Basically, they do not have backwards compatibility in the proper sense of the term, but as it is perceived to be such a make or break feature, they are just going to LIE about it??
Yes, but it's diminishing returns now, isn't it? The leap to 3D with the PS1 was a huge advance in console gaming. Now it's just inching towards photo-realism. The PS3 will not be a quantum leap, just same games, better gfx.
Truthfully? It's 'cos they don't have a clue what they are doing and mash the buttons mindlessly, a strategy that seems to pay great dividends in 99% of fighting games out there.
Yeah, an MMORPG based on a Piers Anthony would be a trauma to play. You'd probably have loads of 'Rape Quests'. What is it with that guy and rapes? I read one of his books and it was pretty decent, about a ship of space-travellers hijacked by pirates. Only thing that spoiled it was the rapes. So many rapes! A woman offered to let the pirates rape her, so they would leave her daughters alone. But they were raping her daughters anyway. But hey-ho, they didn't really mind that much, so it was all ok. Are all his books like that? The guy needs help.
... he would effectively get $1 an hour for failing grades, failing relationships, failing sleep patterns, and failing personal hygiene. Amazingly, he decided not to bother
Hey, here's a newsflash for you : those companies aren't run by giant superbrains from the future, you know. They are run by people like you or I, and as people they are prone to stupid mistakes and wrong-headed decisions. They certainly do nothing to attain the papal-like air of infallibility you seem to grant them. (Just think of Enron or any of the innumerable failed business ventures of the last few years).
And we ourselves as people are at least qualified to speculate on what they should or should not do. So yah boo sucks to you!
Good job too. Imagine leaving that into the chemist to get developed. "Just the the one set of my 47,000 prints please". And then you get them all back with a 'photography tips' sticker on as you had your thumb over the lens.
This is great and all, but the problem is that in games like this, everybody is determined to exist *outside* the game. People aren't playing against the game, they are playing against the rules - as if the designers have set them a challenge of how to defeat the system. This renders all role-play bogus. It is all the worse in MMORPGs like this (as opposed to single player RPGs), where peer pressure ensures that highest level = the winner. I mean, let's not kid ourselves, for all this fancy talk, we know that this game is all about whomping mobs and collection phat loot, whilst "omfg wtf lolling" with strangers. A few role-playing actors aren't going to fix that.
I can guarentee 98% of the PSP population cannot figure out DVD-Shrink or any of those other conversion templates. To them, they have to re-buy "Shrek 2" on the new format even though they already own it on DVD.
Think of this as an "idiot surcharge". If you don't know how, or want to, you can buy all your old movies again. But the fact is you don't *have* to, so this should not be used as a stick to beat the PSP, especially in a forum like this.
Looks to me from the article like although you won't get dishonour from ganking lower-level players, nor will you get honour, not unless the player is of similar or higher level to you. So I would say that it is more of an issue that level 60s will not be able to accrue any honour (thus rewards) at all!
I hear you man. WoW is the first MMORPG I've really gotten into, and all the stories I've heard of griefing and generally idiotic behaviour in these sorts of games seems to be pretty much unfounded. Granted I do play RP PvE. But... good God, the forums! I have never seen such a convergence of illiterates and whiners and intellectual sub-normals in my whole life! Are all MMORPGs forums like this? Anybody trying to decide whether to join the game based solely on the forums would surely be put off.
"omfg blizzard why u not nerf shamans my pally gets pwned in 1v1! omfg i am cancelling my account! this game sux!/bump this! need blue response!"
This won't be hard to get around. Every user is by now thoroughly desensitised to seeing click-through EULAs for any software they install. So, after this law, paragraph 135.62.4.3.1 on the EULA for your latest Swimsuit Babes Screensaver package is "Oh yeah, and we're sticking Gator on your PC as well, ok?" User, as ever, scrolls to bottom of 100 page document in 3 seconds flat, clicks agree, and off we go as before.
Are you for real? You think somebody is going to invent a cure for cancer, and the FDA would dare ban it? If you thought the black market for viagra was bad, it would be nothing on this.
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Basically, they do not have backwards compatibility in the proper sense of the term, but as it is perceived to be such a make or break feature, they are just going to LIE about it??
Maybe they were just so relieved that the video didn't involve naked Iraqis having their genitals pointed at, eh?
You mean like America's Army?
"We didn't sell many expansion packs over Live, so we're trying to flog it again dressed up as a separate game"
Yes, but it's diminishing returns now, isn't it? The leap to 3D with the PS1 was a huge advance in console gaming. Now it's just inching towards photo-realism. The PS3 will not be a quantum leap, just same games, better gfx.
This is the Persil Paradox. "New formula Persil washes whiter-than-white!"
Same as the old formula did, last year... but this one is *whiter*.
All we need is for them to show T2, and everything will be A1!
Give yourself a sporting chance at least.. instructions for handbrake turns.
You might also be wise to try it on a disused airfield or something. And without a drunk passenger. And without being drunk.
Well, considering how the game had a couple of different and entirely mutually incompatible endings, I don't even think the devs knew for sure.
Truthfully? It's 'cos they don't have a clue what they are doing and mash the buttons mindlessly, a strategy that seems to pay great dividends in 99% of fighting games out there.
Yeah, he's pretty good. Possibly because he keeps writing the same book over and over, he's bound to be good at it by now! :-P
Yeah, an MMORPG based on a Piers Anthony would be a trauma to play. You'd probably have loads of 'Rape Quests'. What is it with that guy and rapes? I read one of his books and it was pretty decent, about a ship of space-travellers hijacked by pirates. Only thing that spoiled it was the rapes. So many rapes! A woman offered to let the pirates rape her, so they would leave her daughters alone. But they were raping her daughters anyway. But hey-ho, they didn't really mind that much, so it was all ok.
Are all his books like that? The guy needs help.
... he would effectively get $1 an hour for failing grades, failing relationships, failing sleep patterns, and failing personal hygiene.
;-)
Amazingly, he decided not to bother
Yes, so he just kept on doing it for nothing!
Hey, here's a newsflash for you : those companies aren't run by giant superbrains from the future, you know. They are run by people like you or I, and as people they are prone to stupid mistakes and wrong-headed decisions. They certainly do nothing to attain the papal-like air of infallibility you seem to grant them. (Just think of Enron or any of the innumerable failed business ventures of the last few years).
And we ourselves as people are at least qualified to speculate on what they should or should not do. So yah boo sucks to you!
Good job too. Imagine leaving that into the chemist to get developed. "Just the the one set of my 47,000 prints please". And then you get them all back with a 'photography tips' sticker on as you had your thumb over the lens.
This is great and all, but the problem is that in games like this, everybody is determined to exist *outside* the game. People aren't playing against the game, they are playing against the rules - as if the designers have set them a challenge of how to defeat the system. This renders all role-play bogus. It is all the worse in MMORPGs like this (as opposed to single player RPGs), where peer pressure ensures that highest level = the winner.
I mean, let's not kid ourselves, for all this fancy talk, we know that this game is all about whomping mobs and collection phat loot, whilst "omfg wtf lolling" with strangers. A few role-playing actors aren't going to fix that.
I can guarentee 98% of the PSP population cannot figure out DVD-Shrink or any of those other conversion templates. To them, they have to re-buy "Shrek 2" on the new format even though they already own it on DVD.
Think of this as an "idiot surcharge". If you don't know how, or want to, you can buy all your old movies again. But the fact is you don't *have* to, so this should not be used as a stick to beat the PSP, especially in a forum like this.
Looks to me from the article like although you won't get dishonour from ganking lower-level players, nor will you get honour, not unless the player is of similar or higher level to you. So I would say that it is more of an issue that level 60s will not be able to accrue any honour (thus rewards) at all!
I hear you man. WoW is the first MMORPG I've really gotten into, and all the stories I've heard of griefing and generally idiotic behaviour in these sorts of games seems to be pretty much unfounded. Granted I do play RP PvE.
/bump this! need blue response!"
But... good God, the forums! I have never seen such a convergence of illiterates and whiners and intellectual sub-normals in my whole life! Are all MMORPGs forums like this? Anybody trying to decide whether to join the game based solely on the forums would surely be put off.
"omfg blizzard why u not nerf shamans my pally gets pwned in 1v1! omfg i am cancelling my account! this game sux!
It makes me feel stupider just reading them.
Yeah, nor would I, but some of the more recent ones I have seen have got sneaky, and don't enable the 'Agree' button until you scroll to the bottom!
Yeah, well I thought the possibility that our goverments were lying to us about Iraq's WMD was pretty far-fetched as well, but what do you know?
This won't be hard to get around. Every user is by now thoroughly desensitised to seeing click-through EULAs for any software they install. So, after this law, paragraph 135.62.4.3.1 on the EULA for your latest Swimsuit Babes Screensaver package is "Oh yeah, and we're sticking Gator on your PC as well, ok?"
User, as ever, scrolls to bottom of 100 page document in 3 seconds flat, clicks agree, and off we go as before.
Are you for real? You think somebody is going to invent a cure for cancer, and the FDA would dare ban it? If you thought the black market for viagra was bad, it would be nothing on this.
Yeah, but it's the BADDIES who are coming on all fundamentalist. The humans believe in the Ancient Roman gods!
That's pretty fascinating, IMHO.
Are you using "cue" as a lazy way to write "queue"? ;-)