It did, as did some multiplayer features if I recall correctly. However the expansion pack was not required to play the game. There were 2 or 3 games that would refuse to load without the expansion pack rather than having features stripped out without its presence.
There was only 2 or 3 games that required the expansion pack. Other games had limited features available when you didn't have it installed. Perfect Dark was not one that required it.
BF3, the console game, is capped at 24 players due to hardware. BF3, the PC game, is capped at 64 players because the developers were not finding 128 players to be fun during playtesting.
I'd say that right current pc hardware is capable of performing in real time rendering at a level of detail that was cutting edge around 2001-2002. Maybe a year or two beyond that. I mostly say that since I'm comparing the visual CGI elements from that horrible Final Fantasy movie to what I'm seeing coming out in games that aren't using pre-rendered CGI.
I'd also like to point out that I find a game like Shogun 2: Total War far more effective at displaying the progress of graphics rendering than a game like Battlefield 3. Battles in Shogun 2 have men in units that have graphical equivalents similar to what we were seeing from consoles at around the crossover from previous generation to current generation consoles, so around 2006. That is not very impressive. What is impressive is when you consider that a single unit of Yari Ashigaru at Ultra unit sizes has 200 men in it. Then consider that a fielded army can contain 20 Yari Ashigaru (4,000 men). Then consider that a single battle can have up to 8 armies taking part (32,000 men).
Granted that a lot of the men are pretty similar but Total War does shake up the models to give the variance so every man in the unit doesn't look identical.
You're exactly right. That's why the console version of Battlefield 3 is limited to 24 players while the PC version can scale up to significantly more than the 64 players they limit it to. Mind you that Dice had tests where they were running significantly more than 64 players at a time. The reason they chose to limit to 64 on the PC was not a function of hardware limitation (as is the case for the console) but rather a choice they made where scaling a game beyond 64 players didn't provide much additional value. Games beyond 64 players haven't done so well because it's difficult to implement something larger that is fun for a much more generic audience. That's why M.A.G. failed on the PS3.
Yes. There are mods out there that support more than the 64 player limit on games but they are just that, mods. As mods they require players to seek them out which already means the mentality to play with that many players already exists.
There's a woeful amount of data about it but it can ignore the process by which hermit crabs take shelters. If they don't vary the size of the plastic shells this project is useless since it will just dump a bunch of plastic shells that are the exact same dimensions. This will make it so that only a narrow age/growth stage of hermit crabs is advantaged by the deposit.
Madagascar. Always keeping my pandemic from wiping out humanity. The only time I ever successfully eradicated the species was when it starts in Madagascar.
I guess it's comforting to know that in the event of a pandemic humanity will likely carry on with ancestors from Madagascar.
Strike that, the pirates are more greedy than the publishers and recording industry. They want the pirates $15 and they'll give music. Pirates want their $15 dollars and the music.
It has to do with the fact that they're getting twice the advertising revenue out of you if you get the paper version and don't both reading the paper.
They get paid for the ads in the paper that you do read and paid for the ads embedded on the online pages you do read.
Here's something that can be highly frustrating. When a work fantasy has more hard rules that govern how the magic of the world works (which aren't typically broken) than some of the science fiction that is written.
I haven't read any work by Sanderson yet. However I'm in process of rereading through Wheel of Time (did 1-9 + half of 10 first time through). I've had friends say Sanderson is a great author, but I'm going to let his treatment of Wheel of Time help me decide just how good he is. If he can take the stuff built up by Jordan and still keep it good then I'm definitely going to jump into his other stuff.
The Wheel of Time is something I could say could be on the list simply because if you're a new reader to it and start now there's a good chance the final book will be released by the time you read the prologue and the thirteen books already out. In fact, that's what I'm doing right now for a second read through. First time through I got frustrated with the series around midway through book 10. Now I'm rereading it at a rate of about one book every two weeks and I'm around 66% through The Shadow Rising. I'd say both Eye of the World and The Great Hunt (tentatively) are capable of being read and enjoyed in their own right.
I am surprised at how high Wheel of Time ranked. #12 seems a bit high for a book that tends to polarize the audience to loving or hating it.
There are some tasks where silver and gold outperform other metals or materials at the task. Silver conducts electricity better than copper but the gain is not worth the extra cost of using silver over copper in most cases. Their usage as a currency makes them too valuable for those uses.
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It did, as did some multiplayer features if I recall correctly. However the expansion pack was not required to play the game. There were 2 or 3 games that would refuse to load without the expansion pack rather than having features stripped out without its presence.
Just name the product "Nipple".
Not entirely true. 6 years ago would be October '05.
Windows Vista started popping up around November 2007.
You would have to upgrade at LEAST the operating system to play Battlefield 3 since it requires DX11 which requires at least Vista or Win7.
There was only 2 or 3 games that required the expansion pack. Other games had limited features available when you didn't have it installed. Perfect Dark was not one that required it.
BF3, the game, supports up to 256 players.
BF3, the console game, is capped at 24 players due to hardware.
BF3, the PC game, is capped at 64 players because the developers were not finding 128 players to be fun during playtesting.
You played the 3D version of it on the Wii, eh?
I'd say that right current pc hardware is capable of performing in real time rendering at a level of detail that was cutting edge around 2001-2002. Maybe a year or two beyond that. I mostly say that since I'm comparing the visual CGI elements from that horrible Final Fantasy movie to what I'm seeing coming out in games that aren't using pre-rendered CGI.
I'd also like to point out that I find a game like Shogun 2: Total War far more effective at displaying the progress of graphics rendering than a game like Battlefield 3. Battles in Shogun 2 have men in units that have graphical equivalents similar to what we were seeing from consoles at around the crossover from previous generation to current generation consoles, so around 2006. That is not very impressive. What is impressive is when you consider that a single unit of Yari Ashigaru at Ultra unit sizes has 200 men in it. Then consider that a fielded army can contain 20 Yari Ashigaru (4,000 men). Then consider that a single battle can have up to 8 armies taking part (32,000 men).
Granted that a lot of the men are pretty similar but Total War does shake up the models to give the variance so every man in the unit doesn't look identical.
You're exactly right. That's why the console version of Battlefield 3 is limited to 24 players while the PC version can scale up to significantly more than the 64 players they limit it to. Mind you that Dice had tests where they were running significantly more than 64 players at a time. The reason they chose to limit to 64 on the PC was not a function of hardware limitation (as is the case for the console) but rather a choice they made where scaling a game beyond 64 players didn't provide much additional value. Games beyond 64 players haven't done so well because it's difficult to implement something larger that is fun for a much more generic audience. That's why M.A.G. failed on the PS3.
Yes. There are mods out there that support more than the 64 player limit on games but they are just that, mods. As mods they require players to seek them out which already means the mentality to play with that many players already exists.
Yes.
Only because it would be a humorous mockery of our already mockable legal system.
Like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Indeed. No cold hard murders by sentient AIs around here.
When it's done by a female sounding computer. Remember that Wheatley's countdown got screwed up.
There's a woeful amount of data about it but it can ignore the process by which hermit crabs take shelters. If they don't vary the size of the plastic shells this project is useless since it will just dump a bunch of plastic shells that are the exact same dimensions. This will make it so that only a narrow age/growth stage of hermit crabs is advantaged by the deposit.
What was the toy?
Madagascar. Always keeping my pandemic from wiping out humanity. The only time I ever successfully eradicated the species was when it starts in Madagascar.
I guess it's comforting to know that in the event of a pandemic humanity will likely carry on with ancestors from Madagascar.
Strike that, the pirates are more greedy than the publishers and recording industry. They want the pirates $15 and they'll give music. Pirates want their $15 dollars and the music.
You're better off trying to commit genocide than eliminating greed. The pirates are just as greedy as the people that cause the ridiculous prices.
Unless of course getting the Sat/Sun or Mon-Fri editions and you get the online subscription as well.
In which case $15 > $3.15 * 4 or $15 > $3.10
It has to do with the fact that they're getting twice the advertising revenue out of you if you get the paper version and don't both reading the paper.
They get paid for the ads in the paper that you do read and paid for the ads embedded on the online pages you do read.
Don't worry. You get to Wheel of Time after answering no to "Do you mind if the series is complete?"
Give them book 7 of Wheel of Time as a gag gift.
Here's something that can be highly frustrating. When a work fantasy has more hard rules that govern how the magic of the world works (which aren't typically broken) than some of the science fiction that is written.
I haven't read any work by Sanderson yet. However I'm in process of rereading through Wheel of Time (did 1-9 + half of 10 first time through). I've had friends say Sanderson is a great author, but I'm going to let his treatment of Wheel of Time help me decide just how good he is. If he can take the stuff built up by Jordan and still keep it good then I'm definitely going to jump into his other stuff.
Space Elves? I got them for ya!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar_(Warhammer_40,000)
The Wheel of Time is something I could say could be on the list simply because if you're a new reader to it and start now there's a good chance the final book will be released by the time you read the prologue and the thirteen books already out. In fact, that's what I'm doing right now for a second read through. First time through I got frustrated with the series around midway through book 10. Now I'm rereading it at a rate of about one book every two weeks and I'm around 66% through The Shadow Rising. I'd say both Eye of the World and The Great Hunt (tentatively) are capable of being read and enjoyed in their own right.
I am surprised at how high Wheel of Time ranked. #12 seems a bit high for a book that tends to polarize the audience to loving or hating it.
There are some tasks where silver and gold outperform other metals or materials at the task. Silver conducts electricity better than copper but the gain is not worth the extra cost of using silver over copper in most cases. Their usage as a currency makes them too valuable for those uses.