I don't give a flying fuck if I'm modded as a troll, but Slashdot covers other countries in EVERYTHING. China's censorship, Australia, Canada etc... And yet the politics section is Yanks only.
And I already HAVE removed the politics stories from the page as it's useless unless you're in the US.
Nicely put. The other sad part is the "politics" section of Slashdot is 99% US politics. Yeah, thanks for largely ignoring the other 6 billion on the planet.
I don't even know why I visit this shithole some days.
Nice that you have the courage of your convictions and post anonymously. Typical neo-con posturing. If you're so hardcore in your beliefs, have the balls to attach your name, even a pseudonym, to them.
Thing is, I expect skating brands in a skating game. Just like I expect car part brands in Gran Turismo. That's fine. What I object too is unrelated crap, like Chrysler in a skating game. that makes about as much sense as the skating companies being in Gran Turismo.
And I really don't remember seeing Mountain Dew in THPS2.
People who watch television or listen to radio put up with advertising because the programming is provided at no cost.
If that were really true, I wouldn't have a monthly cable bill. I get 50 channels. Only 2 don't show commercials (both are PBS stations). And yet I have to pay $45 a month for that.
It is bloody despicable they did this. I saw THUG2 running the other day. Very nice game, was debating buying it, but after reading this, I most certainly won't be.
As I stated in a prior post, I'm into racing sims, which by their very nature have logos plastered everywhere. That is the exception I make. If I'm paying $55 for, say, Unreal Tournament 2006, and when I load the game there is an unskippable ad for Sunny Delight... That's the last title I buy from that company. Jarring and offensive is about right Jack!
I like your idea of choice. Though really, they're not going to do that when they can shove them all out at $50 and make fat bank from it.
The only arena where advertising doesn't bother is racing sims. Commercial sponsorships are part and parcel of the sport, so to be realistic, they have to really have them.
"Doom 4: Bought to you by Pepsi. The taste for a new FPS generation."
I'm quite certain the salaries DO dictate the price. However, as it the same with software piracy, if it lowered, the price of tickets would not drop. Why? Because far too many people stand to make far too much money.
Not saying it's only the players to blame, it's not. However, to say that paying some jackass from Russia 3.8 million a year (random country, random amount, have no idea if that's an accurate figure) has no bearing on front seats being $60 is delusional. The money to pay the players has to come from somewhere.
That was freakin' hilarious! There was a public debate last night that I saw... Yeah, the head of the NHLPA is trying to convince us that the stupidly high ticket prices has NOTHING to do with the stupidly high salaries.
Dude, don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.
As for Laporte, he's ALWAYS been on Tech TV Canada. I think what the person means is, when G4 merged with them, one of the shows that got shitcanned was "Call for Help". Canadians complained, so the Canadian version of the station produces it's own version of the show, hosted by the erstwhile Laporte.
Nonsense. It adds functionality to the game that should have been there in the first place. I fail to see how turning off shadows so people can't hide ranks next to, for example, having a button mapped to toggle crouch so I don't have to hold down the fucking key to stay crouched, or having a crouch jump mapped to a key.
it's just that some people think a system that can run Counterstrike should run Doom 3
You're implying that if you're system can run CS, it SHOULDN'T be able to run Doom 3:) Is this some weird new game company gimmick? I mean they already blacklist perfectly legal software with their copy protection, surely blacklisting competitors products is the next logical step.
My system is below the minimum specs of Doom 3 on a couple of spots, and runs the game just fine.
Funny... They're making graphical stuff mandatory, thus screwing over to a degree the scaleability of the game.
Back when I had a REALLY lame machine and I played Unreal Tournament, I had a lot of graphical stuff off, including dynamic lighting. Game ran well. Problem was, when I went to play online, it forced the options on, making the game unplayable.
What do you expect from them though? I mean Newell is an ex-Microsoft hack who used to sleep under his desk for Gods sake. The guy is a fucking idiot. How have they screwed the pooch on all this?
They get hacked. Hardly surprising given Gabe's stellar security on that forum, with the password of gaben.
They make up bullshit excuses about how the hack has delayed the game, despite various sources having checked the code that was leaked saying "No fucking way was this ready to ship".
They promote the shit out of Team Fortress 2 back in 1999, and it's yet to appear.
They promote the shit out of Counterstrike: Condition Zero, it's delayed over two years, and ultimately all it adds is mildly good bots, a few graphical and sound tweaks, and that's about it.
Fuck Valve. Fuck Half Life 2.
ID-style? Fuck that. The folks behind Duke Nukem' Forever have done a better job than these Valve fucktards.
I went from the Sinclair Spectrum to the Amiga. My friends went from the C64 to the Amiga. I was the last of my friends to abandon the Amiga (a move I've regretted ever since, but it lives on in the new awesome WinUAE which runs full tilt on my machine for the first time).
The fact is, it took Doom and Heretic to make us switch, yet looking back, the Amiga scene was far less of a creative vacuum than the PC. I've been revisiting old games on the emulator and the Amiga was such a great little machine. Check out some of the old demos and you see graphical tricks that I doubt even the most up to date PC's could pull off. Those custom chips were marvelous, and the system was ahead of it's time.
Too bad Commodore fucked it up with their marketing:(
Compared to anything else at the time, it was the best console out there.
Compared to them NOW it's still a great machine. When you figure in all the homebrew stuff, and look at how the other consoles are, the DC is the ultimate geek console.
Not sure I buy that Amiga/ST ratio. I knew about 30 people with Amiga's. I knew one person with an ST. (That was England in the early 90's.)
He does make a good point though. All the PS2/GC/XB fan boys will bang on about it, when the DC is a fantastic machine. Dirt cheap. Tons of home brew stuff. If you're not against downloading you can pretty much get every game ever made. (Not that you can get the majority through legitimate channels anyway.)
It's criminal the machine died. It's easily up there with the PS2 on graphics. It just got killed by shitty marketing and other companies not supporting it (Electronic Arts for example).
Some of the most eclectic games I've ever played are on my beloved Dreamcast. I'd rather sit and play Tokyo Bus Guide than the latest shovelware shit from EA anyway.
I just wish ESPN was out on the PC. As it is, some friends and I just picked up Madden 2004 for $10. Fuck EA Sports and their full priced "updates". I generally buy one Madden title every four years, and I always buy them a year late:)
Dude, you're my HERO! The price fixing is insane. I mean honestly, how can game makers justify the prices of games today? "Oh, well they take so long to create..." Okay... Then explain why your $75 (Canadian dollar) title that "took so long to create" drops down to half that after three months, a price which obviously still gives a profit to all concerned parties....
It's gouging of the worst kind. I would be willing to bet that if makers sold their titles for $35 instead of $75, they'd probably shift a LOT more units from the start.
Of course, the sad part is the average idiot consumer, due to the way the market is currently setup would go "$35? That can't be any good then." Only a HUGE marquee title like Doom 3 could pull this strategy off.
I've had games in the past I couldn't run due to the copy protection not liking my CD drive. I have Red Alert 2. The INSTALL program is copy protected by Safedisc. I can't install it on one computer I have because it's convinced it's a copy.
What really pisses me off is the way these bastards make it so you can't run software that has legitimate purposes (Daemon Tools etc...)...
I never used to boycott games companies over their copy protection. However, I will not be buying any new software until I know for sure it's not got this Starforce shit on it. In fact I recently wrote to the makers of "Chaos League" to inform them that they have lost me as a customer due to their copy protection choice. If more people contacted the software companies, they'd start to take notice, but most people probably just go "Bugger that" and don't speak up.
PLEASE SPEAK UP! This insanity will not stop until you do.
It doesn't work though. Starforce has been cracked. It took 3 months, but it's been cracked. THERE ARE STARFORCE PROTECTED GAMES OUT THERE TO BE DOWNLOADED.
So, yet another intrusive, retarded copy protection fails... There's a shocker...
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Oh how is that a troll? That's hilarious!
Sprem? Isn't that a canned lunch meat?
I don't give a flying fuck if I'm modded as a troll, but Slashdot covers other countries in EVERYTHING. China's censorship, Australia, Canada etc... And yet the politics section is Yanks only.
And I already HAVE removed the politics stories from the page as it's useless unless you're in the US.
Nicely put. The other sad part is the "politics" section of Slashdot is 99% US politics. Yeah, thanks for largely ignoring the other 6 billion on the planet.
I don't even know why I visit this shithole some days.
Nice that you have the courage of your convictions and post anonymously. Typical neo-con posturing. If you're so hardcore in your beliefs, have the balls to attach your name, even a pseudonym, to them.
Thing is, I expect skating brands in a skating game. Just like I expect car part brands in Gran Turismo. That's fine. What I object too is unrelated crap, like Chrysler in a skating game. that makes about as much sense as the skating companies being in Gran Turismo.
And I really don't remember seeing Mountain Dew in THPS2.
People who watch television or listen to radio put up with advertising because the programming is provided at no cost.
If that were really true, I wouldn't have a monthly cable bill. I get 50 channels. Only 2 don't show commercials (both are PBS stations). And yet I have to pay $45 a month for that.
It is bloody despicable they did this. I saw THUG2 running the other day. Very nice game, was debating buying it, but after reading this, I most certainly won't be.
As I stated in a prior post, I'm into racing sims, which by their very nature have logos plastered everywhere. That is the exception I make. If I'm paying $55 for, say, Unreal Tournament 2006, and when I load the game there is an unskippable ad for Sunny Delight... That's the last title I buy from that company. Jarring and offensive is about right Jack!
I like your idea of choice. Though really, they're not going to do that when they can shove them all out at $50 and make fat bank from it.
The only arena where advertising doesn't bother is racing sims. Commercial sponsorships are part and parcel of the sport, so to be realistic, they have to really have them.
"Doom 4: Bought to you by Pepsi. The taste for a new FPS generation."
Fuck off.
Just one problem with this article. It's WRONG.
Shit = chocolate cake = best analogy ever.
I'm quite certain the salaries DO dictate the price. However, as it the same with software piracy, if it lowered, the price of tickets would not drop. Why? Because far too many people stand to make far too much money.
Not saying it's only the players to blame, it's not. However, to say that paying some jackass from Russia 3.8 million a year (random country, random amount, have no idea if that's an accurate figure) has no bearing on front seats being $60 is delusional. The money to pay the players has to come from somewhere.
That was freakin' hilarious! There was a public debate last night that I saw... Yeah, the head of the NHLPA is trying to convince us that the stupidly high ticket prices has NOTHING to do with the stupidly high salaries.
Dude, don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.
As for Laporte, he's ALWAYS been on Tech TV Canada. I think what the person means is, when G4 merged with them, one of the shows that got shitcanned was "Call for Help". Canadians complained, so the Canadian version of the station produces it's own version of the show, hosted by the erstwhile Laporte.
Wish I could get Tech TV still:(
Nonsense. It adds functionality to the game that should have been there in the first place. I fail to see how turning off shadows so people can't hide ranks next to, for example, having a button mapped to toggle crouch so I don't have to hold down the fucking key to stay crouched, or having a crouch jump mapped to a key.
It's not a problem at all.
it's just that some people think a system that can run Counterstrike should run Doom 3
You're implying that if you're system can run CS, it SHOULDN'T be able to run Doom 3:) Is this some weird new game company gimmick? I mean they already blacklist perfectly legal software with their copy protection, surely blacklisting competitors products is the next logical step.
My system is below the minimum specs of Doom 3 on a couple of spots, and runs the game just fine.
Funny... They're making graphical stuff mandatory, thus screwing over to a degree the scaleability of the game.
Back when I had a REALLY lame machine and I played Unreal Tournament, I had a lot of graphical stuff off, including dynamic lighting. Game ran well. Problem was, when I went to play online, it forced the options on, making the game unplayable.
What do you expect from them though? I mean Newell is an ex-Microsoft hack who used to sleep under his desk for Gods sake. The guy is a fucking idiot. How have they screwed the pooch on all this?
They get hacked. Hardly surprising given Gabe's stellar security on that forum, with the password of gaben.
They make up bullshit excuses about how the hack has delayed the game, despite various sources having checked the code that was leaked saying "No fucking way was this ready to ship".
They promote the shit out of Team Fortress 2 back in 1999, and it's yet to appear.
They promote the shit out of Counterstrike: Condition Zero, it's delayed over two years, and ultimately all it adds is mildly good bots, a few graphical and sound tweaks, and that's about it.
Fuck Valve. Fuck Half Life 2.
ID-style? Fuck that. The folks behind Duke Nukem' Forever have done a better job than these Valve fucktards.
I went from the Sinclair Spectrum to the Amiga. My friends went from the C64 to the Amiga. I was the last of my friends to abandon the Amiga (a move I've regretted ever since, but it lives on in the new awesome WinUAE which runs full tilt on my machine for the first time).
The fact is, it took Doom and Heretic to make us switch, yet looking back, the Amiga scene was far less of a creative vacuum than the PC. I've been revisiting old games on the emulator and the Amiga was such a great little machine. Check out some of the old demos and you see graphical tricks that I doubt even the most up to date PC's could pull off. Those custom chips were marvelous, and the system was ahead of it's time.
Too bad Commodore fucked it up with their marketing:(
And you're continuing a silly thread.
And now, so am I...
Compared to anything else at the time, it was the best console out there.
Compared to them NOW it's still a great machine. When you figure in all the homebrew stuff, and look at how the other consoles are, the DC is the ultimate geek console.
Not sure I buy that Amiga/ST ratio. I knew about 30 people with Amiga's. I knew one person with an ST. (That was England in the early 90's.)
He does make a good point though. All the PS2/GC/XB fan boys will bang on about it, when the DC is a fantastic machine. Dirt cheap. Tons of home brew stuff. If you're not against downloading you can pretty much get every game ever made. (Not that you can get the majority through legitimate channels anyway.)
It's criminal the machine died. It's easily up there with the PS2 on graphics. It just got killed by shitty marketing and other companies not supporting it (Electronic Arts for example).
Some of the most eclectic games I've ever played are on my beloved Dreamcast. I'd rather sit and play Tokyo Bus Guide than the latest shovelware shit from EA anyway.
Sorry I couldn't resist making a joke:)
I just wish ESPN was out on the PC. As it is, some friends and I just picked up Madden 2004 for $10. Fuck EA Sports and their full priced "updates". I generally buy one Madden title every four years, and I always buy them a year late:)
Seems a bit extreme, buying a TV network.
Besides, Fox Sports are probably cheaper, and you'll get fair and balanced gameplay...
How is that a troll exactly? It was a joke about Google folk living the Playboy lifestyle ala Hefner...
Of course you probably buy FHM and Maxim since you're too scared to buy REAL porn.
Dude, you're my HERO! The price fixing is insane. I mean honestly, how can game makers justify the prices of games today? "Oh, well they take so long to create..." Okay... Then explain why your $75 (Canadian dollar) title that "took so long to create" drops down to half that after three months, a price which obviously still gives a profit to all concerned parties....
It's gouging of the worst kind. I would be willing to bet that if makers sold their titles for $35 instead of $75, they'd probably shift a LOT more units from the start.
Of course, the sad part is the average idiot consumer, due to the way the market is currently setup would go "$35? That can't be any good then." Only a HUGE marquee title like Doom 3 could pull this strategy off.
I've had games in the past I couldn't run due to the copy protection not liking my CD drive. I have Red Alert 2. The INSTALL program is copy protected by Safedisc. I can't install it on one computer I have because it's convinced it's a copy.
What really pisses me off is the way these bastards make it so you can't run software that has legitimate purposes (Daemon Tools etc...)...
I never used to boycott games companies over their copy protection. However, I will not be buying any new software until I know for sure it's not got this Starforce shit on it. In fact I recently wrote to the makers of "Chaos League" to inform them that they have lost me as a customer due to their copy protection choice. If more people contacted the software companies, they'd start to take notice, but most people probably just go "Bugger that" and don't speak up.
PLEASE SPEAK UP! This insanity will not stop until you do.
It doesn't work though. Starforce has been cracked. It took 3 months, but it's been cracked. THERE ARE STARFORCE PROTECTED GAMES OUT THERE TO BE DOWNLOADED.
So, yet another intrusive, retarded copy protection fails... There's a shocker...
Did they get to sleep with the playmates?