It's not that he hasn't done much, but that a fair bit has been on the stage, which the IMDb doesn't track properly. He got great reviews for his performances in That Face and Swimming With Sharks recently, and before that was in The History Boys.
The Moff seems happy with the guy, so I'm willing to remain optimistic until we actually see some episodes.
Ah, thanks. I don't really get on with survival horror games, after utterly detesting Resident Evil's tank-like controls and tedious resource management, so I'd missed it. I agree it's a rather irritating design choice.
Re: forced deaths, can you do me a favour and name an instance? Because the only one I can think of right now is the rather wonderful PlaneScape. And that's a PC game.
The "No Nunchuck" rule hasn't been in place since the BBFC saw the back of James Ferman nearly a decade ago, however. So that's a bit harsh to still complain about.
What do you mean by this, exactly? I'm aware of the old X certificate we used to have before they switched to specifically age titles. But it did exactly the same job as the current "18" (post 1970, anyway - before then the limit was only 16).
I'm one of the people who moved to console partly due to DRM. Not due to any high-minded ideological reason, but simply because the locked-down nature of consoles mean that the DRM system is standardized and designed for. There's no super-duper untested new version that might have incompatibilities with something else, and even if it did the only job of my 360 is to play games.
On Windows, there's no guarantee that the latest Starforce variant isn't going to have a fight with the latest SecuROM variant over who gets to steal access to my DVD drive away from the functions I actually run a PC for.
What benchmarks would you like to see? Because off the top of my head, media encoding, photoshop stuff and games are exactly the sort of things that home users would be doing to require that kind of CPU oomph.
Sure, there are plenty of other things people spend lots of time doing, but most of those (at least as far as home apps go) would run just fine on practically any reasonable new processor.
Absolutely it is, yes. There's a clear lineage from the original Rebelstar Raiders, through its sequels and Laser Squad to the XCOM games. That's why, when Julian parted ways from Microprose and lost the XCOM license, he just made Laser Squad Nemesis and Rebelstar Tactical Command without too many changes.
The aspect I don't understand is that, because I actually _need_ these glasses, it's illegal for me to drive my car without them on. So having a DRIVER'S LICENCE, of all documents, looking like I hardly ever do awake is rather counter-intuitive.
Indeed. Although I don't remember reading Tolkein claiming "The Lord of the Rings will see 3 different books, but I'm not milking you, honest!" he might as well have done.
Thanks. I thought for a moment your argument might actually have the slightest quantity of worth to it. Now you've confirmed you're a pirating little cunt I'll go back to more worthwhile discussions. Good day to you.
Neither of which are problems caused by games. NVidia have recalled a whole bunch of graphics cards because they've got hardware issues every bit as bad as the RROD. Microsoft, Apple and Redhat have all released OS updates that have caused headaches like the PS3 firmware fiasco.
But a console is designed from the ground up to be used for playing videogames in an environment where you've got limited control over what else the box can do. So publishers don't need Starforce killing your second DVD drive, device drivers doing stupid things and so on.
Also, on a more simple point, if they did, those changes still wouldn't impact the ability of my PC to perform the more serious tasks I ask of it. So I keep work on my PC, and games on my consoles, and both continue to work (for standard Microsoft values of 'work', obv).
The upscaling in my Toshiba HD-EP30 HD-DVD player (yes, I know...) isn't as good at upscaling as the Realta HQV. But even with that I've noticed that the difference between a poor DVD (like practically anything prior to 2003ish) and a particularly good one is easily bigger than between the good DVD and a 'proper' HD transfer. I've replaced plenty of my DVDs with HD ones (not least because the HD-DVDs are so cheap since the format died), but it's mainly the older discs I care about. The original release of Apollo 13 is a monstrosity compared to the HD-DVD, but you've got to sit reasonably close to spot the difference between Batman Begins on the two formats.
Wake me up when your laptop can make toast. Until then I'll stick with my toaster. And I bet you care about that just as much as I do about your opinion on the dash update.
Really? It's precisely the navigation to Live Arcade games that's my favourite improvement. The old system used to take an age to display the full list once I got past ~30 games - the new system is almost instant.
Hyrb doesn't strike me as particularly younger or more appealing to the youth market than Kojima, Miyamoto, Peter Moore, Kaz Hirai or any of the other 'faces' of these companies I can think of. I don't want some trendy young thing, I want to be given useful information by someone who can get his point across clearly.
But then I'm in my thirties, so that might be something to do with it.
Maybe, but let's be clear what Microsoft are doing. They are NOT bricking your console when they detect a problem. They're refusing to allow you entry to their online service, because you have broken the terms and conditions for it.
It simply doesn't matter whether your mod is legal or not, because they're not taking you to court over it. It only matters whether accessing XBox Live with a modded 360 is disallowed in their terms of service, and it is.
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It's not that he hasn't done much, but that a fair bit has been on the stage, which the IMDb doesn't track properly. He got great reviews for his performances in That Face and Swimming With Sharks recently, and before that was in The History Boys.
The Moff seems happy with the guy, so I'm willing to remain optimistic until we actually see some episodes.
Ah, thanks. I don't really get on with survival horror games, after utterly detesting Resident Evil's tank-like controls and tedious resource management, so I'd missed it. I agree it's a rather irritating design choice.
Sir Pterrence, if you're an aged AFP graduate.
Re: forced deaths, can you do me a favour and name an instance? Because the only one I can think of right now is the rather wonderful PlaneScape. And that's a PC game.
The "No Nunchuck" rule hasn't been in place since the BBFC saw the back of James Ferman nearly a decade ago, however. So that's a bit harsh to still complain about.
What do you mean by this, exactly? I'm aware of the old X certificate we used to have before they switched to specifically age titles. But it did exactly the same job as the current "18" (post 1970, anyway - before then the limit was only 16).
I'm one of the people who moved to console partly due to DRM. Not due to any high-minded ideological reason, but simply because the locked-down nature of consoles mean that the DRM system is standardized and designed for. There's no super-duper untested new version that might have incompatibilities with something else, and even if it did the only job of my 360 is to play games.
On Windows, there's no guarantee that the latest Starforce variant isn't going to have a fight with the latest SecuROM variant over who gets to steal access to my DVD drive away from the functions I actually run a PC for.
All of which is a perfectly reasonable thing for people to run on a quad-core box; indeed practically tailor made for it.
But that's a webserver, not a desktop app or game like the article is talking about.
What benchmarks would you like to see? Because off the top of my head, media encoding, photoshop stuff and games are exactly the sort of things that home users would be doing to require that kind of CPU oomph.
Sure, there are plenty of other things people spend lots of time doing, but most of those (at least as far as home apps go) would run just fine on practically any reasonable new processor.
Absolutely it is, yes. There's a clear lineage from the original Rebelstar Raiders, through its sequels and Laser Squad to the XCOM games. That's why, when Julian parted ways from Microprose and lost the XCOM license, he just made Laser Squad Nemesis and Rebelstar Tactical Command without too many changes.
1) Turn based, not realtime
2) Merely a very nice follow-up to the Gollop Brothers' Rebelstar, surely?
If you're close enough to a toy plane for the controls to work, you're close enough to tell where it is without GPS, I rather suspect.
Even children only need to get a new Passport every 5 years. My son already looks more than a tad different to the 6-month-old baby in his picture.
The aspect I don't understand is that, because I actually _need_ these glasses, it's illegal for me to drive my car without them on. So having a DRIVER'S LICENCE, of all documents, looking like I hardly ever do awake is rather counter-intuitive.
Indeed. Although I don't remember reading Tolkein claiming "The Lord of the Rings will see 3 different books, but I'm not milking you, honest!" he might as well have done.
Take Two/Rockstar owe you money because EA's DRM on Spore was rubbish? How do you figure that?
Thanks. I thought for a moment your argument might actually have the slightest quantity of worth to it. Now you've confirmed you're a pirating little cunt I'll go back to more worthwhile discussions. Good day to you.
Neither of which are problems caused by games. NVidia have recalled a whole bunch of graphics cards because they've got hardware issues every bit as bad as the RROD. Microsoft, Apple and Redhat have all released OS updates that have caused headaches like the PS3 firmware fiasco.
But a console is designed from the ground up to be used for playing videogames in an environment where you've got limited control over what else the box can do. So publishers don't need Starforce killing your second DVD drive, device drivers doing stupid things and so on.
Also, on a more simple point, if they did, those changes still wouldn't impact the ability of my PC to perform the more serious tasks I ask of it. So I keep work on my PC, and games on my consoles, and both continue to work (for standard Microsoft values of 'work', obv).
The upscaling in my Toshiba HD-EP30 HD-DVD player (yes, I know...) isn't as good at upscaling as the Realta HQV. But even with that I've noticed that the difference between a poor DVD (like practically anything prior to 2003ish) and a particularly good one is easily bigger than between the good DVD and a 'proper' HD transfer. I've replaced plenty of my DVDs with HD ones (not least because the HD-DVDs are so cheap since the format died), but it's mainly the older discs I care about. The original release of Apollo 13 is a monstrosity compared to the HD-DVD, but you've got to sit reasonably close to spot the difference between Batman Begins on the two formats.
So, you can tell something isn't Gozilla if it stands at a 45-degree stance, instead of upright?
Is this a lawsuit, or a belated excuse to have another whine about how unfaithful Emmerich and Devlin's version was?
I can see why, with the clothing colours. Otherwise everyone would use the Ring of Light T-shirt, and change it to a red one.
Wake me up when your laptop can make toast. Until then I'll stick with my toaster. And I bet you care about that just as much as I do about your opinion on the dash update.
Really? It's precisely the navigation to Live Arcade games that's my favourite improvement. The old system used to take an age to display the full list once I got past ~30 games - the new system is almost instant.
Hyrb doesn't strike me as particularly younger or more appealing to the youth market than Kojima, Miyamoto, Peter Moore, Kaz Hirai or any of the other 'faces' of these companies I can think of. I don't want some trendy young thing, I want to be given useful information by someone who can get his point across clearly.
But then I'm in my thirties, so that might be something to do with it.
Maybe, but let's be clear what Microsoft are doing. They are NOT bricking your console when they detect a problem. They're refusing to allow you entry to their online service, because you have broken the terms and conditions for it.
It simply doesn't matter whether your mod is legal or not, because they're not taking you to court over it. It only matters whether accessing XBox Live with a modded 360 is disallowed in their terms of service, and it is.