The jumping puzzle is the sign of a extraordinarily uncreative and horrible game designer.
Have you played Tron 2.0? Fantastic...up until the game decides it's going to be the jumping puzzle from hell. Timed jumping moving platform puzzles! Jumping moving platform switch states puzzles! The last 6 to 8 levels just kept throwing annoying jumping sequence after another at you.
I've never met a gamer who is proud of the jumping puzzles they've defeated, or anyone who's said, "Oh man, that jumping section of game X, that was great!"
My least favorite jumping puzzles are the ones they put in RPGs...when your character is twice as high as the obstacle they're trying to jump over, and yet, still has to execute a perfect game of hopscotch, or start again from the beginning.
Another year where Doom 3 is unplayable...wonder if Half-Life 2 will follow suit. Maybe they'll show that really excellent Team Fortress 2 again. Wanna bet Doom 3 gets a best of show award from someone again?
You obviously are confusing languages. "I feel cold." in Japanese would be expressed in everyday conversation as, "samui" which is exactly the same number of syllables.
Chinese tends to take longer to speak, but not Japanese.
I agree. Their guides are inaccurate. I remember full on writing like a full third of a guide for a game I was QA-ing (The monster stats, weapons stats, item stats, etc.) and while they put their names up there as authors, I got a "thanks to QA."
Every other guide they did for us besides that was full of errors, which our department would point out, and they wouldn't fix.
Working an 18-hour day is kind of useless if you aren't bothering to do any work.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
He sounds exactly like Strong Bad when he said he'd never write a song about Sibbie, and then hearing "Song About Sibbie, by Strong Bad" playing on the radio.
"The Cheat just started playing this beat...I didn't mean to...I mean, it was never my intention to..."
This wouldn't even fit right in a mid-tower. On top of that...how the hell are you going to cool this? And what unheard of power supply are you going to have in this?
Furthermore...even pricing these at say what a present day Intel 2.8Ghz chip costs...that's like freaking $900 of CPU right there. You honestly don't think someone isn't going to figure out how to bust that puppy open strip out the CPUs and start using them for other non X-Box purposes if you sell the console at $300-$400?
This doesn't even get into the 65nm manufacturing, and all, nor for that matter the fact that there still isn't any software for the damn thing. It sounds like Microsoft was like, "Well, if everyone bought the "leaked" doc about not having a hard drive, maybe they'll buy this "leaked" doc about these insane specs for the X-box and get all hyped about it.
This is a bunch of crap. I'll be shocked if the machine has *1* 3.5Ghz 65nm chip in it.
Man, with the way they've handled everything else, aside from the end of Beta event, I'd be utterly shocked if they implemented it as stupidly as other MMOs have. They obviously pay attention to the customer base, so this in't going to be Nerf City.
City of Villains is exactly how I said they should handle the evil side. In fact, that's the exact name I said I'd use. Then every so often, they need to do a big colossal battle. If that's the case, I may be sticking around in this game a lot longer than I expected.
Maybe you were on a different server than I was. I could run up...and then the guy would be in a different place. I wasn't even getting movement animations for the Rikti. They would just be "dragged" from point A to point B.
The part with me not killing them wasn't the problem. I fully expected that. The only reason I was in Steel Canyon was because I was finishing a mission there from the day before.
The part where I was able to target and touch *6* of the invaders was. I didn't care that I would die, but I wanted to PARTICIPATE. I was either blocked in by other heroes, or lagged so heavily, I couldn't locate a target before it was moved out of my melee range. As I say later in my post, I moved on to Atlas Park, where enemies were in my level range, and I still couldn't hit any of them due to the exact same problems in Steel Canyon.
The purpose of the Beta Test and the purpose of the POSTING are two entirely different things. This was a reply to someone saying the event was really cool, and me saying, "No, it in fact, was not."
I'm sure as a Beta Test this was very successful, and insightful for the Cryptic and NCSoft folks. You don't hear me saying, "Oh, I wouldn't recommend buying CoH based off of this occurance." However, as I've said twice before, if you were not ranged, the alien attack wasn't fun, it didn't have any sort of conclusion, and it was horribly lagged.
I'm on the West Coast, too. And I'm not judging the game on the latter parts of beta test. I'm just saying the before this event, everything was really smooth...and I had a very, very high opinion of the game, and high hopes for the final product.
It's been knocked down a peg after the few slip ups over the last few days, and my post was mainly to say, "Eh, the Rikti Invasion was actually fairly lame if you weren't ranged."
I'm sorry, but I was in during the event too, and this wasn't that cool. I was in Steel Canyon, with my Level 9 Scrapper, Iron Chef.
Heroes were getting obliterated by the dozen. On my Athlon 1900+ and my GeForce FX 5600 with 256MB I was getting 1 frame a second. Since I wasn't a long range blaster this made it impossible for me to actually engage in combat.
I think I hit maybe, 6 of the hundreds of Rikti invaders. This isn't killed, mind you...I was doing around 11-17 points of damage to these guys while they were hitting me for upwards of 200. These guys were spawning in groups of 25-30, and I was able to target and touch 6. There's something wrong here.
Unless they work these lag issues out (I mean...it's just me, but if I was a citizen in the midst of an alien attack I couldn't possibly defend myself from, I'd probably stay the hell indoors, and not be all hustling and bustling outside. I certainly wouldn't be out robbing people.
To end it all, I was in Atlas Park as the big Rikti Spaceship loomed threateningly over City Hall, and then dramatically...disappearing.
I was up on that 20 story building before the others organized the mass "suicide" jump hoping to see some cool explosion or something, but no...poof.
The most entertaining moment of the evening was after it all ended people starting logging in and asking where all the aliens were.
Aside from that it was just a bunch of lag for me and the other close ranged attackers. I considered just logging out because I couldn't do anything, and then just decided to stick around to see if there was some cool finish to it all, but there wasn't even that.
It's been a pretty clean beta, with the exception of the last couple days where it's been hit by INSANE lag. I really like the game so far, but I'm being VERY cautious now.
Exactly...once I saw the words "4 Love or Playstation" I immediately thought this was a stunt.
Earlier this year the Washington Wizards had a "Will you Marry Me?" publicity stunt, where they had the girl run for the exit. This reeks of something similar, especially since this is where the big-ass Sony Metreon is located.
"I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider it romantic if a girl only married me because I crushed her father's army and executed all of her male relatives."
I ask this stuff all the time. When Slashdot posted about IDSA posting their "Best of E3 Awards" last year, I openly mocked the awards. Look at the past winners. You'll see some games winning "Best of..." 2 years in a row. Absolutely brilliant.
Why hype a video game 2 years from launch? Why saturate the market for movies that are 1 year off? Are you marketing people retarded?
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I always figured if I was on "The Weakest Link" I would vote for the host as the Weakest Link. Just for the shock value of straying from "the box".
Having lived there for 2 months, worked at a Japanese company in the US for 3 years, and rented Japanese TV shows from the local Japanese video store...I assure you...those commercials are no where in line with the norm for TV over there.
And nobody, not even the Japanese understand why that guy at the beginning eats a bell pepper. But, I figure, if I ever went on the show, I'd challenge him. He doesn't seem to know crap about food. I think I could take him and claim Kitchen Stadium.
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Seriously...you didn't see the rest of the show. The mere fact that it was original made it the most surprising game of the show.
Seriously, you can get nailed by a car at like 40 miles an hour. This would be great for things like...crossing the street.
The jumping puzzle is the sign of a extraordinarily uncreative and horrible game designer.
Have you played Tron 2.0? Fantastic...up until the game decides it's going to be the jumping puzzle from hell. Timed jumping moving platform puzzles! Jumping moving platform switch states puzzles! The last 6 to 8 levels just kept throwing annoying jumping sequence after another at you.
I've never met a gamer who is proud of the jumping puzzles they've defeated, or anyone who's said, "Oh man, that jumping section of game X, that was great!"
My least favorite jumping puzzles are the ones they put in RPGs...when your character is twice as high as the obstacle they're trying to jump over, and yet, still has to execute a perfect game of hopscotch, or start again from the beginning.
Exactly, they were talking about 30 powers, and I was thinking is any of those "Summon Sam and/or Max"? If not, count me as still boycotting.
Another year where Doom 3 is unplayable...wonder if Half-Life 2 will follow suit. Maybe they'll show that really excellent Team Fortress 2 again. Wanna bet Doom 3 gets a best of show award from someone again?
Hi? Informal? Would be "Ossu". (Pronounced "oas".) "Hi" also works. Most of the other forms of greeting incorporate other infomation, like time, etc.
Thank you is just, "Arigato".
You obviously are confusing languages. "I feel cold." in Japanese would be expressed in everyday conversation as, "samui" which is exactly the same number of syllables.
Chinese tends to take longer to speak, but not Japanese.
I agree. Their guides are inaccurate. I remember full on writing like a full third of a guide for a game I was QA-ing (The monster stats, weapons stats, item stats, etc.) and while they put their names up there as authors, I got a "thanks to QA."
Every other guide they did for us besides that was full of errors, which our department would point out, and they wouldn't fix.
Working an 18-hour day is kind of useless if you aren't bothering to do any work.
This was my favorite exchange.
JV:...How many Linux users are there?
TT: About two million.
JV: Well, I can't believe there's not any -- there must be a reason for... Let me find out about that. You bring up an interesting question -- I don't know the answer to that... Well, you're telling me a lot of things I don't know.
He sounds exactly like Strong Bad when he said he'd never write a song about Sibbie, and then hearing "Song About Sibbie, by Strong Bad" playing on the radio.
"The Cheat just started playing this beat...I didn't mean to...I mean, it was never my intention to..."
3 3.5 Ghz Chips.
This wouldn't even fit right in a mid-tower. On top of that...how the hell are you going to cool this? And what unheard of power supply are you going to have in this?
Furthermore...even pricing these at say what a present day Intel 2.8Ghz chip costs...that's like freaking $900 of CPU right there. You honestly don't think someone isn't going to figure out how to bust that puppy open strip out the CPUs and start using them for other non X-Box purposes if you sell the console at $300-$400?
This doesn't even get into the 65nm manufacturing, and all, nor for that matter the fact that there still isn't any software for the damn thing. It sounds like Microsoft was like, "Well, if everyone bought the "leaked" doc about not having a hard drive, maybe they'll buy this "leaked" doc about these insane specs for the X-box and get all hyped about it.
This is a bunch of crap. I'll be shocked if the machine has *1* 3.5Ghz 65nm chip in it.
Man, with the way they've handled everything else, aside from the end of Beta event, I'd be utterly shocked if they implemented it as stupidly as other MMOs have. They obviously pay attention to the customer base, so this in't going to be Nerf City.
City of Villains is exactly how I said they should handle the evil side. In fact, that's the exact name I said I'd use. Then every so often, they need to do a big colossal battle. If that's the case, I may be sticking around in this game a lot longer than I expected.
Sorry. Roadrunner broadband user.
Maybe you were on a different server than I was. I could run up...and then the guy would be in a different place. I wasn't even getting movement animations for the Rikti. They would just be "dragged" from point A to point B.
The part with me not killing them wasn't the problem. I fully expected that. The only reason I was in Steel Canyon was because I was finishing a mission there from the day before.
The part where I was able to target and touch *6* of the invaders was. I didn't care that I would die, but I wanted to PARTICIPATE. I was either blocked in by other heroes, or lagged so heavily, I couldn't locate a target before it was moved out of my melee range. As I say later in my post, I moved on to Atlas Park, where enemies were in my level range, and I still couldn't hit any of them due to the exact same problems in Steel Canyon.
The purpose of the Beta Test and the purpose of the POSTING are two entirely different things. This was a reply to someone saying the event was really cool, and me saying, "No, it in fact, was not."
I'm sure as a Beta Test this was very successful, and insightful for the Cryptic and NCSoft folks. You don't hear me saying, "Oh, I wouldn't recommend buying CoH based off of this occurance." However, as I've said twice before, if you were not ranged, the alien attack wasn't fun, it didn't have any sort of conclusion, and it was horribly lagged.
I'm on the West Coast, too. And I'm not judging the game on the latter parts of beta test. I'm just saying the before this event, everything was really smooth...and I had a very, very high opinion of the game, and high hopes for the final product.
It's been knocked down a peg after the few slip ups over the last few days, and my post was mainly to say, "Eh, the Rikti Invasion was actually fairly lame if you weren't ranged."
Yeah except those expansions were:
A) Supposed to be in the original game.
and
B) Failed to make it in.
It's not MY job to be paying for YOUR failure. This should be free.
I'm sorry, but I was in during the event too, and this wasn't that cool. I was in Steel Canyon, with my Level 9 Scrapper, Iron Chef.
Heroes were getting obliterated by the dozen. On my Athlon 1900+ and my GeForce FX 5600 with 256MB I was getting 1 frame a second. Since I wasn't a long range blaster this made it impossible for me to actually engage in combat.
I think I hit maybe, 6 of the hundreds of Rikti invaders. This isn't killed, mind you...I was doing around 11-17 points of damage to these guys while they were hitting me for upwards of 200. These guys were spawning in groups of 25-30, and I was able to target and touch 6. There's something wrong here.
Unless they work these lag issues out (I mean...it's just me, but if I was a citizen in the midst of an alien attack I couldn't possibly defend myself from, I'd probably stay the hell indoors, and not be all hustling and bustling outside. I certainly wouldn't be out robbing people.
To end it all, I was in Atlas Park as the big Rikti Spaceship loomed threateningly over City Hall, and then dramatically...disappearing.
I was up on that 20 story building before the others organized the mass "suicide" jump hoping to see some cool explosion or something, but no...poof.
The most entertaining moment of the evening was after it all ended people starting logging in and asking where all the aliens were.
Aside from that it was just a bunch of lag for me and the other close ranged attackers. I considered just logging out because I couldn't do anything, and then just decided to stick around to see if there was some cool finish to it all, but there wasn't even that.
It's been a pretty clean beta, with the exception of the last couple days where it's been hit by INSANE lag. I really like the game so far, but I'm being VERY cautious now.
Wait...you're not talking about the game that's reponsible for "Swingtime", are you?
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Exactly...once I saw the words "4 Love or Playstation" I immediately thought this was a stunt.
Earlier this year the Washington Wizards had a "Will you Marry Me?" publicity stunt, where they had the girl run for the exit. This reeks of something similar, especially since this is where the big-ass Sony Metreon is located.
Ok...I'm wondering how IGN just happened to get photos of all this. This all smells like a Sony-based publicity stunt to me.
"I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider it romantic if a girl only married me because I crushed her father's army and executed all of her male relatives."
Um...what if she wrote a poem, too?
I ask this stuff all the time. When Slashdot posted about IDSA posting their "Best of E3 Awards" last year, I openly mocked the awards. Look at the past winners. You'll see some games winning "Best of..." 2 years in a row. Absolutely brilliant.
Why hype a video game 2 years from launch? Why saturate the market for movies that are 1 year off? Are you marketing people retarded?
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I always figured if I was on "The Weakest Link" I would vote for the host as the Weakest Link. Just for the shock value of straying from "the box".
"Are you trolling. Xbox has Morrowind, Baldur's Gate, Shenmue, Star Wars, D&D Heroes, Phantasy Star Online and a lot of other rpgs."
Every single one of those games is on AT LEAST 1 other platform already.
Having lived there for 2 months, worked at a Japanese company in the US for 3 years, and rented Japanese TV shows from the local Japanese video store...I assure you...those commercials are no where in line with the norm for TV over there.
And nobody, not even the Japanese understand why that guy at the beginning eats a bell pepper. But, I figure, if I ever went on the show, I'd challenge him. He doesn't seem to know crap about food. I think I could take him and claim Kitchen Stadium.