Nobody ever gets the reference because nobody played the game. Anachronox was a JRPG that was PC only. Meaning the people who like that sort of thing, console gamers, never got to play it, and those who tend to not like them, PC gamers, didn't want to.
In other words, the Anachronox developers were stupidly stupid in not designing the game for the PSone or porting it to the PS2 in the first place.
The late Tony Jay was the narrator in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, he's also the narrator of The Bard's Tale game they did using the Snowblind engine. He's also the voice of the Beholder, Xantam, in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Mozilla also doesn't even create proper packages for Linux users to download. They may feel it is too difficult to target so many distros and so many different versions of each distro (and provide tech support for all that variety).
Opera does though, I was actually amazed when I found out that Opera themselves release binaries for Linux on PPC (Yellow Dog). You can even get the current Opera for YDL versions as old as 2.3, and Red Hat back to 6.2. They also support BeOS, OS/2, QNX, and Solaris (both Sparc and Intel).
The C64 doesn't itself use a track layout, the 1541 drive itself does because it's a smart drive with it's own CPU. It handles the actual writing of the data, not the C64.
The successor drive to the 1541, the 1571 can read and write MFM formats, including the DOS floppy format (with the right software). It can do so no matter which machine (C64 or C128) it's hooked up to.
Hey, stop stereotyping console players there's some of us that have no desire to ever play Madden. For all you know the OP could be playing the PC version of FO3.
Personally even though I'm supposed to be going to Little Lamplight to find a way into the vault, I'm just wandering around finding new locations and exploring. Heck, I haven't even been to Kvatch in Oblivion and I"ve put over a hundred hours into that.
I almost wish that Fallout 3 had NOT been released on console so that the true Fallout fans would be spared the indignity of hearing the complaints of the unwashed console FPS masses who play War Game 200X and Madden Football 200X and then complain when they don't "get" Fallout and ask why it couldn't be more like any of the other forgettable console games which come and go each year.
I play games on consoles, I've never owned a Madden game, never owned a WCW/WWE game, don't play NBA, don't play ESPNfoo. Please don't stereotype us all, by the actions of a few idiots.
I bought Fallout 3 knowing it would be an RPG and not an actual traditional FPS. I very much enjoy playing it on my PS3. it's actually a bit more "fun" for me than Oblivion.
OpenSuse? Why not YDL? Yeah, I know the YDL community is pretty much mostly those running it on PS3's these days, but that's pretty much the case with all the PPC Linux distros
Ok, maybe the merc outfits in the boonies would be scraping together a mixed team but you'd think the major Houses would operate uniform units simply to keep the supply chain sensible.
Houses did operate more uniform units. it's even said that some Mechs are extremely uncommon and that most units use only a few. For example, Federated Suns units are heavy with Rifleman mechs. While the Crapellans have lots of Cataphracts.
Some mechs, even if they look different, share components and have similar internal structure. For example, the classic Fusigon Longtooth was a common PPC on many mechs.
This is one reason why Omnimechs took over in the clans' because it simplified logistics. Sure you can replace a damaged Fusigon Longtooth with a Lords Light PPC, but it takes a good tech quite some time. While, with an omnimech, you can just remove and replace even between mechs of different masses.
Y'know, this might be a circumstance where voice control would come in handy for some functions. Instead of a button for jump jets, just wear a headset and say jumpjets.
Ha ha, no. Go find a copy of the PSone version of MechWarrior 2. Try playing it with the standard-at-that-time pre dual-shock digital PSone controller. Not very fun. Now play it with that big ass PSone Dual Analog Joystick (the big one that looks like a flightstick), much much better, and that's how it's meant to be played. Because you needed to have easy access to those functions while turning/moving/changing speed and the BIG joystick could do it.
And when I capture you and make you my bondsman and your mech my isorla, As your first assignment, you will have to clean a 3050 Wolverine, that is painted in the colors of Clan Wolverine. I will do that solely to make you say the word "Wolverine" and if you refuse to use the word or use the term "Not-named Mech" or refuse to use contractions in speech, I'll have you shot with a gyroslug carbine and then beheaded with a vibro-katana. Just on general principles. As much as you clanners talk about how you've kept language pure, you haven't. All those words those Kerensky boys you worship added to Clan speak aren't Standard Star League English.
The only good clanner, is a dead one.
Archon Prince Victor Ian Steiner-Davion is my shepherd, he leadeth me to kill lots of Clanners. Next stop, Strana Mechty.
You were close, it's actually the NAIS, New Avalon Institute of Science.
And for those who don't know, GDL stands for Gray Death Legion, who found a Star League memory core on the planet Helm near the end of the Fourth Succession War. They then gave copies to all the Great Houses who then began decoding it and becoming able to bring back some of the technology lost in the First, Second, and Third Succession Wars
I still love that line they wrote for Hanse Davion: "Wife, in honor of our marriage, in addition to this morsel I give you a vast prize. My love, I give you the Capellan Confederation!"
I doubt you spent nearly as much on your PC though,
Actually, they both cost more. The older machine, bought in 2003 was 3x the price of the PS2 (bought in 2001), The more recent machine was less expensive, but still a bit more expensive than the Ps3
Pc gaming is also cheaper (I have spent less on my entire gaming "carer" and I used to be seriously hooked (tournaments and everything), than my brother has just on the consoles hes bought(ps,ps2+xbox,xbox360+wii)).
Impossible. you're telling me all your hardware and hardware upgrades since 1995 cost less than that?
let you have multiple input devices like rudder pedals and a joystick.
We know multiple input devices can be done, so it's up to the developers to put that support in, it's not impossible. I also know that the Xbox 360's Hori Flight stick (for use with Ace Combat) has rudder controls on the throttle. That stick itself is a clone of the Saitek X-45.
Try setting up head tracking and stereoscopic video on that IL2 port for the XBOX 360 for example.
I'll grant you that's not likely to happen, but how many players of the PC version do that. You have to be among the hardest of the hard core sim grognards to have that kind of setup. I'd lay odds the majority if IL2 players, play on a single screen, without head tracking or stereoscopic video and with a basic joystick and throttle setup.
And if you don't think you get a "dumbed down" gaming experience on them you aren't paying attention.
I know the gaming experienced isn't dumbed down, unless you define dumbed down as "not having the games I enjoy like the grognard flight sims". I've played console ports of PC games on various consoles (from the 2600 on down) that were pretty much the exact same game on both platforms.
I do remember the first game that went from water was a blue surface w/static animations to water being a T&L surface with actual waves where you can go splashing in the water and it was just like WOW.
What game was it for you? It was Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance for me. I think I spent a minute or two just walking around in it when I first ran into that water early in the game.
Now another thing about consoles. Try playing a realistic flight or space sim on them. You'll run out of buttons real quick. Consoles are USELESS when it comes to realistic sims. Especially something like IL2 Sturmovik.
Of course they're useless for that, because no one's ever done a Falcon/Jane's/bearded sim grognard with a full cockpit setup type games for them. Doesn't mean they couldn't be done though. In fact, a version of IL2 is going to be released for the PS3, Xbox 360, DS and PSP with two modes, a "simulation mode" (which plays like the PC version) and an "Arcade mode". I'd lay odds that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will support USB joystick and throttle setups since that was traditional for such games on the PS2.
Consoles are neat but with the limited controllers and little room for expansion when it comes to things like flightsticks and rudder pedals and such they just don't interest me much.
The PS2/PS3/Xbox 360/Wii have USB ports for a reason. In fact, pick yourself up a cheap PS2 and a copy of Ace Combat 4 or later. Plug your USB joystick+throttle setup in, enjoy. The Ace Combat games are arcade style, but at least you can use the joystick+throttle setup.
It's possible to do this, there are two ways (and two games) that do it:
First method requires multiple older model PS2's with the Firewire ports, a firewire hub, the necessary cables, multiple copies of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, and three TV's.
Gran Turismo 4 does it using ethernet, which means you can do it with either PS2's or PS3's with backwards compatibility, or a mixture of the two.
While the average 12 yr old may not be interested, mommy can't afford it or they can't fit 3 displays in their living room, these technologies interest ME. I don't want my game experience dumbed down so they can make a few more sales to 12 year old kids. THAT is the problem with consoles.
It isn't 1985 anymore. The consoles aren't just for kids or being used by kids. The average age is about 30 now or a bit older now.
A lot of folks back then essentially used their C64's, Atari's and Amigas as game consoles, and never used them for anything else, at least after the crash of '84. The C64 and Amiga were actually originally designed to be consoles, that were turned into computers later in their development. Nigh about 87 a lot of those people had shifted to the NES.
MMORPG - forget having a complex worlds with different spells at your fingertips with just a few buttons
Do you really need access to all your spells all the time? Are there not spells you rarely use? Couldn't an interface be designed to take that into account? Yes, yes it could and has been done...twice. I've played both console MMORPG's: Final Fantasy XI and Everquest Online Adventures. Though you need a keyboard for communicating, you don't really need it to control the game, because the games UI has been designed properly to not need a bajillion keys for EVERY single spell or skill.
RTS - seriously no chance of playing anything but a simplified RTS with just a few buttons
You'll have to define "few" because modern consoles have a lot of buttons, that can be used in combination as well. They have enough to play Warzone 2100, several C&C's, Warcraft II, Starcraft, and Dune 2000. Using the analog sticks for map scrolling and/or pointer movement also frees up the d-pad for other functions.
better bang for buck for hardware - Ok some specs are better on game systems when they are first released, but given that pcs can be upgraded and generally come with more than 512MB ram, if you spend $400 upgrading you system every 3/4 years (probably more often if you bought an xbox) you system would be far more powerful than any current gen system.
It's more like every 5 to 6 years for most console gamers, Microsoft is an anomaly in the market. As for powerful, the fastest CPU in this household is the Cell in the PS3 and I figure that's the case in most households. And even for gaming, most people don't play anything other than simple flash games or solitaire on their PC and just have integrated graphics. Our PC here is no match for the PS3 as a gaming device (nvidia 7150m), just like our previous PC (Intel 852/855 GME) was no match for the PS2. In fact, for certain things, the PS3 might even be better at doing them than the PC is. For example, if I wanted to batch scale some images from the digital camera it would probably be easier (and perhaps faster) to do so using ImageMagick under Linux on the PS3 than trying to do it in Windows Vista.
Free(ish) multiplayer gaming for most genres.
Only Microsoft charges for multiplayer. PS2/PS3 owners have free multiplayer, except for MMORPG's of course.
Better communities / multiplayer architecture for most genres - having dedicated servers, forums and admins, produces a much better gaming experience than xbox/wii/ps3-live ever can
Are you sure the consoles don't have such things? Because they do, at least for some games.
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Nobody ever gets the reference because nobody played the game. Anachronox was a JRPG that was PC only. Meaning the people who like that sort of thing, console gamers, never got to play it, and those who tend to not like them, PC gamers, didn't want to.
In other words, the Anachronox developers were stupidly stupid in not designing the game for the PSone or porting it to the PS2 in the first place.
But that was originally a line in the John Carpenter film "They Live" starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.
The late Tony Jay was the narrator in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, he's also the narrator of The Bard's Tale game they did using the Snowblind engine. He's also the voice of the Beholder, Xantam, in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Opera does though, I was actually amazed when I found out that Opera themselves release binaries for Linux on PPC (Yellow Dog). You can even get the current Opera for YDL versions as old as 2.3, and Red Hat back to 6.2. They also support BeOS, OS/2, QNX, and Solaris (both Sparc and Intel).
At least you've got an official Flash plugin, we Linux on PPC folks have to make do with gnash.
Your pictures don't have EXIF data?
Apparently, ncal lets you ask for the month by name and not number and it's default will display the current month calendar.
The C64 doesn't itself use a track layout, the 1541 drive itself does because it's a smart drive with it's own CPU. It handles the actual writing of the data, not the C64.
The successor drive to the 1541, the 1571 can read and write MFM formats, including the DOS floppy format (with the right software). It can do so no matter which machine (C64 or C128) it's hooked up to.
Hey, stop stereotyping console players there's some of us that have no desire to ever play Madden. For all you know the OP could be playing the PC version of FO3.
Personally even though I'm supposed to be going to Little Lamplight to find a way into the vault, I'm just wandering around finding new locations and exploring. Heck, I haven't even been to Kvatch in Oblivion and I"ve put over a hundred hours into that.
I play games on consoles, I've never owned a Madden game, never owned a WCW/WWE game, don't play NBA, don't play ESPNfoo. Please don't stereotype us all, by the actions of a few idiots.
I bought Fallout 3 knowing it would be an RPG and not an actual traditional FPS. I very much enjoy playing it on my PS3. it's actually a bit more "fun" for me than Oblivion.
Fallout 3 is an RPG, it's not an FPS and not meant to be played as such.
OpenSuse? Why not YDL? Yeah, I know the YDL community is pretty much mostly those running it on PS3's these days, but that's pretty much the case with all the PPC Linux distros
Houses did operate more uniform units. it's even said that some Mechs are extremely uncommon and that most units use only a few. For example, Federated Suns units are heavy with Rifleman mechs. While the Crapellans have lots of Cataphracts.
Some mechs, even if they look different, share components and have similar internal structure. For example, the classic Fusigon Longtooth was a common PPC on many mechs.
This is one reason why Omnimechs took over in the clans' because it simplified logistics. Sure you can replace a damaged Fusigon Longtooth with a Lords Light PPC, but it takes a good tech quite some time. While, with an omnimech, you can just remove and replace even between mechs of different masses.
Y'know, this might be a circumstance where voice control would come in handy for some functions. Instead of a button for jump jets, just wear a headset and say jumpjets.
Ha ha, no. Go find a copy of the PSone version of MechWarrior 2. Try playing it with the standard-at-that-time pre dual-shock digital PSone controller. Not very fun. Now play it with that big ass PSone Dual Analog Joystick (the big one that looks like a flightstick), much much better, and that's how it's meant to be played. Because you needed to have easy access to those functions while turning/moving/changing speed and the BIG joystick could do it.
What about MegaMek?
And when I capture you and make you my bondsman and your mech my isorla, As your first assignment, you will have to clean a 3050 Wolverine, that is painted in the colors of Clan Wolverine. I will do that solely to make you say the word "Wolverine" and if you refuse to use the word or use the term "Not-named Mech" or refuse to use contractions in speech, I'll have you shot with a gyroslug carbine and then beheaded with a vibro-katana. Just on general principles. As much as you clanners talk about how you've kept language pure, you haven't. All those words those Kerensky boys you worship added to Clan speak aren't Standard Star League English.
The only good clanner, is a dead one.
Archon Prince Victor Ian Steiner-Davion is my shepherd, he leadeth me to kill lots of Clanners.
Next stop, Strana Mechty.
You were close, it's actually the NAIS, New Avalon Institute of Science.
And for those who don't know, GDL stands for Gray Death Legion, who found a Star League memory core on the planet Helm near the end of the Fourth Succession War. They then gave copies to all the Great Houses who then began decoding it and becoming able to bring back some of the technology lost in the First, Second, and Third Succession Wars
I still love that line they wrote for Hanse Davion: "Wife, in honor of our marriage, in addition to this morsel I give you a vast prize. My love, I give you the Capellan Confederation!"
Actually, they both cost more. The older machine, bought in 2003 was 3x the price of the PS2 (bought in 2001), The more recent machine was less expensive, but still a bit more expensive than the Ps3
Impossible. you're telling me all your hardware and hardware upgrades since 1995 cost less than that?
You'd be surprised how fast a control pad can be manipulated. In C&C RA it works this way:
You drag select your units.
Hit L2 + either Triangle, Circle, Cross, or Square to assign that unit to one of the four teams (named after the buttons)
Then from then on L1 + those buttons select that team.
We know multiple input devices can be done, so it's up to the developers to put that support in, it's not impossible. I also know that the Xbox 360's Hori Flight stick (for use with Ace Combat) has rudder controls on the throttle. That stick itself is a clone of the Saitek X-45.
I'll grant you that's not likely to happen, but how many players of the PC version do that. You have to be among the hardest of the hard core sim grognards to have that kind of setup. I'd lay odds the majority if IL2 players, play on a single screen, without head tracking or stereoscopic video and with a basic joystick and throttle setup.
I know the gaming experienced isn't dumbed down, unless you define dumbed down as "not having the games I enjoy like the grognard flight sims". I've played console ports of PC games on various consoles (from the 2600 on down) that were pretty much the exact same game on both platforms.
What game was it for you? It was Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance for me. I think I spent a minute or two just walking around in it when I first ran into that water early in the game.
Of course they're useless for that, because no one's ever done a Falcon/Jane's/bearded sim grognard with a full cockpit setup type games for them. Doesn't mean they couldn't be done though. In fact, a version of IL2 is going to be released for the PS3, Xbox 360, DS and PSP with two modes, a "simulation mode" (which plays like the PC version) and an "Arcade mode". I'd lay odds that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will support USB joystick and throttle setups since that was traditional for such games on the PS2.
The PS2/PS3/Xbox 360/Wii have USB ports for a reason. In fact, pick yourself up a cheap PS2 and a copy of Ace Combat 4 or later. Plug your USB joystick+throttle setup in, enjoy. The Ace Combat games are arcade style, but at least you can use the joystick+throttle setup.
http://www.netjak.com/review.php/746 Yeah it's pretty much the same as the Saitek ones.
It's possible to do this, there are two ways (and two games) that do it:
First method requires multiple older model PS2's with the Firewire ports, a firewire hub, the necessary cables, multiple copies of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, and three TV's.
Gran Turismo 4 does it using ethernet, which means you can do it with either PS2's or PS3's with backwards compatibility, or a mixture of the two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bWtiHuNiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InbpwE3fnQs&NR=1
It isn't 1985 anymore. The consoles aren't just for kids or being used by kids. The average age is about 30 now or a bit older now.
A lot of folks back then essentially used their C64's, Atari's and Amigas as game consoles, and never used them for anything else, at least after the crash of '84. The C64 and Amiga were actually originally designed to be consoles, that were turned into computers later in their development. Nigh about 87 a lot of those people had shifted to the NES.
Do you really need access to all your spells all the time? Are there not spells you rarely use? Couldn't an interface be designed to take that into account? Yes, yes it could and has been done...twice. I've played both console MMORPG's: Final Fantasy XI and Everquest Online Adventures. Though you need a keyboard for communicating, you don't really need it to control the game, because the games UI has been designed properly to not need a bajillion keys for EVERY single spell or skill.
You'll have to define "few" because modern consoles have a lot of buttons, that can be used in combination as well. They have enough to play Warzone 2100, several C&C's, Warcraft II, Starcraft, and Dune 2000. Using the analog sticks for map scrolling and/or pointer movement also frees up the d-pad for other functions.
It's more like every 5 to 6 years for most console gamers, Microsoft is an anomaly in the market. As for powerful, the fastest CPU in this household is the Cell in the PS3 and I figure that's the case in most households. And even for gaming, most people don't play anything other than simple flash games or solitaire on their PC and just have integrated graphics. Our PC here is no match for the PS3 as a gaming device (nvidia 7150m), just like our previous PC (Intel 852/855 GME) was no match for the PS2. In fact, for certain things, the PS3 might even be better at doing them than the PC is. For example, if I wanted to batch scale some images from the digital camera it would probably be easier (and perhaps faster) to do so using ImageMagick under Linux on the PS3 than trying to do it in Windows Vista.
Only Microsoft charges for multiplayer. PS2/PS3 owners have free multiplayer, except for MMORPG's of course.
Are you sure the consoles don't have such things? Because they do, at least for some games.