It wasn't the proprietary format, it was the small storage space and incredibly high media costs of cartridges. Sega tried to avert piracy with the GD-ROM, but made the mistake of letting the DC read standard CD formats. With Nintendo's system, piracy will be far less likely to happen than with the DC and PSX.
The N64 controller is torture. Even the horrible Dreamcast controller is better than that piece of junk. And *nothing* can touch the PSX Dual Shock controller as far as comfort goes
No, but Nintendo still thinks it's 1988. The fact is, most of their core base (preteens/teens who grew up on the NES) no longer want kiddie games. Males ages 18-35 make up the vast majority of console gamers - *and* they've got the cash to buy games... kids don't.
Sorry dude - if anything, the Dreamcast is increasing in sales as the PS2's US release approaches. With discounted prices as low as $100 and a slew of excellent games, I doubt the DC is going anywhere.
Nope... I'm running Win98 Lite (it strips out all of IE from Explorer, and only runs IE as a separate app). Even so, IE still runs in less RAM than Kmeleon.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but IE is a quality piece of code... no one has been about to touch it yet, and mozilla sure ain't going to be the one at the rate they're going.
Agreed... global warmimg (and cooling) is a very gradual process which has been occurring for millennia. We're very egotistical to think we as humans have that much effect on the environment.
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The point was C&C was a direct decendant of Dune 2 (both from Westwood). Warcraft did indeed come out before C&C.
Look at Dune II and it's successor Command and Conquer - invented the real-time strategy genre.
Also, the Thief series, while it's based on first person shooter-like engine, it's different enough to qualify as an original genre in my mind - the "first person sneaker", if you will. And the melding of adventure games, shooters, and putting it in the third person (a la Tomb Raider, Heretic II) is a fairly new concept as well.
Not exactly a fair assesment, you think? Yes, Lucasarts has put out some stinkers lately (mostly on consoles, though). But they have released several excellent PC games - the Xwing/TIE flight sims, the Dark Forces series... and with Bioware's excellent track record in the RPG department, I'll be *very* surprised if SW RPG isn't all it's cracked up to be
I remember using a VAX system at the local community college in the late 70s/early 80s. I nust've been about 6 or 7 then - I just remember playing ADVENT and a couple of other text-based games
It astounds me that people are still comparing napster to analog taping.
1. Most taping only deals with one to one copies. You borrow a CD, tape it. One copy, significant signal loss with the copy at that point, and each copy afterward suffers more signal degradation
2. Napster involved thousands of potential downloads at a time, of digital copies. No, MP3 isn't perfect CD quality, but there is no signal loss involved when transferring.
Actually, he has played many of his old hits during his "Symbol" years, so I doubt the validity of your claim.
Also, he's doing just fine, financially. He has not been promoting his albums, since he no longer has Warner's behind him, but when you handle the entire process (as Prince is doing), platinum sales aren't nearly as important. His Crystal Ball album (which was produced, marketed, and sold by him), sold 250,000 copies at $30 a pop. When you take home *all* of that, you're still doing VERY well.
If you use that argument, why do actors get $20 million for a movie, and sports starts get $15 mil a year? Face it - if you're going to force the music industry to work for scale, you're going to have to level the entire society's pay scale. Communism doesn't work, my friend.
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You still buying that "quality over quantity" nonsense they were spewing before the N64's release?
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Also, the Thief series, while it's based on first person shooter-like engine, it's different enough to qualify as an original genre in my mind - the "first person sneaker", if you will. And the melding of adventure games, shooters, and putting it in the third person (a la Tomb Raider, Heretic II) is a fairly new concept as well.
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Uh, Myst was never intended to be an RPG - in fact, it's nothing like an RPG at all.
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Yes it does - if you do not have legal rights to that information, you have no right to share it.
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1. Most taping only deals with one to one copies. You borrow a CD, tape it. One copy, significant signal loss with the copy at that point, and each copy afterward suffers more signal degradation
2. Napster involved thousands of potential downloads at a time, of digital copies. No, MP3 isn't perfect CD quality, but there is no signal loss involved when transferring.
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Any suggestions as to good, modern anime? I already know about Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Z, so other suggestions would be appreciated.
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Also, he's doing just fine, financially. He has not been promoting his albums, since he no longer has Warner's behind him, but when you handle the entire process (as Prince is doing), platinum sales aren't nearly as important. His Crystal Ball album (which was produced, marketed, and sold by him), sold 250,000 copies at $30 a pop. When you take home *all* of that, you're still doing VERY well.
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