I surely hope the morality patrol fails in its effort to legislate what they deem "good taste". Not only should one be able to make a game based on Vietnam, but they should be able to make it as distasteful and offensive as possible.
Political correctness and the dopey notion of "hate speech" as a crime have gone to far. Dont like the movie? Dont watch. Dont like the game? Dont play. Organize a boycott with your friends, whatever.
I think it's more likely that Apple employees are astroturfing, after all, every pathetic mac boosting comment is modded up +5 insightful. Wow! That guy likes his iPod! What insight!
Frankly MS exec probably just say "so a handful of linux zealots dont like us, hand me a billion dollar bill i need to dry my sobbing eyes"
Better IQ is great, I have no problem with it, but if a game isnt fun at 800x600 with no FSAA or anisotropic filtering, it probably isnt fun at 3291203312x109231 with quad blingblong mega-tech.
Just get a gamecube, 150 bucks and it'll come with metroid prime. Thats less than half what you probably payed for the 9800, and well worth it.
Metroid Prime would be terrible on a PC, it just wouldnt feel the same. Console games port terribly, IMO, largely because I've yet to see a gamepad for PC that matches console gamepads. There's always drift and issues and blah blah. The same works in reverse, quake style fps titles suck on consoles.
It's all just opinions. I opted for a $120 video card, and saved the cash to own all three nextgen consoles (though the xbox has turned out to be a complete dissapointment, imo).
The image quality doesnt matter if the game is fun. I still play my SNES, TurboDuo and Sega Saturn regularly.
And I find the lower res fuzziness of a TV lends more realism to a game. People dont have perfectly straight, crisp edges. Plus my TV is more than twice the size of my monitor, diagonally. I wouldnt watch a DVD on my PC, even if I do get to see every little pixel of resolution.
Anyhow, people play whatever they like, it doesn't bother me.
Where exactly is this AI? Every game I try promises it, but I end up just blasting everything that moves. Most recently, I've tried RTCW, NOLF 2, Unreal 2, Postal 2 (a lot of originality with the sequels).
They always promise groundbreaking AI that will outsmart me, but never deliver. Shoot everything, you win.
The AI is pretty much "if (being_shot) { run; }"
IMO that just adds up to box hype to me.
I guess I have to wait for Doom 3 to see the next amazing breakthrough in AI.
As for tweaking, tweaking game elements in one thing. I was talking about remapping buttons so your controller works, tweaking video settings so the game is playable, tweaking sounds so the music doesnt drown out the game, etc etc.. Non game related crap. The only button I wanna push to be able to play is the power button.
But of course the PC vs Console wars are just as lame to me as the PS2 vs Xbox vs Gamecube wars. Who cares, to each his own. Some people like Everquest, some like Quake, some like Tetris, some like Mario.
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I prefer to use MESS and emulate the ancient PCs of yesteryear.
Though I find PC gaming of that era utterly forgettable.
I clung to my C64 until the days of VGA and Gravis Ultrasound finally made the PC a superior alternative (gaming wise).
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No they werent, they were completely derivitave platformer games. Nothing whatsoever original about them.
Jumpman was the truly original platformer I can think of, though not the first (that would have to be Pitfall).
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Ahhh asylum!
That was a great game, though really more of a text adventure with 3D visuals than a moving interactive environment.
I'd trace it back further to the BASIC written game "Labyrinth" I used to play on my C64, back when I had nothing but a tape drive to load software with. 3D maze, you moved about in realtime. The graphics were all in PETSCII.
There were 7 of them, the first trilogy was EGA based graphics, the second trilogy was VGA, and the last one (aliens ate my babysitter?) was basically just a collection of second rate levels that didnt make the second trilogy.
They were decent games, great for killing time in computer class, but they didnt pull me away from my nintendo at home.
It's excellent because it's about Carmack. It could be the sloppyest most sophomoric prose you ever read.
It could be four pages long, written in engrish, and have crude hand drawn pictures of penises filling out the rest.
It's about Carmack, and a good slashbot never passes up a chance to kiss his ass.
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Noone ever made a game called Daikatana. Quake 3 Arena was pulled before release when it was decided that it was just a cheap cash grab! RTCW was released without crippling bugs that made it unplayable on Radeon cards, and Doom 3 runs on mainstream hardware and was released in the first quarter of 2003.
The Johns stay together, get married, and live happily ever after!
PCs lagged consoles in those days because they were still primarily business tools. Back then an entry level machine was thousands of dollars, and people bought it for the true killer app - the spreadsheet. Most were in offices, the ones at home were largely off limits to the kids. IBM tried to vie against Commodore and Apple with the PC jr, and failed miserably for the most part.
I say consoles will always have the edge, at least for the types of games I enjoy. I havent seen an FPS that adds anything to the original Doom concept besides fancy eye candy.
I like the simplicity of a console and a gamepad and a game that only needs to be turned on and played, not tweaked and endlessly reconfigured.
Saying it's only an issue for pot smokers is like saying you dont like TIA or TIPS is only an issue for terrorists.
Everything is wrong with the current state of the drug laws. From the fact that they were all racially motivated (no opium to control the chinese, no cocaine to control the blacks, no marijuana to control the mexicans) to the ridiculous infrastructures put up to deal with addicts as criminals, to civil forfeiture. To the fact that the prohibitions are unconstitutional in the first place (oh ya, thanks for the amendment Ronnie - now we can make all sorts of crazy laws!)
marijuana is the largest cash producing crop in every state of the union right now. But, because it's illegal. An ounce of dope on the black market goes for 3 to 4 hundred bucks. If it was legal, you'd have a tough time giving it away it would be so abundant.
If it was legal, anyone who wanted some could plant it in his backyard. It literally is a weed, and requires very little skill or maintainance to grow.
So there really is no great cash incentive, which is why the government doesnt care.
However, the ability to sieze homes, cash, cars, boats, and whatever else they can get their hands on, from anyone whos so much as accused of selling pot, now that's a cash cow the law enforcement community doesnt want to lose.
It's still considered a drug, its prohibition "worked" and didn't cause a massive revolt like alcohol's did
Thats because drunks are irrational and prone to fits of extreme emotion, and potheads are mellow and apathetic.
Many (including myself) consider it a huge issue, not just the legal status of marijuana, but the sweeping powers given to the DEA and the whole concept of civil forfeiture. It's ruined a LOT of innocent lives over very trivial offenses.
The DEA can show up at your home, give your wife this choice "either you testify in court that your husband is a drug dealer, or we'll sieze your home and put your children with foster families". They have those powers regardless of any burden of evidence. Those powers have been abused countless times as law enforcement agencies started to see civil forfeiture as a means of funding.
Possession of any amount of marijuana (even hemp with no narcotic effects) in Nevada, for instance, results in a manditory 25 year jail term - FOR FIRST OFFENSES! There's something seriously wrong with that. Your life is over because some prick cop notices you're wearing a hemp necklace.
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Yeah offtopic. RTF subject dipshits.
Whatever, it's kind of cool that anonymous douchebags track my moves to modbomb everything I say.
Why would either of them be oscar worthy?
Get over yourselves wachovski brothers.
This year it's all about Gigli. Bennifer is the Costner of the future.
Google for the Atari game, Custer's Revenge.
I surely hope the morality patrol fails in its effort to legislate what they deem "good taste". Not only should one be able to make a game based on Vietnam, but they should be able to make it as distasteful and offensive as possible.
Political correctness and the dopey notion of "hate speech" as a crime have gone to far. Dont like the movie? Dont watch. Dont like the game? Dont play. Organize a boycott with your friends, whatever.
It's from the a-chance-to-say-ogg-dept.
Facts dont stop FUD.
'with linux.' (did their job just drop? yep, it sure did!)
They lost their jobs because you watch porn with linux?
They just changed the page layout, as many have pointed out.
So lets all just say stupid shit about SCO and M$ and see if we can get some cheap karma.
SCO and M$ are both gay! They are teh suck! Alan Cox will come back stronger than ever and smote them both with his super management abilities!
I think vi is pretty good for doing some stuff but I really like emacs! And KDE and Gnobe and blah blah
Oh yeah, I love my iPod, I think everyone should spend 500 bucks on a 50 dollar mp3 player.
I think it's more likely that Apple employees are astroturfing, after all, every pathetic mac boosting comment is modded up +5 insightful. Wow! That guy likes his iPod! What insight!
Frankly MS exec probably just say "so a handful of linux zealots dont like us, hand me a billion dollar bill i need to dry my sobbing eyes"
The scariest thing is..
People can see me when I go outside!
The girl at the deli even recognizes me and knows that I want a steak and cheese for lunch!
When will it end?
I think we all need to run around in opaque hamster balls, and each of us develop a unique language that only that individual understands.
Bork blalableep mooga mooga
So what differentiates you as a reader from a MSFT employee as a spy? The name on the paycheque?
Check your head, fella.
They actually research their customer base. Imagine that.
If the GNU/Linux community would take note, and start reading what users are saying, perhaps we'd have a usable desktop by now.
People READ my public POSTINGS?
I'm JUDGED by what I say in PUBLIC?
MY GOD!
The only thing that bothers me is that MSFT pisses away stockholder cash on this, unless they can somehow turn it into legitimate market research.
BTW, they read slashdot too. If the editors cared about this sort of "invasion of privacy", they'd remove the AC posting limit.
And why does a site so rabid over the issue of online anonymity have to refer to anyone who chooses to post as such as a coward?
Better IQ is great, I have no problem with it, but if a game isnt fun at 800x600 with no FSAA or anisotropic filtering, it probably isnt fun at 3291203312x109231 with quad blingblong mega-tech.
Just get a gamecube, 150 bucks and it'll come with metroid prime. Thats less than half what you probably payed for the 9800, and well worth it.
Metroid Prime would be terrible on a PC, it just wouldnt feel the same. Console games port terribly, IMO, largely because I've yet to see a gamepad for PC that matches console gamepads. There's always drift and issues and blah blah. The same works in reverse, quake style fps titles suck on consoles.
It's all just opinions. I opted for a $120 video card, and saved the cash to own all three nextgen consoles (though the xbox has turned out to be a complete dissapointment, imo).
It's not flamebait, he's comparing mario to Commander Keen, which even the authors dont deny was a mario clone.
The image quality doesnt matter if the game is fun. I still play my SNES, TurboDuo and Sega Saturn regularly.
And I find the lower res fuzziness of a TV lends more realism to a game. People dont have perfectly straight, crisp edges. Plus my TV is more than twice the size of my monitor, diagonally. I wouldnt watch a DVD on my PC, even if I do get to see every little pixel of resolution.
Anyhow, people play whatever they like, it doesn't bother me.
Where exactly is this AI? Every game I try promises it, but I end up just blasting everything that moves. Most recently, I've tried RTCW, NOLF 2, Unreal 2, Postal 2 (a lot of originality with the sequels).
They always promise groundbreaking AI that will outsmart me, but never deliver. Shoot everything, you win.
The AI is pretty much "if (being_shot) { run; }"
IMO that just adds up to box hype to me.
I guess I have to wait for Doom 3 to see the next amazing breakthrough in AI.
As for tweaking, tweaking game elements in one thing. I was talking about remapping buttons so your controller works, tweaking video settings so the game is playable, tweaking sounds so the music doesnt drown out the game, etc etc.. Non game related crap. The only button I wanna push to be able to play is the power button.
But of course the PC vs Console wars are just as lame to me as the PS2 vs Xbox vs Gamecube wars. Who cares, to each his own. Some people like Everquest, some like Quake, some like Tetris, some like Mario.
I prefer to use MESS and emulate the ancient PCs of yesteryear.
Though I find PC gaming of that era utterly forgettable.
I clung to my C64 until the days of VGA and Gravis Ultrasound finally made the PC a superior alternative (gaming wise).
No they werent, they were completely derivitave platformer games. Nothing whatsoever original about them.
Jumpman was the truly original platformer I can think of, though not the first (that would have to be Pitfall).
Ahhh asylum!
That was a great game, though really more of a text adventure with 3D visuals than a moving interactive environment.
I'd trace it back further to the BASIC written game "Labyrinth" I used to play on my C64, back when I had nothing but a tape drive to load software with. 3D maze, you moved about in realtime. The graphics were all in PETSCII.
There were 7 of them, the first trilogy was EGA based graphics, the second trilogy was VGA, and the last one (aliens ate my babysitter?) was basically just a collection of second rate levels that didnt make the second trilogy.
They were decent games, great for killing time in computer class, but they didnt pull me away from my nintendo at home.
It's excellent because it's about Carmack. It could be the sloppyest most sophomoric prose you ever read.
It could be four pages long, written in engrish, and have crude hand drawn pictures of penises filling out the rest.
It's about Carmack, and a good slashbot never passes up a chance to kiss his ass.
Noone ever made a game called Daikatana. Quake 3 Arena was pulled before release when it was decided that it was just a cheap cash grab! RTCW was released without crippling bugs that made it unplayable on Radeon cards, and Doom 3 runs on mainstream hardware and was released in the first quarter of 2003.
The Johns stay together, get married, and live happily ever after!
The End.
PCs lagged consoles in those days because they were still primarily business tools. Back then an entry level machine was thousands of dollars, and people bought it for the true killer app - the spreadsheet. Most were in offices, the ones at home were largely off limits to the kids. IBM tried to vie against Commodore and Apple with the PC jr, and failed miserably for the most part.
I say consoles will always have the edge, at least for the types of games I enjoy. I havent seen an FPS that adds anything to the original Doom concept besides fancy eye candy.
I like the simplicity of a console and a gamepad and a game that only needs to be turned on and played, not tweaked and endlessly reconfigured.
Saying it's only an issue for pot smokers is like saying you dont like TIA or TIPS is only an issue for terrorists.
Everything is wrong with the current state of the drug laws. From the fact that they were all racially motivated (no opium to control the chinese, no cocaine to control the blacks, no marijuana to control the mexicans) to the ridiculous infrastructures put up to deal with addicts as criminals, to civil forfeiture. To the fact that the prohibitions are unconstitutional in the first place (oh ya, thanks for the amendment Ronnie - now we can make all sorts of crazy laws!)
marijuana is the largest cash producing crop in every state of the union right now. But, because it's illegal. An ounce of dope on the black market goes for 3 to 4 hundred bucks. If it was legal, you'd have a tough time giving it away it would be so abundant.
If it was legal, anyone who wanted some could plant it in his backyard. It literally is a weed, and requires very little skill or maintainance to grow.
So there really is no great cash incentive, which is why the government doesnt care.
However, the ability to sieze homes, cash, cars, boats, and whatever else they can get their hands on, from anyone whos so much as accused of selling pot, now that's a cash cow the law enforcement community doesnt want to lose.
I'm so glad you asked!! Both. vi for quick editing, emacs (NOT xemacs) for coding projects. :q!:q!:q!
BZZZT WRONG! pico for both.
It's still considered a drug, its prohibition "worked" and didn't cause a massive revolt like alcohol's did
Thats because drunks are irrational and prone to fits of extreme emotion, and potheads are mellow and apathetic.
Many (including myself) consider it a huge issue, not just the legal status of marijuana, but the sweeping powers given to the DEA and the whole concept of civil forfeiture. It's ruined a LOT of innocent lives over very trivial offenses.
The DEA can show up at your home, give your wife this choice "either you testify in court that your husband is a drug dealer, or we'll sieze your home and put your children with foster families". They have those powers regardless of any burden of evidence. Those powers have been abused countless times as law enforcement agencies started to see civil forfeiture as a means of funding.
Possession of any amount of marijuana (even hemp with no narcotic effects) in Nevada, for instance, results in a manditory 25 year jail term - FOR FIRST OFFENSES! There's something seriously wrong with that. Your life is over because some prick cop notices you're wearing a hemp necklace.