as previous posters have pointed out, more or lesss, there are basically different markets, Nintendo is in one and sony and MS are in another. Yes they compete, but they are after different things, and as such will be successful, unless someone comes in, and directly competes with Nintendo. Which doesn't seem likekly since everyone seems to want to build the media center. maybe Nintendo will end up as the Apple of the console world. I'm fine with that. But my point is, they are not anywhere near dead as everyone seems to think.
Every article about Nintendo is about how they are failing and how they are going to die and blah blah blah. THey are , as the parent said, making more money than MS and Sony, they are selling more units than MS, they produce the best games, and all have all the crossovers like the other stations. So how the hell is Nintendo dying or sure to die or whatever it is? they aren't. They will be around a long time. And they are sticking to what they know, and do well, games. Unlike MS and Sony which are trying to make mass media centers.
I agree that the root of the problem is the parents. But I also don't think a kid should be able to walk into a store and come out with a game like GTA. Period. Whether or not it solves anything is entirely deabatable.
SO you think anyone should just come in and be able to buy GTA 3? or that new Manhunt game? I think not. I also think they shouldn't be able to buy any R rated movies. I'm all for freedom, of Adults, but when Children are invovled we need to be cautious and it's better to error onthe side of caution.
I doubt you'll see dev kits. For one, they are not worried about adding life beyond what they want. Two, It would mean maps that aren't representive of real life possibilities could be distributied, which goes against the basic goal of the game. and 3, it's the US Army, they like to keep things under their control:). And in my opinion, the maps they make are damned good anyway.
Or maybe you should listen to them. They have been around the block. Not saying you should do an about face on your beliefs, but dismissing them as ignorant, shows your ignorance all the more.
Yes because lord knows only idiots vote republican and you have sigle handidly shown that all republicans are idiots and have no foresight whatso ever.
Although it surprised me that it made the list as well, really in hindsight, it was a very solid game. From Platform to first person and such, was pretty good. Gameplay and challenge was pretty good. Best movie rip off on the NES i can think of.
I have no qualms playing as terrorists in Counterstrike. In fact I actually prefer it (mostly due to this bogus war on imaginary terrorists threats around the world
+1, True. Sigh
true? Really? this would explain the recent bombings or even 9/11, those were bogus terrorists after all.
This guy states something, a bit obvious but certainly truthful and he gets modded offtopic? If you don't aggree with something how about respond and save the mods for trolls.
Why is it necessary to build a machine that plays chess "*as a human does*"? It's unlikely that any two humans play chess the same way, so which human would you have the machine emulate? Wouldn't it be better to build a machine that plays chess its own way?
Machines do play chess their own way, that is why Kasparov was able to tie.
Actually you probably have; the biggest part of "DLL hell" is that you need two different versions of the same library (a.dll and a.so have analogous roles). The Linux solution is to have libfoo.so.6 and libfoo.so.5 in/usr/lib with libfoo.so as a link to the newest one; that way you can run applications that require both libraries. Windows does offer a similar solution but FAR too in most cases vendors simply overwrite foo.dll with their version of foo.dll, so that whatever apps relied on the earlier version are now completely hosed.
yes i've done this manually myself. that's the problem.. But in windows i've never seen something overwrite dll's without asking me first or it does and it doesn't create any noticible problems for me. But my point is, with various experiences with linux distros redhat, mandrake, suse, slackware and with windows 95-xp things seem to install a ton better than they do in linux. Of course the upgrade services i've seen are damned good. but like i said.. go outside of them.. yikes
WTF do you think the phrase "DLL hell" was invented to describe?
While this is true, In my experience, things tend to install and work on windows a ton better than they do on linux. instlal something manually and everything goes to hell with rpms and apt. I've not had this problem with windows. Plus I seem to have encountered the need for multiple versions of the same friggin library, which is something i've never come accross in win. But this is all in my experience so take it for what it's worth.
Why has slashdot posted home addresses and stuff so much lately? I mean it's one thing for that spammer and for the Telemarketers and such. But for this? what the hell? even if the lawsuit is ridiculus, how the hell does that give you a right to post personal information? and i'm not talking about whether this is legal or not.
There's no comparison between what can be learned between a video game an d a sport like football, imo. WHich could of been interpretted from my previous post. Tho maybe int he future video games will change so there can be a comparison.
Yeah they also have controls to block out swear words. Really if there was a violent game i'd want my kid to play, it'd be this one. Not so much for lack of violence, but for the fact it requires team work to beat even the crappiest of teams. Even if that team work is only calling out enemy locations and whatnot. A lot more to learn good from that than even like a football game.
The game is rated Teen. the violence in it, is almost non existance. You can't even tell if you hit someone. I can't think of any FPS that has any where near as little violence as AA does.
I've only been mudding for 6 years, but I think that the MUD i've coded for, and worked on for about 5 of those years is optretty good. It's here. If you want to view our Website. It's not an easy mud, mind you. It's a difficult one, but we've got some nice features like automated quests and an arena that you can change just abnout everything about you to fight in. IE You can change class and such, and you return to normal state when yer done. I made the arena so I'm partial to it:).
OK well i'm not going get into an argument about what the truely correct and precise word is, but someone could take my latest and greatest whatever, make a million bucks off of it and i get no money no credit no nothing. Maybe that's not exactly what the word steal means but it's pretty much the same thing.
Yes imagine no credit for your work, people being able to do whatever they want with your work. WIth you having no say. If there were no copyrights I would be a lot less inclined to release my source, wouldn't you? someone could qutie literally steal yoru work and it'd be legal.
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This guy gets a troll mod on a post, an unmodded post, and an insightful post by replying to himself? wow.
as previous posters have pointed out, more or lesss, there are basically different markets, Nintendo is in one and sony and MS are in another. Yes they compete, but they are after different things, and as such will be successful, unless someone comes in, and directly competes with Nintendo. Which doesn't seem likekly since everyone seems to want to build the media center. maybe Nintendo will end up as the Apple of the console world. I'm fine with that. But my point is, they are not anywhere near dead as everyone seems to think.
Every article about Nintendo is about how they are failing and how they are going to die and blah blah blah. THey are , as the parent said, making more money than MS and Sony, they are selling more units than MS, they produce the best games, and all have all the crossovers like the other stations. So how the hell is Nintendo dying or sure to die or whatever it is? they aren't. They will be around a long time. And they are sticking to what they know, and do well, games. Unlike MS and Sony which are trying to make mass media centers.
The article said for minors. so that would be 18
I agree that the root of the problem is the parents. But I also don't think a kid should be able to walk into a store and come out with a game like GTA. Period. Whether or not it solves anything is entirely deabatable.
SO you think anyone should just come in and be able to buy GTA 3? or that new Manhunt game? I think not. I also think they shouldn't be able to buy any R rated movies. I'm all for freedom, of Adults, but when Children are invovled we need to be cautious and it's better to error onthe side of caution.
I doubt you'll see dev kits. For one, they are not worried about adding life beyond what they want. Two, It would mean maps that aren't representive of real life possibilities could be distributied, which goes against the basic goal of the game. and 3, it's the US Army, they like to keep things under their control :). And in my opinion, the maps they make are damned good anyway.
Or maybe you should listen to them. They have been around the block. Not saying you should do an about face on your beliefs, but dismissing them as ignorant, shows your ignorance all the more.
Yes because lord knows only idiots vote republican and you have sigle handidly shown that all republicans are idiots and have no foresight whatso ever.
Wouldn't that be long lower horn then?
Although it surprised me that it made the list as well, really in hindsight, it was a very solid game. From Platform to first person and such, was pretty good. Gameplay and challenge was pretty good. Best movie rip off on the NES i can think of.
true? Really? this would explain the recent bombings or even 9/11, those were bogus terrorists after all.
This guy states something, a bit obvious but certainly truthful and he gets modded offtopic? If you don't aggree with something how about respond and save the mods for trolls.
Machines do play chess their own way, that is why Kasparov was able to tie.
yes i've done this manually myself. that's the problem.. But in windows i've never seen something overwrite dll's without asking me first or it does and it doesn't create any noticible problems for me. But my point is, with various experiences with linux distros redhat, mandrake, suse, slackware and with windows 95-xp things seem to install a ton better than they do in linux. Of course the upgrade services i've seen are damned good. but like i said.. go outside of them.. yikes
I call meta-meta-bullshit then.
WTF do you think the phrase "DLL hell" was invented to describe?
While this is true, In my experience, things tend to install and work on windows a ton better than they do on linux. instlal something manually and everything goes to hell with rpms and apt. I've not had this problem with windows. Plus I seem to have encountered the need for multiple versions of the same friggin library, which is something i've never come accross in win. But this is all in my experience so take it for what it's worth.
two wrongs make aright? let the courts decide the outcome. Not this vigilante(spelling?) harrassment of these things.
Why has slashdot posted home addresses and stuff so much lately? I mean it's one thing for that spammer and for the Telemarketers and such. But for this? what the hell? even if the lawsuit is ridiculus, how the hell does that give you a right to post personal information? and i'm not talking about whether this is legal or not.
I suppose illegal stuff would be under the evil bit then?
There's no comparison between what can be learned between a video game an d a sport like football, imo. WHich could of been interpretted from my previous post. Tho maybe int he future video games will change so there can be a comparison.
Yeah they also have controls to block out swear words. Really if there was a violent game i'd want my kid to play, it'd be this one. Not so much for lack of violence, but for the fact it requires team work to beat even the crappiest of teams. Even if that team work is only calling out enemy locations and whatnot. A lot more to learn good from that than even like a football game.
The game is rated Teen. the violence in it, is almost non existance. You can't even tell if you hit someone. I can't think of any FPS that has any where near as little violence as AA does.
I've only been mudding for 6 years, but I think that the MUD i've coded for, and worked on for about 5 of those years is optretty good. It's here. If you want to view our Website. It's not an easy mud, mind you. It's a difficult one, but we've got some nice features like automated quests and an arena that you can change just abnout everything about you to fight in. IE You can change class and such, and you return to normal state when yer done. I made the arena so I'm partial to it :).
OK well i'm not going get into an argument about what the truely correct and precise word is, but someone could take my latest and greatest whatever, make a million bucks off of it and i get no money no credit no nothing. Maybe that's not exactly what the word steal means but it's pretty much the same thing.
Imagine a world without copyright.
Yes imagine no credit for your work, people being able to do whatever they want with your work. WIth you having no say. If there were no copyrights I would be a lot less inclined to release my source, wouldn't you? someone could qutie literally steal yoru work and it'd be legal.