My bad, wifi. You can use it while charging, but it drains the battery even when the charger is plugged in. You even get a warning on screen warning you that it drains the battery. Pretty sick.
I was pretty sure from the moment I heard about the UMD movies that they wouldn't be likely to succeed. I was 100% sure after I found out that sony pointed the gun at their feet, and gave consumers the bullet when they provided the tool to convert movies to watch them off the memory stick. Hmm.. Free vs cha-ching? Then there's the battery power issue. Flash memory takes a fraction of the power that a spinning motor does.
It's still a cool machine. I'd buy one if they opened it up for indie development (I can't develop, but I'd pay for original games). I'd even consider it for multiplayer if the thing would charge (or even just run off the A/C adaptor) with bluetooth enabled.
It is no secret that IGN is receiving MASSIVE dollars from Microsoft for placement and advertising, and not so from Nintendo
I'm not sure about that, but if you read any of the authour's other 'works' you will notice that he really is full of it. I can't link to other articles he wrote because I'm at work, but you should be able to link to his other stories. Generally he tries to use big words to bash Nintendo and doesn't EVER do real research. And judging by his usual comments, despite what he says, he hasn't likely even seen a Gamecube do it's thing.
[firey church-goer stands up]Amen, amen amen. Preach it brother!(or sister)
I constantly want to spend money on a new wizz-bang TV, but then I realize there is a mortgage. There are student loans. I have to put tires on my car. The heating bill is astronimical and by next winter, it will be again (thinking ahead).
If I really want HD TV, I could probably just stream it to my monitor with a $200 HDTV card, which I may do, seeing as the only TV in my house has dials that clunk when you turn them. I simply don't watch television, but I love gaming.
EVER! Minsc, Boo (the Miniature Giant Space Hampster) and Lilicor (the talking sword). It never gets old listeng to their banter! Okay, Boo doesn't say much, but Lilicor's occational outburst never fails to bring a smile to my face.
The romances were always kind of stange, though. The one with Jahiera was just wrong. Her husband died not 4 days before she starts macking on you (I know the patch fixed this, but still...). Aerie is too annoying to complete because she's got a consitent mindset of a 14 year old. Never got around to doing the one with the drow. (Now that I think of it, all the male romances were with elves...). I haven't played a female charecter, but I've listened to some of Anomen's rants and he complains about everything.
I think the best part about BGII was the Infiniti Engine's, well, infinite ability for mods. There's a whole community devoted to modding it. So, now, there isn't any lack for content. I would, however, love another iteration. Good work Bioware!
I'd like to see the actual bullets you shoot have an arc. I know that some bullets are designed to have smaller arcs, or some initially rise when they spin (as I'm told...), but they do drop to the ground. I've played a couple FPS single player games where you had to compensate for distance (Deus Ex), but no multiplayers.
This sort of thing would make it a bit harder for the people playing Halo2 who seem to be able to snipe people while dodging tanks and jeeps. I know they'd eventually be able to compensate, but it would take the player just another second to figure it out. Perhaps windcurrents would make a difference eventually (probably negligable in most situations, but it would be interesting).
I haven't tried it, but I plan on it now. But can't you just slip in the XP CD and grab the needed files? I know it will ask for the CD if something is missing. Or are these files or dll's that need to be installed right off to do any good? Just wondering.
A game platform gives them some method of differentiation
Doesn't that make it a gimmick? I don't mind calling cameras, games, ringtones, and tv on phones gimmicks. I just want a phone that has a clear way of communicating all the phone information I need to me. I can take pictures with a camera, carry a Game Boy for games, and type notes into an old PDA.
But I can't don't have the cash or pocket/belt space for that, so I got me one of them fancy phones. I don't play games or take notes on it though. Just use the camera. SonyEricsson s710a. The real reason I wanted it is because it can tote a lot of infomration very easily. However, I only learned that it's Memory Stick Duo was not a 'Pro' and maxes out at 128MB cards. Still, that's a lot of camera photos and lot's of home-made ringers.
The game's graphics look grainy (and I've played it on normal and Hi-Def TVs). There was too much junk everywhere. A lot of people considered it to have great graphics, but, to me, it seemed like they were doing too much with what little they had (performence vs. image quality). You could see where they cut corners too easily. The massive gloves, for instance. It keeps them from having to use polygons on the charecter's hands (Just a big cylinder for the gloves, really). It also looked like all bump-mapping used the same image. Most of the backgrounds didn't need bump-mapping because of how many textures they used.
So when I say much better graphics, I mean it could really utilize the 360's abilities. I don't mean that it could have had much better graphics on the XBox. The team that did the original was very talented, it shows.
This would be most welcome. I enjoyed Fable. A lot of people felt the game was too short. I agree, but if you went out of your way to complete most of the game, you were still siting around 30 or so hours (much more if you killed the shopkeeps and then bought them out). The only thing I didn't like about the game was how quickly you could go shift sides from bad to good or good to bad. I wasn't too fond of running around with white armor and having every single adult propose marraige just because my attractiveness attribute was too high.
Seriously, it was a pretty good game that could have used more story and much better graphics. The effects were good at the expense of textures IMHO. The 360, or any other next gen system, should be able to handle this. Another feature they could include would be loading the clear save on an old memory card (or just on the new HDD of the 360) and continueing the story from that point (whether you killed your sister or not, were bad or good, etc). This could be done with numorous RPGs, really. Not an expansion, though, you would, of course, be givin the option to start fresh.
As I understand it, the Mem cards will be 512MB. That's enough for about eight N64 games, seeing as the bigger games were about 64MB each. The biggest SNES game I can recall was probably Super Street Fighter II at 32MB. And NES games rarely made 4MB.
You won't be able to fit a very large library on these (assuming you're going for N64/SNES games), so hopefully there will either be bigger cards or some sort of a mass storage device add-on or something.
Yes, CD-i. Thank you for the trip down pain avenue. I must be masochistic, because I still want to try playing these. It stems back to having seen an infomercial (much akin to the Turbographix 16 infomercials) about this system. Whenever I saw an infomercial, I'd make a mental not to stay away from the product with the yelling man and the unnaturally stupid woman.
I'm hoping that somehow I can get my hands on the old 3Di Zelda games that came out. I know most people would rather sit through multiple root canals without anesthetic than play the games... but it's something I'd like to experience for myself.
Agreed. On average I watch 0.00 hours of television a week. I don't even own one, but when I did, I might have watch half an hour. I do spend around 10 hours a week gaming. I have my laptop for WoW and CivIV and a TV I borrowed that I can play my old SNES on (it's the old kind of TV, it has knobs and the two screws on the back for an antenna, I don't want my Gamecube to blow it up...).
My dad gives me a hard time about video games if he ever sees me play them. Meanwhile, at his house, he sits on his ass at least two hours a day, more on weekends, in front of the tube. The difference? I'm getting a small degree of excercise, and plenty of mental stimulation. Most of my console games are strategy (Fire Emblem, Tactis Ogre, Shining Force). I also work out three times a week for over an hour (he doesn't work out at all) and work a 40hr/wk job. Don't see what he's upset about.
Shooters are shooters and really can't be compared with a such a different genre. The FPS is a 3-D environment vs a 2D. I suppose in the context of the article, you could handedly argue that it's part of the evolution.(ad a demention and you have so much more to deal with)
But here's my arguement. In a real shooter, one hit, you're dead. Rarely do you get so much as a shield.
And I agree, mostly because these games involve bullet absorbing meatbags that can instantly fix themselves up with a couple of adhesive bandages and a chemicle cold-compress. Reflexes are rendered less-necessary. Try Einhander for the PS1. One of the best shooters ever. Try Twinkle Star Sprites for Neo-Geo (I think that's what I played it on) if you think your anylytical mind can see order in a madness of bullets flying. Hell, even Geometry Wars takes real reflexes.
I've read the theorey of relativity in many forms. No degree, however. I've been through the formulas, and I understand them pretty well (was a math major, so I can crunch numbers). Problem is, this is still what I get out of relativity. I know that you can't just be accelerated to C or 1/2 without infinite force.
All I'm saying is that we won't know untill we try, and it makes no sense (to me) until it happens. I sure we all saw Flight of the Navigator. That's when I became intrueged with relativity, when I was 6. Didn't study it for another 10 years, though...
Think about it. Relativity makes great sense. If you traveled at half the speed of light (assuming time doesn't pass at warp 1): 50 years pass on earth, 25 for you. Problem is, it takes another 25 for you to get back. Now, relative to you, the earth is going back in time 25 years (provided you go the same speed back). Back to zero extra years.
Relativity is limited in its usefulness. Aging only stops/slows down for the visual perspective of the observer. You will still have aged 50 years if you speed of at light -1m/sec from earth. If they could 'see' with some sort of telescope, they would notice that you are moving very slowly, and not aging, mostly because so many of those photons carrying the information of your visual status haven't had the ability/time to reach the lenses.
If humans could only react to sound, then Einstien would likely have said that nothing goes faster than sound because we can't percieve it faster than sound. (And we'd be stupid to try, lots of things to bump into if sound can't head back faster than it got there).
I'm not saying anything about you. My ambiguous pronouns (you, your) are plural for the purposes of this post, and address the mases...
...but if your jeans don't fit.. I'm pretty sure the phone has little to do with it. I myself have had this problem in the past. Sure, buying a smaller phone may help, but I hear excercise is a suitable (yet more time consuming) alternative. Of course, the easiest (and likely cheapest) way to fix this problem is to go to your local jeans retailer and try on slightly larger jeans while wearing your phone. This will ensure that you get a proper fit with you and your phone.
I hope some of us will take my advice. Because, as most of us know, we don't want to see the average/.er wearing skin tight jeans. We don't want the ability read the date on a dime in the back pocket. Or, in this case, the numeric keypad and caller ID.
I worked nights durring college. I would often fall asleep during class. I don't know how, but my notes were alwasys finish, and legible. I also was very particular about taking notes. I would only use a composition notebook with graph paper (being a CS/Math major). I'm talking the good 5x5 per inch graph paper. I would also use a.05mm pencil lead. I fit 3-4 lines (for linear algebra) in each of these squares. Rarely did I have to look at the paper... or the professor. Usually I was sleeping and my pencil was taking notes.
It doesn't add up, but my grades certainly reflected my lack of sleep. I was a solid 'C' student while I was working nights.
I knew two people who used laptops in class, and mostly they just typed in notepad or a Linux equivilent. The Prof moved too fast for them to draw in symbols. I think after a while some other students got laptops and started taking notes directly into Mathematica.
Getting off topic, but check out Honda's Hybrid Accord. I salivate over it every time I think of it. 253HP Combustion engine and a low-RPM electic. It gets about 24city, 35hwy for mileage. Quite speedy and relatively efficient.
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My bad, wifi. You can use it while charging, but it drains the battery even when the charger is plugged in. You even get a warning on screen warning you that it drains the battery. Pretty sick.
It's still a cool machine. I'd buy one if they opened it up for indie development (I can't develop, but I'd pay for original games). I'd even consider it for multiplayer if the thing would charge (or even just run off the A/C adaptor) with bluetooth enabled.
I'm not sure about that, but if you read any of the authour's other 'works' you will notice that he really is full of it. I can't link to other articles he wrote because I'm at work, but you should be able to link to his other stories. Generally he tries to use big words to bash Nintendo and doesn't EVER do real research. And judging by his usual comments, despite what he says, he hasn't likely even seen a Gamecube do it's thing.
I constantly want to spend money on a new wizz-bang TV, but then I realize there is a mortgage. There are student loans. I have to put tires on my car. The heating bill is astronimical and by next winter, it will be again (thinking ahead).
If I really want HD TV, I could probably just stream it to my monitor with a $200 HDTV card, which I may do, seeing as the only TV in my house has dials that clunk when you turn them. I simply don't watch television, but I love gaming.
The romances were always kind of stange, though. The one with Jahiera was just wrong. Her husband died not 4 days before she starts macking on you (I know the patch fixed this, but still...). Aerie is too annoying to complete because she's got a consitent mindset of a 14 year old. Never got around to doing the one with the drow. (Now that I think of it, all the male romances were with elves...). I haven't played a female charecter, but I've listened to some of Anomen's rants and he complains about everything.
I think the best part about BGII was the Infiniti Engine's, well, infinite ability for mods. There's a whole community devoted to modding it. So, now, there isn't any lack for content. I would, however, love another iteration. Good work Bioware!
This sort of thing would make it a bit harder for the people playing Halo2 who seem to be able to snipe people while dodging tanks and jeeps. I know they'd eventually be able to compensate, but it would take the player just another second to figure it out. Perhaps windcurrents would make a difference eventually (probably negligable in most situations, but it would be interesting).
I haven't tried it, but I plan on it now. But can't you just slip in the XP CD and grab the needed files? I know it will ask for the CD if something is missing. Or are these files or dll's that need to be installed right off to do any good? Just wondering.
Yeah, they change the year in the title.
Doesn't that make it a gimmick? I don't mind calling cameras, games, ringtones, and tv on phones gimmicks. I just want a phone that has a clear way of communicating all the phone information I need to me. I can take pictures with a camera, carry a Game Boy for games, and type notes into an old PDA.
But I can't don't have the cash or pocket/belt space for that, so I got me one of them fancy phones. I don't play games or take notes on it though. Just use the camera. SonyEricsson s710a. The real reason I wanted it is because it can tote a lot of infomration very easily. However, I only learned that it's Memory Stick Duo was not a 'Pro' and maxes out at 128MB cards. Still, that's a lot of camera photos and lot's of home-made ringers.
So when I say much better graphics, I mean it could really utilize the 360's abilities. I don't mean that it could have had much better graphics on the XBox. The team that did the original was very talented, it shows.
Seriously, it was a pretty good game that could have used more story and much better graphics. The effects were good at the expense of textures IMHO. The 360, or any other next gen system, should be able to handle this. Another feature they could include would be loading the clear save on an old memory card (or just on the new HDD of the 360) and continueing the story from that point (whether you killed your sister or not, were bad or good, etc). This could be done with numorous RPGs, really. Not an expansion, though, you would, of course, be givin the option to start fresh.
It's worthy of note that Peons are more considerat than the name implies. They alwasy shut off the lights when they leave.
I wonder how he'd do against Ivan Drago.
You won't be able to fit a very large library on these (assuming you're going for N64/SNES games), so hopefully there will either be bigger cards or some sort of a mass storage device add-on or something.
Yes, CD-i. Thank you for the trip down pain avenue. I must be masochistic, because I still want to try playing these. It stems back to having seen an infomercial (much akin to the Turbographix 16 infomercials) about this system. Whenever I saw an infomercial, I'd make a mental not to stay away from the product with the yelling man and the unnaturally stupid woman.
Thank you, I needed that. Now I need a clean pair of slacks... :(
I'm hoping that somehow I can get my hands on the old 3Di Zelda games that came out. I know most people would rather sit through multiple root canals without anesthetic than play the games... but it's something I'd like to experience for myself.
The cartriges weren't that big... geez.
My dad gives me a hard time about video games if he ever sees me play them. Meanwhile, at his house, he sits on his ass at least two hours a day, more on weekends, in front of the tube. The difference? I'm getting a small degree of excercise, and plenty of mental stimulation. Most of my console games are strategy (Fire Emblem, Tactis Ogre, Shining Force). I also work out three times a week for over an hour (he doesn't work out at all) and work a 40hr/wk job. Don't see what he's upset about.
Shooters are shooters and really can't be compared with a such a different genre. The FPS is a 3-D environment vs a 2D. I suppose in the context of the article, you could handedly argue that it's part of the evolution.(ad a demention and you have so much more to deal with)
But here's my arguement. In a real shooter, one hit, you're dead. Rarely do you get so much as a shield.
And I agree, mostly because these games involve bullet absorbing meatbags that can instantly fix themselves up with a couple of adhesive bandages and a chemicle cold-compress. Reflexes are rendered less-necessary. Try Einhander for the PS1. One of the best shooters ever. Try Twinkle Star Sprites for Neo-Geo (I think that's what I played it on) if you think your anylytical mind can see order in a madness of bullets flying. Hell, even Geometry Wars takes real reflexes.
All I'm saying is that we won't know untill we try, and it makes no sense (to me) until it happens. I sure we all saw Flight of the Navigator. That's when I became intrueged with relativity, when I was 6. Didn't study it for another 10 years, though...
Relativity is limited in its usefulness. Aging only stops/slows down for the visual perspective of the observer. You will still have aged 50 years if you speed of at light -1m/sec from earth. If they could 'see' with some sort of telescope, they would notice that you are moving very slowly, and not aging, mostly because so many of those photons carrying the information of your visual status haven't had the ability/time to reach the lenses.
If humans could only react to sound, then Einstien would likely have said that nothing goes faster than sound because we can't percieve it faster than sound. (And we'd be stupid to try, lots of things to bump into if sound can't head back faster than it got there).
I hope some of us will take my advice. Because, as most of us know, we don't want to see the average /.er wearing skin tight jeans. We don't want the ability read the date on a dime in the back pocket. Or, in this case, the numeric keypad and caller ID.
It doesn't add up, but my grades certainly reflected my lack of sleep. I was a solid 'C' student while I was working nights.
I knew two people who used laptops in class, and mostly they just typed in notepad or a Linux equivilent. The Prof moved too fast for them to draw in symbols. I think after a while some other students got laptops and started taking notes directly into Mathematica.
Getting off topic, but check out Honda's Hybrid Accord. I salivate over it every time I think of it. 253HP Combustion engine and a low-RPM electic. It gets about 24city, 35hwy for mileage. Quite speedy and relatively efficient.