I watch CSI over Law & Order because I thought Law & Order was dry. The characters, the stories, the annoying dun dun every 5 min. CSI has better production values and more likable characters (infact I stopped watching when Grissom left because he was my favorite character). Yes, CSI does include murder but 99% of the time the show shows that no matter how depraved an act of violence is, no matter how gruesome a killing is, justice is served and the catch the bad guy. Maybe it is just me but CSI tries to show us that not all of law enforcement is not completely corrupt.
Terminator is about more then killing (machines). The series is nothing like the movies. The series asks questions like "what does it mean to be human" and "is it right to kill someone knowing they will create a machine that goes on to kill all humans".
Yes, the shows show murder and failure but it is the context. I'll agree that murder for murders sake is pointless and degrading (I'm looking at you Saw movies).
However, when a series uses murder, misery, and failure to tell a story (can a machine be human [BSG/T:SCC], perseverance in the face of incredible hardship [BSG]) or give hope that no evil deed goes unpunished [CSI] then it all becomes another tool for the writer/director much like romance, action, and drama are.
Well, I watch CSI for the mystery and who-done-it. I'm sure BSG falls into your 'depiction of misery and failure' because of all those miserable people cramped onto ships trying to find a new home constantly under threat from their failed creations.
There is plenty of good TV on. My favorite atm are Chuck and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Lost. All of which show more then "grisly murder" and "misery and failure" while being big budget.
Why? Because he might tell his kids about the dangers of hard drugs, or the dangers of going 100mph down the road, or keep his $100k sports car out of the hands of his children.
How is this Troll? Maybe off topic, but not troll.
Real-estate agents kept inflating the price of houses and telling people they could buy a way more expensive house then practical and thus bought about the depression we are in now. The girl's father likely destroyed dozens of family's lives because of his work practices.
True. If I pass by a commercial for a new show/movie/video game I'll rewind if it looked interesting, however there are so many trash commercials (no, I dont want term life insurance from the oxy clean guy) that I really dont miss much anyways.
Yes, and I have to download Dr. Who via PirateBay or wait 2 years for SyFy to catch up. Not to mention Anime which is harder to find on torrents with decent fan-subs so I have to start trolling IRC.
A lot of people think DVD is 'good enough' and will likely only buy BD if it is cheaper than DVD, which won't be for a few years.
That's what alot of 'older' (40+) people were saying at my work up till 4 months ago. One guy who does not even have cable got a HD-TV + Blu-ray player because of the digital switchover and was ecstatic about the increase in picture quality. Now 5 other engineers I work with all have HD-TV + Blu-ray and dont know how they watched TV without it.
Yes, but as someone else stated above, the average home user will not need XP mode because they just surf the web, e-mail, use iPods so the vast majority of home users will not need XP mode.
The inclusion of XPVM has assured that I will upgrade to Win7 (baring any major driver problems like with Vista). Any games that need to be ran in XP instead of Vista/7 will not need the full power of my computer, and any games that need the full power of my computer will be able to run in Vista/7. For me, this is a win/win and after 8 years with XP I am finally getting tired with it.
I only have one question. Will the XPVM run in 32-bit mode or will you have the option of 32/64-bit.
This makes the big media companies lots of profit through repurchase of DVD's (due to loss or damage) and people repurchasing the same movie in new formats (vhs&dvd, now dvd&blu-ray&a whole variety of DRM'ed formats over the internet, UMD, etc).
Ok, I am sick of this. Any Blu-ray player will play DVD movies and do a decent job of up-converting them. You do not have to buy Blu-ray disc to use a Blu-ray player. All these people bitching about "having to buy all their movies all over again" are just stupid.
On my GTX285 I can get Crysis running at maxed DX9 settings with 4xAA at ~30-40 FPS (which is more then playable to me). I dont know what the bottle neck is that is preventing me from hitting 60FPS at 8xAA.
From Wiki: "It is a nonsectarian advocacy group which seeks to monitor mass media for content that it deems is harmful to children and families." Define "harmful to children and families" and I might let this one slide.
"The 2005 MediaWise Video Game Report Card criticized the Entertainment Software Rating Board's system of rating video games for age-appropriate conduct in its annual series of report cards, noting the scarcity of "Adults-Only" rated games and citing the perceived inadequacy in retailer enforcement." They forget to mention that AO games would not be sold in stores by any major retailer. If a game can not be sold then it will not be made.
"In 2005 the NIMF made the controversial claim that the video game industry was promoting cannibalism after analyzing stills and video clips from a zombie-themed game titled Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse." How is playing a zombie and doing zombie things like eating humans promoting cannibalism?
I'm sure I could find more if I tried. Also TFS states: ""The author is repurposing questions used to assess problem gambling in adults; however, lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.""
Oblivion was more FPS then Fallout 3 because you did not have the turn-based rpg combat in Oblivion, you just swung your sword randomly and sometimes blocked. I dont know about you, but I never got tired of blowing a super-mutant's head off in slow-mo. I did get tired of Oblivion's swing 2 times and block once combat by about level 10.
NO! Pirates do not deserve to be able to patch the game. They got it ILLEGALLY. I dont want to get into if pirating *should* illegal but untill it is not, then pirates have no right to bitch. The single player of Demigod was fully functional, you only run into proublems playing online, and playing online with a pirated game is just stupid.
Frankly, I pirated Assassin's Creed. It was buggy as hell but I figured I had no reason to complain cause I got it for free and there could have been proublems with the crack. A few days later I went out and bought a actual copy and started posting on the forums for help and I got it solved.
Stardock and GPG will be releasing a demo in the next month or so. They did not want to spend dev time on makeing a demo before the game was released so they could focus all effort on the actual game.
If you really want the demo then get the torrent and you will have the single player part. The 'real' game is multiplayer.
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I watch CSI over Law & Order because I thought Law & Order was dry. The characters, the stories, the annoying dun dun every 5 min. CSI has better production values and more likable characters (infact I stopped watching when Grissom left because he was my favorite character). Yes, CSI does include murder but 99% of the time the show shows that no matter how depraved an act of violence is, no matter how gruesome a killing is, justice is served and the catch the bad guy. Maybe it is just me but CSI tries to show us that not all of law enforcement is not completely corrupt.
Terminator is about more then killing (machines). The series is nothing like the movies. The series asks questions like "what does it mean to be human" and "is it right to kill someone knowing they will create a machine that goes on to kill all humans".
Yes, the shows show murder and failure but it is the context. I'll agree that murder for murders sake is pointless and degrading (I'm looking at you Saw movies).
However, when a series uses murder, misery, and failure to tell a story (can a machine be human [BSG/T:SCC], perseverance in the face of incredible hardship [BSG]) or give hope that no evil deed goes unpunished [CSI] then it all becomes another tool for the writer/director much like romance, action, and drama are.
Well, I watch CSI for the mystery and who-done-it. I'm sure BSG falls into your 'depiction of misery and failure' because of all those miserable people cramped onto ships trying to find a new home constantly under threat from their failed creations.
There is plenty of good TV on. My favorite atm are Chuck and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Lost. All of which show more then "grisly murder" and "misery and failure" while being big budget.
Why? Because he might tell his kids about the dangers of hard drugs, or the dangers of going 100mph down the road, or keep his $100k sports car out of the hands of his children.
How is this Troll? Maybe off topic, but not troll.
Real-estate agents kept inflating the price of houses and telling people they could buy a way more expensive house then practical and thus bought about the depression we are in now. The girl's father likely destroyed dozens of family's lives because of his work practices.
True. If I pass by a commercial for a new show/movie/video game I'll rewind if it looked interesting, however there are so many trash commercials (no, I dont want term life insurance from the oxy clean guy) that I really dont miss much anyways.
Yes, and I have to download Dr. Who via PirateBay or wait 2 years for SyFy to catch up. Not to mention Anime which is harder to find on torrents with decent fan-subs so I have to start trolling IRC.
Must be nice that you can pause for a few hours. My pause stops after about 10min.
A lot of people think DVD is 'good enough' and will likely only buy BD if it is cheaper than DVD, which won't be for a few years.
That's what alot of 'older' (40+) people were saying at my work up till 4 months ago. One guy who does not even have cable got a HD-TV + Blu-ray player because of the digital switchover and was ecstatic about the increase in picture quality. Now 5 other engineers I work with all have HD-TV + Blu-ray and dont know how they watched TV without it.
For HD, seeing really is believing.
Yes, but as someone else stated above, the average home user will not need XP mode because they just surf the web, e-mail, use iPods so the vast majority of home users will not need XP mode.
The inclusion of XPVM has assured that I will upgrade to Win7 (baring any major driver problems like with Vista). Any games that need to be ran in XP instead of Vista/7 will not need the full power of my computer, and any games that need the full power of my computer will be able to run in Vista/7. For me, this is a win/win and after 8 years with XP I am finally getting tired with it.
I only have one question. Will the XPVM run in 32-bit mode or will you have the option of 32/64-bit.
This makes the big media companies lots of profit through repurchase of DVD's (due to loss or damage) and people repurchasing the same movie in new formats (vhs&dvd, now dvd&blu-ray&a whole variety of DRM'ed formats over the internet, UMD, etc).
Ok, I am sick of this. Any Blu-ray player will play DVD movies and do a decent job of up-converting them. You do not have to buy Blu-ray disc to use a Blu-ray player. All these people bitching about "having to buy all their movies all over again" are just stupid.
On my GTX285 I can get Crysis running at maxed DX9 settings with 4xAA at ~30-40 FPS (which is more then playable to me). I dont know what the bottle neck is that is preventing me from hitting 60FPS at 8xAA.
Exactly. I'm at work with no video games. What do I do to fill the void? Slashdot.
From Wiki:
"It is a nonsectarian advocacy group which seeks to monitor mass media for content that it deems is harmful to children and families."
Define "harmful to children and families" and I might let this one slide.
"The 2005 MediaWise Video Game Report Card criticized the Entertainment Software Rating Board's system of rating video games for age-appropriate conduct in its annual series of report cards, noting the scarcity of "Adults-Only" rated games and citing the perceived inadequacy in retailer enforcement."
They forget to mention that AO games would not be sold in stores by any major retailer. If a game can not be sold then it will not be made.
"In 2005 the NIMF made the controversial claim that the video game industry was promoting cannibalism after analyzing stills and video clips from a zombie-themed game titled Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse."
How is playing a zombie and doing zombie things like eating humans promoting cannibalism?
I'm sure I could find more if I tried. Also TFS states:
""The author is repurposing questions used to assess problem gambling in adults; however, lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.""
Fine. /sarcasm_off
I fail spelling of the wordz.
I am not all hip on proper /. syntax.
Thank you Draek. It is true I did not RTFA but at least I did RTFS.
"The study, conducted by Douglas Gentile, director of the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University, "
Ya, that is a totally impartial source when it comes to video games.
Husband income + wife income = family income. Even if wife income > husband income, greater husband income = greater family income.
At least then they would be thinking of the children.
Oblivion was more FPS then Fallout 3 because you did not have the turn-based rpg combat in Oblivion, you just swung your sword randomly and sometimes blocked. I dont know about you, but I never got tired of blowing a super-mutant's head off in slow-mo. I did get tired of Oblivion's swing 2 times and block once combat by about level 10.
NO! Pirates do not deserve to be able to patch the game. They got it ILLEGALLY. I dont want to get into if pirating *should* illegal but untill it is not, then pirates have no right to bitch. The single player of Demigod was fully functional, you only run into proublems playing online, and playing online with a pirated game is just stupid.
Frankly, I pirated Assassin's Creed. It was buggy as hell but I figured I had no reason to complain cause I got it for free and there could have been proublems with the crack. A few days later I went out and bought a actual copy and started posting on the forums for help and I got it solved.
Did you ever thing that only customers should get patches because they paid the money the publisher is using to make the patches.
Maybe the Devs want to get the actual game done and get good reviews before working on a demo that may or may not improve sales.
Also, there is no way for Stardock to tell the difference between a pirated copy and a UNPATCHED Retail copy.
Stardock and GPG will be releasing a demo in the next month or so. They did not want to spend dev time on makeing a demo before the game was released so they could focus all effort on the actual game.
If you really want the demo then get the torrent and you will have the single player part. The 'real' game is multiplayer.