Yet, with the advent of MMORPGs PC developers have pretty much forsaken the good single player role playing games.
That said, there still are a few that come out now and then -- I'm looking forward to ToEE quite a bit. I haven't really given Lionheart a shot but the reviews are iffy.
The last few years brought out a few nice ones which I still haven't gotten around to getting into (Divine Divinity, Morrowind).
NWN wasn't bad, but lacked on the ROLE part, but then again, most of the so-called RPGs do.
(far too many, I might add -- I'm not a/. regular/fanatic/linux zealot/ad nauseum, do you know what these posts do to us? (; )
To the point:
I got to thinking... (bad thing) what if SCO is right? Let me go further because that's only a small part of my point. What if SCO is right...they have IP in Linux. So they're going on this balls-out, almost comical (it is to me, mind you, but almost for the sake of professionalism?), crusade against Linux.
IBM was the beginning, they're in their own lawsuit.
Red Hat has a lawsuit against them now. SuSE is playing the "how can we help?" game on the outside, at least. TiVo has to have SOME sort of response.
As far as I know, that sums up the corporate side of the anti-SCO side.
Now, SCO did also target the US government? Alright, we've got corporations against SCO, we've got all the Linux geeks in the world against SCO, we've got most of the tech geeks interested in Linux against SCO. Will the US gov't give it a full glance or will they go the popular route or will they just ignore it?
After all is said and done, though, if SCO is right, and they lose due to this public outcry from populace and business, what then?
It's a victory for the GPL, for Open Source, etc, but is it a good one?
I suppose it's truly a democratic process, but if SCO is right, they're screwed in a way none of us would ever want to be screwed -- mind you, with these statements, I question that they don't deserve a good screwing one way or another.
certainly better than a bunch of other posts in this thread -- religious inclinations aside...
and, well, do you need to call people on that? at least this author was nice and did apologise, but honsetly, on the Internet, is that the norm in your experience?
Again, I'll go back to the phone analogy (or even US mail is similarily analogous). We expect out communications to be "private." We understand that it is possible to eavesdrop but this art is reserved for the government and hackers, not private corporations. The government is supposed to need reasonable evidence. The hacker does it illegally.
I guess I see the RIAA as more on the "hacker" side and in a violation of our rights.
The store camera analogy doesn't fit within my argument, at the very least, and I don't think it fits the overall argument. We see the cameras, often times. We know they're there. They're closed-circuit. They're legal.
The RIAA's tactics are, to me, of dubious legality. Imagine these hypothetical scenarios:
I have video cameras set up in my home to watch people and make sure they don't run of with some silly vase I have or whatever. Of course, there is a sign on the door (or by the vase...) saying that you will be recorded on CC cameras.
Now, imagine if I went and monitored Kazaa traffic for all traffic including same game I had just finished. It was a great game, I was getting it all ready for publishing, etc, and it was leaked. If I monitored Kazaa's traffic, and demanded the Network to give me the names of those who are sharing my product, what would happen?
I imagine they'd laugh at me.. if I went to the law, they'd probably laugh at me as well.
but the real issue is neither P2P nor the the RIAA's price-fixing and other disreputable goings-on.
The real issue, why BC and MIT said "Hey, wait a minute!" is Internet privacy. I agree with the previous poster who gave the nice example of the telephone service -- we expect (and should, given the tenets of the US) an assumed privacy in our communications. Once reasonable evidence is brought forth, conforming to the search and seizure laws, then communication can be monitored, and after that, the law can be brought down on the offender.
It seems to me that the RIAA is trying (and often succeeding) in skipping a step -- that of monitoring after evidence is brought forth (a la a search warrant). They're monitoring and then getting the names to prosecute.
What suprises me is that Exult has been around for a whole hell of a long time now, and it's still popping up in news posts here and there.
It's always a worthwhile news item, though, as not many of us have old DOS boxen around to mess with to get the original engines working. Origin's memory manager for these games was a bear and Exult, thankfully, takes that out of the picture.
Right, but given the lack of documentation (that I've seen, anyhow) on the U4 conversion, I have no idea if you even NEED the Runes (thus, whether they are implemented).
Here's to hoping for any info on Tabula Rasa before too long, and here's another to hoping it will turn out well, and be the next in the line of Ultima games (style, not name here people).
Ultima 4 was rather faithfully recreated under the NWN engine. Even the mildly painful (these days) character interactions are there! (;
Although, I looked for the Rune of Compassion in its usual spot, but, erm, don't know how to 'search' an area. I didn't end up finding it.
I did only play the conversion for a little bit, I wandered through Britain and the Castle, but that was it. I do intend to play it more extensively, as I was a big fan of Ultima 4 back on my C64.
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err, I believe all the main Ultima games came with fancy maps printed on cloth. I'm not sure about the first 3, but after that, I believe they all were. This, however, excludes the Underworlds and the Worlds of Ultima.
That's from another great Windham Classic... Alice in Wonderland. That and Below the Root were really quite great games (:
And yes, I did read Below the Root after playing the game, and try from time to time to actually find a copy to buy (; I only read the first in the series, wasn't it a trilogy?
GTA3 is much more like an RPG than half of the RPGs that are out these days. The plot works, first of all. It may not be incredibly involved, but it's consistent and enjoyable.
The simulation aspect of the game is remarkable, and I'm eagerly awaiting Vice City on the PC to see any improvements. I've played the game most of the way through, and had a blast without the stereotypical senseless maiming and killing.
On the other hand, when I do act out in violence, I tend to do it with much gusto (; Sniping your way up to a 4 or 5 wanted level and trying to escape entertains me from time to time.
In essence, I actually play the role of the character, and that's what a role-playing game is all about. They're certainly not about stats and numbers, but most people tend to think so, heh.
GTA3 (and Vice City, I assume) is a remarkably well done game. You can look at the adult material in it, as you are, and say it crosses the line.
As the other posters have said, you're looking at the wrong line. Regardless of the platform, this game is rated M. It's not for children. Sometimes I feel as though I'm in the minority in believing that these ratings should be meaningful and enforced.
A child cannot go and watch some rated R film without a parent/guardian, the same child should not be able to buy/rent such games either.
Of course, if the parent of said child doesn't see a problem with that game, the parent will get the game for the kid.
GTA3 is no worse than many movies, yet it is often targetted. Why? What is this imaginery distinction that games get over other forms of entertainment?
*shrug* I this argument has always gotten to me. It seems quite clear and obvious to me, but some people just fail to see it, or have various conceptions that distort the real situation at hand.
Yeah, I ended up doing the PHP 4 PDF thing with an app I wrote. Had to replace an Access database with a MySQL and PHP app. The PDF support is, hopefully, preliminary. If not, it's pretty painful.
I believe the foreign peoples statement was not going more on the semantics of standard of living. Many new immigrants don't have the means to live in anything but small houses in older run down neighborhoods. An ex-girlfriend's father came to this country from India with almost nothing. He had to live in the cheapest place possible, and take odd jobs and save money for school! He has been very successful and now lives in an upper-middle class neighborhood with his family. But not all stories are like that, many of them follow the lines of a poor immigrant family escapes varies persecutions etc in their homeland and live wherever they can. They have larger families as per their custom and culture, and don't end up affording to get schooling themselves, maybe put children through school, maybe it ends up being the grandchildren. It's not a matter of blame, it's a matter of because they have to deal with such hardships and they don't really have all that much in the way of goods and money, when averaged into the whole of the American standard of living, they cause it to decrease.
As for the white trash, well, that's America for you. (:
"Kids who participate in sports are much better adapted to deal with life than your video game prodigies to be sure."
Eh, better suited for the phyiscal side of life perhaps...
What gets me is that he miswrites his own title, quite the blasphemy if you ask me. He writes "... the first Up, Down..."
Clearly we all know the code is Up Up Down Down.. Eh, well...
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Yet, with the advent of MMORPGs PC developers have pretty much forsaken the good single player role playing games.
That said, there still are a few that come out now and then -- I'm looking forward to ToEE quite a bit. I haven't really given Lionheart a shot but the reviews are iffy.
The last few years brought out a few nice ones which I still haven't gotten around to getting into (Divine Divinity, Morrowind).
NWN wasn't bad, but lacked on the ROLE part, but then again, most of the so-called RPGs do.
(far too many, I might add -- I'm not a /. regular/fanatic/linux zealot/ad nauseum, do you know what these posts do to us? (; )
To the point:
I got to thinking... (bad thing) what if SCO is right? Let me go further because that's only a small part of my point. What if SCO is right...they have IP in Linux. So they're going on this balls-out, almost comical (it is to me, mind you, but almost for the sake of professionalism?), crusade against Linux.
IBM was the beginning, they're in their own lawsuit.
Red Hat has a lawsuit against them now. SuSE is playing the "how can we help?" game on the outside, at least. TiVo has to have SOME sort of response.
As far as I know, that sums up the corporate side of the anti-SCO side.
Now, SCO did also target the US government? Alright, we've got corporations against SCO, we've got all the Linux geeks in the world against SCO, we've got most of the tech geeks interested in Linux against SCO. Will the US gov't give it a full glance or will they go the popular route or will they just ignore it?
After all is said and done, though, if SCO is right, and they lose due to this public outcry from populace and business, what then?
It's a victory for the GPL, for Open Source, etc, but is it a good one?
I suppose it's truly a democratic process, but if SCO is right, they're screwed in a way none of us would ever want to be screwed -- mind you, with these statements, I question that they don't deserve a good screwing one way or another.
*shrug* just a random, yet interesting thought.
that's bad language?
certainly better than a bunch of other posts in this thread -- religious inclinations aside...
and, well, do you need to call people on that? at least this author was nice and did apologise, but honsetly, on the Internet, is that the norm in your experience?
*shrug*
people take offense at far too many things.
leave my beer out of this!!
It's bad enough to have to be put through the trash (as pretty much everyone sees it) that SCO puts out, but to sully the good name of beer?!
oh the humanity.
I contend that that's a different situation.
.. if I went to the law, they'd probably laugh at me as well.
Again, I'll go back to the phone analogy (or even US mail is similarily analogous). We expect out communications to be "private." We understand that it is possible to eavesdrop but this art is reserved for the government and hackers, not private corporations. The government is supposed to need reasonable evidence. The hacker does it illegally.
I guess I see the RIAA as more on the "hacker" side and in a violation of our rights.
The store camera analogy doesn't fit within my argument, at the very least, and I don't think it fits the overall argument. We see the cameras, often times. We know they're there. They're closed-circuit. They're legal.
The RIAA's tactics are, to me, of dubious legality. Imagine these hypothetical scenarios:
I have video cameras set up in my home to watch people and make sure they don't run of with some silly vase I have or whatever. Of course, there is a sign on the door (or by the vase...) saying that you will be recorded on CC cameras.
Now, imagine if I went and monitored Kazaa traffic for all traffic including same game I had just finished. It was a great game, I was getting it all ready for publishing, etc, and it was leaked. If I monitored Kazaa's traffic, and demanded the Network to give me the names of those who are sharing my product, what would happen?
I imagine they'd laugh at me
but the real issue is neither P2P nor the the RIAA's price-fixing and other disreputable goings-on.
The real issue, why BC and MIT said "Hey, wait a minute!" is Internet privacy. I agree with the previous poster who gave the nice example of the telephone service -- we expect (and should, given the tenets of the US) an assumed privacy in our communications. Once reasonable evidence is brought forth, conforming to the search and seizure laws, then communication can be monitored, and after that, the law can be brought down on the offender.
It seems to me that the RIAA is trying (and often succeeding) in skipping a step -- that of monitoring after evidence is brought forth (a la a search warrant). They're monitoring and then getting the names to prosecute.
Then again, I'm going off hearsay I read here.
the wonders of waste!
Yeah, self-destructing DVDs are such a wonderful idea!
blah...
While some of the action scenes were less useful than others in a character development standpoint, I disagree that they're just fluff.
er, this is the only game in the Rise Of series, unless the world suddenly did something very strange with time and space.
BHG, a startup from old Firaxis members put RoN together, which is why it has some excellent Civ stylings mixed in with the nice RTS portions.
Firaxis is never quick to push games through -- although I'm hoping that the eluded-to Pirates! sequel is mostly done and will ship this year (;
What suprises me is that Exult has been around for a whole hell of a long time now, and it's still popping up in news posts here and there.
It's always a worthwhile news item, though, as not many of us have old DOS boxen around to mess with to get the original engines working. Origin's memory manager for these games was a bear and Exult, thankfully, takes that out of the picture.
Right, but given the lack of documentation (that I've seen, anyhow) on the U4 conversion, I have no idea if you even NEED the Runes (thus, whether they are implemented).
I would imagine they are.
Here's to hoping for any info on Tabula Rasa before too long, and here's another to hoping it will turn out well, and be the next in the line of Ultima games (style, not name here people).
Ultima 4 was rather faithfully recreated under the NWN engine. Even the mildly painful (these days) character interactions are there! (;
Although, I looked for the Rune of Compassion in its usual spot, but, erm, don't know how to 'search' an area. I didn't end up finding it.
I did only play the conversion for a little bit, I wandered through Britain and the Castle, but that was it. I do intend to play it more extensively, as I was a big fan of Ultima 4 back on my C64.
err, I believe all the main Ultima games came with fancy maps printed on cloth. I'm not sure about the first 3, but after that, I believe they all were. This, however, excludes the Underworlds and the Worlds of Ultima.
> Give comfit to Dodo.
... Alice in Wonderland. That and Below the Root were really quite great games (:
I know that one, and don't know why either.
That's from another great Windham Classic
And yes, I did read Below the Root after playing the game, and try from time to time to actually find a copy to buy (; I only read the first in the series, wasn't it a trilogy?
I'm in total agreement with NanoGator here.
GTA3 is much more like an RPG than half of the RPGs that are out these days. The plot works, first of all. It may not be incredibly involved, but it's consistent and enjoyable.
The simulation aspect of the game is remarkable, and I'm eagerly awaiting Vice City on the PC to see any improvements. I've played the game most of the way through, and had a blast without the stereotypical senseless maiming and killing.
On the other hand, when I do act out in violence, I tend to do it with much gusto (; Sniping your way up to a 4 or 5 wanted level and trying to escape entertains me from time to time.
In essence, I actually play the role of the character, and that's what a role-playing game is all about. They're certainly not about stats and numbers, but most people tend to think so, heh.
GTA3 (and Vice City, I assume) is a remarkably well done game. You can look at the adult material in it, as you are, and say it crosses the line.
As the other posters have said, you're looking at the wrong line. Regardless of the platform, this game is rated M. It's not for children. Sometimes I feel as though I'm in the minority in believing that these ratings should be meaningful and enforced.
A child cannot go and watch some rated R film without a parent/guardian, the same child should not be able to buy/rent such games either.
Of course, if the parent of said child doesn't see a problem with that game, the parent will get the game for the kid.
GTA3 is no worse than many movies, yet it is often targetted. Why? What is this imaginery distinction that games get over other forms of entertainment?
*shrug* I this argument has always gotten to me. It seems quite clear and obvious to me, but some people just fail to see it, or have various conceptions that distort the real situation at hand.
Yeah, I ended up doing the PHP 4 PDF thing with an app I wrote. Had to replace an Access database with a MySQL and PHP app. The PDF support is, hopefully, preliminary. If not, it's pretty painful.
I believe the foreign peoples statement was not going more on the semantics of standard of living. Many new immigrants don't have the means to live in anything but small houses in older run down neighborhoods. An ex-girlfriend's father came to this country from India with almost nothing. He had to live in the cheapest place possible, and take odd jobs and save money for school! He has been very successful and now lives in an upper-middle class neighborhood with his family. But not all stories are like that, many of them follow the lines of a poor immigrant family escapes varies persecutions etc in their homeland and live wherever they can. They have larger families as per their custom and culture, and don't end up affording to get schooling themselves, maybe put children through school, maybe it ends up being the grandchildren. It's not a matter of blame, it's a matter of because they have to deal with such hardships and they don't really have all that much in the way of goods and money, when averaged into the whole of the American standard of living, they cause it to decrease. As for the white trash, well, that's America for you. (:
"Kids who participate in sports are much better adapted to deal with life than your video game prodigies to be sure." Eh, better suited for the phyiscal side of life perhaps...
What gets me is that he miswrites his own title, quite the blasphemy if you ask me. He writes "... the first Up, Down..." Clearly we all know the code is Up Up Down Down.. Eh, well...
Well, with me it was more like "those of us with older brothers that we really wanted to get to play with us...."
Actually, you spelled Pokemon fine, now let's do a little bit of work with 'phenomenon.' heh
That's got to be the best label for my generation, the borderline end of GenX. It's gotta be the Up Up Down Down generation.