Erm... It WAS released as a game a few years ago. Point and click adventure if I recall. Wasn't too bad from what I heard. Never played it myself.
A game with a narrative style like the movie "Memento" would be pretty innovative. For those who've not seen the movie, I'm not spoiling anything by saying the story is told backwards. You get a scene in color, then a black and white scene (which is basically background on the lead character) then the next scene in color is set BEFORE the first color scene, and ends where that scene began.
Hope that makes sense:) A game with an interesting narrative style would be nice, but the game industry takes even less risks than Hollywood.
You only have to look at how WOTC plays the Magic: The Gathering game to see where AD&D is heading.
10 Release expansion that, if you want to play in the tournaments you HAVE to get to remain competitive (and a friend of mine who plays buys two BOXES of each expansion at least) 20 Add 4 months 30 Goto 10
Every 4 months there's a new expansion, and a good percentage buy it up, so to be competitive you need to buy in, and then 4 months later, you get to do it again.
WOTC make this worse by introducing new rules with the majority of expansions, so if you DON'T buy the new expansion, you'll be facing decks in tournaments that can do shit your deck never will.
Hence I quit buying MTG cards years ago (though aforementioned tourney player gives me his cast offs. To the tune of 4000 cards in the last year.)
The only D&D I've played is the origina D&D, NOT AD&D.
For some inexplicable reason, the local gaming store sold D&D (at the time only the Basic and Expert sets were available), but not AD&D, and being an 11 year old who was none the wiser, I ponied up. Had a RIOT playing. Just me and a friend designing dungeons for each other. He's stay over and we'd play into the night until my parents forced us to turn out the lights... Then we'd get up when the sun came up and carry on. Great days.
In retrospect though, I wish we'd gotten AD&D instead, if only because it'd be cool to have the first edition. I actually bought the pocket sized reprints from a few years ago for the players guide, DM handbook and Monster Manual. I also have the second edition "Core Rules" CD.
If I could afford it I'd get 3.5 tomorrow, simply because I like collecting game systems:)
It's a lot less effort to sic the lawyers on people than actually PATCH the vulnerability. Security through obscurity (and fear).
Seriously, this isn't that surprising. Outside the tech sector, the Skylarov thing was largely ignored, and the Adobe vulnerability has been too. The sad thing is, as a writer, it pains me to see a format which is SUPPOSED to be secure be swiss cheesed. Would never use it myself, but Adobe are the real criminals in this. Defrauding people by saying "yes, this format is secure" when it quite obviously isn't.
I was talking about stuff that's actually USEFUL. I personally think the shops are BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD! They take away a strategic element IMO and make it to easy to to get town portal scrolls etc... Which is ironic given Blizzard said they were going to make it HARDER to get the scrolls.
The neutral heroes... I admit, I didn't know that. Never came across them. (Probably because I was too busy being double teamed whole my teammate sat back and played with himself:))
The majority of people will not give a crap about the new map triggers. So basically I missed the neutral heroes.
I think it was Bill Maher that said "why does everybody have to do everything?" I mean seriously. Sure, sucks to be blind, but for the love of god, rather than whining about discrimination, COME UP WITH A BETTER IDEA to prevent bots registering.
We'll ignore the obvious stupidity when it comes to filling forms in to start with. Surely blind people know SOMEONE who can see. It's not that hard to grab someone and say "can you type in what that says".
I'm colourblind. The fire service where I used to live discriminated against me where I live by not hiring me due to my defective colour receptors, someone call a lawyer.
I have a very rare form of colourblindness. My wife has to help with a lot of stuff involving colours (note that magic word, HELP), I failed to get into the air force due to this and my hearing... "Oh, someone call Lionel Hutz, I've been discriminated against..."
I feel for the blind, I really do. I've had some blind acquaintances, but this is just ridiculous.
Maybe I should sue someone because, by not being blind, I can't be a piano virtuoso like Stevie Wonder...
It's been on Emule for well over a week. In fact I THINK it was out over two weeks prior to shipping. I was a beta tester so played it extensively and didn't like it much anyway. (LOVE the WC3 BTW).
For a game that originally had 6 races, then 5, then was scaled down to 4, you'd think the expansion at that price would have one of the races added back! But no. Basically you get:
One new hero for each race. (Admittedly the new undead one kicks ten kinds of ass!) One new spellcaster (I think) One new flying unit A bunch of new tilesets, and a crappy campaign you'll never play. Some melee changes for levelling your hero (doesn't actually have to venture our to kill creeps anymore, but still gains experience when your other units do)
That's your lot. A LOT of the tweaks and stuff are apparently being added into regular Warcraft 3 (interface changes etc...) so you'll have a lot of it in the patch. I may be missing some more subtle stuff but I'm glad I got to try it out early. Showed me it wasn't worth buying:). In short, I'll be sticking with plain old Warcraft, since we're getting a lot of the stuff anyway:)
In short: I love the original WC3, play it to DEATH, but the expansion just doesn't bring anything really worth having to the table, especially not at that price!
Hey Soulwound:) Can't say I've ever met you in Myth, but then I don't play online much.
The stupid threats are still going on on the board. This time their claiming cheats that will ruin the game (but actually only ruin it for WW2'ers, to which I say "oh well").
Don't forget, Playmyth posted the IP's and email addresses of all the culprits.
Idiot child. The site does it's best to be legit. When IDSA threatened them with legal action, they pulled all games from IDSA members.
Pretty much every freeware game I have I've discovered on Underdogs.
Generally is good, though I've heard rumours that Generally installed Spyware on peoples systems. I have no idea if that's true. All I know is it did no such thing on mine.
As always, people on Slashdot miss the target, but hit the tree.
If you read what I said, I said I have NO problem with someone selling the rights to something they created. What I DO have a problem with is publically stating (it was in an interview on national TV in the US that Rowling said she wouldn't) you'd never sell the rights, and then do just that. That makes you a hypocrite and a liar.
Erm... That means she let that vibrating broomstick idea get past her! So not only is she a sellout with nazi lawyers behind her, she's also an idiot (or very cunning and wants Harry Potter to be a lot of teenagers first sexual experience.)
It's pretty sad. Rowling always said she would NEVER sell the rights to Harry Potter. Now if you look at he books, there's a small message on the copyright page saying that Time Warner own the rights to all the character names and likenesses.
The fact she's an unmitigated sellout aside, Rowling (I have no problem with people making money from their creations, but do NOT take the moral high ground and say you'll never sell the rights, then in the same breath be a media whore who gives their soul to the nearest media behemoth), along with Time-Warner, are becoming cease-and-desist junkies of the highest order. MANY fansites are being shut down.
This form of spamming is nothing new. Any sysadmin worth his salt should know it. It's Dictionary spamming. For example MOST of my spam comes to my ISP's OLD address, which forwards to the new one.
So blah@oldname.net goes to blah@newname.net. The spams I get routinely have CC's to a TON of other likely usernames on the service. To test this theory, I now have that account forwarding to Yahoo, and created a new, similar one, simply subtituting zeroes for the letter "O", and whereas I used to get 40 or so spam a day, I now get 1 or 2 a week, if that.
My theory is that there's a harvest trawling the net for usernames to try at various ISP's, and then spammer wakes up and goes "Okay, today I fire spam at Telstra.com" or whatever and VOILA! A whole ton of spam aimed ONLY at that ISP, and only at a particular subgroup of names. (The ones I get, because my login begins with D, are ALL names with a D at the start.)
Not saying it's NOT the ISP, but honestly, it makes no sense to sell the email address and then have to deal with the customer complaints. Bad business. (Of course, the Internet business model is built on such boneheaded techniques:))
Of course, the ultimate split screen game is the Gran Turismo series. Competitive, but not "kill the other guy". Missus and I played racing games on the PSX. I used to basically block so she could score points:)
Missus and I bought Game of Life a couple of years back and when we played it I was sure SOMETHING had changed but couldn't figure out what. THAT WAS IT! They changed the endgame.
There's been rumours for years of companies like LucasArts deliberately "leaking" their new titles early to build hype for them.
EA have burned me MANY times. I flat out advocate pirating their titles now. They don't give a shit once they've got your money. Found that out several times now... Fuck 'em, burn away boys!
I have examples of games I'd never have bought had it not been for warez. Warcraft 3 for example. Loved that game so much I bought it as Blizzard deserved the money. HalfLife is another (and in the case of HL I had a fully functioning CDKey which worked just fine for online play with the warezed version.)
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Erm... It WAS released as a game a few years ago. Point and click adventure if I recall. Wasn't too bad from what I heard. Never played it myself.
A game with a narrative style like the movie "Memento" would be pretty innovative. For those who've not seen the movie, I'm not spoiling anything by saying the story is told backwards. You get a scene in color, then a black and white scene (which is basically background on the lead character) then the next scene in color is set BEFORE the first color scene, and ends where that scene began.
Hope that makes sense:) A game with an interesting narrative style would be nice, but the game industry takes even less risks than Hollywood.
You only have to look at how WOTC plays the Magic: The Gathering game to see where AD&D is heading.
10 Release expansion that, if you want to play in the tournaments you HAVE to get to remain competitive (and a friend of mine who plays buys two BOXES of each expansion at least)
20 Add 4 months
30 Goto 10
Every 4 months there's a new expansion, and a good percentage buy it up, so to be competitive you need to buy in, and then 4 months later, you get to do it again.
WOTC make this worse by introducing new rules with the majority of expansions, so if you DON'T buy the new expansion, you'll be facing decks in tournaments that can do shit your deck never will.
Hence I quit buying MTG cards years ago (though aforementioned tourney player gives me his cast offs. To the tune of 4000 cards in the last year.)
The only D&D I've played is the origina D&D, NOT AD&D.
For some inexplicable reason, the local gaming store sold D&D (at the time only the Basic and Expert sets were available), but not AD&D, and being an 11 year old who was none the wiser, I ponied up. Had a RIOT playing. Just me and a friend designing dungeons for each other. He's stay over and we'd play into the night until my parents forced us to turn out the lights... Then we'd get up when the sun came up and carry on. Great days.
In retrospect though, I wish we'd gotten AD&D instead, if only because it'd be cool to have the first edition. I actually bought the pocket sized reprints from a few years ago for the players guide, DM handbook and Monster Manual. I also have the second edition "Core Rules" CD.
If I could afford it I'd get 3.5 tomorrow, simply because I like collecting game systems:)
Who do they think they are? Microsoft?
No. Games Workshop. (Anyone who has their stuff from the last few years knows that you pronounce G-A-M-E-S W-O-R-K-S-H-O-P "mil-king-th-ecas-hco-w")
It's a lot less effort to sic the lawyers on people than actually PATCH the vulnerability. Security through obscurity (and fear).
Seriously, this isn't that surprising. Outside the tech sector, the Skylarov thing was largely ignored, and the Adobe vulnerability has been too. The sad thing is, as a writer, it pains me to see a format which is SUPPOSED to be secure be swiss cheesed. Would never use it myself, but Adobe are the real criminals in this. Defrauding people by saying "yes, this format is secure" when it quite obviously isn't.
I was talking about stuff that's actually USEFUL. I personally think the shops are BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD! They take away a strategic element IMO and make it to easy to to get town portal scrolls etc... Which is ironic given Blizzard said they were going to make it HARDER to get the scrolls.
The neutral heroes... I admit, I didn't know that. Never came across them. (Probably because I was too busy being double teamed whole my teammate sat back and played with himself:))
The majority of people will not give a crap about the new map triggers. So basically I missed the neutral heroes.
I think it was Bill Maher that said "why does everybody have to do everything?" I mean seriously. Sure, sucks to be blind, but for the love of god, rather than whining about discrimination, COME UP WITH A BETTER IDEA to prevent bots registering.
We'll ignore the obvious stupidity when it comes to filling forms in to start with. Surely blind people know SOMEONE who can see. It's not that hard to grab someone and say "can you type in what that says".
I'm colourblind. The fire service where I used to live discriminated against me where I live by not hiring me due to my defective colour receptors, someone call a lawyer.
I have a very rare form of colourblindness. My wife has to help with a lot of stuff involving colours (note that magic word, HELP), I failed to get into the air force due to this and my hearing... "Oh, someone call Lionel Hutz, I've been discriminated against..."
I feel for the blind, I really do. I've had some blind acquaintances, but this is just ridiculous.
Maybe I should sue someone because, by not being blind, I can't be a piano virtuoso like Stevie Wonder...
It's been on Emule for well over a week. In fact I THINK it was out over two weeks prior to shipping. I was a beta tester so played it extensively and didn't like it much anyway. (LOVE the WC3 BTW).
For a game that originally had 6 races, then 5, then was scaled down to 4, you'd think the expansion at that price would have one of the races added back! But no. Basically you get:
One new hero for each race. (Admittedly the new undead one kicks ten kinds of ass!)
One new spellcaster (I think)
One new flying unit
A bunch of new tilesets, and a crappy campaign you'll never play.
Some melee changes for levelling your hero (doesn't actually have to venture our to kill creeps anymore, but still gains experience when your other units do)
That's your lot. A LOT of the tweaks and stuff are apparently being added into regular Warcraft 3 (interface changes etc...) so you'll have a lot of it in the patch. I may be missing some more subtle stuff but I'm glad I got to try it out early. Showed me it wasn't worth buying:). In short, I'll be sticking with plain old Warcraft, since we're getting a lot of the stuff anyway:)
In short: I love the original WC3, play it to DEATH, but the expansion just doesn't bring anything really worth having to the table, especially not at that price!
Hey Soulwound:) Can't say I've ever met you in Myth, but then I don't play online much.
The stupid threats are still going on on the board. This time their claiming cheats that will ruin the game (but actually only ruin it for WW2'ers, to which I say "oh well").
Don't forget, Playmyth posted the IP's and email addresses of all the culprits.
Idiot child. The site does it's best to be legit. When IDSA threatened them with legal action, they pulled all games from IDSA members.
Pretty much every freeware game I have I've discovered on Underdogs.
Generally is good, though I've heard rumours that Generally installed Spyware on peoples systems. I have no idea if that's true. All I know is it did no such thing on mine.
This is what happens when I read Slashdot on 3 hours sleep:)
Nobody forced you to upgrade.
As always, people on Slashdot miss the target, but hit the tree.
If you read what I said, I said I have NO problem with someone selling the rights to something they created. What I DO have a problem with is publically stating (it was in an interview on national TV in the US that Rowling said she wouldn't) you'd never sell the rights, and then do just that. That makes you a hypocrite and a liar.
Erm... That means she let that vibrating broomstick idea get past her! So not only is she a sellout with nazi lawyers behind her, she's also an idiot (or very cunning and wants Harry Potter to be a lot of teenagers first sexual experience.)
It's pretty sad. Rowling always said she would NEVER sell the rights to Harry Potter. Now if you look at he books, there's a small message on the copyright page saying that Time Warner own the rights to all the character names and likenesses.
The fact she's an unmitigated sellout aside, Rowling (I have no problem with people making money from their creations, but do NOT take the moral high ground and say you'll never sell the rights, then in the same breath be a media whore who gives their soul to the nearest media behemoth), along with Time-Warner, are becoming cease-and-desist junkies of the highest order. MANY fansites are being shut down.
This form of spamming is nothing new. Any sysadmin worth his salt should know it. It's Dictionary spamming. For example MOST of my spam comes to my ISP's OLD address, which forwards to the new one.
So blah@oldname.net goes to blah@newname.net. The spams I get routinely have CC's to a TON of other likely usernames on the service. To test this theory, I now have that account forwarding to Yahoo, and created a new, similar one, simply subtituting zeroes for the letter "O", and whereas I used to get 40 or so spam a day, I now get 1 or 2 a week, if that.
My theory is that there's a harvest trawling the net for usernames to try at various ISP's, and then spammer wakes up and goes "Okay, today I fire spam at Telstra.com" or whatever and VOILA! A whole ton of spam aimed ONLY at that ISP, and only at a particular subgroup of names. (The ones I get, because my login begins with D, are ALL names with a D at the start.)
Not saying it's NOT the ISP, but honestly, it makes no sense to sell the email address and then have to deal with the customer complaints. Bad business. (Of course, the Internet business model is built on such boneheaded techniques:))
Of course, the ultimate split screen game is the Gran Turismo series. Competitive, but not "kill the other guy". Missus and I played racing games on the PSX. I used to basically block so she could score points:)
Starcraft and the like though you have to have two computers. The original article seems to want one machine.
Some suggestions:
PC:
CIV (any of them)
Stars!
Championship Manager
PSX:
Crash Bash
Worms Armageddon
I KNEW IT!
Missus and I bought Game of Life a couple of years back and when we played it I was sure SOMETHING had changed but couldn't figure out what. THAT WAS IT! They changed the endgame.
Thanks:)
Crash Bash on the PSX is great fun in coop mode.
(about the most painful thing you can think of happened)
You caught your penis in your fly?
It's also gonna be XBox only from what I've heard. Or at least like "Halo", you know, will come out on the PC when the sequel ships for the Sexbox.
It's not THEFT you fucktard. Go read the dictionary definiton of THEFT. It's breach of copyright, an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND FAR LESSER CRIME.
It's just the suits WANT to make people equate it to robbing a bank with a shotgun.
From the sounds of things, you could download MP3's an album you own, and you'd still be considered a criminal.
Don't believe "it's only for pirates"... It may START that way, but once the door is open, it's goodnight Sweden.
There's been rumours for years of companies like LucasArts deliberately "leaking" their new titles early to build hype for them.
EA have burned me MANY times. I flat out advocate pirating their titles now. They don't give a shit once they've got your money. Found that out several times now... Fuck 'em, burn away boys!
I have examples of games I'd never have bought had it not been for warez. Warcraft 3 for example. Loved that game so much I bought it as Blizzard deserved the money. HalfLife is another (and in the case of HL I had a fully functioning CDKey which worked just fine for online play with the warezed version.)