He probably just lives in southern California. Home of the one million dollar shacks and $1000/month electric bills. Though the rolling blackouts might be lowering his consumption.
Good point. Someone should come up with a standard on which the hard drives would be based so you won't need to have support for all of the different drives. Oh wait....
Sony somehow worked around this issue in allowing you to place any hard drive in your PS3. However, the PS2 supported any hard drive with the Linux kit or home brew. It only required the official Sony drive for Official games and the only thing that did was an additional identifier in the firmware of the drive.
Good choice. It's nothing other than a collection of mini games that aren't fun. There is some humorous writing. But the main game is broken and it doesn't like up to the Leisure Suit Larry name.
Because HD-DVDs can be encoded in either h.264 or VC-1. This movie was probably encoded in VC-1 on the actual disk. So the movie was decrypted and then put up for download. There isn't really a reason for the movie to be transcoded to h.264 as you'd lose quality from the reencode and the file would be made larger.
The rip on Pirate Bay is off an HDTV signal. This copy is directly off an HD-DVD and likely includes the interactive menus and all of the other content off the disk packaged in a single file.
I have my credit card handy to get one once this is available. I still love the Xbox Media Center; however, it not being able to decode HD connect hurts it. The PS3 on the other hand should have no problem decoding HD content. $500 HD MythTV Frontends are a great deal.
Actually phase 1 of the beta is live right now. They are in bug fixing so the normal beta date keeps getting pushed back. But you can play right now if you don't mind losing your progress.
Which is my point. The way Guildwars works, works well for them. Also the $50 price of the games is highly offset by not needing to pay monthly. Guildwars' model for story would not work for a company attempting to make money by monthly fees.
The point I'm trying to make is the difficulty of making an MMORPG with a good story. Guildwars has a good story, but the game is over very quickly. Something like Final Fantasy XI also has a good story, but it requires an large amount of work by the gamer approaching hardcore playing styles to experience it. So is there a way to create an MMORPG with a complex story the players would care about but not let it be beaten in a week or require the gamers to give up their lives to achieve it? The only way I could think of is doing it episodically which Guildwars is doing to a lesser extent, but release new content that continues the story on a set schedule like every month. The hardcore players could still fly though it, but having end game material to keep them busy could help them experience the community and more casual games could still experience the game at a comfortable pace while always having new content to explore.
You'll be happy to know Bethesda (Elder Scrolls Series) bought the rights to the Fallout IP and is making Fallout 3.
As for no stories, Final Fantasy XI had a larger over lying story which contained three points of views from the different nations you could be a citizen of. The biggest issue was forced grouping and needing coordination with a large amount of people to advance the story. Guildwars also has a nice story; however, hardcore players can beat it in one or two days. And casual players can easily finish in a month or so which isn't good for recurring monthly payments for the developer. I don't know if there will ever be a good balance between story and MMO elements.
I didn't care for Geometry Wars, though I only played Grid Wars 2. I do wonder what would happen if Microsoft released this Japanese Guy's stuff on XLA. Parsec47 is one of my favorite shoot'em ups and you can beat the price he charges.
Amen, I find a lot of the people who hate Oblivion started the series with Morrowind. I could get into Morrowind as it bored the hell out of me. Spending 6 hours crawling around a dungeon in Daggerfall was a blast though. I am happy for the compass in Oblivion though as it helped to streamline the game since I do longer have the time I did back when I played Daggerfall and Arena.
The PS3 is backwards compatible with PS2 (though there are some games with problems, the PS3 essentially includes a PSTwo Slimline-on-a-chip). It's not longer backwards compatible with PS1 games (which were only backwards compatible on the PS2 thanks to a PSOne-on-a-chip). Instead you get to re-purchase your PS1 games this time around so you can play them on your PSP. Like the Xbox 360, your old PS2 peripherals won't work with your new PS3.
All the $99 gets you is the ability to compile the code for you 360 and run it. You can freely develop on a PC and you don't have to pay the annual $99 fee. Sure it's not a tone of money, but it's not exactly cheap.
The PS2 Linux kit came with PDFs of the documentation that came with the professional very expensive Linux kit. I believe you receive 6 out of the 7 documents or something like that. I know they just didn't include one, though I don't remember which one it was.
I have to agree with you on Morrowind. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the people who praise Morrowind as the best game ever hate Oblivion. But the people who hated Morrowind love Oblivion. One of the best features of the past two games have been the ability to design plug ins to customize the way you play the game and fix issues with it.
Morrowind in its original state was just a huge empty world though plug ins made it feel alive. Oblivion kept me caring about the main quest throughout the whole game which has been something the other games in the series have lacked.
Now I just want them to release more Elder Scrolls: Adventures games as Redguard was a every fun game and I'd really like to see what they could pull off with current day hardware. I don't think the Legends series would do as well though. Battlespire was kind of a let down and I don't think a game of straight dungeon crawl would work, though keeping the multiplayer would make a small but vocal part of the fan base happy.
Kind of like how Telltale Game is doing it for Sam & Max? It's one month between episodes with the exception of a two month break between episodes one and two. Weekly they are releasing a mini video related to the game and you can purchase the full "season" and play the games as they come out.
SBC/AT&T do this as well with their DSL service though it requires opening a trouble ticket rather than just selecting a box. I actually wish more ISPs would do this and help stop all of the zombied spam going around.
And how is this any different than having modems onboard as we've had for years? Just use a surge protector that supports these lines.
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I guess I'll bite on the troll.
>For the record, yes, there were a few hardware problems. So few, in fact, that I have yet to meet one single >person who actually experienced them. When I've asked if they knew anybody who had the problem I always get >"Well, I've heard about it online." > >The hardware problems certainly happened. Hell, MS has taken responsibility for the early adopters who had problems >by refunding or replacing their equipment. But it wasn't a huge problem. Hell, it wasn't even a large problem. > >By contrast, the Wii -- which is a great system -- had problems, too. Nintendo said "oops!" and fixed them. > >And the PS3 overheating issues? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
I can't comment on PS3 issues, but I had the WiFi not working after firmware update problem and Nintendo next day'd a replacement to me. This is a far cry from the horror stories of people waiting several weeks for a 360 replacement.
>Going into what should have been its big holiday sales months, Microsoft only has Gears of War. > >...and Call of Duty 3, and Madden, to say nothing of the still-freaking-awesome Oblivion and the rest of its >catalog. Hell, even launch titles like PGR3 are still a blast. > >By contrast, the Playstation 3 -- all 120,000 of them out there -- has one good title and a load of shovelware >so bad as to be "E.T.-buried-in-a-landfill" embarrasing. > >Oh, wait; your point was that developers don't like the 360, right? Huh. Then what about this [hardcoreware.net] >article, where an actual developer refers to the 360 as being easier to develop for than the ridiculously >proprietary PS3?
Except that both Call of Duty 3 and Madden are also available on the other consoles as well. Oblivion is coming to the PS3 and has been out for a year. You're also trash talking the PS3's launch titles while the 360 didn't do any better. Sony screwed the launch up but Microsoft isn't having a great holiday release list.
>We are now learning that more games besides PGR3 are being forced to run at less than 720p so they can >avoid having to write tile renderers to fit inside the 360's EDRAM. > >Oh, like you noticed a difference. > >Seriously, if you're so wrapped up in the exact resolution that your game is running and not on the quality >of the actual play, it's long past time that you went outside and talked to a real girl.
Except that Microsoft and Sony are both pushing HD gaming and it seems like neither system is setup to truly handle it.
>Peripherals One word: overpriced > >Yes, because Sony and Nintendo have always been known for their charitable offerings when it comes to peripherals. > >There is no reason Microsoft is forcing 360 owners to be able to have nothing better than a 20gig drive. >Microsoft should let 360 owners upgrade their harddrive to any size they want. > >Yes, isn't it terrible that MS didn't put USB 2.0 ports into their device to allow external HD's to be hooked up? > >Oh, wait; they did [llamma.com].
We can still complain about it. $40 for a 64MB memory card or $100 for a 20GB HD while the competitors have built in memory and support standard media types like SD cards where you can spend your $40 but get a 2GB card and that's on the expensive end.
Also from your link about the USB HD on the 360 it appears that you can only access media off the drive and not use it like a normal drive for saves and downloaded content. Please correct me if this is not the case but it appears to be. At least Sony allows you to put your own HD in the PS3 and will format it for use with the system. Again Microsoft is trying to push HD gaming but only offer normal DVDs for you're limited to 9GB a disk per game, and downloaded HD video will be chewing up your 20GB HD really fast.
>Bottom line here: The 360 is a hell of a product that's worth the price and
XBMC will play everything expect HD content due to it having only a P3-700MHz processor. Though Xvid and Divx support are huge features that are missing from the 360. I currently use an Xbox with XBMC and the Xbox Media Extender to connect to my media center PC. This gives me the best of both worlds. My new hope is for Linux on the PS3 to really take off so we can have a really good media player on that or at least turn it into a cheap HD MythTV frontend (and yes I said cheap, building a computer that can be an HD MythTV frontend will normally be higher than $499).
You might want to consider redesigning your indexes if it's taking that long to run queries, or move it off the webserver/fileserver/mailserver/dbserver.
Your 110213 error sounds different from the one that kills the system's ability to get online. The Wii will initially connect online without error and download the first update. After this every time you try to do anything online it says that you must setup and successfully test a connection before going online. The connection test will then always fail with the 110213 error. A system format does not fix the problem and the customer support representative jump right to the option I have to getting my console repaired after I told her I received the error after successfully getting the first update so it seems at least some of the 110213 errors do mean your Wii's ability to get online gets hosed.
Jumping back to Nintendo's support. It was hard getting through to support due to shear call volume since the console was just released and a lot of people do not understand configuration of wireless networks. When I got though the person I spoke with was very helpful and friendly. Earlier in the day on Monday I emailed their tech support after not being able to get through the on their phone system and Tuesday afternoon I received a call from a support representative who was also ready to go straight through the console replacement steps until I thanked him for calling and told him I was able to get through later in the day. Overall I've been very surprised and pleased with Nintendo's support considering the stress they must all be under and all of the I D 10 T issues people are calling about. The only complaint is that they have nice orchestral versions of their theme songs playing while you are on hold but you only get to listen to a few seconds of them before it's interrupted by the we're sorry for the wait and here's a tip of the common problem and how to solve them, but that's a minor point.
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He probably just lives in southern California. Home of the one million dollar shacks and $1000/month electric bills. Though the rolling blackouts might be lowering his consumption.
Good point. Someone should come up with a standard on which the hard drives would be based so you won't need to have support for all of the different drives. Oh wait....
Sony somehow worked around this issue in allowing you to place any hard drive in your PS3. However, the PS2 supported any hard drive with the Linux kit or home brew. It only required the official Sony drive for Official games and the only thing that did was an additional identifier in the firmware of the drive.
Good choice. It's nothing other than a collection of mini games that aren't fun. There is some humorous writing. But the main game is broken and it doesn't like up to the Leisure Suit Larry name.
Because HD-DVDs can be encoded in either h.264 or VC-1. This movie was probably encoded in VC-1 on the actual disk. So the movie was decrypted and then put up for download. There isn't really a reason for the movie to be transcoded to h.264 as you'd lose quality from the reencode and the file would be made larger.
The rip on Pirate Bay is off an HDTV signal. This copy is directly off an HD-DVD and likely includes the interactive menus and all of the other content off the disk packaged in a single file.
I have my credit card handy to get one once this is available. I still love the Xbox Media Center; however, it not being able to decode HD connect hurts it. The PS3 on the other hand should have no problem decoding HD content. $500 HD MythTV Frontends are a great deal.
Actually phase 1 of the beta is live right now. They are in bug fixing so the normal beta date keeps getting pushed back. But you can play right now if you don't mind losing your progress.
Which is my point. The way Guildwars works, works well for them. Also the $50 price of the games is highly offset by not needing to pay monthly. Guildwars' model for story would not work for a company attempting to make money by monthly fees.
The point I'm trying to make is the difficulty of making an MMORPG with a good story. Guildwars has a good story, but the game is over very quickly. Something like Final Fantasy XI also has a good story, but it requires an large amount of work by the gamer approaching hardcore playing styles to experience it. So is there a way to create an MMORPG with a complex story the players would care about but not let it be beaten in a week or require the gamers to give up their lives to achieve it? The only way I could think of is doing it episodically which Guildwars is doing to a lesser extent, but release new content that continues the story on a set schedule like every month. The hardcore players could still fly though it, but having end game material to keep them busy could help them experience the community and more casual games could still experience the game at a comfortable pace while always having new content to explore.
You'll be happy to know Bethesda (Elder Scrolls Series) bought the rights to the Fallout IP and is making Fallout 3.
As for no stories, Final Fantasy XI had a larger over lying story which contained three points of views from the different nations you could be a citizen of. The biggest issue was forced grouping and needing coordination with a large amount of people to advance the story. Guildwars also has a nice story; however, hardcore players can beat it in one or two days. And casual players can easily finish in a month or so which isn't good for recurring monthly payments for the developer. I don't know if there will ever be a good balance between story and MMO elements.
Grr... can't. And for the people who haven't looked at his site. All of the games are free downloads and they are very fun.
I didn't care for Geometry Wars, though I only played Grid Wars 2. I do wonder what would happen if Microsoft released this Japanese Guy's stuff on XLA. Parsec47 is one of my favorite shoot'em ups and you can beat the price he charges.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html
Amen, I find a lot of the people who hate Oblivion started the series with Morrowind. I could get into Morrowind as it bored the hell out of me. Spending 6 hours crawling around a dungeon in Daggerfall was a blast though. I am happy for the compass in Oblivion though as it helped to streamline the game since I do longer have the time I did back when I played Daggerfall and Arena.
All the $99 gets you is the ability to compile the code for you 360 and run it. You can freely develop on a PC and you don't have to pay the annual $99 fee. Sure it's not a tone of money, but it's not exactly cheap.
The PS2 Linux kit came with PDFs of the documentation that came with the professional very expensive Linux kit. I believe you receive 6 out of the 7 documents or something like that. I know they just didn't include one, though I don't remember which one it was.
I have to agree with you on Morrowind. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the people who praise Morrowind as the best game ever hate Oblivion. But the people who hated Morrowind love Oblivion. One of the best features of the past two games have been the ability to design plug ins to customize the way you play the game and fix issues with it.
Morrowind in its original state was just a huge empty world though plug ins made it feel alive. Oblivion kept me caring about the main quest throughout the whole game which has been something the other games in the series have lacked.
Now I just want them to release more Elder Scrolls: Adventures games as Redguard was a every fun game and I'd really like to see what they could pull off with current day hardware. I don't think the Legends series would do as well though. Battlespire was kind of a let down and I don't think a game of straight dungeon crawl would work, though keeping the multiplayer would make a small but vocal part of the fan base happy.
Kind of like how Telltale Game is doing it for Sam & Max? It's one month between episodes with the exception of a two month break between episodes one and two. Weekly they are releasing a mini video related to the game and you can purchase the full "season" and play the games as they come out.
SBC/AT&T do this as well with their DSL service though it requires opening a trouble ticket rather than just selecting a box. I actually wish more ISPs would do this and help stop all of the zombied spam going around.
Nintendo's standard warranty is one year. With the Wii if you register it you also be an additional 90 days so you are covered for 15 months.
And how is this any different than having modems onboard as we've had for years? Just use a surge protector that supports these lines.
I guess I'll bite on the troll.
>For the record, yes, there were a few hardware problems. So few, in fact, that I have yet to meet one single
>person who actually experienced them. When I've asked if they knew anybody who had the problem I always get
>"Well, I've heard about it online."
>
>The hardware problems certainly happened. Hell, MS has taken responsibility for the early adopters who had problems >by refunding or replacing their equipment. But it wasn't a huge problem. Hell, it wasn't even a large problem.
>
>By contrast, the Wii -- which is a great system -- had problems, too. Nintendo said "oops!" and fixed them.
>
>And the PS3 overheating issues? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
I can't comment on PS3 issues, but I had the WiFi not working after firmware update problem and Nintendo next day'd a replacement to me. This is a far cry from the horror stories of people waiting several weeks for a 360 replacement.
>Going into what should have been its big holiday sales months, Microsoft only has Gears of War.
>
>...and Call of Duty 3, and Madden, to say nothing of the still-freaking-awesome Oblivion and the rest of its
>catalog. Hell, even launch titles like PGR3 are still a blast.
>
>By contrast, the Playstation 3 -- all 120,000 of them out there -- has one good title and a load of shovelware
>so bad as to be "E.T.-buried-in-a-landfill" embarrasing.
>
>Oh, wait; your point was that developers don't like the 360, right? Huh. Then what about this [hardcoreware.net] >article, where an actual developer refers to the 360 as being easier to develop for than the ridiculously
>proprietary PS3?
Except that both Call of Duty 3 and Madden are also available on the other consoles as well. Oblivion is coming to the PS3 and has been out for a year. You're also trash talking the PS3's launch titles while the 360 didn't do any better. Sony screwed the launch up but Microsoft isn't having a great holiday release list.
>We are now learning that more games besides PGR3 are being forced to run at less than 720p so they can
>avoid having to write tile renderers to fit inside the 360's EDRAM.
>
>Oh, like you noticed a difference.
>
>Seriously, if you're so wrapped up in the exact resolution that your game is running and not on the quality
>of the actual play, it's long past time that you went outside and talked to a real girl.
Except that Microsoft and Sony are both pushing HD gaming and it seems like neither system is setup to truly handle it.
>Peripherals One word: overpriced
>
>Yes, because Sony and Nintendo have always been known for their charitable offerings when it comes to peripherals.
>
>There is no reason Microsoft is forcing 360 owners to be able to have nothing better than a 20gig drive.
>Microsoft should let 360 owners upgrade their harddrive to any size they want.
>
>Yes, isn't it terrible that MS didn't put USB 2.0 ports into their device to allow external HD's to be hooked up?
>
>Oh, wait; they did [llamma.com].
We can still complain about it. $40 for a 64MB memory card or $100 for a 20GB HD while the competitors have built in memory and support standard media types like SD cards where you can spend your $40 but get a 2GB card and that's on the expensive end.
Also from your link about the USB HD on the 360 it appears that you can only access media off the drive and not use it like a normal drive for saves and downloaded content. Please correct me if this is not the case but it appears to be. At least Sony allows you to put your own HD in the PS3 and will format it for use with the system. Again Microsoft is trying to push HD gaming but only offer normal DVDs for you're limited to 9GB a disk per game, and downloaded HD video will be chewing up your 20GB HD really fast.
>Bottom line here: The 360 is a hell of a product that's worth the price and
XBMC will play everything expect HD content due to it having only a P3-700MHz processor. Though Xvid and Divx support are huge features that are missing from the 360. I currently use an Xbox with XBMC and the Xbox Media Extender to connect to my media center PC. This gives me the best of both worlds. My new hope is for Linux on the PS3 to really take off so we can have a really good media player on that or at least turn it into a cheap HD MythTV frontend (and yes I said cheap, building a computer that can be an HD MythTV frontend will normally be higher than $499).
No, you'd have a database server but not one that's also your file server, mail server, and web server.
You might want to consider redesigning your indexes if it's taking that long to run queries, or move it off the webserver/fileserver/mailserver/dbserver.
Your 110213 error sounds different from the one that kills the system's ability to get online. The Wii will initially connect online without error and download the first update. After this every time you try to do anything online it says that you must setup and successfully test a connection before going online. The connection test will then always fail with the 110213 error. A system format does not fix the problem and the customer support representative jump right to the option I have to getting my console repaired after I told her I received the error after successfully getting the first update so it seems at least some of the 110213 errors do mean your Wii's ability to get online gets hosed.
Jumping back to Nintendo's support. It was hard getting through to support due to shear call volume since the console was just released and a lot of people do not understand configuration of wireless networks. When I got though the person I spoke with was very helpful and friendly. Earlier in the day on Monday I emailed their tech support after not being able to get through the on their phone system and Tuesday afternoon I received a call from a support representative who was also ready to go straight through the console replacement steps until I thanked him for calling and told him I was able to get through later in the day. Overall I've been very surprised and pleased with Nintendo's support considering the stress they must all be under and all of the I D 10 T issues people are calling about. The only complaint is that they have nice orchestral versions of their theme songs playing while you are on hold but you only get to listen to a few seconds of them before it's interrupted by the we're sorry for the wait and here's a tip of the common problem and how to solve them, but that's a minor point.