The "old" and "need more players" aspect is certainly true. While I was playing, it was only boring if I was stuck walking a long distance.
There are new MMOFPS games coming out this year and so Sony probably is trying to attract subscribers before they release. The most anticipated of these new games is almost certainly Huxley.
Perhaps what would first come up would be threads for the web page your visiting. However you should also be able to easily display all the threads on a subject from the service.
If I'm seeking opinions on hardware "A", song "B" or book "C", I don't really care about which online retailer people happened to be visiting at the time they typed in their comment.
I read the same thing somewhere. Those stupid B monster movies get SciFi high ratings. Then I tried to guess what demographic would enjoy watching recently filmed B monster movies.
Decided my sanity would be better off not going there.
Led by Ghost Hunters, the SCI FI Wednesday block of "alternative reality series" also drew big numbers, with double- and triple-digit increases among young adults. The channel's Saturday action movies helped out with such hits as "Pterodactyl," which became SCI FI's highest-rated original movie ever with more than 3.1 million viewers.
In spite of stiff competition from network premieres, the Stargate SG-1 finale and a new episode of Battlestar Galactica were the top two cable entertainment programs among persons 25 to 54 on September 16. A week later, the mid-season finale of Galactica drew 2.3 million viewers and became the number one entertainment program on cable for the night in the same demographic.
The jointly funded effort will result in a publicly available knowledge-base summarizing both the research and market development activities associated with the possible use of digital games for maintaining healthy minds.
With an increasingly aging population in many developed countries the field of cognitive exercise is growing. Advocates of cognitive exercise say it is equally important for people to exercise their minds as well as their bodies. In Japan, a series of popular brain exercise games for Nintendo's DS platform have been major commercial successes.
So this study is to help healthcare professionals justify hooking up old people with a PC or perhaps handhelds to play casual games.
Having read the article, I disagree with you last statement. The reviewers were just being very thorough in explaining their purchase steps. I didn't detect any bias against Dell.
This parent apparently never played Planetside. Think BF2 but on a larger scale.
1) Guns make the FPS. 2) You have sides and small teams to accomplish missions. 3) Your overall goal is to capture territory. 4) Each of the 3 Planetside factions have unique weapons and vehicles. This did lead to a lot of balance complaints. The developers tried to address these complaints over time. 5) Unfair fights do not ruin the overall experience in a MMOFPS. You just learn to avoid putting yourself in these situations. 6) I'm not sure what your saying with #6. Planetside lets you level up your character so that you can do more things and use better weapons. There are no traditional possessions to acquire to better your character.
Other ideas: 7) In Planetside lag wasn't a major problem even in large battles. 8) I could see MMOFPS crafting being fun as long as it isn't a major timesink. 9) Large MMOFPS battles can be amazing. Chaos on a grand scale. Small team tactics should be what a MMOFPS is designed around.
Yeah, I agree there is no hand holding in Eve. I played back when it was first released. Eve has very nice graphics but the gameplay isn't for everyone. Spend weeks getting a good ship, lose it in less than a minute to a player pirate or a bit of lag.
Back then a significant problem was in letting newbs into your corp. Is it a throwaway alt of somebody who is looking to rip you off? Or is a legitimate player who will be an asset for your organization.
I was hoping that the devs would add an account lookup feature to see stats on an account's characters. Since multiple characters per account is so standard nowadays, I knew they would never go to a one character per account policy.
The market for HD format would eat into their profit since the bandwidth costs would be higher even with P2P and customers would have to wait longer for their download.
However, I think the real hold up is not being able to get your HD downloads displayed on your big screen HDTV set. The newest HDTV sets have DVI or HDMI connectors but even then its not always easy to play your content and have it look good.
I looked at your link. However compare that site to GameTab's Reviews area. http://www.gametab.com/reviews/ Also be sure to check out GameTab's customizable news area. I only found this site recently and already am liking it.
Personally, I hardly ever need to check reviews by the time a PC game has hit stores. I'll know way before that point if I'm interested in buying or not. Everything gets preview'd beforehand. If somehow a stinker slips by me and onto my PC, I'll return it if possible and get my money back.
Only review I remember being super helpful was this one for Space Rangers 2. Never heard of it before finding the review but it been quite a time soak.:)
I find it hard to believe that people can objectively think that Thimersol didn't cause brain damage in a percentage of kids.
1) Drug companies are very profitable and are profit driven. 2) Government workers profiting from industry ties. 3) Drug company products that turn out to be more harmful than they should be. 4) Generating smoke to cloud issues in the hope of mitigating your liability in lawsuits.
I fail to find anything on my little list that is outside the normal course for this country.
Not sure what my source was but read an article on Nuclear power. Recycling nuke fuel isn't done in the US because of a law. Thats the only reason.
In Europe they recycle their fuel. Makes nuke power even more cost effective.
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I agree. Bet they had a small turnout and lack of people playing. I just uninstalled it. Guild Wars generates enthusiasm in me, couldn't muster any for Wish.
The 2nd beta didn't seem much different from the 1st. For some odd reason they had poor default choices in their options menu. Also it started up at a low resolution. So right from the start it gave you a bad impression. Then not having WSAD keys for movement!
Skills improved by using that skill. Lots of repetition. Combat wasn't anything special either.
From what I've read, PCIe isn't going to noticably boost your performance over AGP 8x. So its not worth upgrading, if your system is already pretty current.
Of course, if your going dual video card or your current system is out-of-date then...
The IIS isn't an "Unfunded Mandate". Here is a definition, "An Unfunded Mandate is a requirement imposed by Congress on state or local governments with no funding to pay for it."
The IIS is a poorly conceived, international, boondoggle. Boondoggle definition, "Work of little or no value done merely to look busy. v : do useless, wasteful, or trivial work".
LOTS of funding has been thrown at the IIS for poor return on the money spent.
The new goals that have been set for NASA are to re-direct them into making concrete productive steps. Not have half-baked projects like the IIS.
Slashdot Mirror
There are new MMOFPS games coming out this year and so Sony probably is trying to attract subscribers before they release. The most anticipated of these new games is almost certainly Huxley.
http://www.webzengames.com/Game/Huxley/default.asp
Perhaps what would first come up would be threads for the web page your visiting. However you should also be able to easily display all the threads on a subject from the service.
If I'm seeking opinions on hardware "A", song "B" or book "C", I don't really care about which online retailer people happened to be visiting at the time they typed in their comment.
Decided my sanity would be better off not going there.
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2005/09/scificelebrYou forgot that the pundits would also scream if they learned that we weren't listening in on calls from terrorists to the US.
Playing video games is interactive and multiplayer makes it even more fun. TV is passive.
It should be obvious which is more beneficial.
Having read the article, I disagree with you last statement. The reviewers were just being very thorough in explaining their purchase steps. I didn't detect any bias against Dell.
HardOCP is known for doing very detailed reviews.
This parent apparently never played Planetside. Think BF2 but on a larger scale.
1) Guns make the FPS.
2) You have sides and small teams to accomplish missions.
3) Your overall goal is to capture territory.
4) Each of the 3 Planetside factions have unique weapons and vehicles. This did lead to a lot of balance complaints. The developers tried to address these complaints over time.
5) Unfair fights do not ruin the overall experience in a MMOFPS. You just learn to avoid putting yourself in these situations.
6) I'm not sure what your saying with #6. Planetside lets you level up your character so that you can do more things and use better weapons. There are no traditional possessions to acquire to better your character.
Other ideas:
7) In Planetside lag wasn't a major problem even in large battles.
8) I could see MMOFPS crafting being fun as long as it isn't a major timesink.
9) Large MMOFPS battles can be amazing. Chaos on a grand scale. Small team tactics should be what a MMOFPS is designed around.
Yeah, I agree there is no hand holding in Eve. I played back when it was first released. Eve has very nice graphics but the gameplay isn't for everyone. Spend weeks getting a good ship, lose it in less than a minute to a player pirate or a bit of lag.
Back then a significant problem was in letting newbs into your corp. Is it a throwaway alt of somebody who is looking to rip you off? Or is a legitimate player who will be an asset for your organization.
I was hoping that the devs would add an account lookup feature to see stats on an account's characters. Since multiple characters per account is so standard nowadays, I knew they would never go to a one character per account policy.
Q. Why does Slashdot have a story on every minor Firefox release?
A. So we can dicuss which of our favorite extensions stopped working or were finally updated.
TextZoom is the only one that I really wish was updated and working properly. All 15 other ones I use are working great.
The market for HD format would eat into their profit since the bandwidth costs would be higher even with P2P and customers would have to wait longer for their download.
However, I think the real hold up is not being able to get your HD downloads displayed on your big screen HDTV set. The newest HDTV sets have DVI or HDMI connectors but even then its not always easy to play your content and have it look good.
Personally, I hardly ever need to check reviews by the time a PC game has hit stores. I'll know way before that point if I'm interested in buying or not. Everything gets preview'd beforehand. If somehow a stinker slips by me and onto my PC, I'll return it if possible and get my money back.
Only review I remember being super helpful was this one for Space Rangers 2. Never heard of it before finding the review but it been quite a time soak. :)
Eurogamer Review
Company site
GoGamer is one of the few places that has it
LOL, wandernotlost you hit the nail right on the head!
Planetside generated some of my best gaming memories.
Taking the same bases over and over eventually got old but this took a real long time.
I hoping one of the new MMOFPS games that are coming, turn out to be just as fun.
I'm wondering what version of BO your using that has such terrible performance?
Your last statement is kinda funny. Your company purchased BO but thought that was the only cost involved?
The highlight function and buttons for your "searched words" is also super useful.
I just hope they update their toolbar quickly for version 1.5.
Your making a lot of sense dogles.
Add up the cost of a good PC. A good graphics card. The monthly cost of broadband. The monthly cost of the MMORPG.
Every 2 years figure you'll probably have to upgrade the PC.
This is why casual gamers go for a console.
Wow, do I remember having so much fun with Subspace.
Too bad there is such a limited market for 2D space games.
The Salon article does set off smell sensors. Read this more recent PDF, 66 pages.
t ics_6_23.pdf
http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/docs/AutismHgPoli
I find it hard to believe that people can objectively think that Thimersol didn't cause brain damage in a percentage of kids.
1) Drug companies are very profitable and are profit driven.
2) Government workers profiting from industry ties.
3) Drug company products that turn out to be more harmful than they should be.
4) Generating smoke to cloud issues in the hope of mitigating your liability in lawsuits.
I fail to find anything on my little list that is outside the normal course for this country.
Not sure what my source was but read an article on Nuclear power. Recycling nuke fuel isn't done in the US because of a law. Thats the only reason.
In Europe they recycle their fuel. Makes nuke power even more cost effective.
I agree. Bet they had a small turnout and lack of people playing. I just uninstalled it. Guild Wars generates enthusiasm in me, couldn't muster any for Wish.
The 2nd beta didn't seem much different from the 1st. For some odd reason they had poor default choices in their options menu. Also it started up at a low resolution. So right from the start it gave you a bad impression. Then not having WSAD keys for movement!
Skills improved by using that skill. Lots of repetition. Combat wasn't anything special either.
From what I've read, PCIe isn't going to noticably boost your performance over AGP 8x. So its not worth upgrading, if your system is already pretty current.
Of course, if your going dual video card or your current system is out-of-date then...
This XUL app is sweet! Did a search but failed to find any other neat uses of it. :(
64 bit Windows games are hardly worth discussing until we get an OS. Latest release date is sometime in the 1st half of 2005.
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Recent article:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_x6
The IIS isn't an "Unfunded Mandate". Here is a definition, "An Unfunded Mandate is a requirement imposed by Congress on state or local governments with no funding to pay for it."
The IIS is a poorly conceived, international, boondoggle. Boondoggle definition, "Work of little or no value done merely to look busy. v : do useless, wasteful, or trivial work".
LOTS of funding has been thrown at the IIS for poor return on the money spent.
The new goals that have been set for NASA are to re-direct them into making concrete productive steps. Not have half-baked projects like the IIS.