this wont catch on for a very simple reason: its name. SACD. say it out loud. ess-ay-see-dee. its long and inconvinient. people like things thats are short and roll off there tongue. unless they change their name, they aren't going far.
Or you could say it "sacked", as in "Sony sacked the consumer"! Heh!
There is one requirement the article doesn't mention: broadband! Even if FFXI let's you play on a dial-up modem, forget about it! You need broadband to play any kind of online game to be competitive. I've just stopped playing online games on my modem because I was getting too stressed out. It's all ping.
Also, doesn't it strike anyone how vague the GeForce requirement is? So, given I could take the article at face value, I would probably assume from reading the article that I could use a GeForce 256 card with this game:P Logically, though, I have to think you'd need a GeForce 3 or higher.
I'm more tempted than ever to get a Gamecube now as I feel an itch for Resident Evil and its forthcoming sequels. Still, the PS2 offers much more selection as well as DVD capability.
In any case, I'm holding out for that deep discount at eBay in the short term.;)
From my understanding of FFXI's play structure, it just doesn't appeal to me. You pretty much have to be in a group and someone has to be appointed a leader. I put up with that shit in my college courses, I don't want to deal with that when I'm playing games. And anyway, I'm turned off by team-based games (thanks to the whiners and assholes in Tribes); give me some good old-fashioned Free-for-all action!
These aren't targetted at gamers, they're targeted at workstation users, and fuckwits.
I know you are, but what am I!:P
I consider myself a gamer AND a creator. So, given that the card performs as well as it should, I'll gladly have my cake and eat it too, thank you very much! Fuckwit!
A record-breaking year for the movie industry, and yet half the movies that came out last year was crap! Shall I name a few? Jurassic Park III, Tomb Raider, The Fast and the Furious, and yes, dammit, Shrek!!! All this may give one pause to wonder what that says about the people who watch movies.
"The bad news is that the movie is so hypocritical, heavy-handed and gummed up with silly, sentimental and cliche-stuffed sub-plots that it undermines its own good intentions."
Ah, hypocrisy, isn't that what Hollywood is all about? And yet us gullible movie-watchers will just eat it up anyway. Just look at Shrek.
Final Fantasy was the best movie of the year IMO, and hence the fuel for my anger-filled post about the oscars elsewhere on this topic board. I can give you two reasons it wasn't nominated: 1) The only people that liked it were you and me!;) and 2) the head of the voting committee for the Animation category was none other than Mr. I-Hate-Synthespians himself, Tom Hanks!
showbiz sucks, Shrek sucks, Russell Crowe sucks, just about everything about the entertainment industry SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCKS!!!!! The Oscars are nothing more than a popularity contest to begin with, and the only purpose of showing the Oscars on television, and all awards shows in general, is so the industry can tell the rest of the world what they SHOULD be watching, not to mention showering the viewing audience in the glory that is the celebrity snob elite.
Ah forget it, no one's going to read this damn message anyway.
Personally I feel the backbone of the series was the alien/government conspiracy, where a shadow organization was possibly behind the bulk of all the things that were happening. As such, I think the show peaked after season two when this got much of the focus. After that, the show started to gradually get more heavily into the "funny" episodes and just detracted from the overall atmosphere of the series. IMO, I thought seasons 1,2,4, were the best seasons. By season five, though, I felt the egos started to get in the way, especially Duchovny's (not that I don't think Anderson's ego isn't as big; she just hid it better.) I was ready to chuck it by the end of season seven, what with Duchovny's "Hollywood" episode and Anderson's own self-absorbed episode (the one where she mopes down the street in slow-motion to the tune of Moby's "The Sky is Breaking"), not to mention her histrionics in the season finale ("i'm...I'M...I'M...PREGNANT!!!!!). But my brother convinced me to check out season eight, which was good generally (especially with Duchovny gone;)) and seemed to wrap up the Mythology nicely. Season nine I don't think is really horrible, it's just there doesn't seem to be any underlying purpose. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Or you could say it "sacked", as in "Sony sacked the consumer"! Heh!
Microsoft does indeed have something like Tivo: MSNTV, formerly WebTV. And I also hear they might integrate this into their next XBox.
There is one requirement the article doesn't mention: broadband! Even if FFXI let's you play on a dial-up modem, forget about it! You need broadband to play any kind of online game to be competitive. I've just stopped playing online games on my modem because I was getting too stressed out. It's all ping.
Also, doesn't it strike anyone how vague the GeForce requirement is? So, given I could take the article at face value, I would probably assume from reading the article that I could use a GeForce 256 card with this game:P Logically, though, I have to think you'd need a GeForce 3 or higher.
I'm more tempted than ever to get a Gamecube now as I feel an itch for Resident Evil and its forthcoming sequels. Still, the PS2 offers much more selection as well as DVD capability. In any case, I'm holding out for that deep discount at eBay in the short term.;)
From my understanding of FFXI's play structure, it just doesn't appeal to me. You pretty much have to be in a group and someone has to be appointed a leader. I put up with that shit in my college courses, I don't want to deal with that when I'm playing games. And anyway, I'm turned off by team-based games (thanks to the whiners and assholes in Tribes); give me some good old-fashioned Free-for-all action!
These aren't targetted at gamers, they're targeted at workstation users, and fuckwits.
I know you are, but what am I!:P
I consider myself a gamer AND a creator. So, given that the card performs as well as it should, I'll gladly have my cake and eat it too, thank you very much! Fuckwit!
It's only a matter of time before we can't cross the street without breaking the law.
Actually, crossing a street where there's no crosswalk is breaking the law. It's called jaywalking.;)
Wake me up when I-Mode comes to the States. Or at least when you can play games on the damn things!
A record-breaking year for the movie industry, and yet half the movies that came out last year was crap! Shall I name a few? Jurassic Park III, Tomb Raider, The Fast and the Furious, and yes, dammit, Shrek!!! All this may give one pause to wonder what that says about the people who watch movies.
After all, it was Namco chips that powered Sony's PS1.
"The bad news is that the movie is so hypocritical, heavy-handed and gummed up with silly, sentimental and cliche-stuffed sub-plots that it undermines its own good intentions." Ah, hypocrisy, isn't that what Hollywood is all about? And yet us gullible movie-watchers will just eat it up anyway. Just look at Shrek.
Final Fantasy was the best movie of the year IMO, and hence the fuel for my anger-filled post about the oscars elsewhere on this topic board. I can give you two reasons it wasn't nominated: 1) The only people that liked it were you and me!;) and 2) the head of the voting committee for the Animation category was none other than Mr. I-Hate-Synthespians himself, Tom Hanks!
showbiz sucks, Shrek sucks, Russell Crowe sucks, just about everything about the entertainment industry SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCKS!!!!! The Oscars are nothing more than a popularity contest to begin with, and the only purpose of showing the Oscars on television, and all awards shows in general, is so the industry can tell the rest of the world what they SHOULD be watching, not to mention showering the viewing audience in the glory that is the celebrity snob elite.
Ah forget it, no one's going to read this damn message anyway.
I agree, that was a good episode. Gibson also wrote the episode about the killer in the virtual reality game. I also like Gibson's novels.
Gotta get my yah-yahs out now.
Personally I feel the backbone of the series was the alien/government conspiracy, where a shadow organization was possibly behind the bulk of all the things that were happening. As such, I think the show peaked after season two when this got much of the focus. After that, the show started to gradually get more heavily into the "funny" episodes and just detracted from the overall atmosphere of the series. IMO, I thought seasons 1,2,4, were the best seasons. By season five, though, I felt the egos started to get in the way, especially Duchovny's (not that I don't think Anderson's ego isn't as big; she just hid it better.) I was ready to chuck it by the end of season seven, what with Duchovny's "Hollywood" episode and Anderson's own self-absorbed episode (the one where she mopes down the street in slow-motion to the tune of Moby's "The Sky is Breaking"), not to mention her histrionics in the season finale ("i'm...I'M...I'M...PREGNANT!!!!! ). But my brother convinced me to check out season eight, which was good generally (especially with Duchovny gone;)) and seemed to wrap up the Mythology nicely. Season nine I don't think is really horrible, it's just there doesn't seem to be any underlying purpose. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.