Uh, I meant "Rockstar's games, such as GTA, Max Payne, Manhunt, etc." rather than "GTA", as, well, the article is specifically about Manhunt and I only managed to reference GTA. Tee hee.
I don't know about you guys, but I for one consider GTA to have been revolutionary in its gameplay experience. That's all GTA is about! The gameplay! They immerse you in a wild world with, it so happens, moral ambiguity.
Feel free to jump on the morality bandwagon (or create one if you can't find it). I for one will continue blithely on, cackling with glee at a world that lets me do everything I would never consider doing in my own.
The previous two iterations of GTA did the same thing. Once you beat the game and the credits finished rolling, you were put back in the world to do whatever you wanted. If there were side missions you missed or Rampages, etc. then now's your chance to do it.
In GTA3 & 4 the guys trying to get "100% Completed" tagged it as taking (having) 100 hours of gameplay to reach that goal. If you think about it that way it's not much different than before.
One point to think of, regarding "How many of you Slashdotters have used the backwards compatibility on Playstation 2's" is that, well, actually making use of PS2's backwards compatibility is most likely quite rare, but when it was a *new* console it meant that the console immediately had 100x the games of any competitor.
Backward compatibility only helps you get people when the console is new. I remember the arguments when XBox first came out: "Well, I could get an XBox but it has *no* games! What am I going to do, play Halo for the next two years waiting for real games?"
Of course, it turns out that most of my friends *do* solely play Halo...:P
For XBox Next it's a matter of the lesser of two evils: do we cut out the possibility for hacks (Linux) or do we cut out our feet off *again* by having a virtually non-existant game library? Of course, with the massive changes to the hardware that are coming backwards compatibility would have an extremely high price anyway.
Have there been any consoles other than PS2 that offered backwards compatibility?
I've never played Deus Ex, but I know that in the scenario I would have done the same thing. Going to the left (Hallway with Guns and turrets) means a decided path from which you will not return.
Therefore if you go left to begin with you miss out on the other directions.
Even assuming I realized that the window worked, I would have still gone to the door first. Jumping through windows is usually a one-way event as well. Jump through, fall down a floor (or at least far enough that you can't hop back in) and continue with the game. So you still would be spending the rest of time wondering what was behind Door Number Three.
Going to the right, to the door, would present a small-risk. Go to the right, check the door. If it's locked at least you know you tried. Note it in case you have to come back or find a conspicuous key around. If it's not locked it's in all likelihood a room or closed-system with either plot or cool extra stuff at the end.
Not to mention that it answers the question: "What's Behind The Door?"
So I wouldn't call it "poor problem solving". I'd call it curiosity.
Cheapass Games -- A treasure trove of geek-friendly games. The premise? They provide the idea and enough materials to get you started, you provide the tokens, counters, and dice. The results are great fun at virtually no cost. Highly recommended are The Big Idea and Ben Hvrt.
Another big hit was Four Player Chess, formerly purchaseable at 4playerchess.com but is now managed by a domain-name squatter.:/ Anyway, mine has always been a big hit amongst the Coffee Shop Crowd. it's not too hard one of your own. Take a normal chess board then add three rows to each side (making the board look like a big Plus sign). Add two sets of Chess pieces (preferably all distinct) and you're off!
Steve Jackson Games'Knightmare Chess. It's a card game played while playing chess. Play a card, move a piece. The cards change the rules as you go (e.g. "All Pawns attack forward and move diagnal until this card is banished"). This game in conjunction with Four Player Chess is hours of insane fun. A quick search revealed one for sale elsewhere.
Lunch Money is a sick and masterfully done game of kill-thy-neighbor. Always a big hit amongst those with a ken of violence.
Hot Death UNO. My personal-favorite diversion, an extension of Crazy Eights (UNO), this card game add almost 30 new cards to the game of UNO. For example: Mutual Assured Destruction, Fuck You!, Harvester of Sorrows, The Shitter, Glasnost.... This game is not for the meek and merciful. There's also a PC version here and a Sourceforge project desperately in need of a programmer with mad (motivational) skillz.
Quick! Ban all used book stores, second-hand and pawn shops! Burn all public libraries! All of these are the Enemy of the Capitalism and the American Economy! Condemn these blatent sources of rampany piracy! Vote the DMCA into legislation today!
> Feel free to actually read the fucking posting before you criticize.
Irony abounds.
Just so your dumb ass doesn't continue on in bleak ignorance, continuing the first guy's misplaced criticism, I will go ahead and repeat myself for your benefit.
The whole point was to inform the grandparent that Firefox had moved the CTRL-ENTER feature to be ALT-ENTER. I then ever so courteously proceeded to let him know what other cool-yet-mostly-useless related keystrokes could be used for this feature he and you were obviously igorant of. I assume this is where you got confused. It's understandable.
"But why did they change it!" you ask? (Of course you ask, because you didn't RTFM either.) Because Firefox decided to emulate MSIE's key mapping of adding "www." and ".com" to the urlbar when hitting CTRL-ENTER. Therefore they had to move the Open-In-New-Tab feature to another keystroke: ALT-ENTER.
This has the annoying side effect of messing with your browser's focus if you change your mind since the program will assume you have hit alt to access the File Menu via the keyboard, but is otherwise a harmless change. It is also not possible to simultaneously open a url in a new window and add the TLD suffix/prefix. e.g. you cannot successfully do CTRL+ALT+ENTER on "cnn" and get "www.cnn.com" in a new tab.
My first thought to this was, first, police stopping any car they wished, (resist pulling over and your car is taken over) and second, gov't automated routes, (a la busses).
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I also don't like firefox's lack of Ctrl-Enter in new tab thing, as well as some auto-appending www /.com thing. (try typing slashdot.org into firefox and it will try to go to http://www.slashdot.org.com/.really is a more mature product.
to open a url in a new window it's ALT+ENTER.
to open a url such as "cnn" and add ".com", use CTRL+ENTER
to open a url such as "sourceforge" and add ".net", use "SHIFT+ENTER"
to open a url such as "slashdot" and add ".org", use "CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER"
the flash loads for me in firefox but the links don't work for me. I was able to see the screenshots in IE but since I don't have Outlook installed I couldn't click the 'join the gta mailing list' link:P anyone care to post the email address they're trying to open outlook with??
Anyone else see this "teleport to friend" as an insane battlefield advantage? I haven't read up on their game, so perhaps there's no PVP going, but imagine sneaking a thief into an enemy city then a whole clan of players "teleporting to friend". Boom! an invasion force! That'd be sweet! (or... devastating.)
I know the game I first played with the infinite board was called naughts (or maybe noughts) and crosses, but it was probably incorrect for them to have used that as the name.
I found a game called Gomoku that's supposed to be the "infinite board" but it looks like a whole bunch of sites just stole some dude's java applet because they all have the same 21x21 limitation and the same description. Get them here: windows app or java applet
The infinite board is insanely hard... at least without having read up on strategies before starting. Equus (mentioned in grandparent post) is most fun when played with another human. I found another version of the game here: http://www.rootaction.net/~tsunami/f-game.html which has a Human-vs-PC mode, but the AI is like playing a 5 year old.:P Better than nothing though, eh?;)
The other one I linked to has a network-play option so you can start up a game through the internet and even have a game/chat server going. pretty crazy.
I believe it's that X should pick a corner and O should pick the center on the first move. If O picks anything other than the center he's toast.
There's actually a couple pretty fun variants of tic tac toe: naughts and crosses is tic tac toe on an infinite grid where you play until someone gets, I believe, 4 in a row... though googling only turned up "naughts and crosses is another name for tic tac toe" so... who knows. Maybe I got the name wrong.
Another cool one is called Equus. It's played on a 5x5 grid that can be rotated as you play the game. You either place a piece or rotate on your turn. a java game of it is here: http://www.inanutshell.us/html/projects.php
Though I'm convinced you're simply trolling, I thought I'd point out that the reference to the "van Stustern" as well as his very out-dated knowledge of Python (he references a problem solved 2 years ago at least) implies he knows nothing of Python and contrary to the authoritative tone he used when creating his post, he knows nothing of which he speaks.
Would you not expect ridicule if you said that Bill Gables was a fool because his OS, Windows 3.11, was full of security holes that hadn't been dealt with?
It's not AOL users, it's simply the way we interact with email now-a-days. You can't trust "unsubscribe" links, as all they do is confirm that you read your email.:P
Sure, at one point they might have opted in, but people forget or get tired of getting your newsletters or even the occasional guilty-by-association of simply looking like a professional email (as in, from a company) instead of a personal email.
So don't bash AOL users... for this reason anyway.;)
As much as I hate to point out the obvious, it has nothing to do with "geekiness" that an arbitrary BS browser poll in the comments of a *mozilla* thread has *mozilla* winning.
Doesn't it stand to reason that Mozilla users are the ones that will be the most interested in reading the thread? Right-o...
OK I realize everyone has already posted the links to their various favorite GTA-Multiplayer hacks, but the reality is that those programs blow. They're flaky, buggy, and only considered useable because they are fan-made and As-Good-As-It-Gets. If they had been released by Rockstar they would have been booed back to the drawingboard.
The last time I played I was chasing this guy down and all I could see was the green arrow pointing to empty air. I chased after it anyway and ran smack into... nothing. I shot... at nothing and eventually nothing ran my ass over because it was a fucking BUS. Who knew? It suddenly appeared AS IT ROLLED OVER MY DEAD ASS. so... Yeah.
I'm still being optimistic that it'll show up in San Andreas... Hopefully those with the actual source code could eventually get it to work cleanly.
As in Hollywood, "If it makes money, there will be a sequel." GTA is the highest-grossing video game of this console-generation, if not of all time. I recall being told it was the highest-grossing game of all time but... I could be wrong... Good thing you've already taken your grain of salt!
Speaking of Hollywood, given GTA's devoted following it's only a matter of time before some "creative genius" sees the "creative potential and masterful storyline" behind GTA and licenses it for the Big Screen.
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Uh, I meant "Rockstar's games, such as GTA, Max Payne, Manhunt, etc." rather than "GTA", as, well, the article is specifically about Manhunt and I only managed to reference GTA. Tee hee.
Feel free to jump on the morality bandwagon (or create one if you can't find it). I for one will continue blithely on, cackling with glee at a world that lets me do everything I would never consider doing in my own.
The previous two iterations of GTA did the same thing. Once you beat the game and the credits finished rolling, you were put back in the world to do whatever you wanted. If there were side missions you missed or Rampages, etc. then now's your chance to do it. In GTA3 & 4 the guys trying to get "100% Completed" tagged it as taking (having) 100 hours of gameplay to reach that goal. If you think about it that way it's not much different than before.
Backward compatibility only helps you get people when the console is new. I remember the arguments when XBox first came out: "Well, I could get an XBox but it has *no* games! What am I going to do, play Halo for the next two years waiting for real games?"
Of course, it turns out that most of my friends *do* solely play Halo... :P
For XBox Next it's a matter of the lesser of two evils: do we cut out the possibility for hacks (Linux) or do we cut out our feet off *again* by having a virtually non-existant game library? Of course, with the massive changes to the hardware that are coming backwards compatibility would have an extremely high price anyway.
Have there been any consoles other than PS2 that offered backwards compatibility?
I've never played Deus Ex, but I know that in the scenario I would have done the same thing. Going to the left (Hallway with Guns and turrets) means a decided path from which you will not return.
Therefore if you go left to begin with you miss out on the other directions.
Even assuming I realized that the window worked, I would have still gone to the door first. Jumping through windows is usually a one-way event as well. Jump through, fall down a floor (or at least far enough that you can't hop back in) and continue with the game. So you still would be spending the rest of time wondering what was behind Door Number Three.
Going to the right, to the door, would present a small-risk. Go to the right, check the door. If it's locked at least you know you tried. Note it in case you have to come back or find a conspicuous key around. If it's not locked it's in all likelihood a room or closed-system with either plot or cool extra stuff at the end.
Not to mention that it answers the question: "What's Behind The Door?"
So I wouldn't call it "poor problem solving". I'd call it curiosity.
Another big hit was Four Player Chess, formerly purchaseable at 4playerchess.com but is now managed by a domain-name squatter. :/ Anyway, mine has always been a big hit amongst the Coffee Shop Crowd. it's not too hard one of your own. Take a normal chess board then add three rows to each side (making the board look like a big Plus sign). Add two sets of Chess pieces (preferably all distinct) and you're off!
Steve Jackson Games' Knightmare Chess. It's a card game played while playing chess. Play a card, move a piece. The cards change the rules as you go (e.g. "All Pawns attack forward and move diagnal until this card is banished"). This game in conjunction with Four Player Chess is hours of insane fun. A quick search revealed one for sale elsewhere.
Lunch Money is a sick and masterfully done game of kill-thy-neighbor. Always a big hit amongst those with a ken of violence.
Hot Death UNO. My personal-favorite diversion, an extension of Crazy Eights (UNO), this card game add almost 30 new cards to the game of UNO. For example: Mutual Assured Destruction, Fuck You!, Harvester of Sorrows, The Shitter, Glasnost.... This game is not for the meek and merciful. There's also a PC version here and a Sourceforge project desperately in need of a programmer with mad (motivational) skillz.
Oh wait..
> Feel free to actually read the fucking posting before you criticize.
Irony abounds.
Just so your dumb ass doesn't continue on in bleak ignorance, continuing the first guy's misplaced criticism, I will go ahead and repeat myself for your benefit.
The whole point was to inform the grandparent that Firefox had moved the CTRL-ENTER feature to be ALT-ENTER. I then ever so courteously proceeded to let him know what other cool-yet-mostly-useless related keystrokes could be used for this feature he and you were obviously igorant of. I assume this is where you got confused. It's understandable.
"But why did they change it!" you ask? (Of course you ask, because you didn't RTFM either.) Because Firefox decided to emulate MSIE's key mapping of adding "www." and ".com" to the urlbar when hitting CTRL-ENTER. Therefore they had to move the Open-In-New-Tab feature to another keystroke: ALT-ENTER.
This has the annoying side effect of messing with your browser's focus if you change your mind since the program will assume you have hit alt to access the File Menu via the keyboard, but is otherwise a harmless change. It is also not possible to simultaneously open a url in a new window and add the TLD suffix/prefix. e.g. you cannot successfully do CTRL+ALT+ENTER on "cnn" and get "www.cnn.com" in a new tab.
Oh well!
My first thought to this was, first, police stopping any car they wished, (resist pulling over and your car is taken over) and second, gov't automated routes, (a la busses).
to open a url in a new window it's ALT+ENTER.
to open a url such as "cnn" and add ".com", use CTRL+ENTER
to open a url such as "sourceforge" and add ".net", use "SHIFT+ENTER"
to open a url such as "slashdot" and add ".org", use "CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER"
Feel free to criticize after you RTFM.
Playstation 2 was projected to have a seven year lifecycle, and IIRC PS3 is projected to have a 7 - 10 year lifecycle. :/
the flash loads for me in firefox but the links don't work for me. I was able to see the screenshots in IE but since I don't have Outlook installed I couldn't click the 'join the gta mailing list' link :P anyone care to post the email address they're trying to open outlook with??
I'd say that was a great example of a flame backfiring, wouldn't you?
Anyone else see this "teleport to friend" as an insane battlefield advantage? I haven't read up on their game, so perhaps there's no PVP going, but imagine sneaking a thief into an enemy city then a whole clan of players "teleporting to friend". Boom! an invasion force! That'd be sweet! (or... devastating.)
I found a game called Gomoku that's supposed to be the "infinite board" but it looks like a whole bunch of sites just stole some dude's java applet because they all have the same 21x21 limitation and the same description. Get them here: windows app or java applet
The infinite board is insanely hard... at least without having read up on strategies before starting. Equus (mentioned in grandparent post) is most fun when played with another human. I found another version of the game here: http://www.rootaction.net/~tsunami/f-game.html which has a Human-vs-PC mode, but the AI is like playing a 5 year old. :P Better than nothing though, eh? ;)
The other one I linked to has a network-play option so you can start up a game through the internet and even have a game/chat server going. pretty crazy.
There's actually a couple pretty fun variants of tic tac toe: naughts and crosses is tic tac toe on an infinite grid where you play until someone gets, I believe, 4 in a row ... though googling only turned up "naughts and crosses is another name for tic tac toe" so... who knows. Maybe I got the name wrong.
Another cool one is called Equus. It's played on a 5x5 grid that can be rotated as you play the game. You either place a piece or rotate on your turn. a java game of it is here: http://www.inanutshell.us/html/projects.php
Would you not expect ridicule if you said that Bill Gables was a fool because his OS, Windows 3.11, was full of security holes that hadn't been dealt with?
Maybe it was a ... joke?
Sure, at one point they might have opted in, but people forget or get tired of getting your newsletters or even the occasional guilty-by-association of simply looking like a professional email (as in, from a company) instead of a personal email.
So don't bash AOL users ... for this reason anyway. ;)
deaddragon.com is a managed group of rpg players building on a common world.
Doesn't it stand to reason that Mozilla users are the ones that will be the most interested in reading the thread? Right-o...
The last time I played I was chasing this guy down and all I could see was the green arrow pointing to empty air. I chased after it anyway and ran smack into... nothing. I shot... at nothing and eventually nothing ran my ass over because it was a fucking BUS. Who knew? It suddenly appeared AS IT ROLLED OVER MY DEAD ASS. so... Yeah.
I'm still being optimistic that it'll show up in San Andreas... Hopefully those with the actual source code could eventually get it to work cleanly.
As in Hollywood, "If it makes money, there will be a sequel." GTA is the highest-grossing video game of this console-generation, if not of all time. I recall being told it was the highest-grossing game of all time but... I could be wrong... Good thing you've already taken your grain of salt!
Speaking of Hollywood, given GTA's devoted following it's only a matter of time before some "creative genius" sees the "creative potential and masterful storyline" behind GTA and licenses it for the Big Screen.
(Casting announcements in three.... two...)
Right-o. Their website pledges to not kill any kittens. /farkism