I'd get a PSX-USB adaptor. The Playstation controller's layout is essentially the same as the SNES', adding analog sticks and two more shoulder buttons, so it's great for SNES games. As for other systems, I'd think it'd be a little akward with Genesis/Saturn(not too much experience with those, though) and I know it's a little akward for N64 games. Still, if you already have a Dual Shock lying around, it's a great deal.
Yeah. Remember when Ronald McDonald shitted on IGN (to quote Penny Arcade) a while back? Nokia did that with Gamespy, it looks like.
Getting back to the article defending it- it doesn't matter how many good things there are about the N-Gage if there aren't any good games for it. If Nokia can get some decent games for the damn thing, people might stop making fun of it.
The first computer my family owned was a Mac Plus. No hard drive, just two disk drives; one for the OS disk and one for the disk of whatever you needed to use. We inherited it from my grandmother when she died when I was six, though there are records of me using it at her house at the age of three. We later got a slightly faster Mac Plus as a hand-me-down from the grandparents. This one had an actual hard drive that had 3/4 the surface area and half the height of your average mid-tower when put on its side. It held 20 MB. I have more data capacity in my pants right now (USB keychain drive, ya pervs!)
I feel so spoiled, getting my start on an OS with an actual GUI.
We believe that games like Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Extreme Beach Volleyball and others deserve the "Adults Only" rating.
There is no way that DoA could deserve an Ao rating. Ao is the equivalent to a NC-17, and NC-17 requires it to be either a) porn or b) have extremely explicit violence above and beyond what you see in M-rated games.
I don't think DoA volleyball even has any nudity, let alone sex. And the MPAA allows movies with some nudity to pass with an R rating, so why should the ESRB give DoA volleyball an M?
Vice City and Manhunt... well, I dunno. If Vice City deserves an Ao then so do a lot of other games. I haven't played or heard much about Manhunt, so I can't pass judgement on that one.
At least one person is going to say something along the lines of the following:
"Yeah, since it was a *nix box that failed, it's all right, but if it was a MS box that was at fault you'd all be, like, 'OMG MICROSOFT SUXXORS,' you goddamed zealot hypocrits!"
RTFA, though it's partially the poster's fault for quoting it like that. Here's the whole paragraph:
That's all we know about the gameplay so far, but Matsuno did have one more thing to say: Final Fantasy XII is not a movie, he stressed. It's an interactive game, and hence "the wishes and preconceptions of the player will affect what they find out of the story." There won't be any branching-path system in place; rather, the scenario has been designed such that the players have a wide breadth of possibilities within the scenario, giving them the opportunity to choose their focus within the wider scope of the story. If true, this would be a large (and welcome) step away from the very linear scenario design of past Final Fantasies.
You know, I don't think that the pictures of Ashe are really of the same person. this one not only has blonde hair as opposed to brown, but she also has significantly smaller breasts than this one.
Could be a trick of the light, though. Or something.
And if I hear one more time that this is going to be "the most revolutionary Final Fantasy ever!" while being shown the same cookies from the same mold, I'm going to kill something.
Well, I don't know if it will be revolutionary, but it should turn out to be more different from the rest of the series than any other game aside from possibly FF8, mostly due to the fact that it's being directed by the guy who did Vagrant Story and FF Tactics, as opposed to Sakaguchi, who's done every single other FF, if I recall correctly. So you could say that it's the same mold with different cookies.
Hmmm....are all members of/. real? How do we know?
You don't. For example, for all you know I could be two lab mice involved in an elaborate plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Which we aren't, of course. Really.
Andrew Vestal, a fairly well-known writer of video game-related things currently living in Japan, purchased the game last March when it came out and has his impressions here, here, and finally here.
His verdict is basically that X-2, while very similar on the surface, is a very different game from X. It's not nearly as much about a serious epic quest. Most of the enjoyment comes from screwing around and doing all of the sidequests, so people who just run though the game as fast as they can are the ones who probably won't like it as much. It's a very light-hearted game in comparison to X, and if you can deal with that, you should be fine.
For those who are in to more classic games, Square-Enix re-released Xenogears, Vagrant Story, FF Anthology, and FF Chronicles as greatest hits items. Xenogears and Vagrant Story are both great, and FF Anthology and FF Chronicles are four great games (FF5&6 in Anthology, FF4&Chrono Trigger in Chronicles) that run on sub-par SNES emulators. They're great games and are worth picking up if you never played them before and aren't put off by 16-bit graphics.
Head to your local Gamestop and you can probably find a metric assload of good old PSOne games for less than $20-$30. And an equal or greater number of shitty ones for less than $10.
...is letting consumers pick three game titles to bundle with the N-Gage...
That would only work if there were three games worth buying for the damned thing. Or will they let you pick three games from any system? Then it'd only be worth it if they let you pick Steel Batallion (Costs $200 due to specialized controller.) Otherwise you're still wasting your money.
or at least play with a very poor user experience.
That's why you use IE/Windows, eh? I guess Windows is free when you warez it...
Or when it comes with your computer.
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It's probably both, really. Cause and effect overlapping- Windows has the most virus problems because it has the majority share of the market and thus not only do most virus writers target it, MS doesn't bother to fix it as much as they should because they know it will have little effect on their pocketbook, which makes it much easier for people to write viruses, and the cycle continues.
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Interestingly enough, I remember seeing one of my friends using an early version of netscape (3 or earlier) back in about '95. He had every image blocked by default, simply due to bandwidth concerns and how long it would take a page to load. Try doing that with a site today though, and it's virtually unusable.
Oh, hell yeah. I used to have to do that with Netscape 2.something on my old 33 mHz Macintosh, not because of connection bandwidth but because of computer speed. Actually, increase in connection/CPU speed is probably why web pages today have a greater image:text ratio than they did back before the dot-com bubble.
I know that Firebird has never given me problems with not showing pop-ups that should be shown. It's smart like that. Hell, Firebird's open-source, so they can just copy and paste the pop-up blocking code...
DUDE! Then the Mozilla foundation can claim the rights to IE (and since IE is integrated into Windows, they can claim the rights to Windows too!)
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The Metal Gear models are nice, but the recreations of scenes with the little people is what really does it for me.
Don't you get it? That was intentional on the aliens' part so the intruders would get bored, and leave!
And I bet you felt like pounding some nails into your dick, too. :)
Better idea: Install free software on some old computers and throw those at them.
Incidentally, the virus was probably written by one, if the "SCO wrote it" conspiracy turns out to be false.
I'd get a PSX-USB adaptor. The Playstation controller's layout is essentially the same as the SNES', adding analog sticks and two more shoulder buttons, so it's great for SNES games. As for other systems, I'd think it'd be a little akward with Genesis/Saturn(not too much experience with those, though) and I know it's a little akward for N64 games. Still, if you already have a Dual Shock lying around, it's a great deal.
Getting back to the article defending it- it doesn't matter how many good things there are about the N-Gage if there aren't any good games for it. If Nokia can get some decent games for the damn thing, people might stop making fun of it.
I feel so spoiled, getting my start on an OS with an actual GUI.
There is no way that DoA could deserve an Ao rating. Ao is the equivalent to a NC-17, and NC-17 requires it to be either a) porn or b) have extremely explicit violence above and beyond what you see in M-rated games.
I don't think DoA volleyball even has any nudity, let alone sex. And the MPAA allows movies with some nudity to pass with an R rating, so why should the ESRB give DoA volleyball an M?
Vice City and Manhunt... well, I dunno. If Vice City deserves an Ao then so do a lot of other games. I haven't played or heard much about Manhunt, so I can't pass judgement on that one.
That by itself would almost justify passing that law.
Better yet, burn it. That'll make music go up in value even more.
STILL trying to blame it on MS? You goddaned *nix whore.
Seriously, though, I do remember reading somewhere that the Blaster worm was somewhat responsible for the outages.
"Yeah, since it was a *nix box that failed, it's all right, but if it was a MS box that was at fault you'd all be, like, 'OMG MICROSOFT SUXXORS,' you goddamed zealot hypocrits!"
That's all we know about the gameplay so far, but Matsuno did have one more thing to say: Final Fantasy XII is not a movie, he stressed. It's an interactive game, and hence "the wishes and preconceptions of the player will affect what they find out of the story." There won't be any branching-path system in place; rather, the scenario has been designed such that the players have a wide breadth of possibilities within the scenario, giving them the opportunity to choose their focus within the wider scope of the story. If true, this would be a large (and welcome) step away from the very linear scenario design of past Final Fantasies.
Could be a trick of the light, though. Or something.
Well, I don't know if it will be revolutionary, but it should turn out to be more different from the rest of the series than any other game aside from possibly FF8, mostly due to the fact that it's being directed by the guy who did Vagrant Story and FF Tactics, as opposed to Sakaguchi, who's done every single other FF, if I recall correctly. So you could say that it's the same mold with different cookies.
Mmmmmmmmmmm... cookies...
You don't. For example, for all you know I could be two lab mice involved in an elaborate plot to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Which we aren't, of course. Really.
That's because /.ers already bash MS' business practices in every single other thread about it.
Nah, that wouldn't work. Most 15" monitors can barley do 1024.
His verdict is basically that X-2, while very similar on the surface, is a very different game from X. It's not nearly as much about a serious epic quest. Most of the enjoyment comes from screwing around and doing all of the sidequests, so people who just run though the game as fast as they can are the ones who probably won't like it as much. It's a very light-hearted game in comparison to X, and if you can deal with that, you should be fine.
Head to your local Gamestop and you can probably find a metric assload of good old PSOne games for less than $20-$30. And an equal or greater number of shitty ones for less than $10.
That would only work if there were three games worth buying for the damned thing. Or will they let you pick three games from any system? Then it'd only be worth it if they let you pick Steel Batallion (Costs $200 due to specialized controller.) Otherwise you're still wasting your money.
or at least play with a very poor user experience.
They don't do that already?
Or when it comes with your computer.
It's probably both, really. Cause and effect overlapping- Windows has the most virus problems because it has the majority share of the market and thus not only do most virus writers target it, MS doesn't bother to fix it as much as they should because they know it will have little effect on their pocketbook, which makes it much easier for people to write viruses, and the cycle continues.
Oh, hell yeah. I used to have to do that with Netscape 2.something on my old 33 mHz Macintosh, not because of connection bandwidth but because of computer speed. Actually, increase in connection/CPU speed is probably why web pages today have a greater image:text ratio than they did back before the dot-com bubble.
DUDE! Then the Mozilla foundation can claim the rights to IE (and since IE is integrated into Windows, they can claim the rights to Windows too!)