If anything, I'd think sports viewers are MORE likely to skip through stuff they don't want, including programming.
This is what I do, though I almost never record sports so I'm limited by the half-hour buffer.
Football goes by almost exactly three times as fast if you watch the plays at normal speed, between plays at single fast-forward, and commercials at double fast-forward. You don't hear the announcers much, but I consider that a big plus with most football announcers. I normally don't go through quite this fast, as I watch replays of the best plays, but it still takes far less time than watching live would.
Basketball is much less annoying when you can fast forward through the fouls and timeouts at the end.
Baseball I normally watch the whole game, both because I like listening to Rex Hudler talk during dead time, and the other people watching wouldn't stand for aggressive fast-forwarding. I have watched games at single fast-forward, going to normal speed only when the ball is put into play, and it works quite well.
and Shenmue 2 (they even bought the rights to it so that it couldn't be released for the Dreamcast in the US, even though it was released in Japan and Europe).
As I understand it, they will be paying for heavy advertising of Shenmue II in America, and as part of the deal (for obvious reasons) Sega is not releasing it for the Dreamcast. This was a simple business deal between Sega and Microsoft, and while it may piss off Dreamcast fans, there is nothing the least bit sleazy about it.
Think WC3 will support mods? Im glad Game companies have mainly embraced that practice.
Not like they should. It is virtually identical to Diablo II in terms of modding (except for the additon of a map editor). Slightly easier in that they have more explanatory text in their spreadsheets of numbers. Blizzard has put a lot of work into making things easy to change for the benefit of their designers, but hasn't put it the effort to make it usable by the community. A simple way to choose an MPQ to override the default and play games only with those with the same mod would make not only WC3 but any future games with the same sytem easily modifiable.
Why would they remake 7-9 for the PS2 when you can already play them on a PS2?
Having them on one disc, instead of 2-4 each, would be a major benefit. They would also add at least as much stuff as they did to the remakes of 4-6 and Chrono Trigger for the Playstation.
Square is an ambitious enough company that I wouldn't be surprised at all if they came up with an FF game for both GB and GC that can be played seperately, but when put together it brings a lot more.
Final Fantasy VIII had a mini-game that required the PocketStation, so they have done that kind of thing before.
Indeed, a remake of FF8 for the GC might be vaguely within the realm of possibility. I've heard rumors of remakes of 7 through 9 for the PS2 anyway.
You seem to have missed the "Aside from the technicalities of this particular patch" line. Yes, this patch has a tradeoff. No, not every possible patch that improves stuff will have tradeoffs.
If you do want to rent video games, RedOctane offers this. I used their service for about 4 months and was generally happy with it. They frequently have stuff out of stock, but other than that it is good. I'm planning on signing back up sometime.
The big advantage of GCJ isn't speed, it's the vastly better interface to C++ code (CNI vs. JNI). Of course, using that really does make your code non-portable.
It wasn't just the headline that was misleading, the article is misleading. It was GPL and LGPL they switched from.
From Miguel's message to the Mono-announce list:
In behalf of all the Mono contributors to the project, we are announcing that the license for the Mono class libraries has been changed from the dual mode we had (GPL and LGPL) to the MIT X11 license.
For another, it makes it obvious (well, in a subtle way:-) which silvery discs are the copy-protected ones -- namely the ones without the CD logo. We can just avoid buying those. (And encourage others likewise).
And the record companies simply remove the logo from *all* their CDs. Why wouldn't they? I don't think having the logo really helps them currently.
Does this mean that Mono is now a force for good, protecting us from the Powers of Darkness getting absolute control, or are the still vile traitors helping the Beast conquer the world?
Infact, you'll still have the ability to import documents from MS Works, a cheapo text-based version of MS Office that ran on DOS systems more than a decade ago.
Some MS Works stuff. Not all of it. My brother had a laptop that came with MS Works on it (which wasn't a cheapo text-based version of MS Office on DOS, it was a simplified version of Office on (I think) Windows 3.1). When the laptop died he recovered the data off the hard drive, but there was nothing else that could read it. Word could open some versions of Works files, but not this one. IIRC, it opened Works 2.0 files and this was 4.0, but it was a long time ago.
Interesting. The reason I quoted IGN and GameSpot was not that they supported my view, but that they are the ones I read - I remembered the best PS game rankings.
None of this says that they consider it the worst game of the series though. Much less reviles it as the worst of the series.
We're not talking about data here, we're talking personal preference.
Yes, I figured that out. Problem is that people are claiming that of the millions of people that have played multiple Final Fantasys, the majority agrees with them. There is a big difference between "I consider FF VIII the worst of the series", which is personal preference, and "FF VIII is generally reviled as the worst of the series", which needs data to back it up. The people you have spoken to is a pretty damn insignificant sample size.
Second, FF VIII is generally reviled as the worst of the series, being essentially a rushed out the door half of the two-sides-of-war tale they wanted to tell.
No, it's not.
To quote from IGN, when they ranked FF VIII the #7 Playstation game of all time (FF VII was #18):
Final Fantasy VII, if you view it in the context of its time, is the greatest innovator among Square's PlayStation RPGs. But Final Fantasy VIII took all of its strong points, and made them better.
From Gamespot's review of FF VIII:
the latest Final Fantasy is the greatest game ever to bear the name.
I had never before heard anyone claim that FF VIII was the worst in the series. However, since I have heard different people claim that each of FF IV, V, VI, and VII were generally regarded as the best in the series, I guess I should be used to people making bullshit claims about the relative popularity of Final Fantasy without any data to back it up.
This has got to be a troll or just another GCN fanboy. Try the following unique games that are really great (and these are just the ones I've got):
* Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
You may be a troll or a PS2 fanboy, but you probably just made a really humorous mistake. Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for the PS2 is pretty similar to Gauntlet Legends on the N64, even more similar to Gauntlet Legends on the Dreamcast, and presumably the upcoming Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for the GameCube will be even more similar. It's pretty amazingly far from being unique.
I've got a Redant PS/PS2 VGA Box from www.lik-sang.com, and I'm pretty happy with it. They also sell ones for Gamecube/N64, and generic ones as well. In recent headlines it has "VGA Box for the XBox console announced today", so that should be coming soon.
I'm pretty happy with mine. The advantage over a TV card is that you don't have to turn on your computer, which is significant if your computer makes as much noise as mine does. The disadvantage of at least the PS2 adapter is that it takes a memory card slot, so you can't copy stuff from one card to another while using it.
www.RedOctane.com sells a ton of DDR stuff, but the only Dreamcast DDR game out is an import, and they don't have it.:( They've got the pads though.
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Don't buy - just rent.
Check out www.redoctane.com - they have a rental program similar to NetFlix. For a monthly fee you get a certain number of games out at any one time, and when you return one they send you the next one on your list. They have a great selection (including some imports), but it's pretty common for games to be out of stock for a while. For example I put Sonic Adventure 2 in my queue when I joined in late September, and recieved it in early November. I still haven't gotten Parasite Eve though, which I also added when I joined and which it now finally says is in stock. I haven't gotten any GameCubes games yet, and don't really expect them for a while.
Still, it's been worth it. There are a lot of games that just don't take that long to finish. ICO, for example, was very fun first time through but I can't imagine wanting to play it again. It's also nice to not have to rely on reviews, but actually be able to easily check games out for yourself.
It's around. They probably could get the rights to it. (Steve Jackson, owner of Steve Jackson Games, which publishes GURPS, has gone to the Computer Game Developer's conference wearing a shirt saying to ask him about licensing his games.) I personally consider it a vastly superior RPG to D&D.
However, I don't really think it is a valid option for Neverwinter Nights. It would require a lot of changes. I can't see a game that wouldn't allow you to multi-class to more than three classes easily being changed to a classless system with hundreds of skills.
Sword & Sorcery covers it. Just swap with synonyms and you've got a lawsuit-free game system.
I really, really doubt it. Fallout originally had a GURPS license, and after they dropped the license I believe SJ Games sued them to keep them from releasing it as GURPS with the serial numbers filed off.
Interplay's license is not exclusive. From Gamespot's history of AD&D ( http://www.gamespot.com/features/history_add/ )
At this year's E3, it was announced that Mindscape, the parent company of SSI and now a division of Mattel, had reclaimed the license, and that the original developers of Pool of Radiance would now develop a sequel.
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and is only 50 bucks!
*Was* only 50 bucks. I haven't been able to find any new ones for sale at all, and stores that sell used ones tend to charge more than that.
This is what I was thinking. I couldn't tell if Metroid is 100% 3D, but the other two are.
Metroid Prime for the GameCube is 3D.
Are we doomed to never having 2D games again?
No. Metroid Fusion for the Gameboy Advance is 2D. The Gameboy Advance is where it's at for 2D games currently.
Shigeru Miyamoto has an intresting response when asked about 2D vs 3D in this interview at GameSpot UK.
If anything, I'd think sports viewers are MORE likely to skip through stuff they don't want, including programming.
This is what I do, though I almost never record sports so I'm limited by the half-hour buffer.
Football goes by almost exactly three times as fast if you watch the plays at normal speed, between plays at single fast-forward, and commercials at double fast-forward. You don't hear the announcers much, but I consider that a big plus with most football announcers. I normally don't go through quite this fast, as I watch replays of the best plays, but it still takes far less time than watching live would.
Basketball is much less annoying when you can fast forward through the fouls and timeouts at the end.
Baseball I normally watch the whole game, both because I like listening to Rex Hudler talk during dead time, and the other people watching wouldn't stand for aggressive fast-forwarding. I have watched games at single fast-forward, going to normal speed only when the ball is put into play, and it works quite well.
and Shenmue 2 (they even bought the rights to it so that it couldn't be released for the Dreamcast in the US, even though it was released in Japan and Europe).
As I understand it, they will be paying for heavy advertising of Shenmue II in America, and as part of the deal (for obvious reasons) Sega is not releasing it for the Dreamcast. This was a simple business deal between Sega and Microsoft, and while it may piss off Dreamcast fans, there is nothing the least bit sleazy about it.
Think WC3 will support mods? Im glad Game companies have mainly embraced that practice.
Not like they should. It is virtually identical to Diablo II in terms of modding (except for the additon of a map editor). Slightly easier in that they have more explanatory text in their spreadsheets of numbers. Blizzard has put a lot of work into making things easy to change for the benefit of their designers, but hasn't put it the effort to make it usable by the community. A simple way to choose an MPQ to override the default and play games only with those with the same mod would make not only WC3 but any future games with the same sytem easily modifiable.
Why would they remake 7-9 for the PS2 when you can already play them on a PS2?
Having them on one disc, instead of 2-4 each, would be a major benefit. They would also add at least as much stuff as they did to the remakes of 4-6 and Chrono Trigger for the Playstation.
Square is an ambitious enough company that I wouldn't be surprised at all if they came up with an FF game for both GB and GC that can be played seperately, but when put together it brings a lot more.
Final Fantasy VIII had a mini-game that required the PocketStation, so they have done that kind of thing before.
Indeed, a remake of FF8 for the GC might be vaguely within the realm of possibility. I've heard rumors of remakes of 7 through 9 for the PS2 anyway.
False. There *is* a tradeoff.
You seem to have missed the "Aside from the technicalities of this particular patch" line. Yes, this patch has a tradeoff. No, not every possible patch that improves stuff will have tradeoffs.
If you do want to rent video games, RedOctane offers this. I used their service for about 4 months and was generally happy with it. They frequently have stuff out of stock, but other than that it is good. I'm planning on signing back up sometime.
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The big advantage of GCJ isn't speed, it's the vastly better interface to C++ code (CNI vs. JNI). Of course, using that really does make your code non-portable.
It wasn't just the headline that was misleading, the article is misleading. It was GPL and LGPL they switched from.
From Miguel's message to the Mono-announce list:
In behalf of all the Mono contributors to the project, we are announcing that the license for the Mono class libraries has been changed from the dual mode we had (GPL and LGPL) to the MIT X11 license.
Well, they're losing around $150 USD per console, and they make the money from the games.
Actually, their loss may be "as much as" $75 USD per console, or at least that is the estimate from the industry analysts quoted in this article.
For another, it makes it obvious (well, in a subtle way :-) which silvery discs are the copy-protected ones -- namely the ones without the CD logo. We can just avoid buying those. (And encourage others likewise).
And the record companies simply remove the logo from *all* their CDs. Why wouldn't they? I don't think having the logo really helps them currently.
Last I checked, the turtle beach drivers didn't support multi-processor machines. Which is why I got a SBLive to replace it.
Does this mean that Mono is now a force for good, protecting us from the Powers of Darkness getting absolute control, or are the still vile traitors helping the Beast conquer the world?
Infact, you'll still have the ability to import documents from MS Works, a cheapo text-based version of MS Office that ran on DOS systems more than a decade ago.
Some MS Works stuff. Not all of it. My brother had a laptop that came with MS Works on it (which wasn't a cheapo text-based version of MS Office on DOS, it was a simplified version of Office on (I think) Windows 3.1). When the laptop died he recovered the data off the hard drive, but there was nothing else that could read it. Word could open some versions of Works files, but not this one. IIRC, it opened Works 2.0 files and this was 4.0, but it was a long time ago.
Interesting. The reason I quoted IGN and GameSpot was not that they supported my view, but that they are the ones I read - I remembered the best PS game rankings.
None of this says that they consider it the worst game of the series though. Much less reviles it as the worst of the series.
We're not talking about data here, we're talking personal preference.
Yes, I figured that out. Problem is that people are claiming that of the millions of people that have played multiple Final Fantasys, the majority agrees with them. There is a big difference between "I consider FF VIII the worst of the series", which is personal preference, and "FF VIII is generally reviled as the worst of the series", which needs data to back it up. The people you have spoken to is a pretty damn insignificant sample size.
No, it's not.
To quote from IGN, when they ranked FF VIII the #7 Playstation game of all time (FF VII was #18):
From Gamespot's review of FF VIII:
I had never before heard anyone claim that FF VIII was the worst in the series. However, since I have heard different people claim that each of FF IV, V, VI, and VII were generally regarded as the best in the series, I guess I should be used to people making bullshit claims about the relative popularity of Final Fantasy without any data to back it up.
This has got to be a troll or just another GCN fanboy. Try the following unique games that are really great (and these are just the ones I've got):
* Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
You may be a troll or a PS2 fanboy, but you probably just made a really humorous mistake. Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for the PS2 is pretty similar to Gauntlet Legends on the N64, even more similar to Gauntlet Legends on the Dreamcast, and presumably the upcoming Gauntlet: Dark Legacy for the GameCube will be even more similar. It's pretty amazingly far from being unique.
I've got a Redant PS/PS2 VGA Box from www.lik-sang.com, and I'm pretty happy with it. They also sell ones for Gamecube/N64, and generic ones as well. In recent headlines it has "VGA Box for the XBox console announced today", so that should be coming soon.
I'm pretty happy with mine. The advantage over a TV card is that you don't have to turn on your computer, which is significant if your computer makes as much noise as mine does. The disadvantage of at least the PS2 adapter is that it takes a memory card slot, so you can't copy stuff from one card to another while using it.
www.RedOctane.com sells a ton of DDR stuff, but the only Dreamcast DDR game out is an import, and they don't have it. :( They've got the pads though.
Don't buy - just rent.
Check out www.redoctane.com - they have a rental program similar to NetFlix. For a monthly fee you get a certain number of games out at any one time, and when you return one they send you the next one on your list. They have a great selection (including some imports), but it's pretty common for games to be out of stock for a while. For example I put Sonic Adventure 2 in my queue when I joined in late September, and recieved it in early November. I still haven't gotten Parasite Eve though, which I also added when I joined and which it now finally says is in stock. I haven't gotten any GameCubes games yet, and don't really expect them for a while.
Still, it's been worth it. There are a lot of games that just don't take that long to finish. ICO, for example, was very fun first time through but I can't imagine wanting to play it again. It's also nice to not have to rely on reviews, but actually be able to easily check games out for yourself.
That's the licence for the Pool of Radiance title.
Which uses D&D3e.
Whatever happened to GURPS (bad acronym)?
It's around. They probably could get the rights to it. (Steve Jackson, owner of Steve Jackson Games, which publishes GURPS, has gone to the Computer Game Developer's conference wearing a shirt saying to ask him about licensing his games.) I personally consider it a vastly superior RPG to D&D.
However, I don't really think it is a valid option for Neverwinter Nights. It would require a lot of changes. I can't see a game that wouldn't allow you to multi-class to more than three classes easily being changed to a classless system with hundreds of skills.
Sword & Sorcery covers it. Just swap with synonyms and you've got a lawsuit-free game system.
I really, really doubt it. Fallout originally had a GURPS license, and after they dropped the license I believe SJ Games sued them to keep them from releasing it as GURPS with the serial numbers filed off.
Note that this was written years ago.