for under $20 total off ebay (shipped). Onimusha, Auto modellista, Tekken Tag Tournament and Omega Boost. Sure, they're a little long in the tooth, but they're still great games.
The real problem as I see it is the console manufactures (Sony et al) have been dragging their feet too long on this generation. The latest stuff just isn't that much better then the backlog of games. It doesn't help when big name titles like Soul Calibur III aren't any better than their predessesors.
is the game library. Yeah, I know, backwards compatible. But I've got a backlog of ps2 games to play a mile long (Star Ocean, Raditia Stories, FFX, Digital Devil Saga, Atlier Iris, Virta Figther 4, Soul Calibur III, ZOE 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, Kingdom Hearts II, I could go on like this all day). The market isn't just saturated, it's saturated with really great games. It's gonna be years until I really feel the need for a new console.
if you automatically save for the customer, you run the risk of becomming responsible for the data in their eyes. Meaning very p.o.'d customer's when the system crashes and they lose everything. I've seen this happen with email programs and office messeging software where people call tech support asking for the 'backup' of their data. I guess there are ways around this, but most of them involve having a 'file' menu with prominent export or backup buttons so the user understands that it's their responsibility to ensure their data is safe.
It's not a good idea to completely abstract users from the system unless you're prepared to do it completely, e.g. using web services to take their data our of their hands.
for the programmers. Sure, Solaris for the Atari 2600 is amazing, but it'd be a heck of a lot easier to write the same game for the NES. More horsepower means less time spent optimizing and more on stablizing and tweaking gameplay.
As a side note, I like the idea of the controllers. When I get old and decrepit and can't hold a ps2 controller I can still play a Revolution.
I buy my games on ebay for $5 to $20 dollars. Once in a while I'll pick up an A-List title (like Valkyrie Profile) for $35-$40. The people who should be worrying about the high cost of gaming are at Microsoft. So far they haven't done much to make me wanna pony up the cash for there next gen. Not when I've got 20+ games on my shelf still in need of playing from last gen.
I've read studies where Hot Branding compares favorably against Microsoft's latest license agreement. But maybe they were funded by Hot Branding Zealots.
and I'm tired of people complaining it is. The art and animation are high quality, the plots are complex (for a children's show), creative and fun (the whole majin buu arc was particularily goofy). Near as I can tell it became fashionable to bitch about dbz when 'normal' people began buying the shirts. I can understand not liking the show for what it is (fighting anime), but I don't like seeing it thrown in with a glorified advertisment (pokemon).
any tech support junkie these days just gets a speaker phone, the worst ones have their own headsets. They'll just comfortably go on working while they wait, mean while tying up a phone line you're probably paying for.
some firewall and antivirus programs will take your connection down when you disabled them from start up, others will look disabled, but they're really running as services and you're just disabling their GUI's (which'll cause all kinds of fun when you're trying to do a Windows update and you're not seeing the little pop up from your anti-virus to allow it). Some Creative Labs soundcards stop working when you disable their start up items (I know, bad design, but they own the market more or less). Some printers won't work without their startup items too. I'm sure somebody could come up with other examples of stuff it's a bad idea to disable too. I used to love it when I'd go do work on someone's computer and the only problem was they'd been playing willy-nilly in msconfig. Just check normal start up and you're done.
You can't name a game more deserving of success that failed harder. It has the best writing of any game I've ever played and plenty of actual gameplay (as opposed to the X button mashing square's had on tap since FFX).
for it's current purpose: stablizing the market. If you're an invester, the last thing you want is innovation making it tough to invest. All those people who lost boat loads in.com boom are pissed right now, and they're looking for a way to consolidate the market into a few big players that yeild consistent returns. No more Microsoft's stealing IBM's thnder, and no more Google's stealing Microsoft's thunder. Just smooth, steady earnings.
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why not just make it without Nicotine? Safest thing in the world then, nobody'll want them.
it's just that their marketing sucked, lots. They had the best looking games in existence. Games that look so good there was no comparison. Games that looked so good that only 5th gen ps2 games (and very few of those) compare. So why the fsck didn't they show them off? Instead, we got dumb ass 'It's thinking' commercials with Sonic all 'jammin' to the xtreme!!!' with the NBA. wtf?
No, capitalism should work by having the Rich Robber Barron living side-by-side (or at least in shooting distance) of his workers so that he's forced to live in the community he creates. That way, he doesn't let things get too awful. In global economy is the Robber Barron is 2000+ miles away from the filth, squalor and misery he creates. Meanwhile he can play groups of workers off each other in the vast global market place to keep wages low and squash worker orginization. Globalism breaks Capitalism.
And for the last time ( I hope ), Stalin was not a communist. Neither was Mao. They were dictators who happened to use communism for rhetoric.
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you'll have to pry my copy of Valkyrie Profile out of my Cold, Dead Hands. But the next Tekken? I'll pick it up for $5 bucks off ebay.
for under $20 total off ebay (shipped). Onimusha, Auto modellista, Tekken Tag Tournament and Omega Boost. Sure, they're a little long in the tooth, but they're still great games.
The real problem as I see it is the console manufactures (Sony et al) have been dragging their feet too long on this generation. The latest stuff just isn't that much better then the backlog of games. It doesn't help when big name titles like Soul Calibur III aren't any better than their predessesors.
is the game library. Yeah, I know, backwards compatible. But I've got a backlog of ps2 games to play a mile long (Star Ocean, Raditia Stories, FFX, Digital Devil Saga, Atlier Iris, Virta Figther 4, Soul Calibur III, ZOE 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, Kingdom Hearts II, I could go on like this all day). The market isn't just saturated, it's saturated with really great games. It's gonna be years until I really feel the need for a new console.
Speaking of which: fe1fg2jKmN3.
if you automatically save for the customer, you run the risk of becomming responsible for the data in their eyes. Meaning very p.o.'d customer's when the system crashes and they lose everything. I've seen this happen with email programs and office messeging software where people call tech support asking for the 'backup' of their data. I guess there are ways around this, but most of them involve having a 'file' menu with prominent export or backup buttons so the user understands that it's their responsibility to ensure their data is safe.
It's not a good idea to completely abstract users from the system unless you're prepared to do it completely, e.g. using web services to take their data our of their hands.
I for one Welcome our new Touchscreen enabled Linux using Grandmother overlords.
:).
. I've always wanted to say that
for the programmers. Sure, Solaris for the Atari 2600 is amazing, but it'd be a heck of a lot easier to write the same game for the NES. More horsepower means less time spent optimizing and more on stablizing and tweaking gameplay.
As a side note, I like the idea of the controllers. When I get old and decrepit and can't hold a ps2 controller I can still play a Revolution.
My standing rule is to play no game unless it's smaller then it's own 320x240 jpeg screenshot, but that's just me.
since they can't just patch it all to hell (and with the harddrive on the 360 optional, they really can't anymore).
I buy my games on ebay for $5 to $20 dollars. Once in a while I'll pick up an A-List title (like Valkyrie Profile) for $35-$40. The people who should be worrying about the high cost of gaming are at Microsoft. So far they haven't done much to make me wanna pony up the cash for there next gen. Not when I've got 20+ games on my shelf still in need of playing from last gen.
I've read studies where Hot Branding compares favorably against Microsoft's latest license agreement. But maybe they were funded by Hot Branding Zealots.
and I'm tired of people complaining it is. The art and animation are high quality, the plots are complex (for a children's show), creative and fun (the whole majin buu arc was particularily goofy). Near as I can tell it became fashionable to bitch about dbz when 'normal' people began buying the shirts. I can understand not liking the show for what it is (fighting anime), but I don't like seeing it thrown in with a glorified advertisment (pokemon).
640 mb of ram should be enough for anyone.
any tech support junkie these days just gets a speaker phone, the worst ones have their own headsets. They'll just comfortably go on working while they wait, mean while tying up a phone line you're probably paying for.
some firewall and antivirus programs will take your connection down when you disabled them from start up, others will look disabled, but they're really running as services and you're just disabling their GUI's (which'll cause all kinds of fun when you're trying to do a Windows update and you're not seeing the little pop up from your anti-virus to allow it). Some Creative Labs soundcards stop working when you disable their start up items (I know, bad design, but they own the market more or less). Some printers won't work without their startup items too. I'm sure somebody could come up with other examples of stuff it's a bad idea to disable too. I used to love it when I'd go do work on someone's computer and the only problem was they'd been playing willy-nilly in msconfig. Just check normal start up and you're done.
is a picture of George Wendt eating E. coli bacteria from a petridish in a movie.
because that would be stealing from Microsoft, and you can bet your sweet dupa they're not going to stand for that.
on what to say to make the translater speak properly?
You can't name a game more deserving of success that failed harder. It has the best writing of any game I've ever played and plenty of actual gameplay (as opposed to the X button mashing square's had on tap since FFX).
for it's current purpose: stablizing the market. If you're an invester, the last thing you want is innovation making it tough to invest. All those people who lost boat loads in .com boom are pissed right now, and they're looking for a way to consolidate the market into a few big players that yeild consistent returns. No more Microsoft's stealing IBM's thnder, and no more Google's stealing Microsoft's thunder. Just smooth, steady earnings.
why not just make it without Nicotine? Safest thing in the world then, nobody'll want them.
it's just that their marketing sucked, lots. They had the best looking games in existence. Games that look so good there was no comparison. Games that looked so good that only 5th gen ps2 games (and very few of those) compare. So why the fsck didn't they show them off? Instead, we got dumb ass 'It's thinking' commercials with Sonic all 'jammin' to the xtreme!!!' with the NBA. wtf?
you know she's got a new album on the way :). Kate that is.
No, capitalism should work by having the Rich Robber Barron living side-by-side (or at least in shooting distance) of his workers so that he's forced to live in the community he creates. That way, he doesn't let things get too awful. In global economy is the Robber Barron is 2000+ miles away from the filth, squalor and misery he creates. Meanwhile he can play groups of workers off each other in the vast global market place to keep wages low and squash worker orginization. Globalism breaks Capitalism.
And for the last time ( I hope ), Stalin was not a communist. Neither was Mao. They were dictators who happened to use communism for rhetoric.
I can't remember, but it's right next to that country where capatilism works like Adam Smith envisioned. Jeez, it's right on the tip of my tongue...
;).
Oh, and next time you need someone to explain the difference between theory and practice I'm your man