Having played both the PSone and PC versions of the original Diablo, They should just throw in support for a dual analog controller. For a Diablo style game, the console style controller is far less stressful on the hands.
I played the PSone version of Diablo 1, and it was good. I even tried out the PC version, which was much harder on my wrists, and slightly less fun to play. Every Diablo III article we see has folks drooling over every tiny little bit of info on the game that Blizzard leaks out. But as the Rogue from Diablo 1 says when she defeats Gharbad the Weak: I am NOT impressed. Why not?
Diablo III isn't doing anything that different from the various Snowblind engine games on the PS2...years ago.
Snowblind freely acknowledged Diablo's influence, but Blizzard never acknowledges Snowblind's influence in return. Like the rippling water that is familiar to any player of a Snowblind Engine game, to the new Health Orbs, which were in X-Men Legends II and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I sometimes call Blizzard lazy, because if they were like Snowblind, we'd have already played Diablo IV by now and be waiting for Diablo V. Of course, as everyone knows, Blizzard got their start in console development, and then went PC only for some reason that they've never explained. And now it seems pride and arrogance is preventing them from acknowledging that Diablo III would probably work very well as a console game and going ahead with a port.
He most certainly did retaliate...with anti-terrorism activities. You don't send divisions of soldiers to fight terrorists, you send cops, spies and agents who knock on their doors in the middle of the night and make them disappear...without fanfare. You don't give terrorists press, you don't let them know you're coming with armored brigades tearing up the wilderness.
All i'm doing, is fixing advertised functionality which was present in the ps3 when i bought it.
Show me an actual SCEfoo paid advertisement featuring OtherOS.....you can't. While the feature got mentioned in a few interviews with tech journalists and got mentioned on sites like Slashdot and Joystiq it was never "advertised".
Selection bias. They're nerds posting on slashdot, who probably have other nerds for friends. Non-nerds simply have no desire to hook up their PC to their TV.
It's kind of like how one might get the impression from reading slashdot that everybody and their dog who had a PS3 had Linux on it. But the number of PS3 owners doing so is actually very small.
What on this page about setting up an HTPC is confusing?
It's not, for a geek at least. But what you don't understand is that most people simply don't want to hook up their computer to the TV. Let me say that again: Most non-geek people simply have no desire to hook up their computer to their TV"
You also don't seem to understand that for some people, their computer is a desktop machine...sitting in another room. For others, they might have a laptop, but aesthetics are an issue. Perhaps one day you'll understand the issue of a non-geek wife objecting to nerd cables and clutter in the living room.
The problem is that the major PC game publishers aren't intelligent: there is only a token selection of video games designed for home theater PCs. There appears to be a catch-22: there are few HTPC games because there are few HTPCs and vice versa.
Actually they're behaving quite intelligently. They want to make money so making a game for a platform that won't make them money is something they're not going to do.
and a response to your sig:
I hate game console DRM. Now how can my house guests play a video game with me?
You give up, you get a game console, live with the restrictions, and quit whining about it.
On the other hand, what do you do when someone else in the family wants to play a video game while a movie is playing in Netflix on your Wii?
Aren't you forgetting multiple-TV/multiple device households? That's become more common because it prevents the "Johnny want's to play Star Raiders but I want to watch Little House on the Prairie" style arguments that have been around since the days of the Atari 2600 VCS. In many American households these days instead of everyone sitting in front of the TV for traditional "Prime time Network TV", everyone is off doing their own thing. One person might be watching Netflix or Starz on Demand on their TV, another might be playing Brain age on their DS, another might be using Facebook on a PC or laptop, another might be playing a FPS on their PS3 on another TV.
Just ran a friend through hooking up a PS2 (via component) and a PS3 (via HDMI) to his new HDTV over the phone a few days ago.
His wife is always worried about the PS2 and PS3 "messing up the internet" so refused to let him hook his PS3 up to PSN for a long time, she relented...but then had one of her friends redo the router's setup and refuses to give him the WPA key. And helping him set up his PSN account was an exercise in frustration, it would have been even worse had I not brought a USB keyboard over.
What's not practical is getting non-major-label works onto a Wii.
No one cares, so enough already. Also, no one cares about same-screen multiplayer on the PC. Your obsessions, are not everyone elses.
Now I understand your disability, and understand that you were once a babysitter who was probably without a lot of money to spend, and thusly probably played a lot of same-screen multiplayer games with your charges. But really, if you're not willing to do the steps necessary to become a Wii developer, then be silent about the matter. Fulfilling ones dreams requires work.
They're Japanese, so probably not. I still think it was a mistake for Square to shut down their US centric studio. If they'd have kept that up they'd have some Americans working for them that actually know about table top RPG's and MMORPG's. Did you know that JRPG's weren't inspired directly by D&D but second hand via games like Ultima, Bards Tale and Wizardry?
Reading your info about the game makes me think that FFXI is the better Square-Enix MMORPG since it has most of those missing features.
Fortunately for them, it's really meant as a PS3 game anyway and on the PS3 the competition is much weaker.
The only MMORPG competition on the PS3 are two PS2 games that can't be played on the Slim's, Square-Enix's own FFXI and SOE's Everquest Online Adventures Frontiers. I played them both and when it gets down to it, even though EQOA didn't have the grand storyline of FFXI, it was more "Fun" and felt less like work.
I did a trial of WoW some months back, just to see what it was like (i'm a console gamer) and it reminded me of a more user-friendly EQOA.
That's the problem with the classic IBM/Intel/Microsoft monoculture. On the old 8 bit computing platforms intended for home users there were word processors that cost under $50. When those u sers were finally able to afford IBM/Intel/Microsoft hardware, they were told that "you should use the same expensive Word/Lotus 1/2/3 that businesses use because you might need to bring home work from the office, so you need compatibility with the industry standard." Phooey, most of those users have never needed such capability. Most home users don't need Office, they don't even need OpenOffice, what they need is something like Wordpad or Geowrite.
In some cases they were sharecropping, that's died out. While admittedly they have choices, there are fewer good viable ones. Basically choices that aren't really choices.
I had it to experiment with the CBE as a signal processing engine, since that's what I do for a living.
Sounds interesting, I'm guessing the SPE's were pretty good at it.
I had Linux on mine as well, though I'm not a programmer. And yes, I miss having Linux on it, it added more functionality to what was already a device with a lot of functionality. And it let the household get away with only 1 "traditional" x86 PC, since I didn't need to use the PC to do things like read my e-mail or read Slashdot. I was annoyed that SCEfoo decided to remove otherOS, but more annoyed at Geohot. He knew how crazy paranoid Sony's content creating divisions are about pirated content and he knew how shizophrenic Sony can be as a company with all it's varying divisions with their own agendas, he should have kept his mouth shut. Before firmware 3.21 hit, I contacted SCEA by phone and e-mail and begged them to reconsider.
I held off on updating my PS3 as long as I could, but I missed PSN, so I got a cheap x86 box on Fry's to replace OtherOS and updated.
something when Sony took away a feature that they had advertised, that was a part of our sales contract, and that was a part of why I did business with them.
I never saw any advertisements for OtherOS, it got mentioned on Slashdot and other geek websites, but I never saw it mentioned in the mainstream press. And while Linux was one of the reasons I got a PS3, it was more of a bonus to the Blu-Ray playing, game playing and all the other things the PS3 does. I'm actually more annoyed that SCEfoo doesn't make CECHA's anymore, I had to settle for a CECHE, sure wasn't going to get a slim. That's another thing, there's plenty of people on Slashdot who complain about what the 3.21 firmware did, but far fewer complained about the Slim's inability to use OtherOS, though they did complain a bit about the Slim's lack of PS2 compatibility, probably because one of the biggest complaints about the PS3 was the price.
Did you even have Linux on your PS3? If even 1/10th of the people who complain about SCEfoo removing Linux support had actually used it, the YDL forums would have been far far more busy. Besides, if you want to keep Linux, you can, you're just shut out of PSN.
Did you even have Linux on your PS3? If even 1/10th of the people who complain about SCEfoo removing Linux support had actually used it, the YDL forums would have been far far more busy.
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Having played both the PSone and PC versions of the original Diablo, They should just throw in support for a dual analog controller. For a Diablo style game, the console style controller is far less stressful on the hands.
I played the PSone version of Diablo 1, and it was good. I even tried out the PC version, which was much harder on my wrists, and slightly less fun to play. Every Diablo III article we see has folks drooling over every tiny little bit of info on the game that Blizzard leaks out. But as the Rogue from Diablo 1 says when she defeats Gharbad the Weak: I am NOT impressed. Why not?
Diablo III isn't doing anything that different from the various Snowblind engine games on the PS2...years ago.
http://www.gamespot.com/video/2815532
Snowblind freely acknowledged Diablo's influence, but Blizzard never acknowledges Snowblind's influence in return. Like the rippling water that is familiar to any player of a Snowblind Engine game, to the new Health Orbs, which were in X-Men Legends II and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I sometimes call Blizzard lazy, because if they were like Snowblind, we'd have already played Diablo IV by now and be waiting for Diablo V. Of course, as everyone knows, Blizzard got their start in console development, and then went PC only for some reason that they've never explained. And now it seems pride and arrogance is preventing them from acknowledging that Diablo III would probably work very well as a console game and going ahead with a port.
He most certainly did retaliate...with anti-terrorism activities. You don't send divisions of soldiers to fight terrorists, you send cops, spies and agents who knock on their doors in the middle of the night and make them disappear...without fanfare. You don't give terrorists press, you don't let them know you're coming with armored brigades tearing up the wilderness.
Show me an actual SCEfoo paid advertisement featuring OtherOS.....you can't. While the feature got mentioned in a few interviews with tech journalists and got mentioned on sites like Slashdot and Joystiq it was never "advertised".
Actually, Geohot caused it, Sony was just being paranoid and overestimated his abilities.
Selection bias. They're nerds posting on slashdot, who probably have other nerds for friends. Non-nerds simply have no desire to hook up their PC to their TV.
It's kind of like how one might get the impression from reading slashdot that everybody and their dog who had a PS3 had Linux on it. But the number of PS3 owners doing so is actually very small.
Their network, their EULA, their rules....just give up and update the PS3 already. And I'm saying that as someone who did have YDL on my PS3.
It's not, for a geek at least. But what you don't understand is that most people simply don't want to hook up their computer to the TV. Let me say that again: Most non-geek people simply have no desire to hook up their computer to their TV"
You also don't seem to understand that for some people, their computer is a desktop machine...sitting in another room. For others, they might have a laptop, but aesthetics are an issue. Perhaps one day you'll understand the issue of a non-geek wife objecting to nerd cables and clutter in the living room.
Actually they're behaving quite intelligently. They want to make money so making a game for a platform that won't make them money is something they're not going to do.
and a response to your sig:
You give up, you get a game console, live with the restrictions, and quit whining about it.
Aren't you forgetting multiple-TV/multiple device households? That's become more common because it prevents the "Johnny want's to play Star Raiders but I want to watch Little House on the Prairie" style arguments that have been around since the days of the Atari 2600 VCS. In many American households these days instead of everyone sitting in front of the TV for traditional "Prime time Network TV", everyone is off doing their own thing. One person might be watching Netflix or Starz on Demand on their TV, another might be playing Brain age on their DS, another might be using Facebook on a PC or laptop, another might be playing a FPS on their PS3 on another TV.
Just ran a friend through hooking up a PS2 (via component) and a PS3 (via HDMI) to his new HDTV over the phone a few days ago.
His wife is always worried about the PS2 and PS3 "messing up the internet" so refused to let him hook his PS3 up to PSN for a long time, she relented...but then had one of her friends redo the router's setup and refuses to give him the WPA key. And helping him set up his PSN account was an exercise in frustration, it would have been even worse had I not brought a USB keyboard over.
You're a geek, most other people are not. The sooner you realize this, the better.
A Mac Mini also costs $699, a Wii costs $199.
No one cares, so enough already. Also, no one cares about same-screen multiplayer on the PC. Your obsessions, are not everyone elses.
Now I understand your disability, and understand that you were once a babysitter who was probably without a lot of money to spend, and thusly probably played a lot of same-screen multiplayer games with your charges. But really, if you're not willing to do the steps necessary to become a Wii developer, then be silent about the matter. Fulfilling ones dreams requires work.
There was a search in the PS3 version, it was sort of hidden. Personally, I just used the PS3's web browser.
That's nostalgia talking, there was plenty of crap on the NES, and plenty of great games on the PSone.
I know Claws Mail can do custom headers.
Those load times also exist when you run Anthology and Chronicles on a PS1 or PS2, no difference.
They're Japanese, so probably not. I still think it was a mistake for Square to shut down their US centric studio. If they'd have kept that up they'd have some Americans working for them that actually know about table top RPG's and MMORPG's. Did you know that JRPG's weren't inspired directly by D&D but second hand via games like Ultima, Bards Tale and Wizardry?
Reading your info about the game makes me think that FFXI is the better Square-Enix MMORPG since it has most of those missing features.
You don't own Final Fantasy Anthology or Final Fantasy Chronicles? They work just fine on a PS3.
That's the problem with the classic IBM/Intel/Microsoft monoculture. On the old 8 bit computing platforms intended for home users there were word processors that cost under $50. When those u sers were finally able to afford IBM/Intel/Microsoft hardware, they were told that "you should use the same expensive Word/Lotus 1/2/3 that businesses use because you might need to bring home work from the office, so you need compatibility with the industry standard." Phooey, most of those users have never needed such capability. Most home users don't need Office, they don't even need OpenOffice, what they need is something like Wordpad or Geowrite.
Even Works is more than most really need.
In some cases they were sharecropping, that's died out. While admittedly they have choices, there are fewer good viable ones. Basically choices that aren't really choices.
Not to mention that some folks would need a new Blu-Ray player to replace their "old" one to go along with that 3D TV.
Sounds interesting, I'm guessing the SPE's were pretty good at it.
I had Linux on mine as well, though I'm not a programmer. And yes, I miss having Linux on it, it added more functionality to what was already a device with a lot of functionality. And it let the household get away with only 1 "traditional" x86 PC, since I didn't need to use the PC to do things like read my e-mail or read Slashdot. I was annoyed that SCEfoo decided to remove otherOS, but more annoyed at Geohot. He knew how crazy paranoid Sony's content creating divisions are about pirated content and he knew how shizophrenic Sony can be as a company with all it's varying divisions with their own agendas, he should have kept his mouth shut. Before firmware 3.21 hit, I contacted SCEA by phone and e-mail and begged them to reconsider.
I held off on updating my PS3 as long as I could, but I missed PSN, so I got a cheap x86 box on Fry's to replace OtherOS and updated.
I never saw any advertisements for OtherOS, it got mentioned on Slashdot and other geek websites, but I never saw it mentioned in the mainstream press. And while Linux was one of the reasons I got a PS3, it was more of a bonus to the Blu-Ray playing, game playing and all the other things the PS3 does. I'm actually more annoyed that SCEfoo doesn't make CECHA's anymore, I had to settle for a CECHE, sure wasn't going to get a slim. That's another thing, there's plenty of people on Slashdot who complain about what the 3.21 firmware did, but far fewer complained about the Slim's inability to use OtherOS, though they did complain a bit about the Slim's lack of PS2 compatibility, probably because one of the biggest complaints about the PS3 was the price.
Did you even have Linux on your PS3? If even 1/10th of the people who complain about SCEfoo removing Linux support had actually used it, the YDL forums would have been far far more busy. Besides, if you want to keep Linux, you can, you're just shut out of PSN.
Did you even have Linux on your PS3? If even 1/10th of the people who complain about SCEfoo removing Linux support had actually used it, the YDL forums would have been far far more busy.