Peoples reaction to the plague in World of Warcraft were remarkable realistic... Some decided that once they were infected, I really don't care anymore about anyone else, I'm going to teleport in the game to a crowed urban center and infect as many people as I can.
So are people now so self centered that now that they know they are going to die they're thinking "If I'm going down then you are all coming down with me?" Is this really how people think? It's a very sad world we live in.
But not anymore. The Media and Entertainment is porting their apps from Unix to Linux, often with no intention to port to Windows. Even Toxik is getting the Linux treatment as we speak. And Toxik runs on top of an Oracle database, which is a direct competitor to Microsoft.
It's not like they're going to be putting software on HD-DVD anytime soon Yeah but... Windows Media 9 is one of the official codecs for HD-DVD. So they do care. But WM9 is ALSO an official codec for Blu-Ray. So whoever loses, they win.
HDDVDs are supposed to be backward readable with existing DVD players, meaning DVD players can read HDDVDs if they store the movie in both formats. I bet the first two layers of HDDVDs are regular DVD layers and then the following layers are read using a special laser. Much better than what Sony is coming up with. Movie studios can then start making HDDVDs with both versions of the movie on it and the consumer who wants better image quality will only have to upgrade it's DVD player. It's a win-win scenario for them. Unless you consider people who buy the normal and then HD version of movies, then in that case they might be losing money.
I was hoping Blu-Ray would be the next standard, but after reading this backward compatibility layer for HDDVDs, I'm more interrested in HDDVD's than before.
... I remember reading an article with Itakagi, the creator of the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series. He talked about the beach volleyball game they made. He said that the artists who came up with the skimpiest were the women on the team and not the men. Makes you wonder what the women who make 3d models and textures think of all this. They don't seem to care, at least in Team Ninja's case.
On average, men prefer slim women with D-sized breasts. Women prefer guys with musculature. Looking at ads and movies just proves the point. We are shown what we like. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't watch it. It's no wonder games are doing the same thing.
If the Xbox didn't have good games and a good track record in the heart of gamers, it wouldn't be a brand.
The fact that it comes from Microsoft and that they have a lot of money has nothing to do with it. What made the Playstation brand popular is by getting exclusive support from Square and a few other companies (via shelling out a few millions), people bought the Playstation in masses and the rest is history.
Bad products sometimes have an incredible brand (See Canon Powershot G4), good products can have good brands (all the iPod line), but I can't think of a single good product that has a bad brand.
Actually, I know one. The Xbox. Great product, but the Microsoft name attached to it make some people itchy.
Let's see my stack of Xbox game... Halo, Amped, KOTOR, Beyond Good and Evil, Max Payne 2, Serious Sam, Burnout 3, Phantom Dust, Ninja Gaiden and LOTR : Third Age.
Of all those games, only 2 are sequels. (You could argue that Ninja Gaiden is a sequel, but the previous game was released more than 10 years ago and is drastically different).
Who said you couldn't be a gamer (especially an xbox gamer) and have non-sequel games?
... is if someone stitched all the images together to make a bigger one. I've got a 21k image at work made by the NASA, but I'd like to get my hands on something bigger. That would be a great stress test on our app.
How the hell did this get modded insightfull? Honnestly, some people will just spill anything when Microsoft is involved.
Stealing thunder??? This movie is going to come out in summer 2007 at the very soonest. Anyone who thinks this is a move to undermine consoles who will have launched a year before is just stupid. Anyway, this is a scheme to make MONEY, nothing else.
Where's the game where we're a castaway on a deserted island and the object of the game is to find food and clean water and build a shelter This game looks like it could fit that description.
Where's the game where we play a salty Southern lawyer Here's another.
Where's the game where we get to play as Dr. House and diagnose mysterious illnesses while crushing the patient's spirit with cruel insults. That would be fun, but there's a surgeon game coming out for the DS too.:)
I find it interresting that both his examples are games that are coming out in the near future. But I do get his point : these kind of different games are very few and very far between.
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Actually no. Even before they launched the game I remember reading an article saying they would kill off a major character a few weeks after the release. It was either Morpheur, Persephone or the Merovingian.
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Peoples reaction to the plague in World of Warcraft were remarkable realistic... Some decided that once they were infected, I really don't care anymore about anyone else, I'm going to teleport in the game to a crowed urban center and infect as many people as I can.
So are people now so self centered that now that they know they are going to die they're thinking "If I'm going down then you are all coming down with me?" Is this really how people think? It's a very sad world we live in.
But not anymore. The Media and Entertainment is porting their apps from Unix to Linux, often with no intention to port to Windows. Even Toxik is getting the Linux treatment as we speak. And Toxik runs on top of an Oracle database, which is a direct competitor to Microsoft.
Because it's his company and part of his money that is involved in the project. If he doesn't like it, he won't pay for it.
It's not like they're going to be putting software on HD-DVD anytime soon
Yeah but... Windows Media 9 is one of the official codecs for HD-DVD. So they do care. But WM9 is ALSO an official codec for Blu-Ray. So whoever loses, they win.
And I bet by saying "Ultimetely it will be the Studios" you mean the porn industry. :)
It amazes me how people justify stealing by looking at the sales figure.
"But it sold 380million$ worth of tickets, therefore I can steal it."
What is the world coming to?
HDDVDs are supposed to be backward readable with existing DVD players, meaning DVD players can read HDDVDs if they store the movie in both formats. I bet the first two layers of HDDVDs are regular DVD layers and then the following layers are read using a special laser. Much better than what Sony is coming up with. Movie studios can then start making HDDVDs with both versions of the movie on it and the consumer who wants better image quality will only have to upgrade it's DVD player. It's a win-win scenario for them. Unless you consider people who buy the normal and then HD version of movies, then in that case they might be losing money.
I was hoping Blu-Ray would be the next standard, but after reading this backward compatibility layer for HDDVDs, I'm more interrested in HDDVD's than before.
... I remember reading an article with Itakagi, the creator of the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series. He talked about the beach volleyball game they made. He said that the artists who came up with the skimpiest were the women on the team and not the men. Makes you wonder what the women who make 3d models and textures think of all this. They don't seem to care, at least in Team Ninja's case.
On average, men prefer slim women with D-sized breasts. Women prefer guys with musculature. Looking at ads and movies just proves the point. We are shown what we like. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't watch it. It's no wonder games are doing the same thing.
Considering Conker for the Xbox didn't sell too well, I'm not too sure people want remakes.
I thought he actually spilled his guts...
I guess this redefines the expression "Giving hard love to a woman."
Wow, technology is really going into weird places. Internet over powerlines. I didn't even know they had radio over pork!
If the Xbox didn't have good games and a good track record in the heart of gamers, it wouldn't be a brand.
The fact that it comes from Microsoft and that they have a lot of money has nothing to do with it. What made the Playstation brand popular is by getting exclusive support from Square and a few other companies (via shelling out a few millions), people bought the Playstation in masses and the rest is history.
Bad products sometimes have an incredible brand (See Canon Powershot G4), good products can have good brands (all the iPod line), but I can't think of a single good product that has a bad brand.
Actually, I know one. The Xbox. Great product, but the Microsoft name attached to it make some people itchy.
It's not "Retro Totem Tattoo", it's "Clato verrata nicto"!
Let's see my stack of Xbox game...
Halo, Amped, KOTOR, Beyond Good and Evil,
Max Payne 2, Serious Sam, Burnout 3, Phantom Dust, Ninja Gaiden and LOTR : Third Age.
Of all those games, only 2 are sequels. (You could argue that Ninja Gaiden is a sequel, but the previous game was released more than 10 years ago and is drastically different).
Who said you couldn't be a gamer (especially an xbox gamer) and have non-sequel games?
When something like the Patriot act happens, you have to wonder how good is the Constitution anymore.
... is if someone stitched all the images together to make a bigger one. I've got a 21k image at work made by the NASA, but I'd like to get my hands on something bigger. That would be a great stress test on our app.
I prefer how the South Park/Team American guys call them. The Film Actors Guild, also known as FAG.
They actually made a fourth movie. :)
Plus a spin-off TV Show.
How the hell did this get modded insightfull? Honnestly, some people will just spill anything when Microsoft is involved.
Stealing thunder??? This movie is going to come out in summer 2007 at the very soonest. Anyone who thinks this is a move to undermine consoles who will have launched a year before is just stupid. Anyway, this is a scheme to make MONEY, nothing else.
Seeing it that way made me realise how shallow and weak sitcoms really were
I hope you are not saying that the Simpsons is a deep show.
Seinfeld was a sitcom, even had the recorded audience track. That show was clever, yet it was a sitcom. And way better than the Simpsons.
How is this different again from a real girlfriend?
At least with a real one you're getting some.
Where's the game where we're a castaway on a deserted island and the object of the game is to find food and clean water and build a shelter
:)
This game looks like it could fit that description.
Where's the game where we play a salty Southern lawyer
Here's another.
Where's the game where we get to play as Dr. House and diagnose mysterious illnesses while crushing the patient's spirit with cruel insults.
That would be fun, but there's a surgeon game coming out for the DS too.
I find it interresting that both his examples are games that are coming out in the near future. But I do get his point : these kind of different games are very few and very far between.
Anyone has a torrent? ;)
Actually no. Even before they launched the game I remember reading an article saying they would kill off a major character a few weeks after the release. It was either Morpheur, Persephone or the Merovingian.