So do they stay at the school at the end of the day? I would have that they would be too expensive and fragile for kids to take around with them, even with the cases.
As if the hype about pouring the perfect pint of Guinness isn't already bad enough we now have to listen to them talk about cleaning the magnets as well as the pipes.
It can depend how the photo is presented or 'sold' and how much editing has been done.
If the person is saying "I sat for 15 hours in the freezing cold/boiling desert and took this rare photo", if it is edited then, well, what they are showing you isn't the photo they took.
I often fly just so I can show off my heavenly body to the woman behind the scanner machine screen. I can tell by the way she looks at me that she is impressed.
I don't know of anyone who still has UFO on their hard drive and Portal is only there because of Steam. The main game has very little in the way replayability.
I also said that the N64 and Dreamcast days were fantastic at the time. We had Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Shenmue and PSO to name a few excellent games from that era.
The game has only just been announced so there isn't sufficient information to make any kind of judement let alone ones at the more extreme ends.
In the late 1990s we had the Nintendo 64 and the Dreamcast. I remember those days well and they were fantastic at the time. The Quake 3 days also saw the release of Unreal Tournament, a game that was loved by thousands and played for years.
Trying to judge what games are going to be seen as classics is pretty pointless and doesn't prove anything. I put the present on a pedestal because it always brings us the best in the way of games.
I have no idea how the game will turn out and unlike you and so many others I am going to wait until the game is released before passing judgement.
How can the arguments in Commodore Format and Zzap be right back then if all the innovation was done back then? In every single field of entertainment you have people moaning that things aren't as good as they were 10 or 20 years ago, yet when you go back 10 or 20 years ago you had people saying the exact same thing,
The games I am playing now are better in all ways and if you think that everyone will agree on your assessment of Citizen Kane and UFO then you are very much mistaken. The only thing that sucks are people like you putting the past on a pedestal.
There aren't any FPS games like that but before Syndicate was released there weren't any 3D isometric games like that either.
I didn't dodge the question at all - I said that I wouldn't ever argue that a genre was old or tired. The games I am playing today are far, far better than anything I was playing 5, 10, 15+ years ago and trying to discuss whether a genre has had enough innovation or not bores me because the arguments being used today are just the same as the ones that were batted around back when I was still reading Commodore Format and Zapp 64.
I wouldn't ever make a case saying that a particular genre is overdone or tired. Such complaints usually come from people who either didn't like the genre much in the first place or are earning money from saying so.
There are plenty of squad-based FPS games so there is scope for you to be divorced from the consequences of your actions. If Fallout 3 can be an evolution then so can the new Syndicate.
Who said it has to be anything like Call of Duty or Battlefield? The exact same complaints and bitching were made when it was announced that Metroid and Fallout were being made into FPS games.
If I am going to get mad and throw my TV remote or Xbox controller at the wall, they won't go very far if the batteries aren't adding a decent bit of weight.
Fascinating documentary on the History channel at the moment in the UK.
It's just non-stop amateur footage (no narrators or anything like that at all) all shown in chronological order. It's almost like being back there on the day and watching it with the benefit of hindsight.
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Their touchfoil is a transparent nanowire embedded polymer
You what? Sounds like someone went a bit OTT with the copy and pasting of big words.
Don't Israel have quite a considerable amount of tech industries these days? Be nice to get some official input from that.
Now I can watch Halo Big Brother where they put a transsexual brute, an effeminate elite and a naked Master Chief in the sauna together.
So do they stay at the school at the end of the day? I would have that they would be too expensive and fragile for kids to take around with them, even with the cases.
Does that mean I didn't get accepted into the Diablo 3 pre-release beta then?
I have been practising with my CLICKCLICKCLICK finger for days.
As if the hype about pouring the perfect pint of Guinness isn't already bad enough we now have to listen to them talk about cleaning the magnets as well as the pipes.
Pah, you beat me to it!
- 1 mod point for being faster than me.
It can depend how the photo is presented or 'sold' and how much editing has been done.
If the person is saying "I sat for 15 hours in the freezing cold/boiling desert and took this rare photo", if it is edited then, well, what they are showing you isn't the photo they took.
I already have a portable calculus and a chequebook taking up all the space.
Once I fell over and the calculus broke and stuck into my leg. The chequebook came in handy then because I don't have health insurance.
I often fly just so I can show off my heavenly body to the woman behind the scanner machine screen. I can tell by the way she looks at me that she is impressed.
Tiberium harvesters have been around since the first Command and Conquer. I hope someone claims prior art.
If a pig walks by Castle Dracula on a Tuesday playing a banjo, what code is used if you get killed because Dracula bit you?
I don't know of anyone who still has UFO on their hard drive and Portal is only there because of Steam. The main game has very little in the way replayability.
I also said that the N64 and Dreamcast days were fantastic at the time. We had Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Shenmue and PSO to name a few excellent games from that era.
The game has only just been announced so there isn't sufficient information to make any kind of judement let alone ones at the more extreme ends.
In the late 1990s we had the Nintendo 64 and the Dreamcast. I remember those days well and they were fantastic at the time. The Quake 3 days also saw the release of Unreal Tournament, a game that was loved by thousands and played for years.
Trying to judge what games are going to be seen as classics is pretty pointless and doesn't prove anything. I put the present on a pedestal because it always brings us the best in the way of games.
Likewise if Syndicate is still so beloved to you, you can still play it if you desire.
I have no idea how the game will turn out and unlike you and so many others I am going to wait until the game is released before passing judgement.
How can the arguments in Commodore Format and Zzap be right back then if all the innovation was done back then? In every single field of entertainment you have people moaning that things aren't as good as they were 10 or 20 years ago, yet when you go back 10 or 20 years ago you had people saying the exact same thing,
The games I am playing now are better in all ways and if you think that everyone will agree on your assessment of Citizen Kane and UFO then you are very much mistaken. The only thing that sucks are people like you putting the past on a pedestal.
There aren't any FPS games like that but before Syndicate was released there weren't any 3D isometric games like that either.
I didn't dodge the question at all - I said that I wouldn't ever argue that a genre was old or tired. The games I am playing today are far, far better than anything I was playing 5, 10, 15+ years ago and trying to discuss whether a genre has had enough innovation or not bores me because the arguments being used today are just the same as the ones that were batted around back when I was still reading Commodore Format and Zapp 64.
I wouldn't ever make a case saying that a particular genre is overdone or tired. Such complaints usually come from people who either didn't like the genre much in the first place or are earning money from saying so.
There are plenty of squad-based FPS games so there is scope for you to be divorced from the consequences of your actions. If Fallout 3 can be an evolution then so can the new Syndicate.
If the game is good why would it be sad if it succeeds?
And why is it that Fallout and Warcraft can take different directions but Syndicate can't?
Really? You sure? Or is it just because you don't like them that is seems that way?
How many FPS games are made for the handheld consoles?
So don't play it then. There are hundreds of non-FPS games for you to play. Where does this notion that every game is an FPS come from?
Who said it has to be anything like Call of Duty or Battlefield? The exact same complaints and bitching were made when it was announced that Metroid and Fallout were being made into FPS games.
If I am going to get mad and throw my TV remote or Xbox controller at the wall, they won't go very far if the batteries aren't adding a decent bit of weight.
Anyone else find the bit about oil companies complaining slightly amusing? I guess the industry must be mature if it gets even their attention.
Fascinating documentary on the History channel at the moment in the UK.
It's just non-stop amateur footage (no narrators or anything like that at all) all shown in chronological order. It's almost like being back there on the day and watching it with the benefit of hindsight.