I haven't read anything to suggest that Square is going back on their plans to bring FF11 to PC. You're going to see a lot of online console games come to PC, since companies want as many potential customers as possible without "defecting" to the enemy. In addition to FF11 there is Phantasy Star Online v2 coming to PC, and another online Sega game that I think is Japan-only.
Well, let's have some perspective. Back when I was 12, FF4 (2 US) seemed pretty damn deep. "Woa, Kain was good, then he was bad, then he was good, then he was bad, and now he's finally good? Woooooa!" The crappy translation didn't really dawn on me until many years later when I went to replay it.
Yes, there are some people out there who think that FF has amazing and mature stories. And that's probably because they haven't been exposed to many good books.
Video games seem to be at an awkward point, where the medium is capable of telling powerful stories, but those who are capable of writing those stories are probably writing books or films. So instead you have things like MGS2, which is a great game with an embarrassing story.
There's a huge problem with the games coming out of Japan being extremely wanky, pretentious, and trite. Games like Final Fantasy Tactics and Xenogears will try any intelligent human's tolerance for silly religious symbolism. I've been playing a lot of Golden Sun on the Gameboy Advance. Some people complain the story is too plain, but so far I'm loving it because it hasn't tried to explain the nature of humanity or anything silly like that.
But! There is hope. Games like Vagrant Story (oddly enough by the developers of Final Fantasy Tactics) and Ico are learning the art of subtlety in their stories.
Do you want to know why I'm really looking forward to FFX in a few days? Certainly not because it's intellectually stimulating or because it's mature. I'm looking forward to it because I'm pretty sure it'll be fun. The changes to the summon system, and the ability to swap characters during battle should make things interesting. FF9 had pretty good character development, so hopefully the big 10 will be the same.
Anyways, I don't know why I bothered responding to an elitist on slashdot.:P
Konami did an amazing job of keeping this little turd suprise secret. They went so far as to release later shots of the game with Snake which actually had Raiden in it. I only WISH it was well-known before hand so people can see this game is bag of ass, story-wise.
"and the storyline is definitly the best in the series"
My god, how can you possible say that? The Metal Gear games have always had silly cliche stories, but MGS2 takes it to insane heights. If the MGS2 story was in anything other than a videogame Kojima would be laughed off the planet.
I was so disapointed by MGS2. The gameplay is much improved, thank god. But the story is rediculous. I'll put it in a form most slashdotters can understand:
John Woo + Tom Clancy + lots of crack = Metal Gear Solid 2
Many people seem to confuse the definitin of art with their definition of 'good' art.
Someone might walk around an art museum and scoff at a simplistic painting and say, "That's not art!" When that they really mean is that it's not GOOD art. Whether it's not good art because it could just as easily be painted by a child, or if it seems the artist didn't put enough thought into it, is irrelevant.
So the question is. Are video games GOOD art? Is Quake 3 worthy to sit next to a Picasso, or a Rembrandt? Or are video games just another low-brow commercial art?
"When Reece eats me, it is so fucking incredible. That I want to kill him. Kill him. He lets me put his balls in my mouth, you know, while he eats me . . . "
"Brave man."
"When I'm coming, it's all I can do not to tear into them, like . . . " She savors an image on her tongue. "Like dim sum stuffed with scallops."
Erotic literature is weird. How can anyone read the above and not laugh their asses off?
When did catholic schoolgirls start reading slashdot?
Oh wait, your email address is @americanwicca.com? Hmm, I figure you'd understand things that are frequently misunderstood and misrepresented...
Daily Radar was embarassing and wont be missed. IGN is pretty humorus as well, especially with IGN Insider. And of course, gamers.com has been gone for awhile.
Ah yes, outside, that's much better. You may feel you have little control of what your kids can do in your home, just imagine what they can do at their friend's house (as that is what will invariably happen if you kick them out).
I just found out my nephew (10) saw Scary Movie at a friend's house (an NC-17-worthy movie if I ever saw one). Obviously his mother was furious and he's no longer allowed over at that person's house (and I believe she complained to the parents, as well).
Try all you like, but kids are humans, not pets. They're going to do what they want, and they're going to see and do things that you don't want them to. You can only try to guide them.
I don't see how kicking them out is a better solution than having censorware while you're not available to keep an eye on them.
1) Oni sucks.
2) Why do people act like Metal Gear Solid is some kind of pinnacle of gaming? Sure, it certainly advanced video game cinematics, but the gameplay is totally linear and not much more advanced that the original MG.
Well, I guess SOMEONE has to buy game guides, otherwise I doubt I'd see them all the time at Best Buy. I might consult a game faq once or twice, but I'd sooner dump a game that requires constant hand-holding rather than pay MORE money. I don't think I've EVER bought a game guide, unless you count the ones I got free from Nintendo Power back in the day.
pfft, I've had this for at least a half a year now. I've been known to spend lots of time creating my own 'bullet-time football' replays in NFL2k1, just to annoy my friends.:)
where we'll print any half-wit rumor for a nickle! Both the mainstream and gaming press have been screaming for Sega's head for years.
I don't doubt that the Dreamcast will be the last hardware console that Sega ever makes, but there's no reason to rush it.
I doubt Sega will be able to maintain the same quality of their games if they're software-only. Right now Sega's in-house stuff is original and imaginitive (ie Space Channel 5, Jet Grind Radio), but when software is their bread and butter it's only a matter of time until they're churning out shovelware and easy-sell games.
Nintendo probably does have a legal basis for not allowing magazines to show screenshots, but that's not really the point. The question is, why would they want to do that?
What the various websites and magazines should do is boycott all Nintendo coverage until the Big N realizes that it's a symbiotic relationship. You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, afterall.
Dude, have you ever heard of McCarthyism?
Methinks you took your grandparent's "Why back in my day" stories a little too literally.
Hey, if I wanted to I could go look at autopsy photos and pictures of lesbian action in an instant. Why if that ain't freedom I don't know what is!
It's all hype. With the exception of the system software that runs if there's no CD present, all software is loaded off the CD. I don't see whats so hard to understand, there's no OS working here in the traditional PC sense, these are all self contained programs that have full control of the Dreamcast hardware.
And WinCE (read Direct X) sure as heck hasn't been apart of any good Dreamcast games. The two WinCE games I own, Sega Rally 2 and Worms Armageddon, are pretty sub-par and could've been several orders of magnitude better if they had use Sega's own development libraries.
I don't think the problem is that there's no good music these days, there's just no good POPULAR music. Right now we're in a pretty light-hearted 1950's teenybopper stage, so you have to dig a little deeper.
My favorite band of the moment is Less Than Jake (www.lessthanjake.com). They do a great job of blending ska and punk.
Every console has always been a blank slate as far as programming goes. You get the dev kits from Nintendo/Sony/Sega/etc. and you go to town.
In the console world 'operating system' can sometimes be synonymous with 'development system.' For example the leap in graphics quality with the release of Virtua Fighter 2 for the Sega Saturn was credited to a new "OS" for the Saturn.
WinCE doesn't have anything to do with the VMUs. Heck, AFAIK WinCE doesn't have anything to do with the Dreamcast, either. I guess MS decided the WinCE brand was more consumer-friendly than DirectX.
If you think $60 for the DC ethernet adapter is bad, Sega charged $80 in Japan for the VGA box, which is probably $75 more than what it cost them to make it, since the DC has native VGA support. The VGA box just gives you the necessary connection.
I dunno how much Sega sold the VGA box stateside, but you can buy 3rd party ones on the cheap (and some of them are actually superior to the Sega one as far as features go). Maybe we can get some good third party ethernet adapters? Who knows.
This question has been beat to death, and there is without a doubt that not one nanosecond of film has been edited for US release.
Remember that the Miyazaki/Disney deal required that Miyazaki approve any cuts. And after the slaughtering of Nausicaa Miyzaki is adamant about having his films edited overseas.
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This isn't even funny, this story was posted only a few weeks ago. Sheesh.
I suppose, but it wouldn't make this rumor any less a complete fabrication. I think Sega has leanred their lesson when they tried to combine the PC and the Saturn. I can't remember which video card it was, but it let you play an accellerated version of Virtua Fighter, and even had Saturn controller ports.
This idea is just plain silly. If a PC user wants a Dreamcast he'll pay the $150 or whatever for it and play it on a nice big-screen TV.:P
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I haven't read anything to suggest that Square is going back on their plans to bring FF11 to PC. You're going to see a lot of online console games come to PC, since companies want as many potential customers as possible without "defecting" to the enemy. In addition to FF11 there is Phantasy Star Online v2 coming to PC, and another online Sega game that I think is Japan-only.
Well, let's have some perspective. Back when I was 12, FF4 (2 US) seemed pretty damn deep. "Woa, Kain was good, then he was bad, then he was good, then he was bad, and now he's finally good? Woooooa!" The crappy translation didn't really dawn on me until many years later when I went to replay it.
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Yes, there are some people out there who think that FF has amazing and mature stories. And that's probably because they haven't been exposed to many good books.
Video games seem to be at an awkward point, where the medium is capable of telling powerful stories, but those who are capable of writing those stories are probably writing books or films. So instead you have things like MGS2, which is a great game with an embarrassing story.
There's a huge problem with the games coming out of Japan being extremely wanky, pretentious, and trite. Games like Final Fantasy Tactics and Xenogears will try any intelligent human's tolerance for silly religious symbolism. I've been playing a lot of Golden Sun on the Gameboy Advance. Some people complain the story is too plain, but so far I'm loving it because it hasn't tried to explain the nature of humanity or anything silly like that.
But! There is hope. Games like Vagrant Story (oddly enough by the developers of Final Fantasy Tactics) and Ico are learning the art of subtlety in their stories.
Do you want to know why I'm really looking forward to FFX in a few days? Certainly not because it's intellectually stimulating or because it's mature. I'm looking forward to it because I'm pretty sure it'll be fun. The changes to the summon system, and the ability to swap characters during battle should make things interesting. FF9 had pretty good character development, so hopefully the big 10 will be the same.
Anyways, I don't know why I bothered responding to an elitist on slashdot.
Sheesh, Interact's Mobile Monitor has been available for the PSone for maybe a year or so now. And Sony just came out with their own.
Hate to be an ass, but that's SO five minutes ago!
Konami did an amazing job of keeping this little turd suprise secret. They went so far as to release later shots of the game with Snake which actually had Raiden in it. I only WISH it was well-known before hand so people can see this game is bag of ass, story-wise.
"and the storyline is definitly the best in the series"
My god, how can you possible say that? The Metal Gear games have always had silly cliche stories, but MGS2 takes it to insane heights. If the MGS2 story was in anything other than a videogame Kojima would be laughed off the planet.
I was so disapointed by MGS2. The gameplay is much improved, thank god. But the story is rediculous. I'll put it in a form most slashdotters can understand:
John Woo + Tom Clancy + lots of crack = Metal Gear Solid 2
Many people seem to confuse the definitin of art with their definition of 'good' art.
Someone might walk around an art museum and scoff at a simplistic painting and say, "That's not art!" When that they really mean is that it's not GOOD art. Whether it's not good art because it could just as easily be painted by a child, or if it seems the artist didn't put enough thought into it, is irrelevant.
So the question is. Are video games GOOD art? Is Quake 3 worthy to sit next to a Picasso, or a Rembrandt? Or are video games just another low-brow commercial art?
"Brave man."
"When I'm coming, it's all I can do not to tear into them, like . . . " She savors an image on her tongue. "Like dim sum stuffed with scallops."
Erotic literature is weird. How can anyone read the above and not laugh their asses off?
When did catholic schoolgirls start reading slashdot? Oh wait, your email address is @americanwicca.com? Hmm, I figure you'd understand things that are frequently misunderstood and misrepresented...
Daily Radar was embarassing and wont be missed. IGN is pretty humorus as well, especially with IGN Insider. And of course, gamers.com has been gone for awhile.
Yes, I AM an atheist. I did it all for the boobies!
Ah yes, outside, that's much better. You may feel you have little control of what your kids can do in your home, just imagine what they can do at their friend's house (as that is what will invariably happen if you kick them out). I just found out my nephew (10) saw Scary Movie at a friend's house (an NC-17-worthy movie if I ever saw one). Obviously his mother was furious and he's no longer allowed over at that person's house (and I believe she complained to the parents, as well). Try all you like, but kids are humans, not pets. They're going to do what they want, and they're going to see and do things that you don't want them to. You can only try to guide them. I don't see how kicking them out is a better solution than having censorware while you're not available to keep an eye on them.
Couple points first:
1) Oni sucks.
2) Why do people act like Metal Gear Solid is some kind of pinnacle of gaming? Sure, it certainly advanced video game cinematics, but the gameplay is totally linear and not much more advanced that the original MG.
Well, I guess SOMEONE has to buy game guides, otherwise I doubt I'd see them all the time at Best Buy. I might consult a game faq once or twice, but I'd sooner dump a game that requires constant hand-holding rather than pay MORE money. I don't think I've EVER bought a game guide, unless you count the ones I got free from Nintendo Power back in the day.
P.S.: Oni sucks.
pfft, I've had this for at least a half a year now. I've been known to spend lots of time creating my own 'bullet-time football' replays in NFL2k1, just to annoy my friends. :)
where we'll print any half-wit rumor for a nickle! Both the mainstream and gaming press have been screaming for Sega's head for years.
I don't doubt that the Dreamcast will be the last hardware console that Sega ever makes, but there's no reason to rush it.
I doubt Sega will be able to maintain the same quality of their games if they're software-only. Right now Sega's in-house stuff is original and imaginitive (ie Space Channel 5, Jet Grind Radio), but when software is their bread and butter it's only a matter of time until they're churning out shovelware and easy-sell games.
Nintendo probably does have a legal basis for not allowing magazines to show screenshots, but that's not really the point. The question is, why would they want to do that? What the various websites and magazines should do is boycott all Nintendo coverage until the Big N realizes that it's a symbiotic relationship. You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, afterall.
Dude, have you ever heard of McCarthyism? Methinks you took your grandparent's "Why back in my day" stories a little too literally. Hey, if I wanted to I could go look at autopsy photos and pictures of lesbian action in an instant. Why if that ain't freedom I don't know what is!
And WinCE (read Direct X) sure as heck hasn't been apart of any good Dreamcast games. The two WinCE games I own, Sega Rally 2 and Worms Armageddon, are pretty sub-par and could've been several orders of magnitude better if they had use Sega's own development libraries.
I don't think the problem is that there's no good music these days, there's just no good POPULAR music. Right now we're in a pretty light-hearted 1950's teenybopper stage, so you have to dig a little deeper. My favorite band of the moment is Less Than Jake (www.lessthanjake.com). They do a great job of blending ska and punk.
In the console world 'operating system' can sometimes be synonymous with 'development system.' For example the leap in graphics quality with the release of Virtua Fighter 2 for the Sega Saturn was credited to a new "OS" for the Saturn.
WinCE doesn't have anything to do with the VMUs. Heck, AFAIK WinCE doesn't have anything to do with the Dreamcast, either. I guess MS decided the WinCE brand was more consumer-friendly than DirectX.
I dunno how much Sega sold the VGA box stateside, but you can buy 3rd party ones on the cheap (and some of them are actually superior to the Sega one as far as features go). Maybe we can get some good third party ethernet adapters? Who knows.
This question has been beat to death, and there is without a doubt that not one nanosecond of film has been edited for US release. Remember that the Miyazaki/Disney deal required that Miyazaki approve any cuts. And after the slaughtering of Nausicaa Miyzaki is adamant about having his films edited overseas.
This isn't even funny, this story was posted only a few weeks ago. Sheesh.
I suppose, but it wouldn't make this rumor any less a complete fabrication. I think Sega has leanred their lesson when they tried to combine the PC and the Saturn. I can't remember which video card it was, but it let you play an accellerated version of Virtua Fighter, and even had Saturn controller ports. This idea is just plain silly. If a PC user wants a Dreamcast he'll pay the $150 or whatever for it and play it on a nice big-screen TV. :P