Because I avoid consoles whenever humanly possible, and I've wanted to play Halo since the last millenium.
But seriously, they aren't going to charge full price for it, are they? That would be the ultimate insult, to charge $50.00 for a frickin' two year old game.
I like the microsoft mice myself. There's just nothing wrong with the way they look, work, or feel. I really can't think of any more features beyond what are in the Microsoft mice.
Though I am on my third one in the past few years... I have a suspicion they aren't built to last. I could probably save $$ by going with someone who made more durable peripherals.
there was no implied 'because' between those two sentences. They both stand on their own.
Of course there are characters that don't speak. Of course Gordon Freeman is a character... he's just a non-character. Which is like not really being a character, even though he is.
Freeman isn't a character. He never says anything. He never interacts with anyone. You only see him on the game box.
All the scientists and stuff talk to YOU (yes, they call you Gordon. But that doesn't make him a character). Half-Life is about immersion, and they made Freeman a non-character to help draw you in.
It pissed me off when Gamespot or IGN or someone named Gordon Freeman the coolest game character ever or something. Because he's not an actual character!
Console gamers are real gamers. There were games in most homes on console long before they were on the PC.
Console gamers can be real gamers, for console games are real games. But they are often only attracted by the entry-level price of consoles, and don't have the dedication that a real PC gamer has. Do the mindless console playing masses have any concept of frames-per-second or screen resolution? Have they ever known the joy of having the latest and greatest hardware... something none of their friends has yet? Do they have any idea of the many wonderful and diverse genres of PC games? Do they really care about control and precision?
No. They sit on their couch and play a game or two, then go back to doing whatever they do when they're not playing their console.
From the article: and to be honest, most of my gaming is done on the console, especially since that seems where most of the innovation seems to be.
Warren Spector said that. Warren fucking Spector! One of the greatest innovators in electronic gaming period! All his tremendous innovation has been on PC so far. So this is a VERY ironic thing for him to say.
I originally said: This is a bad move for people who want to get a better handle on what the game is all about (and whether or not it sucks) before actually paying money for it
You said: The forum could be detrimental to their marketing in that only the most vocal forumites make their views clear, and in many cases, these views tend to be impassioned and sometimes irrational.
As a person investigating a game for possible purchase, I DON'T care about marketing decisions. I want to know what people who are playing the game are saying it. If I'm investigating whether or not I should purchase a MMORPG, then I know a few things about them already. I already know that forums are full of squeaky wheels.
I'm not looking JUST for squeaky wheels. They are important, though, because there are particularly squeaky wheels, I won't touch the game with a 10 foot pole. I am looking for FUN wheels too. I want to know if there's neat strategies being traded, how the cool features of the game work, and what I can expect if I start playing.
Oh yeah, I can also ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS of people who are already playing the game.
I don't give a rip what the company thinks about marketing. Privatizing the forums hurts me the consumer.
This is a bad move for people who want to get a better handle on what the game is all about (and whether or not it sucks) before actually paying money for it.
Surely there are ways to handle trolls (if that is even a problem) without restricting access to paying members only.
Listen up soldier, I am a grizzled DoD veteran myself. I've been playing since 1.1. I was there before the post-1.3 Great Map Makeover. Me and my boys owned Caen before the demolition charges were added.
I've been with DoD since DoD 1.3b. I am old-school.
And there is NO ONE a true DoDer hates more than a pansy-ass nancy boy CS player who complains in lower l33t that he can't bunny hop.
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But it's extremely unfortunate and in poor taste that Slashdot choose to highlight it using Al Jazeera as a news source. This news outlet is the largest voice of anti-US sentiment in the Arab world and is a particularly offensive forum to highight while our soldiers are still dying in that area of the world.
Uhm... it's unfortunate yes. But ONLY because Al-Jazeera is such an unreliable source of accurate news.
My friend was complaining about getting spam and viruses yesterday, so I told him where to get Thunderbird. He wasn't very tech-savvy, but with a few words of help from me he was up and running in a matter of minutes.
Seriously. Pushing non Microsoft email clients on your users (politely, anyways) is the way to go.
The non-interactive movie-style trailers to the best interactive movie / flying games ever. Wing Commander III and IV.
Mark Hamill. John Rhys Davies. Malcolm Mcdowell. Space fighters. Great special effects. Cheesy writing made cool and memorable by quality actors. These trailers are the best things ever.
Because that 20 billion would come straight out of certain states' economies... so there's good reason for those congresscreatures to not be enthusiastic about it.
That, and with all the stuff the military is doing nowadays (troll about whether or not that stuff is justified and you die), Congress is likely to only increase military spending so the military doesn't get spread too thin.
"We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network." Sundwall would not comment on what type of agreement Microsoft would want with third-party IM software providers. "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement," he said.
Yep. Sounds like M$ is really out to crush the competition and strike a blow to open source. Yep, they're being completely unreasonable here. Light the torches boys, we've got a rabbelous mob to form!
Say what? Red Dawn is arguably "jingoistic" but has nothing IIRC to do with Vietnam.
I believe Red Dawn (which I watched recently and is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ever.) had a little text intro that described the alternate history that led to the U.S. being invaded by communists.
I think it had something to do with the U.S. giving up really early on South Vietnam... so that led to the whole 'domino effect' where the communists kept knocking over country after country until the U.S. was the only one left.
It's an interesting (but debatable) theory. Too bad it had to be used in such a shitty movie.
Nope, pretty sure all Nazis are evil. If they aren't evil, than they aren't really a Nazi now, are they?
You and I could probably have been warped into Nazis. But that doesn't make them any less evil.
Besides... I was speaking of picking off Nazis relative to picking off Vietnamese. Allow me to illustrate:
n is how good I feel after killing Nazis v is how good I feel after killing Vietnamese n > v
There are no numbers assigned to those variables. You just know that one is greater than the other.
If I said 'I like killing Nazis. I don't like killing Vietnamese' n would still be greater than v. However, you would know that n was equal to 1, and v was equal to -1. But since I made a relative statement.... you cannot draw that conclusion.
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I mentioned that I avoid them when humanly possible. There are many console-only games that aren't humanly possible for me to stay away from!
Because I avoid consoles whenever humanly possible, and I've wanted to play Halo since the last millenium.
But seriously, they aren't going to charge full price for it, are they? That would be the ultimate insult, to charge $50.00 for a frickin' two year old game.
While I'm not a web developer...
What about hyperlinked PDF?
Yep. You're Definately not a web developer.
I like the microsoft mice myself. There's just nothing wrong with the way they look, work, or feel. I really can't think of any more features beyond what are in the Microsoft mice.
Though I am on my third one in the past few years... I have a suspicion they aren't built to last. I could probably save $$ by going with someone who made more durable peripherals.
there was no implied 'because' between those two sentences. They both stand on their own.
Of course there are characters that don't speak. Of course Gordon Freeman is a character... he's just a non-character. Which is like not really being a character, even though he is.
Freeman isn't a character. He never says anything. He never interacts with anyone. You only see him on the game box.
All the scientists and stuff talk to YOU (yes, they call you Gordon. But that doesn't make him a character). Half-Life is about immersion, and they made Freeman a non-character to help draw you in.
It pissed me off when Gamespot or IGN or someone named Gordon Freeman the coolest game character ever or something. Because he's not an actual character!
Console gamers are real gamers. There were games in most homes on console long before they were on the PC.
Console gamers can be real gamers, for console games are real games. But they are often only attracted by the entry-level price of consoles, and don't have the dedication that a real PC gamer has. Do the mindless console playing masses have any concept of frames-per-second or screen resolution? Have they ever known the joy of having the latest and greatest hardware... something none of their friends has yet? Do they have any idea of the many wonderful and diverse genres of PC games? Do they really care about control and precision?
No. They sit on their couch and play a game or two, then go back to doing whatever they do when they're not playing their console.
Nope. If you don't like it, then don't buy the game. If you don't buy the game, then you have not lost a penny. How are you hurt then?
Because I'm not able to make a fully informed decision on whether or not to buy the game. Duh.
From the article: and to be honest, most of my gaming is done on the console, especially since that seems where most of the innovation seems to be.
Warren Spector said that. Warren fucking Spector! One of the greatest innovators in electronic gaming period! All his tremendous innovation has been on PC so far. So this is a VERY ironic thing for him to say.
I originally said: This is a bad move for people who want to get a better handle on what the game is all about (and whether or not it sucks) before actually paying money for it
You said: The forum could be detrimental to their marketing in that only the most vocal forumites make their views clear, and in many cases, these views tend to be impassioned and sometimes irrational.
As a person investigating a game for possible purchase, I DON'T care about marketing decisions. I want to know what people who are playing the game are saying it. If I'm investigating whether or not I should purchase a MMORPG, then I know a few things about them already. I already know that forums are full of squeaky wheels.
I'm not looking JUST for squeaky wheels. They are important, though, because there are particularly squeaky wheels, I won't touch the game with a 10 foot pole. I am looking for FUN wheels too. I want to know if there's neat strategies being traded, how the cool features of the game work, and what I can expect if I start playing.
Oh yeah, I can also ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS of people who are already playing the game.
I don't give a rip what the company thinks about marketing. Privatizing the forums hurts me the consumer.
Are you talking about Counter Strike? I think you are.
I never claimed to play CS a lot. In fact, I expressed my utter contempt for the CS players who invaded DoD servers.
Too bad the thing you just posted in a condescending manner is irrelevant, huh?
This is a bad move for people who want to get a better handle on what the game is all about (and whether or not it sucks) before actually paying money for it.
Surely there are ways to handle trolls (if that is even a problem) without restricting access to paying members only.
Listen up soldier, I am a grizzled DoD veteran myself. I've been playing since 1.1. I was there before the post-1.3 Great Map Makeover. Me and my boys owned Caen before the demolition charges were added.
I've been with DoD since DoD 1.3b. I am old-school.
And there is NO ONE a true DoDer hates more than a pansy-ass nancy boy CS player who complains in lower l33t that he can't bunny hop.
OMG I can't wait to lay down some s3ri0us 0wn4g3 on these X-box CS n00bs. My l33t m0us3 sk1llz will d3f34t t3h l4m3 gamepads of t3h n00bs!!!!11
OMG I just crapped my pants.
yes we have.
What do you think a thermonuclear weapon is?
But it's extremely unfortunate and in poor taste that Slashdot choose to highlight it using Al Jazeera as a news source. This news outlet is the largest voice of anti-US sentiment in the Arab world and is a particularly offensive forum to highight while our soldiers are still dying in that area of the world.
Uhm... it's unfortunate yes. But ONLY because Al-Jazeera is such an unreliable source of accurate news.
My friend was complaining about getting spam and viruses yesterday, so I told him where to get Thunderbird. He wasn't very tech-savvy, but with a few words of help from me he was up and running in a matter of minutes.
Seriously. Pushing non Microsoft email clients on your users (politely, anyways) is the way to go.
amen. 2 of the greatest RPGs ever.
I mean, forget that final fantasy crap. You actually get to ROLEPLAY in these!!
You have it backwards, you cockgrabber.
The non-interactive movie-style trailers to the best interactive movie / flying games ever. Wing Commander III and IV.
Mark Hamill. John Rhys Davies. Malcolm Mcdowell. Space fighters. Great special effects. Cheesy writing made cool and memorable by quality actors. These trailers are the best things ever.
Oh, did I mention that you can download them?!
If you don't download them, just look at the pretty pictures on the page there. Quality stuff.
Because that 20 billion would come straight out of certain states' economies... so there's good reason for those congresscreatures to not be enthusiastic about it.
That, and with all the stuff the military is doing nowadays (troll about whether or not that stuff is justified and you die), Congress is likely to only increase military spending so the military doesn't get spread too thin.
*sigh* If only there were hostile space aliens...
it will be China or India. The United States seriously lacks the resolve (or the infrastructure) to go to the Moon.
Maybe 20 years from now, we'll be surpassed in space and get shamed into exploring again.
From the article:
"We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
Sundwall would not comment on what type of agreement Microsoft would want with third-party IM software providers. "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement," he said.
Yep. Sounds like M$ is really out to crush the competition and strike a blow to open source. Yep, they're being completely unreasonable here. Light the torches boys, we've got a rabbelous mob to form!
Say what? Red Dawn is arguably "jingoistic" but has nothing IIRC to do with Vietnam.
I believe Red Dawn (which I watched recently and is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Ever.) had a little text intro that described the alternate history that led to the U.S. being invaded by communists.
I think it had something to do with the U.S. giving up really early on South Vietnam... so that led to the whole 'domino effect' where the communists kept knocking over country after country until the U.S. was the only one left.
It's an interesting (but debatable) theory. Too bad it had to be used in such a shitty movie.
Nope, pretty sure all Nazis are evil. If they aren't evil, than they aren't really a Nazi now, are they?
You and I could probably have been warped into Nazis. But that doesn't make them any less evil.
Besides... I was speaking of picking off Nazis relative to picking off Vietnamese. Allow me to illustrate:
n is how good I feel after killing Nazis
v is how good I feel after killing Vietnamese
n > v
There are no numbers assigned to those variables. You just know that one is greater than the other.
If I said 'I like killing Nazis. I don't like killing Vietnamese'
n would still be greater than v. However, you would know that n was equal to 1, and v was equal to -1. But since I made a relative statement.... you cannot draw that conclusion.
So there.