Well, it is ten years old. Games age quickly and you'll never feel the magic we did when it was fresh and new and we'd never played anything quite like it before. Not to mention, the graphics actually looked cutting edge and we were used to the awkward controls back then. I wouldn't expect anyone to pick up Fallout, Diablo, Starcraft or Baldur's Gate and really feel the same magic as when they were revolutionary and new.
That said if you give Fallout some more time and patience everything will start to click. There are plenty of quests and all, but it is a game that takes a lot of trial and error and exploration to really get going. As far as save-and-redo, that's endemic of the RPGs of that time- again, you had to be there then.
Also, since you said you checked guides I'll give you one slight spoiler, which is that you shouldn't feel too pressured by the time limit.
Actually, I think I agree with the law. Let's say it was presented as an official message from the government or slipped into the legit news without a nod or a wink to let you know it's a joke. Being a Slashdot reader means you're probably a pretty media savvy male in your 20s-40s and used to cynical and absurd sarcasm as humor, so you're most likely register it as BS. But not everyone is, and it isn't necessarily a sign of stupidity.
The elderly, of course, fall for everything and would be an easy example, but how about someone from another culture who just recently got citizenship? Or, an American citizen who lives in an insular culture outside the mainstream (like the Hassidic or Polish in Brooklyn who rarely leave their enclaves) probably wouldn't get the joke. Would you know how to discern poker-faced sarcasm in a language you weren't quite fluent in? Especially if it was in an official sounding message in their somewhat alien media? Are they morans that don't deserve their vote 'cause they actually fell for one of Boomer and the Nudge's wacky tricks?
The media may survive and be theoretically readable, but nobody will be able to read it.
You kidding me? Look how many retro nerds are still programming Atari 2600 games and setting up C-64 LAN parties. Or how many of us have garages full of Apple 2s, Atari STs and Amigas. Classic computing fetishists will certainly still be around and preserving old systems in 25 years, and I guarantee you they'll be just praying for the day someone brings them a time capsule and actually gives them a reason to put that junk to use.
Besides that, USB is what, 10 years old now, and 3.0 is supposedly going to be backwards compatible to 1.1-- who's to say 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 won't be too? Blu Ray drives can read standard CDRs, etc., etc.
It won't be nearly as difficult as you say. Not in 25 years, not as long as, you know, civilization doesn't collapse or something. Now if we were talking about a hundred, 200 years-- maybe that would be a problem.
There were some grey market clones in the 80's. Some illegally duplicated official Mac ROMs and were quickly shut down. Others used actual ROMs from disassembled Macs in modified cases (like the Outbound) and were allowed to exist, obviously because you were basically buying a Mac computer at full price that was altered after market (like the touch screen "Modbooks" you can buy today.) I wouldn't even call those "clones" though.
There was a round of clones in the mid-90's that were officially licensed from Apple. Apple pulled the plug and they went away. No major lawsuits there, it was just business.
Neither situation has much to do with the Psystar case.
Just think of just the name "E for All"...it sounds so.....cheesy (for lack of a better term). (plus there's that dreaded drug reference in the name....not so good for the public image).
That's funny you got a drug reference. When I read "E for All" I assumed it was a reference to the "E" game rating (which I still assume is where they got the name), and thus the expo would be a focus on family oriented and kid friendly (and thus, crappy) games.
Kudos for him for speaking up rather than trying to abuse the situation.
Kudos indeed for bringing it to light to publicly shame them, but really, unless he had solid ties to the Russian mob how would he abuse the situation?
It's not like he found a bag of money lying in the street... Most folks wouldn't know what to do with this kind of database (or at least, how not to quickly get caught when exploiting it.)
Halo kiddies couldn't play them because they lack the necessary intelligence and attention span. They can only understand pretty colors and shiny objects that blow up. I've seen players complain that the RPGs of the late 90s are unplayable because they are so "archaic," because you need to read an instruction manual to play them and because the graphics are so outdated.
Today's Halo kiddies aren't that much different than the Street Fighter 2 or Tekken 3 players of the late 90's. Most of them just wanted to bash stuff and they didn't give a shit about games like Baldur's Gate or Fallout either. Why should they? Games to them are recreation, something you do with your friends to kill some time after school. American CRPGs on the other hand are an acquired taste for a narrow audience and I don't think less of anyone who doesn't enjoy them.
As far as Halo players lacking intelligence and attention span, I think that has more to do with the demographic playing (mostly teenage boys) than anything. Most teenage boys are morons and have always been morons. In the 50s they liked fast cars, stag films and movies about blowing up cowboys. Today it's Halo and internet porn. Be angry about it if you must, but have some perspective.
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Well, it is ten years old. Games age quickly and you'll never feel the magic we did when it was fresh and new and we'd never played anything quite like it before. Not to mention, the graphics actually looked cutting edge and we were used to the awkward controls back then. I wouldn't expect anyone to pick up Fallout, Diablo, Starcraft or Baldur's Gate and really feel the same magic as when they were revolutionary and new.
That said if you give Fallout some more time and patience everything will start to click. There are plenty of quests and all, but it is a game that takes a lot of trial and error and exploration to really get going. As far as save-and-redo, that's endemic of the RPGs of that time- again, you had to be there then.
Also, since you said you checked guides I'll give you one slight spoiler, which is that you shouldn't feel too pressured by the time limit.
Actually, I think I agree with the law. Let's say it was presented as an official message from the government or slipped into the legit news without a nod or a wink to let you know it's a joke. Being a Slashdot reader means you're probably a pretty media savvy male in your 20s-40s and used to cynical and absurd sarcasm as humor, so you're most likely register it as BS. But not everyone is, and it isn't necessarily a sign of stupidity.
The elderly, of course, fall for everything and would be an easy example, but how about someone from another culture who just recently got citizenship? Or, an American citizen who lives in an insular culture outside the mainstream (like the Hassidic or Polish in Brooklyn who rarely leave their enclaves) probably wouldn't get the joke. Would you know how to discern poker-faced sarcasm in a language you weren't quite fluent in? Especially if it was in an official sounding message in their somewhat alien media? Are they morans that don't deserve their vote 'cause they actually fell for one of Boomer and the Nudge's wacky tricks?
The media may survive and be theoretically readable, but nobody will be able to read it.
You kidding me? Look how many retro nerds are still programming Atari 2600 games and setting up C-64 LAN parties. Or how many of us have garages full of Apple 2s, Atari STs and Amigas. Classic computing fetishists will certainly still be around and preserving old systems in 25 years, and I guarantee you they'll be just praying for the day someone brings them a time capsule and actually gives them a reason to put that junk to use.
Besides that, USB is what, 10 years old now, and 3.0 is supposedly going to be backwards compatible to 1.1-- who's to say 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 won't be too? Blu Ray drives can read standard CDRs, etc., etc.
It won't be nearly as difficult as you say. Not in 25 years, not as long as, you know, civilization doesn't collapse or something. Now if we were talking about a hundred, 200 years-- maybe that would be a problem.
There were some grey market clones in the 80's. Some illegally duplicated official Mac ROMs and were quickly shut down. Others used actual ROMs from disassembled Macs in modified cases (like the Outbound) and were allowed to exist, obviously because you were basically buying a Mac computer at full price that was altered after market (like the touch screen "Modbooks" you can buy today.) I wouldn't even call those "clones" though.
There was a round of clones in the mid-90's that were officially licensed from Apple. Apple pulled the plug and they went away. No major lawsuits there, it was just business.
Neither situation has much to do with the Psystar case.
Just think of just the name "E for All"...it sounds so.....cheesy (for lack of a better term).
(plus there's that dreaded drug reference in the name....not so good for the public image).
That's funny you got a drug reference. When I read "E for All" I assumed it was a reference to the "E" game rating (which I still assume is where they got the name), and thus the expo would be a focus on family oriented and kid friendly (and thus, crappy) games.
Kudos for him for speaking up rather than trying to abuse the situation.
Kudos indeed for bringing it to light to publicly shame them, but really, unless he had solid ties to the Russian mob how would he abuse the situation?
It's not like he found a bag of money lying in the street... Most folks wouldn't know what to do with this kind of database (or at least, how not to quickly get caught when exploiting it.)
Halo kiddies couldn't play them because they lack the necessary intelligence and attention span. They can only understand pretty colors and shiny objects that blow up. I've seen players complain that the RPGs of the late 90s are unplayable because they are so "archaic," because you need to read an instruction manual to play them and because the graphics are so outdated.
Today's Halo kiddies aren't that much different than the Street Fighter 2 or Tekken 3 players of the late 90's. Most of them just wanted to bash stuff and they didn't give a shit about games like Baldur's Gate or Fallout either. Why should they? Games to them are recreation, something you do with your friends to kill some time after school. American CRPGs on the other hand are an acquired taste for a narrow audience and I don't think less of anyone who doesn't enjoy them.
As far as Halo players lacking intelligence and attention span, I think that has more to do with the demographic playing (mostly teenage boys) than anything. Most teenage boys are morons and have always been morons. In the 50s they liked fast cars, stag films and movies about blowing up cowboys. Today it's Halo and internet porn. Be angry about it if you must, but have some perspective.