What about the rights of the company? Why do they have an obligation to let any particular company develop against or game be released for their platform?
I'm sure someone will have posted spoilers to the internet months in advance, and if you care about Harry Potter, you'll have inadvertently stumbled upon them and cursed loudly.
With limited things that could occur technically, games of yesteryear seem to be a lot simpler. That simplicity means that things had darn well better be fun, or your player won't plunk down money to stare at a "blob" and hit a single button over and over. Nowadays, there's a lot more development which goes into a game, which means that gameplay isn't as big a focus, generally.
Also, old games were generally reliant on the ability to just pick up and go and be beaten in one sitting, as opposed to having games which take nigh on 40 hours now. Focusing on a tight experience leads to a lot less mediocrity than "hmm, what can we do for the next 3 hours of the game before they get to hour 30 when the real story starts."
If it's anything like movie street dates, if one place in your area breaks it, and you can prove they did it first, then you can break it as well with no penalty, since they're getting a competetive advantage by doing so. They, however, are liable to any conditions in the contract about breaking street date.
I am a huge fan of the Rifts setting and I love the Robotech material, but the character and combat systems are unwieldy. If they had better game mechanics, I'd start buying and playing their stuff again.
Other than high-end graphics work, what the hell will this mean? Are you seriously saying that we will be seeing games needing that must video memory anytime soon? Hell, they have a hard enough time getting people to buy cards with 256 MB of RAM.
This will defintely affect the Japanese launch date. I'd be surprised if this affected the US date, though. The gap between the two is large enough that it seems to me that the latter wouldn't be impacted.
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They probably were told "do it this way" by those on high.
Gotta love being forced to an agenda rather than making a fun game...
What about the rights of the company? Why do they have an obligation to let any particular company develop against or game be released for their platform?
I'm sure someone will have posted spoilers to the internet months in advance, and if you care about Harry Potter, you'll have inadvertently stumbled upon them and cursed loudly.
Trolling Trolling Trolling....
Can we start a pool on when the first time travel episode will be? I'm betting 5th show of the first season.
Except the artist probably doesn't hold the rights to that song, or at least that performance of it.
If all the answers are "I don't know" or "Don't share your music" then what the hell was the point of posting the answers?
Your very eager mother served up something else the other night!
With limited things that could occur technically, games of yesteryear seem to be a lot simpler. That simplicity means that things had darn well better be fun, or your player won't plunk down money to stare at a "blob" and hit a single button over and over. Nowadays, there's a lot more development which goes into a game, which means that gameplay isn't as big a focus, generally.
Also, old games were generally reliant on the ability to just pick up and go and be beaten in one sitting, as opposed to having games which take nigh on 40 hours now. Focusing on a tight experience leads to a lot less mediocrity than "hmm, what can we do for the next 3 hours of the game before they get to hour 30 when the real story starts."
Simple fix: don't use those items!
I'm too busy playing Civilization 4 to play WoW!
They have inside them blood of kings! They have no rivals!
No
Since when is stupidity news?
Oh, wait.....
If it's anything like movie street dates, if one place in your area breaks it, and you can prove they did it first, then you can break it as well with no penalty, since they're getting a competetive advantage by doing so. They, however, are liable to any conditions in the contract about breaking street date.
Why is this even newsworthy? Does this really matter to anyone not working at MS?
Glad to hear Georgia Tech and Boston College are safe!
Great settings, horrible game mechanics.
I am a huge fan of the Rifts setting and I love the Robotech material, but the character and combat systems are unwieldy. If they had better game mechanics, I'd start buying and playing their stuff again.
Other than high-end graphics work, what the hell will this mean? Are you seriously saying that we will be seeing games needing that must video memory anytime soon? Hell, they have a hard enough time getting people to buy cards with 256 MB of RAM.
Watching Luke grow from a whiny baby to a whiny naive farm boy with no real-world experience sounds extremly boring.
right after I play another turn of Civilization IV.
This will defintely affect the Japanese launch date. I'd be surprised if this affected the US date, though. The gap between the two is large enough that it seems to me that the latter wouldn't be impacted.
Shitcock
http://www.riaa.com/issues/ask/default.asp#stand
Someone's got some 'splainin' to do.
Your friend lived in a warehouse then? Every sci-fi fantasy book in the past 20 years? Come on.