good lord, playing Retrun to Castle Wolfenstein in the dark at 2am with all the graphics pumped up scared the crap out of me for the first time since Doom.
Doom 3 probably will too, I'm a wuss.
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That was a wonderful writeup.
I knew these polygons were only going to be good in certain situations the minute i saw them, before the N64 and PS1... when i played StarFox on my SNES, i knew... something just wasn't right.
I agree that it is a genre by genre thing. For Shooters and flying games (much as I didn't like Star Fox) polygons are the way to go.
For platformer (my favorite kind of game) I really think detailed sprites are the best way. Imagine what kind of sprites a PS2 could push out! Though i did thouroughly enjoy Mario 64, but more for the puzzles than the platformy goodness.
For RPGs, I loved sprite games like FF3, and I've also enjoyed some 3D ones. I think its a matter of taste. Its a lot easier to enjoy a cookiecutter sprite RPG than a cookiecutter 3D one, though. I hate playing bad 3d games, entering the tavern, and there was nothing there besides a box for a table.
I guess its just an issue of taste, though.
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I don't know about all the social jazz.. i mean, I made friend on everquest via 2,500 person servers and A LOT of time spent.
Yahoo pool though, put 50,000 people together, and you never see the same one again.
as for high scores (which i still love) there is www.twingalaxies.com and they are good anal high score geeks properly fitted to the task of recordkeeping.
Civilization 1.0 had a full blown QA testing mode built in. That was so much fun as a kid!
Especially in the days of limited online interaction and no real level editors, it was great to unmask the other civilizations and watch things happen.
Funny, when I used cheat mode on Civ 2 to reveal the map, as much as I loved the game, watching the other Civs build their starting cities just pissed me off at poor AI. I must have grown cynical with age, as the civ 1 AI was probably worse.
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What? That was funny!
You didn't mod him down for saying "fuck" did you?
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I know this is a joke, but there is a real video game and pinball high score book, with official judges and all that good stuff being published by twin galaxies.
i believe it is QWERTY, just German-QWERTZ. As i recall from my trip there, the keyboard is like 99% the same, just with some umlaut keys and the "z" and "y" are switched..
Dude...porn ALONE makes for well over half of the stuff on P2P. I don't have any idea of how much of it is "illegal", but you never hear the Porn Industry whining about how people are "getting off" scot free.
Thats cause they have enough of a customer bas at this point in time that they don't feel threatened. Teenagers were a huge source of revenue for the RIAA and a big chunk has been eaten out of those profits. Teenagers, while they like porn, were not really cash cows for the sex industry.
Your point taken. I can't argue with Canadians about how they feel. Still, I feel this is an issue of dumping on the US for no good reason.
I'm curious what you propose we call ourselves down here?
"United Statesmen" is the only reasonable one i can think of. But its really not descriptive of our counrty. "United States" only serves as a descriptor of the fact that a bunch of independent states came together to form a government. It only works because there are not other "United States" in the world.
Take for example the Democratic Republic of Conogo. We don't call them "Democratic Republicans" we call them Conoglese.
The Central African Republic english adjective is "Central Africans" Surely there are other countries in Central Africa. I don't regard the Central Africans as arrogant or stupid when it comes to their continent.
It just seems like a silly to rip on America for, when there are so many better things. I dunno.
But things like this aren't decided by geologists and scientists. If they were, things would be great, especially for geeks like us.
The real world is ruled by geopolitics though, and in that, Americans are Americans, frankly, because we say we are. The people in this hemisphere generally don't refer to themselves by continent. Pehaps they do in South America, but I know on pretty good authority that Mexicans, Canadians, and Cubans don't feeling any pressing desire to call themselves "Americans'. Referring to yourself by continent is so.. European.:)
By "unknown browsers" they are OBVIOUSLY referring to unknown people BROWSING the system. It is not a conspiracy to destroy Opera or Mozilla or something. Yeeesh.
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It was a resonable arguement, yet modded down cause it was unpopular. Much like this probably will be.
good lord, playing Retrun to Castle Wolfenstein in the dark at 2am with all the graphics pumped up scared the crap out of me for the first time since Doom.
Doom 3 probably will too, I'm a wuss.
That was a wonderful writeup.
I knew these polygons were only going to be good in certain situations the minute i saw them, before the N64 and PS1... when i played StarFox on my SNES, i knew... something just wasn't right.
I agree that it is a genre by genre thing. For Shooters and flying games (much as I didn't like Star Fox) polygons are the way to go.
For platformer (my favorite kind of game) I really think detailed sprites are the best way. Imagine what kind of sprites a PS2 could push out! Though i did thouroughly enjoy Mario 64, but more for the puzzles than the platformy goodness.
For RPGs, I loved sprite games like FF3, and I've also enjoyed some 3D ones. I think its a matter of taste. Its a lot easier to enjoy a cookiecutter sprite RPG than a cookiecutter 3D one, though. I hate playing bad 3d games, entering the tavern, and there was nothing there besides a box for a table.
I guess its just an issue of taste, though.
I don't know about all the social jazz.. i mean, I made friend on everquest via 2,500 person servers and A LOT of time spent.
Yahoo pool though, put 50,000 people together, and you never see the same one again.
as for high scores (which i still love) there is www.twingalaxies.com and they are good anal high score geeks properly fitted to the task of recordkeeping.
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Bah, perhaps they had a faster processor and were there first, but the SNES was CLEARLY the better machine.
Civilization 1.0 had a full blown QA testing mode built in. That was so much fun as a kid!
Especially in the days of limited online interaction and no real level editors, it was great to unmask the other civilizations and watch things happen.
Funny, when I used cheat mode on Civ 2 to reveal the map, as much as I loved the game, watching the other Civs build their starting cities just pissed me off at poor AI. I must have grown cynical with age, as the civ 1 AI was probably worse.
What? That was funny!
You didn't mod him down for saying "fuck" did you?
I know this is a joke, but there is a real video game and pinball high score book, with official judges and all that good stuff being published by twin galaxies.
Its 1,200 pages too!
Visit www.twingalaxies.com for more info.
Store it in Sealand man! That guy will probably take a few million dollars in exchange for your nuclear waste!
75% of the Street team is not white.
please never get involved with Open Source software. It requires people to trump one another quite frequently to produce anything good.
Titanic != Senor Speilbergo.
Do you know if there is an equivalent bit of code that can be removed to eliminate the ads in the default ICQ client?
hey thanks a lot. My system is happy to have one less ad taking up memory that could be used by useful programs.
thats right! The squared circle! Its gonna be pandemonium baby!
I can see the advantages of the ctrl key, and no caps, windows.
But... I dont understand where making you press two keys for home/end (or the lack of arrows, really) is useful. Perhaps if you grew up without them.
When I'm coding, I love being able to Shift-end and Shift home all over the place.
The arrows aren't that big of a deal, I suppose.
i believe it is QWERTY, just German-QWERTZ. As i recall from my trip there, the keyboard is like 99% the same, just with some umlaut keys and the "z" and "y" are switched..
or i could be wrong...
How often does anyone, aside from people writing Nigerian mail scams, use the caps lock?
My friend, you've obviously never spent anytime on the AOL posting forums.
Not that that is a bad thing.
not real teens.
Dude...porn ALONE makes for well over half of the stuff on P2P. I don't have any idea of how much of it is "illegal", but you never hear the Porn Industry whining about how people are "getting off" scot free.
Thats cause they have enough of a customer bas at this point in time that they don't feel threatened. Teenagers were a huge source of revenue for the RIAA and a big chunk has been eaten out of those profits. Teenagers, while they like porn, were not really cash cows for the sex industry.
I'll bet that way more than 99% of said shared porn is copyrighted.
Dude, the Troll doesnt say that. You can't declare victory in your OWN fight.
Your point taken. I can't argue with Canadians about how they feel. Still, I feel this is an issue of dumping on the US for no good reason.
I'm curious what you propose we call ourselves down here?
"United Statesmen" is the only reasonable one i can think of. But its really not descriptive of our counrty. "United States" only serves as a descriptor of the fact that a bunch of independent states came together to form a government. It only works because there are not other "United States" in the world.
Take for example the Democratic Republic of Conogo. We don't call them "Democratic Republicans" we call them Conoglese.
The Central African Republic english adjective is "Central Africans" Surely there are other countries in Central Africa. I don't regard the Central Africans as arrogant or stupid when it comes to their continent.
It just seems like a silly to rip on America for, when there are so many better things. I dunno.
But things like this aren't decided by geologists and scientists. If they were, things would be great, especially for geeks like us.
:)
The real world is ruled by geopolitics though, and in that, Americans are Americans, frankly, because we say we are. The people in this hemisphere generally don't refer to themselves by continent. Pehaps they do in South America, but I know on pretty good authority that Mexicans, Canadians, and Cubans don't feeling any pressing desire to call themselves "Americans'. Referring to yourself by continent is so.. European.
Oh my god, you Slashbot!
By "unknown browsers" they are OBVIOUSLY referring to unknown people BROWSING the system. It is not a conspiracy to destroy Opera or Mozilla or something. Yeeesh.