tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699525663085656463.post2844626710320659966..comments2024-02-13T23:51:37.502-06:00Comments on Tactical Tag: App-Based Gaming - My 2 CentsReverendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237953791786668638noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699525663085656463.post-52809951098754247882013-06-12T00:46:51.784-05:002013-06-12T00:46:51.784-05:00And here is the travesty of an article my melty br...And here is the travesty of an article my melty brain smeared out. Link goes live at Noon CDT<br /><br />http://coastalbendactionsports.blogspot.com/2013/06/app-based-tacos.htmlAnimalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753501181718699213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699525663085656463.post-71093298088242656852013-06-11T21:03:31.801-05:002013-06-11T21:03:31.801-05:00I'm lucky to have still retained my Laser Chal...I'm lucky to have still retained my Laser Challenge set to the present day, but there's something to be said for it's limitations. Cost and fragility aside, it never stayed on with me because even I as an eight year old recognized how much the sun screwed with its sensors. It made it difficult to play the game.<br /><br />I fell into video games and stayed with them up to high school. It was then that I started to realize that I needed to get outside more (sometimes forced into it), and I got into Parkour. Fun and heavily cooperative, but it was hard to justify continuing as my friends and I got older and our lives started to get busy.<br /><br />But it's what made me realize that the things that video games allowed me to do aren't all that hard. Once Nerf and Lazer Tag made their comeback I was absolutely blown away by what I could do now, and without restriction of age or capability. I'm now old enough, mature enough, and trained enough to play with these things responsibly (think about it, how many people had water wars or Nerf wars as kids that simply ended in a fists-up brawl? I can't be the only one...)<br /><br />I haven't given up video games entirely, but my focus on them has narrowed considerably. I play simulators now; cars, planes--transportation mostly, and often less than a hour a week. I can't play the first person shooter simply [i]because[/i] I know I can have a great time out there with friends using as diverse and grand a battlefield as I please.<br /><br />But I feel like I'm getting pushed into playing video games more and more because the outdoor activities I like are pushing them on me more and more. My ultimate goal was for my video games to let me do things I can't do in real life. Since when did it become that there was some belief in the exact opposite: "Make real life more into a video game!" I admit that I've made attempts in terms of some video game shooter mechanics (spread all the Nerf guns around the yard and house a la Goldeneye), but it tends to be more using universally intuitive rulesets, not some form of augmented reality. I don't care to make life like a video game. Lazer Tag, Nerf, Super Soaker; all these are simply better because your options become virtually unlimited. Is it that people can't handle that kind of freedom of expression? Can they not think specially without some form of virtual radar? Or is it just that they don't have friends to play it with?<br /><br />Zook, your rants have been right on from the start. I'm collecting the crap out of the LTAR because I'm concerned this will be the end of Lazer Tag and I don't want to make the same mistake I made with the LTX and decide to get it literally a week after they're off shelves. I just wish I didn't have to think this way; I wish other people could understand just how [i]awesome[/i] Lazer Tag can actually be!<br /><br />(And I apologize for the long post; you triggered a spark it would seem.)Berkut99noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699525663085656463.post-57024302313769221152013-06-11T17:11:38.259-05:002013-06-11T17:11:38.259-05:00Using devices like that are fine in my books. It&...Using devices like that are fine in my books. It's when the device BECOMES the game and the blaster is more like an accessory to the smart phone when things start to bother me. <br /><br />I've seen cool "motion trackers" a la Colonial Marines from the movie Aliens or even the Heartbeat Monitor in Modern Warfare utilized on apps from smart phones and other devices that can be pretty cool that add to the game itself. I'm a fan of stuff like that.Reverendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06237953791786668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3699525663085656463.post-70353664079132179702013-06-11T16:47:35.923-05:002013-06-11T16:47:35.923-05:00I agree whole-heartedly. My friends and I DO use ...I agree whole-heartedly. My friends and I DO use an app on out phones during games to track each other's locations, but in no way is that a requirement for a nerf-out. We use it for additional utility, and it doesn't exclude anyone.<br /><br />I might go ahead and weigh in on this on my own blog, since I've been running short of creative juices lately.Animalhttp://coastalbendactionsports.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com