If you are going to feel sorry for iPhone owners, do it because of the price drop today - Apple's way of saying "fuck you" to early adopters.
Don't feel sorry for the million of us that have iPhones, though. They have combined a number of features we have been clamoring for and have done a damn good job of it. Honestly, the phone part of the iPhone is its best part. It is still the best phone I have ever used, even without features I used to rely on - such as the excellent voice dialing of the Motorola E815, Bluetooth synchronization, etc. To be quite honest, the iPod part of the iPhone is where it falls down - not able to manually manage music, not able to create new playlists even though there is a software keyboard, etc. SMS and calling features are pretty awesome.
I think the excitement is that the game can be somewhat difficult to find and this will make it so that anyone with an Xbox 360 can have it almost instantly. Maybe your typical 15 year old 360 gamer has never played SotN, which came out when he was 6. He might see this in the Arcade Marketplace and go "Huh, this looks pretty good, I'll give it a shot."
Old games on new platforms simply creates more options for the end user. I fail to recognize how this is a bad thing.
You also pay 17.5% in VAT. It's not entirely the hardware companies, it's the legislators as well, so let's give credit where credit is due.
Also, the United States market is huge in comparison with the UK market. You guys get shafted, sure, but companies are willing to go lower here because they will move more units, which means moving more games, which is where the money is made.
Besides, you guys paid, at launch, 129 GBP for the GameCube. Not 199, which is what would follow your rule.
No it's not. Sometimes exploration of the unknown is preferred, especially in a game like Castlevania that features it as a major element. If you need a map to find your way around, maybe you should go watch a movie. Back in my day, *we* drew the maps.
Yes, it is. Ever since Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the 2D Super Metroid-style Castlevania games (Symphony of the Night, Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow) have had a map. That map doesn't show rooms until they're uncovered, or until you stumble upon a map that will show a few more rooms (if you haven't uncovered them already). The game is still about exploration, even with a map. And guess what - if you don't want it on the screen at the same time, turn it off. It's as easy as it ever was - just hit "Select" to toggle it on and off.
I personally know a number of Castlevania fans that were eagerly awaiting Dawn of Sorrow and its always-on map. It's a time saver, especially in vertical columns where one can easily enter the wrong door and get sidetracked for five or ten minutes before realizing their mistake. Additionally, in the Saturn version of Nocturne in the Moonlight, there is a pause of nearly a second between when the map button is hit and when it actually comes up. This is distracting and a waste of time, but having it open all the time removes this hassle. Instead of hitting a button and looking, one can just look.
The on-screen map was a nice bonus. If you don't like it, turn it off. Don't pretend that fans haven't been longing for it, because they have. I personally know a number of them.
That's essentially what the reviews have said as well. I get a lot of Best Buy rewardzone certs (which is how I got my DS for $80) so I'm thinking I'll wait until it's $20 and use a $5 or $10 cert to get that as well. As far as Tony Hawk, that is probably worth $25 to me, since I've got the PS2 version of the game (though obviously that lacks the additions). $40 as the minimal price, though. Whew!
You raise a number of good points, and I'd like to expand on them a bit.
PSP Game Pricing
Yeah, I know that a standard of $40 (for the "lower tier" priced games such as Lumines) isn't that much higher than the $30 or $35 for GBA and NDS titles. The problem is that the cheapest PSP games are at the $40 price point. I buy a few games each year at their initial price of $50; the rest, I look for sales or wait for Greatest Hits versions. (That's why I can afford a game collection that numbers 300+.) People simply aren't going to buy a ton of games at the $40-$50 price point unless those games stand above the rest. Compare the pricing to NDS titles - $35 at the most (Kirby, Advance Wars), $30 usual price (Nintendogs, Meteos, Nanostray), $20-$25 bargain price (Feel the Magic, Zoo Keeper, etc). You know, I bought my DS a few months after launch and then wondered where the games were. Now I've got about a dozen and am eagerly awaiting at least half a dozen more. Conversely, I got my PSP a few months after launch, bought three games almost immediately, got one for my birthday and then... there's nothing else out! The ones I'm interested in playing I am most certainly not interested in paying $40 (Mercury) or $50 (THUG 2 Remix) for. It's funny, because I felt PSP had such a strong launch (Wipeout, Lumines, MGA) that I was seriously worried for the DS. Now I can see that Nintendo has at least got their act together in the handheld realm and I find myself unenthusiastic about the current state of PSP. (That doesn't mean I don't love the system, but let's get some games out - and get price drops on some of the others!)
UMD Movies
I really am not sure what Sony is trying to do here. Do the movies look excellent on the PSP screen? Yeah, they sure do. The problem is that, again, the pricing is absurd. I'm sure a lot of PSP owners will buy one or two UMD movies (I got one - XXX - as a gag gift on my birthday) and then go back to DVD. You're probably buying the DVD anyway, so why spend double? So if that's not working, Sony surely can't be expecting the UMDs to be a system seller, can they? Not when many DVDs are cheaper than their UMD counterparts and portable DVD players are cheaper than ever (and many are cheaper than the PSP itself). I understand wanting to tout the technical capabilities of the PSP, but for as many of these UMD movies as they are pumping out, do they really expect the market to be there? I really am confused as to what their expectations are for this format.
Why? I thought that you were a law-abiding citizen. Or did you mean that you obey the laws which you consider to be reasonable?;-)
If they started requiring tracking chips in all newborn African American babies, and I'm not an African American baby, then why should I care? Standing against a law doesn't mean that you intend to or regularly do violate said law, only that you disagree with it. For example, I am not sold on the benefits of the HOV system. (You're in VA? You ever take 66 East in the morning?) That doesn't mean I violate the law by traveling by myself in an HOV lane. You can make a reasonable argument against it, as I have many times - but that doesn't mean I violate the law. I don't agree with it, but I'd rather not give the state any of my money, and thus I just take the backroads to work.:)
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
... he says, about the best selling MP3 player, in terms of dollar amount and units sold, of all time.
You know, I remember that day, and I remember being disappointed it wasn't the iWalk from the rumors... and now, of course, I'm on my third iPod (no battery issues, I just can't resist upgrading) and my girlfriend just got an iPod mini (which has me lusting over one for the gym - you can't understand how cool it is until you hold it in your hand). I got my dad and my sister iPods this Christmas season and I'm about to pick one up for a friend. Most of my friends have one too (they got iPod envy after I got my very first 5GB one). Some people just misjudged the importance of the iPod.:)
No, I'm not going to throw the car away eventually, and you technically have destroyed something that's very important to many car owners.
Your analogy is pretty fucking retarded, since when you buy a car, you're buying to get a car. When you buy a CD, you're not buying to get the cellophane. Many times stores put price stickers on the cellophane, thus covering the artwork and making customers less likely to purchase the CD, right?
Besides, "deface" implies destruction of the surface or disfigurement. Placing an easily removed sticker could hardly be considered "defacement" by a reasonable person. For paint to be removed from a car, actual physical damage is done (though in a controlled manner).
I'm glad they constitute "defacement" in your book; fortunately, you don't make the rules. I would be hard pressed to believe that anyone is going to see the sticker and think "Well, gee, since ths is blocking the artwork, I'm not going to buy the CD". Your claims are ridiculous.
Lastly, I'm skeptical that putting stickers on CDs at a record store is actually illegal. I think the most that could happen in this situation is that Wal Mart security asks the offenders to leave the store.
Just because someone does something you find disagreeable doesn't mean it's illegal or even wrong, and stretching the definition of an ugly word to make it fit with what is actually happening makes your argument look pretty weak.
But I'll tell you what; you come spray paint my car (which I find very disagreeable) and I'll put a sticker on a still-sealed CD of yours (which you consider vandalism). We'll both call the police. Tell me if they come take a report for your case.
I think it's difficult to overstate the importance GTA3 had for the PS2. It came totally out of left field to take the world by storm. It reportedly sold over four million copies on pre-order alone and by the time Vice Ciy was announced in May 2002, GTA3 had sold over six million copies. That was about six months after the game launched, for an average of a million units a month.
I'm at work and can't look up all the numbers, but now that it's on the Greatest Hits line and thus has enjoyed the $30 price cut, I'm sure it's enjoying strong sales to this day.
I know at least half a dozen people that bought a PS2 just to play GTA3 - myself included. Sure, I bought other games later, but GTA3 is definitely a system mover.
Why do you think Sony was paying Rockstar/Take Two the big bucks to keep it off the Xbox? GTA is a great exclusive to have because it sells systems.
Again, it's extremely difficult to overstate the importance of GTA3 to the PS2.
I can't say I really care about the fight Downhill Battle is making, but... "vandalism"?
I looked it up, and vandalism is the "willful or malicious destruction of public or private property." I don't see how those stickers are really destroying anything. RIAA's business practices do exploit the artist, and the stickers are making people aware of that. So what? It's not like they're stealing CDs or breaking them. They're putting stickers on cellophane wrappers that are going to be thrown away. BFD.
What's sad is that they're wasting so much of their own time to do it.
What makes you say that? Both Mozilla and Firefox support XPInstall to add components. The only difference I've seen is Firefox has the Extensions tab to show a list of what you've added.
For example, toolbar in Firefox is very easily configured.
If you don't want those features, then don't install them. Do a custom install instead of a full install, and turn off the components you don't want. The extra stuff has been optional for years.
You're either talking about Windows (which I don't use), the net installer (which sucks and doesn't do anything for supporting dependencies or, hey, putting things somewhere where other apps can find them), or the full Linux installer (which, at 13.9 megs, is about twice as big as Firefox).
As I stated before, though, I use Gentoo. Yes, I have Mozilla 1.6 installed, and yes, I compiled it without mail or the HTML editor, and yes, it still takes longer to compile than Firefox. It's also not as fast as Firefox.
I'm not saying Mozilla sucks. I'm writing this on Mozilla 1.6. I'm just saying that Firefox has its strengths over vanilla Mozilla. (Mozilla has its strengths over Firefox, too - if you're looking for the whole suite in one application with a larger development crew behind it, then Mozilla is for you.)
Serious question: Why is Firefox supposed to be "better" than Mozilla?
It's smaller, faster. The UI is more easily configurable. It doesn't include an email app, WYSIWYG HTML editor or IRC client that I'm never going to use. For fellow Gentoo users, it compiles faster. Default theme sucks less than Mozilla's.
Firefox takes dozens of basic features like animated GIF removal away from the configuration panel -- instead you have to know what undocumented value to insert in a hidden configuration screen. Even Internet Explorer offers this option in a mouse-accessible location!
This is being worked on. Firefox is not complete. It is not even "One dot Oh". Firefox is incomplete software. The GUI for preferences is slowly but surely getting better. Mozilla has more people working on it than Firefox does. Eventually Firefox will supplant Mozilla as the official mozilla.org browser. Eventually. Not yet.
Microsoft doesn't require a notice in writing delivered by snail mail for a cancellation, though. It's not underhanded; it's what he agreed to. I agree that it's shitty, but he needs to learn to read agreements that he makes himself subject to. Those were the terms, he said "yes", and now he's upset that he's being held to them.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was indeed a great game, and the ads for it were enough to get my interest up (though IGN's review and a friend's recommendation are what pushed me into actually buying).
I think you're way off base, however, calling Grand Theft Auto: Vice City "some overrated crap game". Vice City, and GTA3 before it, are vast titles that are enjoyable on a number of levels across a huge demographic.
The GTA:VC ad is successful because it conveys very accurately what the game is about. The game is open ended, non-linear, difficult and will require quite some time to complete fully. It's very easy to feel like you've gotten your money's worth with a game such as this, because most people will still be playing it months after they bought it. There's simply so much to do.
After having played it, I can say that I would have spent $100 on Prince of Persia and still felt like I got my money's worth... but it's simply not as deep a game as the recent GTA offerings and its storyline is very linear.
To each their own, of course, but I think calling GTA:VC "some overrated crap game" is both immature and incorrect.
He very specifically omitted keyboard shortcuts as a fix to the problem. He wants to be able to right-click on a web page and hit the "Back" menu item, which doesn't exist in Safari.
2 GameCubes, 2 Xbox, 1 PS2, 2 Dreamcast, 1 Super Nintendo, 1 N64, 1 Saturn, 1 PSX and 1 PSOne. I have another N64 specifically for playing games that don't work without the Expansion Pak, so I don't have to swap it out of the main one when I want to play an older game.
We use all four GameBoy Advance systems (the 3 SP's and the 1 regular) pretty frequently. My girlfriend uses the Fire, I have the Onyx and Platinum, and the glacier GBA is my eReader system, which I use for SMA4:SMB3 and Animal Crossing.
I do basically collect, yes, but I play everything pretty regularly. I pulled out a Genesis a few weeks ago for some WWF Royal Rumble action with a friend, for example, but I don't generally leave it hooked up.
I play the Super Nintendo, GameCube and Xbox most frequently. I'll take a picture of my TV setup and post it later, if you're interested.
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If you are going to feel sorry for iPhone owners, do it because of the price drop today - Apple's way of saying "fuck you" to early adopters.
Don't feel sorry for the million of us that have iPhones, though. They have combined a number of features we have been clamoring for and have done a damn good job of it. Honestly, the phone part of the iPhone is its best part. It is still the best phone I have ever used, even without features I used to rely on - such as the excellent voice dialing of the Motorola E815, Bluetooth synchronization, etc. To be quite honest, the iPod part of the iPhone is where it falls down - not able to manually manage music, not able to create new playlists even though there is a software keyboard, etc. SMS and calling features are pretty awesome.
I think the excitement is that the game can be somewhat difficult to find and this will make it so that anyone with an Xbox 360 can have it almost instantly. Maybe your typical 15 year old 360 gamer has never played SotN, which came out when he was 6. He might see this in the Arcade Marketplace and go "Huh, this looks pretty good, I'll give it a shot."
Old games on new platforms simply creates more options for the end user. I fail to recognize how this is a bad thing.
You also pay 17.5% in VAT. It's not entirely the hardware companies, it's the legislators as well, so let's give credit where credit is due.
Also, the United States market is huge in comparison with the UK market. You guys get shafted, sure, but companies are willing to go lower here because they will move more units, which means moving more games, which is where the money is made.
Besides, you guys paid, at launch, 129 GBP for the GameCube. Not 199, which is what would follow your rule.
So basically, quit your bitching.
I would contend that both Symphony of the Night and Metal Gear Solid have stood the test of time as well. Both N64 and PSX have their great games.
Yes, it is. Ever since Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the 2D Super Metroid-style Castlevania games (Symphony of the Night, Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow) have had a map. That map doesn't show rooms until they're uncovered, or until you stumble upon a map that will show a few more rooms (if you haven't uncovered them already). The game is still about exploration, even with a map. And guess what - if you don't want it on the screen at the same time, turn it off. It's as easy as it ever was - just hit "Select" to toggle it on and off.
I personally know a number of Castlevania fans that were eagerly awaiting Dawn of Sorrow and its always-on map. It's a time saver, especially in vertical columns where one can easily enter the wrong door and get sidetracked for five or ten minutes before realizing their mistake. Additionally, in the Saturn version of Nocturne in the Moonlight, there is a pause of nearly a second between when the map button is hit and when it actually comes up. This is distracting and a waste of time, but having it open all the time removes this hassle. Instead of hitting a button and looking, one can just look.
The on-screen map was a nice bonus. If you don't like it, turn it off. Don't pretend that fans haven't been longing for it, because they have. I personally know a number of them.
So what PSP games are you playing with your friends over the internet?
None, right? Which PSP games support infrastructure wireless co-op or VS play?
That's essentially what the reviews have said as well. I get a lot of Best Buy rewardzone certs (which is how I got my DS for $80) so I'm thinking I'll wait until it's $20 and use a $5 or $10 cert to get that as well. As far as Tony Hawk, that is probably worth $25 to me, since I've got the PS2 version of the game (though obviously that lacks the additions). $40 as the minimal price, though. Whew!
PSP Game Pricing
Yeah, I know that a standard of $40 (for the "lower tier" priced games such as Lumines) isn't that much higher than the $30 or $35 for GBA and NDS titles. The problem is that the cheapest PSP games are at the $40 price point. I buy a few games each year at their initial price of $50; the rest, I look for sales or wait for Greatest Hits versions. (That's why I can afford a game collection that numbers 300+.) People simply aren't going to buy a ton of games at the $40-$50 price point unless those games stand above the rest. Compare the pricing to NDS titles - $35 at the most (Kirby, Advance Wars), $30 usual price (Nintendogs, Meteos, Nanostray), $20-$25 bargain price (Feel the Magic, Zoo Keeper, etc). You know, I bought my DS a few months after launch and then wondered where the games were. Now I've got about a dozen and am eagerly awaiting at least half a dozen more. Conversely, I got my PSP a few months after launch, bought three games almost immediately, got one for my birthday and then... there's nothing else out! The ones I'm interested in playing I am most certainly not interested in paying $40 (Mercury) or $50 (THUG 2 Remix) for. It's funny, because I felt PSP had such a strong launch (Wipeout, Lumines, MGA) that I was seriously worried for the DS. Now I can see that Nintendo has at least got their act together in the handheld realm and I find myself unenthusiastic about the current state of PSP. (That doesn't mean I don't love the system, but let's get some games out - and get price drops on some of the others!)
UMD Movies
I really am not sure what Sony is trying to do here. Do the movies look excellent on the PSP screen? Yeah, they sure do. The problem is that, again, the pricing is absurd. I'm sure a lot of PSP owners will buy one or two UMD movies (I got one - XXX - as a gag gift on my birthday) and then go back to DVD. You're probably buying the DVD anyway, so why spend double? So if that's not working, Sony surely can't be expecting the UMDs to be a system seller, can they? Not when many DVDs are cheaper than their UMD counterparts and portable DVD players are cheaper than ever (and many are cheaper than the PSP itself). I understand wanting to tout the technical capabilities of the PSP, but for as many of these UMD movies as they are pumping out, do they really expect the market to be there? I really am confused as to what their expectations are for this format.
They have the freedom to not release their work as open source. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm lost, man. Where are you finding this?
If they started requiring tracking chips in all newborn African American babies, and I'm not an African American baby, then why should I care? Standing against a law doesn't mean that you intend to or regularly do violate said law, only that you disagree with it. For example, I am not sold on the benefits of the HOV system. (You're in VA? You ever take 66 East in the morning?) That doesn't mean I violate the law by traveling by myself in an HOV lane. You can make a reasonable argument against it, as I have many times - but that doesn't mean I violate the law. I don't agree with it, but I'd rather not give the state any of my money, and thus I just take the backroads to work.
You know, I remember that day, and I remember being disappointed it wasn't the iWalk from the rumors... and now, of course, I'm on my third iPod (no battery issues, I just can't resist upgrading) and my girlfriend just got an iPod mini (which has me lusting over one for the gym - you can't understand how cool it is until you hold it in your hand). I got my dad and my sister iPods this Christmas season and I'm about to pick one up for a friend. Most of my friends have one too (they got iPod envy after I got my very first 5GB one). Some people just misjudged the importance of the iPod.
...followed in 2006 by Longhorn, aka "Microsoft XP Revolutions"
If you read the article, you would know that this is basically how it works now.
No, I'm not going to throw the car away eventually, and you technically have destroyed something that's very important to many car owners.
Your analogy is pretty fucking retarded, since when you buy a car, you're buying to get a car. When you buy a CD, you're not buying to get the cellophane. Many times stores put price stickers on the cellophane, thus covering the artwork and making customers less likely to purchase the CD, right?
Besides, "deface" implies destruction of the surface or disfigurement. Placing an easily removed sticker could hardly be considered "defacement" by a reasonable person. For paint to be removed from a car, actual physical damage is done (though in a controlled manner).
I'm glad they constitute "defacement" in your book; fortunately, you don't make the rules. I would be hard pressed to believe that anyone is going to see the sticker and think "Well, gee, since ths is blocking the artwork, I'm not going to buy the CD". Your claims are ridiculous.
Lastly, I'm skeptical that putting stickers on CDs at a record store is actually illegal. I think the most that could happen in this situation is that Wal Mart security asks the offenders to leave the store.
Just because someone does something you find disagreeable doesn't mean it's illegal or even wrong, and stretching the definition of an ugly word to make it fit with what is actually happening makes your argument look pretty weak.
But I'll tell you what; you come spray paint my car (which I find very disagreeable) and I'll put a sticker on a still-sealed CD of yours (which you consider vandalism). We'll both call the police. Tell me if they come take a report for your case.
I think it's difficult to overstate the importance GTA3 had for the PS2. It came totally out of left field to take the world by storm. It reportedly sold over four million copies on pre-order alone and by the time Vice Ciy was announced in May 2002, GTA3 had sold over six million copies. That was about six months after the game launched, for an average of a million units a month.
I'm at work and can't look up all the numbers, but now that it's on the Greatest Hits line and thus has enjoyed the $30 price cut, I'm sure it's enjoying strong sales to this day.
I know at least half a dozen people that bought a PS2 just to play GTA3 - myself included. Sure, I bought other games later, but GTA3 is definitely a system mover.
Why do you think Sony was paying Rockstar/Take Two the big bucks to keep it off the Xbox? GTA is a great exclusive to have because it sells systems.
Again, it's extremely difficult to overstate the importance of GTA3 to the PS2.
I can't say I really care about the fight Downhill Battle is making, but... "vandalism"?
I looked it up, and vandalism is the "willful or malicious destruction of public or private property." I don't see how those stickers are really destroying anything. RIAA's business practices do exploit the artist, and the stickers are making people aware of that. So what? It's not like they're stealing CDs or breaking them. They're putting stickers on cellophane wrappers that are going to be thrown away. BFD.
What's sad is that they're wasting so much of their own time to do it.
Way to repeat what other people said and what I've already addressed in responses to them.
Go back to my original post, read the two other responses besides yours, and then read my response.
What makes you say that? Both Mozilla and Firefox support XPInstall to add components. The only difference I've seen is Firefox has the Extensions tab to show a list of what you've added.
For example, toolbar in Firefox is very easily configured.
If you don't want those features, then don't install them. Do a custom install instead of a full install, and turn off the components you don't want. The extra stuff has been optional for years.
You're either talking about Windows (which I don't use), the net installer (which sucks and doesn't do anything for supporting dependencies or, hey, putting things somewhere where other apps can find them), or the full Linux installer (which, at 13.9 megs, is about twice as big as Firefox).
As I stated before, though, I use Gentoo. Yes, I have Mozilla 1.6 installed, and yes, I compiled it without mail or the HTML editor, and yes, it still takes longer to compile than Firefox. It's also not as fast as Firefox.
I'm not saying Mozilla sucks. I'm writing this on Mozilla 1.6. I'm just saying that Firefox has its strengths over vanilla Mozilla. (Mozilla has its strengths over Firefox, too - if you're looking for the whole suite in one application with a larger development crew behind it, then Mozilla is for you.)
Serious question: Why is Firefox supposed to be "better" than Mozilla?
It's smaller, faster. The UI is more easily configurable. It doesn't include an email app, WYSIWYG HTML editor or IRC client that I'm never going to use. For fellow Gentoo users, it compiles faster. Default theme sucks less than Mozilla's.
Firefox takes dozens of basic features like animated GIF removal away from the configuration panel -- instead you have to know what undocumented value to insert in a hidden configuration screen. Even Internet Explorer offers this option in a mouse-accessible location!
This is being worked on. Firefox is not complete. It is not even "One dot Oh". Firefox is incomplete software. The GUI for preferences is slowly but surely getting better. Mozilla has more people working on it than Firefox does. Eventually Firefox will supplant Mozilla as the official mozilla.org browser. Eventually. Not yet.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
Microsoft doesn't require a notice in writing delivered by snail mail for a cancellation, though. It's not underhanded; it's what he agreed to. I agree that it's shitty, but he needs to learn to read agreements that he makes himself subject to. Those were the terms, he said "yes", and now he's upset that he's being held to them.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was indeed a great game, and the ads for it were enough to get my interest up (though IGN's review and a friend's recommendation are what pushed me into actually buying).
I think you're way off base, however, calling Grand Theft Auto: Vice City "some overrated crap game". Vice City, and GTA3 before it, are vast titles that are enjoyable on a number of levels across a huge demographic.
The GTA:VC ad is successful because it conveys very accurately what the game is about. The game is open ended, non-linear, difficult and will require quite some time to complete fully. It's very easy to feel like you've gotten your money's worth with a game such as this, because most people will still be playing it months after they bought it. There's simply so much to do.
After having played it, I can say that I would have spent $100 on Prince of Persia and still felt like I got my money's worth... but it's simply not as deep a game as the recent GTA offerings and its storyline is very linear.
To each their own, of course, but I think calling GTA:VC "some overrated crap game" is both immature and incorrect.
He very specifically omitted keyboard shortcuts as a fix to the problem. He wants to be able to right-click on a web page and hit the "Back" menu item, which doesn't exist in Safari.
No.
Currently hooked up I have:
2 GameCubes, 2 Xbox, 1 PS2, 2 Dreamcast, 1 Super Nintendo, 1 N64, 1 Saturn, 1 PSX and 1 PSOne. I have another N64 specifically for playing games that don't work without the Expansion Pak, so I don't have to swap it out of the main one when I want to play an older game.
We use all four GameBoy Advance systems (the 3 SP's and the 1 regular) pretty frequently. My girlfriend uses the Fire, I have the Onyx and Platinum, and the glacier GBA is my eReader system, which I use for SMA4:SMB3 and Animal Crossing.
I do basically collect, yes, but I play everything pretty regularly. I pulled out a Genesis a few weeks ago for some WWF Royal Rumble action with a friend, for example, but I don't generally leave it hooked up.
I play the Super Nintendo, GameCube and Xbox most frequently. I'll take a picture of my TV setup and post it later, if you're interested.