Ah, I must have missed that part. Still, I'd be curious to know what this game-killing bug is, and why it doesn't affect the other versions (if it's a game logic bug or something, rather than a crash-to-desktop type bug.)
Then again, I never saw the bug that plagued the Xbox version of KOTOR...
As I wrote in a journal recently, there are two competeing gameplay styles emerging; the '10 or so solid hours of story' versus the '50+ hours of wandering around levelling up.'
BG&E was an amazing game; there wasn't a single sloppy, slow, or pointless part of the game that I can think of, off hand. They did some AMAZING cinematic tricks during the gameplay (the opening battle, and daring rooftop escape both leap to mind immediately) and pulled of that hardest trick; at no point in the game did you get dropped out of the world. No breaking the fourth wall, no cute little in-jokes, no nods to the fact that it was a video game, and it all flowed well.
Couple that with an amazing story, that pulled no punches, and you've got one hell of a game.
PoP, on the other hand, while good, wasn't great. The music, animation, voice acting, and concept were great, but the fighting system needed work, the level design needed tweaking (or just the Prince, after a few moments of looking around, saying something like "hmm, maybe if I try that pole...." The visions-of-the-future idea was good, but didn't quite cut it. Using the rewind feature to mask the 'must die to find the One True Path' was still frustrating. All in all, though, worth playing.
Even though the metric it tracks by is 'postal code,' and therefore not very resolvable to an individual, and even though you can turn this functionality off?
Me, I'd want TiVo to know exactly what I'm watching, so that said shows won't get cancelled for lack of viewership.
I think the way it works is, when you buy a set-top box, it's a pretty standard piece of kit. When you buys one, you calls up your satellite provider, having plugged it in, read them off the serial number, and the number of your LNB unit, and they authorize it in their system.
Well, get a card, plug it into your pc, call them up, give them the serial number, and you're off to the races.
There was an NT3 and NT4 version, but they discontinued it due to lack of sales. Ports were also available for Alpha and MIPS. There was a SPARC port in-house, so the rumors go.
And somewhere, there is a hacker feverishly writing a visualization plugin for WinAmp to make use of that particle accelerator to make some really bitchin diplays.
You know those games where you're trapped somewhere, and there's somebody on a radio guiding you through puzzles, giving you advice, and what not?
There's a PS2 game, I think it's called Lifeline, coming out, where you play the guy on the radio, via the headset, and try to help out somebody trapped on the space station after the Terrible Accident.
As long as your differentiate between changes and revelations, you'll be fine.
The fact that Neo was in a computer generated world was a revelation. The fact that he could be Super Neo was a revelation. The fact that he can wish Sentinals dead is a change.
REASONS WHY MOST AMERICANS 'DIDN'T GET' FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN (off the top of my head)
1: The main character was female.
1b: and at absolutely no point showed off cleavage.
2:The hunky hero actually had doubts and thoughts.
3:The nerdy scientist DIDN'T whip up a super-science 'garage special' technogadget to save the day.
4:The 'bad' guy wasn't actually evil, so much as having different motivations.
5:Animated, and yet NO TALKING ANIMALS. I mean, what the fuck?
5b: Animated, and yet NO MUSICAL NUMBERS.
5c: Animated, yet no five year olds more intelligent than the rest of the cast combined.
6: Pretty much everybody dies.
7: The alien menace ISN'T kicked in the ass by a wisecracking fighter jock.
8: Inexplicably, Apple computers are NOT able to interface with alien technology.
9: No 'heroic last stands,' so much as futile gestures against inevitability.
10: Did I mention that there was no cleveage? No 'co ed' naked shower scenes? Nothing but a soldier in a tank top? And you expect this to SELL?
I remember the time that a Sun support engineer showed up in my data center, pulled out a Win95 laptop, and fired up HyperTerminal to talk to a Sun server.
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At first I thought that said 'Not Quite Human.' Go, Chip, go!
There's a trilogy of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri novels, and they're not that bad.
Ah, I must have missed that part. Still, I'd be curious to know what this game-killing bug is, and why it doesn't affect the other versions (if it's a game logic bug or something, rather than a crash-to-desktop type bug.)
Then again, I never saw the bug that plagued the Xbox version of KOTOR...
As I wrote in a journal recently, there are two competeing gameplay styles emerging; the '10 or so solid hours of story' versus the '50+ hours of wandering around levelling up.'
BG&E was an amazing game; there wasn't a single sloppy, slow, or pointless part of the game that I can think of, off hand. They did some AMAZING cinematic tricks during the gameplay (the opening battle, and daring rooftop escape both leap to mind immediately) and pulled of that hardest trick; at no point in the game did you get dropped out of the world. No breaking the fourth wall, no cute little in-jokes, no nods to the fact that it was a video game, and it all flowed well.
Couple that with an amazing story, that pulled no punches, and you've got one hell of a game.
PoP, on the other hand, while good, wasn't great. The music, animation, voice acting, and concept were great, but the fighting system needed work, the level design needed tweaking (or just the Prince, after a few moments of looking around, saying something like "hmm, maybe if I try that pole...." The visions-of-the-future idea was good, but didn't quite cut it. Using the rewind feature to mask the 'must die to find the One True Path' was still frustrating. All in all, though, worth playing.
What is this bug of which you speak? I played right through the Xbox version of the game with no problem.
Ah, I see. Interesting. As you've probably gathered from my other post, I'm on StarChoice, and there's no smartcards involved.
Poot. But Bell ExpressVu works with the hauppage kit? If so, that's enough for me to switch....
It's not if, or how, you fuck up, so much as how you recover.
Even though the metric it tracks by is 'postal code,' and therefore not very resolvable to an individual, and even though you can turn this functionality off?
Me, I'd want TiVo to know exactly what I'm watching, so that said shows won't get cancelled for lack of viewership.
Oh, and do you know if the Nexus-S is compatible with Star Choice?
I think the way it works is, when you buy a set-top box, it's a pretty standard piece of kit. When you buys one, you calls up your satellite provider, having plugged it in, read them off the serial number, and the number of your LNB unit, and they authorize it in their system.
Well, get a card, plug it into your pc, call them up, give them the serial number, and you're off to the races.
I think. Not sure.
There was an NT3 and NT4 version, but they discontinued it due to lack of sales. Ports were also available for Alpha and MIPS. There was a SPARC port in-house, so the rumors go.
And somewhere, there is a hacker feverishly writing a visualization plugin for WinAmp to make use of that particle accelerator to make some really bitchin diplays.
You know those games where you're trapped somewhere, and there's somebody on a radio guiding you through puzzles, giving you advice, and what not?
There's a PS2 game, I think it's called Lifeline, coming out, where you play the guy on the radio, via the headset, and try to help out somebody trapped on the space station after the Terrible Accident.
As long as your differentiate between changes and revelations, you'll be fine.
The fact that Neo was in a computer generated world was a revelation. The fact that he could be Super Neo was a revelation. The fact that he can wish Sentinals dead is a change.
Were you moving? Did you let the crosshairs sit so Sam could draw a bead? I didn't find the aiming to be all that bad...
What IS an example, in SC, of bad internal consistancy, is that only some lights can be shot out.
As long as a game is internally consistant, that's the thing.
DosBox is, of course, the other option.
Move it over to FTP, and allow only X number of simultaneous logins.
But wasn't one of the complaints about Windows 9x, and MacOS
If you're on dialup, are you really programming .Net for a living?
Target audience and all that.
REASONS WHY MOST AMERICANS 'DIDN'T GET' FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN
(off the top of my head)
1: The main character was female.
1b: and at absolutely no point showed off cleavage.
2:The hunky hero actually had doubts and thoughts.
3:The nerdy scientist DIDN'T whip up a super-science 'garage special' technogadget to save the day.
4:The 'bad' guy wasn't actually evil, so much as having different motivations.
5:Animated, and yet NO TALKING ANIMALS. I mean, what the fuck?
5b: Animated, and yet NO MUSICAL NUMBERS.
5c: Animated, yet no five year olds more intelligent than the rest of the cast combined.
6: Pretty much everybody dies.
7: The alien menace ISN'T kicked in the ass by a wisecracking fighter jock.
8: Inexplicably, Apple computers are NOT able to interface with alien technology.
9: No 'heroic last stands,' so much as futile gestures against inevitability.
10: Did I mention that there was no cleveage? No 'co ed' naked shower scenes? Nothing but a soldier in a tank top? And you expect this to SELL?
A lot of people deride MS from having poor product, but nobody gives them credit for thier biggest strength: They adapt, and they adapt willingly.
When they migrated Hotmail, they did an internal 'why this was fucked up' report. One big part was lack of command line tools and scriptability.
Well, Win 2000 is part way there. XP even more so. Longhorn, apparently, will have almost every admin task available from the cli.
Or how Bill one day, literally, said 'Oops, I was wrong about the Internet never taking off. About....FACE!
I remember the time that a Sun support engineer showed up in my data center, pulled out a Win95 laptop, and fired up HyperTerminal to talk to a Sun server.
But have you tried it recently? The protected mode parts have only been in for a few months...