Would you enjoy it if you beef up your character, spend hours training him and improving his stats only to find out that he's actually the bad guy and that he will be taken from your control, replaced by a new character and you have to compete against the character you pumped up? Frustrating. Not interesting.
Speak for yourself. I think this would be a tremendously cool plot twist.
Imagine a Star Wars game in which you played Anakin, up until he becomes Darth Vader, then Luke is introduced and you start playing as him. Or any other plot along those lines.
The reason why SH has tumbled down the BGG rankings, is because of people revising their ratings downward. I, for example, gave it a 1- the lowest rating, typically reserved for broken games.
Since BGG no longer allows user content submissions for it (or any other GW game), I think "broken" is an apt description.
Just because A does his job better than B (for some definition of "better) doesn't mean that B has no business working there. If A is a superstar, then B will always look poor by comparison.
I only hope these micro-expansions also have a micro-price.
What they ought to do is offer one pack of expansions that includes all the expansions released up to that point, with appropriate discounts if you already have a subset of the included content. I can't see a la carte expansions ever working.
Backgammon is a very interesting game- mainly because of the nondeterminism (you're playing the percentages) and the doubling cube.
It doesn't lend itself to rote study, (outside of the first move) and since it's typically played in a match, individual games take on a different context. (gammon-go, etc.) Computers do very well in backgammon, to the point of telling you your match win % (and how much that sub-optimal move lowered it) at any point.
The problem is that those games have deeper, more complex gameplay.
So, if Sim Sity's like a box of LEGOs, Spore's like a box of LEGOs that only includes three types of blocks and some paint for you to color these blocks. Sure, you can make any color you can imagine, but there's still only three kinds of blocks to build things.
The problem with that is you'd have to pay tax. Between the tax and the gas money, it's about a wash. I'd just as soon wait a few extra days and save the money.
Not necessarily. In Spycraft 2.0, for instance, skills that cover similar things were lumped together, and there were rules for all the different applications of that skill. For example, Hide and Move Silently were combined into Stealth.
The game perpetuated the myth that the game was simply a collection of portal puzzles by having the chapters correspond to the test chambers, with no mention of the endgame. And the advanced chambers only require completion of the corresponding basic chamber; not the whole game. I fully expected the game to simply end upon completing all 19 chambers (with or without cake) but was pleasantly surprised to find more.
And I agree with a post further down that calls GlaDOS the best computer villian since Shodan. Her comments really come into their own during the ending sequence. She also has a few lines in the television ad and in Peggle Extreme.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the 80GB model isn't getting a price cut, even when the 60GBs are gone. Sony has a pretty good lineup coming up, and they stand to lose a lot in the short term if people buy reduced-price PS3s but only one or two games.
On the other hand, they might want to get Blu-ray players into as many homes as possible, given the recent adoption of HD-DVD by many film studios- even if it means absorbing a big short-term loss. They know PS3s will move once their AAA titles start coming out, so there isn't much motivation for a price cut now, game-wise.
Overall, I think the PS3 is just too speculative for most consumers. The price in and of itself isn't the major concern, (people will spend hundreds of dollars on home entertainment) but rather questions like "Will Blu-ray become the de-facto HD format?", "How many price cuts will occur between now and when the games I want are released?", and even "Are AAA titles eventually going to be ported to 360 or PC?"
The interactivity of a game makes for a scarier and more intense experience than any film can provide, now that graphics are becoming more and more realistic. In a game, the player feels like he's actually a part of the story, rather than merely a spectator.
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Would you enjoy it if you beef up your character, spend hours training him and improving his stats only to find out that he's actually the bad guy and that he will be taken from your control, replaced by a new character and you have to compete against the character you pumped up? Frustrating. Not interesting.
Speak for yourself. I think this would be a tremendously cool plot twist. Imagine a Star Wars game in which you played Anakin, up until he becomes Darth Vader, then Luke is introduced and you start playing as him. Or any other plot along those lines.
Serious answer should get modded up. Really, the Pandora is a godsend for all roguelikes, not just Nethack.
Once the 2nd batch is out, I'm quite sure you'll be able to make a CC order.
So a Transformer is robbing the bank?
What I want to know is: Why were they singing "Happy Birthday" during the film?
The reason why SH has tumbled down the BGG rankings, is because of people revising their ratings downward. I, for example, gave it a 1- the lowest rating, typically reserved for broken games. Since BGG no longer allows user content submissions for it (or any other GW game), I think "broken" is an apt description.
Examples: Up-Front
What reprint? I'm still waiting for "Up Front 2000". It's the Duke Nukem Forever of the boardgame world.
It should be obvious if you're the server by looking in the console. Your ping would tend to be a giveaway as well.
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The problem with WoW is that nothing you do has any consequences.
Just because A does his job better than B (for some definition of "better) doesn't mean that B has no business working there. If A is a superstar, then B will always look poor by comparison.
It's like comparing Cal Ripken to Melvin Mora.
I only hope these micro-expansions also have a micro-price.
What they ought to do is offer one pack of expansions that includes all the expansions released up to that point, with appropriate discounts if you already have a subset of the included content. I can't see a la carte expansions ever working.
I should mention that McCoy wasn't able to repair Kirk's vision because he was allergic to the standard medicine. (Rednox 5)
Really? I'd get frustrated and would look for something else to do.
It seems like banks find new ways to have crises every week.
Backgammon is a very interesting game- mainly because of the nondeterminism (you're playing the percentages) and the doubling cube.
It doesn't lend itself to rote study, (outside of the first move) and since it's typically played in a match, individual games take on a different context. (gammon-go, etc.) Computers do very well in backgammon, to the point of telling you your match win % (and how much that sub-optimal move lowered it) at any point.
The problem is that those games have deeper, more complex gameplay.
So, if Sim Sity's like a box of LEGOs, Spore's like a box of LEGOs that only includes three types of blocks and some paint for you to color these blocks. Sure, you can make any color you can imagine, but there's still only three kinds of blocks to build things.
The problem with that is you'd have to pay tax. Between the tax and the gas money, it's about a wash. I'd just as soon wait a few extra days and save the money.
To me, it registers as more than zero, and for that reason, I won't be using it. Not that I ever buy console games on release day, anyway.
Not necessarily. In Spycraft 2.0, for instance, skills that cover similar things were lumped together, and there were rules for all the different applications of that skill. For example, Hide and Move Silently were combined into Stealth.
The game perpetuated the myth that the game was simply a collection of portal puzzles by having the chapters correspond to the test chambers, with no mention of the endgame. And the advanced chambers only require completion of the corresponding basic chamber; not the whole game. I fully expected the game to simply end upon completing all 19 chambers (with or without cake) but was pleasantly surprised to find more.
And I agree with a post further down that calls GlaDOS the best computer villian since Shodan. Her comments really come into their own during the ending sequence. She also has a few lines in the television ad and in Peggle Extreme.
This is why things should actually be OFF when you turn them off. What if it interferes with hospital equipment like other cells, even if it's off?
I'd love to be at those developers' post-Gold party. (And I'm sure they have them)
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the 80GB model isn't getting a price cut, even when the 60GBs are gone. Sony has a pretty good lineup coming up, and they stand to lose a lot in the short term if people buy reduced-price PS3s but only one or two games.
On the other hand, they might want to get Blu-ray players into as many homes as possible, given the recent adoption of HD-DVD by many film studios- even if it means absorbing a big short-term loss. They know PS3s will move once their AAA titles start coming out, so there isn't much motivation for a price cut now, game-wise.
Overall, I think the PS3 is just too speculative for most consumers. The price in and of itself isn't the major concern, (people will spend hundreds of dollars on home entertainment) but rather questions like "Will Blu-ray become the de-facto HD format?", "How many price cuts will occur between now and when the games I want are released?", and even "Are AAA titles eventually going to be ported to 360 or PC?"
The interactivity of a game makes for a scarier and more intense experience than any film can provide, now that graphics are becoming more and more realistic. In a game, the player feels like he's actually a part of the story, rather than merely a spectator.
How many are accounts that are players that were banned on other accounts?
A banned account is no longer active, and so is not counted.