27th August 2003, 12:32 PM
Quote:Yes you are stupid, but not about that. All words have several different definitions, and the ones down the list are the ones that only apply to certain contexts. When people say "mental image" that applies to definitions #6 & 7, but not images on a video screen.
Computer games and video games are said to be the same thing because most computer games are video games, just not all of them. And people use the two terms interchangeably, even though it isn't always accurate.
You do see text on the screen in text-based games, and that is an image, but not the kind that make up video games. If the text was say, flying around and you had to shoot it or something (as an example), then it would be a video game. But if the text is used only to describe images that aren't really there, it is not a video game.
Videogames require images.
Such as the mental images that the text in text-based games (adventure, RPG, whatever...) describes.
It is so, so sad and stupid to watch you try to keep denying that fact.
You can't just use the parts of the definitions you like! It doesn't work that way!
Quote:Oh please, a couple of armchair politicians calling each other names is not what I'd call a "serious debate". It's just a petty mud-slinging contest with you and Weltall. "You're a stupid liberal!" "You're a stupid conservative!", etc. You just repeat the same crap over and over.
But the topics are relevant, unlike our debates... you may not acknowledge it but there IS a difference there.
Quote:All of the enemy fights in OoT were very easy, and the sword duels were a complete joke. Block. Hit. Block. Hit. Block. Hit. Block. Hit. You get the point. And holes in the ground? What on earth are you talking about? I rarely fell into any holes in OoT. There is a lot of fighting in WW, and I'm really starting to doubt that you even played the game. That or your case of "Darunia-itis" is getting stronger.
Not holes in the ground... I mean stuff like dungeon floors. Like the lava in the two lava dungeons in OoT vs the lava in WW... in WW it teleports you to the enterance with minimal injury, while in OoT it hurts you quite quickly and you could easily die in it... and WW uses that technique in a lot of other places where OoT would have a much more deadly obsticle.
Oh yeah, and while the fights in OoT aren't that complex, neither are the ones in WW! Ooh, so sometimes I have to circle around behind them as well as attack/block/jump...