Explain to me how playing a game on a system where coordination is a big key, is fun wile you are drunk. Or playing any game while drunk. This is something I just never understood. What is it about being intoxicated that makes playing games more fun?
Ok, I admit. You make some decent hardware. The PS2 is very good game console (once you worked out all of the kinks in it). I can understand how you would feel about people bashing you on all the time. I just don't see the reason in try to justify it over a crappy sales slump. I mean, you have the next gen systems coming out soon (including yours), of course there are going to be less software sales overall. People are trying to save up for the next set of systems. Wouldn't you want them to spend money on your new system, instead of the predessesor?
Now, if you can only improve upon your reputation and your caring for consumers, then you might start working your way back up.
Do you get to celebrate this day if you have only been a System Administrator for 8 months? I would like my Friday to be less stressful as well, but I just starting being one, and am being hammered with system patches and kernel upgrades.
This is so layer in speculation, that I can smother my pancakes with it. Probably doesn't taste as great though.
It seems wierd that they mention none of the details are specific, nor confirmed by Sony, but they can say that Japan and US might get it around the same time? Somehow, I think Sony would honor their Japanese market before it every makes it over the Pacific.
As for the subscription service, I would like to see it in action, and how well it can hold up to Xbox Live. "an iTunes like distrubtion"? Sounds like like you still pay seperately for each Online game you purchase. You might see a list of games on the server, and pick two, for like $9.99 each per month. Might be more convient to acquiring the game, but it would suck if they charge for each game's monthly subscription seperately. I know they hinted at it just beinga flat monthly fee, but still...
Personally, I would rather wait till the NR comes out. By then, the PS3 should be out at its high price, and the Xbox 360 might actually be purchasable (not being able to find it in stores will hinder sales). The holiday season is over, and we just got through the V-Day purchase (for those of you with S.O.'s), so people in general see no reason to spend money on the 360 right now. Let them save up their money, and maybe within that timespan, Microsoft can fix those issues with they 360's before the second wave hits.
Logically, you would expect sales to start hitting a slump, especially right after the holiday season, where people are trying to fill out their income taxes, curbing their spending, and are trying to get back in the motions of everyday mundane life. It also does not help that the current titles release for the 360 are not all that great (Best ones that come to mind are Kameo and DOA4, and even both of those do not justify the price of the console and all the extra junk I would need.) Of course I would not get one now anyways cause the current list of backward compatible games does not inclube any of my currently own Xbox games, so I would need to keep both the Xbox and Xbox 360 hooked up to my TV, and I do not excatly have the space to do that right now.
So, yes, you have a sales slump. Blame the chip manufacters, but do not put all the blame on them. This was a tactic you set out from the start, and now you are reaping what you sowed.
In general, it is usually safest to go with "Black" in my opinion. African-* just leads to people thinking you are too PC or something. I personally don't care as much what I am called, so long as the N-word is not said.
I don't know, many people just assume that black people do not enter the technical field as much cause of the stereotype of us being more physical-mind (ie. Sports, construction, etc.) I have an interests in computers, I went and persued it, graduated, and enjoy it. I build my own comptuers, even if I still install Windows (but I do it properly, keeping security in mind). I am working on having *nix installed on at least one of my machines, and I run a web/ftp server with PHP/Perl/MySQL backend. Yet, I am told I am not black becuase I am into those things and those things are considered non-black.
I am not sure if females are treated the same way as well, but if they are, then it is a really stupid notion to be upset over. People do what they want to do cause they enjoy it. If women, blacks or whatever want to do CS, let them do it and enjoy it. Don't harrass them into joining the major only to set a status quo.
Why is it when racial/cultural aspects of people obtaining CS degrees are brought up, no one mentions the African American community? I mean, we are out there. Heck, I am one of them now, coding away at a space tech company out in CA.
Do people also feel that African Americans, along with females, do not really fit the mode of being a CS person?
Ok, first you started to release the RE series on the PSX, and all was ok.. Then, you moved over to the GC, made RE Zero, redid RE One with RE Zero's engine, and just ported 2, 3 and Code: Vericona X. I've dealt with that. Then you release RE 4, and what a great game it was. All of a sudden, I see RE 4 out for the PS2 with two extra features within the game, and wonder why you did not do this for the GC.
Now, you've gone and stated you want to *finally* try a multiplatform release, for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Note that the PS3 is not out yet, nor has Dev kits out, last I checked, AND you have yet to mention the Revolution, the which belongs to the same company you switched to first, then turned away from.
For crying out loud, pick a system and stick with it! I know you want everyone to have a chance to play it, but come on. If someone was new to the series, they would pretty much have to have a GC, PS2 and *at least* one of the newly released systems to play it. I wondering if you just gave up support of Nintendo entirely, or just not care about the continunity of your games' console releases.
To be perfectly honest, the reason ADV is raking in the dough, is that as one of the biggest anime distributers in America, they can charge an arm, a leg, and three kidneys for their product, and it will sell. You'll notice there are not a lot of anime distributers out there, so there are only a few mediums where you can get it from. While it is still cheaper to obtain it from online sources (AnimeNation and the like), it is still costly. I could buy all of Buffy, Angel, or even Hercules right now, and it would be cheaper than getting a box set of a particular anime series.
They won't come down in price, cause pretty much there is no reason for them too. While I download the occassional anime series, I still buy some of my stuff from Brick N' Mortar, or other various online sources. Hell, I am going to buy Grenadier, even though I have the fansubs to it on my computer.
Seriously, if they want to really rank in the dough, start dropping the prices to under the $20 level. At least then, it might make is justifiable to only the DVD for its extras. Keeping it at $29.99 might net you big profits in the short term, but as the years progress, there is only so much people are willing to take before they forever go the way of fansubs.
Otherwise, I'm holding out for a Mr. Fusion. You do remember that Mr. Fusion only powers your Flux Capacitor. You would still need your highly expensive combustible fuel to make your vechile function.:)
Last I check, while you could trade in your game console for a respectable $70-$90, it would be in store credit, not in actual cash. EB Games and Gamestop do not give you cash for you games, at least from what I remember.
Personally, I keep everything I own, and have only traded in three games. Two of which sucked ass, and the last cause I brought the remake on the GC and I could not stand the original on the PS1. But I am a packrat like that.
it's a lot easier for them to focus on one console and the one with 91 million sold is an easy choice (a 65 million console lead on the nearest competitor).
While true, I would still make since to port it also to other systems, a la Soul Calibur II. While the PS2 has 91 million units sold, you are only going to get a subset of that number. If you add in the subset of the numbers for the GC and the XBox, then you are talking about much more value for you game, and extra revenue.
I still would not have it going into the XBox360, only cause it is still new architecture, and it might not be ready at the Xbox360 launch. Leaving it on the PS2 is for people who are not going to buy it at Xmas or for families who can't afford it right now.
"Sorry Johnny, we could not get your Xbox 360... but look. This "Soul Calibur III" is out, and you can play it on your PS2."
Remind me again why these exist in the first place. Are we that lazy of MMORPG players that we need to make sweat shops of people to do the work for us. I mean, a lot of us have to take the time anyway to earn up enough gold to even buy the stuff we needed, but they put a lot of efforting into what they are "farming", and they pretty much getting nothing out of it but a measly paycheck and flak from gamers about how cheap it is that they are camping common places.
This open letter does show a good point. A lot of the mentality of the new recruits that are passionate about working in the gaming industry (or any industry for that matter) is to work the extra hours or do the large amounts of extra work to prove to everyone they can do what others who are already in company are doing. If this mentality can be changed or proved to not be a driving factor, then we can get the companies to stop working their employees to the bone cause of a notion that has not really been proven to work.
Well, you have to give Bungie some credit. They at least tried to implement it into Xbox, but complexity got in the way.
Anyways, when I played Halo, I had more fun playing with many people in the room, and with one people as my partner going thru the game. I am sure that actually being side by side would be a better experience than talking via a mic.
You guys still get Co-op in Offline mode, and I am sure everyone will still enjoy for the great game that it is.
Well, we prettymuch new this was going to happen. At least they are looking into the battery life issue, and it is a major concern if your portable handheld is only expected to last ~90 with it burning right through your hands ("Transisters running hot", according to the article).
They need this thing to be delayed, to fix all of this problems, before releasing it to the general masses. We would prefer a working system for us to use and play with, instead of one with the heat of a thousand suns and a lifespand of a fruitfly.
And this is what I like. When companies admit to having a problem and working towards a solution that benefits thier customers. Too bad we do not see this as often as we should.
One would think that Sony would prepare for such a thing as the lack of HDD support on the new slimmer PS2. But if it is a downloadable content, maybe it can possibly be stored on the memory card, if the files sizes are not that big.
On the other side of the coin, isn't everyone *still* usind the old PS2 model, one that can handle the HDD (even though you have to buy FFXI to get it)? I do not think Sony had it intended to worry about the new consoles HDD-lacking capabilities just yet.
You seldomly see a female wandering an animecon alone, I bet.
True, cause they are usually with other females. If they are walking around with a guy at all, usually that means the guy she is with is either
A) Childhood friend B) Boyfriend
There are single females at those conventions, but it is the guys who are twice the girls age that are complaining about not finding female anime otaku to go out with.
I don't believe that any of the PSOne games support the PS2 Memory Card. That was the only majojr problem with it.
PSOne games used the PSOne Memory Card PS2 games used the PS2 Memory Card
In order for a PSOne game to used the PS2 Memory card, you would probably have to rewrite the game to support, that since there is a huge library of PSOne games already, it is not cost effective for the company to do such a thing.
You could also partition off a space on said memory card and format it like a PSOne, but then you would be stuck with the PSOne's old memory slot formated system (Where savefiles took a number of slots of memory space on the PSOne memory card). I don't think we want that either. If you could adjust the amount of slots on it, then there would be no problem, and all will be right with the world.
Personally, I used my PS2 Memory card to house all of saves for the PS2 and the PSOne games. Haven't filled it up yet, and I have not deleted a save file to this day, and I do own a sizeable portion of games from both consoles.
I don't think anyone was saying that it was flawless BC, but it was pretty darn good for the time being. It will be interesting to see how Sony handles the saving issues with the PS3
There is not much you can do to change the mentality of the GameFAQs userbase. They are not going to understand the real games that made an impact on the industry as we know it. I will also agree that they gear more towards RPGs characters than anything else.
That being said, yes, it does boil down to a popularity contest. But I do have some faith in the people who are willing to show what real games were about. We will have to remind them about the times of the SNES, NES, and maybe even the Atari days.
Mainstream marketing is what is driving a lot of the younger crowd that is buying games. That is why the FF series is flying off the shelves, but games like Zelda and SMB are being turned into EB and not being brought again.
Just for reference, the 'Z' button on the Gamecube controllers are right above the 'R' button. Nice placement, but very hard to remember that its there, or to hit it without accidently tapping 'R'
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Explain to me how playing a game on a system where coordination is a big key, is fun wile you are drunk. Or playing any game while drunk. This is something I just never understood. What is it about being intoxicated that makes playing games more fun?
It was the 40th anniversary of Gen Con, is what Zonk meant to say. That needs to be fixed.
Ok, I admit. You make some decent hardware. The PS2 is very good game console (once you worked out all of the kinks in it). I can understand how you would feel about people bashing you on all the time. I just don't see the reason in try to justify it over a crappy sales slump. I mean, you have the next gen systems coming out soon (including yours), of course there are going to be less software sales overall. People are trying to save up for the next set of systems. Wouldn't you want them to spend money on your new system, instead of the predessesor?
Now, if you can only improve upon your reputation and your caring for consumers, then you might start working your way back up.
Do you get to celebrate this day if you have only been a System Administrator for 8 months? I would like my Friday to be less stressful as well, but I just starting being one, and am being hammered with system patches and kernel upgrades.
This is so layer in speculation, that I can smother my pancakes with it. Probably doesn't taste as great though.
It seems wierd that they mention none of the details are specific, nor confirmed by Sony, but they can say that Japan and US might get it around the same time? Somehow, I think Sony would honor their Japanese market before it every makes it over the Pacific.
As for the subscription service, I would like to see it in action, and how well it can hold up to Xbox Live. "an iTunes like distrubtion"? Sounds like like you still pay seperately for each Online game you purchase. You might see a list of games on the server, and pick two, for like $9.99 each per month. Might be more convient to acquiring the game, but it would suck if they charge for each game's monthly subscription seperately. I know they hinted at it just beinga flat monthly fee, but still...
But remember, this is speculation.
Personally, I would rather wait till the NR comes out. By then, the PS3 should be out at its high price, and the Xbox 360 might actually be purchasable (not being able to find it in stores will hinder sales). The holiday season is over, and we just got through the V-Day purchase (for those of you with S.O.'s), so people in general see no reason to spend money on the 360 right now. Let them save up their money, and maybe within that timespan, Microsoft can fix those issues with they 360's before the second wave hits.
Logically, you would expect sales to start hitting a slump, especially right after the holiday season, where people are trying to fill out their income taxes, curbing their spending, and are trying to get back in the motions of everyday mundane life. It also does not help that the current titles release for the 360 are not all that great (Best ones that come to mind are Kameo and DOA4, and even both of those do not justify the price of the console and all the extra junk I would need.) Of course I would not get one now anyways cause the current list of backward compatible games does not inclube any of my currently own Xbox games, so I would need to keep both the Xbox and Xbox 360 hooked up to my TV, and I do not excatly have the space to do that right now.
So, yes, you have a sales slump. Blame the chip manufacters, but do not put all the blame on them. This was a tactic you set out from the start, and now you are reaping what you sowed.
In general, it is usually safest to go with "Black" in my opinion. African-* just leads to people thinking you are too PC or something. I personally don't care as much what I am called, so long as the N-word is not said.
I don't know, many people just assume that black people do not enter the technical field as much cause of the stereotype of us being more physical-mind (ie. Sports, construction, etc.) I have an interests in computers, I went and persued it, graduated, and enjoy it. I build my own comptuers, even if I still install Windows (but I do it properly, keeping security in mind). I am working on having *nix installed on at least one of my machines, and I run a web/ftp server with PHP/Perl/MySQL backend. Yet, I am told I am not black becuase I am into those things and those things are considered non-black.
I am not sure if females are treated the same way as well, but if they are, then it is a really stupid notion to be upset over. People do what they want to do cause they enjoy it. If women, blacks or whatever want to do CS, let them do it and enjoy it. Don't harrass them into joining the major only to set a status quo.
Why is it when racial/cultural aspects of people obtaining CS degrees are brought up, no one mentions the African American community? I mean, we are out there. Heck, I am one of them now, coding away at a space tech company out in CA.
Do people also feel that African Americans, along with females, do not really fit the mode of being a CS person?
(No such thing as Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Just ask the collection of HP calculators nobly enshrined atop the PDP-11 in my basement!)
;)
And I have to code for a PDP-11 on my next project too, in BASIC-PLUS. You old-timers sure are wierd, what with your wacky coding languages and all
Ok, first you started to release the RE series on the PSX, and all was ok.. Then, you moved over to the GC, made RE Zero, redid RE One with RE Zero's engine, and just ported 2, 3 and Code: Vericona X. I've dealt with that. Then you release RE 4, and what a great game it was. All of a sudden, I see RE 4 out for the PS2 with two extra features within the game, and wonder why you did not do this for the GC.
Now, you've gone and stated you want to *finally* try a multiplatform release, for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Note that the PS3 is not out yet, nor has Dev kits out, last I checked, AND you have yet to mention the Revolution, the which belongs to the same company you switched to first, then turned away from.
For crying out loud, pick a system and stick with it! I know you want everyone to have a chance to play it, but come on. If someone was new to the series, they would pretty much have to have a GC, PS2 and *at least* one of the newly released systems to play it. I wondering if you just gave up support of Nintendo entirely, or just not care about the continunity of your games' console releases.
To be perfectly honest, the reason ADV is raking in the dough, is that as one of the biggest anime distributers in America, they can charge an arm, a leg, and three kidneys for their product, and it will sell. You'll notice there are not a lot of anime distributers out there, so there are only a few mediums where you can get it from. While it is still cheaper to obtain it from online sources (AnimeNation and the like), it is still costly. I could buy all of Buffy, Angel, or even Hercules right now, and it would be cheaper than getting a box set of a particular anime series.
They won't come down in price, cause pretty much there is no reason for them too. While I download the occassional anime series, I still buy some of my stuff from Brick N' Mortar, or other various online sources. Hell, I am going to buy Grenadier, even though I have the fansubs to it on my computer.
Seriously, if they want to really rank in the dough, start dropping the prices to under the $20 level. At least then, it might make is justifiable to only the DVD for its extras. Keeping it at $29.99 might net you big profits in the short term, but as the years progress, there is only so much people are willing to take before they forever go the way of fansubs.
Otherwise, I'm holding out for a Mr. Fusion. :)
You do remember that Mr. Fusion only powers your Flux Capacitor. You would still need your highly expensive combustible fuel to make your vechile function.
Last I check, while you could trade in your game console for a respectable $70-$90, it would be in store credit, not in actual cash. EB Games and Gamestop do not give you cash for you games, at least from what I remember.
Personally, I keep everything I own, and have only traded in three games. Two of which sucked ass, and the last cause I brought the remake on the GC and I could not stand the original on the PS1. But I am a packrat like that.
it's a lot easier for them to focus on one console and the one with 91 million sold is an easy choice (a 65 million console lead on the nearest competitor).
While true, I would still make since to port it also to other systems, a la Soul Calibur II. While the PS2 has 91 million units sold, you are only going to get a subset of that number. If you add in the subset of the numbers for the GC and the XBox, then you are talking about much more value for you game, and extra revenue.
I still would not have it going into the XBox360, only cause it is still new architecture, and it might not be ready at the Xbox360 launch. Leaving it on the PS2 is for people who are not going to buy it at Xmas or for families who can't afford it right now.
"Sorry Johnny, we could not get your Xbox 360... but look. This "Soul Calibur III" is out, and you can play it on your PS2."
Remind me again why these exist in the first place. Are we that lazy of MMORPG players that we need to make sweat shops of people to do the work for us. I mean, a lot of us have to take the time anyway to earn up enough gold to even buy the stuff we needed, but they put a lot of efforting into what they are "farming", and they pretty much getting nothing out of it but a measly paycheck and flak from gamers about how cheap it is that they are camping common places.
I don't know, I kinda feel bad for them in a way.
Alright, so lets get these (re)releases straight.
FFI - GBA & PSX
FFII - GBA & PSX
FFIV - PSX
FFV - PSX
FFVI - PSX
FFVII - PSX
FFVIII - PSX
FFIX - PSX
FFX - PS2
FFX-2 - PS2
FFXI - PS2 & PC
FFXII - PS2
You guys are slacking. Where is my release of FFIII, Square?
This open letter does show a good point. A lot of the mentality of the new recruits that are passionate about working in the gaming industry (or any industry for that matter) is to work the extra hours or do the large amounts of extra work to prove to everyone they can do what others who are already in company are doing. If this mentality can be changed or proved to not be a driving factor, then we can get the companies to stop working their employees to the bone cause of a notion that has not really been proven to work.
Well, you have to give Bungie some credit. They at least tried to implement it into Xbox, but complexity got in the way.
Anyways, when I played Halo, I had more fun playing with many people in the room, and with one people as my partner going thru the game. I am sure that actually being side by side would be a better experience than talking via a mic.
You guys still get Co-op in Offline mode, and I am sure everyone will still enjoy for the great game that it is.
Well, we prettymuch new this was going to happen. At least they are looking into the battery life issue, and it is a major concern if your portable handheld is only expected to last ~90 with it burning right through your hands ("Transisters running hot", according to the article).
They need this thing to be delayed, to fix all of this problems, before releasing it to the general masses. We would prefer a working system for us to use and play with, instead of one with the heat of a thousand suns and a lifespand of a fruitfly.
And this is what I like. When companies admit to having a problem and working towards a solution that benefits thier customers. Too bad we do not see this as often as we should.
One would think that Sony would prepare for such a thing as the lack of HDD support on the new slimmer PS2. But if it is a downloadable content, maybe it can possibly be stored on the memory card, if the files sizes are not that big.
On the other side of the coin, isn't everyone *still* usind the old PS2 model, one that can handle the HDD (even though you have to buy FFXI to get it)? I do not think Sony had it intended to worry about the new consoles HDD-lacking capabilities just yet.
You seldomly see a female wandering an animecon alone, I bet.
True, cause they are usually with other females. If they are walking around with a guy at all, usually that means the guy she is with is either
A) Childhood friend
B) Boyfriend
There are single females at those conventions, but it is the guys who are twice the girls age that are complaining about not finding female anime otaku to go out with.
I don't believe that any of the PSOne games support the PS2 Memory Card. That was the only majojr problem with it.
PSOne games used the PSOne Memory Card
PS2 games used the PS2 Memory Card
In order for a PSOne game to used the PS2 Memory card, you would probably have to rewrite the game to support, that since there is a huge library of PSOne games already, it is not cost effective for the company to do such a thing.
You could also partition off a space on said memory card and format it like a PSOne, but then you would be stuck with the PSOne's old memory slot formated system (Where savefiles took a number of slots of memory space on the PSOne memory card). I don't think we want that either. If you could adjust the amount of slots on it, then there would be no problem, and all will be right with the world.
Personally, I used my PS2 Memory card to house all of saves for the PS2 and the PSOne games. Haven't filled it up yet, and I have not deleted a save file to this day, and I do own a sizeable portion of games from both consoles.
I don't think anyone was saying that it was flawless BC, but it was pretty darn good for the time being. It will be interesting to see how Sony handles the saving issues with the PS3
There is not much you can do to change the mentality of the GameFAQs userbase. They are not going to understand the real games that made an impact on the industry as we know it. I will also agree that they gear more towards RPGs characters than anything else.
That being said, yes, it does boil down to a popularity contest. But I do have some faith in the people who are willing to show what real games were about. We will have to remind them about the times of the SNES, NES, and maybe even the Atari days.
Mainstream marketing is what is driving a lot of the younger crowd that is buying games. That is why the FF series is flying off the shelves, but games like Zelda and SMB are being turned into EB and not being brought again.
Just for reference, the 'Z' button on the Gamecube controllers are right above the 'R' button. Nice placement, but very hard to remember that its there, or to hit it without accidently tapping 'R'