Which is why the USA is not a democracy, because as the founders put it that would lead to mob rule and the tyranny of the majority. It's why we have a senate, in addition to the house, and it's why we have the electoral college.
This is the most misleading Slashdot article I have ever read.
If you actually look at their site they are also monitoring elections in France, Canada, Greece, Spain, and Australia. Hardly "third world countries", and I don't remember any recent civil wars in them either.
Let's just forget the fact that they're making the linux and osx binaries practically for free, and that 95% of games never even have a linux client so that we can cry and whine that it's taking more than a week for them to come out.
With the way media companies are acting now, I don't expect Sony to release any recorders or recordable version of their PSP discs. It would make it too easy to pirate the games.
Because they were going for "best playable IQ" as they call it, the benchmarks are EXTREMELY hard to compare. I would not be able to use this myself to determine a future hardware purchase. Rather, I find this more useful as a "will Doom3 play well on my computer" article. For that it is quite useful. As for my next hardware purchase, I'll wait for the traditional timedemo benchmarks with the tests all at the same IQ level.
Quake 2 was just supposed to be a working title, and Doom3 was never supposed to have that title. Id went out of their way to call Doom3 "the new Doom game" instead of "Doom3" before they just gave up and stuck with it. I think I remember reading something about Quake 2's tentative title already being trademarked or copyrighted so Id just went with what everyone was calling it anyway.
Because people are always dying to re-purchase what they already own in an entirely new media format just so they can watch/listen to it on their game device when they probably already own a portable MP3 and/or CD player, and most of the movies they would want to watch on DVD and/or VHS.
Yes, movies and music are exactly why people will buy the PSP.
If you look at the current crop of GBA games it's pretty much exactly the same thing. Maybe 1/25 is actually even worth looking at, and most of them are SNES or PSX ports or pseudo sequels.
Uh... totally ignoring all the GB games playable on the GBA, there are still hundreds of games of pretty much every genre ever released on a console, so what exactly are your gaming tastes? MMORPGS? RTS's? Flight sims?
If you read the recent HardOCP article instead of just looking at the bench marks you'd see they do plan on making a "Doom3 hardware guide" in which they will (presumably) benchmark the game on a variety of available hardware.
It was "Maddoc" (something like that) that dropped the ball on single player. Activision didn't think the game could stand on it's own as a multiplayer title, I assume, and released it for free.
If YOU had read the article you could see that it was (intentionally?) extremely vague. It said it would be the first Doom3 tournament and that no one would have time to "master" the game. I don't know anyone who can master a DM game in a few months much less a few weeks or days.
Further, pretty much everyone who went to QuakeCon last year got a chance to preview Doom3 DM (including me).
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Which is why the USA is not a democracy, because as the founders put it that would lead to mob rule and the tyranny of the majority. It's why we have a senate, in addition to the house, and it's why we have the electoral college.
This is the only intelligent post I have ever read in the politics section of slashdot.
Or, they could NOT COMMIT FELONIES. You're a troll anyway (look at his comment history).
Two games:
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda: Four Swords.
Only now no longer limited to a TV, and (possibly) only four players, and needing to buy like ten accessories.
I realize these games are basically at "rumor" stage for the DS now, but if and when they come out, I WILL buy a DS. Maybe two.
Erm, that was Austria not Australia. Whoops.
This is the most misleading Slashdot article I have ever read.
If you actually look at their site they are also monitoring elections in France, Canada, Greece, Spain, and Australia. Hardly "third world countries", and I don't remember any recent civil wars in them either.
Let's just forget the fact that they're making the linux and osx binaries practically for free, and that 95% of games never even have a linux client so that we can cry and whine that it's taking more than a week for them to come out.
Not Id's ineffective copy protection, Macrovision's ineffective copy protection that Activision forces upon its developers.
With the way media companies are acting now, I don't expect Sony to release any recorders or recordable version of their PSP discs. It would make it too easy to pirate the games.
Because they were going for "best playable IQ" as they call it, the benchmarks are EXTREMELY hard to compare. I would not be able to use this myself to determine a future hardware purchase. Rather, I find this more useful as a "will Doom3 play well on my computer" article. For that it is quite useful. As for my next hardware purchase, I'll wait for the traditional timedemo benchmarks with the tests all at the same IQ level.
For $25 and some work I just installed an Afterburner in mine.
Quake 2 was just supposed to be a working title, and Doom3 was never supposed to have that title. Id went out of their way to call Doom3 "the new Doom game" instead of "Doom3" before they just gave up and stuck with it. I think I remember reading something about Quake 2's tentative title already being trademarked or copyrighted so Id just went with what everyone was calling it anyway.
Because people are always dying to re-purchase what they already own in an entirely new media format just so they can watch/listen to it on their game device when they probably already own a portable MP3 and/or CD player, and most of the movies they would want to watch on DVD and/or VHS.
Yes, movies and music are exactly why people will buy the PSP.
If you look at the current crop of GBA games it's pretty much exactly the same thing. Maybe 1/25 is actually even worth looking at, and most of them are SNES or PSX ports or pseudo sequels.
Have fun ruining your eyes.
Uh... totally ignoring all the GB games playable on the GBA, there are still hundreds of games of pretty much every genre ever released on a console, so what exactly are your gaming tastes? MMORPGS? RTS's? Flight sims?
If you read the recent HardOCP article instead of just looking at the bench marks you'd see they do plan on making a "Doom3 hardware guide" in which they will (presumably) benchmark the game on a variety of available hardware.
It already is being used for video. Look for the extension "ogm"
I take it you weren't paying attention when it was revealed that this would be the first Id game with a plot and characters.
It was "Maddoc" (something like that) that dropped the ball on single player. Activision didn't think the game could stand on it's own as a multiplayer title, I assume, and released it for free.
There really wasn't any information in the article that I hadn't heard when it was first announced at E3.
Sup NoSoup!
Hey look, it's a bitter RTCW player! ;)
Seriously though, I too am disappointed they won't be having a RTCW or ET tourney.
If YOU had read the article you could see that it was (intentionally?) extremely vague. It said it would be the first Doom3 tournament and that no one would have time to "master" the game. I don't know anyone who can master a DM game in a few months much less a few weeks or days. Further, pretty much everyone who went to QuakeCon last year got a chance to preview Doom3 DM (including me).
Just buy a GP32.