...that Nintendo would actually release a system when they say they will? For any Nintendo hardware "release", add at least a year onto their promise and you'll have the date... if you're lucky.
Well, since PlayStation went and fell into the mainstream, it seems everyone wants to take a stab at making a game system.
Please, for the sake of the industry, don't.
The Sony Sega Nintendo traingle is already enough competition as it is, and if any more companies try to get in I think we'll see a massive breakdown. I'm not talking about a total collapse, but consumers will get fed up and stick to one single system.
We've already got NUON to worry about, though it's about as much of a game system as those games in my Nokia phone, so I really hope X-Box stays where it's been for the last 6 months: in Microsoft's little development rec room.
Lunar: Silver Star Story is what I'm playing the hell out of right now. I've wanted to play that game since it came out 8 years ago, but I didn't have a Sega CD. When it was re-released on PSX last year, I didn't have the money for it, but I managed to pick up a copy a couple of weeks ago.
After an 8 year wait to play this game, I am not disappointed... how many games can you say something like that about these days? It's much better than the $25,000,000 budgeted Final Fantasy VIII.
Another thing we need: more 2D games! Sprite-based games rule, but stupid kids fail to relise it!
(PS: FFII US is FFIV JP, and FFIII US is FFVI JP. FFV is the one that was never released here until Anthology.)
Kids these days are idiots. They won't touch any game unless it's been advertised to death, and has the most spectacular graphics. They don't know anything about quality.
Every 3 months another 3D accellerator card come out that's twice as powerful as the one before it. I'm doing fine with a Matrox Mystique 220. (But, then again, I don't play PC games.)
It appals me that another needless Tomb Raider can sell so many copies.
Everyone says Final Fantasy VIII is such a great game... it's crap. Compare it to FFVI (FFIII in the US) on SNES, and it pales in comparison. (Of course, all these stupid kids will hate FFVI because the graphics "suck".)
Even the brand-new Dreamcast suffered a bit because of spec-monkeys, who would rather wait an extra year and pay $500 for a PS2 with only marginally better performance.
All these idiots want more than the industry can offer them. The kiddies with deep pockets ruin it for those with little cash. The masses who eat up all fancy-looking crap ruin it for those who like a well-done game.
We could do anything possible to reform the game industry, but it wouldn't make any difference: the mass of the consumers are stupid tards.
Long live the hardcore gamer, for he/she will still be there when the industry falls.
(Sorry for the rambling, but I just got up. Spent a while last night playing a game from "way back" in 1991.)
ya, I know all about those DJ tape-pullings in Toronto. I went to get my brother a mix tape in the city one day, and got it just fine. The next day I went back to buy him another (he forgot to tell me about) and it was a different guy at the store, and he told me they didn't have DJ tapes. They won't sell you tapes if they have any suspicion of you being an "informant".
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I'm Canadian, and I have a dutch father. I have been over to Holland many times, and I can tell you that abstract art is everywhere. The most notable example is their money. The latest generation of paper money has no picture of any person on it, except for maybe a watermark. It's designed of shapes and stuff, sort of Escher-inspired.
It's a definitely a cultural thing, and I'm happy I've absorbed alot of it.
I thought it would be appropriate for me to reply to this post, seing as I chose that name.
Rurouni Kenshin is one of my all-time favourite anime series. It's coming to the US and Canada soon, and I REALLY hope they don't screw it up.
(of course, the manga is better:-)
I saw Mononome Hime at two of my anime clubs last year, and I must say that it is an excellent movie. I will not pass up the cahnce to see it if it comes to a theatre around here. I'm not sure if it's showing in Toronto or not.
Personally I think it's all a load of corporate PR hype. Some people a while back tried to get away with calling The Blair Witch Project the first "web film".
But then again, I guess with "tv movies", "web films" aren't that dumb... unless you're on a phone modem.
Personally I would rather not sit in front of my PC screen for two hours to watch a movie.
(not fully concious yet, not capable of good argument)
I know someone who's had a cablemodem in my town for about 3 years. Now just about everyone I know has either a cablemodem or ADSL.
With both going for $39.95/month (about $26 US) with free installation and no equipment rental, how can you justify getting a 2nd phoneline ($20/month) and Dial-up ISP ($19.95/month).
The same thing has happened with PCS phones around here, everyone in my family and everyone I know has one. The reason is because it's only $20/month for 200 minutes, and no contract. And if that's too much for you, you can get a "pay-as-you-go" service. There's also healthy competition, with four major wireless companies.
Lowering the costs of technology, and making it widely available, causes people to adopt it more readily. Now I can't wait for digital radios to go down in price, since every radio station in Toronto is now broadcasting in digital.
Jacob Rens Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
It was at the request of the client that we test the website under AOL. They pay the bucks, we don't question it. (Sorry, got offtopic, won't do it again... for a while)
Jacob Rens Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
AOL is it's current form doesn't work with the Dreamcast, but they could easily port it over using WinCE. Also, AOL can work over TCP/IP (that's how we used it at work to test websites under it), so it could be enabled to use the Dreamcast's native internet support. You're not required to dial into Sega's net service, you can choose your own ISP.
Don't underestimate AOL, we all hate them, but they're the biggest "ISP". There's already 300,000 Dreamcasts operating in the US and Canada, and that's one large and easy market for them to go after. Pop in the disc, and turn it on. Jacob Rens Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
The Dreamcast is fairly modular, including an easily removable 56k modem. Since alot of home users are switching to broadband access, you can bet Sega will release an Ethernet adapter you can pop into there in about 5 seconds.
Sega also says that you'll eventually be able to upgrade their GD-ROM Drive (custom 1GB CDs) to an actual DVD-ROM drive, but I don't know how they would go about it.
I guess I am no longer in the gaming majority, but that suits me just fine. Being "normal" means you buy crap mainstream games, being deviant means you buy whatever suits your fancy:-)
- Jacob Rens, Deviant and proud of it The Next Level, Videogame News and Info
Microsoft's tactics at their finest: I just tried going to that site, and what did I get instead?
"Your browser and/or operating system will have trouble displaying this Web site. Some features may not work correctly, and you may see errors or poorly formatted pages. In extreme cases, your browser or computer may crash."
I use the Opera webbrowser, because due to some horrible memory leak in Win98, Netscape and IE are just too bloated and act super-slow.
The site gives me two buttons to click: "Ignore this warning and proceed at your own risk", and "Download Internet Explorer 5". The first button does nothing, I have yet to click on the second button.
Typical "Your browser is inferior" FUD from Microsoft...
This makes me happy I'm in Cogeco's domain instead of Rogers'. I tolerate (barely) having M$ products on my PC, but I wouldn't be able to stand having it on my TV.
This is how I currently recover after a power outage: turn on my TV, and ask it to auto-program the channels. I can't imagine what would happen to an M$ box after a power outage...
(Shaw's gota "digital cable", I wonder how that works...)
You may be right about "coder" having a better face image than "hacker", but it just doesn't carry the same feeling.
Say these two things out loud: "I'm a coder" "I'm a hacker"
Now, which one makes you want to sit back all night in front of your computer with a pack of cola? Some people may prefer to be generically called a "coder", but the "hacker" title carries alot more weight and culture.
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Yes, but PS2 will still cost a fraction of the price of a fully decked-out PC.
No one seems to have a problem with the name... but the paper sucks. (I used to deliver it ages ago.)
...that Nintendo would actually release a system when they say they will? For any Nintendo hardware "release", add at least a year onto their promise and you'll have the date... if you're lucky.
Please, for the sake of the industry, don't.
The Sony Sega Nintendo traingle is already enough competition as it is, and if any more companies try to get in I think we'll see a massive breakdown. I'm not talking about a total collapse, but consumers will get fed up and stick to one single system.
We've already got NUON to worry about, though it's about as much of a game system as those games in my Nokia phone, so I really hope X-Box stays where it's been for the last 6 months: in Microsoft's little development rec room.
LamerNet, the lost continent of idiots, always plotting ways to invade the better continents.
AOLnet, don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.
After an 8 year wait to play this game, I am not disappointed... how many games can you say something like that about these days? It's much better than the $25,000,000 budgeted Final Fantasy VIII.
Another thing we need: more 2D games! Sprite-based games rule, but stupid kids fail to relise it!
(PS: FFII US is FFIV JP, and FFIII US is FFVI JP. FFV is the one that was never released here until Anthology.)
Every 3 months another 3D accellerator card come out that's twice as powerful as the one before it. I'm doing fine with a Matrox Mystique 220. (But, then again, I don't play PC games.)
It appals me that another needless Tomb Raider can sell so many copies.
Everyone says Final Fantasy VIII is such a great game... it's crap. Compare it to FFVI (FFIII in the US) on SNES, and it pales in comparison. (Of course, all these stupid kids will hate FFVI because the graphics "suck".)
Even the brand-new Dreamcast suffered a bit because of spec-monkeys, who would rather wait an extra year and pay $500 for a PS2 with only marginally better performance.
All these idiots want more than the industry can offer them. The kiddies with deep pockets ruin it for those with little cash. The masses who eat up all fancy-looking crap ruin it for those who like a well-done game.
We could do anything possible to reform the game industry, but it wouldn't make any difference: the mass of the consumers are stupid tards.
Long live the hardcore gamer, for he/she will still be there when the industry falls.
(Sorry for the rambling, but I just got up. Spent a while last night playing a game from "way back" in 1991.)
The Next Level, Daily Videogame News and Info.
http://the-nextlevel.com
Leela: "ok guys, we've got a delivery to make."
Bender: "Nope. Watching cartoons."
ya, I know all about those DJ tape-pullings in Toronto. I went to get my brother a mix tape in the city one day, and got it just fine. The next day I went back to buy him another (he forgot to tell me about) and it was a different guy at the store, and he told me they didn't have DJ tapes. They won't sell you tapes if they have any suspicion of you being an "informant".
It's a definitely a cultural thing, and I'm happy I've absorbed alot of it.
When Mozilla's beta release comes rolling around, we'll see who's got the goods.
Rurouni Kenshin is one of my all-time favourite anime series. It's coming to the US and Canada soon, and I REALLY hope they don't screw it up.
(of course, the manga is better :-)
I saw Mononome Hime at two of my anime clubs last year, and I must say that it is an excellent movie. I will not pass up the cahnce to see it if it comes to a theatre around here. I'm not sure if it's showing in Toronto or not.
But then again, I guess with "tv movies", "web films" aren't that dumb... unless you're on a phone modem.
Personally I would rather not sit in front of my PC screen for two hours to watch a movie.
(not fully concious yet, not capable of good argument)
With both going for $39.95/month (about $26 US) with free installation and no equipment rental, how can you justify getting a 2nd phoneline ($20/month) and Dial-up ISP ($19.95/month).
The same thing has happened with PCS phones around here, everyone in my family and everyone I know has one. The reason is because it's only $20/month for 200 minutes, and no contract. And if that's too much for you, you can get a "pay-as-you-go" service. There's also healthy competition, with four major wireless companies.
Lowering the costs of technology, and making it widely available, causes people to adopt it more readily. Now I can't wait for digital radios to go down in price, since every radio station in Toronto is now broadcasting in digital.
Jacob Rens
Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
I've written up a news story about the announcement on my site, The Next Level, so go take a look at it.
Jacob Rens
Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
Jacob Rens
Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
Don't underestimate AOL, we all hate them, but they're the biggest "ISP". There's already 300,000 Dreamcasts operating in the US and Canada, and that's one large and easy market for them to go after. Pop in the disc, and turn it on. Jacob Rens Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
Their ads jokingly say that it knows everything about you, but maybe it's logged into some vast database Sega has assembled with everything about you.
Hmm... trading info back and forth between the machine and the server while you play. Major conspiricy theory stuff here ;-)
- Jacob Rens
Daily Videogame News and Info: http://www.the-nextlevel.com
You can bet anything AOL's gonna start distributing "50 Free Hours!" AOL Dreamcast GD-ROMs in every gaming magazine soon...
Sega also says that you'll eventually be able to upgrade their GD-ROM Drive (custom 1GB CDs) to an actual DVD-ROM drive, but I don't know how they would go about it.
- Jacob Rens, Deviant and proud of it
The Next Level, Videogame News and Info
"Your browser and/or operating system will have trouble displaying this Web site. Some features may not work correctly, and you may see errors or poorly formatted pages. In extreme cases, your browser or computer may crash."
http://beta.c ommunities.msn.com/central/helium/en-us/uni/bwarni ng.htm
I use the Opera webbrowser, because due to some horrible memory leak in Win98, Netscape and IE are just too bloated and act super-slow.
The site gives me two buttons to click: "Ignore this warning and proceed at your own risk", and "Download Internet Explorer 5". The first button does nothing, I have yet to click on the second button.
Typical "Your browser is inferior" FUD from Microsoft...
- Jacob Rens
Yes! Some good news! I've been missing The Onion's humour, the lack of it has been having a negative effect on me! Time to go over there and refuel...
This is how I currently recover after a power outage: turn on my TV, and ask it to auto-program the channels. I can't imagine what would happen to an M$ box after a power outage...
(Shaw's gota "digital cable", I wonder how that works...)
Say these two things out loud:
"I'm a coder"
"I'm a hacker"
Now, which one makes you want to sit back all night in front of your computer with a pack of cola? Some people may prefer to be generically called a "coder", but the "hacker" title carries alot more weight and culture.