The american version was actually harder than the japanese version, believe it or not...though I suspect most players did enough grinding early on for cash to get weapons at kalm town or materia at Fort Condor, or get the limit breaks early that they gained enough levels to make it easy.
To me, what immediately put it as "not easy to use" was the moment that I realized I needed things like "sudo" or any other commands to make things happen.
Usually, if you use the graphical system configuration tools, it will prompt you for the root password.
Once Canonical realizes that the average user _NEVER_ wants to enter commands to do run of the mill, average stuff,
The terminal can be faster and easier to use, really, even for a newbie. It can also be easier to describe in written form or verbally how to do something by using a terminal. For example, If I wanted to tell you how to check the status of the cpuspeed service (which controls the dynamic speed scaling) it's easier for me (and faster for you) to tell you to: sudo service cpuspeed status
I found myself trying to get things to happen with Ubuntu, being forced to resort to Google (a sign things may not be rosy but not surprising since I had zero Linux experience until I installed Ubuntu on my Wind), and found that the way to make "this" happen was not selecting a control panel but to open a Terminal session and entering a complex command that I would never, ever remember.[/blockquote>
Google can be the best way to find out how to do something in Linux, because people often write on how to fix issue or HOWTO's on how to do something. And even if the terminal command is complex, you can always keep a log of that sort of thing, if in the future you might need to do it on a new install or something. The Terminal also has a command history. for me it's 1000 command lines.
And with the 32-bit and later systems, the Americans and the English made a comeback. I would say that the Americans and English adapted better to development of 3D polygon based games better than the Japanese did.
Could it be that people with certain accents have success with Dragon, while others do not?
Could be, and perhaps tone/pitch as well. My late mother, who had very bad rheumatoid arthritis, couldn't effectively type, and for long letters or e-mails it was hard for her. So I bought her a copy of Dragon, think it was 8 preferred version, it was a few years ago. Anyway, it simply didn't work for her. She couldn't even get past the first training sentences. Me, on the other hand, it worked right off.
For my mother, Word's built in speech recognition worked better, but she found it annoying so preferred to peck slowly (and take breaks) or dictate to someone.
Funny thing is, as a "home computer user", on Windows I'd prefer Works to Office any day. It loads faster, it's easier to use, it doesn't have a bajillion features I'd never use and it doesn't crash. But I run Linux so I'm stuck with "designed for professional office users" OO, though Abiword is a good replacement for Works word processor.
Of course, that didn't stop Sony from making accepting updates mandatory. But as long as I leave it disconnected from the network (and don't load any disks that contain auto-apply updates),
You're misinterpreting the info out there, they're mandatory to use PSN, but they won't be auto-installed without your say so. The PS3 always asks confirmation before any firmware update is started.
What, you don't play DQVIII on your PS3? It could also be said that the console it was made for is a modern console since you can still buy it, new, in stores.
I'm willing to go this route. Can you recommend a guide to finding publishers willing to do such a deal?
Yes, it's called Google. You find companies that publish games from small dev houses and you contact them.
I haven't done that for a year.
That's good. But your homepage still shows them, and any prospective employer/publishing house will probably google you and find your page. You don't want them to think you have no original ideas. They'll also probably find out about "other things"
You could do that now. I've got my Linux box on a desk attached to a 19" HDTV, alonside my PS3 (which had Linux on it at one time which is why it's on a desk, it did dual duty)
The PS3 is hooked to the HDMI input the PC to VGA. I can flip between inputs as I want.
Haven't you been told before what to do? You don't publish it yourself, you make a deal with a someone else to do that for the PS3/Wii/Xbox. That's how it works, and no matter how many times you complain how the PC doesn't support 4 player games on the same screen and how the consoles don't really care about garage developers making knockoffs of other companies puzzle games, it's not going to change.
I really don't want to shatter your dream...but if you won't want to do the things that you have to do if you want to achieve your dream, perhaps you should give up on it.
It wasn't that long ago that "Fat" PS3's could be a personal computer in the sense of running "personal computer" type software: web browsers, image editors, office applications. I'm still a little ticked of about that. Same goes for "Fat" PS2's.
I am actually surprised that SCEfoo hasn't added an "app" section to the PSN store with a simple "wordpad" type word processor or an image editor with more functionality than the Gallery application does, or a PDF reader.
Fair enough but I believe that higher level WoW probably isn't that much different from EQOA and FFXI, As a level 33 Cleric in EQOA I was healing, watching for adds, watching for status attacks, keeping the buffs up, and tossing the cleric Nuke and Mark/Brand spells. As a Hume LVL 30 WHM (white mage) in FFXI, I was healing, tossing debuffs if an RDM wasn't doing it, keeping buffs up, watching for adds, participating in skillchains if possible, and perhaps even taking a whack or two with my weapon on certain enemies.
I agree. I'm a console gamer, the only PC game I regularly play is Second Life (and that under Linux), but some months ago I wanted to see what the fuss was about WoW so I did the trial. It ran pretty well on the Nvidia 7150M in the laptop, and it reminded me a heck of a lot of Everquest Online Adventures Frontiers on the PS2 (that's the MMO one, not the "Champions of Norrath" Diablo clone), sure the interface was different but gameplay wise it was VERY similar. Though personally I think EQOA did some things right that WoW doesn't, EQOA is zoneless and has no corpse/ghost runs, you get an XP penalty instead. EQOA doesn't have an in-game map though so it's easy to get lost/turned around...visible landmarks/notable scenery are much more important.
I enjoyed WoW, but since I knew I couldn't really devote the time necessary to it (I'd get kicked out of guilds for not playing enough), I didn't sign up...though I did have the jones to play more EQOA for a while, but I didn't sign back up in that either.
At some point you'll have to choose between buying a crippled Sony PS computer with overpriced Sony accessories such as keyboards or flash drives and no chance of upgrading
Well, considering you can use ANY USB keyboard or flash drive with the PS3 and upgrade your hard drive with any 2.5 inch SATA drive, I think your point wasn't very well made.
A, B & C: The Humble Indie Bundle hit 1 million sales on May 11th and to my knowledge has not been ported outside the realm of PC gaming.
Ahh the humble indie bundle, that most people paid pennies for, or pirated even when they could choose the price.
I won't mention the annual behemoth WoW, EVE Online or the confusing amount of pre-orders for Starcraft II.
Two of those are MMO's and two of those are Blizzard games. Blizzard has been noted as being VERY anti-console, even though that's where they got their start as a development house. Also I'd lay odds on Starcraft II eventually getting a console port, the original game did.
a better term for it is "aim-assist". If you're not pointing at a target you're not going to hit, but as long as you're somewhere near center-of-mass you'll get some "help", which varies depending on game. It's disabled by default in most online play, it's only for single player.
The sales curve is different. While WoW has a lot of accounts, there's a fuckton of games not even hitting 100000. console sales curves are more flat. So you got a bunch of 5 million sales games, a bunch of 2 million sales games, a bunch of 1 million sales games, another bunch of a half-million sales games. The sales curve isn't so steep.
WoW still wipes the floor with any of the over-simplified button-masher MMOs that were built to be good for consoles too, for example.
What button-mashing MMO's are those? There are no button-mashing MMO's for the consoles, because both console MMO's play like WoW: engage enemy, start auto physical attack, and then hit a special now and then. I should know, I've played EQOA, FFXI and did a trial of WoW. Perhaps you are thinking of the console Diablo clones which are not MMO's.
If you have an older model PS3, you can play TWO previous generations of games, not one. Sure that DS will play GBA games, but what about GBC or GB games. No Link's Awakening DX for you. That Wii...can it play original N64 game paks? No it can't, so no N64 version of Mega Man Legends for you. But I can pull out my copy of PSone Mega Man Legends and play it on my PS3, and after that I could put my copy of the PS2 version of Half-Life in.
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The american version was actually harder than the japanese version, believe it or not...though I suspect most players did enough grinding early on for cash to get weapons at kalm town or materia at Fort Condor, or get the limit breaks early that they gained enough levels to make it easy.
Usually, if you use the graphical system configuration tools, it will prompt you for the root password.
The terminal can be faster and easier to use, really, even for a newbie. It can also be easier to describe in written form or verbally how to do something by using a terminal. For example, If I wanted to tell you how to check the status of the cpuspeed service (which controls the dynamic speed scaling) it's easier for me (and faster for you) to tell you to: sudo service cpuspeed status
yep, best way to play, and most PS2 (and a couple of PSone) FPS's support that method.
And with the 32-bit and later systems, the Americans and the English made a comeback. I would say that the Americans and English adapted better to development of 3D polygon based games better than the Japanese did.
Could be, and perhaps tone/pitch as well. My late mother, who had very bad rheumatoid arthritis, couldn't effectively type, and for long letters or e-mails it was hard for her. So I bought her a copy of Dragon, think it was 8 preferred version, it was a few years ago. Anyway, it simply didn't work for her. She couldn't even get past the first training sentences. Me, on the other hand, it worked right off.
For my mother, Word's built in speech recognition worked better, but she found it annoying so preferred to peck slowly (and take breaks) or dictate to someone.
Yes they do, it's called "Trophy level"
Funny thing is, as a "home computer user", on Windows I'd prefer Works to Office any day. It loads faster, it's easier to use, it doesn't have a bajillion features I'd never use and it doesn't crash. But I run Linux so I'm stuck with "designed for professional office users" OO, though Abiword is a good replacement for Works word processor.
You're misinterpreting the info out there, they're mandatory to use PSN, but they won't be auto-installed without your say so. The PS3 always asks confirmation before any firmware update is started.
http://xkcd.com/619/
What, you don't play DQVIII on your PS3? It could also be said that the console it was made for is a modern console since you can still buy it, new, in stores.
Yes, it's called Google. You find companies that publish games from small dev houses and you contact them.
That's good. But your homepage still shows them, and any prospective employer/publishing house will probably google you and find your page. You don't want them to think you have no original ideas. They'll also probably find out about "other things"
That would be nice.
The Playstation Plus info out there implies it will do patching as a sort of "cron job" at a set time.
You could do that now. I've got my Linux box on a desk attached to a 19" HDTV, alonside my PS3 (which had Linux on it at one time which is why it's on a desk, it did dual duty)
The PS3 is hooked to the HDMI input the PC to VGA. I can flip between inputs as I want.
Haven't you been told before what to do? You don't publish it yourself, you make a deal with a someone else to do that for the PS3/Wii/Xbox. That's how it works, and no matter how many times you complain how the PC doesn't support 4 player games on the same screen and how the consoles don't really care about garage developers making knockoffs of other companies puzzle games, it's not going to change.
I really don't want to shatter your dream...but if you won't want to do the things that you have to do if you want to achieve your dream, perhaps you should give up on it.
It wasn't that long ago that "Fat" PS3's could be a personal computer in the sense of running "personal computer" type software: web browsers, image editors, office applications. I'm still a little ticked of about that. Same goes for "Fat" PS2's.
I am actually surprised that SCEfoo hasn't added an "app" section to the PSN store with a simple "wordpad" type word processor or an image editor with more functionality than the Gallery application does, or a PDF reader.
Fair enough but I believe that higher level WoW probably isn't that much different from EQOA and FFXI, As a level 33 Cleric in EQOA I was healing, watching for adds, watching for status attacks, keeping the buffs up, and tossing the cleric Nuke and Mark/Brand spells. As a Hume LVL 30 WHM (white mage) in FFXI, I was healing, tossing debuffs if an RDM wasn't doing it, keeping buffs up, watching for adds, participating in skillchains if possible, and perhaps even taking a whack or two with my weapon on certain enemies.
I agree. I'm a console gamer, the only PC game I regularly play is Second Life (and that under Linux), but some months ago I wanted to see what the fuss was about WoW so I did the trial. It ran pretty well on the Nvidia 7150M in the laptop, and it reminded me a heck of a lot of Everquest Online Adventures Frontiers on the PS2 (that's the MMO one, not the "Champions of Norrath" Diablo clone), sure the interface was different but gameplay wise it was VERY similar. Though personally I think EQOA did some things right that WoW doesn't, EQOA is zoneless and has no corpse/ghost runs, you get an XP penalty instead. EQOA doesn't have an in-game map though so it's easy to get lost/turned around...visible landmarks/notable scenery are much more important.
I enjoyed WoW, but since I knew I couldn't really devote the time necessary to it (I'd get kicked out of guilds for not playing enough), I didn't sign up...though I did have the jones to play more EQOA for a while, but I didn't sign back up in that either.
Well, considering you can use ANY USB keyboard or flash drive with the PS3 and upgrade your hard drive with any 2.5 inch SATA drive, I think your point wasn't very well made.
I suspect you live in an affluent suburban area. In semi-rural central illinois thrift store TV's are SD, most without anything better than composite.
Ahh the humble indie bundle, that most people paid pennies for, or pirated even when they could choose the price.
a better term for it is "aim-assist". If you're not pointing at a target you're not going to hit, but as long as you're somewhere near center-of-mass you'll get some "help", which varies depending on game. It's disabled by default in most online play, it's only for single player.
The sales curve is different. While WoW has a lot of accounts, there's a fuckton of games not even hitting 100000. console sales curves are more flat. So you got a bunch of 5 million sales games, a bunch of 2 million sales games, a bunch of 1 million sales games, another bunch of a half-million sales games. The sales curve isn't so steep.
What button-mashing MMO's are those? There are no button-mashing MMO's for the consoles, because both console MMO's play like WoW: engage enemy, start auto physical attack, and then hit a special now and then. I should know, I've played EQOA, FFXI and did a trial of WoW. Perhaps you are thinking of the console Diablo clones which are not MMO's.
Says right on the box whether a PS3 has PS2 compatiblity or not.
If you have an older model PS3, you can play TWO previous generations of games, not one. Sure that DS will play GBA games, but what about GBC or GB games. No Link's Awakening DX for you. That Wii...can it play original N64 game paks? No it can't, so no N64 version of Mega Man Legends for you. But I can pull out my copy of PSone Mega Man Legends and play it on my PS3, and after that I could put my copy of the PS2 version of Half-Life in.