...frankly, it's not that much better than the first. New characters, yes, but the textures, at least on the Xbox version (which is the only one I've seen, as it's the one my local game store has the demo for) on the characters are really really flat. The models themselves are smooth, and move just as gracefully as ever, but they look like they're molded out of liquid plastic. Hard to explain, but it feels like they either tried to make it "cooler looking" either out of overzealousness or intentionally. The change is simmilar to the change in the models between Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 4.
It plays EXACTLY the same as SoulCalibur, which again isn't a bad thing, because SoulCalibur is the best fighting game ever, IMHO. I don't blame them for not messing with a proven formula, but I vainly hoped that Namco would switch things up a bit like they did with Tekken 4's gameplay (which is my favorite of the series, by far the most balanced Tekken game yet).
All in all, I'm certainly going to be buying it, but it's not something I simply must have now now please now gimme now. F-Zero GX on the other hand...
*watches phone waiting for the game store to call about my preorder*
If he really didn't want people changing it, he probably shouldn't have released it for a system that didn't have a hard drive, or made sure your game didn't use that hard drive in a way that allowed people to replace your crap.
Have you eer been to the Northeast? New York in particular? We live on electricity up here. It's worse than crack, refined sugar, and nicotine combined. It's like oxygen. No power, and life stops dead in it's tracks. No power and the elderly will start falling over dead within an hour in the heat of a New York summer. Go outside? In New York City? In the heat of summer? Are you MAD? I mean yeah, people are doing it because they HAVE to, but once the power comes back on, you bet your ass they're going to be inside where it's safe, and likely a hell of a lot cooler.
In the Northeast, if we started regularly losing power for 10-20 minutes once or twice a week, political careers would be ended in quick succession until someone fixed the problem, that or the region's economy would start crumbling because businesses couldn't keep reliable power happening, and people would get sick of dealing with regular power outages.
This will probably get me to buy many more fighting games for my GameCube, which has a pretty crappy controller design for fighting games. I have bloody Roar: Primal Fury for the system, and it works OK, but still feels very wierd compared to the PSX controller.
"Should" is a religious opinion. If you're that pissed at them, I guess maybe you shouldn't. If you think it might have gotten better, maybe you should.
I gave AO a shot well after the debacle. and I was perfectly happy with it. However, there's just only so much time and money I have monthly to devote to MMORPGs. Can't play them all.
That's why I don't play on RvR servers anymore, just the cooperative one.
I liked RvR, but it isn't what it used to be, and I frankly don't care about the new "RvR expansion" because it'll be just as infested by idiots as the current RvR system. If Gaheris got taken down, I'd cancel. I've deleted my characters on the other servers. I just don't care.
So, the senior VP and chief technology officer of Intel, a company that Apple has refused to use the flaship processor from for years, thinks Apple not using the chips they make money on is a bad idea?
And this is supposed to be at all surprising or interesting?
If there's a game that should have had enough budget for it, it's Star Wars Galaxies. Literally the single most anticipated MMORPG ever If Mythic can do it on a far more masice scale with Dark Age of Camelot, with far less budget than Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts had (I REFUSE to believe that SOE and LucasArts didn't have the cash to throw at this) then that says more than a few things about how useless LucasArts and SOE are.
They have plenty of adult-themed titles. Blood Rayne, Dead to Rights, Hunter: The Reckoning, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, the revised and expanded MGS... These are not exactly little kids games.
I think Nintendo has more than once said that they are OK with the market share they've gotten worldwide, though I'm sure they'd like more. Game reviewers welded to this "console death match" idea are the ones that haven't accepted that Nintendo may have accepted it.
DVDs/CDs with gameplay footage. Complete run-through of the game by an expert player for the shorter action titles like Shinobi, Gungrave, Ikaruga, etc. Or for longer things, give me stuff like DVD menus of footage of boss battles and important, tough parts of the game. 90% of the time, i don't believe for an instant that the people writing game guides have actually used the strategy they were espousing. Show me proof other than a dinky screenshot. Give me a feeling for the speed of a boss, or what spells I'm going to need to use, etc. Watching someone do it is a hell of a lot better than trying to decipher a game geek's version of it. If the game guides came with stuff like this (on CD/DVD with the guide, not downloadable) then I'd be FAR more likely to go for that instead of using Gamefaqs.
This is certainly no surprise to me. So is America turning into some kind of monster to MMOs, like Asia is to the record/DVD industry? More trouble than we're worth, so we won't even bother selling there.
Apologies if this seems crazy. Probably is. I just woke up.
Also, I wonder why they think the American hackers that do this now won't just obtain a Korean copy of Ragnarok online and do the same thing from across the Pacific?
There's no such thing. If you want to be sure your government is keeping your interests in mind, you need to check up on it. Even if it's a machine making all hte decisions, you've got to make sure it's running properly, or you deserve all the idiocy you get.
You should be plenty happy if you're so lazy that you can't be bothered to make sure your government is working for you. Just keep your eyes down and keep ignoring everything like a good sheep. Disgusting.
I hadn't heard any rumors it was being released for anything other than the Xbox and PC for...awhile. Several months at least. Probably just wishful thinking on the part of PS2 owners.
Me, I'm not even buying it for PC. I have enough RPGs I haven't finished, and I haven't seen any reason why I need to add this to the stack. I've heard nothing but good about it, but it just doesn't matter.
I'm surprised they released as much of it as they did. I don't know if levelling and all that is changed much from 3.0, but if it isn't, that pretty much means you don't need to buy the new books. Maybe the Monster Manual, but if you're the kind of person who's willing to hack together a ruleset between some old books and some RTF files, I expect you've already made monster entries for much of what got put into the new Monster Manual.
In that sense it's about the same as how SuSE released their version of Linux "free". All in individual source files, and missing important pieces that are not open sourced. No easy ISO or the whole thing.
Did SCO's counsel just miss the day everyone took a big swig at SCO, or has the company finally decided that this whole thing was getting out of hand (little late to the game, but hey, the stock is up)?
Or have we been in the grip of one hellacious Reality Distortion Field, and none of this "We Really Own Linux, We Don't Care About Some No-Name Finnish Geek" crap ever actually happened? What else has occured since then that might not have happened? Could Bush have been impeached and I just missed it somehow?
And just because the storyline ends doesn't mean anyone who wants to can't keep playing it, completely ignoring the published story and writing their own end times. Or playing years in the past, having their characters somehow nudge events differently.
I do (basically, just me and my father) freelance tech support/IT for businesses and people. We have to fix people's idiotic little things for it. THe difference is we get paid $50-$75/hour, half hour minimum, for doing it...plus an hour travel time each trip unless they prepay 40 hours.
Need me to turn your sound on because you can't figure out that you muted it? That's $90 please. Thanks alot. Be sure to call me again the next time. Thankfully there are plenty of dumb people out there.
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...frankly, it's not that much better than the first. New characters, yes, but the textures, at least on the Xbox version (which is the only one I've seen, as it's the one my local game store has the demo for) on the characters are really really flat. The models themselves are smooth, and move just as gracefully as ever, but they look like they're molded out of liquid plastic. Hard to explain, but it feels like they either tried to make it "cooler looking" either out of overzealousness or intentionally. The change is simmilar to the change in the models between Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 4.
It plays EXACTLY the same as SoulCalibur, which again isn't a bad thing, because SoulCalibur is the best fighting game ever, IMHO. I don't blame them for not messing with a proven formula, but I vainly hoped that Namco would switch things up a bit like they did with Tekken 4's gameplay (which is my favorite of the series, by far the most balanced Tekken game yet).
All in all, I'm certainly going to be buying it, but it's not something I simply must have now now please now gimme now. F-Zero GX on the other hand...
*watches phone waiting for the game store to call about my preorder*
If he really didn't want people changing it, he probably shouldn't have released it for a system that didn't have a hard drive, or made sure your game didn't use that hard drive in a way that allowed people to replace your crap.
Where does it end?
If you have to ask this question, don't bother.
Have you eer been to the Northeast? New York in particular? We live on electricity up here. It's worse than crack, refined sugar, and nicotine combined. It's like oxygen. No power, and life stops dead in it's tracks. No power and the elderly will start falling over dead within an hour in the heat of a New York summer. Go outside? In New York City? In the heat of summer? Are you MAD? I mean yeah, people are doing it because they HAVE to, but once the power comes back on, you bet your ass they're going to be inside where it's safe, and likely a hell of a lot cooler.
In the Northeast, if we started regularly losing power for 10-20 minutes once or twice a week, political careers would be ended in quick succession until someone fixed the problem, that or the region's economy would start crumbling because businesses couldn't keep reliable power happening, and people would get sick of dealing with regular power outages.
This will probably get me to buy many more fighting games for my GameCube, which has a pretty crappy controller design for fighting games. I have bloody Roar: Primal Fury for the system, and it works OK, but still feels very wierd compared to the PSX controller.
"Should" is a religious opinion. If you're that pissed at them, I guess maybe you shouldn't. If you think it might have gotten better, maybe you should.
I gave AO a shot well after the debacle. and I was perfectly happy with it. However, there's just only so much time and money I have monthly to devote to MMORPGs. Can't play them all.
I imagine there will be mini-games galore in a Wario Ware for GCN. it will probably be to Mario Party as Wario World is to Mario Sunshine.
That's why I don't play on RvR servers anymore, just the cooperative one.
I liked RvR, but it isn't what it used to be, and I frankly don't care about the new "RvR expansion" because it'll be just as infested by idiots as the current RvR system. If Gaheris got taken down, I'd cancel. I've deleted my characters on the other servers. I just don't care.
So, the senior VP and chief technology officer of Intel, a company that Apple has refused to use the flaship processor from for years, thinks Apple not using the chips they make money on is a bad idea?
And this is supposed to be at all surprising or interesting?
If there's a game that should have had enough budget for it, it's Star Wars Galaxies. Literally the single most anticipated MMORPG ever If Mythic can do it on a far more masice scale with Dark Age of Camelot, with far less budget than Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts had (I REFUSE to believe that SOE and LucasArts didn't have the cash to throw at this) then that says more than a few things about how useless LucasArts and SOE are.
They have plenty of adult-themed titles. Blood Rayne, Dead to Rights, Hunter: The Reckoning, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, the revised and expanded MGS... These are not exactly little kids games.
I think Nintendo has more than once said that they are OK with the market share they've gotten worldwide, though I'm sure they'd like more. Game reviewers welded to this "console death match" idea are the ones that haven't accepted that Nintendo may have accepted it.
DVDs/CDs with gameplay footage. Complete run-through of the game by an expert player for the shorter action titles like Shinobi, Gungrave, Ikaruga, etc. Or for longer things, give me stuff like DVD menus of footage of boss battles and important, tough parts of the game. 90% of the time, i don't believe for an instant that the people writing game guides have actually used the strategy they were espousing. Show me proof other than a dinky screenshot. Give me a feeling for the speed of a boss, or what spells I'm going to need to use, etc. Watching someone do it is a hell of a lot better than trying to decipher a game geek's version of it. If the game guides came with stuff like this (on CD/DVD with the guide, not downloadable) then I'd be FAR more likely to go for that instead of using Gamefaqs.
OK, how about the Japanese version? Is there a simmilar restriction on that? I know there's a Japanese release of Ragnarok.
This is certainly no surprise to me. So is America turning into some kind of monster to MMOs, like Asia is to the record/DVD industry? More trouble than we're worth, so we won't even bother selling there.
Apologies if this seems crazy. Probably is. I just woke up.
Also, I wonder why they think the American hackers that do this now won't just obtain a Korean copy of Ragnarok online and do the same thing from across the Pacific?
There's a windows version listed at the bottom of the site. I'm currently playing that, and putting the OSX vesion on my laptop. Woo hoo!
There's no such thing. If you want to be sure your government is keeping your interests in mind, you need to check up on it. Even if it's a machine making all hte decisions, you've got to make sure it's running properly, or you deserve all the idiocy you get.
You should be plenty happy if you're so lazy that you can't be bothered to make sure your government is working for you. Just keep your eyes down and keep ignoring everything like a good sheep. Disgusting.
This doesn't have anything to do with patents. This has to do with copyright infringement. Get with the program.
I hadn't heard any rumors it was being released for anything other than the Xbox and PC for...awhile. Several months at least. Probably just wishful thinking on the part of PS2 owners.
Me, I'm not even buying it for PC. I have enough RPGs I haven't finished, and I haven't seen any reason why I need to add this to the stack. I've heard nothing but good about it, but it just doesn't matter.
No, better, move to China.
Good advice. Maybe he might actually get work.
Random liberals aways give nationalism a bad name.
Random conservatives do their best to give those random liberals ammunition.
I'm surprised they released as much of it as they did. I don't know if levelling and all that is changed much from 3.0, but if it isn't, that pretty much means you don't need to buy the new books. Maybe the Monster Manual, but if you're the kind of person who's willing to hack together a ruleset between some old books and some RTF files, I expect you've already made monster entries for much of what got put into the new Monster Manual.
In that sense it's about the same as how SuSE released their version of Linux "free". All in individual source files, and missing important pieces that are not open sourced. No easy ISO or the whole thing.
Did SCO's counsel just miss the day everyone took a big swig at SCO, or has the company finally decided that this whole thing was getting out of hand (little late to the game, but hey, the stock is up)?
Or have we been in the grip of one hellacious Reality Distortion Field, and none of this "We Really Own Linux, We Don't Care About Some No-Name Finnish Geek" crap ever actually happened? What else has occured since then that might not have happened? Could Bush have been impeached and I just missed it somehow?
And just because the storyline ends doesn't mean anyone who wants to can't keep playing it, completely ignoring the published story and writing their own end times. Or playing years in the past, having their characters somehow nudge events differently.
I do (basically, just me and my father) freelance tech support/IT for businesses and people. We have to fix people's idiotic little things for it. THe difference is we get paid $50-$75/hour, half hour minimum, for doing it...plus an hour travel time each trip unless they prepay 40 hours.
Need me to turn your sound on because you can't figure out that you muted it? That's $90 please. Thanks alot. Be sure to call me again the next time. Thankfully there are plenty of dumb people out there.
Yeah, but I doubt you start swearing at "It" for not letting you sleep, punching walls, and screaming. =)