RPG fans own PS2's not Xboxes. Morrowind/Oblivion are among the few Xboxfoo games I'd actually want to play. But I'm not going to buy a new system just for 2 or 3 games. But a PS3, which plays my current PS1/PS2 library plus new games, and runs Linux. that's a system I'd buy.
Who says it's limited to 64 megs, that's just the size of the internal storage.
Look, if sony hadn't included the slots people would have whined about being limited to whatever internal storage the thing has.
Only include slots and people without cards would whine that they couldn't use it out of the box
As for the price, it's got a large e-ink screen, plays music, displays photos and does the e-book thing. Yes that iPod costs less, but it can't do what the e-reader does.
It sounds to me like they have, once again, given it far more features than it needs, resulting in, as usual, exorbitant prices.
Of course they did, because multi-purpose devices are what consumers "say" they want. Even when sometimes they don't want that, but just think they do.
And as for DRM, the PSP can play DRM'd atrac, but it also plays mp3, aac, and wma. This e-book is the same sort of deal. Yes, you can buy DRM'd books from Sony, but you don't have to and can put your own stuff on there.
It was also an outside company that created the infamous rootkit, Sony contracted for CD "protection" software from a third party. Blame them for the rootkit, blame sony for just being anal about protecting it's CD business.
Yes, my bandwidth setting is maxed out. ('m on a 5000/256 connection. The frickin client still doesn't use it like it should, though the newer clients are much better in that regard.
I'm running SL on a Gateway 400sp Plus, thats a 2.2Ghz Mobile Celeron, i852/855GME integrated graphics, 512MB of RAM.
OK, let's play this little game again. The actual human being behind the computer (unless there's a bot controlling it) is 87.5% male. Just like WoW. Just like every computer program since computers were invented. It's just the way it is. There may very well be more female avatars, but that means very little.
You know, lots of women actually use computers too. It's not like the Imsai or Apple I or Commodore PET days when there was a grain of truth to what you're thinking.
"Every computer program" is hyperbole and chauvinism pure and simple. It's almost like you're offended that there might be an online game that women might find appealing.
Second Life is not WoW, it's not Everquest, it's not even like the Sims, which have a lot of female players. Trust me, the number of female players of Second Life is much higher than the traditionally male grind and raid MMORPG's
In most MMORPGS even if the user base is 80% male the ratio of male to female avatars is about even right? That's not the case in Second Life, where female avatars easily outnumber the men. That's because not only do you have some men playing female avatars you also have lots of women playing female avatars.
There's Second Life podcasts, listen to them. Yep, women. Look at all the fashion blogs do you think the average "only plays a female av because she's got big hooters to ogle MMORPG guy" writes them?
What the? Somebody rated you offtopic. Perhaps, but you did give out useful information.
Apparently SL sucks on everybody's machine. There's folk for whom creating a new folder in inventory crashes the client, other folks who crash when taking a screenshot. For my sake, I average between 2 and 10 fps, even with draw distance set to minimum, dropping resolution will raise that a little.
Inventory management and transferring objects is still a huge fucking mess.
What I wouldn't give for a better inventory system or even a command line shell for inventory manipulation
As someone else said, the shirt you bought was probably in the box that you ended up wearing on your chest.
At least the default attachment point was changed to the hand from the head. Had too many boxes remove my prim hair. Even seasoned players had that happen when they'd think a newly bought item was ready-to-wear.
Unfortunately, there's no way to move objects from a box in your inventory to another part of your inventory... you've got to put the box out in the world somewhere (I've taken to attaching it to my HUD, so nobody sees it) and interact with it from there. It's counterintuitive, to say the least.
You can attach boxes to your HUD? I didn't know that, I thought that was just for scripted objects like SLURLblogger, or a mood HUD or Second Style magazine.:-)
I guess you didn't pay attention during/at orientation island, and thus did not know how to get items out of the boxes sellers sometimes put them in. You also weren't paying enough attention to find all the stuff that's out there that's free/cheap for new folk.
"Wearing well" probably means something akin to "no weird graphical/color glitches, and that it works well with your own shape. (some items don't work very well depending on shape)
Last I read LL esitmates the number of female SL players at between 40 and 50%. It's much higher thany any other online game I've played.
And while female fashion does predominate, there's plenty of places to find good men's clothes. Just read the SL fashoin blogs. Yes, I know, fashion blogs about virtual fashion. But that's practically the only way to keep track of stuff.
I fully expect nursing homes of the future to have some kind of "media lab filled with computers/consoles) where certain residents will spend their time playing games.
Or perhaps they'll switch to those hospital thin client web browser thingies I've seen lately.
Because "Jools", Nethack, or Maelstrom aren't competing with the commercial games, they're in addition to them. Those little indy puzzle games don't replace boxed games, they supplement them.
Kind of like Geometry Wars for the Xbox360, or Nintendo's Virtual console.
Overall the GC is more powerful than the PS2 but the PS2 does have the advantage in certain categories, particle effects for example. That's one thing the PS2 is VERY good at.
But why the PS2 "won"? Games, lots of games, lots of diverse games, lots of high quality games, games for final fantasy fans, games for RPG fans who don't like final fantasy, FPS, TPS, online games, MMORPGS, action RPG's, diablo clones up the wazoo, niche games, board games, games that you can make games with. more character based platformers than the GC by far., sports games, wrestling games, racing games, you name it the PS2 has it.
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Port the C64 version? MULE was released for the NES.
You can't cast MM at a target you can't see.
Fireball on the other hand is an area spell that doesn't demand a target.
Use the right tool for the job.
RPG fans own PS2's not Xboxes. Morrowind/Oblivion are among the few Xboxfoo games I'd actually want to play. But I'm not going to buy a new system just for 2 or 3 games. But a PS3, which plays my current PS1/PS2 library plus new games, and runs Linux. that's a system I'd buy.
Who says it's limited to 64 megs, that's just the size of the internal storage.
Look, if sony hadn't included the slots people would have whined about being limited to whatever internal storage the thing has.
Only include slots and people without cards would whine that they couldn't use it out of the box
As for the price, it's got a large e-ink screen, plays music, displays photos and does the e-book thing. Yes that iPod costs less, but it can't do what the e-reader does.
Sony can't win with you people.
Of course they did, because multi-purpose devices are what consumers "say" they want. Even when sometimes they don't want that, but just think they do.
Did you RTFA? The thing has SD and MS slots.
And as for DRM, the PSP can play DRM'd atrac, but it also plays mp3, aac, and wma. This e-book is the same sort of deal. Yes, you can buy DRM'd books from Sony, but you don't have to and can put your own stuff on there.
It was also an outside company that created the infamous rootkit, Sony contracted for CD "protection" software from a third party. Blame them for the rootkit, blame sony for just being anal about protecting it's CD business.
Sony's been ADDING MP3 support to their devices in the past couple of years. They're not going to turn it off. Even the PSP can handle txt files.
Sony cracking down on people pirating games is unrelated.
The Sony PSP doesn't mention that it works in Linux, but it most certainly does. The e-Reader probably works the same way.
And even if you can't plug it in directly just take the MS or SD card out and put it in a card reader.
Jessie was a region in Second Life, not a person:
h tml
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2003/07/war_of_the_jess.
Those shallow and materialistic fashionistas raised a lot of money for the Second Life Relay for Life.
Although clothes themselves are not scripted, fashion accessories can be:
hair ornaments
shoes
purses
jewelry
Yes, my bandwidth setting is maxed out. ('m on a 5000/256 connection. The frickin client still doesn't use it like it should, though the newer clients are much better in that regard.
I'm running SL on a Gateway 400sp Plus, thats a 2.2Ghz Mobile Celeron, i852/855GME integrated graphics, 512MB of RAM.
You know, lots of women actually use computers too. It's not like the Imsai or Apple I or Commodore PET days when there was a grain of truth to what you're thinking.
"Every computer program" is hyperbole and chauvinism pure and simple. It's almost like you're offended that there might be an online game that women might find appealing.
Second Life is not WoW, it's not Everquest, it's not even like the Sims, which have a lot of female players. Trust me, the number of female players of Second Life is much higher than the traditionally male grind and raid MMORPG's
In most MMORPGS even if the user base is 80% male the ratio of male to female avatars is about even right? That's not the case in Second Life, where female avatars easily outnumber the men. That's because not only do you have some men playing female avatars you also have lots of women playing female avatars.
There's Second Life podcasts, listen to them. Yep, women. Look at all the fashion blogs do you think the average "only plays a female av because she's got big hooters to ogle MMORPG guy" writes them?
What the? Somebody rated you offtopic. Perhaps, but you did give out useful information.
Apparently SL sucks on everybody's machine. There's folk for whom creating a new folder in inventory crashes the client, other folks who crash when taking a screenshot. For my sake, I average between 2 and 10 fps, even with draw distance set to minimum, dropping resolution will raise that a little.
What I wouldn't give for a better inventory system or even a command line shell for inventory manipulation
At least the default attachment point was changed to the hand from the head. Had too many boxes remove my prim hair. Even seasoned players had that happen when they'd think a newly bought item was ready-to-wear.
You can attach boxes to your HUD? I didn't know that, I thought that was just for scripted objects like SLURLblogger, or a mood HUD or Second Style magazine.
I guess you didn't pay attention during/at orientation island, and thus did not know how to get items out of the boxes sellers sometimes put them in. You also weren't paying enough attention to find all the stuff that's out there that's free/cheap for new folk.
No they don't wear out.
"Wearing well" probably means something akin to "no weird graphical/color glitches, and that it works well with your own shape. (some items don't work very well depending on shape)
You forgot Barnes Boutique. There's also an new place called 1-900-Bettie that has some retro "snappy men's suits"
And there's that new SL men's fashion blog under the Second Style banner, can't remember the name of it right now. Second man or something.
Last I read LL esitmates the number of female SL players at between 40 and 50%. It's much higher thany any other online game I've played.
And while female fashion does predominate, there's plenty of places to find good men's clothes. Just read the SL fashoin blogs. Yes, I know, fashion blogs about virtual fashion. But that's practically the only way to keep track of stuff.
Yes, it supports DVI out, you can buy HDMI to DVI adapters.
I figure thats what Sony was expecting PS3 owners would do until HDMI TV's dropped in price, hook them up to monitors.
I fully expect nursing homes of the future to have some kind of "media lab filled with computers/consoles) where certain residents will spend their time playing games.
Or perhaps they'll switch to those hospital thin client web browser thingies I've seen lately.
I hate it when reviewers in the varous magazines (most of whom are in their mid 30's) say this 10 your game is too short.
Perhaps, but you play games for a living. Give me a 10-20 hour game over a 100 hour monstrosity, these days, though I wish I had more time.
And that's another flame war right there.
:-)
Do you snap your suspenders when you pine for the days of punch cards and paper teletypes?
I refuse to play roguelikes that don't have numpad support. But I do think they should keep vi-key support in there for curmudgeons like yourself.
Because "Jools", Nethack, or Maelstrom aren't competing with the commercial games, they're in addition to them. Those little indy puzzle games don't replace boxed games, they supplement them.
Kind of like Geometry Wars for the Xbox360, or Nintendo's Virtual console.
Overall the GC is more powerful than the PS2 but the PS2 does have the advantage in certain categories, particle effects for example. That's one thing the PS2 is VERY good at.
But why the PS2 "won"? Games, lots of games, lots of diverse games, lots of high quality games, games for final fantasy fans, games for RPG fans who don't like final fantasy, FPS, TPS, online games, MMORPGS, action RPG's, diablo clones up the wazoo, niche games, board games, games that you can make games with. more character based platformers than the GC by far., sports games, wrestling games, racing games, you name it the PS2 has it.