Games within games have been around for a while. Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion 2) let you play the original Manic Mansion inside it. The Dig had a little PDA that had Moon Lander on it. Shenmue included an 80s arcade with a couple of sega machines. Zork Zero had quite a few games, but they were integrated into the story. Autoduel had a casino where you could gamble away your money (or cheat for a fortune).
One could argue that achievement points on the XBox 360 essentially cause all XBox 360 games to have included mini-games. Though some (Dead Rising) do it better than others (Tomb Raider: Legend).
Well, we get into a complex area, here -- one that this drug will no doubt make much clearer as it becomes clinically available.
I agree that some children fear heights. Neither of mine did, however.
That depends on the age of the children. Infants (6-18 months) will gleefully crawl off of heights not because they aren't afraid, but because their underdeveloped eyes and visual reasoning can't see the depth of the fall. After that, if you have a kid who dives off of heights you should feel proud, scared, and may want to consider gymnastics classes so they'll at least know how to fall correctly.:-)
Sure you have that right and more power to you, but not in a court of law when you are swearing that you are telling the truth and implying that the oath you are swearing on the Bible is actually meaningful to you.
Essentially you're saying it's ok for you to lie and that we shouldn't judge you for it.
Even if you played them today, you likely wouldn't feel the same sense of wonder players did back then, because you've seen more complex games before. It'd still be great from a historian's perspective, but it will not elicit the same emotions.
And that is why sales of Wii virtual console games are dead in the water.
I don't normally respond so offtopic, but man if you think the original 'Star Trek' had quality writing then you need to expand your horizons a little. Perhaps some 'Babylon 5'? How about TNG? If you want something contemporary with 'Star Trek' then 'The Prisoner' should do nicely.
I'm just boggled that you praise Star Trek as quality but bash Tron. They are quite similar in both style and content.
Programmers that code well will, programmers that don't won't. If a programmer can't recognize the best tool for the job, why should we do it for him/her? Other programmers that do recognize the best tool for the job (be it Linux, Windows, OS X, BeOS, Atheos, or whatever) will fill the void they leave behind.
You'll never get a mortgage without a credit history.
With a very short credit history (e.g. a couple months when you realize you need a mortgage but don't have the credit for one) you'll be paying an hojillion more dollars in interest than someone with comparable financial background who does have a credit history.
Like it or not, your ability to get any real loan is directly tied to a three digit number attached to your name/ss#. That three digit number (FICO score) is a voodoo function mixing your: history of payments (bills, tuition, even blockbuster late fees), debt to income ratio, total debt, number of debt sources (e.g. 2 credit cards is better than 15), and at least a few hundred other factors and number fudging. Without any of the factor uses to calculate your credit score, you have no credit score which is worse than having a bad credit score.
I truly believe inventors or true innovators are not made but born. Anyone can learn to do something but only people with a knack or talent will do it well.
Beliefs like that lead one down the road of mediocrity.
...people playing chess end the game in a more contemplative mood (one for instance rarely sees the winner jumping up and down and cheering, or the loser kicking against stuff).
You, sir, have obviously never seen young siblings play chess.
Babylon 5 used traditional static style space shots. (No losing focus, "bad" framing, etc.)
Firefly did indeed invent the style of handheld camera space shots. You may be interest to know that Zoic Studios did the effects work for Firefly before moving on to do the work for the new BSG. In fact, in the pilot episode of BSG you can see a Firefly class ship flying outside the hospital when Roslin is being told she has breast cancer.
Perhaps that's because you haven't seen it. It's not just a little clearer and sharper, it's *much* clearer and sharper.
Anecdote: my wife and I watched most of 'Children of Men' on our Xbox HD-DVD player. It crapped out in the last ten minutes of the film and we flipped it to the DVD side so we could at least see the ending. The difference was amazing (in a bad way). It was like we were watching the video on youtube. Details that had previously been so clear and defined were lost in a muddy mess. Bleh.
I'll make a comparison for you. Take your computer screen. (I'll assume you are running 1024x768.) Now set it to 640x480 (probably the lowest supported resolution). Now scale all the icons and text and windows so that everything is proportional to the 1024x768 screen. What do you think of that image? Easy to read? Good detail? The layout is the same, the icons and text and window positioning are the same, but the resolution has dropped dramatically. There's the difference.
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Games within games have been around for a while. Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion 2) let you play the original Manic Mansion inside it. The Dig had a little PDA that had Moon Lander on it. Shenmue included an 80s arcade with a couple of sega machines. Zork Zero had quite a few games, but they were integrated into the story. Autoduel had a casino where you could gamble away your money (or cheat for a fortune).
One could argue that achievement points on the XBox 360 essentially cause all XBox 360 games to have included mini-games. Though some (Dead Rising) do it better than others (Tomb Raider: Legend).
Well, we get into a complex area, here -- one that this drug will no doubt make much clearer as it becomes clinically available.
:-)
I agree that some children fear heights. Neither of mine did, however.
That depends on the age of the children. Infants (6-18 months) will gleefully crawl off of heights not because they aren't afraid, but because their underdeveloped eyes and visual reasoning can't see the depth of the fall. After that, if you have a kid who dives off of heights you should feel proud, scared, and may want to consider gymnastics classes so they'll at least know how to fall correctly.
Sure you have that right and more power to you, but not in a court of law when you are swearing that you are telling the truth and implying that the oath you are swearing on the Bible is actually meaningful to you.
Essentially you're saying it's ok for you to lie and that we shouldn't judge you for it.
Even if you played them today, you likely wouldn't feel the same sense of wonder players did back then, because you've seen more complex games before. It'd still be great from a historian's perspective, but it will not elicit the same emotions.
And that is why sales of Wii virtual console games are dead in the water.
Thanks, now I have the Tron theme in my head. Synthesize me an orchestra!
Do dee do dee dooo do do (da da da da da da)
Good writers does not guarantee good writing. Don't judge by the name, judge by the writing.
George RR Martin wrote (is writing) 'A Song of Ice and Fire' yes, but he also wrote 'Dying of the Light'
Orson Scott Card wrote 'Ender's Game', but he also wrote 'Folk of the Fringe'
Etc.
I don't normally respond so offtopic, but man if you think the original 'Star Trek' had quality writing then you need to expand your horizons a little. Perhaps some 'Babylon 5'? How about TNG? If you want something contemporary with 'Star Trek' then 'The Prisoner' should do nicely.
I'm just boggled that you praise Star Trek as quality but bash Tron. They are quite similar in both style and content.
What, like Casshern?
Programmers that code well will, programmers that don't won't. If a programmer can't recognize the best tool for the job, why should we do it for him/her? Other programmers that do recognize the best tool for the job (be it Linux, Windows, OS X, BeOS, Atheos, or whatever) will fill the void they leave behind.
As a former mortgage loan officer:
You'll never get a mortgage without a credit history.
With a very short credit history (e.g. a couple months when you realize you need a mortgage but don't have the credit for one) you'll be paying an hojillion more dollars in interest than someone with comparable financial background who does have a credit history.
Like it or not, your ability to get any real loan is directly tied to a three digit number attached to your name/ss#. That three digit number (FICO score) is a voodoo function mixing your: history of payments (bills, tuition, even blockbuster late fees), debt to income ratio, total debt, number of debt sources (e.g. 2 credit cards is better than 15), and at least a few hundred other factors and number fudging. Without any of the factor uses to calculate your credit score, you have no credit score which is worse than having a bad credit score.
Heh, no. I'm talking about the Links Browser which is (as GP noted) a terminal based www browser.
Links? Now there's a newcomer to the scene. Its first release was in 1999, the same year 'The Matrix' was in theaters!
HTML itself is a newcomer to the scene. What, you don't remember using Archie or Veronica to browse around? Noob.
Explain how 3rd party support requires 3rd party popularity.
Are you suggesting that the 3rd party games are restricted/hindered compared to the 1st party games?
Should Nintendo go back in time and make crappy games so that 3rd party games will "dominate the top 5" in their classic game store?
WTF?
LaTeX is for the lazy, real TeXnicians use TeX itself and code their own formatting macros.
That doesn't make any sense. Is the WiFi attacking the web surfers?
Sometimes, that's exactly where one should go!
...people playing chess end the game in a more contemplative mood (one for instance rarely sees the winner jumping up and down and cheering, or the loser kicking against stuff).
You, sir, have obviously never seen young siblings play chess.
Then why scratch the diamond at all? Just hit the links, eh?
And Kevin Smith movies. Mallrats + commentary is a really funny movie.
Babylon 5 used traditional static style space shots. (No losing focus, "bad" framing, etc.)
Firefly did indeed invent the style of handheld camera space shots. You may be interest to know that Zoic Studios did the effects work for Firefly before moving on to do the work for the new BSG. In fact, in the pilot episode of BSG you can see a Firefly class ship flying outside the hospital when Roslin is being told she has breast cancer.
Wow. I'm glad that you didn't have any influence on the creation of 'Serenity'. And please keep your 'we' to yourself.
I cant see the picture getting THAT much sharper
Perhaps that's because you haven't seen it. It's not just a little clearer and sharper, it's *much* clearer and sharper.
Anecdote: my wife and I watched most of 'Children of Men' on our Xbox HD-DVD player. It crapped out in the last ten minutes of the film and we flipped it to the DVD side so we could at least see the ending. The difference was amazing (in a bad way). It was like we were watching the video on youtube. Details that had previously been so clear and defined were lost in a muddy mess. Bleh.
I'll make a comparison for you. Take your computer screen. (I'll assume you are running 1024x768.) Now set it to 640x480 (probably the lowest supported resolution). Now scale all the icons and text and windows so that everything is proportional to the 1024x768 screen. What do you think of that image? Easy to read? Good detail? The layout is the same, the icons and text and window positioning are the same, but the resolution has dropped dramatically. There's the difference.
No firmware upgrade, but the Roomba Discovery does that already.
Why did you buy ports of the XBox 360 games for the PS3 when you, as you stipulate, could have bought them on a PC?
Is it because playing some games on a console is more fun? If so, then what is the difference between a PS3 and an XBox 360 again?
Of course the PS3 will be around in ten years, it'll just be two hardware cycles behind the PS5.
My HDTV will only accept a 1080p signal from a HDMI connection. But that's what I get for buying a Sony.