Rise of the Video Game

[Swein Forkbeard]

Does anybody watch this Discovery Channel series? I would like to talk about it with you guys.

 

[JtheJackal]

I've been watching it.

 

[Maniacal]

I had no idea about this until now, damn, too bad I am rarely at a place with satalite.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

And you just missed the episode about the dawn of the First-Person Shooter. Next one will be about SimCity, Civilization, and other god games.

 

[Aramazd]

And you just missed the episode about the dawn of the First-Person Shooter. Next one will be about SimCity, Civilization, and other god games.

When is it on? I might watch.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

When is it on? I might watch.

This Wednesday at 8 PM. I'm recording it and also have a class at that time, so I'll be watching it at 9 PM.

 

[Maniacal]

Damn, I'm never there on Wednesdays anywyas. I'll have to watch it some other way.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I think they also come again on Saturday mornings.

 

[JtheJackal]

Its aired on Wednesday at 8 and 11 PM and 12 AM

 

[Maniacal]

I think they also come again on Saturday mornings.

I'm sleeping.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I guess you could come to my house and watch them; I have them recorded on my DVR. Or you could make an effort to wake up at 10:30 AM to get ready for the show at 11 AM.

 

[Chris85]

I just heard about this a few days ago, I'm definately watching this week and next weeks episodes. The first 3 episodes are up on YouTube if you want to get caught up.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ras4E4N1S5E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=651vyEaLPX8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YrZVkj0mVq0

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Oh god, I have a competition to prepare for that's taking place tomorrow (my school's geography bee), so I have to watch Level 4 tomorrow instead of today. I guess my head would be ruined by watching that.

 

[Maniacal]

I guess you could come to my house and watch them; I have them recorded on my DVR. Or you could make an effort to wake up at 10:30 AM to get ready for the show at 11 AM.

Oops didn't finish my last post, I'm on the West Coast and I think the discovery channel I get is 3 horus ahead.

Wait, maybe it's not. I can't remember.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I ended up watching Level Four anyway! And they didn't talk too much about the actual games covered; they talked mostly about the idea behind god games and the concepts of modding and machinima. Here were the games covered.

-SimCity
-Populous
-Black and White
-Civilization
-Halo
-Halo 2
-Darfur is Dying

The also showed the machinima story "Red vs. Blue," created by three guys (one doing the dirty work and the other two acting as the Halo soldiers).

 

[JtheJackal]

One thing I learned is that I've been pronouncing machinima wrong

 

[Harbringer]

One thing I learned is that I've been pronouncing machinima wrong

You were saying it "maki" instead of "mosh" werent you?I did the same thing becuase I watched far to much anime as a child to......

 

[Maniacal]

Thanks for the YouTube link! Lost two hours of sleep due to that, I'm half way through level 2.

 

[Aramazd]

I just watched level 4 yesterday, it was pretty interesting.

 

[Maniacal]

Finished watching the first three levels on yourube. Pretty interesting, although level 3 sort of made it sound like FPS games are all now modern warfare army recruitment, which they aren't.