Spoken like someone who has never actually touched a real, live breast, let alone kissed one.
Accidentally formatting your hard drive is more fun than this game.
The sad thing is, this will probably win the competition, purely because it's got breasts in it, and most demo coders (at least that I've known) have little to no exposure to women, so playing with virtual breasts is probably the high point of their sex lives.
I imagine certain geeks will takes this as sex advice. I can only imagine how horrified any woman they ever managed to get naked will be when said geek starts smacking their breasts going "helicopter!"
For starters, do you get FREE review product from the games companies? If so, have you honestly ever given a game a bad review? And we're talking Amiga Power levels of bad here. (Like giving a game 2%).
I won't name the game company which is now deceased which gave me shit, suffice to say everyone who has read the review felt it wasn't that bad. In fact my editor loved it. Then when the company gave him a load of shit, he turned on me, said it was bad etc...
As for micropayments, you never know. I'm far from being the only one that thinks most of the reviewing business is corrupt. The system they're choosing to use guarantees unbiased review.
Basically, if you're GIVEN free product (and my guess is these payments will be used to buy the actual games) or advertise games, you can't be trusted to be entirely honest. Not talking giving crap games good reviews, but maybe giving a higher mark because you want to stay in good with the company.
A problem with manuals is they overdo EVERYTHING. You can have the simplest game in the world, but by the time you've read the manual you're going to feel you need a PHD to play it. They go overboard.
Of course, some games have cool sundry manuals. Gran Turismo 2 has a handy little guide on proper racing technique. It's a good little read, but you don't have to read it.
I think any game should be easy enough to pick up without any tutorial so you can learn as you go. Of course, there are exceptions to this. I do tend to like massively complex games.
At least someone is trying to make the business more honest. I was a software reviewer until recently, and discovered that you're expected to lie if a game is trash. I didn't, and it cost me my job because the publisher gave my bosses a ton of shit and cut off the supply of review product.
I'd rather be out of work than whore myself to these assholes.
It's just another way to fleece the customers. And the fact is, FAQ's evolve, the printed guides you have to pay $20 for are obsolete by the time you leave the store in many cases.
When I bought Warcraft 3, I bought the strategy guide as well. Mainly because it was on special, and I've always condemned them, but figured it was about time to see if I was correct in my disgust.
And I was. The guide is mostly useless. There's guides to the single player games, stats for all the units etc... The ONLY part of the guide that is any use if the 6 pages devoted to multiplayer strategy. The stats are kind of interesting, but as soon as Blizzard released a patch, it's game over for the stats being useful. Now, with Frozen Throne out, the build times and costs have changed, which means most of the guide is now useless.
On GameFAQ's you can find a wealth of information, and it's fluid. When Blizzard change costs etc... The author can update it.
Game Guides are a horrible idea whose time is coming to an end thankfully. The question remains though as to whether the game companies will do the decent thing and start providing a decent manual, or if they'll just give up and essentially let the fans write the manuals.
If you bought any game in the last few years, think back to how many came with a decent manual. Very few I bet.
I think it's better than the first game. The first one was fun, but I find this one far more sadistically enjoyable. Not only that, BOTH games have a great physics engine as well.
What with this, and Scorched 3D, this has been a great week for freeware games.
Indeed. The people opposite my house have their monitor on a lot. Hear all kinds of interesting things as the mikes on those things are very sensitive.
And I don't know why people are saying 95% of cellular is digital now. God knows the amount I hear on my scanner is the same as it always has been.
Generally the blocking CANNOT BE MODIFIED! I don't think any scanner made since the late 90's can be modded. I know my Pro-67 from RatShack can't be, and I got that early 2000. (In Canada, sadly. Fucking Radio Shack.)
It USED to be a case of being able to mod it, but MOST, if not all scanners now, you're SOL.
GOD that thing is gorgeous! I first saw this hyped a couple of years ago I think and thought how cool it would be. I just bought a nice new shortwave radio which has rejuvenated my waning interest in radio.
That radio is a thing of beauty! I don't care if it's cellular blocked, I WANT IT!
Fact: Cell frequencies do NOT have to be blocked here in Canada, but sadly, since 99% of our scanners come from the US, they're blocked. Not that it really matters. The imaging (when a frequency appears on a different frequency due to the inner working of the unit) you get on most scanners enables you to hear most cellphones anyway.
Never ceases to amaze me that the communications industry has sold everyone on the fact that these things are PHONES, when in reality, they're just radios, and yet people speak like they're secure. I've heard everything from people admitting to embezzeling money, to a woman who was telling her friend about the several members of the Calgary Flames she'd had sex with the previous night.
Oh yeah, and eavesdropping on people and getting their bank numbers and passcodes is dead easy. All you need is a piece of software to decode the DTMF tones.
Chuck in a TV on a scanner and that'll open up a whole new world of fun!
And the award for most blindingly obvious headline goes too...
LFS is a bit like Gran Turismo in the physics. However, Racer, which is open source, is going to kick it's ass. If anything, Racer should be getting the press here, not LFS. LFS are only doing what titles going back as far as DOOM have done.
I recommend people check out Racer instead of LFS. LFS isn't newsworthy. Certainly no more so than any other shareware project.
Harsh, but accurate. EA are obviously not content with being the Microsoft of the video game world and want to fleece the customer some more. That comment "what the consumer is willing to pay for" is odious. That's outright saying "We're gonna charge the max for EVERYTHING we can until they won't pay no more."
Erm... Tomb Raider... Not shite? Erm... Congratulations. You're one of the three people who liked it.
I don't know a single website or person who saw that movie who thought it was anything other than crap.
As for Resident Evil... Let's see, Res Evil, Tomb Raider, either you're a troll, or wouldn't know a decent movie if it bit you on the ass since BOTH movies were panned by fans of the games (well, in TR's case those who only went to see Lara's tits were probably not disappointed.) Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case you need to work on your sarcasm skills.
And Mortal Kombat 3 has been in production hell for sometime now. (At one point the makers were soliciting ideas from fans after MK2 sucked so badly compared to the first one.)
Yeah, IN THE FUTURE! It ain't out yet, ergo it's not a movie licenced game, it's a licence from a cheesy 70's show. Unless you've got a fucking time machine that is.
If the band is 4-6 people, then fair enough, but what about solo artists? And as I've said above, exchange rates. If you're in a country whose economy is fucked (Argentina springs immediately to mind) $40 US is a BIG chunk of change, and I sure as hell don't want to hear yet another derivative rock band from America...
I've heard indie bands that were local to me. The production was better than a lot of top name albums out there. For example, the Foo Fighter's last album (not their new one) sounded like it was being played through mud. Terrible production.
Unless you're getting a REAL top name to produce, you may as well do it yourself.
If you can't manage to scrape together $40 to invest in your future, or get someone else to do it for you, you aren't talented, sorry.
Sorry mate, but that's bullshit. This is US dollars. Taking into account exchange rates, that would equal probably around $70-$80 Australian. Where I live, that's a quarter of my monthly rent.
$40 may be peanuts to you, but it's not to everyone.
True, but I still think there should be an option. Most muscians I've known have no money:) So having an option to get their music up without having to pony up the $40 would be a nice thing. I fail to see how not having $40 would equate to them not being worth paying for. Money != Talent.
It's gonna take a BIG organization outside the RIAA to come up with a system to beat them. iTunes is a great idea, and this new way of selling music is a good idea, though I think $40 is a bit steep. I think they should have an option. You either pay $40 to get the album on there OR they take a higher percentage of the revenue. (Say 15% instead of 9%.)
Regardless, the RIAA have done themselves no favours with their continued insanity, and this iTunes venture comes on the heels of Michael Jackson (he may be a nutter, but he's one of the top grossing artists of all time) saying that going to jail for downloading MP3's is nuts and that the RIAA needs to find a new solution rather than making criminals out of people.
So, anyone care to start an "RIAA Dead Pool". I reckon they'll be dead and gone by 2007.
Rogue Squadron got good reviews, and is a BLAST to play! You get to re-enact some scenes from Empire if I recall (been a couple of years since I played it.)
If you want Keitel, then a Reservoir Dogs game would be cool... Actually, no it wouldn't, especially if you chose to play Tim Roth's character. Just lay there bleeding for the entire game...
The problem with licences fall into two categories:
The Rush Job: Game is rushed to coincide with the movie. See the piss poor "Enter The Matrix" and "Hulk".
Too Old: Then you get a game like the upcoming "Starsky and Hutch". YEAH! A game based on a 25 year old TV series... Only one that can pull that off is Star Trek, and look how great those games are...
What we need is more games to movies. And no, I don't mean shite like Tomb Raider, I mean games with a good narrative. Driver for example would make a GREAT movie. Nice plot, with plenty of scope for exciting car sequences.
Hell, Vice City. Ray Liotta getting to be Tommy in the movie work great!
Back to licences, for every good game (Goldeneye) there are a million awful ones. Not as bad as it used to be. Go back to the Amiga and check out the licenced games there. EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A PLATFORM GAME! ONLY decent licenced games on the Amiga were Blues Brothers (best platform game outside of a console), and Robocop 3, which went somewhat down the first person route, and did a great job too!
Hudson Hawk wasn't bad, but that was a pretty good game based on a bloody awful movie.
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Did you try the game? It's fun. :-)
Spoken like someone who has never actually touched a real, live breast, let alone kissed one.
Accidentally formatting your hard drive is more fun than this game.
The sad thing is, this will probably win the competition, purely because it's got breasts in it, and most demo coders (at least that I've known) have little to no exposure to women, so playing with virtual breasts is probably the high point of their sex lives.
And would have done a better job of attracting the audience this pathetic game is meant for.
Stick to Truck Dismount if you're over the age of 15.
Quite possibly the saddest game I've ever seen.
I imagine certain geeks will takes this as sex advice. I can only imagine how horrified any woman they ever managed to get naked will be when said geek starts smacking their breasts going "helicopter!"
For starters, do you get FREE review product from the games companies? If so, have you honestly ever given a game a bad review? And we're talking Amiga Power levels of bad here. (Like giving a game 2%).
I won't name the game company which is now deceased which gave me shit, suffice to say everyone who has read the review felt it wasn't that bad. In fact my editor loved it. Then when the company gave him a load of shit, he turned on me, said it was bad etc...
As for micropayments, you never know. I'm far from being the only one that thinks most of the reviewing business is corrupt. The system they're choosing to use guarantees unbiased review.
Basically, if you're GIVEN free product (and my guess is these payments will be used to buy the actual games) or advertise games, you can't be trusted to be entirely honest. Not talking giving crap games good reviews, but maybe giving a higher mark because you want to stay in good with the company.
A problem with manuals is they overdo EVERYTHING. You can have the simplest game in the world, but by the time you've read the manual you're going to feel you need a PHD to play it. They go overboard.
Of course, some games have cool sundry manuals. Gran Turismo 2 has a handy little guide on proper racing technique. It's a good little read, but you don't have to read it.
I think any game should be easy enough to pick up without any tutorial so you can learn as you go. Of course, there are exceptions to this. I do tend to like massively complex games.
At least someone is trying to make the business more honest. I was a software reviewer until recently, and discovered that you're expected to lie if a game is trash. I didn't, and it cost me my job because the publisher gave my bosses a ton of shit and cut off the supply of review product.
I'd rather be out of work than whore myself to these assholes.
It's just another way to fleece the customers. And the fact is, FAQ's evolve, the printed guides you have to pay $20 for are obsolete by the time you leave the store in many cases.
When I bought Warcraft 3, I bought the strategy guide as well. Mainly because it was on special, and I've always condemned them, but figured it was about time to see if I was correct in my disgust.
And I was. The guide is mostly useless. There's guides to the single player games, stats for all the units etc... The ONLY part of the guide that is any use if the 6 pages devoted to multiplayer strategy. The stats are kind of interesting, but as soon as Blizzard released a patch, it's game over for the stats being useful. Now, with Frozen Throne out, the build times and costs have changed, which means most of the guide is now useless.
On GameFAQ's you can find a wealth of information, and it's fluid. When Blizzard change costs etc... The author can update it.
Game Guides are a horrible idea whose time is coming to an end thankfully. The question remains though as to whether the game companies will do the decent thing and start providing a decent manual, or if they'll just give up and essentially let the fans write the manuals.
If you bought any game in the last few years, think back to how many came with a decent manual. Very few I bet.
Wish my town was that interesting!:) Was a lot more fun when I lived in the city. Small towns just aren't as interesting.
I think it's better than the first game. The first one was fun, but I find this one far more sadistically enjoyable. Not only that, BOTH games have a great physics engine as well.
What with this, and Scorched 3D, this has been a great week for freeware games.
Indeed. The people opposite my house have their monitor on a lot. Hear all kinds of interesting things as the mikes on those things are very sensitive.
And I don't know why people are saying 95% of cellular is digital now. God knows the amount I hear on my scanner is the same as it always has been.
Generally the blocking CANNOT BE MODIFIED! I don't think any scanner made since the late 90's can be modded. I know my Pro-67 from RatShack can't be, and I got that early 2000. (In Canada, sadly. Fucking Radio Shack.)
It USED to be a case of being able to mod it, but MOST, if not all scanners now, you're SOL.
Yep. They moved in the late 80's or early 90's. My Dad got a scanner around 1993 and it was a laugh trying to figure out who we were picking up.
Was kinda funny being able to tune along the FM dial in those days. "Music, sports, music, robbery in progress, music..."
GOD that thing is gorgeous! I first saw this hyped a couple of years ago I think and thought how cool it would be. I just bought a nice new shortwave radio which has rejuvenated my waning interest in radio.
That radio is a thing of beauty! I don't care if it's cellular blocked, I WANT IT!
Fact: Cell frequencies do NOT have to be blocked here in Canada, but sadly, since 99% of our scanners come from the US, they're blocked. Not that it really matters. The imaging (when a frequency appears on a different frequency due to the inner working of the unit) you get on most scanners enables you to hear most cellphones anyway.
Never ceases to amaze me that the communications industry has sold everyone on the fact that these things are PHONES, when in reality, they're just radios, and yet people speak like they're secure. I've heard everything from people admitting to embezzeling money, to a woman who was telling her friend about the several members of the Calgary Flames she'd had sex with the previous night.
Oh yeah, and eavesdropping on people and getting their bank numbers and passcodes is dead easy. All you need is a piece of software to decode the DTMF tones.
Chuck in a TV on a scanner and that'll open up a whole new world of fun!
So what if he pimps a book at Amazon and gets a commission? If he makes a few bucks from posting that, good for him.
And the award for most blindingly obvious headline goes too...
LFS is a bit like Gran Turismo in the physics. However, Racer, which is open source, is going to kick it's ass. If anything, Racer should be getting the press here, not LFS. LFS are only doing what titles going back as far as DOOM have done.
I recommend people check out Racer instead of LFS. LFS isn't newsworthy. Certainly no more so than any other shareware project.
Harsh, but accurate. EA are obviously not content with being the Microsoft of the video game world and want to fleece the customer some more. That comment "what the consumer is willing to pay for" is odious. That's outright saying "We're gonna charge the max for EVERYTHING we can until they won't pay no more."
Always knew EA were scum.
Erm... Tomb Raider... Not shite? Erm... Congratulations. You're one of the three people who liked it.
I don't know a single website or person who saw that movie who thought it was anything other than crap.
As for Resident Evil... Let's see, Res Evil, Tomb Raider, either you're a troll, or wouldn't know a decent movie if it bit you on the ass since BOTH movies were panned by fans of the games (well, in TR's case those who only went to see Lara's tits were probably not disappointed.) Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case you need to work on your sarcasm skills.
And Mortal Kombat 3 has been in production hell for sometime now. (At one point the makers were soliciting ideas from fans after MK2 sucked so badly compared to the first one.)
Yeah, IN THE FUTURE! It ain't out yet, ergo it's not a movie licenced game, it's a licence from a cheesy 70's show. Unless you've got a fucking time machine that is.
If the band is 4-6 people, then fair enough, but what about solo artists? And as I've said above, exchange rates. If you're in a country whose economy is fucked (Argentina springs immediately to mind) $40 US is a BIG chunk of change, and I sure as hell don't want to hear yet another derivative rock band from America...
I've heard indie bands that were local to me. The production was better than a lot of top name albums out there. For example, the Foo Fighter's last album (not their new one) sounded like it was being played through mud. Terrible production.
Unless you're getting a REAL top name to produce, you may as well do it yourself.
If you can't manage to scrape together $40 to invest in your future, or get someone else to do it for you, you aren't talented, sorry.
Sorry mate, but that's bullshit. This is US dollars. Taking into account exchange rates, that would equal probably around $70-$80 Australian. Where I live, that's a quarter of my monthly rent.
$40 may be peanuts to you, but it's not to everyone.
True, but I still think there should be an option. Most muscians I've known have no money:) So having an option to get their music up without having to pony up the $40 would be a nice thing. I fail to see how not having $40 would equate to them not being worth paying for. Money != Talent.
It's gonna take a BIG organization outside the RIAA to come up with a system to beat them. iTunes is a great idea, and this new way of selling music is a good idea, though I think $40 is a bit steep. I think they should have an option. You either pay $40 to get the album on there OR they take a higher percentage of the revenue. (Say 15% instead of 9%.)
Regardless, the RIAA have done themselves no favours with their continued insanity, and this iTunes venture comes on the heels of Michael Jackson (he may be a nutter, but he's one of the top grossing artists of all time) saying that going to jail for downloading MP3's is nuts and that the RIAA needs to find a new solution rather than making criminals out of people.
So, anyone care to start an "RIAA Dead Pool". I reckon they'll be dead and gone by 2007.
Rogue Squadron got good reviews, and is a BLAST to play! You get to re-enact some scenes from Empire if I recall (been a couple of years since I played it.)
If you want Keitel, then a Reservoir Dogs game would be cool... Actually, no it wouldn't, especially if you chose to play Tim Roth's character. Just lay there bleeding for the entire game...
The problem with licences fall into two categories:
The Rush Job: Game is rushed to coincide with the movie. See the piss poor "Enter The Matrix" and "Hulk".
Too Old: Then you get a game like the upcoming "Starsky and Hutch". YEAH! A game based on a 25 year old TV series... Only one that can pull that off is Star Trek, and look how great those games are...
What we need is more games to movies. And no, I don't mean shite like Tomb Raider, I mean games with a good narrative. Driver for example would make a GREAT movie. Nice plot, with plenty of scope for exciting car sequences.
Hell, Vice City. Ray Liotta getting to be Tommy in the movie work great!
Back to licences, for every good game (Goldeneye) there are a million awful ones. Not as bad as it used to be. Go back to the Amiga and check out the licenced games there. EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A PLATFORM GAME! ONLY decent licenced games on the Amiga were Blues Brothers (best platform game outside of a console), and Robocop 3, which went somewhat down the first person route, and did a great job too!
Hudson Hawk wasn't bad, but that was a pretty good game based on a bloody awful movie.