Previously there was going to be a system where frequent flyers could bypass the new draconian security precedures they're going to institute by going through a background check. Maybe this is similar? Of course, you're just opening a hole in the security system by allowing a potential terrorist to slip through. Though, in that case it could be somewhat of a honey trap, as I'm sure they wouldn't want the spotlight of a background check put on them (not as if everyone from the Middle East is being anal probed as soon as they step off the plane anyways)
We've been trying that forever. For some reason the football team seems to let a few geeks through each year. We need to improve the systems we have, not make new ones!
In the second one, Jameson's son is an astronaut who has already been to the moon.
Near future? The way things are going, we'll never see a man on the moon. Maybe if we can have some world unity, President Bush will declare that we'll put a man on this moon before the decade is out. If we could only dare to dream so high!
Man on the moon...where do those Hollywood types come up with this stuff? Sheesh!
I don't know. Maybe its just me, but everytime I see one of those "message" episodes, they're always so thinly disguised and so loaded with bias it kind of turns my stomach to think that some producer is rubbing his hands together saying to himself, "Man, this is really going to make them THINK!".
Its pretty much like every single episode of the West Wing, except there at least they don't have to put alien spots on the non-traditional polygamous union of free spirits they want us to be ok with.:)
1. The majority of titles worth playing are made in Japan.
If you're talking about USA sales, and not your opinion, this is completely untrue. I'm looking at sales figures for consoles in february, and while the top game for that month (certainly not for the past year) was a Final Fantasy title, the rest of the non-GC games were all American or UK made.
The number one selling genre is sports and racing games. While Japanese game producers make many fine RPGs and platformers, only the GT series has really struck home in this category. Saying that you need Japan to win a US market discounts that the top sellers in this generation have been games like Tony Hawk, Madden, and Vice City. All made by non-Japanese companies.
Of course, thats just based on US sales figures. Your opinion on what makes a good game might differ. Also, if you want to sell in Japan, you MUST have Japanese developers. Not too many of them are sitting down to play a team through the Superbowl:)
Uh, the above comment was a joke people.
The quote in the parent post does NOT appear in the document.
Apology in this case means a defense of the proof.
Yeah, and not to belabour the point, but what wasn't in GT: 3 that will make them leap at the 4th? The graphics didn't look that much more impressive to me, nothing beyond midnight club II or anything. Is there more of the simulation aspect? thats one part that no one else has seemed to get.
Touche, and don't forget GTA: San Andreas. So its not devoid of titles, but really, what I saw of GT:4 didn't get me as excited as some of the XBox titles this year. I love GTA, but I'm willing to wait 6 months for the PC version.
Trust me, I played this for a solid half hour at E3, and it was amazing. (I guess the mods on my comment didn't think so:) The interface is fantastic, and for anyone interested in a squad based tactical simulator, I can't imagine anything better. It even has Live play (the network was flaky at E3, but I was on Live for about 5 minutes with it) which lets you team up with another player and manuever your squandrons in tandem.
I don't own an XBox, but damn if I'm not thinking about buying one just to play this game. (And some of the others I mentioned).
Name games you can't wait to play on the PS2, here's my list for XBox:
Fable Doom 3 Halo 2 Republic Commando Full Spectrum Warrior
Plus a host of other cross platform games that will go better on XBox. MS & Nintendo kicked Sony's ass as far as exlusive upcoming titles for this year. So yes, its worth having one.
Well, at least your honest. I wish more people would just stand up and admit to pirating, at least in some anonymous format, so industry people could get an actual idea on what the rate is instead of making up numbers like "a trillion dollars lost to pirating!!!! lock down all electronics with DRM hardware!!!!"
Yes, and I thought that Tolkien put in one too many elf ballads, therefore the books suck completely.
Because, really, you can judge an entire work by one thing you don't like, right?
Good luck finding people to criticize Blade Runner. Most adaptations of books definately take liberties with characters, plot points, theme, tone, etc. because you're creating a different work of art (art is used in its loosest terms here:) What you're seeing on the screen is often the collaborative vision of a bunch of people (screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, art directors, cinematagrophers, special effects artists, and more) of what the book can realize on the big screen.
A lot of time the realities of the process can mess stuff up a lot, and often times commercial, moral, or political interests can REALLY mess stuff up. But there have been some good adaptations out there, even in sci-fi. I doubt many would argue 2001: A Space Oddessy is a terrible movie. The latest Lord of the Rings accomplished an excellent rendering of the story to the screen and probably saw the biggest jump in Tolkien's readership. There have been many successful conversions that have convinced me to pick up the book, and discover new authors. Sci-fi definately has its troubles because serious sci-fi loses a lot of its social commentary in favor of action and aliens. The fact is though nothing in a movie can take away from the original book (aside from a gaudy tie-in book cover), so if you don't like it, don't watch it and recommend others read the book instead.
I guess to summarize, you never really get a 1:1 translation of book to movie, and there are varying degrees of raping and pillaging to be done to a story. Sometimes (GASP) the movie version even cleans some things up and improves on where the book is.
Can never be happy. Stay with me on this one before you hit that mod button:). Basically either you have shows people liked that get cancelled in their prime, thus to be lauded forever as the best show ever if only it had been able to reach its potential...
OR
You have them where they go on too long and thus should have been cancelled long ago. Thus you have purists that only recognize seasons 2,3,5, but not 4 where they went to that alternate dimension, what were they thinking!.
I guess this can be said for most shows, but it seems to apply more to scifi for some reasons. I think really only Babylon 5 went out on the perfect note, mainly because thats when it was supposed to happen.
Its not a gaming platform...you don't develop games for the Phantom. It plays PC games.
I have a serious feeling they spent a large amount of available capitol on the gigantic booth they had. There were plenty of couches for sitting and entertaining prospective VC, the kind they're going to need to cough up the cash needed to make the million or so boxes they're going to need to make the business profitable.
In case you don't know, they're giving the boxes away when you sign a two year contract. You download all the games you want to play once you have the subscription, and never pay for the box or the games, just the monthly fee. A) they need to make the hardware, B) they need to get people to sign up to put their games on this subscription model. I'll believe it when I see it. This thing could have been great 5 years ago when people watched money burn for fun and warmth, but in todays skeptical market, forget it. Of course, when pressed for such details as what launch titles they'd have or the amount of the monthly fee, the answer was mum. We'll see...
Has anyone tried such a game development model (not one man band geocities, but a serious games company looking to raise some venture capital for a game idea)?
It happens all the time. Joe Consumer isn't going to put in venture capitol. The devs raise it on their own from private sources. Eventually they have to go to a publisher if they want to get it on store shelves (its one thing to raise capitol for making a game, its another to raise money for a production run, marketing, wining and dining distributors to get it on store shelves, etc).
And I laugh at your suggestion people would donate based on a concept while the biggest piracy apologist argument is that there's so much crap people want to try before they buy. In your plan they're going to pay for story drafts and concept art? I don't think so.
For myself, I don't usually buy into hype and I don't have an itchy buying finger. I wait until reviews from trusted sources have been published, and hopefully a good demo. Word of mouth sells me a game more than any bought-and-paid for "review." If the game isn't worth me paying for, then its not worth the time for me to find, pirate, and play. I think if you spend any time at all using someone's creation, then you need to give credit where credit is due.
So so so true. The other thing is, Microsoft has been a much better service to their developers than Sony. The dev tools allowed to you are SO much better on the Xbox than PS2 (break-recompile-restart on a console? Awesome! Plus a handy shader debugger to boot). Not to mention the test-kits/dev-kits are almost identical except for a DVD emulator SCSI port, and the fact they're a lot cheaper.
Sony has gotten better, but Microsoft was better from the first hardware release. I don't expect this situation with dev. services to change at all in the next round. Even if they launched at the same time, XB2 games would probably look better than PS3 games.
Yes, but using commodidty parts the price is costs them to produce a system has also dropped. I wouldn't be surprised if they've scaled the price down to match their system costs, so things almost break even.
Of course, no commodity parts in this next one, which means its more expensive and harder to program. Thoguh now they do have more experience with manufacturing, so if the PS2 can go at cost or under, then maybe the Xbox can too.
I saw further down on the page it was talking about an OpenCable TIVO coming in July for the new common cable standard. Does that mean I can finally have TIVO on my digital cable?
I gotta say that while Keanu did his part, he was only a portion of why that movie sucked. You can't have a decent movie if you start with a bad script (see Star Wars I, II). And who wrote the script? Yeah, Gibson. He should let the screenwriting be done by a screenwriter next time.
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Previously there was going to be a system where frequent flyers could bypass the new draconian security precedures they're going to institute by going through a background check. Maybe this is similar? Of course, you're just opening a hole in the security system by allowing a potential terrorist to slip through. Though, in that case it could be somewhat of a honey trap, as I'm sure they wouldn't want the spotlight of a background check put on them (not as if everyone from the Middle East is being anal probed as soon as they step off the plane anyways)
We've been trying that forever. For some reason the football team seems to let a few geeks through each year. We need to improve the systems we have, not make new ones!
In the second one, Jameson's son is an astronaut who has already been to the moon.
Near future? The way things are going, we'll never see a man on the moon. Maybe if we can have some world unity, President Bush will declare that we'll put a man on this moon before the decade is out. If we could only dare to dream so high!
Man on the moon...where do those Hollywood types come up with this stuff? Sheesh!
I don't know. Maybe its just me, but everytime I see one of those "message" episodes, they're always so thinly disguised and so loaded with bias it kind of turns my stomach to think that some producer is rubbing his hands together saying to himself, "Man, this is really going to make them THINK!".
:)
Its pretty much like every single episode of the West Wing, except there at least they don't have to put alien spots on the non-traditional polygamous union of free spirits they want us to be ok with.
1. The majority of titles worth playing are made in Japan.
:)
If you're talking about USA sales, and not your opinion, this is completely untrue. I'm looking at sales figures for consoles in february, and while the top game for that month (certainly not for the past year) was a Final Fantasy title, the rest of the non-GC games were all American or UK made.
The number one selling genre is sports and racing games. While Japanese game producers make many fine RPGs and platformers, only the GT series has really struck home in this category. Saying that you need Japan to win a US market discounts that the top sellers in this generation have been games like Tony Hawk, Madden, and Vice City. All made by non-Japanese companies.
Of course, thats just based on US sales figures. Your opinion on what makes a good game might differ. Also, if you want to sell in Japan, you MUST have Japanese developers. Not too many of them are sitting down to play a team through the Superbowl
Uh, the above comment was a joke people. The quote in the parent post does NOT appear in the document. Apology in this case means a defense of the proof.
Yeah, and not to belabour the point, but what wasn't in GT: 3 that will make them leap at the 4th? The graphics didn't look that much more impressive to me, nothing beyond midnight club II or anything. Is there more of the simulation aspect? thats one part that no one else has seemed to get.
Touche, and don't forget GTA: San Andreas. So its not devoid of titles, but really, what I saw of GT:4 didn't get me as excited as some of the XBox titles this year. I love GTA, but I'm willing to wait 6 months for the PC version.
Trust me, I played this for a solid half hour at E3, and it was amazing. (I guess the mods on my comment didn't think so :) The interface is fantastic, and for anyone interested in a squad based tactical simulator, I can't imagine anything better. It even has Live play (the network was flaky at E3, but I was on Live for about 5 minutes with it) which lets you team up with another player and manuever your squandrons in tandem.
I don't own an XBox, but damn if I'm not thinking about buying one just to play this game. (And some of the others I mentioned).
Name games you can't wait to play on the PS2, here's my list for XBox:
Fable
Doom 3
Halo 2
Republic Commando
Full Spectrum Warrior
Plus a host of other cross platform games that will go better on XBox. MS & Nintendo kicked Sony's ass as far as exlusive upcoming titles for this year. So yes, its worth having one.
Well, at least your honest. I wish more people would just stand up and admit to pirating, at least in some anonymous format, so industry people could get an actual idea on what the rate is instead of making up numbers like "a trillion dollars lost to pirating!!!! lock down all electronics with DRM hardware!!!!"
Yes, and I thought that Tolkien put in one too many elf ballads, therefore the books suck completely. Because, really, you can judge an entire work by one thing you don't like, right?
Good luck finding people to criticize Blade Runner. Most adaptations of books definately take liberties with characters, plot points, theme, tone, etc. because you're creating a different work of art (art is used in its loosest terms here :) What you're seeing on the screen is often the collaborative vision of a bunch of people (screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, art directors, cinematagrophers, special effects artists, and more) of what the book can realize on the big screen.
A lot of time the realities of the process can mess stuff up a lot, and often times commercial, moral, or political interests can REALLY mess stuff up. But there have been some good adaptations out there, even in sci-fi. I doubt many would argue 2001: A Space Oddessy is a terrible movie. The latest Lord of the Rings accomplished an excellent rendering of the story to the screen and probably saw the biggest jump in Tolkien's readership. There have been many successful conversions that have convinced me to pick up the book, and discover new authors. Sci-fi definately has its troubles because serious sci-fi loses a lot of its social commentary in favor of action and aliens. The fact is though nothing in a movie can take away from the original book (aside from a gaudy tie-in book cover), so if you don't like it, don't watch it and recommend others read the book instead.
I guess to summarize, you never really get a 1:1 translation of book to movie, and there are varying degrees of raping and pillaging to be done to a story. Sometimes (GASP) the movie version even cleans some things up and improves on where the book is.
How is this free? You have to buy a $25 cable for your phone!
Can never be happy. Stay with me on this one before you hit that mod button :). Basically either you have shows people liked that get cancelled in their prime, thus to be lauded forever as the best show ever if only it had been able to reach its potential...
OR
You have them where they go on too long and thus should have been cancelled long ago. Thus you have purists that only recognize seasons 2,3,5, but not 4 where they went to that alternate dimension, what were they thinking!.
I guess this can be said for most shows, but it seems to apply more to scifi for some reasons. I think really only Babylon 5 went out on the perfect note, mainly because thats when it was supposed to happen.
Its not a gaming platform...you don't develop games for the Phantom. It plays PC games. I have a serious feeling they spent a large amount of available capitol on the gigantic booth they had. There were plenty of couches for sitting and entertaining prospective VC, the kind they're going to need to cough up the cash needed to make the million or so boxes they're going to need to make the business profitable. In case you don't know, they're giving the boxes away when you sign a two year contract. You download all the games you want to play once you have the subscription, and never pay for the box or the games, just the monthly fee. A) they need to make the hardware, B) they need to get people to sign up to put their games on this subscription model. I'll believe it when I see it. This thing could have been great 5 years ago when people watched money burn for fun and warmth, but in todays skeptical market, forget it. Of course, when pressed for such details as what launch titles they'd have or the amount of the monthly fee, the answer was mum. We'll see...
Has anyone tried such a game development model (not one man band geocities, but a serious games company looking to raise some venture capital for a game idea)? It happens all the time. Joe Consumer isn't going to put in venture capitol. The devs raise it on their own from private sources. Eventually they have to go to a publisher if they want to get it on store shelves (its one thing to raise capitol for making a game, its another to raise money for a production run, marketing, wining and dining distributors to get it on store shelves, etc). And I laugh at your suggestion people would donate based on a concept while the biggest piracy apologist argument is that there's so much crap people want to try before they buy. In your plan they're going to pay for story drafts and concept art? I don't think so. For myself, I don't usually buy into hype and I don't have an itchy buying finger. I wait until reviews from trusted sources have been published, and hopefully a good demo. Word of mouth sells me a game more than any bought-and-paid for "review." If the game isn't worth me paying for, then its not worth the time for me to find, pirate, and play. I think if you spend any time at all using someone's creation, then you need to give credit where credit is due.
So so so true. The other thing is, Microsoft has been a much better service to their developers than Sony. The dev tools allowed to you are SO much better on the Xbox than PS2 (break-recompile-restart on a console? Awesome! Plus a handy shader debugger to boot). Not to mention the test-kits/dev-kits are almost identical except for a DVD emulator SCSI port, and the fact they're a lot cheaper.
Sony has gotten better, but Microsoft was better from the first hardware release. I don't expect this situation with dev. services to change at all in the next round. Even if they launched at the same time, XB2 games would probably look better than PS3 games.
Yes, but using commodidty parts the price is costs them to produce a system has also dropped. I wouldn't be surprised if they've scaled the price down to match their system costs, so things almost break even.
Of course, no commodity parts in this next one, which means its more expensive and harder to program. Thoguh now they do have more experience with manufacturing, so if the PS2 can go at cost or under, then maybe the Xbox can too.
I saw further down on the page it was talking about an OpenCable TIVO coming in July for the new common cable standard. Does that mean I can finally have TIVO on my digital cable?
Show me 11 billion from spam and I'll show you a guy with a 4 foot long penis.
Yeah, next thing they'll be making robotic mechanical pleasure devices for women and we'll be replaced compl--
:(
Oh wait.
Crap
I gotta say that while Keanu did his part, he was only a portion of why that movie sucked. You can't have a decent movie if you start with a bad script (see Star Wars I, II). And who wrote the script? Yeah, Gibson. He should let the screenwriting be done by a screenwriter next time.
Is it just me or does he look like Stephen Hawking without the chair?
Gods and Generals did exactly this. It was 4 hours, so they put one in at the two hour mark. (At least at the theater I saw it at).