Admittedly I haven't played it and game reviews are pretty subjective in my mind, but it seems Atari should have spent time makin' a more grounding breaking game gameplay wise than fiddling with making it 64-bit
I'm no game programmer either, but the list of things they said would be included seemed a tad optomistic even to me considering this was developed strictly for the Xbox. If they had done it on PC it may have been more surprising.
However I did enjoy what was there of the game. I only wish it were longer. That's my only complaint.
More items and a less button mashing fighting style would be all else I'd ask for.
Imagine if someone put sugar in your gas tank. Shotgun riot.
He's making an observation about his "ultra religious in-laws"
This wasn't a generic comment meant to slam the entire religious establishment. I would imagine he has more insight into their reaction to this show than you.
I'm getting sick of/. comments that are just whiny nerds bitchin' about their sorry lives b/c of idiot end users and "M$".
Without customers to buy computer products the tech. industry would be shit. That "drivel" they save their files in may actually be drivel but you can't tell me with all the people out there that use Word there aren't some documents in that format that probably make the world go round. Perhaps it isn't the best but bitchin' about it to those that are just as in the know as you is counter-productive.
And while I will be marked as flamebait, I continue.
This "M$" thing is just showing how childish you can be when talkin' about a company you think acts like a spoiled brat. If you hate Microsoft fine, but for the sake of the still sane stop whining. Again the majority on/. know all about Microsofts trangressions.
If you're sick of it then put your money where your mouth is, round up all the other like minded geeks here and code the second coming of desktop operating systems, office suites and whatever else you feel you are missing in ur tech. obssessed lives. And no, GNU/Linux running Gnome/KDE won't cut it.
I bought an IOGEAR all-in-one KVM switch that plugs into a USB port and allows me to plug in PS/2 peripherals. I noticed in games as well as working with desktop applications there's keyboard AND mouse lag.
You don't mention whether you have a KVM hooked up, but if you do, try taking it out of the equation.
This is horse crap. Why would you want to do business in China? A country that has a terrible history of human rights violations. Oh yes, that's right, the almighty buck.
I know it's a companies job to make money, but is it too much to ask that they perhaps make money ethically as well?
The last place I worked was thinkin' of moving part of their production over to China. Some railed against it because they feared it may cost jobs here. I and a few others held the position of "Why would we want to help support China's communist economy?"
In the end though the almighty dollar won out and last I heard (I don't work there any more) 50% of their production operation is moving over seas.
Yeah I got one. I meant for On-line play over the PC obviously. It's a bit hard to get ppl over often enough to play FF:CC. It's easier to setup a quick Diablo or DS game, even though I don't particularly enjoy them as much as FF:CC.
Does anyone know if this means that the CC style games will stay Nintendo-only?
I liked 7 but got bored with the random battles and mini-movies the later games turned into, though they had their cool points.
I like the simplicity of FFCC's game mechanics when it comes to magic, weapons, etc. It's a pick-up and play with your friends game (which was there intent I guess) but it does have a few issues. I always thought it would be awesome on PC for multiplay.
I suppose I'll stick to Diablo II and Dungeon Siege.
Seems to get pretty high marks (though I've never bought from them.)
They sell the Sager laptops that I believe Alienware sells, but without fancy paint jobs, for a grand or so less. I've done price comparisons but don't really need a "gamer" spec laptop.
They're retooling the path to become a Jedi as well, from the grind to a quest driven path. I'm sure people will be even MORE open to pursuing the path of Jedi once that goes through.
They basically bowed to player pressure and threw continuity out w/ the bath water.
There's a state of the game on the SWG site where a dev states it is to make the game more fun. Personally I'm not interested in playing a Star Wars MMORPG full of Jedi. That's why they make the Jedi Knight series.
There shouldn't be a Jedi system period IMNSHO. But somewhere along the way Jedi became the selling point for nearly everything Star Wars. (There were only what 4 Jedi [If you consider Anakin to have redeemed himself] and Palpatine in the OT!)
I was planning on trying SWG again once JtL got released but that was contingent of the battle system being altered for the main game. Now I dunno.
My guess as to why they're harder to find now- Lack of demand. Broadband is far more available (or available period) compared to 5 years ago.
As of May of this year 48.61% of U.S. homes who regularly use the Internet have broadband.
Why pay another monthly fee when you can just throw up some hardware of your own on your home network that you can use without restriction. (Other than running say a web server on your cable modem, but if you want to SSH home and mucky muck around, no one is stopping you.)
For all the computer nerds without broadband, there are a few providers out there, but don't expect much competition when it comes to pricing/options.
"There are *very* few arguments Microsoft can make against opening file formats and network protocols. There is minimal IP value in each..."
That may be true when it comes to the file format alone, but they also make the only tool that's 100% compatible to read/edit/write that format, which they sell for a pretty penny.
Try not to sound like Intel beat ur dog and poured sugar down your gas tank next time.
This lockout is built into their new chipset, not the processor. Last I looked there were motherboards out there using non-Intel chipsets to run their processors.
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I just washed my car! Now that the birds are going south I thought it was safe.
Admittedly I haven't played it and game reviews are pretty subjective in my mind, but it seems Atari should have spent time makin' a more grounding breaking game gameplay wise than fiddling with making it 64-bit
I'm no game programmer either, but the list of things they said would be included seemed a tad optomistic even to me considering this was developed strictly for the Xbox. If they had done it on PC it may have been more surprising.
However I did enjoy what was there of the game. I only wish it were longer. That's my only complaint.
More items and a less button mashing fighting style would be all else I'd ask for.
Somewhere in there there is a joke about nerds and horny teenage boys having lesbian wives constantly sleeping together. I just can't think of one.
They act like it's just two parties. They automatically blame the Democrats. What if it was people from the Green or Libertarian Party.
Oh wait, I forgot those two groups have no chance of winning for President so lets automatically blame our biggest competitor.
Anything that comes out of Washington D.C. these days just makes me sick to my stomach.
For you DIYers
Because you know you already have the duct tape lying around
Imagine if someone put sugar in your gas tank. Shotgun riot.
He's making an observation about his "ultra religious in-laws"
This wasn't a generic comment meant to slam the entire religious establishment. I would imagine he has more insight into their reaction to this show than you.
Score:-1, Stop Whining
I'm getting sick of /. comments that are just whiny nerds bitchin' about their sorry lives b/c of idiot end users and "M$".
/. know all about Microsofts trangressions.
Without customers to buy computer products the tech. industry would be shit. That "drivel" they save their files in may actually be drivel but you can't tell me with all the people out there that use Word there aren't some documents in that format that probably make the world go round. Perhaps it isn't the best but bitchin' about it to those that are just as in the know as you is counter-productive.
And while I will be marked as flamebait, I continue.
This "M$" thing is just showing how childish you can be when talkin' about a company you think acts like a spoiled brat. If you hate Microsoft fine, but for the sake of the still sane stop whining. Again the majority on
If you're sick of it then put your money where your mouth is, round up all the other like minded geeks here and code the second coming of desktop operating systems, office suites and whatever else you feel you are missing in ur tech. obssessed lives. And no, GNU/Linux running Gnome/KDE won't cut it.
I bought an IOGEAR all-in-one KVM switch that plugs into a USB port and allows me to plug in PS/2 peripherals. I noticed in games as well as working with desktop applications there's keyboard AND mouse lag.
You don't mention whether you have a KVM hooked up, but if you do, try taking it out of the equation.
This is horse crap. Why would you want to do business in China? A country that has a terrible history of human rights violations. Oh yes, that's right, the almighty buck.
I know it's a companies job to make money, but is it too much to ask that they perhaps make money ethically as well?
The last place I worked was thinkin' of moving part of their production over to China. Some railed against it because they feared it may cost jobs here. I and a few others held the position of "Why would we want to help support China's communist economy?"
In the end though the almighty dollar won out and last I heard (I don't work there any more) 50% of their production operation is moving over seas.
Last I checked the original PS2 is still on store shelves, and I'm sure you'll be able to find one somewhere after the PStwo is launched.
Are they going to require current users to upgrade their box if they want to keep using the service? I see no mention of it in the article.
If not, I think I'll go out and buy a Tivo this weekend.
The pic page has crashed and burned.
Either that or the kite did hence no pictures.
If that's Linux and Gnome where'd that OS X like Dock come from in some of the screens?
Now they're bringing their vulgar attitudes to the Internet. What's next? Games filled with sex drugs and violence?
Ban TV, playgrounds and "rap" music to keep our cyberspace clean!
Jack in from birth!
Yeah I got one. I meant for On-line play over the PC obviously. It's a bit hard to get ppl over often enough to play FF:CC. It's easier to setup a quick Diablo or DS game, even though I don't particularly enjoy them as much as FF:CC.
Thanks for your clarification though.
Does anyone know if this means that the CC style games will stay Nintendo-only?
I liked 7 but got bored with the random battles and mini-movies the later games turned into, though they had their cool points.
I like the simplicity of FFCC's game mechanics when it comes to magic, weapons, etc. It's a pick-up and play with your friends game (which was there intent I guess) but it does have a few issues. I always thought it would be awesome on PC for multiplay.
I suppose I'll stick to Diablo II and Dungeon Siege.
Seems to get pretty high marks (though I've never bought from them.)
They sell the Sager laptops that I believe Alienware sells, but without fancy paint jobs, for a grand or so less. I've done price comparisons but don't really need a "gamer" spec laptop.
"V0te for G3orge W. Bush!' or 'J0hn Kerry for Presidnet@'"
/. editors run stories through a spell check. It should be "'Vote for George W. Bush!' or 'John Kerry for Presidnet'."
Please
Screw SCSI Srives. It looks like we need to work on spell checker technology.
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They're retooling the path to become a Jedi as well, from the grind to a quest driven path. I'm sure people will be even MORE open to pursuing the path of Jedi once that goes through.
They basically bowed to player pressure and threw continuity out w/ the bath water.
There's a state of the game on the SWG site where a dev states it is to make the game more fun. Personally I'm not interested in playing a Star Wars MMORPG full of Jedi. That's why they make the Jedi Knight series.
There shouldn't be a Jedi system period IMNSHO. But somewhere along the way Jedi became the selling point for nearly everything Star Wars. (There were only what 4 Jedi [If you consider Anakin to have redeemed himself] and Palpatine in the OT!)
I was planning on trying SWG again once JtL got released but that was contingent of the battle system being altered for the main game. Now I dunno.
Couldn't you just say it that it's "work for hire" and all by-products of that work are sole property of the guy paying the slippery shit?
"Unix shell accounts used to be easy to find..."
My guess as to why they're harder to find now- Lack of demand. Broadband is far more available (or available period) compared to 5 years ago.
As of May of this year 48.61% of U.S. homes who regularly use the Internet have broadband.
Why pay another monthly fee when you can just throw up some hardware of your own on your home network that you can use without restriction. (Other than running say a web server on your cable modem, but if you want to SSH home and mucky muck around, no one is stopping you.)
For all the computer nerds without broadband, there are a few providers out there, but don't expect much competition when it comes to pricing/options.
"There are *very* few arguments Microsoft can make against opening file formats and network protocols. There is minimal IP value in each..."
That may be true when it comes to the file format alone, but they also make the only tool that's 100% compatible to read/edit/write that format, which they sell for a pretty penny.
Try not to sound like Intel beat ur dog and poured sugar down your gas tank next time.
This lockout is built into their new chipset, not the processor. Last I looked there were motherboards out there using non-Intel chipsets to run their processors.