Whoa hold on hold on. Microangelo is still around? God that takes me back. Can't you just use bitmaps for icons now anyway? And by now I mean like, since win95...
reading 3001. The book suggests that future computer viri become even more dangerous than biological and nuclear weapons, and eventually the nastiest of them are sealed away in a vault on the moon. Threatened with possible extermination, mankind eventually uploads them to defeat a now hostile black monolith. I thought this was a little melodramatic at the time. Then I read this article about the navy using windows on its warships. I guess the monolith was running an alien version of windows. Witness computational entropy at work in the universe.
...these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water. Looks like they'll get plenty here pretty soon.
Except they made it to their destination (in the 3 succeeding books) in only a few years. And actually the human colony nearly destroyed itself by fucking with the parameters of the ship's environmental controls. The political situation became really screwed as well. And they ended up destroying the other alien colonies hitherto isolated elsewhere on the ship. That humans couldn't last more than a decade aboard this craft was basicly the cynical moral of these books.
This will eventually just happen on it's own. For some time now, graphics have been driving game systems. It sucks but John Q is a fucking philistine with regards to anything other than graphics. I've heard so much talk about physics being the new revolution in gaming -- as it, you know, actually affects the gameplay, kinda important wrt the fun factor of the game -- and I've been really loving the incorporation of ragdoll physics in everything I play now; but unfortunately people who don't know their head from the ass still have the ability to judge aesthetics. That is what is demanded from games. And until we reach a point of photorealism that makes everyone realize that if it looks real but plays like shit, it's no fun, we will be stuck in this trend. I don't think it is too long now actually. Soon we'll have Hollywood graphics on every system, the particular platform will no longer matter, and every company will have to prove their shit through an engaging gameplay experience. Something independent of the power of the system on which it runs, something wholly dependent on the designer's imagination. That is the only time that hardware will no longer matter and "universal game platform" will make sense.
There is that curious phrase again. "Targetted" advertising indeed. Frankly, if the aim of any advertising was ever sharp at all, wouldn't certain people just get product/bill silently shipped to them while the rest of us were left peacefully alone. There is no such thing as targetted advertising, it's all about pissing in everyone's ear until some schmuck uses his wallet to block the spray.
I agree with your sentiment. I do think there is a distinction between product placement and advertising. If the trash I plow through while barrelling down the streets in my shiny race car is filled with Pepsi cans -- the little logos just barely registering in my periphery -- then yes I think that adds to the real-world immersive element of play. But if the pedestrian I run over is screaming "The choice of a new generation!" then a line has been crossed and I've been rudely distracted from the game. If you want to increase your brand recognition then to so tactfully. But the moment you begin outright pitching your product to me I'm already tuning you out, and thinking about whether I ever again want to patronize the company which produced the game.
I don't watch television anymore because I simply cannot stand the advertisements. There are ads running on screens in checkout ailses while shoppers stand in line at Walmart. Honestly, I was recently surprised with the realization that the entire rythm of a typical pro football game is so utterly regulated by the need to insert television advertising. For me it ruined the fun of spectating. It really baffles me how people put up with it. I won't pay money for that sort of shit in my games. It made me stop watching television, it would honestly make me stop playing games. "Do no evil" my ass. This sort of thing has no positive side effect for the consumers of the games. You think games will get any cheaper with ads? You still pay for cable don't you...
Starflight, my god yes. Looking for interplanetary mineral deposits.. Yep that was fun to me as a kid and I'm not even into NASA. I'm gonna fire that damn game up right now as a matter of fact. And what about Road Rash? Why did they have to kill that franchise? It was great all the way up to the 3D0/PC. Road Rash was an original EA title, no license there. And they fucked it up.
Can we stop with the medical scenarios? If you're violently allergic to eggs or randomly shit your pants and forget who you are then you are special and have special needs. You need to carry your bracelet or medical ID card around with you in case something goes wrong. We shouldn't have to install expensive readers in hospitals all over the country just in the off chance you might forget to take along with you the necessary indications of you special condition. I'm sorry but nature clearly does not want you here in the first place and if you cannot use your big brain in spite of that fact then you don't deserve to survive. Take some responsibility for yourself.
This is a bullshit excuse to increase the ubiquity of a dangerous technology and desensitize the rest of us to its presence. Don't make it any easier to fully implement a technology where the main purpose is obviously to track citizens everywhere they go. And if you really can't be bothered to carry a wallet around, you're fucking lazy and probably dangerously obese as well.
but only because Gamestop employees are dick-holes and deserve every bit of inconvenience and job-insecurity fate deals them. I wish i could be a Gamestop NARC.
"This could be done in a completely transparent way and would not be confusing to the users."
Who even wants it to be transparent? I would want complete segregation of DRM and non-DRM. As it is I've never used ITMS because DRM just sounded like a bad deal to me from the very start, even before this blu-ray/Vista nonsense really heated up. The whole thing reminded me of Circuit City's Divx rental format from back in the day. But I might actually use ITMS, if I could buy straight up uncrippled mp3s, and they'd do well to advertise that fact prominently. Then again 99 cents a song was always a rip-off.
actually, i rented the game when it first came out. didn't like it. then i played warriors. LOVED that game, but realized it was extremely similar to manhunt from what i remembered. so i went back and played manhunt. LOVED it the second time. honestly, you don't even get any guns until like level 5 and it was perfect in terms of progression. by the time you get to the mansion at the end, and you're stalking private security guards with high powered rifles, i mean, you really feel like a maddog killer with a vendetta. IMHO, no game has really touched that since. we play tons of game where bullets and blood fly left and right, but nothing really gives you that sense of bloodlust like manhunt did. i mean this game had atmosphere. really, just play the game through and you'll love it. really play it. as far as the graphics are concerned, i think rockstar has a real knack for building an engine that is right for the console on which it is running. manhunt had just the right look for what it needed. and really, arguing that a game's graphics suck is invalid criticism now that i think about it. what was the last game you played where the gameplay kept you enthralled but you panned it because the graphics weren't up to snuff. doesn't happen. when ppl say the graphics suck its because they really weren't even into the game to begin with. go play the pretty splinter cell, and fall asleep...
oh i played it with the xbox communicator headset. what a great use of existing tech for a new original purpose. i really loved rockstar's use of that. i imagine whoever they get to do the voice (should they go that route again) will come from the wiimote this time eh?
i know. i was trying to pronounce it in weird ways to see if it would produce a phonetically similar trick phrase or something but no luck. now how did your finger miss "w" for "v"? those keys are not very close.
i absolutely love manhunt. LOVE IT. just one more reason to get a wii! althought just where could the story go after the first manhunt? dude killed your whole family, and you killed dude. what's left? cash has no more arc left to him. maybe he just becomes a serial killer. now thats my kinda game.
this is actually an awesome idea. especially with flash drives and sd cards and what have you coming out bigger and cheaper. i need to trademark the name sneakerflix.
I tried to get a guy i know to play Donkey Kongo once. i showed him how it worked and he freaked out when i tried to get him to play it. might as well have been trying to get him to wear a care bears t-shirt to a biker rally. for some reason it really offended his sense of masculinity. the face he made was almost involuntary. forget that it was a fun game. shit i'll play barbie's dream mansion if the gameplay is solid. blood and guts or fuzzy bunny rabbits, it's all fun and games anyway.
but doctors get a small break in their total number of patients by not having to treat victims of massive car-pileups resulting from overworked, meth-addled truckdrivers falling asleep at the wheel. a butterfly flaps its wings on the interstate, and a doctor gets 2 more minutes of nap-time on his break.
not trying to flame here, but how did you feel after seeing the movies on that list of yours, and how does that affect the current discussion on Hollywood's product quality of late? Epic Movie? sheesh...
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Whoa hold on hold on. Microangelo is still around? God that takes me back. Can't you just use bitmaps for icons now anyway? And by now I mean like, since win95...
reading 3001. The book suggests that future computer viri become even more dangerous than biological and nuclear weapons, and eventually the nastiest of them are sealed away in a vault on the moon. Threatened with possible extermination, mankind eventually uploads them to defeat a now hostile black monolith. I thought this was a little melodramatic at the time. Then I read this article about the navy using windows on its warships. I guess the monolith was running an alien version of windows. Witness computational entropy at work in the universe.
...these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water. Looks like they'll get plenty here pretty soon.Except they made it to their destination (in the 3 succeeding books) in only a few years. And actually the human colony nearly destroyed itself by fucking with the parameters of the ship's environmental controls. The political situation became really screwed as well. And they ended up destroying the other alien colonies hitherto isolated elsewhere on the ship. That humans couldn't last more than a decade aboard this craft was basicly the cynical moral of these books.
This will eventually just happen on it's own. For some time now, graphics have been driving game systems. It sucks but John Q is a fucking philistine with regards to anything other than graphics. I've heard so much talk about physics being the new revolution in gaming -- as it, you know, actually affects the gameplay, kinda important wrt the fun factor of the game -- and I've been really loving the incorporation of ragdoll physics in everything I play now; but unfortunately people who don't know their head from the ass still have the ability to judge aesthetics. That is what is demanded from games. And until we reach a point of photorealism that makes everyone realize that if it looks real but plays like shit, it's no fun, we will be stuck in this trend. I don't think it is too long now actually. Soon we'll have Hollywood graphics on every system, the particular platform will no longer matter, and every company will have to prove their shit through an engaging gameplay experience. Something independent of the power of the system on which it runs, something wholly dependent on the designer's imagination. That is the only time that hardware will no longer matter and "universal game platform" will make sense.
There is that curious phrase again. "Targetted" advertising indeed. Frankly, if the aim of any advertising was ever sharp at all, wouldn't certain people just get product/bill silently shipped to them while the rest of us were left peacefully alone. There is no such thing as targetted advertising, it's all about pissing in everyone's ear until some schmuck uses his wallet to block the spray.
I agree with your sentiment. I do think there is a distinction between product placement and advertising. If the trash I plow through while barrelling down the streets in my shiny race car is filled with Pepsi cans -- the little logos just barely registering in my periphery -- then yes I think that adds to the real-world immersive element of play. But if the pedestrian I run over is screaming "The choice of a new generation!" then a line has been crossed and I've been rudely distracted from the game. If you want to increase your brand recognition then to so tactfully. But the moment you begin outright pitching your product to me I'm already tuning you out, and thinking about whether I ever again want to patronize the company which produced the game.
I don't watch television anymore because I simply cannot stand the advertisements. There are ads running on screens in checkout ailses while shoppers stand in line at Walmart. Honestly, I was recently surprised with the realization that the entire rythm of a typical pro football game is so utterly regulated by the need to insert television advertising. For me it ruined the fun of spectating. It really baffles me how people put up with it. I won't pay money for that sort of shit in my games. It made me stop watching television, it would honestly make me stop playing games. "Do no evil" my ass. This sort of thing has no positive side effect for the consumers of the games. You think games will get any cheaper with ads? You still pay for cable don't you...
Starflight, my god yes. Looking for interplanetary mineral deposits.. Yep that was fun to me as a kid and I'm not even into NASA. I'm gonna fire that damn game up right now as a matter of fact. And what about Road Rash? Why did they have to kill that franchise? It was great all the way up to the 3D0/PC. Road Rash was an original EA title, no license there. And they fucked it up.
Look for "The History of EA '08" following the success of this artical.
So you're say it's a governmant job that involves playing video games. Where do i sign up?
Can we stop with the medical scenarios? If you're violently allergic to eggs or randomly shit your pants and forget who you are then you are special and have special needs. You need to carry your bracelet or medical ID card around with you in case something goes wrong. We shouldn't have to install expensive readers in hospitals all over the country just in the off chance you might forget to take along with you the necessary indications of you special condition. I'm sorry but nature clearly does not want you here in the first place and if you cannot use your big brain in spite of that fact then you don't deserve to survive. Take some responsibility for yourself. This is a bullshit excuse to increase the ubiquity of a dangerous technology and desensitize the rest of us to its presence. Don't make it any easier to fully implement a technology where the main purpose is obviously to track citizens everywhere they go. And if you really can't be bothered to carry a wallet around, you're fucking lazy and probably dangerously obese as well.
but only because Gamestop employees are dick-holes and deserve every bit of inconvenience and job-insecurity fate deals them. I wish i could be a Gamestop NARC.
if they had used Tom Cruise's DNA the resulting rainbow pattern would probably approah a visual singularity.
"This could be done in a completely transparent way and would not be confusing to the users." Who even wants it to be transparent? I would want complete segregation of DRM and non-DRM. As it is I've never used ITMS because DRM just sounded like a bad deal to me from the very start, even before this blu-ray/Vista nonsense really heated up. The whole thing reminded me of Circuit City's Divx rental format from back in the day. But I might actually use ITMS, if I could buy straight up uncrippled mp3s, and they'd do well to advertise that fact prominently. Then again 99 cents a song was always a rip-off.
actually, i rented the game when it first came out. didn't like it. then i played warriors. LOVED that game, but realized it was extremely similar to manhunt from what i remembered. so i went back and played manhunt. LOVED it the second time. honestly, you don't even get any guns until like level 5 and it was perfect in terms of progression. by the time you get to the mansion at the end, and you're stalking private security guards with high powered rifles, i mean, you really feel like a maddog killer with a vendetta. IMHO, no game has really touched that since. we play tons of game where bullets and blood fly left and right, but nothing really gives you that sense of bloodlust like manhunt did. i mean this game had atmosphere. really, just play the game through and you'll love it. really play it. as far as the graphics are concerned, i think rockstar has a real knack for building an engine that is right for the console on which it is running. manhunt had just the right look for what it needed. and really, arguing that a game's graphics suck is invalid criticism now that i think about it. what was the last game you played where the gameplay kept you enthralled but you panned it because the graphics weren't up to snuff. doesn't happen. when ppl say the graphics suck its because they really weren't even into the game to begin with. go play the pretty splinter cell, and fall asleep...
oh i played it with the xbox communicator headset. what a great use of existing tech for a new original purpose. i really loved rockstar's use of that. i imagine whoever they get to do the voice (should they go that route again) will come from the wiimote this time eh?
i know. i was trying to pronounce it in weird ways to see if it would produce a phonetically similar trick phrase or something but no luck. now how did your finger miss "w" for "v"? those keys are not very close.
i absolutely love manhunt. LOVE IT. just one more reason to get a wii! althought just where could the story go after the first manhunt? dude killed your whole family, and you killed dude. what's left? cash has no more arc left to him. maybe he just becomes a serial killer. now thats my kinda game.
this is actually an awesome idea. especially with flash drives and sd cards and what have you coming out bigger and cheaper. i need to trademark the name sneakerflix.
I tried to get a guy i know to play Donkey Kongo once. i showed him how it worked and he freaked out when i tried to get him to play it. might as well have been trying to get him to wear a care bears t-shirt to a biker rally. for some reason it really offended his sense of masculinity. the face he made was almost involuntary. forget that it was a fun game. shit i'll play barbie's dream mansion if the gameplay is solid. blood and guts or fuzzy bunny rabbits, it's all fun and games anyway.
you can't even spell it right, how much could you love it?
but doctors get a small break in their total number of patients by not having to treat victims of massive car-pileups resulting from overworked, meth-addled truckdrivers falling asleep at the wheel. a butterfly flaps its wings on the interstate, and a doctor gets 2 more minutes of nap-time on his break.
not trying to flame here, but how did you feel after seeing the movies on that list of yours, and how does that affect the current discussion on Hollywood's product quality of late? Epic Movie? sheesh...