Having played both... Halo is the superior game. Yes, blasphemy, I know, but really, is there a story to Half-Life? No. I was amazed when playing HL2 that people make it out to be such a big deal. Most of it was listen to a couple minutes of conversation that suggests that there may be a story somewhere, OMG, something happened, you're separated from Alyx, now go through 2 hours of story-less FPS gaming to meet her somewhere else. Then it happens again. Oh, and occasionally there are massively long and boring vehicle sections.
About 25% of HL2 was actually interesting and fun.
Halo, on the other hand, has solid story throughout. Sure, there's nothing as cool as the gravity gun in the play, but the tank-driving sections are far more fun than anything in HL2.
In fact, the section of Halo 3 where you destroy the scarab with the tank was more fun than the entirety of HL2.
Because one title with proper ratings has a small portion of the game, something that's completely optional for end users to participate in, that's related to sexuality, then there can't be the policy decision to decide that topic's not allowable in a console feature that's in no way related to the game in question?
The fact that the majority of the use of terms related to sexual orientation of XBL are meant as pejoratives can't be allowed into policy decisions? So because Fable 2 has sexuality in it, XBL must allow sexual orientation and related terms in profiles, even if that means for every single GLBT person that puts it in their profile, 10-20 kids make gamertags like "FAGKILLER" and "STUPIDGAYS"?
Sure, you can just say that offensive ones are not allowed. But then what happens when someone's tag is "RichardIsGay" - is that offensive or not? Then the judgement calls get difficult, and eventually one is made incorrectly, then Consumerist gets more articles about how the people making the decisions at XBL aren't all perfect and therefore they're all a bunch of gay haters.
The game is ESRB rated, and a parent could choose to not buy it, and even set parental controls so a child couldn't play the game on the console even if they got a hold of it. (Assuming the parent actually PARENTS, instead of using the console as a babysitter.)
Actually, there is the possibility that methane being released underwater may end up with enough water mixed in with it that it may stay close to the surface. If this is true, we could end up in situations where large clouds of methane stay low and drift along with high enough concentrations that if it drifts over land, it could kill most of the life.
It could even reach concentrations where lightning could cause combustion, resulting in massive firestorms, stripping areas bare.
I'm not sure if it's in the "likely" column, but it's a scary, scary scenario.
I disagree. There's perhaps two puzzles in the game that are different enough that you just have to stumble upon them or get help. I stumbled across one, and the other I ended up resorting to a walkthrough - and I'm not sure how I would have ever found it myself.
Considering that Aerosmith has that exclusivity contact with Activision now, I think Train Kept a Rollin' is highly likely to not be allowed to transfer. Harmonix had to renegotiate the rights, so I figure Aerosmith had to say no.
I'm not feeling too bad about missing that one, though it was fun on vocals.
Perhaps that's for normal activities, but there are times when some people will blink more often. I know when I talk to someone and try and maintain eye contact, I find I have to blink much more frequently or my eyes start watering - perhaps it's over-compensation for not blinking enough otherwise, but I'd probably be called out as "blinking too often" were I filmed doing such.
Perhaps the person they filmed to be the basis for this video did the same thing.
Doesn't change the fact that somehow, contrary to the claims being put forth by Daily Tech and similar blog entries, that 2007 was tied for the second warmest year on record. Some cooling, eh? One month's data is statistical noise at this scale.
Damnit, I was thinking that was the wrong chart - I'd seen a different one that was only Jan. temperatures. This one is NOT like that, so I was incorrect. My apologies.
However, 2007 is still tied for the 2nd warmest year on record, and Jan 2008 is overall cooler due to those reasons, but it's only one month of statistical noise until there's a substantial trend.
Except that chart is only showing the yearly January temperatures. And Jan 2008 was cooler than usual due to both La Nina and lower levels of solar activity. So yes, Jan 2008 was significantly cooler than Jan 2007. But that doesn't say anything about Feb-Dec 2007, which were warm enough to make 2007 tie for the second warmest year on record.
Go directly to the NASA GISS site and check the data. It shows that 2007 is tied for second warmest since they've been tracking. The other temperature sources show the same thing. Daily Tech is either using bad data or deliberately lying.
I like wearing pigtails. It's fun. Of course, it's even more fun when my hair's purple.:)
At least I work somewhere that I don't have to worry about the higher-ups being more concerned with my hairstyle than my performance. In fact, I think my purple hair actually helps people remember who I am.:)
You got lucky to only have that bug. Mine is worse - it also contains a song by Slipknot, and is supposed to have a song by Slayer but seems to have noise and a random fret chart in place.
Unfortunately, from what I've read the PS2 version is about 1/2 as good as the next-gen versions. No Band World Tour mode, which is the meat of the multiplayer experience, no additional songs to purchase online, and no character customization. It's still good, being Guitar Hero with more instruments, but it seems like it's just a poor echo of the 360/PS3 versions of the game.
And I agree that Rock Band is the game of the year... I've had the game going multiple times with a crowd of friends over, and there are constantly four people playing it. They've definitely taken the music game genre to a new level.
Keep trying to find a position at Microsoft until you get one. Once you do, then they'll relocate you to the Seattle area. Spend a couple years on the team doing good work and befriending people on the Xbox team until positions open up. Start applying for them.
Here I am, working on the Xbox, and I love it. And now that I have experience in the game industry, it'll be a lot easier to continue to stay in it should I want to leave Microsoft.
Yes, I realize that to most people on/., the thought of working at MS is unpalatable. I'm just saying.
I was trying to figure out if it actually displayed in 3D, or was just the same 2D image visible in all directions. Not that the latter isn't of value, it's just not as much of a breakthrough.
Considering they never made a point of showing "look, it's 3D", I'm assuming it's not.
The only Tomb Raider game I've ever played is Tomb Raider: Legend, but I found it to be a rather good game, if a trifle short. Some challenging puzzles, interesting storyline, decent action, and the banter between characters wasn't too bad.
Men treat all competitors equally; if they think they can dominate you then they will try to dominate. If they don't think they can dominate you, then they give you respect and work with you in a partnership. Unfortunately for women, navigating this kind of environment is often counter to their natural biology and inclinations so the common outcome is that women make easy targets to be competitively dominated. They aren't being singled out for being women; men treat other men the same.
Bullshit.
Research has shown that when a women shows the same behavior that is supposedly prized in men, than she's labeled a "bitch" and the like, and continues to be on the receiving end of discrimination, just of a different sort. The actions are the same, they're just perceived differently because of who they're coming from. Apparently, So as a result, it's damned it you do, damned if you don't.
A game matchmaking system that is much superior to the tired and obsolete server browser. The ability to get in a group with your friends, and then go out and take on another group of people for a single game where neither side gets the advantage of choosing the game settings.
The ability to get a group of friends together and have people take turns playing their own custom variants without someone having to sit and change settings on the server each time. And even creating those variants on the fly.
It's not the engineers that are doing the mastering that are causing recent albums to be run that loud. It's the record folks that don't want their music to sound "quieter" than the competition. The engineers are just as pissed about it, but if they don't do it, someone else will, and they need to work, so they do it.
Hardly. I've had multiple Google recruiters contact me various ways, and my response every time is "not interested".
I'm working on the Xbox 360 team. Google has nothing nearly as interesting. Why would I want to leave the gaming industry? Besides, this girl LIKES having her own office with multiple Xboxes and an HDTV in it.:)
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Oh, Portal was absolutely incredible. One of the best games I've played in a long time.
Having played both... Halo is the superior game. Yes, blasphemy, I know, but really, is there a story to Half-Life? No. I was amazed when playing HL2 that people make it out to be such a big deal. Most of it was listen to a couple minutes of conversation that suggests that there may be a story somewhere, OMG, something happened, you're separated from Alyx, now go through 2 hours of story-less FPS gaming to meet her somewhere else. Then it happens again. Oh, and occasionally there are massively long and boring vehicle sections.
About 25% of HL2 was actually interesting and fun.
Halo, on the other hand, has solid story throughout. Sure, there's nothing as cool as the gravity gun in the play, but the tank-driving sections are far more fun than anything in HL2.
In fact, the section of Halo 3 where you destroy the scarab with the tank was more fun than the entirety of HL2.
Let me get this straight.
Because one title with proper ratings has a small portion of the game, something that's completely optional for end users to participate in, that's related to sexuality, then there can't be the policy decision to decide that topic's not allowable in a console feature that's in no way related to the game in question?
The fact that the majority of the use of terms related to sexual orientation of XBL are meant as pejoratives can't be allowed into policy decisions? So because Fable 2 has sexuality in it, XBL must allow sexual orientation and related terms in profiles, even if that means for every single GLBT person that puts it in their profile, 10-20 kids make gamertags like "FAGKILLER" and "STUPIDGAYS"?
Sure, you can just say that offensive ones are not allowed. But then what happens when someone's tag is "RichardIsGay" - is that offensive or not? Then the judgement calls get difficult, and eventually one is made incorrectly, then Consumerist gets more articles about how the people making the decisions at XBL aren't all perfect and therefore they're all a bunch of gay haters.
The game is ESRB rated, and a parent could choose to not buy it, and even set parental controls so a child couldn't play the game on the console even if they got a hold of it. (Assuming the parent actually PARENTS, instead of using the console as a babysitter.)
There was a previous instance of something similar happening. Stephen Toulouse, who heads up the team that handles enforcement, wrote up a blog entry about the policy choice.
Of course, for more up-to-date information peek at his Twitter feed for today.
Make life easier for us.
Actually, there is the possibility that methane being released underwater may end up with enough water mixed in with it that it may stay close to the surface. If this is true, we could end up in situations where large clouds of methane stay low and drift along with high enough concentrations that if it drifts over land, it could kill most of the life.
It could even reach concentrations where lightning could cause combustion, resulting in massive firestorms, stripping areas bare.
I'm not sure if it's in the "likely" column, but it's a scary, scary scenario.
I disagree. There's perhaps two puzzles in the game that are different enough that you just have to stumble upon them or get help. I stumbled across one, and the other I ended up resorting to a walkthrough - and I'm not sure how I would have ever found it myself.
All the rest, though, are wonderfully designed.
Considering that Aerosmith has that exclusivity contact with Activision now, I think Train Kept a Rollin' is highly likely to not be allowed to transfer. Harmonix had to renegotiate the rights, so I figure Aerosmith had to say no.
I'm not feeling too bad about missing that one, though it was fun on vocals.
Perhaps that's for normal activities, but there are times when some people will blink more often. I know when I talk to someone and try and maintain eye contact, I find I have to blink much more frequently or my eyes start watering - perhaps it's over-compensation for not blinking enough otherwise, but I'd probably be called out as "blinking too often" were I filmed doing such.
Perhaps the person they filmed to be the basis for this video did the same thing.
Yep, which is why I corrected myself.
Doesn't change the fact that somehow, contrary to the claims being put forth by Daily Tech and similar blog entries, that 2007 was tied for the second warmest year on record. Some cooling, eh? One month's data is statistical noise at this scale.
Damnit, I was thinking that was the wrong chart - I'd seen a different one that was only Jan. temperatures. This one is NOT like that, so I was incorrect. My apologies.
However, 2007 is still tied for the 2nd warmest year on record, and Jan 2008 is overall cooler due to those reasons, but it's only one month of statistical noise until there's a substantial trend.
Except that chart is only showing the yearly January temperatures. And Jan 2008 was cooler than usual due to both La Nina and lower levels of solar activity. So yes, Jan 2008 was significantly cooler than Jan 2007. But that doesn't say anything about Feb-Dec 2007, which were warm enough to make 2007 tie for the second warmest year on record.
Interesting.
Go directly to the NASA GISS site and check the data. It shows that 2007 is tied for second warmest since they've been tracking. The other temperature sources show the same thing. Daily Tech is either using bad data or deliberately lying.
I like wearing pigtails. It's fun. Of course, it's even more fun when my hair's purple. :)
:)
At least I work somewhere that I don't have to worry about the higher-ups being more concerned with my hairstyle than my performance. In fact, I think my purple hair actually helps people remember who I am.
You got lucky to only have that bug. Mine is worse - it also contains a song by Slipknot, and is supposed to have a song by Slayer but seems to have noise and a random fret chart in place.
Unfortunately, from what I've read the PS2 version is about 1/2 as good as the next-gen versions. No Band World Tour mode, which is the meat of the multiplayer experience, no additional songs to purchase online, and no character customization. It's still good, being Guitar Hero with more instruments, but it seems like it's just a poor echo of the 360/PS3 versions of the game.
And I agree that Rock Band is the game of the year... I've had the game going multiple times with a crowd of friends over, and there are constantly four people playing it. They've definitely taken the music game genre to a new level.
You can do it my way.
/., the thought of working at MS is unpalatable. I'm just saying.
Keep trying to find a position at Microsoft until you get one. Once you do, then they'll relocate you to the Seattle area. Spend a couple years on the team doing good work and befriending people on the Xbox team until positions open up. Start applying for them.
Here I am, working on the Xbox, and I love it. And now that I have experience in the game industry, it'll be a lot easier to continue to stay in it should I want to leave Microsoft.
Yes, I realize that to most people on
I was trying to figure out if it actually displayed in 3D, or was just the same 2D image visible in all directions. Not that the latter isn't of value, it's just not as much of a breakthrough.
Considering they never made a point of showing "look, it's 3D", I'm assuming it's not.
I don't agree...
The only Tomb Raider game I've ever played is Tomb Raider: Legend, but I found it to be a rather good game, if a trifle short. Some challenging puzzles, interesting storyline, decent action, and the banter between characters wasn't too bad.
Men treat all competitors equally; if they think they can dominate you then they will try to dominate. If they don't think they can dominate you, then they give you respect and work with you in a partnership. Unfortunately for women, navigating this kind of environment is often counter to their natural biology and inclinations so the common outcome is that women make easy targets to be competitively dominated. They aren't being singled out for being women; men treat other men the same.
Bullshit.
Research has shown that when a women shows the same behavior that is supposedly prized in men, than she's labeled a "bitch" and the like, and continues to be on the receiving end of discrimination, just of a different sort. The actions are the same, they're just perceived differently because of who they're coming from. Apparently, So as a result, it's damned it you do, damned if you don't.
A game matchmaking system that is much superior to the tired and obsolete server browser. The ability to get in a group with your friends, and then go out and take on another group of people for a single game where neither side gets the advantage of choosing the game settings.
The ability to get a group of friends together and have people take turns playing their own custom variants without someone having to sit and change settings on the server each time. And even creating those variants on the fly.
You misunderstand the point. When selecting to play it full screen like that, it's assuming that you've rotated your display 90 degrees.
If you think about it that way, suddenly the controls make perfect sense.
It's not the engineers that are doing the mastering that are causing recent albums to be run that loud. It's the record folks that don't want their music to sound "quieter" than the competition. The engineers are just as pissed about it, but if they don't do it, someone else will, and they need to work, so they do it.
Hardly. I've had multiple Google recruiters contact me various ways, and my response every time is "not interested".
:)
I'm working on the Xbox 360 team. Google has nothing nearly as interesting. Why would I want to leave the gaming industry? Besides, this girl LIKES having her own office with multiple Xboxes and an HDTV in it.