Sad but true.. just take alook at MMORPGs in general.. from first to the last.. unfinished and buggy is what you pay for and you get to beta test the rest of it once it goes live.
Shining example.. Shadowbane.. for a game that took forever to develop and was in beta for just as long the finished product was buggy, imbalanced and unpolished.. even the most rabid of fanboys have began to shy away.
Daoc was somewhat the same.. unfinished dungeons and non itemized monsters.. unfinished incredibly unbalanced "uber" classes (some of which still remain)
Companies are going to have to stop releasing games before they are finished.. the "oh we can patch that later" mentality is really getting old.
sigh... I guess I can't really blame them tho.. considering the consumer still buys the games en-masse...
all I can say about SWG is don't buy it right away.. wait until they polish and add in the features that were suppose to be in the game months ago.
Just like most MMORPGs these days Sony/verant releases SWG a little too soon without many of the features that players where looking forward to.
As well if you join now you get to be one of the lucky paying beta testers as the rest of the bugs, server problems, exploits and imbalances come to light. You'll laugh you'll cry you will yell nerf when that bounty hunter ganks you and your friends..
This game has alot going for it.. it just needs a bit more time to be polished. Don't get burned and wait a while...
oh and
a_stormtrooper_01 says "You Wookies have destroyed your lands you shall not destroy mine!":P
At our jobsite the majority of people are contractors.. very specialized contractors that aren't easy to replace so they just can hire more people to replace us without months of training. (Which our clients certainly won't stand for)
Because of the recent Compaq/HP merger we got royally screwed regarding our status as contractors.. We haven't had raises in years we have people working on the same jobs as us doing the same work yet because they are HP they work less get alot more money as well as bonuses better benefits and everything.. meanwhile they keep dangling the carrot of being absorbed into HP/compaq in our faces.. as they take away what we had before..
If we where to do a walk out it would be to force there hand and absorb us..
Seriously.. Alot goes on in the anime.. 13 angels to destroy.. a shit load of character development and thats not even including the End of Evangelion movie.
The series is done. Let people look back and say.. "damn that was an awesome series" instead of " What the hell was that live action POS"
So they are going to condense the 26 episodes into some live action fiasco?? Ughh.. are they going to include the freak out in Shinji's head in the last episode..
Even if the special effects for Reloaded are just spectactular they still haven't found a way to make Keanu Reeves an actor. He's a pretty boy who's acting range goes from stoner to surfer...
Now if they keep him from talking like they did in the first movie they should be ok./agent smith "What good are special F/Xs when your lead can't act?
So what did his crazy mom do to the PC.. am I the only one that wants to know what was wrong with it. Was there a grilled cheese sandwich on the motherboard?.. bastard...
Just image Fred Flintstone kicking Snagglepuss's ass then switching a sweet bullettime pan of scooby doo standing and.. get this.. BLINKING.. OMG... that would Ownzor...
Yes pranks taken to the next level with almighty rail guns.. I can see the headlines now..
"MIT rails Caltech".."I OWNz J00" was the battlecry from MIT when the they opened fire from a mile away punching holes in Caltech. Caltech responded by saying "Oh yea just wait til we get our BFG10k working then we will have the last laugh." then caltech was railed again and responded once more.. HEY I WAS TYPING..
Very interesting points in that article on how fingerprinting "became" scientific law. I questioned the whole validity of partial printing a bit but the general idea is solid IMO.
You have a few sets of prints lifted from the crime scene. You run them through the data base at donut world and have Johnny FPE stare at them for a few hours, soon enough you have a match with some guy.. and he lives a block away from the crime.
If there was a big world wide fingerprint data base and there was more than one match then you could eliminate the other people because they lived in different cities or continents.
So even if by some coincedence that there is more then one choice you can deduce who is the culprit.
I for one will be very glad if netscape loses the battle. I do tech support for a large ISP and man... every second call is a problem with netscape.. whether it be java script errors.. the 4.76 bug, why there netscape 6.0 is giving them illegal operations and of course my favorite is the disapeering or corrupting mail folder.
If i hear the words "it says illegal operation" I immediately ask are you using netscape.
Its kind of sad tho.. I used netscape 4.0 for a long time then decided to give the "evil" microsoft a try and I never switched back.
Well on the brighter side if netscape didn't suck so much I wouldn't have job.
The DVD feature on the system is great but alot of feedback that I gotten from other DVD owners is that the Playstation 2 doesn't do as good of a job as the other DVDs players out there. Personally I find the various options and tools you choose to configure the settings badly laid out but as for the quality of picture and sound quality I don't notice too much difference.
For me it wasn't the DVD that made me want to get one. The mix of the backward compatabilty and the new system itself definately made my mind. Hell you can use your old Dual Shock controllers on it and the old memory cards as well. (at least for the psx games) the dvd feature was just gravy on top of the total package.
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Sad but true.. just take alook at MMORPGs in general.. from first to the last.. unfinished and buggy is what you pay for and you get to beta test the rest of it once it goes live.
Shining example.. Shadowbane..
for a game that took forever to develop and was in beta for just as long the finished product was buggy, imbalanced and unpolished.. even the most rabid of fanboys have began to shy away.
Daoc was somewhat the same.. unfinished dungeons and non itemized monsters.. unfinished incredibly unbalanced "uber" classes (some of which still remain)
Companies are going to have to stop releasing games before they are finished.. the "oh we can patch that later" mentality is really getting old.
sigh... I guess I can't really blame them tho.. considering the consumer still buys the games en-masse...
all I can say about SWG is don't buy it right away.. wait until they polish and add in the features that were suppose to be in the game months ago.
Just like most MMORPGs these days Sony/verant releases SWG a little too soon without many of the features that players where looking forward to.
:P
As well if you join now you get to be one of the lucky paying beta testers as the rest of the bugs, server problems, exploits and imbalances come to light. You'll laugh you'll cry you will yell nerf when that bounty hunter ganks you and your friends..
This game has alot going for it.. it just needs a bit more time to be polished.
Don't get burned and wait a while...
oh and
a_stormtrooper_01 says "You Wookies have destroyed your lands you shall not destroy mine!"
the problem is getting everyone aboard.
At our jobsite the majority of people are contractors.. very specialized contractors that aren't easy to replace so they just can hire more people to replace us without months of training.
(Which our clients certainly won't stand for)
Because of the recent Compaq/HP merger we got royally screwed regarding our status as contractors.. We haven't had raises in years we have people working on the same jobs as us doing the same work yet because they are HP they work less get alot more money as well as bonuses better benefits and everything.. meanwhile they keep dangling the carrot of being absorbed into HP/compaq in our faces.. as they take away what we had before..
If we where to do a walk out it would be to force there hand and absorb us..
Amy Jo Johnson as Asuka?
Nothing says good career move like playing a character that everyone wants to beat up.
I hate you Shinji.
Seriously.. Alot goes on in the anime.. 13 angels to destroy.. a shit load of character development and thats not even including the End of Evangelion movie.
The series is done. Let people look back and say.. "damn that was an awesome series" instead of " What the hell was that live action POS"
So they are going to condense the 26 episodes into some live action fiasco?? Ughh.. are they going to include the freak out in Shinji's head in the last episode..
Beat up an angel every 10 minutes in the film?
alot less interesting than I thought it would be...
I read the headline and thought.. Godzilla vs Mothra...
well when you start at the bottom of the barrel you can only improve :P
Even if the special effects for Reloaded are just spectactular they still haven't found a way to make Keanu Reeves an actor. He's a pretty boy who's acting range goes from stoner to surfer...
Now if they keep him from talking like they did in the first movie they should be ok.
"What good are special F/Xs when your lead can't act?
eh.. I'll still plunk down my cash
BAAA BAA
Oh.. I guess real breasts don't count anymore.
If there is a Bullet-time shower scene starring Carrie Anne Moss's boobs then this would be the greatest movie ever. Lets seem ILM do that.
Anyone else here licking there chops at a chance to play with one of these.
So what did his crazy mom do to the PC.. am I the only one that wants to know what was wrong with it. Was there a grilled cheese sandwich on the motherboard? .. bastard...
Square + Enix = SQUENIX
Sega + Sammy = something not as funny.
The movie was heavily influenced by anime and asian action films.. makes sense to do anime stories of the matrix.
Just image Fred Flintstone kicking Snagglepuss's ass then switching a sweet bullettime pan of scooby doo standing and.. get this.. BLINKING.. OMG... that would Ownzor...
I don't seem to recall Ralph Wiggam ever being a
fat, dead one trick pony comedian.
But I wonder.. will they kill Krillin more than once in the movie?
Yes pranks taken to the next level with almighty rail guns.. I can see the headlines now.. "MIT rails Caltech" .."I OWNz J00" was the battlecry from MIT when the they opened fire from a mile away punching holes in Caltech. Caltech responded by saying "Oh yea just wait til we get our BFG10k working then we will have the last laugh." then caltech was railed again and responded once more.. HEY I WAS TYPING..
Very interesting points in that article on how fingerprinting "became" scientific law. I questioned the whole validity of partial printing a bit but the general idea is solid IMO. You have a few sets of prints lifted from the crime scene. You run them through the data base at donut world and have Johnny FPE stare at them for a few hours, soon enough you have a match with some guy.. and he lives a block away from the crime. If there was a big world wide fingerprint data base and there was more than one match then you could eliminate the other people because they lived in different cities or continents. So even if by some coincedence that there is more then one choice you can deduce who is the culprit.
I for one will be very glad if netscape loses the battle. I do tech support for a large ISP and man... every second call is a problem with netscape.. whether it be java script errors.. the 4.76 bug, why there netscape 6.0 is giving them illegal operations and of course my favorite is the disapeering or corrupting mail folder. If i hear the words "it says illegal operation" I immediately ask are you using netscape. Its kind of sad tho.. I used netscape 4.0 for a long time then decided to give the "evil" microsoft a try and I never switched back. Well on the brighter side if netscape didn't suck so much I wouldn't have job.
The DVD feature on the system is great but alot of feedback that I gotten from other DVD owners is that the Playstation 2 doesn't do as good of a job as the other DVDs players out there. Personally I find the various options and tools you choose to configure the settings badly laid out but as for the quality of picture and sound quality I don't notice too much difference. For me it wasn't the DVD that made me want to get one. The mix of the backward compatabilty and the new system itself definately made my mind. Hell you can use your old Dual Shock controllers on it and the old memory cards as well. (at least for the psx games) the dvd feature was just gravy on top of the total package.
sorry "may have been hacked"