They could use voice over the net. Use Yahoo, Ventrillo... Plenty of options to avoid those pesky long distance charges.
If you want to play online games and want the social interaction, maybe both get a trial of The Sims Online. It's not bad, and if you can't shag her in person, you can at least do it in the game:)
Definitely. All they have right now is hype. I mean that list of games that appeared a while ago, all they did was cut and paste a list of PC games, some of them over five years old.
My spidersense is tingling with this article... The whole thing sounds more like a way to scam venture capital out of gullible investors than anything else. I've not seen hyperbole like this since the dot com crash. It's unbelievable!
If this console makes it to market with everything they're promising, I will do to myself what the Goatsex guy did...
And unlike other cdkey services, I don't think Blizzard's has ever been cracked, meaning a keygen, assuming it's not a trojan, would probably be useless.
If I had mod points, you'd be modded up for that:) hehehe
I think it's great Blizzard are doing this. Too many software companies take a "Tough shit, fuck you" attitude toward assholes ruining online games.
Let the CDKEY banning commence I say:) Still choked at Blizzard using Securom (which my system hates) and not allowing no-cd cracks anymore on Battlenet, but I admire them for doing what they can to buttheads who ruin the online game.
My only experience is with such a device on my original PS1. I could probably find cheats, but I wouldn't have the patience. The device I have has no scan feature or anything. Would be an extremely tedious trial and error experiment.
I say kudos to Gameshark for doing this. Sadly other sites will still post codes, but it's a good start to killing off cheating for the most part.
Splinter Cell was fun for a few minutes, but the PC version has a crippling bug in one of the early missions that renders the game unplayable because you can't complete the mission.
Let's not forget that Valve didn't just pull the bots, oh no, they pulled them TWO DAYS after the changelog was posted, and snuck the info into it.
They were pulled with no warning or explanation. In fact on several occasions Valve outright denied it.
Essentially those who beta tested the bots, like me and many of my friends, got screwed over royally by Valve. If they've been up front and said "Look, were removing the bots" then fair play to them. Without prior warning it would have sucked, but I'd have no problem with it. What REALLY pisses me off is the duplicitous nature in which they actually did it. Sneaking a huge modification to the game into a two day old changelog is a sleazy thing to do and created extremely bad feelings amongst all my friends who were, up until that point, huge Valve fans and planned to buy CZ. Then Valve pretty much said "Fuck you, you want bots, you gotta buy CZ"... And now everyone I know has moved onto another FPS and Valve have probably lost about $1000 in sales just from my gaming group alone.
Needless to say we laughed when the source for HL2 was downloaded. Fuck you Valve, you screwed over the CS fans, cry me a fucking river Newell. Go back to Microsoft and sleep under your desk. (The main guy who was whining after the source was downloaded is Gabe Newell, who while at Microsoft spent a month sleeping in his office. Explains a lot about Valve...
Incidentally, when did Slashdot become a mod announcement site?
Heretic 2. Total shit. Heretic is one of my favourite games. Moving ANY game to third person, when the original was first person, is a disastrous move. Heretic 2 was a terrible game.
Yep, it's been consolified. Was interested in this. Not anymore. That's like someone buying the rights to Warcraft and saying "Okay, we're turned it into a first person shooter." Thief was NOT a third person game, it was a first person game.
Buying games online is nice and easy. But I wouldn't change the box buying experience at all. Cracking open the box and getting a printed manual (sadly getting rarer and rarer these days) and other goodies can't be beat. The original Neverwinter has a cool little cloth map, and the recent Hordes of the Underdark expansion has cool little gatefold packaging for you to put ALL your NWN disks in. Very cool.
I remember back in days of yore, when boxes were big, and software companies still gave a damn. If you got early copies of Sensible Software's "Cannon Fodder" on the Amiga, you got a cool little bullet keychain.
Kinda hard for any of those "added value" style gimmicks to translate to online purchasing.
Would be really great to get up to any bank of snipers in TFC and go nuts. Going there as a medic was fun. Infect the bastards. Most of the time, the team didn't seem to have a medic, so infection couldn't be cured. Made all the more sweet by the fact that any other player on the team that went near the infected one got infected.
MAN TFC was a great game:) At least you usually got some warning you were going to be sniped. When you held the fire button down, a red light appeared showing you where you'd hit. Of course, the other player could see it so if the screen ever went red, do something outlandish. Duck, run, jump backwards, whatever:)
"Band of Brothers" portrays snipers in an historically accurate fashion. One episode, I think four soldiers are killed before they even figure out where he is.
Back to the article, it is ridiculous. The sniper rifle in a lot of FPS games equates to the old BFG in Doom. One shot and BOOM! Instant death.
I do have to agree. Snipers do have a big advantage. What really sucks is, back in the days when I was a Team Fortress Classic zealot (the Half Life addon btw), the only way you could be a sniper was to be an LPB. (Low Ping Bastard). In many cases, you were dead before you'd actually hear the shot if you were on dialup.
Of course, making it to one of the sniping positions and having the sniper not realise you were behind him always provided sweet revenge. Especially as the Spy class, so you could stab the little bastard in the back. Ah, great days...
To be theft an item has to be in the sole possession of the criminal. The Valve incident is copyright violation (on a grand scale) NOT theft.
Regardless, my point still stands. Machines, hooked to the net, with known security problems on it... The guy or gal who did it wasn't exactly facing a Fort Knox level of security.
Like if you left your car unlocked on purpose and someone stole it, sure, it's still "theft", but I have no sympathy for you because you bought it on yourself.
I figured that whoever got in took the textures too. Whatever the case, there's a version been on the net for aeons now.
I have very little sympathy for Valve, and find their fanboys deeply amusing. Running a program that any monkey knows is full of security holes (Outlook) on a system with valuable code on...
It's like leaving all the doors open at the bank and using the honor system to keep people out of the vault...
A compiled version of the source was on the net about a week after it was downloaded. Where the textures are from I don't know, but the only thing that surprises me is it took so LONG for someone to start selling it.
I couldn't give a rats ass what they think. It's not like my opinion is unique. The biggest problem with XVID is because the developers don't put out any official binaries and the project is open sourced, any jackass can tinker with the source and release their own binaries. The problem with THIS is the fact that someone can encode into XVID on their system, but depending on how I got my codec, or how they got there's, XVID doesn't mean the same on my system as it does on theirs. Therefore there are incompatibilities between them. Sometimes that isn't a big deal and you may get a minor glitch. Other times it's a complete showstopper rendering video unplayable so you have to play Russian Roulette until you find the right codec, which of course my very well fuck over other video that played just fine.
So, to repeat, XVID is shit. At least if someone uses DIVX 4 for something, I know exactly what codec it is and what to expect. (Not to mention the fact that XVID is a total bitch to convert to MPEG, especially KVCD format).
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Nope, just a fan.
They could use voice over the net. Use Yahoo, Ventrillo... Plenty of options to avoid those pesky long distance charges.
If you want to play online games and want the social interaction, maybe both get a trial of The Sims Online. It's not bad, and if you can't shag her in person, you can at least do it in the game:)
Definitely. All they have right now is hype. I mean that list of games that appeared a while ago, all they did was cut and paste a list of PC games, some of them over five years old.
My spidersense is tingling with this article... The whole thing sounds more like a way to scam venture capital out of gullible investors than anything else. I've not seen hyperbole like this since the dot com crash. It's unbelievable!
If this console makes it to market with everything they're promising, I will do to myself what the Goatsex guy did...
Whatever the case, they're doing it. Whether it's for noble reasons or not, it's still a good thing:)
Action Replay... I remember, a friend had one on the Amiga. Really fun little device that was.
And unlike other cdkey services, I don't think Blizzard's has ever been cracked, meaning a keygen, assuming it's not a trojan, would probably be useless.
If I had mod points, you'd be modded up for that:) hehehe
I think it's great Blizzard are doing this. Too many software companies take a "Tough shit, fuck you" attitude toward assholes ruining online games.
Let the CDKEY banning commence I say:) Still choked at Blizzard using Securom (which my system hates) and not allowing no-cd cracks anymore on Battlenet, but I admire them for doing what they can to buttheads who ruin the online game.
My only experience is with such a device on my original PS1. I could probably find cheats, but I wouldn't have the patience. The device I have has no scan feature or anything. Would be an extremely tedious trial and error experiment.
I say kudos to Gameshark for doing this. Sadly other sites will still post codes, but it's a good start to killing off cheating for the most part.
Splinter Cell was fun for a few minutes, but the PC version has a crippling bug in one of the early missions that renders the game unplayable because you can't complete the mission.
Let's not forget that Valve didn't just pull the bots, oh no, they pulled them TWO DAYS after the changelog was posted, and snuck the info into it.
They were pulled with no warning or explanation. In fact on several occasions Valve outright denied it.
Essentially those who beta tested the bots, like me and many of my friends, got screwed over royally by Valve. If they've been up front and said "Look, were removing the bots" then fair play to them. Without prior warning it would have sucked, but I'd have no problem with it. What REALLY pisses me off is the duplicitous nature in which they actually did it. Sneaking a huge modification to the game into a two day old changelog is a sleazy thing to do and created extremely bad feelings amongst all my friends who were, up until that point, huge Valve fans and planned to buy CZ. Then Valve pretty much said "Fuck you, you want bots, you gotta buy CZ"... And now everyone I know has moved onto another FPS and Valve have probably lost about $1000 in sales just from my gaming group alone.
Needless to say we laughed when the source for HL2 was downloaded. Fuck you Valve, you screwed over the CS fans, cry me a fucking river Newell. Go back to Microsoft and sleep under your desk. (The main guy who was whining after the source was downloaded is Gabe Newell, who while at Microsoft spent a month sleeping in his office. Explains a lot about Valve...
Incidentally, when did Slashdot become a mod announcement site?
I shall pass the message on to those involved.
Yeah, Europe does seem hell bent on getting rid of F1 doesn't. Ah well, their loss...
I agree 100% with you. I have NEVER bought a third person action game. Never bloody will either. I hate them.
Cutscenes are tiresome.
I like the idea of bringing 80's developers to now. That would be great. They haven't been corrupted by money or "Me-To-Itis".
I have a hard time thinking of the last truly original game...
Heretic 2. Total shit. Heretic is one of my favourite games. Moving ANY game to third person, when the original was first person, is a disastrous move. Heretic 2 was a terrible game.
Yep, it's been consolified. Was interested in this. Not anymore. That's like someone buying the rights to Warcraft and saying "Okay, we're turned it into a first person shooter." Thief was NOT a third person game, it was a first person game.
This game is Thief in name alone.
HAHA! That's it:)
No, he's right. They do have a few good articles. Or at least they did when I last read one which was a long while ago.
I can sum up any Cosmopolitan article with the following.
"You are worthless/fat/ugly. You need a man. Here's how to get one."
Yes. Because God Forbid we should see any nipple through the clothing...
Those magazines are so lame. Porn for those who are too scared to buy the real thing.
The Maxim/FHM generation get their own game.
Wonder if the nudity will be airbrushed?
Buying games online is nice and easy. But I wouldn't change the box buying experience at all. Cracking open the box and getting a printed manual (sadly getting rarer and rarer these days) and other goodies can't be beat. The original Neverwinter has a cool little cloth map, and the recent Hordes of the Underdark expansion has cool little gatefold packaging for you to put ALL your NWN disks in. Very cool.
I remember back in days of yore, when boxes were big, and software companies still gave a damn. If you got early copies of Sensible Software's "Cannon Fodder" on the Amiga, you got a cool little bullet keychain.
Kinda hard for any of those "added value" style gimmicks to translate to online purchasing.
Would be really great to get up to any bank of snipers in TFC and go nuts. Going there as a medic was fun. Infect the bastards. Most of the time, the team didn't seem to have a medic, so infection couldn't be cured. Made all the more sweet by the fact that any other player on the team that went near the infected one got infected.
MAN TFC was a great game:) At least you usually got some warning you were going to be sniped. When you held the fire button down, a red light appeared showing you where you'd hit. Of course, the other player could see it so if the screen ever went red, do something outlandish. Duck, run, jump backwards, whatever:)
I meant when it went off. The ball of energy wasn't that fast (wasn't that slow either), but it was devastating.
"Band of Brothers" portrays snipers in an historically accurate fashion. One episode, I think four soldiers are killed before they even figure out where he is.
Back to the article, it is ridiculous. The sniper rifle in a lot of FPS games equates to the old BFG in Doom. One shot and BOOM! Instant death.
sniper rifle is the "finger of god"
There's a very good reason why a lot of servers ban the use of some or all sniper rifles.
I do have to agree. Snipers do have a big advantage. What really sucks is, back in the days when I was a Team Fortress Classic zealot (the Half Life addon btw), the only way you could be a sniper was to be an LPB. (Low Ping Bastard). In many cases, you were dead before you'd actually hear the shot if you were on dialup.
Of course, making it to one of the sniping positions and having the sniper not realise you were behind him always provided sweet revenge. Especially as the Spy class, so you could stab the little bastard in the back. Ah, great days...
To be theft an item has to be in the sole possession of the criminal. The Valve incident is copyright violation (on a grand scale) NOT theft.
Regardless, my point still stands. Machines, hooked to the net, with known security problems on it... The guy or gal who did it wasn't exactly facing a Fort Knox level of security.
Like if you left your car unlocked on purpose and someone stole it, sure, it's still "theft", but I have no sympathy for you because you bought it on yourself.
I figured that whoever got in took the textures too. Whatever the case, there's a version been on the net for aeons now.
I have very little sympathy for Valve, and find their fanboys deeply amusing. Running a program that any monkey knows is full of security holes (Outlook) on a system with valuable code on...
It's like leaving all the doors open at the bank and using the honor system to keep people out of the vault...
A compiled version of the source was on the net about a week after it was downloaded. Where the textures are from I don't know, but the only thing that surprises me is it took so LONG for someone to start selling it.
I couldn't give a rats ass what they think. It's not like my opinion is unique. The biggest problem with XVID is because the developers don't put out any official binaries and the project is open sourced, any jackass can tinker with the source and release their own binaries. The problem with THIS is the fact that someone can encode into XVID on their system, but depending on how I got my codec, or how they got there's, XVID doesn't mean the same on my system as it does on theirs. Therefore there are incompatibilities between them. Sometimes that isn't a big deal and you may get a minor glitch. Other times it's a complete showstopper rendering video unplayable so you have to play Russian Roulette until you find the right codec, which of course my very well fuck over other video that played just fine.
So, to repeat, XVID is shit. At least if someone uses DIVX 4 for something, I know exactly what codec it is and what to expect. (Not to mention the fact that XVID is a total bitch to convert to MPEG, especially KVCD format).