Yeah, I tried. I know that electric guitars make thier own sound as well, but in terms of Guitar Hero you are playing with a band in front of a crowd. I have never been to a concert where I hear the sound coming from the guitar instead of the amp unless of course, it was acoustic. The point I'm trying to make is that is that it woudln't be "so much cooler!" if the sound came out of the controller. We are talking about a game here; a guitar with buttons on it. If one wanted it to be so realistic they would be getting a real guiatar.
That's cool you've been playing piano for 20 years though. I'm starting to take lessons again (I used to take them for a few years when I was very young). I bought this digital piano that actaully feels closer to the grands at my lessons than the upright at my parents house. I guess it's not so bad when you get used to it. The sound is obvoiusly different, but at least you don't have to worrry about tuning.
"Plus, having the notes come from the Guitar itself instead of the screen would be much cooler."
No it wouldn't. Are you on crack!? You would have sounds coming from two places. Where would you rather have the sound coming from, a little tiny speaker from the controller, or your home-theatre surround system?
Have you even played Guitar Hero? None (AFAIK) of the songs are acoustic anyways.
Dude, seriously, just shut the hell up. Why the hell would I want dinky little sounds coming out of the guitar? First of all, this isn't acoustic guitar hero, sounds come from other places besides the guitar in real life too! Second of all, the sounds would be crap. Third of all, a custom-shaped shell!? You can do that for any controller!
I can't believe this got modded interesting. Listen, if the game came out for Wii it wouldn't be any different. Yeah, a Wii-mote has a motion-sensor. That doesn't mean that every game that gets ported to the Wii instantly becomes the best game ever.
"but I would definately pick up the game if it came out for the Wii."
I swear, I feel like I'm in that episode of southpark where everyone starts buying hybrids and smelling their own farts. If it came out for any other system it just would just be inferior, wouldn't it? Stop being so smug.
Umm I know this. I've played bnetd (so I didn't have to pay for the game) and I read the wikipedia article. Maybe I don't FULLY understand the situation. But I know enough to figure that a few people boycotting Blizzard isn't going to accomplish a DAMN thing.
"Do you think all the legitimate owners would go back to bnet after bnetd was shut down?"
What the hell are you talking about? Of course legitimate owners went back and played on bnet. I did.
Just because people were getting together on thier own servers using the software they paid for doesn't mean that Blizzard wasn't losing profits indirectly from bnetd. And don't you even dare give me the b.s. that bnetd would have made Blizzard more money, it wouldn't have. Any other company would have done the same as Blizzard.
If you have a problem with a law and you think it's unconstitutional. Boycotting a video game isn't going to change that law. Especially when a majority of people that have played blizzard games obviously don't know about or don't care about bnetd.
Many of the developers who created Starcraft split from Blizzard and went off to make Guild Wars. This scares me. I want too see a new Starcraft sooo bad, but not if it's ruined by people who don't know what there doing.
Why would you believe that the fish are being controlled by magnets? Look at the fishes fins and their bodies when they make turns. Their motions are almost identical. If they were being controlled by a magnet, I think the turns wouldn't look so natural. Maybe there is something we can't that's controlling them but it's I highly doubt it's magnets. If they were being controlled by magnets some of the fish would be violently thrashing yet moving at the same speed as a fish that wasn't moving at all.
Meh, they've been fixing and supporting CS:Source for so long because they take FOREVER to release fixes, and generally everytime they had a new feature it's buggy as hell, and they have to fix it.
I don't see why this is such big news. Valve has always been making little fixes and gameplay changes on CS:Source. They make changes on maps all the time. The radar thing sounds interesting, but in reality, it will make little difference. Newbies never use the radar, regardless of how helpful it can be. Skilled players will either die or kill the enemies before they can get a lock on them. Good communication works even better than the radar. A guy on voice chat saying "3 rushing the doorway!" is a lot more effective than try to hold your crosshair on one guy while the whole opposing team overruns your position.
I love how this post is modded informative. I think more posts from Neo-con republicans like this should be modded up so people can see that they really ARE assholes that don't care about others.
Sedna, Xena, Quaoar, Varuna, Ixion... what do we do with those?
Xena is a warrior princess, she's hot so she gets to be a planet. The other celestial objects sound ugly, I would never date a Sedna, unless she gave good head.
The article also talked about how children would benefit from Pluto's planethood because it's a "misfit". Shouldn't we be classifying planets based on it's characteristics, not how it affects our culture or how people relate to it? If we classify things based on how people relate to them, we might as well call whales the "misfits of fish." It might be a totally incorrect classification, but at least obiese people have something to relate to now!
Bald Kid: "Do not try to bend the spoon. Instead try to realize the truth" Keanu Reeves being retarded: "What truth?" Bald Kid: "There is no spoon, (dumbass)"
The whole "Daily Show" type faux news show is overdone.
The Daily Show and the Colbert report are the only "fake" news shows that I know of, unless you want to include every show on the Fox News Channel. If you want talk about overdone shows, lets talk about reality tv, hospital drama, and crime investigation shows.
For the most part of the last 10 years all games could run on all PCs and the only thing differing was the speed and sometimes graphical details for 3D games.
Oh, please. That is the biggest bunch of bull I've heard in a long time. Being a kid with no cash income and your parents were happy with their 75Mhz Pentium or their PowerMac 6800 made virtually impossible for me to play any of the new games. I couldn't play Starcraft for the longest time until my parents got a new PC. Did you forget that many computers from the previous decade didn't even HAVE graphics cards? I know just requiring some type of graphics card doesn't seem like a big deal, but it was 10 years ago. The current situation is no different. In fact, it's not even that bad. My Radeon 9800 is more than two years old and I can still play any game out there.
Of the three games I've tried recently none worked out of the box in a Geforce4 4200Ti
Dude, a Geforce4 4200Ti is easily 3 or 4 years old now and it was considered low end at the time of it's release. Upgrade your computer!
"But to then rationalize it as "and it was crummy to begin with" is going too far. It was the reason given for some software I helped write getting pirated, and so it's admittedly a personal peeve."
Well maybe you shouldn't have written such shitty software!
Myth was a real-time strategy game. It actaully involved more tactics then strategy. I really loved this game, and I don't see how it could be considered high-brow. It was gory, fun, and very interactive. Such qualities aren't high-brow. On the other hand, Myst was a problem solving slide-show that required intelligence, patience, and probably wouldn't appeal to the standard FPS addict.
Just ask your self this question, which game would more likely entice a player who enjoys an expensive glass of wine while he/she plays video games.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis would disagree with you.
Unless it's night time, or in a dark cave. Than he uses a flash light with the duct tape mod.
Science will change in the next 1000 years shattering our notion of the universe, but the Genesis account will never change.
That's why I will always trust science more than a religious text to explain how this universe works. Scientific theories and beliefs are willing to change when they become under scrutiny. The bible, on the other hand, will never change, just more excuses or attempts of explaining fallacies and inconsistencies. If we treated science like we did the bible, we would still believe the earth is flat.
Beleiving in evolution and in God is definately feasable and sensible. Beleiving every word in the Bible as truth from God's mouth while believing in evolution is a different story, as it requires ignorance of obvious conflicting views.
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"Have you ever played a guitar?"
Yeah, I tried. I know that electric guitars make thier own sound as well, but in terms of Guitar Hero you are playing with a band in front of a crowd. I have never been to a concert where I hear the sound coming from the guitar instead of the amp unless of course, it was acoustic. The point I'm trying to make is that is that it woudln't be "so much cooler!" if the sound came out of the controller. We are talking about a game here; a guitar with buttons on it. If one wanted it to be so realistic they would be getting a real guiatar.
That's cool you've been playing piano for 20 years though. I'm starting to take lessons again (I used to take them for a few years when I was very young). I bought this digital piano that actaully feels closer to the grands at my lessons than the upright at my parents house. I guess it's not so bad when you get used to it. The sound is obvoiusly different, but at least you don't have to worrry about tuning.
"Plus, having the notes come from the Guitar itself instead of the screen would be much cooler."
No it wouldn't. Are you on crack!? You would have sounds coming from two places. Where would you rather have the sound coming from, a little tiny speaker from the controller, or your home-theatre surround system?
Have you even played Guitar Hero? None (AFAIK) of the songs are acoustic anyways.
Dude, seriously, just shut the hell up. Why the hell would I want dinky little sounds coming out of the guitar? First of all, this isn't acoustic guitar hero, sounds come from other places besides the guitar in real life too! Second of all, the sounds would be crap. Third of all, a custom-shaped shell!? You can do that for any controller!
I can't believe this got modded interesting. Listen, if the game came out for Wii it wouldn't be any different. Yeah, a Wii-mote has a motion-sensor. That doesn't mean that every game that gets ported to the Wii instantly becomes the best game ever.
"but I would definately pick up the game if it came out for the Wii."
I swear, I feel like I'm in that episode of southpark where everyone starts buying hybrids and smelling their own farts. If it came out for any other system it just would just be inferior, wouldn't it? Stop being so smug.
What no mods!? This is wiidiculous.
Yeah, it sounds pretty wiitarded if you ask me. But seriously, Nintendo really should wiithink about wiinaming the Wii.
"I tried EVE for a while and disliked the mechanics and the lack of a real "goal" so maybe I'm a bit biased."
I can understand the disliking of mechanics of EVE, but what kind of real "goal" does WoW have (or any MMORPG for that matter)?
"bnet != bnetd"
Umm I know this. I've played bnetd (so I didn't have to pay for the game) and I read the wikipedia article. Maybe I don't FULLY understand the situation. But I know enough to figure that a few people boycotting Blizzard isn't going to accomplish a DAMN thing.
"Do you think all the legitimate owners would go back to bnet after bnetd was shut down?"
What the hell are you talking about? Of course legitimate owners went back and played on bnet. I did.
Just because people were getting together on thier own servers using the software they paid for doesn't mean that Blizzard wasn't losing profits indirectly from bnetd. And don't you even dare give me the b.s. that bnetd would have made Blizzard more money, it wouldn't have. Any other company would have done the same as Blizzard.
If you have a problem with a law and you think it's unconstitutional. Boycotting a video game isn't going to change that law. Especially when a majority of people that have played blizzard games obviously don't know about or don't care about bnetd.
No, I will forget bnetd, and continue to buy games that are fun.
You think boycotting is going to make a difference when WoW has 6 million subscribers?
But please, continue your own self-sastisfying boycott. Last time I was on bnet, it had too many crybabies and whiners.
Many of the developers who created Starcraft split from Blizzard and went off to make Guild Wars. This scares me. I want too see a new Starcraft sooo bad, but not if it's ruined by people who don't know what there doing.
that would be sweet
Why would you believe that the fish are being controlled by magnets? Look at the fishes fins and their bodies when they make turns. Their motions are almost identical. If they were being controlled by a magnet, I think the turns wouldn't look so natural. Maybe there is something we can't that's controlling them but it's I highly doubt it's magnets. If they were being controlled by magnets some of the fish would be violently thrashing yet moving at the same speed as a fish that wasn't moving at all.
Meh, they've been fixing and supporting CS:Source for so long because they take FOREVER to release fixes, and generally everytime they had a new feature it's buggy as hell, and they have to fix it.
I don't see why this is such big news. Valve has always been making little fixes and gameplay changes on CS:Source. They make changes on maps all the time. The radar thing sounds interesting, but in reality, it will make little difference. Newbies never use the radar, regardless of how helpful it can be. Skilled players will either die or kill the enemies before they can get a lock on them. Good communication works even better than the radar. A guy on voice chat saying "3 rushing the doorway!" is a lot more effective than try to hold your crosshair on one guy while the whole opposing team overruns your position.
I totally agree.
*Goes back to masturbating to a Night Elf*
I love how this post is modded informative. I think more posts from Neo-con republicans like this should be modded up so people can see that they really ARE assholes that don't care about others.
Sedna, Xena, Quaoar, Varuna, Ixion... what do we do with those?
Xena is a warrior princess, she's hot so she gets to be a planet. The other celestial objects sound ugly, I would never date a Sedna, unless she gave good head.
I "relate to its inadequacy"
The article also talked about how children would benefit from Pluto's planethood because it's a "misfit". Shouldn't we be classifying planets based on it's characteristics, not how it affects our culture or how people relate to it? If we classify things based on how people relate to them, we might as well call whales the "misfits of fish." It might be a totally incorrect classification, but at least obiese people have something to relate to now!
Bald Kid: "Do not try to bend the spoon. Instead try to realize the truth"
Keanu Reeves being retarded: "What truth?"
Bald Kid: "There is no spoon, (dumbass)"
The whole "Daily Show" type faux news show is overdone.
The Daily Show and the Colbert report are the only "fake" news shows that I know of, unless you want to include every show on the Fox News Channel. If you want talk about overdone shows, lets talk about reality tv, hospital drama, and crime investigation shows.
For the most part of the last 10 years all games could run on all PCs and the only thing differing was the speed and sometimes graphical details for 3D games.
Oh, please. That is the biggest bunch of bull I've heard in a long time. Being a kid with no cash income and your parents were happy with their 75Mhz Pentium or their PowerMac 6800 made virtually impossible for me to play any of the new games. I couldn't play Starcraft for the longest time until my parents got a new PC. Did you forget that many computers from the previous decade didn't even HAVE graphics cards? I know just requiring some type of graphics card doesn't seem like a big deal, but it was 10 years ago. The current situation is no different. In fact, it's not even that bad. My Radeon 9800 is more than two years old and I can still play any game out there.
Of the three games I've tried recently none worked out of the box in a Geforce4 4200Ti
Dude, a Geforce4 4200Ti is easily 3 or 4 years old now and it was considered low end at the time of it's release. Upgrade your computer!
"But to then rationalize it as "and it was crummy to begin with" is going too far. It was the reason given for some software I helped write getting pirated, and so it's admittedly a personal peeve."
Well maybe you shouldn't have written such shitty software!
Do you mean Myst?
Myth was a real-time strategy game. It actaully involved more tactics then strategy. I really loved this game, and I don't see how it could be considered high-brow. It was gory, fun, and very interactive. Such qualities aren't high-brow. On the other hand, Myst was a problem solving slide-show that required intelligence, patience, and probably wouldn't appeal to the standard FPS addict.
Just ask your self this question, which game would more likely entice a player who enjoys an expensive glass of wine while he/she plays video games.
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis would disagree with you.
Unless it's night time, or in a dark cave. Than he uses a flash light with the duct tape mod.
Science will change in the next 1000 years shattering our notion of the universe, but the Genesis account will never change.
That's why I will always trust science more than a religious text to explain how this universe works. Scientific theories and beliefs are willing to change when they become under scrutiny. The bible, on the other hand, will never change, just more excuses or attempts of explaining fallacies and inconsistencies. If we treated science like we did the bible, we would still believe the earth is flat.
Beleiving in evolution and in God is definately feasable and sensible. Beleiving every word in the Bible as truth from God's mouth while believing in evolution is a different story, as it requires ignorance of obvious conflicting views.
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