I don't understand how having the highest STD rate in Africa means they could make use of laptops better than any other third world nation? Or even having oil for that matter...
Not saying it's not nice for them and they won't make good use of the laptops, but that's roughly the equivelant of me saying "John Adams High School has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the state and the highest wealth per capita in the county, therefore if anyone could use new textbooks, it's them."
E.V.O.: The Search for Eden - This game is still as fun as the day it came out for me. (R)evolutionay concept. It's a shame Enix never followed up with a sequel on this one. Possibly Spore will quench my thirst for a while when it hits.
Castlevania: SotN - I'm pretty sure most console gamers will list this or Super Metroid in their top 5. The thing that bumps Castlevania in the lead is the the insane amount of replay trying to get all the rare items.
Final Fantasy Tactics - Still my favorite SRPG of all time. While parts of the game are broken (super combos, characters that are overpowering, etc), it just adds to the play styles available. You can play the game with all mages for a challenge, you can play with all the best gear and characters if you just want to get through the game. Tons of hidden stuff. Deep dungeon. Square nailed it with this one.
Panzer Dragoon Saga - Incredible RPG. One of the most beautiful gaming experiences ever. Great story. Shorter than most RPG's at around 20 hours, but every second of it is engaging and it never feels like you're in an "in-between" part of the game thrown in to draw it out. Hopefully some day we'll get a sequel/remake/rerelease of this one so everyone can experience it.
Toss up (Super Metroid / Super Mario World / Mega Man 2 / Mario Kart) - Not much to say about these except that they're all amazing games.
I'm pretty sure the large number of teanie boppers that register as 99 years old to avoid stalkers, creeps, and weirdos may have thrown the statistics off just a little bit. And then you have the crowd that thinks it's funny to be "69" years old. Although, the article is correct when it states that the user base is getting older. I'm surprised to find out how many older coworkers have myspace accounts now. It's definately hitting critical mass as a cultural phenomenon.
Exactly. Everyone's original PS2 is dead or dying at this point and the PS3 is too rediculously priced to buy to play your old PS2 games on (seeing that, what, there's maybe one or two interesting PS3 games coming out this year, and we don't even know if they're any good yet).
Hardware is not the only cost here, but if you read the article, they accounted for $1500-2000 for hardware alone. Not my time to copy over files, train employees, etc. $1500-2000 to physically purchase a computer.
I physically purchase computers for $400-500. That was my point.
Sign me up for that company! As resident IT guy here, I usually buy boxes for $400 and spend an extra $50-100, depending on current market value, to upgrade the RAM. Depending on the user, another $50 to give them a Geforce 6200 w/ dual monitor outputs. And these systems are nothing to sneeze at. As long as you ensure the hard drive in the computer is up to snuff and it has enough RAM, most people can't tell the difference between processors.
Even if I wasn't a budget oriented IT guy, I sure couldn't justify spending $1500-2000 on a system. For that everyone better be getting hotrod laptops w/ 17" widescreen displays.
The PS2 was never a "cheap" dvd player. It was an expensive console that happened to have DVD playback when it came out. Then it went to a moderately priced console with subpar DVD playback (it didn't get worse, DVD players just got better). Now it's a reasonably priced console with laughable DVD playback (my cheapy $40 DVD player I bought for DIVX playback looks better than the PS2's DVD player.
Hah, I personally have an FFT game at the 99 hour limit. I'm sure I have over 150 hours played on it, though. Talk about a game with unlimited replay...
Well, take into consideration I'm talking console RPG's and you're talking PC style RPG's. It's like comparing apples and oranges. I think I put over 200 hours on Morrowind and I'm not sure if I ever beat the game?
40 hours of length is great, although I think unrealistic for most genre's to shoot for. Back in the golden days of RPG's, you expected to put anywhere between 25-50 hours on one. It was great, because it would keep you busy for a month or two depending on how much you played and provided enough time to develop a great story. Games such as Mario 64 provided countless hours as well, because they're exploration and challenge based games. Games like the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the GBA/DS counterparts only offer an initial 7-15 hours of gameplay, but the replay value is through the roof.
I think when it gets silly is when it's one extreme or another. I remembered when I played through the last Contra game for the PS2. This game took me less than an hour to beat the first run through. No very much replay value either. I felt ripped off. On the other end of the spectrum, look at the Dragon Quest series. The logged in about 75 hours in the last two installments until I got bored and gave up.
"MS havnt really innovated in gui design since windows 95."
Which is probably a good thing. If they changed the GUI design every iteration of windows, you'd have a world full of really, really confused users. A Windows 95 user can use XP and vice versa. Having not used Vista myself, I can't comment on this; however, GUI design isn't the only thing that goes into a revision of an OS. XP was a giant step up from any of the other consumer versions of Windows (W2k is not consumer), and it had nothing to do with their GUI graphical overhaul.
Would have been really nice if Sony would have done something similar with my original Playstation and original PS2 that both died well before their time. Or at least owned up that their consoles were plagued with problems. But wow, issuing checks to people who sent in their console for repair? Hats off to MS. I've sworn off of buying any first gen sony product after my multiple psx and ps2 systems. I was sworn off of first gen MS systems (not that I'm interested in the x-box much to begin with), but come NEXT generation (whenever that may be), if MS is in a better market position I'd be much less hessitant to buy their first gen console after this.
Why can't MS and Sony take a lesson from Nintendo? They're the only company that actually spends time engineering hardware that actually works. Only bad Nintendo experience I've ever had was the horrible N64 controller. I was lucky if one of those lasted me longer than a month.
Only difference, the radio's there to support the major labels that are pushing these new copy protection formats. By listening to the radio, you're just filling their pockets even more. Well, and the radio is total crap (at least in Florida). Of course, by using Yahoo Unlimited, I'm supporting DRMed WMA's, so I guess it's not much better. At least I get to pick what to listen to:)
I've bought thousands of cds. I also have hundreds of records and various other forms of music media. And music isn't cheap! I refuse to buy into music stores such as iTunes because I feel it's ludicrous to have to pay what adds up to almost the same price as buying the physical disc to have digital copies of music files that are encoded lower than I would have encoded it myself if I had the disc.
But, I swear, the second they pull a stunt like this, I'm out. See ya. I'll still buy cds from all the independant artists I love, because I'm sure they'll avoid this like the plague. But it looks like the only option will be music services such as Yahoo! Unlimited that charge me $60 a year to listen to whatever I want. Now if only I had broadband in my car, I'd be set...
A lot of people would argue exactly the opposite. As someone who works greatly with UIs and UI design, I find Yahoo!'s UI's are generally confusing loads of crap. They're busy and try to give you everything at once instead of letting the user logically navigate themselves to their destination.
Headline: "Bethseda Says No to Oblivion Expansion"
Body: "While we have no doubt there will eventually be an expansion, Bethesda is far from ready to announce it."
Sounds like they said there will eventually be an expansion, just not soon...not that they're not going to have an expansion.
Umm, dude...sorry to break this to you, but it's called updating source code. How else to you explain how unstable ME was compared to previous versions?
...I couldn't imagine buying a computer built into a 24" monitor. If I'm gonna make an investment in a screen that nice, I'd darn sure want to be able to hook it up to any computer I had and be able to use in in a few years when I needed a system upgrade.
My DVD player and cable box both came with HDMI cables. I don't know if I'd be so hasty to say that upconverting DVD players don't come with them.
The point was, though, I would guess that when most people buy their fancy new HDTV with HDMI, they purchase an upconverting DVD player along with it and buy the appropriate cables (if not in the box).
Whereas most people don't have HDTV's and this would be a waste, the PS3 seems to be a waste to begin with if you DONT have an HDTV.
However, I think in most peoples cases, if they have the means to use HDMI, they probably already have an HDMI cable. Shops like monoprice.com sell HDMI cables for under $10, so that's not so big of a deal. Although, the majority of consumers won't know about this and will be forced to buy $75 ones off the shelf at best buy, probably more when they're conned into buying the Monster Cable version.
It's probably better for the smart consumer that this is left out, worse for the general population. Sony probably just doesn't want to include the cables to cut down on sales of overpriced cables. I mean, come on, these things can only cost a couple bucks to make at most.
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Actually, it most certainly defined the MMORPG as we currently know it. It wasn't the first, but the first of it's format.
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Hey ladies, is that a dongle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
errr, wait a second...
You can add to the list the fact that Cell processor yeilds are still pretty low, relatively speaking. Back then it would have been futile to even think about producing enough for launch without jacking the price of the system through the roof (as if they haven't already).
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I don't understand how having the highest STD rate in Africa means they could make use of laptops better than any other third world nation? Or even having oil for that matter... Not saying it's not nice for them and they won't make good use of the laptops, but that's roughly the equivelant of me saying "John Adams High School has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the state and the highest wealth per capita in the county, therefore if anyone could use new textbooks, it's them."
They tell us that we lost our tails,
Evolving up from little snails,
I say that's all just wind in sails!
Are we not men? We are DEVO!
E.V.O.: The Search for Eden - This game is still as fun as the day it came out for me. (R)evolutionay concept. It's a shame Enix never followed up with a sequel on this one. Possibly Spore will quench my thirst for a while when it hits.
Castlevania: SotN - I'm pretty sure most console gamers will list this or Super Metroid in their top 5. The thing that bumps Castlevania in the lead is the the insane amount of replay trying to get all the rare items.
Final Fantasy Tactics - Still my favorite SRPG of all time. While parts of the game are broken (super combos, characters that are overpowering, etc), it just adds to the play styles available. You can play the game with all mages for a challenge, you can play with all the best gear and characters if you just want to get through the game. Tons of hidden stuff. Deep dungeon. Square nailed it with this one.
Panzer Dragoon Saga - Incredible RPG. One of the most beautiful gaming experiences ever. Great story. Shorter than most RPG's at around 20 hours, but every second of it is engaging and it never feels like you're in an "in-between" part of the game thrown in to draw it out. Hopefully some day we'll get a sequel/remake/rerelease of this one so everyone can experience it.
Toss up (Super Metroid / Super Mario World / Mega Man 2 / Mario Kart) - Not much to say about these except that they're all amazing games.
I'm pretty sure the large number of teanie boppers that register as 99 years old to avoid stalkers, creeps, and weirdos may have thrown the statistics off just a little bit. And then you have the crowd that thinks it's funny to be "69" years old. Although, the article is correct when it states that the user base is getting older. I'm surprised to find out how many older coworkers have myspace accounts now. It's definately hitting critical mass as a cultural phenomenon.
Exactly. Everyone's original PS2 is dead or dying at this point and the PS3 is too rediculously priced to buy to play your old PS2 games on (seeing that, what, there's maybe one or two interesting PS3 games coming out this year, and we don't even know if they're any good yet).
And for everyone else, the Wii.
Hardware is not the only cost here, but if you read the article, they accounted for $1500-2000 for hardware alone. Not my time to copy over files, train employees, etc. $1500-2000 to physically purchase a computer.
I physically purchase computers for $400-500. That was my point.
Sign me up for that company! As resident IT guy here, I usually buy boxes for $400 and spend an extra $50-100, depending on current market value, to upgrade the RAM. Depending on the user, another $50 to give them a Geforce 6200 w/ dual monitor outputs. And these systems are nothing to sneeze at. As long as you ensure the hard drive in the computer is up to snuff and it has enough RAM, most people can't tell the difference between processors.
Even if I wasn't a budget oriented IT guy, I sure couldn't justify spending $1500-2000 on a system. For that everyone better be getting hotrod laptops w/ 17" widescreen displays.
The PS2 was never a "cheap" dvd player. It was an expensive console that happened to have DVD playback when it came out. Then it went to a moderately priced console with subpar DVD playback (it didn't get worse, DVD players just got better). Now it's a reasonably priced console with laughable DVD playback (my cheapy $40 DVD player I bought for DIVX playback looks better than the PS2's DVD player.
Too late. Nintendo's offering developer kits to the public for a price. This is old news. Sounds pretty accepting of homebrew to me.
Hah, I personally have an FFT game at the 99 hour limit. I'm sure I have over 150 hours played on it, though. Talk about a game with unlimited replay...
Well, take into consideration I'm talking console RPG's and you're talking PC style RPG's. It's like comparing apples and oranges. I think I put over 200 hours on Morrowind and I'm not sure if I ever beat the game?
40 hours of length is great, although I think unrealistic for most genre's to shoot for. Back in the golden days of RPG's, you expected to put anywhere between 25-50 hours on one. It was great, because it would keep you busy for a month or two depending on how much you played and provided enough time to develop a great story. Games such as Mario 64 provided countless hours as well, because they're exploration and challenge based games. Games like the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the GBA/DS counterparts only offer an initial 7-15 hours of gameplay, but the replay value is through the roof.
I think when it gets silly is when it's one extreme or another. I remembered when I played through the last Contra game for the PS2. This game took me less than an hour to beat the first run through. No very much replay value either. I felt ripped off. On the other end of the spectrum, look at the Dragon Quest series. The logged in about 75 hours in the last two installments until I got bored and gave up.
"MS havnt really innovated in gui design since windows 95." Which is probably a good thing. If they changed the GUI design every iteration of windows, you'd have a world full of really, really confused users. A Windows 95 user can use XP and vice versa. Having not used Vista myself, I can't comment on this; however, GUI design isn't the only thing that goes into a revision of an OS. XP was a giant step up from any of the other consumer versions of Windows (W2k is not consumer), and it had nothing to do with their GUI graphical overhaul.
Would have been really nice if Sony would have done something similar with my original Playstation and original PS2 that both died well before their time. Or at least owned up that their consoles were plagued with problems. But wow, issuing checks to people who sent in their console for repair? Hats off to MS. I've sworn off of buying any first gen sony product after my multiple psx and ps2 systems. I was sworn off of first gen MS systems (not that I'm interested in the x-box much to begin with), but come NEXT generation (whenever that may be), if MS is in a better market position I'd be much less hessitant to buy their first gen console after this.
Why can't MS and Sony take a lesson from Nintendo? They're the only company that actually spends time engineering hardware that actually works. Only bad Nintendo experience I've ever had was the horrible N64 controller. I was lucky if one of those lasted me longer than a month.
Only difference, the radio's there to support the major labels that are pushing these new copy protection formats. By listening to the radio, you're just filling their pockets even more. Well, and the radio is total crap (at least in Florida). Of course, by using Yahoo Unlimited, I'm supporting DRMed WMA's, so I guess it's not much better. At least I get to pick what to listen to :)
I've bought thousands of cds. I also have hundreds of records and various other forms of music media. And music isn't cheap! I refuse to buy into music stores such as iTunes because I feel it's ludicrous to have to pay what adds up to almost the same price as buying the physical disc to have digital copies of music files that are encoded lower than I would have encoded it myself if I had the disc. But, I swear, the second they pull a stunt like this, I'm out. See ya. I'll still buy cds from all the independant artists I love, because I'm sure they'll avoid this like the plague. But it looks like the only option will be music services such as Yahoo! Unlimited that charge me $60 a year to listen to whatever I want. Now if only I had broadband in my car, I'd be set...
A lot of people would argue exactly the opposite. As someone who works greatly with UIs and UI design, I find Yahoo!'s UI's are generally confusing loads of crap. They're busy and try to give you everything at once instead of letting the user logically navigate themselves to their destination.
Headline: "Bethseda Says No to Oblivion Expansion" Body: "While we have no doubt there will eventually be an expansion, Bethesda is far from ready to announce it." Sounds like they said there will eventually be an expansion, just not soon...not that they're not going to have an expansion.
Umm, dude...sorry to break this to you, but it's called updating source code. How else to you explain how unstable ME was compared to previous versions?
...I couldn't imagine buying a computer built into a 24" monitor. If I'm gonna make an investment in a screen that nice, I'd darn sure want to be able to hook it up to any computer I had and be able to use in in a few years when I needed a system upgrade.
My DVD player and cable box both came with HDMI cables. I don't know if I'd be so hasty to say that upconverting DVD players don't come with them. The point was, though, I would guess that when most people buy their fancy new HDTV with HDMI, they purchase an upconverting DVD player along with it and buy the appropriate cables (if not in the box).
Whereas most people don't have HDTV's and this would be a waste, the PS3 seems to be a waste to begin with if you DONT have an HDTV.
However, I think in most peoples cases, if they have the means to use HDMI, they probably already have an HDMI cable. Shops like monoprice.com sell HDMI cables for under $10, so that's not so big of a deal. Although, the majority of consumers won't know about this and will be forced to buy $75 ones off the shelf at best buy, probably more when they're conned into buying the Monster Cable version.
It's probably better for the smart consumer that this is left out, worse for the general population. Sony probably just doesn't want to include the cables to cut down on sales of overpriced cables. I mean, come on, these things can only cost a couple bucks to make at most.
Actually, it most certainly defined the MMORPG as we currently know it. It wasn't the first, but the first of it's format.
Hey ladies, is that a dongle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? errr, wait a second...
You can add to the list the fact that Cell processor yeilds are still pretty low, relatively speaking. Back then it would have been futile to even think about producing enough for launch without jacking the price of the system through the roof (as if they haven't already).