I'd use Ken. I'll Triple Fierce your ass. And then I'll do it again. Then throw you to Perfect your head-stomping, kick-tapping Chun Li into the ground.
Been using for years, never had any problems. Of course, I have to supplement that with adaware, zonealarm, but it works. in fact, the only problem is that the XP is breaking down (I used to have a context menu that was almost the length of the screen, but there would be a noticible pause when right clicking on ANYthing)
I dunno, how are they going to crack down a whole genere of games? Or I guess they don't find ecchina koto very bad. Or are they only cracking down on GTA-like violence.
Game greatness != book greatness
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If I want a convoluted plot with deep storylines and lengthy descriptions, I'll play Xenogears again;)
Acutally, you will never find this. If we do get games with the above description, you'll be looking at a big waste of money. First off, most generes of games don't need this. Fighting no, racing, no, puzzle, no, H-games^H^H^H^H^H^H^H other games, no.
Only ones that matter are adventure, RTS, RPG.
RTS can benefit a little, but most of the reknown ones come down to skilled planning and quickness, which sounds like the exact opposite reason I'd read a book.
An RPG needs to be customiable, and the best ones (I think) (FFT, FFIII, FF8, XenoG, DQVII, Phant star (all), Star Ocean) were mostly because of the gameplay (and the few moments where I did feel for that characters).
Adventure, well... I don't know if this even exists anymore (alone in the dark, the ol' Willams's Sierra games, Infocom text advetures). Good book-like qualities might help, but I think developers have moved on and tried to make stuff like GTA which is mostly open ended... which is what a book is not. A book allows for free interpretation, not exploration.
Games that are neat are because of the gameplay. GAME-PLAY. Look at the Spore GDC vid. That is going to be an unbelievable game. The possibliities are endless, plus the melding of genres is pretty crazy. At the same time I see about an abstract's worth of a plot there.
So yeah. Don't see it happening sometime. But then again, I'd like to see it happen.
Every word after Obi-Wan cuts off Skywalker's legs is a negative, e.g. "I loved you man!" is something no actor needs to say; it's evident from the acting.
I think that whoever directs the next one (in 2020 or whatever), or even if someone could re-cut the current film, needs to crop out all the superflous dialog. A deeply pained expression, a furtive glance, a slight nod; these are the things that I saw that could have replaced the pre-teen bor-a-thon dialogs. Just think if Lucas and Co. realized that! You would have the first ever DVD directors cut which is actually shorter than the original.
For example, here's a cut from the (from script. I'll bold things that seem unneeded, and italicize anything I might add:
226 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
POLIS MEDICS work, on PADME in an operating theater. OBI-WAN and one of the MEDICAL DROIDS enter an observation room where BAIL and YODA are waiting.
MEDICAL DROID: Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we are losing her.
OBI-WAN: She's dying?
MEDICAL DROID: {PAUSE }... We don't know why. She has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies. twins.
BAIL ORGANA: Babies??!!{Give happy yet sad and shocked look}
MEDICAL DROID: She's carrying twins.
YODA: Save them, we must. They are our last hope.
The MEDICAL DROID rushes back to the operating room. ARTOO and THREEPIO watch, greatly puzzled. ARTOO BEEPS.
C-3PO: It s some kind of reproductive process, I think.
227 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY
ANAKIN, in the medical capsule, is lifted onto a table in the Rehab Center. DROIDS go to work on him. ANAKIN has new legs and a new arm.
228 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
The TWINS are being delivered as BAIL ORGANA, YODA, ARTOO, and THREEPIO watch. OBI-WAN is in the operating theater with PADME. He takes her hand.// Nice! That's all! Shut up Ewan!
OBI-WAN: Don't give up, Padme.
PADME winces from the pain. The MEDICAL DROID is holding the BABY.
MEDICAL DROID: It's a boy.
PADME: Luke . ..
PADME can only offer up a faint smile. She struggles to touch the baby on the forehead.
MEDICAL DROID:... and a girl.
PADME: . . . Leia.
R2-D2, THREEPIO and BAIL ORGANA watch from an adjoining space.
229 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY
VADER, dressed in his black body armor, lies on the table. Nose plugs are inserted and the mask drops from above, sealing tightly. The helmet is fitted and VADER begins breathing.
230 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
OBI WAN leans over PADME and softly speaks to her.
OBI-WAN: You have twins, Padme They need you . . . hang on.
PADME: I can't . ..
PADME winces again and takes OBI-WAN's hand. She is holding Anakin's japor snippet.
OBI-WAN: Save your energy. {Give calm yet pleading look instead}
PADME: Obi-Wan . . . there . . . is good in him. I know there is... still . ..
A last gasp, and she dies. Obi-Wan studies the necklace.
------ I think that would have been better, although I just cut 90% of Ewan's lines. Oh well. Do that to the entire movie, remove some of those 20+ second long CGbation scenes whenever we enter a new planet (6 seconds max is all need).... I'd buy that for a dollar!;)
25 percent adults playing portables vs 75? percent teens
- Adults are busying doing something like WORK or driving home so it's hard to play games then. Once they get home, they have their entertainment system, so there's no use playing on something with a tiny screen vs the console hooked into the big screen tv, or even the computer. Teens on the other hand are the ones in the back seat playing their games (hey, I did that with my game boy way back when.) Those 25% adults are either commuting by train and/or really love Nintendogs.
Teen guys mostly play online - Say it ain't so. Who doesn't love talking smack to a potentially international audience.
Teen girls (surprisingly) mostly play multiplayer - Not really surprising; this is why there's a Mario Party *7*.
Even though the obvious thing would be to look at the hitters, it'd be great if this one day could help pitchers. I want to see someone throw 105+ mph and be able pitch again the next day. That would pretty much defeat the probabably already boosted synth-muscle hitters (a hitter still needs to react to the ball in time, no matter how strong). That would be a wonderful achievement for synthetic muscles. Of coruse, we'd probably also need synthetic tendons to hold the synthetic muscluature on, but oh well. Maybe one day instead of Tommy John surgery, pitchers could get the Alex Murphy surgery.
Unless of course, umm, you only post the trolling, stupid, silly, brainless, drunken, experimental, pratty, crappy, lewd, pointed, semi-bigoted posts under one name (lets say, eamonman) and save the other 1 percent of the positive, forthright, life-affirming good comments for... well, I guess I forgot to mention lazy because I haven't bothered logging into my other account for a bit (haven't logged into my original account in years).
They'd give us advance notice of impending Earth destruction, while the sharks would simply keep chewing on tourists and sucking down chum from the latest Discovery Channel's Shark Week produced extravaganzas.
Oh wow, nothing like drudging up an old debate from the days when vector graphics, walkmans, and EGA was cool. Hey, if America can be friends with those Ruskies, we can forget how Atari was so much better, right?;) BTW I have no real points to contend; I was too young to care at the time. I sure miss that tape drive though. When's the last time you've listened to your data?
BTW My computer timeline: Atari 400 -> 800XL -> 1040ST -> Mac LC III -> Power Mac 6100/486 -> PIII 450 -> Athlon 2400
Most driving games require the discrete analog version of turning. i.e.,
turn slowly = tap... tap... tap
while turn fast = taptaptaptaptaptap
I've found that as I get older, the harder it is to play games that require this. For instance, playing Gran Turismo 4 , I find that it's harder to control the cars as well as when I played the first one. note that I don't like the analog pad; maybe it's my controller, but it is way too sensitive.
And an account with a local bbs to get the old software way back when. My friend had a both of the above back in the mid 80's, so we were able to play different (some crappy) games back in the apple iie/c etc days.
brun choplift
Of course, those games kept us entertained for weeks on end. Now, you can just dl a mame pack or apple roms and play all known games from 2001 and back. Crazy.
That would be cool. Then you could talk your dog into coming back! That'd probably not happen with my dog; when he hears a voice from a phone (mine or not), he freaks out. Probably finds hearing a disembodied voice troubling.
Gee, I bought my PS2 about 4 years ago, and hav abused it to no end (dropped water on it, kicked it in anger), and after playing 100+ games, it still runs. My controller doesn't vibrate too often, but that's because i've swung the thing against the floor more than a few times ( I really hated NBA 2K whatever). The only thing that is on the fritz is the memory card, but that's just because the kicking probably did something to it.
I am in the same boat as you; At my home, I have WPA2 set up; I just got the DS and am wondering if I should change the network back to WEP to support it. Yeah, it'd be a loss of security, but the other 11 networks I can see from my computer are unencrypted.:P If only we could flash the DS with WPA support (just like you can with a Wifi router), then I wouldn't be stuck.
At the time it was considered that Nintendo was being far too strict. If only we could have seen the slippery slope ahead of us. I still remember it like it was yesterday. The Genesis version of MK had toggleable blood, and the SNES had the fake green splotches. This was so funny because really, lots of other things in MK were more disturbing (decapitation, freezing, burning, etc). And hey, if your kid ever went to an arcade, they'd get to see overt violence in Time Killers, where appendages, including your head, could be lost (which lead to the 1 second long perfects when playing with that buzzsaw character). Nintendo still tries to be as far away as possible from the bleeding edge of desensitization, making us, at worst, blast aliens with our Wave beams, vs. PS2 which has us killing hookers, gangs, and anyone at who comes by just to see the extent of the mayhem I cause before I'm forced to flee and spray my car.
I remember playing SFIII:Third Strike on a holiday for the first time on an arcade machine when I was little.
When you were little? Aaugh! I used to drive to the arcade to play SFII:CE.
All I know, as a Ken player from the very beginning, they'd better not weaken the Dragon punch anymore. As it is, I'm still bitter that a projectiles can hit me. By SFV, people will simply do jumping jabs to hit me. I also think any MVC should be melted for scrap (beams are bs), Capcom should have made the anniversary edition more accurate, (if both players choose C.E., you should get the complete environment from CE), and finally, stop making ken look gayer with each subsequent version.
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I'd use Ken. I'll Triple Fierce your ass. And then I'll do it again. Then throw you to Perfect your head-stomping, kick-tapping Chun Li into the ground.
Been using for years, never had any problems. Of course, I have to supplement that with adaware, zonealarm, but it works. in fact, the only problem is that the XP is breaking down (I used to have a context menu that was almost the length of the screen, but there would be a noticible pause when right clicking on ANYthing)
I dunno, how are they going to crack down a whole genere of games? Or I guess they don't find ecchina koto very bad. Or are they only cracking down on GTA-like violence.
If I want a convoluted plot with deep storylines and lengthy descriptions, I'll play Xenogears again ;)
Acutally, you will never find this. If we do get games with the above description, you'll be looking at a big waste of money. First off, most generes of games don't need this. Fighting no, racing, no, puzzle, no, H-games^H^H^H^H^H^H^H other games, no.
Only ones that matter are adventure, RTS, RPG.
RTS can benefit a little, but most of the reknown ones come down to skilled planning and quickness, which sounds like the exact opposite reason I'd read a book.
An RPG needs to be customiable, and the best ones (I think) (FFT, FFIII, FF8, XenoG, DQVII, Phant star (all), Star Ocean) were mostly because of the gameplay (and the few moments where I did feel for that characters).
Adventure, well... I don't know if this even exists anymore (alone in the dark, the ol' Willams's Sierra games, Infocom text advetures). Good book-like qualities might help, but I think developers have moved on and tried to make stuff like GTA which is mostly open ended... which is what a book is not. A book allows for free interpretation, not exploration.
Games that are neat are because of the gameplay. GAME-PLAY. Look at the Spore GDC vid. That is going to be an unbelievable game. The possibliities are endless, plus the melding of genres is pretty crazy. At the same time I see about an abstract's worth of a plot there.
So yeah. Don't see it happening sometime. But then again, I'd like to see it happen.
I think that whoever directs the next one (in 2020 or whatever), or even if someone could re-cut the current film, needs to crop out all the superflous dialog. A deeply pained expression, a furtive glance, a slight nod; these are the things that I saw that could have replaced the pre-teen bor-a-thon dialogs. Just think if Lucas and Co. realized that! You would have the first ever DVD directors cut which is actually shorter than the original.
For example, here's a cut from the (from script. I'll bold things that seem unneeded, and italicize anything I might add:
226 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
POLIS MEDICS work, on PADME in an operating theater. OBI-WAN and one of the MEDICAL DROIDS enter an observation room where BAIL and YODA are waiting.
MEDICAL DROID: Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we are losing her.
OBI-WAN: She's dying?
MEDICAL DROID: {PAUSE }... We don't know why. She has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies. twins.
BAIL ORGANA: Babies??!! {Give happy yet sad and shocked look}
MEDICAL DROID: She's carrying twins.
YODA: Save them, we must. They are our last hope.
The MEDICAL DROID rushes back to the operating room. ARTOO and THREEPIO watch, greatly puzzled. ARTOO BEEPS.
C-3PO: It s some kind of reproductive process, I think.
227 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY
ANAKIN, in the medical capsule, is lifted onto a table in the Rehab Center. DROIDS go to work on him. ANAKIN has new legs and a new arm.
228 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
The TWINS are being delivered as BAIL ORGANA, YODA, ARTOO, and THREEPIO watch. OBI-WAN is in the operating theater with PADME. He takes her hand. // Nice! That's all! Shut up Ewan!
OBI-WAN: Don't give up, Padme.
PADME winces from the pain. The MEDICAL DROID is holding the BABY.
MEDICAL DROID: It's a boy.
PADME: Luke . . .
PADME can only offer up a faint smile. She struggles to touch the baby on the forehead.
MEDICAL DROID: ... and a girl.
PADME: . . . Leia.
R2-D2, THREEPIO and BAIL ORGANA watch from an adjoining space.
229 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY
VADER, dressed in his black body armor, lies on the table. Nose plugs are inserted and the mask drops from above, sealing tightly. The helmet is fitted and VADER begins breathing.
230 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT
OBI WAN leans over PADME and softly speaks to her.
OBI-WAN: You have twins, Padme They need you . . . hang on.
PADME: I can't . . .
PADME winces again and takes OBI-WAN's hand. She is holding Anakin's japor snippet.
OBI-WAN: Save your energy. {Give calm yet pleading look instead}
PADME: Obi-Wan . . . there . . . is good in him. I know there is ... still . . .
A last gasp, and she dies. Obi-Wan studies the necklace.
;)
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I think that would have been better, although I just cut 90% of Ewan's lines. Oh well. Do that to the entire movie, remove some of those 20+ second long CGbation scenes whenever we enter a new planet (6 seconds max is all need).... I'd buy that for a dollar!
FF 12
Where The Spirits Within meets Progress Quest. (With 5 minutes of setup via GUI).
25 percent adults playing portables vs 75? percent teens
- Adults are busying doing something like WORK or driving home so it's hard to play games then. Once they get home, they have their entertainment system, so there's no use playing on something with a tiny screen vs the console hooked into the big screen tv, or even the computer. Teens on the other hand are the ones in the back seat playing their games (hey, I did that with my game boy way back when.) Those 25% adults are either commuting by train and/or really love Nintendogs.
Teen guys mostly play online - Say it ain't so. Who doesn't love talking smack to a potentially international audience.
Teen girls (surprisingly) mostly play multiplayer - Not really surprising; this is why there's a Mario Party *7*.
Even though the obvious thing would be to look at the hitters, it'd be great if this one day could help pitchers. I want to see someone throw 105+ mph and be able pitch again the next day. That would pretty much defeat the probabably already boosted synth-muscle hitters (a hitter still needs to react to the ball in time, no matter how strong). That would be a wonderful achievement for synthetic muscles. Of coruse, we'd probably also need synthetic tendons to hold the synthetic muscluature on, but oh well. Maybe one day instead of Tommy John surgery, pitchers could get the Alex Murphy surgery.
Unless of course, umm, you only post the trolling, stupid, silly, brainless, drunken, experimental, pratty, crappy, lewd, pointed, semi-bigoted posts under one name (lets say, eamonman) and save the other 1 percent of the positive, forthright, life-affirming good comments for ... well, I guess I forgot to mention lazy because I haven't bothered logging into my other account for a bit (haven't logged into my original account in years).
It would most definitely win the "first easter egg to incarcerate the entire dev team" award.
They'd give us advance notice of impending Earth destruction, while the sharks would simply keep chewing on tourists and sucking down chum from the latest Discovery Channel's Shark Week produced extravaganzas.
Septapiler for the PS3?
Oh wow, nothing like drudging up an old debate from the days when vector graphics, walkmans, and EGA was cool. Hey, if America can be friends with those Ruskies, we can forget how Atari was so much better, right? ;) BTW I have no real points to contend; I was too young to care at the time. I sure miss that tape drive though. When's the last time you've listened to your data?
BTW My computer timeline:
Atari 400 -> 800XL -> 1040ST -> Mac LC III -> Power Mac 6100/486 -> PIII 450 -> Athlon 2400
Boy it's time to upgrade tho.
Most driving games require the discrete analog version of turning. i.e.,
turn slowly = tap... tap... tap
while
turn fast = taptaptaptaptaptap
I've found that as I get older, the harder it is to play games that require this. For instance, playing Gran Turismo 4 , I find that it's harder to control the cars as well as when I played the first one. note that I don't like the analog pad; maybe it's my controller, but it is way too sensitive.
Most women are cat lovers. ;)
Most men will say most women are schizo.
The prosecution rests your honor.
And an account with a local bbs to get the old software way back when. My friend had a both of the above back in the mid 80's, so we were able to play different (some crappy) games back in the apple iie/c etc days.
brun choplift
Of course, those games kept us entertained for weeks on end. Now, you can just dl a mame pack or apple roms and play all known games from 2001 and back. Crazy.
And it's great for mulligans! (try playing Tiger woods golf; you'll be doing it too.)
That would be cool. Then you could talk your dog into coming back! That'd probably not happen with my dog; when he hears a voice from a phone (mine or not), he freaks out. Probably finds hearing a disembodied voice troubling.
Gee, I bought my PS2 about 4 years ago, and hav abused it to no end (dropped water on it, kicked it in anger), and after playing 100+ games, it still runs. My controller doesn't vibrate too often, but that's because i've swung the thing against the floor more than a few times ( I really hated NBA 2K whatever). The only thing that is on the fritz is the memory card, but that's just because the kicking probably did something to it.
I guess it's just a roll of the dice.
If you think the early 90's are bad, you would be offended by how much I play MAME.
I am in the same boat as you; At my home, I have WPA2 set up; I just got the DS and am wondering if I should change the network back to WEP to support it. Yeah, it'd be a loss of security, but the other 11 networks I can see from my computer are unencrypted. :P If only we could flash the DS with WPA support (just like you can with a Wifi router), then I wouldn't be stuck.
Geez, mobs are really into geeky stuff nowadays.
At the time it was considered that Nintendo was being far too strict. If only we could have seen the slippery slope ahead of us.
I still remember it like it was yesterday. The Genesis version of MK had toggleable blood, and the SNES had the fake green splotches. This was so funny because really, lots of other things in MK were more disturbing (decapitation, freezing, burning, etc). And hey, if your kid ever went to an arcade, they'd get to see overt violence in Time Killers, where appendages, including your head, could be lost (which lead to the 1 second long perfects when playing with that buzzsaw character).
Nintendo still tries to be as far away as possible from the bleeding edge of desensitization, making us, at worst, blast aliens with our Wave beams, vs. PS2 which has us killing hookers, gangs, and anyone at who comes by just to see the extent of the mayhem I cause before I'm forced to flee and spray my car.
If you used an Apple, you'd put:
;)
10 print "Derek likes Lisa!!^G ";
20 goto 10
run
That way everyone would look
I remember playing SFIII:Third Strike on a holiday for the first time on an arcade machine when I was little.
When you were little? Aaugh! I used to drive to the arcade to play SFII:CE.
All I know, as a Ken player from the very beginning, they'd better not weaken the Dragon punch anymore. As it is, I'm still bitter that a projectiles can hit me. By SFV, people will simply do jumping jabs to hit me.
I also think any MVC should be melted for scrap (beams are bs), Capcom should have made the anniversary edition more accurate, (if both players choose C.E., you should get the complete environment from CE), and finally, stop making ken look gayer with each subsequent version.