This may be true, but steam is also a way of being able to rent games using your $10 subscription, then stop playing it when you're done playing. I personally rarely play any one game for more than a month or two nowadays, so I could get a 2 month subscription and save more than half the retail price. Sure, I don't have anything to show for it after that, but I've got a cupboard full of old games rotting away.
This argument doesn't really hold any water. If it's not worth paying for, just don't play it! it's only 1-2 hours of your month that you have to find something else to do in, which could be legal. I wish people would stop making lame excuses for what is obviously piracy.
I wonder how this will effect the modding community, but legal and non. If there's emulation in software for ps1 and/or ps2 software, will the copy protection checking still be in hardware? If it isn't, someone might be able to engineer a bios update to bypass the check.
It would be nice to extract the emulation software and use it for existing ps1/2 emulation projects too.
The PSP already sounds like it's going to be a biggish device with the umd discs, and now you're going to have to add things to it to get a phone and camera attached to it? This thing is going to be huge after all that, hardly pocket sized. The only advantage would be that I no longer have to have 3 pockets on my pants to carry mobile, camera and GBA at the same time. Now I need one HUGE pocket for the PSP.
I think the point is actually similar to having a camera on your mobile phone. It's not amazingly useful, and not the best/cheapest camera you can get, but it's handy enough to sell more phones and attract the gadget crowd.
God, that's going to be annoying if you don't have internet access for some reason. Buying a game only to not be able to play it until you post off a card and get a response would be crazy, especially for overseas customers.
I hope it's like Windows XP where you get 30 days to activate your HL2. If that's what happens there might be nothing stopping me from installing an illegal copy, playing it for 30 days then reinstalling/giving up.
So to stay true the Street Fighter you'd have a line, on which you can move 2 miniatures back and forth. One player to a miniature, and you can select from a small number of special moves, punches and kicks. Combos are formed by hitting someone with the right sequence of attacks.
Actually, I think this is due to Pro Evolution actually being a very good game. If you're not into soccer/football then it's not going to be any use to you, but it's a very good game none the less.
I'd say these awards were based on the fact that you can play (a demo of) XIII, and viewtiful joe has been out in japan for some time, but Halflife 2 is so far just a bunch of amazing looking videos. It's a bit more sensible than giving an award to the game you most want to play...
There's an online equivalent. It's called the Universal Hint System. You get to look at progressively stronger hints at solving each puzzle. They're great for lucasarts style adventures where you need that little bit extra.
The main contention with this article and the previous one about GBA games is that originality is just not that easy to define. Rez is a rail shooter. Ico is a 3rd person adventure, Space channel 5 and Frequency are rythmn games. You can compare everything made now to some game or other in the past. There are just levels of originality, with some games doing this better than others.
It would be as useful to say there are no original novels out, everything is just a romance story, an adventure story, sci-fi, etc etc. Not every good story has been written, and not every good game has been made.
The 'tallscreen' seems to be one of the strangest choices for the N-gage. In a time when almost everything else is trying to be widescreen they go tall, making some game genres less playable than they could be. I can't imagine playing sonic without the maximum amount of horizontal screen room.
I predict that the designer of the N-Gage is a Shoot-em-up fan! Die-Hard Shmup fans have been turning their TV's on the side for years to get this aspect ratio. I look forward to a port of Ikaruga and radiant silvergun for the N-Gage!
This culture reason baffles me, as the game is getting a release in Australia. We share very few holidays with anywhere, and to make matters worse our seasons are reversed! It would be hilarious for AC to have a white christmas in the Australian version.
What I suspect is that we'll get the US version with maybe a few changes, there's a lot of people here who want to be american anyway...
It seems obvious that a franchise title will have lots of automatic sales, while a truly original title has to work for all it's sales. What's the problem with having a franchise game that's good?
What if the characters in Golden Sun were named Cloud, Aerith and Tifa, and it was Final Golden Fantasy Sun? It would still be a kickass RPG. Or if the minigame title had Wario in it, and was called Wario Ware? err...
Perhaps by 'complete experience' they mean the experience the average spec PC user would get. While the shadows and so on might require a dx9 video card, it will still be runnable on earlier hardware, just with some features disabled. No doubt this would be simiar to the xbox version.
Complete experience, for a given definition of complete...
This article makes it seem like Id is trying to make Doom 3 into a "Better Halflife". Doom 3 was very similar to HL1 in premise to start with, and now this Physics Patch seems to be a direct response to the amazing physics stuff in HL2.
It seems pretty lame that they're adding this sort of thing now, at the end of the development cycle where it probably can't be integrated into the game properly. Id should let their game stand on it's own as a separate entity.
I don't think Nintendo wants to market to adults. There are a few adult games on the Cube (Resident evil for instance) but for the most part they don't care about the adult market. Suer they might not make the maximum amount of money they could by broadening their focus, but instead they are trying to lock up the kiddie market. There's plenty of money in making toys!
I was mostly referring to people who hadn't read the books before seeing the movie. I know the feeling of a character in a movie not Looking or Sounding right myself, and it just means I disagree with the interpretation the actor has put into the character.
If you have seen the movie first then read the book, you would have a preconceived notion of what the characters are like. Whether you acn bypass this is up to you I guess.
Nintendo is hoping that this will be the title that makes GBA connectivity popular, so the multi will be the best reason to buy this one. The Final fantasy name should ensure the sales aren't too bad.
Also, Famitsy scores used to be strict, but they're giving out a lot more high scores than they used to. Are games just better now?
For a lot of people now, the LoTR movies will have defined exactly what many of the aspects of middle earth look like. Previously it was mostly about imagining it yourself from the books, but now elves, dwarves and even balrog have a certain look. This would be especially true for the Masses who didn't even read the book. but saw the movie and now know what a nazgul steed looks like...
Sure, a rom would be good, but it would take away from the retro gaming feel. They should find a stash of 2600's and release a limited edition with a red and white Homestar Atari!
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Regarding the GBA nescessity for FF:CC, I think Penny Arcade said it best in their strip.
This may be true, but steam is also a way of being able to rent games using your $10 subscription, then stop playing it when you're done playing. I personally rarely play any one game for more than a month or two nowadays, so I could get a 2 month subscription and save more than half the retail price. Sure, I don't have anything to show for it after that, but I've got a cupboard full of old games rotting away.
This argument doesn't really hold any water. If it's not worth paying for, just don't play it! it's only 1-2 hours of your month that you have to find something else to do in, which could be legal. I wish people would stop making lame excuses for what is obviously piracy.
I wonder how this will effect the modding community, but legal and non. If there's emulation in software for ps1 and/or ps2 software, will the copy protection checking still be in hardware? If it isn't, someone might be able to engineer a bios update to bypass the check.
It would be nice to extract the emulation software and use it for existing ps1/2 emulation projects too.
The PSP already sounds like it's going to be a biggish device with the umd discs, and now you're going to have to add things to it to get a phone and camera attached to it? This thing is going to be huge after all that, hardly pocket sized. The only advantage would be that I no longer have to have 3 pockets on my pants to carry mobile, camera and GBA at the same time. Now I need one HUGE pocket for the PSP.
I think the point is actually similar to having a camera on your mobile phone. It's not amazingly useful, and not the best/cheapest camera you can get, but it's handy enough to sell more phones and attract the gadget crowd.
God, that's going to be annoying if you don't have internet access for some reason. Buying a game only to not be able to play it until you post off a card and get a response would be crazy, especially for overseas customers.
I hope it's like Windows XP where you get 30 days to activate your HL2. If that's what happens there might be nothing stopping me from installing an illegal copy, playing it for 30 days then reinstalling/giving up.
So to stay true the Street Fighter you'd have a line, on which you can move 2 miniatures back and forth. One player to a miniature, and you can select from a small number of special moves, punches and kicks. Combos are formed by hitting someone with the right sequence of attacks.
Sounds like a card game to me. There's an idea...
Actually, I think this is due to Pro Evolution actually being a very good game. If you're not into soccer/football then it's not going to be any use to you, but it's a very good game none the less.
I'd say these awards were based on the fact that you can play (a demo of) XIII, and viewtiful joe has been out in japan for some time, but Halflife 2 is so far just a bunch of amazing looking videos. It's a bit more sensible than giving an award to the game you most want to play...
There's an online equivalent. It's called the Universal Hint System. You get to look at progressively stronger hints at solving each puzzle. They're great for lucasarts style adventures where you need that little bit extra.
The main contention with this article and the previous one about GBA games is that originality is just not that easy to define. Rez is a rail shooter. Ico is a 3rd person adventure, Space channel 5 and Frequency are rythmn games. You can compare everything made now to some game or other in the past. There are just levels of originality, with some games doing this better than others.
It would be as useful to say there are no original novels out, everything is just a romance story, an adventure story, sci-fi, etc etc. Not every good story has been written, and not every good game has been made.
So we run a grid of computers (or Playstation 3's?) with Quake 2, but on a monitor? nooo... it needs to go on a CAVE
The 'tallscreen' seems to be one of the strangest choices for the N-gage. In a time when almost everything else is trying to be widescreen they go tall, making some game genres less playable than they could be. I can't imagine playing sonic without the maximum amount of horizontal screen room.
I predict that the designer of the N-Gage is a Shoot-em-up fan! Die-Hard Shmup fans have been turning their TV's on the side for years to get this aspect ratio. I look forward to a port of Ikaruga and radiant silvergun for the N-Gage!
This culture reason baffles me, as the game is getting a release in Australia. We share very few holidays with anywhere, and to make matters worse our seasons are reversed! It would be hilarious for AC to have a white christmas in the Australian version.
What I suspect is that we'll get the US version with maybe a few changes, there's a lot of people here who want to be american anyway...
You would think that if this was the case they would have released the game in England only, a market vastly bigger than Australia.
It seems obvious that a franchise title will have lots of automatic sales, while a truly original title has to work for all it's sales. What's the problem with having a franchise game that's good?
What if the characters in Golden Sun were named Cloud, Aerith and Tifa, and it was Final Golden Fantasy Sun? It would still be a kickass RPG. Or if the minigame title had Wario in it, and was called Wario Ware? err...
Perhaps by 'complete experience' they mean the experience the average spec PC user would get. While the shadows and so on might require a dx9 video card, it will still be runnable on earlier hardware, just with some features disabled. No doubt this would be simiar to the xbox version.
Complete experience, for a given definition of complete...
This article makes it seem like Id is trying to make Doom 3 into a "Better Halflife". Doom 3 was very similar to HL1 in premise to start with, and now this Physics Patch seems to be a direct response to the amazing physics stuff in HL2.
It seems pretty lame that they're adding this sort of thing now, at the end of the development cycle where it probably can't be integrated into the game properly. Id should let their game stand on it's own as a separate entity.
I don't think Nintendo wants to market to adults. There are a few adult games on the Cube (Resident evil for instance) but for the most part they don't care about the adult market. Suer they might not make the maximum amount of money they could by broadening their focus, but instead they are trying to lock up the kiddie market. There's plenty of money in making toys!
"With the garbage N64 (I had one and left it outside in the rain, I played it so little.)"
Looks like the N64 failed the Outside Gaming Test.
Maybe that's the new innovation! A tough, waterproof Gamecube for playing in the rain while climbing up Kilimanjaro! An untapped market...
I was mostly referring to people who hadn't read the books before seeing the movie. I know the feeling of a character in a movie not Looking or Sounding right myself, and it just means I disagree with the interpretation the actor has put into the character.
If you have seen the movie first then read the book, you would have a preconceived notion of what the characters are like. Whether you acn bypass this is up to you I guess.
Nintendo is hoping that this will be the title that makes GBA connectivity popular, so the multi will be the best reason to buy this one. The Final fantasy name should ensure the sales aren't too bad.
Also, Famitsy scores used to be strict, but they're giving out a lot more high scores than they used to. Are games just better now?
For a lot of people now, the LoTR movies will have defined exactly what many of the aspects of middle earth look like. Previously it was mostly about imagining it yourself from the books, but now elves, dwarves and even balrog have a certain look. This would be especially true for the Masses who didn't even read the book. but saw the movie and now know what a nazgul steed looks like...
Sure, a rom would be good, but it would take away from the retro gaming feel. They should find a stash of 2600's and release a limited edition with a red and white Homestar Atari!