I think looking at screenshots do not do it justice. You have to play it! I was stuck in a rain storm yesterday and went to get shelter in a gaming boutique. Much to my delight an xbox console with halo was there. The stereotypical 8th graders were playing it in coop mode. They were good but sometimes failed to note the story cues. Being an old game developer myself remembering being laughed at when showing doom beta to now out of work bosses many years ago, it was fun for me to watch them "play" the game. Halo is good, not revolutionary but still good for those who love FPS games. Eventually a couple of hardcore geeks showed up and started to watch. They started rambling off technical specs and justifying to themselves why xbox was not good blah blah blah, then suddenly the stuff hit the fan in the game, they shutup real quick and I heard a little "woo" from them. So in the end... hey, theres a new game out and it doesnt suck, go play it and have some fun.
Forget the tech stocks. Look at Sony stock price for the last year. As everyone knows Sony comes out with a new media format at least every 3 years to make profit. The minidisc has been kind of a flop actually and they probably have a warehouse somewhere stuffed with them from 96 with some exec yelling at a meeting "dump them!"
I kind of like the sound. My eyes hurt, I am tired of reading on screen, I'm not going to print then read or buy a magazine, and I dont have $3000 for a mitsubishi 18" lcd screen at costco. AND sometimes you lose the authors intent when reading cause they cant write or are edited by some neanderthal. Its cool to hear him talk, its called radio, an interview you would normally not hear.
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I think looking at screenshots do not do it justice. You have to play it! I was stuck in a rain storm yesterday and went to get shelter in a gaming boutique. Much to my delight an xbox console with halo was there. The stereotypical 8th graders were playing it in coop mode. They were good but sometimes failed to note the story cues. Being an old game developer myself remembering being laughed at when showing doom beta to now out of work bosses many years ago, it was fun for me to watch them "play" the game. Halo is good, not revolutionary but still good for those who love FPS games. Eventually a couple of hardcore geeks showed up and started to watch. They started rambling off technical specs and justifying to themselves why xbox was not good blah blah blah, then suddenly the stuff hit the fan in the game, they shutup real quick and I heard a little "woo" from them. So in the end... hey, theres a new game out and it doesnt suck, go play it and have some fun.
Forget the tech stocks. Look at Sony stock price for the last year. As everyone knows Sony comes out with a new media format at least every 3 years to make profit. The minidisc has been kind of a flop actually and they probably have a warehouse somewhere stuffed with them from 96 with some exec yelling at a meeting "dump them!"
I kind of like the sound. My eyes hurt, I am tired of reading on screen, I'm not going to print then read or buy a magazine, and I dont have $3000 for a mitsubishi 18" lcd screen at costco. AND sometimes you lose the authors intent when reading cause they cant write or are edited by some neanderthal. Its cool to hear him talk, its called radio, an interview you would normally not hear.