Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin was released a couple weeks ago on the DS and is a fantastic 2d game, plays just like Symphony of the Night on the playstation 1 and is worth every penny ($35).
Also note that within a week or two Metal Slug Anthology will be released on the Nintendo Wii. While not next-gen it certainly is fun, and will feature something like six different control schemes utilizing the Wiimote.
By the way, assuming by 2D you mean 2D control, not 2D graphics only, I like to point at Smash Brothers. The game is technically 3D but plays as a 2D beat em up game. So while it doesn't suffer from terrible visuals it is easy to grasp the basics and have some fun. Games like Viewtiful Joe and such have been very successful by using new visual styles on the old 2d formula.
Sadly, the reality is they don't care about filling niche desires. Capcom closed down Clover(makers of viewtiful joe) shortly after they released God-Hand and Okami(A game of the year contender). It's hard not to be cynical about creative gaming in the face of such actions.
Keep an eye on your local Toy's R Us. According to recent news they're getting two to ten times as much nintendo stock at launch as comparable retailers.
Failing that I would suggest camping circuit city, they are getting on average more stock than places like Best Buy and Wal Mart, much less Gamestop/EB which will have the least. You might not even have to be there early out to receive a nintendo at launch.
You are correct. The reality is there is no casual solution for armor and everyone knows it. The tragic part is you could spend months trying to nail the full tier 0 collection or upgrade, and in that time a guy can get to level 60, join a raiding guild and with a night or two a week he will be getting epics that destroy your feeble tier.5. It was a joke to begin with as the 45 minute run takes coordination most people don't have time to nail down.
What's with those numbers, 400K at launch and 800K more by the end of 06? How does that add up to 2.4 million out of the promised 4 million? Oh splitting the markets makes it sound better.
Assuming that the disparity of 1 million units accounts for the Japanese market(since the European launch has been delayed), they've managed to allude nicely so that it almost looks like they haven't completely failed their build plan. Perhaps they're hoping the price difference will keep store shelves stocked this season instead of doing it the way that benefits consumers.
Yes it truly must be population density, which translates into localized demand for a service. Does this have anything to do with all the ISPs that throttle you down because of 'peak use'? Are they simultaneously too dense to provide bandwidth but too sparse to keep costs down? Or is it just that they don't have enough competition?
You need to revoke their speaking right, is there something spectacularily innovative about Halo that makes it NOT a ripoff of decades of other fps games?
My wife's geo prizm handled one of the largest blizzards i'd seen in ND very nicely.
The whole 'big vehicle' = 'better in snow' thing is something people made up. People who rarely drive in snow and don't know that even with snow on the ground you have fine traction.
Then they hit that one special stop sign that has a sheet of ice covered by a layer of snow, and -bam- they slide into an intersection in their biggun truk. Larger mass doesn't fix inattentiveness.
Did you even read the quote you just placed? Or the parent comment?
He said placing of guardrails in locations with steep drop-offs, e.g., overlooks, trenches, cliffs, bodies of water. There are countless locations like there where a simple nod means someone's car is rolling down a hill for ten minutes.
I would also dispute the relevancy of the leading edge arguement. Considering the size of the leading edge of a guardrail versus it's length, I imagine that the odds of someone hitting it's face are several orders of magnitude lower than these 'transportation engineers' suggest. (used to work with some of these guys; the places that need guardrails don't always have Engineer 'engineers')
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Gah I HATE that. I grew up on resident evil and learned to conserve ammo. Conserve meaning hoard hoard hoard. I kill all those crazy android ninjas in half life 1 so I can save all my good ammunition and BAM!, they take it all away.
I'm not too certain that the remote with an onscreen keyboard will be easy to use, certainly not at 480p. Since these things are coming with bluetooth remotes I have a feeling they'll be some BT keyboards floating around within the launch hours, possibly just support for third party ones./Price point will be 200 or 250, doesn't really matter much either way.
5 Years ago 40 GB drives were high end for desktop users, and most Dells and such came with 20GB 5200 rpm drives IIRC.
I appreciate that since this is tape storage it's not the greatest point of reference, but when they say 5 years that means 7. What's the point of all this madness; all these companies have been posting fantastic leaps and bounds in storage which should be on the market in over half a decade. Five years ago people laughed at me for having a 120GB array and now they laugh at my terabyte of storage, only thing it they're still metal platter disks, no holography/3d storage, not solid state drives with ungodly limits, not phat tape drives.
This kind of research annoys me because I have yet to see the fruits of all their labor, even last gens labor.
Late but I must say: NES games were largely ports from the arcades, hence the ungodly bias towards killing you cheaply (e.g. Ninja Gaiden).
SNES had one up on that in the fact that almost all games were made specifically for the console, had more content, less cheap death, and I found them to be the most entertaining of all consoles. My top favorites still contain many SNES games.
Yeah, there is of course the world's neatest code of all time. Contra is of course a bad example because there are hordes of titles with the same scenario, but no master 99 livesish codes (e.g. Ninja Gaiden).
At the time I really wasn't a huge fan of the game, being a little bit on the youngin' side of things, but in retrospect it was so nice to play a Nintendo game that wasn't a direct arcade port. Games like Contra where you were supposed to die a bunch and could put in another quarter to get some more lives, didn't work too well when your NES lacked a coin slot.
As for Zelda, the king and start of a long line or battery backed up save systems, kudos cause they got it right the first time, I could probably go pull my old cartridge and it would still have my save states from a decade ago.
Heh, I had a lego train set, which ultimately became just a power source for all my other electrical implements, it was quite an educational toy. I was pretty young but I found things got more interesting when you connected some 9 volts to it just right.
It's inevitable that things should slow down after the river runs dry on the 'easy' new gameplay concepts. But it's not like the industry is completely based around being new and cutting edge. Most of the best games still stand the test of time, not for their graphics, like youd want to think, but for the creativity and balance of the product. I wont cry when this happens, I hate the cookie-cutter game builds right now. THEY will go, but the good game producers will still survive, and maybe prosper.
well the fact that the same side faces earth at all times would make it more feasible for thing related to earth as opposed to travel. The moon's gravity would make it more wasteful a station than a floating one. Maybe this has to do with the giant rods of doom from space article that was floating around earlier...
Well, what are you sposed to do, when you've got thousands of users doing menial stuff all day long, and the people who have to deal with this crap arent the people who can implement change? I fix virus infected machines at the state all day, but that doesnt mean i can just call someone up and ask them to block.bat files at the server, or kill msn messenger ports. They just don't care, because they have 'bigger' concerns.
Too bad, for me at least, this doesnt solve the issue with their high latency, and mediocre speed (relative to their cost). I hate to be a jerk but honestly, I've had nothing but bad luck with their service, and tech support.
I seriously doubt this is anything special, just more code and more code to disguise the code that actually does something. I can't imagine you really CAN protect a program for instance, without completely screwing it up, performance loss etc. These companies should provide the kinds of services and support systems that make investing in their product viable. err yeah...
Sorry to play a sad depressing tune here, but the flat tax idea is all well and good, unless you're living off of 20k a year. The reason we have an 'unfair' scale is because whichever combination of laws etc that govern wages allows even hard-working people to make a poverty level 'living'. Explain to me, without the 'contributing to the gov will give them pride' crap, why someone making 20k/yr doing fulltime hard work should have to pay 15%. If you and your spouse make that much, and you have a couple kids, how the h*ll bad would you feel that some 6 figure 'worker' has to pay a higher percentage?
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A refrigerator is one of the places to NOT use a CF bulb due to very high frequency of turning it on and off, unless you do daily inventories.
As for temperature I would imagine it would take longer to brighten the bulb, at least.
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin was released a couple weeks ago on the DS and is a fantastic 2d game, plays just like Symphony of the Night on the playstation 1 and is worth every penny ($35).
Also note that within a week or two Metal Slug Anthology will be released on the Nintendo Wii. While not next-gen it certainly is fun, and will feature something like six different control schemes utilizing the Wiimote.
By the way, assuming by 2D you mean 2D control, not 2D graphics only, I like to point at Smash Brothers. The game is technically 3D but plays as a 2D beat em up game. So while it doesn't suffer from terrible visuals it is easy to grasp the basics and have some fun. Games like Viewtiful Joe and such have been very successful by using new visual styles on the old 2d formula.
Sadly, the reality is they don't care about filling niche desires. Capcom closed down Clover(makers of viewtiful joe) shortly after they released God-Hand and Okami(A game of the year contender). It's hard not to be cynical about creative gaming in the face of such actions.
Keep an eye on your local Toy's R Us. According to recent news they're getting two to ten times as much nintendo stock at launch as comparable retailers.
Failing that I would suggest camping circuit city, they are getting on average more stock than places like Best Buy and Wal Mart, much less Gamestop/EB which will have the least. You might not even have to be there early out to receive a nintendo at launch.
You are correct. The reality is there is no casual solution for armor and everyone knows it. The tragic part is you could spend months trying to nail the full tier 0 collection or upgrade, and in that time a guy can get to level 60, join a raiding guild and with a night or two a week he will be getting epics that destroy your feeble tier .5. It was a joke to begin with as the 45 minute run takes coordination most people don't have time to nail down.
What's with those numbers, 400K at launch and 800K more by the end of 06? How does that add up to 2.4 million out of the promised 4 million? Oh splitting the markets makes it sound better.
Assuming that the disparity of 1 million units accounts for the Japanese market(since the European launch has been delayed), they've managed to allude nicely so that it almost looks like they haven't completely failed their build plan. Perhaps they're hoping the price difference will keep store shelves stocked this season instead of doing it the way that benefits consumers.
Yes it truly must be population density, which translates into localized demand for a service.
Does this have anything to do with all the ISPs that throttle you down because of 'peak use'? Are they simultaneously too dense to provide bandwidth but too sparse to keep costs down? Or is it just that they don't have enough competition?
You need to revoke their speaking right, is there something spectacularily innovative about Halo that makes it NOT a ripoff of decades of other fps games?
My wife's geo prizm handled one of the largest blizzards i'd seen in ND very nicely.
The whole 'big vehicle' = 'better in snow' thing is something people made up. People who rarely drive in snow and don't know that even with snow on the ground you have fine traction.
Then they hit that one special stop sign that has a sheet of ice covered by a layer of snow, and -bam- they slide into an intersection in their biggun truk. Larger mass doesn't fix inattentiveness.
Did you even read the quote you just placed? Or the parent comment?
He said placing of guardrails in locations with steep drop-offs, e.g., overlooks, trenches, cliffs, bodies of water. There are countless locations like there where a simple nod means someone's car is rolling down a hill for ten minutes.
I would also dispute the relevancy of the leading edge arguement. Considering the size of the leading edge of a guardrail versus it's length, I imagine that the odds of someone hitting it's face are several orders of magnitude lower than these 'transportation engineers' suggest.
(used to work with some of these guys; the places that need guardrails don't always have Engineer 'engineers')
Gah I HATE that.
I grew up on resident evil and learned to conserve ammo. Conserve meaning hoard hoard hoard.
I kill all those crazy android ninjas in half life 1 so I can save all my good ammunition and BAM!, they take it all away.
Worst game cliche evar!
I'm not too certain that the remote with an onscreen keyboard will be easy to use, certainly not at 480p. Since these things are coming with bluetooth remotes I have a feeling they'll be some BT keyboards floating around within the launch hours, possibly just support for third party ones. /Price point will be 200 or 250, doesn't really matter much either way.
This isn't much of a howto but more of a success story on how much of a pushover small claims can be:4
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/5/15/114512/03
I thought it was fairly informative even though there was a settlement.
5 Years ago 40 GB drives were high end for desktop users, and most Dells and such came with 20GB 5200 rpm drives IIRC.
I appreciate that since this is tape storage it's not the greatest point of reference, but when they say 5 years that means 7. What's the point of all this madness; all these companies have been posting fantastic leaps and bounds in storage which should be on the market in over half a decade. Five years ago people laughed at me for having a 120GB array and now they laugh at my terabyte of storage, only thing it they're still metal platter disks, no holography/3d storage, not solid state drives with ungodly limits, not phat tape drives.
This kind of research annoys me because I have yet to see the fruits of all their labor, even last gens labor.
Late but I must say:
NES games were largely ports from the arcades, hence the ungodly bias towards killing you cheaply (e.g. Ninja Gaiden).
SNES had one up on that in the fact that almost all games were made specifically for the console, had more content, less cheap death, and I found them to be the most entertaining of all consoles. My top favorites still contain many SNES games.
Yeah, there is of course the world's neatest code of all time.
Contra is of course a bad example because there are hordes of titles with the same scenario, but no master 99 livesish codes (e.g. Ninja Gaiden).
At the time I really wasn't a huge fan of the game, being a little bit on the youngin' side of things, but in retrospect it was so nice to play a Nintendo game that wasn't a direct arcade port. Games like Contra where you were supposed to die a bunch and could put in another quarter to get some more lives, didn't work too well when your NES lacked a coin slot.
As for Zelda, the king and start of a long line or battery backed up save systems, kudos cause they got it right the first time, I could probably go pull my old cartridge and it would still have my save states from a decade ago.
That sounds great, linux dos, yeah, no lawsuits there.
Heh, I had a lego train set, which ultimately became just a power source for all my other electrical implements, it was quite an educational toy. I was pretty young but I found things got more interesting when you connected some 9 volts to it just right.
Yeah, next they'll be installing dark suckers on all the street light posts.
It's inevitable that things should slow down after the river runs dry on the 'easy' new gameplay concepts. But it's not like the industry is completely based around being new and cutting edge. Most of the best games still stand the test of time, not for their graphics, like youd want to think, but for the creativity and balance of the product. I wont cry when this happens, I hate the cookie-cutter game builds right now. THEY will go, but the good game producers will still survive, and maybe prosper.
Less garbage on the rack as far as im concerned.
well the fact that the same side faces earth at all times would make it more feasible for thing related to earth as opposed to travel. The moon's gravity would make it more wasteful a station than a floating one.
Maybe this has to do with the giant rods of doom from space article that was floating around earlier...
Well, what are you sposed to do, when you've got thousands of users doing menial stuff all day long, and the people who have to deal with this crap arent the people who can implement change? I fix virus infected machines at the state all day, but that doesnt mean i can just call someone up and ask them to block .bat files at the server, or kill msn messenger ports. They just don't care, because they have 'bigger' concerns.
Too bad, for me at least, this doesnt solve the issue with their high latency, and mediocre speed (relative to their cost). I hate to be a jerk but honestly, I've had nothing but bad luck with their service, and tech support.
I seriously doubt this is anything special, just more code and more code to disguise the code that actually does something. I can't imagine you really CAN protect a program for instance, without completely screwing it up, performance loss etc. These companies should provide the kinds of services and support systems that make investing in their product viable. err yeah...
Sorry to play a sad depressing tune here, but the flat tax idea is all well and good, unless you're living off of 20k a year. The reason we have an 'unfair' scale is because whichever combination of laws etc that govern wages allows even hard-working people to make a poverty level 'living'. Explain to me, without the 'contributing to the gov will give them pride' crap, why someone making 20k/yr doing fulltime hard work should have to pay 15%. If you and your spouse make that much, and you have a couple kids, how the h*ll bad would you feel that some 6 figure 'worker' has to pay a higher percentage?