-Exactly-. This occurs simply because even the games that sell -all- their new copies often do not see reprint.
Take Disgaea. Where I live, it's now next to impossible to find a new or used one because word got around about how good it is. When there is a used one, it's $44.99. And they know they'll get it because it had such a small initial shipment and there's nothing more coming. The companies would rather develop and release the new games (La Pucelle, and yes, I realize it's not released by the same company who did Disgaea but it is developed by the same one) than produce a smaller run of the first one...and this is incredibly annoying. It also leads to a crappier selection of cheap games eventually.
No. Each map shows different things. One shows treasure, one shows enemies, and I forget what the other two are (it has been a good month since the last time I got with anyone to play this game).
And yes, I am aware of the gas. The maps aren't used to keep the players together. They're used to foster different goals.
There's a second reason why it's meant to be a GBA and not another TV - people can glance at the other TV's in the room, but if someone can only see their special map, etc, on their GBA, the other players must address that person directly and ask them what is on it. This fosters teamwork.
The workaround described on the webpage defeats that.
That's fine for you to defend it, but you're still wrong.
The pop-up was horrendous even at the time. Especially considering the end quality of the graphics - which weren't that great at all. I mean, they tried, they threw everything they had at the poor PS1, but they failed miserably at making something that LOOKED good.
Now, does it FEEL right? Absolutely.
Still, GT1 looks far better than Driver did, and yet has far less pop-up. Also, pop-up is more important in Driver, as you're never interacting with your environment in GT.
The Driver series has never been well-polished...both Driver and Driver 2 suffered from ugly graphics (even at the time), one hell of a difficulty curve and the worst pop-up ever seen.
They were somewhat enjoyable, and the huge, real cities were fun, but other than that I don't expect too much out of the third game either.
There's nothing truly compelling on iTMS that can't be found physically or on p2p. If you want to use songs with your non-iPod player, buy the fucking cd or just get it for free like you probably do anyway.
Half the people here crying out "it's about fair use!!111" probably don't use iTMS anyway. I -do-. I also recently bought an iPod. Not because I couldn't listen to the purchased songs on anything else - I owned a -cd player- before this. I just find that the iPod suits me better.
Really if you're spending that much money on iTMS, why would you buy a different player? No one's going to spend $600 on there but buy a different mp3 player for their ~20.ogg's.
Read the article. Konami's Goo Goo Soundy did this already; frankly the feature sucks, as a game creating steps on the fly can't take into account the physical requirements of the steps. Throwing down buttons to the beat just doesn't work, especially at the higher levels of the game. Patterns and logical use of the two feet have to be considered for the steps to be doable.
The Unreal series on XBox, while original games...are shit.
Doom III? I'll take it on PC.
The other two mentioned I don't even care about.
When you have to pack a LAUNCH TITLE in with your system - when it's STILL the top selling game for your system - then you, my friends, are fucked for this generation.
It's the same concept as the "Arranged" game in the Director's Cut version of Resident Evil.
If it was truly the meat-and-potatoes of the game, it would be selectable from the start using something other than a (semi-obvious, granted) code. Like a menu option.
"...but reveals there may not be a sequel to Amplitude, lamenting that "...in order for that to happen, we need to sell, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of units of each title, which is not a sales level we achieved with those games."
So fucking what? Only the first two home DDRs and the first home Beatmania (both for PS1) were million sellers.
Fans of Beatmania IIDX recently had to go through an excruciating process to get a new home version released (this will be "7th Style" - 3rd through 6th Styles are already available for the Playstation 2 in Japan. In the arcades, there are 1st through 10th Styles and also Substream. 10th Style was released in Japan in February.)
The process was this: - Announcement of the idea to make the game - Konami Japan requests 10,000 surveys about what players would and would not like in the game to be completed by a certain date. These surveys are to be filled out on their webstore (all in Japanese) with special typing requirements (presumably to lock out those in the US who aren't supposed to be able to get it anyway) - Confirmation of the number of surveys recieved - Requirement for AT LEAST 20,000 pre-orders placed online through konamistyle.com (which is to be the only way to obtain the game for those in Japan) - the deadline for this was TWO WEEKS. - Confirmation of the number of preorders and announcement that the game will be released in May.
The only benefits of this are that Konami now knows what we want to see in this game. Granted, it does feel that they are taking the players wishes into consideration. But requirements of this magnitude are ALMOST unheard of - Konami also started a capital fund to make Tokimeki Memorial 3 and Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side - and that worked out too.
But still, if they can make an 88-song game of a highly more complex nature than Amplitude (let's be honest, it's simpler Beatmania) on 20,000 preorders, Harmonix can do a new Amplitude on less than 100,000.
They should think about working with Konami on it - they have an enormous stockpile of their own music for the Bemani series.
I don't see the need for adding a Z-style button on the Dual Shock. Most people that I've seen leave their indexes on top of the controller anyway, if not indexes and middles. Pushing a Z-button with anything but the index finger would feel awkward, and there's just not enough room to hold a DS comfortably with your finger dropped to where C&VG tells us the button will be.
I actually have an old intel cam that came with these softs...I don't have the games anymore though, because they're boring. But I really am sick of hearing about how innovative EyeToy is...it's nothing special.
What on earth is going wrong here? Why does every Nintendo story bring thousands of impending doom messages? The facts are these: Gamecube is whomping on XBox in Japan, just overtook them over here, and Nintendo - the company - has lots and lots and lots of __cash__ the likes of which Sega et al have never even laid eyes on. As a platform company, they aren't going anywhere.
Xenogears had a book printed with it in Japan called "Perfect Works". This was a strategy guide but also detailed the story. The six episodes of Xenogears/Xenosaga are discussed in this book, and Xenosaga episode I follows the synopsis in the book fairly well.
They did say they were changing things for the Xenosaga series; I assume those will be better known when they get to Episode V (as that's the one that Xenogears is).
But even Fei and Elly's past forms pop up in Xenosaga, albeit briefly...
Where is my new fucking Chrono title? You trademarked the name when you trademarked that goddamn awful "Unlimited Saga"...don't you think it's time you start talking?
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-Exactly-. This occurs simply because even the games that sell -all- their new copies often do not see reprint.
Take Disgaea. Where I live, it's now next to impossible to find a new or used one because word got around about how good it is. When there is a used one, it's $44.99. And they know they'll get it because it had such a small initial shipment and there's nothing more coming. The companies would rather develop and release the new games (La Pucelle, and yes, I realize it's not released by the same company who did Disgaea but it is developed by the same one) than produce a smaller run of the first one...and this is incredibly annoying. It also leads to a crappier selection of cheap games eventually.
No. Each map shows different things. One shows treasure, one shows enemies, and I forget what the other two are (it has been a good month since the last time I got with anyone to play this game).
And yes, I am aware of the gas. The maps aren't used to keep the players together. They're used to foster different goals.
There's a second reason why it's meant to be a GBA and not another TV - people can glance at the other TV's in the room, but if someone can only see their special map, etc, on their GBA, the other players must address that person directly and ask them what is on it. This fosters teamwork.
The workaround described on the webpage defeats that.
It's probably just me, but I find the FF approach to PvP totally refreshing. It's the only reason I still have an account.
That's fine for you to defend it, but you're still wrong.
The pop-up was horrendous even at the time. Especially considering the end quality of the graphics - which weren't that great at all. I mean, they tried, they threw everything they had at the poor PS1, but they failed miserably at making something that LOOKED good.
Now, does it FEEL right? Absolutely.
Still, GT1 looks far better than Driver did, and yet has far less pop-up. Also, pop-up is more important in Driver, as you're never interacting with your environment in GT.
The Driver series has never been well-polished...both Driver and Driver 2 suffered from ugly graphics (even at the time), one hell of a difficulty curve and the worst pop-up ever seen.
They were somewhat enjoyable, and the huge, real cities were fun, but other than that I don't expect too much out of the third game either.
Note:
In Japan, there was a small run of the Game Boy Light - a GBPocket with a backlight.
What's truly fun about this is how Enix is the one pushing through all of this so that the company can get cash :D
There's nothing truly compelling on iTMS that can't be found physically or on p2p. If you want to use songs with your non-iPod player, buy the fucking cd or just get it for free like you probably do anyway.
.ogg's.
Half the people here crying out "it's about fair use!!111" probably don't use iTMS anyway. I -do-. I also recently bought an iPod. Not because I couldn't listen to the purchased songs on anything else - I owned a -cd player- before this. I just find that the iPod suits me better.
Really if you're spending that much money on iTMS, why would you buy a different player? No one's going to spend $600 on there but buy a different mp3 player for their ~20
Read the article. Konami's Goo Goo Soundy did this already; frankly the feature sucks, as a game creating steps on the fly can't take into account the physical requirements of the steps. Throwing down buttons to the beat just doesn't work, especially at the higher levels of the game. Patterns and logical use of the two feet have to be considered for the steps to be doable.
None of these games make me wet my pants.
The Unreal series on XBox, while original games...are shit.
Doom III? I'll take it on PC.
The other two mentioned I don't even care about.
When you have to pack a LAUNCH TITLE in with your system - when it's STILL the top selling game for your system - then you, my friends, are fucked for this generation.
Now, I know MS has been eating a loss, but the things that are being talked about for this thing are ridiculous.
They are not going to put 3 3.5ghz G5s in there. Not unless they want it to be the size of a tower to fit stuff in there to cool it.
The things people believe these days are really amusing.
But it ISN'T an entirely new quest.
It's the same concept as the "Arranged" game in the Director's Cut version of Resident Evil.
If it was truly the meat-and-potatoes of the game, it would be selectable from the start using something other than a (semi-obvious, granted) code. Like a menu option.
They're currently working on more Karaoke Revolution - I know, I just preordered it ^^
"...but reveals there may not be a sequel to Amplitude, lamenting that "...in order for that to happen, we need to sell, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of units of each title, which is not a sales level we achieved with those games."
So fucking what? Only the first two home DDRs and the first home Beatmania (both for PS1) were million sellers.
Fans of Beatmania IIDX recently had to go through an excruciating process to get a new home version released (this will be "7th Style" - 3rd through 6th Styles are already available for the Playstation 2 in Japan. In the arcades, there are 1st through 10th Styles and also Substream. 10th Style was released in Japan in February.)
The process was this:
- Announcement of the idea to make the game
- Konami Japan requests 10,000 surveys about what players would and would not like in the game to be completed by a certain date. These surveys are to be filled out on their webstore (all in Japanese) with special typing requirements (presumably to lock out those in the US who aren't supposed to be able to get it anyway)
- Confirmation of the number of surveys recieved
- Requirement for AT LEAST 20,000 pre-orders placed online through konamistyle.com (which is to be the only way to obtain the game for those in Japan) - the deadline for this was TWO WEEKS.
- Confirmation of the number of preorders and announcement that the game will be released in May.
The only benefits of this are that Konami now knows what we want to see in this game. Granted, it does feel that they are taking the players wishes into consideration. But requirements of this magnitude are ALMOST unheard of - Konami also started a capital fund to make Tokimeki Memorial 3 and Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side - and that worked out too.
But still, if they can make an 88-song game of a highly more complex nature than Amplitude (let's be honest, it's simpler Beatmania) on 20,000 preorders, Harmonix can do a new Amplitude on less than 100,000.
They should think about working with Konami on it - they have an enormous stockpile of their own music for the Bemani series.
I can't imagine a better way to fuck oneself. Not only are they going to kill themselves off, they're going to hurt Open Source in the process.
I don't see the need for adding a Z-style button on the Dual Shock. Most people that I've seen leave their indexes on top of the controller anyway, if not indexes and middles. Pushing a Z-button with anything but the index finger would feel awkward, and there's just not enough room to hold a DS comfortably with your finger dropped to where C&VG tells us the button will be.
:D
But the wireless sounds nice
Last I checked, every button on the PS2 Dual Shock 2 was analog except Start and Select.
Soul Calibur II is NOT better on XBox than on GC. Link is an infinitely better character than Spawn.
That's the PSX - it's got a PS2 inside and basically a high capacity TiVO and a DVD recorder. A few other nice things.
I actually have an old intel cam that came with these softs...I don't have the games anymore though, because they're boring. But I really am sick of hearing about how innovative EyeToy is...it's nothing special.
What on earth is going wrong here? Why does every Nintendo story bring thousands of impending doom messages? The facts are these: Gamecube is whomping on XBox in Japan, just overtook them over here, and Nintendo - the company - has lots and lots and lots of __cash__ the likes of which Sega et al have never even laid eyes on. As a platform company, they aren't going anywhere.
*ahem*
Xenogears had a book printed with it in Japan called "Perfect Works". This was a strategy guide but also detailed the story. The six episodes of Xenogears/Xenosaga are discussed in this book, and Xenosaga episode I follows the synopsis in the book fairly well.
They did say they were changing things for the Xenosaga series; I assume those will be better known when they get to Episode V (as that's the one that Xenogears is).
But even Fei and Elly's past forms pop up in Xenosaga, albeit briefly...
That's what I was referring to. They trademarked "Chrono Break" and "Unlimited Saga" in Japan on the same day.
Where is my new fucking Chrono title? You trademarked the name when you trademarked that goddamn awful "Unlimited Saga"...don't you think it's time you start talking?
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