Well, not all of the Atelier games are related to each other. I believe that all of the Atelier games prior to the "Iris" series are related (I think that comes up to a total of 7, but I could be wrong), then Atelier Iris 1 & 2 are related, and Iris 3 stands on its own.
And you also managed to name more games that I own but forget about... although I sure wish they'd make a Lufia game that wasn't for a handheld system.
What makes you think it uses infrared? There are no "cameras" involved; the sensors used are necessary to track the position of the RF transmitter(s). That's what makes the position tracking and tilting that you've seen in videos (you've seen them, right? There is obviously no need to point it at the TV) possible.
To be fair, the first three and second three DQ games are interrelated. Only 7 and 8 have stood alone. A number of the Atelier games are related to each other, and Breath of Fire 1 through 3 are also related (even though we're not given exact dates on the timeline).
Also, all of the games in the Suikoden series are related, as are the.hack and Xenosaga games. The Seiken Densetsu games are also loosely related. I'm sure there are more, that's just off the top of my head...
There's been a dearth of other RPGs worth buying, for the past year
Actually, you said that there hadn't been a decent RPG out for almost a year. There is a difference. I'll give you that the last year hasn't been as bountiful as some years, but there were, nonetheless, a number of great console RPGs. The fact that they didn't all sell as well as your average Square-Enix game doesn't mean they were poor games; brand recognition is a huge factor in sales. There are many, many people who refuse to even consider being interested in an RPG if it's not from their FF overlords. Perhaps you should consider branching out and trying some games that you've never heard of before.
Dude. Radiata Stories, Wild Arms: Alter Code F, Wild Arms 4, Dragon Quest 8, Suikoden Tactics, Advance Wars, Suikoden 5, Tales of Legendia, Oblivion, Grandia 3, Romancing SaGa, Fable: the Lost Chapters, Magna Carta, Atelier Iris (1 and 2, although 2 was just released)... well, ok, a few of those won't appeal to everybody. But seriously, the only way you could say there hasn't been a decent RPG out for almost a year is if you only pay attention to Final Fantasy games.
"I can't remember experiencing any bugs in their games" != "I've never heard of any bugs in their games". Heck, the original poster described a bug in their very next sentence.
Unfortunately, Amarok doesn't support reading smart playlists off of iPods. The lack of that feature alone seriously hurts it for me. I've been monitoring their progress for months, and it doesn't look like it's going to get changed any time soon...
The thing is, not everybody plays MMORPGs will the sole desire of leveling up. A lot of people play for the social aspect, and nobody wants to hang around somebody who has you, no matter how good that person may be. If your goal isn't to gain XP faster than anybody else, it makes a lot of sense to join a group of people you like rather than a group of good players.
However, all of the Apple's current Intel-based computers are 32-bit. So, you will only be able to install the 32-bit, BIOS-based version of Vista on them.
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If you're going to be pedantic, I asked SWroclawski for an example, not him. Much like him, you appear to have caught the facts of the post but missed the point.
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So basically, you use your subject to insult me and then write a small essay that sums up to "yes, if I install all of the legacy libraries necessary to run them." And as the other poster pointed out, older versions of glibc are not compatible with the current version of the library. How many 10-year-old binaries do you have that are statically linked with glibc? Do you really want to install and maintain older versions of that and dozens of other libraries? Don't you realize that that's even more confusing and convoluted than Windows?
You have a modern system running Linux that can run a binary that was compiled 10 years ago? That's honestly pretty hard to believe. Can you give an example? And I mean a ten-year-old binary, not source code that's ten years old and will compile and run today. I suppose it's possible if we're talking about "Hello, world", but otherwise, I would imagine that every single library that any given program depends on has changed considerably.
But seriously, don't you think that even a 20 Megagram hard drive would be enough to last you for your entire life? Heck, I could probably rent out portions of it to the rest of my family, too. 40 Mg would be complete overkill.
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Er... that's really no different from just disabling the root account, except for the fact that a potential cracker could use a brute force attack to guess the password.
To be fair "Ruby" and "May" do not have literal meanings in another language. Everybody who speaks English knows what they are without any explanation because they are part of the language. On the other hand, "Nihon Keizai Shinbun" quite literally translates into "Japan Business Newspaper." The Japanese name sounds like meaningless gibberish to most English-speakers, whereas the translation actually has a significant meaning. It makes perfect sense to translate the name in this instance. Do you refer to Japan as "Nihon" when talking about it to other people? Do you call Germany "Bundesrepublik Deutschland"?
Read the article. The Slashdot summary is incorrect; the password is for the account you create during installation, which has sudo rights and therefore is just as effective as a root account.
Ok, so. This is an article about how gay-friendly guilds are ok. The original poster came up with a hypothetical situation in which a kid gets molested because he joined a gay guild, implying that you're more likely to get molested by a "gay" guild than any other kind. As far as I can tell, his post's purpose was to come up with a wildly fallacious strawman argument. Care to explain further, or are you just randomly flaming people today?
I think it's funny that you insult him for looking forward to sequels, when the first two games you mention are a sequel and a remake. Your argument basically boils down to "I'm not interested in those games, therefore they suck and don't matter."
Where did I say that in my post? The long summon animations were annoying, but no more so than any of the other recent FF games. They certainly don't ruin the game. Besides, you really only need them to mow through the beginning of the game; if you junction things up properly, the game is quite easy even without summoning things.
Well, I'm sure that which characters you prefer does have something to do with it -- for example, I'm a Siegfried player, so I was rather disappointed that SC2 didn't have him at all.;-) (yeah, Nightmare is similar, but not close enough for me to like him)
As you said, SC2 is harder, but that's because the computer AI is worse. It relies on reaction times that no human could hope to replicate. I think the characters are also not balanced as well; in SC1, Cervantes was arguably better than everybody else, and Kilik was good for button-mashers, but in general, the most skilled person could win, regardless of characters chosen. In SC2, all of the console-specific characters and Necrid are significantly more powerful than the rest of the cast, plus some characters (such as Raphael) have particular moves that are just cheap. I still like the game, but I think SC1 is better as a competition game.
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Well, not all of the Atelier games are related to each other. I believe that all of the Atelier games prior to the "Iris" series are related (I think that comes up to a total of 7, but I could be wrong), then Atelier Iris 1 & 2 are related, and Iris 3 stands on its own.
And you also managed to name more games that I own but forget about... although I sure wish they'd make a Lufia game that wasn't for a handheld system.
What makes you think it uses infrared? There are no "cameras" involved; the sensors used are necessary to track the position of the RF transmitter(s). That's what makes the position tracking and tilting that you've seen in videos (you've seen them, right? There is obviously no need to point it at the TV) possible.
To be fair, the first three and second three DQ games are interrelated. Only 7 and 8 have stood alone. A number of the Atelier games are related to each other, and Breath of Fire 1 through 3 are also related (even though we're not given exact dates on the timeline).
.hack and Xenosaga games. The Seiken Densetsu games are also loosely related. I'm sure there are more, that's just off the top of my head...
Also, all of the games in the Suikoden series are related, as are the
There's been a dearth of other RPGs worth buying, for the past year
Actually, you said that there hadn't been a decent RPG out for almost a year. There is a difference. I'll give you that the last year hasn't been as bountiful as some years, but there were, nonetheless, a number of great console RPGs. The fact that they didn't all sell as well as your average Square-Enix game doesn't mean they were poor games; brand recognition is a huge factor in sales. There are many, many people who refuse to even consider being interested in an RPG if it's not from their FF overlords. Perhaps you should consider branching out and trying some games that you've never heard of before.
Dude. Radiata Stories, Wild Arms: Alter Code F, Wild Arms 4, Dragon Quest 8, Suikoden Tactics, Advance Wars, Suikoden 5, Tales of Legendia, Oblivion, Grandia 3, Romancing SaGa, Fable: the Lost Chapters, Magna Carta, Atelier Iris (1 and 2, although 2 was just released)... well, ok, a few of those won't appeal to everybody. But seriously, the only way you could say there hasn't been a decent RPG out for almost a year is if you only pay attention to Final Fantasy games.
I'm not sure what you're talking about -- do you mean they can use NTFS? Because I have a 4g iPod that defaulted to FAT32.
"I can't remember experiencing any bugs in their games" != "I've never heard of any bugs in their games". Heck, the original poster described a bug in their very next sentence.
I think that the original poster was hoping for some logical, specific arguments rather than name calling. Could you try to do that, please?
You have a very interesting definition of minority.
Unfortunately, Amarok doesn't support reading smart playlists off of iPods. The lack of that feature alone seriously hurts it for me. I've been monitoring their progress for months, and it doesn't look like it's going to get changed any time soon...
Oops, and I meant to say "somebody who hates you."
The thing is, not everybody plays MMORPGs will the sole desire of leveling up. A lot of people play for the social aspect, and nobody wants to hang around somebody who has you, no matter how good that person may be. If your goal isn't to gain XP faster than anybody else, it makes a lot of sense to join a group of people you like rather than a group of good players.
However, all of the Apple's current Intel-based computers are 32-bit. So, you will only be able to install the 32-bit, BIOS-based version of Vista on them.
If you're going to be pedantic, I asked SWroclawski for an example, not him. Much like him, you appear to have caught the facts of the post but missed the point.
So basically, you use your subject to insult me and then write a small essay that sums up to "yes, if I install all of the legacy libraries necessary to run them." And as the other poster pointed out, older versions of glibc are not compatible with the current version of the library. How many 10-year-old binaries do you have that are statically linked with glibc? Do you really want to install and maintain older versions of that and dozens of other libraries? Don't you realize that that's even more confusing and convoluted than Windows?
You have a modern system running Linux that can run a binary that was compiled 10 years ago? That's honestly pretty hard to believe. Can you give an example? And I mean a ten-year-old binary, not source code that's ten years old and will compile and run today. I suppose it's possible if we're talking about "Hello, world", but otherwise, I would imagine that every single library that any given program depends on has changed considerably.
But seriously, don't you think that even a 20 Megagram hard drive would be enough to last you for your entire life? Heck, I could probably rent out portions of it to the rest of my family, too. 40 Mg would be complete overkill.
Er... that's really no different from just disabling the root account, except for the fact that a potential cracker could use a brute force attack to guess the password.
To be fair "Ruby" and "May" do not have literal meanings in another language. Everybody who speaks English knows what they are without any explanation because they are part of the language. On the other hand, "Nihon Keizai Shinbun" quite literally translates into "Japan Business Newspaper." The Japanese name sounds like meaningless gibberish to most English-speakers, whereas the translation actually has a significant meaning. It makes perfect sense to translate the name in this instance. Do you refer to Japan as "Nihon" when talking about it to other people? Do you call Germany "Bundesrepublik Deutschland"?
Read the article. The Slashdot summary is incorrect; the password is for the account you create during installation, which has sudo rights and therefore is just as effective as a root account.
Ok, so. This is an article about how gay-friendly guilds are ok. The original poster came up with a hypothetical situation in which a kid gets molested because he joined a gay guild, implying that you're more likely to get molested by a "gay" guild than any other kind. As far as I can tell, his post's purpose was to come up with a wildly fallacious strawman argument. Care to explain further, or are you just randomly flaming people today?
What does the fact that the guild is gay have anything to do with that? Do you think straight people never molest children?
I think it's funny that you insult him for looking forward to sequels, when the first two games you mention are a sequel and a remake. Your argument basically boils down to "I'm not interested in those games, therefore they suck and don't matter."
Where did I say that in my post? The long summon animations were annoying, but no more so than any of the other recent FF games. They certainly don't ruin the game. Besides, you really only need them to mow through the beginning of the game; if you junction things up properly, the game is quite easy even without summoning things.
Well, I'm sure that which characters you prefer does have something to do with it -- for example, I'm a Siegfried player, so I was rather disappointed that SC2 didn't have him at all. ;-) (yeah, Nightmare is similar, but not close enough for me to like him)
As you said, SC2 is harder, but that's because the computer AI is worse. It relies on reaction times that no human could hope to replicate. I think the characters are also not balanced as well; in SC1, Cervantes was arguably better than everybody else, and Kilik was good for button-mashers, but in general, the most skilled person could win, regardless of characters chosen. In SC2, all of the console-specific characters and Necrid are significantly more powerful than the rest of the cast, plus some characters (such as Raphael) have particular moves that are just cheap. I still like the game, but I think SC1 is better as a competition game.