It's interesting, because I disagree with the article mostly, as I replay numerous old games and they're still as excellent as ever (R-Type, Relentless 1 and 2, Prince of Persia 1, MDK, Samurai Shodown 2, Panzer Dragoon Zwei to name a few), yet I had the same experience with the remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day as the person in the article. What is it about that game that makes it so update so bad? I would just assume that I'd grown out of the humor and gameplay mechanics, but to be honest I played Conker for the first time on an emulator a year before the remake came out:) Perhaps many games are only good once, much like movies that are good in the theatre but not when you buy them.
I "suffer" from a slightly different problem, wherein I immediately watch the movies I get from Netflix.... but then I don't return them for weeks. I find myself to be far too lazy to mail the movies back, even as my movie queue grows ever larger (60 and counting)
This was a japanse game that used to be on the dreamcast, then they ported it to Xbox. The xbox version was supposed to come here, and there were even a few reviews of the english version floating around, but it never materialized:/ Looked great too.
Psychonauts by Double Fine (www.doublefine.com) is another funny game coming out from Tim Schafer. I think this article was fairly poor, as it failed to mention the many humorous games that have come out through the years. No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, The Neverhood/Skullmonkeys, Space Quest, MDK/Giants/Armed & Dangerous, Earthworm Jim, Grim Fandango/DOTT/Sam & Max/Full Throttle, Gobliiins 1-3, Planescape: Torment (dark sure but I laughed a lot), Lunar SSSC, Thousand Arms... and a lot more that I'm forgetting or have missed. If it wasn't for humor I wouldn't be the heavily addicted gamer I am today, so I hate to see all these funny games get overlooked.
Fair enough, maybe I wasn't clear about what I was getting at. I personally feel the Mac OS X "paradigm" is inferior, at least for the type of programs I use the most. An example of this is using a program like After Effects on Mac OS X compared to using it on Windows. After Effects loads up numerous windows at once, and while they are all considered one application under OS X they cannot be resized or moved as one application, thus it makes it difficult to multitask with other applications as you basically have to switch to them to see what they're doing, or move/resize 5 windows to see it. I realize application switching can be done without the dock, but alt-tab and expose are both much slower for me personally on OS X. I have also toned down every eyecandy preference I can find on OS X, and it's still endless. I would be interested to know in what ways you can change the interface, as I could never manage to find much information on the topic and I do have a (rather slow) mac as a second machine. Anyway this is just all my opinion, I was simply responding to the question asked and my answer is that I wouldn't switch to OS X in it's current configuration, but that doesn't mean I feel that Windows is the only way to go. Later.
I'm sorry, but Mac OS X has a *long* ways to go before it can compare to Windows, most notably in the interface department. The dock is near useless and quite irritating, non MDI windows make professional applications like Photoshop and Maya exceedingly cumbersome to use (especially when attempting to multitask), interaction with the interface is bogged down by endless eyecandy rather than utility (I'm not against eyecandy by any means, but if you skip intuitive design elements to make something look pretty you have the wrong priorities), and lastly it is very slow on comparable hardware. My roommate owns a Mac that he regrets buying endlessly, as he's still making payments on it and Photoshop still crawls relative to my PC. I personally run Windows XP with Blackbox4Win as my shell, I use it everyday to run 3D Studio and Photoshop for my work and it has yet to crash in the past 3 months (and it was only down then as I bought a new video card). There is nothing wrong with the stability in Windows XP, so I personally see no need to switch to anything but. However, if it becomes possible to switch out the shell and Apple rethinks some of it's design choices (PLEASE give us child windows), I'd certainly give it a go:)
Awww, that's one of my favorite movies. "The queen said she was gonna ream us with 20 inch cattle prods, and I'm still waiting!" - Now that's what I call good dialogue.
I'd have to agree with this. I've seen at least 70 Mystery Science Theatres, I watch bad movies for fun, and I know this is a recent movie with a budget... but Ecks vs. Sever is still the worst movie I've ever seen, and I saw it in the theatre. The only movies I feel are even near as bad are Monster a Go Go and Supernova.
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It's 20 years old and still my favorite game... incredible level design, awesome music, gigeresque artwork and of course it's a blast to play.
It's interesting, because I disagree with the article mostly, as I replay numerous old games and they're still as excellent as ever (R-Type, Relentless 1 and 2, Prince of Persia 1, MDK, Samurai Shodown 2, Panzer Dragoon Zwei to name a few), yet I had the same experience with the remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day as the person in the article. What is it about that game that makes it so update so bad? I would just assume that I'd grown out of the humor and gameplay mechanics, but to be honest I played Conker for the first time on an emulator a year before the remake came out :) Perhaps many games are only good once, much like movies that are good in the theatre but not when you buy them.
I "suffer" from a slightly different problem, wherein I immediately watch the movies I get from Netflix.... but then I don't return them for weeks. I find myself to be far too lazy to mail the movies back, even as my movie queue grows ever larger (60 and counting)
This was a japanse game that used to be on the dreamcast, then they ported it to Xbox. The xbox version was supposed to come here, and there were even a few reviews of the english version floating around, but it never materialized :/ Looked great too.
What's wrong with half-yearly, I understood it fine :)
Did anyone else notice that Syndrome looked a lot like Freakazoid? Brought back good memories
Psychonauts by Double Fine (www.doublefine.com) is another funny game coming out from Tim Schafer. I think this article was fairly poor, as it failed to mention the many humorous games that have come out through the years. No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, The Neverhood/Skullmonkeys, Space Quest, MDK/Giants/Armed & Dangerous, Earthworm Jim, Grim Fandango/DOTT/Sam & Max/Full Throttle, Gobliiins 1-3, Planescape: Torment (dark sure but I laughed a lot), Lunar SSSC, Thousand Arms... and a lot more that I'm forgetting or have missed. If it wasn't for humor I wouldn't be the heavily addicted gamer I am today, so I hate to see all these funny games get overlooked.
Fair enough, maybe I wasn't clear about what I was getting at. I personally feel the Mac OS X "paradigm" is inferior, at least for the type of programs I use the most. An example of this is using a program like After Effects on Mac OS X compared to using it on Windows. After Effects loads up numerous windows at once, and while they are all considered one application under OS X they cannot be resized or moved as one application, thus it makes it difficult to multitask with other applications as you basically have to switch to them to see what they're doing, or move/resize 5 windows to see it. I realize application switching can be done without the dock, but alt-tab and expose are both much slower for me personally on OS X. I have also toned down every eyecandy preference I can find on OS X, and it's still endless.
I would be interested to know in what ways you can change the interface, as I could never manage to find much information on the topic and I do have a (rather slow) mac as a second machine.
Anyway this is just all my opinion, I was simply responding to the question asked and my answer is that I wouldn't switch to OS X in it's current configuration, but that doesn't mean I feel that Windows is the only way to go. Later.
I'm sorry, but Mac OS X has a *long* ways to go before it can compare to Windows, most notably in the interface department. The dock is near useless and quite irritating, non MDI windows make professional applications like Photoshop and Maya exceedingly cumbersome to use (especially when attempting to multitask), interaction with the interface is bogged down by endless eyecandy rather than utility (I'm not against eyecandy by any means, but if you skip intuitive design elements to make something look pretty you have the wrong priorities), and lastly it is very slow on comparable hardware. :)
My roommate owns a Mac that he regrets buying endlessly, as he's still making payments on it and Photoshop still crawls relative to my PC.
I personally run Windows XP with Blackbox4Win as my shell, I use it everyday to run 3D Studio and Photoshop for my work and it has yet to crash in the past 3 months (and it was only down then as I bought a new video card). There is nothing wrong with the stability in Windows XP, so I personally see no need to switch to anything but.
However, if it becomes possible to switch out the shell and Apple rethinks some of it's design choices (PLEASE give us child windows), I'd certainly give it a go
Awww, that's one of my favorite movies. "The queen said she was gonna ream us with 20 inch cattle prods, and I'm still waiting!" - Now that's what I call good dialogue.
I'd have to agree with this. I've seen at least 70 Mystery Science Theatres, I watch bad movies for fun, and I know this is a recent movie with a budget... but Ecks vs. Sever is still the worst movie I've ever seen, and I saw it in the theatre. The only movies I feel are even near as bad are Monster a Go Go and Supernova.