Perhaps lessons of the past haven't born the changes in the industry that they ought to have. I'm looking at you, Atari 2600 Pacman and E.T. The Extraterrestrial!!!
When Gears of War 2 was announced shortly after I bought my 360, I was intrigued, but not "60$ on launch day" intrigued, but I saw a used copy of the first Gears game at a fraction of the price of a brand new one, so I thought, "why not?"
Well, I loved the game so much that I even shelled an extra 10$ for the Gears 2 collector's edition on launch day. I'd say that this was clear publisher benefit from the used games market!
Those interested in the depths of Thompson's madness should read up as well on his correspondance with Scott Ramsoonair of VGcats fame. It's even more bizarre and twisted than the Penny Arcade case.
You should never believe a lawyer who says on television that he will give you (or someone else) money if you can perform some task to which he defines the terms. Some years ago, Jack Thompson challenged gamers to create a violent videogame where a grizzled game designer goes on a bloody rampage across the office of "Take One" studios, an obvious rip on the name of Take Two who designed Thompson's nemesis, Grand Theft Auto. He stated he would give 10,000$ to charity if someone did... and when the challenge was taken and completed, he quickly backpedaled that he did not mean it and did not have to pay. Penny Arcade eventually donated the money, in his name, to a children's charity... and Thompson went to the police, claiming that Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins were criminally harassing him as a result of this donation. I swear I am not making this up.
How about spending the resources on busting pedophiles and exposing pedophile rings instead? Or was that too straightforward and precise?
"It's always slower to do things fast, more complicated to do things simple and more expensive to do things cheap." - Humphrey from Yes Minister, answering the minister on why government can't work more efficiently.
More like years and years of 6 o'clock news where the newscaster announces with a very face that "scientists have found a link between cancer and [whatever], where a group of people who [did][whatever] had a 5% higher incidence of cancer."
Yes. Mythbusters is perfect! Teach them to jump to conclusions based on extremely small data sets and horribly designed/non-existent control objects.
Just like real scientists who announce bizarre links between normal everyday activities and cancer based on 3% statistical deviations on a 100 person sample group! Sleeping on your stomach rather than on your back gives you cancer, scientists said so!
The game has three endings that are determined by if you rescue the little sisters or harvest them.
Technically, it only has two endings, considering that two of the endings have the same cutscene and voiceover, but that the tone of voice sounds disappointed in one (harvest some but not all of the little sisters) and angry in the other (harvest all of them)
Something tells me lolkidz would be a really popular website for cute pictures with funny captions. Until some politician hears the name of the website and sends the FBI to shut it down with extreme prejudice without actually checking what the site is about.
It probably would have been an interesting thing to see him get all upset and start yelling why won't you die damnit.
Knowing Edison's fiery temper, he probably did exactly that but the journalists at the time just kept that detail quiet through some diplomatic words on his part (i.e. threaten to have their newspapers fire the lot of them)
Is anyone else thinking that we may not have seen this early preview if it hadn't been for last week's announcement from Google of the upcoming Chrome OS, twisting Microsoft's arm into announcing something, anything at all?
Edison used to say that Tesla's newfangled alternating current was dangerous, unstable and just plain dirty electricity. I guess that's why a hundred years later, we don't use it anymo- oh wait.
I strongly recommend the pandimensional mice who had the earth ordered to the Magratheans. Their grasp on all things technological is unmatched, just don't let them talk you into selling them your brain - the replacement brain they'll try to push on you is a low-end model that can only say What? and Where's the tea?
The next step of Gates' plan: Regroup all his weather-altering devices into a single prototype named the Weather Dominator. Proudly go on the air while wearing his blue uniform and matching helmet with mirrored facemask and announce his global domination plans. COBRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I can see an application the military are probably working on already - instead of reflecting exact copies of specific detail, rather morph the fabric to take the general color of its surroundings, adapting itself as the soldier moves, providing a chameleon suit to ensure stealth movement. Solid Snake's suit comes to mind, here.
Back in the days where good graphics simply weren't an option, the games still managed to scare you out of your mind through compelling story elements. Some of the scariest moments I've played in a game were in Project Firestart... back on the C64!
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Perhaps lessons of the past haven't born the changes in the industry that they ought to have. I'm looking at you, Atari 2600 Pacman and E.T. The Extraterrestrial!!!
Back to savage beatings and waterboarding, I guess.
With Rad-Away ready for store shelves, Stimpacks, BuffOut and Jet are on the way to phase 3 trials.
Well, I loved the game so much that I even shelled an extra 10$ for the Gears 2 collector's edition on launch day. I'd say that this was clear publisher benefit from the used games market!
Those interested in the depths of Thompson's madness should read up as well on his correspondance with Scott Ramsoonair of VGcats fame. It's even more bizarre and twisted than the Penny Arcade case.
... how long before some hack turns this into an exploit for new self-installing viruses?
In Zimbabwean dollars, it wouldn't buy you a pre-chewed piece of Bazooka Joe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
You should never believe a lawyer who says on television that he will give you (or someone else) money if you can perform some task to which he defines the terms. Some years ago, Jack Thompson challenged gamers to create a violent videogame where a grizzled game designer goes on a bloody rampage across the office of "Take One" studios, an obvious rip on the name of Take Two who designed Thompson's nemesis, Grand Theft Auto. He stated he would give 10,000$ to charity if someone did... and when the challenge was taken and completed, he quickly backpedaled that he did not mean it and did not have to pay. Penny Arcade eventually donated the money, in his name, to a children's charity... and Thompson went to the police, claiming that Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins were criminally harassing him as a result of this donation. I swear I am not making this up.
"STOP. FARTING."
Only MC Double Def DP can save us now from those downloading with Hitler!
How about spending the resources on busting pedophiles and exposing pedophile rings instead? Or was that too straightforward and precise?
"It's always slower to do things fast, more complicated to do things simple and more expensive to do things cheap." - Humphrey from Yes Minister, answering the minister on why government can't work more efficiently.
More like years and years of 6 o'clock news where the newscaster announces with a very face that "scientists have found a link between cancer and [whatever], where a group of people who [did][whatever] had a 5% higher incidence of cancer."
Yes. Mythbusters is perfect! Teach them to jump to conclusions based on extremely small data sets and horribly designed/non-existent control objects.
Just like real scientists who announce bizarre links between normal everyday activities and cancer based on 3% statistical deviations on a 100 person sample group! Sleeping on your stomach rather than on your back gives you cancer, scientists said so!
The game has three endings that are determined by if you rescue the little sisters or harvest them.
Technically, it only has two endings, considering that two of the endings have the same cutscene and voiceover, but that the tone of voice sounds disappointed in one (harvest some but not all of the little sisters) and angry in the other (harvest all of them)
Something tells me lolkidz would be a really popular website for cute pictures with funny captions. Until some politician hears the name of the website and sends the FBI to shut it down with extreme prejudice without actually checking what the site is about.
It probably would have been an interesting thing to see him get all upset and start yelling why won't you die damnit.
Knowing Edison's fiery temper, he probably did exactly that but the journalists at the time just kept that detail quiet through some diplomatic words on his part (i.e. threaten to have their newspapers fire the lot of them)
Is anyone else thinking that we may not have seen this early preview if it hadn't been for last week's announcement from Google of the upcoming Chrome OS, twisting Microsoft's arm into announcing something, anything at all?
Edison used to say that Tesla's newfangled alternating current was dangerous, unstable and just plain dirty electricity. I guess that's why a hundred years later, we don't use it anymo- oh wait.
Could the usual trash talking often involved in sports and gaming be related to the same effect?
Isn't that discovery already demonstrated eloquently in bukake porn?
I strongly recommend the pandimensional mice who had the earth ordered to the Magratheans. Their grasp on all things technological is unmatched, just don't let them talk you into selling them your brain - the replacement brain they'll try to push on you is a low-end model that can only say What? and Where's the tea?
Just when I was going to patent my "process for delivering an online response to a website article post", judges start remembering the Bilski Test!
The next step of Gates' plan: Regroup all his weather-altering devices into a single prototype named the Weather Dominator. Proudly go on the air while wearing his blue uniform and matching helmet with mirrored facemask and announce his global domination plans. COBRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I can see an application the military are probably working on already - instead of reflecting exact copies of specific detail, rather morph the fabric to take the general color of its surroundings, adapting itself as the soldier moves, providing a chameleon suit to ensure stealth movement. Solid Snake's suit comes to mind, here.
Back in the days where good graphics simply weren't an option, the games still managed to scare you out of your mind through compelling story elements. Some of the scariest moments I've played in a game were in Project Firestart... back on the C64!