Sounds like a sure way to piss off the religious and atheists alike:]
I guess that depends on how you view it. The atheist might say religion evolved, while the religions person might say it's Gods work. I mean, if I had created earth I'd have wanted to get credit.:p
I havn't really followed the ps3 stuff in close detail because I'm not even considering buying a ps3, but I do find it sort of strange that Sony doesn't want potentional customers to know what kind of features to expect. More so when they don't seem to think twice about telling us about the giant enemy crabs in Japanese history and the ridiculous price, but especially when it's about online features. I say especially because the ps2 online service was upright horrible and even if these ideas are not new inventions they sure beat having nothing at all...
I'm not sure I understand this thing right though, I mean, why is Sony giving people outside Sony information Sony doesn't want people outside Sony to have? But I guess you have to try to run the independent blogpages when your own viral marketing blog gets outed?:p
My current cellphone is from the last millennium and the cool aspects of being able to say that is losing to my desire for a display that actually has colours. So I'm in the market for a new phone, and all those persky rumours of an apple phone on the series of tubes certainly made me wait a little longer. At first glance I instantly knew my wait had been in vain, not because of anything mentioned in this article but because I've owned two ipods. The 20gb one, and then a shuffle when I realized how much of a hazzle carrying the big one around was.
So there you have it, I won't buy into an iphone (at least not untile they make iphone nano), not because it's twice the price of what I find reasonable for a cellphone, not because there are other choices but because it's simply not designed for pockets.
Microsoft is pissing everyone off again. I'm running Vista Home Premium here on my Mac under vmware...
It seems like a somewhat bitter effort to get yourself upset over something that works, and might even continue to do so far a long time as the article seems to indicate.
Actually it's not that hard to understand is it? The European Union is not a government that has control over it's "states", it's instead an allegiance of indepentent countries who try to follow the same roads. Of course that doesn't mean the individual governments can be forced into doing things they don't first agree too, frankly because noone in Europe wants another country to tell them what to do, in their own.
I wouldn't be so sure that laws like this one isn't going to pass however. Because while people might be too liberal over here, our governments certainly aren't.
Or atleast with recent releases, because it wasn't always like this for nintendo, but bet anyone who has also owned a nintendo ds or a gamecube from their releases will know excatly what I'm talking about. Because with those recent releases nintendo has always been down for a breather, a breather that sometimes lasts more than a year before they get back in the ring with the big punches. This might seem odd if you look at how big the wii hit right from the start, but that alone is pretty unusual for nintendo and thus not something any gamedeveloper but ubisoft took a "gamble" on. Which is all the same really, because most of ubi's wii launch line is at best worthy of being rentals. Of course the big launch might pave the way for the next nintendo console, much like the ps2 did for the ps3, but who knows.
I've always liked nintendo games and I don't particulary mind waiting a for smashbros and so on, but I gotta admit the controllers can't get me hyped enough to overlook the techspecs and lack of online support anymore. It's mostly the lack of online support that gets to me though, and more so after I got an x360 a few weeks back, something I never thought I'd do but I've really taken a liking too it.
The wii's are still spinning some great fun up around our dorm, but when I sit alone relaxing after a though day I'd rather get into some online PES6 or a little co-oping in gears with long lost friends on xbox live.
I remember playing NHL 98 at a friends house back in the last millennium, and I remember it being pretty fun too but me not being very interested in hockey I never thought much of it after that. Or at least not until my friend and I once more sat down for a nights worth of competing on the ice a few years later, now with a new version of EA's NHL, soon after realizing we'd be better off in the 98 version instead. Which was really the end of my relationship with EA published games, I had liked wasteland, evenmore so when it sprung a "spiritual" sequal in form of Black Isle's Fallout, and I had also had a good time in Ultima Online, but whenever I later considered picking up a title published by EA it always made me think of NHL 98 and I decided to go else where, like picking Pro evolution soccer over fifa and so on. I'm not however resentful toward EA, not at all in fact, I just don't buy their games.
Which brings me to the trend that flows through responses whenever someone brings up EA on the Internets, because lets face it, EA have a neck for getting negative responses no matter what the story goes on. It's always made me wonder too, because alot of the negativity comes from people who buy their new EA games whenever an upgrade is available, like people owning every version of Madden, Call of Duty, Battlefield and so on. It's not that I can't understand the frustration of having to buy the same game repeatetly, it's more that I don't understand why people do it when they complain about it afterwards...
To me it seems like the story of EA is much more than a trip down memory lane, it's also a story of how big publishers slowly but surely came to own the market, because consumers bought into their advertisement, the updated roosters, and so on, picking up games they, to some extend, already owned beforehand because they knew ecatly what they were getting rather than taking a chance on some unheard of game from a small publisher. But that doesn't really make EA guilty of anything, I mean, in what line of business don't you want to own your market if you can?
I still remember when I first got a hold on the first fallout game and went to play it at a friends house. You start out a total weakling with no clue about the world, and there are no second lives either, if you die without having saved for a while, well then you die without having saved for a while - though luck. Not only that, you have to struggle on your way through the world, and if you take a stroll down the wrong alley or mess with the wrong people before you've progressed enough to handle it, then you get murdered. And I remember how much I loved exploring that game from the moment I stepped out of the door in vault 13. Fallout is just one example, but I don't excatly mind having been weak in the whole bioware/blackisle line of games - and kotor even featured some of the best storytelling I've seen in an rpg despite you having to work your way through the first part of the game as another clueless weakling.
The key is storytelling of course, fallout wasn't as strick as kotor, but it still had alot of interesting stories to tell as you went freely around on your own personal bombed out playground. This is where this guy Jeff Vogel goes wrong in my opinion, because being weak from the beginning is only a problem if your journey sucks. I can see why the journey from weakling to hero would suck in Doom, which is likely why we didn't see such journeys in FPS games untill much later, for example in deus ex that again had a great storyline. If the story is weak in a rpg, then it's because the developer failed, and I think that is something Jeff Vogel should be alot more concerned about than finding ways to skip character development entirely. And that is what he is suggesting, unless he wants to make games insanely easy, because if you start out as a hero with a big gun, but then get better at murdering with an even bigger gun along the line, well then you've changed absolutely nothing.
I have to say that it's no surprise to me that I havn't heard about Spiderweb Software before reading this article, and now I kind of wish I had never heard of Spiderweb Software to begin with - because this guy Jeff Vogel has certainly wated my time.:P
Articles like this sure makes me happy noone at slashdot were into posting useless MMO info back when patch periods were weeklong, and often followed by months of rollbacks.
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You had to create a second account to play splitscree, yes. But it didn't have to be a live account.
Religion evolved?
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:p
Sounds like a sure way to piss off the religious and atheists alike
I guess that depends on how you view it. The atheist might say religion evolved, while the religions person might say it's Gods work. I mean, if I had created earth I'd have wanted to get credit.
I havn't really followed the ps3 stuff in close detail because I'm not even considering buying a ps3, but I do find it sort of strange that Sony doesn't want potentional customers to know what kind of features to expect. More so when they don't seem to think twice about telling us about the giant enemy crabs in Japanese history and the ridiculous price, but especially when it's about online features. I say especially because the ps2 online service was upright horrible and even if these ideas are not new inventions they sure beat having nothing at all...
:p
I'm not sure I understand this thing right though, I mean, why is Sony giving people outside Sony information Sony doesn't want people outside Sony to have? But I guess you have to try to run the independent blogpages when your own viral marketing blog gets outed?
My current cellphone is from the last millennium and the cool aspects of being able to say that is losing to my desire for a display that actually has colours. So I'm in the market for a new phone, and all those persky rumours of an apple phone on the series of tubes certainly made me wait a little longer. At first glance I instantly knew my wait had been in vain, not because of anything mentioned in this article but because I've owned two ipods. The 20gb one, and then a shuffle when I realized how much of a hazzle carrying the big one around was.
So there you have it, I won't buy into an iphone (at least not untile they make iphone nano), not because it's twice the price of what I find reasonable for a cellphone, not because there are other choices but because it's simply not designed for pockets.
Microsoft is pissing everyone off again. I'm running Vista Home Premium here on my Mac under vmware...
It seems like a somewhat bitter effort to get yourself upset over something that works, and might even continue to do so far a long time as the article seems to indicate.
Actually it's not that hard to understand is it? The European Union is not a government that has control over it's "states", it's instead an allegiance of indepentent countries who try to follow the same roads. Of course that doesn't mean the individual governments can be forced into doing things they don't first agree too, frankly because noone in Europe wants another country to tell them what to do, in their own. I wouldn't be so sure that laws like this one isn't going to pass however. Because while people might be too liberal over here, our governments certainly aren't.
Or atleast with recent releases, because it wasn't always like this for nintendo, but bet anyone who has also owned a nintendo ds or a gamecube from their releases will know excatly what I'm talking about. Because with those recent releases nintendo has always been down for a breather, a breather that sometimes lasts more than a year before they get back in the ring with the big punches. This might seem odd if you look at how big the wii hit right from the start, but that alone is pretty unusual for nintendo and thus not something any gamedeveloper but ubisoft took a "gamble" on. Which is all the same really, because most of ubi's wii launch line is at best worthy of being rentals. Of course the big launch might pave the way for the next nintendo console, much like the ps2 did for the ps3, but who knows.
I've always liked nintendo games and I don't particulary mind waiting a for smashbros and so on, but I gotta admit the controllers can't get me hyped enough to overlook the techspecs and lack of online support anymore. It's mostly the lack of online support that gets to me though, and more so after I got an x360 a few weeks back, something I never thought I'd do but I've really taken a liking too it.
The wii's are still spinning some great fun up around our dorm, but when I sit alone relaxing after a though day I'd rather get into some online PES6 or a little co-oping in gears with long lost friends on xbox live.
I remember playing NHL 98 at a friends house back in the last millennium, and I remember it being pretty fun too but me not being very interested in hockey I never thought much of it after that. Or at least not until my friend and I once more sat down for a nights worth of competing on the ice a few years later, now with a new version of EA's NHL, soon after realizing we'd be better off in the 98 version instead. Which was really the end of my relationship with EA published games, I had liked wasteland, evenmore so when it sprung a "spiritual" sequal in form of Black Isle's Fallout, and I had also had a good time in Ultima Online, but whenever I later considered picking up a title published by EA it always made me think of NHL 98 and I decided to go else where, like picking Pro evolution soccer over fifa and so on. I'm not however resentful toward EA, not at all in fact, I just don't buy their games.
Which brings me to the trend that flows through responses whenever someone brings up EA on the Internets, because lets face it, EA have a neck for getting negative responses no matter what the story goes on. It's always made me wonder too, because alot of the negativity comes from people who buy their new EA games whenever an upgrade is available, like people owning every version of Madden, Call of Duty, Battlefield and so on. It's not that I can't understand the frustration of having to buy the same game repeatetly, it's more that I don't understand why people do it when they complain about it afterwards...
To me it seems like the story of EA is much more than a trip down memory lane, it's also a story of how big publishers slowly but surely came to own the market, because consumers bought into their advertisement, the updated roosters, and so on, picking up games they, to some extend, already owned beforehand because they knew ecatly what they were getting rather than taking a chance on some unheard of game from a small publisher. But that doesn't really make EA guilty of anything, I mean, in what line of business don't you want to own your market if you can?
I still remember when I first got a hold on the first fallout game and went to play it at a friends house. You start out a total weakling with no clue about the world, and there are no second lives either, if you die without having saved for a while, well then you die without having saved for a while - though luck. Not only that, you have to struggle on your way through the world, and if you take a stroll down the wrong alley or mess with the wrong people before you've progressed enough to handle it, then you get murdered. And I remember how much I loved exploring that game from the moment I stepped out of the door in vault 13. Fallout is just one example, but I don't excatly mind having been weak in the whole bioware/blackisle line of games - and kotor even featured some of the best storytelling I've seen in an rpg despite you having to work your way through the first part of the game as another clueless weakling. The key is storytelling of course, fallout wasn't as strick as kotor, but it still had alot of interesting stories to tell as you went freely around on your own personal bombed out playground. This is where this guy Jeff Vogel goes wrong in my opinion, because being weak from the beginning is only a problem if your journey sucks. I can see why the journey from weakling to hero would suck in Doom, which is likely why we didn't see such journeys in FPS games untill much later, for example in deus ex that again had a great storyline. If the story is weak in a rpg, then it's because the developer failed, and I think that is something Jeff Vogel should be alot more concerned about than finding ways to skip character development entirely. And that is what he is suggesting, unless he wants to make games insanely easy, because if you start out as a hero with a big gun, but then get better at murdering with an even bigger gun along the line, well then you've changed absolutely nothing. I have to say that it's no surprise to me that I havn't heard about Spiderweb Software before reading this article, and now I kind of wish I had never heard of Spiderweb Software to begin with - because this guy Jeff Vogel has certainly wated my time. :P
Except for countries like Norway who decided against joining the European Union, of course.
When I look at the boxart I kind of agree with mr gates. http://xbox360.gaming-universe.de/screens/boxart_u s_viava-pinata.jpg
Articles like this sure makes me happy noone at slashdot were into posting useless MMO info back when patch periods were weeklong, and often followed by months of rollbacks.
More on that note. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jses sionid=77EABEA128A666DABBFB522B00495DE7?topicId=47 009071&pageNo=3&sid=1#40
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8 2369804&pageNo=1&sid=1#9