You had SNOW. What I would have given for some lovely cooling snow. We had nowt but hot ash raining down upon us morning noon n' night. Blotted out the sky it did.
With the wacky antics of Anonymous and Lulzsec it certainly feels silver age. Just pray that it doesn't descend into a Dark age where even Batman is forced to murder kittens.
It certainly does seem that what made Duke Nukem 3D Awesome is missing from DNF. They've taken Halo and added Tits and dick jokes. While Duke is all for Tits and dick Jokes, it was also about fast-paced action, gratuitous violence and incredibly complicated maze-like levels. Which DNF lacks utterly. In other words, it has the facade of Duke but lacks the deeper gameplay that made DN3D fantastic.
I think he was counting VC and SA since GTA and GTA 2 weren't Rockstar, they were DMA at the time, and the formula was much simpler and quite different. For example, there were no cutscenes in GTA1 and 2 (besides the end-of-city screens), they were both top-down 2.5D and took place entirely out doors. Most of the missions were driving missions and there was little or no gunplay in them. Infact, guns generally were used in pedestrian slaughter, something that GTA 3 onwards really downplayed.
the 4 games he's talking about are GTA 3, VS, SA and GTA IV. The X-City Stories series and GTA Advance also count. Although GTA Advance was closer to GTA 1 than any of the others it still kept closer to the GTA 3 formula, just in 2D, and I've not played the City-Stories series but I understand that they're similar in gameplay to the main GTA 3 series.
Then you have the GTA IV DLC, of which I believe there were 3.
They are milking it, it's quite obvious. Rockstar stopped making other games when they realised what a cash cow GTA is.
Rockstar are the Pulp Fiction (the genre, not the film) of the Games Industry. Churning out stories with mass appeal and satisfying gameplay. I've played through every GTA game and enjoyed each one on it's own merits (although SA's whole Gansta vibe at the start was a bit off-putting, it thankfully deconstructed it in the second act) and for all GTA IVs annoyances (NIIIKO IT IS YOUR COUSSIINNN LETS GO BOWLING!) I still enjoyed it and played it start to finish without feeling like it was a chore.
They're not literary greats, but they work, I enjoy them and that's all I can ask of them.
My keyboard lets me use Right ALT, so with my right hand I can do it. It's not particularly useful as I'm used to doing it with 2 hands. It's not often I have to press CTRL ALT DEL with my wanking hand...
Any of the Tell-tale Games would do. Maybe not the latest season of Sam and Max (Actually, alot of the jokes in Sam and Max might go over a 10yo's head), but certainly their Back To The Future series (which should end this month) which is quite a gentle introduction to the genre, there's no rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle and it doesn't descend into pixel hunting. All the items are pretty obvious as to their function but not too obvious to take away the satisfaction of completing the puzzles.
Exactly, there's a difference (Slight but crucial) between Assisted Suicide and a DNR Order. Personally, I think both should be taken on a case-by-case basis, Even a crippled, paralysed, motor neuron disease riddled man can still contribute immensly to the sum of human knowledge. Okay, not everyone who's permenantly paralysed is Stephen Hawking but you are still you and if you can communicate you want an Assisted Suicide you can still make a difference. Even if it's only to your family, or to one single person and make their life better. Once you're gone your memories and experience go with you and they won't help anyone then.
If you're medicated to the eyeballs and your only moments of lucidity are acompanied by unbareable pain then I understand AS in that situation, but the problem with legistlating it and legalising it means that people other than the desperate and rightfully needy might slip through, and someone who shouldn't have been assisted will have been assisted and nothing will bring that person back.
Any serious gamer won't be wowed by this, Digital Downloads are here to stay as the replacement for brick-and-mortar. If On-live does get popular it will be as an alternative to rental, or game demos. Interactive Streaming video cannot compare to playing locally on your PC, even if the graphics aren't maxed out. Look at the Wii, it trounced its opposition with gameplay over graphics, and the only benifit I can see from On-Live is that you get the best graphical quality while sacrificing everything else, which isn't what gamers want any more.
Beyond that, I'm certain that all this takes alot of cash to set up, and I wonder how good the return on investment is.
With On-live, it does seem like one of those things that will have very very fine margins. If they don't invest enough, the product will be crap, and no-one will use it. Invest alot and you'll get a wonderful product that's not making any money. I wonder if there is a balance out there, and if anyone really cares.
yes, but when you say "EU Member States" you can ONLY be specifically talking about the European Union. You don't say Canada is a Member State of America do you?
King George III agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the Civil List, and this arrangement persists. In modern times, the profits surrendered from the Crown Estate have by far exceeded the Civil List and Grants-in-Aid provided to the monarch.[98] For example, the Crown Estate produced £200 million for the Treasury in the financial year 2007–8, whereas parliamentary funding for the monarch was £40 million during the same period.[99] The Crown Estate is one of the largest property owners in the United Kingdom, worth over £6.6 billion.[100]
Me, I'm neither pro nor anti monarchy. Although it will be a contentious issue I shall have to make a side on when Scotland votes on it's independence in a couple of years.
And all the proceeds from that land goes straight into the treasury in exchange for us providing her with a salary.
Although if she did dissolve parliament I'm more than certain she'd have a revolution on her hands fairly sharpish. It'd be the Roundheads and the Cavaliers all over again.
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People seem to be mistaking the Desktop Widgets being coded in Javascript as the whole OS being a giant interpreter with no support for proper apps.
I think Dawkins has come close to punching a few of them.
You had SNOW. What I would have given for some lovely cooling snow. We had nowt but hot ash raining down upon us morning noon n' night. Blotted out the sky it did.
Closed the airports too.
I loved that film
With the wacky antics of Anonymous and Lulzsec it certainly feels silver age.
Just pray that it doesn't descend into a Dark age where even Batman is forced to murder kittens.
It certainly does seem that what made Duke Nukem 3D Awesome is missing from DNF. They've taken Halo and added Tits and dick jokes.
While Duke is all for Tits and dick Jokes, it was also about fast-paced action, gratuitous violence and incredibly complicated maze-like levels. Which DNF lacks utterly. In other words, it has the facade of Duke but lacks the deeper gameplay that made DN3D fantastic.
You confused Java and Javascript for one.
What? who mentioned Java?
I think he was counting VC and SA since GTA and GTA 2 weren't Rockstar, they were DMA at the time, and the formula was much simpler and quite different. For example, there were no cutscenes in GTA1 and 2 (besides the end-of-city screens), they were both top-down 2.5D and took place entirely out doors. Most of the missions were driving missions and there was little or no gunplay in them. Infact, guns generally were used in pedestrian slaughter, something that GTA 3 onwards really downplayed.
the 4 games he's talking about are GTA 3, VS, SA and GTA IV. The X-City Stories series and GTA Advance also count. Although GTA Advance was closer to GTA 1 than any of the others it still kept closer to the GTA 3 formula, just in 2D, and I've not played the City-Stories series but I understand that they're similar in gameplay to the main GTA 3 series.
Then you have the GTA IV DLC, of which I believe there were 3.
They are milking it, it's quite obvious. Rockstar stopped making other games when they realised what a cash cow GTA is.
Rockstar are the Pulp Fiction (the genre, not the film) of the Games Industry. Churning out stories with mass appeal and satisfying gameplay. I've played through every GTA game and enjoyed each one on it's own merits (although SA's whole Gansta vibe at the start was a bit off-putting, it thankfully deconstructed it in the second act) and for all GTA IVs annoyances (NIIIKO IT IS YOUR COUSSIINNN LETS GO BOWLING!) I still enjoyed it and played it start to finish without feeling like it was a chore.
They're not literary greats, but they work, I enjoy them and that's all I can ask of them.
No, they all open with the Mac "Yawn" sound.
My keyboard lets me use Right ALT, so with my right hand I can do it. It's not particularly useful as I'm used to doing it with 2 hands. It's not often I have to press CTRL ALT DEL with my wanking hand...
Or Terraria. It's - shockingly - more retro than Minecraft.
Any of the Tell-tale Games would do. Maybe not the latest season of Sam and Max (Actually, alot of the jokes in Sam and Max might go over a 10yo's head), but certainly their Back To The Future series (which should end this month) which is quite a gentle introduction to the genre, there's no rubber chickens with pulleys in the middle and it doesn't descend into pixel hunting. All the items are pretty obvious as to their function but not too obvious to take away the satisfaction of completing the puzzles.
yours had a password?
Exactly, there's a difference (Slight but crucial) between Assisted Suicide and a DNR Order. Personally, I think both should be taken on a case-by-case basis, Even a crippled, paralysed, motor neuron disease riddled man can still contribute immensly to the sum of human knowledge. Okay, not everyone who's permenantly paralysed is Stephen Hawking but you are still you and if you can communicate you want an Assisted Suicide you can still make a difference. Even if it's only to your family, or to one single person and make their life better. Once you're gone your memories and experience go with you and they won't help anyone then.
If you're medicated to the eyeballs and your only moments of lucidity are acompanied by unbareable pain then I understand AS in that situation, but the problem with legistlating it and legalising it means that people other than the desperate and rightfully needy might slip through, and someone who shouldn't have been assisted will have been assisted and nothing will bring that person back.
I class "Serious Gamer" as someone who has Video Games as their primary hobby. Regardless of skill and/or amount of games owned.
actually, it's orders of magnitude greater. Especially if you live far from the data centre.
Any serious gamer won't be wowed by this, Digital Downloads are here to stay as the replacement for brick-and-mortar. If On-live does get popular it will be as an alternative to rental, or game demos. Interactive Streaming video cannot compare to playing locally on your PC, even if the graphics aren't maxed out. Look at the Wii, it trounced its opposition with gameplay over graphics, and the only benifit I can see from On-Live is that you get the best graphical quality while sacrificing everything else, which isn't what gamers want any more.
Beyond that, I'm certain that all this takes alot of cash to set up, and I wonder how good the return on investment is.
With On-live, it does seem like one of those things that will have very very fine margins. If they don't invest enough, the product will be crap, and no-one will use it. Invest alot and you'll get a wonderful product that's not making any money. I wonder if there is a balance out there, and if anyone really cares.
It can also be Cloud Computing if you have a computer that's sending another computer data! Because that data isn't on the receiving computer!
MAAAAAAGIC.
yes, but when you say "EU Member States" you can ONLY be specifically talking about the European Union.
You don't say Canada is a Member State of America do you?
Sweeden, Denmark and Norway... in Europe we tend to call that "Scandinavia".
The OP is talking out his arse.
Well, they may have moved away from Indiana Jones, but they've moved on to Han Solo.
Yeah, but Uncyclopedia says it's Oscar Wilde.
Because she gives us all the money she makes off of land.
From the Wikipedia article:
Me, I'm neither pro nor anti monarchy. Although it will be a contentious issue I shall have to make a side on when Scotland votes on it's independence in a couple of years.
And all the proceeds from that land goes straight into the treasury in exchange for us providing her with a salary.
Although if she did dissolve parliament I'm more than certain she'd have a revolution on her hands fairly sharpish. It'd be the Roundheads and the Cavaliers all over again.