<p>You all sound like the Joy Luck Club.</p>
<p>"Wah wah wah, I'm successful and it's my parents' fault!"
"I know, and they even accepted my white boyfriend!"
"My mom bragged about me the other day! How dare she?"</p>
<p>Guess what, kiddos? This isn't just Asian parents. My Jewish-American parents were just like yours! OMG!</p>
<p>UCLAri- you're right. For everyone else, stop whining- you're in college.</p>
<p>hey UCLAri, i thought you were JAPANESE? hahah</p>
<p>hobofromdowntown,</p>
<p>I thought you could read, but who's counting? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>poppycock, no hobos can read.</p>
<p>That does explain a lot. ;)</p>
<p>UCLAri,</p>
<p>Aren't Jewish Asians since Israel is in Asia? :p</p>
<p>Along those lines, so are British expatriates born in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Sweet.</p>
<p>UCLAr, i don't have time to list them all here. if lived in ny, i'd say ny suck. if i lived in nj, i'd say nj suck. i just wanna get out of state for college. that's all.</p>
<p>Okay. Just remember when I told you, March 21st, 2006, that California ain't so bad.</p>
<p>I want to make this clear. I think CA is the best place in the entire world (although I'd admit at times Bangalore, India and New Zealand can give a run for it's money). I especially love NorCal (except the cowtowns, Oakland and the like). The weather here is beautiful. It's hot, hotter and hottest (cold? *** dude?). But when the wind comes, oh man I feel like dancing although I probably would give people heart attacks if I danced. </p>
<p>Ok a bit of background: I'm Indian, I moved here oh 8 years ago. That means I studied in India and know Indian culture quite a bit.</p>
<p>My parents for all facts and purposes are plain chill. According to them they wouldn't care what I became as long as I am happy (ok maybe not janitor, but hey someone's gotta do it!). I think it's a gene that runs along my entire family. I call it the happy gene: if you and others are happy, who gives a **** about what the hell else. </p>
<p>I am going to major in CS, I am ok at math (though my SAT score is unusually low), I love computers, I applied to UCs, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard and the linkes. (I also love history [esp. US Hist, WWII and US Civil War] and reading but that's moot here) My parents are happy, but than again they wouldn't mind it if I went to anything else. In fact my mother doesn't really want me going out of CA even to Harvard, although if I wanted it ok.</p>
<p>They never get mad at me for recieving a bad grade here or there (or even at my relativily low GPA) as long as I was happy. But they are not complacent type. My parents love to say that even if you are not bright as long as you are a nice guy (with morals, happy, didn't mess up life) you'll be ok. I mean they were such a positive force in my life that I sort of self-propelled. </p>
<p>As for carrer field, I think I got the weirdest (or sort of). I want to enter the video game industry as a programmer (:O), and I love games (I have to count 100 - I know not much, but we aren't all that rich - us middle classers get screwed over so many times).</p>
<p>Now my extended family (grand parents, etc.) are a bit more conserative and religious (I want to be an atheist, but my long upbringing in Hinduism has sort of stopped me - I'm sort of a choosy Hindu now). But they too are chill even if they don't agree with some of my ideas (my grandma refuses to believe in a lot of science). But I think the fact is that many consider to be a de facto liberal (I swear some think I'm hippe - I'm not!), sort of conditions them to not argue with me (that and my erm "strength").</p>
<p>So I have no clue what the point was to this passage, besides showing that not all Asian parents are like this (though I'm Indian and us Indians are not always considered as Asians for some stupid reason...)</p>
<p>royrules,</p>
<p>If you're interested in game programming, you really should have applied to USC and Digipen. Not the biggest "names" per se, but they have great ties to the industry.</p>
<p>Do yourself a favor though, try to land a job in the CONSOLE gaming industry. I know it's not as fun, but my experience with PC gaming programmers is that outside of a few key companies (id, Blizz, Sierra) there's a lot of misery going around in PC programming.</p>
<p>1) I missed the deadline to Digipen :( I also didn't want to move out of state for resons I mentioned earlier so I guess the forgetfullness was sort of intentional (although I do have a bad memory)</p>
<p>2) I am. I want in on Nintendo! Damn Sony, Damn EA, and Damn Microsoft to hell. Miyamoto for life!</p>
<p>3) I follow the game industry news for a long while now, and I know what you are talking about. PC industry is not keeping up with console, but a rebound is likely. Console industry is likely to hit a lull (or god forbid like the arcade crash in the '80s.). I mean everyone is inflicted with "OMG the graphics!1!!" or the sequalitis syndrome (look at PSP, Xbox360). Thankfully I see Nintendo raising some alternatives (the DS is a godsend for me and Revolution is slowly looking great). Even though I disagree with some of their agenda, I think they are best prepared. Now if the stupid consumers could just go and wither up somewhere.. :p </p>
<p>4) Blizzard is surviving on their Warcraft blitz. They need another WoW or more likely a Starcraft soon (Ghost is too delayed to make a huge impact). Sierra - haven't heard from them in a while. id- I am seriously dissapointed with their Doom 3. No creativity what so ever. Seriously outside of Nintendo I see very few creativity. The biggest is Spore by Will Wright, but he is under EA - the Nazis of games. There are a few others too but they are more likely to be crushed under the behemoths that are Halo (Bungie), or more likely GTA (Rockstar).</p>
<p>digipen sounds more like a LAN center than a college.</p>
<p>and i can tell you that Ghost is probably going to be a failure.</p>
<p>Like I said it was delayed one too many times. I fear the same for Zelda, but it's Zelda and Miyamoto so I'm going to throw out all my fears into the unusual inferal NorCal rain on the first day of Spring!</p>
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<p>Probably. Too bad it's a top name in game programming.</p>
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<p>Based on what? Besides, that doesn't mean that Blizz's employees are unhappy. EA has lots of successful titles, but look at how happy their employees are.</p>
<p>i've read some reviews on the internet that say its just another run of the mill FPS with very bad gameplay. Also, Blizzard isn't known for shooters, they should really stick with RTS and RPG's. Maybe i'm just bitter because i've been waiting 6 years for starcraft two to come out...</p>
<p>hobo,</p>
<p>That's interesting, considering it hasn't even gone gold yet. Where did said people get a copy of it from, Azeroth? :p</p>
<p>Hey, I almost gave up on WoW, after all the delays. I figure though that Blizz has yet to make an outright bad game, so big deal if I'm waiting for something that'll probably be great anyway.</p>
<p>royrules,</p>
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Blizzard is surviving on their Warcraft blitz. They need another WoW or more likely a Starcraft soon (Ghost is too delayed to make a huge impact). Sierra - haven't heard from them in a while. id- I am seriously dissapointed with their Doom 3. No creativity what so ever. Seriously outside of Nintendo I see very few creativity. The biggest is Spore by Will Wright, but he is under EA - the Nazis of games. There are a few others too but they are more likely to be crushed under the behemoths that are Halo (Bungie), or more likely GTA (Rockstar).
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<p>They need "another WoW?" No offense, but do you really keep up with the numbers here? Blizz is doing just fine with ONE WoW being one of the most successful MMOs ever. Besides, I don't think they could literally afford the manpower and resources to start a new MMO.</p>
<p>Blizz has been successful largely because they release very good games, whether or not they do so infrequently. Better to have 5 great games than thousands of crap ones like EA. </p>
<p>And remember, you may not have liked Doom 3, but the engine will go on to be used quite a bit. I have a feeling that it will be more widely used than HL2s Source engine, but time will tell.</p>
<p>All in all, just stay away from EA. Oh, and with the Big N...good luck. Very few operations are Stateside, and who wants to work in Japan?</p>
<p>1) I say Ghost is a failure in terms of sales. Preliminary polls (souinds so political.. eh) show that there is not much interest
2) Longterm I say (and don't pull that Keynes stuff on me). No one can survive solely on one game. I only know of one company that tries to do that (Valve and Half-Life). They are well off, but they are not extremely large. Blizz's numbers are dominating, I agree, but they need to keep going
3) "Better to have 5 great games than thousands of crap ones like EA. " Very much so. However the thing is they better come up with the rest of the games. The industry is (I and a lot of others from what I have read over at some forums) in nearing a problmatic point. Blizzard needs to ignore the sequalitis and really hit a game with a bang. I wish Will Wright was under Blizz
4) Doom 3 engine? We are going back to the graphic whore theory. How long do you expect people to be captivated by games, if it does no change besides looking realistic. Sure a game can look and act so realistic, but if there is no change in formula, and the way I play it is pretty much same as I was playing a few years ago... yes. As for Source, sure the graphics and physics have changed a lot, but it also threw a wrench into gameplay in terms of physics. Have you played HL2? Tell me you were not amazed at the Gravity Gun. It was something relativly new and it was amazing.
5) EA = Nazis 'Nuff said. I think I have a gif of them somewhere..
6) Retro Studios ;)</p>