Yeah, that's what I meant. I have no beef with Tactics (or TA), and I can't say anything about FF7:DC because I've never even seen it -- they're just not "mainline games". Neither is Crystal Chronicles. It's got some tie-ins, but the gameplay and universe aren't fundamentally FF. Besides, the title isn't spelled "Final Fantasy (roman numeral)". With X-2, though, it's more of a dig on the game itself than a purist argument:)
There's one game that really bit me, and that was Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast. Or rather Skies of Arcadia Legends for the GameCube, which was a fairly faithful port, with added material and only a couple glitches. I've played that game three times now. Even the last time I played, when I knew most everything there was to know about the game, it took me ~60 hours. And I still want to play through one more time and get the one treasure chest that I missed somewhere, that's keeping me from getting Vyse the Legend.;)
On the other hand, there's ICO, which I've played twice. Now I will never have a bad thing to say about that game, but it's so short. I think they advertised it as being a 12-hour game; I've played it twice, and on the second time through, I finished in 3 hours (my last save was at 2h30m, but there's about a half hour of gameplay after the last savepoint). That's amazingly short for a modern game. I had a theory, which was that they couldn't add any more material because they ran out of room on the CD (yes, this was one of the early PS2 games that were released on CDs) -- but that certainly wasn't it. The disc is only half-full, and 82MB of it is taken up by the intro movie.
How is it "like an expansion pack" when it doesn't have any gameplay features in common? It's an awful sequel, plain and simple. It takes a world that was actually fairly interesting in the original, and just strip-mines it for game material. It has annoying gameplay. It has lousy music, due to a near-complete lack of Uematsu. And the FMV director should be shot.
A Crystal Chronicles game is not "A Final Fantasy". Just as Tactics isn't, Dirge of Cerberus isn't, and if we try hard enough we should be able to get X-2 disowned as well.
Basically every gas station I've seen big enough to have more than, say, three pumps, had one pump with diesel fuel available. And what do you meant that the internet isn't "that blue thing"? I can see the icon right now. It says "The Internet".
... just the other day, which is: With all that history data available, why doesn't wikipedia have a "blame annotation" mode so I can see who last touched a given line of an article, and when?
I don't have numbers handy, but I've worked on a few apps of the "lots of parallelism, lots of IPC" variety. We did a bit of testing on one of the developers' machines with OSX. Seriously 5 to 10 times slower than Linux on the same hardware. There's definitely some real problems in that vicinity.
2001 has always been broken. Man, I don't know how people stand Kubrick at all. The book had me hooked from the beginning, and turning pages straight to the end, but the movie was agonizingly slow, had no sense of narrative, and on the whole just didn't make a bit of sense. There's something wrong with that picture. I thought books were supposed to be boring and incomprehensible, and movies were supposed to be shallow but action-packed;)
But your highlighting of "powered" armor reminded me of something that I wanted to share. When I first read Starship Troopers, I misread the first mention of powered armor as "powdered armor" -- you know, just add water. I thought it was an interesting concept, but I wasn't quite sure what the point was. Of course, I figured it out by the time they actually started using the stuff. Personally, though, I want one of Ringo's Armored Combat Suits.:)
There's no visual clue, but only when you stand in that one spot do you hear birds chirping very loudly. I'd say it's a bit of a clue, and you only have to be slightly creative to think "birds? Where do I find those? Up, usually."
I enjoy the fact that games are full of deep arcana, that if I find a game interesting enough to get me properly hooked, then I can play hours of content that other people don't even need to bother with. The one danger of this, though, is that if your extra power-gaming sidequests are going to have any cohesion at all, then they need to be backed by story. And if you write a game that has completely optional pieces of story, then there's the danger that you'll end up with a game that seems half-finished to people who don't play (or aren't aware of) the optional bits. Of relevance to the summary, Final Fantasy VI, VII, and X, while respectable stories in themselves, all contain "important" backstory within well-hidden sidequests. X has quite a bit of it, in fact.
I'm sorry, was that generated by MegaHAL? I couldn't find any string of more than three words at a time that made sense together, let alone any sort of coherent thought. Google doesn't have a clue what "Ordo-Policy" is supposed to mean. And the bits and pieces that I can gather from your argument seem to be in agreement with my point of view -- additional regulation isn't necessary to maintain what's already a natural state. So... where are squirrel and moose? Whoops, wrong question. Where's the point?
Just because the behavior isn't there now doesn't mean that we should put off neutrality legislation until it becomes a problem. The easiest solution to any problem is to fix it now before it becomes a problem.
No, it's not! The role of government is not to preemptively pass legislation against anything that might conceivably hurt someone. We have fair trade and "anti-trust" statutes on the books, with the ostensible purpose of preventing businesses from abusing monopoly powers to hurt their customers. We have a common law system in which, if someone performs some unjust action that injures you, you can be compensated for it. The notion that government should be there to protect you against any potential wrong by means of legislation is a very dangerous idea, and it's fostered by people who have their hands on some government power, and realize that they can gain even more power by expanding the scope of the government's responsibility.
Need more to work with? Okay, this is Slashdot. We complain a lot about the TSA, right? How they put forth these regulations that are not only inconvenient, but actually useless at achieving their stated goals, right? But they do it to give the appearance of solving a problem. That's what the hypothetical "net neutrality commission" would be doing. Creating and enforcing regulations on the actions of internet carriers. They won't be beneficial to the providers, because of course the burden of proof will be placed on them to show that they're not doing anything "wrong". And they won't be beneficial to customers either, first because the system will be easily manipulated (this is gubmint, remember?), and second because the providers will demand additional fees to cover their new responsibilities. In fact, it won't benefit anyone, besides the "only fit for government work" people who will get jobs out of it. But it will make a vocal minority happy and give the appearance of "getting something done". It will convince daeg that they're "fixing it now beore it becomes a problem".
And the "user is an idiot" mentality wins out again.
My point is that most people have a music collection, they have stuff ripped and downloaded, and they have a way of managing it. If they go out and buy an MP3 player, do you think they want a new, completely different program to take over their collection, take over ripping, convert everything to its own format, and make the decisions as to what goes on the player? Or do you think they want to just take their existing collection and copy whatever they want onto the player?
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Yeah, that's what I meant. I have no beef with Tactics (or TA), and I can't say anything about FF7:DC because I've never even seen it -- they're just not "mainline games". Neither is Crystal Chronicles. It's got some tie-ins, but the gameplay and universe aren't fundamentally FF. Besides, the title isn't spelled "Final Fantasy (roman numeral)". With X-2, though, it's more of a dig on the game itself than a purist argument :)
Just because you don't pronounce the 'n' in "dominant" doesn't mean that you're allowed to leave it out in writing.
On the other hand, there's ICO, which I've played twice. Now I will never have a bad thing to say about that game, but it's so short. I think they advertised it as being a 12-hour game; I've played it twice, and on the second time through, I finished in 3 hours (my last save was at 2h30m, but there's about a half hour of gameplay after the last savepoint). That's amazingly short for a modern game. I had a theory, which was that they couldn't add any more material because they ran out of room on the CD (yes, this was one of the early PS2 games that were released on CDs) -- but that certainly wasn't it. The disc is only half-full, and 82MB of it is taken up by the intro movie.
How is it "like an expansion pack" when it doesn't have any gameplay features in common? It's an awful sequel, plain and simple. It takes a world that was actually fairly interesting in the original, and just strip-mines it for game material. It has annoying gameplay. It has lousy music, due to a near-complete lack of Uematsu. And the FMV director should be shot.
A Crystal Chronicles game is not "A Final Fantasy". Just as Tactics isn't, Dirge of Cerberus isn't, and if we try hard enough we should be able to get X-2 disowned as well.
Ditto. S5 or Spork.
Now apply your amazing linguistic and analytical skills to "no-talent assclown" plz
Basically every gas station I've seen big enough to have more than, say, three pumps, had one pump with diesel fuel available. And what do you meant that the internet isn't "that blue thing"? I can see the icon right now. It says "The Internet".
... just the other day, which is: With all that history data available, why doesn't wikipedia have a "blame annotation" mode so I can see who last touched a given line of an article, and when?
The above post is dedicated to Bill "I'm a doctor" Frist.
"Will cost the consumer more" is blatantly obvious. "Bad for consumers"... well, that one takes a measure of common sense to realize :)
Under 300,000? Come on, what's that? Even I know that I don't have a low uid, and I post all the time :P
If you can't spell "per se" properly, then there's absolutely no chance that you understand it well enough to use it in writing.
I don't have numbers handy, but I've worked on a few apps of the "lots of parallelism, lots of IPC" variety. We did a bit of testing on one of the developers' machines with OSX. Seriously 5 to 10 times slower than Linux on the same hardware. There's definitely some real problems in that vicinity.
2001 has always been broken. Man, I don't know how people stand Kubrick at all. The book had me hooked from the beginning, and turning pages straight to the end, but the movie was agonizingly slow, had no sense of narrative, and on the whole just didn't make a bit of sense. There's something wrong with that picture. I thought books were supposed to be boring and incomprehensible, and movies were supposed to be shallow but action-packed ;)
But your highlighting of "powered" armor reminded me of something that I wanted to share. When I first read Starship Troopers, I misread the first mention of powered armor as "powdered armor" -- you know, just add water. I thought it was an interesting concept, but I wasn't quite sure what the point was. Of course, I figured it out by the time they actually started using the stuff. Personally, though, I want one of Ringo's Armored Combat Suits. :)
There's no visual clue, but only when you stand in that one spot do you hear birds chirping very loudly. I'd say it's a bit of a clue, and you only have to be slightly creative to think "birds? Where do I find those? Up, usually."
I think you don't understand the meaning of the phrase "lead time".
I enjoy the fact that games are full of deep arcana, that if I find a game interesting enough to get me properly hooked, then I can play hours of content that other people don't even need to bother with. The one danger of this, though, is that if your extra power-gaming sidequests are going to have any cohesion at all, then they need to be backed by story. And if you write a game that has completely optional pieces of story, then there's the danger that you'll end up with a game that seems half-finished to people who don't play (or aren't aware of) the optional bits. Of relevance to the summary, Final Fantasy VI, VII, and X, while respectable stories in themselves, all contain "important" backstory within well-hidden sidequests. X has quite a bit of it, in fact.
I'm sorry, was that generated by MegaHAL? I couldn't find any string of more than three words at a time that made sense together, let alone any sort of coherent thought. Google doesn't have a clue what "Ordo-Policy" is supposed to mean. And the bits and pieces that I can gather from your argument seem to be in agreement with my point of view -- additional regulation isn't necessary to maintain what's already a natural state. So... where are squirrel and moose? Whoops, wrong question. Where's the point?
We've already got Laser Keyboard
Just because the behavior isn't there now doesn't mean that we should put off neutrality legislation until it becomes a problem. The easiest solution to any problem is to fix it now before it becomes a problem.
No, it's not! The role of government is not to preemptively pass legislation against anything that might conceivably hurt someone. We have fair trade and "anti-trust" statutes on the books, with the ostensible purpose of preventing businesses from abusing monopoly powers to hurt their customers. We have a common law system in which, if someone performs some unjust action that injures you, you can be compensated for it. The notion that government should be there to protect you against any potential wrong by means of legislation is a very dangerous idea, and it's fostered by people who have their hands on some government power, and realize that they can gain even more power by expanding the scope of the government's responsibility.
Need more to work with? Okay, this is Slashdot. We complain a lot about the TSA, right? How they put forth these regulations that are not only inconvenient, but actually useless at achieving their stated goals, right? But they do it to give the appearance of solving a problem. That's what the hypothetical "net neutrality commission" would be doing. Creating and enforcing regulations on the actions of internet carriers. They won't be beneficial to the providers, because of course the burden of proof will be placed on them to show that they're not doing anything "wrong". And they won't be beneficial to customers either, first because the system will be easily manipulated (this is gubmint, remember?), and second because the providers will demand additional fees to cover their new responsibilities. In fact, it won't benefit anyone, besides the "only fit for government work" people who will get jobs out of it. But it will make a vocal minority happy and give the appearance of "getting something done". It will convince daeg that they're "fixing it now beore it becomes a problem".
Sound like a good deal?
Star Trek does have two cable channels.
Oh yes, because what everyone really wants is $3.98, or a coupon for $10 off a Dell branded MP3 player.
And the "user is an idiot" mentality wins out again.
My point is that most people have a music collection, they have stuff ripped and downloaded, and they have a way of managing it. If they go out and buy an MP3 player, do you think they want a new, completely different program to take over their collection, take over ripping, convert everything to its own format, and make the decisions as to what goes on the player? Or do you think they want to just take their existing collection and copy whatever they want onto the player?