He's just upset cause the other N-Gage was sold in a different state then his and thus can't play multiplayer games.
I haven't bought any games for my N-Gage, thought I have bought a GB/GBC emulator and I have also loaded on the free C64 emulator. It's a very flexible phone, being a Series 60 Symbian device. The last thing I installed on my N-Gage was the Quran. The thing before that, an Ogg Vorbis player.
The N-Gage is just everyone's favourite whipping boy. Most of the people "savaging" it on the web have never even touched one.
Using the phone makes you look like a dork.
Well, there you go, the informed masses have spoken. How is the current situtation any better than when public opinion is swayed by a big marketing machine? Now cool 12 year olds can just shit all over anything they can't afford and all their Internet friends will follow. The only difference is that journalists haven't yet developed the skills to separate informated opinion from schoolyard gossip on the Internet.
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If you didn't practice battles all the time, it didn't matter how good your tactics were, you still got your "strong" peices' arses kicked by your opponents "weak" characters. It's like playing ro-sham-bo whenever a pawn takes a queen.
I might have invested in the PS2's Everquest if I could enjoy the world with friends playing on their PCs, but the PS2 game appears to have its own ("exclusive") world, which is silly.
The technical demands for mobile gaming are significantly less. That's were there's room for independant developers. Other than that, they should negotiate contracts whereby if the publishers pull out the developers still get paid for their time. Before now I've refused to sign a contract where the other party thought that they would be able to pull out at any time without having to pay me a cent. They were surprised that I rejected a "standard" contract, but they still re-wrote it.
Sony need to think more iPod and less Atari Lynx. The PSP should be a two-part system. The desktop bit should have a disc drive of some sort and be a recharging station. The unit itself should just be a games machine wrapped around a hard drive. You should be able to install games to the hard drive and then store the game media away.
Knowing what I carry around with me all the time, it should be any bigger or heavier than an iPod or N-Gage. And for me to find it worth buying it would need to be a perfect replacement for my iPod, as well as a games machine.
I hated iTunes and returned to MusicMatch straight away. I thought I'd accidentally uninstalled the iPod software rather than iTunes, but all I had to do was re-install the iPod plug-in for MusicMatch to get it working again and in fact an intermittant "service isn't running" error didn't return.
When I look at my phone and grin after you've sent a message, come over and say hello -- you're probably more interesting than anyone else in the area:)
(As for unwanted use, I've mapped the Bluetooth control panel to my right function key -- I can enable and disable in two clicks, if you spam me, it's easy fixed. Anyway, I can always detect your device and retaliate.)
Y2k has nothing to do with it. Any company that had to upgrade PCs for Y2k is not the sort of company likely to be replacing PCs after only three years.
Separately, where I work still has two of the original three PCs purchased when the company was formed. The third was water damaged beyond safe repair.
My primary email address is a Spamcop address. I get about one spam a month and it never makes it to my inbox. This last bit is important -- I only have dial-up at home and I don't think that downloading 40 spam messages (my old daily rate, when I had a Yahoo account) then filtering them is the answer.
Mys PS2 is my DVD player, not just because I bought one before I bought a stand-alone player, but because I knew that all I needed was DVD Region X and I'd be able to play DVDs from all regions. The issue is more complicated than just whether or not the device has the broad functionality you want, but the specific functions you want. DRM could easily kill TIVO-like functionality in the next generation of games consoles, adding to the price but not to the sales.
I'd hate to be a TV station required to upgrade all their equipment to digital only to find themselves bereft of talent enough to put on shows other than "Australia's funniest hit in the balls".
It's not just that the programs are crap, it's that they're crap filled with ads.
I buy my Andromeda on DVD. I don't pay for it by watching ads. If there are any SciFi producers out there: Screw the stations, produce for Region 0 DVD. Put up a BitTorrent link for your pilot and a "buy it now" link on your website.
Anyone that's been gaming since before the crash of the early 80s knows what a good game looks like and what a crap game looks like. We also know when someone is lying when they claim their game is original. I see little of merit in the current batch of computer and video games.
I feel that computer games have stagnated significantly in the last six month to a year if that's what you're saying. I've pretty much come to the end of my love affair with Diablo II and now that I'm looking for a new obsession, I'm finding the market rather lacking, be it console or PC.
"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". I don't think the article gets it right once.
Our bonuses were based on growth and individual's salaries. By basing it on growth rather than profit, you're less likely to overcommit just before a downturn, I guess.
I don't think you realise just how alike I believe all the games are that you're listing. Different is Rampage compared to Chu-Chu Rocket, Bomberman compared to Wip3out. Different is not a third-person platform shooter compared to a third-person platform slasher.
You've described exactly the opposite approach to how I enjoy games. I enjoy the basic concept of the games, not the eye-candy. If you push out cookie-cutter games all based around the same engine, as far as I'm concered you're releasing the same game over and over. I believe as much time should be spent developing new technology for games as is currently spent on eye-candy and marketing.
Perhaps if I enjoyed more than Doom in the FPS genre or any RTS game I might be into the n-th generation FPS engine or not mind that RTS game X is "just like" RTS games A-W. But I didn't so I'm not.
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Easy, if it gets any question right, it's not a real model.
I have seven BT devices, mind you compatibily across brands is somewhat lacking.
If you didn't practice battles all the time, it didn't matter how good your tactics were, you still got your "strong" peices' arses kicked by your opponents "weak" characters. It's like playing ro-sham-bo whenever a pawn takes a queen.
I might have invested in the PS2's Everquest if I could enjoy the world with friends playing on their PCs, but the PS2 game appears to have its own ("exclusive") world, which is silly.
I'd rather an option for NAV to treat all P2P software as a virus in our student labs. IM apps too.
The technical demands for mobile gaming are significantly less. That's were there's room for independant developers. Other than that, they should negotiate contracts whereby if the publishers pull out the developers still get paid for their time. Before now I've refused to sign a contract where the other party thought that they would be able to pull out at any time without having to pay me a cent. They were surprised that I rejected a "standard" contract, but they still re-wrote it.
Inserting a "n't" into the correct place left as an exercise for the reader. I suck.
Knowing what I carry around with me all the time, it should be any bigger or heavier than an iPod or N-Gage. And for me to find it worth buying it would need to be a perfect replacement for my iPod, as well as a games machine.
I hated iTunes and returned to MusicMatch straight away. I thought I'd accidentally uninstalled the iPod software rather than iTunes, but all I had to do was re-install the iPod plug-in for MusicMatch to get it working again and in fact an intermittant "service isn't running" error didn't return.
(As for unwanted use, I've mapped the Bluetooth control panel to my right function key -- I can enable and disable in two clicks, if you spam me, it's easy fixed. Anyway, I can always detect your device and retaliate.)
It can be two things.
http://www.gamecubenetwork.com/cube.news?3488
Separately, where I work still has two of the original three PCs purchased when the company was formed. The third was water damaged beyond safe repair.
My primary email address is a Spamcop address. I get about one spam a month and it never makes it to my inbox. This last bit is important -- I only have dial-up at home and I don't think that downloading 40 spam messages (my old daily rate, when I had a Yahoo account) then filtering them is the answer.
Mys PS2 is my DVD player, not just because I bought one before I bought a stand-alone player, but because I knew that all I needed was DVD Region X and I'd be able to play DVDs from all regions. The issue is more complicated than just whether or not the device has the broad functionality you want, but the specific functions you want. DRM could easily kill TIVO-like functionality in the next generation of games consoles, adding to the price but not to the sales.
It's not just that the programs are crap, it's that they're crap filled with ads.
I buy my Andromeda on DVD. I don't pay for it by watching ads. If there are any SciFi producers out there: Screw the stations, produce for Region 0 DVD. Put up a BitTorrent link for your pilot and a "buy it now" link on your website.
Anyone that's been gaming since before the crash of the early 80s knows what a good game looks like and what a crap game looks like. We also know when someone is lying when they claim their game is original. I see little of merit in the current batch of computer and video games.
I feel that computer games have stagnated significantly in the last six month to a year if that's what you're saying. I've pretty much come to the end of my love affair with Diablo II and now that I'm looking for a new obsession, I'm finding the market rather lacking, be it console or PC.
"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". I don't think the article gets it right once.
Our bonuses were based on growth and individual's salaries. By basing it on growth rather than profit, you're less likely to overcommit just before a downturn, I guess.
I don't think you realise just how alike I believe all the games are that you're listing. Different is Rampage compared to Chu-Chu Rocket, Bomberman compared to Wip3out. Different is not a third-person platform shooter compared to a third-person platform slasher.
Perhaps if I enjoyed more than Doom in the FPS genre or any RTS game I might be into the n-th generation FPS engine or not mind that RTS game X is "just like" RTS games A-W. But I didn't so I'm not.