You obviously dont play video games, and never had. When QUAKE came out, everyone had 486 DX4 100s. It WOULD NOT RUN acceptably on those machines, P60's were JUST released, and it BARELY ran on those. People weren't getting GOOD performance for QUAKE till nearly 6 months after it was released! The comment came from the PROGRAMMER HIMSELF. Doom3 will NOT run acceptably on these generation of cards NOR the ones posted about here. He told everyone this at E3 recently when he demo'd Doom3 on an UNRELEASED *new* card from either ATI or NV and it WAS STILL TOO SLOW because it was in LOW RESOLUTION. You are so entirely wrong it isnt funny.
Doom3 is slated to be released next year and WILL NOT RUN WITH THE CURRENT CARDS OR THESE NEWER R300 and NV CARDS. You will need to buy the generation AFTER those to run it. Buying ANY video card right now is tossing your money away unless you don't plan on playing Doom3 (Come on, why ISNT going to play it that buys a 3D gaming card like this??).. There isn't many "must haves" in the video card life cycle, but for Doom3 it will be a must. Skip these, far too slow, even if they are the fastest on the block right now.
Remember playing Quake1 on your 486 DX100 or P60? Yeah, I thought so.. You went and upgraded the next month, didn't you? Yep. Just after a week you bought that spiffy DX4 120.. Should have skipped it and waited for the P90.
This new card is still not fast enough to play Doom3 were it to come out today. Buying these generation of video cards are worthless because they will need to be replaced when Doom3 is released anyways. Just like Doom and Quake made everyone upgrade their systems, Doom3 will make you do both. Technology isn't keeping up with the masterminds. Help.
We still need cards to push three TIMES that to be able to play DOOM 3 by next year. PLEASE hurry up. It will really suck if Doom 3 is released before any cards can play it decently. (The demo shown was on an unreleased card running at low resolution..)..
With Charter, and digital cable, it costs around $10 a month for the box. When this comes out, they will probably offer choices for the same dulld rab box for $10/mo or the Tivo one for $15/mo.. Charter doesn't seem to do huge leaps in prices unless it's from Basic -> Extended. Extended -> Digital is rather cheap, and the boxes etc along with it.. More than likely most average people would be paying an extra $15/mo for the Tivo like box WITH the added digital channels that come with it. We will so. If it is too much for my dad (Who is really stingy.), then it probably wont be worthwhile for them to invest in this technology. One thing that I bet they are banking on is VIEWING HABITS. With Tivo, you can be ANONYMOUS, or OPT OUT ENTIRELY. I am guessing with Charter, you will NOT have either of those options, so that might even make the service cheaper in the long run. We shall see, but for now, I am glad they're at least TRYING. PVRs are the way of the future for the generation of people who have NO TIME. When you have that extra hour to do nothing, you can sit down and watch your favorite show and be happy and relax.
...how large the market is for a *good* PvP (Player vs. Player) RPG environment. EverQuest, DAOC, UO, etc have all tried in one way or another to cater to the PvP demands of their subscribers, but none have really hit the nail on the head yet. A lot of people are anxiously awaiting Shadowbane to arrive as the holy grain of MMORPG PvP.. But till then those same people will be trying anything that can get their hands on, including NWN. I have played a few of the NWN PvP deathmatch modules and was quite surprised how fun they were. Definately not for everyone but it shows what people like to do.
Quite the contrary, I buy nearly every game that is released that holds some merit across nearly every platform. Nearly all of my disposable income goes entirely into games and consoles. And I still stand that NWN had too many up-front and glaring bugs to have been released. Other games had bugs sure, but none recently that have diversly affected the primary *gameplay* of the game more than NWN. Morrowind for example had scores of bugs, but nothing game stopping, or so annoying that you couldn't play like NWN has/had. They playtested and got through the game fine, where in NWN anyone who even played the game would have seen many of the obvious as day bugs before they even got 1/4th through the game. Perhaps they spent too much time working on the editor instead of the actual game play engine.
He mentioned he knew about the games with editors.. But after you make a mod with NWN you still need to own the software to play them. Back in the day, game construction sets made games that anyone could play regardless if you owned the creator or not.. It compiled it all for you.
As an aside, NWN is one of the most bug ridden games to come out lately. Pathing is terrible, and all the stats have bugs. Attack modifiers are messed up and randomly change between saves, etc.. It shouldn't have been release with such glaring bugs.
One of the fastest cars in the world is fully electric and has *one* gear. I forget the name of it, but it beats Ferarri's hands down for the 1/4 mile. My friend had a little MPG clip of it and it just whirred super fast with no gear changes. I am unsure how long it could drive going that fast, though. Baby steps....
Where was all the text about how well Lindows ran WINDOWS applications. ALL I saw were complaints about refresh rates.. And how to download LINUX software. Guys? The LINDOWS OS was created to run WINDOWS apps first and foremost without having to send money to MICROSOFT. ---- How well does LINDOWS do this? THAT is what the entire review should have been about!
They need to lower music CDs to about $5 a pop if they expect us to buy their CDs now. If I have an extra $20 sitting in my pocket, 10 out of 10 times it's going to a new DVD with scads of goodies and often times the ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK on the dang thing! Or.. I could go buy a music CD for $13-17.. Uhh yeah.. SURE... No way in heck. RIAA needs to be competitive like the DVD industry is if it wasnt to survive.
Because most of the compliances will need to be upgraded. The XBox2 is already announced, and most likely an XBox3 soon after. The console portion of this Freon box will need to be continually updated. Likewise for the DVD capabilities. The XBox already has major issues with quite a few movies (Lists are out there, do a search.), and so far I have yet to see anyone use the XBox, or even PS2 for that matter as their primary DVD player (Kudos to Nintendo for skipping this hype.). Also, same thing with PVRs, they will need to be upgraded, larger drives, newer software, and this is a monthly fee. So what happens if just one of the 3 components breaks? (I've had a bad PS1 and a bad Tivo in my lifetime, friends have had DVD Players die on them also.) Thats 3 times the failure rate of a normal device you can just rebuy two years down the road. With the new Freon you'll be out most likely $500 instead of $100 or $200 if they were seperate.. Looking at Microsofts track record for defects with the XBox, I think even if the Freon DID look cool, specwise, with all the best software for PVR'n, no one would buy it simply because they didn't want a hunk of plastic that didn't work after 2 years. Many companies have tried making an all-in-one set top box, and they literally went under soon after. This is most likely the beginning of the end for Microsoft in the home entertainment dept.
Do you know how much piracy took away from profits on the original PSX? Almost a billion in profits. People were sticking a chip in the PSX and renting games for 2 days only to burn their own copies. Sure companies still made money, but they coulda made a hell of a lot more.. Taking money away from developers is sad. I know this has nothing to do with the MAME stuff, but mod chips in general are created to allow games that were illegally copied to run on said system. While other uses can be mentioned, you simply cannot deny the primary reason. This is why Napster took a big dump. Sure, lots of indy people were sharing, but the majority were just ripping off everyone. And while music is a touchy subject, games really arent. It's cut and dry since you can rent games before you buy them, and with music you really cant unless you wade through hours of crap on the radio. Sigh.
Terminator: Future Shock - The game Halo was a clone of. Also a much more fun game and better atmosphere. Multiplayer, vehicals you can drive yadda yadda. Halo is teh sux for FPS gaming.. Compare it to Half-Life or Wolfenstien, and it is just a sad sad game.
Oddworld is not owned by Microsoft. I believe they just distributed it for them. They had games on the PS2, and before that they worked on the old Shadow of the Beast games over at Psygnosis in the Amiga days.
All *is* god. It's not a singular term for Christians or Catholics.. It's a singular term.. a god is a god. Be it Zeus, Aethena, Allah, or whatever other weirdo someone might worship. It doesn't even need to mean that God is "male".. God can be the universe for all the atheists. Its a dummy term to trust what YOU believe in.
For the record, Nintendo has stated that they eventually plan to sell the Gamecube for $99 and still turn a small profit. They did this from the getgo, and was a very smart decision. I dont know anyone who uses their PS2 or XBox as their DVD player since they BOTH have a LOT of movie compatability problems. It was a good idea, but didnt work out. Nintendo saw no need to try and fuse anything but pure gaming into the console.
Yes, Nintendo has stated many times that they can sell the Gamecube at $99 and still make a profit. They have always stated that they will have the trump card no matter how fierce the pricecuts get, and you know what? It's true.
Microsoft stated when the XBox was released, that they were discontinuing their UltimateTV PVR in hopes of merging it into the XBox. This pissed a lot of people off in both camps. First, who wants a console when they just want a PVR, and second, who wants a PVR with monthly charges when all they want is an XBox. Their online strategy costs even more money on a yearly basis. Nintendo was smart and has seen what has happened to the CDTV, Dreamcast, and soon Microsoft and will just stay a true to life 100% console machine for the masses while Sony and Microsoft try and duke it out in an unwinable online arena (Really, who cares when all the online games are already on the PC and play BETTER on the PC?).. Kudos to Nintendo for keeping their boat afloat.
Nintendo stated many times that they plan to eventually offer the Gamecube for $99 and they will still be turning a profit on the machine itself. However, they didn't plan on cutting prices so soon to fight the competition. As usual the person writing the article just assumes all the consoles are losing money when in fact Sony has refab'd their system for the pricecut so they dont lose money, and Microsoft has done nothing but lose tons of money from the start.
The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA. The two or three that ARE US born are having trials as we speak. Maybe you should read the newspaper something, or turn on the TV.
One without any commercial companies on it, much like how the Internet was pre-1990? Make it sponsered by np orgs and whatnot, and strictly disallow any corporate or governmental agencies on them.
Hell, maybe it's time to bring back BBS's. Im all for that.
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You obviously dont play video games, and never had. When QUAKE came out, everyone had 486 DX4 100s. It WOULD NOT RUN acceptably on those machines, P60's were JUST released, and it BARELY ran on those. People weren't getting GOOD performance for QUAKE till nearly 6 months after it was released! The comment came from the PROGRAMMER HIMSELF. Doom3 will NOT run acceptably on these generation of cards NOR the ones posted about here. He told everyone this at E3 recently when he demo'd Doom3 on an UNRELEASED *new* card from either ATI or NV and it WAS STILL TOO SLOW because it was in LOW RESOLUTION. You are so entirely wrong it isnt funny.
Remember playing Quake1 on your 486 DX100 or P60? Yeah, I thought so .. You went and upgraded the next month, didn't you? Yep. Just after a week you bought that spiffy DX4 120 .. Should have skipped it and waited for the P90.
It is going to happen AGAIN.
This new card is still not fast enough to play Doom3 were it to come out today. Buying these generation of video cards are worthless because they will need to be replaced when Doom3 is released anyways. Just like Doom and Quake made everyone upgrade their systems, Doom3 will make you do both. Technology isn't keeping up with the masterminds. Help.
We still need cards to push three TIMES that to be able to play DOOM 3 by next year. PLEASE hurry up. It will really suck if Doom 3 is released before any cards can play it decently. (The demo shown was on an unreleased card running at low resolution..) ..
Halo is choppy as it is, anything larger and the XBox is too outdated. Maybe for XBox2, but who will want to buy that..
With Charter, and digital cable, it costs around $10 a month for the box. When this comes out, they will probably offer choices for the same dulld rab box for $10/mo or the Tivo one for $15/mo .. Charter doesn't seem to do huge leaps in prices unless it's from Basic -> Extended. Extended -> Digital is rather cheap, and the boxes etc along with it .. More than likely most average people would be paying an extra $15/mo for the Tivo like box WITH the added digital channels that come with it. We will so. If it is too much for my dad (Who is really stingy.), then it probably wont be worthwhile for them to invest in this technology. One thing that I bet they are banking on is VIEWING HABITS. With Tivo, you can be ANONYMOUS, or OPT OUT ENTIRELY. I am guessing with Charter, you will NOT have either of those options, so that might even make the service cheaper in the long run. We shall see, but for now, I am glad they're at least TRYING. PVRs are the way of the future for the generation of people who have NO TIME. When you have that extra hour to do nothing, you can sit down and watch your favorite show and be happy and relax.
...how large the market is for a *good* PvP (Player vs. Player) RPG environment. EverQuest, DAOC, UO, etc have all tried in one way or another to cater to the PvP demands of their subscribers, but none have really hit the nail on the head yet. A lot of people are anxiously awaiting Shadowbane to arrive as the holy grain of MMORPG PvP .. But till then those same people will be trying anything that can get their hands on, including NWN. I have played a few of the NWN PvP deathmatch modules and was quite surprised how fun they were. Definately not for everyone but it shows what people like to do.
Quite the contrary, I buy nearly every game that is released that holds some merit across nearly every platform. Nearly all of my disposable income goes entirely into games and consoles. And I still stand that NWN had too many up-front and glaring bugs to have been released. Other games had bugs sure, but none recently that have diversly affected the primary *gameplay* of the game more than NWN. Morrowind for example had scores of bugs, but nothing game stopping, or so annoying that you couldn't play like NWN has/had. They playtested and got through the game fine, where in NWN anyone who even played the game would have seen many of the obvious as day bugs before they even got 1/4th through the game. Perhaps they spent too much time working on the editor instead of the actual game play engine.
As an aside, NWN is one of the most bug ridden games to come out lately. Pathing is terrible, and all the stats have bugs. Attack modifiers are messed up and randomly change between saves, etc .. It shouldn't have been release with such glaring bugs.
One of the fastest cars in the world is fully electric and has *one* gear. I forget the name of it, but it beats Ferarri's hands down for the 1/4 mile. My friend had a little MPG clip of it and it just whirred super fast with no gear changes. I am unsure how long it could drive going that fast, though. Baby steps....
Where was all the text about how well Lindows ran WINDOWS applications. ALL I saw were complaints about refresh rates.. And how to download LINUX software. Guys? The LINDOWS OS was created to run WINDOWS apps first and foremost without having to send money to MICROSOFT. ---- How well does LINDOWS do this? THAT is what the entire review should have been about!
They need to lower music CDs to about $5 a pop if they expect us to buy their CDs now. If I have an extra $20 sitting in my pocket, 10 out of 10 times it's going to a new DVD with scads of goodies and often times the ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK on the dang thing! Or.. I could go buy a music CD for $13-17 .. Uhh yeah.. SURE... No way in heck. RIAA needs to be competitive like the DVD industry is if it wasnt to survive.
Because most of the compliances will need to be upgraded. The XBox2 is already announced, and most likely an XBox3 soon after. The console portion of this Freon box will need to be continually updated. Likewise for the DVD capabilities. The XBox already has major issues with quite a few movies (Lists are out there, do a search.), and so far I have yet to see anyone use the XBox, or even PS2 for that matter as their primary DVD player (Kudos to Nintendo for skipping this hype.). Also, same thing with PVRs, they will need to be upgraded, larger drives, newer software, and this is a monthly fee. So what happens if just one of the 3 components breaks? (I've had a bad PS1 and a bad Tivo in my lifetime, friends have had DVD Players die on them also.) Thats 3 times the failure rate of a normal device you can just rebuy two years down the road. With the new Freon you'll be out most likely $500 instead of $100 or $200 if they were seperate.. Looking at Microsofts track record for defects with the XBox, I think even if the Freon DID look cool, specwise, with all the best software for PVR'n, no one would buy it simply because they didn't want a hunk of plastic that didn't work after 2 years. Many companies have tried making an all-in-one set top box, and they literally went under soon after. This is most likely the beginning of the end for Microsoft in the home entertainment dept.
But BMW, Benz, and Jaguar will never let them into that top 3. They'll always be a 2nd tier luxery car with the Infinities.
Do you know how much piracy took away from profits on the original PSX? Almost a billion in profits. People were sticking a chip in the PSX and renting games for 2 days only to burn their own copies. Sure companies still made money, but they coulda made a hell of a lot more.. Taking money away from developers is sad. I know this has nothing to do with the MAME stuff, but mod chips in general are created to allow games that were illegally copied to run on said system. While other uses can be mentioned, you simply cannot deny the primary reason. This is why Napster took a big dump. Sure, lots of indy people were sharing, but the majority were just ripping off everyone. And while music is a touchy subject, games really arent. It's cut and dry since you can rent games before you buy them, and with music you really cant unless you wade through hours of crap on the radio. Sigh.
Terminator: Future Shock - The game Halo was a clone of. Also a much more fun game and better atmosphere. Multiplayer, vehicals you can drive yadda yadda. Halo is teh sux for FPS gaming.. Compare it to Half-Life or Wolfenstien, and it is just a sad sad game.
Obviously if a dealer cant sell them, no one can sell them on EBay, either. And they'll enforce them. XBox was a waste of time on MSFTs part.
Oddworld is not owned by Microsoft. I believe they just distributed it for them. They had games on the PS2, and before that they worked on the old Shadow of the Beast games over at Psygnosis in the Amiga days.
All *is* god. It's not a singular term for Christians or Catholics.. It's a singular term .. a god is a god. Be it Zeus, Aethena, Allah, or whatever other weirdo someone might worship. It doesn't even need to mean that God is "male" .. God can be the universe for all the atheists. Its a dummy term to trust what YOU believe in.
For the record, Nintendo has stated that they eventually plan to sell the Gamecube for $99 and still turn a small profit. They did this from the getgo, and was a very smart decision. I dont know anyone who uses their PS2 or XBox as their DVD player since they BOTH have a LOT of movie compatability problems. It was a good idea, but didnt work out. Nintendo saw no need to try and fuse anything but pure gaming into the console.
Yes, Nintendo has stated many times that they can sell the Gamecube at $99 and still make a profit. They have always stated that they will have the trump card no matter how fierce the pricecuts get, and you know what? It's true.
Microsoft stated when the XBox was released, that they were discontinuing their UltimateTV PVR in hopes of merging it into the XBox. This pissed a lot of people off in both camps. First, who wants a console when they just want a PVR, and second, who wants a PVR with monthly charges when all they want is an XBox. Their online strategy costs even more money on a yearly basis. Nintendo was smart and has seen what has happened to the CDTV, Dreamcast, and soon Microsoft and will just stay a true to life 100% console machine for the masses while Sony and Microsoft try and duke it out in an unwinable online arena (Really, who cares when all the online games are already on the PC and play BETTER on the PC?) .. Kudos to Nintendo for keeping their boat afloat.
Nintendo stated many times that they plan to eventually offer the Gamecube for $99 and they will still be turning a profit on the machine itself. However, they didn't plan on cutting prices so soon to fight the competition. As usual the person writing the article just assumes all the consoles are losing money when in fact Sony has refab'd their system for the pricecut so they dont lose money, and Microsoft has done nothing but lose tons of money from the start.
The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA. The two or three that ARE US born are having trials as we speak. Maybe you should read the newspaper something, or turn on the TV.
One without any commercial companies on it, much like how the Internet was pre-1990? Make it sponsered by np orgs and whatnot, and strictly disallow any corporate or governmental agencies on them. Hell, maybe it's time to bring back BBS's. Im all for that.