why should any search be "reasonable" at a border? Maybe to help cut back on the spread of diseases we should have a holding bay at each border and run blood tests. We could deem them biological weapons until proven otherwise!
Have you played the game yet? An ambulance shows up at the end that you all jump into. Just pull the American's body out of that and drop it at the scene. You are also in street clothes playing a covert agent. There is no way to prove the person was an American soldier from the remains alone.
No, you are right. But at least in other missions you have to kill the terrorists to proceed, you can't win without killing them. But in the airport level "No Russian" you never have to fire a round, you can walk the entire time, you don't have to shoot any of the cops that show up, the terrorists you are with will do that for you. If you turn and shoot Makarov you can't kill him its friendly fire. If they already knew you were a spy why did they risk having you on this job, why not just kill you, bring your body in the ambulance at the end and drop your body at the scene? Why risk having you screw it up, blow their mission or anything else? Why play this at all? The mission itself doesn't even make sense. Because one American was associated with a terrorist act in a Russian airport they invade the US? And even though one of the Russian terrorists dies in the level no one thinks, oh hey maybe this was a multi-national terrorist attack? The entire level is ridiculous and pointless.
When they are removing a level from the game that is completely unnecessary to play, should just be a video, serves no real point since you don't have to shoot anyone and the mission still plays out the same. The level and your actions in it have no real effect on the game whatsoever. It was for pure media attention which is ridiculous because this game was already going to be huge.
Why did he feel the need to go and report him to his employers for righting something mean about his article? The man who resigned was stupid to do that, and should have called the schools bluff. And then when the school did fire him he could take both the newspaper and the school to court. This is ridiculous. cue the THIS IS AN OUTRAGE photo
Even though I was already planning on buying the 360 version (older laptop can't run it) I still think this is a terrible idea. Dedicated Servers are what make pc FPSs, pc FPSs. This a very bad direction for pc gaming to attempt. Relying upon Infinity Ward for servers means that in a decade this game will be unplayable online... It is DRM in a new form!
The sales of the Wii are just dropping to a normal rate of sales per month. People look at this as if the "fad" is over. The Wii is just now starting to move units at the same rate as the other consoles, so if you consider that amount to be low than the other 2 consoles must be doing really bad since they have never had numbers like the Wii
Wouldn't it just be smarter to develop a more sophisticated AI that responds like a human would? Then not only are you pushing the limit for AI in games but also its useful research for robotics
I assume this competition will end before New Super Mario Bros. Wii comes out. But when it does, someone should try to get that AI to work on the game for this competition. The AI I am speaking of is the new feature where if something is too difficult you can press start, select an option, and it will complete the area for you.
Prions and viruses are nigh indestructible. Viruses are neither living nor dead. and do we even have a way to prevent prions other than destroying anything containing them?
I'm more interested in what they are going to do for next-gen. It is quite obvious some sort of motion control or capture through a camera like device is going to be standard across the board. I love my Wii but its controls lack depth for certain genres that it should be absolutely destroying the PS3 and Xbox 360 on because of pure precision. I hope they find a way to fix that.
Also, with all the services such as streaming movies, streaming radio, streaming tv shows, the PSN, XBLA, VC, WiiWare available this gen. Every console owner is going to expect that out of the box and then some. I am extremely excited to see what services are provided on the next-gen. I also think that whoever makes the best hybrid console/pc first is going to corner the market. Both are pushing towards a singularity Consoles are becoming more and more like PCs. And PCs are becoming less and less relevant for daily use as our cell phones and netbooks begin to replace them with mobility. I think traditional PCs will be a niche in 7 years and if you want to play PC games you will own a console that supports keyboard + mouse. The new console of the future will support email, web surfing, Office suites, etc. They are truly going to replace so many digital devices in our house hold. and anything else we want to do with computer will be done from our smart phones or netbooks that we can easily carry around. Its an exciting time to be a gamer. Never did I imagine this would happen when I was growing up with my power pad and duck hunt.
People who are going to invest in a HD TV are going to want one that will last a long time. Most people get tvs for a while not 2-3 years. And so they are going to need to spend more than 500 bucks. 500 dollar HD TVs at costco are priced at that point for a reason.
Apple will still be adored by the public, the iPod is too ubiquitous with mp3 player at this point to be shunned. Its like Windows, it may be bad and seem to be hated by a lot of people but it will still be the most dominant in the market.
for FPS games on the computer. There is nothing realistic at all about slightly dragging your mouse to a corner and firing. Yes it is way more accurate than the controller from a console, and you can spin around a lot faster. But it takes no skill to aim, as long as you can navigate a desktop you can aim in a PC FPS. The hardcore fanatic FPS players on the PC will always whine and moan about dual joysticks but its not as if their solution is furthering the gameplay experience either. The only controller setup that better mimics real life is the Wii for FPSs. The speed and ease of it is still difficult, but thats probably a good thing. Aiming in real life is not nearly as easy as moving your mouse. And moving and aiming is certainly much more difficult. Every time I hear PC gamers complain about console gamers they refuse to acknowledge that while their control setup may be superior its certainly not the best option for the "realism" they always claim to crave.
Havok is just a physics engine that is added to other game engines. The Source engine uses a heavily modified Havoks physics engine. Even the Wii runs the Havoks physics engine in some of its top tier games. The same reason Havok was not included is the same reason Natural Motion was not.
"Sony is finally responding to the threat posed by the iPhone" thats nice and all, but they are still 5 years late (and counting) on responding to the DS. The PSP was released initially to compete against the DS. Nintendo proved once again why they dominate the hand held realm and now Sony is moving the goal posts for who its real competition is. The same thing happened when the Wii ran over the 360 and PS3. Just because its not as powerful as your game system does not mean its not directly competing it. If I was Sony, I would just spend the resources on getting the PSP 2 correct.
Also, do something about that thumbstick. I would love to get a PSP but it feels like sliding a dime across the kitchen counter, I can't do it. It just feels so wrong.
I just use mine to tell me how far I am from my destination. And its fun to find out what body of water I am driving by, or the name of that industrial park. I still prefer to learn the backroads manually of an area I live in because its good to know. Also my GPS is built into a car so I need to know them when in my fiance's car. Plus, I enjoy giving people directions
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why should any search be "reasonable" at a border? Maybe to help cut back on the spread of diseases we should have a holding bay at each border and run blood tests. We could deem them biological weapons until proven otherwise!
Have you played the game yet? An ambulance shows up at the end that you all jump into. Just pull the American's body out of that and drop it at the scene. You are also in street clothes playing a covert agent. There is no way to prove the person was an American soldier from the remains alone.
No, you are right. But at least in other missions you have to kill the terrorists to proceed, you can't win without killing them. But in the airport level "No Russian" you never have to fire a round, you can walk the entire time, you don't have to shoot any of the cops that show up, the terrorists you are with will do that for you. If you turn and shoot Makarov you can't kill him its friendly fire. If they already knew you were a spy why did they risk having you on this job, why not just kill you, bring your body in the ambulance at the end and drop your body at the scene? Why risk having you screw it up, blow their mission or anything else? Why play this at all? The mission itself doesn't even make sense. Because one American was associated with a terrorist act in a Russian airport they invade the US? And even though one of the Russian terrorists dies in the level no one thinks, oh hey maybe this was a multi-national terrorist attack? The entire level is ridiculous and pointless.
When they are removing a level from the game that is completely unnecessary to play, should just be a video, serves no real point since you don't have to shoot anyone and the mission still plays out the same. The level and your actions in it have no real effect on the game whatsoever. It was for pure media attention which is ridiculous because this game was already going to be huge.
Why did he feel the need to go and report him to his employers for righting something mean about his article? The man who resigned was stupid to do that, and should have called the schools bluff. And then when the school did fire him he could take both the newspaper and the school to court. This is ridiculous. cue the THIS IS AN OUTRAGE photo
Even though I was already planning on buying the 360 version (older laptop can't run it) I still think this is a terrible idea. Dedicated Servers are what make pc FPSs, pc FPSs. This a very bad direction for pc gaming to attempt. Relying upon Infinity Ward for servers means that in a decade this game will be unplayable online... It is DRM in a new form!
The sales of the Wii are just dropping to a normal rate of sales per month. People look at this as if the "fad" is over. The Wii is just now starting to move units at the same rate as the other consoles, so if you consider that amount to be low than the other 2 consoles must be doing really bad since they have never had numbers like the Wii
Wouldn't it just be smarter to develop a more sophisticated AI that responds like a human would? Then not only are you pushing the limit for AI in games but also its useful research for robotics
I assume this competition will end before New Super Mario Bros. Wii comes out. But when it does, someone should try to get that AI to work on the game for this competition. The AI I am speaking of is the new feature where if something is too difficult you can press start, select an option, and it will complete the area for you.
Prions and viruses are nigh indestructible. Viruses are neither living nor dead. and do we even have a way to prevent prions other than destroying anything containing them?
I'm more interested in what they are going to do for next-gen. It is quite obvious some sort of motion control or capture through a camera like device is going to be standard across the board. I love my Wii but its controls lack depth for certain genres that it should be absolutely destroying the PS3 and Xbox 360 on because of pure precision. I hope they find a way to fix that. Also, with all the services such as streaming movies, streaming radio, streaming tv shows, the PSN, XBLA, VC, WiiWare available this gen. Every console owner is going to expect that out of the box and then some. I am extremely excited to see what services are provided on the next-gen. I also think that whoever makes the best hybrid console/pc first is going to corner the market. Both are pushing towards a singularity Consoles are becoming more and more like PCs. And PCs are becoming less and less relevant for daily use as our cell phones and netbooks begin to replace them with mobility. I think traditional PCs will be a niche in 7 years and if you want to play PC games you will own a console that supports keyboard + mouse. The new console of the future will support email, web surfing, Office suites, etc. They are truly going to replace so many digital devices in our house hold. and anything else we want to do with computer will be done from our smart phones or netbooks that we can easily carry around. Its an exciting time to be a gamer. Never did I imagine this would happen when I was growing up with my power pad and duck hunt.
wouldn't this patent also cover episodic game content? "Method for Providing Episodic Media"
People who are going to invest in a HD TV are going to want one that will last a long time. Most people get tvs for a while not 2-3 years. And so they are going to need to spend more than 500 bucks. 500 dollar HD TVs at costco are priced at that point for a reason.
"...and the use of Windows on nuclear submarines" Talk about your Blue Screen of Death
Apple will still be adored by the public, the iPod is too ubiquitous with mp3 player at this point to be shunned. Its like Windows, it may be bad and seem to be hated by a lot of people but it will still be the most dominant in the market.
I know it is, but he said DRM is dead, not just musical DRM
then I can expect blu-ray movies to be region free and drm-free from here on out right?
for FPS games on the computer. There is nothing realistic at all about slightly dragging your mouse to a corner and firing. Yes it is way more accurate than the controller from a console, and you can spin around a lot faster. But it takes no skill to aim, as long as you can navigate a desktop you can aim in a PC FPS. The hardcore fanatic FPS players on the PC will always whine and moan about dual joysticks but its not as if their solution is furthering the gameplay experience either. The only controller setup that better mimics real life is the Wii for FPSs. The speed and ease of it is still difficult, but thats probably a good thing. Aiming in real life is not nearly as easy as moving your mouse. And moving and aiming is certainly much more difficult. Every time I hear PC gamers complain about console gamers they refuse to acknowledge that while their control setup may be superior its certainly not the best option for the "realism" they always claim to crave.
Havok is just a physics engine that is added to other game engines. The Source engine uses a heavily modified Havoks physics engine. Even the Wii runs the Havoks physics engine in some of its top tier games. The same reason Havok was not included is the same reason Natural Motion was not.
"Sony is finally responding to the threat posed by the iPhone" thats nice and all, but they are still 5 years late (and counting) on responding to the DS. The PSP was released initially to compete against the DS. Nintendo proved once again why they dominate the hand held realm and now Sony is moving the goal posts for who its real competition is. The same thing happened when the Wii ran over the 360 and PS3. Just because its not as powerful as your game system does not mean its not directly competing it. If I was Sony, I would just spend the resources on getting the PSP 2 correct. Also, do something about that thumbstick. I would love to get a PSP but it feels like sliding a dime across the kitchen counter, I can't do it. It just feels so wrong.
I think someone has been watching too many hollywood films
a trojan zerg rush?
I just use mine to tell me how far I am from my destination. And its fun to find out what body of water I am driving by, or the name of that industrial park. I still prefer to learn the backroads manually of an area I live in because its good to know. Also my GPS is built into a car so I need to know them when in my fiance's car. Plus, I enjoy giving people directions
They should lose their contracts for failing to wipe the data off the hard drives.