Now George Romero making a MMOG would be something of great worth. It would be super supreme if you could play as a human, a zombie, an alien, a farm animal, or a household pet.
I don't think game mags can be judged in with other print mags.
I stopped buying game mags years ago because they all seem to be giving good reviews to bad games because they have special deals with distributors or publishers.
online mags to me, tho, are just as bad. I don't read them either.
I buy a game because I think it looks or sounds good and I make my own decisions. I never let my opinion be swayed by biased game "journos."
While I agree with you in that particular instance, I was referring to games in general. You just managed to pick the littlest, cheapest game:)
But even when coders don't write a game completely from scratch, and they use dev kits like Torque (or any of the big expensive commercial ones), they still have to do a lot of work on characters, story, levels, graphics, sounds, etc. But when they get a franchise game, a lot of the time (no, no all the time, mario sunshine is completely different and would have involved a lot more work) they can cut down on stuff. Even Sunshine would not have needed all the work on characters because they already existed. OK, so overall that may not have been a huge part of the dev effort, but when you jump to non nintendo franchises -- I don't know, EA sports games for example... those games are absolutely the laziest coding ever.
Often they'll just change a list of player names, some clothes and some faces. And they may tqeak gameplay. But overall, punters are paying full price for the same game every damn year.
There are different scales of rework required, and we can point to specific examples where it can be claimed that a new innovative game required sod all work and we can point to unoriginal franchises that have had new life breathed into them by completely changing the way they play, but I'm asking you to look at the big picture.
In general, it's laziness and greed that result in sequels.
Nintendo suffers from the opposite problem- too much innovation and change between games, and a constantly irritated fanbase. I know I'm not alone in skipping Wind Waker.
I argue that changing an existing game is not true innovation. it's still the same franchise. McDs can change their wallpaper and put stylier tables and chairs in their restaurants, they can change the Big Mac boxes, but it's all still McDs.
all you're doing is updating an existing license.
if they want to innovate they will give us new games with new stories and new characters every time. but they're too lazy and it will cut their profits down from billions to millions because they had to put extra work into the creation.
wikipedia is full of misinformation anyway. yes, some of it is good material, but when so much of it is false, or the result of petty bickering between posters, how can you use it for anything other than recreation?
the misinformation that is prolific means that you have to take everything else with a grain of salt, and check and recheck the sources to make sure they're true. which means you're doing double the work.
why not just skip wikipedia and go to other sources of information?
the people who cling to wikipedia like it's the almighty source of all knowledge are either contributers themselves, kids who don't know any better, or geeks who think wikis are the 'cool' thing. Reading the posts, 90% on slashdot seem to be in the latter crowd. I can see it now. Some mod will be clicking on the Flamebait button while covering his ears singing 'lalalalala I'm not listening. wikipedia is the greatest site in the world.'
how has this hit news sites? this has been known since the inception of CDs. There are some CDs that are only designed to live 1-2 years. It depends on the ink used. Years ago, I used to only buy CDs with gold ink because they had a 20 year expected life span. silver (pressed) cds are expected to live up to 100 years.
Nowadays people are mixing inks, so it's a bit more complicated, but this isn't news.
I can't figure out of you're one of those "tech guys" everyone's mothers refers to knowing, or if you're just an honest-to-goodness clueless n00b. So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt..
The exploit under Wine or VPC will only affect the hosted Windows OS, not OS-X or Linux. The host OS will never ever be able to run windows code, therefore unaffected.
Firefly did not have "realistic" dialogue. For openers, none of my friends or co-workers are that witty.
really says it all. everyone I know *is* that witty. but, you know, the weather down here in new zealand is a bit colder, so our brains haven't been fried.
And action shows are not my definition of high entertainment. More like how the drooling masses entertain themselves.
Funny. I always thought the drooling masses were those who watched mind numbing shows that focus on the politicking of humans/aliens. You know, Bab 5, Star Trek, CSIs, etc etc ad infinitum.
Ergo, the drooling masses have lots more shows made for them, and those of us who are still in complete control of our cranial functions must endure short-lived shows because we are not part of the masses.
I guess that's the difference.. I couldn't watch Lost because I thought the writers were just spoon-feeding the audience. I thought Lost was the worst writing I'd ever seen, down there with Buffy and Angel.
My opinion of Firefly was that it was briliantly written, excellent *realistic* dialogue, and very witty.
I'm also of the opinion that most other SF shows are crap. Finally Firefly gave us a show that was action-packed from beginning to end, unlike those shows that wallow in political "intrigue" trying to make some clever statement about life. Sod that!
Action is where it's at; Firefly and Serenity had it in spades.
This is a sad day indeed, but I hold out hope that comic books will continue the tale of our favourite crew.
I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple
he's obviously never had to deal with windows spyware/adware/crudware.. those aren't written by big companies, and their 'engineers' love what they're doing...
After awhile they'll start finding things that aren't really illegal, just morally reprehensible (to most people).
wait a minute, are you saying porn is illegal?
Parents, find another way to protect your kids, please.
This is perhaps the one thing that no moral crusader *in the world* ever seems to understand. It's up to the parents. When the parents become negligent, *then* the government should step in. Not before. And this is a case by case basis, not across the population.
The same thing is happening to video games, and has happened to comics, and happened to movies before that. Comics and movies are past it, and one day so will video games and porn -- but it shouldn't happen in the first place.
People need to understand that adult entertainment is a legitimate industry that, if killed, will create more social and financial problems than those they solve. Think about it, if adults don't have access to porn so they can wank off in the peace of their own private space, they will probably go out and seek ways of getting off that are more harmful to others.
Why punish an entire country's adult population for the perceived problems of a few parents not doing their job?
99% of the games are just rehashes of older games or properties. There's nothing new and exciting..
Gripshift is the most original game I've seen in a while on any console. Currently it's the only PSP game I'm playing. I own several others, but they just didn't last long because I've played them all before..
Even better, Gripshift was made right here in little old New Zealand.:)
Microsoft went to all this effort to push out something before their competitors that they put an inferior product out to market. I won't go into the whole 'yet again' thing because that's irrelevant.
The point NOW is that they have spent millions of dollars selling us the xbox 360 telling us it's great, telling us it's wonderful, and relying on being first to market to beat out Sony.
Also ignoring the fact that the original Xbox still has plenty of life in it.
Hell, some people have this notion that the Dreamcast is a current gen console...I think Microsoft have lost touch with what a game console is about -- GAMES! not money.
You might want to do a bit more research into this. It's nothing to do with the screens. I have LCD screens that are 'softer' on my macs than they are on my PCs. I find it easier on my eyes.
My PowerBook is the same. I think you might find it's an intentional design feature of the GUI.
Unless whoever gives them the hardware makes them sign a contract to not install OS X, Windows, or something equivalent, there's really nothing stopping Apple or Microsoft from just offering the students their software free. They can even help to install the software. But, you know, God forbid Linux be preinstalled and Apple/Microsoft be installed afterwards. It's against the status quo, so it must be some sort of force and conspiracy.
That's true, and I was merely playing devil's advocate, but I still would like to know what is so wrong with putting a closed source OS on that was offered for free in the first place? Why not give people the choice of OSs pre-installed? They *are* promoting freedom of choice aren't they? Has it been considered that the extra step taken to install another OS may be too time consuming if a school buys 100 of them? Or maybe they are scared about installing a new OS? Or what if there's a support contract that will be voided by putting on a different OS?
I think the grandparent of this post completely misses the point that everyone is different. Some want to play with the OS, some want to play with music programs, some want to play with art programs, some want to do word processing, some may want to do programming. We can't presuppose their intents and desires.
Forcing them to use open source software is as bad as forcing them to use closed-source software.
You are every company's wet dream. Unfortunately, people like you are in the minority, and cannot support an entire industry for very long.
About 40% of the gamers I know have multiple consoles.
The average family has a lot of financial stress. Even affording one next-gen system would be tough.
If your bottom line was profit, what interest would you have in financially stressed families?
As for me, I will likely pick up a Revolution after the first round of price cuts (probably a year after release). I do not see a 260 or PS3 in my future.
So we'll ignore your obvious bias. Now -- take Nintendo's point of view? Do you think they spend millions on marketing and high profile events and launch parties just to have their customers wait a year to buy their consoles? You're probably the sort of person who buys second hand games too.
What makes you think they give a damn about you?
The companies want people like you to be in the minority. They want you to pre-order, and they want you to buy all the latest games on release day at retail prices.
I see many people on here making comments starting with "if the internet were created today..."
Please stop. The article references the web. The web is not the internet. It is merely one of the services available on the internet. The internet was invented in the late 60's by the US Defense Dept (DARPA). The web was invented in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee as a way of sharing documents that was better than Gopher and FTP.
Our server room still utilises a raised floor. But we do have a 20 year old phone exchange in there. I was just pulling cables under the accursed floor just yesterday. The best part about a raised floor is that it's very exciting chasing cables that zig zag around the room because of past restructuring.
Slashdot Mirror
I did the same thing. :(
Now George Romero making a MMOG would be something of great worth. It would be super supreme if you could play as a human, a zombie, an alien, a farm animal, or a household pet.
I don't think game mags can be judged in with other print mags.
I stopped buying game mags years ago because they all seem to be giving good reviews to bad games because they have special deals with distributors or publishers.
online mags to me, tho, are just as bad. I don't read them either.
I buy a game because I think it looks or sounds good and I make my own decisions. I never let my opinion be swayed by biased game "journos."
While I agree with you in that particular instance, I was referring to games in general. You just managed to pick the littlest, cheapest game :)
But even when coders don't write a game completely from scratch, and they use dev kits like Torque (or any of the big expensive commercial ones), they still have to do a lot of work on characters, story, levels, graphics, sounds, etc. But when they get a franchise game, a lot of the time (no, no all the time, mario sunshine is completely different and would have involved a lot more work) they can cut down on stuff. Even Sunshine would not have needed all the work on characters because they already existed. OK, so overall that may not have been a huge part of the dev effort, but when you jump to non nintendo franchises -- I don't know, EA sports games for example... those games are absolutely the laziest coding ever.
Often they'll just change a list of player names, some clothes and some faces. And they may tqeak gameplay. But overall, punters are paying full price for the same game every damn year.
There are different scales of rework required, and we can point to specific examples where it can be claimed that a new innovative game required sod all work and we can point to unoriginal franchises that have had new life breathed into them by completely changing the way they play, but I'm asking you to look at the big picture.
In general, it's laziness and greed that result in sequels.
Nintendo suffers from the opposite problem- too much innovation and change between games, and a constantly irritated fanbase. I know I'm not alone in skipping Wind Waker.
I argue that changing an existing game is not true innovation. it's still the same franchise. McDs can change their wallpaper and put stylier tables and chairs in their restaurants, they can change the Big Mac boxes, but it's all still McDs.
all you're doing is updating an existing license.
if they want to innovate they will give us new games with new stories and new characters every time. but they're too lazy and it will cut their profits down from billions to millions because they had to put extra work into the creation.
wikipedia is full of misinformation anyway. yes, some of it is good material, but when so much of it is false, or the result of petty bickering between posters, how can you use it for anything other than recreation?
the misinformation that is prolific means that you have to take everything else with a grain of salt, and check and recheck the sources to make sure they're true. which means you're doing double the work.
why not just skip wikipedia and go to other sources of information?
the people who cling to wikipedia like it's the almighty source of all knowledge are either contributers themselves, kids who don't know any better, or geeks who think wikis are the 'cool' thing. Reading the posts, 90% on slashdot seem to be in the latter crowd. I can see it now. Some mod will be clicking on the Flamebait button while covering his ears singing 'lalalalala I'm not listening. wikipedia is the greatest site in the world.'
how has this hit news sites? this has been known since the inception of CDs. There are some CDs that are only designed to live 1-2 years. It depends on the ink used. Years ago, I used to only buy CDs with gold ink because they had a 20 year expected life span. silver (pressed) cds are expected to live up to 100 years.
Nowadays people are mixing inks, so it's a bit more complicated, but this isn't news.
the whole website has been replaced with these weird heiroglyphs. wtf?
I can't figure out of you're one of those "tech guys" everyone's mothers refers to knowing, or if you're just an honest-to-goodness clueless n00b. So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt..
The exploit under Wine or VPC will only affect the hosted Windows OS, not OS-X or Linux. The host OS will never ever be able to run windows code, therefore unaffected.
Lost is brilliant
...
followed by
Firefly did not have "realistic" dialogue. For openers, none of my friends or co-workers are that witty.
really says it all. everyone I know *is* that witty. but, you know, the weather down here in new zealand is a bit colder, so our brains haven't been fried.
And action shows are not my definition of high entertainment. More like how the drooling masses entertain themselves.
Funny. I always thought the drooling masses were those who watched mind numbing shows that focus on the politicking of humans/aliens. You know, Bab 5, Star Trek, CSIs, etc etc ad infinitum.
Ergo, the drooling masses have lots more shows made for them, and those of us who are still in complete control of our cranial functions must endure short-lived shows because we are not part of the masses.
Or it could be something else. What do I know?
no, he's starting a new religious movement. stand aside heaven's gate...
I guess that's the difference.. I couldn't watch Lost because I thought the writers were just spoon-feeding the audience. I thought Lost was the worst writing I'd ever seen, down there with Buffy and Angel.
My opinion of Firefly was that it was briliantly written, excellent *realistic* dialogue, and very witty.
I'm also of the opinion that most other SF shows are crap. Finally Firefly gave us a show that was action-packed from beginning to end, unlike those shows that wallow in political "intrigue" trying to make some clever statement about life. Sod that!
Action is where it's at; Firefly and Serenity had it in spades.
This is a sad day indeed, but I hold out hope that comic books will continue the tale of our favourite crew.
Thankfully, prostitution (a sort of middle-ground that isn't per se harmful) is still widely available legally.
:)
Oh wait.
prostitution is legal here in new zealand.
but the advantage of the internet is you don't have to pay for it
I get the worst, worst software almost always from Apple
he's obviously never had to deal with windows spyware/adware/crudware.. those aren't written by big companies, and their 'engineers' love what they're doing...
After awhile they'll start finding things that aren't really illegal, just morally reprehensible (to most people).
wait a minute, are you saying porn is illegal?
Parents, find another way to protect your kids, please.
This is perhaps the one thing that no moral crusader *in the world* ever seems to understand. It's up to the parents. When the parents become negligent, *then* the government should step in. Not before. And this is a case by case basis, not across the population.
The same thing is happening to video games, and has happened to comics, and happened to movies before that. Comics and movies are past it, and one day so will video games and porn -- but it shouldn't happen in the first place.
People need to understand that adult entertainment is a legitimate industry that, if killed, will create more social and financial problems than those they solve. Think about it, if adults don't have access to porn so they can wank off in the peace of their own private space, they will probably go out and seek ways of getting off that are more harmful to others.
Why punish an entire country's adult population for the perceived problems of a few parents not doing their job?
99% of the games are just rehashes of older games or properties. There's nothing new and exciting..
:)
Gripshift is the most original game I've seen in a while on any console. Currently it's the only PSP game I'm playing. I own several others, but they just didn't last long because I've played them all before..
Even better, Gripshift was made right here in little old New Zealand.
Microsoft went to all this effort to push out something before their competitors that they put an inferior product out to market. I won't go into the whole 'yet again' thing because that's irrelevant.
The point NOW is that they have spent millions of dollars selling us the xbox 360 telling us it's great, telling us it's wonderful, and relying on being first to market to beat out Sony.
Also ignoring the fact that the original Xbox still has plenty of life in it.
Hell, some people have this notion that the Dreamcast is a current gen console...I think Microsoft have lost touch with what a game console is about -- GAMES! not money.
You might want to do a bit more research into this. It's nothing to do with the screens. I have LCD screens that are 'softer' on my macs than they are on my PCs. I find it easier on my eyes.
My PowerBook is the same. I think you might find it's an intentional design feature of the GUI.
Or, you can just stick your head in the sand.
don't take my sand from me!!
In fact, Wal*Mart's revenue last year was $288 billion (dollars, U.S.)
fuq. I had no idea. I just thought they were a store chain. I didn't know they were that big. The mind boggles.
I don't know anything about Wal*mart. I live in the world outside America.
Unless whoever gives them the hardware makes them sign a contract to not install OS X, Windows, or something equivalent, there's really nothing stopping Apple or Microsoft from just offering the students their software free. They can even help to install the software. But, you know, God forbid Linux be preinstalled and Apple/Microsoft be installed afterwards. It's against the status quo, so it must be some sort of force and conspiracy.
That's true, and I was merely playing devil's advocate, but I still would like to know what is so wrong with putting a closed source OS on that was offered for free in the first place? Why not give people the choice of OSs pre-installed? They *are* promoting freedom of choice aren't they? Has it been considered that the extra step taken to install another OS may be too time consuming if a school buys 100 of them? Or maybe they are scared about installing a new OS? Or what if there's a support contract that will be voided by putting on a different OS?
I think the grandparent of this post completely misses the point that everyone is different. Some want to play with the OS, some want to play with music programs, some want to play with art programs, some want to do word processing, some may want to do programming. We can't presuppose their intents and desires.
Forcing them to use open source software is as bad as forcing them to use closed-source software.
You are every company's wet dream. Unfortunately, people like you are in the minority, and cannot support an entire industry for very long.
About 40% of the gamers I know have multiple consoles.
The average family has a lot of financial stress. Even affording one next-gen system would be tough.
If your bottom line was profit, what interest would you have in financially stressed families?
As for me, I will likely pick up a Revolution after the first round of price cuts (probably a year after release). I do not see a 260 or PS3 in my future.
So we'll ignore your obvious bias. Now -- take Nintendo's point of view? Do you think they spend millions on marketing and high profile events and launch parties just to have their customers wait a year to buy their consoles? You're probably the sort of person who buys second hand games too.
What makes you think they give a damn about you?
The companies want people like you to be in the minority. They want you to pre-order, and they want you to buy all the latest games on release day at retail prices.
only four years old? this sort of mind control has been happening in Germany since the 30's!
I see many people on here making comments starting with "if the internet were created today..."
Please stop. The article references the web. The web is not the internet. It is merely one of the services available on the internet. The internet was invented in the late 60's by the US Defense Dept (DARPA). The web was invented in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee as a way of sharing documents that was better than Gopher and FTP.
Our server room still utilises a raised floor. But we do have a 20 year old phone exchange in there. I was just pulling cables under the accursed floor just yesterday. The best part about a raised floor is that it's very exciting chasing cables that zig zag around the room because of past restructuring.
not.