If it leads to consolidation to reduce overlap, then either the EBX or Gamestop in the mall will close, leaving only the local, privately owned "mom n pop" shop and one of the chain stores within a 10 mile area. Can only help the aformentioned local guy who I shop through.
in a movie. Is this concern legit? Granted I only see maybe 5-6 movies a year anymore, but I use to go almost every week a few years ago. I'm going to Serenity tonight probably, I've been to Batman Begins, Sin City, Episode III, Million Dollar Baby... I can't even remember the rest. Last year Kill Bill v.2, Spider-Man 2, and the theatres I saw them all in were full - This seems like an apocryphal complaint to me. I suppose it could be the movies I goto. I don't go to romantic comedies or to see the canned thriller of the week which draw in lots of drones who probably aren't all that interested in being there.
In the brief period that cell phones/pagers have been commonly carried devices, I've never had one go off or had someone carry on a conversation in a theatre nor has anyone I know complained that it happened to them. *shrug*
They're trying to simplify interaction with games to bring in more people. It would require at least another 20 buttons just to make the basic functions available to control your typical modern TV.
That said, if the technology isn't prohibitively expensive for 3rd party controller makers, I wouldn't be surprised to see a universal one from someone.
It would be nice if they'd put a clock on the front of the thing. My DVD player doesn't have one and my VCR is in the closet. Of course it would just flash 12:00 for most people, but it would be nice to glance at to see how long I've been flailing my arms around:P
It's funny to see this article slightly further down/. after an article about prices going up. The majority of the comments on that article are "Stop with rehashing shit and calling it the hotness!"
I don't know if it's because we've become trained, but every time you have a truly good movie or game the world is like "We want another!" and that's how we get all this rehashed shit. Just leave the goodness alone and move along -Or- stop bitchin' when all we get is yesterdays golden child with a different title.
Those movies you listed may have used characters that are well known, but the characters themselves are some of the weakest.
DareDevil's biggest claim to fame in the Frank Miller run. They've been doing nothing but trying to recapture that ever since. Kevin Smith's run was "eh" at best.
Hulk has been a long time icon of The Avengers, but the essence of the character has been so dilluted by now that no one is really sure who the Hulk is. That's not to say making an interesting comic about a green brute who can't talk and has a prediliction toward purple pants is easy.
Punisher is Punisher. Death Wish with a skull on his chest.
The problem is these characters don't really have much character to them to begin with. They are constantly being reimagined and reinvented in the comic books.
When someone says X-Men or Superman, you immediately have this basic feeling of what they are talking about. Almost an essence, which is all you need to capture to make a good movie. The studios are looking to make some fast scratch, but like any movie, making a *good* comic book movie that will bring in the casual audience and the fans requires just as much attention to the character as the special effects. It isn't enough to have them smashing shit up and talking like idiots, people will get sick of that. But if you inject the essence of the character, that part of them that people instantly recognize throughout your 1.5-2 hours, that's when you have a successful movie.
Look there are no stars in the background! It's the same as with the moon landing videos! Space is filled with billions of stars! Where are they? I demand an investigation into what NASA is really spending our money on!!!
But ask yourself what the other player who got beat up was really deprived of? I haven't read the Lineage II TOS, but don't they usually say that all in game items are technically property of the publisher? All the victim lost was the time that he had put into aquiring in game goods.
I think MS and Sony might have a tougher time than they think this time out. I hear a lot of 12-13 year olds saying "Xbox 2 is gonna be l33t!" or "I so need a PS3 when it comes out." but I spend a lot of time at a nearby game store talking to the guys that work there and from the sound of things, it's gamers that have the cash to burn on new systems that are saying things like, "The only one I know I'll get is the Revolution." and "I'm sick of all the bullshit hype."
So yeah, hey Sony and MS: fire your marketing departments and put the money towards game development. Everyone already knows that your next gen shit is coming, shut up about it and give us games that make it a worthwhile purchase.
Ok so it has multiple paths of advancement, but you have to essentially start over if you change the path you start out on.
There are clearly defined milestones which come after you've wandered around killing enough random wildlife, you get a message saying you've earned enough XP for another skill box.
And those milestones disappear once you've reached a master profession, thereby necessitating you to either run around and kill more wildlife or essentially start over on a new profession.
Raph could use a time machine to send himself, circa 2001, a copy of his "seminal laws."
The problem with this is that usually the game is designed solely around the action (swords, fast cars, explosions, etc etc.) so that when they *DO* decide to add alternate gameplay types, they aren't planned/designed well because it was a late addition or they simply weren't as interested in adding it.
It's like wishing Pac-Man had a sex mini-game. No. When I sit down to play Pac-Man, I wanna play Pac-Man dammit.
(warning: Flash site)
W:ET and WoW are the only games I play online lately. And I'm only trying WoW out on a friends acct to see if its really all that.
As this study has not been not done -- yet -- on humans...
Seeing as how the study has been conducted on humans and I haven't heard anything bad, I breath a sigh of relief. However if it said the study has not been done on humans, I might be slightly concerned.
Eiji Aonuma said it was "dull", and that was in reference to the Triforce hunt late in the game. Miyamoto only said that he's heard the complaints and they're working to make Twilight Princess the Zelda game everyone wants it to be.
Yeah it'll be on shelves and there will probably will be more games made for it, but I'm talking, and so is probably Sony, about their big marketing efforts. You think after the PS3 comes out you will see any PS2 commercials? How many PS1 have there been in the last 4 years? It sounds to me like he's trying to justify a high price by saying "Don't worry though, it'll be our last big console for a few years. It will have our full support for a decade."
Right away in the article it says that the *PS3* will have a life-span of 10 years. So the title is still inaccurate. Zonk bonks one up again is all I'm saying.
The DAMN TITLE of your story is completely wrong. No where in the articles linked does it say PS2 will have 10-year life span, which we know is false anyway because the PS3 is being launched next year. Hello, Mcfly???
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There is an evil bit that gets flipped at the end. So no, halfway through doesn't count.
If it leads to consolidation to reduce overlap, then either the EBX or Gamestop in the mall will close, leaving only the local, privately owned "mom n pop" shop and one of the chain stores within a 10 mile area. Can only help the aformentioned local guy who I shop through.
in a movie. Is this concern legit? Granted I only see maybe 5-6 movies a year anymore, but I use to go almost every week a few years ago. I'm going to Serenity tonight probably, I've been to Batman Begins, Sin City, Episode III, Million Dollar Baby... I can't even remember the rest. Last year Kill Bill v.2, Spider-Man 2, and the theatres I saw them all in were full - This seems like an apocryphal complaint to me. I suppose it could be the movies I goto. I don't go to romantic comedies or to see the canned thriller of the week which draw in lots of drones who probably aren't all that interested in being there.
In the brief period that cell phones/pagers have been commonly carried devices, I've never had one go off or had someone carry on a conversation in a theatre nor has anyone I know complained that it happened to them. *shrug*
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They're trying to simplify interaction with games to bring in more people. It would require at least another 20 buttons just to make the basic functions available to control your typical modern TV.
:P
That said, if the technology isn't prohibitively expensive for 3rd party controller makers, I wouldn't be surprised to see a universal one from someone.
It would be nice if they'd put a clock on the front of the thing. My DVD player doesn't have one and my VCR is in the closet. Of course it would just flash 12:00 for most people, but it would be nice to glance at to see how long I've been flailing my arms around
Which one of them was Hobgoblin in? And no Harry Osborn wasn't Hobgoblin, he was Green Goblin II
So now that it's found, we're gonna piss n moan over who did the finding? Yeah if they stole data, shame on them, but in the end what does it matter?
Jocks with small wangs buy Porsches, nerds with small wangs argue over who discovered what first?
It's funny to see this article slightly further down /. after an article about prices going up. The majority of the comments on that article are "Stop with rehashing shit and calling it the hotness!"
I don't know if it's because we've become trained, but every time you have a truly good movie or game the world is like "We want another!" and that's how we get all this rehashed shit. Just leave the goodness alone and move along -Or- stop bitchin' when all we get is yesterdays golden child with a different title.
Those movies you listed may have used characters that are well known, but the characters themselves are some of the weakest.
DareDevil's biggest claim to fame in the Frank Miller run. They've been doing nothing but trying to recapture that ever since. Kevin Smith's run was "eh" at best.
Hulk has been a long time icon of The Avengers, but the essence of the character has been so dilluted by now that no one is really sure who the Hulk is. That's not to say making an interesting comic about a green brute who can't talk and has a prediliction toward purple pants is easy.
Punisher is Punisher. Death Wish with a skull on his chest.
The problem is these characters don't really have much character to them to begin with. They are constantly being reimagined and reinvented in the comic books.
When someone says X-Men or Superman, you immediately have this basic feeling of what they are talking about. Almost an essence, which is all you need to capture to make a good movie. The studios are looking to make some fast scratch, but like any movie, making a *good* comic book movie that will bring in the casual audience and the fans requires just as much attention to the character as the special effects. It isn't enough to have them smashing shit up and talking like idiots, people will get sick of that. But if you inject the essence of the character, that part of them that people instantly recognize throughout your 1.5-2 hours, that's when you have a successful movie.
You could still run just a mod from your harddrive and access the optical disc for the engine binaries.
At least somethin' is creatin' a bulge in your drawers, Daffodil!
*Ba Dum Tcsh!*
It says right on the main page that the last of the frames were Aug 3rd when it was outside the moons orbit.
Look there are no stars in the background! It's the same as with the moon landing videos! Space is filled with billions of stars! Where are they? I demand an investigation into what NASA is really spending our money on!!!
My choices would be 2 and 3. And I'd be happy.
so we must wait until someone rips the two boxes open and benchmarks them..."
Based upon the "debunking" comments I've read already, maybe they should have done that before even writing this article.
Hell even moreso than a desktop. And the license says you can't use it on "non-PC" systems.
But ask yourself what the other player who got beat up was really deprived of? I haven't read the Lineage II TOS, but don't they usually say that all in game items are technically property of the publisher? All the victim lost was the time that he had put into aquiring in game goods.
I think MS and Sony might have a tougher time than they think this time out. I hear a lot of 12-13 year olds saying "Xbox 2 is gonna be l33t!" or "I so need a PS3 when it comes out." but I spend a lot of time at a nearby game store talking to the guys that work there and from the sound of things, it's gamers that have the cash to burn on new systems that are saying things like, "The only one I know I'll get is the Revolution." and "I'm sick of all the bullshit hype."
So yeah, hey Sony and MS: fire your marketing departments and put the money towards game development. Everyone already knows that your next gen shit is coming, shut up about it and give us games that make it a worthwhile purchase.
He failed at the majority of them with SW:G
Ok so it has multiple paths of advancement, but you have to essentially start over if you change the path you start out on.
There are clearly defined milestones which come after you've wandered around killing enough random wildlife, you get a message saying you've earned enough XP for another skill box.
And those milestones disappear once you've reached a master profession, thereby necessitating you to either run around and kill more wildlife or essentially start over on a new profession.
Raph could use a time machine to send himself, circa 2001, a copy of his "seminal laws."
The problem with this is that usually the game is designed solely around the action (swords, fast cars, explosions, etc etc.) so that when they *DO* decide to add alternate gameplay types, they aren't planned/designed well because it was a late addition or they simply weren't as interested in adding it.
It's like wishing Pac-Man had a sex mini-game. No. When I sit down to play Pac-Man, I wanna play Pac-Man dammit.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars looks to me like the game I'll buy.
(warning: Flash site) W:ET and WoW are the only games I play online lately. And I'm only trying WoW out on a friends acct to see if its really all that.
As this study has not been not done -- yet -- on humans...
Seeing as how the study has been conducted on humans and I haven't heard anything bad, I breath a sigh of relief. However if it said the study has not been done on humans, I might be slightly concerned.
What...? You don't say.
Eiji Aonuma said it was "dull", and that was in reference to the Triforce hunt late in the game. Miyamoto only said that he's heard the complaints and they're working to make Twilight Princess the Zelda game everyone wants it to be.
Yeah it'll be on shelves and there will probably will be more games made for it, but I'm talking, and so is probably Sony, about their big marketing efforts. You think after the PS3 comes out you will see any PS2 commercials? How many PS1 have there been in the last 4 years? It sounds to me like he's trying to justify a high price by saying "Don't worry though, it'll be our last big console for a few years. It will have our full support for a decade."
Right away in the article it says that the *PS3* will have a life-span of 10 years. So the title is still inaccurate. Zonk bonks one up again is all I'm saying.
The DAMN TITLE of your story is completely wrong. No where in the articles linked does it say PS2 will have 10-year life span, which we know is false anyway because the PS3 is being launched next year. Hello, Mcfly???