I definitely agree with this, I recently tried to play Morrowind and was really impressed with how much freedom I had. This was until I got lost several times, died a bit, and then couldn't find where the plot was going. I gave up playing that and went back to finishing Final Fantasy Tactics, which has a linear storyline, but it's a good one. Sometimes all I want is a good story which I have to fight for.
Yeah, they should make a movie from Final Fantasy! That would be great... Or mediocre and overhyped.
Actually the creators of Xenogears/Xenosaga have announced they're going to make a Xenosaga anime, and fans have already cut together Xenosaga episode 1 into a 13 episode anime-like series. Check that out if you want to get the story without the game.
I tried using this, and quite a few other dos emulators to play sam and max (with sound) and none of them worked. I was tearing my hair out until I found ScummVM, which worked first try, and even had a scumm style interface. Works well with Alt-Tabbing and the like in windows too, unlike some dos emu's.
I got a chance to play the ps2 game recently and the outstanding part about it was definitely the story mode. It's as close as you can get to driving the races from the anime (and the manga, up to quite recent races.) They reproduce things just as they occur in the series, so if your opponent loses it on a certain corner in the anime, they'll lose it on the same corner in the game, so long as you play your part.
Knowing this requires having seen the actual anime though, so the effect may be lost on newbies to the Initial D franchise.
The physics of the game are pretty much the same as the arcade, so if you like them there, you'll like them in the ps2 version. Here's hoping for an english release!
These sort of studies and comparisons come out every week or so it seems. I wonder if role playing games are happier now that the blame is all being taken by evil video games?
And in a similar vein, I think games don't have enough satan-worshipping. We've got violence and sex, so why not a bit of Devil worship?
As far as I can remember, anything that gets to Europe/UK comes here too. They're all just rebadged UK releases, so we sometimes get the option of German/French language which wasn't an official language of Australia last time I looked...
Anyone know whether Eidos is planning a release outside America? It's frustrating seeing these "niche" games being passed over in my country. Still waiting for Animal Crossing! Things like Disgaea and Tactics Ogre: Knights of Lodis...
Well, let's just see what the Capcom America main page has on it. Sure, there are remakes of Megaman and Resident Evil, but there's also Viewtiful Joe, Auto Modellista and PN03 on there, which are hardly unoriginal. Let them make remakes of popular games for people who want them, as long as they also make new innovative stuff too.
This may be great for people with unlimited downloads, but (at least here is Australia) most people have a limit on their downloads before they are capped or charged. Unless there's some way of limiting the amout you download this is going to be pretty annoying. At least with bittorrent you know exactly how much you're downloading when you get a file.
I know everyone's been hanging out for the official CS line of camo pants and flak jackets! Maybe a licence for a better pair of glasses for that guy in the pdf too, you won't get any terrorist respect looking like a dork, no matter how snazzy your knife is.
From what I've seen in the demo videos about, the most impressive things about HL2 are not the graphics as such, but things like the physics and AI. The graphics are no slouch, but the real innovation is in stuff like being able to throw things around realistically and be killed by really smart enemies (much like the first Half Life).
All this makes me think that having a fast CPU would be more important than the latest video card, which is great as CPUs are a lot cheaper.
This probably won't affect most people, but Apple's new music store isn't going to work with the zen, unless there's some hidden aac playing ability. If aac suddenly becomes the format of choice (I doubt it) the zen is going to have to play it to level with the Ipod.
This is a good point. A more relevant list might be the best game in each (sub-)Genre of games. So Doom wouldn't be in there as it has been overshadowed in almost every way by games like quake, Halflife and maybe Doom 3. You could have best 'scary' FPS, best 'funny' FPS, best strategy FPS etc. That way if I wanted to check out a game in that genre I could go straight for the best one.
I imagine that list could get quite long, depending how fine grained your genre choices were.
It would have been nice to have spirited away win in a year with bigger competition, as lilo and stitch was the best other film out there. People will asy now that it only won due to lack of competition.
However the western anime community should take their wins where they get them, hopefully it's only the beginning...
Neil Gaiman wrote the original script for Mononoke, but it was changed before it actually got to the final version. there's a good writeup of what happened on neilgaiman.com (go figure) on this and other of his film exploits
>No it isnt. Arcades are dead. Arcades are, for >all intents and purposes, a singleplayer >experience. The handful of head-to-head games >don't count.
On the contrary, most of the popular games at arcades are 2 player, with a few being 4, up to 16 player (mostly driving games) Fighting games and rhythmn games have a culture of their own, it's a matter of different flavours of geek.
>You been to the movies lately? Huge screen, >sure. Great sound? Unless you like the sound of >some assholes cell phone and wanna-be smartass >13 year olds. Good movies indeed. -1 troll for >you!
This would be what worries me the most, some 13 year old with no life joining your game and spoiling the fun. At least at a LAN party you can know who your opponents are...
The article says that the sims is the most popular game ever, with it's sales of over 8million copies... I know that pokemon games have sold more than 20 million, so this is a bit rich. Is there any game (or set of games, as this seems to be) that have sold more?
Actually they're still releasing games for the NeoGeo, but in ridiculously small quantities, and for exorbitant prices, and only in Japan. Apart from that, it's totally out of date ^^;
Microsoft actually loses money on xboxen, they're relying on people buying lots of games to get the money back on licensing fees etc.
therefore it is in M$'s interests not to let people buy an xbox then run off and run linux (or pirated games, of course) as they've lost money they can't regain.
Closely followed by: Clone your own supermodel! download someone's genetics from a warez site, feed it into your personal cone-o-matic, and bingo: instant teen film.
Just consider the possibilites of what I could do to enhance my telephone calls now... Get some mp3s in the background putting my phone call to a soundtrack, maybe adding sound effects here and there to spice up the conversation? ^_^ (not to mention the aforementioned voice morphing)
More seriously, does this mean i could encrypt my phone conversations with fellow terr... associates?
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I definitely agree with this, I recently tried to play Morrowind and was really impressed with how much freedom I had. This was until I got lost several times, died a bit, and then couldn't find where the plot was going. I gave up playing that and went back to finishing Final Fantasy Tactics, which has a linear storyline, but it's a good one. Sometimes all I want is a good story which I have to fight for.
Yeah, they should make a movie from Final Fantasy! That would be great... Or mediocre and overhyped.
Actually the creators of Xenogears/Xenosaga have announced they're going to make a Xenosaga anime, and fans have already cut together Xenosaga episode 1 into a 13 episode anime-like series. Check that out if you want to get the story without the game.
I tried using this, and quite a few other dos emulators to play sam and max (with sound) and none of them worked. I was tearing my hair out until I found ScummVM, which worked first try, and even had a scumm style interface. Works well with Alt-Tabbing and the like in windows too, unlike some dos emu's.
My god that game was terrible. It played bad, looked bad, and basically had no redeeming elements. Avoid like the plague...
I got a chance to play the ps2 game recently and the outstanding part about it was definitely the story mode. It's as close as you can get to driving the races from the anime (and the manga, up to quite recent races.) They reproduce things just as they occur in the series, so if your opponent loses it on a certain corner in the anime, they'll lose it on the same corner in the game, so long as you play your part.
Knowing this requires having seen the actual anime though, so the effect may be lost on newbies to the Initial D franchise.
The physics of the game are pretty much the same as the arcade, so if you like them there, you'll like them in the ps2 version. Here's hoping for an english release!
These sort of studies and comparisons come out every week or so it seems. I wonder if role playing games are happier now that the blame is all being taken by evil video games?
And in a similar vein, I think games don't have enough satan-worshipping. We've got violence and sex, so why not a bit of Devil worship?
As far as I can remember, anything that gets to Europe/UK comes here too. They're all just rebadged UK releases, so we sometimes get the option of German/French language which wasn't an official language of Australia last time I looked...
Anyone know whether Eidos is planning a release outside America? It's frustrating seeing these "niche" games being passed over in my country. Still waiting for Animal Crossing! Things like Disgaea and Tactics Ogre: Knights of Lodis...
Well, let's just see what the Capcom America main page has on it. Sure, there are remakes of Megaman and Resident Evil, but there's also Viewtiful Joe, Auto Modellista and PN03 on there, which are hardly unoriginal. Let them make remakes of popular games for people who want them, as long as they also make new innovative stuff too.
This may be great for people with unlimited downloads, but (at least here is Australia) most people have a limit on their downloads before they are capped or charged. Unless there's some way of limiting the amout you download this is going to be pretty annoying. At least with bittorrent you know exactly how much you're downloading when you get a file.
I know everyone's been hanging out for the official CS line of camo pants and flak jackets! Maybe a licence for a better pair of glasses for that guy in the pdf too, you won't get any terrorist respect looking like a dork, no matter how snazzy your knife is.
From what I've seen in the demo videos about, the most impressive things about HL2 are not the graphics as such, but things like the physics and AI. The graphics are no slouch, but the real innovation is in stuff like being able to throw things around realistically and be killed by really smart enemies (much like the first Half Life). All this makes me think that having a fast CPU would be more important than the latest video card, which is great as CPUs are a lot cheaper.
This probably won't affect most people, but Apple's new music store isn't going to work with the zen, unless there's some hidden aac playing ability. If aac suddenly becomes the format of choice (I doubt it) the zen is going to have to play it to level with the Ipod.
This is a good point. A more relevant list might be the best game in each (sub-)Genre of games. So Doom wouldn't be in there as it has been overshadowed in almost every way by games like quake, Halflife and maybe Doom 3. You could have best 'scary' FPS, best 'funny' FPS, best strategy FPS etc. That way if I wanted to check out a game in that genre I could go straight for the best one. I imagine that list could get quite long, depending how fine grained your genre choices were.
It would have been nice to have spirited away win in a year with bigger competition, as lilo and stitch was the best other film out there. People will asy now that it only won due to lack of competition. However the western anime community should take their wins where they get them, hopefully it's only the beginning...
Neil Gaiman wrote the original script for Mononoke, but it was changed before it actually got to the final version. there's a good writeup of what happened on neilgaiman.com (go figure) on this and other of his film exploits
>No it isnt. Arcades are dead. Arcades are, for
>all intents and purposes, a singleplayer
>experience. The handful of head-to-head games
>don't count.
On the contrary, most of the popular games at arcades are 2 player, with a few being 4, up to 16 player (mostly driving games) Fighting games and rhythmn games have a culture of their own, it's a matter of different flavours of geek.
>You been to the movies lately? Huge screen,
>sure. Great sound? Unless you like the sound of
>some assholes cell phone and wanna-be smartass
>13 year olds. Good movies indeed. -1 troll for
>you!
This would be what worries me the most, some 13 year old with no life joining your game and spoiling the fun. At least at a LAN party you can know who your opponents are...
The article says that the sims is the most popular game ever, with it's sales of over 8million copies... I know that pokemon games have sold more than 20 million, so this is a bit rich. Is there any game (or set of games, as this seems to be) that have sold more?
Well at least ICQ has a lite version with no ads (for now), and only 1.7meg and a web based client for anyone worried about bloated clients...
Actually they're still releasing games for the NeoGeo, but in ridiculously small quantities, and for exorbitant prices, and only in Japan. Apart from that, it's totally out of date ^^;
Microsoft actually loses money on xboxen, they're relying on people buying lots of games to get the money back on licensing fees etc.
therefore it is in M$'s interests not to let people buy an xbox then run off and run linux (or pirated games, of course) as they've lost money they can't regain.
Closely followed by: Clone your own supermodel! download someone's genetics from a warez site, feed it into your personal cone-o-matic, and bingo: instant teen film.
Sydney - Dendy Opera Quays, October 16
Melbourne - Kino Cinema, October 30
Brisbane - Dendy Brisbane, October 24
check Dendy Cinemas for details closer to those dates...
oh, and they're showing the Cowboy Bebop movie and the remastered Akira print too! ^_^
Just consider the possibilites of what I could do to enhance my telephone calls now... Get some mp3s in the background putting my phone call to a soundtrack, maybe adding sound effects here and there to spice up the conversation? ^_^ (not to mention the aforementioned voice morphing)
More seriously, does this mean i could encrypt my phone conversations with fellow terr... associates?
So now us australians can teleport Elle Macpherson to our room, but can only see her at 10x10 resolution? that's pretty cruel...