It was, and remains, the greatest sports game of all time. It introduced proper management elements to the football genre, when playing and management were previously kept seperate games with very different outlooks. It destroyed as many promising University degrees as Elite with its sheer addiction levels.
There were footy games before, and indeed at the time the Kick Off 2 vs. Sensi rivalry was strong. Ironically, EA's official FIFA games ended up winning the popularity contest in the end, due in no small part to Sensi's Megadrive/Genesis release being postponed from a week before the first FIFA game due to the relatively trivial issue of one team flag being back-to-front. But Sensi plays the game that _feels_ like football, rather than looking like someone watching football on TV.
It's virtually impossible to overstate the impact the game had on a generation of European gamesplayers, even if it doesn't have the same resonance with a nation that doesn't care for the beautiful game.
Really? Not insubstantial portions of the internet are filled with adult geeks who still play with Lego, and their designs. But these are usually nano-scale Giant Japanese Robots, Star Wars vehicles, assorted creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos and film sets.
As much as I don't want ten replies with links to anatomical Lego designs, there seems a higher chance of your daughter being attacked by Yog Sothoth than animated penii.
Lack of region encoding is one of HD-DVD's saving graces in the fight with Blu-Ray at the moment. While the latter still exists, I don't expect regioning to start. And frankly, despite buying HD-DVD myself, I don't expect it to win against a couple of million Playstation fans.
Really, the clue is in the question. Of _course_ they are doing something with an open source product, it's their open source lab.
They want to sell you stuff, whether that be the OS license, the database product or the training lab so your developers can use it. Even if they can't get you on one, they would like to make money on the others. My XBox 360 plays back music from my iPod without insisting I go purchase a Zune, too.
As anyone with hacked PSP firmware can tell you, Sony have got their PS1 emulation running pretty well now. The press release also states that most of them will work. It's only PS2 emulation it refers to as 'limited'.
What's preventing us is that SCEE have something of a history about destroying any company that dare try to sell import consoles here. So the only practical option is to pick one up next time I'm in the US.
Which is certainly the way I'd buy a PS3 if I were to get one.
I really would recommend you shut the fuck up about Blu Ray having won the format war, Mr. Sony Fanboy. Not because things are looking terribly good for Toshiba right now (although they're a hell of a lot better than for Pioneer and Panasonic, whose machines are ignored for the far cheaper PS3). Because the sales ratios used to justify that statement are pretty much identical to the ones the Wii is beating your beloved PS3 by. Being hoist on your own petard can be pretty painful, I hear.
Lovely idea, except there are MPs and MPs. They aren't going to be listening to John "Slippy Shoulders" Reid trying to work out how the latest disaster is Someone Else's Fault. Opposition Members might find some 'unusual' feedback on their lines, however.
"have" as in "available", not as in "forced", is merely how I read it.
I think it's a somewhat flawed argument, as last time I looked, most popular games involve either being violent, driving cars (where the occupant is usually unnamed), or playing sports. Last time I looked people like Tiger Woods or Thierry Henry are perfectly good role models. But we're clearly not meant to be counting them, so that largely leaves protagonists whose main role in life is to kill people. Where are all these white role models that minorities are missing out on?
28,000 is a shockingly small number, I agree, although I wasn't aware of this petition when I failed to sign it.
What scares me about the car tracking idea of Blair's is that cost estimates put it at between 20% and 100% of the UK's entire expenditure on roads, without doing a thing to increase capacity. Fuel duty would be much fairer, and would also raise revenue from the 2.2 million drivers out there who currently don't have insurance or road tax - expecting them to put a tracking device in their cars seems a bit daft.
Furthermore, neither suggestion would do a thing for road safety. so that's a completely false argument. We've got the best road safety in Europe, and massively superior to the US, so all things considered it's something of a false bogeyman, too.
If you want to play that game, Labour got substantially less than 50% of the electorate at the last election, so I'll take dictatorial power on behalf of the rest of them, thanks.
What happens is that Blair is going to tell us all off for being so stupid. He's already announced his intentions on that one to all the media, and some lackey has already written the email.
This petitions site is not to genuinely get suggestions, but to judge how much spin needs to be put on policies that have already been decided upon.
Crackdown the full game has a number of gangs, each (reasonably, given that this seems to be the way of things in the real world) of a different ethnic background. It just so happens that the one in the demo is the Hispanic gang. Rest assured that buying the full thing will get you plenty of Yakuza and Mafia guys to kill.
GRAW is set in Mexico City. All the other guys, both the government you are supporting and the rebels you shoot at, are from Mexico. So I can't really blame that one too much, either.
Umm, I think Blair is a duplicitous murdering sack of shit as much as the next guy, but the petition was always going to end on the 15th of February as a fixed closing date. From the FAQ page:
How long will my petition run for?
You can decide how long your petition can run for and we will carry it for up to 12 months.
Besides, telling 28,000 people that they've given the wrong answer, and should go away and think about it until they realise he's right is nothing. He did exactly the same to the more than a million people who marched in London against invading Iraq, and is about to do so to the 1.6 million who have signed the road pricing and car tracking scheme at the top of the "most popular" list on that site as well.
If you're buying the 80Gb one so you've got tonnes of space for high-bitrate media, you might as well go the whole hog and use Apple Lossless, I suppose.
Personally, I've done everything at 128kbs AAC, because I use the headphones they throw in with the machines now. They're much better than the ones they had a couple of years ago, if that's what you've heard before. Probably still worse than your CX-300s, but better than the Sennheiser MX-250s that I replaced the ones from my Mini with.
Sorry, but if "BluRay has won the format war" because it spent two weeks (weeks in which Best Buy was doing a buy one get one free offer, at that) outselling HD-DVD 3-1, then Sony should be shutting the PS3 factory down right now, given that Wii and 360 do that to it all the time.
This war is far from over. Wait until June, when only one of the two formats gets The Matrix, then come back to me.
Really? My 360 spends a LOT of its time playing Dead Rising, Oblivion, Amped 3, Geometry Wars, Zuma or Time Pilot. None of which offer online multiplayer. Even my games that do, the multiplayer is a relatively minor proportion of what I play, apart from co-op GRAW.
Virtua Fighter nerds are _scary_ in their obsession over frame response to 60ths of a second. Sega can't satisfy them with the ping times you get over the internet, so they've decided to not bother. Seems fair to me.
Collecting back at the beginning of January would have been simple from a point of machines on the shelf. What would have made doing so rather more difficult is that it was made to the Playstation magazine for an interview he knew would appear in the March issue.
He knew the statement would come out now, so I hardly think it's Penny Arcade who look like the idiots. But then, there does seem to be some sort of competition going on at Sony to see who can say the most ludicrous thing to the media.
Curiously, a good 50% of the people I know who have bought PS3s in the last month got the movie. I'm suspecting they're returned stock, bought by failed eBay scalpers, but who knows?
There are a whole bunch of resolutions (all 60Hz) available when using the VGA leads.
When you first plug them in it goes with the lowest common denominator of 640x480, but you've got 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x768, 1360x768 (what I use, as it's the native res of my panel) and 1920x1080. I've probably missed a few as well, but as long as your TV can take one of those you should be ok; check your manual.
I read the summary, but I got the impression that no-one was filing complaints about the anti-Christian videos. Once people started to complain, YouTube decided that he had been repeatedly offensive. Which says to me that they thought some of his other stuff was, too.
So you're right that it's different because Muslims get more offended, but I don't think that's necessarily a fault on YouTube's part, until we find evidence that something just as bad was said about Jesus, they received complaints, and ignored them.
Running at 1080p means pretty small jaggies, though, and the scaler that lives between the graphics output and the actual video output will give you free antialiasing when it scales the 1080p down to 720p for the majority out there who can't use it.
Which assumes that they wanted to import discs from many regions, rather than buy them from the local shop. Just about anyone who wants to import knows how to find the handset hack for their player, because half the time the shop did it for them.
HD-DVD doesn't have region encoding at all, though, which is one reason why I'm going that route, rather than being tied to European Blu-Ray discs that are stupidly expensive.
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It was, and remains, the greatest sports game of all time. It introduced proper management elements to the football genre, when playing and management were previously kept seperate games with very different outlooks. It destroyed as many promising University degrees as Elite with its sheer addiction levels.
There were footy games before, and indeed at the time the Kick Off 2 vs. Sensi rivalry was strong. Ironically, EA's official FIFA games ended up winning the popularity contest in the end, due in no small part to Sensi's Megadrive/Genesis release being postponed from a week before the first FIFA game due to the relatively trivial issue of one team flag being back-to-front. But Sensi plays the game that _feels_ like football, rather than looking like someone watching football on TV.
It's virtually impossible to overstate the impact the game had on a generation of European gamesplayers, even if it doesn't have the same resonance with a nation that doesn't care for the beautiful game.
Really? Not insubstantial portions of the internet are filled with adult geeks who still play with Lego, and their designs. But these are usually nano-scale Giant Japanese Robots, Star Wars vehicles, assorted creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos and film sets.
As much as I don't want ten replies with links to anatomical Lego designs, there seems a higher chance of your daughter being attacked by Yog Sothoth than animated penii.
Lack of region encoding is one of HD-DVD's saving graces in the fight with Blu-Ray at the moment. While the latter still exists, I don't expect regioning to start. And frankly, despite buying HD-DVD myself, I don't expect it to win against a couple of million Playstation fans.
Really, the clue is in the question. Of _course_ they are doing something with an open source product, it's their open source lab.
They want to sell you stuff, whether that be the OS license, the database product or the training lab so your developers can use it. Even if they can't get you on one, they would like to make money on the others. My XBox 360 plays back music from my iPod without insisting I go purchase a Zune, too.
As anyone with hacked PSP firmware can tell you, Sony have got their PS1 emulation running pretty well now. The press release also states that most of them will work. It's only PS2 emulation it refers to as 'limited'.
What's preventing us is that SCEE have something of a history about destroying any company that dare try to sell import consoles here. So the only practical option is to pick one up next time I'm in the US.
Which is certainly the way I'd buy a PS3 if I were to get one.
I really would recommend you shut the fuck up about Blu Ray having won the format war, Mr. Sony Fanboy. Not because things are looking terribly good for Toshiba right now (although they're a hell of a lot better than for Pioneer and Panasonic, whose machines are ignored for the far cheaper PS3). Because the sales ratios used to justify that statement are pretty much identical to the ones the Wii is beating your beloved PS3 by. Being hoist on your own petard can be pretty painful, I hear.
Lovely idea, except there are MPs and MPs. They aren't going to be listening to John "Slippy Shoulders" Reid trying to work out how the latest disaster is Someone Else's Fault. Opposition Members might find some 'unusual' feedback on their lines, however.
"have" as in "available", not as in "forced", is merely how I read it.
I think it's a somewhat flawed argument, as last time I looked, most popular games involve either being violent, driving cars (where the occupant is usually unnamed), or playing sports. Last time I looked people like Tiger Woods or Thierry Henry are perfectly good role models. But we're clearly not meant to be counting them, so that largely leaves protagonists whose main role in life is to kill people. Where are all these white role models that minorities are missing out on?
28,000 is a shockingly small number, I agree, although I wasn't aware of this petition when I failed to sign it.
What scares me about the car tracking idea of Blair's is that cost estimates put it at between 20% and 100% of the UK's entire expenditure on roads, without doing a thing to increase capacity. Fuel duty would be much fairer, and would also raise revenue from the 2.2 million drivers out there who currently don't have insurance or road tax - expecting them to put a tracking device in their cars seems a bit daft.
Furthermore, neither suggestion would do a thing for road safety. so that's a completely false argument. We've got the best road safety in Europe, and massively superior to the US, so all things considered it's something of a false bogeyman, too.
If you want to play that game, Labour got substantially less than 50% of the electorate at the last election, so I'll take dictatorial power on behalf of the rest of them, thanks.
What happens is that Blair is going to tell us all off for being so stupid. He's already announced his intentions on that one to all the media, and some lackey has already written the email.
This petitions site is not to genuinely get suggestions, but to judge how much spin needs to be put on policies that have already been decided upon.
Crackdown the full game has a number of gangs, each (reasonably, given that this seems to be the way of things in the real world) of a different ethnic background. It just so happens that the one in the demo is the Hispanic gang. Rest assured that buying the full thing will get you plenty of Yakuza and Mafia guys to kill.
GRAW is set in Mexico City. All the other guys, both the government you are supporting and the rebels you shoot at, are from Mexico. So I can't really blame that one too much, either.
If you're buying the 80Gb one so you've got tonnes of space for high-bitrate media, you might as well go the whole hog and use Apple Lossless, I suppose.
Personally, I've done everything at 128kbs AAC, because I use the headphones they throw in with the machines now. They're much better than the ones they had a couple of years ago, if that's what you've heard before. Probably still worse than your CX-300s, but better than the Sennheiser MX-250s that I replaced the ones from my Mini with.
Sorry, but if "BluRay has won the format war" because it spent two weeks (weeks in which Best Buy was doing a buy one get one free offer, at that) outselling HD-DVD 3-1, then Sony should be shutting the PS3 factory down right now, given that Wii and 360 do that to it all the time.
This war is far from over. Wait until June, when only one of the two formats gets The Matrix, then come back to me.
Really? My 360 spends a LOT of its time playing Dead Rising, Oblivion, Amped 3, Geometry Wars, Zuma or Time Pilot. None of which offer online multiplayer. Even my games that do, the multiplayer is a relatively minor proportion of what I play, apart from co-op GRAW.
Virtua Fighter nerds are _scary_ in their obsession over frame response to 60ths of a second. Sega can't satisfy them with the ping times you get over the internet, so they've decided to not bother. Seems fair to me.
As others have said, there was an actual disc in the box of the first ones, but the rest just get vouchers for discounts, not free films.
What they _are_ doing, however, is helping Best Buy run regular "buy 1 get 1 free" promotions on Blu-Ray, and both films count as sales.
Collecting back at the beginning of January would have been simple from a point of machines on the shelf. What would have made doing so rather more difficult is that it was made to the Playstation magazine for an interview he knew would appear in the March issue.
He knew the statement would come out now, so I hardly think it's Penny Arcade who look like the idiots. But then, there does seem to be some sort of competition going on at Sony to see who can say the most ludicrous thing to the media.
Curiously, a good 50% of the people I know who have bought PS3s in the last month got the movie. I'm suspecting they're returned stock, bought by failed eBay scalpers, but who knows?
There are a whole bunch of resolutions (all 60Hz) available when using the VGA leads.
When you first plug them in it goes with the lowest common denominator of 640x480, but you've got 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x768, 1360x768 (what I use, as it's the native res of my panel) and 1920x1080. I've probably missed a few as well, but as long as your TV can take one of those you should be ok; check your manual.
I read the summary, but I got the impression that no-one was filing complaints about the anti-Christian videos. Once people started to complain, YouTube decided that he had been repeatedly offensive. Which says to me that they thought some of his other stuff was, too.
So you're right that it's different because Muslims get more offended, but I don't think that's necessarily a fault on YouTube's part, until we find evidence that something just as bad was said about Jesus, they received complaints, and ignored them.
Running at 1080p means pretty small jaggies, though, and the scaler that lives between the graphics output and the actual video output will give you free antialiasing when it scales the 1080p down to 720p for the majority out there who can't use it.
So yes, it's a good thing.
Which assumes that they wanted to import discs from many regions, rather than buy them from the local shop. Just about anyone who wants to import knows how to find the handset hack for their player, because half the time the shop did it for them.
HD-DVD doesn't have region encoding at all, though, which is one reason why I'm going that route, rather than being tied to European Blu-Ray discs that are stupidly expensive.
51st goes to Canada, 52nd Britain. Get in line, Australia.