Not necessarily anything to do with open source. If you made 3D renders for a living and suddenly saw a website using them without having permission from you, how would you feel?
The feeling is mutual. Square-Enix still releases good games here and there (though it's become a bit more hit and miss), so I'll always be expecting something decent. Go have fun.:)
I don't really think the games are bad, just that I don't like them much. For several reasons, most of them arguably small, but they matter to me. And note that I couldn't get much further than about 3 hours into either of them.
First off is the visual style. III's is fine, IV's makes me look up weird. I tried getting used to it but the tiny bodies are just... well, weird. I'm sure this has been a complaint with other people.
Next up, very important, is the language. Everybody speaks as if they were in a Shakespeare play. They talk in written language, and worst of all, they even do this during parts that have voice acting. This really hurts the characters' credibility. I'm not sure if this keeps up with new characters later on in the games, but then again I only played them for so long. Plus, they made the same mistake in FF1/2 for GBA.
Then comes the timing. I love how FFIII has this FFIX-style battle system, but it has a few flaws... most notably how excruciatingly long the battles take because of awkward pauses at the start and end of the battle and between each turn. It really doesn't flow well solely because of that, and it makes the experience more tedious in my opinion.
Then there's the fact that I didn't like the characters or story progression in III. It felt awkward and unnatural, at least for the part that I played.
And finally, nostalgia. I played and enjoyed FFIV a long time ago and so many "good old things" stuck in my head that are now gone or not done enough justice. I really miss Namingway, for example!:P
I can definitely see that Square-Enix has been trying hard with these games, but they should have focused on making a few new games instead of a remake that I'm sure alienates at least a few other nostalgic fans. In contrast, the Chrono Trigger DS port is extremely good, and that's not a remake (just like FFV and FFVI for the GBA, which are also pretty good still).
That doesn't make it a bad sample subject. It makes it one where you can clearly indicate what could be the cause of better sales, moreso than, say, DRM-infested games.
Square/Enix did a great job in the remakes of Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV.
If you ask me, that's really up to opinion. Personally I hated especially what they did with III, even if they tried to take care to make it good neither game really is like the original.
8 Slashdot tabs open, Chrome is taking up near 0% CPU. That goes up when I scroll on the page, but that goes for all pages. Not sure what's wrong with your system or browser, but it sounds like a browser bug more than/.'s new design.
No, but we don't exactly need it. Also, I guess almost all other software ever has a Y2000 mindset for not using an element that might not even be appropriate for its purpose.
Does news really have to be asked in the form of a question? What's the point? If you have the answer, don't ask things. It makes people skeptical about the whole article.
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Luring users into thinking this is a cracked version of Autodesk 3D Max is not free to use? Might want to proofread the text, there... ;)
Not necessarily anything to do with open source. If you made 3D renders for a living and suddenly saw a website using them without having permission from you, how would you feel?
Rupees and hearts, you mean.
Replacing a BIOS battery isn't exactly difficult, though. Unless the internals can't be reached?
Who's Noone?
Sorry, it's not tangible enough.
The feeling is mutual. Square-Enix still releases good games here and there (though it's become a bit more hit and miss), so I'll always be expecting something decent. Go have fun. :)
I don't really think the games are bad, just that I don't like them much. For several reasons, most of them arguably small, but they matter to me. And note that I couldn't get much further than about 3 hours into either of them.
First off is the visual style. III's is fine, IV's makes me look up weird. I tried getting used to it but the tiny bodies are just... well, weird. I'm sure this has been a complaint with other people.
Next up, very important, is the language. Everybody speaks as if they were in a Shakespeare play. They talk in written language, and worst of all, they even do this during parts that have voice acting. This really hurts the characters' credibility. I'm not sure if this keeps up with new characters later on in the games, but then again I only played them for so long. Plus, they made the same mistake in FF1/2 for GBA.
Then comes the timing. I love how FFIII has this FFIX-style battle system, but it has a few flaws... most notably how excruciatingly long the battles take because of awkward pauses at the start and end of the battle and between each turn. It really doesn't flow well solely because of that, and it makes the experience more tedious in my opinion.
Then there's the fact that I didn't like the characters or story progression in III. It felt awkward and unnatural, at least for the part that I played.
And finally, nostalgia. I played and enjoyed FFIV a long time ago and so many "good old things" stuck in my head that are now gone or not done enough justice. I really miss Namingway, for example! :P
I can definitely see that Square-Enix has been trying hard with these games, but they should have focused on making a few new games instead of a remake that I'm sure alienates at least a few other nostalgic fans. In contrast, the Chrono Trigger DS port is extremely good, and that's not a remake (just like FFV and FFVI for the GBA, which are also pretty good still).
I would, but they just released Ghost Trick, which is ace. Still, I can actually play that game any time I want, connection or no.
That doesn't make it a bad sample subject. It makes it one where you can clearly indicate what could be the cause of better sales, moreso than, say, DRM-infested games.
Square/Enix did a great job in the remakes of Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV.
If you ask me, that's really up to opinion. Personally I hated especially what they did with III, even if they tried to take care to make it good neither game really is like the original.
8 Slashdot tabs open, Chrome is taking up near 0% CPU. That goes up when I scroll on the page, but that goes for all pages. Not sure what's wrong with your system or browser, but it sounds like a browser bug more than /.'s new design.
Steam has been using WebKit since a few months now, and more applications are following the trend. (Not MSN Messenger though, of course.)
Blip.tv has a HTML5 player (and it automatically activated for me). Problem is... the video didn't want to play in it.
Since 2009?! Impressive!
Okay, granted, the internet and all its usage and spam grow like crazy, even in the span of 2 years.
Maybe Oracle sees open source as the enemy because they don't get it. It seems like a corporate structure of the worst kind.
No, but we don't exactly need it. Also, I guess almost all other software ever has a Y2000 mindset for not using an element that might not even be appropriate for its purpose.
Doc file compatibility has never failed me, and that keeps being true in LibreOffice.
I like how you were rated Redundant for that, like people are "well, duh".
Trolls are out to provoke people, not post "first".
Not if they look depressed, it won't. Then they'll have a PSP.
Does news really have to be asked in the form of a question? What's the point? If you have the answer, don't ask things. It makes people skeptical about the whole article.
If Chrome ever becomes "something else", the open-source community will fork it in time anyway. Just look at LibreOffice.
At least it'd initially be lightweight if they did that.
The big part of the JS execution speed battle was yesterday. HTML5 is the now. Or something.