Hey you so called (politically) conservative geeks - here's a pretty blatant attempt by Fox news to pass of an industry slug as a journalist. Now think about Fox news doing that with the Israel/Palestine issue, covering any American Democrat, or any other international affair.
In short, wake up - Fox "news" is feeding you B.S.
A year ago I would have said this was complete flamebait. But after coming to Japan, I can somewhat see this guy's point: here in Japan many people (most, even) browse the net via cellphones. The phones themselves have big, sharp screens so as to be able to display kanji. And while games on phones are widespread, console caliber games (granted old consoles) are beginning to come out (the high end DoCoMo phones have Nippon Ichi and Square Enix games that look amazing).
But I seriously doubt the PC is going the way of the dinosaur. There is a value in having some kind of box (even in a lapop, which is as small as I think a normal PC will normally get - any smaller brings in different issues). You'll never be able to play the latest and greatest game on a cellphone or webTV and (while I don't understand it) there will always be people who want PC style games over consoles.
Plus, the feeling of a computer, even a laptop, docked in one area is far different from that of a cellphone or a TV in a common room.
Japanese consumers aren't stupid, they know the machine's coming out everywhere else before Japan. It's going to look like MS snubbing the country. They're not going to like it and the 360 is going to suffer from a draught of good Japanese games, I think (the titles reported to be in development is the bare minimum it needs and I doubt even those titles are going to buoy the machine too much in Japan).
For a long time, RNA has lived in the shadow of its more famous chemical cousin DNA
What is this? Maybe during the OJ Simpson trial, but for anyone that's taken an intro bio course, that's bunk. RNA is a huge part of the entire thing...there are organisms that rely on RNA as their primary genetic material.
Once again, Slashdot, if you're going to post science news, have someone as an editor that knows some basic science!
But I'm not the one that is dismissing it: the game industry is. This launch is proof of that in and of itself; how much later than the U.S. and Japanese releases is it? Is this a normal course of release for consoles in Europe (the answer is yes). While there might be a great market, economically and creatively, game developers don't seem to care.
I hate to say it and I'm honestly not trying to sound like a troll, but Europe is a drop in the bucket compared to North America and Japan, both in terms of units sold and game creation (I know, I know, there are some talented European outfits, some of them make some great games, but they're hardly more than blips, if even that, outside of Europe).
As long as the DS dominates in Japan (which it is), Nintendo isn't worried and Sony is climbing uphill.
What's up with Slashdot's science news these days? You guys are reporting the obvious as if it was late breaking news (ozone, parasites that control hosts, now this).
The way these creatures are depicted can no longer be considered scientifically accurate
Dinosaurs have been depicted as bird-like for at least the last 20 years. Even since the 90s, Jurassic Park (the original anyway) tapped noted palentologists to give the dinosaurs what was then a contemporary view of them - fast, warm blooded, very bird like. Many contemporary depictions of dinosaurs have them behaving in a birdlike manner or looking like birds (to the point of having rudimentary or even full fledged feathers).
Sounds like a good way for people to hassle me when I'm with my iBook at Starbucks, not a credible threat.
I wish these rabble rousing journalists would look themselves in the mirror and realize that instead of helping the American public they are just making life harder for hard-working American immigrants. Looking for a good way to alienate American Muslims in the same way the Londoners bombers were? This seems like a good way.
Linus himself started a company that sold no-DRM OGG Vorbis songs for a penny a piece and you got a free blowjob from Natalie Portman with every 10 purchased tracks.
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Nintendogs. Yes yes, I know. It's a huge hit in Japan. Does anybody honestly believe that that type of success can succeed in this (NA) market?
Who cares? As long as Japanese games keep coming out, I'm fine. I'm a snob, I know, but honestly, if American game makers fell off the face of the Earth tomorrow, I'd lament the loss of Retro studios and go about playing Fire Emblem. Even with an ailing Japanese economy, for cultural and economic reasons, Japanese game developers care about a Japanese audience.
More rationally, the yen that line Nintendo's coffers from titles like Pokemon and Nintendogs go into the same bankrolls that release Zelda and Mario here.
Furthermore, you don't seem to know crap about Nintendogs. Almost every import review of the game (certainly everyone I read) says the game is amazing. Famitsu gave it a great score and that means something.
Financially Nintendo is doing fine and that's the important thing. As long as Nintendo makes enough money, it's fine.
To some degree I agree with your assesement of the DS; there isn't any must have software yet. But the new Kirby game is deep and certainly as the spirit of the Kirby titles (and I say this having bought the original Kirby game for the original Gameboy). That, an acruement of Mario Club points, and the special edition DSes in Japan are putting me off buying one until the end of the year in Japan.
I have a 'Cube and PS2. While I love the PS2 games I have, I probably have 3 times as many games for the Nintendo machine as I do the PS2 (and the PS2 games are either from Square, Nippon Ichi, or Namco's Katamari Damashii). The 'Cube gets far more play. I'm playing through RE4 for the second time, my brother for the fourth. There's enough compelling software on the 'Cube to keep me busy - I don't see the need for more titles that I can't buy (I still have to go and pick up titles like the original Prince of Persia).
I don't say this as a blind Nintendo fan: I'm thinking about a PSP (12, LOTR: Tactics, and the Gundam S-RPG are sounding good), but, as previous articles have mentioned, the DS is the new PS2 of Japan. As more and more Japanese money goes into the DS, more cool stuff is going to come out. Nintendo is doing fine. They are the Apple of consoles and the DS is threatening to be a killer machine.
(For the record, I'm a libertarian. I do support the criminalization of abortion. I don't think that government should sponsor stem cell research. Euthanasia is a complex topic, but I don't have any sweeping objection.)
I understand you're joking and I agree with your sentiments (yay for sex!), but considering everything, Rockstar deserves to be held responsible and it will suck for people who actually play games if there ends up being a Janet Jackson style backlash.
It's not a mod in the sense that it's still content created by rockstar and left on the CD.
A mod, in the fullest sense of the term, would be like a nudie patch, created by users for DoA or Tomb Raider. It's a user created a modification. Wheras, you need to mod GTA to access Rockstar's content. Semantics, perhaps, but I think it's the line between what Rockstar can be held accountable for and what is out of its control.
I've been playing games since I was a babe and since the days of the original NES you could use things like Gamesharks to access content that was supposed to be hidden away (not to mention the stuff you can do these days). Leaving it on the CD was asking for trouble: people take these things apart.
It would be one thing if some fan made all of this , but the only user created part is the way to access it: the content is still from Rockstar.
I for one have dated a couple virgin nerds and subsequently deflowered them. I found that once they got over their issues, they were quite spectacular in bed. Non-nerds can't compete in that arena, IMHO.
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Nearly everyone I know who owns a GTA game is under the age of 15 - whether you want to blame that on bad parenting, bad legislation, or whatever, it's there and I believe Rockstar and the games' publisher encourage it.
I'm 21 and haven't found much value in the series...
Am I the only one mad at Rockstar? Everyone here seems to be blasting Yee (and yes, he is a douchebag), but Rockstar constantly pushes the limits (on what I think are crappy games, but I guess some people find a value in them). They really have to play by the rules, because they're playing so close to the edge it was stupid and rather negligent (not in the legal sense) to leave the game on there.
Rockstar does crap like this and it makes it harder to get a good game that uses violence to enhances the gameplay (Resident Evil 4, for example). Take their upcoming game on school bullies for example - it's going to make it harder to put out good-but-violent games.
Whether or not Rockstar targets young kids to buy this games is up for debate (I think they do) but the fact remains that they left the content on the game and anything like that is supposed to be submitted to the ESRB. As gamers we should be admonishing Rockstar too.
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sorry wilted stalk still clenched in his fist
I bet he did!!
Hey you so called (politically) conservative geeks - here's a pretty blatant attempt by Fox news to pass of an industry slug as a journalist. Now think about Fox news doing that with the Israel/Palestine issue, covering any American Democrat, or any other international affair.
In short, wake up - Fox "news" is feeding you B.S.
A typo on Slashdot? Unheard of!
A year ago I would have said this was complete flamebait. But after coming to Japan, I can somewhat see this guy's point: here in Japan many people (most, even) browse the net via cellphones. The phones themselves have big, sharp screens so as to be able to display kanji. And while games on phones are widespread, console caliber games (granted old consoles) are beginning to come out (the high end DoCoMo phones have Nippon Ichi and Square Enix games that look amazing).
But I seriously doubt the PC is going the way of the dinosaur. There is a value in having some kind of box (even in a lapop, which is as small as I think a normal PC will normally get - any smaller brings in different issues). You'll never be able to play the latest and greatest game on a cellphone or webTV and (while I don't understand it) there will always be people who want PC style games over consoles.
Plus, the feeling of a computer, even a laptop, docked in one area is far different from that of a cellphone or a TV in a common room.
It is interesting.
Japanese consumers aren't stupid, they know the machine's coming out everywhere else before Japan. It's going to look like MS snubbing the country. They're not going to like it and the 360 is going to suffer from a draught of good Japanese games, I think (the titles reported to be in development is the bare minimum it needs and I doubt even those titles are going to buoy the machine too much in Japan).
Do you not think that most middle easterners would not try to retaliate?
:P
NO! Iranians = Persians. Most of the Middle East = Arabs. They don't like each other. Hence the Iran/Iraq war. And the Sunni/Shia fights in Iraq now.
They might all look brown, but that's not how they see it
For a long time, RNA has lived in the shadow of its more famous chemical cousin DNA
What is this? Maybe during the OJ Simpson trial, but for anyone that's taken an intro bio course, that's bunk. RNA is a huge part of the entire thing...there are organisms that rely on RNA as their primary genetic material.
Once again, Slashdot, if you're going to post science news, have someone as an editor that knows some basic science!
But I'm not the one that is dismissing it: the game industry is. This launch is proof of that in and of itself; how much later than the U.S. and Japanese releases is it? Is this a normal course of release for consoles in Europe (the answer is yes). While there might be a great market, economically and creatively, game developers don't seem to care.
If Europe mattered.
I hate to say it and I'm honestly not trying to sound like a troll, but Europe is a drop in the bucket compared to North America and Japan, both in terms of units sold and game creation (I know, I know, there are some talented European outfits, some of them make some great games, but they're hardly more than blips, if even that, outside of Europe).
As long as the DS dominates in Japan (which it is), Nintendo isn't worried and Sony is climbing uphill.
What's up with Slashdot's science news these days? You guys are reporting the obvious as if it was late breaking news (ozone, parasites that control hosts, now this).
The way these creatures are depicted can no longer be considered scientifically accurate
Dinosaurs have been depicted as bird-like for at least the last 20 years. Even since the 90s, Jurassic Park (the original anyway) tapped noted palentologists to give the dinosaurs what was then a contemporary view of them - fast, warm blooded, very bird like. Many contemporary depictions of dinosaurs have them behaving in a birdlike manner or looking like birds (to the point of having rudimentary or even full fledged feathers).
Sounds like a good way for people to hassle me when I'm with my iBook at Starbucks, not a credible threat.
I wish these rabble rousing journalists would look themselves in the mirror and realize that instead of helping the American public they are just making life harder for hard-working American immigrants. Looking for a good way to alienate American Muslims in the same way the Londoners bombers were? This seems like a good way.
Uh, Dragon Quest VIIII was the biggest game in Japan this year.
Mori Mori is coming out for the DS. In the last year DQ has gotten more emphasis than Final Fantasy.
No, but I hear they're good with fish.
A lot of games use cutscenes to load content, especially on the Gamecube. Metroid Prime (1 & 2) and Resident Evil 4 come to mind immediately.
That's Duketastic!
Linus himself started a company that sold no-DRM OGG Vorbis songs for a penny a piece and you got a free blowjob from Natalie Portman with every 10 purchased tracks.
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Nintendogs. Yes yes, I know. It's a huge hit in Japan. Does anybody honestly believe that that type of success can succeed in this (NA) market?
Who cares? As long as Japanese games keep coming out, I'm fine. I'm a snob, I know, but honestly, if American game makers fell off the face of the Earth tomorrow, I'd lament the loss of Retro studios and go about playing Fire Emblem. Even with an ailing Japanese economy, for cultural and economic reasons, Japanese game developers care about a Japanese audience.
More rationally, the yen that line Nintendo's coffers from titles like Pokemon and Nintendogs go into the same bankrolls that release Zelda and Mario here.
Furthermore, you don't seem to know crap about Nintendogs. Almost every import review of the game (certainly everyone I read) says the game is amazing. Famitsu gave it a great score and that means something.
Financially Nintendo is doing fine and that's the important thing. As long as Nintendo makes enough money, it's fine.
To some degree I agree with your assesement of the DS; there isn't any must have software yet. But the new Kirby game is deep and certainly as the spirit of the Kirby titles (and I say this having bought the original Kirby game for the original Gameboy). That, an acruement of Mario Club points, and the special edition DSes in Japan are putting me off buying one until the end of the year in Japan.
I have a 'Cube and PS2. While I love the PS2 games I have, I probably have 3 times as many games for the Nintendo machine as I do the PS2 (and the PS2 games are either from Square, Nippon Ichi, or Namco's Katamari Damashii). The 'Cube gets far more play. I'm playing through RE4 for the second time, my brother for the fourth. There's enough compelling software on the 'Cube to keep me busy - I don't see the need for more titles that I can't buy (I still have to go and pick up titles like the original Prince of Persia).
I don't say this as a blind Nintendo fan: I'm thinking about a PSP (12, LOTR: Tactics, and the Gundam S-RPG are sounding good), but, as previous articles have mentioned, the DS is the new PS2 of Japan. As more and more Japanese money goes into the DS, more cool stuff is going to come out. Nintendo is doing fine. They are the Apple of consoles and the DS is threatening to be a killer machine.
(For the record, I'm a libertarian. I do support the criminalization of abortion. I don't think that government should sponsor stem cell research. Euthanasia is a complex topic, but I don't have any sweeping objection.)
So, basically you're a Republican?
A bot taking another IT related job! Where will it end?
I understand you're joking and I agree with your sentiments (yay for sex!), but considering everything, Rockstar deserves to be held responsible and it will suck for people who actually play games if there ends up being a Janet Jackson style backlash.
It's not a mod in the sense that it's still content created by rockstar and left on the CD.
A mod, in the fullest sense of the term, would be like a nudie patch, created by users for DoA or Tomb Raider. It's a user created a modification. Wheras, you need to mod GTA to access Rockstar's content. Semantics, perhaps, but I think it's the line between what Rockstar can be held accountable for and what is out of its control.
I've been playing games since I was a babe and since the days of the original NES you could use things like Gamesharks to access content that was supposed to be hidden away (not to mention the stuff you can do these days). Leaving it on the CD was asking for trouble: people take these things apart.
It would be one thing if some fan made all of this , but the only user created part is the way to access it: the content is still from Rockstar.
I for one have dated a couple virgin nerds and subsequently deflowered them. I found that once they got over their issues, they were quite spectacular in bed. Non-nerds can't compete in that arena, IMHO.
Obligatory Futurama quote:
Bender: "C'mon, it's just like making love! Y'know...Left, down...Rotate 62 degrees...Engage rotor..."
Nearly everyone I know who owns a GTA game is under the age of 15 - whether you want to blame that on bad parenting, bad legislation, or whatever, it's there and I believe Rockstar and the games' publisher encourage it.
I'm 21 and haven't found much value in the series...
Am I the only one mad at Rockstar? Everyone here seems to be blasting Yee (and yes, he is a douchebag), but Rockstar constantly pushes the limits (on what I think are crappy games, but I guess some people find a value in them). They really have to play by the rules, because they're playing so close to the edge it was stupid and rather negligent (not in the legal sense) to leave the game on there.
Rockstar does crap like this and it makes it harder to get a good game that uses violence to enhances the gameplay (Resident Evil 4, for example). Take their upcoming game on school bullies for example - it's going to make it harder to put out good-but-violent games.
Whether or not Rockstar targets young kids to buy this games is up for debate (I think they do) but the fact remains that they left the content on the game and anything like that is supposed to be submitted to the ESRB. As gamers we should be admonishing Rockstar too.