Do you have any more information on why they last better behind glass and how much longer (any sources)? I ask because we recently printed out a lot of photo's of our wedding and put them behind glass - I'd like to think this will last a reasonable amount of time though of course I have them backed up to DVD and HD...
I too have been type one for about 10 years and Pepsi Max is about the only soda I drink - up to a two litre bottle a day. I'm not too alarmed by any of this. As many posters have said there is no linked peer review, and also anything in sufficient quantities is poisonous. Interestingly I heard over the weekend that something like 22 pounds of chocolate ingested will kill a human being - probably a quarter of that for us diabetics. Fuck it you know? Life is too short and we are all going to die of something so I'm off to the fridge for a nice cold glass of Pepsi Max. It's the cigarrettes I REALLY need to give up.... That shit will kill anyone...
I agree, I see absolutely no logic to Nintendo doing this. One word - cashflow. Nobody likes to have stock that is paid for on 60 or 90 day terms sat around. Though you could argue that a company as profitable as Nintendo could cushion this for a while, it still just doesn't sit right with me. As we say, make hay while the sun shines. Conspiracy theories are great but are just that - conspiracies.
I was just hoping it would be commented at least interesting, look at my own sig? I think it's one comment in a land of fanboyism, at least tinted with a bit of a genuine 'Ive been lucky enough to try all three' overview.
The public are now switched on more than ever before. I can't describe it properly because my degree maths is fucked (reminds me of marge simpson saying how she'd never been able to calculate everyday calculus problems...).. But Log? Fuck modern day statistics, they'll always be out of tune with the last gen.
(I have posted this on another thread too...)I must admit (I already have a 360 and a Wii) even a week ago I wouldn't have believed I'd be out on a cold UK night queuing up for one, and I am a total, complete and utter hypocrite (I have been less than enamoured of the PS£ previously on these very pages), but... After realising I could pony up most the cost by trading in a PS2 with 30 well played games (and keeping the good ones for back-compat), I could not resist its shiny allure - and god it is a shiny behemoth of a thing - and I think seriously well futureproofed. Previous posters have commented on the base cost of the 360 and I agree that the out of the box extras the PS3 has do outweigh the extra cost over the 360. Motorstorm is sublime, and having the 60 Gig HD out of the box to download game demos is great. Also, I never played online on the 360 simply because of the fee. Within half an hour I was playing other people on Motorstorm and I know everyone goes on about the XBOX live experience, seriously the PS3 network isn't like it's terrible. In fact I found it quite easy and pleasant to use - apart from the text input but all the systems suffer that. No the launch line up isn't great but I'm really looking forwards to littlebig planet and of course the titles will get better over the next year. There don't seem to be so many exclusives round so far this gen - the result? I seriously think I might can the 360 to recoup some more of my cash (finished Gears, but will miss Crackdown, great game). I'm not a Sony shill, far from it, but I'm trying to add some balance to the argument. As for the Wii? Well, that is in a class of its own. Zelda as usual is great, if only my wife and mother in law would stop kicking my ass at bowling...
I must admit (I already have a 360 and a Wii) even a week ago I wouldn't have believed I'd be out on a cold UK night queuing up for one, and I am a total, complete and utter hypocrite (I have been less than enamoured of the PS£ previously on these very pages), but... After realising I could pony up most the cost by trading in a PS2 with 30 well played games (and keeping the good ones for back-compat), I could not resist its shiny allure - and god it is a shiny behemoth of a thing - and I think seriously well futureproofed. Previous posters have commented on the base cost of the 360 and I agree that the out of the box extras the PS3 has do outweigh the extra cost over the 360. Motorstorm is sublime, and having the 60 Gig HD out of the box to download game demos is great. Also, I never played online on the 360 simply because of the fee. Within half an hour I was playing other people on Motorstorm and I know everyone goes on about the XBOX live experience, seriously the PS3 network isn't like it's terrible. In fact I found it quite easy and pleasant to use - apart from the text input but all the systems suffer that. No the launch line up isn't great but I'm really looking forwards to littlebig planet and of course the titles will get better over the next year. There don't seem to be so many exclusives round so far this gen - the result? I seriously think I might can the 360 to recoup some more of my cash (finished Gears, but will miss Crackdown, great game). I'm not a Sony shill, far from it, but I'm trying to add some balance to the argument. As for the Wii? Well, that is in a class of its own. Zelda as usual is great, if only my wife and mother in law would stop kicking my ass at bowling...
My wife, who has never played games in her life is now regularly beating my ass at wii sports. Tennis and Bowling. Shes scored 273 best score on bowling on wii, I've only managed 144 and I've been playing games for 25 years. Go, as they say, figure.
Glad someone on here has a clue. For all the supposed intelligence on here, it's all about LINUX mainly, and what does software run on? If you want to chat fnd me at richtem@gmail.com. I work in silicon, and software. Not many people can see the bigger picture on here.
Fair point, but HDTV, here in the UK, is very very good when you see it. Just saying. It might be minority technology right now but every new tech needs its early adopters. Don't knock us for being stupid enough to buy first:)
I'm possibly in a small group of/.'s (please tell me if I'm wrong) that fails to see the appeal of MMORPG's - not because of the multiplayer aspect but because (yes, I know I am generalising here) the majority of them seem to be either rooted in D+D lore or some off world space setting. Personally I don't get the whole orc thing at all.. But anyway, the news of a contemporary spy game massively (no pun intended) appeals to me. Maybe I'll finally get to find out what 'grinding' (buying Polonium on the black market) or 'levelling up' is all all about?
I'm sorry but it's been a long while since I have felt comfortable with Google's 'do no evil' mantra. They are a billion dollar company with shareholders to report to. I wouldn't be suprised if in 5-10 years we see the same sort of slashback here we see now for MS applied to Google. I particularly don't like the way the toolbar trawls my PC for information to report back to the Googel servers. It was at that point I stopped seeing them as saviours and more like the circling vultures they may well turn out to be.
I'm glad you posted - I might go back and have a look again - it's not a bad game at all. But my original point was that the difficulty curve should allow for that in the first place. I shouldn't need to find a 'god mode' to enjoy it. Or should I?
I see your point, I really do. But I use my PC (not this laptop for work) for music. I don't have an email client. I don't use a CAD program. I don't have a spreadsheet. I have a wife, but I won't be using my PC to buy her anything for the 14th because I like to go out and pick that sort of thing personally. My music PC never, ever crashes (and why, yes I run XP!) because I use it for one thing and one thing only. No photo printing. No MP3/Ogg Vorbis. No pr0n. It is completely and utterly streamlined for what I use it for. On the other hand I have several lovely stand alone games machines that also work very well for what they do. I never spend time (more than the inital PC setup which I have ghosted) tinkering with drivers, reseating cards, ebaying old hardare to buy new (other than at the end of a console cycle) or threatening to throw it out of the window. My life is simple and I like it like that. If you wat to tinker and nerd around with stuff, knock yourself out.
Gears Of War I loved, I don't usually play most games that far through, but I hit a bug with the second berserker where I was trapped by a fallen wall behind me (so I couldn't return) and I didn't have the Hammer of Dawn required to kill the berserker. Now this perhaps is more of a bug, but it frustrated me no end, as the save system doesn't allow for multiple saves. There was no way I was going back to the beginning because of that. Result - shelved.
Resident Evil 4. Towards the end, the minecart section. If you haven't got enough ammo you are screwed. My other last save points were far too back to contemplate. Shelved.
Also Lost Planet. Ridiculously difficult boss only a few levels in that just nails you as soon as you start, and with the character stumbling about and leaving you vulnerable.. Hugely frustrating. I'd spent a good few nights playing to that point and making steady progress.. Once I'd spent three nights just trying to beat that one boss and progress - Shelved again.
Look I'm not saying games should not present a challenge (and I admit I am not the worlds greatest game player although I have been playing games for a good 25 years now so I must have some sort of a clue), and I suppose in the case of RE4 I perhaps should have saved more different save points. However, I pay my £40 (yes $80), and if I want to choose the easy level so I get to see all of the awesome graphics, hear the surround sound to as well as get some entertainment (not sheer bloody frustration) out of it I should be able to. These things are supposed to be playtested - doesn't anyone look at the difficulty curves/bugs that need fixing?
No I wasn't trolling - I was serious. You have some good points there, and you are right in many ways. But the earlier we start to look elsewhere and invest in it the better, it's like playing roulette. If we are the only real 'life' in the universe then surely we are worth saving. At the moment, without sound knowledge of superior races, we cannot afford to think anyone else will save us. Let's look after number one and not wait anymore, spending billions on pointless wars on earth that will only serve to extend life here in the shortest terms. Why not look at the bigger picture? And, if you're so sure of your point why post AC?
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I have no mod points but you know what I mean.
Do you have any more information on why they last better behind glass and how much longer (any sources)? I ask because we recently printed out a lot of photo's of our wedding and put them behind glass - I'd like to think this will last a reasonable amount of time though of course I have them backed up to DVD and HD...
2048 Gigabytes *should* be enough for anyone...
Won't somebody think of the children?
I too have been type one for about 10 years and Pepsi Max is about the only soda I drink - up to a two litre bottle a day. I'm not too alarmed by any of this. As many posters have said there is no linked peer review, and also anything in sufficient quantities is poisonous. Interestingly I heard over the weekend that something like 22 pounds of chocolate ingested will kill a human being - probably a quarter of that for us diabetics. Fuck it you know? Life is too short and we are all going to die of something so I'm off to the fridge for a nice cold glass of Pepsi Max. It's the cigarrettes I REALLY need to give up.... That shit will kill anyone...
Get a fucking life man.
I agree, I see absolutely no logic to Nintendo doing this. One word - cashflow. Nobody likes to have stock that is paid for on 60 or 90 day terms sat around. Though you could argue that a company as profitable as Nintendo could cushion this for a while, it still just doesn't sit right with me. As we say, make hay while the sun shines. Conspiracy theories are great but are just that - conspiracies.
hhmmm yeah. I should also note in my sig insightful != informative too. :)
I was just hoping it would be commented at least interesting, look at my own sig? I think it's one comment in a land of fanboyism, at least tinted with a bit of a genuine 'Ive been lucky enough to try all three' overview.
The public are now switched on more than ever before. I can't describe it properly because my degree maths is fucked (reminds me of marge simpson saying how she'd never been able to calculate everyday calculus problems...).. But Log? Fuck modern day statistics, they'll always be out of tune with the last gen.
(I have posted this on another thread too...)I must admit (I already have a 360 and a Wii) even a week ago I wouldn't have believed I'd be out on a cold UK night queuing up for one, and I am a total, complete and utter hypocrite (I have been less than enamoured of the PS£ previously on these very pages), but... After realising I could pony up most the cost by trading in a PS2 with 30 well played games (and keeping the good ones for back-compat), I could not resist its shiny allure - and god it is a shiny behemoth of a thing - and I think seriously well futureproofed. Previous posters have commented on the base cost of the 360 and I agree that the out of the box extras the PS3 has do outweigh the extra cost over the 360. Motorstorm is sublime, and having the 60 Gig HD out of the box to download game demos is great. Also, I never played online on the 360 simply because of the fee. Within half an hour I was playing other people on Motorstorm and I know everyone goes on about the XBOX live experience, seriously the PS3 network isn't like it's terrible. In fact I found it quite easy and pleasant to use - apart from the text input but all the systems suffer that. No the launch line up isn't great but I'm really looking forwards to littlebig planet and of course the titles will get better over the next year. There don't seem to be so many exclusives round so far this gen - the result? I seriously think I might can the 360 to recoup some more of my cash (finished Gears, but will miss Crackdown, great game). I'm not a Sony shill, far from it, but I'm trying to add some balance to the argument. As for the Wii? Well, that is in a class of its own. Zelda as usual is great, if only my wife and mother in law would stop kicking my ass at bowling...
I must admit (I already have a 360 and a Wii) even a week ago I wouldn't have believed I'd be out on a cold UK night queuing up for one, and I am a total, complete and utter hypocrite (I have been less than enamoured of the PS£ previously on these very pages), but... After realising I could pony up most the cost by trading in a PS2 with 30 well played games (and keeping the good ones for back-compat), I could not resist its shiny allure - and god it is a shiny behemoth of a thing - and I think seriously well futureproofed. Previous posters have commented on the base cost of the 360 and I agree that the out of the box extras the PS3 has do outweigh the extra cost over the 360. Motorstorm is sublime, and having the 60 Gig HD out of the box to download game demos is great. Also, I never played online on the 360 simply because of the fee. Within half an hour I was playing other people on Motorstorm and I know everyone goes on about the XBOX live experience, seriously the PS3 network isn't like it's terrible. In fact I found it quite easy and pleasant to use - apart from the text input but all the systems suffer that. No the launch line up isn't great but I'm really looking forwards to littlebig planet and of course the titles will get better over the next year. There don't seem to be so many exclusives round so far this gen - the result? I seriously think I might can the 360 to recoup some more of my cash (finished Gears, but will miss Crackdown, great game). I'm not a Sony shill, far from it, but I'm trying to add some balance to the argument. As for the Wii? Well, that is in a class of its own. Zelda as usual is great, if only my wife and mother in law would stop kicking my ass at bowling...
My wife, who has never played games in her life is now regularly beating my ass at wii sports. Tennis and Bowling. Shes scored 273 best score on bowling on wii, I've only managed 144 and I've been playing games for 25 years. Go, as they say, figure.
Glad someone on here has a clue. For all the supposed intelligence on here, it's all about LINUX mainly, and what does software run on? If you want to chat fnd me at richtem@gmail.com. I work in silicon, and software. Not many people can see the bigger picture on here.
Not only are we in the UK paying (or not in my case) £425 per unit (approx $850), we are getting an inferior machine to boot? Jesus wept.
thanks for the info.
Fair point, but HDTV, here in the UK, is very very good when you see it. Just saying. It might be minority technology right now but every new tech needs its early adopters. Don't knock us for being stupid enough to buy first :)
I'm possibly in a small group of /.'s (please tell me if I'm wrong) that fails to see the appeal of MMORPG's - not because of the multiplayer aspect but because (yes, I know I am generalising here) the majority of them seem to be either rooted in D+D lore or some off world space setting. Personally I don't get the whole orc thing at all.. But anyway, the news of a contemporary spy game massively (no pun intended) appeals to me. Maybe I'll finally get to find out what 'grinding' (buying Polonium on the black market) or 'levelling up' is all all about?
Unfortunately (through no choice of my own) I have to run XP with my work laptop, but I don't have Google toolbar. I fail to see what you mean?
I'm sorry but it's been a long while since I have felt comfortable with Google's 'do no evil' mantra. They are a billion dollar company with shareholders to report to. I wouldn't be suprised if in 5-10 years we see the same sort of slashback here we see now for MS applied to Google. I particularly don't like the way the toolbar trawls my PC for information to report back to the Googel servers. It was at that point I stopped seeing them as saviours and more like the circling vultures they may well turn out to be.
I'm glad you posted - I might go back and have a look again - it's not a bad game at all. But my original point was that the difficulty curve should allow for that in the first place. I shouldn't need to find a 'god mode' to enjoy it. Or should I?
I see your point, I really do. But I use my PC (not this laptop for work) for music. I don't have an email client. I don't use a CAD program. I don't have a spreadsheet. I have a wife, but I won't be using my PC to buy her anything for the 14th because I like to go out and pick that sort of thing personally. My music PC never, ever crashes (and why, yes I run XP!) because I use it for one thing and one thing only. No photo printing. No MP3/Ogg Vorbis. No pr0n. It is completely and utterly streamlined for what I use it for. On the other hand I have several lovely stand alone games machines that also work very well for what they do. I never spend time (more than the inital PC setup which I have ghosted) tinkering with drivers, reseating cards, ebaying old hardare to buy new (other than at the end of a console cycle) or threatening to throw it out of the window. My life is simple and I like it like that. If you wat to tinker and nerd around with stuff, knock yourself out.
And actually I meant to add a fourth - Dead Rising. But I wouldn't know where to start with that one...
Gears Of War I loved, I don't usually play most games that far through, but I hit a bug with the second berserker where I was trapped by a fallen wall behind me (so I couldn't return) and I didn't have the Hammer of Dawn required to kill the berserker. Now this perhaps is more of a bug, but it frustrated me no end, as the save system doesn't allow for multiple saves. There was no way I was going back to the beginning because of that. Result - shelved. Resident Evil 4. Towards the end, the minecart section. If you haven't got enough ammo you are screwed. My other last save points were far too back to contemplate. Shelved. Also Lost Planet. Ridiculously difficult boss only a few levels in that just nails you as soon as you start, and with the character stumbling about and leaving you vulnerable.. Hugely frustrating. I'd spent a good few nights playing to that point and making steady progress.. Once I'd spent three nights just trying to beat that one boss and progress - Shelved again. Look I'm not saying games should not present a challenge (and I admit I am not the worlds greatest game player although I have been playing games for a good 25 years now so I must have some sort of a clue), and I suppose in the case of RE4 I perhaps should have saved more different save points. However, I pay my £40 (yes $80), and if I want to choose the easy level so I get to see all of the awesome graphics, hear the surround sound to as well as get some entertainment (not sheer bloody frustration) out of it I should be able to. These things are supposed to be playtested - doesn't anyone look at the difficulty curves/bugs that need fixing?
No I wasn't trolling - I was serious. You have some good points there, and you are right in many ways. But the earlier we start to look elsewhere and invest in it the better, it's like playing roulette. If we are the only real 'life' in the universe then surely we are worth saving. At the moment, without sound knowledge of superior races, we cannot afford to think anyone else will save us. Let's look after number one and not wait anymore, spending billions on pointless wars on earth that will only serve to extend life here in the shortest terms. Why not look at the bigger picture? And, if you're so sure of your point why post AC?