Unfortunatly while this is news, the article doesn't talk about the fact that it's not an offense. My point is more that the article is barely news (citing forum posts), not that the action is. Hell any action, real world or virtual, is news.
So the police will get 50 complaints an hour about how Jimmy Russell is calling timmy Hall a retard or the like.
In the meanwhile, perverts will continue to get away from it because no one realizes what they are doing is "abuse".
Personally my plan is thus.
1. Create worm. 2. Send worm out to get messengers to send reports about "creepy old guy who says he has lots of money named Billy gates" 3. Get article on Slashdot 4. Laugh because police have already ignored the report abuse button during the 12 hours it took for step 1.
There's like 30 forum posts I can find googling about the EIB scam. but I can't find anyone talking about what it is. Just some dude named Cally screwed a lot of people, and apparently it was legit because of voting or something?
All I have to say is kudos for getting this story on slashdot since I don't even believe we can call it news. Let's try to at least explain the random stuff we are putting together, or at least keep the topics on stuff a little more mainstream then Eve if we don't want to spend the time actually putting an explination of the facts together.
I have not heard that from anywhere, but that's a major blow, because from my understanding Winning Eleven was the major game in Japan, and from Konami. Of course americans thinks nothing of soccer so that might be why we haven't heard it posted.
Of course if you think EA is going to ignore the PS3 why? EA wants to make everyone buy the game, and the asian companies who will probably buy the PS3 easier will be targetted by EA.
Even so with EA gobbling up every sport I'm a little saddened, but at least we should see some new unique games like Mutant Football League, resurface.
when is IBM putting a giant friking laser on the Space station?
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human history and game history are two different things. Making a convincing character is something few can really do. By convincing I mean someone who is well rounded not just an action hero or such. Watching Shodan mother her young in the module 2 is just frightfully scary, though interesting.
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See murder's bad.. m'kay?
I prefer the Scrubs scene where you grab a guy's banana Hammock and throw them off the roof. It's a 10 on the pain scale.
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Shodan isn't just a evil enemy. She's THE evil enemy. System shock is easily my favorite game. Not System Shock 2, but System Shock the original.
The thing that makes Shodan so truely terrific is that shodan doesn't just talk to you, she talks to everyone. She constantly is in communication with you, not in a way that requires communication, but through emails and data files.
Even above that she doesn't just talk to the user, she will torment any person still alive on her station that isn't helping her. She doesn't just talk about what she is going to do to you, but she shows her AI, and you get a feeling for what is so evil about her and what she has done to the whole station.
She has a matriarch tone to her "children", she has the angry tone for you, the computer tone for normal announcements, the condescending tone for when she springs traps. It's never the same voice. And what's so essential is this is 4 or 5 tones for a computer. This is more acting than most people can evoke and a computer is just filled with emotion.
The fact is that shodan simply is the flawless enemy, the way she interacts with you is well done, she never feels like a "computer" she feels more alive than it. And the terror her voice evokes rivals many current day villians.
Kudos Through the Looking Glass you will sorely be missed.
P.S. SS3 was announced earlier this year I believe, EA was working on it.
Seriously half the people I knew that went to see that movie just wanted to see Samuel L Jackson swear, the other half wanted to see how crappy it was. I feel sorry for Mr. Jackson because now his name is tarnished a little for the movie, but if the studios couldn't figure out that the internet is power rather then thieves, maybe they should pay a little closer attention. It's not Fox that just randomly chose to bring back family guy. It was the huge dvd sales and internet support. Same thing for Futurama.
The sad thing is this lesson will be forgotten because next week the MPAA will say "they stole our movie online that's why they didn't come to the theatre" and the studios will once again shun us.
Yes because you know games like Half-life didn't have a plot back then. Nor did Perfect Dark, system shock 1 or 2, or Sin. so I guess it's a radically different then the industry?
Seriously how many people have complained about the fact that while Halo 2's online was improved, there was little if any true improvement in Halo 2. Yeah you got dual wielding, yeah car jacking but the fact is it's the same game. Even GTA which people bitch about being the same every time has had huge improvements. Vice city got motorcycles and working planes, San andreas was radically bigger, with gang wars. These changed the game itself.
I just can't stand Halo fanboys who act like their game which has had about the same improvements that madden gets in a year is radically different. I can respect a new story, but I'm also expecting changes to the actual gameplay too. Just because Doom 2 didn't have any major improvements doesn't mean that you can get away with the same type of leap nowerdays. I hope Halo 3 does something new, rather then just hanging onto the name, because for my money even Perfect dark zero was more unique than Halo was. If I really wanted the FPS games I'd have stayed with my PC.
And this wasn't meant to offend Halo fans. It's just that people act like Halo is a great series, and it's really hasn't shown anything to prove itself to be that unique. Even Half Life 2 has amazing physics, Doom 3 has the creep factor, Fear had the graphics to kill even the hardiest machine's framerate. Halo didn't have anything that it really called its own.
Well the problem is allowing swapable control schemes. It won't matter in Zelda itself since the swinging of the wiimote is important, but in a FPS style game it will matter much more (at least if my version gets made)
The wiimote being swung like a sword does sound good, but I don't know if it'll work with Zelda's feel. I'm sure they've tested it and it feels more natural than the B button, but I hope both options are there still.
The problem comes in that Zelda is not an FPS. I'm sure there's not a way to move your shield up for the block except a button. But maybe the sword swinging will work. However no matter how you swing the sword, Link will only have a couple attack animations. I hope it'll work, and if so that's great but I want a little more indepth Zelda for this type of thing. Actually a bigger problem that will come up with the system is will it allow lefties to hold the wiimote in the left hand and the nunchuck attachment in the right hand. If they allow that it'll be gravy.
What I'd really like to see is a game where you are in FPS mode but the entire game is Oblivion style, swords and shields, some bows, all controlled by the motion. that means you can hold the sword in one hand and swing it, but at the same time guard. And the best part would be the shield should basically cover your view, and hit detection on the shield should be spot on. So if a guy swings from the left, and your shield is on the right you can block it, but at the same time you can attack back, however it wouldn't be a strong attack in game, no matter how you swing your wiimote.
Why is it all the comments talk about how hard it is for them to get there.
First off this topic's title is all wrong. They arn't replacing E3, they are creating a e3 style event in Australia for the korean and asian gaming community. This is a community that puts americans to shame.
Second off Quake Con, PAX, and TGS can NOT replace E3, they aren't the same event. E3 was an industry only event that fans corrupted by forcing their way in. That's the reason it fell, because the show started to cater to those people who didn't have a reason to be there. The news media basically had to fight with kids. Sure IGN got back room views, however the local news medias and the independant games got ignored more and more in recent years.
Third E3 is going to remain E3. It's just going to be invitation only, like it always should be. The only group that appears to be considering a true successor is the CEA which runs CES. Everyone else is trying to make a fan based show, that's the complete opposite of what the original idea is. And we have tons of public trade shows already.
Fourth all of you who read this and say "I gotta get invited to that" or "I gotta go to that" Thank you for being that person who helped ruined E3. The simple fact is that E3 was hurt because people like you, who didn't belong forced their way into the show, ran around and made everyone's life hard. That's why it's been basically kaiboshed. Next time you're lamenting the fact you can never go to E3, just remind yourself you should never have tried in the first place. This includes the fake news media (thanks for your website that's only up when they are checking it and has no real info), the fan, or the store clerk who really did nothing but go play games, as well as the guys who are "making the game" by which I mean have started a 100 line code product and write approximately 1 line of code a millenia.
If you actually do work in the industry, you know well enough what I'm talking about so you'd disregard this anyways.
First it was audio tapes was going to make it easy to pirate music, it's a terror.
Then there's giving a friend a tape and dubbing it. It's far worse than copying off the radio.
Then it's was online downloads are going to kill the industry. It's far more damaging than people trading songs
Then it was peer to peer, it's killing in the industry. It's easily worse than direct downloads.
Now it's trading cds it's far worse than peer to peer.
Flavor of the month? I'm not talking about the song. Do they even notice that they don't think it's right to pirate if the guy before them pirated? That says the know right from wrong. The fact is the huge price for a single CD is probably what's making them believe piracy is legit. A school kid paying 20 bucks is insanely high. It's akin to an adult paying around 1000 dollars for an item.
Maybe the Riaa needs to remember they used to get a lot of attention for their artists off of tape swapping, perhaps it's time to do it again, and not kill the practice at the same time killing their positive image.
Please! If you honestly think you're buying a 360 for less than 400 or a PS3 for less than 600 you're insane.
For the 360 you need to either buy the core and then memory cards or HD. That's at least near 350 for the starter pack. Then when you get enough games that's another memory card. Instead you should just buy the premium. 20 gigs of space, 17 really. That'll be enough.
As for the Ps3, actually read what's left out on a 500 version. People buying the 500 version are just hurting themselves especially with no external slots. Even worse than the 360 the 500 dollar version of the Ps3 is unupgradable.
Many companies rely on pre-orders for expected sales number. In addition stores like Gamestop order and distribute games based almost soley on preorder numbers. A store that gets 5 pre-orders gets something like 7 total games, a store that gets 1 preorder will likely see 2 games.
In addition if games don't get the word out fast (first week), many stores start cutting down on copies shown. If game X sells 1 million copies, and game Y sells 500,000 copies, game X will retain more shelf space longer.
Seriously, is madden commiting to it? EA as a whole? No. The PS3 is going to be getting games that will also be on the xbox 360, why add a feature that the other doesn't have unless sony is forcing you to (which they already are, they have commanded companies that they need 20 percent NEW content for a port. Watch that become a request, and then a suggestion).
The Wii's going to have great usage of the motion sensing because EVERYTHING the Wii has done is focused on it, wireless controllers, the nunchuck. The PS3 is a PS2, that doesn't have dual shock, so they had to do something to make it uniuqe.
The problem is if a company X makes a game Y and their plans is for "next gen gameplay" they arn't thinking "dual shake", they are thinking "better graphics, amazing gameplay, for both the 360 and the PS3" Let's not forget that with out the Motion sensing the PS3 is already a harder system to developer for, and expects more out of the developer.
Instead if I have a game that would be very clever on motion sensing system, why would I choose the Ps3 unless I need great graphics (clever games don't need great graphics if they are truely clever). Instead I'd probably choose the Wii, it's around 1/5th of the price for a single dev kit, the controller is built for motion sensing, as well as the nunchuck, if I want two sensors, and the system has more motion sensing than the other.
As for those saying that it's a good idea I leave you with this idea. Nintendo has developed the idea for years, Sony had the idea, developed it, stopped developing it, saw nintendo's version, and then has pushed it in the system spec and controller the last weeks before E3. That doesn't mean they weren't thinking about it but if they were actively pursuing it the developer would have some version of motion sensing even if it wasn't a very accurate one long before E3. Sony is last minuting this idea in because they are constantly second guessing themselves now. And that's what's going to destroy Sony, not their decisions but second guessing their decisions.
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Unfortunatly while this is news, the article doesn't talk about the fact that it's not an offense. My point is more that the article is barely news (citing forum posts), not that the action is. Hell any action, real world or virtual, is news.
So the police will get 50 complaints an hour about how Jimmy Russell is calling timmy Hall a retard or the like.
In the meanwhile, perverts will continue to get away from it because no one realizes what they are doing is "abuse".
Personally my plan is thus.
1. Create worm.
2. Send worm out to get messengers to send reports about "creepy old guy who says he has lots of money named Billy gates"
3. Get article on Slashdot
4. Laugh because police have already ignored the report abuse button during the 12 hours it took for step 1.
There's like 30 forum posts I can find googling about the EIB scam. but I can't find anyone talking about what it is. Just some dude named Cally screwed a lot of people, and apparently it was legit because of voting or something?
All I have to say is kudos for getting this story on slashdot since I don't even believe we can call it news. Let's try to at least explain the random stuff we are putting together, or at least keep the topics on stuff a little more mainstream then Eve if we don't want to spend the time actually putting an explination of the facts together.
IANAL but Microsoft isn't the police.... yet.
I'm sure the ants knew what they were doing. It wasn't "let's try this stupid stunt out".
Of course it's not the acceleration or speed that kills you, it's the impact.
No no no... the SYSTEM is going to be ready in November. There's been little discussion on which games will be released.
And the number of games near the final version is small, definatly not 27. More like high teens.
I have not heard that from anywhere, but that's a major blow, because from my understanding Winning Eleven was the major game in Japan, and from Konami. Of course americans thinks nothing of soccer so that might be why we haven't heard it posted.
Of course if you think EA is going to ignore the PS3 why? EA wants to make everyone buy the game, and the asian companies who will probably buy the PS3 easier will be targetted by EA.
Even so with EA gobbling up every sport I'm a little saddened, but at least we should see some new unique games like Mutant Football League, resurface.
when is IBM putting a giant friking laser on the Space station?
human history and game history are two different things. Making a convincing character is something few can really do. By convincing I mean someone who is well rounded not just an action hero or such. Watching Shodan mother her young in the module 2 is just frightfully scary, though interesting.
See murder's bad.. m'kay?
I prefer the Scrubs scene where you grab a guy's banana Hammock and throw them off the roof. It's a 10 on the pain scale.
Shodan isn't just a evil enemy. She's THE evil enemy. System shock is easily my favorite game. Not System Shock 2, but System Shock the original.
The thing that makes Shodan so truely terrific is that shodan doesn't just talk to you, she talks to everyone. She constantly is in communication with you, not in a way that requires communication, but through emails and data files.
Even above that she doesn't just talk to the user, she will torment any person still alive on her station that isn't helping her. She doesn't just talk about what she is going to do to you, but she shows her AI, and you get a feeling for what is so evil about her and what she has done to the whole station.
She has a matriarch tone to her "children", she has the angry tone for you, the computer tone for normal announcements, the condescending tone for when she springs traps. It's never the same voice. And what's so essential is this is 4 or 5 tones for a computer. This is more acting than most people can evoke and a computer is just filled with emotion.
The fact is that shodan simply is the flawless enemy, the way she interacts with you is well done, she never feels like a "computer" she feels more alive than it. And the terror her voice evokes rivals many current day villians.
Kudos Through the Looking Glass you will sorely be missed.
P.S. SS3 was announced earlier this year I believe, EA was working on it.
Seriously half the people I knew that went to see that movie just wanted to see Samuel L Jackson swear, the other half wanted to see how crappy it was. I feel sorry for Mr. Jackson because now his name is tarnished a little for the movie, but if the studios couldn't figure out that the internet is power rather then thieves, maybe they should pay a little closer attention. It's not Fox that just randomly chose to bring back family guy. It was the huge dvd sales and internet support. Same thing for Futurama.
The sad thing is this lesson will be forgotten because next week the MPAA will say "they stole our movie online that's why they didn't come to the theatre" and the studios will once again shun us.
Yes because you know games like Half-life didn't have a plot back then. Nor did Perfect Dark, system shock 1 or 2, or Sin. so I guess it's a radically different then the industry?
I'd give money to the legal defense of that trademark.
Also "slippery slope" everyone uses it to defend anything they don't like. There's a couple more I could definatly live with out too.
Seriously how many people have complained about the fact that while Halo 2's online was improved, there was little if any true improvement in Halo 2. Yeah you got dual wielding, yeah car jacking but the fact is it's the same game. Even GTA which people bitch about being the same every time has had huge improvements. Vice city got motorcycles and working planes, San andreas was radically bigger, with gang wars. These changed the game itself.
I just can't stand Halo fanboys who act like their game which has had about the same improvements that madden gets in a year is radically different. I can respect a new story, but I'm also expecting changes to the actual gameplay too. Just because Doom 2 didn't have any major improvements doesn't mean that you can get away with the same type of leap nowerdays. I hope Halo 3 does something new, rather then just hanging onto the name, because for my money even Perfect dark zero was more unique than Halo was. If I really wanted the FPS games I'd have stayed with my PC.
And this wasn't meant to offend Halo fans. It's just that people act like Halo is a great series, and it's really hasn't shown anything to prove itself to be that unique. Even Half Life 2 has amazing physics, Doom 3 has the creep factor, Fear had the graphics to kill even the hardiest machine's framerate. Halo didn't have anything that it really called its own.
Well the problem is allowing swapable control schemes. It won't matter in Zelda itself since the swinging of the wiimote is important, but in a FPS style game it will matter much more (at least if my version gets made)
The wiimote being swung like a sword does sound good, but I don't know if it'll work with Zelda's feel. I'm sure they've tested it and it feels more natural than the B button, but I hope both options are there still.
The problem comes in that Zelda is not an FPS. I'm sure there's not a way to move your shield up for the block except a button. But maybe the sword swinging will work. However no matter how you swing the sword, Link will only have a couple attack animations. I hope it'll work, and if so that's great but I want a little more indepth Zelda for this type of thing. Actually a bigger problem that will come up with the system is will it allow lefties to hold the wiimote in the left hand and the nunchuck attachment in the right hand. If they allow that it'll be gravy.
What I'd really like to see is a game where you are in FPS mode but the entire game is Oblivion style, swords and shields, some bows, all controlled by the motion. that means you can hold the sword in one hand and swing it, but at the same time guard. And the best part would be the shield should basically cover your view, and hit detection on the shield should be spot on. So if a guy swings from the left, and your shield is on the right you can block it, but at the same time you can attack back, however it wouldn't be a strong attack in game, no matter how you swing your wiimote.
A well done comment capped off by a cheers quote. And if that's not enough it's a Norm quote. Who doesn't like the big guy?
Why is it all the comments talk about how hard it is for them to get there.
First off this topic's title is all wrong. They arn't replacing E3, they are creating a e3 style event in Australia for the korean and asian gaming community. This is a community that puts americans to shame.
Second off Quake Con, PAX, and TGS can NOT replace E3, they aren't the same event. E3 was an industry only event that fans corrupted by forcing their way in. That's the reason it fell, because the show started to cater to those people who didn't have a reason to be there. The news media basically had to fight with kids. Sure IGN got back room views, however the local news medias and the independant games got ignored more and more in recent years.
Third E3 is going to remain E3. It's just going to be invitation only, like it always should be. The only group that appears to be considering a true successor is the CEA which runs CES. Everyone else is trying to make a fan based show, that's the complete opposite of what the original idea is. And we have tons of public trade shows already.
Fourth all of you who read this and say "I gotta get invited to that" or "I gotta go to that" Thank you for being that person who helped ruined E3. The simple fact is that E3 was hurt because people like you, who didn't belong forced their way into the show, ran around and made everyone's life hard. That's why it's been basically kaiboshed. Next time you're lamenting the fact you can never go to E3, just remind yourself you should never have tried in the first place. This includes the fake news media (thanks for your website that's only up when they are checking it and has no real info), the fan, or the store clerk who really did nothing but go play games, as well as the guys who are "making the game" by which I mean have started a 100 line code product and write approximately 1 line of code a millenia.
If you actually do work in the industry, you know well enough what I'm talking about so you'd disregard this anyways.
First it was audio tapes was going to make it easy to pirate music, it's a terror.
Then there's giving a friend a tape and dubbing it. It's far worse than copying off the radio.
Then it's was online downloads are going to kill the industry. It's far more damaging than people trading songs
Then it was peer to peer, it's killing in the industry. It's easily worse than direct downloads.
Now it's trading cds it's far worse than peer to peer.
Flavor of the month? I'm not talking about the song. Do they even notice that they don't think it's right to pirate if the guy before them pirated? That says the know right from wrong. The fact is the huge price for a single CD is probably what's making them believe piracy is legit. A school kid paying 20 bucks is insanely high. It's akin to an adult paying around 1000 dollars for an item.
Maybe the Riaa needs to remember they used to get a lot of attention for their artists off of tape swapping, perhaps it's time to do it again, and not kill the practice at the same time killing their positive image.
think mid 90s Anna. She's hot.. but she'll turn into a pig.
Please! If you honestly think you're buying a 360 for less than 400 or a PS3 for less than 600 you're insane.
For the 360 you need to either buy the core and then memory cards or HD. That's at least near 350 for the starter pack. Then when you get enough games that's another memory card. Instead you should just buy the premium. 20 gigs of space, 17 really. That'll be enough.
As for the Ps3, actually read what's left out on a 500 version. People buying the 500 version are just hurting themselves especially with no external slots. Even worse than the 360 the 500 dollar version of the Ps3 is unupgradable.
I hear that as PS3 is Anna Nicole Smith. While the Wii is Elisa Cuthbert.
All I have to say is I'm thinking naughty thoughts about that wii...
Many companies rely on pre-orders for expected sales number. In addition stores like Gamestop order and distribute games based almost soley on preorder numbers. A store that gets 5 pre-orders gets something like 7 total games, a store that gets 1 preorder will likely see 2 games.
In addition if games don't get the word out fast (first week), many stores start cutting down on copies shown. If game X sells 1 million copies, and game Y sells 500,000 copies, game X will retain more shelf space longer.
Seriously, is madden commiting to it? EA as a whole? No. The PS3 is going to be getting games that will also be on the xbox 360, why add a feature that the other doesn't have unless sony is forcing you to (which they already are, they have commanded companies that they need 20 percent NEW content for a port. Watch that become a request, and then a suggestion).
The Wii's going to have great usage of the motion sensing because EVERYTHING the Wii has done is focused on it, wireless controllers, the nunchuck. The PS3 is a PS2, that doesn't have dual shock, so they had to do something to make it uniuqe.
The problem is if a company X makes a game Y and their plans is for "next gen gameplay" they arn't thinking "dual shake", they are thinking "better graphics, amazing gameplay, for both the 360 and the PS3" Let's not forget that with out the Motion sensing the PS3 is already a harder system to developer for, and expects more out of the developer.
Instead if I have a game that would be very clever on motion sensing system, why would I choose the Ps3 unless I need great graphics (clever games don't need great graphics if they are truely clever). Instead I'd probably choose the Wii, it's around 1/5th of the price for a single dev kit, the controller is built for motion sensing, as well as the nunchuck, if I want two sensors, and the system has more motion sensing than the other.
As for those saying that it's a good idea I leave you with this idea. Nintendo has developed the idea for years, Sony had the idea, developed it, stopped developing it, saw nintendo's version, and then has pushed it in the system spec and controller the last weeks before E3. That doesn't mean they weren't thinking about it but if they were actively pursuing it the developer would have some version of motion sensing even if it wasn't a very accurate one long before E3. Sony is last minuting this idea in because they are constantly second guessing themselves now. And that's what's going to destroy Sony, not their decisions but second guessing their decisions.