As to 'conducting music', am I the only one who saw the video and started thinking about an actual drumkit thing being played by means of this new controller?
If they do it right, the Revolution would be a VERY cool instrument to play live, don't you think?
I for one would love to try THAT out. The alternatives for banging on digital drums like the Roland V-Drums (which is super cool, BTW) as just too damn pricey (thinks 5000+ USD). But if some clever developer house comes out with a serious beat machine using the Revolution controller, it be much more than cool, it'd be, well... Revolutionary:-)
I think the main thing here is that we've played FF7 five years ago, and we expect something a little more 'adult' (not dirty, just more grown up) than these 'new' games looks to be. So, they don't appeal to us as much as the old ones did, necessarily because we're inching away from the target audience year by year...
Yeah, I hacked into the PC versions of Bard's Tale II and III, back in the day!
And I remember what I felt the first time I played BT1 with a mouse... you could see the spell lists!!! =)
Anyway, my 'hacking' experiences were only to translate the game into Spanish (my mother tongue), just to get my friends into it. Strangely enough, I succeded! =)
Talking about legacy, on the top of my head I can think of these games that drew from the BT series:
Eye of the Beholder (1 2 and 3)
Everything from Interplay (Champions, Death Knights and Dark Queen of Krynn; Buck Rogers series, Gateway to the Savage Frontier; Pools of Darkness & Radiance; very large etc.)
Wizardry series
Might and Magic series
And of course, every FPS out there (okay, maybe that's too much:)
IIRC, the only RPG prior to BT that used this perspective was Bloodwych, a very obscure game of the late 80s.
(sigh) those were the days (when we had time to play!)
As much as I wet my pants when I saw this newspost, I can't really say I'm excited.
The Bard's Tale series was absolutely HUGE for me, specially the third installment. I even made my own BTIV with the Bard's Tale Construction Set!
Anyway, if you want a sequel which is more than spiritually linked to the originals, go for Devil Whiskey. It's still in demo, but also quite impressive!
Let's hope this doesn't turn out to be like another Gamecenter-Gamespot case.
Remember the days when we have a mature, well-written, not-on-the-big-gaming-companies-payrroll gaming site? I've felt at loss ever since Gamecenter was dropped in favour of more profitable Gamespot. Ohwell, let's hope this doesn't happen to GameFAQs too.
Actually, it could also happen that a lot of people would be awaken... only to want to go back!
Let's say you do overthrow the machines. Then you start awakening people, maybe not one by one, but now in batches, since there are no squiddies patrolling the 'real' world.
And first a few people, then lots of 'em start to feel homesick of the good ol'days when you could have a real steak =) Bam! You have a group of 'rebel' humans who only want the machines to come back! Why not? =)
You could set this game in this scenario, and -of course- take the Machines' side if you'd want to.
It looks like they have spent quite a bit of
time on the roads/buildings/people, which is
good, but I'm certain there are a lot of
alternative ideas for gameplay that would be
able to sell this underlying engine better than
the idea they currently have.
Gameplay? Come on! This will be the Rampage of the 21st century, and THAT is a good thing!
It's almost like saying that Get Medieval's gameplay was ripped off Gauntlet =)
That sounds cool, of course, but there's a thing... my name is not Michael, is this thing going to listen to me?
Can't wait to say 'Kitt, take us home':)
Dissapating? =)
I'll be the first in admitting that English is not my mother language, but, you know, it does sound a little strange to me...
I know! Maybe it's a new acronym! Maybe I woke up in spell checking mode today!
Nah, the summer it is.
Hey, I live in Buenos Aires, the capital of a backwards country from the backwaters of the Southamerican Hemisphere.
We have *TONS* of places like this. OK, not with a 'movie theater' setup, but there are lots of LAN gaming places, where you can play Counter Strike, Jedi Knight or whatever it's hot nowadays (I suck at FPSs). Actually, they have some RTSs too, like Starcraft or Age of Empires.
The things is, we had a big big devaluation of our currency last January, so the prices of new PCs became prohibitive. So a lot of people are rushing to these places to game. *AND* check the Internet, since all of them have net access.
They charge like USD 0.30 an hour, and you see children, teenagers and some grownups all the time.:)
So, is this thing you're talking about any different from these places?
Culture is being re-defined right before our eyes. For centuries, art and technology have been considered separate parts of culture.
just doesn't hold true for most Eastern civilization, specially India.
Not for centuries, but for several millenia have Indian artists and scientists shared the same ground of research.
For example, the amazingly rich Hindustani (northern) system of music interpretaion and performance owes a lot to some 10th century scientists, such as Amir Kusro, who was a musician, a poet, an astronomer, a painter, a mathematician and an all-round researcher.
Actually, some treaties on instrument building and research dates back to the early Vedic times (roughly 5000 years ago). In fact the Vedic scriptures talk about devotion to God, but also about medicine, logic, math, astronomy, and lots more. But I digress.
So Mr. Katz... a little more research wouln't be out of the question, don't you think?
The genre as we know it effectively died a few years ago. But don't you forget Grim Fandango, also by LucasArts, which had every single thing we loved about the adventures of old.
It was funny, it was inmersing, it had an excellent soundtrack, it was difficult as hell in some parts of it, but above all, it was FUN!
And don't forget those German guys which are producing a sequel to one of the greatest (then) LucasFilms games of all time, Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders. It's a fan project, it looks very nice, it's GPL'd, and they need volunteers, by the way. =)
"Roger Wilco vs the evil MMORPG" (read that as some kind of "mooooooooorpgf", kinda like a growl)
"Son of Volhaul's New Revenge"
"Space Quest VII: In It For The Money"
"Space Quest VIII: Now Where's SQ7" (rememeber Leisure Suit Larry IV: The Missing Floppies?)
"Space Quest VII: Now you really care for the title? It's Roger Wilco! He's Back! Woohoo!!"
And maybe, just maybe, if this one doesn't get as much pirated as the previous games (and doesn't suck), we will be able to see and play Space Quest X and Space Quest XII (remember SQ4: The Time Rippers"?), and Sim Sim, and kill that damn Energizer Bunny!
SQ3 was the best of course. =)
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Don't you think so?
Every iteration of Palm OS is headed more and more towards the PocketPC bloated metaphor of a small PC, instead of the traditional 'glorified organizer' that our Palms are.
When Stinger mobile phones arrive with PocketPC 2002 allowing you to edit OfficeXP documents, I wonder what Palm would (could) do to beat that, if the keep on selling the OS as little more than an organizer?
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1. Buy a 360
2. Don't buy games, get them off the net.
3. ???
4. Loss!
As to 'conducting music', am I the only one who saw the video and started thinking about an actual drumkit thing being played by means of this new controller? :-)
If they do it right, the Revolution would be a VERY cool instrument to play live, don't you think?
I for one would love to try THAT out. The alternatives for banging on digital drums like the Roland V-Drums (which is super cool, BTW) as just too damn pricey (thinks 5000+ USD). But if some clever developer house comes out with a serious beat machine using the Revolution controller, it be much more than cool, it'd be, well... Revolutionary
Tattoine? What's that? =)
I think the main thing here is that we've played FF7 five years ago, and we expect something a little more 'adult' (not dirty, just more grown up) than these 'new' games looks to be.
So, they don't appeal to us as much as the old ones did, necessarily because we're inching away from the target audience year by year...
Yeah, I hacked into the PC versions of Bard's Tale II and III, back in the day!
And I remember what I felt the first time I played BT1 with a mouse... you could see the spell lists!!! =)
Anyway, my 'hacking' experiences were only to translate the game into Spanish (my mother tongue), just to get my friends into it. Strangely enough, I succeded! =)
- Eye of the Beholder (1 2 and 3)
- Everything from Interplay (Champions, Death Knights and Dark Queen of Krynn; Buck Rogers series, Gateway to the Savage Frontier; Pools of Darkness & Radiance; very large etc.)
- Wizardry series
- Might and Magic series
- And of course, every FPS out there (okay, maybe that's too much
:)
IIRC, the only RPG prior to BT that used this perspective was Bloodwych, a very obscure game of the late 80s.(sigh) those were the days (when we had time to play!)
As much as I wet my pants when I saw this newspost, I can't really say I'm excited.
The Bard's Tale series was absolutely HUGE for me, specially the third installment. I even made my own BTIV with the Bard's Tale Construction Set!
Anyway, if you want a sequel which is more than spiritually linked to the originals, go for Devil Whiskey. It's still in demo, but also quite impressive!
Don't know about you, but the first thing I did with FF7 was to change Cloud's name.
He will be 'Mondongo' forever in my mind =).
Actually, that's exactly the size of a CD jewel case.
Pretty nifty, huh?
Honey, I swear this is the first time this happens! It's the lag!
Let's hope this doesn't turn out to be like another Gamecenter-Gamespot case.
Remember the days when we have a mature, well-written, not-on-the-big-gaming-companies-payrroll gaming site? I've felt at loss ever since Gamecenter was dropped in favour of more profitable Gamespot. Ohwell, let's hope this doesn't happen to GameFAQs too.
Actually, it could also happen that a lot of people would be awaken... only to want to go back!
Let's say you do overthrow the machines. Then you start awakening people, maybe not one by one, but now in batches, since there are no squiddies patrolling the 'real' world.
And first a few people, then lots of 'em start to feel homesick of the good ol'days when you could have a real steak =) Bam! You have a group of 'rebel' humans who only want the machines to come back! Why not? =)
You could set this game in this scenario, and -of course- take the Machines' side if you'd want to.
Can't help thinking about Karate Champ and its dual joystick control while reading this.
Just be careful with those bulls coming at you!
It looks like they have spent quite a bit of time on the roads/buildings/people, which is good, but I'm certain there are a lot of alternative ideas for gameplay that would be able to sell this underlying engine better than the idea they currently have.
Gameplay? Come on! This will be the Rampage of the 21st century, and THAT is a good thing! It's almost like saying that Get Medieval's gameplay was ripped off Gauntlet =)
That sounds cool, of course, but there's a thing... my name is not Michael, is this thing going to listen to me? :)
Can't wait to say 'Kitt, take us home'
Maybe it's because of all the people holding their breath over the PS3 coming out this year?
Oh well, with all the news surrounding new numbering plans... I'll think I'll just wait for the neural interface with GPS built-in... now wait...
Dissapating? =)
I'll be the first in admitting that English is not my mother language, but, you know, it does sound a little strange to me...
I know! Maybe it's a new acronym! Maybe I woke up in spell checking mode today!
Nah, the summer it is.
Hey, I live in Buenos Aires, the capital of a backwards country from the backwaters of the Southamerican Hemisphere.
:)
We have *TONS* of places like this. OK, not with a 'movie theater' setup, but there are lots of LAN gaming places, where you can play Counter Strike, Jedi Knight or whatever it's hot nowadays (I suck at FPSs). Actually, they have some RTSs too, like Starcraft or Age of Empires.
The things is, we had a big big devaluation of our currency last January, so the prices of new PCs became prohibitive. So a lot of people are rushing to these places to game. *AND* check the Internet, since all of them have net access.
They charge like USD 0.30 an hour, and you see children, teenagers and some grownups all the time.
So, is this thing you're talking about any different from these places?
I think Katz may have a point, but this
Culture is being re-defined right before our eyes. For centuries, art and technology have been considered separate parts of culture.
just doesn't hold true for most Eastern civilization, specially India.
Not for centuries, but for several millenia have Indian artists and scientists shared the same ground of research.
For example, the amazingly rich Hindustani (northern) system of music interpretaion and performance owes a lot to some 10th century scientists, such as Amir Kusro, who was a musician, a poet, an astronomer, a painter, a mathematician and an all-round researcher.
Actually, some treaties on instrument building and research dates back to the early Vedic times (roughly 5000 years ago). In fact the Vedic scriptures talk about devotion to God, but also about medicine, logic, math, astronomy, and lots more. But I digress.
So Mr. Katz... a little more research wouln't be out of the question, don't you think?
Polybots, transform and roll out!
I know it's dumb, I just couldn't help myself. =)
The genre as we know it effectively died a few years ago.
But don't you forget Grim Fandango, also by LucasArts, which had every single thing we loved about the adventures of old.
It was funny, it was inmersing, it had an excellent soundtrack, it was difficult as hell in some parts of it, but above all, it was FUN!
And don't forget those German guys which are producing a sequel to one of the greatest (then) LucasFilms games of all time, Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders. It's a fan project, it looks very nice, it's GPL'd, and they need volunteers, by the way. =)
And maybe, just maybe, if this one doesn't get as much pirated as the previous games (and doesn't suck), we will be able to see and play Space Quest X and Space Quest XII (remember SQ4: The Time Rippers"?), and Sim Sim, and kill that damn Energizer Bunny!
SQ3 was the best of course. =)
Don't you think so?
Every iteration of Palm OS is headed more and more towards the PocketPC bloated metaphor of a small PC, instead of the traditional 'glorified organizer' that our Palms are.
When Stinger mobile phones arrive with PocketPC 2002 allowing you to edit OfficeXP documents, I wonder what Palm would (could) do to beat that, if the keep on selling the OS as little more than an organizer?
AnandTech ran an article on the XBOX some time ago, and it was on slashdot too.
As you can see in the pics, they ARE really hacked USB ports tucked into a cable.