Here's hoping they finally choose some games with formats that are actually competitive. Nearly every round of the previous Omegathons have been with games in formats that aren't actual tests of gaming skill.
If not, then it's a contest, not a competition. Call it what it is.
What are you babbling about?
apparently, there's no real competition in guitar hero, mario kart, or even tetris O_o
Well, you have to give him that Tetris one. That version didn't have any competition in it at all. Clearing lines on your side didn't do anything to your opponent's side at all.
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>>He couldn't take it.
> What? I don't understand.
Taxes.
There was a cash alternative though.
So in other words, when I went to Michael's Toyota a few weeks later to buy my Prius and did a massive "that looks just like the Paxmobile..." doubletake when I saw it on the dealer's floor, it probably actually was the Paxmobile?
S'weird.
(It was weird enough explaining to the people there that yes, the building really had been a Safeway, and that the finance guys were sitting in what had been the meat department, not the produce department as they'd been told. They were quite happy to find out it was the meat department, actually. None of this vegetable shit for them, no sir. Personally, I like to imagine the restless spirits of dead bovines roaming the halls, haunting the people responsible for extended service plans and egregious interest rates. (Mine weren't horrible, though. Perhaps the cows were on my side!))
Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
if this were a longer event, I'd suggest using the "3-man FF6 2nd half challenge" as a worthy final round-- but don't have nearly the sort of time for that.
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dyaballiklPAX Main Theatre House & Security Manager • PAX Community CartographerGold Coast QLD AustraliaRegistered Userregular
Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
so, what your saying is that the best solution is dressing the competitors up in trunks, stretching ropes around them in a large square, giving them boxing gloves and telling them that the last one standing gets the scion? (or w/e the hell the prize is gonna be this year)
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Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
so, what your saying is that the best solution is dressing the competitors up in trunks, stretching ropes around them in a large square, giving them boxing gloves and telling them that the last one standing gets the scion? (or w/e the hell the prize is gonna be this year)
True, Mario Kart has a lot of luck invovled, but the others not so much. Seriously, what <I>would</I> you suggest? These games have to be pretty acessible to everyone. The contestants are randomly chosen, they aren't people entering a competition for a specific game. It wouldn't be interesting if these people were playing combo-based fighting games or racing simulations.
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dyaballiklPAX Main Theatre House & Security Manager • PAX Community CartographerGold Coast QLD AustraliaRegistered Userregular
Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
so, what your saying is that the best solution is dressing the competitors up in trunks, stretching ropes around them in a large square, giving them boxing gloves and telling them that the last one standing gets the scion? (or w/e the hell the prize is gonna be this year)
True, Mario Kart has a lot of luck invovled, but the others not so much. Seriously, what would you suggest? These games have to be pretty acessible to everyone. The contestants are randomly chosen, they aren't people entering a competition for a specific game. It wouldn't be interesting if these people were playing combo-based fighting games or racing simulations.
i agree. even though, in guitar hero, your playing doesn't directly affect the other player, there's still no catch up. the better player will surely win, barring some unlucky happening.
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"Riding a mongoose reminds me of having sex with a man, which is something I do frequently because I am gay!" -Gabe
Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
so, what your saying is that the best solution is dressing the competitors up in trunks, stretching ropes around them in a large square, giving them boxing gloves and telling them that the last one standing gets the scion? (or w/e the hell the prize is gonna be this year)
True, Mario Kart has a lot of luck invovled, but the others not so much. Seriously, what would you suggest? These games have to be pretty acessible to everyone. The contestants are randomly chosen, they aren't people entering a competition for a specific game. It wouldn't be interesting if these people were playing combo-based fighting games or racing simulations.
i agree. even though, in guitar hero, your playing doesn't directly affect the other player, there's still no catch up. the better player will surely win, barring some unlucky happening.
I'd like to see an omegathon round were people are paired up and do combat on the atari 2600. I think I would enjoy that. It would be nice if the final rounds become part of the main course for the next year.
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dyaballiklPAX Main Theatre House & Security Manager • PAX Community CartographerGold Coast QLD AustraliaRegistered Userregular
Well, no. Tetris, Guitar Hero, and Mario Kart are some of the worst games around for actual skilled play. Heck, in Guitar Hero or Tetris you're not even playing against the other person. Mario Kart is just plain badness unless you're a fan of the whole "anyone can win, even if they're awful" kind of competition. Homing weapons and bad luck make for an awesome competitive game.
Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
so, what your saying is that the best solution is dressing the competitors up in trunks, stretching ropes around them in a large square, giving them boxing gloves and telling them that the last one standing gets the scion? (or w/e the hell the prize is gonna be this year)
True, Mario Kart has a lot of luck invovled, but the others not so much. Seriously, what would you suggest? These games have to be pretty acessible to everyone. The contestants are randomly chosen, they aren't people entering a competition for a specific game. It wouldn't be interesting if these people were playing combo-based fighting games or racing simulations.
i agree. even though, in guitar hero, your playing doesn't directly affect the other player, there's still no catch up. the better player will surely win, barring some unlucky happening.
I'd like to see an omegathon round were people are paired up and do combat on the atari 2600. I think I would enjoy that. It would be nice if the final rounds become part of the main course for the next year.
you don't wanna challenge me to a "2600 off"! i'm a big 2600 fan, check out mine:
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edited March 2007
I'll pwn you in combat tank style. I'm not a pushover either. I wish they made it invisible tanks for the omegathon instead of the classic semi homing shot. That would of been something else. *Sigh* Ya, I've spent many hours and know pretty much each in and out of those levels on combat.
What If the winner this year got some sort of Championship belt? Like the World Heavyweight Championship used in like UFC or WWE. It would have the words "PAX OMEGATHON CHAMPION" ingraved on it somewhere then you'd have and place for the name of the eventual winner. The idea behind this is that the Omegathon winner, would come back next year to defend the "title". we he or she was knocked out before the final round, the "title" would be vacated and fought over by that years finalists. This wouldn't replace the awesome kick-ass prize that would be up for grabs, (a tricked out car, a classic game collection, a huge fucking pile of money,) it would be in addition to it.
You could start you'r own professional gaming circuit around that belt: The Penny Arcade Professional Gammers legaue.
Just a thought I had over lunch with a few pax buddys, we though it was cool.
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LegacyStuck Somewhere In CyberspaceThe Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPAregular
edited March 2007
I had that thought a bit ago as well. Just never voiced it.
I'd love a giant championship belt. Would be awesome.
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What If the winner this year got some sort of Championship belt? Like the World Heavyweight Championship used in like UFC or WWE. It would have the words "PAX OMEGATHON CHAMPION" ingraved on it somewhere then you'd have and place for the name of the eventual winner. The idea behind this is that the Omegathon winner, would come back next year to defend the "title". we he or she was knocked out before the final round, the "title" would be vacated and fought over by that years finalists. This wouldn't replace the awesome kick-ass prize that would be up for grabs, (a tricked out car, a classic game collection, a huge fucking pile of money,) it would be in addition to it.
You could start you'r own professional gaming circuit around that belt: The Penny Arcade Professional Gammers legaue.
Just a thought I had over lunch with a few pax buddys, we though it was cool.
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Ooo... Ooo.... How about somebody drops one of the sumo bags on one of the guys from the top floor of the building...
Edit: Wait, that's been done before... never mind.
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Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Ooo... Ooo.... How about somebody drops one of the sumo bags on one of the guys from the top floor of the building...
Edit: Wait, that's been done before... never mind.
hahaha, was that you that got hit? i remember talking to whoever it was about that. i didn't wanna let on, but i actually thought it was pretty funny. if it was you though, sorry bout da head!
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"Riding a mongoose reminds me of having sex with a man, which is something I do frequently because I am gay!" -Gabe
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Ooo... Ooo.... How about somebody drops one of the sumo bags on one of the guys from the top floor of the building...
Edit: Wait, that's been done before... never mind.
hahaha, was that you that got hit? i remember talking to whoever it was about that. i didn't wanna let on, but i actually thought it was pretty funny. if it was you though, sorry bout da head!
No... that wasn't me. I was stuck in the mob on the ground floor, right next to the food counter over by the "Goat Check"
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Moe FwackyRight Here, Right NowDrives a BuickModeratormod
edited March 2007
The Omegathon prize should be as innovative as the Omegathon itself. I am proposing a large collection of current and classic gaming hardware and software plus the option to run away with a pimp ass computer ready to go OR to personally select what hardware you want to build your own system with. I can't think of anybody who couldn't do with some updated hardware, and there's enough of us who like to get elbow deep in our systems that this would be a worthwhile prize. Plus it's easier to transport when all of the components are still packed in anti static bags and Styrofoam.
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Well, you have to give him that Tetris one. That version didn't have any competition in it at all. Clearing lines on your side didn't do anything to your opponent's side at all.
So in other words, when I went to Michael's Toyota a few weeks later to buy my Prius and did a massive "that looks just like the Paxmobile..." doubletake when I saw it on the dealer's floor, it probably actually was the Paxmobile?
S'weird.
(It was weird enough explaining to the people there that yes, the building really had been a Safeway, and that the finance guys were sitting in what had been the meat department, not the produce department as they'd been told. They were quite happy to find out it was the meat department, actually. None of this vegetable shit for them, no sir. Personally, I like to imagine the restless spirits of dead bovines roaming the halls, haunting the people responsible for extended service plans and egregious interest rates. (Mine weren't horrible, though. Perhaps the cows were on my side!))
As well as a few other things thrown in, HDTV+PS3 maybe.
Why not the Wii.
This is exactly why it would be better to pick out of a pool of prizes
PSN/XBL: dragoniemx
But I think the pool of prizes is the best idea.
A BIG TUB OF CANDY!
^.^
This is the OMEGATHON Shoot for the moon! You want a unicorn!
It's Unicron.
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True! I want a unicorn-pegasus with rainbow hair and magic powers!
And an uber cool outfit to wear while riding her. Something with wings or a cape involved would be nice.
And a nice rotisserie with exotic spices. And pickles. LOTS of pickles.
SOLID GOLD XBOX
(to have and to hold)
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Ya see, thats just creepy and weird. Now solid gold little figurines of cartoon gabe and tycho might be cool though.(even gold plated figurines)
Think an academy award statue but with a Fruit Fucker on it instead of a naked man.
especially when i get caught sleeping with it......
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Leave that kind of stuff to Mario Party or the Special Olympics.
The games should pit the competitors against eachother so the best is determined, not the lucikiest of the bunch. Competing for high scores or using excessively random games results in what is little more than a glorified raffle.
True, Mario Kart has a lot of luck invovled, but the others not so much. Seriously, what <I>would</I> you suggest? These games have to be pretty acessible to everyone. The contestants are randomly chosen, they aren't people entering a competition for a specific game. It wouldn't be interesting if these people were playing combo-based fighting games or racing simulations.
Get the PAX 2008 Countdown widget and while away your sad, pathetic life watching it tick down the hours to PAX '08!
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I'd like to see an omegathon round were people are paired up and do combat on the atari 2600. I think I would enjoy that. It would be nice if the final rounds become part of the main course for the next year.
Btw, Combat 2 for the omegathon 07 :P
You could start you'r own professional gaming circuit around that belt: The Penny Arcade Professional Gammers legaue.
Just a thought I had over lunch with a few pax buddys, we though it was cool.
I'd love a giant championship belt. Would be awesome.
Maybe instead of having them take up a contest spot, the winner of the Omegathon could compete with the title holder after the final match.
It should totally be engraved on the belt like that, too.
Get the PAX 2008 Countdown widget and while away your sad, pathetic life watching it tick down the hours to PAX '08!
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So after the the final round, everyones happy,(sept the guy who just lost), evernody's celabrating then *boom* L3Roy comes out to like, The Black Mages and shoves the belt in the new winners face,(as any champion should rightly do,) and start's talking smack on the mike.
That'd be kinda cool to see happen, wonder if someone will get hit with a chair...^_^
Those big pod chairs?
Ooo... Ooo.... How about somebody drops one of the sumo bags on one of the guys from the top floor of the building...
Edit: Wait, that's been done before... never mind.
No... that wasn't me. I was stuck in the mob on the ground floor, right next to the food counter over by the "Goat Check"
dude, i'd so love to help create the case for that system! seriously, anyone in charge, if this happens, lemme in on it!