Early PS1 and PS2 models also had a tendency to fail after several years- long enough that they'd be outside the coverage of any warranty, but not long enough that you had moved on to the next gen by that point. Either
A)It's actually something to do with all models and the replacements just aren't used long enough to be worn out
B)They just learn to make them more durable as time goes on
or
C)They deliberately go with flimsier parts for launch models to cut costs, then go for more durable parts later on as the costs of other parts of the console go down.
I would guess that it's a combination of all three.
Regardless, you certainly can't compare it to the failure rate/average lifetime of the 360.
Yeah, however that experience is lost on you when you, having nothing better to do, build an army and take out all the zerg encampments while you wait.
I thought that the free-flying mode levels were weaker than the corridor ones, personally.
Area 6 is the first thing I'd think of to put on this list, if I was making it. They honestly should have put Andross at the end of that level and ended it there, because Area 6 was the pinnacle of that game. It's sad that they didn't manage to make any levels even close to that awesome in Assault.
Apologies, I mean "fail" as a synonym for "suck", or that it fails in my eyes.
And yes, I am usually connected to the internet, however, I purchased episode 1 retail with the intent of having something to play when I was dragged off at some godforsaken place where there were no internets for a week under the pretense of a 'vacation' (thinking that I had heard somewhere that it only demands to phone home once a week.) I played through it in a couple of days, and then when wanting to play it some again a couple of days later while still at the internet-less place, I attempted to play, and got the message 'this operation cannot be done in offline mode'. So I found myself in a situation where I could play the pirate version of the original HL1 I had on me, but not the legit version of its sequal. Well, that'll teach *me* to actually spend money on one of Valve's games. And to think, as I was playing E1 I was just considering actually going and buying the legit version of HL2!
Seriously, people, stop making copy protection systems that treat your users like pirates. It doesn't do anything to stop piracy and just pisses off legit users.
Steam wouldn't be so bad if it didn't do the whole 'not let you play the game you fucking paid for if it hasn't been able to phone home for the past few days' thing. Until Valve fixes that little thing, Steam will continue to fail.
Well, of course there's not much for level 75 players to do in WoW, given that the current cap is level 60.
Queues? We don't need no stinking queues?
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On Shadow Moon, we don't have queues. Or at least, not ones that we see.
At peak hours, we just get "retreiving character list" for 20 minutes when we try to log on. Maybe we'ere queued and they just don't want to say it, or maybe it's just taking that long to get the character list. After we finally get the character list, we get the loading screen. The blue bar fills up... and we wait another 10-20 minutes.
Sometimes we get to play. Other times we get disconnected after the blue bar (perhaps our connection timed out?)
Honestly, I don't think character transfers are the answer. They just need more powerful hardware running the server. Or something like that.
First off, it took forever to get anywhere. This itself would be bearable if it wasn't for the other two problems.
Second off, changing direction was a pain, you had to stop, pull out the Ocarina of Time^H^H^H^H^HWind Waker and play that song. EVERY TIME.
Third, because of the implementation of the sailing itself (the "sail" being an item you have to have out), you could do only two things while sailing: jump, and rotate the camera. Wooo. It would be much more bearable if you could pull out your bow and perform sail-by shootings, or pull out your telescope and sightsee (which is otherwise a completely useless item who functionality is actually duplicated by the camera you get later.) And the chance of coming back to a shark munching on your ass was just barely high enough to make getting up and getting something to eat/going to the bathroom a bad idea.
Yeah, better they take their time than release another Wind Waker (before you say anything, I had no problem with the graphics, but the game *desperately needed* at least 6 more months in the cooker to finish the obviously cut dungeon(s) and fix things like the horrendously flawed sailing system.)
The second defining ability of Paladins were their shields which gave them short time immunity from about anything, upwards of a dozen seconds. Paladins had two of these and could use them back to back on themselves is necessary. Multiple Paladins could use them on allies for protection from somone important who pulled to much aggro. After incessant whining by PvP players who could not play a FPS without cheat codes this ability now cannot be used on the same target more than once per minute.
Were you expecting them to buff the DPS of the class (and they did buff the class' DPS, though if you were just a retnoob who puts up SoC and autoattacks you'll have to change your strategy a bit) and NOT nerf their defensive abilities?
Ah, have you read the patchnotes? The paladin changes go a bit farther than a simple talent revamp (pretty much all the seals/judgements were messed with, for one thing.)
I forget the link, it might not even be there anymore, but there was a forum thread that after a lot of deduction (using some shaky assumptions such as "it won't be a pretty race" and "they'll start on Kalimdor") someone deduced that the new race would be Ogres, with Draeni as a close second or third.
Ogres would be pretty cool, IMHO.
The resemblence of the system to an MMORPG is entirely coincidental- MMORPGs happen to have real-time battles on the same screens that the players explore, that's all.
Remember, the whole reason why RPGs had battle transitions in the first place is because the technology wasn't there for them to make the battles look as pretty as they wanted to on the same screens that the players explored (imagine FF1 if the battles took place on the map screens. Now imagine FF1 if you walked on the map with the same character sprites you had in combat. Get the idea?) It's an abstraction that we don't need anymore, so they got rid of it, since keeping tradition for the sake of tradition is just retarded.
Second off, the problem isn't so much that the stealth is unnecessary, but that it's poorly-executed. Play Wind Waker sometime and you'll see what I mean. Trying to put variety in your gameplay is good, but putting something that your engine is not really designed for in there is not.
Actually, it was Aonuma who was primarily in charge of the game (he's also the guy behind Majora's Mask), and as Mr. Rossel-Waugh says, if it was one of Miyamoto's pet projects, perhaps it would have been pushed back as long as necessary.
I dunno about other works, but 5-10 years would definetly be good for software. After that point it's usually obsolete and the maker isn't going to make any money off of that anyway.
It also would be good incentive for companies to work hard in making updates (both remakes/sequals of games and the latest version of Microsoft Office), since if it's not worth the money people can just download the older version for free.
Christ, people. BEING IN THIRD PLACE != BEING DEAD! If that were the case, Microsoft would be dying too (they're a distant third in the Japanese market.) Yes, their past couple of home consoles have had problems (ie lack of more than a couple of worthwile third-party games.) But they've been dominating the portable market for over 15 years, which has been more than compensating for their losses elsewhere. Yes, the PSP might change this- hopefully it will change this, because monopolies are a bad, bad thing.
Point is, Nintendo isn't dead yet. Do I expect them to make a massive comeback and smash their competitors? Hell no. Nobody expects that save the rabid fanboys. They'll be the Apple of the home console industry- the portion of the market that likes what they make will continue to keep them alive (at least until Miyamoto retires/croaks.)
I'd say it's partially due to when they launched it- more specifically, that they didn't launch it in the fourth quarter (which is when every single system that's ever had a massive shortage at launch was released). The fact that they launched it a few months after of one of the biggest holiday seasons for games ever also has a factor, most likely (gamers just spent $300+ on video games a few months ago.)
And for those who bitch about the launch lineup- come on, no console in the history of console gaming has ever launched with more than 1 or 2 good games. If there's nothing you like yet, don't buy until there is.
Really, this rating is the equivalent of PG. Before, games like this could be either E or T. Most Final Fantasies- hell, most RPGs, period, from my experience- go here.
Honestly, I we should just go ahead and follow Tycho's advice to just use the movie rating system that parents already know the meanings of.
Mikami just wants to make sure GC owners have the superior version so they won't make him make good on his promise that he'd cut his own head off if it came out for any other system.
(In all seriousness though, in light of the fact that the PS2 version was obviously not planned at first, the engine's probably optimized out the ass for the Gamecube's hardware, making porting a royal bitch.)
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Early PS1 and PS2 models also had a tendency to fail after several years- long enough that they'd be outside the coverage of any warranty, but not long enough that you had moved on to the next gen by that point. Either
A)It's actually something to do with all models and the replacements just aren't used long enough to be worn out
B)They just learn to make them more durable as time goes on
or
C)They deliberately go with flimsier parts for launch models to cut costs, then go for more durable parts later on as the costs of other parts of the console go down.
I would guess that it's a combination of all three.
Regardless, you certainly can't compare it to the failure rate/average lifetime of the 360.
Yeah, however that experience is lost on you when you, having nothing better to do, build an army and take out all the zerg encampments while you wait.
Area 6 is the first thing I'd think of to put on this list, if I was making it. They honestly should have put Andross at the end of that level and ended it there, because Area 6 was the pinnacle of that game. It's sad that they didn't manage to make any levels even close to that awesome in Assault.
Apologies, I mean "fail" as a synonym for "suck", or that it fails in my eyes.
And yes, I am usually connected to the internet, however, I purchased episode 1 retail with the intent of having something to play when I was dragged off at some godforsaken place where there were no internets for a week under the pretense of a 'vacation' (thinking that I had heard somewhere that it only demands to phone home once a week.) I played through it in a couple of days, and then when wanting to play it some again a couple of days later while still at the internet-less place, I attempted to play, and got the message 'this operation cannot be done in offline mode'. So I found myself in a situation where I could play the pirate version of the original HL1 I had on me, but not the legit version of its sequal. Well, that'll teach *me* to actually spend money on one of Valve's games. And to think, as I was playing E1 I was just considering actually going and buying the legit version of HL2!
Seriously, people, stop making copy protection systems that treat your users like pirates. It doesn't do anything to stop piracy and just pisses off legit users.
Steam wouldn't be so bad if it didn't do the whole 'not let you play the game you fucking paid for if it hasn't been able to phone home for the past few days' thing. Until Valve fixes that little thing, Steam will continue to fail.
Well, of course there's not much for level 75 players to do in WoW, given that the current cap is level 60.
At peak hours, we just get "retreiving character list" for 20 minutes when we try to log on. Maybe we'ere queued and they just don't want to say it, or maybe it's just taking that long to get the character list. After we finally get the character list, we get the loading screen. The blue bar fills up... and we wait another 10-20 minutes.
Sometimes we get to play. Other times we get disconnected after the blue bar (perhaps our connection timed out?)
Honestly, I don't think character transfers are the answer. They just need more powerful hardware running the server. Or something like that.
Second off, changing direction was a pain, you had to stop, pull out the Ocarina of Time^H^H^H^H^HWind Waker and play that song. EVERY TIME.
Third, because of the implementation of the sailing itself (the "sail" being an item you have to have out), you could do only two things while sailing: jump, and rotate the camera. Wooo. It would be much more bearable if you could pull out your bow and perform sail-by shootings, or pull out your telescope and sightsee (which is otherwise a completely useless item who functionality is actually duplicated by the camera you get later.) And the chance of coming back to a shark munching on your ass was just barely high enough to make getting up and getting something to eat/going to the bathroom a bad idea.
Yeah, better they take their time than release another Wind Waker (before you say anything, I had no problem with the graphics, but the game *desperately needed* at least 6 more months in the cooker to finish the obviously cut dungeon(s) and fix things like the horrendously flawed sailing system.)
On top of that, they probably didn't think one server would manage to open the gates in half the time that most of the other servers would take.
Were you expecting them to buff the DPS of the class (and they did buff the class' DPS, though if you were just a retnoob who puts up SoC and autoattacks you'll have to change your strategy a bit) and NOT nerf their defensive abilities?
Ah, have you read the patchnotes? The paladin changes go a bit farther than a simple talent revamp (pretty much all the seals/judgements were messed with, for one thing.)
I forget the link, it might not even be there anymore, but there was a forum thread that after a lot of deduction (using some shaky assumptions such as "it won't be a pretty race" and "they'll start on Kalimdor") someone deduced that the new race would be Ogres, with Draeni as a close second or third. Ogres would be pretty cool, IMHO.
Well, yeah, but it wasn't a hugely hyped million-seller like we had TOO GODDAMNED MANY of last year.
Remember, the whole reason why RPGs had battle transitions in the first place is because the technology wasn't there for them to make the battles look as pretty as they wanted to on the same screens that the players explored (imagine FF1 if the battles took place on the map screens. Now imagine FF1 if you walked on the map with the same character sprites you had in combat. Get the idea?) It's an abstraction that we don't need anymore, so they got rid of it, since keeping tradition for the sake of tradition is just retarded.
Second off, the problem isn't so much that the stealth is unnecessary, but that it's poorly-executed. Play Wind Waker sometime and you'll see what I mean. Trying to put variety in your gameplay is good, but putting something that your engine is not really designed for in there is not.
Actually, it was Aonuma who was primarily in charge of the game (he's also the guy behind Majora's Mask), and as Mr. Rossel-Waugh says, if it was one of Miyamoto's pet projects, perhaps it would have been pushed back as long as necessary.
It also would be good incentive for companies to work hard in making updates (both remakes/sequals of games and the latest version of Microsoft Office), since if it's not worth the money people can just download the older version for free.
Point is, Nintendo isn't dead yet. Do I expect them to make a massive comeback and smash their competitors? Hell no. Nobody expects that save the rabid fanboys. They'll be the Apple of the home console industry- the portion of the market that likes what they make will continue to keep them alive (at least until Miyamoto retires/croaks.)
No, it's not. Well, they aren't making new episodes, anyway. Which is why it's newsworthy.
And for those who bitch about the launch lineup- come on, no console in the history of console gaming has ever launched with more than 1 or 2 good games. If there's nothing you like yet, don't buy until there is.
Hm. Interesting line. Link to the context of this quote, please?
Honestly, I we should just go ahead and follow Tycho's advice to just use the movie rating system that parents already know the meanings of.
(In all seriousness though, in light of the fact that the PS2 version was obviously not planned at first, the engine's probably optimized out the ass for the Gamecube's hardware, making porting a royal bitch.)
Why the HELL don't I notice these spelling errors until AFTER I hit the 'submit' button?