In an interview with the Onion AV Club in 1999, you said that you and Jim Mallon had had creative differences over how MST3K was to develop. You also said in a press release when you left that you didn't want to be a movie star. Why was there interest in turning MST3K into a movie when it was a successful TV series? If The Movie wasn't to be made would you still have left the series when you did? Jim Mallon has been painted by some fans as one of the reasons why you left the series, is there any validity to this?
And whatever happened to Statical Planets? MSTies have wondered about it for over a decade.
Oh, and I've always wondered: did Microsoft seek your approval for the name Xbox for this gaming console (after your TV pilot), or was it a coincidence?
Can't wait to see what Cinematic Titanic is going to be like. Really happy to see more projects from the great Joel Hodgson.;)
I wonder why there is such a push to move into IP6. I mean sure, IP4 will eventually run out, but thanks to NAT, I don't think this is as much of a problem as it was a decade ago.
I like the privacy IP4 allows, and I'm not in favor of changing over to the new scheme, even if IP4 does cause some headaches.
As I've never owned an Xbox (too much like a PC for me and no interesting games), I've always wondered what the deal with Halo was. I mean, it's not the first FPS, not even the first one on the consoles. Is it just from kids who are too young/haven't played real PC shooters, or was because MS made a concerted effort to push Halo as a "story" driven FPS?
A FPS on a console is not my bag. Even Gears of War, as fun as it is, would be that much better with a keyboard and mouse. Maybe on the Wii they will be something less sucktastic, but so far no one's done a FPS right on a console.
"How does FF7 even get mentioned, when Chronotrigger doesn't?"
Because FF7 was the first FF to be mainstream, and for the kids who are gamers now, FF7 was the first one they played. They won't play the older games because they're 2D, they're automatically inferior. Shallow, uninformed and uneducated gamers are the sole reason a mediocre game such as FF7 is remembered as this end-all-be-all of RPGs.
This is what is concerning me. As someone who's had their primary email address through hell.com for years, this concerns me greatly. Especially since they were still selling lifetime accounts until earlier this month.
As someone who remembers when they claimed to stop logging (which was an indication that hey, maybe loging conversations was a good idea), I could only hope that such an archive both exists and makes it way public. I'd love to have access to logs that were stored long ago on a hard drive far, far away. As someone who has whole CDs full of logs, it'd be great (to those who used the service back then) to have access to this kind of great historical crap. Then again, it's also kinda scary and dementedly evil. Pros, cons.
As with so many other posters, I feel it is dependent on the player what they find disturbing versus scary.
Example: Alone in the Dark 1/2 and the original Resident Evil had (for me) some scary moments. Silent Hill 2 (which I never finished) and System Shock 2 disturbed me.
Scare as in horror is fleeting. Sure, you'll remember the dogs leaping suddenly from the windows in RE1, but it was a brief fleeting moment. Where as the whole premise and executition of Silent Hill 2 was just disturbing. The idea and it's delivery was disturbing.
The original X-COM: UFO Defense had a number of both scary and disturbing moments in it for me. The scares came in the battlescape, hunting down the last few Sectoids or Mutons or (god help you) Cryssalids, watching as they emerge from the corner of the one building you didn't throughly check. The disturbing part was after the mission was over, returning to base and knowing that things are only getting worse...that these were the good days.
I've often found small bits and pieces from games to be disturbing rather than the whole game itself. Example: In Chrono Trigger, there's a point in 2300 AD where you're inside the Keeper's Dome, with Balthazar and a Nu (with, might I add, the creepy "Keeper's Dome" music playing). You do what you have to do, and then you go talk to the Nu. It says "This creature sleeps beyond the flow of time", which still to this day disturbs the hell out of me. Now if CT as a whole disturbing? No, far from it.
Over doing it is one thing, but splashing enough of it in there to keep things lively is great.
And, for the record, as a huuge film dork...I think Donnie Darko (released in '01) is the greatest American film since Pulp Fiction (in '94). It was intelligent, funny, scary, suspenseful, uplifting, depressing and just such a good movie. Go out now and get both versions (the theatrical and the "It all makes sense!" director's cut) and just accept the greatness that is Donnie Darko.
That's such shit. Dune 2 pioneered (if not outright created) the RTS genre. You can't accept the first popular game in the genre, you have to go back to the roots.
The Survival Horror genre is like that. Most people think it was created with the original Resident Evil, but it's not the case. Alone in the Dark (and it's two sequels) created the genre. So while most people were calling SH games post-RE1 "Resident Evil clones" (and they were in some respects right), when really they were all Alone in the Dark clones.
Ha ha. We are not told who to vote for, there are just more Americans that support the right than the left. This country is more than the vocal fringe elements on the coasts.
They should consider getting David Hayter to adapt the game's script to a screen play. He did a fantastic job on the first two X-Men movies, and more importantly he is the voice of friggin' Solid Snake. I can't think of a better choice considering his unique and talented background.
I think the reason why Linux/OSX have a lack of spyware/malware is due to a lack of market share. Linux is the next most popular OS after Windows true, but even then we're still talking about a tiny fraction of the overall installed userbase. It's like asking how much pee is in the ocean; it's the next largest amount next to water..but still a tiny fraction of the whole.
I was eagerly awaiting the release of X-COM Alliance back in '99-2000. It was a FPS with some squad controls set in the X-COM universe and running on the original Unreal engine. Several friends and I were really excited about this game, being both FPS and X-COM fans.
I also remember reading a little about X-COM: Genesis before it was cancelled. It was a remake of the original X-COM: UFO Defense that was being worked on at the same time Alliance was. And then Hasbro decided X-COM wasn't a brand worth reviving and quitely cancelled both projects. What a burn.
And what did we get out of the deal? UFO Aftermath. Weeeeeak.
Way back in the day, there was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that had an invention similar to this. They called it "Virtual Comedy". This idea (even down to the hecklers) is right out of this episode of MST3K. Life imitating art (imitating life).
I fully support the realization of MST3K ideas into the real world. Now someone come up with talking robots out of spare parts and I'll be happy.
PS: As someone who has always wanted be a standup comedian, but never that good at writing my own material this is a really cool idea. If it means I can get up and receite my memorized George Carlin bits infront of a crowd, man. I have no problem being a cover artist.
This is a huge problem, not only in Texas, but most states. Dick Morris, former Clinton staffer, highlights this point in his book "Off with their heads". This is being done not just by Republicans, but Democrats as well. Texas, Mississppi, California, New York, New Jersey, the list sadly goes on.
I believe it's Utah Mr. Morris highlights in his book as the model of redistricting. They have an independent body that is agreed to only in number of participants by the parties, and they use strict interperatation of the numbers to adjust the districts accordingly.
Both parties should share the blame on this issue, just as it's a problem in more states than Texas.
Ah, this is lovely. My very first Slashdot argument. No, strike that..I got into some political argument once. No matter.
Nintendo hype machine? No, not quite. Here's the deal: Nintendo DOESN'T have your best interest at heart. They're in it solely for the money, just like everybody else.
I'll pause to let this sink in.
Ok, still with me? Good. Nintendo and every other company's purpose for existing is to make money. In order for them to do this they must compete with each other over what the market demands. So far Nintendo has, by reasoning of the sales figures available elsewhere in this root thread, met what demands the market has put in place. Thus they make money because they supplied what was and is in demand.
Economy 101 over. Business 101.
Do you really think any company has the consumer's best interest at heart? If you do you obviously haven't been in the management of any form of business. They don't care if you're happy, they just want your money. 'Cause they know that sooner or later you'll buy from them again, even if you're unhappy with some of their product. This isn't just the Big N, this is everybody in every industry on the planet. Trick them, mislead them, hype them, bullshit them..whatever it takes to make the most money. End of story.
Now that we've cleared this up...on a personal note let me say that it seems your criticism at Nintendo is knee-jerk at best. Consoles have been online (out of the box online, not Xband or Sega Channel) since what..when PSO came out for the DC in 2000? The Cube came out in November of '02, so it's been out for barely three of those four years on console multiplayer. Let's consider this.
Sony has a game-per-game policy. If you want your game to have multiplayer support, it's your deal. This puts the burdon on the game developer from infrastructure to the billing system. If it's a pay-for-play multiplayer (FFXII, EQ, etc) the developer has to be damn sure if it's gonne be profitable, due to cost and expense of development and maintance.
Microsoft...Microsoft puts a massive backbone system in place and charges a monthly fee for that, putting the burdon on them. We have no idea if Xbox Live is losing or making money since Microsoft has enough money to pour into whatever project it wants to. This allows MS to do whatever because they can fund anything for long enough until they get it right.
Nintendo has obviously opted to sit and study how things go down for Sony and Billy G before doing anything, since we all know that Nintendo abhores failure (the Virtua Boy was Gameboy's retarded cousin who "went away" and the N64 was the crazy aunt in the living room that everyone pretended to care about but quickly dismissed when she died). They want to get it right, out of the box..which is a feat in and of itself. But as a company it's their right to do so, just as it is your right as a consumer to support (with your dollars) which ever company sounds more attractive to you.
Your complaints, based on the sales of the system, seem to be that of a minority. And perhaps by the time you reach a majority Nintendo will have things in order and release something perfect and flawless, given their company attitude towards their hardware. (And before you ask, yes I am still holding faith for Duke Nukem Forever).
PS: I don't consider myself loyal to any brand or medium, but as a bare fact you have to admit that a console..any console..is in no danger of over throwing the PC as the multiplayer system of choice. You know how they say "never say never"? Well I'm saying never.;)
1: (No DVD) I purchased my Grandmother an $80 DVD player from X-Mas 2001. So no, they weren't still hundereds of dollar early adoptor priced units. Granted it was a very simple player, but it was a DVD player nonetheless. My PS2 barely reads it's own games, and it's DVD reading abilities are a joke. The "It's a Game Machine" was a retort to Sony's "The PS2 will be the only media device you'll ever need" hype.
2: (Disc Format) Well yeah, Nintendo's always been weird about piracy. But I'd rather them have a secure product and slightly watered down ports than street corner PS2 bootleggers. And besides, ports are always best played on the original system they were released for.
3: (No Online). Who friggin' cares. If you like your Xbox thing, good for you. God knows that real multiplayer games have been and will ever be on the PC. Nintendo has had many firsts (analog control stick, analog buttons, force feedback, etc), so letting MS or Sony fuck up a few times in their multiplayer design process is only a thing in their favor. Besides, a good portion of us still can't get broadband...which means NO ONLINE CONSOLE FOR YOU!/end Soup Nazi
4: (GBA Connectivity) Oh shut up. You don't like it, don't fuckin' buy it. While I think it's retarded I certainly don't fault the Big N for making their products compatable.
5: (Pokemon) What does this have to do with the Cube, tard? But since we're here...what is this, 1998? You're honestly bitching about Pokemon? How quaint. Since you've never noticed apparently...Nintendo has ALWAYS released two "colors" of their latest Pokemon game (going all the way back to Red and Blue). Nothing new here, end of gripe.
So yeah. And here's a random fact for ya. A small company in Florida had the name Xbox, and MS reached a settlement with them for the name. Joel Hodgson (creator of the legendary MST3K developed a pilot for HBO called the TV Wheel, but originally it was called the X-box (and as such, was sold as the "X-Box Production Video" a long long long long time ago. I got it on DVD, if anyone wants a copy.
An old PC game, I remember on the game CD it had a hidden wav file that was a folk song about the game. Hysterical stuff. Sierra's "Lords of the Realm" had something similar....but Deadlock's was just amusing. "If I ever get back home again that recruiter's gonnna die...."
As far as guilty pleasures...I was excited and played Majestic right when it was released. And what went from "really cool idea" ended up being "talk to AiM bots and watch a RealVideo clip".
And I still play the original X-COM. Often.
But personally the biggest form of guilt pleasure I get is reading stuff online where people harp on FF7. Just because so many people started playing the Final Fantasy games at 7, they think it's the best. Silly fools./FF 4 rocks
Definately want MGS3: Snake Eater and MGS: Twin Snakes. MGS1's story with the MGS2 engine and "reinvisionment"? I danced for joy everytime I see a video or screenie from Twin Snakes.
Doom 3, Half-Life 2, yadda yadda. Yes I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. Oh, and the sequel to GTA: Vice City. More 80s bubbbly goodness. Call of Cthulu looks cool..if it'll ever come out. Maybe Tribes 3 if the non-Dynamix crowd doesn't hose it.
But I don't know. 2003 was pretty lean on the games department, and '04 isn't shaping up to be much better. Oh well...here's to Hideo!
I would figure, given the nature of PC Games to be little more than slap-dash buggy pieces of doodoo for the last few years that more of you/.ers would support 3DR and their quest to make an awesome game.
Too much hype for this game you say? Well that's hard to believe...especially since 3D Realms hasn't publically said anything about it since 2001. This isn't Daikatana with full page ads in PC Gamer...or Derek Smart posting to every messageboard/IRC channel. This isn't even publisher funded (otherwise I'm sure they would have forced 3DR to release years ago). 3DR is spending all of their own cash (yes kids, Duke Nukem is a profitable franchise!) to make what they hope to be a kick-ass game. So if it bombs it's on no one's head but their own.
Duke3D was released in 1996, and the work on DNF started late 1998. Yeah they've switched engines and yeah according to Georgie B (check the 3drealms.com forums, to lazy to link) by their own accord DNF is "very late". But as another poster said..no game before or since has had the attitude and atmosphere that Duke3D did (even if they borrowed a lot of the Dukeisms from the Evil Dead flicks).
Duke (3D and the franchise itself) has made a LOT of money..aside from the money Duke3D made for the PC version..there were console versions..then console exclusive games..not to mention the action figures, statues, et al. So this isn't like reviving a dead franchise. When DNF is released chances are it will sell many copies...if not only from the "Holy Shit it's done!" factor..but it's Duke Nukem. As one of the mascots of PC gaming everybody knows who Duke is...or they've atleast heard of him.
Plus console ports, expansions, etc....yeah, it'll end up in the black.
People (and by people I mean the gaming press and gamers alike) are pissed 'cause 3DR won't release screenshots every third day or suck PC Gamers dick to get a cover story or what have you. So they want the title to fail even though no one's seen the game since 2001. To me this is a sign that 3DR actually...*gasp!* gives a rat's ass about the quality of their game and they want the best piece of code possible, and they don't want to spoil all the neat things for the audience by releasing movies and daily screen shots. For this 3DR should be commended, not condemned.
Alls I want to know is..when it's finally released and all is said and done...how much will production have run? I gotta figure it's atleast $30 million by now. But I'll gladly pay my $50 to see what it's like.
I gots a PS2, a Cube and networked computers, and my ex didn't play many real games (Snood shouldn't count) but she loved Smash Brothers. Was pretty good with Zelda, but really shone as Shiek. Samus still ruled the day, however.
I agree with most people...having Link to the Past (the original, not the GBA port with all it's weird changes) would have perfectly rounded out this collection. But shitfire, Zelda 1? The glory that is the original Legend of Zelda, with saves again (the battery in my cart died years ago)? I already own a GameCube, but I desperately want this disc, if nothing else but to have another version of the original Zelda.
Shit, this will be the first time a whole new crop of gamers will see the joys and wonder of Zelda 1. No emulated crap, the real honest to goodness game. On their TVs, freaky Cube controller in hand. Yeah Nintendo, why not release an original bricklike NES controller with this, so we can remember life before egronomics. Points to the Big N. Massive points.
Your ignorance is showing, first poster. If you knew anything about Alabama as a state you would instantly know that the Redstone Rocket, the Saturn V, and lots of other space technologies came out of Huntsville, AL. Ever heard of Dr. Werner Von Braun? Lived and worked right here in Alabama. NASA, the Space and Rocket Center, Space Camp...all that crap is here. Yes, in AlaFuckingBama.
I hate Alabama because I've lived here all my life. You people assume that just because we're in the South we're backwards morons. While this is in part true (but no more than any other state)..this kind of blind regionalism is no more right when making fun of a southerner than it is making fun of a New Yorker or a D.C. native, or an Eskimo.
And no I do not have a southern accent. I don't understand it either.
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Hi Joel!
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In an interview with the Onion AV Club in 1999, you said that you and Jim Mallon had had creative differences over how MST3K was to develop. You also said in a press release when you left that you didn't want to be a movie star. Why was there interest in turning MST3K into a movie when it was a successful TV series? If The Movie wasn't to be made would you still have left the series when you did? Jim Mallon has been painted by some fans as one of the reasons why you left the series, is there any validity to this?
And whatever happened to Statical Planets? MSTies have wondered about it for over a decade.
Oh, and I've always wondered: did Microsoft seek your approval for the name Xbox for this gaming console (after your TV pilot), or was it a coincidence?
Can't wait to see what Cinematic Titanic is going to be like. Really happy to see more projects from the great Joel Hodgson.
I wonder why there is such a push to move into IP6. I mean sure, IP4 will eventually run out, but thanks to NAT, I don't think this is as much of a problem as it was a decade ago.
I like the privacy IP4 allows, and I'm not in favor of changing over to the new scheme, even if IP4 does cause some headaches.
As I've never owned an Xbox (too much like a PC for me and no interesting games), I've always wondered what the deal with Halo was. I mean, it's not the first FPS, not even the first one on the consoles. Is it just from kids who are too young/haven't played real PC shooters, or was because MS made a concerted effort to push Halo as a "story" driven FPS?
A FPS on a console is not my bag. Even Gears of War, as fun as it is, would be that much better with a keyboard and mouse. Maybe on the Wii they will be something less sucktastic, but so far no one's done a FPS right on a console.
And yes, that includes Halo and Goldeneye.
"How does FF7 even get mentioned, when Chronotrigger doesn't?"
Because FF7 was the first FF to be mainstream, and for the kids who are gamers now, FF7 was the first one they played. They won't play the older games because they're 2D, they're automatically inferior. Shallow, uninformed and uneducated gamers are the sole reason a mediocre game such as FF7 is remembered as this end-all-be-all of RPGs.
This is what is concerning me. As someone who's had their primary email address through hell.com for years, this concerns me greatly. Especially since they were still selling lifetime accounts until earlier this month.
As someone who remembers when they claimed to stop logging (which was an indication that hey, maybe loging conversations was a good idea), I could only hope that such an archive both exists and makes it way public. I'd love to have access to logs that were stored long ago on a hard drive far, far away. As someone who has whole CDs full of logs, it'd be great (to those who used the service back then) to have access to this kind of great historical crap. Then again, it's also kinda scary and dementedly evil. Pros, cons.
As with so many other posters, I feel it is dependent on the player what they find disturbing versus scary.
Example: Alone in the Dark 1/2 and the original Resident Evil had (for me) some scary moments. Silent Hill 2 (which I never finished) and System Shock 2 disturbed me.
Scare as in horror is fleeting. Sure, you'll remember the dogs leaping suddenly from the windows in RE1, but it was a brief fleeting moment. Where as the whole premise and executition of Silent Hill 2 was just disturbing. The idea and it's delivery was disturbing.
The original X-COM: UFO Defense had a number of both scary and disturbing moments in it for me. The scares came in the battlescape, hunting down the last few Sectoids or Mutons or (god help you) Cryssalids, watching as they emerge from the corner of the one building you didn't throughly check. The disturbing part was after the mission was over, returning to base and knowing that things are only getting worse...that these were the good days.
I've often found small bits and pieces from games to be disturbing rather than the whole game itself. Example: In Chrono Trigger, there's a point in 2300 AD where you're inside the Keeper's Dome, with Balthazar and a Nu (with, might I add, the creepy "Keeper's Dome" music playing). You do what you have to do, and then you go talk to the Nu. It says "This creature sleeps beyond the flow of time", which still to this day disturbs the hell out of me. Now if CT as a whole disturbing? No, far from it.
Over doing it is one thing, but splashing enough of it in there to keep things lively is great.
And, for the record, as a huuge film dork...I think Donnie Darko (released in '01) is the greatest American film since Pulp Fiction (in '94). It was intelligent, funny, scary, suspenseful, uplifting, depressing and just such a good movie. Go out now and get both versions (the theatrical and the "It all makes sense!" director's cut) and just accept the greatness that is Donnie Darko.
That's such shit. Dune 2 pioneered (if not outright created) the RTS genre. You can't accept the first popular game in the genre, you have to go back to the roots.
The Survival Horror genre is like that. Most people think it was created with the original Resident Evil, but it's not the case. Alone in the Dark (and it's two sequels) created the genre. So while most people were calling SH games post-RE1 "Resident Evil clones" (and they were in some respects right), when really they were all Alone in the Dark clones.
Wait, did I just reply to an AC? Damnit!
Ha ha. We are not told who to vote for, there are just more Americans that support the right than the left. This country is more than the vocal fringe elements on the coasts.
They should consider getting David Hayter to adapt the game's script to a screen play. He did a fantastic job on the first two X-Men movies, and more importantly he is the voice of friggin' Solid Snake. I can't think of a better choice considering his unique and talented background.
I think the reason why Linux/OSX have a lack of spyware/malware is due to a lack of market share. Linux is the next most popular OS after Windows true, but even then we're still talking about a tiny fraction of the overall installed userbase. It's like asking how much pee is in the ocean; it's the next largest amount next to water..but still a tiny fraction of the whole.
I was eagerly awaiting the release of X-COM Alliance back in '99-2000. It was a FPS with some squad controls set in the X-COM universe and running on the original Unreal engine. Several friends and I were really excited about this game, being both FPS and X-COM fans.
I also remember reading a little about X-COM: Genesis before it was cancelled. It was a remake of the original X-COM: UFO Defense that was being worked on at the same time Alliance was. And then Hasbro decided X-COM wasn't a brand worth reviving and quitely cancelled both projects. What a burn.
And what did we get out of the deal? UFO Aftermath. Weeeeeak.
Way back in the day, there was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that had an invention similar to this. They called it "Virtual Comedy". This idea (even down to the hecklers) is right out of this episode of MST3K. Life imitating art (imitating life).
I fully support the realization of MST3K ideas into the real world. Now someone come up with talking robots out of spare parts and I'll be happy.
PS: As someone who has always wanted be a standup comedian, but never that good at writing my own material this is a really cool idea. If it means I can get up and receite my memorized George Carlin bits infront of a crowd, man. I have no problem being a cover artist.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Everything2 yet?
What about Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot? Further dissing of MST3K.
This is a huge problem, not only in Texas, but most states. Dick Morris, former Clinton staffer, highlights this point in his book "Off with their heads". This is being done not just by Republicans, but Democrats as well. Texas, Mississppi, California, New York, New Jersey, the list sadly goes on.
I believe it's Utah Mr. Morris highlights in his book as the model of redistricting. They have an independent body that is agreed to only in number of participants by the parties, and they use strict interperatation of the numbers to adjust the districts accordingly.
Both parties should share the blame on this issue, just as it's a problem in more states than Texas.
Ah, this is lovely. My very first Slashdot argument. No, strike that..I got into some political argument once. No matter.
;)
Nintendo hype machine? No, not quite. Here's the deal: Nintendo DOESN'T have your best interest at heart. They're in it solely for the money, just like everybody else.
I'll pause to let this sink in.
Ok, still with me? Good. Nintendo and every other company's purpose for existing is to make money. In order for them to do this they must compete with each other over what the market demands. So far Nintendo has, by reasoning of the sales figures available elsewhere in this root thread, met what demands the market has put in place. Thus they make money because they supplied what was and is in demand.
Economy 101 over. Business 101.
Do you really think any company has the consumer's best interest at heart? If you do you obviously haven't been in the management of any form of business. They don't care if you're happy, they just want your money. 'Cause they know that sooner or later you'll buy from them again, even if you're unhappy with some of their product. This isn't just the Big N, this is everybody in every industry on the planet. Trick them, mislead them, hype them, bullshit them..whatever it takes to make the most money. End of story.
Now that we've cleared this up...on a personal note let me say that it seems your criticism at Nintendo is knee-jerk at best. Consoles have been online (out of the box online, not Xband or Sega Channel) since what..when PSO came out for the DC in 2000? The Cube came out in November of '02, so it's been out for barely three of those four years on console multiplayer. Let's consider this.
Sony has a game-per-game policy. If you want your game to have multiplayer support, it's your deal. This puts the burdon on the game developer from infrastructure to the billing system. If it's a pay-for-play multiplayer (FFXII, EQ, etc) the developer has to be damn sure if it's gonne be profitable, due to cost and expense of development and maintance.
Microsoft...Microsoft puts a massive backbone system in place and charges a monthly fee for that, putting the burdon on them. We have no idea if Xbox Live is losing or making money since Microsoft has enough money to pour into whatever project it wants to. This allows MS to do whatever because they can fund anything for long enough until they get it right.
Nintendo has obviously opted to sit and study how things go down for Sony and Billy G before doing anything, since we all know that Nintendo abhores failure (the Virtua Boy was Gameboy's retarded cousin who "went away" and the N64 was the crazy aunt in the living room that everyone pretended to care about but quickly dismissed when she died). They want to get it right, out of the box..which is a feat in and of itself. But as a company it's their right to do so, just as it is your right as a consumer to support (with your dollars) which ever company sounds more attractive to you.
Your complaints, based on the sales of the system, seem to be that of a minority. And perhaps by the time you reach a majority Nintendo will have things in order and release something perfect and flawless, given their company attitude towards their hardware. (And before you ask, yes I am still holding faith for Duke Nukem Forever).
PS: I don't consider myself loyal to any brand or medium, but as a bare fact you have to admit that a console..any console..is in no danger of over throwing the PC as the multiplayer system of choice. You know how they say "never say never"? Well I'm saying never.
A rebutal.
/end Soup Nazi
1: (No DVD) I purchased my Grandmother an $80 DVD player from X-Mas 2001. So no, they weren't still hundereds of dollar early adoptor priced units. Granted it was a very simple player, but it was a DVD player nonetheless. My PS2 barely reads it's own games, and it's DVD reading abilities are a joke. The "It's a Game Machine" was a retort to Sony's "The PS2 will be the only media device you'll ever need" hype.
2: (Disc Format) Well yeah, Nintendo's always been weird about piracy. But I'd rather them have a secure product and slightly watered down ports than street corner PS2 bootleggers. And besides, ports are always best played on the original system they were released for.
3: (No Online). Who friggin' cares. If you like your Xbox thing, good for you. God knows that real multiplayer games have been and will ever be on the PC. Nintendo has had many firsts (analog control stick, analog buttons, force feedback, etc), so letting MS or Sony fuck up a few times in their multiplayer design process is only a thing in their favor. Besides, a good portion of us still can't get broadband...which means NO ONLINE CONSOLE FOR YOU!
4: (GBA Connectivity) Oh shut up. You don't like it, don't fuckin' buy it. While I think it's retarded I certainly don't fault the Big N for making their products compatable.
5: (Pokemon) What does this have to do with the Cube, tard? But since we're here...what is this, 1998? You're honestly bitching about Pokemon? How quaint. Since you've never noticed apparently...Nintendo has ALWAYS released two "colors" of their latest Pokemon game (going all the way back to Red and Blue). Nothing new here, end of gripe.
So yeah. And here's a random fact for ya. A small company in Florida had the name Xbox, and MS reached a settlement with them for the name. Joel Hodgson (creator of the legendary MST3K developed a pilot for HBO called the TV Wheel, but originally it was called the X-box (and as such, was sold as the "X-Box Production Video" a long long long long time ago. I got it on DVD, if anyone wants a copy.
An old PC game, I remember on the game CD it had a hidden wav file that was a folk song about the game. Hysterical stuff. Sierra's "Lords of the Realm" had something similar....but Deadlock's was just amusing. "If I ever get back home again that recruiter's gonnna die...."
As far as guilty pleasures...I was excited and played Majestic right when it was released. And what went from "really cool idea" ended up being "talk to AiM bots and watch a RealVideo clip".
/FF 4 rocks
And I still play the original X-COM. Often.
But personally the biggest form of guilt pleasure I get is reading stuff online where people harp on FF7. Just because so many people started playing the Final Fantasy games at 7, they think it's the best. Silly fools.
Definately want MGS3: Snake Eater and MGS: Twin Snakes. MGS1's story with the MGS2 engine and "reinvisionment"? I danced for joy everytime I see a video or screenie from Twin Snakes.
Doom 3, Half-Life 2, yadda yadda. Yes I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. Oh, and the sequel to GTA: Vice City. More 80s bubbbly goodness. Call of Cthulu looks cool..if it'll ever come out. Maybe Tribes 3 if the non-Dynamix crowd doesn't hose it.
But I don't know. 2003 was pretty lean on the games department, and '04 isn't shaping up to be much better. Oh well...here's to Hideo!
I would figure, given the nature of PC Games to be little more than slap-dash buggy pieces of doodoo for the last few years that more of you /.ers would support 3DR and their quest to make an awesome game.
Too much hype for this game you say? Well that's hard to believe...especially since 3D Realms hasn't publically said anything about it since 2001. This isn't Daikatana with full page ads in PC Gamer...or Derek Smart posting to every messageboard/IRC channel. This isn't even publisher funded (otherwise I'm sure they would have forced 3DR to release years ago). 3DR is spending all of their own cash (yes kids, Duke Nukem is a profitable franchise!) to make what they hope to be a kick-ass game. So if it bombs it's on no one's head but their own.
Duke3D was released in 1996, and the work on DNF started late 1998. Yeah they've switched engines and yeah according to Georgie B (check the 3drealms.com forums, to lazy to link) by their own accord DNF is "very late". But as another poster said..no game before or since has had the attitude and atmosphere that Duke3D did (even if they borrowed a lot of the Dukeisms from the Evil Dead flicks).
Duke (3D and the franchise itself) has made a LOT of money..aside from the money Duke3D made for the PC version..there were console versions..then console exclusive games..not to mention the action figures, statues, et al. So this isn't like reviving a dead franchise. When DNF is released chances are it will sell many copies...if not only from the "Holy Shit it's done!" factor..but it's Duke Nukem. As one of the mascots of PC gaming everybody knows who Duke is...or they've atleast heard of him.
Plus console ports, expansions, etc....yeah, it'll end up in the black.
People (and by people I mean the gaming press and gamers alike) are pissed 'cause 3DR won't release screenshots every third day or suck PC Gamers dick to get a cover story or what have you. So they want the title to fail even though no one's seen the game since 2001. To me this is a sign that 3DR actually...*gasp!* gives a rat's ass about the quality of their game and they want the best piece of code possible, and they don't want to spoil all the neat things for the audience by releasing movies and daily screen shots. For this 3DR should be commended, not condemned.
Alls I want to know is..when it's finally released and all is said and done...how much will production have run? I gotta figure it's atleast $30 million by now. But I'll gladly pay my $50 to see what it's like.
I gots a PS2, a Cube and networked computers, and my ex didn't play many real games (Snood shouldn't count) but she loved Smash Brothers. Was pretty good with Zelda, but really shone as Shiek. Samus still ruled the day, however.
I agree with most people...having Link to the Past (the original, not the GBA port with all it's weird changes) would have perfectly rounded out this collection. But shitfire, Zelda 1? The glory that is the original Legend of Zelda, with saves again (the battery in my cart died years ago)? I already own a GameCube, but I desperately want this disc, if nothing else but to have another version of the original Zelda.
Shit, this will be the first time a whole new crop of gamers will see the joys and wonder of Zelda 1. No emulated crap, the real honest to goodness game. On their TVs, freaky Cube controller in hand. Yeah Nintendo, why not release an original bricklike NES controller with this, so we can remember life before egronomics. Points to the Big N. Massive points.
Your ignorance is showing, first poster. If you knew anything about Alabama as a state you would instantly know that the Redstone Rocket, the Saturn V, and lots of other space technologies came out of Huntsville, AL. Ever heard of Dr. Werner Von Braun? Lived and worked right here in Alabama. NASA, the Space and Rocket Center, Space Camp...all that crap is here. Yes, in AlaFuckingBama.
I hate Alabama because I've lived here all my life. You people assume that just because we're in the South we're backwards morons. While this is in part true (but no more than any other state)..this kind of blind regionalism is no more right when making fun of a southerner than it is making fun of a New Yorker or a D.C. native, or an Eskimo.
And no I do not have a southern accent. I don't understand it either.