As far as siginficant media goes, and well done games, I'd say that the Final Fantasy series rank upon console RPG's as does D&D with pen&paper. Every FF game has had a deep storyline, with more recent games having intricate charecters, with troubled and interesting pasts. I personally recommend you attain a copy of Final Fantasy III(US), and spend some time with it. I challenge anyone who gives this game an hour or two to NOT get hooked.
> Or, just as everything else from speeding to marijuana, will we simply keep breaking the rules rather than reforming them?
Key difference: In their minds, copying music means less money, (that has proved otherwise as napster's growth has meant an increase in CD sales) whereas smoking marijuana is a personal freedom, which, if decriminalized, would give profits to no major corporations until it was socially accepted.
*ahem*
I recall listening to 'license to ill' on
CASSETTE
TAPE
but, perhaps that compact format, that lasted for years when maintained, wasn't significant.
This probably uses a tighter tracked CD format, like the new Blue laser cds. In response to the mp3-isnt-cd-quality problem, I think that's just a few users who either
A> Don't use a good encoder/decoder when recording/listening to mp3s
B> Don't have a fast enough machine to decompress mp3s in software
-or-
C> Encode at a bitrate below 128 Kb/sec. Audio Discs (if you'll recall, single speed cd drives) are recorded at 128 Kb/sec.
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You can Still download windows media players 6.0-6.4 off of microsoft's site... perhaps they really do know exactly how horrible 7 is.
As far as siginficant media goes, and well done games, I'd say that the Final Fantasy series rank upon console RPG's as does D&D with pen&paper. Every FF game has had a deep storyline, with more recent games having intricate charecters, with troubled and interesting pasts. I personally recommend you attain a copy of Final Fantasy III(US), and spend some time with it. I challenge anyone who gives this game an hour or two to NOT get hooked.
> Or, just as everything else from speeding to marijuana, will we simply keep breaking the rules rather than reforming them?
Key difference: In their minds, copying music means less money, (that has proved otherwise as napster's growth has meant an increase in CD sales) whereas smoking marijuana is a personal freedom, which, if decriminalized, would give profits to no major corporations until it was socially accepted.
*ahem*
I recall listening to 'license to ill' on
CASSETTE
TAPE
but, perhaps that compact format, that lasted for years when maintained, wasn't significant.
This probably uses a tighter tracked CD format, like the new Blue laser cds. In response to the mp3-isnt-cd-quality problem, I think that's just a few users who either
A> Don't use a good encoder/decoder when recording/listening to mp3s
B> Don't have a fast enough machine to decompress mp3s in software
-or-
C> Encode at a bitrate below 128 Kb/sec. Audio Discs (if you'll recall, single speed cd drives) are recorded at 128 Kb/sec.
Heh,might not be 100% on topic, still good though.
Its copyright, as in, the rights to copy.