That "Alone in the Dark" trailer is quite possibly the worst trailer I've ever seen. Were it not for Slater and Tara Reid, I would assume it was merely a bad cutscene from a bad game.
A military junkie friend told me tracers are all wrong too.
Awful, AWFUL looking film. Of course, what do you expect from the idiot who directed "House of the Dead", a movie that has 2.7 out of 10 on IMDB, and is considered by many to be the worst movie made in recent times.
Yes. A game which was still released on the Dreamcast in Europe and Japan. (The European version works just fine on a US DC. I have one.)
With multi platform titles, I agree. That has often been the case. However, Shenmue 2 was NOT a multi platform title until Microsoft bought off Sega to NOT release what they saw as a killer app in the US market, instead saving it for their shitty XBox.
Should read the small print of EA's titles. Anything in the license about free servers is only guaranteed for, at best, a year. The last Need for Speed game, the small print said they'd only guarantee the service for a year.
Valve, now EA... Free gaming is an endangered species.
Of course, it didn't help that Microsoft allegedly paid them off to not release Shenmue 2 in the US market. Valve were also allegedly paid to can Half Life for the DC too. (Heard both allegations from people involved in development.)
EA are evil. They represent everything wrong with the gaming industry. If this plan succeeds, which it will because people are sheep, you just wait... EA have opened the floodgate.
Mark my words folks. This could very well the end of free online gaming as we know it. A class system is being created with this plan of EA's. Not content with fucking people with updated rosters and a couple of new features every year, and charging top dollar for it, they now want you to pay all year round.
EA aren't becoming the Microsoft of games publishers. They already ARE.
Have to agree, EA are saying "You can act like an asshole, quit games etc... But give us $20 and we'll make you look like a wonderful person despite the fact you're a shit."
EA said they were going to do this two years ago.
What amuses the piss out of me is they charge, AND THEN RAM DODGE ADVERTS DOWN YOUR THROAT!
Anyone who pays for this... I have a nice bridge I can sell you in London... And how about some of this lovely swamp land I have?
So glad I decided to not write for them. (Seriously.) I could never associate with a site that posts such drivel.
Downloading software ain't theft. Never has been, never will be. Just like pirating cable isn't theft. Just like downloading music isn't theft.
What amazes me is this says about educating people... Like people are somehow stupid and couldn't possibly realise what they're doing is "wrong" (yeah, wrong, like when a software developer releases a piece of software to utterly fucked out of the box it can format your hard drive... Or a piece of software that is bugged so far as to be unplayable, and that the developer says will never be patched. Or developers who put complete fiction on the system specs and admit to it when you contact them. That, my friends, is obtaining money by deception.)
Anyway, back to the plot. The condescending writer pimps education, like people who download don't think it's wrong... That's the stupidest thing I've ever read in the whole argument.
The argument against Underdogs is crap. If I want to buy a classic album on vinyl, I can trawl stores and find it. If I want Cannon Fodder for the PC (just to pick a random example) I have no means of getting it outside of Abandonware sites. If the software industry provided a means to buy these classic titles, then fair play to that claim (and admittedly, some companies do, and Underdogs links to where you can buy the title rather than a download), but until such time as that's the norm rather than the exception, there is a place for Underdogs. They're not making money off the service, so I see no problem.
Oh I don't know... "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe" might:)
It does leave a bad taste in the mouth this legal action, but I find it absolutely hilarious knowing these stupid wankers are being sued. I gave up on online gaming a while ago. I play with a select group now and that's it. The great unwashed ain't worth the hassle.
Maybe next we can sue the stupid wanker racists I've been encountering lately.
What I want to know is what fuckwit is coming up with these company names? Mucky Baby? What was that one that went tits up recently? Mucky Foot? Fucking stupid company names.
Whatever happened to cool names, like the sadly departed "Cavedog"?
Whatever... You're better off going and downloading a Sinclair Spectrum emulator from "World of Spectrum" and downloading the originals than paying for this apparent rehash.
Bollocks to that. It's the DRIVERS world championship. It will always be the pinnacle of motorsport not because of the the technology, but because it's the ONLY series where teams have to BUILD their own cars. The rules explicitly forbid using another teams chassis. (See the Sauber controversy early this year looking like the F2004.)
As for that Williams, it's the most technically advanced racecar ever. If I remember it's the FW14B. Can't remember for sure.
F1 needs to quit whining about tech and realise that without passing and real racing, there are only going to be the sad bastards like myself watching.
Not denying it's a good thing AT ALL. I just had to remove that Starforce shit from my system due to the fact is fucked over my CD writer.
I hope it does pass. As you say, NONE of these protections defeat piracy in any way, they just fuck over legitimate consumers, and unless you're tech savvy, you have no idea why your CD writer just choked, you're external hard drive just got destroyed etc... (all "side effects" of Starforce I've seen happen to people.)
So, if this act does what it claims, it should technically make the (recently mentioned on Slashdot in the Games section) Starforce copy protection illegal, because that installs and modifies your system without informing you.
Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic is awesome. It's a standalone "expansion", so you get the original AoW II, and the extra stuff. Hell of a game. The combat is fun, but can be left to it's own devices etc.. Well worth checking out.
Last I heard Supernova was cancelled due to the publisher dropping it.
If you're not averse to it, you can find Stars! serial numbers on the net. I had to do that when I installed it about 4 years after I got it to discover I'd lost the serial.
I actually bought one a month ago for $20. If you're not averse to downloading games for a dead system (which I'm certainly not) it's a bargain! Criminal that the machine died commercially, but then it's design is what has left it open to all this lovely homebrew stuff. There's something very weird about playing Super Mario on a SNES emulator on a SEGA machine:)
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I'd rather see Halle "Hit'n'Run" Berry than this dog. And I fucking hate the woman.
That "Alone in the Dark" trailer is quite possibly the worst trailer I've ever seen. Were it not for Slater and Tara Reid, I would assume it was merely a bad cutscene from a bad game.
A military junkie friend told me tracers are all wrong too.
Awful, AWFUL looking film. Of course, what do you expect from the idiot who directed "House of the Dead", a movie that has 2.7 out of 10 on IMDB, and is considered by many to be the worst movie made in recent times.
Boll... He's a 21st century Ed Wood.
Yes. A game which was still released on the Dreamcast in Europe and Japan. (The European version works just fine on a US DC. I have one.)
With multi platform titles, I agree. That has often been the case. However, Shenmue 2 was NOT a multi platform title until Microsoft bought off Sega to NOT release what they saw as a killer app in the US market, instead saving it for their shitty XBox.
Should read the small print of EA's titles. Anything in the license about free servers is only guaranteed for, at best, a year. The last Need for Speed game, the small print said they'd only guarantee the service for a year.
Valve, now EA... Free gaming is an endangered species.
What do you mean becoming?
Dreamcast: EA never touched it, died a death.
Of course, it didn't help that Microsoft allegedly paid them off to not release Shenmue 2 in the US market. Valve were also allegedly paid to can Half Life for the DC too. (Heard both allegations from people involved in development.)
EA are evil. They represent everything wrong with the gaming industry. If this plan succeeds, which it will because people are sheep, you just wait... EA have opened the floodgate.
Mark my words folks. This could very well the end of free online gaming as we know it. A class system is being created with this plan of EA's. Not content with fucking people with updated rosters and a couple of new features every year, and charging top dollar for it, they now want you to pay all year round.
EA aren't becoming the Microsoft of games publishers. They already ARE.
You're mistaken. Useless features AND Dodge commercials. A company with a logo like a vagina.
Have to agree, EA are saying "You can act like an asshole, quit games etc... But give us $20 and we'll make you look like a wonderful person despite the fact you're a shit."
EA said they were going to do this two years ago.
What amuses the piss out of me is they charge, AND THEN RAM DODGE ADVERTS DOWN YOUR THROAT!
Anyone who pays for this... I have a nice bridge I can sell you in London... And how about some of this lovely swamp land I have?
Unless you're a woman of course.
So glad I decided to not write for them. (Seriously.) I could never associate with a site that posts such drivel.
Downloading software ain't theft. Never has been, never will be. Just like pirating cable isn't theft. Just like downloading music isn't theft.
What amazes me is this says about educating people... Like people are somehow stupid and couldn't possibly realise what they're doing is "wrong" (yeah, wrong, like when a software developer releases a piece of software to utterly fucked out of the box it can format your hard drive... Or a piece of software that is bugged so far as to be unplayable, and that the developer says will never be patched. Or developers who put complete fiction on the system specs and admit to it when you contact them. That, my friends, is obtaining money by deception.)
Anyway, back to the plot. The condescending writer pimps education, like people who download don't think it's wrong... That's the stupidest thing I've ever read in the whole argument.
The argument against Underdogs is crap. If I want to buy a classic album on vinyl, I can trawl stores and find it. If I want Cannon Fodder for the PC (just to pick a random example) I have no means of getting it outside of Abandonware sites. If the software industry provided a means to buy these classic titles, then fair play to that claim (and admittedly, some companies do, and Underdogs links to where you can buy the title rather than a download), but until such time as that's the norm rather than the exception, there is a place for Underdogs. They're not making money off the service, so I see no problem.
In short, the writer of that article is an idiot.
That could be ruined by heaping on T&A instead of gameplay, it was this one.
Smart move putting a woman in charge. Actually gives me hope.
So long as there's a still a "threesome in a hot tub" feature:)
Coming Soon:
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Derek Smart.
What a wanker.
So, does this mean that I can go and blow some innocent pedestrians away and get a free GTA: San Andreas?
Man, and to think that my enticement to giving good reviews was my editor making it quite clear I was fired if I didn't. (I took the firing.)
And no, this isn't a joke post BTW. I genuinely was "let go" as they say when my editor made it clear that if a game was bad, I was supposed to lie.
Oh I don't know... "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe" might:)
It does leave a bad taste in the mouth this legal action, but I find it absolutely hilarious knowing these stupid wankers are being sued. I gave up on online gaming a while ago. I play with a select group now and that's it. The great unwashed ain't worth the hassle.
Maybe next we can sue the stupid wanker racists I've been encountering lately.
Really, who cares? To be blunt, anything that stops these cheating shits is worth it.
Sure, legal action isn't the ideal answer, but really, anything that stops some piece of shit lowlife cheating gets my undying approval.
I mourn Papy too. Grand Prix Legends is amazing and still going strong.
We will be left with shit like EA and that's it. There'll be a few indie developers out there, but that'll be it.
It's a sad day. I have Papy's last game (NASCAR 2003. Worth it for the mods and it's dirt cheap now) and, I guess, Sierra's.
Skool Daze was a classic. (As was it's sequel.)
What I want to know is what fuckwit is coming up with these company names? Mucky Baby? What was that one that went tits up recently? Mucky Foot? Fucking stupid company names.
Whatever happened to cool names, like the sadly departed "Cavedog"?
Whatever... You're better off going and downloading a Sinclair Spectrum emulator from "World of Spectrum" and downloading the originals than paying for this apparent rehash.
Bollocks to that. It's the DRIVERS world championship. It will always be the pinnacle of motorsport not because of the the technology, but because it's the ONLY series where teams have to BUILD their own cars. The rules explicitly forbid using another teams chassis. (See the Sauber controversy early this year looking like the F2004.)
As for that Williams, it's the most technically advanced racecar ever. If I remember it's the FW14B. Can't remember for sure.
F1 needs to quit whining about tech and realise that without passing and real racing, there are only going to be the sad bastards like myself watching.
Not denying it's a good thing AT ALL. I just had to remove that Starforce shit from my system due to the fact is fucked over my CD writer.
I hope it does pass. As you say, NONE of these protections defeat piracy in any way, they just fuck over legitimate consumers, and unless you're tech savvy, you have no idea why your CD writer just choked, you're external hard drive just got destroyed etc... (all "side effects" of Starforce I've seen happen to people.)
Gotta wonder if these idiots have ever heard of Fed Ex...
And why is there only ONE gold master? Surely they just need to run another copy off?
This sounds like bullshit to me. If they're dropping a gold master in the mail without insurance or anything, they're obviously run by idiots.
So, if this act does what it claims, it should technically make the (recently mentioned on Slashdot in the Games section) Starforce copy protection illegal, because that installs and modifies your system without informing you.
Squad Assault is good too. I think that's the name. Was done by the guy who did the Close Combat series.
There's another. I think you can get CC3 at a certain abandoware site that I won't name here. *cough*underdogs*cough*
Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic is awesome. It's a standalone "expansion", so you get the original AoW II, and the extra stuff. Hell of a game. The combat is fun, but can be left to it's own devices etc.. Well worth checking out.
Space Empires IV is fun too.
Last I heard Supernova was cancelled due to the publisher dropping it.
If you're not averse to it, you can find Stars! serial numbers on the net. I had to do that when I installed it about 4 years after I got it to discover I'd lost the serial.
I actually bought one a month ago for $20. If you're not averse to downloading games for a dead system (which I'm certainly not) it's a bargain! Criminal that the machine died commercially, but then it's design is what has left it open to all this lovely homebrew stuff. There's something very weird about playing Super Mario on a SNES emulator on a SEGA machine:)