So after seeing this comment, I read up on the software you mention here.
It looked interesting, until I got to the part about the $5 a month subscription. Then I stopped reading. Why would I pay more to play a game I already own, just to have the priviledge of playing it on Linux [and admittedly, there are still a very few glithes]?
No offense to the Linux purists, but as it is, 80% of the time, it's very easy to just install a game on Windows, and play it, no hassles. Once Linux reaches that ease of use, I'll be happy to use it.
...I read the article, and casually mentioned to the wife that tonight was a blue moon. She looked at me, and said with a straight face, "So, does that mean we have to have sex tonight?"
Here's a link to the Canadian brochure-ordering page, but there's no indication that you'll get the disc with it. I signed up though, just in case they do have some.
Back in high school, I could finish Mega Man 2 in one sitting of a few hours - but only because I played it every day for like 2 months straight, and refined my gameplay. I wish I had that kind of free time these days...
Super Star Wars was great - I could finish it on normal, no sweat - but I could not beat the big green Chess-piece monster in the Cantina in Hard [Jedi] mode. Super Empire and Super Return were equally crazy in spots in the Hard mode, but on normal, neither took me more than 2-3 days to beat.
They did though - I remember back in the day, a friend of mine got a laptop for school, and asked me to help her set it up. It came with like 22-24 floppies to install Windows 95, because her laptop didn't have a CD Drive. Took the better part of 2 hours, as I recall.
Do you have a 'Players Choice' version of the game? I do - and looking around online, I found a site [can't remember it, was a few months ago] that says that trick, and several other sequence breaking tricks were fixed, but not all of them - there's one room where you can literally climb up a magnetic track by sticking your face in it, turning to the left a bit, and repeatedly jumping - that still works.
I've seen the Potter movies, they seemed to be kind of formulaic, but at my age, everything's starting to look derivative.:) Then again, as the old saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its movie". I suppose you could be right, a lot of people are turned off of anime, for example, just because it's perceived as being for kids [ie-animated], when I'd rather re-watch anything from Miyazaki or Tezuka than watch anything new out of Hollywood. I'm not reading anything else right now, maybe I will take your recommondation. Thanks for the insight.
I'm the same. Loved the originals, read the books, still have all my RPG books, CCG cards, almost dumped a girl for falling asleep during Empire [yeah, i've mellowed since then], read all the books, up until Episode One came out. I watched it three times in the theatre, and tried desperately to like it. Haven't read any New Jedi Order books, don't own Ep 1 or 2, don't even watch 4,5, or 6 when they come on TV [always the SE's, can't stand the SE's].
My three year old's gonna grow up idolizing Harry Potter, instead of Han Solo, as I did. Boo.
Normally, CRPG stands for Console RPG - as in PS, SNES, etc. - but as this is obviously a PC program, and not a console game, maybe they meant that the game was made to look in a similar style to its console bretheren. I don't know for sure, as I'm still downloading it.
The 'Net Yaroze' machines could facilitate making games, sure, but it had limited development tools [unless you were a coding master and/or had the extra few hundred bucks for CodeWarrior], and only other people with the +$800 US Net Yaroze systems could play the games, noone else could.
Side note, one of the reasons for selling those systems was the hope that they would get some good game ideas from them, but as far as I can remember, they only got one idea they exploited commercially - Devil Dice. They used the author's original idea, but then put professional polish on the game.
Maybe it's just me, but I play games for the challenge, and don't feel like I've actually beaten it if I have to cheat. Oh, I'll look up FAQs for missed secrets, and skip levels I don't like AFTER I've finished it at least once on my own, but the first time, I'd just feel like I didn't actually beat it myself, and would ruin any satisfaction gained from it.
Tomb Raider? Beat it first time through, loved it [still one of my favourites], went back with a FAQ to find the secrets the second time through. Tomb Raider II? I've never finished it. Got stuck partway through, cheated by reading a FAQ, then quit after 1-2 more levels, because I just felt bad that I had cheated. Every time I see it gathering dust in the old gamepile, I just can't bring myself to play it. Maybe in a few more years when I'm sure I've completely forgotten the level I cheated in.
Am I the only one that feels this way, or am I just a bit too anal?
Perhaps that would be the trick to getting more women into gaming
My girlfriend just called you a cheater. She's not hardcore [she does play The Sims, Buffy on PS2, and we play Starcraft and Warcraft together, and she tries stuff I recommend], but I pointed this post out to her, and she feels that regardless of gender, cheating's cheating. What's the point in playing the game if you're going to play 'around' the game?
My girlfriend asked me about that once, when the DS9 Tribble episode was on - I made up an answer on the spot - at the tome of TOS, the Klingon in control of the council was a Xenophobe, and had all Klingons serving in interstellar ships surgically altered to hide the true nature of the Knilgon race, or something like that. I thought that would be a good idea. Maybe I should send that to Paramount.
...Or how about not reading the blurb about the article after reading the title, which clearly indicates that the plot, characters, etc. will be discussed!
Dude, that was it. If you saw the 2-second shot of Voyager being esccorted towards Earth by several Fed ships, then that was it. Ya didn't miss anything. Pretty lame, eh?
Hey, I know we've all gone to the bathroom during commercials, we've all gone to get a snak, and we've all flipped channels. I say, to make up for it to the poor, pennless advertising companies, we pick one day a week, and watch only the commercials. If a show comes on, flip to another station to watch their commercials, and show the Ad world that we REALLY CARE!</satire>
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So after seeing this comment, I read up on the software you mention here.
It looked interesting, until I got to the part about the $5 a month subscription. Then I stopped reading. Why would I pay more to play a game I already own, just to have the priviledge of playing it on Linux [and admittedly, there are still a very few glithes]?
No offense to the Linux purists, but as it is, 80% of the time, it's very easy to just install a game on Windows, and play it, no hassles. Once Linux reaches that ease of use, I'll be happy to use it.
...I read the article, and casually mentioned to the wife that tonight was a blue moon. She looked at me, and said with a straight face, "So, does that mean we have to have sex tonight?"
me@me.com, or me@me.me
...Oh, if only I had invented the Finglonger...
"I know there are some problems, but we did that for a reason"
In other words...
It's a feature, not a bug.
Here's a link to the Canadian brochure-ordering page, but there's no indication that you'll get the disc with it. I signed up though, just in case they do have some.
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https://www.toyota.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WWW.woa/
Back in high school, I could finish Mega Man 2 in one sitting of a few hours - but only because I played it every day for like 2 months straight, and refined my gameplay. I wish I had that kind of free time these days...
Super Star Wars was great - I could finish it on normal, no sweat - but I could not beat the big green Chess-piece monster in the Cantina in Hard [Jedi] mode. Super Empire and Super Return were equally crazy in spots in the Hard mode, but on normal, neither took me more than 2-3 days to beat.
They did though - I remember back in the day, a friend of mine got a laptop for school, and asked me to help her set it up. It came with like 22-24 floppies to install Windows 95, because her laptop didn't have a CD Drive. Took the better part of 2 hours, as I recall.
Do you have a 'Players Choice' version of the game? I do - and looking around online, I found a site [can't remember it, was a few months ago] that says that trick, and several other sequence breaking tricks were fixed, but not all of them - there's one room where you can literally climb up a magnetic track by sticking your face in it, turning to the left a bit, and repeatedly jumping - that still works.
Touche.
:) Then again, as the old saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its movie". I suppose you could be right, a lot of people are turned off of anime, for example, just because it's perceived as being for kids [ie-animated], when I'd rather re-watch anything from Miyazaki or Tezuka than watch anything new out of Hollywood. I'm not reading anything else right now, maybe I will take your recommondation. Thanks for the insight.
I've seen the Potter movies, they seemed to be kind of formulaic, but at my age, everything's starting to look derivative.
I'm the same. Loved the originals, read the books, still have all my RPG books, CCG cards, almost dumped a girl for falling asleep during Empire [yeah, i've mellowed since then], read all the books, up until Episode One came out. I watched it three times in the theatre, and tried desperately to like it. Haven't read any New Jedi Order books, don't own Ep 1 or 2, don't even watch 4,5, or 6 when they come on TV [always the SE's, can't stand the SE's].
My three year old's gonna grow up idolizing Harry Potter, instead of Han Solo, as I did. Boo.
Let's put it on... ...The last suit you'll ever wear.
Normally, CRPG stands for Console RPG - as in PS, SNES, etc. - but as this is obviously a PC program, and not a console game, maybe they meant that the game was made to look in a similar style to its console bretheren. I don't know for sure, as I'm still downloading it.
Unfortunately there was a few 'bits' I could have done with seeing a bit less of.
The 'Net Yaroze' machines could facilitate making games, sure, but it had limited development tools [unless you were a coding master and/or had the extra few hundred bucks for CodeWarrior], and only other people with the +$800 US Net Yaroze systems could play the games, noone else could.
Side note, one of the reasons for selling those systems was the hope that they would get some good game ideas from them, but as far as I can remember, they only got one idea they exploited commercially - Devil Dice. They used the author's original idea, but then put professional polish on the game.
Heh - funny, but this is the first thing I thought of too - funny how your train of thought changes completely once you have a kid...
Imagine a 3D re-make of this... I'd buy it. Anyone in game developing listening?
Maybe it's just me, but I play games for the challenge, and don't feel like I've actually beaten it if I have to cheat. Oh, I'll look up FAQs for missed secrets, and skip levels I don't like AFTER I've finished it at least once on my own, but the first time, I'd just feel like I didn't actually beat it myself, and would ruin any satisfaction gained from it.
Tomb Raider? Beat it first time through, loved it [still one of my favourites], went back with a FAQ to find the secrets the second time through. Tomb Raider II? I've never finished it. Got stuck partway through, cheated by reading a FAQ, then quit after 1-2 more levels, because I just felt bad that I had cheated. Every time I see it gathering dust in the old gamepile, I just can't bring myself to play it. Maybe in a few more years when I'm sure I've completely forgotten the level I cheated in.
Am I the only one that feels this way, or am I just a bit too anal?
Hah.
Perhaps that would be the trick to getting more women into gaming
My girlfriend just called you a cheater. She's not hardcore [she does play The Sims, Buffy on PS2, and we play Starcraft and Warcraft together, and she tries stuff I recommend], but I pointed this post out to her, and she feels that regardless of gender, cheating's cheating. What's the point in playing the game if you're going to play 'around' the game?
I hope Microsoft doesn't buy the Army Men rights - the little green pains in the ass will wind up as characters for the Office Assistant.
"A-ten-HUT, Private, looks like you could use some help."
My girlfriend asked me about that once, when the DS9 Tribble episode was on - I made up an answer on the spot - at the tome of TOS, the Klingon in control of the council was a Xenophobe, and had all Klingons serving in interstellar ships surgically altered to hide the true nature of the Knilgon race, or something like that. I thought that would be a good idea. Maybe I should send that to Paramount.
...Or how about not reading the blurb about the article after reading the title, which clearly indicates that the plot, characters, etc. will be discussed!
Dude, that was it. If you saw the 2-second shot of Voyager being esccorted towards Earth by several Fed ships, then that was it. Ya didn't miss anything. Pretty lame, eh?
Hey, I know we've all gone to the bathroom during commercials, we've all gone to get a snak, and we've all flipped channels. I say, to make up for it to the poor, pennless advertising companies, we pick one day a week, and watch only the commercials. If a show comes on, flip to another station to watch their commercials, and show the Ad world that we REALLY CARE!</satire>