AC has superior online playing features than EQ and BG, The graphics arent as good as EQ but the gameplay is great, it has the most complex spell system, it has a complete class system with monarchism, it has all kinds of enviornments from forrest to mountains covered with snow, weather system with rain effect, snow effects, etc, waterfalls, its just a virtual world.
The tactics come into play when you have diffrent enviornments.
The monsters in AC are very smart, they attack with strategies instead of just random hits
BG had good AI, but it wasnt a multiplayer kinda game, at least not like EQ or AC.
BG is more compareable to diablo, I'd be fine with NWNs being more in the style of diablo, but i'd prefer something bigger so thousands of players can play with each other or at least hundreds
Its not the speed of the AI which would suffer, its the speed of the 3d graphics, java could never be better than assembly, its like tryingn to use visual basic to write a game, the problem with these languages, they just arent made for backend stuff.
That java will ever be used for games. Its not fast enough. IT never will be fast enough for a game machine.
Game makers code in Assembly, directly to the hardware to get extra speed, and the rest of their code is in C.
Tecmo and AM2 both write their games completely in assembly and thats why their games are as good looking as they are and push the hardware like they do.
Java development? is it a Joke? Only lazy American PC developers would use Java.
If its locked they will pick the lock with their overly sharp claws, be careful though, cats have been known to walk out with expensive jewerly and TV sets.
You actually believe cats have friends? Have you ever watched lion eat its cubs? Yes they brutally kill and eat their own, I wouldnt consider that friendship.
Thats like saying we are friends with the taliban, yeah because we let the Taliban in our country, yes they are our friends!!! Hooray!
Stupid, this is my natural behavior, why do anonymous cowards always make such idiotic comments like " Do you think your parents were wrong for modifying your behavior? Teaching you not to shit on the floor, not to steal, etc."
Since you believe cats are human, why dont you go have sex with one, and when you have kittens, you can teach them not to shit on the floor, steal, etc.
This is stuff humans dont need to be taught, its called reason, morals, would you want to clean shit up off the floor? No. So you wont do it. Would you like people to steal from you? No you wouldnt so why do it to someone else?
Its simple logic, a cat is not capable of understanding this, they just know they will get punished if they dont obey.
having pets are fine when you are ina cabin in the woods, but when you torture a cat or dog keeping it locked up in a house, and over feed it, then modify its behavior with gadgets like this, i just feel its wrong.
Sony Cell technology NEWS IBM, Sony, and Toshiba announced a partnership today in Tokyo to develop new, faster, smaller chips code-named Cell. Over the next 5 years the companies will spend US$400 million to break the 0.10 micron barrier. Cell chips will be targeted for use in high-speed Internet access and network-based computing.
Sony Computer Entertainment (the gaming folks) is the Sony division involved in the partnership, and it already has working arrangements with Toshiba--the two companies formed a joint venture to design and produce the PlayStation 2's chip. Adding IBM to the mix helps all three companies reduce development costs... and Sony also gets to license IBM's 0.10 micron processing technology, which will probably be used in the PlayStation 3 (PS2 chips are currently at 0.18 and 0.25 microns, though Sony has announced a move to 0.13 micron technology) and other upcoming devices from Sony Computer Entertainment. Development work on the new Cell chips will take place in an Austin, Texas IBM facility and will eventually be produced at a new IBM fab in East Fishkill, New York, slated for completion next year.
IBM will also announce today that it is joining the Extreme Ultra Violet Consortium, another group working to shrink micron processes. Industry watchers think IBM's move may help boost the EUV technology's chances of success.
1) Nothing is random. Actually logic and science teach you the exact opposite. At a quantum level, everything is random, you don't know if a particular particle will decay at a given moment or not, and as far as science can tell, there is no way of knowing. In larger systems, tiny variables add uncertainty until the system becomes completely unpredictable. We will probably never have accurate 1 year weather forcasts. Theoretically if you knew the position and speed of every particle in the system (note: this is by definition impossible) you could theoretically predict, and perhaps if we knew the exact state of the world at 4 Billion BC, an infinitely powerful computer could predict the outcome of evolution. But since this is unimaginably difficult, the individual events that influence evolution, and the mutations that give it material to work with, are for all intents and purposes "random." *
Quantum Particles arent random at all, we simply dont understand them so they SEEM random.
As for the philosophy of the 1930s or whatever, why should i care what the trend is and what other people think? From my lifes experience i know nothing is for sure, do you know if you'll die tomorrow? Do you know anything for sure? No because anything is possible.
Theres chaos, but even chaos makes sense. Theres no such thing as random, everything is cause and effect.
Considering we know how to teleport stuff in labs, and know how to build warp drives on paper.
This means Aliens are doing it right now. This means they can travel faster than light. Sure theres a chance they could be on our level, theres even the chance we found technologies they didnt find, fact is saying they cant get earth if they are thousands of light years away is a diffrent story.
They can easily get here, we already have ways of how we'd get there, we just dont have the energy, money, and technology to take it out of the labs and off paper.
Theres 6 billion people on earth, now Imagine a planet 1000 times the size of earth, with 200 billion alien lifeforms on it. The pace of evolution and technology increases with the size of the population.
Yes theres infinite possibilities, but if we are searching for life and not finding it, and the universe being in its infinite size, its HIGHLY unlikely that we are the only life in the universe. Its also HIGHLY unlikely that we are the oldest, smartest life in the universe, in fact I'd put us on the lower levels.
15 20 billion year old universe yes, matter in the universe was created in the big bang, but thats it. Before that, there was just space and energy, from what we know, there could be a multiverse which could mean Aliens from trillions of years ago could exsist.
Fact is anything is possible, its just more likely using logic that we arent alone, and that other aliens which were here before us would be superior.
Slashdot Mirror
Which beats both these games.
AC has superior online playing features than EQ and BG, The graphics arent as good as EQ but the gameplay is great, it has the most complex spell system, it has a complete class system with monarchism, it has all kinds of enviornments from forrest to mountains covered with snow, weather system with rain effect, snow effects, etc, waterfalls, its just a virtual world.
The tactics come into play when you have diffrent enviornments.
The monsters in AC are very smart, they attack with strategies instead of just random hits
BG had good AI, but it wasnt a multiplayer kinda game, at least not like EQ or AC.
BG is more compareable to diablo, I'd be fine with NWNs being more in the style of diablo, but i'd prefer something bigger so thousands of players can play with each other or at least hundreds
It was a good game, but the ai was way too dangerous
i want an rpg where the players can either be the monsters, (bad guys) or the good guys.
Player killers could have fun being monsters
Im thinking a game involving vampires would be perfect for this, something like castlevania
Can a few hundred to thousands all play in a world? if so it will be great.
First thing i'd do is let player killer types control the monsters,
why should AI control monsters, and why do people always complain about pks? Would solve both problems.
Second, if the game is truely scriptable, you could create a nice storyline, like diablo.
Right now i dont know enough about neverwinter nights, but if its anything like bulders gate then ill hate it.
If its like diablo or ultima online but with more features, and customizability, then its perfect
When you talk about japanese console developers, they will NEVER do that, they always push the limits of the hardware.
Thats why console games keep looking better and better and PC games all have the same tired look
You can do AI in any language,
Its not the speed of the AI which would suffer, its the speed of the 3d graphics, java could never be better than assembly, its like tryingn to use visual basic to write a game, the problem with these languages, they just arent made for backend stuff.
Console games dont use directX unless its trying to be a PC port.
Face it, Console developers write their own libraries, they have their own tools, and they write alot of the game in assembly.
Sure some games do use C++, like those massive RPG games, but most games use C and Assembly.
Just because you can do 3d in java, doesnt mean its as fast as Assembly, we are talking consoles not PCs here.
Java will never EVER be faster than assembly.
Ok so you can make it fast, thats not the point, the point is if a game developer would use it
That java will ever be used for games. Its not fast enough. IT never will be fast enough for a game machine.
Game makers code in Assembly, directly to the hardware to get extra speed, and the rest of their code is in C.
Tecmo and AM2 both write their games completely in assembly and thats why their games are as good looking as they are and push the hardware like they do.
Java development? is it a Joke? Only lazy American PC developers would use Java.
What better way to abuse it, than to target profe55or Booty for harrassment?
Come on folks, mod me down, -10 sounds good, so i can go back down to 35 Karma
DAMNIT I SAID MOD ME DOWN!! OBEY ORDERS YOU SLAVES!
If its locked they will pick the lock with their overly sharp claws, be careful though, cats have been known to walk out with expensive jewerly and TV sets.
You actually believe cats have friends? Have you ever watched lion eat its cubs? Yes they brutally kill and eat their own, I wouldnt consider that friendship.
Thats like saying we are friends with the taliban, yeah because we let the Taliban in our country, yes they are our friends!!! Hooray!
All of your spare time should be used to complete your work, prepare for your work, or rest so that you may better be utilized while at work.
Now get to work you lazy bastard! I order you! What? Do you want me to tell your boss!
Dotderf I bet it cant recognize a terrorist, you racist asshole, not all terrorists are from the middle east with turbins on their heads.
I DARE YOU TO MOD ME DOWN!! I have nearly 50 Karma and I may not go into troll mode!
Notice PC sales are down and console sales are up?
Stupid, this is my natural behavior, why do anonymous cowards always make such idiotic comments like " Do you think your parents were wrong for modifying your behavior? Teaching you not to shit on the floor, not to steal, etc."
Since you believe cats are human, why dont you go have sex with one, and when you have kittens, you can teach them not to shit on the floor, steal, etc.
This is stuff humans dont need to be taught, its called reason, morals, would you want to clean shit up off the floor? No. So you wont do it. Would you like people to steal from you? No you wouldnt so why do it to someone else?
Its simple logic, a cat is not capable of understanding this, they just know they will get punished if they dont obey.
cats catch mice, thats what they do
see thats why i dont believe in having house pets
having pets are fine when you are ina cabin in the woods, but when you torture a cat or dog keeping it locked up in a house, and over feed it, then modify its behavior with gadgets like this, i just feel its wrong.
Let the cat be a cat
why punish cats for doing what cats do?
Thats the excuse Apple uses for being fast than P3/4, however its not the instructions per clock, or the mghz, its the overall design.
having fast mghz can make up for low instructions per clock (P4)
but theres alot of other tricks to make things faster
Multi Purpose Machines designed for Single purposes = Easy to use.
A Console doesnt overwelm a user with 100000 icons, it keeps its simple, like Tivo and others.
It may do many tasks, but its simple because of how it presents itself, the GUI, the style.
yes but consoles are easier to use by far, macs are the console computers but soon linux may have a market with ps3, nintendo, etc
Sony Cell technology
... and Sony also gets to license IBM's 0.10 micron processing technology, which will probably be used in the PlayStation 3 (PS2 chips are currently at 0.18 and 0.25 microns, though Sony has announced a move to 0.13 micron technology) and other upcoming devices from Sony Computer Entertainment. Development work on the new Cell chips will take place in an Austin, Texas IBM facility and will eventually be produced at a new IBM fab in East Fishkill, New York, slated for completion next year.
NEWS
IBM, Sony, and Toshiba announced a partnership today in Tokyo to develop new, faster, smaller chips code-named Cell. Over the next 5 years the companies will spend US$400 million to break the 0.10 micron barrier. Cell chips will be targeted for use in high-speed Internet access and network-based computing.
Sony Computer Entertainment (the gaming folks) is the Sony division involved in the partnership, and it already has working arrangements with Toshiba--the two companies formed a joint venture to design and produce the PlayStation 2's chip. Adding IBM to the mix helps all three companies reduce development costs
IBM will also announce today that it is joining the Extreme Ultra Violet Consortium, another group working to shrink micron processes. Industry watchers think IBM's move may help boost the EUV technology's chances of success.
I'm betting its a Linux based OS, for the PS3 and other appliances.
IBM Sony & Toshiba
I think consoles are the key to Linux being successful on the desktop, because Consoles are the desktop of tomorrow.
1) Nothing is random. Actually logic and science teach you the exact opposite. At a quantum level, everything is random, you don't know if a particular particle will decay at a given moment or not, and as far as science can tell, there is no way of knowing. In larger systems, tiny variables add uncertainty until the system becomes completely unpredictable. We will probably never have accurate 1 year weather forcasts. Theoretically if you knew the position and speed of every particle in the system (note: this is by definition impossible) you could theoretically predict, and perhaps if we knew the exact state of the world at 4 Billion BC, an infinitely powerful computer could predict the outcome of evolution. But since this is unimaginably difficult, the individual events that influence evolution, and the mutations that give it material to work with, are for all intents and purposes "random." *
Quantum Particles arent random at all, we simply dont understand them so they SEEM random.
As for the philosophy of the 1930s or whatever, why should i care what the trend is and what other people think? From my lifes experience i know nothing is for sure, do you know if you'll die tomorrow? Do you know anything for sure? No because anything is possible.
Theres chaos, but even chaos makes sense.
Theres no such thing as random, everything is cause and effect.
Considering we know how to teleport stuff in labs, and know how to build warp drives on paper.
This means Aliens are doing it right now. This means they can travel faster than light. Sure theres a chance they could be on our level, theres even the chance we found technologies they didnt find, fact is saying they cant get earth if they are thousands of light years away is a diffrent story.
They can easily get here, we already have ways of how we'd get there, we just dont have the energy, money, and technology to take it out of the labs and off paper.
Theres 6 billion people on earth, now Imagine a planet 1000 times the size of earth, with 200 billion alien lifeforms on it. The pace of evolution and technology increases with the size of the population.
Yes theres infinite possibilities, but if we are searching for life and not finding it, and the universe being in its infinite size, its HIGHLY unlikely that we are the only life in the universe. Its also HIGHLY unlikely that we are the oldest, smartest life in the universe, in fact I'd put us on the lower levels.
15 20 billion year old universe yes, matter in the universe was created in the big bang, but thats it. Before that, there was just space and energy, from what we know, there could be a multiverse which could mean Aliens from trillions of years ago could exsist.
Fact is anything is possible, its just more likely using logic that we arent alone, and that other aliens which were here before us would be superior.