When I got the PS2, I was looking forward to a lot more good games than what finally ended up happening. I had a lot of fun with FFX, MGS2, and Virtua Fighter 4 (bit of a surprise, that one) but those are the only games I really enjoyed. I thought Xenosaga would be awesome but it wasn't anywhere near as good as Xenogears. I was also looking forward to The Lost because it's developed by the same company that did System Shock 2, but it seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.
I'm considering picking up a Cube now because I really wanna play Metroid Prime and Wind Waker. Say what you will about Nintendo's hardware policies, they definitely focus on having good games available.
Spamgourmet is also a good site for creating disposable e-mail addresses. Took me a few minutes to figure out how the system worked but after that I've been using it whenever necessary and it works quite well.
"Treasure Planet" (biggest flop of the last 10 years)
Just curious, how are you measuring this? I checked the IMDB and apparently it cost $180 million with advertising and brought in $101 million worldwide. That's a lot of scratch but it wasn't the only high-profile flop over the last 10 years...what about Waterworld? I also remember reading a node on Everything about how if you measure by percentage of first-weekend revenues versus afterwards, Blair Witch 2 was the biggest flop of recent years.
I'm not quite sure why but there's something oddly entertaining in talking about movies that ran up ridiculous budgets and then bombed. I guess I'm not terribly fond of Hollywood.
Yeah, I thought of that too while I was reading this article. Especially the art in Cosmic Race, which was hideous even for first-generation Playstation games. I looked at the screenshot in the article that shows terrain and while it's nothing special, it at least shows what it's supposed to. If this game had come out 6 or 7 years ago people might've been interested in the graphics. But Cosmic Race would've looked horrendous no matter when it came out.
I don't think there will ever be a System Shock 3. From what I hear, EA owns the rights to the System Shock name and they don't have any plans of using it. I'd be kind of afraid of an EA-developed SS game anyway.
If you haven't done so already, I'd recommend downloading the Deus Ex 2 PC demo. I was a huge fan of the original and had every intention of picking up the sequel when the demo completely changed my mind. I'm glad I didn't drop money on it.
Although I haven't played either game (yeah, yeah, I know) I would personally say that Postal 2 deserves the criticism they heap on DoA Beach Volleyball. Postal 2 is as focused on wonton violence as DoA is on boobs. Now if that floats your boat, okay, but which game do you think would show up in a senate hearing? Games like Postal 2 provide the necessary ammunition (heh) for people who want to pass laws to heavily regulate the game industry. This scares me much more than a bunch of 3d rendered boobs. I just hope that games like Postal 2 are ignored by the gaming public so that they never gain enough popularity to end up on some excitable legislator's desk.
I'm also confused by why they were so disappointed with Devil May Cry 2. It's exactly the same as the first game! I thought the first game was a very predictable action game with a plot that could've come out of an 8-bit side scroller. Why were they expecting any more out of the sequel? They're both pretty much the definition of a rental game.
Personally, I'd say that Unreal II was the worst game I played in 2003. It was basically an engine demo. It had a really weak plot and offered absolutely no innovation on the standard FPS formula. Its only claim to fame was that it had more polygons than yesteryear's games. The multiplayer add-on was released far, far too late.
I dunno if it counts as a 2003 game or not, but I had a ton of fun playing the Serious Sam First Encounter/Second Encounter collection. In Second Encounter the graphics are 90% as good as Unreal II's and the gameplay is a hundred times better. It retails for $10, so I'd urge anyone out there who hasn't played Serious Sam to give it a whirl.
Yeah, this threw me as well because that's where I'm going right now. I don't recall hearing about this Comedy Hour thing, though, so I'm guessing it was some sort of show sponsored by the soap company. I really don't know if we have a baseball team...if we do then they don't get much attention.
Haha, that's very true, this happens to female characters as well. I'm sure we haven't seen the last sexy-yet-smart warrior chick with a heart of gold.
This is why when I first saw Jak and Daxter (or however you spell their names) on a magazine cover I just cringed. They were obviously designed to appeal to as many focus groups as possible. I think the Poochie comparison is a good one because they must've drawn them up with 10 people all saying what they wanted in the characters, creating a bizarre amalgamation that doesn't look very good in the end.
I guess there's a lot of pressure to create franchise characters these days. There's lots of money in creating the next Mario, but somehow I don't think you'll get there if you just combine all the current popular characters into one frankenstein character.
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (better than FtR in my opinion) Opeth - Still Life Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane Megadeth - Rust in Peace
I dunno, some of them folks who are at the top of groups that sell said plants and similar items are pretty rich, from what I understand. But then again, they don't have a lot of positive clout with the folks in DC.
When I installed Mandrake 8.2, it didn't detect my GeForce4, so I had to do a bunch of wacky stuff to get it working. Does anyone know if 9.0 can detect 'em? How does it go about installing the nVidia drivers?
Heh, that attitude is definitely not confined to Latin America. A good deal of the US populace feels the same way. Most people just don't know much about Microsoft...all they know is that MS made the operating system that runs on their computer and all the office software that they use at work. As long as the interfaces are slick and they can churn out spreadsheets, they don't really care about who made the software.
Perhaps my perspective is a bit skewed because I live in Washington state, but I've only come across a handful of people who feel that MS should be punished as strongly as I do. The prevailing attitude is, "Awww, who cares about Microsoft, as long as Word still works?" They don't want to be bothered to learn the details of the case.
There's a window in my room that I cover up at night (less sunlight in the morning means it's easier for me to sleep in), using a big hunk of cardboard.
My dad made it one afternoon. He measured the size of my window and cut a big piece of cardboard to fit it. When I go to bed, I just stick it in there by resting it in the frame.
It doesn't block out 100% of the light, but it works for my purposes.
The RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot (again). Why can't they realize the Internet is THEIR future?
I think the reason is that CDs are so freakin' profitable. How much does it cost to stamp out a CD, 15 cents? Add a bit more plastic and a paper insert and they still don't spend more than a few dollars for a normal CD. Then they sell it for a gigantic markup, keeping most of the profit while giving little to the artist.
To normal people, internet distribution sounds like a good idea, but to the RIAA executives who make several dollars a CD from other people's creative works, it doesn't. It doesn't sound good to the shareholders of RIAA member companies either, because they just want the labels to keep spitting out money from CD sales. Hillary Rosen et al just want to stick to the established business model that they know is ridiculously profitable.
Yeah, Cantwell used to own a ton of stock in RealNetworks, as I recall. I imagine she still does. She was with the company when it began becoming successful.
Because of Real's success, she used a large part of her personal cash to fund her election campaign against Republican Senator Slade Gorton. She had to take out a ton of loans from the Democratic Party, but she was elected in the end, albiet by a very, very small majority. Nearly all of her support came from Seattle and outlying areas, Slade won nearly all of the votes in rural Washington.
I'd rather see her in office than Slade, but I worry about how much she'll defend companies like MS, because, well...they're her constituents.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and explain why I'd be willing to cough up some cash for a Slashdot subscription.
My view is this: It's like subscribing to a magazine. Except the magazine is updated very frequently and covers a much broader spectrum of news than any print magazine.
Yes, it's not perfect. Sometimes I don't agree with what editor X says, or what comment Y says, or what comment Y is moderated as, but it's the same as any other aspect of life: there are good and bad parts. It's an imperfect system, but I like it anyway.
I like/. because it points me to a lot of interesting news stories, and because it also provides a lot of different opinions on said news stories. Stories that I would probably miss if I didn't read the site. Some people seem to come here expecting a grand bastion of journalism, but they're definitely looking in the wrong place.
Since/. provides me with a magazine-like service, I'd be willing to pay a magazine-like subscription fee. Something like $10/month would be too much, but I would seriously consider something in the neighborhood of $20-$25 per year, which is what I am used to paying for magazines.
Anyway, that's just my ignorant, pigheaded opinion. I do suppose it's a wee bit off-topic but I figure that a lot of posts on this thread will be talking about this very issue.
Come on, man, this is just a fun little program. It's completely optional to download and install. It's not like this will come standard with every version of RedHat from this day forward. It's just a lighthearted little hack released for the fun of it.
One thing it is definitely not is a reason why people don't adopt Linux. On the contrary, I think it would reflect nicely on the world of Linux, as it shows how open the system is. You're perfectly free to load LILO in plain-vanilla form, but if you're up for it, you can install some eye candy if you want.
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No, because Paulie Shore is known for his comedic talents
He is? When did that start happening?
When I got the PS2, I was looking forward to a lot more good games than what finally ended up happening. I had a lot of fun with FFX, MGS2, and Virtua Fighter 4 (bit of a surprise, that one) but those are the only games I really enjoyed. I thought Xenosaga would be awesome but it wasn't anywhere near as good as Xenogears. I was also looking forward to The Lost because it's developed by the same company that did System Shock 2, but it seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.
I'm considering picking up a Cube now because I really wanna play Metroid Prime and Wind Waker. Say what you will about Nintendo's hardware policies, they definitely focus on having good games available.
Spamgourmet is also a good site for creating disposable e-mail addresses. Took me a few minutes to figure out how the system worked but after that I've been using it whenever necessary and it works quite well.
Well I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to map out the human genome from the comfort of my living room.
"Treasure Planet" (biggest flop of the last 10 years)
Just curious, how are you measuring this? I checked the IMDB and apparently it cost $180 million with advertising and brought in $101 million worldwide. That's a lot of scratch but it wasn't the only high-profile flop over the last 10 years...what about Waterworld? I also remember reading a node on Everything about how if you measure by percentage of first-weekend revenues versus afterwards, Blair Witch 2 was the biggest flop of recent years.
I'm not quite sure why but there's something oddly entertaining in talking about movies that ran up ridiculous budgets and then bombed. I guess I'm not terribly fond of Hollywood.
Yeah, I thought of that too while I was reading this article. Especially the art in Cosmic Race, which was hideous even for first-generation Playstation games. I looked at the screenshot in the article that shows terrain and while it's nothing special, it at least shows what it's supposed to. If this game had come out 6 or 7 years ago people might've been interested in the graphics. But Cosmic Race would've looked horrendous no matter when it came out.
I don't think there will ever be a System Shock 3. From what I hear, EA owns the rights to the System Shock name and they don't have any plans of using it. I'd be kind of afraid of an EA-developed SS game anyway.
If you haven't done so already, I'd recommend downloading the Deus Ex 2 PC demo. I was a huge fan of the original and had every intention of picking up the sequel when the demo completely changed my mind. I'm glad I didn't drop money on it.
Although I haven't played either game (yeah, yeah, I know) I would personally say that Postal 2 deserves the criticism they heap on DoA Beach Volleyball. Postal 2 is as focused on wonton violence as DoA is on boobs. Now if that floats your boat, okay, but which game do you think would show up in a senate hearing? Games like Postal 2 provide the necessary ammunition (heh) for people who want to pass laws to heavily regulate the game industry. This scares me much more than a bunch of 3d rendered boobs. I just hope that games like Postal 2 are ignored by the gaming public so that they never gain enough popularity to end up on some excitable legislator's desk.
I'm also confused by why they were so disappointed with Devil May Cry 2. It's exactly the same as the first game! I thought the first game was a very predictable action game with a plot that could've come out of an 8-bit side scroller. Why were they expecting any more out of the sequel? They're both pretty much the definition of a rental game.
Personally, I'd say that Unreal II was the worst game I played in 2003. It was basically an engine demo. It had a really weak plot and offered absolutely no innovation on the standard FPS formula. Its only claim to fame was that it had more polygons than yesteryear's games. The multiplayer add-on was released far, far too late.
I dunno if it counts as a 2003 game or not, but I had a ton of fun playing the Serious Sam First Encounter/Second Encounter collection. In Second Encounter the graphics are 90% as good as Unreal II's and the gameplay is a hundred times better. It retails for $10, so I'd urge anyone out there who hasn't played Serious Sam to give it a whirl.
Yeah, this threw me as well because that's where I'm going right now. I don't recall hearing about this Comedy Hour thing, though, so I'm guessing it was some sort of show sponsored by the soap company. I really don't know if we have a baseball team...if we do then they don't get much attention.
Haha, that's very true, this happens to female characters as well. I'm sure we haven't seen the last sexy-yet-smart warrior chick with a heart of gold.
This is why when I first saw Jak and Daxter (or however you spell their names) on a magazine cover I just cringed. They were obviously designed to appeal to as many focus groups as possible. I think the Poochie comparison is a good one because they must've drawn them up with 10 people all saying what they wanted in the characters, creating a bizarre amalgamation that doesn't look very good in the end.
I guess there's a lot of pressure to create franchise characters these days. There's lots of money in creating the next Mario, but somehow I don't think you'll get there if you just combine all the current popular characters into one frankenstein character.
Oh great, another worm? Where do I get the patch from this time?
Great list! I would add these albums:
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (better than FtR in my opinion)
Opeth - Still Life
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
...than the hotmail account is Spam Gourmet. Check out their site.
I dunno, some of them folks who are at the top of groups that sell said plants and similar items are pretty rich, from what I understand. But then again, they don't have a lot of positive clout with the folks in DC.
When I installed Mandrake 8.2, it didn't detect my GeForce4, so I had to do a bunch of wacky stuff to get it working. Does anyone know if 9.0 can detect 'em? How does it go about installing the nVidia drivers?
Yikes! I hope you don't have any clumsy houseguests.
"Hiya, nephew! Mind if I come in? I just wanted to tell you that-"
*CRUNCH*
"Oops. I'll come back later."
Heh, that attitude is definitely not confined to Latin America. A good deal of the US populace feels the same way. Most people just don't know much about Microsoft...all they know is that MS made the operating system that runs on their computer and all the office software that they use at work. As long as the interfaces are slick and they can churn out spreadsheets, they don't really care about who made the software.
Perhaps my perspective is a bit skewed because I live in Washington state, but I've only come across a handful of people who feel that MS should be punished as strongly as I do. The prevailing attitude is, "Awww, who cares about Microsoft, as long as Word still works?" They don't want to be bothered to learn the details of the case.
Yeah, 640 lbs. should be enough for anybody.
There's a window in my room that I cover up at night (less sunlight in the morning means it's easier for me to sleep in), using a big hunk of cardboard.
My dad made it one afternoon. He measured the size of my window and cut a big piece of cardboard to fit it. When I go to bed, I just stick it in there by resting it in the frame.
It doesn't block out 100% of the light, but it works for my purposes.
I think the reason is that CDs are so freakin' profitable. How much does it cost to stamp out a CD, 15 cents? Add a bit more plastic and a paper insert and they still don't spend more than a few dollars for a normal CD. Then they sell it for a gigantic markup, keeping most of the profit while giving little to the artist.
To normal people, internet distribution sounds like a good idea, but to the RIAA executives who make several dollars a CD from other people's creative works, it doesn't. It doesn't sound good to the shareholders of RIAA member companies either, because they just want the labels to keep spitting out money from CD sales. Hillary Rosen et al just want to stick to the established business model that they know is ridiculously profitable.
I can see the ad for the Wheel of Time game now...
NONE CAN ESCAPE THE LORD OF THE GRAVE!
Yeah, Cantwell used to own a ton of stock in RealNetworks, as I recall. I imagine she still does. She was with the company when it began becoming successful.
Because of Real's success, she used a large part of her personal cash to fund her election campaign against Republican Senator Slade Gorton. She had to take out a ton of loans from the Democratic Party, but she was elected in the end, albiet by a very, very small majority. Nearly all of her support came from Seattle and outlying areas, Slade won nearly all of the votes in rural Washington.
I'd rather see her in office than Slade, but I worry about how much she'll defend companies like MS, because, well...they're her constituents.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and explain why I'd be willing to cough up some cash for a Slashdot subscription.
/. because it points me to a lot of interesting news stories, and because it also provides a lot of different opinions on said news stories. Stories that I would probably miss if I didn't read the site. Some people seem to come here expecting a grand bastion of journalism, but they're definitely looking in the wrong place.
/. provides me with a magazine-like service, I'd be willing to pay a magazine-like subscription fee. Something like $10/month would be too much, but I would seriously consider something in the neighborhood of $20-$25 per year, which is what I am used to paying for magazines.
My view is this: It's like subscribing to a magazine. Except the magazine is updated very frequently and covers a much broader spectrum of news than any print magazine.
Yes, it's not perfect. Sometimes I don't agree with what editor X says, or what comment Y says, or what comment Y is moderated as, but it's the same as any other aspect of life: there are good and bad parts. It's an imperfect system, but I like it anyway.
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Anyway, that's just my ignorant, pigheaded opinion. I do suppose it's a wee bit off-topic but I figure that a lot of posts on this thread will be talking about this very issue.
Come on, man, this is just a fun little program. It's completely optional to download and install. It's not like this will come standard with every version of RedHat from this day forward. It's just a lighthearted little hack released for the fun of it.
One thing it is definitely not is a reason why people don't adopt Linux. On the contrary, I think it would reflect nicely on the world of Linux, as it shows how open the system is. You're perfectly free to load LILO in plain-vanilla form, but if you're up for it, you can install some eye candy if you want.