Get real, $40 million dollars is chump change today. $40 million dollars spent on RandD and development for HL2 is a sound investment. HL2 IS the reason why I upgraded to a new pc earlier than I would have. Unfortunately, I was not expecting it to be delayed almost a half a year, or more. But really, in retrospect, nothing has happenned dramatically in terms of computing power over the past year. We went from having 3.0 ghz processors to 3.4 "hyper" processors. 9700 radeons to 9800 radeon pro turbos. It's almost like the industry is in a holding pattern waiting for HL2 to be released!:) For what HL2 will bring to the table, it's worth $500 million in my book.:)
Hmmm, I was thinking. $120+ Million in Venture Capital is absolutely nothing in terms of what is necessary to produce AND more importantly PROMOTE a brand new game system. Shit, some of the higher end games cost $40 million to make and market. Even if the "Phantom" had access to EVERY GAME EVER MADE, who would buy it? After all, you never actually own any game, it's all downloaded. I would actually invest my money in a pinball manufacturer right now (sales are doing great) than bet on the Phantom.
Why would I want stock in a company that has yet to have a real, manufactured, product. Demos don't count; I can make my own game system in my garage. I would much put my money on finding oil in the Dead Sea, the odds are actually not that bad.
Cool! The Science Fiction Database is updated! What fantastic news! This is WAY more important or interesting than other news, like a 10th planet being found. When is that article going to be posted?
There should be a TOPIC/STORY negative modifier for old news, or news that is blatantly obvious. Or just have "FARK" tags. If this "story" about how hotmail was down ran on Fark, it would have the "obvious" tag.
Cheat codes ruined that game totally. But, the damage has already been done. Will anyone be playing anymore. Socom lost a lot of people because of cheating.
Get real. Computers are plastic, silicon, metal. There is no f'ing way that it takes 1.8 TONS of materials to churn out your average pc. 1.8 Tons is the total average weight of a midsize car! Cars have computers in them too! So the computer in the car, combined with the naviation/gps systems, dvd player and other goodies, AND the car itself must by the laws of this article consumed the GDP of Haiti to be produced!:)
Has the Slashdot editors gone on a vacation. It seems that more and more of these idiotic articles are being posted on Slashdot. Germans are better at teamwork? Americans better at shooting? Nobody can tell what nationality they are playing against unless it is posted, or a clan that they know is in a different country. I was expecting the article to say something stupid like "Teams don't like to have black people in them, because they slow the whole team down," or "You can tell when you are playing against Jews, because they are using handguns and saving their money for better weapons someday." On the brink of the dreaded "racism," the article almost is. Lastly, the FRENCH has better reflexes than other players? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A x 10
Emailing the management at Lucasarts will do nothing. Their shortsighteness cannot be cured with a few emails. It really is rediculous that Lucasarts is compromising themselves for profit/costs reasons. Too bad Lucas can't put ILM and Lucasarts together (that would make too much sense). As for the quote "It's not a good time to release an adventure game." Well, neither was it suppossedly a good time to release "Star Wars," but look how well that did!
I cannot believe how many new programs are coming with spyware now. Worst yet, the spywares are not just cookie trackers, but keyloggers and much worse. Even some games install a scanner to scan your hd for any "virtual drives" and will not load the game if any are detected.
Looks like somebody figured out how to make money
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Looks like somebody figured out how to make money out of spam after all:)
1. Charge everyone to send emails.
2. Charge everyone to use said email system.
3. Charge everyone to use micropayment system.
4. ???
5. Profit!
The first spam was sent May 3, 1978 -- 25 years ago . (It was written May 1 but sent on May 3.) The end of the month marks the 11th anniversary of when the first time a USENET posting got named a spam. Once again, Slashdot editors need to start checking the validity of their article before posting.
Are there easy games out there today? Yes. Are today's games "easier" than yesteryear's games? No. Why? It's like comparing apples and oranges. Games of the golden years were designed around the 'arcade' mindset, giving the player a fun time, but making it hard enough so that they would have to keep putting their quarters in. Home systems, up to the release of the nes, were just platforms for people to play ARCADE games on, which by their very nature, designed with an (usual) high curve of difficulty. Also, if you were around at the time of the original pitfall you have, oh, almost TWENTY FIVE YEARS of experience with videogames by now and should be much, much, better than you were back then. Personally, I miss the old arcade days, those were really great times. It was great to grow up concurrently with the entire development of videogames and playing videogames back in the 80's was great, but I personally welcome the "movie style" videogames. In a way, it's what I've always wanted out of videogames; to be like interactive movies. Games like the new Pitfall and Tomb Raider are easy because the designers decided to tread the same path that's already been done, over and over. You already know what to do, where to look and how to beat it! A lot of games today just suck, it has nothing to do with difficulty. BUT, I do not want to go back to the days of incredible difficulty to make up for bad gameplay. I destroyed the 2600 cart "DragonFire" because it was too fucking hard and became the antithesis of fun. I also destroyed "Ghost's and Goblins"; a good game, but hard, but after beating it you find out that you have to beat the entire game AGAIN at a much harder difficulty to truly win. Fuck that, Ghosts and Goblins has been "sleeping with the fishes" ever since.:)
There are no RFID tags in US currency. There is no METAL in US currency. I just microwaved a new $20 for over two min. in a 2000 watt microwave oven to no effect (aside from being warm). And lastly, the new $20 bills do NOT set off anti-theft systems.
The photos are obvious photoshops. Slashdot is slowly becoming the new Weekly World News.
The next Xbox is not going to be based upon Intel Technology or X86 architecture so it's going to be a -tad- harder to hack. Also, do you think Gates is not going to raise the bar, a lot, to thrwart hackers the second time around? I hope that there still will be an HD for the Xbox2, especially if Sony is going to have one. Shame, I always wished game systems actually installed the game on the HD, or gave an option for that.
This has to be the worst post ever on slashdot and no, I am not trolling. It's not even a story it's a whine. So, retailers are now responsible for destroying videogame history? Why has it become retailers who are burdened with old stock and/or trading games to make sure the cases are present and in fantastic condition. We're not talking about Infocom games which had elaborate packaging and lots of goodies, we're talking about N64 and Genesis games! Get real. The only people who care about packaging would be anal retentive collectors who use the fact that the game has it's original packaging to drive up the price. Nobody cares anymore about packaging, or cases anymore. The only reason I even have any of my cases for my computer or home system games is to prevent the games from getting scratched. I am not concerned about the packaging and most people are not either. Whenever I buy a cd now I download the music to my hard drive and THROW AWAY THE CASE and put the cd in my cd jukebox.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever heard of! Finally, the link between man and machine is being solidified. Just think, in 20 years, or less, an amputee could actually get a robot arm that obey's his thoughts. Granted, it's a far way off from "Cyberdyne," level tech, but it's a start!
No, the bastards are from the same litter. It's just that they are Siberian Hamsters with a naturally high temper (why fucking sell them in the first place as pets?) and once they realize that they are actually evil, they will try to kill each other.
I just got two siberian hamsters and boy are they son's-a-bitches. I was told that they are "agressive," little did I know that agressive meant that they would try to literally KILL me through the cage. This little fuckers HISS at me and try to knaw through the cage and bite me. Once one bit my finger so hard that I had to pry it off. The people at petsmart also forgot to mention that very soon, the hamsters will try to KILL each other. I even got the little bastards yogurt treats and a fucking hamster house that looks like a mini McDonald's playground and this is the thanks I get! I don't care if someone trained them to play the bells of saint mary (Python joke) FUCK HAMSTERS! I am soon going to train them how to avoid the blades inside a blender and get myself a nice rat.:)
Jakks should do a TRON and Discs of Tron combo set with the original tron controller and Spinner. Now that would be badass! Heck, they could even do some esoteric games like "Major Havoc" and Tempest, since both use spinners.
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Get real, $40 million dollars is chump change today. $40 million dollars spent on RandD and development for HL2 is a sound investment. HL2 IS the reason why I upgraded to a new pc earlier than I would have. Unfortunately, I was not expecting it to be delayed almost a half a year, or more. But really, in retrospect, nothing has happenned dramatically in terms of computing power over the past year. We went from having 3.0 ghz processors to 3.4 "hyper" processors. 9700 radeons to 9800 radeon pro turbos. It's almost like the industry is in a holding pattern waiting for HL2 to be released! :) For what HL2 will bring to the table, it's worth $500 million in my book. :)
Hmmm, I was thinking. $120+ Million in Venture Capital is absolutely nothing in terms of what is necessary to produce AND more importantly PROMOTE a brand new game system. Shit, some of the higher end games cost $40 million to make and market. Even if the "Phantom" had access to EVERY GAME EVER MADE, who would buy it? After all, you never actually own any game, it's all downloaded. I would actually invest my money in a pinball manufacturer right now (sales are doing great) than bet on the Phantom.
Why would I want stock in a company that has yet to have a real, manufactured, product. Demos don't count; I can make my own game system in my garage. I would much put my money on finding oil in the Dead Sea, the odds are actually not that bad.
"That's stupid, gays don't vomit, they're a very clean people; and have been since they came here from france" -- Peter Griffin, from Family Guy. .
Maybe after they release Duke Nukem: Taking Forever, will that guy have room to talk about Warner Bros.
Cool! The Science Fiction Database is updated! What fantastic news! This is WAY more important or interesting than other news, like a 10th planet being found. When is that article going to be posted?
There should be a TOPIC/STORY negative modifier for old news, or news that is blatantly obvious. Or just have "FARK" tags. If this "story" about how hotmail was down ran on Fark, it would have the "obvious" tag.
Cheat codes ruined that game totally. But, the damage has already been done. Will anyone be playing anymore. Socom lost a lot of people because of cheating.
Get real. Computers are plastic, silicon, metal. There is no f'ing way that it takes 1.8 TONS of materials to churn out your average pc. 1.8 Tons is the total average weight of a midsize car! Cars have computers in them too! So the computer in the car, combined with the naviation/gps systems, dvd player and other goodies, AND the car itself must by the laws of this article consumed the GDP of Haiti to be produced! :)
Has the Slashdot editors gone on a vacation. It seems that more and more of these idiotic articles are being posted on Slashdot. Germans are better at teamwork? Americans better at shooting? Nobody can tell what nationality they are playing against unless it is posted, or a clan that they know is in a different country. I was expecting the article to say something stupid like "Teams don't like to have black people in them, because they slow the whole team down," or "You can tell when you are playing against Jews, because they are using handguns and saving their money for better weapons someday." On the brink of the dreaded "racism," the article almost is. Lastly, the FRENCH has better reflexes than other players? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A x 10
Emailing the management at Lucasarts will do nothing. Their shortsighteness cannot be cured with a few emails. It really is rediculous that Lucasarts is compromising themselves for profit/costs reasons. Too bad Lucas can't put ILM and Lucasarts together (that would make too much sense). As for the quote "It's not a good time to release an adventure game." Well, neither was it suppossedly a good time to release "Star Wars," but look how well that did!
I cannot believe how many new programs are coming with spyware now. Worst yet, the spywares are not just cookie trackers, but keyloggers and much worse. Even some games install a scanner to scan your hd for any "virtual drives" and will not load the game if any are detected.
Looks like somebody figured out how to make money out of spam after all :)
1. Charge everyone to send emails.
2. Charge everyone to use said email system.
3. Charge everyone to use micropayment system.
4. ???
5. Profit!
The first spam was sent May 3, 1978 -- 25 years ago . (It was written May 1 but sent on May 3.) The end of the month marks the 11th anniversary of when the first time a USENET posting got named a spam. Once again, Slashdot editors need to start checking the validity of their article before posting.
Are there easy games out there today? Yes. Are today's games "easier" than yesteryear's games? No. Why? It's like comparing apples and oranges. Games of the golden years were designed around the 'arcade' mindset, giving the player a fun time, but making it hard enough so that they would have to keep putting their quarters in. Home systems, up to the release of the nes, were just platforms for people to play ARCADE games on, which by their very nature, designed with an (usual) high curve of difficulty. Also, if you were around at the time of the original pitfall you have, oh, almost TWENTY FIVE YEARS of experience with videogames by now and should be much, much, better than you were back then. Personally, I miss the old arcade days, those were really great times. It was great to grow up concurrently with the entire development of videogames and playing videogames back in the 80's was great, but I personally welcome the "movie style" videogames. In a way, it's what I've always wanted out of videogames; to be like interactive movies. Games like the new Pitfall and Tomb Raider are easy because the designers decided to tread the same path that's already been done, over and over. You already know what to do, where to look and how to beat it! A lot of games today just suck, it has nothing to do with difficulty. BUT, I do not want to go back to the days of incredible difficulty to make up for bad gameplay. I destroyed the 2600 cart "DragonFire" because it was too fucking hard and became the antithesis of fun. I also destroyed "Ghost's and Goblins"; a good game, but hard, but after beating it you find out that you have to beat the entire game AGAIN at a much harder difficulty to truly win. Fuck that, Ghosts and Goblins has been "sleeping with the fishes" ever since. :)
There are no RFID tags in US currency. There is no METAL in US currency. I just microwaved a new $20 for over two min. in a 2000 watt microwave oven to no effect (aside from being warm). And lastly, the new $20 bills do NOT set off anti-theft systems. The photos are obvious photoshops. Slashdot is slowly becoming the new Weekly World News.
I have always loved how crosswalk signs never give enough time to even get halfway across the intersection before turning to "Don't Walk."
The next Xbox is not going to be based upon Intel Technology or X86 architecture so it's going to be a -tad- harder to hack. Also, do you think Gates is not going to raise the bar, a lot, to thrwart hackers the second time around? I hope that there still will be an HD for the Xbox2, especially if Sony is going to have one. Shame, I always wished game systems actually installed the game on the HD, or gave an option for that.
This has to be the worst post ever on slashdot and no, I am not trolling. It's not even a story it's a whine. So, retailers are now responsible for destroying videogame history? Why has it become retailers who are burdened with old stock and/or trading games to make sure the cases are present and in fantastic condition. We're not talking about Infocom games which had elaborate packaging and lots of goodies, we're talking about N64 and Genesis games! Get real. The only people who care about packaging would be anal retentive collectors who use the fact that the game has it's original packaging to drive up the price. Nobody cares anymore about packaging, or cases anymore. The only reason I even have any of my cases for my computer or home system games is to prevent the games from getting scratched. I am not concerned about the packaging and most people are not either. Whenever I buy a cd now I download the music to my hard drive and THROW AWAY THE CASE and put the cd in my cd jukebox.
Better get a good surge protector :)
This is one of the coolest things I have ever heard of! Finally, the link between man and machine is being solidified. Just think, in 20 years, or less, an amputee could actually get a robot arm that obey's his thoughts. Granted, it's a far way off from "Cyberdyne," level tech, but it's a start!
No, the bastards are from the same litter. It's just that they are Siberian Hamsters with a naturally high temper (why fucking sell them in the first place as pets?) and once they realize that they are actually evil, they will try to kill each other.
I just got two siberian hamsters and boy are they son's-a-bitches. I was told that they are "agressive," little did I know that agressive meant that they would try to literally KILL me through the cage. This little fuckers HISS at me and try to knaw through the cage and bite me. Once one bit my finger so hard that I had to pry it off. The people at petsmart also forgot to mention that very soon, the hamsters will try to KILL each other. I even got the little bastards yogurt treats and a fucking hamster house that looks like a mini McDonald's playground and this is the thanks I get! I don't care if someone trained them to play the bells of saint mary (Python joke) FUCK HAMSTERS! I am soon going to train them how to avoid the blades inside a blender and get myself a nice rat. :)
Evil Selling Evil to Evil.
Jakks should do a TRON and Discs of Tron combo set with the original tron controller and Spinner. Now that would be badass! Heck, they could even do some esoteric games like "Major Havoc" and Tempest, since both use spinners.