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[kspr]

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[Donkeymog]

/>Some good words from Warren Spector about Thief.

http://sneakybastard...lem-with-thief/

Spector's been banging on about that for years. I'm glad he made Deus Ex because of it, but I think he's wrong about Thief. Sneaking is the game. Sure, in another game it might have been inappropriate but in Thief most of the excitement comes from trying not to be seen. Some bits are real tough to sneak through (so tough towards the end that I haven't completed it) but when you play the game you understand that sometimes it's acceptable to be seen briefly if it means guards will move somewhere different in search of you and that will in turn open up possibilities.

I love Thief, particularly Thief 2. I should really reinstall it.

[toysintheattic]

I think I found the best video game ever created.

[Monkeydog]

You've never heard of that game? It started off as an RPG Maker game.

I played it once.

[kspr]

it just occured to me that video games, and not conventional instruction, are what taught me how to use reason. when i played sonic the hedgehog for six hours a day, the spikes weren't spikes to me. they were representative of something i shouldnt jump on, or i'll die.

discuss maybe why not?

[Stars]

I don't have a source, but I remember hearing about a study showing that, on average, people who play video games can find lost/hidden keys faster than people who don't. I remember it because the fact that they were looking for keys amused me in that context.

[Monkeydog]

http://playstarbound.com/

This game looks awesome.

[Monkeydog]

http://earthboundcen...mr-saturn-font/

[Donkeymog]

/>it just occured to me that video games, and not conventional instruction, are what taught me how to use reason. when i played sonic the hedgehog for six hours a day, the spikes weren't spikes to me. they were representative of something i shouldnt jump on, or i'll die.

discuss maybe why not?

I think this is a really important point and one of the many reasons computer games are awesome. I remember being a kid and internalizing the maths behind each attack in pokemon and figuring out the most effective strategy in a fight. There is so much learning potential in computer games, and I don't just mean educational computer games. Give a class minecraft for a day and they'll understand a whole lot more than they would from reading a book or watching a tv show for a day.

[Monkeydog]

http://www.joystiq.c...on-ios-july-26/

This is going to be the best of all games.

[lazlo falconi]

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Definitely agree with you there. Maybe not necessarily Minecraft, but video games in general. I can't tell you how many words I learned to just spell, or read just from RPGs. I definitely wasn't a very strong reader before I started playing SNES RPGs, so that helped in a huge regard.

There's actually several products out there similar to that Brain Age thing that try to make learning game-like (I think they call it gameification, but that's stupid) and I think it's a great thing. Oh, that reminds me, I also learned touch-typing by means of some sort of game. Lots of video games helped me develop, and they also taught me that seems hardest at first, often leads to the best rewards.

[Stars]

I ought to find one of those shirts that lists "Things I learned from playing video games." I saw one years and years ago, but I didn't have as much say in the clothes I got at the time as I do now.

[lazlo falconi]

Also, I learned what dysentery was.

[Vicious Parker]

Bean=Terrorist.

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[lazlo falconi]

Well jeez, I hit all of them except being a foreigner. But to clear any doubt about myself, I'll go ahead and point a pitchfork at Bean too. Burn the terrorist!

[Stars]

Apparently Mojang is getting sued...again.

[Monkeydog]

It's old news. And nothing will come from this besides wasted time.

Patents like that are so stupid.

[Stars]

I guess that's what happens when I go through 20 pages of news at Screw Attack instead of keeping up to date on things. Oh well. The tweet still amuses me though.

[Vicious Parker]

I think that I came up with the idea of "Horde mode" (see Gears of War, Halo, Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, and probably lots of other crap) in 1999 while playing Jet Force Gemini. I imagined setting up defenses and gunning down advancing enemies using various weapons. I should have patented it. Just sharing because this thought occurred to me recently.

And just because Jet Force Gemeni,

[Stars]

New DLC for Scott Pilgrim is coming (only announced for XBox so far, but presumably for PS3 as well). For $5, it adds Wallace Wells as a playable character as well as ONLINE MULTIPLAYER.

Sooo...who else has this game for PS3?