I KNEW I forgot one of the Quest series... Police Quest.
That sorta spun off into their SWAT games, but PQ3 was a helluva game... one of the most graphic at the time, if memory serves.
I actually posted this directly after my initial comment, but the post timer caught me and I didn't see it:-P
It also gave me time to bring up Phantasmagoria. Wasn't that like... the *original* controversial game? It got pulled from shelves for its content (which wasn't.... anything.... at all, just more than what people were used to) - But the puzzle element was very cool, and not quite what you see in games today, save for perhaps.. Myst?
All in all, they heyday of Sierra rivals many modern publishers, combined.
There was no better time in PC gaming than when Sierra was actively developing their Quest games.
Kings Quest (at least KQ 1 - 7) Space Quest (This NEEDS a 7) Quest for Glory
These are what made gaming great. I absolutely loved their Robin Hood game, Conquests of the Longbow.
The only other game that was remotely as fun (though perhaps not as involving) as these was Grim Fandango from LucasArts.
Wonder what the Williams' (Ken & Roberta, the founders of Sierra) are up to these days, anyway. They need to get the old team back together and remind people why they were the powerhouse of PC gaming in its day.
Either you use FF and wait for the plugin to be fixed, or you use another browser and don't ever get the plugin at all. Where's the issue? You're not losing any more productivity by staying with FF than by going back to IE or *gag* AOL.
So instead of being patient with the available plugins and enjoying the other features of FireFox, you're going to move to another browser that doesn't have these plugins to begin with and therefore will never be 'fixed', since they don't exist?
Unfortunately I'm having trouble with your logic here.
That would require a much greater visual representation of characters than we've had in any game, ever.
If you meet someone in real life, you generally know how they'll match up with you - the tone of their muscles, weapons they're carrying, etc. Sure there are some surprises, but for the sake of argument, let's just assume you can get a good idea of what the deal is.
In games these days, usually you've got generic representations of the majority of items, skills, physical attributes, etc. of each character, and you can't really get a good look at them.
I imagine this will change shortly, the level of detail in games is fast becoming near-life-like.. However, it would take a considerable amount of effort and dedicated concentration in this very area for it to work...
Perfect Dark 0 allows for 50 players at once... it's in a playable state (not sure how well-tested that number has been... but if they've been throwing it around so much, I'd imagine it's somewhere in the ballpark)
I ended up creating a fairly crude greasemonkey script to get rid of all of those elements.
Of course, with it, you can't log into Passport and therefore can't get your stats, or use any of the navigation content - but the only reason I've been going to bungie.net lately is to read their weekly updates anyway.. so it works.
You're right, in part - but I still am talking about the fact that younger people are just built different from those just a half-generation behind them.
Maybe not you specifically - but how many people do you know have eyed up a girl in a mall or other store, only to deduce by their peers or the age between her and her parents, that she's a freshman at best? Sure it's happened basically for decades, if not centuries - but I can guarantee that it's happening probably just as often these days, as it has in the past century, combined.
I dunno, have you been outside recently? They really do build them a LOT differently from when I was that age (I'm talking about ~18 year olds - I'm 25 now)
In my graduating class of 1997, there were probably a half-dozen "REALLY FRIGGIN HOT" girls, and a handful of the 'very cute' to 'dateable' variety. Then the rest were 'do-able' to..... well, let's not be mean and just say "not so do-able".
I have some younger friends in my neighborhood, and their graduating class pretty much looks like something you'd see out of the cast of a new teen drama about California college kids. While we still have the small-ish number "REALLY FRIGGIN HOT" girls, the line is blurred with the number of "Damn hot" and "Cute as Hell" girls all mixed together.
But you're right - it's more of an 'apples-to-melons' comparison, if you get my drift. Gotta love those dairy hormones.
I think it also depends on what kind of content we're talking about.
There were absolutely TONS of NES games in its lifetime. Are they only selling Nintendo first-party games? Nintendo-published games?... or the whole library?
I've got a non-working NES, with some games I really enjoyed playing - 'Shingen The Ruler' comes immediately to mind. Then on SNES we have the absolutely obvious Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.
If these are available for download, then damn right I'd whip out some plastic and pay a couple of bucks to play (AND KEEP - NOT RENT) them. Same with countless other titles - we're talking nearly 2000 titles for just NES and SNES alone. Then we've got another.. uh.. 300? 400? for the N64 (of which maybe 25 are worth any amount of money, sadly).
Perhaps they will be scaled ($5 average, deviating up and down for the popularity/quality), and perhaps they'll all be flat-rate. But you'd be surprised, you say you wouldn't buy 30 games for $1 a piece, I'm willing to bet you'd find plenty of gamers who would.
If they REALLY want to tweak MS' nipples (uh, in a bad way, that is) - what they SHOULD do is allow homebrew development, with the ability to sell your work on their online service.
It'd certainly be rare to pay anything more than a nickel for the vast majority of the drivel that would be produced, but hell, if I could sell some game for 5 cents to even just a thousand people.. Well that just gives me enough money to go buy a game!
From what I've heard, the system RAM will be expandable via flash cards (by the time the system comes out, I'm assuming 1 Gig flash won't be as expensive as the system itself)
As for the downloads, you can almost bet your ass (twice!) that they won't be free, save for maybe a 'bait' game, special two-for-one (etc.) deals, or product tie-ins (buy Mario Kart Revolution and get the SNES download for free)... but really, I think (hope?) they've learned their lesson during their $20 Game boy rehashes, especially since it'd be fairly tough to sell those particular games at anywhere near that cost....
What would you pay? $1? $5? I couldn't see them going for any higher than that, but I guess we'll see in a year!
I was talking about a testing to see if you could download previously-purchased content on another Xbox, using your account.
The best way to use your XBL account on another Xbox is to copy your XBL profile to a memory card, and keeping it in the controller when you connect. -- The other alternative is doing an XBL "Account Restore", which will invalidate your account on your current box, so it's not recommended.
I just wanted to see if it remembers your purchases, which would alleviate your concern.
As for the rest of your post, you're certainly right - there'd be no reason to purchase a mem card for the new Xbox, but I highly doubt that'd be the case. The Transfer CD is a nice thought. I had previously imagined there might be a way to do it over local network, but maybe a CD won't need to be involved at all?
Once you've purchased things from XBL, doesn't it remember your purchase so you can download again? I'm fairly certain I've heard of this before.
I guess one thing you could do is copy your XBL profile to a memory card and stick it in another Xbox, then see if you can download it again without being charged.
As for stats/savegames, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there will be some sort of import feature that will allow this, but I am nowhere near certain.. however, it only makes sense.
Are you sure they said limited? I was streaming the presentation, but it was choppy and I may have missed that part..
I DO remember hearing "Backwards Compatible with the most popular titles", but I wasn't sure if that was just market-speak, or if it was a read-between-the-lines thing.
Well the topic kinda drifted from AOL to a general discussion on email blocking.
And if I download porn, at least I'm the one knowingly and accepting the data transfer. I run my domain on my home cable service.. and while my bandwidth is flat-rate, it's also finite. I use it for other things and I don't want it coming in without my consent.
But you're also missing a big point for spam blocking: the bandwidth cost.
Not everyone has flat-rate bandwidth.. and even with those that do, we might not get enough of it to hand it out to every jackhole that wants to sell us herbal Viagra.
Allowing everyone to send you email and having something process it on the front-end is all well and good in.. say... Japan, where everyone seems to have a 1 GB connection or some crazy stuff like that.. but not everyone's willing to have their bandwidth impacted.
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I KNEW I forgot one of the Quest series...
:-P
Police Quest.
That sorta spun off into their SWAT games, but PQ3 was a helluva game... one of the most graphic at the time, if memory serves.
I actually posted this directly after my initial comment, but the post timer caught me and I didn't see it
It also gave me time to bring up Phantasmagoria. Wasn't that like... the *original* controversial game? It got pulled from shelves for its content (which wasn't.... anything.... at all, just more than what people were used to) - But the puzzle element was very cool, and not quite what you see in games today, save for perhaps.. Myst?
All in all, they heyday of Sierra rivals many modern publishers, combined.
There was no better time in PC gaming than when Sierra was actively developing their Quest games.
Kings Quest (at least KQ 1 - 7)
Space Quest (This NEEDS a 7)
Quest for Glory
These are what made gaming great. I absolutely loved their Robin Hood game, Conquests of the Longbow.
The only other game that was remotely as fun (though perhaps not as involving) as these was Grim Fandango from LucasArts.
Wonder what the Williams' (Ken & Roberta, the founders of Sierra) are up to these days, anyway. They need to get the old team back together and remind people why they were the powerhouse of PC gaming in its day.
Doesn't have anything to do with 'futz'ing.
Either you use FF and wait for the plugin to be
fixed, or you use another browser and don't ever get the plugin at all. Where's the issue? You're not losing any more productivity by staying with FF than by going back to IE or *gag* AOL.
So instead of being patient with the available plugins and enjoying the other features of FireFox, you're going to move to another browser that doesn't have these plugins to begin with and therefore will never be 'fixed', since they don't exist?
Unfortunately I'm having trouble with your logic here.
Not to mention the people who absolutely can't live without posting music videos to their site, or in comments of other people's profiles...
Thank god for Greasemonkey, I can't visit it without arming myself with the MySpace Tag Remover script.
http://www.kenmickles.com/greasemonkey - free plug for you, dude!
That would require a much greater visual representation of characters than we've had in any game, ever.
If you meet someone in real life, you generally know how they'll match up with you - the tone of their muscles, weapons they're carrying, etc. Sure there are some surprises, but for the sake of argument, let's just assume you can get a good idea of what the deal is.
In games these days, usually you've got generic representations of the majority of items, skills, physical attributes, etc. of each character, and you can't really get a good look at them.
I imagine this will change shortly, the level of detail in games is fast becoming near-life-like.. However, it would take a considerable amount of effort and dedicated concentration in this very area for it to work...
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000330050622/
Engadget posted something just yesterday about one of Garmin's new StreetPilots that does just that!
Perfect Dark 0 allows for 50 players at once... it's in a playable state (not sure how well-tested that number has been... but if they've been throwing it around so much, I'd imagine it's somewhere in the ballpark)
I ended up creating a fairly crude greasemonkey script to get rid of all of those elements.
e r-remover.user.js
Of course, with it, you can't log into Passport and therefore can't get your stats, or use any of the navigation content - but the only reason I've been going to bungie.net lately is to read their weekly updates anyway.. so it works.
http://www.morgontech.com/greasemonkey/bungie-hov
Why's it always gotta be about race?!
You're right, in part - but I still am talking about the fact that younger people are just built different from those just a half-generation behind them.
Maybe not you specifically - but how many people do you know have eyed up a girl in a mall or other store, only to deduce by their peers or the age between her and her parents, that she's a freshman at best?
Sure it's happened basically for decades, if not centuries - but I can guarantee that it's happening probably just as often these days, as it has in the past century, combined.
I dunno, have you been outside recently?
..... well, let's not be mean and just say "not so do-able".
They really do build them a LOT differently from when I was that age (I'm talking about ~18 year olds - I'm 25 now)
In my graduating class of 1997, there were probably a half-dozen "REALLY FRIGGIN HOT" girls, and a handful of the 'very cute' to 'dateable' variety. Then the rest were 'do-able' to
I have some younger friends in my neighborhood, and their graduating class pretty much looks like something you'd see out of the cast of a new teen drama about California college kids. While we still have the small-ish number "REALLY FRIGGIN HOT" girls, the line is blurred with the number of "Damn hot" and "Cute as Hell" girls all mixed together.
But you're right - it's more of an 'apples-to-melons' comparison, if you get my drift.
Gotta love those dairy hormones.
Well, these things were taken at different timeframes. Terraserver has always used very dated satellite maps.
;)
One thing it does confirm, though, is that the 'object' in question definitely isn't normally there.
I think it also depends on what kind of content we're talking about.
... or the whole library?
There were absolutely TONS of NES games in its lifetime. Are they only selling Nintendo first-party games? Nintendo-published games?
I've got a non-working NES, with some games I really enjoyed playing - 'Shingen The Ruler' comes immediately to mind. Then on SNES we have the absolutely obvious Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.
If these are available for download, then damn right I'd whip out some plastic and pay a couple of bucks to play (AND KEEP - NOT RENT) them. Same with countless other titles - we're talking nearly 2000 titles for just NES and SNES alone. Then we've got another.. uh.. 300? 400? for the N64 (of which maybe 25 are worth any amount of money, sadly).
Perhaps they will be scaled ($5 average, deviating up and down for the popularity/quality), and perhaps they'll all be flat-rate. But you'd be surprised, you say you wouldn't buy 30 games for $1 a piece, I'm willing to bet you'd find plenty of gamers who would.
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3live.html
Check the re-feed.. it's in there in the middle somewhere.
If they REALLY want to tweak MS' nipples (uh, in a bad way, that is) - what they SHOULD do is allow homebrew development, with the ability to sell your work on their online service.
It'd certainly be rare to pay anything more than a nickel for the vast majority of the drivel that would be produced, but hell, if I could sell some game for 5 cents to even just a thousand people..
Well that just gives me enough money to go buy a game!
From what I've heard, the system RAM will be expandable via flash cards (by the time the system comes out, I'm assuming 1 Gig flash won't be as expensive as the system itself)
As for the downloads, you can almost bet your ass (twice!) that they won't be free, save for maybe a 'bait' game, special two-for-one (etc.) deals, or product tie-ins (buy Mario Kart Revolution and get the SNES download for free)... but really, I think (hope?) they've learned their lesson during their $20 Game boy rehashes, especially since it'd be fairly tough to sell those particular games at anywhere near that cost....
What would you pay? $1? $5? I couldn't see them going for any higher than that, but I guess we'll see in a year!
Oh... you missed what I was saying..
I was talking about a testing to see if you could download previously-purchased content on another Xbox, using your account.
The best way to use your XBL account on another Xbox is to copy your XBL profile to a memory card, and keeping it in the controller when you connect. -- The other alternative is doing an XBL "Account Restore", which will invalidate your account on your current box, so it's not recommended.
I just wanted to see if it remembers your purchases, which would alleviate your concern.
As for the rest of your post, you're certainly right - there'd be no reason to purchase a mem card for the new Xbox, but I highly doubt that'd be the case. The Transfer CD is a nice thought. I had previously imagined there might be a way to do it over local network, but maybe a CD won't need to be involved at all?
20 GB removable drive as a standard - larger drives are speculated but haven't been announced.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm
Once you've purchased things from XBL, doesn't it remember your purchase so you can download again?
I'm fairly certain I've heard of this before.
I guess one thing you could do is copy your XBL profile to a memory card and stick it in another Xbox, then see if you can download it again without being charged.
As for stats/savegames, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there will be some sort of import feature that will allow this, but I am nowhere near certain.. however, it only makes sense.
Are you sure they said limited? I was streaming the presentation, but it was choppy and I may have missed that part..
I DO remember hearing "Backwards Compatible with the most popular titles", but I wasn't sure if that was just market-speak, or if it was a read-between-the-lines thing.
The 360 team announced in their E3 kickoff (a couple hours after Sony's last night) that backwards compatibility will be an included feature.
Well the topic kinda drifted from AOL to a general discussion on email blocking.
And if I download porn, at least I'm the one knowingly and accepting the data transfer.
I run my domain on my home cable service.. and while my bandwidth is flat-rate, it's also finite. I use it for other things and I don't want it coming in without my consent.
www.everydns.net - Don't get locked into DNS for 4 times the cost!
But you're also missing a big point for spam blocking: the bandwidth cost.
Not everyone has flat-rate bandwidth.. and even with those that do, we might not get enough of it to hand it out to every jackhole that wants to sell us herbal Viagra.
Allowing everyone to send you email and having something process it on the front-end is all well and good in.. say... Japan, where everyone seems to have a 1 GB connection or some crazy stuff like that.. but not everyone's willing to have their bandwidth impacted.