probably forced to have Luke Skywalker haircuts, like the dudes on Battlestar Galactica heh.
Now, back in the days when Star Wars came out, there wasn't any such thing as VCRs, so if you wanted to see Star Wars, you had to go to a movie theatre and just remember the stuff you saw there, y'know, 'cause you couldn't just purchase it and watch it over and over again as many times as you wanted and totally desensitize yerself to the shit.
And that made things even worse for TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, 'cause if you missed one of those shows, that was it, baby, I mean, who knows when the TV was gonna play that show again heh.
But nowadays both of them things is no big deal, y'know, 'cause you know you can always record junk or buy the DVD or catch it the next time they play it or watch it on On Demand or whatever.
Its not "special" like it used to be, where it was sorta a big deal to go out to the movies and see Star Wars.
It was more like going to the circus, it was more like Star Wars was visiting your town or something.
Or, in the case of Battlestar Galactica, you knew every other Battlestar Galactica fan in the world was out there somewhere in the dark watching the same show as you.
Well, mebbe not in the whole world, but whatever, you know what I'm saying, it sorta explains what the appeal of watching something playing on TV is even though you own the DVD and you coulda watched it whenever you want.
Its that old fashioned movie magic heh.
Saturday morning cartoons were another thing like that, before there was a bunch of cartoon channels and the Disney DVD babysitter, there was only a couple hours a day you could watch cartoons, and there wasn't jack shit to watch as far as cartoons went on Sunday.
And the only times they played cartoons during primetime was a "Special Presentation" reserved for holiday junk like that Charlie Brown Christmas thing, and we'd get all excited and shit, 'member?
I mean, we liked that Charlie Brown Christmas shit even though it sucked some serious ass, that's just how starved for cartoons they kept us ahaha.
But now its like, shit, there's cartoons everywhere, man, big deal.
I have no idea how to recapture some of that old fashioned movie magic and apply it to games (or anything else), I mean, I thought about it for at least thirty seconds now and I got nuthin.
Mebbe Live Events could be sorta like that, if they were done a little better, y'know, like, "its Friday Night Online!" or something.
But it made me think that you COULD recapture some of that old fashioned movie magic in games by having movies play in a movie theatre inside a game.
Y'know, 'cause you can't record those or buy 'em on DVD unless the game has that innit too.
Although I guess you could "bootleg" it with a screen capture program or something, but whatever, the point is you could play old (or new) episodes of Battlestar Galactica inside a game no prob.
And sorta simulate that 70s movie magic.
Oh sure, it wouldn't make sense in an Ork game, but its kinda weird to think about all the scifi games that don't have anything like that, seeing as how TV screens sorta pervade our current universe.
And sure, it takes "extra effort" to implement something like that in a game, especially if you are gonna create your own content, insteada just managing your players creating content, or getting a deal with whoever to "relay" episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard or something.
Same thing with radio and shit.
Another thing it made me think of is the way a game that does have TV or Radio or Movies and ads in it always tries to do comedic little things with it.
Y'know, 'cause they know they don't have time to do anything good, so they just make a quick little joke out of it.
Or they figure people are here to play a game, and not watch some damn thing on TV.
But what if somebody did do something really great with it.
Something that was even better than the game you were playing heh.
Something that would turn all those lame-ass "adventurers" into proper couch potatoes like us.
But you had to play the game to watch it.
That kinda shit almost did happen in Max Payne and Vampire Bloodlines, I mean, I know I never missed a show in Max Payne heh.
Hey man, they could have real live commercials and everything, skies the limit, really, I don't have anything invested in this dumb little idea that ain't got nothing to do with the stuff that really matters to me.
Y'know, like helicopters.
I just think its weird that people got their own personal houses in games but no TV heh.
No wonder nobody wants to hang out there, its like spending some end-of-the-world break-out-the-acoustic-guitar hello-silence-my-old-friend sent-to-your-room time or something ahaha.
"Hey, wanna come over to my cave and stare at the wall?"
See, something like that makes me think that maybe the sword-n-orc games ain't got it so good afterall.
I mean, I sure as hell don't wanna hear a bunch of goddam minstrels play anything on Minstrel Radio or whatever they had back in them days heh.
When we could be watching Southpark or the New Battlestar Galactica or whatever on our virtual couches with our virtual buddies.
Heck, there's no reason that virtual movie theatres couldn't charge real money and play real movies.
Don't ya think Tarantino or Elvira or somebody would be turned on by the idea of "virtually" hosting some kinda limited-audience Grindhouse thing like that?
There's bound to be some out-of-work aging actor dude or something totally willing to host that kinda in-club shit heh.
I mean, worst case, think Danny Bonaduce and Gary Coleman or something ahaha.
And fer the love of mike, if people with Luke Skywalker haircuts can get laid, anything is possible, y'know?
Phasers Full of Stun
"Dude, I don't know why they even bothered putting a stun setting on our guns."
"You guys are such meat-heads. You need a stun setting in case you wanna shoot your friends."
"Why the hell would you wanna shoot your friends?!"
"You start shooting at me with that damn thing and you better have it set on kill!"
"If I even see you with your gun set on stun I'm blasting you!"
"Dude it doesn't hurt you, it just makes you numb and stuff."
"Yah you can shoot yourself in the foot all you want and it'll just make your foot go to sleep."
"Dude we used to shoot ourselves in the face back at the academy just to do the numb-lips and make each other laugh."
"Yah it wears off in like..."
"..."
"Oh man that was a mean thing to do. But funny."
"Oh my god he actually did it."
"What an idiot."
"He's gonna be pissed when he wakes up man."
"Naw, he won't remember anything from today at all."
"Really?"
"Yah I shot myself once."
"Oh man that's awesome."
"Don't be getting any stupid ideas, I'm not dragging you guys all the way back to the shuttle by myself."
"Oh man... I dunno... a free piggy-back ride back to the shuttle courtesy of the captain is tempting..."
"He can't even really be mad at you for making him carry you all the way back to the shuttle 'cause you won't remember what you did that pissed him off!"
"And even if he was, I could just stun 'im and make 'im fergit that he had to do it."
"Yah you could make up anything you want to explain what happened."
"Dude, that's dumb, you won't remember your plan to shoot him and make him forget that he's pissed at you for making him carry you back to the shuttle."
"Yer such a buzzkill."
"I could write it on my hand. Anybody got a pen?"
"That's it, everybody give me your weapons."
"No way man!"
"..."
"Great, now we gotta carry the captain too."
"Well, at least he won't remember what happened."
"Yah, at least we won't get in trouble."
"Oh man this stun thing is so awesome."
"Yah, 'cept for the part where we gotta carry these guys all the way back to the shuttle."
"No way I'm getting stuck doing this, man, I'm shooting myself."
"Last guy to shoot himself has to carry everybody else back!"
"..."
Hours later...
"What the..."
"Oh man, where are we?"
"Tricorder says we're about a mile away from the shuttle."
"Alright everybody, keep your eyes peeled and be ready for anything, something fishy is going on."
"That's weird, my phaser is set on stun."
"Wtf so is mine!"
"Man I dont ever set my phaser on stun, that's weird."
"Dude, I don't know why they even bothered putting a stun setting on our guns."
"You guys are such meat-heads. You need a stun setting in case you wanna shoot your friends."
"Why the hell would you wanna shoot your friends?!"
"You guys are such meat-heads. You need a stun setting in case you wanna shoot your friends."
"Why the hell would you wanna shoot your friends?!"
"You start shooting at me with that damn thing and you better have it set on kill!"
"If I even see you with your gun set on stun I'm blasting you!"
"Dude it doesn't hurt you, it just makes you numb and stuff."
"Yah you can shoot yourself in the foot all you want and it'll just make your foot go to sleep."
"Dude we used to shoot ourselves in the face back at the academy just to do the numb-lips and make each other laugh."
"Yah it wears off in like..."
"..."
"Oh man that was a mean thing to do. But funny."
"Oh my god he actually did it."
"What an idiot."
"He's gonna be pissed when he wakes up man."
"Naw, he won't remember anything from today at all."
"Really?"
"Yah I shot myself once."
"Oh man that's awesome."
"Don't be getting any stupid ideas, I'm not dragging you guys all the way back to the shuttle by myself."
"Oh man... I dunno... a free piggy-back ride back to the shuttle courtesy of the captain is tempting..."
"He can't even really be mad at you for making him carry you all the way back to the shuttle 'cause you won't remember what you did that pissed him off!"
"And even if he was, I could just stun 'im and make 'im fergit that he had to do it."
"Yah you could make up anything you want to explain what happened."
"Dude, that's dumb, you won't remember your plan to shoot him and make him forget that he's pissed at you for making him carry you back to the shuttle."
"Yer such a buzzkill."
"I could write it on my hand. Anybody got a pen?"
"That's it, everybody give me your weapons."
"No way man!"
"..."
"Great, now we gotta carry the captain too."
"Well, at least he won't remember what happened."
"Yah, at least we won't get in trouble."
"Oh man this stun thing is so awesome."
"Yah, 'cept for the part where we gotta carry these guys all the way back to the shuttle."
"No way I'm getting stuck doing this, man, I'm shooting myself."
"Last guy to shoot himself has to carry everybody else back!"
"..."
Hours later...
"What the..."
"Oh man, where are we?"
"Tricorder says we're about a mile away from the shuttle."
"Alright everybody, keep your eyes peeled and be ready for anything, something fishy is going on."
"That's weird, my phaser is set on stun."
"Wtf so is mine!"
"Man I dont ever set my phaser on stun, that's weird."
"Dude, I don't know why they even bothered putting a stun setting on our guns."
"You guys are such meat-heads. You need a stun setting in case you wanna shoot your friends."
"Why the hell would you wanna shoot your friends?!"
Monday, March 10, 2008
On the Dock of the Bay
Yah, a gorilla with the head of a robot isn't as tough as a robot with the head of a gorilla, but we look cooler and we don't have any problems getting up and down the stairs in the cargo hold and shit.
Plus I don't really need to be that tough since I'm partnered up with a heavy-lifting robot with a human brain.
Hey, don't ya start crying on me now, man, you can lift heavier shit and yer more human than a human body with the brain of a robot, right?
Right.
Sure, mebbe you ain't so smart and yer a little emotional and crap but shit man everybody's got their little things y'know.
I got the body of a goddam gorilla so I don't wanna hear none of yer shit man!
And check out that monkey-headed robot over there, its all messed up and twisted around backwards, man, 'least we ain't like that pitiful-ass thing.
Yah, I think that robot brain that's got yer body is having fun messing that poor critter up on purpose or something, getting under its skin and screwing with its poor little monkey brains and stuff, its face is looking worse and worse every day.
Dude, that human body of yers gets all the chicks, man, you ain't the only one that wishes he was that guy heh.
Oh quitcher crying already, sheesh, that shuddering hydrolics noise is giving me the creeps.
Plus I don't really need to be that tough since I'm partnered up with a heavy-lifting robot with a human brain.
Hey, don't ya start crying on me now, man, you can lift heavier shit and yer more human than a human body with the brain of a robot, right?
Right.
Sure, mebbe you ain't so smart and yer a little emotional and crap but shit man everybody's got their little things y'know.
I got the body of a goddam gorilla so I don't wanna hear none of yer shit man!
And check out that monkey-headed robot over there, its all messed up and twisted around backwards, man, 'least we ain't like that pitiful-ass thing.
Yah, I think that robot brain that's got yer body is having fun messing that poor critter up on purpose or something, getting under its skin and screwing with its poor little monkey brains and stuff, its face is looking worse and worse every day.
Dude, that human body of yers gets all the chicks, man, you ain't the only one that wishes he was that guy heh.
Oh quitcher crying already, sheesh, that shuddering hydrolics noise is giving me the creeps.
An Apology
Listening to that "rock and roll" music on the Radio will turn you into some kinda crazed devil worshipping murderer.
Everybody knows that.
Especially if you actually dance to it.
And so will playing Dungeons & Dragons.
And watching anything on TV.
And going to the movies.
And reading books and newspapers and magazines and brochures and technical manuals.
And playing Nintendo and Online Games.
And eating fatty foods and smoking cigarettes.
And holding hands with girls.
And talking on telephones.
And using a telescope or an abacus.
The only thing that won't turn you into some kinda crazed devil-worshipping murderer is reading blogs.
Everybody knows that.
But its not that the guys who write blogs aren't trying to to turn you into some kind of crazed devil worshipping murderer.
We are trying to turn you into some kind of crazed devil worshipping murderer!
We just suck at it!
And so we keep turning you into these yucky good and wholesome and totally uncool people that nobody likes on accident!
But we're working on it heh.
Everybody knows that.
Especially if you actually dance to it.
And so will playing Dungeons & Dragons.
And watching anything on TV.
And going to the movies.
And reading books and newspapers and magazines and brochures and technical manuals.
And playing Nintendo and Online Games.
And eating fatty foods and smoking cigarettes.
And holding hands with girls.
And talking on telephones.
And using a telescope or an abacus.
The only thing that won't turn you into some kinda crazed devil-worshipping murderer is reading blogs.
Everybody knows that.
But its not that the guys who write blogs aren't trying to to turn you into some kind of crazed devil worshipping murderer.
We are trying to turn you into some kind of crazed devil worshipping murderer!
We just suck at it!
And so we keep turning you into these yucky good and wholesome and totally uncool people that nobody likes on accident!
But we're working on it heh.
Helicopters, Dude, Helicopters
When I was a newb, I thought the coolest thing would be a MMO based on a Standard Colonial Space Marine Bug Hunt, where you rode around in a military mothership like the Sulaco, and you dropped down to a planet in one of them Cheyenne scramjet helicopter-looking things, with a player-pilot, and you drove through an infested colony in one of those totally kickass looking Armored Personnel Carriers with the big ass tires, and you explored some ripped-up apocalyptic scifi version of a dungeon on foot in Standard Fireteam Sweeping formation with the smart gunner in the back and the "micro-changes-in-air-density bullshit" guy scanning up front.
And the helicopter dude would circle around the place just waiting for you guys to break formation and start running around screaming and dying and begging to be picked up.
Nowadays I think a thing like that would only be fun for a little while, I mean, I think you need a lot of other stuff to do besides missions like that over and over again, no matter how cool you make the missions, but at the time, there was no EQ or UO or anything yet, and I had never played a MUD that was "Virtual Worldy" with people that I didn't know in real life, so it was all just a bunch of "man, you know what would be kickass?" stuff in my head.
I mean, I don't think you could make a pure adrenaline junky thing like that into a WoW or EQ-like type of game with upgradeable machine guns and crafting or "rising through the ranks of the Colonial Space Marines" or anything like that, that kinda shit has nothing to do with what is cool about a Bug Hunt.
That kinda junk would just be a distraction from what is cool about a Bug Hunt.
Y'know, like, the only "crafting" my Space Marine needs to do is to weld some cafeteria tables together to block a corridor and unless a bunch of medals can help me not get my face melted by acid blood I ain't got any use for 'em ahaha.
But whenever new technology comes out, like the multiplayer vehicles in Tribes and UT and SWG, or the helmet-cam supporting stuff from Doom 3 (or whatever that came from), right away I always apply it to my mental model of a Colonial Space Marine Bug Hunt, and I think things like "Oh man! Now we can do that Lovecraft Blueprint with the Officer guy in back of the APC listening to all the screams and watching the fuzzy helmet cam screens of his men go black!"
Even though I know the Colonial Space Marine Bug Hunt is not a very good setting for a MMO, I mean, its a damn good setting or blueprint for a mission or something, but the Colonial Space Marine stuff kinda gets in the way of extending it out into some kinda "worldy" upgrade-your-dollhouse-clothes game with lots of other people running around.
So you just steal the bare bones of that Lovecraftian Blueprint and you put it in a universe where the upgrade-your-dollhouse-clothes thing doesn't mess it up so much, no prob, right?
Or you figure out a different way to do things from that "upgrade-your-dollhouse level 50 Smart Gunner LFG" stuff, y'know, stuff that supported the themes of Colonial Space Marines, or stuff that the themes of the Colonial Space Marines would inspire you to come up with, which is fun to think about, but it definitely ain't as easy as doing it the other way, y'know, where you don't hardly have to think at all 'cause you can just trace what all the other successful guys were doing, and you (well, supposedly, heh) don't have to take risks with other people's money on potentially bad "cutting-edge" ideas and stuff that won't work out in implementation.
"You're a tracer."
But the truth is that people really aren't even smart enough to notice and understand everything that was good about a thing and just copy it, even when they're the guy that did the original drawing that inspired a million copies, so there's always risks and some dumb luck involved no matter what you do ahaha.
Anyways, I see stuff like the way the Stargate: Worlds guys talk, y'know, "aint gonna have no vehicles" and how they're thinking about adding crafting, and I just shudder, 'cause it reminds me of SWG with no vehicles and no space game, where we ran around in that godsforsaken Star Wars Flavored medieval Ultima Universe, living in the desert and calling ourselves "artisans" and transporting bushels of grain on foot and hand-delivering letters to each other and crap heh.
Even though, at the same time, when I think about the idea of "crafting" in the Stargate World for a few seconds, I realize that all that scientific research and studying alien languages and stuff they do could be considered crafting.
It don't gotta be skinning symbiotes and making snake-skin leather Stargate Jumpsuit armor outta of 'em and selling it on the good ole Stargate: Auction House and shit like that.
Just like the Aliens universe was kinda founded on mining ships and arguments over shares and realistic corporate bullshit and terraforming and stuff.
Which would actually make it a pretty kickass setting for a "standard" colonization-type MMO, y'know?
I mean, they are called the Colonial Space Marines for a reason.
So I guess I'm guilty of the same thing I'm hating on them for heh.
Oh who am I kidding, it probably WILL be gould-skin leather armor ahaha.
Well, whatever, what I'm really trying to say is that we need MMO games with helicopters already, that will solve all our problems AHAHA.
And the helicopter dude would circle around the place just waiting for you guys to break formation and start running around screaming and dying and begging to be picked up.
Nowadays I think a thing like that would only be fun for a little while, I mean, I think you need a lot of other stuff to do besides missions like that over and over again, no matter how cool you make the missions, but at the time, there was no EQ or UO or anything yet, and I had never played a MUD that was "Virtual Worldy" with people that I didn't know in real life, so it was all just a bunch of "man, you know what would be kickass?" stuff in my head.
I mean, I don't think you could make a pure adrenaline junky thing like that into a WoW or EQ-like type of game with upgradeable machine guns and crafting or "rising through the ranks of the Colonial Space Marines" or anything like that, that kinda shit has nothing to do with what is cool about a Bug Hunt.
That kinda junk would just be a distraction from what is cool about a Bug Hunt.
Y'know, like, the only "crafting" my Space Marine needs to do is to weld some cafeteria tables together to block a corridor and unless a bunch of medals can help me not get my face melted by acid blood I ain't got any use for 'em ahaha.
But whenever new technology comes out, like the multiplayer vehicles in Tribes and UT and SWG, or the helmet-cam supporting stuff from Doom 3 (or whatever that came from), right away I always apply it to my mental model of a Colonial Space Marine Bug Hunt, and I think things like "Oh man! Now we can do that Lovecraft Blueprint with the Officer guy in back of the APC listening to all the screams and watching the fuzzy helmet cam screens of his men go black!"
Even though I know the Colonial Space Marine Bug Hunt is not a very good setting for a MMO, I mean, its a damn good setting or blueprint for a mission or something, but the Colonial Space Marine stuff kinda gets in the way of extending it out into some kinda "worldy" upgrade-your-dollhouse-clothes game with lots of other people running around.
So you just steal the bare bones of that Lovecraftian Blueprint and you put it in a universe where the upgrade-your-dollhouse-clothes thing doesn't mess it up so much, no prob, right?
Or you figure out a different way to do things from that "upgrade-your-dollhouse level 50 Smart Gunner LFG" stuff, y'know, stuff that supported the themes of Colonial Space Marines, or stuff that the themes of the Colonial Space Marines would inspire you to come up with, which is fun to think about, but it definitely ain't as easy as doing it the other way, y'know, where you don't hardly have to think at all 'cause you can just trace what all the other successful guys were doing, and you (well, supposedly, heh) don't have to take risks with other people's money on potentially bad "cutting-edge" ideas and stuff that won't work out in implementation.
"You're a tracer."
But the truth is that people really aren't even smart enough to notice and understand everything that was good about a thing and just copy it, even when they're the guy that did the original drawing that inspired a million copies, so there's always risks and some dumb luck involved no matter what you do ahaha.
Anyways, I see stuff like the way the Stargate: Worlds guys talk, y'know, "aint gonna have no vehicles" and how they're thinking about adding crafting, and I just shudder, 'cause it reminds me of SWG with no vehicles and no space game, where we ran around in that godsforsaken Star Wars Flavored medieval Ultima Universe, living in the desert and calling ourselves "artisans" and transporting bushels of grain on foot and hand-delivering letters to each other and crap heh.
Even though, at the same time, when I think about the idea of "crafting" in the Stargate World for a few seconds, I realize that all that scientific research and studying alien languages and stuff they do could be considered crafting.
It don't gotta be skinning symbiotes and making snake-skin leather Stargate Jumpsuit armor outta of 'em and selling it on the good ole Stargate: Auction House and shit like that.
Just like the Aliens universe was kinda founded on mining ships and arguments over shares and realistic corporate bullshit and terraforming and stuff.
Which would actually make it a pretty kickass setting for a "standard" colonization-type MMO, y'know?
I mean, they are called the Colonial Space Marines for a reason.
So I guess I'm guilty of the same thing I'm hating on them for heh.
Oh who am I kidding, it probably WILL be gould-skin leather armor ahaha.
Well, whatever, what I'm really trying to say is that we need MMO games with helicopters already, that will solve all our problems AHAHA.
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