I'd be more concerned about Church Ladie. Besides, Kratos would expire in a fight versus God and Satan. It's like being stuck between two poles. Pure, unbridled evil darkness vs. Pure unbridled good light. He'd be frozen on one side and fried on the other. Besides, biblicaly speaking, those who have sinned cannot see God without being destroyed... Kratos may have a few stikes against him:).
Being a Christian who doens't like the idea of a game in which the whole point is to take on God shouldn't exactly appeal to me. But I also have a brain, therefore I can tell the difference between real life and a make-believe game. I think it would be cool to play a game where you tried to storm the gates of Heaven or Hell in a glorious battle. Of course, I'd be more inclined to storm Hell, but I'd eventually get around to conquering Heaven if the game let me.
God of War II. Game to include new features: More boobs, more blood, more boobs, more bodies, more boobs. Also, seeing as Kratos has slain basically every mythical creature in The Illiad and The Odyssey, you will now be up agains legions of Nintendogs and Pokemon. Borowing from Don Quixote, you will have to take down the evil windmills and kill random "sorcerers" to cleans the lands. Also, Mario will make an appearence for the GameCube version as Zues, God of Thunder.
Wow. Your post has pain and suffering written all over it. I truly am sorry for whatever your parents may have done to you, or what happened to you out of their control. Whether you accept my prayers or not, they are there.
That's why they went ergonomic. Rounded the edges off so they wouldn't cause so much bleeding. Problem is they became more aerodynamic, so more blunt-forced head trauma was the result. Don't even get me started on the N64 "trident."
Let's just hope the PS3 boomerang is given some serious thought.. Dear God, Please won't someone think of the the children?!
What a God-send saving your game was. This was the first savable game we owned. Sure, you had to die, but you could start where you left off. No more overly complex code system. So what if you only had three hearts and was back at the beginning. I've got my sword and blue boomerang, just go up three, over one up three and somewhere around there is a nice fairy who will shower you with love and affection. Beyond any other game, this is what made me love Zelda (in the begining). I was only 6 when it came out and I had a hard time adopting to the controller or learning the map.
When my parents kicked me off the Nintendo to make me play outside (which was frequent) they understood that they weren't ruining my last 20 minutes of gaming. Heck, my mom or dad would often sit co-pilot with the map helping me find where to go, but I wasn't allowd to play unless weather didn't permit me to go outside. I grew up in Minnesota, so we get a lot of extremes.
Aren't the shuttles "American Made?" Parts should be pretty cheap. On the other hand, if they'd have gone with a German or Japanese make, they'd be paying out the wazoo for new parts... Good thing they're keeping Atlantis for parting-out.
Honestly, this is nothing compared to the wait of Ocarina of Time. That game was pushed back again and again for over a year. What we got ended up being one of the best gaming experiences of all time. I'm not one to get too angry with Nintendo about these kind of gripes as long as they deliver a solid product... and Nintendo almost always does (Mario Party 26, I'm looking at you here).
Honestly, if they're delaying the game, then it's probably 10% P.R., 90% Game/Technical. Zelda has always (yup, even Wind Waker) been worth the wait.
So, Chin-up RyoShin! Cloudy skies are going to clear up, put on a happy face! Turn that frown, up-side-down!
Good post. I agree with you for the most part. But my two cents are really loud and demand attention. I wouldn't call it genius to implement this system. I would call it stupid not to, if you had an infrustructure like MS does.
Achievements or whatever they call them is pretty cool. I've been doing that sort of stuff for a while with shooters and platformer games. Nothing like the people who try to go through RPGs without using a particular button or without certain charecters (check out gamefaqs for FF-X and you'll understand). I have a cousin who has played the original Tenchu (let's face it, they still haven't topped the original) so much that he touts his memory card around sometimes. I'd be over there and he'd be playing Tenchu. "This time I'm going through the level with only shurukins, no swords. Not even to defend." I would watch it and he would actually do it. Even on some of the boss stages.
Wait a second here. You can point out the problems with the other three games (btw, I think the Civ IV mem leak was pluged in the latest patch, I haven't had a problem with it lately), but completely leave alone the fact that you need internet connectivity to play HL2? Or the fact that the game seems to load agonizingly slow compared with the other three listed games? I mean, you're talking technical issues that I agree with on the other three accounts, but you have to admit that HL2 has some descently-sized technicle problems too.
You used Knights of the Round on Sepheroth? Okay, seriously, I had level 55 maybe 60 charecters. I didn't know that I would have to split them up either. So one side was horribly underpowered and didn't really have a lot of magic or power. The fight took me less then ten minutes. The only thing I had unlocked was a few of the ultimate weapons (which were too weak to use in some cases), and two of the level four limit breaks. Yeah, I had Omni-slash, but most of everyone was on level two. I also had Cloud's ultimate weapon and some materia that made hit every target for every swing (often criting).
I went through the game again and beat up everything. At level 68 I finally beat Ruby. Still working on Emerald... and I haven't pulled the game out for a long time...
Gradius III? Now, I'm not saying the game was easy, but it wasn't that hard either. The only real challenge was the level where it sped up really fast and your main concern was not hitting the walls. Memorization takes care of that. Maybe the level with the five bosses in a row, but that was easy enough if you could avoid the one that tried continuously to ram you. The end boss (big pile of pink biomatter that talked to you) was the easiest of all the bosses in the game.
I still play this game a lot on my SNES (not emulator). Twin Laser, any extra bullets (I'd never use them), 2-way missle (backwards), S form option (the wings), reduce (if you don't get hit, you don't need a shield), and sheild up for special. Leave the power up on option and you can cover the whole screen with laser fire and missle fire.
If that doesn't help, then pause the game and use the Konami code, but use L and R in stead of left and right, or you'll blow up.
P.S. Hopefully future versions of Gradius will allow you to configure your weapons like III did. Tweaking your ride is half the fun.
In regards to your second point. I've not heard much about this "loop hole." It's intriguing, but at the same time, I'm skeptical. Far be it for me to fear the all-powerfull DMCA monkeys, but I'd like to know exactly what constitutes breaking compatability?
Does that mean that home players have to play all formats? Like VCR, Beta, DVD versions of movies? Or does that mean that they have to release legacy media formats (like CD releases must be also in the form of cassettes and vinyl)? Like I said, haven't heard anything about this.
users may be illegally copying films from DVDs onto a memory chip the PSPs can read.
The nail in the UMD coffin says, "Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo" right on it.
They knew what they were doing.. even included the software.. And, despite the fact that people are pirating movies with their memory sticks, a lot of them are copying movies or shows they already own. Then there's the whole issue that it requires far less battery power to read/display a movie off solid state memory than to spin a disc. So it's even more appealing to do so.
The real question is whether or not they will allow it to continue. Will there be a new firmware update that requires a license to play every movie? And beyond that, will they be producing any "killer apps" that make people want to buy the product that will install it? From what I've heard, the PSP has been distinctivly Gamecube about news lately. In other words, pretty well dead in the water. Very few titles. Not much to get excited over.
Thought it said the virus spread via "Bon Jovi." I always thought there had to a reason to come out of retirement... other then the whole singing thing.
"Children in Ms. Johnson's 2nd grade class from ABC elementary school took a field trip to the red light district to learn about the habits and lives of a different kind of public servent. Here's little Jacky Shultz, live from downtown"
"Thanks, Ted. I've got little Suzy here who seems to be having a terrific time. So, Suzy, what's your favorite part of today's field trip.?"
"I liked it when the man in the fuzzy clothes hit the lady and made them give and share. Because sharing is good!"
"Right you are Suzy! Next we have Suzy's teacher. Ms. Johnson, I understand that the class was originally scheduled to make a visit to the zoo. What made you decide to change your planes?"
"Well, lately I've felt that the field trips that children experience are lacking. They go to the zoo, they see some monkey's doing it. We've been to the paper mill, to the crayon factories... I thought I'd mix it up a bit and show a different kind of industry. In stead of monkeys doing it, I thought we'd show them real people, doing it hours a day to make a living."
"There you have it! Back to you, Ted."
Right... Hookers aren't exactly what I would call models of social development. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad that they are in a plight that the feel forces them to do what they do (or sickend that they enjoy it). But, in no way do I think I would ever consider one a role model.
A friend of mine couldn't afford a memory card for his Playstation. He bought Gran Turismo and played it for around 8 days without powering it off. He went to the bank to get money for the card and when he returned, the game had finally frozen on him. I think he had 38 hours of play in.
I'd say not a chance. It's just another peripheral they'd have to include in the price. We haven't seen another device that utilizes the UMD. No players or computer add-ons via USB or even the 3.5" ports on your box (remember those? they had the floppys). UMD likely won't make it off of the PSP, at least for a while. Maybe if there's a PSP2 it will be backward compatable. I hope it isn't though. Expenses aside, they should be using solid state.
In my opinion, no handheld should have moving parts. Even HDD's. They eat power, they move and they can be damaged fairly easily (even with a caddy). My biggest complaint, however, is load times. Especially for a game that I'm playing on the go. Load times have always pissed me off on consoles, but I put up with it because I was just sitting on my butt anyway. With a handheld, I usualy have it on when I've got spare time. The GBA adaptor helps a lot for time-intesive games (I hate staring at all the portable screens for more than five minutes). So, even though you can leave the PSP (or DS) on suspend, I don't because I never know when I'll get back to it, but I'd preffer the console to not be dead when I return.
A portable version of the Phantom that ships with multiplayer Duke Nukem Forever. I didn't read the article, but I did check out the company's website. It reminds me of all the other young, upstart 'labs.' The only real red flag on this is that whole, infinite focus deal. It's going to get blurry after a few hundred feet...
Hmm... I'm sure there's more vaporware I could mention. Wasn't there some "mircle chip laptop" or something that ran at 6GHz and had fusion as a powersource?
Disclaimer: If it's in TFA, sorry, I it's blocked at work and I can't read it. Now that that's out of the way...
Perfect Dark. Hell yeah. I loved this game back in college. I would love it if it ran at full 60fps too. This is the best multiplayer FPS that I know of without networking. I think it would translate very well (maybe not with the reflex enhancing pills, or whatever they were). I see a lot of posts for GoldenEye as well. I think Perfect dark had an edge on GoldenEye. Even though the latter was still an exceptional game.
I had a chance to play the 360 version last weekend and it was a pretty weak game. The controls were too loose and the game looked (compared to other 360 games) like crap. The game was on a 42" Samsung DLP Hi-Def, so I could see the game in all it's hi-def glory. Basically, everything looked like it had been coated in high-gloss wax, even Joanna's fur coat. The levels were horrificly un-original. Rooms were used over and over again. You constantly see the same wall. Without the annoying arrows all over you'd be lost without a clue. The gun models make them look like blocks of wood. The scopes aren't even circular.
I had gotten really sick of smoker's exorbitant breaks at an old job. I asked my boss why these guys could leave the office every half hour for 5-10 minutes. She just said that they needed the break to cope with stress. Well, I was waiting tables too, why couldn't I get a break. The answer, "You don't smoke, you don't get a break."
I started making deals with the other servers immediately, and those that would cover for me for 5 minutes, I would cover for. Those that would not (including my boss), I would tell their customers that they were out smoking, and must have forgotten that the guests were here (if they were angry, I'd go on to say that they often did this), but I cover for him/her and get what they needed. I started getting extra tips immediately.
At my current job, it's pretty lax. Although I see a few of the guys in another department on their way out of the building for a smoke break at least 10 times a day, not including their 15min breaks and lunch. I try not to count them because I'm allowed little breaks for/. and the like. But one of these guys is the head of another department and is an F---ing Nazi about his employee's time. He just fired some lady because her kid was sick and she didn't have vacation to cover going to the school to pick up the kid. (She had been here a two weeks, none accrued). I'm glad I don't work for the SOB, but some of my friends here do. He is having them document every coffee break and piss break so they don't take more than 15min in the morning or afternoon in total. But, nobody feels like complaining, so nothing will ever get done.
I realy don't like the idea that's it's a video iPod and they want you to get your fingerprints on the screen when you want to interface with the controls. Nobody wants to carry around bottles of cleaner and special clothes that won't hurt the screen. Sure, you could use your shirt, but a lot of poeple would not be okay with that. You could get a protector, but it will dim the screeen and blurr it a bit too.
This is all assuming that ThinkSecret isn't talking out their collective patooties...
Anybody remember those AOL CDs that just would not stop coming to your house for years and years and years...? Well, they still do that, but it sounds like Sony can't even give the things away. People are seriously going to open these DVD packs and think, "What the hell is this?"
What's worse is that there are plenty of people that haven't even been exposed to a PSP and they'll be pissed that they paid money for something they can't use (or don't know how to use). In their minds (and in mine), "If it comes in the box, my money is paying for it. Make it cheaper and get rid of the shit I don't want." Even if the price is the same, you're pennys are paying for it, it ain't free... ugh...
And, no, I'm not bashing the PSP. All in all it's a pretty amazing device. I'd like to own one to emulate older games, but they're too spendy for me. Doubt I'd ever watch a movie on it, though.
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Being a Christian who doens't like the idea of a game in which the whole point is to take on God shouldn't exactly appeal to me. But I also have a brain, therefore I can tell the difference between real life and a make-believe game. I think it would be cool to play a game where you tried to storm the gates of Heaven or Hell in a glorious battle. Of course, I'd be more inclined to storm Hell, but I'd eventually get around to conquering Heaven if the game let me.
God of War II. Game to include new features: More boobs, more blood, more boobs, more bodies, more boobs. Also, seeing as Kratos has slain basically every mythical creature in The Illiad and The Odyssey, you will now be up agains legions of Nintendogs and Pokemon. Borowing from Don Quixote, you will have to take down the evil windmills and kill random "sorcerers" to cleans the lands. Also, Mario will make an appearence for the GameCube version as Zues, God of Thunder.
Wow. Your post has pain and suffering written all over it. I truly am sorry for whatever your parents may have done to you, or what happened to you out of their control. Whether you accept my prayers or not, they are there.
1000 feet or 15 hops.
Let's just hope the PS3 boomerang is given some serious thought..
Dear God, Please won't someone think of the the children?!
When my parents kicked me off the Nintendo to make me play outside (which was frequent) they understood that they weren't ruining my last 20 minutes of gaming. Heck, my mom or dad would often sit co-pilot with the map helping me find where to go, but I wasn't allowd to play unless weather didn't permit me to go outside. I grew up in Minnesota, so we get a lot of extremes.
Ah.. memories.
Aren't the shuttles "American Made?" Parts should be pretty cheap. On the other hand, if they'd have gone with a German or Japanese make, they'd be paying out the wazoo for new parts... Good thing they're keeping Atlantis for parting-out.
Honestly, if they're delaying the game, then it's probably 10% P.R., 90% Game/Technical. Zelda has always (yup, even Wind Waker) been worth the wait.
So, Chin-up RyoShin! Cloudy skies are going to clear up, put on a happy face!
Turn that frown, up-side-down!
Achievements or whatever they call them is pretty cool. I've been doing that sort of stuff for a while with shooters and platformer games. Nothing like the people who try to go through RPGs without using a particular button or without certain charecters (check out gamefaqs for FF-X and you'll understand). I have a cousin who has played the original Tenchu (let's face it, they still haven't topped the original) so much that he touts his memory card around sometimes. I'd be over there and he'd be playing Tenchu. "This time I'm going through the level with only shurukins, no swords. Not even to defend." I would watch it and he would actually do it. Even on some of the boss stages.
Wait a second here. You can point out the problems with the other three games (btw, I think the Civ IV mem leak was pluged in the latest patch, I haven't had a problem with it lately), but completely leave alone the fact that you need internet connectivity to play HL2? Or the fact that the game seems to load agonizingly slow compared with the other three listed games? I mean, you're talking technical issues that I agree with on the other three accounts, but you have to admit that HL2 has some descently-sized technicle problems too.
I went through the game again and beat up everything. At level 68 I finally beat Ruby. Still working on Emerald... and I haven't pulled the game out for a long time...
I still play this game a lot on my SNES (not emulator). Twin Laser, any extra bullets (I'd never use them), 2-way missle (backwards), S form option (the wings), reduce (if you don't get hit, you don't need a shield), and sheild up for special. Leave the power up on option and you can cover the whole screen with laser fire and missle fire.
If that doesn't help, then pause the game and use the Konami code, but use L and R in stead of left and right, or you'll blow up.
P.S. Hopefully future versions of Gradius will allow you to configure your weapons like III did. Tweaking your ride is half the fun.
Does that mean that home players have to play all formats? Like VCR, Beta, DVD versions of movies? Or does that mean that they have to release legacy media formats (like CD releases must be also in the form of cassettes and vinyl)?
Like I said, haven't heard anything about this.
The nail in the UMD coffin says, "Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo" right on it.
They knew what they were doing.. even included the software.. And, despite the fact that people are pirating movies with their memory sticks, a lot of them are copying movies or shows they already own. Then there's the whole issue that it requires far less battery power to read/display a movie off solid state memory than to spin a disc. So it's even more appealing to do so.
The real question is whether or not they will allow it to continue. Will there be a new firmware update that requires a license to play every movie? And beyond that, will they be producing any "killer apps" that make people want to buy the product that will install it? From what I've heard, the PSP has been distinctivly Gamecube about news lately. In other words, pretty well dead in the water. Very few titles. Not much to get excited over.
Thought it said the virus spread via "Bon Jovi." I always thought there had to a reason to come out of retirement... other then the whole singing thing.
"Thanks, Ted. I've got little Suzy here who seems to be having a terrific time. So, Suzy, what's your favorite part of today's field trip.?"
"I liked it when the man in the fuzzy clothes hit the lady and made them give and share. Because sharing is good!"
"Right you are Suzy! Next we have Suzy's teacher. Ms. Johnson, I understand that the class was originally scheduled to make a visit to the zoo. What made you decide to change your planes?"
"Well, lately I've felt that the field trips that children experience are lacking. They go to the zoo, they see some monkey's doing it. We've been to the paper mill, to the crayon factories... I thought I'd mix it up a bit and show a different kind of industry. In stead of monkeys doing it, I thought we'd show them real people, doing it hours a day to make a living."
"There you have it! Back to you, Ted."
Right... Hookers aren't exactly what I would call models of social development. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad that they are in a plight that the feel forces them to do what they do (or sickend that they enjoy it). But, in no way do I think I would ever consider one a role model.
A friend of mine couldn't afford a memory card for his Playstation. He bought Gran Turismo and played it for around 8 days without powering it off. He went to the bank to get money for the card and when he returned, the game had finally frozen on him. I think he had 38 hours of play in.
In my opinion, no handheld should have moving parts. Even HDD's. They eat power, they move and they can be damaged fairly easily (even with a caddy). My biggest complaint, however, is load times. Especially for a game that I'm playing on the go. Load times have always pissed me off on consoles, but I put up with it because I was just sitting on my butt anyway. With a handheld, I usualy have it on when I've got spare time. The GBA adaptor helps a lot for time-intesive games (I hate staring at all the portable screens for more than five minutes). So, even though you can leave the PSP (or DS) on suspend, I don't because I never know when I'll get back to it, but I'd preffer the console to not be dead when I return.
Cold fusion, you say?! Well, if I had known that... You wouldn't happen to have the pre-order website. I thought it was regular old fusion.
I didn't read the article, but I did check out the company's website. It reminds me of all the other young, upstart 'labs.' The only real red flag on this is that whole, infinite focus deal. It's going to get blurry after a few hundred feet...
Hmm... I'm sure there's more vaporware I could mention. Wasn't there some "mircle chip laptop" or something that ran at 6GHz and had fusion as a powersource?
Sir, Madam, or Mademoiselle... you have made my morning.
Perfect Dark. Hell yeah. I loved this game back in college. I would love it if it ran at full 60fps too. This is the best multiplayer FPS that I know of without networking. I think it would translate very well (maybe not with the reflex enhancing pills, or whatever they were). I see a lot of posts for GoldenEye as well. I think Perfect dark had an edge on GoldenEye. Even though the latter was still an exceptional game.
I had a chance to play the 360 version last weekend and it was a pretty weak game. The controls were too loose and the game looked (compared to other 360 games) like crap. The game was on a 42" Samsung DLP Hi-Def, so I could see the game in all it's hi-def glory. Basically, everything looked like it had been coated in high-gloss wax, even Joanna's fur coat. The levels were horrificly un-original. Rooms were used over and over again. You constantly see the same wall. Without the annoying arrows all over you'd be lost without a clue. The gun models make them look like blocks of wood. The scopes aren't even circular.
I miss the old PD...
I started making deals with the other servers immediately, and those that would cover for me for 5 minutes, I would cover for. Those that would not (including my boss), I would tell their customers that they were out smoking, and must have forgotten that the guests were here (if they were angry, I'd go on to say that they often did this), but I cover for him/her and get what they needed. I started getting extra tips immediately.
At my current job, it's pretty lax. Although I see a few of the guys in another department on their way out of the building for a smoke break at least 10 times a day, not including their 15min breaks and lunch. I try not to count them because I'm allowed little breaks for /. and the like. But one of these guys is the head of another department and is an F---ing Nazi about his employee's time. He just fired some lady because her kid was sick and she didn't have vacation to cover going to the school to pick up the kid. (She had been here a two weeks, none accrued). I'm glad I don't work for the SOB, but some of my friends here do. He is having them document every coffee break and piss break so they don't take more than 15min in the morning or afternoon in total. But, nobody feels like complaining, so nothing will ever get done.
This is all assuming that ThinkSecret isn't talking out their collective patooties...
What's worse is that there are plenty of people that haven't even been exposed to a PSP and they'll be pissed that they paid money for something they can't use (or don't know how to use). In their minds (and in mine), "If it comes in the box, my money is paying for it. Make it cheaper and get rid of the shit I don't want." Even if the price is the same, you're pennys are paying for it, it ain't free... ugh...
And, no, I'm not bashing the PSP. All in all it's a pretty amazing device. I'd like to own one to emulate older games, but they're too spendy for me. Doubt I'd ever watch a movie on it, though.