How about: "Star Trek: The Crusher Adventures", in which Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton, of course, who is about the right age now) uses his Traveller powers to explore far reaches of the Universe.
Been there, done that. Actually, come to think of it, there's no storyline that the Trek folks could come up with that someone won't say is ripped off.
A rock sitting on the ground in the middle of a desert is significantly less intelligent than your average human, yet there are still plenty of people with advanced degrees who spend their lives studying rocks.
True, but the ones who actually talk to the rocks tend to wear nice white coats that wrap the arms all the way around.
I don't know how much more advanced an alien race might be, but I have a hard time believing that the difference between them and us could be any greater than the difference between a human and a rock.
From our perspective, you're probably right. Problem is that the aliens have to be able to look at it from our perspective, which probably isn't going to happen. No matter how intelligent the rock might feel it is, we still know it's just a rock. Not saying that the aliens are incapable of looking at it from our point of view, but that if we're as relatively dumb as they think we are, there's no benefit for them to do so.
Besides, to make any kind of comparison, the aliens have to be working from the same definition of 'intelligence' that we do. They probably aren't, thus no contact (yet).
Technically, that's a bad example because in New Game+ playthroughs, it's possible to win that battle and end the game early.
I personally think the dramatic reversal is overused in games. "I've just had my ass kicked by the player, but little does he suspect that that was only my shadow/I haven't used my trump card/I'm going to kick his ass anyway."
It's getting really old hearing people bitch about how eMusic has no good music, like they're the ones responsible for that. At the same time, however, consumers have no direct recourse to the people who are responsible for the lack of selection on eMusic (the major labels). So, we pass our complaints on to those who can ameliorate the situation. I've sent a couple nasty messages to Apple for some seemingly arbitrary decisions they've put in place from the iTMS (for example, US buyers can download the audio for Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet", but not the video, as it's "not available in your region"-- WTF? it's on the freaking US CD), same as I've done to eMusic (they carry some artists basically at random, holding maybe one useless live record and ignoring seven other albums); if I had any inclination to use any other service, they'd get an earful from me. The feedback is important because it tells the providers what artists/labels the provider should be working to find a compromise with.
You can't have lots of Top-40/Major Label artists and no DRM at the same time. Pick one or the other. Because it's going to be awhile, if ever, before you can have both. Exactly. For my own part, I subscribed to eMusic for about ten months (just cancelled the subscription this month) mostly for stuff that I couldn't find on iTunes, plus a few tracks I had some marginal interest in and a handful of covers/tributes of dubious quality. After three consecutive months where I didn't find anything interesting-- and believe me, I was really looking-- I figured it would be money better spent on my crippling MMO addictions.
I'm no big fan of DRM, and certainly I'm an Apple enthusiast, but there comes a point where common sense has to overrule blind idealism. Would I be upset if the iTMS vanished tomorrow? Yeah, but I'd get over it. I might be inconvenienced for a while until I get time to re-rip what I've bought, but it wouldn't prompt me to break out the pitchforks and torches. Apple's DRM scheme works for me; your mileage may vary.
I'll disagree here. How many masochists are going to jump at the chance to be in a "one vs. everyone else" setup? The role of the Elite will attract the attention and interest of those who feel they're the best of the best, and can back it up. Sure, people who have no business playing FPS games online (like, oh, I don't know, me) will try it, get frustrated, and give up; but to be honest, for those people who've ever played Counterstrike and thought "screw my teammates, I can plant the bomb/rescue the hostages all by myself", this will probably be their dream game.
Anyway, didn't Splinter Cell do something similar, with a "one spy versus the rest of the counterterrorists" game mode?
So very much yes. The only problem is that the Klonoa games have lent themselves more towards the current handheld systems than the major consoles. More than that, I think you and I are about the only North Americans who are interested in seeing a new Klonoa game; they just sadly didn't sell very well over here.
Now, that said, I would also really like to see a couple new-IP side-scrollers. Failing that, either a remake/sequel to Mischief Makers or a remake/expanded version of The Goonies II (though that's really more in the Metroid/Castlevania genre, so, no real shortage there).
Furthermore, the right to free speech does not have the right to a captive audience bolted onto it. Garbage like "torture 'em and let God, Fate, Time, or Whatever sort 'em out" can be said, but don't expect big public corporations to throw advertising dollars in support of it.
That said, I think that there need to be tighter restrictions on the filing of lawsuits to silence critics.
Take a complex problem and break it into smaller parts. Then, see what technologies/programs/libraries already exist to solve those problems. Anything that doesn't exist, make yourself. Anything that does exist but isn't quite right, either extend it so that it is, or review your requirements to make sure you're not thinking of it in the wrong way. Finally, combine all those technologies and make your solution. Use it, then six months-two years later start all over from step one.
You should have learned this in your Software Design course.
Sega was founded by some American G.I.s after the Korean War. Their initial idea was that there was a whole lot of G.I.s over here in the Far East, so let's bring American pinball machines and jukeboxes to little parlors around the military bases so they'll feel more at home, and this stuff will be terrific. That's what they did for a number of years and then after a while, a light bulb went on, and they said "wow, we've got this all wrong. We should be designing and manufacturing this stuff here in Japan and sending it to the U.S. and Europe." The company evolved in that manner and was, I think, initially purchased by Great Western, then purchased by Paramount Pictures, and finally Bally/Midway; before being sold back to Rosen. Something like that was the history.
Just a little something i noticed. Kind of interesting how things move in circles like that, isn't it?
The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connect system identifies gamers via Friend Codes. These codes are generated as a function of the game card's unique serial number and the DS's unique serial number (likely the MAC address). If you try to use the same game card in two different DSes, say moving from a regular DS to a DS Lite, you will wind up with a new Friend Code and be unable to use the old one (as a game card cannot be tied to more than one DS at a time).
It's a similar mechanism with the notable and welcome difference that buying the game doesn't lock you into the game for all of eternity; conversely, people who want to buy the game aren't screwed if they choose to save a few bucks and line EB's pockets.
Still, with all the "nothing should impede used games" FUD that Slashdot spreads, I'm surprised that nobody's bitching Nintendo out for minimizing piracy while still ensuring fair use rights.
The usual disclaimers: I own a DS and not a PSP. I'm OK with DRM that doesn't actively screw me over because nine times out of ten when I buy something without a physical medium, I mean to keep it (and the DRMed things I do buy, I do keep); it's called a compromise, learn it use it love it. I believe game makers have to choose: physical medium or DRM, one or the other, not both. I realize that admitting being a mild Nintendo fanboy doesn't excuse it; but I'm not calling Nintendo out, just the anti-DRM fanboys. Mod me a troll if you want, but I want to know why nobody's raised a fit about the DS weak DRM yet? After all, DRM = always bad, right? Or maybe, just maybe, that whole "compromise" thing might just make sense?
Incorrect on both counts. PSO v1 tied the game's serial number to the DC for online play only. You could rent and resell PSO as many times as you wanted as long as you didn't want to play online. However, if you did purchase the game used with the intent of playing online, you could call Sega and have your disc serial reset. They discontinued the service at some point before PSO v2 came out.
Wait a little bit. Save your Arcade tokens or whatever for Cloning Clyde.
I got the chance to play it a bit at E3 and was really impressed. It plays a bit like Lost Vikings or the more recent Mario Vs. Donkey Kong games, in that it's a side-scrolling puzzler. (On a related note, MvDK for DS is also very nice.) It might not be graphically fancy and it might not have 'original' gameplay, but it's a fair shade better than some recent big-name games I could mention (I'm looking at you, X-Men/Superman).
Oh, and let's not forget Lumines Live. Hooray for exclusivity that runs out when the publishers realize they picked a dud system!
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 used the analog capabilities of the shoulder buttons when the player was leaning around corners or peeking over obstacles. They were also a pain in the ass because you had no idea how far you were going or how much pressure you needed to apply-- accuracy went straight down the toilet.
Heck yeah. I had OS/2 2.1 on 24 floppies for the longest time and only got to install it once. I kind of wish I had it back, I've got a couple more modern machines here I'd have liekd to experiment with it on.
So this will work? Yep, if you have a 512MB (or larger) memory stick on hand.
Maybe it's just me but if I buy a 512 MB Memory Stick for my PSP (all of this hypothetically, of course) I would damn well expect it to hold 512 MB of game saves, and fuck off if you want to take some space for caching. The difference between using a hard drive and an external memory device to cache data is that the hard drive is optimized for it and people do not buy memory cards to speed up game play.
Hear motherfucking hear. The man's a good voice actor and an excellent writer-- I was really surprised to learn he wrote X-Men and X-Men 2. As long as he's involved, count my $6 spent on this one.
I want the head of the sorry sonofabitch who thought up the concept behind "BMX XXX". Failing that the head of the guy who authorized the licensing of "Headhunter" would be nice. Just in case you guys were in need of a last-minute Christmas present for me.
I'd much rather donate my corpse to ragdoll physics research. Send it to Epic Games, let them tool around with it for a few weeks figuring out how a real body reacts to various gunshots, then finally just go hog-wild and take a Redeemer blast at point-blank range. Why the hell not-- I'd be dead already and I'd love nothing more than to see my name in the credits of every UT game until the end of time as "physics test dummy".
Uh, yeah, great job on the game, but since it's set on the West Coast, tuning in to WCTR News is going to be goddamned difficult. Probably should be KCTR.
Of course, WCTR (Chestertown, MD) and KCTR (Billings, MT) both exist, so...
We're both going to get moderated into the seventh level of hell for this, but it's just too damn poetic for me to mod down. Way to vent your rage, motorcycle man. I salute you.
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Been there, done that. Actually, come to think of it, there's no storyline that the Trek folks could come up with that someone won't say is ripped off.
True, but the ones who actually talk to the rocks tend to wear nice white coats that wrap the arms all the way around.
From our perspective, you're probably right. Problem is that the aliens have to be able to look at it from our perspective, which probably isn't going to happen. No matter how intelligent the rock might feel it is, we still know it's just a rock. Not saying that the aliens are incapable of looking at it from our point of view, but that if we're as relatively dumb as they think we are, there's no benefit for them to do so.
Besides, to make any kind of comparison, the aliens have to be working from the same definition of 'intelligence' that we do. They probably aren't, thus no contact (yet).
Technically, that's a bad example because in New Game+ playthroughs, it's possible to win that battle and end the game early.
I personally think the dramatic reversal is overused in games. "I've just had my ass kicked by the player, but little does he suspect that that was only my shadow/I haven't used my trump card/I'm going to kick his ass anyway."
A halfwit, obviously.
I'm no big fan of DRM, and certainly I'm an Apple enthusiast, but there comes a point where common sense has to overrule blind idealism. Would I be upset if the iTMS vanished tomorrow? Yeah, but I'd get over it. I might be inconvenienced for a while until I get time to re-rip what I've bought, but it wouldn't prompt me to break out the pitchforks and torches. Apple's DRM scheme works for me; your mileage may vary.
I'll disagree here. How many masochists are going to jump at the chance to be in a "one vs. everyone else" setup? The role of the Elite will attract the attention and interest of those who feel they're the best of the best, and can back it up. Sure, people who have no business playing FPS games online (like, oh, I don't know, me) will try it, get frustrated, and give up; but to be honest, for those people who've ever played Counterstrike and thought "screw my teammates, I can plant the bomb/rescue the hostages all by myself", this will probably be their dream game.
Anyway, didn't Splinter Cell do something similar, with a "one spy versus the rest of the counterterrorists" game mode?
I get the feeling that these games will be titled along the lines of "chocobo teaches typing", "chocobo math", etc.
So, "hunt and peck", huh?
So very much yes. The only problem is that the Klonoa games have lent themselves more towards the current handheld systems than the major consoles. More than that, I think you and I are about the only North Americans who are interested in seeing a new Klonoa game; they just sadly didn't sell very well over here.
Now, that said, I would also really like to see a couple new-IP side-scrollers. Failing that, either a remake/sequel to Mischief Makers or a remake/expanded version of The Goonies II (though that's really more in the Metroid/Castlevania genre, so, no real shortage there).
Furthermore, the right to free speech does not have the right to a captive audience bolted onto it. Garbage like "torture 'em and let God, Fate, Time, or Whatever sort 'em out" can be said, but don't expect big public corporations to throw advertising dollars in support of it.
That said, I think that there need to be tighter restrictions on the filing of lawsuits to silence critics.
Then again, a long stretch of time- and resource-consuming research usually begins with some guy in the lab saying, "Huh, that's weird..."
Take a complex problem and break it into smaller parts. Then, see what technologies/programs/libraries already exist to solve those problems. Anything that doesn't exist, make yourself. Anything that does exist but isn't quite right, either extend it so that it is, or review your requirements to make sure you're not thinking of it in the wrong way. Finally, combine all those technologies and make your solution. Use it, then six months-two years later start all over from step one.
You should have learned this in your Software Design course.
...you know, that almost sounded like a pathetic troll attempt; then I R'd TFA and found out that he actually said that.
Scary shit.
Just a little something i noticed. Kind of interesting how things move in circles like that, isn't it?
The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connect system identifies gamers via Friend Codes. These codes are generated as a function of the game card's unique serial number and the DS's unique serial number (likely the MAC address). If you try to use the same game card in two different DSes, say moving from a regular DS to a DS Lite, you will wind up with a new Friend Code and be unable to use the old one (as a game card cannot be tied to more than one DS at a time).
It's a similar mechanism with the notable and welcome difference that buying the game doesn't lock you into the game for all of eternity; conversely, people who want to buy the game aren't screwed if they choose to save a few bucks and line EB's pockets.
Still, with all the "nothing should impede used games" FUD that Slashdot spreads, I'm surprised that nobody's bitching Nintendo out for minimizing piracy while still ensuring fair use rights.
The usual disclaimers: I own a DS and not a PSP. I'm OK with DRM that doesn't actively screw me over because nine times out of ten when I buy something without a physical medium, I mean to keep it (and the DRMed things I do buy, I do keep); it's called a compromise, learn it use it love it. I believe game makers have to choose: physical medium or DRM, one or the other, not both. I realize that admitting being a mild Nintendo fanboy doesn't excuse it; but I'm not calling Nintendo out, just the anti-DRM fanboys. Mod me a troll if you want, but I want to know why nobody's raised a fit about the DS weak DRM yet? After all, DRM = always bad, right? Or maybe, just maybe, that whole "compromise" thing might just make sense?
Incorrect on both counts. PSO v1 tied the game's serial number to the DC for online play only. You could rent and resell PSO as many times as you wanted as long as you didn't want to play online. However, if you did purchase the game used with the intent of playing online, you could call Sega and have your disc serial reset. They discontinued the service at some point before PSO v2 came out.
Wait a little bit. Save your Arcade tokens or whatever for Cloning Clyde.
I got the chance to play it a bit at E3 and was really impressed. It plays a bit like Lost Vikings or the more recent Mario Vs. Donkey Kong games, in that it's a side-scrolling puzzler. (On a related note, MvDK for DS is also very nice.) It might not be graphically fancy and it might not have 'original' gameplay, but it's a fair shade better than some recent big-name games I could mention (I'm looking at you, X-Men/Superman).
Oh, and let's not forget Lumines Live. Hooray for exclusivity that runs out when the publishers realize they picked a dud system!
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 used the analog capabilities of the shoulder buttons when the player was leaning around corners or peeking over obstacles. They were also a pain in the ass because you had no idea how far you were going or how much pressure you needed to apply-- accuracy went straight down the toilet.
Heck yeah. I had OS/2 2.1 on 24 floppies for the longest time and only got to install it once. I kind of wish I had it back, I've got a couple more modern machines here I'd have liekd to experiment with it on.
So this will work? Yep, if you have a 512MB (or larger) memory stick on hand.
Maybe it's just me but if I buy a 512 MB Memory Stick for my PSP (all of this hypothetically, of course) I would damn well expect it to hold 512 MB of game saves, and fuck off if you want to take some space for caching. The difference between using a hard drive and an external memory device to cache data is that the hard drive is optimized for it and people do not buy memory cards to speed up game play.
Hear motherfucking hear. The man's a good voice actor and an excellent writer-- I was really surprised to learn he wrote X-Men and X-Men 2. As long as he's involved, count my $6 spent on this one.
I want the head of the sorry sonofabitch who thought up the concept behind "BMX XXX". Failing that the head of the guy who authorized the licensing of "Headhunter" would be nice. Just in case you guys were in need of a last-minute Christmas present for me.
I'd much rather donate my corpse to ragdoll physics research. Send it to Epic Games, let them tool around with it for a few weeks figuring out how a real body reacts to various gunshots, then finally just go hog-wild and take a Redeemer blast at point-blank range. Why the hell not-- I'd be dead already and I'd love nothing more than to see my name in the credits of every UT game until the end of time as "physics test dummy".
...tune in to WCTR News...
Uh, yeah, great job on the game, but since it's set on the West Coast, tuning in to WCTR News is going to be goddamned difficult. Probably should be KCTR.
Of course, WCTR (Chestertown, MD) and KCTR (Billings, MT) both exist, so...
Expect Orin Hatch to soon introduce legislation to legalize payola...
That'd be funny, considering he fought against payola back in the 50s, according to this link (thanks to whoever posted it above).
I'm behind Spitzer on this 100%. He seems to be quite the rarity these days-- a politician who's interested in helping the people.
We're both going to get moderated into the seventh level of hell for this, but it's just too damn poetic for me to mod down. Way to vent your rage, motorcycle man. I salute you.
But next time, please use a blog for this.