Well, I've mapped a gamepad to most melee-type functions in CoH, so I wouldn't be surprised if Sony+Cryptic could make it play well on the PS3, if ever such a deal happened.
Yep, DAoC is very original in the way it does its form of PvP. Still hate those theurgist pet spammers, though;)
The expansions didn't all cost money, either. Two expansions have been free; the New Frontiers RvR makeover, and player housing (which is more than fluff - easier to sell and buy stuff now).
But about Warhammer: It's Warhammer FANTASY they're focusing on, which in itself is a very original (well-developed) world, dark as fuck. No space, though. That's Warhammer 40000. The game is more Warhammer tabletop RPG than miniature battles, too.
My host uses this, so I don't need world-readable files and directories in my ~/www/ directories for each site. The webserver may run as nobody, but the PHP scripts run as the same user I log in as to upload the files.
GTA:San Andreas is tons more than just guns & tits, though. It's actually a pretty varied game, with the story eventually becoming optional. But first-person shooters are indeed getting tiresome. More sneaking games, please! Thank goodness for consoles; drop in disc, play a little, pause anytime you're like, and if the designers were smart (like in Legend of Kay) save anytime you feel like it.
Apart from step 2 (you can play trolls), drsquare here pretty much described Dark Age of Camelot, the crack-pipe I can't put down:)
1) DAoC has new quests for the lowest levels, that both tell a story and gives OK equipment to start with. Lots of killing, of course, but that isn't necessarily all. Many new Catacombs quests are also entirely peaceful, and rewards are 5-20%(!) of a level plus occasional gear. Then there are the instances, a faster form of grind for those who still want it.
2) The setting isn't exactly Tolkien; Norse, Irish and British mythology clashing on the battlefield. Although you could say Tolkien lifted liberally from the same sources;) Orcs are there in some of the realms, but they're minor critters without significance.
(There are also the masterlevels in Atlantis, a different annoyance not as fun;)
3) The main form of PvP in DAoC is my favourite ever. It's called Realm versus Realm. The game has three realms who are all enemies, and the end-game is all about that. Keep/tower capture, plain ganking, with its alternate reward system parallel to experience. Inside each realm, players can't attack eachother, except on the under-populated PvP server.
4) The RvR part and Trials of Atlantis' master levels give special powers as rewards (in the first case, you buy them with points, in the second, you progress through 10 master levels with around 10 steps of killing/puzzles each). Some rewards are pure PvE goodness, others useful also in RvR. Many random quests around the realms have great background stories.
5) There are only 50 levels + the middle realm rank that counts as level 51. Mythic probably won't add more, as they've found ways to extend characters besides that. Yet another set of skills will be added in a forthcoming expansion, giving characters powers that aren't strictly for their class normally (like weapon skills for pure healers, evasion on casters and other oddness).
6) Combat is more than building up combos and hoping to win; reactive styles are it. Special styles for position, when you parry, evade or block, and followups to make regular combos. Tank characters are actually more work to learn than some casters, the latter being one-button monkeys in some situations:)
Of course, there are casters with so much utility you spend way too much time learning to play them properly;)
It's about a quarter to six in the morning, and I think I can squeeze in another couple of hours of casual playing before I'm out the door..
PlayNC doesn't give you anything like the Station Pass by default, no. I dunno if they have an option, as I've been mostly playing the subscriptionless Guild Wars. My CoH account will probably be re- activated again for a while, and the only option I've seen on the account pages is just that game for the fifteen dollars.
It was developed on Sega Saturn (or demoed on those, at least). The release was simultaneous on the three platforms.
The first two games were the good ones. They were good PSX games, with amazingly large levels for its simple memory. The PC versions did improve it graphically, and the engine looked tons better in Tomb Raider 2 if you had 3D hardware.
Blizzard don't limit upload speed (which should be common knowledge by now;). Most connections lose a ton of download speed if the full upload speed is used.
The official Sony HD, which is very hard to get now, is weird in many ways. The one game that actually uses it to any extent, that online Final Fantasy thing, will ONLY work when it's the Sony HD. Replace it with a larger drive of your own choosing, and you've suddenly lost FF:XI.
I really hope the PS3 will not be locking the users in like that. If so, there isn't a console to replace my PS2 when the new generation is out:/
By the way, USB Extreme is a product to let you use USB drives on Playstation 2 (including the slim one). Capacity allowed: 2TB:)
A Swap Magic disk and some custom software lets you play your MP3s on the PS2, from what I've read. Time to experiment when I receive mine..
Yeah, MS may have so much money they don't notice this little drop in the ocean, but that guy has a nothing patent. If he devised a way which only relied on Excel and Acces, he's using functions already available in the programs. Wouldn't the very programs he's using count as prior art?
You can pick ANY port you like for a decent BitTorrent client. I'd expect it to be the same for any other modern P2P software. Computers are, you know, configurable these days;)
Well, personally I'd prefer a plugin for AMD64 (and I've asked the makers about one, without any response). With 64-bit processors becoming the new standard (slowly), I'd say it's not a niche.
The sound on the NForce chipsets is actually stealing much less CPU time than an SB LIve! or Audigy 1. It's right on par with Audigy 2 in that respect, which was mentioned a lot on techsites back when NForce 2 was new. Since the sound seems to be using some Intel 8xx derivative driver under Linux, I wouldn't be surprised if the 915G chipsets have something similar.
You can get 5.1 sound from an onboard chipset through reversal of one of the inputs, but EAX 4.0 support is probably not going to work.
Onboard graphics steal RAM from the total system memory, but if you're going to use it in a server, you can adjust it down to use just a couple of megs of it. Linux nd BSD isn't picky when you're in text mode;)
The major chipsets nowadays also use 3Com, NVidia and Intel NICs built-in. Only the NVidia has been problematic for me (and I'll whine for hours about that on a bad day), but for some reason, NVidia's deluxe sets with two NICs have 3Com+their own NIC. You're bound to get at least one working, and they come in gigabit flavours:)
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Wonder if Thompson will have a heart-attack seeing Very Strange Sims?
http://www.verystrangesims.com/contentone.html
Well, I've mapped a gamepad to most melee-type functions in CoH,
so I wouldn't be surprised if Sony+Cryptic could make it play well
on the PS3, if ever such a deal happened.
Yep, DAoC is very original in the way it does its form of PvP. ;)
Still hate those theurgist pet spammers, though
The expansions didn't all cost money, either. Two expansions have
been free; the New Frontiers RvR makeover, and player housing
(which is more than fluff - easier to sell and buy stuff now).
But about Warhammer: It's Warhammer FANTASY they're focusing on,
which in itself is a very original (well-developed) world, dark
as fuck. No space, though. That's Warhammer 40000.
The game is more Warhammer tabletop RPG than miniature battles, too.
Thank goodness for suPHP:
http://www.suphp.org/Home.html
My host uses this, so I don't need world-readable files and directories in my
~/www/ directories for each site. The webserver may run as nobody, but the
PHP scripts run as the same user I log in as to upload the files.
The other subscription I have, besides DAoC, is TotalGaming:
:)
http://totalgaming.stardock.com/
Big and small games, and not a single FPS
(They're also working on an MMORTS)
GTA:San Andreas is tons more than just guns & tits, though.
It's actually a pretty varied game, with the story eventually
becoming optional. But first-person shooters are indeed getting
tiresome. More sneaking games, please! Thank goodness for consoles;
drop in disc, play a little, pause anytime you're like, and if
the designers were smart (like in Legend of Kay) save anytime you
feel like it.
Apart from step 2 (you can play trolls), drsquare here pretty :)
;)
;)
:)
;)
much described Dark Age of Camelot, the crack-pipe I can't put down
1) DAoC has new quests for the lowest levels, that both tell a
story and gives OK equipment to start with. Lots of killing, of
course, but that isn't necessarily all. Many new Catacombs quests
are also entirely peaceful, and rewards are 5-20%(!) of a level
plus occasional gear. Then there are the instances, a faster form
of grind for those who still want it.
2) The setting isn't exactly Tolkien; Norse, Irish and British
mythology clashing on the battlefield. Although you could say
Tolkien lifted liberally from the same sources
Orcs are there in some of the realms, but they're minor critters
without significance.
(There are also the masterlevels in Atlantis, a different annoyance
not as fun
3) The main form of PvP in DAoC is my favourite ever. It's called
Realm versus Realm. The game has three realms who are all enemies,
and the end-game is all about that. Keep/tower capture, plain
ganking, with its alternate reward system parallel to experience.
Inside each realm, players can't attack eachother, except on the
under-populated PvP server.
4) The RvR part and Trials of Atlantis' master levels give special
powers as rewards (in the first case, you buy them with points,
in the second, you progress through 10 master levels with around
10 steps of killing/puzzles each). Some rewards are pure PvE
goodness, others useful also in RvR. Many random quests around the
realms have great background stories.
5) There are only 50 levels + the middle realm rank that counts
as level 51. Mythic probably won't add more, as they've found ways
to extend characters besides that. Yet another set of skills will
be added in a forthcoming expansion, giving characters powers that
aren't strictly for their class normally (like weapon skills for
pure healers, evasion on casters and other oddness).
6) Combat is more than building up combos and hoping to win;
reactive styles are it. Special styles for position, when you
parry, evade or block, and followups to make regular combos.
Tank characters are actually more work to learn than some casters,
the latter being one-button monkeys in some situations
Of course, there are casters with so much utility you spend way
too much time learning to play them properly
It's about a quarter to six in the morning, and I think I can
squeeze in another couple of hours of casual playing before I'm out
the door..
Definitely use UTF-8 for all your strings and XHTML documents.
Make sure your preferred editors really are saving UTF-8.
PlayNC doesn't give you anything like the Station Pass by default, no.
;)
I dunno if they have an option, as I've been mostly playing the
subscriptionless Guild Wars. My CoH account will probably be re-
activated again for a while, and the only option I've seen on the
account pages is just that game for the fifteen dollars.
($15 is small change to some of us Europeans
No, it's a console game ported to the PC:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/tombraider_hist/
It was developed on Sega Saturn (or demoed on those, at least).
The release was simultaneous on the three platforms.
The first two games were the good ones. They were good PSX games,
with amazingly large levels for its simple memory. The PC versions
did improve it graphically, and the engine looked tons better in
Tomb Raider 2 if you had 3D hardware.
Blizzard don't limit upload speed (which should be common knowledge ;). Most connections lose a ton of download speed if the
by now
full upload speed is used.
>Not that I download pirated movies encoded by strangers or anything..
If you were to, you'd find a lot of DivX 4 (even some 3) and Xvid.
According to a friend, that is.
Well, I mainly type other languages than English..how's the Unabomber
Manifesto in Norwegian and Swedish with QWERTY versus Dvorak?
I wouldn't trust a .exe ;) .iso or .bin/.cue pair.
If it was real, it would be a
I've said nothing about new external drives. This is just how it
works currently on PS2 (old, thick version).
The official Sony HD, which is very hard to get now, is weird in
:/
:)
many ways. The one game that actually uses it to any extent, that
online Final Fantasy thing, will ONLY work when it's the Sony HD.
Replace it with a larger drive of your own choosing, and you've
suddenly lost FF:XI.
I really hope the PS3 will not be locking the users in like that.
If so, there isn't a console to replace my PS2 when the new
generation is out
By the way, USB Extreme is a product to let you use USB drives on
Playstation 2 (including the slim one). Capacity allowed: 2TB
A Swap Magic disk and some custom software lets you play your MP3s
on the PS2, from what I've read. Time to experiment when I receive
mine..
Yeah, MS may have so much money they don't notice this little drop
in the ocean, but that guy has a nothing patent. If he devised a way
which only relied on Excel and Acces, he's using functions already
available in the programs. Wouldn't the very programs he's using
count as prior art?
..India is being outsourced?
SCons tries to improve over Autoconf/Automake, and it's easier
to make the initial config files:
http://scons.sourceforge.net/
You can pick ANY port you like for a decent BitTorrent client. ;)
I'd expect it to be the same for any other modern P2P software.
Computers are, you know, configurable these days
Well, personally I'd prefer a plugin for AMD64 (and I've asked
the makers about one, without any response).
With 64-bit processors becoming the new standard (slowly), I'd say
it's not a niche.
AMD64 is also largely ignored. Running a 32-bit x86 browser doesn't :/
work for everyone
I have no goodwill towards Joss because of Buffy. I *hate* Buffy. :)
Firefly is cool, though. You're a grump, kettle
Strange that noone has mentioned the similarity with that tool :)
in Blade Runner. Sci-fi is becoming reality
The sound on the NForce chipsets is actually stealing much less
;)
:)
CPU time than an SB LIve! or Audigy 1. It's right on par with
Audigy 2 in that respect, which was mentioned a lot on techsites
back when NForce 2 was new. Since the sound seems to be using some
Intel 8xx derivative driver under Linux, I wouldn't be surprised
if the 915G chipsets have something similar.
You can get 5.1 sound from an onboard chipset through reversal of
one of the inputs, but EAX 4.0 support is probably not going to work.
Onboard graphics steal RAM from the total system memory, but if
you're going to use it in a server, you can adjust it down to use
just a couple of megs of it. Linux nd BSD isn't picky when you're
in text mode
The major chipsets nowadays also use 3Com, NVidia and Intel NICs
built-in. Only the NVidia has been problematic for me (and I'll
whine for hours about that on a bad day), but for some reason,
NVidia's deluxe sets with two NICs have 3Com+their own NIC. You're
bound to get at least one working, and they come in gigabit flavours