The sad thing is that most of the ones we use, people would be proud to have and laugh about. Sadly that joy is shortlived as jokers like me fill it up with loving messages of support from Betty Crocker and Kellog's.
For a second there I thought that was a typo. Yeah, the first CA one was last year, but they've been doing ones at the Washington school for at least the last 5 years. Before that, I went to National Computer Camps TWICE where you just learn to program in general over a two week period. I went to these things long ago. Seems a bit odd to just be making news now.
For a second there I though APE was Atomic Planet Entertainment, the fine folks behind Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the PS2/GCN and Puzzle Fighter II port for the GBA. Puzzle Fighter II was the only GBA game I've ever given away due to the unplayability of it with my red/green colorblindess. It's slight and not as bad as you think, but without enough blue in a green, it's indistinguishable to me. (I gave it to my sister, but still) Mega Man Anniversary Collection has it's own stories, but I don't need to bitch about them. You can find them easy enough everywhere else.
Don't forget it's the only way to get the Ninja Gaiden and KoToR updates and other patches for other games. They're trying to turn XBL into WindowsUpdate. Not necessarily with the bug fixes, per se, but making it the only means of getting new content for your games. I doubt they'll ever do more bonus stuff in the OXM magazine when they can try to pimp out XBL a bit more.
Of the 5 years I have gone, three of them have been with my girlfriend. So it's a bit awkward being around her. Of course, if it's any X-Men or Roman person, SHE wants her picture taken.
Right now the GameCube sells in a week about 50x that of the Xbox. Anyway. in the USA it's about 9.2 million versus 7.3 million or so, but once you get out of the country, the Xbox gets hammered HARD. Heck, last year in the USA there wasn't an Xbox title in the top 10, of course, you know the highest selling Xbox title, month to month, right? Halo.
But the Xbox still outsells the Cube in the states. Oddly enough Mario Kart: Double Dash sold more in 6 months than Halo ever has, though.
There are mainly two groups of people who bought an Xbox.
There were the ones who got it for Halo, Ninja Gaiden, Crimson Skies, whatever, they got it for games. That's the way it should be. But then there were the people who got it for the power. They purchase primarily third party games and only have an Xbox for the power, not the name, meaning in the next generation if the Xbox isn't "3 times the graphical power" like they claimed on the Xbox, it's a REAL hazard to their user base.
That second power-hungry party is extremely mobile, just like graphics card or processor supporters. You support the fastest and best, not any particular company.
I might end up getting one. (Not at launch, though)
But it'll be more expensive, and most of the things you will do on it is music, movies and games. It's probably only going to play music off of the Connect service and ATRAC files, not mp3s. (Sony's iTunes) People will have to repurchase their DVDs to play as a UMD. Double purchases? I doubt it. It's not like Advent Children is going to be UMD only. And the games right now look like PS1 and PS2 games that most people already own. It's too recent to begin rehashing those titles as a franchise. Repurchasing music, dvds and ps1/2 games on a console more expensive than the PS2 (Which already plays it all) isn't something a lot of people will look forward to.
The way the "block" system is set up is fairly straightforward. Each block is 8 kilobytes with 40 kilobytes on each card reserved for the file system. That's 5 blocks spent and since bigger cards still have the same file system, that amount won't grow with the card. So the 1019 card is really 1024 blocks or 8 Megabytes. Making it 999 would require some odd formatting and other tricks because would the 999 include the file system?
I don't know what Sega thinks of that, but a couple months back I won a Sega Saturn Dev Kit on eBay. It was less of a "kit" and more of a giant board and a cable. It had a floppy disk with drivers, but no CD with code.
The flaw I mean is undoing the unified ammo and implementing reloading. Reloading wouldn't be difficult, but adding in new ammo types and throwing them across all the levels would be.
As for the empty rooms, I easily remember the Hilton in New York, upstairs with all the empty rooms that were boarded up. In one you could even hear a couple "acting up." Unfortunately only one or two of those actually open.
I refuse to play Deus Ex: Invisible War until some unfixable flaws are fixed. (Read: unlikely anytime soon)
But from what I can gather, using experience from the first game, which I beat, that I'd want to take out the turrets before they became active and see what special item is over there. In Deus Ex 1 there were a waste of empty rooms and pointless windows, so the developers themselves have no one to blame but themselves.
I was bitching in the forums for a long while trying to figure out why they dropped the GameCube version. If they said profits, demographic or anything like that, I would have accepted it. You know what they said instead? They have a couple ex-Rare employees working there, and when asked about the GameCube, they said that the RAM access times were too low to load city data as you go around the corner. So if the game did come out, the cars would have to go at lower speeds to have more time to load the data.
I'm sorry, but the ram on the GameCube is not an issue. Loading has been a primary concern from the 1st step. I have no clue who this ex-Rare guy is, but it's obvious he has no business working on the GameCube if he can't get the streaming data to work properly.
May I remind you they are still making the PS2 version.
I'm always interested in the media players and what files work. Obviously there will never exist a single one that plays it all, but when they say Divx, do they just mean 5.1.1? Or does it include 3 and 4? Although Divx 5 can playback 3 and 4, there's some files that are "corrupt" if Divx 3 doesn't handle them.
Most Halo players never have. Hence the reason it's rated so highly.
Anyone care telling me why Halo 2 is so desired? Is it doing anything so revolutionary? All I hear is that people want it for the sake of the first one.
You aren't cynical, you are clear headed. Halo is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It was told to be good so that's what people thought. You play Halo because you play it with your friends.
Your friends make it the experience you remember, not the game. It brought in new players and made an impact in that fashion, but to most pc gamers, they've played it all before.
In the end it's a game featuring a nameless, faceless robot saving the world from aliens. The multiplayer is a networked/splitscreen deathmatch/ctf with a single character model and uninspired weapons.
Rather than doing something right, they did the opposite, they didn't do anything terribly wrong, which is what made it accessible to new people.
The salivators over Halo 2 are getting really crazy but I'm waiting for the launch of either utter disappointment or overflowing fanatacism.
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I mean, it's an FPS. People mod games. They're going to add it in manually. Will it be in there before the Xbox launch?
The sad thing is that most of the ones we use, people would be proud to have and laugh about. Sadly that joy is shortlived as jokers like me fill it up with loving messages of support from Betty Crocker and Kellog's.
For a second there I thought that was a typo.
Yeah, the first CA one was last year, but they've been doing ones at the Washington school for at least the last 5 years.
Before that, I went to National Computer Camps TWICE where you just learn to program in general over a two week period.
I went to these things long ago. Seems a bit odd to just be making news now.
For a second there I though APE was Atomic Planet Entertainment, the fine folks behind Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the PS2/GCN and Puzzle Fighter II port for the GBA.
Puzzle Fighter II was the only GBA game I've ever given away due to the unplayability of it with my red/green colorblindess. It's slight and not as bad as you think, but without enough blue in a green, it's indistinguishable to me. (I gave it to my sister, but still)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection has it's own stories, but I don't need to bitch about them. You can find them easy enough everywhere else.
Don't forget it's the only way to get the Ninja Gaiden and KoToR updates and other patches for other games. They're trying to turn XBL into WindowsUpdate. Not necessarily with the bug fixes, per se, but making it the only means of getting new content for your games. I doubt they'll ever do more bonus stuff in the OXM magazine when they can try to pimp out XBL a bit more.
Of the 5 years I have gone, three of them have been with my girlfriend. So it's a bit awkward being around her. Of course, if it's any X-Men or Roman person, SHE wants her picture taken.
An imax theatre full of nerds chanting Ei Ei Poo.
Right now the GameCube sells in a week about 50x that of the Xbox.
Anyway. in the USA it's about 9.2 million versus 7.3 million or so, but once you get out of the country, the Xbox gets hammered HARD.
Heck, last year in the USA there wasn't an Xbox title in the top 10, of course, you know the highest selling Xbox title, month to month, right? Halo.
But the Xbox still outsells the Cube in the states.
Oddly enough Mario Kart: Double Dash sold more in 6 months than Halo ever has, though.
There are mainly two groups of people who bought an Xbox.
There were the ones who got it for Halo, Ninja Gaiden, Crimson Skies, whatever, they got it for games. That's the way it should be.
But then there were the people who got it for the power. They purchase primarily third party games and only have an Xbox for the power, not the name, meaning in the next generation if the Xbox isn't "3 times the graphical power" like they claimed on the Xbox, it's a REAL hazard to their user base.
That second power-hungry party is extremely mobile, just like graphics card or processor supporters. You support the fastest and best, not any particular company.
and this had a huge "COPY PROTECTION" sticker on it I can imagine some people purchasing it just to see how easy it is to get around.
I might end up getting one. (Not at launch, though)
But it'll be more expensive, and most of the things you will do on it is music, movies and games.
It's probably only going to play music off of the Connect service and ATRAC files, not mp3s. (Sony's iTunes)
People will have to repurchase their DVDs to play as a UMD. Double purchases? I doubt it. It's not like Advent Children is going to be UMD only.
And the games right now look like PS1 and PS2 games that most people already own.
It's too recent to begin rehashing those titles as a franchise.
Repurchasing music, dvds and ps1/2 games on a console more expensive than the PS2 (Which already plays it all) isn't something a lot of people will look forward to.
Oh, wow. That's sooo bad. Haha. I need to save that image for later.
A bit hasty aren't we? Especially since it'll be Xbox and PC bound just as soon, and look much better.
The way the "block" system is set up is fairly straightforward.
Each block is 8 kilobytes with 40 kilobytes on each card reserved for the file system. That's 5 blocks spent and since bigger cards still have the same file system, that amount won't grow with the card.
So the 1019 card is really 1024 blocks or 8 Megabytes. Making it 999 would require some odd formatting and other tricks because would the 999 include the file system?
I don't know what Sega thinks of that, but a couple months back I won a Sega Saturn Dev Kit on eBay. It was less of a "kit" and more of a giant board and a cable. It had a floppy disk with drivers, but no CD with code.
The flaw I mean is undoing the unified ammo and implementing reloading. Reloading wouldn't be difficult, but adding in new ammo types and throwing them across all the levels would be.
As for the empty rooms, I easily remember the Hilton in New York, upstairs with all the empty rooms that were boarded up. In one you could even hear a couple "acting up." Unfortunately only one or two of those actually open.
I refuse to play Deus Ex: Invisible War until some unfixable flaws are fixed. (Read: unlikely anytime soon)
But from what I can gather, using experience from the first game, which I beat, that I'd want to take out the turrets before they became active and see what special item is over there. In Deus Ex 1 there were a waste of empty rooms and pointless windows, so the developers themselves have no one to blame but themselves.
True Fantasy Live Online just got cancelled altogether. Gamespot has stuff on it.
I was bitching in the forums for a long while trying to figure out why they dropped the GameCube version. If they said profits, demographic or anything like that, I would have accepted it. You know what they said instead?
They have a couple ex-Rare employees working there, and when asked about the GameCube, they said that the RAM access times were too low to load city data as you go around the corner. So if the game did come out, the cars would have to go at lower speeds to have more time to load the data.
I'm sorry, but the ram on the GameCube is not an issue. Loading has been a primary concern from the 1st step. I have no clue who this ex-Rare guy is, but it's obvious he has no business working on the GameCube if he can't get the streaming data to work properly.
May I remind you they are still making the PS2 version.
But, going back to the NES days with Nintendo and their limited licenses, less games = better games because you are less spread out.
I'm always interested in the media players and what files work. Obviously there will never exist a single one that plays it all, but when they say Divx, do they just mean 5.1.1? Or does it include 3 and 4? Although Divx 5 can playback 3 and 4, there's some files that are "corrupt" if Divx 3 doesn't handle them.
Thankfully you can't get addicted to a certain fried "food" in the game. That would be a horrible existence.
Most Halo players never have. Hence the reason it's rated so highly.
Anyone care telling me why Halo 2 is so desired? Is it doing anything so revolutionary? All I hear is that people want it for the sake of the first one.
You aren't cynical, you are clear headed. Halo is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It was told to be good so that's what people thought. You play Halo because you play it with your friends.
Your friends make it the experience you remember, not the game. It brought in new players and made an impact in that fashion, but to most pc gamers, they've played it all before.
In the end it's a game featuring a nameless, faceless robot saving the world from aliens. The multiplayer is a networked/splitscreen deathmatch/ctf with a single character model and uninspired weapons.
Rather than doing something right, they did the opposite, they didn't do anything terribly wrong, which is what made it accessible to new people.
The salivators over Halo 2 are getting really crazy but I'm waiting for the launch of either utter disappointment or overflowing fanatacism.
Sure, like P2P apps haven't had difficulty with this before.
Magnet links send you right to the file without neeeding to search.
You can check for files with lots of sources AND different IPS with a file that ISN'T rated 0 with a FAKE comment attached to it.
IP Bans, file size checks, sample checking, file hashing.
There's too many ways to block fake files.