Seen this guy lately?
Except for the occasional Arcade shooter from XBLA or PSN the game over screen seems to be extinct. The questions is, is it better or worse for the gamers?
I believe the answer isn’t a simple “Yes” or “No”.
What do the words “Game Over” convey? Well simply put, the gaming is over. You aren’t good enough to beat this game. You tried, you used up all your lifes and your continues and now you have ran all out of them and the only resolution is to start the entire game from the beginning.
In decades past this was how we played our games - a game mechanic inherited from the quarter-craving arcades. In the 8-bit era only a select few games had such an intricate design that you actually picked up from were you last left from either a save file or through a password. Some argue that the desingers would have wanted to add these features in their games but lacked the technology to do so. When PC-gaming finally took off in the early nineties the abilty to save was inherit in the system as PC:s easily had memory to spare for such a thing and the game designer didn’t have to bundle the saveslot within the game.
Game design progressed through the years and started to lean more on games that took more of the gamers time than a few hours. The save file became a necessity, thus taking away the power of finit lives in a game. The old “1 UP” (The power up not the site) became obsolete. “Who cares about lives? I can just load from my last save.” This is particularly obvious in Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii (FTW?) where the extra lives are completely unnecessary and even the save files don’t care how many you had stocked up on.
Imagine playing Ninja Gaiden II and having a finit number of tries before the game forced you to start over from level one. Would anyone beat the game at all? Imagine Metal Gear Solid 4 where death meant you had to start the game from the beginning?
Games have evolved and lives are a part of the arcady past. Point collecting survival games as Geometry Wars will still need the them, but the rest of the games have already made their peace with the inevitable fact.
The permanent death is dead.
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See the thing is, you've just made a blog here at Destructoid and, I'm not sure if you realise it yet, we're a community, not a satellite just for dumping your blog posts from another blog.
Now, we just had some real nice community participation in this whole 10 things you don't know about Community love fest, and its nice to see people that what to participate in the site putting forth some effort into something fresh.
While you may have some decent thoughts about whatever you're writing about (I haven't bothered to read your articles, since you haven't bothered to read the site and get a feel for how we do things here), dumping out four of your articles from some other site without even introducing yourself kind of makes you look like a jerk.
Samson, what you may or may not realize is that each of these blogs pushes down a blog that is likely to be relevant to the community, and frankly more current an topical than blogs from your archive. That side bar on the front page? That had every recent blog from community members. Its kind of a big deal, sir.
So my suggestions-
1. Hide these blogs now - save face and stop the clogging. 4 blogs back to back is a bit much for one person
2. Write an intro blog right now - We're more than happy to welcome you, but its a community. Its good manners to introduce yourself before you give you opinions at a dinner party
3. After a day or few, unhide these blogs and write another blog about your writings on your other site, and link the blogs you had hidden today, in that blog - that way, your stuff is archived and people can see it, but you're not spamming the blogs and looking like a jerk, which I'm assuming you're not.
At the least, please take a minute it get a feel for how things flow, and what the community cares about. If you're going to ignore both of those, some of us will likely retaliate in kind with non-sequitor and pictures of lengthy felines.
Welcome. you have been advised. love Tubatic.
Just kidding man!
Don't copy and paste your own work from another site--it makes you look like an ass.
It took him a few goes.
That game is about 15 hours long. He told me he was quite broke in those days and had no other games but I just think he's a fucking nutter.
AKA, this blog is now obsolete.
No, GTFO. This blog was shit and not actually meant to be considered.
I couldn't care less whether or not Bingorangatango's blogs were his own or were just entries copypasta'd from Mein Kampf, it's just bad form to spam the blogs.
Tubatic got it right and said it with more tact and patience than I could, he get's a cookie.
This has nothing to do with his level of activity. It is simply the fact that this is not original content.
You're a prince among men. Well said and well done, sir. That was a very nice piece of Tubatic Tact! As well as one to grow on.
This is not about being elitist. It's about not spamming the cblogs up with your stuff, which is clearly copied en masse from elsewhere. Now, he may have written that stuff - I'm not that distrusting, since ripping off a small blog with only several entries would be pointless, so it's probably his - but he needs to space that shit out over the course of several hours, if not days. We like content, but as much as some people want it to be, the cblogs are not your own personal blog - they're a shared space. If you want your own blog, you've got your own off-site, Bongos.
People who claim Dtoiders of being elitist usually miss the point they're trying to make about matters in a more intimate community.
we are not elitist. The guy just copypasta junk from another site. Be it his or not, the least he could do would add some content to it or even say something that's not already in the article.
understand the situation before calling us elitist next time.
Agreed, Necros.
This would be a fine read if
A we knew more about him. He seems more like a copypasta bot to me at the moment
and
B he didn't spam the sidebar there and make me not want to read anything he put in either of the posts.
As for Bongo's blogging problems, whatever they may be, sure, we'd like everyone to do stuff ideal to Dtoid, but the thing is that you can post a good blog in one place and get no response. If you try it elsewhere, you might gt a different result.
I have to say, I have stopped posting blogs on Dtoid, because no matter how good they might be IMO, no one really reads them, therefore I have to save my blog ideas for elsewhere.
Ouch, bro, I thought Dtoid was a friendly site.
I dunno, I'd like to think that the guy doesn't know he's failing, and just needs guidance. If he's going to be cool, I definitely want him to know why everyone's yelling at him :)
But I think you're speaking very closely to the problem that Cowboy TTop has: posts with good effort should get this many comments, ideally.
It is, unfortunately, easier to respond to fail than to read an article and give props where due.
Who want's flapjacks?!
Necros cleared things up for me:
"We like content, but as much as some people want it to be, the cblogs are not your own personal blog - they're a shared space. If you want your own blog, you've got your own off-site, Bongos."
I agree with that.