This game pales in comparison to the first, in many ways. Mainly:
-The level design isn't "tighter", it is a complete phone-it-in effort. You go from one square room to another, with absolutely no element of exploration. Gone are hidden chests or doorways, or anything hidden for that matter You will easily get every single treasure chest in this game without much of an effort. You walk into a room, and you can see them plain as day.
-The difficulty has been reduced to nill in every manner. Any enemy that would present a challenge is instead defeated very simply by a 'reaction command'. Which means you press triangle once, and watch Sora kill the enemy in ridiculous fashion. Side quests for glory have been vastly simplified and reduced. (Not that I am sure I have encountered everything in KH2, i am not using a strategy guide). The best weapons in the game are quite simple to synthesize, it is extremely easy to get to max out your level due to the incredible amount of experience you gain from basic enemies, the colliseum levels are incredibly easy, and optional bosses are taken down with some simple X-mashing (with the occasional triangle press....when the entire screen lights up green, a triangle appears on the enemy, and your command list adds a new triangle command to the top).
I played the beta for some time until I quit due to boredom (about a year ago it seems). I cannot be too judgmental because it was very early software. Some of the most basic things were lacking at the time. For instance you could always run faster than you could throw, so an outfielder would run the ball in to home rather than throw (they did fix that during my time, I think).
Most disturbing was the huge difference between pitchers and the other fielders. Pitchers would get ten times the experience of anyone else (quite literally), and would therefore be the best players by far. If you were a fielder, and did not happen to get a hit, and didn't register a putout, than you would get zero experience. It was extremely difficult to have a decent character that wasn't a stud pitcher. I would be interested in hearing how they have corrected that issue.
the difference is possibly the definition of the 'final frontier'.... being in orbit in the outer reaches of earth's gravity, versus exploring space beyond said orbit
I believe if they made a good game of hers, it would sell. Look at the Vin Diesel game The Chronicles of Riddick. That product had almost no level of respect, but the game was good (so I've heard) and it sold decently well.
Certainly having a fanbase that already respects your series helps, but a good game would sell. There are enough review sources out there that word gets around when a game is worth buying.
while you are correct about the "tons" theory, your numbers are a bit off. Or, you just frequent much bigger/hotter homes and cars than I do. But a typical car unit is about 1 ton, and most homes have units ranging from 1.5 - 5 tons. I have put 5 ton units on many retail buildings.
There is a lot of debate about this though, as many consumers believe the more tons the better. That is not always the case, if you are truly interested you could take a look at this:
does anyone think that huge power button looks even remotely real? look at the edges of it where it would sit in the unit, there does not appear to be any bevel or seam of any sort.... looks to me like it was simply enhanced with Adobe Photoshop(R) photo editing software
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies (including Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 25GB, which can be used to record over 2 hours of HDTV or more than 13 hours of standard-definition TV. There are also dual-layer versions of the discs that can hold 50GB.
If anyone is interested in rotisserie baseball, check this article out. Turns out there are some legal snafus about licensing. I play for free on Yahoo, and last year Barry Bonds was called "Outfielder" or "SF Outfielder" or something because of a licensing issue. It looks like some places will potentially lose their rights to use the players names.
well, if you would like to see the woman kiss on screen, or perhaps more (such as what occurs in pornography), than aishwarya does not fit the bill.... though she is very beautiful
well, a lot of students at my school share their collections via iTunes..... the advantage is there is no queue and wait, the possible disadvantage is library size but that just depends on the user
The other day I did the LOTR extended marathon, all three in a row. Drove to my friend's place to watch because they have a large Samsung LCD HDTV (I dunno exact size, but larger than my 27 inch crt television.)
The TV is fairly new and expensive. The owner has more money than TV knowledge however, as I brought my monster component cable because they had their dvd player hooked up through a standard AV cable.
Anyhow, I was horrified by how terrible the color black looked (this was my first extensive viewing on one of these TVs). Shelob, for instance, looked horrible. There was no smooth gradient of gray and black, but rather pixelated bands of grays.
I should have stayed home and watched them on my CRT.
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This game pales in comparison to the first, in many ways. Mainly:
-The level design isn't "tighter", it is a complete phone-it-in effort. You go from one square room to another, with absolutely no element of exploration. Gone are hidden chests or doorways, or anything hidden for that matter You will easily get every single treasure chest in this game without much of an effort. You walk into a room, and you can see them plain as day.
-The difficulty has been reduced to nill in every manner. Any enemy that would present a challenge is instead defeated very simply by a 'reaction command'. Which means you press triangle once, and watch Sora kill the enemy in ridiculous fashion. Side quests for glory have been vastly simplified and reduced. (Not that I am sure I have encountered everything in KH2, i am not using a strategy guide). The best weapons in the game are quite simple to synthesize, it is extremely easy to get to max out your level due to the incredible amount of experience you gain from basic enemies, the colliseum levels are incredibly easy, and optional bosses are taken down with some simple X-mashing (with the occasional triangle press....when the entire screen lights up green, a triangle appears on the enemy, and your command list adds a new triangle command to the top).
Charlie?
agreed
agreed.
there is a button for jump, attack, and Force. that is pretty much it. you also have an unlimited amount of lives.
and wow are they fugly...
"most" cities? you would think more people would have heard of this then.....
you bet your sweet patoot they have files on you... you think they.... nevermind... i'd say more, but this is subject to go in my file
you can disable band invitations in your personal settings
I played the beta for some time until I quit due to boredom (about a year ago it seems). I cannot be too judgmental because it was very early software. Some of the most basic things were lacking at the time. For instance you could always run faster than you could throw, so an outfielder would run the ball in to home rather than throw (they did fix that during my time, I think).
Most disturbing was the huge difference between pitchers and the other fielders. Pitchers would get ten times the experience of anyone else (quite literally), and would therefore be the best players by far. If you were a fielder, and did not happen to get a hit, and didn't register a putout, than you would get zero experience. It was extremely difficult to have a decent character that wasn't a stud pitcher. I would be interested in hearing how they have corrected that issue.
the difference is possibly the definition of the 'final frontier'.... being in orbit in the outer reaches of earth's gravity, versus exploring space beyond said orbit
I believe if they made a good game of hers, it would sell. Look at the Vin Diesel game The Chronicles of Riddick. That product had almost no level of respect, but the game was good (so I've heard) and it sold decently well.
Certainly having a fanbase that already respects your series helps, but a good game would sell. There are enough review sources out there that word gets around when a game is worth buying.
while you are correct about the "tons" theory, your numbers are a bit off. Or, you just frequent much bigger/hotter homes and cars than I do. But a typical car unit is about 1 ton, and most homes have units ranging from 1.5 - 5 tons. I have put 5 ton units on many retail buildings.
There is a lot of debate about this though, as many consumers believe the more tons the better. That is not always the case, if you are truly interested you could take a look at this:
http://hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/95/950509.html
does anyone think that huge power button looks even remotely real? look at the edges of it where it would sit in the unit, there does not appear to be any bevel or seam of any sort.... looks to me like it was simply enhanced with Adobe Photoshop(R) photo editing software
anyone else notice http://www.apple.com/ is down? must be everyone checking out their PDAs and home theatre systems
i hadn't heard of the website until slashdot mentioned it on their front page a week ago
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/13/23132
way to go slashdot you killed it
trailer? it is 12 minutes long, including credits. this IS the movie.
also, the credits do say "based on C3 Batman", for those wondering
Hackers are so good with computers, did you read what they can do these days (from an article on google news)
"hackers have been adding or taking off names"
that is amazing they have figured out how to compromise the security of a text document and add or delete names from it
You are wrong man, they got the metric system.
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies (including Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 25GB, which can be used to record over 2 hours of HDTV or more than 13 hours of standard-definition TV. There are also dual-layer versions of the discs that can hold 50GB.
http://www.blu-ray.com/info/
who's workin' on the goalie?
If anyone is interested in rotisserie baseball, check this article out. Turns out there are some legal snafus about licensing. I play for free on Yahoo, and last year Barry Bonds was called "Outfielder" or "SF Outfielder" or something because of a licensing issue. It looks like some places will potentially lose their rights to use the players names.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/sportsbusiness/new
well, if you would like to see the woman kiss on screen, or perhaps more (such as what occurs in pornography), than aishwarya does not fit the bill.... though she is very beautiful
well, a lot of students at my school share their collections via iTunes..... the advantage is there is no queue and wait, the possible disadvantage is library size but that just depends on the user
The other day I did the LOTR extended marathon, all three in a row. Drove to my friend's place to watch because they have a large Samsung LCD HDTV (I dunno exact size, but larger than my 27 inch crt television.)
The TV is fairly new and expensive. The owner has more money than TV knowledge however, as I brought my monster component cable because they had their dvd player hooked up through a standard AV cable.
Anyhow, I was horrified by how terrible the color black looked (this was my first extensive viewing on one of these TVs). Shelob, for instance, looked horrible. There was no smooth gradient of gray and black, but rather pixelated bands of grays. I should have stayed home and watched them on my CRT.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/01/05/news_61157 37.html