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Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time 362

Posted by Soulskill from the new-is-relative dept.
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"

Comment It doesn't have to be this way (Score 2, Interesting) 187

by GordianusTheFinder (#30915074) Attached to: BSkyB Wins £709m Lawsuit Against HP-EDS
Outsourcing companies and system integrators use a number of tricks to ensure the project is profitable whilst being the lowest bidder. These include:
  • Removing highly qualified engineers from the team early and replacing them with new graduates
  • Ensuring that changes to the specification are expensive
  • Over-promising during the sales process

None of these is healthy and when it goes wrong, the only winners are the lawyers. I worked with a Major European Telco which outsourced the development of a large software system. It went wrong quite quickly and no useful code was delivered for two years while they sorted out the mess - expensive.

It doesn't have to be this way. The construction industry has similar issues with large projects, due to the same root causes. The collaborative contract for the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5 was very successful and resulted in the project being delivered on time and on budget, with very few disputes:

http://www.iaccm.com/contractingexcellence.php?storyid=368

I wonder if the IT industry will attempt to learn from this ...

Gord.

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