I would recommend trying out a subscription to Marvel Unlimited. It's an app that has decades of digital back-catalogs for Marvel comics and newer comics on a six month delay. They also have a number of guided reading options, like "Read everything with this character" or "What to read before you watch Black Panther" and that sort of stuff.
They also have offline reading options, so you can download a whole ton of comics before you get on a plane or something.
"What differentiates Warhead from typical first-person shooters is the "Nano Muscle Suit," which provides limited protection and a number of enhanced abilities"
Yeah, because I hardly play shooters where I have some kind of super suit with shields and all that jazz.
Fighting games these days have two audiences, your VF4 hardcore crazy types, or your Soul Calibur I just want to mash some buttons types.
I usually only break fighting games out with friends or family, so hopefully SF4 will give me something new everyone can enjoy.
This one is kind of obvious and stupid, if you ask me. YES it is hard for Microsoft to emulate hardware that they designed. How much more difficult would it be for them to emulate hardware which they would have to reverse engineer? Besides the fact that Bleem! does not set the precedent for something like this and I'm sure Sony's lawyers would sue Microsoft all the way from here to Japan if they tried emulating the PS1 or PS2.
For starters, the church did not divide when Rome fell, in fact, there was a long period of time after the fall of the Western Empire that the church stayed united (there were 4 patriarchs- Constantinople, Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria) The Great Schism came much later than the fall of Rome. Besides that, most of the Crusaders weren't practicing Christians, they were just mercenaries out to get themselves a free pass into heaven (Read Anna Comnena's "Alexiad"). Furthermore, Rome did not want the crusaders to sack Constantinople, they did that to pay their debt to Venice, because Venice provided the crusaders transport into Palestine (only they never did, in the 4th crusade, because they stopped in Asia Minor).
Okay, so think about it. How long was Halo 2 delayed? What exactly do you think they were doing the whole time- optimizing the cutscenes?
I think they were working on a sequel to be released shortly after Halo 2, maybe Halo 2 vol. 2 or something like that.
I mean think about the Matrix sequels, those got a little delayed, and then released just a few months apart because of the cliffhanger ending. Bungie's probably just doing the same thing.
Alternate theory is that they still didn't have enough time, but Microsoft was putting the pressure on for a pre-christmas/pre-xbox2 release date, so they gave us what they had finished now, and are giving us the rest in 3 months.
Hey, didn't everyone say that Killzone wasn't going to be a Halo killer, because of basically all the things that were negative points in the Halo review? AI glitches, occassional graphical glitches, somewhat dissapointing story. Oh well, it's all about marketing and IGN reviews I guess.
I cringe every time I hear the thing about Id selling tech demos as games every time the come out with a new engine. Can you really tell me which game you're talking about? Quake 1 was everything anyone would have expected from a shooter when it came out and apparently was good enough that people still play it multiplayer, and still make mods for it. Quake 2 is, or at least was, alot of people's favorite straight up single player shooter, it's got a lot of very well thought out levels. Again, people still play it online. Quake 3 is probably still the most well-balanced online shooter on the market, and has created a large still very loyal fan base. Doom 3 reaks of atmosphere, and if you sat down and gave it some real time to play, it can scare the crap out of you. Anyone who's played it through can tell it was a serious labor of love from the guys at Id. Just because a game doesn't have a intricate story, or enemies that use squad tactics against you, doesn't mean that it's not a good game. People who think games need those things are the ones who are messing up the game industry. I want a fun game, some times I do want a game where I have to think about my every step, sometimes I just want to blow stuff up, and sometimes I want to jump online and get my ass handed to me by a 13 year old who spends every waking hour playing Quake 3. I could keep going, but no one is going to read this anyway...
I don't think you know what you're talking about. I played UT2003 PERFECTLY FINE with a 800mhz AMD Duron 384MB of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX400. I'm serious. Pretty much default settings, 800x600 resolution on a Linux box running a 2.6 kernel. I don't know what shooters you've been playing but if you're talking about Deus Ex 2, that game was simply poorly designed. If Carmack says something is minimum I would trust him.
Also relevant- I ran the Doom 3 leak on the windows partition of the same box, and it ran at about 15 fps with all the graphics options turned off, at low resolution. That was a leak of the game that's two years old now and I'm sure they've made a lot of progress on improving performance on low end boxes. I have no doubt in what Carmack said.
Okay, so you missed one key point- Software development is absolutely nothing like building construction.
For one, once you start work on a building, its pretty hard to change anything about it without spending lots of money; if you need to change something in a software package you created, just change a few lines of code and release a patch.
Besides that buildings necessarilly cost lots of money and take up lots of space, and as such, you can only build so many of them. Most programs and documents take a very small amount of space (almost none physically), and cost just about nothing to create.
So would I trust my life to an open source building? Probably not. Do I trust my important files to open source standards? Absolutely.
Well, if their research on games was as good as their knowledge on what consoles are dominating. By listing the Xbox first "...dominated on the hardware side by Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox, Sony Corp's PlayStation and Nintendo Co. Ltd's Game Boy and GameCube consoles." they're implying that the Xbox is the most popular, which is obviously not true, and I think the same goes for the rest of their "research"
I find that fighting games for the most part are primary examples of illogicalness in games. Very often button combinations don't do what it seems like they should do (Like I can think of more than one example where -> + punch doesn't actually punch, or something of the sort), and almost every fighting game I can think of does the same thing that annoys me to death- when you are trying to back away from your opponent, and you get hit, it stops your backward movement, and sets you up for more getting hit, as opposed to the force of your opponents hit pushing you more backwards, as would make sense. Oh well...
Everyone's having a pretty good time bashing Vaan for looking really excessively girly, and bashing FF12 for that. And yeah, he does look pretty bad, but if you remember the concept art for FF6 (or FF3 US), generally considered one of the best of the series, Locke was pretty girly looking. And Zidane from FF9 just looked stupid, but that ended up being a great game too. I guess my point is that you can't make judgments about the game based on some poor character designs.
... they played out sort of like a Disney adventure.
umm, or maybe just any epic or pseudo-epic type story. I mean, when you take things down to the lowest level, almost every fantasy type story is the exact same story, and maybe that's just what I like about the Final Fantasy games- they all retell what's basically the same story in a different way, and sometimes that story even seems a little bit like your own story...
This one
and this one
That just doesnt look anything like high quality CG to me. I mean, unless someone around here knows Japanese and can give a decent translation, and not the gibberish Babelfish produced, then I don't see any reason to believe that the word DVD assures us that this is just going to be a movie.
Okay, now, maybe it was just me, but some of those screenshots are CLEARLY game graphics. I mean, the ones on the bottom left. There is no way that's going to just be a movie. Even if it is, I won't believe it until it comes out.
You're thinking of an Apogee game named "Hocus Pocus." It looks like you can still buy it from the site for $10.
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Spammers aren't all evil malicious people, some of them just have no idea what they're doing. Like a guy I know, who is not the most net savvy person in the world, but can get around, was working on some kind of upstart e-business, so he figured he'd get this traffic building software, which basically was just a spamming utility, that would send a promotional email to thousands of email addresses which were stored on a couple CDs. The manual claimed that all of the people had signed up as being interested in recieving information about business oppurtunites, but I doubt that even 5% had any desire at all to hear about "business oppurtunities." My friend didn't have any idea that what he was doing was "spam" ("I'm not selling any of that canned ham stuff."), and that he was becoming the bane of the internet, he just thought it was a legitamit way to advertise. I'm not saying that all spammers are like that, I know that some of them are pure evil, but some people just don't understand... (putting on flame-retardent suit)
To me, that says that Linux and Mac users won't have a problem. As long as it's done completely through the browser, and Netscape/Mozilla is acceptable, OS won't matter at all. Think about it. How many hardware products list Windows as a requirement, when it'll work perfectly fine in Linux? I think it's just a dumb assumption that everyone who has a computer will be running some sort of Windows, and the browsers listed wouldn't be available on Win 3.1, you get what I'm saying?
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I would recommend trying out a subscription to Marvel Unlimited. It's an app that has decades of digital back-catalogs for Marvel comics and newer comics on a six month delay. They also have a number of guided reading options, like "Read everything with this character" or "What to read before you watch Black Panther" and that sort of stuff. They also have offline reading options, so you can download a whole ton of comics before you get on a plane or something.
But can it play God of War: Chains of Olympus?
How can you parody "Duke Nukem" when it was already a parody of action movie hero stereotypes?
Maybe it would have taken you longer if you weren't smoking so much crack.
"What differentiates Warhead from typical first-person shooters is the "Nano Muscle Suit," which provides limited protection and a number of enhanced abilities"
Yeah, because I hardly play shooters where I have some kind of super suit with shields and all that jazz.
Fighting games these days have two audiences, your VF4 hardcore crazy types, or your Soul Calibur I just want to mash some buttons types. I usually only break fighting games out with friends or family, so hopefully SF4 will give me something new everyone can enjoy.
This one is kind of obvious and stupid, if you ask me. YES it is hard for Microsoft to emulate hardware that they designed. How much more difficult would it be for them to emulate hardware which they would have to reverse engineer?
Besides the fact that Bleem! does not set the precedent for something like this and I'm sure Sony's lawyers would sue Microsoft all the way from here to Japan if they tried emulating the PS1 or PS2.
For starters, the church did not divide when Rome fell, in fact, there was a long period of time after the fall of the Western Empire that the church stayed united (there were 4 patriarchs- Constantinople, Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria)
The Great Schism came much later than the fall of Rome.
Besides that, most of the Crusaders weren't practicing Christians, they were just mercenaries out to get themselves a free pass into heaven (Read Anna Comnena's "Alexiad").
Furthermore, Rome did not want the crusaders to sack Constantinople, they did that to pay their debt to Venice, because Venice provided the crusaders transport into Palestine (only they never did, in the 4th crusade, because they stopped in Asia Minor).
I'm thinking Dreamcast, because seriously, the Dreamcast is the best console ever. But if it isn't Dreamcast, why not?
Okay, so think about it. How long was Halo 2 delayed? What exactly do you think they were doing the whole time- optimizing the cutscenes?
I think they were working on a sequel to be released shortly after Halo 2, maybe Halo 2 vol. 2 or something like that.
I mean think about the Matrix sequels, those got a little delayed, and then released just a few months apart because of the cliffhanger ending. Bungie's probably just doing the same thing.
Alternate theory is that they still didn't have enough time, but Microsoft was putting the pressure on for a pre-christmas/pre-xbox2 release date, so they gave us what they had finished now, and are giving us the rest in 3 months.
Hey, didn't everyone say that Killzone wasn't going to be a Halo killer, because of basically all the things that were negative points in the Halo review?
AI glitches, occassional graphical glitches, somewhat dissapointing story.
Oh well, it's all about marketing and IGN reviews I guess.
I cringe every time I hear the thing about Id selling tech demos as games every time the come out with a new engine. Can you really tell me which game you're talking about?
Quake 1 was everything anyone would have expected from a shooter when it came out and apparently was good enough that people still play it multiplayer, and still make mods for it.
Quake 2 is, or at least was, alot of people's favorite straight up single player shooter, it's got a lot of very well thought out levels. Again, people still play it online.
Quake 3 is probably still the most well-balanced online shooter on the market, and has created a large still very loyal fan base.
Doom 3 reaks of atmosphere, and if you sat down and gave it some real time to play, it can scare the crap out of you. Anyone who's played it through can tell it was a serious labor of love from the guys at Id.
Just because a game doesn't have a intricate story, or enemies that use squad tactics against you, doesn't mean that it's not a good game. People who think games need those things are the ones who are messing up the game industry. I want a fun game, some times I do want a game where I have to think about my every step, sometimes I just want to blow stuff up, and sometimes I want to jump online and get my ass handed to me by a 13 year old who spends every waking hour playing Quake 3.
I could keep going, but no one is going to read this anyway...
check out powernotebooks.com, you can get something REALLY good for about 1700
I don't think you know what you're talking about. I played UT2003 PERFECTLY FINE with a 800mhz AMD Duron 384MB of RAM and a Geforce 2 MX400. I'm serious. Pretty much default settings, 800x600 resolution on a Linux box running a 2.6 kernel. I don't know what shooters you've been playing but if you're talking about Deus Ex 2, that game was simply poorly designed. If Carmack says something is minimum I would trust him.
Also relevant- I ran the Doom 3 leak on the windows partition of the same box, and it ran at about 15 fps with all the graphics options turned off, at low resolution. That was a leak of the game that's two years old now and I'm sure they've made a lot of progress on improving performance on low end boxes. I have no doubt in what Carmack said.
Okay, so you missed one key point- Software development is absolutely nothing like building construction.
For one, once you start work on a building, its pretty hard to change anything about it without spending lots of money; if you need to change something in a software package you created, just change a few lines of code and release a patch.
Besides that buildings necessarilly cost lots of money and take up lots of space, and as such, you can only build so many of them. Most programs and documents take a very small amount of space (almost none physically), and cost just about nothing to create.
So would I trust my life to an open source building? Probably not.
Do I trust my important files to open source standards? Absolutely.
Well, if their research on games was as good as their knowledge on what consoles are dominating. By listing the Xbox first
"...dominated on the hardware side by Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox, Sony Corp's PlayStation and Nintendo Co. Ltd's Game Boy and GameCube consoles."
they're implying that the Xbox is the most popular, which is obviously not true, and I think the same goes for the rest of their "research"
I find that fighting games for the most part are primary examples of illogicalness in games. Very often button combinations don't do what it seems like they should do (Like I can think of more than one example where -> + punch doesn't actually punch, or something of the sort), and almost every fighting game I can think of does the same thing that annoys me to death- when you are trying to back away from your opponent, and you get hit, it stops your backward movement, and sets you up for more getting hit, as opposed to the force of your opponents hit pushing you more backwards, as would make sense. Oh well...
Everyone's having a pretty good time bashing Vaan for looking really excessively girly, and bashing FF12 for that. And yeah, he does look pretty bad, but if you remember the concept art for FF6 (or FF3 US), generally considered one of the best of the series, Locke was pretty girly looking. And Zidane from FF9 just looked stupid, but that ended up being a great game too.
I guess my point is that you can't make judgments about the game based on some poor character designs.
... they played out sort of like a Disney adventure.
umm, or maybe just any epic or pseudo-epic type story. I mean, when you take things down to the lowest level, almost every fantasy type story is the exact same story, and maybe that's just what I like about the Final Fantasy games- they all retell what's basically the same story in a different way, and sometimes that story even seems a little bit like your own story...
How do you devast something?
This one and this one That just doesnt look anything like high quality CG to me. I mean, unless someone around here knows Japanese and can give a decent translation, and not the gibberish Babelfish produced, then I don't see any reason to believe that the word DVD assures us that this is just going to be a movie.
Okay, now, maybe it was just me, but some of those screenshots are CLEARLY game graphics. I mean, the ones on the bottom left. There is no way that's going to just be a movie. Even if it is, I won't believe it until it comes out.
You're thinking of an Apogee game named "Hocus Pocus." It looks like you can still buy it from the site for $10.
Spammers aren't all evil malicious people, some of them just have no idea what they're doing. Like a guy I know, who is not the most net savvy person in the world, but can get around, was working on some kind of upstart e-business, so he figured he'd get this traffic building software, which basically was just a spamming utility, that would send a promotional email to thousands of email addresses which were stored on a couple CDs.
The manual claimed that all of the people had signed up as being interested in recieving information about business oppurtunites, but I doubt that even 5% had any desire at all to hear about "business oppurtunities." My friend didn't have any idea that what he was doing was "spam" ("I'm not selling any of that canned ham stuff."), and that he was becoming the bane of the internet, he just thought it was a legitamit way to advertise.
I'm not saying that all spammers are like that, I know that some of them are pure evil, but some people just don't understand...
(putting on flame-retardent suit)
To me, that says that Linux and Mac users won't have a problem. As long as it's done completely through the browser, and Netscape/Mozilla is acceptable, OS won't matter at all.
Think about it. How many hardware products list Windows as a requirement, when it'll work perfectly fine in Linux?
I think it's just a dumb assumption that everyone who has a computer will be running some sort of Windows, and the browsers listed wouldn't be available on Win 3.1, you get what I'm saying?