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Earlier this month when talking about the Baseio game that's being worked on by the ioquake3 project, many Phoronix readers were quick to bring up in the forums that the artwork done by the free software community for these open-source games often aren't up to par...

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And this is a groundbreaking revelation how?

The logistical reasons for this (getting artists who will work for what the project can pay them) should be transparently obvious

I dont mind the graphics in a lot of Linux games - it's a game afterall!

If you want super life-like realism in 3D and whatever else then go buy a Windows box and play all day and all night. Wonder how many of these loonies that go on mass killings have use a Windows platform for practice as the games are so "real"?

For me its a game, Sauerbratens graphics are good enough for me.

You mean no gamer should use Linux because on Windows is the graphics better? You must be kidding. I would really like to have Linux versions of the games I have to play on Windows. Skyrim is simply beautiful when you max out the graphics (all effects on max and high-res texture mods), the same is true for GTA4 and other games. Just because I chose Linux as my main OS doesn't mean that I want to play ugly games.

This is the most bullshit statement I read here for a long time, sorry. Have you thought about what you wrote here before pressing the submit button?

Well it's not really going to come up to Windows standards anytime soon I would guess.

http://news.yahoo.com/norway-killer-...213107800.html

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/87...after-massacre

Yeah, guess you are right, we should say it's all bullshit to the victims families.

As long as their is no scientific evidence that it is even possible to train your real weapon aiming with a mouse in your hand this is bullshit. Every time there is a massacre anywhere in the (western) world politicians have to find something guilty that they can blame for it. Most of the times this are games, but there is not one type of scientific evidence that games are related to this at all. That is what happened in Norway and we had the same type of bullshit here in Germany.
Surprisingly, we have about 250-350 people dying in traffic accidents every month in Germany (many of them due to speeding and risky driving), but no one blames racing games and bans them from the stores.

But about your comment, let's assume that you can train real aiming skills with a mouse or gamepad, why should it matter how good looking the aim is you are training with?

If the look, "feel" and action of whatever weapon you fire emulates real life I guess it could matter. There no doubt that video games improve hand-eye coordination, there have been many studies on that.

On "how good looking the aim is", well you could take an extreme example of how realistic is a 8bit version of space invaders against one of the modern space shootout games. The more realistic the game, the more it could suck you in.

Of course, with the controller you use. If you train every day with the mouse you train exactly that. Moving around the screen with the mouse. You will suck using a gamepad and you will really suck using a real gun, since you can't get a feeling for real behavior of projectile weapons on a computer. Most people using a real gun for their first time will most likely hammer them into their face, just because in films and games you don't feel and see the recoil. Lot's of funny videos about this on Youtube.

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