And we waited how long for FFVII? I would rather they spend years on a project making it good than just rush it and push out an FMV-centric piece of crap.
Bring back the world map!
You're not the only grammar nazi to point out the difference (I was about to), but TFA says it in those exact words. Apparently, we need more boring games.
If you really need a car analogy, it's more like suing a car dealer that told you that the v6 car you bought will drive as good as a v8 as long as you wear racing gloves.
...who wrote pretty much everything ever created by Square. He wrote pretty much everything Final Fantasy, but there were a lot of other composers (who are also on this list) that did really great work for Square. Notable names are Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed the music for Chrono Trigger and Xenogears; and Yoko Shimomura, who composed the music for Parasite Eve and Kingdom Hearts.
I just don't get why people are always so quick to give Nobuo credit for all of Square's work.
This reminds me of the film Freeze Frame. It's about a man named Sean Veil who gets framed for a murder, and after he is acquitted he dedicates his life to recording every single moment of his life on tape. I won't spoil the rest, but I thought it was a great film (and appropriate for this subject matter)
Slashdot, you should be ashamed of yourself. Doing nothing to help, but claiming the rights after the fact. This was exactly the kind of grass roots project that you would have announced in the past, but choose to purposefully ignore it this time. You had a chance to announce this a long time ago, but according to Rob Malda himself, who said in full "there are so many reasons that this story doesn't interest me:)", the grass roots project wasn't worthy of your sacred pages. There were several times that a story about this project appeared in the firehose, but no story about the project's existance ever made it to the front page. I could have sworn this had already made it to the front page a few times in the last month or so. At any rate, I know there was a smear campaign going around saying that the tux500 project was a scam, but there was really nothing conclusive. In the end, I really didn't care. I don't think the Indianapolis 500 is the ideal place to be promoting Linux, especially in the form of a tiny sticker on a car (or even if they had raised all the money, for an entire Tux500 car). I doubt anyone at the Indianapolis 500 is going to care about the fact that tux is represented on a car, beyond "hay look thar's a penguin on that thar car!"
All it would have taken from you is to accept one measley little story about the Tux500 project a few weeks ago and *bam*, it would have had the proper amount of publicity to energize the Linux community and raise enough money to fully sponsor the car. All it took was $1 from each person in just 1% of the community, so it would have worked even with 80% of the community doing their own thing. But since the project didn't get the good publicity it deserved, it only raised half the amount needed just to put a logo on the car. Fortunately the good will of the tux500 team seems to be allowing the logo to still be on the car. I guess they are better people than you. Just because you believe in the project so adamantly does not mean that so many other people would believe in it just because it got posted on slashdot. It got plenty of publicity, anyone who visits any kind of linux forum can tell you that. But as I said before, the status quo seems to think that it is absolutely absurd, and the idea that they even raised $1000, let alone $12000 is even more absurd.
You know why so many community projects fail? Because the leaders don't believe in them. How excited would the linux community be about a project to put tux on a billboard at the Super Bowl, or better yet, a commercial during the event? I'm sure there are lots more dumb ideas, most of them just don't end up with the financial backing of Tux500. You can't place the blame on the linux "leaders" for not wanting to get behind an idea of advertising linux in a highly commercial environment. It could send the wrong signal. GNU/Linux isnt about commercialism, it's about the community, which is where this argument fails.
Just so the rest of you know for this discussion, I understand that sites like Slashdot are news sites. But IMHO, only half a news site. There have been hundreds of stories here over the years meant to mobilize the community (ie. Blender). I ask, why not this one? Personally, I have no interest in racing, let alone the Indianapolis 500. Most of my friends who support Linux, also have no interest. Why support advertisement of linux in an event which I also do not support? This is completely different from a stance to mobilize the community about something which is already WITHIN the community (i.e. blender)
In fact if it's all the same to you guys, I'd prefer it if Dell DIDN'T bundle their computers with all that useless bloatware that they currently do (not that WINE is useless or bloatware)! It's almost at the point where it's better to wipe the damn thing clean immediately and then re-install the OS from scratch! And that's different from installing windows how?
Is the team that made Chrono Trigger even with Square anymore? I heard they were the ones who crafted Xenogears... and the ghastly Xenosaga series. It's been how long since Chrono Cross? I think it's time to let it die, man.
Sony also backs the player as a quality company--the chances of a system failure are low because Sony makes quality equipment. They are selling a brand, not just a device. That is worth a certain amount of money. Anyone who has owned a PS1 or a PS2 knows that Sony doesn't always know what they're doing when they release consoles. They've always had a problem in the past with some part of the laser breaking down after a short period of time. My PSOne, which was released right at the end of the PS1's lifetime, still works perfectly - but I must have gone through at least two other PS1s. As for my PS2(s).. let's just say I've had my share of the horrible Disk Read Error.
Quit complaining about price--the reason you complain is that you want one badly but don't have the cash to pony up and buy the device. The price is what the price is. Either you buy it or you don't. Do what I did--accept that you want the device, check your budget, save up (it took me eight months of small odd job income), buy it and enjoy the device. I've found that straight out of the box and with an internet connection the thing is a blast for my wife and I and my two children (3 and 5 years old). I also bought Oblivion and am totally sucked in. I'm looking forward to the games and functionality to come. People will quit complaining when the price is down to something acceptable. $600 for a device? Would you pay that much for an iPod? For the same price of $600, I could upgrade my PC to run Oblivion - which seems to be one of the only titles worth buying in the first place.
Sony built a machine that is a game console, a Blu-ray player, DVD player, computer (with a far more powerful processor than most people's home computers), music player, communications/chat server, web browser and much more. It does all this but is nearly silent. It does a lot for the price and it has plenty of room to be extended in the future. Again, a PC can do all of this and more with less than a $600 price tag (except maybe playing Blu-Ray). On top of that, I already own a PC that I use to play games, music, communicate, and browse the web. Why should I spend that much on a device that I have to hook up to a television just to do stuff that I already do?
I think the issue is that Sony is trying to take advantage of a new technology for a game console with less than a year since Blu-Ray was even introduced. The PS2 came along well after DVD players had dropped considerably in price. $600 is cheap for a Blu-Ray player (or was, I havent bothered checking lately), but if all you're buying the device for is playing movies, who wants a bulky-looking obelisk sitting in the middle of their entertainment center?
By the way, for less than $600, I got a Wii, 2 controllers, and 5 games. It's already provided a lot more entertainment than a bare console would have.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it - unfortunately, the opposite has always seemed to be the case, at least with M$. If we were sold a secure OS out of the box, there would be no need for security fixes, and thus, no need of jobs for people who create the security fixes or anti-virii.
Of course, no computer is idiot-proof, and anyone can be conned into messing something up - which is why there is tech support, yes? If everyone knew how to expertly use a computer, there would be no need to hire someone to hold computer illiterate people's hands to troubleshoot, install that new tax software, or even to turn the damned thing on.
On the opposite end of the argument, it's nearly impossible (at conception) to be able to perceive every single possible security hole in a piece of software. Even a team of people working on a project will be working with the same mindset; just waiting for someone else to come along to find the one thing no one had thought about yet and poke a hole through it.
Product take back
A basic environmental principle is that if you make and sell a product you should be responsible for that product when it is no longer wanted. This is also a basic rule for children: you clean up your own mess.
Since when are manufacturers responsible of how people dispose of their product? Once I buy a product, is it not then my own? There's a difference between replacing faulty hardware and being responsible for the trash that accumulates after someone decides they want a shinier product than the one they already own.
how many people are going to point out the error in the summary before it gets fixed? give me a break, typos happen all the time, people. if you RTFA, it says 352 webcams
I haven't played XII yet, but seriously I'm not too sure I want to drop $50 on a game I'll play once like I have most of the other FFs in the last decade. I felt the same way you did, but seriously. Try it. Rent it or something. It's the best one since 7, IMHO.
You do realize that you're trying to compare two completely different GENRES, right? That's like trying to say 'THE ROMANTIC COMEDY IS DEAD' because you happen to really like action movie. Have you actually played any of the Final Fantasy games? You're comparing the challenge of playing a game by yourself to the challenge of having to deal with the same 40 assholes on a day-to-day basis.World of Warcraft, despite its massive shortcomings, is also light years ahead of this style of game. Player versus player and raid combat introduce dynamics that something like Final Fantasy can never hope to replicate. Now I disagree with the premises that raiding and pvp were designed with in warcraft but they are good ideas and do have a future. Namely - more isn't harder, and that goes both with respect to personnel requirements and time investment. NEWSFLASH: Wow is only rehashing shit that we've seen in many MMO's before. How is this any different from what you claim Final Fantasy to be doing?
FFXII's gameplay was a huge improvement. Though I think the system would've been better with jobs instead of the licenses to earn abilities. Word. There are some guides floating around though, where you limit yourself to only buying licenses specific to a "class" you choose. It's not official, but it is a fun way to add replay value to the game. The one thing I love so much about FF12 is the fact that there is so much variety. I'm looking forward to the DS FF Tactics, though, as well as Revenant Wings.
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Mistranslating? It's not really a "translation" so much as a "transcription." They name the characters in Japanese, which has no distinction between the 'r' and 'l' sounds. If it's spelled "ri - di - a", it's up to the translator to decide what name was originally intended.
As for 'Aerith', there is no 'TH' sound in the Japanese alphabet. Words transcribed from English into Japanese typically use a 's' sound to replace it (hence the stereotypical Japanese 'SANK YOU'). Again, it's still up to the translators to decide how to transcribe it. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to transcribe a name, unless you know that was how the original author intended it.
Sometimes, they change the names completely, but there's usually a reason for it. Citing Wikipedia,
...though some of these -- in the case of characters -- were necessitated by technical restrictions of only six letters per name (e.g. "Stragus" was shortened to "Strago")
...and simply due to differences between Asian and North American cultures. For example, Terra's Japanese name, Tina, sounds exotic to Japanese people, but is a common English Anglophone name.
But really, the most hilarious thing to me now is this (from the same entry in Wiki):
The translation was done in only 30 days by Woolsey alone.
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And we waited how long for FFVII? I would rather they spend years on a project making it good than just rush it and push out an FMV-centric piece of crap. Bring back the world map!
You're not the only grammar nazi to point out the difference (I was about to), but TFA says it in those exact words. Apparently, we need more boring games.
If you really need a car analogy, it's more like suing a car dealer that told you that the v6 car you bought will drive as good as a v8 as long as you wear racing gloves.
...who wrote pretty much everything ever created by Square. He wrote pretty much everything Final Fantasy, but there were a lot of other composers (who are also on this list) that did really great work for Square. Notable names are Yasunori Mitsuda, who composed the music for Chrono Trigger and Xenogears; and Yoko Shimomura, who composed the music for Parasite Eve and Kingdom Hearts.I just don't get why people are always so quick to give Nobuo credit for all of Square's work.
Or cigarettes, or alcohol. It's the same damn thing.
This reminds me of the film Freeze Frame. It's about a man named Sean Veil who gets framed for a murder, and after he is acquitted he dedicates his life to recording every single moment of his life on tape. I won't spoil the rest, but I thought it was a great film (and appropriate for this subject matter)
like how we're all contributing to this argument ourselves? oh wait... shit.
Is the team that made Chrono Trigger even with Square anymore? I heard they were the ones who crafted Xenogears... and the ghastly Xenosaga series. It's been how long since Chrono Cross? I think it's time to let it die, man.
I get ±20 ping on most HL2:DM servers, on a wireless connection.
Number five is ALIIIIIVE!!!
I think the issue is that Sony is trying to take advantage of a new technology for a game console with less than a year since Blu-Ray was even introduced. The PS2 came along well after DVD players had dropped considerably in price. $600 is cheap for a Blu-Ray player (or was, I havent bothered checking lately), but if all you're buying the device for is playing movies, who wants a bulky-looking obelisk sitting in the middle of their entertainment center?
By the way, for less than $600, I got a Wii, 2 controllers, and 5 games. It's already provided a lot more entertainment than a bare console would have.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it - unfortunately, the opposite has always seemed to be the case, at least with M$. If we were sold a secure OS out of the box, there would be no need for security fixes, and thus, no need of jobs for people who create the security fixes or anti-virii. Of course, no computer is idiot-proof, and anyone can be conned into messing something up - which is why there is tech support, yes? If everyone knew how to expertly use a computer, there would be no need to hire someone to hold computer illiterate people's hands to troubleshoot, install that new tax software, or even to turn the damned thing on. On the opposite end of the argument, it's nearly impossible (at conception) to be able to perceive every single possible security hole in a piece of software. Even a team of people working on a project will be working with the same mindset; just waiting for someone else to come along to find the one thing no one had thought about yet and poke a hole through it.
Product take back A basic environmental principle is that if you make and sell a product you should be responsible for that product when it is no longer wanted. This is also a basic rule for children: you clean up your own mess.
Since when are manufacturers responsible of how people dispose of their product? Once I buy a product, is it not then my own? There's a difference between replacing faulty hardware and being responsible for the trash that accumulates after someone decides they want a shinier product than the one they already own.
Am I completely missing the point here?
0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0? That's the CRC of my luggage!
...and now i notice that the article makes the same error later on. wtf?
how many people are going to point out the error in the summary before it gets fixed? give me a break, typos happen all the time, people. if you RTFA, it says 352 webcams
You do realize that you're trying to compare two completely different GENRES, right? That's like trying to say 'THE ROMANTIC COMEDY IS DEAD' because you happen to really like action movie. Have you actually played any of the Final Fantasy games? You're comparing the challenge of playing a game by yourself to the challenge of having to deal with the same 40 assholes on a day-to-day basis. World of Warcraft, despite its massive shortcomings, is also light years ahead of this style of game. Player versus player and raid combat introduce dynamics that something like Final Fantasy can never hope to replicate. Now I disagree with the premises that raiding and pvp were designed with in warcraft but they are good ideas and do have a future. Namely - more isn't harder, and that goes both with respect to personnel requirements and time investment. NEWSFLASH: Wow is only rehashing shit that we've seen in many MMO's before. How is this any different from what you claim Final Fantasy to be doing?
The point? Everyone has their own tastes.
Everquest?
As for 'Aerith', there is no 'TH' sound in the Japanese alphabet. Words transcribed from English into Japanese typically use a 's' sound to replace it (hence the stereotypical Japanese 'SANK YOU'). Again, it's still up to the translators to decide how to transcribe it. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to transcribe a name, unless you know that was how the original author intended it.
Sometimes, they change the names completely, but there's usually a reason for it. Citing Wikipedia,
...though some of these -- in the case of characters -- were necessitated by technical restrictions of only six letters per name (e.g. "Stragus" was shortened to "Strago")But really, the most hilarious thing to me now is this (from the same entry in Wiki):
The translation was done in only 30 days by Woolsey alone.