I think you played a different Google Pacman than I did. Granted, the layout is "bad", but that's because it has to spell out the company name. Other than that, the ghosts seemed to generally chase as well as the originals and they absolutely did not "stay blue forever".
The main difference to me is that it felt like the game was in slow motion (including Pacman) but that might just be the size.
Why is this post insightful? I live in America. Most people do not care. I live with these people every day, and all you have to go on is the news which primarily covers the extreme 5% on either side.
Occasionally giving the kid a happy meal is not the problem. Kids who eat mcdonalds once a week or less are not going to become obese just from that. Again, this law solves NOTHING. The kids who get fat from mcdonalds are the ones who eat there 4 times a week or more every week and whose parents don't understand about or don't care about nutrition are the ones who are the problem and taking away the toy isn't going to change anything for them. They eat mdconalds because they're too lazy or ignorant or poor or whatever the excuse is to cook a decent meal on their own.
If the parents are too dumb/irresponsible to know how to feed their children correctly, they're still going to buy them happy meals with or without the toy. This law doesn't solve anything.
I'm curious, which offense was it that caused you to boycott? It seems like the rootkit DRM thing was more recent than 10 years (could be remembering wrong, too lazy to look it up). Something Everquest related?
When I choose my words carefully in order to not offend someone that I don't know well, that's censorship. If the reason for omitting the material is the potential to offend, it's censorship. People have become really retarded about the definition of this word due to the negative implications of governmental censorship.
Even Hexen 1 had the level hubs you could return to. That was actually the focus of a lot of the puzzles in the game. Go to a different level to trigger something in the hub level or a different level accessible from the hub.
There's a reason why the crowbar has become a truly iconic weapon... While the nail gun has been all-but forgotten.
That's because what became Quake's signature weapon was not the nailgun, it was the rocket launcher, which is still pretty fucking iconic when you consider the relative (overall) popularity of the two game series. TF2 has an entire class built around just the Quake rocket launcher.
April first is a really unfortunate date to publish any article on the internet that isn't a joke. The whole day has basically been ruined by people taking April Fools too far.
This is not false advertising because the box art is not intended to advertise for the secondary market. It's intended to advertise for the initial retail market. If the game box original came with a cloth map, and the person who sold the game to Gamestop kept the map, they couldn't very well remove the part of the box art that claims there's a cloth map inside the box. They could possibly put a warning on the box or inform customers in a more general sense the they can't promise used games will still contain the extras that were originally included in the box, but they would still not be responsible for the original box art now being inaccurate (and nor would the original game company be responsible since originally the box did have a cloth map in it).
This is exactly the same situation. There was an extra included in the original packaging. The initial buyer kept the extra and resold the game to a secondary retailer. Secondary retail sells used game "as is". The DLC (at least the EA games I've seen so far that include it) is not required to play the game, just like the cloth map is not required to play the game. It's just an extra to give you some incentive to purchase a new copy instead of a used copy.
The first thing I thought when I saw this article was "this is going to get thrown out".
Look at the numbers for 2008. 700 million vs. 22 billion. We're talking orders of magnitude. Even if you say that that ignores online casual gaming and digital downloads, and free games, there's simply no way the numbers could possibly catch up. And there's no metric by which you can convert these numbers from "income earned" to "number of users" that does not still have consoles completely crushing PC games (and the majority of those methods are not easily quantifiable the way revenue is).
And let's not ignore the fact that the original quote was "open source models". If you actually go into open source games you're looking at something like 0.001% of users (to be generous).
If you believe that, you're a bit out of touch with reality
You've got to be kidding me. Console games almost completely crush PC games in market share these days, with the only thing keeping PC games afloat being The Sims and WoW. And that's before you include the iPhone as a "console".
Don't blame WoW players for this. The use of "glitch" instead of bug is, and has been, extremely prevalent in console communities since the N64 days.
There is some usefulness to the term "glitch" in the context it's often used for in console games, though. There are a lot of things that players can do to break the game in certain ways that don't necessarily fall into the realm of something that should or even can be fixed by a developer. Things that are the equivalent of shifting your NES cartridge left and right while the game is running do not, in my opinion, fall into the realm of "bugs". By using "glitch", the users can include that type of crap under the same umbrella as legitimate bugs.
Anyway, my main point was don't fucking blame WoW players for that shit.
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I just reproduced the "blue forever" bug in 2 player mode (it's pretty obvious how to trigger it), but have yet to see it in the normal mode.
I still say the ghost AI is pretty close.
I think you played a different Google Pacman than I did. Granted, the layout is "bad", but that's because it has to spell out the company name. Other than that, the ghosts seemed to generally chase as well as the originals and they absolutely did not "stay blue forever".
The main difference to me is that it felt like the game was in slow motion (including Pacman) but that might just be the size.
You have daggers?
Why is this post insightful? I live in America. Most people do not care. I live with these people every day, and all you have to go on is the news which primarily covers the extreme 5% on either side.
Science never proves anything right. It only proves things wrong or not yet wrong.
This is the exact post I was going to make, except my example was Pictionary.
Is that a good idea for getting your kids a little more exercise? Sure, why not. Should it be a law? Fuck no.
That's exactly the AC's point.
Occasionally giving the kid a happy meal is not the problem. Kids who eat mcdonalds once a week or less are not going to become obese just from that. Again, this law solves NOTHING. The kids who get fat from mcdonalds are the ones who eat there 4 times a week or more every week and whose parents don't understand about or don't care about nutrition are the ones who are the problem and taking away the toy isn't going to change anything for them. They eat mdconalds because they're too lazy or ignorant or poor or whatever the excuse is to cook a decent meal on their own.
If the parents are too dumb/irresponsible to know how to feed their children correctly, they're still going to buy them happy meals with or without the toy. This law doesn't solve anything.
Looks like a commercial game from 2003.
I'm curious, which offense was it that caused you to boycott? It seems like the rootkit DRM thing was more recent than 10 years (could be remembering wrong, too lazy to look it up). Something Everquest related?
Agree with 1 and 3. Houston I'm not sold on. A lot more people would have the opportunity to see it in NYC than Houston.
When I choose my words carefully in order to not offend someone that I don't know well, that's censorship. If the reason for omitting the material is the potential to offend, it's censorship. People have become really retarded about the definition of this word due to the negative implications of governmental censorship.
Even Hexen 1 had the level hubs you could return to. That was actually the focus of a lot of the puzzles in the game. Go to a different level to trigger something in the hub level or a different level accessible from the hub.
And don't forget about Strife.
That's because what became Quake's signature weapon was not the nailgun, it was the rocket launcher, which is still pretty fucking iconic when you consider the relative (overall) popularity of the two game series. TF2 has an entire class built around just the Quake rocket launcher.
April first is a really unfortunate date to publish any article on the internet that isn't a joke. The whole day has basically been ruined by people taking April Fools too far.
Then he could elect not to have his vision corrected.
This is not false advertising because the box art is not intended to advertise for the secondary market. It's intended to advertise for the initial retail market. If the game box original came with a cloth map, and the person who sold the game to Gamestop kept the map, they couldn't very well remove the part of the box art that claims there's a cloth map inside the box. They could possibly put a warning on the box or inform customers in a more general sense the they can't promise used games will still contain the extras that were originally included in the box, but they would still not be responsible for the original box art now being inaccurate (and nor would the original game company be responsible since originally the box did have a cloth map in it).
This is exactly the same situation. There was an extra included in the original packaging. The initial buyer kept the extra and resold the game to a secondary retailer. Secondary retail sells used game "as is". The DLC (at least the EA games I've seen so far that include it) is not required to play the game, just like the cloth map is not required to play the game. It's just an extra to give you some incentive to purchase a new copy instead of a used copy.
The first thing I thought when I saw this article was "this is going to get thrown out".
The "100 million sales" Sims data is over the course of like 9 years.
Look at the numbers for 2008. 700 million vs. 22 billion. We're talking orders of magnitude. Even if you say that that ignores online casual gaming and digital downloads, and free games, there's simply no way the numbers could possibly catch up. And there's no metric by which you can convert these numbers from "income earned" to "number of users" that does not still have consoles completely crushing PC games (and the majority of those methods are not easily quantifiable the way revenue is).
And let's not ignore the fact that the original quote was "open source models". If you actually go into open source games you're looking at something like 0.001% of users (to be generous).
You've got to be kidding me. Console games almost completely crush PC games in market share these days, with the only thing keeping PC games afloat being The Sims and WoW. And that's before you include the iPhone as a "console".
See: http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=44
I just assumed it was going to be a Sony Station/360 Arcade game.
And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
Don't blame WoW players for this. The use of "glitch" instead of bug is, and has been, extremely prevalent in console communities since the N64 days.
There is some usefulness to the term "glitch" in the context it's often used for in console games, though. There are a lot of things that players can do to break the game in certain ways that don't necessarily fall into the realm of something that should or even can be fixed by a developer. Things that are the equivalent of shifting your NES cartridge left and right while the game is running do not, in my opinion, fall into the realm of "bugs". By using "glitch", the users can include that type of crap under the same umbrella as legitimate bugs.
Anyway, my main point was don't fucking blame WoW players for that shit.