If you have a 'Cube, Tales of Symphonia is an excellent choice (though, given your "dumbed down" comment, I would recommend you set it on the high difficulty setting immediately; I'm about five hours in and I find it a little too easy).
I'm looking forward to seeing the Atelier series come over as well; I'd been following them for quite a while from afar and am just now getting ready to dive into importing, but having the English-language version available is always a plus.
I still think that a US-developed FF-style RPG could be wildly successful if it has the sense to learn from the mistakes made in the last few times it was tried (Secret of Evermore, Shadow Madness, etc). Oh, and if they get a decent writer. I guess what I'm saying is that I really wanted Advent Rising to be an RPG, but we'll see.
OK, so we have 802.11b, 802.11n, and 802.11g. Is there an 802.11o? Because that would be interesting, seeing a wireless router advertise itself as being "802.11b/o/n/g Compatible!"
Oh, and I would have titled this "First Pot", but that would just be low-class.
I like this idea.
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Honestly. I have broadband at home, but my primary computer is a laptop right now. I've been looking into getting a new machine to customize for gaming, and this might just be the best plan for me. Why, you may ask?
AOL.
I used it for my ISP for a month while I was unemployed (about the only time I was ever thankful for a free disc in the mail) and found it to be usable, if not the most pleasant experience.
I travel quite a bit between a couple relatives' houses which don't have persistent net connections. If the contract does not require me to use AOL as the ISP on the cheap machine, or if it will accept "AOL for Broadband" (which I will never use), I'll gladly sign up once I get some extra cash, then begin loading good components in there. The dial-up will be a good backup for the laptop.
Of course, that's just me, and I'm crazy. Sure, there are better alternatives, but in my situation, this looks pretty tempting.
Check out the "MISINFORMATION of the Week" series to see how the legislature, the press and the Governor have been misled by two California State agencies. Get involved now and help us fight the ferret misinformation campaign!
(the joke is, for all you folks who claim "I don't watch TV", Arnold's character in Kindergarten Cop had a ferret, and even brought it in to the class.)
This is what I hope happens with Doom III. In 6 months I want to see screen shots of other games using this engine.
Considering the plans and habits that id has always had of licensing the engine out, I'd have to say that that's the whole fricking point of releasing Doom 3.
That said, I won't be able to play any of these games for about two or three years anyway, so I'll just go back to Deus Ex and Quake II, thank you.
That just time-shifts the attack. The idea is to spread the onslaught of requests evenly over the hour or over multiple sources.
RSS is a good idea in principle but this sort of problem is why publishing middle-men were created for paper-type publications. Content producers submit to a syndicator, who has the capability to distribute to the masses who want the content. I don't see why you couldn't do that for RSS feeds; you'd just have to make sure the company who holds the syndicating servers isn't evil. (Google GRSS, anyone?)
And he also has interest in Hitman, Silent Hill and The Suferring.
He's already handled Suffering; he made House of the Dead, remember? Now he's going for Torture, Mind-Rape, and Depravity. I'll wait for Morbid Redundancy, thank you very much.
Note : - Your death has been paid for by someone you offended sometime
Shit, that does nothing to narrow it down... I have to start offending more poor people. That way the odds are better that their checks will bounce and they won't be able to afford to kill me.
Re:Obviously not talking about Japanese Games...
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Agreed. I actually didn't make the connection between Nisan and the reformation until you mentioned it-- and trust me, when I played XG I was still a somewhat religious person.
The original poster seems to be somewhat against religion in general, so I'll forgive his implication that the only "accurate" portrayal of religion in gaming is a negative one. The mentions of Grandia (he probably meant Grandia II) and Eternal Darkness affirm this fact. He's entitled to his opinion, of course, as am I; I just think that there are other, better portrayals of religion out there. Specifically, La Pucelle's Church of the Holy Maiden (demon hunters, with little or no corruption-- of course, they're diametrically opposed to a second church which is portrayed as demon worshippers, so I guess things even out).
I'd be willing to bet there are more good portrayals of religion. If anything, I'd like to see a noir-themed action game where the player can go to a priest for mission objectives or assistance of some sort-- something like the scenes in the old gangster movies where an aging pastor gives the detective some news he overheard in confession. The basic idea being that clergy of all types can be portrayed realistically without making them saints or demonizing them.
Of course, religious controversy sells games, so we'll never see anything like that ever. But it's a nice thing to hope for.
One or the other... devious or sloppy... but surely not both.
Yes, it is both. It's sloppy because whoever wrote this virus forgot to disable the suicide code before releasing it into the wild. The writer obviously would have written this into the virus during development so that he didn't hose his own machine.
It's devious because now virus writers know that "forgetting" to "fix" their virus pisses off more people in high places, instead of just plain pissing off more people. It wastes resources and diverts attention from bigger threats-- or smaller threats which just get lucky.
It's a tactic so totally stupid that it borders on brilliance.
In both these games, some of the biggest thrills I've had have been hearing a random NPC's voice and going "Holy shit, it's Tenchi!" (Matt Miller voiced Clasko in FFX and X-2) or "Aw yeah, Vash is on the bridge!" (Jonny Yong Bosch as an unnamed lieutenant on the Woglinde). The voice acting from all of the cast members was excellent; it's the anime alumni, however, who sometimes provide the most memorable performances (to anime fans, anyway).
On a related note, nobody's really mentioned Kingdom Hearts yet, either. Disney standards being what they are, the voice acting was top-notch from Disney and original character actors alike. I especially liked James Woods' performance as Hades (reprising his role from Hercules), and since Greece is an actual section of the game world for KH2 I'd be shocked if he didn't return for a third stab at the character.
I was responding to the "misread" question. I too would be interested in seeing religious games from different cultures besides hyperfundamental Christianity. Though, to be honest, I just don't see it happening any time soon.
The Slashdot community can't even spot duplicate posts within a day or two in the same portal!
Interesting theory here about dupes (and yes, this is flagrantly off-topic and responding to a troll, I should sacrifice karma, blah blah): People don't report dupes because they don't realize they read it on/. originally. Honestly, Slashdot doesn't have a whole lot in the way of original content-- it's mostly links to other stuff-- so if I see an article that looks familiar, my first instinct is that I saw it somewhere else, unless I know for certain that I saw it on Slashdot first.
that could be the mechanism for geek learning - if you see it repeated on Slashdot then it eventually sticks...
That's the mechanism for all learning. Sadly, the number of repetitions required for non-geeks tends to be exponentially higher than for geeks... Heh, retronym time:
If our culture is headed down the path of having high esteem for people who appear and do successfully on game shows--boy are we screwed.
Oh, wait. We already do that with reality tv people. Whoops, my bad.
There is a significant amount of difference between being a font of general (if often/somewhat useless) knowledge, and being willing to eat bugs on camera.
In the one case you have demonstrated a voracious appetite for learning and retention of this learning, and made a few bucks along the way.
In the other case, you've eaten bugs, which demonstrates the fact that, with the application of enough money, you'll probably do anything.
I don't know about you but I have plenty of high esteem for people who win on quiz shows because they are more than likely smarter than me. (And this coming from a kid who could answer most of the questions on Jeopardy when he was seven... I haven't watched Jeopardy in such a long time, it's just too easy. I miss that one game show that was on GSN a few years back, with the hidden-host gimmick-- I think it was called Inquisition or something. That had some tough questions.)
I'd seen the dating-sim discs at my local store a couple months ago and was astonished-- I never thought any publisher would have the guts to try bringing these over. Of course, now we just need someone to bring over the good ones.
On the other hand, "Hourglass of Summer" seems to be a really interesting premise. I just wonder how these DVD games handle mid-session interruptions.
Maybe the FCC is bringing this in because all the droobs complaining to them haven't worked out how to tape something off their TV yet[.]
As another poster mentioned above, you show me how I can set my VCR to record something from half an hour ago, and I'll gladly fight this law. Until then, I'm glad for this step being taken by the FCC.
"Well of course it's pre-recorded. When else are you gonna record it, afterwards? That's the whole purpose of recording it, to do it beforehand. Otherwise, it doesn't really work, does it?" --George Carlin
Well, this certainly is interesting. I clicked through to the very well-written Pornography entry, then followed the link from there to the Miller Test. When I tried to go back to porn, (and how many other times can I say that at work), it was replaced by the phrase "stupid thing".
The sad part is that I was actually considering going to the entry for Earth and replacing it with "mostly harmless", but realized how phenomenally stupid that would be-- especially since I would potentially be destroying an exceptionally well-written article. But now I see I don't have to be a fucktard-- other people will do that nicely. I'll probably look in on Pornography later just to see if it was fixed-- I really wanted to read the rest of the article.
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If you have a 'Cube, Tales of Symphonia is an excellent choice (though, given your "dumbed down" comment, I would recommend you set it on the high difficulty setting immediately; I'm about five hours in and I find it a little too easy).
I'm looking forward to seeing the Atelier series come over as well; I'd been following them for quite a while from afar and am just now getting ready to dive into importing, but having the English-language version available is always a plus.
I still think that a US-developed FF-style RPG could be wildly successful if it has the sense to learn from the mistakes made in the last few times it was tried (Secret of Evermore, Shadow Madness, etc). Oh, and if they get a decent writer. I guess what I'm saying is that I really wanted Advent Rising to be an RPG, but we'll see.
Yeah, funny how appropriate the onomatopoeia/acronym "POW" is in this case...
As long as G4 stays far the fuck away, then yes. Yes it is.
Why is this so difficult to get into other peoples heads?
Your daughter is an exceptional case, having obviously inherited her parents' genius.
The average cable modem user is far below the intelligence of a normal seven-year-old girl.
Be proud of your daughter!
OK, so we have 802.11b, 802.11n, and 802.11g. Is there an 802.11o? Because that would be interesting, seeing a wireless router advertise itself as being "802.11b/o/n/g Compatible!"
Oh, and I would have titled this "First Pot", but that would just be low-class.
Honestly. I have broadband at home, but my primary computer is a laptop right now. I've been looking into getting a new machine to customize for gaming, and this might just be the best plan for me. Why, you may ask?
AOL.
I used it for my ISP for a month while I was unemployed (about the only time I was ever thankful for a free disc in the mail) and found it to be usable, if not the most pleasant experience.
I travel quite a bit between a couple relatives' houses which don't have persistent net connections. If the contract does not require me to use AOL as the ISP on the cheap machine, or if it will accept "AOL for Broadband" (which I will never use), I'll gladly sign up once I get some extra cash, then begin loading good components in there. The dial-up will be a good backup for the laptop.
Of course, that's just me, and I'm crazy. Sure, there are better alternatives, but in my situation, this looks pretty tempting.
Check out the "MISINFORMATION of the Week" series to see how the legislature, the press and the Governor have been misled by two California State agencies. Get involved now and help us fight the ferret misinformation campaign!
OK, I find it really hard to believe that the Governor of the great state of California could possibly be misled about ferrets.
(the joke is, for all you folks who claim "I don't watch TV", Arnold's character in Kindergarten Cop had a ferret, and even brought it in to the class.)
This is what I hope happens with Doom III. In 6 months I want to see screen shots of other games using this engine.
Considering the plans and habits that id has always had of licensing the engine out, I'd have to say that that's the whole fricking point of releasing Doom 3.
That said, I won't be able to play any of these games for about two or three years anyway, so I'll just go back to Deus Ex and Quake II, thank you.
That just time-shifts the attack. The idea is to spread the onslaught of requests evenly over the hour or over multiple sources.
RSS is a good idea in principle but this sort of problem is why publishing middle-men were created for paper-type publications. Content producers submit to a syndicator, who has the capability to distribute to the masses who want the content. I don't see why you couldn't do that for RSS feeds; you'd just have to make sure the company who holds the syndicating servers isn't evil. (Google GRSS, anyone?)
we need RHS... really HARD syndication
That's nothing compared to RMS, which (according to RMS) stands for GNU/Recursive Meta-Syndication.
And he also has interest in Hitman, Silent Hill and The Suferring.
He's already handled Suffering; he made House of the Dead, remember? Now he's going for Torture, Mind-Rape, and Depravity. I'll wait for Morbid Redundancy, thank you very much.
Oh good, I'm not the only one who had no idea what the fuck merionesianly meant.
Note : - Your death has been paid for by someone you offended sometime
Shit, that does nothing to narrow it down... I have to start offending more poor people. That way the odds are better that their checks will bounce and they won't be able to afford to kill me.
Agreed. I actually didn't make the connection between Nisan and the reformation until you mentioned it-- and trust me, when I played XG I was still a somewhat religious person.
The original poster seems to be somewhat against religion in general, so I'll forgive his implication that the only "accurate" portrayal of religion in gaming is a negative one. The mentions of Grandia (he probably meant Grandia II) and Eternal Darkness affirm this fact. He's entitled to his opinion, of course, as am I; I just think that there are other, better portrayals of religion out there. Specifically, La Pucelle's Church of the Holy Maiden (demon hunters, with little or no corruption-- of course, they're diametrically opposed to a second church which is portrayed as demon worshippers, so I guess things even out).
I'd be willing to bet there are more good portrayals of religion. If anything, I'd like to see a noir-themed action game where the player can go to a priest for mission objectives or assistance of some sort-- something like the scenes in the old gangster movies where an aging pastor gives the detective some news he overheard in confession. The basic idea being that clergy of all types can be portrayed realistically without making them saints or demonizing them.
Of course, religious controversy sells games, so we'll never see anything like that ever. But it's a nice thing to hope for.
One or the other... devious or sloppy... but surely not both.
Yes, it is both. It's sloppy because whoever wrote this virus forgot to disable the suicide code before releasing it into the wild. The writer obviously would have written this into the virus during development so that he didn't hose his own machine.
It's devious because now virus writers know that "forgetting" to "fix" their virus pisses off more people in high places, instead of just plain pissing off more people. It wastes resources and diverts attention from bigger threats-- or smaller threats which just get lucky.
It's a tactic so totally stupid that it borders on brilliance.
In both these games, some of the biggest thrills I've had have been hearing a random NPC's voice and going "Holy shit, it's Tenchi!" (Matt Miller voiced Clasko in FFX and X-2) or "Aw yeah, Vash is on the bridge!" (Jonny Yong Bosch as an unnamed lieutenant on the Woglinde). The voice acting from all of the cast members was excellent; it's the anime alumni, however, who sometimes provide the most memorable performances (to anime fans, anyway).
On a related note, nobody's really mentioned Kingdom Hearts yet, either. Disney standards being what they are, the voice acting was top-notch from Disney and original character actors alike. I especially liked James Woods' performance as Hades (reprising his role from Hercules), and since Greece is an actual section of the game world for KH2 I'd be shocked if he didn't return for a third stab at the character.
Hi, I'm Steve Ballmer, and I pronounce IE as 'IE! IE! IE! IE! YEEAAAAHHH!'.
Really? I always thought it would sound something more like "IE! IE! CTHULHU FTAGHN!".
I was responding to the "misread" question. I too would be interested in seeing religious games from different cultures besides hyperfundamental Christianity. Though, to be honest, I just don't see it happening any time soon.
Did anyone else read the title as "Hebrew Games..."?
Oy vey, of course not! That would be meshuga.
(And sorry to any Jews out there... I was raised Catholic, so my Hebrew may not be kosher.)
The Slashdot community can't even spot duplicate posts within a day or two in the same portal!
/. originally. Honestly, Slashdot doesn't have a whole lot in the way of original content-- it's mostly links to other stuff-- so if I see an article that looks familiar, my first instinct is that I saw it somewhere else, unless I know for certain that I saw it on Slashdot first.
Interesting theory here about dupes (and yes, this is flagrantly off-topic and responding to a troll, I should sacrifice karma, blah blah): People don't report dupes because they don't realize they read it on
that could be the mechanism for geek learning - if you see it repeated on Slashdot then it eventually sticks...
That's the mechanism for all learning. Sadly, the number of repetitions required for non-geeks tends to be exponentially higher than for geeks... Heh, retronym time:
NERD: No Excessive Repetition Desired
If our culture is headed down the path of having high esteem for people who appear and do successfully on game shows--boy are we screwed.
Oh, wait. We already do that with reality tv people. Whoops, my bad.
There is a significant amount of difference between being a font of general (if often/somewhat useless) knowledge, and being willing to eat bugs on camera.
In the one case you have demonstrated a voracious appetite for learning and retention of this learning, and made a few bucks along the way.
In the other case, you've eaten bugs, which demonstrates the fact that, with the application of enough money, you'll probably do anything.
I don't know about you but I have plenty of high esteem for people who win on quiz shows because they are more than likely smarter than me. (And this coming from a kid who could answer most of the questions on Jeopardy when he was seven... I haven't watched Jeopardy in such a long time, it's just too easy. I miss that one game show that was on GSN a few years back, with the hidden-host gimmick-- I think it was called Inquisition or something. That had some tough questions.)
I'd seen the dating-sim discs at my local store a couple months ago and was astonished-- I never thought any publisher would have the guts to try bringing these over. Of course, now we just need someone to bring over the good ones.
On the other hand, "Hourglass of Summer" seems to be a really interesting premise. I just wonder how these DVD games handle mid-session interruptions.
Maybe the FCC is bringing this in because all the droobs complaining to them haven't worked out how to tape something off their TV yet[.]
As another poster mentioned above, you show me how I can set my VCR to record something from half an hour ago, and I'll gladly fight this law. Until then, I'm glad for this step being taken by the FCC.
"Well of course it's pre-recorded. When else are you gonna record it, afterwards? That's the whole purpose of recording it, to do it beforehand. Otherwise, it doesn't really work, does it?" --George Carlin
Well, this certainly is interesting. I clicked through to the very well-written Pornography entry, then followed the link from there to the Miller Test. When I tried to go back to porn, (and how many other times can I say that at work), it was replaced by the phrase "stupid thing".
The sad part is that I was actually considering going to the entry for Earth and replacing it with "mostly harmless", but realized how phenomenally stupid that would be-- especially since I would potentially be destroying an exceptionally well-written article. But now I see I don't have to be a fucktard-- other people will do that nicely. I'll probably look in on Pornography later just to see if it was fixed-- I really wanted to read the rest of the article.
Where is the source?
In a building on a floor no one can get to, behind a locked door with no key.