Id agree as well, I subscribed to NG for a while, I was sad to see them go. They had some of the nicest covers (almost like a plastic type of cover), and most of the magazine was worth reading.
LotR was one book, broken into three by the publisher
Actually LotR was 6 books. More specifically:
"The Lord of the Rings is erroneously called a trilogy, when it in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendicies, published for convenience in three volumes."
My friend taught me this amazing technology.. Im only beginning to grasp the fundamentals as we speak.
When I burn a disc, I write the date physically onto the top of the disc with a sharpee type pen. It makes it fairly easy to tell when that disc was burnt.
Theres also a tolerance setting at the top left of the screen when you have the magic wand out. If you set this to a low number, it'll pretty much just grab the color that you click on, but as you increase that number, it starts grabbing more. Im not a photoshop expert but i believe thats what that setting is for.
Yea, even down in the corner where there was some word, then like an air gust, which looked exactly like some of the graphics in wind waker also..
If your gonna release some screenshots of a game where you can have thousands of different characters, why release some where they guy looks just like link?
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The Ferrari F-40 has a 3 liter engine which is rated at 478bhp. Thats about 160hp per liter. It also has 425 ft lbs of torque available @ 4500 rpm. The Honda s2000 has 162 ft lbs of torque @ 6500 rpm.
Heres some other stats:
Ferrari F40: 0-60 3.8sec 0-100 8sec 1/4 mile 11.8sec
I bought UO a few weeks after it came out. First online game I played really, and the first few weeks just amazed me. The first few years, I remember them doing a lot of quests involving seers. They were people who worked for them, and role-played a person who would have a big quest ready for players to embark on, for those who haven't played it before.
I remember a big quest that was over the course of a few months, and at the end, I was picked to stand atop this tower at the maze, and hold one of the staves of the elements. When we brought them all together (1 other player and 2 seers if I remember correctly) it spawned a *ton* of elementals all around the maze. Later on they took the staff I held, and put it in the moonglow museum with a tooltip that said, "Staff of Air, Held by Cloud" or something to that effect.
I played on the sonoma server, which was also the home of Oasis, and Fight Night. Fight night was this "event" i guess you could call it, where a bunch of people had duels in the desert (Oasis) on friday nights. This got so popular, that they were able to get the people who ran the game to build arena's and special buildings and such. It was also big fun when the pks would teleport in and try to distrupt things. We'd have the biggest battles.
Those first few years were a blast. I'm not sure if it's because I was new to the whole mmorpg thing, or because it was just an excellent game. When I think about it, it's probably the latter. I quit a bit after they split the world into 2 realms. I did come back a few times though with new accounts, but it just isn't like it was. Since then i've played EQ, DAoC, SWG, AC, and currently WoW, and none of them are as fun as UO was when it first came out, IMO.
No, the development kits sent out to game developers were essentially modded G5s. Pretty much any gaming mag will have the scoop, like Game Informer.
It may be that the xbox dev kits are essentially modded G5's, but I can tell you they don't come in the standard G5 box you'd get if you ordered one from Apple.
Microsoft makes some products that run on a Mac. Is it wierd to think they would order some of the new G5's?
I bought a pair of Paradigm Phantom speakers for about 300$, some of the nicest speakers ive owned. On the other hand my Sony STR-DE825 reciever just says "protection" when I turn it on. Haven't been able to use the speakers for a while.
Id also agree with this post, as well as the reply's (at least the ones I read).
Some things you might want to consider, try having just a couple small lan parties at your house or somethin, just so you can get the feel of what needs to be setup. Try looking at these sites:
Or just search google for "Hosting Lan Party" (without quotes, not sure if it matters).
Good luck to ya, a well-setup lan party can be a blast. The last one I went to, it was quite a few years ago, we played UT I believe. Each team got a room pretty much to setup, so you couldn't see the opponent, but you could year them when they yelled because you just killed them again =).
Last night on the news I saw people in line to buy tickets for the first Boston Red Sox game vs. the Yankees. I believe they said the tickets will go on sale in about 5 months...
"In 1943, the United States began research into the offensive use of biological agents. This work was started, interestingly enough, in response to a perceived German biological warfare (BW) threat as opposed to a Japanese one. The United States conducted this research at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick), which was a small National Guard airfield prior to that time, and produced agents at other sites until 1969, when President Nixon stopped all offensive biological and toxin weapon research and production by executive order.
The one thing I like about WoW is that most of the classes are pretty different. An example would be, a warrior uses rage to use abilities. Rage is gained by hitting a monster, or getting hit by one. A rogue uses energy and combo points, energy just regens back normally, and combo points are used with finishing moves.
Another cool thing about warriors is that they have 3 stances, an offensive stance, defensive, and a middle one. Each of those has a type of counter attack against parry, blocks, etc. So during a fight, if you play it right, you can switch stances and counter attack the monsters, which is a lot funner then clicking auto attack on eq.
Most of the other classes are pretty standard stuff, but I still find it to be more fun then most of the other games ive played.
Also, there isn't many games out there where you have something to do at all times. There's *always* a quest or two that you can finish pretty quickly, so if you dont have hours to play you can still advance pretty good.
Im not sure really how you can break out of the "clicking buttons" for a combat system. Do you want a Dance Dance Revolution pad to dance on to do combat?
Ya this game runs on pretty crappy computers, so id say if it was made in the past couple years your gonna be just fine. Find someone with a collectors edition, and use the 10 day pass to test it first.
My friend runs WoW on his laptop, it has an SiS video chip in it, not sure of the model number or anything, but any SiS onboard video chip isn't gonna be that good, and it runs just fine.
I went to my local hastings (not sure if thats a store thats just around the northwest or all over) about a week after I heard that EB had sold out of all their pre-orders of the collectors edition.
I asked them if I could pre-order it, and they said no, but I could special order it. They told me that they were getting about 70 copies of the collectors edition in, and I just had them hold one of them for me when it came in.
This morning at about 10:30 I got a call from them and it was in, and I went and picked it up. My friends went to hastings last night at midnight (they were having a harry potter deal) and they weren't able to get any of the collectors editions.
In any case im real happy I was able to get it, great box, worth the 80 bucks in my opinion.
I just got done reading the review on lik-sang, and it left me with just one question.
When playing Metroid DS, you are supposed to look using the stylus, which looks like you use with your left hand. How can you look around, and use the D-Pad to move? It seems both these fuctions require you to use your left thumb.
In any case i'm gonna try to go to my local eb to see if they have a demo setup, so far it looks pretty slick.
It would be pretty nice if the new Secret of Mana game was a multiplayer game like the SNES one. I remember one weekend I borrowed a multi-tap, me and 2 of my friends sat and finished the game from start to finish, it was a blast.
I have a Nokia 447x 17" monitor which can go into 2048x1536. I believe its a monitor that was used in CAD a lot. I got it for about 250 bucks on ebay about 6 years ago.
Those screenshots are nice, but I dont think they do the game justice. HL2 is absolutely the best looking game ive ever seen, and so far it is quite fun. Those guys in the gasmasks are scary =)
I remember buying my first MMORPG, Ultima Online, in the falltime of 1997 I believe it was. It was my first game I think i played online, and I was just amazed that all these people were playing the game with me.
Back when UO first came out, they used to employ "Seers". These were guys who created a character and a setting and then roleplayed that character. They would get normal players to come help him do whatever he had setup. The biggest one I was involved with, dealt with 4 staves of the elements. My characters name was Cloud, and after a couple months of helping out this Seer, he had a big event, in which he gave me the Staff of Air to hold for this ceremony. After all this took place, they took the staff that I held, and put it on display at the Moonglow museum, and when you clicked on it, it had my name on it, somethin like "Staff of Air held by Cloud in the staff ritual".
I don't think they do anything like that now, but I tell ya, it was a blast doing all that stuff. Since then i've played a lot of MMORPGs, but none have come close to how much fun that was back in the day.
My friend got the Matrix beta a few weeks back. When I saw him in combat, I completely changed my interest in the game from "Hmm I wonder what its gonna be like" to "Boy that game sucks".
I don't really know exactly how it all works, but I'm pretty sure that you get to chose some skills to raise up, which probably lead to more. When you get into a fight, you chose an attack of some sort, and an icon for that attack goes to the top of the screen. Your opponent then choses an attack, and it goes to the top of the screen, next to your attack. Those 2 attacks are then compared, and a final result is displayed, and dmg is done to whoever won the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" deal at the top of the screen. In other words, combat is *slow*, at least from what I saw.
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Id agree as well, I subscribed to NG for a while, I was sad to see them go. They had some of the nicest covers (almost like a plastic type of cover), and most of the magazine was worth reading.
Actually LotR was 6 books. More specifically:
"The Lord of the Rings is erroneously called a trilogy, when it in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendicies, published for convenience in three volumes."
Thats from the LotR collectors edition book.
My friend taught me this amazing technology.. Im only beginning to grasp the fundamentals as we speak.
When I burn a disc, I write the date physically onto the top of the disc with a sharpee type pen. It makes it fairly easy to tell when that disc was burnt.
Theres also a tolerance setting at the top left of the screen when you have the magic wand out. If you set this to a low number, it'll pretty much just grab the color that you click on, but as you increase that number, it starts grabbing more. Im not a photoshop expert but i believe thats what that setting is for.
Yea, even down in the corner where there was some word, then like an air gust, which looked exactly like some of the graphics in wind waker also..
If your gonna release some screenshots of a game where you can have thousands of different characters, why release some where they guy looks just like link?
The Ferrari F-40 has a 3 liter engine which is rated at 478bhp. Thats about 160hp per liter. It also has 425 ft lbs of torque available @ 4500 rpm. The Honda s2000 has 162 ft lbs of torque @ 6500 rpm.
Heres some other stats:
Ferrari F40:
0-60 3.8sec
0-100 8sec
1/4 mile 11.8sec
Honda S2000
0-60 5.4sec
0-100 15sec
1/4 mile 14sec
I bought UO a few weeks after it came out. First online game I played really, and the first few weeks just amazed me. The first few years, I remember them doing a lot of quests involving seers. They were people who worked for them, and role-played a person who would have a big quest ready for players to embark on, for those who haven't played it before.
I remember a big quest that was over the course of a few months, and at the end, I was picked to stand atop this tower at the maze, and hold one of the staves of the elements. When we brought them all together (1 other player and 2 seers if I remember correctly) it spawned a *ton* of elementals all around the maze. Later on they took the staff I held, and put it in the moonglow museum with a tooltip that said, "Staff of Air, Held by Cloud" or something to that effect.
I played on the sonoma server, which was also the home of Oasis, and Fight Night. Fight night was this "event" i guess you could call it, where a bunch of people had duels in the desert (Oasis) on friday nights. This got so popular, that they were able to get the people who ran the game to build arena's and special buildings and such. It was also big fun when the pks would teleport in and try to distrupt things. We'd have the biggest battles.
Those first few years were a blast. I'm not sure if it's because I was new to the whole mmorpg thing, or because it was just an excellent game. When I think about it, it's probably the latter. I quit a bit after they split the world into 2 realms. I did come back a few times though with new accounts, but it just isn't like it was. Since then i've played EQ, DAoC, SWG, AC, and currently WoW, and none of them are as fun as UO was when it first came out, IMO.
It may be that the xbox dev kits are essentially modded G5's, but I can tell you they don't come in the standard G5 box you'd get if you ordered one from Apple.
Microsoft makes some products that run on a Mac. Is it wierd to think they would order some of the new G5's?
I bought a pair of Paradigm Phantom speakers for about 300$, some of the nicest speakers ive owned. On the other hand my Sony STR-DE825 reciever just says "protection" when I turn it on. Haven't been able to use the speakers for a while.
I wouldn't consider anything made after Final Fantasy 7 a "real" Final Fantasy game either.
The only thing preventing works going into the public domain is things like the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Some things you might want to consider, try having just a couple small lan parties at your house or somethin, just so you can get the feel of what needs to be setup. Try looking at these sites:
LAN Party Setup Info
Lanparty.com
Or just search google for "Hosting Lan Party" (without quotes, not sure if it matters).
Good luck to ya, a well-setup lan party can be a blast. The last one I went to, it was quite a few years ago, we played UT I believe. Each team got a room pretty much to setup, so you couldn't see the opponent, but you could year them when they yelled because you just killed them again =).
Last night on the news I saw people in line to buy tickets for the first Boston Red Sox game vs. the Yankees. I believe they said the tickets will go on sale in about 5 months...
Pasted from here:
"In 1943, the United States began research into the offensive use of biological agents. This work was started, interestingly enough, in response to a perceived German biological warfare (BW) threat as opposed to a Japanese one. The United States conducted this research at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick), which was a small National Guard airfield prior to that time, and produced agents at other sites until 1969, when President Nixon stopped all offensive biological and toxin weapon research and production by executive order.
The one thing I like about WoW is that most of the classes are pretty different. An example would be, a warrior uses rage to use abilities. Rage is gained by hitting a monster, or getting hit by one. A rogue uses energy and combo points, energy just regens back normally, and combo points are used with finishing moves.
Another cool thing about warriors is that they have 3 stances, an offensive stance, defensive, and a middle one. Each of those has a type of counter attack against parry, blocks, etc. So during a fight, if you play it right, you can switch stances and counter attack the monsters, which is a lot funner then clicking auto attack on eq.
Most of the other classes are pretty standard stuff, but I still find it to be more fun then most of the other games ive played.
Also, there isn't many games out there where you have something to do at all times. There's *always* a quest or two that you can finish pretty quickly, so if you dont have hours to play you can still advance pretty good.
Im not sure really how you can break out of the "clicking buttons" for a combat system. Do you want a Dance Dance Revolution pad to dance on to do combat?
Ya this game runs on pretty crappy computers, so id say if it was made in the past couple years your gonna be just fine. Find someone with a collectors edition, and use the 10 day pass to test it first.
My friend runs WoW on his laptop, it has an SiS video chip in it, not sure of the model number or anything, but any SiS onboard video chip isn't gonna be that good, and it runs just fine.
I went to my local hastings (not sure if thats a store thats just around the northwest or all over) about a week after I heard that EB had sold out of all their pre-orders of the collectors edition.
I asked them if I could pre-order it, and they said no, but I could special order it. They told me that they were getting about 70 copies of the collectors edition in, and I just had them hold one of them for me when it came in.
This morning at about 10:30 I got a call from them and it was in, and I went and picked it up. My friends went to hastings last night at midnight (they were having a harry potter deal) and they weren't able to get any of the collectors editions.
In any case im real happy I was able to get it, great box, worth the 80 bucks in my opinion.
I just got done reading the review on lik-sang, and it left me with just one question.
When playing Metroid DS, you are supposed to look using the stylus, which looks like you use with your left hand. How can you look around, and use the D-Pad to move? It seems both these fuctions require you to use your left thumb.
In any case i'm gonna try to go to my local eb to see if they have a demo setup, so far it looks pretty slick.
It would be pretty nice if the new Secret of Mana game was a multiplayer game like the SNES one. I remember one weekend I borrowed a multi-tap, me and 2 of my friends sat and finished the game from start to finish, it was a blast.
You can pay attention and it still can boil over. Turn your burner on high, and put a pot of water on it. Pay attention. It'll boil over.
I have a Nokia 447x 17" monitor which can go into 2048x1536. I believe its a monitor that was used in CAD a lot. I got it for about 250 bucks on ebay about 6 years ago.
Those screenshots are nice, but I dont think they do the game justice. HL2 is absolutely the best looking game ive ever seen, and so far it is quite fun. Those guys in the gasmasks are scary =)
When you install a single player game, and input the cd key, is that not a type of authentication?
I remember buying my first MMORPG, Ultima Online, in the falltime of 1997 I believe it was. It was my first game I think i played online, and I was just amazed that all these people were playing the game with me.
Back when UO first came out, they used to employ "Seers". These were guys who created a character and a setting and then roleplayed that character. They would get normal players to come help him do whatever he had setup. The biggest one I was involved with, dealt with 4 staves of the elements. My characters name was Cloud, and after a couple months of helping out this Seer, he had a big event, in which he gave me the Staff of Air to hold for this ceremony. After all this took place, they took the staff that I held, and put it on display at the Moonglow museum, and when you clicked on it, it had my name on it, somethin like "Staff of Air held by Cloud in the staff ritual".
I don't think they do anything like that now, but I tell ya, it was a blast doing all that stuff. Since then i've played a lot of MMORPGs, but none have come close to how much fun that was back in the day.
My friend got the Matrix beta a few weeks back. When I saw him in combat, I completely changed my interest in the game from "Hmm I wonder what its gonna be like" to "Boy that game sucks". I don't really know exactly how it all works, but I'm pretty sure that you get to chose some skills to raise up, which probably lead to more. When you get into a fight, you chose an attack of some sort, and an icon for that attack goes to the top of the screen. Your opponent then choses an attack, and it goes to the top of the screen, next to your attack. Those 2 attacks are then compared, and a final result is displayed, and dmg is done to whoever won the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" deal at the top of the screen. In other words, combat is *slow*, at least from what I saw.