Huh? Heavenly Sword isn't out for another two weeks, has someone reviewed it already? If so, what's so bad about it? The demo is absolutely amazing, it's hard to imagine the finished game being that bad.
EQ2 has been given many a facelift, and I personally feel that unless you are looking for PvP, it is the best MMO going. The playerbase tends to be a little more mature than the typical WoW crowd, and no raid requires more than 24 persons max, and many are 12 person raids. If you played it at launch and were disgusted, take a look at it now. I've had many WoW fanatics burn out, and come try EQ2 with those of us that are playing. Only one has not stayed with EQ2, and he left due to not having enough RAM to run EQ2 and Skype at the same time. Most of them have been simply stunned at how different a game it is. To be fair, since it seems like you're trying to compare it to WoW (the de facto PvE MMO out there), no raid in WoW requires more than 25 people, and there are a couple of 10-mans. They're pretty similar in that regard.
Blizzard needs to release more than 1 expansion every 2 years to keep the attention of players. Their working towards their second expansion, while SoE is working on the 4th for EQ2. I'd like to see that, but it'll never happen. You and I both know it. Blizzard development moves at a slow pace, and they probably wouldn't even try to put a game out in a hurry. If we're lucky, we'll see WotLK early next year, and we'll be up to 1 a year, which is fairly reasonable, imo. There's no way in hell Blizzard will release an expansion every 6 months, though.
Ironically, the bad points you mention are fairly representative of WoW, except possibly the one about repetitiveness. I guess I don't know if you mean repetitive in that the mechanics don't ever change (like WoW, which is fine with me), or that the content stays the same (ugh). Weird that if those are the bad points, that AA isn't doing as well as WoW.
At any rate, no death penalty is the best thing to ever happen to MMOs. I wish every game did that.
I dunno, your inability to get past what you deem as "kiddie" and see a good game regardless of what age group it may or may not be intended for is pretty kiddie. Grow up, it doesn't make you less of a man if you play Mario (not that I blame you for not playing Mario, as I never felt the series translated to 3D very well...). In fact, you'll get MORE respect from people, in general, for caring about a game's substance, not its style.
Er... Metroid Prime 3 is out now, I went out and bought it on Tuesday. Super Paper Mario has been out for quite a long time too, like 2 months or something.
The success or failure of a Companies console doesn't really determine the size of your penis. It doesn't??? FUCK! That guy in the alley behind the bar ripped me off!
Vista SP1 will be one step closer to a Windows that's as good as Mac OS X. I don't know, for my money, Windows is (and has always been) BETTER than Mac OS. I guess I'm probably in the minority, but damn it, I don't want the OS of my choice to become like its competition, turning away from the things I liked about it.
Hello, chap! I'm also a long-time FPS PC gamer who thinks Halo was beyone merely 'entertaining' (actually, I rate its single-player as the second-best FPS ever).
As much as I, having grown up in the Packers' back yard, support them, I can't honestly see them winning the super bowl this year. Then again, I don't know what the team is like at the moment, I'm just basing it off what I've seen in the past, and a general pessimism.
too bad it's for a cartoon that nobody under 40 remembers. Pfft. So little faith. I'm 22 years old, and I remember the cartoon clearly, I used to watch it all the time when I was little. I can't be alone.
The minimum wage in British Columbia does not affect the fact that $8.50 is significantly more in the US. If you think it should be more, cool. I find it hard to disagree. But that really has no bearing on the topic at hand.
Wow, a large company with a history of doing ridiculous things purely for its own profit, does a ridiculous thing purely for its own profit in a young foreign market, where it's no doubt easier to get away with this stuff.
I'm sure that comment will get me marked as a troll by a bunch of pimply-faced knuckleheads No, but that shot at the mods will.
Anyways, I don't understand the big deal about CG. I am young, to be fair (22), but the CG in modern movies looks plenty realistic to me, unless I pick it apart. If I allow myself to be immersed in my entertainment, no problems. In contrast, the "real models" (as the GP said) look pretty fake to me. For all the respect I have for the original Star Wars movies for how good they were for their time, they REALLY look fake at times, and these times are often enough to get to me.
And Windows Vista still won't run on any existing hardware... You do know that Vista is capable of running quite well on some existing hardware, right? Your shot at Vista doesn't hold true even now, what'll make it become true in 2029?
You know, some of us liked the prequels, so don't be too hard on Lucas. I thought they were, overall, stronger than the original trilogy. It's not as if he made movies that no one liked, and slapped the Star Wars name on them. I would even go so far as to say those fans aren't a tiny minority, but a more well-organized sample than just the people I knew in college would have to be used to determine that with reasonable accuracy.
I disagree (obviously), it's a very valid argument. I'm not making the argument that any punishment meted out by the law is just, I claim that this punishment is just (he pirated, they're trying to make sure he doesn't pirate again, at least while he's on parole), and that if he doesn't like receiving a just punishment, he shouldn't have broken the law. It's hardly a universal argument.
At any rate, whether the parolee uses his computer to a non-trivial extent, or whether he can accomplish the same tasks under Windows as under Linux, is irrelevant to this case. This man is (reasonably) being prevented (as far as the law can guarantee) from pirating while he's on parole. They have a tool for this purpose, and it requires Windows. To develop a new tool would cost taxpayer money, which is unreasonable--why should the majority pay for one man's convenience?
Not to mention, it's highly unlikely that any application which is productive, and necessary for this man's livelihood (ie, not games) won't have an analogue under Windows. You keep saying that this is arbitrary, and unreasonable--yet the fact remains that this parole is more lenient, and less disruptive to this man's life, than being in prison. No one complains when we put criminals in prison (unless it's done unjustly), how is this any different? It's still punishment, he isn't a free man yet (he's confined to his house, isn't he? That's far more restrictive than ANYTHING they do to his computer). If this were a restriction placed once he was supposedly a free man, THAT would be unreasonable. Until then, this restriction is perfectly allowable.
No, they're not, but that wasn't my point. My point was that the decision to make him switch to Windows was NOT arbitrary. If it's such a problem for this guy, then he shouldn't break the law, thus necessitating the tracking of his computer usage. Simple as that. If he doesn't break the law in the future, it won't be an issue for him, and he can use his OS of choice forever.
Well yes, that's valid. I thought you were seriously saying that some entertainment should die because you don't think it's quality, which is an attitude I do see from time to time in people, and is a pet peeve of mine.
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What version of IE? It works fine in IE7, but they might've fixed it since earlier.
Huh? Heavenly Sword isn't out for another two weeks, has someone reviewed it already? If so, what's so bad about it? The demo is absolutely amazing, it's hard to imagine the finished game being that bad.
At any rate, no death penalty is the best thing to ever happen to MMOs. I wish every game did that.
I dunno, your inability to get past what you deem as "kiddie" and see a good game regardless of what age group it may or may not be intended for is pretty kiddie. Grow up, it doesn't make you less of a man if you play Mario (not that I blame you for not playing Mario, as I never felt the series translated to 3D very well...). In fact, you'll get MORE respect from people, in general, for caring about a game's substance, not its style.
Er... Metroid Prime 3 is out now, I went out and bought it on Tuesday. Super Paper Mario has been out for quite a long time too, like 2 months or something.
Someone suggested that we serve cake as well, but we shot him for daring to suggest that anything other than pie reigns supreme.
Hmm. Silently laughing is indeed satisfying, but pity is much more snobbish and elitist. I can't pick, you decide!
Might I share in the pie?
As much as I, having grown up in the Packers' back yard, support them, I can't honestly see them winning the super bowl this year. Then again, I don't know what the team is like at the moment, I'm just basing it off what I've seen in the past, and a general pessimism.
(See how opinions work like that?)
The minimum wage in British Columbia does not affect the fact that $8.50 is significantly more in the US. If you think it should be more, cool. I find it hard to disagree. But that really has no bearing on the topic at hand.
Seriously, I didn't see this one coming.
Y'know, considering I had no idea who Eric S Raymond was before today, even if I had run a google on it, I'd have learned nothing. ;)
Anyways, I don't understand the big deal about CG. I am young, to be fair (22), but the CG in modern movies looks plenty realistic to me, unless I pick it apart. If I allow myself to be immersed in my entertainment, no problems. In contrast, the "real models" (as the GP said) look pretty fake to me. For all the respect I have for the original Star Wars movies for how good they were for their time, they REALLY look fake at times, and these times are often enough to get to me.
For now. That could still go either way, imo.
You know, some of us liked the prequels, so don't be too hard on Lucas. I thought they were, overall, stronger than the original trilogy. It's not as if he made movies that no one liked, and slapped the Star Wars name on them. I would even go so far as to say those fans aren't a tiny minority, but a more well-organized sample than just the people I knew in college would have to be used to determine that with reasonable accuracy.
Who/what the hell is ESR???
At any rate, whether the parolee uses his computer to a non-trivial extent, or whether he can accomplish the same tasks under Windows as under Linux, is irrelevant to this case. This man is (reasonably) being prevented (as far as the law can guarantee) from pirating while he's on parole. They have a tool for this purpose, and it requires Windows. To develop a new tool would cost taxpayer money, which is unreasonable--why should the majority pay for one man's convenience?
Not to mention, it's highly unlikely that any application which is productive, and necessary for this man's livelihood (ie, not games) won't have an analogue under Windows. You keep saying that this is arbitrary, and unreasonable--yet the fact remains that this parole is more lenient, and less disruptive to this man's life, than being in prison. No one complains when we put criminals in prison (unless it's done unjustly), how is this any different? It's still punishment, he isn't a free man yet (he's confined to his house, isn't he? That's far more restrictive than ANYTHING they do to his computer). If this were a restriction placed once he was supposedly a free man, THAT would be unreasonable. Until then, this restriction is perfectly allowable.
No, they're not, but that wasn't my point. My point was that the decision to make him switch to Windows was NOT arbitrary. If it's such a problem for this guy, then he shouldn't break the law, thus necessitating the tracking of his computer usage. Simple as that. If he doesn't break the law in the future, it won't be an issue for him, and he can use his OS of choice forever.
Well yes, that's valid. I thought you were seriously saying that some entertainment should die because you don't think it's quality, which is an attitude I do see from time to time in people, and is a pet peeve of mine.