Then don't download mkv's, download MP4 containers instead. Perhaps you should be telling the pirates to put their h264 AVC (which is MPEG4 Layer 10) files in MPEG4 containers.
USA is owned by NBC-Universal, it's simply where NBC puts the shows that are good enough quality for NBC, but a little too quirky/experimental for NBC's audience. For example L&O SVU (beloved by soccer moms because of the "will someone please think of the children" meme of a lot of episodes) stays on NBC, but L&O CI (the quirky cerebral L&O) gets moved to USA.
The main reason for targetting consoles with RPGs seems to be monetary rather than due to any technical advantages the consoles might offer, maybe when they begin attaching keyboards and mice to consoles there'll be proper RPGs made for them. But then isn't that just a computer?;)
Considering I own the the PS2 Linux kit and have a Yellow Dog Linux install on my PS3....the answer is yes. Funny thing is, back in the 8-bit days there used to be more PC ports. For example, I've got a copy of the NES versions of Bards Tale, and MIght and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum. With tweaked UI the former lack of keyboard and mouse was not as much as a limitation as you might think. (The PS2 and PS3 have USB ports for a reason)
Fallout 3 doesn't have level scaling. There are certain places you simply don't want to go as a level 1 character, or places that would be extremely difficult to go to. Also, with Broken Steel, your low level character could run into one of the new enemies, Feral Ghoul Reaver, early in the game.
Shame they seem to have sold out to the console market.. console users aren't exactly the demographic that likes proper RPGs.
Who says we don't? And what is a "proper RPG" anyway. We don't really know, because nobody ports the games you might consider "proper RPG's" for us nowadays. And even if they do, they're Japan only like that PSone port of Ultima Underworld.
There are a few console games here and there that feel a bit more PC RPG inspired.
Why don't more people play it online! All those frakkin PS2 Snoblind Engine Diablo clones, and no one plays them online. Though part of that might be the fact that online play doesn't work if you play them on a PS3, the game doesn't recognize the virtualized Network Adapter that the PS3 presents to them.
PS3 owners do buy "casual" games, but they buy them via PSN. Which kind of leaves the PS3 in a bit of a pickle. The kind of folks who find the Wii appealing don't know about PSN or the fact that there are party and casual games on it. They can see the Wii's "family game night" library, but they see the PS3 with it's "Shooter of the week" lineup and don't look elsewhere.
They celebrate a traitor? One who chose to turn his back on the constitution he had sworn to protect, because he was a "Virginian first, and American second"?
Dr. Martin Luther King was a better man than that traitorous bastard Lee ever was.
Stonewall Jackson was a very famous (and effective) general in the Civil War. Whether you dislike him or not, the fact remains that he was an honourable man and a great leader. The same could be said for Robert E. Lee
An honourable man would not have taken up arms against the consititution he was sworn to defend. In fact, both men were Traitors with a capital T. Lee refused Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army and in fact commanded the Army opposing it. Had I been Lincoln, I would have had Lee executed on the spot when captured, the bastard.
Lets put it another way. Suppose GWB had offered me the command of the Army in Afghanistan. Suppose instead I took up command of the Taliban instead. That would make me a Traitor, right?
It actually began with Roosevelt with the Democrats essentially becoming two parties: Northern and Southern, kind of like how the Republican party is two parties now: Church and Country Club. The resentment just built up over the years, the Dixiecrats hated Elanor Roosevelt, and they didn't like Truman desegregating the military, but Kennedy and LBJ broke the camels back. And then as you said, Nixon was glad to have them, he needed them because there weren't enough Country Club Republicans to win elections in many places.
Go ahead, secede. Watch those federal dollars that welfare-queen state Texas gets go back home to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. We don't need you, you need us to prop you up. That goes for the rest of the South too, and deep down, the citizens down there know it, which is why there's still a lot of resentment towards states like "Taxachusetts" or Illinois. Because if it wasn't for us, youd still be all barefoot and sharecropping for "Colonel/Judge Beauregard Stonwall Custis LeeTolliver in the big house on the hill"
I've lived in areas with so-called volunteer fire departments and every single one depends on a big-town fire department that is paid for with tax dollars to come to their assistance for anything really serious. And often the "volunteer" departments will have a couple of paid firemen.
They're working on that too. There's a vocal bunch of assholes who want to replace The Star Spangled Banner with "God Bless America" as the official national anthem.
They already put "under God" in the pledge of allegiance which wasn't in there when my Father and Mother learned it as kids.
immigration, you get poor white trash moving from kentucky/tennessee/alabama etc, every so often. They bring their culture with them. Happened in Illinois during the great depression, which sent hordes of sharecroppers (including my Father's grandparents and mother) up north for better lives where they weren't essentially working for whatever "Judge" or "Colonel" (and their close relatives) that owned the entire county. And again in the early 70's and in the late 90's early 2000's. Then in return, our rich folks move south for the winter weather, at least temporarily. So we get poor white trash with no money and they get our folks with money for roughtly 3 or 4 months of the year.
And the culture thing....wow. They're so fucking loud. "Scraggly goattee guy with the nascar cap" screams at "Fat girlfriend who looks a bit native american" to get his smokes, and she screams at lher little girl who looks biracial to not run around, while the girlfriends even fatter mother is screaming that she needs smokes too while carrying her youngest child which is younger than her daughters daughter. And they're all wearing socks with sandals/crocs in the middle of an Illinois winter. It's the southerners that brought that up north. Scraggly goattee guy often has Klan symbos on the vehicle and has a job as a welder/working on cars/truck driver.
They bring their churches with them too, once enough of them are in an area they get some old building like an old fertilizer or lawn equipment dealership and put a cross on it. My dad was raised in a church that was primarily southern immigrants and he told me that they taught them all sorts of bigoted stuff that he had to unlearn as the years went by. They weren't happy when he stopped going and were even unhappier when he married my mom, who was a Presbyterian. Wanna know what old time southern evangelicals call Presbyterians? Presbyjewians It was also a church where playing cards was fine, but using dice for any reason was the devil's thing, so they had to play monopoly with a special spinner. A similar church in the same town, also comprised of southern immigrants had the exact opposite rules, no cards, but dice were okay.
The PS3 Eye is not the same as the PS2's Eyetoy. SCEfoo did test out a wand controller prototype with the PS2 Eyetoy, but it never went beyond that, probably for the reasons you state. But the PS3 Eye is a better camera than the Eyetoy, so maybe they can pull it off now.
I remember reading about SCEfoo testing a wand controller with the PS2 eyetoy, never went beyond prototype though.
Also there are two coontrol addons that I know of that became very very popular: the PS2 eyetoy (that thing sold more than the Network Adapter!), and the original PSone Dual Shock. We have to separate controller add-ons, which sometimes succeed, vs other add-ons, which mostly don't.
They're still less expensive than a Windows box would be, and much quieter. $299 will get him an Oblivion capable PS3 or Xbox 360 with HDMI out. It's the same base game on all platforms, sure you can add mods and more official add ons on the PC version but they're not required and the base GOTY version of the game has plenty of stuff. I'm over 200 hours in and I still haven't been to Kvatch.
And while the consoles are restricted in certain ways, thos restrictions are what make them "no muss no fuss" gaming platforms.
Game consoles ARE computers. Special purpose computers designed specifically for gaming, but computers nonetheless. They have inputs, outputs, RAM, registers and CPU. Some of them can even run general purpose operating systems.
If he wants to play Oblivion and output it to a big screen TV in the living room, a PS3 or Xbox 360 is a valid choice. They're cheap, no muss no fuss solution.
Sure he could get a Windows box and hook it up, but it would be larger, more noisy and cost more money. Sure, he'd have access to the Oblivion mod community, but tho Out of the box game IS enjoyable even without such things.
Intersexed people find the use of the word "hermaphrodite, offensive, and most wouldn't consider being so a "gender" (which is how you feel) versus a condition that affects their sex organs.
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Then don't download mkv's, download MP4 containers instead. Perhaps you should be telling the pirates to put their h264 AVC (which is MPEG4 Layer 10) files in MPEG4 containers.
Perhaps you should encourage the pirates to put their h264 (MP4 AVC) files in MPEG4 containers as god intended.
USA is owned by NBC-Universal, it's simply where NBC puts the shows that are good enough quality for NBC, but a little too quirky/experimental for NBC's audience. For example L&O SVU (beloved by soccer moms because of the "will someone please think of the children" meme of a lot of episodes) stays on NBC, but L&O CI (the quirky cerebral L&O) gets moved to USA.
Hit Triangle, then View All to explore the iPod's directory tree on the PS3. That's for FAT iPods, not the older HFS ones.
Considering I own the the PS2 Linux kit and have a Yellow Dog Linux install on my PS3....the answer is yes. Funny thing is, back in the 8-bit days there used to be more PC ports. For example, I've got a copy of the NES versions of Bards Tale, and MIght and Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum. With tweaked UI the former lack of keyboard and mouse was not as much as a limitation as you might think. (The PS2 and PS3 have USB ports for a reason)
Fallout 3 doesn't have level scaling. There are certain places you simply don't want to go as a level 1 character, or places that would be extremely difficult to go to. Also, with Broken Steel, your low level character could run into one of the new enemies, Feral Ghoul Reaver, early in the game.
Who says we don't? And what is a "proper RPG" anyway. We don't really know, because nobody ports the games you might consider "proper RPG's" for us nowadays. And even if they do, they're Japan only like that PSone port of Ultima Underworld.
There are a few console games here and there that feel a bit more PC RPG inspired.
Nobody. Personally I think there's a place for a more forgiving roguelike a la the chunsoft games, but nethack is the most played roguelike.
What I want to know is why not more than 2 characters. Even Champions of Norrath on the PS2 supported 4 in both local same screen and online.
Why don't more people play it online! All those frakkin PS2 Snoblind Engine Diablo clones, and no one plays them online. Though part of that might be the fact that online play doesn't work if you play them on a PS3, the game doesn't recognize the virtualized Network Adapter that the PS3 presents to them.
Nethack, FreeCiv, Ur-Quan Masters
PS3 owners do buy "casual" games, but they buy them via PSN. Which kind of leaves the PS3 in a bit of a pickle. The kind of folks who find the Wii appealing don't know about PSN or the fact that there are party and casual games on it. They can see the Wii's "family game night" library, but they see the PS3 with it's "Shooter of the week" lineup and don't look elsewhere.
They celebrate a traitor? One who chose to turn his back on the constitution he had sworn to protect, because he was a "Virginian first, and American second"?
Dr. Martin Luther King was a better man than that traitorous bastard Lee ever was.
An honourable man would not have taken up arms against the consititution he was sworn to defend. In fact, both men were Traitors with a capital T. Lee refused Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army and in fact commanded the Army opposing it. Had I been Lincoln, I would have had Lee executed on the spot when captured, the bastard.
Lets put it another way. Suppose GWB had offered me the command of the Army in Afghanistan. Suppose instead I took up command of the Taliban instead. That would make me a Traitor, right?
It actually began with Roosevelt with the Democrats essentially becoming two parties: Northern and Southern, kind of like how the Republican party is two parties now: Church and Country Club. The resentment just built up over the years, the Dixiecrats hated Elanor Roosevelt, and they didn't like Truman desegregating the military, but Kennedy and LBJ broke the camels back. And then as you said, Nixon was glad to have them, he needed them because there weren't enough Country Club Republicans to win elections in many places.
No, they don't. Illinois doesn't.
Go ahead, secede. Watch those federal dollars that welfare-queen state Texas gets go back home to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. We don't need you, you need us to prop you up. That goes for the rest of the South too, and deep down, the citizens down there know it, which is why there's still a lot of resentment towards states like "Taxachusetts" or Illinois. Because if it wasn't for us, youd still be all barefoot and sharecropping for "Colonel/Judge Beauregard Stonwall Custis LeeTolliver in the big house on the hill"
I've lived in areas with so-called volunteer fire departments and every single one depends on a big-town fire department that is paid for with tax dollars to come to their assistance for anything really serious. And often the "volunteer" departments will have a couple of paid firemen.
They're working on that too. There's a vocal bunch of assholes who want to replace The Star Spangled Banner with "God Bless America" as the official national anthem.
They already put "under God" in the pledge of allegiance which wasn't in there when my Father and Mother learned it as kids.
immigration, you get poor white trash moving from kentucky/tennessee/alabama etc, every so often. They bring their culture with them. Happened in Illinois during the great depression, which sent hordes of sharecroppers (including my Father's grandparents and mother) up north for better lives where they weren't essentially working for whatever "Judge" or "Colonel" (and their close relatives) that owned the entire county. And again in the early 70's and in the late 90's early 2000's. Then in return, our rich folks move south for the winter weather, at least temporarily. So we get poor white trash with no money and they get our folks with money for roughtly 3 or 4 months of the year.
And the culture thing....wow. They're so fucking loud. "Scraggly goattee guy with the nascar cap" screams at "Fat girlfriend who looks a bit native american" to get his smokes, and she screams at lher little girl who looks biracial to not run around, while the girlfriends even fatter mother is screaming that she needs smokes too while carrying her youngest child which is younger than her daughters daughter. And they're all wearing socks with sandals/crocs in the middle of an Illinois winter. It's the southerners that brought that up north. Scraggly goattee guy often has Klan symbos on the vehicle and has a job as a welder/working on cars/truck driver.
They bring their churches with them too, once enough of them are in an area they get some old building like an old fertilizer or lawn equipment dealership and put a cross on it. My dad was raised in a church that was primarily southern immigrants and he told me that they taught them all sorts of bigoted stuff that he had to unlearn as the years went by. They weren't happy when he stopped going and were even unhappier when he married my mom, who was a Presbyterian. Wanna know what old time southern evangelicals call Presbyterians? Presbyjewians It was also a church where playing cards was fine, but using dice for any reason was the devil's thing, so they had to play monopoly with a special spinner. A similar church in the same town, also comprised of southern immigrants had the exact opposite rules, no cards, but dice were okay.
The PS3 Eye is not the same as the PS2's Eyetoy. SCEfoo did test out a wand controller prototype with the PS2 Eyetoy, but it never went beyond that, probably for the reasons you state. But the PS3 Eye is a better camera than the Eyetoy, so maybe they can pull it off now.
I remember reading about SCEfoo testing a wand controller with the PS2 eyetoy, never went beyond prototype though.
Also there are two coontrol addons that I know of that became very very popular: the PS2 eyetoy (that thing sold more than the Network Adapter!), and the original PSone Dual Shock. We have to separate controller add-ons, which sometimes succeed, vs other add-ons, which mostly don't.
They're still less expensive than a Windows box would be, and much quieter. $299 will get him an Oblivion capable PS3 or Xbox 360 with HDMI out. It's the same base game on all platforms, sure you can add mods and more official add ons on the PC version but they're not required and the base GOTY version of the game has plenty of stuff. I'm over 200 hours in and I still haven't been to Kvatch.
And while the consoles are restricted in certain ways, thos restrictions are what make them "no muss no fuss" gaming platforms.
Game consoles ARE computers. Special purpose computers designed specifically for gaming, but computers nonetheless. They have inputs, outputs, RAM, registers and CPU. Some of them can even run general purpose operating systems.
If he wants to play Oblivion and output it to a big screen TV in the living room, a PS3 or Xbox 360 is a valid choice. They're cheap, no muss no fuss solution.
Sure he could get a Windows box and hook it up, but it would be larger, more noisy and cost more money. Sure, he'd have access to the Oblivion mod community, but tho Out of the box game IS enjoyable even without such things.
Intersexed people find the use of the word "hermaphrodite, offensive, and most wouldn't consider being so a "gender" (which is how you feel) versus a condition that affects their sex organs.