Microsoft hasn't really launched in japan. There's systems, but look what japanese games we have for our systems, there's nothing ground breaking. Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey are both going to be major games for what ever system they are for. Expect a sale of a million consoles just based on that. Japan hasn't even gotten Dead Rising yet. Americans have gotten many games at launch yet the japanese had really only one major launch title in their mind (ridge racer).
Basically once the Japanese sees JRPGs will be on this system and Japan is actually supporting the system the system will sell. Right now the japanese don't even know if they are getting a PS3, there's hesitant there, and if the 360 will have similar games it'll work.
The Xbox just flat out skipped most of the Japanese favorite genres (platformers, JRPGs, and the rest) and it suffered for that.
Anyone calling this race now is quite literally an idiot. The race hasn't even started.
This is the perfect console for ALL gamers. Casual will get into it because it's unique, die hards will get into it because it's new. I'm sick of block buster graphics and little gameplay. I'd rather an interactive/VR system than having more ground breaking graphics.
Graphics are good in theory, but new ways to play games work far better.
All I can think of this analogy is of the alcoholic who always goes to the bar (Norm being a prime example). All he does all day is drink, if he works, he drinks after work, he's addicted and he knows nothing else. Unless it happens in that bar, Norm really doesn't know much about it.
Unfortunately MMORPGs are no different we have the "hermit" who all he does is play the game til he dies, he's stuck in his "home", he constantly thinks about it, to be away from it too long is painful.
Just because we try to make it sound comfortable, doesn't mean it's a perfect good. MMORPGs are as harmful to our society as alcohol. This doesn't mean we should ban them both or stop having them, but we shouldn't just allow people to indulge til they kill themselves. At least with alcohol in a bar you'd have a bartender who's should be willing to cut you off.
The Parent of my original post thought that they are in this for money or in this to make enough to make blockbusters. This guy has been there done that multiple times. It's obvious with a name like Garage games, and with his track record/ company's track record he's happy to be working on casual games and probably will never stop.
Maybe you should read up on Jeff Tunnell. He's associated with some major companies and could probably find a way to do any game he pleases. He's worked with Sierra, as well as with the group "dynamix" which produced many of Sierra's biggest games.
He didn't do this for "fun" or to make a huge profit, he wanted to do casual games and that's where he is now.
The only victory is Hezbollah wasn't completely destroyed. They are shown as the kidnappers they are, show their utter lack of defiance and hatred to Israel, and the fact that they really don't care about their islamic beliefs (assuming Islam is really about Peace and tolerance as some of the muslim faiths have learned) Of course in a culture that rewards that it's a victory.
a personal IP, or something very open world like DnD. The DS can really produce some great games and with Bioware working on it the result should be great. I just hope they stay far away from the Star wars license. While Kotor was good for a Star Wars license (rare in itself), Bioware is FAR better than what they showed in those games. I felt restricted quite often in the game and I'm sure the developers felt it too as they couldn't create completely new games, they had to live with a mythos. I'm hopeful for something new and unique, like NWN and Mass Effects feel.
The real question, does the Che Gravitas shirts have a lot of depth of personality? I see many "enlightened" people wearing it. Luckily someone told them enlightened people wear it because otherwise they wouldn't have known to wear it? Sorta like a ditzy blonde, people who want to rebel but have little to rebel against/for.
But this is a serious question is that supposed to be a complement or a slam? Thanks Kdawson for making an interesting article have an conundrum for a final line:) (though any article that makes me stretch for a simple analogy gets respect as long as the other 90 percent is readable.)
Actually I am a programmer with a game company that's working with the Ps3. The Cell processor has some interesting features, but it also has stuff that will just annoy programmers. It definatly has power, and I was happy about that but the difficulty with programming just isn't worth the extra power. The guys who get hurt the most by this is teams trying to bring programs over from other multiprocessor systems, especially the 360. The 360 gives a lot of raw power, the Cell makes the programmer jump through hoops. However both require multi processor programming.
I've thought this generation is the golden age of gaming. And it is.
For nintendo fans. They are getting EXACTLY what they want and deserve a great console, great games, great controller. But let's look at the other two.
Sony has now forced the market into blu-ray and is now beating the consumer with the price. They have failed in every way possible and the only one who suffers is the consumer. No rumble, a weak and late motion controller, they might have more power but it's significantly harder to program for.
On the other hand Microsoft now is owning the business. That's fine but they have touted online and graphics way too much. There are unique games coming but for the most part the 360 doesn't have a great first year line up, it'll get better though.
This isn't the glory days of great games, this is the hell of big budget titles forced advertising, and if you don't sell over a million copies of a game you don't make a profit. The gamers assume glitches are everywhere and they accept them no matter how big. You're paying out your butt for anything related to the console (even Wii, 60 bucks for a controller, and then you need more for Virtual console controllers), and the gamer gets hurt.
If that doesn't make you see a less then rosy outlook, add in the fact that now we have the both over powered horses are getting into the dvd wars. The PSX over headed, the Ps2 has had major hardware failure particularly in the laser, and now the PS3 will have a even newer laser system. Microsoft 360s are dropping like flies from the early shipments. And this is the golden age?
This isn't the golden age, This is the dung heap that people are telling us it's the golden age. The golden age was when games were good consoles were solid, and games sold like hot cakes. Super Mario Brothers 3 sold 40 million, because it was a great game on a system that everyone had, not because it broke systems, required you to pay 50 bucks for a second controller and then had glitches after all that.
The next generation could be a golden age, when everyone takes a step back from the power race and focuses on the gamer, not beating their opponents bloody.
Or have a preference. Adults defend worthless stuff to their death. I mean sony has been constantly making bad moves and there's still people who say that they haven't even made the first mistake. Sad
Actually look at the numbers, They have shared them already. On Day 1 after shipping the inital batch they will be in the black for production. They will have some red probably with advertising that will start near christmas but they have shown that they will make a profit per system, because even if the system costs 240 per unit to make at 250 per unit they are making a profit.
Look at it this way, Finacially it can't be a failure, it makes money out of the box on day 1. Critically it's already a success in most ways. The only thing that might happen is less third party support but it already looks to have strong third party support.
The Nintendo won't fail, and if they can make money on day 1 then this is the best for them because they can continue working on the system rather worrying about how to make money off of the consumers. Retro gamers are returning to the table for the system, old school gamers are hyped about even newer nintendo innovation like in the old days, and the new school gamers are suprised and wondering how it will work.
It's a win win win situation for Nintendo. Even more interesting is Sony's response (the "motion sensative ps3 controller") shows that even if the system fails a lot of the best ideas will live on. Wavebird led the way to this generations "all wireless". N64 helped create the 3d that we take for granted today. The DS will probably make the PSP2 have touch screen. They might not be number 1 but their innovations remain. Even look back to the Death of Atari, no one thought console games even had a life, it was all arcade still and now we have almost no arcades left. Nintendo doesn't do everything in the industry but they are a standard and everything they do will waterfall down to all consoles at some point.
Imagine the new ad campaign "600 dollar donation to cancer research, just plug this in!" Anything to avoid having to discuss the games in the first year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker is a good resource. Basically yes, a hacker could be either evil or good in theory. However using a rootkit, or some publicly known door to break into software isn't hacking. The hacking is the discovery of the exploits. The Cult of the Dead Cow are hackers. The people who use their software arn't. Most hackers tend to be after knowledge or knowing what they can and can't do, they arn't out to hurt people most of the time.
The list there is pretty good, the people on it are hackers.
Spammers arn't hackers either way. Virii writters could be (depending on who or what they are or why and how they are doing it.)
I don't have a noble image I just don't like the term hacker to be the same as "bad guy on the computer" because some of them (spammers) really have nothing to do with the term.
except hackers were original and always were good, it's because of the media who has told us over and over hackers are bad.
Read "Hackers" the book, written in 1984, long before any of those media morons that you believe now had even thought of the word.
Hacker is a term of skill, cracker is a term for a person who breaks into systems. And as you say just because the media tells me a banana is a car doesn't make it so.
And then you already have that idea, except they'll play talk over the scene then, and at the same time you'll miss parts of your show because of the skip.
I could go news, and I will HAHA! You thought there was another point of view? Honestly though it's interesting in the fact it's complete bull.
Honestly you can critique any game this way and find absurd things, but the fact is most games arn't art. People don't labor over every line of code and such these "critiques" are more about the player or critiquer's own opinions on the game. When designing a game there's a vision, but most of the time the vision is "roll stuff up, have fun" "Kill large groups of enemies" Just because a game has text doesn't mean they meant anything by it. They have record scratches and it's a deep meaning for the talking of a god to a player? WTF?
In the end it boils down to people who call games "art" only speak of their games at best. Even then they are normally talking about the graphics, there's no attention to detail in games at least not to the level that critiques are needed to understand them.
The problem is you can blame Bush all you want, but Kerry would have done the same thing, as would most presidents. Congress can say no the president, they've done it multiple times, but this bill sounds like it didn't even squeak through congress. I don't see anything about who penned each line but I don't think only 2 or three people were talking about this for 3 years, and congress had nothing to do with it. If you look at the article on wikipedia there's a fairly lengthy amount of provisions, I doubt they all were Bush's primary concerns.
And don't worry about the wikipedia source I won't bitch about that considering I use that as a primary source more than enough.
So it's all Bush's fault, while Kerry would have signed it as well. It's all bush's fault because over 200 other people voted for it. It's all Bush's fault because instead of vetoing the bill for one minor thing which he probably didn't have a strong feeling on he signed a law that will promote the economy in America.
That's right, let's ignore every elected official but the head one because none of them ever do anything except write most of the legislation, promote it, vote on it, debate it, rewrite it and finally send it to the President.
Blinding blaming Bush for everything our Goverment does gets old after a while. The DMCA was done in 1998, yet Bush has been blamed for that. EUCA (European DMCA) was done based on a trade agreement of 1996 by the WIPO.
We made a Free trade agreement with Australia that effectively says you must conformed to the decisions of this group. Remember that President Bush didn't write this all himself, he didn't sign this law himself. Australian goverment and our own congress approved this law too, John Kerry was also a huge supporter (supposidly).
But continue to call on Bush alone as if no one else but him did any of this.
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Microsoft hasn't really launched in japan. There's systems, but look what japanese games we have for our systems, there's nothing ground breaking. Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey are both going to be major games for what ever system they are for. Expect a sale of a million consoles just based on that. Japan hasn't even gotten Dead Rising yet. Americans have gotten many games at launch yet the japanese had really only one major launch title in their mind (ridge racer).
Basically once the Japanese sees JRPGs will be on this system and Japan is actually supporting the system the system will sell. Right now the japanese don't even know if they are getting a PS3, there's hesitant there, and if the 360 will have similar games it'll work.
The Xbox just flat out skipped most of the Japanese favorite genres (platformers, JRPGs, and the rest) and it suffered for that.
Anyone calling this race now is quite literally an idiot. The race hasn't even started.
This is the perfect console for ALL gamers. Casual will get into it because it's unique, die hards will get into it because it's new. I'm sick of block buster graphics and little gameplay. I'd rather an interactive/VR system than having more ground breaking graphics.
Graphics are good in theory, but new ways to play games work far better.
All I can think of this analogy is of the alcoholic who always goes to the bar (Norm being a prime example). All he does all day is drink, if he works, he drinks after work, he's addicted and he knows nothing else. Unless it happens in that bar, Norm really doesn't know much about it.
Unfortunately MMORPGs are no different we have the "hermit" who all he does is play the game til he dies, he's stuck in his "home", he constantly thinks about it, to be away from it too long is painful.
Just because we try to make it sound comfortable, doesn't mean it's a perfect good. MMORPGs are as harmful to our society as alcohol. This doesn't mean we should ban them both or stop having them, but we shouldn't just allow people to indulge til they kill themselves. At least with alcohol in a bar you'd have a bartender who's should be willing to cut you off.
The Parent of my original post thought that they are in this for money or in this to make enough to make blockbusters. This guy has been there done that multiple times. It's obvious with a name like Garage games, and with his track record/ company's track record he's happy to be working on casual games and probably will never stop.
Maybe you should read up on Jeff Tunnell. He's associated with some major companies and could probably find a way to do any game he pleases. He's worked with Sierra, as well as with the group "dynamix" which produced many of Sierra's biggest games.
He didn't do this for "fun" or to make a huge profit, he wanted to do casual games and that's where he is now.
The only victory is Hezbollah wasn't completely destroyed. They are shown as the kidnappers they are, show their utter lack of defiance and hatred to Israel, and the fact that they really don't care about their islamic beliefs (assuming Islam is really about Peace and tolerance as some of the muslim faiths have learned) Of course in a culture that rewards that it's a victory.
a personal IP, or something very open world like DnD. The DS can really produce some great games and with Bioware working on it the result should be great. I just hope they stay far away from the Star wars license. While Kotor was good for a Star Wars license (rare in itself), Bioware is FAR better than what they showed in those games. I felt restricted quite often in the game and I'm sure the developers felt it too as they couldn't create completely new games, they had to live with a mythos. I'm hopeful for something new and unique, like NWN and Mass Effects feel.
The real question, does the Che Gravitas shirts have a lot of depth of personality? I see many "enlightened" people wearing it. Luckily someone told them enlightened people wear it because otherwise they wouldn't have known to wear it? Sorta like a ditzy blonde, people who want to rebel but have little to rebel against/for.
:) (though any article that makes me stretch for a simple analogy gets respect as long as the other 90 percent is readable.)
But this is a serious question is that supposed to be a complement or a slam? Thanks Kdawson for making an interesting article have an conundrum for a final line
Actually I am a programmer with a game company that's working with the Ps3. The Cell processor has some interesting features, but it also has stuff that will just annoy programmers. It definatly has power, and I was happy about that but the difficulty with programming just isn't worth the extra power. The guys who get hurt the most by this is teams trying to bring programs over from other multiprocessor systems, especially the 360. The 360 gives a lot of raw power, the Cell makes the programmer jump through hoops. However both require multi processor programming.
I've thought this generation is the golden age of gaming. And it is.
For nintendo fans. They are getting EXACTLY what they want and deserve a great console, great games, great controller. But let's look at the other two.
Sony has now forced the market into blu-ray and is now beating the consumer with the price. They have failed in every way possible and the only one who suffers is the consumer. No rumble, a weak and late motion controller, they might have more power but it's significantly harder to program for.
On the other hand Microsoft now is owning the business. That's fine but they have touted online and graphics way too much. There are unique games coming but for the most part the 360 doesn't have a great first year line up, it'll get better though.
This isn't the glory days of great games, this is the hell of big budget titles forced advertising, and if you don't sell over a million copies of a game you don't make a profit. The gamers assume glitches are everywhere and they accept them no matter how big. You're paying out your butt for anything related to the console (even Wii, 60 bucks for a controller, and then you need more for Virtual console controllers), and the gamer gets hurt.
If that doesn't make you see a less then rosy outlook, add in the fact that now we have the both over powered horses are getting into the dvd wars. The PSX over headed, the Ps2 has had major hardware failure particularly in the laser, and now the PS3 will have a even newer laser system. Microsoft 360s are dropping like flies from the early shipments. And this is the golden age?
This isn't the golden age, This is the dung heap that people are telling us it's the golden age. The golden age was when games were good consoles were solid, and games sold like hot cakes. Super Mario Brothers 3 sold 40 million, because it was a great game on a system that everyone had, not because it broke systems, required you to pay 50 bucks for a second controller and then had glitches after all that.
The next generation could be a golden age, when everyone takes a step back from the power race and focuses on the gamer, not beating their opponents bloody.
Or have a preference. Adults defend worthless stuff to their death. I mean sony has been constantly making bad moves and there's still people who say that they haven't even made the first mistake. Sad
Actually look at the numbers, They have shared them already. On Day 1 after shipping the inital batch they will be in the black for production. They will have some red probably with advertising that will start near christmas but they have shown that they will make a profit per system, because even if the system costs 240 per unit to make at 250 per unit they are making a profit.
Look at it this way, Finacially it can't be a failure, it makes money out of the box on day 1. Critically it's already a success in most ways. The only thing that might happen is less third party support but it already looks to have strong third party support.
The Nintendo won't fail, and if they can make money on day 1 then this is the best for them because they can continue working on the system rather worrying about how to make money off of the consumers. Retro gamers are returning to the table for the system, old school gamers are hyped about even newer nintendo innovation like in the old days, and the new school gamers are suprised and wondering how it will work.
It's a win win win situation for Nintendo. Even more interesting is Sony's response (the "motion sensative ps3 controller") shows that even if the system fails a lot of the best ideas will live on. Wavebird led the way to this generations "all wireless". N64 helped create the 3d that we take for granted today. The DS will probably make the PSP2 have touch screen. They might not be number 1 but their innovations remain. Even look back to the Death of Atari, no one thought console games even had a life, it was all arcade still and now we have almost no arcades left. Nintendo doesn't do everything in the industry but they are a standard and everything they do will waterfall down to all consoles at some point.
(yes I know folding can help work on cancer)
Imagine the new ad campaign "600 dollar donation to cancer research, just plug this in!" Anything to avoid having to discuss the games in the first year.
When minibar keys give access to voting machines, then only drunkards would have access.
Might explain why Ted Kennedy is still in powar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker is a good resource. Basically yes, a hacker could be either evil or good in theory. However using a rootkit, or some publicly known door to break into software isn't hacking. The hacking is the discovery of the exploits. The Cult of the Dead Cow are hackers. The people who use their software arn't. Most hackers tend to be after knowledge or knowing what they can and can't do, they arn't out to hurt people most of the time.
The list there is pretty good, the people on it are hackers.
Spammers arn't hackers either way. Virii writters could be (depending on who or what they are or why and how they are doing it.)
I don't have a noble image I just don't like the term hacker to be the same as "bad guy on the computer" because some of them (spammers) really have nothing to do with the term.
except hackers were original and always were good, it's because of the media who has told us over and over hackers are bad.
Read "Hackers" the book, written in 1984, long before any of those media morons that you believe now had even thought of the word.
Hacker is a term of skill, cracker is a term for a person who breaks into systems. And as you say just because the media tells me a banana is a car doesn't make it so.
And then you already have that idea, except they'll play talk over the scene then, and at the same time you'll miss parts of your show because of the skip.
I'll throw in this
while (true){
if(post.num % 2 == 0)
post = zonk.post(dupe);
else
post = zonk.post(!news);
}
I could go news, and I will HAHA! You thought there was another point of view? Honestly though it's interesting in the fact it's complete bull.
Honestly you can critique any game this way and find absurd things, but the fact is most games arn't art. People don't labor over every line of code and such these "critiques" are more about the player or critiquer's own opinions on the game. When designing a game there's a vision, but most of the time the vision is "roll stuff up, have fun" "Kill large groups of enemies" Just because a game has text doesn't mean they meant anything by it. They have record scratches and it's a deep meaning for the talking of a god to a player? WTF?
In the end it boils down to people who call games "art" only speak of their games at best. Even then they are normally talking about the graphics, there's no attention to detail in games at least not to the level that critiques are needed to understand them.
The problem is you can blame Bush all you want, but Kerry would have done the same thing, as would most presidents. Congress can say no the president, they've done it multiple times, but this bill sounds like it didn't even squeak through congress. I don't see anything about who penned each line but I don't think only 2 or three people were talking about this for 3 years, and congress had nothing to do with it. If you look at the article on wikipedia there's a fairly lengthy amount of provisions, I doubt they all were Bush's primary concerns.
And don't worry about the wikipedia source I won't bitch about that considering I use that as a primary source more than enough.
So it's all Bush's fault, while Kerry would have signed it as well. It's all bush's fault because over 200 other people voted for it. It's all Bush's fault because instead of vetoing the bill for one minor thing which he probably didn't have a strong feeling on he signed a law that will promote the economy in America.
That's right, let's ignore every elected official but the head one because none of them ever do anything except write most of the legislation, promote it, vote on it, debate it, rewrite it and finally send it to the President.
Blinding blaming Bush for everything our Goverment does gets old after a while. The DMCA was done in 1998, yet Bush has been blamed for that. EUCA (European DMCA) was done based on a trade agreement of 1996 by the WIPO.
We made a Free trade agreement with Australia that effectively says you must conformed to the decisions of this group. Remember that President Bush didn't write this all himself, he didn't sign this law himself. Australian goverment and our own congress approved this law too, John Kerry was also a huge supporter (supposidly).
But continue to call on Bush alone as if no one else but him did any of this.
I read it as the same... saying "dude, someone can't even avoid mispelling in the topic line."
But if they did that, where would they get their delicious sushi from?