It's surprising how much the taboos of cultures can vary. Something perfectly acceptable to one culture is utterly offensive to another culture. Weird, isn't it? =)
I personally am perpetually mystified as to how australians love sour sauce over everything.
I think for the rating its more a difference of cultures. Bugger that common language crap, here in the UK we're generally far more permissive than folk in the US./sweeping generalisation. My understanding is that most of US tv is heavily censored in comparison and restricted in content.
As an example, this is one of the reasons why to us the US versions of things like Coupling or the Office seem tame and frankly a bit poor by comparison because US studios arent neccessarily prepared to push the boundaries of taste.
Another example is God, The Devil and Bob, a US made cartoon that was only made for one series. US Conservatives were in uproar over the portrayal of The Man Himself and effectively took it off air after the network only showed 3 episodes in the US.
Faux News aren't going to back down, as the voice of "fair and balanced" coverage; and for all their vitriol, the gaming community is going to struggle with the mainstream for a fair few years yet.
Not having seen Enlightenment save for a quick skim read of the wikipedia article, I cant really comment, but I assume you refer to the multiple desktops and the grids theyre arranged in. In which case, kindof, except that instead of (as an analogy) a six pack of beer, more like hundreds of beer cans with the ends cut off and jammed inside the ends of the adjacent one.
I'd be very interested to see this kind of thing integrated with Bumptop. If Bumptop itself was then modified to have a little PC on it, well. Things start to get a bit recursive. Like standing with a mirror in front of you and another behind.
...I was instantly skeptical of this offering from EA, on a number of issues.
1) Viable game experience?
Despite a massive userbase for BF2142, three major patches and the Northern Strike addon, there are still some major play issues with the game. One of the more irritating heavy handed (and incorrect) solutions for people abusing the game is podsurfing. For the unitiated, you can launch out of several vehicles in a drop pod that has limited maneuverability but that can, with some alterations of game settings, have massively increased range (in both distance and movement). Players complained. EA scratched their balls a bit and said "Brilliant! We'll handicap the one droppod that actually has very little podsurfing abuse!"
Such is life.
This and other things regarding BF2142 and its buggy gameplay means my faith in EA and its production of BF is permanently shot; let alone a Toy-Story looking game with in game ads, leading on to...
2) In game ads.
Already in BF2142 but is understated at least on the servers I play on. There are screenshots of various ad boards on maps that I play regularly, but havent seen them. Maybe they're more prolific on US servers instead of UK ones. However the ones that are around are generally barely noticeable at a glance since theyre done to subtly blend with the surroundings in muted tones. Maybe subliminal messaging is the answer?
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Sour cream, even. Particularly popular over jacket potatoes.
I personally am perpetually mystified as to how australians love sour sauce over everything.
As an example, this is one of the reasons why to us the US versions of things like Coupling or the Office seem tame and frankly a bit poor by comparison because US studios arent neccessarily prepared to push the boundaries of taste.
Another example is God, The Devil and Bob, a US made cartoon that was only made for one series. US Conservatives were in uproar over the portrayal of The Man Himself and effectively took it off air after the network only showed 3 episodes in the US.
Faux News aren't going to back down, as the voice of "fair and balanced" coverage; and for all their vitriol, the gaming community is going to struggle with the mainstream for a fair few years yet.
Not having seen Enlightenment save for a quick skim read of the wikipedia article, I cant really comment, but I assume you refer to the multiple desktops and the grids theyre arranged in. In which case, kindof, except that instead of (as an analogy) a six pack of beer, more like hundreds of beer cans with the ends cut off and jammed inside the ends of the adjacent one.
A desktop on a desktop on a desktop....
...I was instantly skeptical of this offering from EA, on a number of issues. 1) Viable game experience? Despite a massive userbase for BF2142, three major patches and the Northern Strike addon, there are still some major play issues with the game. One of the more irritating heavy handed (and incorrect) solutions for people abusing the game is podsurfing. For the unitiated, you can launch out of several vehicles in a drop pod that has limited maneuverability but that can, with some alterations of game settings, have massively increased range (in both distance and movement). Players complained. EA scratched their balls a bit and said "Brilliant! We'll handicap the one droppod that actually has very little podsurfing abuse!" Such is life. This and other things regarding BF2142 and its buggy gameplay means my faith in EA and its production of BF is permanently shot; let alone a Toy-Story looking game with in game ads, leading on to... 2) In game ads. Already in BF2142 but is understated at least on the servers I play on. There are screenshots of various ad boards on maps that I play regularly, but havent seen them. Maybe they're more prolific on US servers instead of UK ones. However the ones that are around are generally barely noticeable at a glance since theyre done to subtly blend with the surroundings in muted tones. Maybe subliminal messaging is the answer?