WAHHHHHH! I was whistling the musical theme that's on every trailer and part of the demo as I browsed over to games.slashdot only to see it at the top of the front page!
The music doesn't seem particularly memorable, until you can't get it out of your head.
At the last Blizzcon, a full HALF of the show floor was dedicated to playable Starcraft: Ghost demoing. I am a huge WoW guy, and still play, but, being a Halo fan of sorts, Ghost had attracted my attention a bit.
Needless to say, as much as I like WoW, and attended Blizzcon because of it, I played their Ghost multiplayer maps 85% of the time I was there. The graphics were decent (think Halo 2ish), the gameplay balance was adequate, and it was downright FUN. It was tried and true Blizzard formula. Take someone else's product (Command and Conquer, Everquest), improve on it in every aspect, give it an amazing amount of polish, and slap a Blizzard logo on it.
Sadly, Ghost was cancelled because (imo) it would've been hard or impossible to release it before all the new next-gen hardware came out.
All that being said, I really really really hope they move what they had to next-gen. It could be amazing.
Make a MySpace Phishing site, capture people's logins, reek havoc on their account!
Maybe taunt them mercilessly asking why Backstreet Boys is their guilty pleasure, why they like Chinese Food over Mexican, how they're too scared to try homo/bi-sexuality but secretly want to, and why Chuck Norris #18234 is one of their featured friends.
Then you also have a nice list of who has been using MySpace. Watch those people like a hawk, and at the first sign of trouble, out the door they go!
In High School, when I discovered the DDR machine at an arcade, I always imagined how cool it would be to show up to school one day, and have a machine or two waiting in the gym.
Combined with a weightlifting or co-ed aerobics class, this is a luring way to weight loss. I don't see why some school somewhere hasn't picked up on this "aerobic entertainment" yet. I think it would be a good way to get all those kids who beg their Dr. for a note to stay out of PE back in the active world.
It seems to me that the movie critic industry is all cynical - or all senial. I've learned not to pay attention to reviews and criticism's just because movies that get crappy ratings always turn out ok or good, and movies with GREAT reviews most often turn out to be boring. Movie reviews from movie buffs rather than people getting paid to say what they think about how good the "acting, filming, angles" are, will be a welcome change.
Yes OpenOffice is mentioned - but is based on older versions of StarOffice. The fine people at Sun - whose free version deserves commendation - at the same time keep improving their StarOffice suite past that of the OpenOffice one, and is now far more robust than it's previous workings. At a fraction of M$'s suite - it's still a good solution.
StarOffice isn't mentioned. Has it fallen into obscureness, or are we just not supporting it because it's not free anymore? IMO - any solution that isn't Micro$oft Office is a good solution.
Easy enough - I just use a variance of my middle name - now - that being Loihika'uhane, I just add a few numbers - it already has a non-alphanumeric, and presto! Now, you might have a little trouble adapting your password scheme to fit mine, as most peoples middle names/initials aren't quite as complicated. : )
I haven't seen a price for the PS2 version of Linux yet, with the SDK kit, but I would really like one of those. It's pretty much every PC type accessory you could want for the PS2, all Sony branded, or at least guaranteed to work, and it's Linux! I dream of the day I can take my PS2 to work, and make it look like I'm being productive with it, then popping in FFX while no one is looking, of couse when it comes out.
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WAHHHHHH! I was whistling the musical theme that's on every trailer and part of the demo as I browsed over to games.slashdot only to see it at the top of the front page!
The music doesn't seem particularly memorable, until you can't get it out of your head.
Have you looked at the characters in Gears of War? Have you seen the armor they wear?
Do you really think you could jump over an obstacle that "didn't even reach my knees" in that stuff?
Gameplay Footage
Link to a vid of a couple plays being run. The audio sounds surprisingly good considering it's coming from a DS.
Other than that, it looks exactly like Tecmo Bowl, bring it on!
Don't forget Starcraft Brood Wars.
At the last Blizzcon, a full HALF of the show floor was dedicated to playable Starcraft: Ghost demoing. I am a huge WoW guy, and still play, but, being a Halo fan of sorts, Ghost had attracted my attention a bit.
Needless to say, as much as I like WoW, and attended Blizzcon because of it, I played their Ghost multiplayer maps 85% of the time I was there. The graphics were decent (think Halo 2ish), the gameplay balance was adequate, and it was downright FUN. It was tried and true Blizzard formula. Take someone else's product (Command and Conquer, Everquest), improve on it in every aspect, give it an amazing amount of polish, and slap a Blizzard logo on it.
Sadly, Ghost was cancelled because (imo) it would've been hard or impossible to release it before all the new next-gen hardware came out.
All that being said, I really really really hope they move what they had to next-gen. It could be amazing.
Make a MySpace Phishing site, capture people's logins, reek havoc on their account!
Maybe taunt them mercilessly asking why Backstreet Boys is their guilty pleasure, why they like Chinese Food over Mexican, how they're too scared to try homo/bi-sexuality but secretly want to, and why Chuck Norris #18234 is one of their featured friends.
Then you also have a nice list of who has been using MySpace. Watch those people like a hawk, and at the first sign of trouble, out the door they go!
In High School, when I discovered the DDR machine at an arcade, I always imagined how cool it would be to show up to school one day, and have a machine or two waiting in the gym.
Combined with a weightlifting or co-ed aerobics class, this is a luring way to weight loss. I don't see why some school somewhere hasn't picked up on this "aerobic entertainment" yet. I think it would be a good way to get all those kids who beg their Dr. for a note to stay out of PE back in the active world.
~Jesus saves!~
The rest of you take damage.
MudMaster and it's GUI-oriented counterpart MudMaster 2000 are good MUD clients for Windows.
As for *nix, TinTin++ and TinyFugue are excellent, though the sites for those two escape me at the moment.
Man - I loved Blades of Steel! I remember playing that game with my uncle all the time, and he would always kick my ass in the fights.
That's all the game became, eventually - running around with the puck into whatever hockey player my uncle was controlling, trying to get in fights..
Puch, puch, kick, UPPERCUT! *Toasty*
And since when does the loser of the fight have to go sit it out?
I always liked playing against the computer because I could knock it out easily enough - soon it was 5 vs 3, easy to score then...
As much as Middle Earth Online appeals to me, and as excited I am about hearing D&D Online --
World of Warcraft will be spectacular
It's Blizzard, when they do a game, they do it right, or not at all (Warcraft Adventures).
World of Warcraft will be my pick!
Kinda like warez huh? If you lose the race, don't you get nuked?
It seems to me that the movie critic industry is all cynical - or all senial. I've learned not to pay attention to reviews and criticism's just because movies that get crappy ratings always turn out ok or good, and movies with GREAT reviews most often turn out to be boring. Movie reviews from movie buffs rather than people getting paid to say what they think about how good the "acting, filming, angles" are, will be a welcome change.
Yes OpenOffice is mentioned - but is based on older versions of StarOffice. The fine people at Sun - whose free version deserves commendation - at the same time keep improving their StarOffice suite past that of the OpenOffice one, and is now far more robust than it's previous workings. At a fraction of M$'s suite - it's still a good solution.
StarOffice isn't mentioned. Has it fallen into obscureness, or are we just not supporting it because it's not free anymore? IMO - any solution that isn't Micro$oft Office is a good solution.
Easy enough - I just use a variance of my middle name - now - that being Loihika'uhane, I just add a few numbers - it already has a non-alphanumeric, and presto! Now, you might have a little trouble adapting your password scheme to fit mine, as most peoples middle names/initials aren't quite as complicated. : )
I haven't seen a price for the PS2 version of Linux yet, with the SDK kit, but I would really like one of those. It's pretty much every PC type accessory you could want for the PS2, all Sony branded, or at least guaranteed to work, and it's Linux! I dream of the day I can take my PS2 to work, and make it look like I'm being productive with it, then popping in FFX while no one is looking, of couse when it comes out.