...huddling before a fire, desperately trying to stay warm as their PDAs, cell phones, wireless earphones, etc. suck the little remaining heat from their bodies.
wait a minute, by the time this tech becomes widespread that might be me.
I must be lucky. I started the year loving Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2, and ended it loving Orange Box (once I got over hating the idea of re-buying), Bioshock, and now the topping on the cake - Call of Duty 4 demo runs great on my AGPed 3.2P4!!! Disappointments? None.
Well... I remember being disappointed about how Bioshock's Securom made my AVG antivirus panic... but I got over it.
...when the missing mass (plus or minus) gets down to about 3 tons, and the search is concentrating on unmarked landfills; THEN I'll care. I may even get obsessive.
Correlation doesn't prove causality... are you suggesting that it's the other way round here? That embracing M$ products may lead to sloppy ethics and corruption? Not that I find that implausible.
I was reading the Ars Technica thread - one person asked if the demo would run on XP; no answer yet. Another mentioned that he had downloaded the demo from Steam, but it wouldn't run; didn't mention his OS. Does anyone yet know if the demo will run on an XP and/or 2K system with DX9?
I was a Palm fanboy right up until I realized that they were never going to give me Cobalt (OS6) for my T3, the last really innovative Palm Pilot. No Cobalt, no native ARM code. Every Palm since has been chock full of unremoveable bloatware, and slower than the T3 was, even with it's emulation handicap. Whoever split that company into separate hardware and software companies might as well have been taking orders from Redmond - they gave the field to Microsoft.
Can you imagine the pressure M$ must be bringing to bear on Valve - pressure to make Episode 2 DX10 ONLY??? I'm betting this announcement is the first in a series; next we hear about how much better E2 will be on DX10, then that the DX10 version will be released first, finally DX10 only.
I hope Valve can hold out, but I'm putting my money on M$. No matter how they cut it, Vista boils down to Aero carrot, spyware stick.
If Microsoft were committed to PC gaming in the sense Valve is using the term ("to promote PCs as a gaming platform" as opposed to "using PC gaming as a tool to promote Vista") Gears of War would already be available for PCs. So I'm with Valve on this one. "DirectX 10 - Vista only" Need I say more?
How can they say things like this with a straight face? Saying they "respect the customer's decision" then following it up by saying it's their job to foist Windows on them regardless? Where's the respect in that? Whatever else this statement may mean, it disrespects the intelligence of any reader.
Did you try UT (1999 version) witn the Half EO mod? I used to love that (back when there were servers that ran it) and your description of the perfect game sounds just like it.
Changing the default search engine to Google only fixes part of the problem of the address bar. Unlike Firefox or earlier IE incarnations, the text field won't assume "http://" if you type a URL. Instead it initiates a search, using the default engine. Pity those of us who are used to entering URLs by keyboard... sad, retro-grouches that we are...
This reads a lot like a press release. I don't visit Gamasutra often enough to know if this is par for the course there, but doesn't this sound like the kind of spin a corporate PR flak would apply to the bare, historical facts? Hawkins quote; "We had to rebuild the industry brick by brick over a period of years." Gee, all by yourself??? The writer makes a lot out of how designers got credit, including the photo montage with the cool game packaging - designer names prominently displayed. So, when and why did that policy change? Silence. And this tidbit:
>Using this knowledge as leverage in his negotiations with Sega, Hawkins threatened to release >games for the Genesis without a license unless Sega agreed to more favorable terms for EA. It was >a very risky move that could have had expensive legal consequences.
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>Fortunately, Sega recognized the benefits of working out a deal with Hawkins.
A reporter might use the word "extortion" to describe this sort of behavior.
I could point out more examples, but hey, let's ALL play!
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I missed the earth-computers-descended-etc. angle, and I saw the film twice. Was it explicit?
It included the processor and the clock speed, just what do you want???
...huddling before a fire, desperately trying to stay warm as their PDAs, cell phones, wireless earphones, etc. suck the little remaining heat from their bodies. wait a minute, by the time this tech becomes widespread that might be me.
I must be lucky. I started the year loving Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty 2, and ended it loving Orange Box (once I got over hating the idea of re-buying), Bioshock, and now the topping on the cake - Call of Duty 4 demo runs great on my AGPed 3.2P4!!! Disappointments? None. Well... I remember being disappointed about how Bioshock's Securom made my AVG antivirus panic... but I got over it.
...when the missing mass (plus or minus) gets down to about 3 tons, and the search is concentrating on unmarked landfills; THEN I'll care. I may even get obsessive.
...unless your games require internet access to play, or to install - like ALL the games I play do. Then not so simple.
Correlation doesn't prove causality... are you suggesting that it's the other way round here? That embracing M$ products may lead to sloppy ethics and corruption? Not that I find that implausible.
thx. time to download.
I was reading the Ars Technica thread - one person asked if the demo would run on XP; no answer yet. Another mentioned that he had downloaded the demo from Steam, but it wouldn't run; didn't mention his OS. Does anyone yet know if the demo will run on an XP and/or 2K system with DX9?
I was a Palm fanboy right up until I realized that they were never going to give me Cobalt (OS6) for my T3, the last really innovative Palm Pilot. No Cobalt, no native ARM code. Every Palm since has been chock full of unremoveable bloatware, and slower than the T3 was, even with it's emulation handicap. Whoever split that company into separate hardware and software companies might as well have been taking orders from Redmond - they gave the field to Microsoft.
Can you imagine the pressure M$ must be bringing to bear on Valve - pressure to make Episode 2 DX10 ONLY??? I'm betting this announcement is the first in a series; next we hear about how much better E2 will be on DX10, then that the DX10 version will be released first, finally DX10 only. I hope Valve can hold out, but I'm putting my money on M$. No matter how they cut it, Vista boils down to Aero carrot, spyware stick.
If Microsoft were committed to PC gaming in the sense Valve is using the term ("to promote PCs as a gaming platform" as opposed to "using PC gaming as a tool to promote Vista") Gears of War would already be available for PCs. So I'm with Valve on this one. "DirectX 10 - Vista only" Need I say more?
How can they say things like this with a straight face? Saying they "respect the customer's decision" then following it up by saying it's their job to foist Windows on them regardless? Where's the respect in that? Whatever else this statement may mean, it disrespects the intelligence of any reader.
Did you try UT (1999 version) witn the Half EO mod? I used to love that (back when there were servers that ran it) and your description of the perfect game sounds just like it.
Changing the default search engine to Google only fixes part of the problem of the address bar. Unlike Firefox or earlier IE incarnations, the text field won't assume "http://" if you type a URL. Instead it initiates a search, using the default engine. Pity those of us who are used to entering URLs by keyboard... sad, retro-grouches that we are...
This reads a lot like a press release. I don't visit Gamasutra often enough to know if this is par for the course there, but doesn't this sound like the kind of spin a corporate PR flak would apply to the bare, historical facts? Hawkins quote; "We had to rebuild the industry brick by brick over a period of years." Gee, all by yourself??? The writer makes a lot out of how designers got credit, including the photo montage with the cool game packaging - designer names prominently displayed. So, when and why did that policy change? Silence. And this tidbit: >Using this knowledge as leverage in his negotiations with Sega, Hawkins threatened to release >games for the Genesis without a license unless Sega agreed to more favorable terms for EA. It was >a very risky move that could have had expensive legal consequences. > >Fortunately, Sega recognized the benefits of working out a deal with Hawkins. A reporter might use the word "extortion" to describe this sort of behavior. I could point out more examples, but hey, let's ALL play!