Re:People who peer over my shoulder bug me
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I start describing in great detail how this guy is peeing over my shoulder, how rude it is, and then I start going into how much this man weighs, how his beard looks like a birds nest, how ugly he is, whatnot.
Wow, I would have done a lot more than IM a friend about it if someone did that to me.
So that's pretty much it for the old Final Fantasy team. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the director, is no longer with Square-Enix. Yoshitaka Amano, who did the character designs through FFVI, has been doing just logo designs lately. And now Uematsu is leaving.:(
The MMORPG market reached saturation point a long LONG time ago, yet the market is still being flooded by those companies who haven't heard the penny drop.
Parent is a troll (check out the url) but I've seen the same thing repeated by others on Slashdot. I don't see the numbers to back up this claim.
FFXI was released in 2002 with a North American release in 2003. It has around 500,000 subscribers now. Star Wars Galaxies was released in 2003 and has 300,000 subscribers. (Lower than they were expecting, I think, but hardly a failure.) City of Heroes, which was released this year now has about 200,000 subscribers.
There's a section - with big red letters - titled "How They Screw Up" at the end.
Yes, I read that part. It doesn't say anything insightful. The main thrust of it is that "3rd person (soft)" has problems with the camera getting stuck or swinging around wildly. Wow.
Sorry to insult an article you submitted (on a website that you run?) but sorry, it was lame.
This has to be the most retarded Slashdot article, ever. Of all time, even.
Yeah, no kidding. I thought it was going to be a discussion on what works and doesn't work with what they call the "3rd person (soft)" camera, because that's the one with the most problems, in my experience.
Instead, we get descriptions of different camera types. Thanks for explaining first person view for me, genius.
A fixed-width font (like courier) uses the same width for all characters. A document printed in a fixed-width font would make the process easier, because you would know with certainty how many letters fit into a black box.
If you read the article, the seven words that were found to be a possible fit range from seven to ten characters, implying that the document was printed in a variable width font.
Oryx & Crake, which I found out about through This Slashdot review has been overlooked again. (It didn't get nominated for the Nebula either.)
I thought Oryx & Crake was fantastic. Are the other books on that list really that good? The only one I've read is Ilium, which just didn't do a whole lot for me.
Well, I'm not so sure. Everquest aside, the vast majority of the players are young men who, apparently, feel very insecure about their sexuality.
Yeah, that's true. I was too general in my original statement. I suspect that RPG players might be a little more tolerant. Most of my online gaming experience has been with MMORPGs, and while you do see overuse of "fag," "gay," etc, you are talking about a genre where the vast majority of female characters are played by males.
And there is a lot of flirting that goes on between male and female characters, though most of the players are (presumably straight) males.
But yeah, I've heard stories about the chat that goes on during FPSes. Sounds horrible.
I never thought I'd see the day that first person shooters would be more tolerant of social differences the the general U.S. population.
I don't know if you were making a joke here, but I'm not sure why you'd be surprised by this. Videogames are created and played by (generally) younger people, who are going to be more progressively minded than the general population.
Also, videogames are often the place where people get to do things they'd normally wouldn't do in real life.
There are unreadably small words between "Cache:" and "8Kb", as well as "TCM:" and "32Kb" which have been ignored by the translation. They probably refer to two separate types of cache under each category.
The word there is "meirei," which means "command" or "order." Does that make sense in that context? I'm not a hardware person.:P
Am I the only one who interpreted "no branching path system in place" as "extremely linear gameplay with one ending".
Yes. Those of us who RTFA saw the rest of that paragraph:
...rather, the scenario has been designed such that the players have a wide breadth of possibilities within the scenario, giving them the opportunity to choose their focus within the wider scope of the story. If true, this would be a large (and welcome) step away from the very linear scenario design of past Final Fantasies.
it's a rental service, so you presumably have to pay the monthly fee to keep playing the games you've downloaded. (I could be wrong, but I'm not sure what else "rental" could mean.)
They're launching the service next Thursday, so I guess we'll see.
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This game is going to have light cycles! Yay!
\(^_^)/
How fast does this damned thing go? o_O
I RTFA, and I don't see them say anything about speed.
It's called progress quest.
Yeah, what a big improvement over the previous non-interactive Castlevania games.
*rolls eyes*
Am I nuts or is there no link to the article?
Yes yes, I must be new here, etc etc.
I start describing in great detail how this guy is peeing over my shoulder, how rude it is, and then I start going into how much this man weighs, how his beard looks like a birds nest, how ugly he is, whatnot.
Wow, I would have done a lot more than IM a friend about it if someone did that to me.
So that's pretty much it for the old Final Fantasy team. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the director, is no longer with Square-Enix. Yoshitaka Amano, who did the character designs through FFVI, has been doing just logo designs lately. And now Uematsu is leaving. :(
The MMORPG market reached saturation point a long LONG time ago, yet the market is still being flooded by those companies who haven't heard the penny drop.
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Parent is a troll (check out the url) but I've seen the same thing repeated by others on Slashdot. I don't see the numbers to back up this claim.
FFXI was released in 2002 with a North American release in 2003. It has around 500,000 subscribers now. Star Wars Galaxies was released in 2003 and has 300,000 subscribers. (Lower than they were expecting, I think, but hardly a failure.) City of Heroes, which was released this year now has about 200,000 subscribers.
Numbers here: http://pw1.netcom.com/~sirbruce/Subscriptions.htm
Everquest II and Worlds of Warcraft are due out in two months and there's a lot of advance excitement around them.
A few failures doesn't indicate saturation. Look at non-MMORPG videogames. What percentage of them do you suppose are successful?
Reminds me of a Dale Gribble quote from King of the Hill:
"If you want, I can show you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite."
There's a section - with big red letters - titled "How They Screw Up" at the end.
Yes, I read that part. It doesn't say anything insightful. The main thrust of it is that "3rd person (soft)" has problems with the camera getting stuck or swinging around wildly. Wow.
Sorry to insult an article you submitted (on a website that you run?) but sorry, it was lame.
This has to be the most retarded Slashdot article, ever. Of all time, even.
Yeah, no kidding. I thought it was going to be a discussion on what works and doesn't work with what they call the "3rd person (soft)" camera, because that's the one with the most problems, in my experience.
Instead, we get descriptions of different camera types. Thanks for explaining first person view for me, genius.
A fixed-width font (like courier) uses the same width for all characters. A document printed in a fixed-width font would make the process easier, because you would know with certainty how many letters fit into a black box.
If you read the article, the seven words that were found to be a possible fit range from seven to ten characters, implying that the document was printed in a variable width font.
Oryx & Crake, which I found out about through This Slashdot review has been overlooked again. (It didn't get nominated for the Nebula either.)
I thought Oryx & Crake was fantastic. Are the other books on that list really that good? The only one I've read is Ilium, which just didn't do a whole lot for me.
Well, I'm not so sure. Everquest aside, the vast majority of the players are young men who, apparently, feel very insecure about their sexuality.
Yeah, that's true. I was too general in my original statement. I suspect that RPG players might be a little more tolerant. Most of my online gaming experience has been with MMORPGs, and while you do see overuse of "fag," "gay," etc, you are talking about a genre where the vast majority of female characters are played by males.
And there is a lot of flirting that goes on between male and female characters, though most of the players are (presumably straight) males.
But yeah, I've heard stories about the chat that goes on during FPSes. Sounds horrible.
I never thought I'd see the day that first person shooters would be more tolerant of social differences the the general U.S. population.
:)
I don't know if you were making a joke here, but I'm not sure why you'd be surprised by this. Videogames are created and played by (generally) younger people, who are going to be more progressively minded than the general population.
Also, videogames are often the place where people get to do things they'd normally wouldn't do in real life.
And the game in question is an RPG, not an FPS.
There are unreadably small words between "Cache:" and "8Kb", as well as "TCM:" and "32Kb" which have been ignored by the translation. They probably refer to two separate types of cache under each category.
:P
The word there is "meirei," which means "command" or "order." Does that make sense in that context? I'm not a hardware person.
From the article:
"The reason I'm offering the lessons is to give the boys, some of whom have special educational needs, something to boost their self-esteem."
How does getting beaten up everyday improve your self-esteem?
That quote is from the teacher, Zainab Thorp, btw. Which sounds more like a Harry Potter name to me. Maybe she should be teaching parseltongue?
They hit the black key to the right of C.
They can probably make it fold up in a way that a single big screen can't.
This sounds pretty cool. You could do some really interesting things with RPGs and strategy games.
Yes. Those of us who RTFA saw the rest of that paragraph:
www.ff12.com (Flash site)
The images linked in the submission are taken from the Characters section.
According to the little blurb here:
http://sega.jp/product/home.html
it's a rental service, so you presumably have to pay the monthly fee to keep playing the games you've downloaded. (I could be wrong, but I'm not sure what else "rental" could mean.)
They're launching the service next Thursday, so I guess we'll see.
the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day
...as we toil in the silicon mines of our quantum computing overlords.
Miyamoto isn't even on the list.
We're supposed to believe that the guy behind the dead-on-arrival N-Gage is more important than Miyamoto? Please.
I'd attribute this to the SP being the first Game Boy to have a screen that's viewable in total darkness
What about the Gameboy Light?