I think the issue is that you became a Nintendo Fan-boi and Square/Enix Didn't.
Square used Nintendo to Breakout - but they by no means had any loyalty to remain with Nintendo. Once they saw the Play Station 2 they jumped on that ship. And when the 360 showed its strength they announced an FF game for that.
And Nintendo, being Nintendo, went on with different projects like the DS, and the Wii. They are now on far opposite sides of the gaming spectrum (Casual vs Hardcore) and I don't see them working together again for a long time.
So how long till it makes its way to Droid - if ever at all? I don't mind exclusive deals, but it'd be nice if they wore off after a few months.
I personally never played any of the FF series, only because I hadn't heard of it until like 7 or 8 came out, and I thought I'd have a lot of backstory to catch up with (though people have reassured me that I really don't). So, if these become available at an affordable price on a device I already have - then I'd probably purchase.
It's backwards in that the money you will be giving the people will be going towards the NEXT film, which could be worthless trash you don't want to pay for. The money that you want to give for producing a great movie has already been payed to the actors, directors, and producers, etc, the opening weekend the movie is shown.
You take your mothers maiden name - reversed. Then you replace every second letter with its numeric value on a telephone keypad. Then you replace every second number with its symbol associated above it on the keyboard. tough to remember, but unlikely to be cracked.
We assign our users passwords. The turnover rate at our company is surprisingly high, so we don't bother giving them strong passwords. They'll be out the door and the account disabled by the time anyone shares their password.
That in itself isn't so bad, but I didn't want to get it all over the keyboard so I had to retain it in my mouth till I could stomach it back down in there.
"Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year." No, you can't say that. Last year could have been a really bad year for Sun regardless, they might have only sold 100 Million dollars worth without all this fiasco going on. Not meeting what the accountants project is not "losing sales" but "missing your target".
Now that the obligatory is out of the way, is this going to be the last I hear about this? Or is someone (name rhymes with Bonty) going to write an angry blog post thats going to get/. front paged? Bound to happen.
I think storyline branching originated in RPG's but can be found almost anywhere nowa-days. Most Star Wars games include them. StarCraft Brood War had some mission Branching and side missions, Warcraft 3 had tons of them (though thats an example of RTS And RPG mixed). The Hitman series let you perform the missions in a wide variety of ways.
Thing is, I don't know if I'd really consider Grand Theft Auto a Role playing Game (though that is exactly what you're doing) just because it contains the elements of side quests and endings and an open sandbox world.
Just about any game with a sandbox world has multiple ways to carry out mission objectives.
So, yes, as a matter of fact, there are no viruses for Mac OS X. Not virtually none, not almost none. None.
As a matter of Fact, there ARE viruses for Mac OS X.
OS X uses various parts of the FreeBSD Security Framework and Filesystem.
They have viruses for FreeBSD that base their attacks on those parts, and it has been proven that they work just as well on a Mac as they do on that flavour of Linux.
Just because Mac users are not affected by the hordes of windows viruses that they catch (and yes, Macs catch the same viruses as Windows, they merely can't operate because they were designed to run on Windows) - doesn't mean that they are this completely immune and untouchable operating system. When OSX is suffering from a deluge of viruses from holes in it's architecture (if it ever comes to that), it will be too late to do anything about it. This news Article is merely trying to point out, that yes, these do exist, and Apple is working hard at closing them. The problem is whether they will be able to keep it up.
Next time, before hopping on your high horse about how completely virus free Macs are, do some research and learn the truth, don't spew the pamphlet Apple boxes with your machine. Because when you're wrong, you just look like an idiot fanboy.
Games end. Sometimes with Grace, sometimes without. Blizzard has shown their ability to end it with games like Starcraft. Last patch was when? Still a thriving game.
At what point did "topping" another game even become relevant? Just because of WoW's success might overshadow the successes of SC2 and D3 (and they WILL be successes, because they are like a blockbuster movie that sells out even if its crappy).
Whether people will grow tired of WoW or not is really up to debate. Some people have been playing it for over 5 years, some people are just discovering it. Some people DIE from malnutrition just playing it. If at any point Wow hits a catastrophic failure by a patch/expansion or it slowly dwindles to a point where people don't play it as much anymore, Blizzard will still have the money to develop a new game. And everything they've produced thus far has been a glimmering piece of gold polished to a mirror shine. This will always be the case, as it was with Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo 2.
Point is, if at any point it appears that "World of Warcraft" is failing, it does not AT ALL spell doom to Blizzard. Even if they run the game into the ground and lose 90% of their fanbase, thats 1 Million customers that will still buy their next game. And so long as they do a better job on that game then they do on World of Warcraft, it will redeem them, almost instantly, because of Blizzards incredible success before WoW even came along.
Myst itself was a great seller, yes - and thats why I posed it in a "what ever happened to" it kind of thing.
Myst 3: Exile, was amongst my personal favourites. Riven was great as well, if it weren't for the amount of CD Swapping you had to do (with virtual drives and ISO's now its not so bad).
However Myst had a few other titles, Uru was an MMO based on it - and it showed some struggling life after it first launch then died. They released another one (which I saw for the Xbox the other day) but I guess it didn't do as well either.
And now theres an iPhone app, apparently. Who knew?
As for Total Annihilation, I wouldn't say it failed, they just tried to keep it alive longer than they should have. If they had made the matchmaking system open sourced and patched it to allow new matchmakers to be added before they went Bankrupt - I could see people still playing it. The only reason Blizzard fared better with Starcraft still being alive was that not only did Blizzard have a roll with the first 2 Warcraft games but they also marketed globally, and it became an instant hit in Southeast Asia.
Total Annihilation can still be purchased today. I see copies at future shop -All- the time, for like 10 dollars, so I wonder who is even getting that money, if its all leftover stock that FS is just trying to sell.
Total Annihilation had a successor that came out a couple years ago, maybe you've heard of Supreme Commander? Made by the same people, though I don't think they call themselves Cavedog anymore. Anyways, you'll find enough of a resemblance to the original TA to enjoy it. The Energy - Metal gameplay is retained in its purest form.
There's just too many dollars riding on WoW. Too much momentum. Surviving the end of that is going to either require masterful leadership or gigantic catastrophe.
I don't think that will be the case at all. Given the amount of dollars that come in from WoW, they could sit back and let the servers run, take in subscription money, and retire on that. If Blizzard shuts down, it won't be because of "one game" ruining their reputation. They could shut down WoW this very instant and they'd still have enough of a fan base to start up ANY new game project, as well as the dollars to see it through.
And Blizzard has a number of friendly options when they decide to end World of Warcraft. Friendliest of most - make the client still 40 or 50 dollars to purchase in store. Make the server code completely free and open sourced. End subscriptions. No one is left unhappy - people can start up Vanilla WoW servers, BC Servers, WotLK servers, and Cat Servers. The game can be played by those who still enjoy it and Blizzard wipes their hands completely free of it.
However - thats likely not going to happen. Why? They make money off of it. As long as Blizzard keeps making money off of WoW they have no reason to stop running it. The only difficulty in surviving to the end of World of Warcraft is that it will likely go on longer than the lifetime of its developers.
The AvP Games are also not related to the movies - the only obscure reference amongst any of them is the "Weyland Yutani Corporation" - wheras the AvP games have all been set in the future the AvP movies have been set in present day.
The movies I was referring to were "Aliens" and "Predator" respectfully, which both came out before the game (obviously).
If The Fourth Monkey Island game hurt Lucas-arts. Not that it was a terrible game, but I definately doubt it did as well as its predecessors.
I'm not surprised the rights to make it went off to Telltale games. They have done a decent job with the episodic content of it. I have an itching feeling it won't be the end of that series though.
Well exactly. Just because you spent a weekend learning how, and then made your own personal changes in your spare time, doesn't mean you actually have the know-how to help on the project. The Linux Kernal has been around for some time, I'd bet a dollar or two that they have put a lot of work into making it work properly and efficiently. If they want to implement something new, they are going to go with the guys who know the ins and the outs to make things as efficient as possible. Its a slippery slope where it could be excluding people who have developed a new methodology, meaning they miss out on a great opportunity, but thats just a risk they don't want to take.
It's the same as any industry. I'm not going to grab just any old guy to build my house. He could be an excellent carpenter - and maybe he'll even show me a few chairs and tables he has built. Superb as they may be, I'll still go with the guy who has built a house from start to finish.
This all goes back to the days of Bill Clinton. The truth of the matter is, he didn't have sexual relations with any woman. There are even rumours that he is still a virgin. Chelsea is actually the result of Hillary reproducing asexually, under the reason that no one would want to regularily. This genetic mutation is considered an evolutionary advantage to some, so valuable that they want to keep it secret. This is why there was so much news surrounding Jenna Bush and none around Chelsea.
They ran some tests on CC. She has shown not only the ability to reproduce look alikes (see Hilary Duff), but also other another mutant power; laser eyes. Cyclops is actually an inspired character based on Chelsea. She currently works at Cern, powering the LHC with her amazing gifts. But as we all know, not everything is as it seems. We've all heard the stories about how the LHC is going to create black holes and destroy the Earth. It IS going to happen, in 2012, its a proven fact. It's all part of the Democrats plan. Why you ask? Despite beating the Republicans in the elections its never enough. They held a secret meeting in a hotel board room where they discussed ways to get rid of the Republicans for good. The vote was unanimous: Destroy the Earth.
So we were completely safe for 8 years while George was in power. He of course staged 9-11 to start the War on Terror so that he could reduce the amount of liquids allowed on airplanes, thus keeping the American population from over-hydration. A disguised way to protect us all from the looming threat of too much water. Water, angry in a fit of rage, retaliated with Hurricane Katrina.
And now we've got Obama back in power. How can you be certain he is in on the plan to black-hole the Earth? CHANGE. You know what another word for Change is? MUTATE. Remember Chelsea? Bingo! And look at those ears! They can't be natural! I know what you are thinking: What does all of this have to do with the FCC - the one loose knot left to tie. All the Engineers are leaving: Why? Joining CERN at the LHC. All the Economists are leaving: Why? They are needed to keep up the ruse that the economy is getting better, just long enough to keep order until the LHC can create a black hole. Of course the FCC's Administration is failing. It is under direct attack by the worlds most organized, powerful, and underhanded groups. A group which is hellbent on making sure the entire world is destroyed. And nothing, no silly Commission started a long time ago, is going to stand in their way.
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I think the issue is that you became a Nintendo Fan-boi and Square/Enix Didn't.
Square used Nintendo to Breakout - but they by no means had any loyalty to remain with Nintendo. Once they saw the Play Station 2 they jumped on that ship. And when the 360 showed its strength they announced an FF game for that.
And Nintendo, being Nintendo, went on with different projects like the DS, and the Wii. They are now on far opposite sides of the gaming spectrum (Casual vs Hardcore) and I don't see them working together again for a long time.
So how long till it makes its way to Droid - if ever at all? I don't mind exclusive deals, but it'd be nice if they wore off after a few months.
I personally never played any of the FF series, only because I hadn't heard of it until like 7 or 8 came out, and I thought I'd have a lot of backstory to catch up with (though people have reassured me that I really don't). So, if these become available at an affordable price on a device I already have - then I'd probably purchase.
Well, you could sign into an account on YouTube and turn them off.
It's backwards in that the money you will be giving the people will be going towards the NEXT film, which could be worthless trash you don't want to pay for. The money that you want to give for producing a great movie has already been payed to the actors, directors, and producers, etc, the opening weekend the movie is shown.
You take your mothers maiden name - reversed. Then you replace every second letter with its numeric value on a telephone keypad. Then you replace every second number with its symbol associated above it on the keyboard. tough to remember, but unlikely to be cracked.
We assign our users passwords. The turnover rate at our company is surprisingly high, so we don't bother giving them strong passwords. They'll be out the door and the account disabled by the time anyone shares their password.
Your choice of words made me throw up a little.
That in itself isn't so bad, but I didn't want to get it all over the keyboard so I had to retain it in my mouth till I could stomach it back down in there.
"Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year." No, you can't say that. Last year could have been a really bad year for Sun regardless, they might have only sold 100 Million dollars worth without all this fiasco going on. Not meeting what the accountants project is not "losing sales" but "missing your target".
Now that the obligatory is out of the way, is this going to be the last I hear about this? Or is someone (name rhymes with Bonty) going to write an angry blog post thats going to get /. front paged? Bound to happen.
I think storyline branching originated in RPG's but can be found almost anywhere nowa-days. Most Star Wars games include them. StarCraft Brood War had some mission Branching and side missions, Warcraft 3 had tons of them (though thats an example of RTS And RPG mixed). The Hitman series let you perform the missions in a wide variety of ways.
Thing is, I don't know if I'd really consider Grand Theft Auto a Role playing Game (though that is exactly what you're doing) just because it contains the elements of side quests and endings and an open sandbox world.
Just about any game with a sandbox world has multiple ways to carry out mission objectives.
The FBI used these phone records to send a text message to a New York based purse theif asking him to turn himself in, in which he kindly obliged.
So, yes, as a matter of fact, there are no viruses for Mac OS X. Not virtually none, not almost none. None.
As a matter of Fact, there ARE viruses for Mac OS X.
OS X uses various parts of the FreeBSD Security Framework and Filesystem.
They have viruses for FreeBSD that base their attacks on those parts, and it has been proven that they work just as well on a Mac as they do on that flavour of Linux.
Just because Mac users are not affected by the hordes of windows viruses that they catch (and yes, Macs catch the same viruses as Windows, they merely can't operate because they were designed to run on Windows) - doesn't mean that they are this completely immune and untouchable operating system. When OSX is suffering from a deluge of viruses from holes in it's architecture (if it ever comes to that), it will be too late to do anything about it. This news Article is merely trying to point out, that yes, these do exist, and Apple is working hard at closing them. The problem is whether they will be able to keep it up.
Next time, before hopping on your high horse about how completely virus free Macs are, do some research and learn the truth, don't spew the pamphlet Apple boxes with your machine. Because when you're wrong, you just look like an idiot fanboy.
This does THAT
*points at crotch*
*points at women* ... ...
Wait, did I just call my member a small chunk?
I don't RTFA, this is / .
Games end. Sometimes with Grace, sometimes without. Blizzard has shown their ability to end it with games like Starcraft. Last patch was when? Still a thriving game.
At what point did "topping" another game even become relevant? Just because of WoW's success might overshadow the successes of SC2 and D3 (and they WILL be successes, because they are like a blockbuster movie that sells out even if its crappy).
Whether people will grow tired of WoW or not is really up to debate. Some people have been playing it for over 5 years, some people are just discovering it. Some people DIE from malnutrition just playing it. If at any point Wow hits a catastrophic failure by a patch/expansion or it slowly dwindles to a point where people don't play it as much anymore, Blizzard will still have the money to develop a new game. And everything they've produced thus far has been a glimmering piece of gold polished to a mirror shine. This will always be the case, as it was with Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Diablo 2.
Point is, if at any point it appears that "World of Warcraft" is failing, it does not AT ALL spell doom to Blizzard. Even if they run the game into the ground and lose 90% of their fanbase, thats 1 Million customers that will still buy their next game. And so long as they do a better job on that game then they do on World of Warcraft, it will redeem them, almost instantly, because of Blizzards incredible success before WoW even came along.
Since they are now claiming its possible to notice things as small as a Desk,
They need to send one of these up around the moon and prove the moon lander is there.
I don't know would be more annoying - finding out its faked or seeing conspiracy theorists reject it as evidence.
Myst itself was a great seller, yes - and thats why I posed it in a "what ever happened to" it kind of thing.
Myst 3: Exile, was amongst my personal favourites. Riven was great as well, if it weren't for the amount of CD Swapping you had to do (with virtual drives and ISO's now its not so bad).
However Myst had a few other titles, Uru was an MMO based on it - and it showed some struggling life after it first launch then died. They released another one (which I saw for the Xbox the other day) but I guess it didn't do as well either.
And now theres an iPhone app, apparently. Who knew?
As for Total Annihilation, I wouldn't say it failed, they just tried to keep it alive longer than they should have. If they had made the matchmaking system open sourced and patched it to allow new matchmakers to be added before they went Bankrupt - I could see people still playing it. The only reason Blizzard fared better with Starcraft still being alive was that not only did Blizzard have a roll with the first 2 Warcraft games but they also marketed globally, and it became an instant hit in Southeast Asia.
Total Annihilation can still be purchased today. I see copies at future shop -All- the time, for like 10 dollars, so I wonder who is even getting that money, if its all leftover stock that FS is just trying to sell.
Total Annihilation had a successor that came out a couple years ago, maybe you've heard of Supreme Commander? Made by the same people, though I don't think they call themselves Cavedog anymore. Anyways, you'll find enough of a resemblance to the original TA to enjoy it. The Energy - Metal gameplay is retained in its purest form.
There's just too many dollars riding on WoW. Too much momentum. Surviving the end of that is going to either require masterful leadership or gigantic catastrophe.
I don't think that will be the case at all. Given the amount of dollars that come in from WoW, they could sit back and let the servers run, take in subscription money, and retire on that. If Blizzard shuts down, it won't be because of "one game" ruining their reputation. They could shut down WoW this very instant and they'd still have enough of a fan base to start up ANY new game project, as well as the dollars to see it through.
And Blizzard has a number of friendly options when they decide to end World of Warcraft. Friendliest of most - make the client still 40 or 50 dollars to purchase in store. Make the server code completely free and open sourced. End subscriptions. No one is left unhappy - people can start up Vanilla WoW servers, BC Servers, WotLK servers, and Cat Servers. The game can be played by those who still enjoy it and Blizzard wipes their hands completely free of it.
However - thats likely not going to happen. Why? They make money off of it. As long as Blizzard keeps making money off of WoW they have no reason to stop running it. The only difficulty in surviving to the end of World of Warcraft is that it will likely go on longer than the lifetime of its developers.
The only hole I want Apple to fix is the one they put in my wallet.
The AvP Games are also not related to the movies - the only obscure reference amongst any of them is the "Weyland Yutani Corporation" - wheras the AvP games have all been set in the future the AvP movies have been set in present day.
The movies I was referring to were "Aliens" and "Predator" respectfully, which both came out before the game (obviously).
MYST
I don't think Ubisoft helped turn out a profitable title.
The first one was good given the era it came out in. The second one was a simultaneous improvement and a flop. And the new one looks to be alright.
If The Fourth Monkey Island game hurt Lucas-arts. Not that it was a terrible game, but I definately doubt it did as well as its predecessors.
I'm not surprised the rights to make it went off to Telltale games. They have done a decent job with the episodic content of it. I have an itching feeling it won't be the end of that series though.
Well exactly. Just because you spent a weekend learning how, and then made your own personal changes in your spare time, doesn't mean you actually have the know-how to help on the project. The Linux Kernal has been around for some time, I'd bet a dollar or two that they have put a lot of work into making it work properly and efficiently. If they want to implement something new, they are going to go with the guys who know the ins and the outs to make things as efficient as possible. Its a slippery slope where it could be excluding people who have developed a new methodology, meaning they miss out on a great opportunity, but thats just a risk they don't want to take.
It's the same as any industry. I'm not going to grab just any old guy to build my house. He could be an excellent carpenter - and maybe he'll even show me a few chairs and tables he has built. Superb as they may be, I'll still go with the guy who has built a house from start to finish.
This all goes back to the days of Bill Clinton. The truth of the matter is, he didn't have sexual relations with any woman. There are even rumours that he is still a virgin. Chelsea is actually the result of Hillary reproducing asexually, under the reason that no one would want to regularily. This genetic mutation is considered an evolutionary advantage to some, so valuable that they want to keep it secret. This is why there was so much news surrounding Jenna Bush and none around Chelsea.
They ran some tests on CC. She has shown not only the ability to reproduce look alikes (see Hilary Duff), but also other another mutant power; laser eyes. Cyclops is actually an inspired character based on Chelsea. She currently works at Cern, powering the LHC with her amazing gifts. But as we all know, not everything is as it seems. We've all heard the stories about how the LHC is going to create black holes and destroy the Earth. It IS going to happen, in 2012, its a proven fact. It's all part of the Democrats plan. Why you ask? Despite beating the Republicans in the elections its never enough. They held a secret meeting in a hotel board room where they discussed ways to get rid of the Republicans for good. The vote was unanimous: Destroy the Earth.
So we were completely safe for 8 years while George was in power. He of course staged 9-11 to start the War on Terror so that he could reduce the amount of liquids allowed on airplanes, thus keeping the American population from over-hydration. A disguised way to protect us all from the looming threat of too much water. Water, angry in a fit of rage, retaliated with Hurricane Katrina.
And now we've got Obama back in power. How can you be certain he is in on the plan to black-hole the Earth? CHANGE. You know what another word for Change is? MUTATE. Remember Chelsea? Bingo! And look at those ears! They can't be natural! I know what you are thinking: What does all of this have to do with the FCC - the one loose knot left to tie. All the Engineers are leaving: Why? Joining CERN at the LHC. All the Economists are leaving: Why? They are needed to keep up the ruse that the economy is getting better, just long enough to keep order until the LHC can create a black hole. Of course the FCC's Administration is failing. It is under direct attack by the worlds most organized, powerful, and underhanded groups. A group which is hellbent on making sure the entire world is destroyed. And nothing, no silly Commission started a long time ago, is going to stand in their way.
Ladies and Gentlemen, its already too late.
Depending on the vendor, I can pop open a tablet PC, use the hard drive as a slave drive, clean it off, put it back in, and still have my warranty.
But they're too big to fail! How will people live without their news!
If this move fails, its time for a bailout.