Wii is the only true next-generation system, as it is the only one with a controller that allows next-generation gameplay. The other systems have lots of power but it is wasted on last-generation gameplay
There are dozens of crappy games like this in any Best Buy you go to: baseball games, tennis games, fishing games, there are lightsaber ones too iirc. This is not new, it's not revolutionary. Sure it's now going to be more generic than those stand alone games, but the gameplay is exactly the same... and guess what, that gameplay tends to suck.
I won't slam the system until it comes out and I have a chance to really try it, but this is NOT new ground for gaming, and Nintendo is going to have to do something really spectacular to make it good. All this talk of "next generation" and "new and innovative" in regards to this control scheme is nothing more than fanboy nonsense. No one knows enough to even know if it's any good at this point, and NOTHING that we have seen is innovative and new.
Thoroughly untrue. If I suddenly and without warning scare you half to death, and you're left with mental trauma, e.g. constant nightmares, new phobias, anxiety, etc., then I've harmed you, just not physically. Your nonsense about trespassing isn't relevant. It can happen anywhere, and with sufficient rapidity that you can't really protect yourself.
Frankly, you're advocating crackpot positions, and I'm now less interested in discussing them with you as I am in refuting them so that others aren't taken in.
And frankly, your analogies are worthless. Mental trauma IS physical harm, kidnapping someone by definition is harm. You completely ruin your point by not being able to form simple valid arguments. You're a lawyer huh? Maybe you should have went out and got an education instead of going to law school.
A-freakin-men. The rusher and grinders are the ones that are complaining. You know, the "hardcore" guys, the ones that can't play for shit but sure can grind.
This is a game that rewards good grouping and teamwork more than any other I have ever played.
WoW "rules the mmorpg scene" because it appeals to the lowest common denominator, thats it. It's a succesful business venture and a horrible game. You obviously didn't play at release, or you'd know better than to praise Blizzard for playtesting and running stable.
In short your opinion means dick.
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Maybe an hour,... at most, not even close to a week. Not even at NA release.
If you're that easily offended, then I would recommend not making posts that highlight negative character traits. You put it out there for comment, I stepped up and pointed out the obvious. It takes a really insecure person to even consider quitting an activity they enjoy based on the opinion of others. Shit... I was pulling punches even, I didn't even get into the arrogance required to dismiss an activity as beneath you based on the personalities of others that participate in it, even if the "documentary" wasn't a joke.
So don't come in here pulling some holier than thou comments about my wife are off limits horse shit. You put the post out there, a post which coincidentally insulted all the poor slobs out there that do resemble the video, however slightly, and who don't have wives, or girlfriends, etc. I'll say it again, I'd be pretty pissed if my wife pulled some shit like that.
I saw this video a few days ago... I found it amusing. What's particularly funny to me (and perhaps ironically a bit disturbing) is that there are, in fact, actually people out there that are like that.
I then showed the video to my wife, who is playing in my weekly D&D group.
She pronounced that she needed to reconsider whether she should be playing D&D with me... as she didn't want to be associated with people that were like that.
She was serious.
Now as it happens, she enjoys playing with the group enough that she ultimately decided to ignore her initial reaction to the video, but still... it was touch and go there for a day or two before our Friday night game session.
Some of us remember the good old days days, before it was commercialized in the first place. That day was the beginning of the end.
Oh, yes... and some of us remember that in the good old days access was more expensive, more difficult to get, and generally less useful. We also remember not being able to get just about anything we wanted, not having public forums such as this to express our opinion to this many people, not getting news or weather with a few clicks of the mouse.
Yes some of us DO remember the old days, and some of us are also intelligent enough not to romanticize them as the "good old days".
"I've written are hard to maintain because the people who run our server farms aren't familar with the technology and how to support it. (They don't like that I'm running Apache!) So, maintainability in that sense, I'd say RoR is not quite there (but it's getting there real fast)."
Wow, it's a fault of the technology that the people who run your server farms aren't well trained for the job they're being asked to do? Nice logic there.
This conflict (to iterate) is about Google presuming they have the right to abrigate the copyright holder's (typicall the author) right to determine just how their work will be disseminated. Not some for profit corporation like Google.
Horseshit. The copyright holder made a choice to allow their work on the Internet. It's up to them, or their publisher, or whomever, to place the restrictions on that content in some form or another. If they leave it open to public perusal then Google has every right in the world to make it searchable.
If the publishers and copyright holders don't understand how the Internet works they shouldn't be playing in that sandbox to begin with. They have no one to blame but themselves if they don't understand how this particular media works.
By publically posting content on the web copyright holders have implicitly given permission for sites like Google to do what they're doing. It's how things work, don't like it, don't post it, or find a way to restrict access. Case closed.
You are a moron. I'm not a MS fan, I think they make crappy products. Drooling fanboy.. that's laughable.
Things slip through quality control, it happens. The title of this article is bullshit at the moment. It should read "a few xboxes failed".
The point is you're jumping on them with absolutely no evidence. I doubt you can find any complex product that doesn't have a small percentage of lemons that slip though QA.
"And seriously, how many console models have you seen in your life that had this kind of failure after the initial launch"
What kind of failure you ass? A few consoles crashed. EVERY console shipped to date has had duds. You have absolutely no clue if you think otherwise. Guess what genius, people with lemon consoles in the mid 80's couldn't throw a webpage up and have thousands of people jump to poor conclusions because of it.
IF it turns out that significant percentage of Xboxes fail, THEN maybe you have a point.
"1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me. 2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game. 3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
Those games are dangerous."
Correction, those games are dangerous to you. Since you evidentally have no self control.
"A hardcore gamer can hit level 60 in a month or less. A casual gamer can play it for ages but still feel like he's making real progress.
Unlike FFXI, where it just starts taking stupidly long amounts of time to level and do quests."
Lies.
WoW is for people who want a quick fix... and even they are suprised when they have to run the same instance over, and over, and over, and over and still not get the drops they want.
WoW is mmorpg lite have no doubt, but as a long term game it sucks balls.
You must be joking. Beethoven? This is the coding equivalent of a kid playing chopsticks. Maybe something slightly more complicated. It's only something to be celebrated by those who are mystified by coding in general.
Having written a calculator and a sorting program in C# along with earning her MCAD, I consider Arfa a computer programmer by any definition.
Good thing your opinion counts for shit. She's got a long way to go before she can be considered a real coder. You obviously were not, since you wouldn't have formed that worthless opinion, but many people on this site were coding at that age. In more difficult languages, with no easy access to learning resources. Guess what, we still didn't really qualify as computer programmers. There's a lot more to it than knowing the syntax of a language and being able to put together trivial applications.
"And, frankly, I see no reason why we shouldn't apply that RL model to computers. My property starts here, I don't give a damn about how l33t some kid thinks he is, they're just not supposed to be on it. Period."
Property huh? It's not your property ass. And even if it were, you lost the right to tell me not to use it when it crossed my property line.
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There are dozens of crappy games like this in any Best Buy you go to: baseball games, tennis games, fishing games, there are lightsaber ones too iirc. This is not new, it's not revolutionary. Sure it's now going to be more generic than those stand alone games, but the gameplay is exactly the same... and guess what, that gameplay tends to suck.
I won't slam the system until it comes out and I have a chance to really try it, but this is NOT new ground for gaming, and Nintendo is going to have to do something really spectacular to make it good. All this talk of "next generation" and "new and innovative" in regards to this control scheme is nothing more than fanboy nonsense. No one knows enough to even know if it's any good at this point, and NOTHING that we have seen is innovative and new.
I see what the problem is here, you've confused some bits of paper with actual knowledge, they are two separate things.
Thoroughly untrue. If I suddenly and without warning scare you half to death, and you're left with mental trauma, e.g. constant nightmares, new phobias, anxiety, etc., then I've harmed you, just not physically. Your nonsense about trespassing isn't relevant. It can happen anywhere, and with sufficient rapidity that you can't really protect yourself.
Frankly, you're advocating crackpot positions, and I'm now less interested in discussing them with you as I am in refuting them so that others aren't taken in.
And frankly, your analogies are worthless. Mental trauma IS physical harm, kidnapping someone by definition is harm. You completely ruin your point by not being able to form simple valid arguments. You're a lawyer huh? Maybe you should have went out and got an education instead of going to law school.
A-freakin-men. The rusher and grinders are the ones that are complaining. You know, the "hardcore" guys, the ones that can't play for shit but sure can grind.
This is a game that rewards good grouping and teamwork more than any other I have ever played.
WoW "rules the mmorpg scene" because it appeals to the lowest common denominator, thats it. It's a succesful business venture and a horrible game. You obviously didn't play at release, or you'd know better than to praise Blizzard for playtesting and running stable.
In short your opinion means dick.
Maybe an hour,... at most, not even close to a week. Not even at NA release.
If you're that easily offended, then I would recommend not making posts that highlight negative character traits. You put it out there for comment, I stepped up and pointed out the obvious. It takes a really insecure person to even consider quitting an activity they enjoy based on the opinion of others. Shit... I was pulling punches even, I didn't even get into the arrogance required to dismiss an activity as beneath you based on the personalities of others that participate in it, even if the "documentary" wasn't a joke.
So don't come in here pulling some holier than thou comments about my wife are off limits horse shit. You put the post out there, a post which coincidentally insulted all the poor slobs out there that do resemble the video, however slightly, and who don't have wives, or girlfriends, etc. I'll say it again, I'd be pretty pissed if my wife pulled some shit like that.
What's particularly funny to me (and perhaps ironically a bit disturbing) is that there are, in fact, actually people out there that are like that.
I then showed the video to my wife, who is playing in my weekly D&D group.
She pronounced that she needed to reconsider whether she should be playing D&D with me... as she didn't want to be associated with people that were like that.
She was serious.
Now as it happens, she enjoys playing with the group enough that she ultimately decided to ignore her initial reaction to the video, but still... it was touch and go there for a day or two before our Friday night game session.
Wow, glad my wife isn't that petty and insecure.
Some of us remember the good old days days, before it was commercialized in the first place. That day was the beginning of the end.
Oh, yes... and some of us remember that in the good old days access was more expensive, more difficult to get, and generally less useful. We also remember not being able to get just about anything we wanted, not having public forums such as this to express our opinion to this many people, not getting news or weather with a few clicks of the mouse.
Yes some of us DO remember the old days, and some of us are also intelligent enough not to romanticize them as the "good old days".
What you have just described isn't functional programming.
Wow, it's a fault of the technology that the people who run your server farms aren't well trained for the job they're being asked to do? Nice logic there.
Horseshit. The copyright holder made a choice to allow their work on the Internet. It's up to them, or their publisher, or whomever, to place the restrictions on that content in some form or another. If they leave it open to public perusal then Google has every right in the world to make it searchable.
If the publishers and copyright holders don't understand how the Internet works they shouldn't be playing in that sandbox to begin with. They have no one to blame but themselves if they don't understand how this particular media works.
By publically posting content on the web copyright holders have implicitly given permission for sites like Google to do what they're doing. It's how things work, don't like it, don't post it, or find a way to restrict access. Case closed.
You are a moron. I'm not a MS fan, I think they make crappy products. Drooling fanboy.. that's laughable.
Things slip through quality control, it happens. The title of this article is bullshit at the moment. It should read "a few xboxes failed".
The point is you're jumping on them with absolutely no evidence. I doubt you can find any complex product that doesn't have a small percentage of lemons that slip though QA.
"And seriously, how many console models have you seen in your life that had this kind of failure after the initial launch"
What kind of failure you ass? A few consoles crashed. EVERY console shipped to date has had duds. You have absolutely no clue if you think otherwise. Guess what genius, people with lemon consoles in the mid 80's couldn't throw a webpage up and have thousands of people jump to poor conclusions because of it.
IF it turns out that significant percentage of Xboxes fail, THEN maybe you have a point.
And uh... yeah that's supposed to be gun.. not guy.
I'm holding a guy to your head, I tell you to give me your money. You do so. Obviously you wanted me to have it since you didn't even fight.
"1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
Those games are dangerous."
Correction, those games are dangerous to you. Since you evidentally have no self control.
"A hardcore gamer can hit level 60 in a month or less. A casual gamer can play it for ages but still feel like he's making real progress.
Unlike FFXI, where it just starts taking stupidly long amounts of time to level and do quests."
Lies.
WoW is for people who want a quick fix... and even they are suprised when they have to run the same instance over, and over, and over, and over and still not get the drops they want.
WoW is mmorpg lite have no doubt, but as a long term game it sucks balls.
There's plenty of community. Best mmorpg on the market right now. The quick fix gamers can have Wow, I want something with substance.
Who the fuck modded this insightful. They don't explain any of that up front, once you've bought your tickets it's too late.
Hell I went through the gate without even thinking about what they were doing before I realized.
You must be joking. Beethoven? This is the coding equivalent of a kid playing chopsticks. Maybe something slightly more complicated. It's only something to be celebrated by those who are mystified by coding in general.
Good thing your opinion counts for shit. She's got a long way to go before she can be considered a real coder. You obviously were not, since you wouldn't have formed that worthless opinion, but many people on this site were coding at that age. In more difficult languages, with no easy access to learning resources. Guess what, we still didn't really qualify as computer programmers. There's a lot more to it than knowing the syntax of a language and being able to put together trivial applications.
On a more modern note, no. I think anyone capable of using a computer can program one and it always has been so.
You're on crack.
Err no it isn't. Can you expose the desktop yes, is that all Expose is, no.
"Sorry, you're consuming a resource if you use my cablemodem. I paid for that resource, and by using it, you're making it less available to me."
Then keep it on your property.
"And, frankly, I see no reason why we shouldn't apply that RL model to computers. My property starts here, I don't give a damn about how l33t some kid thinks he is, they're just not supposed to be on it. Period."
Property huh? It's not your property ass. And even if it were, you lost the right to tell me not to use it when it crossed my property line.