"Now, even if XBox didn't sell so well in Japan (an understatement) it still did compare pretty well against PS2 in Europe and US and got a big fanbase (propably due to XBox Live)."
Compare pretty well to PS2 in the US (I'm not up on European figures)? I thought it was closer to the Gamecube then the PS2 in numbers and fan base
"Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction." - Ben Franklin
While this is a commercial link, it is on topic as this guy makes them. There is a good history here at the Franklin Institute (go there IRL if you ever have the chance) website.
I thought the only quarter the MS games division made profit was when Halo II was released. I don't remember seeing any reports to the contrary. Do you know where I can look for a good financial analysis of MS games division (isolated form the cash flow of Windows/Office)?
All the corporations releasing a console are billion dollar companies. Even Nintendo can be said to have "an arsenal of successful products to backup a flagship console. I can't believe this got modded interesting, at least it wasn't insightful.
Sorry, thought we were talking Sands of Time. I haven't bought Warrior Within yet. According to a post elsewhere you do have the dagger in Warrior, or do you lose it early on?
Slimes and Gelatinous Cubes I can see having stuff collected they cant digest (I suppose they might excrete the stuff at some point).
My favorite recent bit of nonsense monster inventory was Either Shadow Hearts or Baten Kaitos, but the latter is sorta strange anyway since a pick up line can be an inventory item as well as fire.
We stole man's fire and put it in our pockets, that was dumb. - Lawn Gnomes
That wasnt a specian effect to show the guys head coming off. It was what happened if you first struck with the dagger as opposed to your sword. The dagger would consume a little sand and set you up to deliver a killing blow. Note that this used sand, and as I remember you had to fight normally and finish using the dagger if you wanted to capture sand into it. Triggering the slo mo was entirely optional.
Using the latter non slowing attack you could dispatch enemies quickly and fill the sand tanks, but there was a different pattern of attacks that worked on each enemy.
There have been times for me when using the slow attack on several enemies surrounding me made the differance, since they fall over slowly, I would tage each one with the dagger then finish each one. Keeps you from getting mobbed sometimes.
Worst time I ever had with a "Don't let so and so die" type mission was GTA III:VC. The mission where you and Lance go to take over the Mansion. I have a sniper rifle, and Lance has some machine gun I think. I am carefully sniping people from a distance and lance goes "Come on" and runs right in front of me the same moment I fire to take out the guy I was aiming at. Ended the mission real fast. Wish we could control characters (stay here, help out, go apeshit) so you could do missions like that in whatever style you like, rather then forcing you to run in guns blazing.
I think of the Mario games I have played I really enjoyed 64 the most. The funny thing is I was an "adult" by the time Mario 64 came out and it seemed to me to be a good game for me as well as younger types. Whatever design decisions Nintendo made I think were good ones and led to a game everyone (IMO) can play.
Clearly your mileage varied, but there is nothing wrong with that.
The stat of Ohio has a stupid % discount for the drug free workplace program via the Department of Workman's Compensation. It's as lame and crappy as D.A.R.E. IF your workplace wants the discount (and they all do) you have to submit to the rules they have. If for some reason you are over.04 BAC (us IT workers are being judged with the standards set for cross country truck drivers) even when we are off the job (say going from a restaurant to hotel while visiting a customer) if an accident happens we must immediately get drug tested and we will be fired immediately thanks to federal standards.
Right Said Fred is at least a 2 hit wonder! I'm 2 sexy and Don't Talk Just Kiss.
When I gave the album with I'm 2 sexy a listen (years after it was overplayed on the radio) I found a CD full of good tracks that were worth listening to.
Chumbawumba also IMO is more then that. Frankly, I like the French version of Tubthumping better then the English one. On the Tubthumping album there are a few other good tracks, again more then I expected given the radio play of Tubthumping.
I cant comment on devinyls as I don't know if I have listened to their work.
Have you priced a non upgrade version of MS Windows? Even worse if you want RAID above 0 (and your not doing RAID via a controller) you have to buy a server edition of Windows for your desktop.
The reason there are still millions of PSX units being made and sold is because PS2 backwards computability isn't all that great (some popular ones have issues on PS2) and that the components are made so cheaply (I bet they used caps with the bogus electrolyte) that they break regularly from normal use. Since they now only cost $50 you can look at the cost of buying new ones kind of like a maintenance fee every quarter.
Yes I am exaggerating, but sometimes it feels that bad.
I have Sega-CD, Turbo Duo, and Sega Saturn. All three are "old" consoles with moving parts and they work like a charm (once the volume knob on the Duo broke off (I suspect cold solder joint) and I had to open it up to fix that.
I have 3 PS2 units that have stopped reading most media (will be trying to use my O-scope to adjust lasers next week) and a PSX that only seems to work at a >45 degree angle. I had replaced the worn rail in the PSX that made it only work when upside down, now I fear it's having read issues as well.
I like the games I have for these consoles but the hardware is total shit in part quality.
I'll be 32 next week and I have both consoles (Gamecube, PS2) I tend to have more fun with the Gamecube, especially when we have guests or lan parties. You should try out eternal darkness for starters. Silly Japanese twitch games as you call them (IMO the PS2 has far more of these) are fun especially for party type games.
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"Now, even if XBox didn't sell so well in Japan (an understatement) it still did compare pretty well against PS2 in Europe and US and got a big fanbase (propably due to XBox Live)."
Compare pretty well to PS2 in the US (I'm not up on European figures)?
I thought it was closer to the Gamecube then the PS2 in numbers and fan base
While this is a commercial link, it is on topic as this guy makes them. There is a good history here at the Franklin Institute (go there IRL if you ever have the chance) website.
Less annoying then Tingle any day of the week.
I thought the only quarter the MS games division made profit was when Halo II was released.
I don't remember seeing any reports to the contrary.
Do you know where I can look for a good financial analysis of MS games division (isolated form the cash flow of Windows/Office)?
All the corporations releasing a console are billion dollar companies. Even Nintendo can be said to have "an arsenal of successful products to backup a flagship console. I can't believe this got modded interesting, at least it wasn't insightful.
Sorry, thought we were talking Sands of Time. I haven't bought Warrior Within yet.
According to a post elsewhere you do have the dagger in Warrior, or do you lose it early on?
Fantavision? Thats the one where I learned to attaching things to rockets and blow them up real good with my laser.
Sounds more like you have been playing Carmageddon.
Most survival (horror or otherwise) games do that.
Then you smoke some pot and you are all better man.
Slimes and Gelatinous Cubes I can see having stuff collected they cant digest (I suppose they might excrete the stuff at some point).
My favorite recent bit of nonsense monster inventory was Either Shadow Hearts or Baten Kaitos, but the latter is sorta strange anyway since a pick up line can be an inventory item as well as fire.
We stole man's fire and put it in our pockets, that was dumb. - Lawn Gnomes
That wasnt a specian effect to show the guys head coming off. It was what happened if you first struck with the dagger as opposed to your sword. The dagger would consume a little sand and set you up to deliver a killing blow. Note that this used sand, and as I remember you had to fight normally and finish using the dagger if you wanted to capture sand into it. Triggering the slo mo was entirely optional.
Using the latter non slowing attack you could dispatch enemies quickly and fill the sand tanks, but there was a different pattern of attacks that worked on each enemy.
There have been times for me when using the slow attack on several enemies surrounding me made the differance, since they fall over slowly, I would tage each one with the dagger then finish each one. Keeps you from getting mobbed sometimes.
Worst time I ever had with a "Don't let so and so die" type mission was GTA III:VC.
The mission where you and Lance go to take over the Mansion. I have a sniper rifle, and Lance has some machine gun I think.
I am carefully sniping people from a distance and lance goes "Come on" and runs right in front of me the same moment I fire to take out the guy I was aiming at. Ended the mission real fast. Wish we could control characters (stay here, help out, go apeshit) so you could do missions like that in whatever style you like, rather then forcing you to run in guns blazing.
Ahh.
I think of the Mario games I have played I really enjoyed 64 the most.
The funny thing is I was an "adult" by the time Mario 64 came out and it seemed to me to be a good game for me as well as younger types.
Whatever design decisions Nintendo made I think were good ones and led to a game everyone (IMO) can play.
Clearly your mileage varied, but there is nothing wrong with that.
It's been a while but I seem to remember Mario 64 being a 3rd person game.
The stat of Ohio has a stupid % discount for the drug free workplace program via the Department of Workman's Compensation. It's as lame and crappy as D.A.R.E. .04 BAC (us IT workers are being judged with the standards set for cross country truck drivers) even when we are off the job (say going from a restaurant to hotel while visiting a customer) if an accident happens we must immediately get drug tested and we will be fired immediately thanks to federal standards.
IF your workplace wants the discount (and they all do) you have to submit to the rules they have.
If for some reason you are over
There is a treat in Japan that is depicted as a spiky white circle with a red swirl. I always think of them when I look at my Dreamcast.
Thats not Pizza. It's a omelette / pancake thing with toppings. Search google for Okonomiyaki for details and recipes.
Right Said Fred is at least a 2 hit wonder!
I'm 2 sexy and Don't Talk Just Kiss.
When I gave the album with I'm 2 sexy a listen (years after it was overplayed on the radio) I found a CD full of good tracks that were worth listening to.
Chumbawumba also IMO is more then that. Frankly, I like the French version of Tubthumping better then the English one. On the Tubthumping album there are a few other good tracks, again more then I expected given the radio play of Tubthumping.
I cant comment on devinyls as I don't know if I have listened to their work.
Have you priced a non upgrade version of MS Windows?
Even worse if you want RAID above 0 (and your not doing RAID via a controller) you have to buy a server edition of Windows for your desktop.
Printed Manuals
Support from SUSE (I think 90 days)
DVD has content not available on the CD version AFAIK.
A box.
The reason there are still millions of PSX units being made and sold is because PS2 backwards computability isn't all that great (some popular ones have issues on PS2) and that the components are made so cheaply (I bet they used caps with the bogus electrolyte) that they break regularly from normal use. Since they now only cost $50 you can look at the cost of buying new ones kind of like a maintenance fee every quarter.
Yes I am exaggerating, but sometimes it feels that bad.
I have Sega-CD, Turbo Duo, and Sega Saturn. All three are "old" consoles with moving parts and they work like a charm (once the volume knob on the Duo broke off (I suspect cold solder joint) and I had to open it up to fix that.
I have 3 PS2 units that have stopped reading most media (will be trying to use my O-scope to adjust lasers next week) and a PSX that only seems to work at a >45 degree angle. I had replaced the worn rail in the PSX that made it only work when upside down, now I fear it's having read issues as well.
I like the games I have for these consoles but the hardware is total shit in part quality.
Scummvm is not a port of the gamedata, it's just an engine that lets you use the game data on more recent OS/Hardware.
What they (the IP holders) think about it does not matter, as I have purchased all these games and they are SOL due to that.
Psychonauth is available on the PC.
I cant think of a game that uses different buttons to handle jumping.
Now combat, thats where you can do a lot of different things in POP.
I'll be 32 next week and I have both consoles (Gamecube, PS2) I tend to have more fun with the Gamecube, especially when we have guests or lan parties.
You should try out eternal darkness for starters. Silly Japanese twitch games as you call them (IMO the PS2 has far more of these) are fun especially for party type games.