I'd meet you haveway, and say that they took out DC's unnecessarily difficult heli flying, compromising by making it slightly less "do-anything"able. I, like you, spent much time learning to fly the helis. It shouldnt take that long. The BF:V fly fine, IMO, and now can transport tanks, which is sweet.
Though people are (in my opinion wrongly) calling Battlefield: Vietnam a glorified expansion pack to bf1942, I have been playing it for a month or so and personally feel that it is more of a half-sequel than a full sequel, but definately more than a simple weapons ass-on pack.
A perfect analogy, I feel, would be Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA: Vice City. Vice City was sort of GTA3.5 rather than a brand-new GTA4. Battlefield: Vietnam added a lot to the gameplay of the original bf1942, with helicopters (infinately easier to fly than those in DC), new gameplay modes, new multiplayer victory methods, jungle settings (the folliage is great) and is a lot more than say battlefield: road to rome was to the original bf1942...
Now, don't get me wrong... I respect Atari, insomuch as perhaps without them we might not have the home videogame industry we have today. However, I have never enjoyed Atari as a fun system, personally. I've never been one for pretty graphics, but I remember even as a 3 year old in the 80s thinking the games were slow and ugly. For me, the first awesome system was the NES.
Is there an equivilent hacking/programming culture for the NES? That'd rule big time. I once saw an NES hack of Zelda, to create a sort of "third quest" but that's basically it. Anyone know of more?
develop an RPG (good luck) on your console and you got it made in Japan
First off, IAAHNF (I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy), but if your argument is true, why is nintendo so popular? The gamecube is lacking in RPGs as well, yet it is the solid #2 console in Japan and profitable.
I figure that a tiny SRG with about 5-10 grams of Pu-238 or Sr-90 could power your cell phone for 50 years
While I'm not one of those "Cell phones cause tumors" people, I don't know if I'd put plutonium so close to my head, especially since i usually beat the hell outta my phones, and they eventually develop cracks and all...
The joke, at least in the original Metroid, is the player's assumption throughout the game that Samus is a man.
It wasn't a "joke" to find out Samus was a girl. It's not like we saw the suit, and figured "Oh man, here comes the dude with the huge muscles! Oh, wait! A chick? That's hysterical!"
If anything, I was "surprised" by the revelation in that I wasn't expecting anything like that. Would the same "surprise" been there had Samus been revealed to be Black? What if they zoomed out and we saw that Zebes was merely a patch of dirt on a beach in Long Island? All "surprises," but would it necessarily make us racist or earth-centric Xenophobes if we were surprised?
"A vote for Bush is a vote for violence" is as stupid a leftist quote as "A vote for Kerry is a vote of support for Terrorists" is for stupid right-wing quotes...
I set it to make all "funny" comments lose 4 points, so a "+5, funny" comment at least has a chance of being read by me, at +1. It has made/. so much easier to read
I hate grammar police, but I love how this guy can use the word "whilst" in his comment to sound sophisticated, and then use the word "certinally" in his title (likely not a typo, since the 'a' comes two letters late and the 'l' is used twice). Ha!
I know this will be tagged as a typical "Nintendo Fanboy Rant," but Nintendo is nothing if not gutsy. They pumps tens of millions into games like Pikmin and Animal Crossing which have absolutely no basis to weigh sucess on. What I mean by this is that while Vavle made a great game like Half-Life back in '98, they were basically saying "Let's pump money into a proven money-making genre and fill it with awesome ideas no one ever did before!"
While it did fail (miserably), Nintendo also took a chance and developed the Virtual Boy. Sony and MS, on the other hand (while respectable companies) have decided to make systems and games which are already proven winners (violence, RPGs, FPSs). And I think we can all assume that the Nintendo DS is a really creative idea (which can very well sink the company or put it back to #1). Just my $0.02...
Seriously, what are ANY great games, besides KOTOR, that have been made by any of these companies in the last few years? The Jedi Knight series has, in my opinion, been "good," but nothing special since the original Dark Forces (which was great... back in 1996).
Now if I could just afford an apartment in Times Sqaure..."
No one in NY wants to live in Times Square (well, no one I know). It's loud, noisy, touristy (I have no problems with tourists - they're usually very nice and bring a lot of $$$ to the city) and expensive bad food. I know people that live on 42nd street, but either way on the west or east side...
What are the "among other things?" Please excuse my ignorance, and a google search basically turns up 1,000 clan/map pages. I just wanted a quickie synopsis of the game (if you have the time I'd appreciate it). Thanks!
It is VERY easy (relatively) to photohgraph a meteor, especially, as you asked "when you're expecting a meteor shower that night." Go to any local amateur astronomy "star party" next time there's a meteor shower. You should see at least half a dozen cameras attached to the scopes, which will take plenty of pics that night. Quite lovely pics too.
I don't necessarily agree with you on THIS subject, but your theme is absolutely correct...
I saw someone's sig the other day... "free your mind: read Slashdot at -1." It's absolutely true. While a lot of -1's are just idiocy like GNAA and goatse, a lot of it is interesting stuff that got lost because a mod didn't agree with it. It's a very good system on slashdot... my customization makes me read only stories I want, and gives extra points to interesting/insightful... and FEWER to "funny" (which 7/10 times are NOT funny, 2/10 times are SO predictable and 1/10 is actually a good laugh).
the last 2 years' best pictures were both movies that had been done before (Chicago, and LOTR - animated... I'm considering the ROTK award to have been an award for the whole series and not solely ROTK).
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You mean "infinitely dumbed-down"?
I'd meet you haveway, and say that they took out DC's unnecessarily difficult heli flying, compromising by making it slightly less "do-anything"able. I, like you, spent much time learning to fly the helis. It shouldnt take that long. The BF:V fly fine, IMO, and now can transport tanks, which is sweet.
Though people are (in my opinion wrongly) calling Battlefield: Vietnam a glorified expansion pack to bf1942, I have been playing it for a month or so and personally feel that it is more of a half-sequel than a full sequel, but definately more than a simple weapons ass-on pack.
A perfect analogy, I feel, would be Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA: Vice City. Vice City was sort of GTA3.5 rather than a brand-new GTA4. Battlefield: Vietnam added a lot to the gameplay of the original bf1942, with helicopters (infinately easier to fly than those in DC), new gameplay modes, new multiplayer victory methods, jungle settings (the folliage is great) and is a lot more than say battlefield: road to rome was to the original bf1942...
Oh General Tso, you are a ruthless tyrant.
...but your chicken is delectable!
Now, don't get me wrong... I respect Atari, insomuch as perhaps without them we might not have the home videogame industry we have today. However, I have never enjoyed Atari as a fun system, personally. I've never been one for pretty graphics, but I remember even as a 3 year old in the 80s thinking the games were slow and ugly. For me, the first awesome system was the NES.
Is there an equivilent hacking/programming culture for the NES? That'd rule big time. I once saw an NES hack of Zelda, to create a sort of "third quest" but that's basically it. Anyone know of more?
develop an RPG (good luck) on your console and you got it made in Japan
First off, IAAHNF (I am a hardcore Nintendo fanboy), but if your argument is true, why is nintendo so popular? The gamecube is lacking in RPGs as well, yet it is the solid #2 console in Japan and profitable.
I predict that American electronics will never penetrate Asian markets until it's vastly superior and blows everything else out of the water
Since when does superior hardware specs have anything to do with winning a hardware war?
I figure that a tiny SRG with about 5-10 grams of Pu-238 or Sr-90 could power your cell phone for 50 years
While I'm not one of those "Cell phones cause tumors" people, I don't know if I'd put plutonium so close to my head, especially since i usually beat the hell outta my phones, and they eventually develop cracks and all...
The joke, at least in the original Metroid, is the player's assumption throughout the game that Samus is a man.
It wasn't a "joke" to find out Samus was a girl. It's not like we saw the suit, and figured "Oh man, here comes the dude with the huge muscles! Oh, wait! A chick? That's hysterical!"
If anything, I was "surprised" by the revelation in that I wasn't expecting anything like that. Would the same "surprise" been there had Samus been revealed to be Black? What if they zoomed out and we saw that Zebes was merely a patch of dirt on a beach in Long Island? All "surprises," but would it necessarily make us racist or earth-centric Xenophobes if we were surprised?
"A vote for Bush is a vote for violence" is as stupid a leftist quote as "A vote for Kerry is a vote of support for Terrorists" is for stupid right-wing quotes...
...you've never played Viewtiful Joe. Hero is just an ordinary guy...
brilliantly insightful.
I set it to make all "funny" comments lose 4 points, so a "+5, funny" comment at least has a chance of being read by me, at +1. It has made /. so much easier to read
I hate grammar police, but I love how this guy can use the word "whilst" in his comment to sound sophisticated, and then use the word "certinally" in his title (likely not a typo, since the 'a' comes two letters late and the 'l' is used twice). Ha!
I know this will be tagged as a typical "Nintendo Fanboy Rant," but Nintendo is nothing if not gutsy. They pumps tens of millions into games like Pikmin and Animal Crossing which have absolutely no basis to weigh sucess on. What I mean by this is that while Vavle made a great game like Half-Life back in '98, they were basically saying "Let's pump money into a proven money-making genre and fill it with awesome ideas no one ever did before!"
While it did fail (miserably), Nintendo also took a chance and developed the Virtual Boy. Sony and MS, on the other hand (while respectable companies) have decided to make systems and games which are already proven winners (violence, RPGs, FPSs). And I think we can all assume that the Nintendo DS is a really creative idea (which can very well sink the company or put it back to #1). Just my $0.02...
Seriously, what are ANY great games, besides KOTOR, that have been made by any of these companies in the last few years? The Jedi Knight series has, in my opinion, been "good," but nothing special since the original Dark Forces (which was great... back in 1996).
Now if I could just afford an apartment in Times Sqaure..."
No one in NY wants to live in Times Square (well, no one I know). It's loud, noisy, touristy (I have no problems with tourists - they're usually very nice and bring a lot of $$$ to the city) and expensive bad food. I know people that live on 42nd street, but either way on the west or east side...
What are the "among other things?" Please excuse my ignorance, and a google search basically turns up 1,000 clan/map pages. I just wanted a quickie synopsis of the game (if you have the time I'd appreciate it). Thanks!
what is the point of team fortress? i've never played (only CS). Is it like capture the flag?
010 X=0;
020 IF $race="arab"
030 THEN x=1;
040 END;
050 IF x=1 then arrest_the_fucker=1;
I'm shocked there still hasn't emerged a clear winner in the format-wars...
Anyone know what the "market share" of each format is?
actually, yes.
It is VERY easy (relatively) to photohgraph a meteor, especially, as you asked "when you're expecting a meteor shower that night." Go to any local amateur astronomy "star party" next time there's a meteor shower. You should see at least half a dozen cameras attached to the scopes, which will take plenty of pics that night. Quite lovely pics too.
But remakes can be great too:
The Italian Job
Ocean's 11
The Fly
Red Dragon
Cape Fear
The Wizard of Oz (was a remake of an earlier version)
The Thing
The Maltese Falcon
Even Hitchcock remade one of his own movies - not sure which one
it was done in the 20's... here
I don't necessarily agree with you on THIS subject, but your theme is absolutely correct...
I saw someone's sig the other day... "free your mind: read Slashdot at -1." It's absolutely true. While a lot of -1's are just idiocy like GNAA and goatse, a lot of it is interesting stuff that got lost because a mod didn't agree with it. It's a very good system on slashdot... my customization makes me read only stories I want, and gives extra points to interesting/insightful... and FEWER to "funny" (which 7/10 times are NOT funny, 2/10 times are SO predictable and 1/10 is actually a good laugh).
the last 2 years' best pictures were both movies that had been done before (Chicago, and LOTR - animated... I'm considering the ROTK award to have been an award for the whole series and not solely ROTK).