That is an excellent point. About the book. Very close to how I feel about reading books, too. If I really enjoy a book, I may pick it up a second time. But that doesn't happen all that often. Same with WoW. I like reading about some of the quests once, but after that I could care less becuase they're not that epic.
Don't blame Squeenix for over FMV-ing things unless you include NAMCO. They're just as, if not more, guilty. I was soooooo psyced to play Xenosaga Ep 1 after playing Xenogears. That game consisted of well over half cinimatics. Now, you can skip them and pause them, which is very nice, but for the first play through, I believe I watched more of the story than I played. And it wasn't even a good story! I didn't enjoy the game, and I haven't wanted to play episodes II or III aside from the fact that they should lead into what happened before Xenogears... which I still can't beat. (hangs head in shame).
I've heard that one too. Just in there for a stereo-> RCA converter and they tried to sell me on Monster Cable. Told them to go away after I found it. "Just want to plug in my iPod." The guy kept talking out of his butt about signal quality from the iPod is better with gold. I told him it doesn't matter because it's an mp3 decoder and it will never sound as good as a CD no matter the cable. Kid wouldn't leave me alone. So I asked him where Radio Shack was. Mostly because Best Buy wanted 12 bucks for the thing.
A friend of mine just started working at Circuit City two months ago, moved there from Best Buy. As I understand it, he's probably the smartest computer sales rep in the store. The rest of them are complete idiots. Most of them got shuffled in there because they didn't like thier old departments or they needed to be promoted. This sounds about right for your standard Best Buy/Circuit City sales retards. Thankfully, my friend it a lot smarter. Actually knows the difference between a VGA slot and the processor.
Yeah, Monster Cable gets a big, fat "-1 Overrated"
I recently had a sales rep tell me that all cables degrade over time and should be replaced every couple years, if not yearly. After I stared at him for 10 seconds or so he asked if I needed any replacements. I told him to save it for the customers whose IQ's were less than thier shoe size and go away.
I'm thinking they finally realised that market penetration still isn't that high for 1080p TVs, or any other Hi-defs for that matter. Took a cue from Nintendo, probably. It would be a huge waste of money if you sold 3 million PS3's at an additional loss of the 6 bucks (18 million loss!) for the cable and maybe only 200,000 of those buyers can use them at release. So if they sell those 200,000 cables at a $15 profit, then that's 3 million back in their pockets (a buck for every system sold).
More improtantly, they'll get a much better idea of how many people are atually utilizing the tech at this time. When they release sales numbers for the peripheral, then I'm sure that will be a very good indication of market penetration Hi-def sets in gamer households.
Scoundrels!! Slightly off-topic: But I was playing some Dead Rising over the weekend at my buddy's house. I'd never used a wireless controller before. It's amazing how hard it is to make the conversion. Trying not to trip on the radiowaves looks a lot funnier than accidentaly kicking out the cable. Or perhaps arranging your legs on the coffee table to allow room for the radio-tubes to go under it and fall to the floor. Lots of laughs in that room.
I especially like how they all fly into the ocean. Remind anyone of an old Rockstar game or maybe just a rodent? I mean seriously, these cars seem intent upon their own demise.
I wonder if 3D realms is trying to create the ultimate Duke Nukem Forever experience with a paradigm shift. They could very well be experimenting with a old coding technique that was never really implemented. Anyone wanna take bets that there are 100 million monkey's chained to 100 million computers running basic hex editors? When any of them have typed, say, 4GB of code, it's thrown on a DVD and into a PS2/360/XBox/PC and tested to see if they get a 'Good Duke'?
You can't be serious?! You must not be counting freezes. Ever plug another controller into the NES? Or run it for 8 hours straight? I don't think it could 'crash' per se. But it always sucked when you'd been playing Zelda or Dragon Warrior for some hours and hadn't saved.
If you read TFA, you'll notice that they said this in front of 20,000 people at a convention center who were described to be in agreement. These guys are pretty big. They have a sphere of influence that goes well beyond those 20,000 as well. They've recieved multiple mentions and spots in gaming magazines over the years. People are aware of who they are. A good deal of people rely on these two to help them make decisions about new games/systems. They've got plenty of clout.
It didn't take them to help me in my decision, though. All it took was the price. I don't care what you get in the box, 600 bucks isn't worth it. And I was fired up for the PS3 (love every Gran Turismo, need more) but I won't pay over 300 bucks for a console. So, no, I don't have a 360, but I'm sure I will some day. It's just not worth it right now.
I've commented here already, or I'd have modded you up. A lot of very good points. Personally, I still haven't seen the new talent trees with the 41 point talents, but I wasn't sure if that was how they were going to do it. But I really enjoyed the assassination tree mingled with the combat tree. Using the combat for the crits/hits and the assassination for more and more combo points and a bit more poison damage. It's been very effective.
Also, I have a warlock alt that I absolutely hate. I guess just don't like the pet classes, but I had tried a hunter and figured a Lock would work out better. But if the talent tree makes it a little easier to handle, I might stick with him.
Hasn't WoW been posting the new talent trees since a month or two ago? Well, I can't get to the page at work, so I don't know if they changed them. But I know I'd been looking forward to redoing my rogues talents because they were nerfing one of them. Points more valuable elsewhere.
I agree. They seem to make games a bit tougher. Especially if game creators are sitting there trying to write puzzles, or incorporate some mechanics of a game and they know that the players can easily grab a book and find out exactly what to do. I find it pretty frusterating too. Because that's when the designers increase the grind. Now you have to defeat ultra bosses or grind for hours to get an upgrade that really won't be usefull at that point.
I usually stay away from any strategy guides unless I've really messed something up or it's my second or third time through a game. Mostly because at that point they help you find the things that you'd never think to look for. A lot of the time there will be obscure hints about an extra, but often there aren't even hints.
Stupid Bottlenecks?! Kind of reminds me of my dad who calls me every time he wants to upgrade something on his computer. Generally on Sunday or Monday after he's read the ads in the paper. Or perhaps he's been tooling around on his interweb connection and thought he spotted a deal.
A typical voice mail... "Son? It's me. I just saw a deal on RAM. It sounds like a good idea, but I wanted to run it by you. I've been wanting to speed up my computer for a while and you said RAM can help. I just saw on (some website) you could get 512MB of RAM for 20 dollars. It's PC133. What do you think?" My dad has a G5...
Pretty much why I just have my brother do it for free. I just let him keep most of the spoils. He'll call me and tell me he's gained two levels on one of my char's every once in a while. But he's the kind of guy who enjoys the grind. And I am not. I like the interaction, and getting things accomplished. So I level my main, but the alts don't offer much of anything new except editing your strategy in killing different MOBs in WoW. Just my 2 cents.
Well, I live in wonderful MN where every city takes a kick back or something from the telecoms/cable companies. Every municiple district seems to be able to contract out to whomever they decide will make them the most money. At least around the Twin Cities. A friend of mine lives in a small suburb just inside of the interstate ring and they only allow Comcast. When he was trying to get JUST broadband they quoted him a price of 99.95/mo plus router rental for 3mpbs. But phone/cable/info lines were 119.95/mo.
My brother and I were listening in and my brother shouted, "Yeah, well tell them to take their monopoly and shove it up their ass!" We actaully hear the rep scream, "I heard that!" Still, no phone companies seemed to be able to bring in DSL to the area. I just called a local company and I can pay 45(american) for 4mpbs or something like that. BS. I live on my own, I can't afford that. Gotta have heat.
Either that or they plan on having finished building the world's first, full-scale, fully functional Yamato Cruiser by 2010. That way we can play live action. Hopefully they're not also working on a Zergling Rush... That would suck. A very squishy sort of suck.
I'd like to see some kind of price points like: NES games- $3.00 (maybe $5.00 for uber-classics, or reworked-redone games, maybe a bit more). SNES games- $5.00-$7.00 N64 games- $7.00-$10.00 (I'd even consider paying a smidge more if they were able to up the framerates on games such as Perfect Dark, if they added in networked multiplayer for some of them, I'd probably pay up to 20 just for PD or GoldenEye) Other systems- ??? Would be nice if they didn't cost more than 4 or 5 bucks.
If you remember the old Bard's Tale series that appeared on the old Apple IIGS's and the like, you could drink to your hearts content, you HP would go up, but the Con would drop... So I'm thinking you must be looking for the wrong stat boost. I'm willing to bet it has something to do with the bladder in a just shy of explosion state for hours. Then pissing ever seven to eight minutes for the rest of the day.
Thanks, that throws this into a much better perspective. Now, it has one more test to pass in order for me to look into buying it. And believe me. this test is the one that sold me on the Nano. I worked in construction and brick manufacture at the time. So I wasn't about to spend any hard earned $'s on something that would crap out after a week or two. I ordered my Nano the day after I read this article. And I still love the thing.
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That is an excellent point. About the book. Very close to how I feel about reading books, too. If I really enjoy a book, I may pick it up a second time. But that doesn't happen all that often. Same with WoW. I like reading about some of the quests once, but after that I could care less becuase they're not that epic.
Don't blame Squeenix for over FMV-ing things unless you include NAMCO. They're just as, if not more, guilty. I was soooooo psyced to play Xenosaga Ep 1 after playing Xenogears. That game consisted of well over half cinimatics. Now, you can skip them and pause them, which is very nice, but for the first play through, I believe I watched more of the story than I played. And it wasn't even a good story! I didn't enjoy the game, and I haven't wanted to play episodes II or III aside from the fact that they should lead into what happened before Xenogears... which I still can't beat. (hangs head in shame).
A friend of mine just started working at Circuit City two months ago, moved there from Best Buy. As I understand it, he's probably the smartest computer sales rep in the store. The rest of them are complete idiots. Most of them got shuffled in there because they didn't like thier old departments or they needed to be promoted. This sounds about right for your standard Best Buy/Circuit City sales retards. Thankfully, my friend it a lot smarter. Actually knows the difference between a VGA slot and the processor.
I recently had a sales rep tell me that all cables degrade over time and should be replaced every couple years, if not yearly. After I stared at him for 10 seconds or so he asked if I needed any replacements. I told him to save it for the customers whose IQ's were less than thier shoe size and go away.
More improtantly, they'll get a much better idea of how many people are atually utilizing the tech at this time. When they release sales numbers for the peripheral, then I'm sure that will be a very good indication of market penetration Hi-def sets in gamer households.
Scoundrels!! Slightly off-topic: But I was playing some Dead Rising over the weekend at my buddy's house. I'd never used a wireless controller before. It's amazing how hard it is to make the conversion. Trying not to trip on the radiowaves looks a lot funnier than accidentaly kicking out the cable. Or perhaps arranging your legs on the coffee table to allow room for the radio-tubes to go under it and fall to the floor. Lots of laughs in that room.
I especially like how they all fly into the ocean. Remind anyone of an old Rockstar game or maybe just a rodent? I mean seriously, these cars seem intent upon their own demise.
I wonder if 3D realms is trying to create the ultimate Duke Nukem Forever experience with a paradigm shift. They could very well be experimenting with a old coding technique that was never really implemented. Anyone wanna take bets that there are 100 million monkey's chained to 100 million computers running basic hex editors? When any of them have typed, say, 4GB of code, it's thrown on a DVD and into a PS2/360/XBox/PC and tested to see if they get a 'Good Duke'?
OTOH, daddy may just get a new system for those rendered breasts and hope mommy don't notice.
Sounds like a blast to me... just as long as Peter Griffon doesn't find you!
Isn't that one of the definitions of insanity? Or maybe a proverb. To do the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
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You can't be serious?! You must not be counting freezes. Ever plug another controller into the NES? Or run it for 8 hours straight? I don't think it could 'crash' per se. But it always sucked when you'd been playing Zelda or Dragon Warrior for some hours and hadn't saved.
Okay, I'm nit-picking. I'll stop.
It didn't take them to help me in my decision, though. All it took was the price. I don't care what you get in the box, 600 bucks isn't worth it. And I was fired up for the PS3 (love every Gran Turismo, need more) but I won't pay over 300 bucks for a console. So, no, I don't have a 360, but I'm sure I will some day. It's just not worth it right now.
Also, I have a warlock alt that I absolutely hate. I guess just don't like the pet classes, but I had tried a hunter and figured a Lock would work out better. But if the talent tree makes it a little easier to handle, I might stick with him.
Hasn't WoW been posting the new talent trees since a month or two ago? Well, I can't get to the page at work, so I don't know if they changed them. But I know I'd been looking forward to redoing my rogues talents because they were nerfing one of them. Points more valuable elsewhere.
I usually stay away from any strategy guides unless I've really messed something up or it's my second or third time through a game. Mostly because at that point they help you find the things that you'd never think to look for. A lot of the time there will be obscure hints about an extra, but often there aren't even hints.
A typical voice mail...
"Son? It's me. I just saw a deal on RAM. It sounds like a good idea, but I wanted to run it by you. I've been wanting to speed up my computer for a while and you said RAM can help. I just saw on (some website) you could get 512MB of RAM for 20 dollars. It's PC133. What do you think?" My dad has a G5...
Pretty much why I just have my brother do it for free. I just let him keep most of the spoils. He'll call me and tell me he's gained two levels on one of my char's every once in a while. But he's the kind of guy who enjoys the grind. And I am not. I like the interaction, and getting things accomplished. So I level my main, but the alts don't offer much of anything new except editing your strategy in killing different MOBs in WoW. Just my 2 cents.
My brother and I were listening in and my brother shouted, "Yeah, well tell them to take their monopoly and shove it up their ass!"
We actaully hear the rep scream, "I heard that!"
Still, no phone companies seemed to be able to bring in DSL to the area.
I just called a local company and I can pay 45(american) for 4mpbs or something like that. BS. I live on my own, I can't afford that. Gotta have heat.
Either that or they plan on having finished building the world's first, full-scale, fully functional Yamato Cruiser by 2010. That way we can play live action. Hopefully they're not also working on a Zergling Rush... That would suck. A very squishy sort of suck.
I'd like to see some kind of price points like:
NES games- $3.00 (maybe $5.00 for uber-classics, or reworked-redone games, maybe a bit more).
SNES games- $5.00-$7.00
N64 games- $7.00-$10.00 (I'd even consider paying a smidge more if they were able to up the framerates on games such as Perfect Dark, if they added in networked multiplayer for some of them, I'd probably pay up to 20 just for PD or GoldenEye)
Other systems- ??? Would be nice if they didn't cost more than 4 or 5 bucks.
Given enough time and pressure, you might just be using thier decomposed bodies as fuel to get to work... Sorry Grandma!
If you remember the old Bard's Tale series that appeared on the old Apple IIGS's and the like, you could drink to your hearts content, you HP would go up, but the Con would drop... So I'm thinking you must be looking for the wrong stat boost. I'm willing to bet it has something to do with the bladder in a just shy of explosion state for hours. Then pissing ever seven to eight minutes for the rest of the day.
Thanks, that throws this into a much better perspective. Now, it has one more test to pass in order for me to look into buying it. And believe me. this test is the one that sold me on the Nano. I worked in construction and brick manufacture at the time. So I wasn't about to spend any hard earned $'s on something that would crap out after a week or two. I ordered my Nano the day after I read this article. And I still love the thing.