VOIP being built-in to a fast paced game adds enormously to the experience. Many FPS have hardly any plot.
There are too many types of games to say that plot comes before graphics. Lots of casual games also have no plot.
Eurogamer almost always has quality writing. I'd also say that the analysis of the 4 MMOs is spot on. The Global Agenda gameplay videos speak for themselves.
GamersGate is a good service. Has some exclusives and hard to find games. Just picked up King's Bounty. The Legend and will be picking up the 2nd Sword of the Stars expansion soon.
DRM doesn't seems to be a big deal, "How many times can I download and/or install my games? Any game bought on GamersGate is yours to download and install as many times you like. Some games are protected with an activation limit but that limit is easily reset with an email to support@gamersgate.com"
If they had released the demo earlier the widescreen FOV problem would've been addressed at release with a patch. Releasing the demo at the last minute was kinda odd. Otherwise no complaints with Bioshock!:)
I've been using Kensington's large, 4 button trackballs (Expert Mouse) for more than 10 years now. Have owned three of them. Switching to a trackball eliminated my wrist problems. Also, works quite well for gaming. It took a little time to get accustomed to the scroll ring on the latest model but now I love it.
Let me point out that the Kensington MouseWorks software for their trackballs is very nice. Precise control of cursor acceleration, per application customizable mapping for each button and many other options.
They have versions of MouseWorks for XP, 2000 and OS X. According to their website, for Vista you just go with what the OS supplies.
The games that Anand benchmarked with were not written from the ground up for DirectX 10. Company of Heroes was DX9 until the developers were nice enough to release a patch. Some developers have said that good DX10 performance requires writing from the ground up for DX10. Since DX10 is so different from DX9, I don't find this difficult to believe.
As soon as NVidia releases certified drivers for doing SLI in Vista. The problem with driving 30" LCDs will disappear.
People are forgetting how many years it takes to create a new AAA game title and the fact that game developers still have very little reason to be attracted to Vista. What with it's small installed base and hardware requirements for consumers.
I hand my current State drivers license for identification. The picture is given a glance and returned to me. I'm on the plane.
I hand my new, Real ID State drivers license for identification. The picture is given a glance, they swipe it. I submit to fingerprint or retinal scan and it matches whats on the card. I'm on the plane.
Also think of going through this on your first day at a new employer.
Seems to me that there are security and citizenship verification reasons behind Real ID. However, its an unfunded mandate. Congress needs to be brought up short on their financial irresponsibility.
When I click on that button it does a Show All Bookmarks. I want an always open sidebar where I can navigate around within my bookmark folders.
Not to do a Show All Bookmarks. Find my bookmark. Click. Taken to the web page. Want to open a 2nd bookmark in a new tab. Have to re-open Show All Bookmarks.
I've never tried Safari before. Haven't had any major problems with it on XP so far.
However, I'm desperate to have a bookmark sidebar. I can see all my bookmarks in the Bookmarks menu. Also the Bookmarks Bar works fine. I can Show All Bookmarks to display them all in a page. How can I have a bookmark sidebar like Firefox or IE? Thats the only way I normally surf!
I actually use the nice Menu Editor add-on in Firefox to hide the Bookmarks menu. Since I never used it.
Isn't this type of meta-game predictable? Since devs participate in the game and there are other people who volunteer time to help the gameplay. Your going to end up with groups of players in the game being favored over your faceless subscriber. Human behavior isn't going to change.
Couldn't you load more than one payload into your launch ring? Actually, couldn't you have your first payload be a sacrificial shot that makes the launch shock less for the immediately following launches.
An article stated that the concrete slabs for the roof were chosen because they cost less. I believe that the article stated that for this type of thing, other tunnels have used metal panels coated with ceramic. These type of panels are much lighter.
So it sounds like massive cost overruns leading to low cost components being chosen, failure to install properly where epoxy wasn't a good idea in the first place, recognition of the problem, and then the problem being left in place to avoid further expenses.
This is just a pitch the government decided to bite on. It'll look good for the cameras and to show important people. Everybody is posting how its a threat to our liberties. How can it be a threat to monitor public info? Its just a threat to our pocket books.
Actual usefulness in the war on terror, almost none. Capability to provide the feds a terror fighting show and tell, guaranteed! "And this Senator is our terror fighting war room. Notice the 3D displays where we keep an eye on the terrorist web sites."
I'd have to agree that Eve Online takes more of the correct approach to ranking/feedback. How you play the game should generate consequences from the game. Ranking/feedback needs to be part of the gameplay not an out-of-character survey.
If you piss people off repeatedly then it should show on your character somehow. You have lots of scars and a broken nose. Your ship is all beat-up and shoddy looking showing that merchants don't like you.
That's funny, I don't ever remember cycles occurring in the CPU industry. AMD was way behind Intel. Then AMD started producing somewhat competitive products. Then AMD CPUs started having some really significant advantages to comparable Intel CPUs. AMD sued, many more companies started selling AMD machines, stock price took off.
What cycles?
Both companies have traditional strengths? Selling points that are fairly distinct? Well you could possibly say this was true until AMD started selling so well in the server market.
A see-saw battle will occur between AMD and Intel? Well this has not happened in the past, so why expect it for the future? NVIDIA and ATI, now that's a see-saw battle.
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Exactly! Any big salary increase requires switching to a new employer.
I use a trackball with my desktop PC. My hand only moves when switching to type. Just my fingers are used to move the cursor.
VOIP being built-in to a fast paced game adds enormously to the experience. Many FPS have hardly any plot. There are too many types of games to say that plot comes before graphics. Lots of casual games also have no plot.
Eurogamer almost always has quality writing. I'd also say that the analysis of the 4 MMOs is spot on. The Global Agenda gameplay videos speak for themselves.
GamersGate is a good service. Has some exclusives and hard to find games. Just picked up King's Bounty. The Legend and will be picking up the 2nd Sword of the Stars expansion soon.
http://www.gamersgate.com/
DRM doesn't seems to be a big deal,
"How many times can I download and/or install my games?
Any game bought on GamersGate is yours to download and install as many times you like. Some games are protected with an activation limit but that limit is easily reset with an email to support@gamersgate.com"
Ah ha. Mod this up! There is no way your average Joe could reconcile what Animats is describing when compounded by thousands of checks per month.
If they had released the demo earlier the widescreen FOV problem would've been addressed at release with a patch. Releasing the demo at the last minute was kinda odd. Otherwise no complaints with Bioshock! :)
I've been using Kensington's large, 4 button trackballs (Expert Mouse) for more than 10 years now. Have owned three of them. Switching to a trackball eliminated my wrist problems. Also, works quite well for gaming. It took a little time to get accustomed to the scroll ring on the latest model but now I love it.
Company product page:
http://us.kensington.com/html/1436.html
Let me point out that the Kensington MouseWorks software for their trackballs is very nice. Precise control of cursor acceleration, per application customizable mapping for each button and many other options.
They have versions of MouseWorks for XP, 2000 and OS X. According to their website, for Vista you just go with what the OS supplies.
The games that Anand benchmarked with were not written from the ground up for DirectX 10. Company of Heroes was DX9 until the developers were nice enough to release a patch. Some developers have said that good DX10 performance requires writing from the ground up for DX10. Since DX10 is so different from DX9, I don't find this difficult to believe.
As soon as NVidia releases certified drivers for doing SLI in Vista. The problem with driving 30" LCDs will disappear.
People are forgetting how many years it takes to create a new AAA game title and the fact that game developers still have very little reason to be attracted to Vista. What with it's small installed base and hardware requirements for consumers.
Marketing hype matters when you have ill informed, non-technical people making purchasing decisions.
Its new because no one else has the feature. Quite useful feature too.
I hand my current State drivers license for identification. The picture is given a glance and returned to me. I'm on the plane.
I hand my new, Real ID State drivers license for identification. The picture is given a glance, they swipe it. I submit to fingerprint or retinal scan and it matches whats on the card. I'm on the plane.
Also think of going through this on your first day at a new employer.
Seems to me that there are security and citizenship verification reasons behind Real ID. However, its an unfunded mandate. Congress needs to be brought up short on their financial irresponsibility.
So Safari does not have a persistent bookmark sidebar?!?
When I click on that button it does a Show All Bookmarks. I want an always open sidebar where I can navigate around within my bookmark folders.
Not to do a Show All Bookmarks. Find my bookmark. Click. Taken to the web page. Want to open a 2nd bookmark in a new tab. Have to re-open Show All Bookmarks.
I've never tried Safari before. Haven't had any major problems with it on XP so far.
However, I'm desperate to have a bookmark sidebar. I can see all my bookmarks in the Bookmarks menu. Also the Bookmarks Bar works fine. I can Show All Bookmarks to display them all in a page. How can I have a bookmark sidebar like Firefox or IE? Thats the only way I normally surf!
I actually use the nice Menu Editor add-on in Firefox to hide the Bookmarks menu. Since I never used it.
Isn't this type of meta-game predictable? Since devs participate in the game and there are other people who volunteer time to help the gameplay. Your going to end up with groups of players in the game being favored over your faceless subscriber. Human behavior isn't going to change.
Couldn't you load more than one payload into your launch ring? Actually, couldn't you have your first payload be a sacrificial shot that makes the launch shock less for the immediately following launches.
An article stated that the concrete slabs for the roof were chosen because they cost less. I believe that the article stated that for this type of thing, other tunnels have used metal panels coated with ceramic. These type of panels are much lighter.
So it sounds like massive cost overruns leading to low cost components being chosen, failure to install properly where epoxy wasn't a good idea in the first place, recognition of the problem, and then the problem being left in place to avoid further expenses.
I've had my eyes done a few years ago. "Best money I've ever spent" is what I tell people too.
So when would the "rights duration" expire on an old, out-of-print game?
Now this parent is QUALITY humor! Not the usual slashdot non-funny drivel.
Ah you beat me to it Shivetya. Been playing Galciv2 too much to keep up to date with slashdot.
This is just a pitch the government decided to bite on. It'll look good for the cameras and to show important people. Everybody is posting how its a threat to our liberties. How can it be a threat to monitor public info? Its just a threat to our pocket books.
Actual usefulness in the war on terror, almost none. Capability to provide the feds a terror fighting show and tell, guaranteed! "And this Senator is our terror fighting war room. Notice the 3D displays where we keep an eye on the terrorist web sites."
I'd have to agree that Eve Online takes more of the correct approach to ranking/feedback. How you play the game should generate consequences from the game. Ranking/feedback needs to be part of the gameplay not an out-of-character survey.
If you piss people off repeatedly then it should show on your character somehow. You have lots of scars and a broken nose. Your ship is all beat-up and shoddy looking showing that merchants don't like you.
That's funny, I don't ever remember cycles occurring in the CPU industry. AMD was way behind Intel. Then AMD started producing somewhat competitive products. Then AMD CPUs started having some really significant advantages to comparable Intel CPUs. AMD sued, many more companies started selling AMD machines, stock price took off.
What cycles?
Both companies have traditional strengths? Selling points that are fairly distinct? Well you could possibly say this was true until AMD started selling so well in the server market.
A see-saw battle will occur between AMD and Intel? Well this has not happened in the past, so why expect it for the future? NVIDIA and ATI, now that's a see-saw battle.