Well, here we go. One more good game out of Bungie, followed by layoffs, firings, and an endless line of crapass worthless "sequels" from ripoff studios like Neversoft.
Activision didn't buy out Bungie, it's just a publishing deal for one franchise, they have no control over them so they can't fire anyone.
As for rip off sequels from Neversoft, Bungie still own the IP
The summary is wrong, they've only signed away the publishing rights to their new franchise, not all games. If things with activision go sour they can still go to another publisher and not continue whatever the new franchise is.
>True to a certain extent. AB could probably handle O, but AB couldn't handle A or B
Sorry but your totally wrong on this one, a person with AB blood can definitely get an organ of AB, A, B and O.
A quick google will confirm that
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He says that this isn't the comparable to iTunes and he's right, it isn't. You can't listen to them on your computer, burn the tracks to a cd or put them on a portable music player AND they're only covers of the originals. Yes, obviously they are interactive but he's right, we can't compare them to iTunes songs. Instead, lets compare them to the tracks that came with Guitar Hero 2.
There were 47 songs on Guitar Hero 1 and, at this price, they would cost close to $100 to download. That's the same as all of GH 2 costs. It comes with *72* songs AND includes the game software AND the guitar. How can that possibly be justified? The songs aren't even new, they already had most of the work done on them. Yes, they're now 5.1 and have bass guitar but they still had alot less to do then on new songs. I know there must be some cost in making the content downloadable, the bandwidth, testing the service and so on but be realistic, xbox live is a fairly mature service, many full games cost less then the cost of 1 bundle. He says the licensing is different from the PS2, but is it different to the packaged 360 tracks? If it's so much more expensive to license for download (which I'd say is fairly unlikely, considering they're covers), why not release them all as a boxed expansion pack?
He goes on to say the Leaderboard factors into the price. What? Why? They provide that service for the songs that come with the game, how is it more expensive to provide it for extra content too? Even if it is, I think most of us would prefer cheap content and no Leaderboard.
I own GH and GH 2 on the PS2 and I was going to buy the 360 version just for the downloadable content and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Infact it was one of the main reasons I bought an XBox 360. I was planning to buy all the original songs again (to play on the improved GH2 engine, hopefully making Cowboys from Hell on expert possible) for a reasonable price, say $20 - $30, but with this pricing, Red Octane/Microsoft have blown it. I'm a big fan of the games but $100 to download tracks I already have? I'll save my cash thanks.
As if everything else wasn't bad enough they sell the content in bundles of 3 songs so as to force you to buy the weaker songs along with the better ones.
Oh, and saying Microsoft are 'just the conduit' after them arguring against free Gears of War dlc is just insulting.
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Well, here we go. One more good game out of Bungie, followed by layoffs, firings, and an endless line of crapass worthless "sequels" from ripoff studios like Neversoft.
Activision didn't buy out Bungie, it's just a publishing deal for one franchise, they have no control over them so they can't fire anyone.
As for rip off sequels from Neversoft, Bungie still own the IP
The summary is wrong, they've only signed away the publishing rights to their new franchise, not all games. If things with activision go sour they can still go to another publisher and not continue whatever the new franchise is.
I have that model and run it at 1280x800 due to terrible eyesight. It does scale it.
>True to a certain extent. AB could probably handle O, but AB couldn't handle A or B
Sorry but your totally wrong on this one, a person with AB blood can definitely get an organ of AB, A, B and O. A quick google will confirm that
>True to a certain extent. AB could probably handle O, but AB couldn't handle A or B Sorry but your totally wrong on this one, a person with AB blood can definitely get an organ of AB, A, B and O. A quick google will confirm that
His name is RON Gilbert He also worked on most of the classic Lucas Arts graphic adventures like Monkey Island
He says that this isn't the comparable to iTunes and he's right, it isn't. You can't listen to them on your computer, burn the tracks to a cd or put them on a portable music player AND they're only covers of the originals. Yes, obviously they are interactive but he's right, we can't compare them to iTunes songs. Instead, lets compare them to the tracks that came with Guitar Hero 2.
There were 47 songs on Guitar Hero 1 and, at this price, they would cost close to $100 to download. That's the same as all of GH 2 costs. It comes with *72* songs AND includes the game software AND the guitar. How can that possibly be justified? The songs aren't even new, they already had most of the work done on them. Yes, they're now 5.1 and have bass guitar but they still had alot less to do then on new songs. I know there must be some cost in making the content downloadable, the bandwidth, testing the service and so on but be realistic, xbox live is a fairly mature service, many full games cost less then the cost of 1 bundle. He says the licensing is different from the PS2, but is it different to the packaged 360 tracks? If it's so much more expensive to license for download (which I'd say is fairly unlikely, considering they're covers), why not release them all as a boxed expansion pack?
He goes on to say the Leaderboard factors into the price. What? Why? They provide that service for the songs that come with the game, how is it more expensive to provide it for extra content too? Even if it is, I think most of us would prefer cheap content and no Leaderboard.
I own GH and GH 2 on the PS2 and I was going to buy the 360 version just for the downloadable content and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Infact it was one of the main reasons I bought an XBox 360. I was planning to buy all the original songs again (to play on the improved GH2 engine, hopefully making Cowboys from Hell on expert possible) for a reasonable price, say $20 - $30, but with this pricing, Red Octane/Microsoft have blown it. I'm a big fan of the games but $100 to download tracks I already have? I'll save my cash thanks.
As if everything else wasn't bad enough they sell the content in bundles of 3 songs so as to force you to buy the weaker songs along with the better ones.
Oh, and saying Microsoft are 'just the conduit' after them arguring against free Gears of War dlc is just insulting.