I think you shouldn't judge gamepad aiming if you haven't tried the more recent controllers. I haven't had the chance playing a FPS with a PS2, since I don't own a PS2. But I've played FPS on the Xbox and they control very well with the two tumbstick. It doesn't feel too awkward, since the left thumbstick (left hand) controls the player's movements and the right thumbstick (right hand) has you control where you look. So you're still using the left hand (keyboard on a PC) to move around and the right one to look around. The only difficult thing to do is looking around while shooting, and that's probably why console FPS don't rely you on shooting too many targets that are on top of under you, but mainly stay a eye level of your character or don't differ much.
I mean, it's not as if these machines are connected to the Internet? So you can't exploit them, since they're on a Network on their own, seperated from the Internet. And I'm pretty sure banks don't use the Internet, but some sort of proprietary communication to transfer information between themselves (well, except from banks who offer online transaction, which at ATM is not), so it's not that big a deal.
Unless some crazy MSCE decides that it would be neat to had ads on the machines that are fetched on the Internet... DAOH!
Yeah, but don't you think that it would feel even more real? I mean, I always wondered if someone would finally implement distance as a factor for the volume of a player voice in a game. That would be really nice. And make pretty interresting srategies.
Well, if you owned an Xbox and had a MMO, you'd probably chat in the communicator headset. In fact, Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox didn't need the keyboard like the Cube and Dreamcast version did because people could just speak in the headset. Beats the hell out of typing.
I never understood why people liked Sephiroth so much. In my own opinion, Kefka was the best bad guy ever in the Final Fantasy series. What was nice with is character was that when you saw him the first time you though that he was just a crazy freak that you'd beat to a bloody pulp early in the game, and he turned out to be a maniachal genius. Heck, he even wanted to destroy the world HIMSELF (and he could have done it) and create a monument to non-existance.
Oh, and Sephiroth's theme, while nice, doesn't even come close to the greatness that was Kefka's theme. I've rarelly seen a song that fitted so well with a character in a video game.
Exactly, I was really disappointed by FF7, and never played a Final Fantasy game after (thing is, I didn't have a PS1, and I don't own a PS2 now.) Thing is, FF seems to be all about FMV's now and gameplay in between. I really miss the good old days of FF3 and FF6.
Yeah, it's doing so well they're going to jack up the cost [xboxxtreme.net] to stay afloat. What the fsck are you talking about??? They jacked up the price on the starter kit because it included a FREE head set during the first year. Now you have to pay for it when you buy the starter pack. The individual Xbox Live subscription fee hasn't changed at all. It's still 49.99$ a year. Hell, they've even made it better by creating a month-by-month subcription fee for those who don't want a one year subscription.
In fact, this is taken from the very webpage you provided : The price for a one-year subscription, or a subscription renewal, will remain $49.99. Microsoft also will start selling the Voice Communicator headset separately for the first time this fall, for $29.99.
Get your fact straights, and read past the first paragraph.
While Windows stability hasn't been a concern for me, I alwaysd manage to get the right hardware and every iterations of Windows always run pretty smoothly (well,98SE, 2000 did and XP does now), I've bought a console.
Like you said, it's nice to just to pop in a disc and play. To patches, no driver revisions (except maybe if you have Xbox live, but they've made it seamless anyway, so it's not a huge hassle as on Windows or Linux) And games just feel better when played with a gamepad then when played with a mouse and a keyboard. (Ok, maybe Halo would have been better with a mouse/keyboard combo, but it still rocks nonetheless)
Does anyone remember that ad about a guy running in the dark screaming Zelda at the top of his lungs? I only realized years later that it was a Zelda ad, since when I saw it I didn't even knew what was a Nintendo, I was too busy playing with my Intellivision.;)
... because when I see the, it makes me want to buy the games. It's sooo clever. Just like tabacco ads drives people to smoke and beer ads drives me to get drunk
The Xbox contract totally forbids tinkering with the hardware or software included in the Xbox, so what we have right now are hackers (who are doing something clearly illegal since they didn't agree with the terms given to them) complaining about something that Microsoft has done that might also be illegal.
It's like having a street gangster complain to the police that the mafia makes it hard to run their buisness.
any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer I didn't read the Xbox live contract because I didn't really gave a s*** if Microsoft updated the Xbox with it, but I'm pretty sure they covered their ass with that.
to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer Come on people, the Xbox Linux users have exploited a security risk (in a buffer overflow/underflow, don't know which) in the Xbox and now that MS has patched it. I wouldn't make that illegal.
I haven't played the latest game [...] Now when I read this, it reduces the rest of your post to nothing but a rant without any authority. I dunno, I was carefull not to say too much about this particular iteration because I was in the dark about this one.
Maybe I should have elaborated on that "Awesome". But do you really need me to explain to you everything why Zelda 1 was so great? I think most of the people who are going to read this post will have played the Zelda games and don't need me to really remind them of why they were so great, though I did it a little.
Everybody knows what game I'm talking about, and I'm not going to go on a rant about why it was so cool when people all loved dearly those games. That would be intellectual masturbation, and I hate it when people do it.
I think though I've made it clear why I DIDN'T like the 64 versions, and maybe I should have kept my mouth shut about the GC version, but honestly, am I too far from the mark when saying it's mostly a rehash of 64 with Cell shading (Game Boy Advance connectivy IIRC)?
Have you played them? Zelda games were always about action, screen filled with enemies attacking you from all sides. Clear it, move to the next one.
In the 64 incarnations, you only fought once it a while. I was so bored with it, I never finished it and considered it a waste of my friend's money. (he owned the game, and hated it too)
The two Zelda incarnations on the N64 were in my own opinion totally overrated game. It offered somewhat new gameplay, but it just wasn't a Zelda game. It's like that old Coke commercial where you had two guys in front of abottle of a noname Coke-Clone and are comparing it to a real one:
Moves lile coke... Looks like coke... Smells like coke... Tastes like... chicken???
It's as if Nintendo just took the visuals from Zelda and basic story elements (save the princess from Ganon, and you're Link), and used them for a totally unrelated game, like they did with Super Mario Bros 2, which is not a Mario game in Japan. Nintendo swapped the sprites for the American release and named it Mario 2 to cash in the name of the first game.
I remember the Zelda's prior 64 as an all out action game, while the two games on the N64 were about walking a minute in a direction on the world map, kill a monster, walk again, repeat until you reach the next dungeon. I haven't played the latest game, but it looked like a rehash for the 64 version but with cell shading, so I wouldn't call it innovative either.
Think about it: - Zelda 1 was awesome. - Zelda 2 was fun, but not a really innovative game. - Zelda 3 introduced you more of the same, but had a city, somewhat 3d levels, talking characters, two worlds to explore who overlap and more special goodies then you could ever dream of. - Zelda : The awakening fish or something on the Gameboy was mostly a rehash of Zelda 3.
After that, the only changes were 3D. Nothing to brag about here. Mario 64 was out as the same time as the console and already did that.
I remember there was a Winamp plugin a few years back that managed to do this in realtime. Basically, it tries to remove the frequencies that are related to human voice in the song. The problem with it of course is that it also censors out some musical instruments that also operate in that frequency, but from my experience it achieved pretty good results. Not perfect, as you could still hear an echo of the lyrics, but anyway, when you're singing on top of it with your friends, you won't hear the echo anymore. They will never sound as good as real karaoke files, but with a little bit of tinkering, they might be able to pull it off quite well.
What would be great are CD's in the DVD Audio format with DD5.1. Imagine ripping each channels except the center one where the voice would be recorded and only get the band playing. Now that would make some pretty cool karaoke files.
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I think you shouldn't judge gamepad aiming if you haven't tried the more recent controllers. I haven't had the chance playing a FPS with a PS2, since I don't own a PS2. But I've played FPS on the Xbox and they control very well with the two tumbstick. It doesn't feel too awkward, since the left thumbstick (left hand) controls the player's movements and the right thumbstick (right hand) has you control where you look. So you're still using the left hand (keyboard on a PC) to move around and the right one to look around. The only difficult thing to do is looking around while shooting, and that's probably why console FPS don't rely you on shooting too many targets that are on top of under you, but mainly stay a eye level of your character or don't differ much.
I mean, it's not as if these machines are connected to the Internet? So you can't exploit them, since they're on a Network on their own, seperated from the Internet. And I'm pretty sure banks don't use the Internet, but some sort of proprietary communication to transfer information between themselves (well, except from banks who offer online transaction, which at ATM is not), so it's not that big a deal.
Unless some crazy MSCE decides that it would be neat to had ads on the machines that are fetched on the Internet... DAOH!
Yeah, but don't you think that it would feel even more real? I mean, I always wondered if someone would finally implement distance as a factor for the volume of a player voice in a game. That would be really nice. And make pretty interresting srategies.
Well, if you owned an Xbox and had a MMO, you'd probably chat in the communicator headset. In fact, Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox didn't need the keyboard like the Cube and Dreamcast version did because people could just speak in the headset. Beats the hell out of typing.
I didn't meant that Windows was superior, though I think Linux still has room for improvement in the usability department compared to Windows.
With that said, I meant "deliver a superior product" in regards to that particular technology they say they want to develop with IBM and others.
I never understood why people liked Sephiroth so much. In my own opinion, Kefka was the best bad guy ever in the Final Fantasy series. What was nice with is character was that when you saw him the first time you though that he was just a crazy freak that you'd beat to a bloody pulp early in the game, and he turned out to be a maniachal genius. Heck, he even wanted to destroy the world HIMSELF (and he could have done it) and create a monument to non-existance.
Oh, and Sephiroth's theme, while nice, doesn't even come close to the greatness that was Kefka's theme. I've rarelly seen a song that fitted so well with a character in a video game.
Exactly, I was really disappointed by FF7, and never played a Final Fantasy game after (thing is, I didn't have a PS1, and I don't own a PS2 now.) Thing is, FF seems to be all about FMV's now and gameplay in between. I really miss the good old days of FF3 and FF6.
Yeah, it's doing so well they're going to jack up the cost [xboxxtreme.net] to stay afloat.
What the fsck are you talking about??? They jacked up the price on the starter kit because it included a FREE head set during the first year. Now you have to pay for it when you buy the starter pack. The individual Xbox Live subscription fee hasn't changed at all. It's still 49.99$ a year. Hell, they've even made it better by creating a month-by-month subcription fee for those who don't want a one year subscription.
In fact, this is taken from the very webpage you provided : The price for a one-year subscription, or a subscription renewal, will remain $49.99. Microsoft also will start selling the Voice Communicator headset separately for the first time this fall, for $29.99.
Get your fact straights, and read past the first paragraph.
So how does M$ plan to screw Java and IBM
How about how everybody else is trying to screw Microsoft : by delivering a superior product?
Whether they'll succeed or not is another matter.
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony seem to do pretty good right now, there's not really a reason for it to be different on the handheld front.
While Windows stability hasn't been a concern for me, I alwaysd manage to get the right hardware and every iterations of Windows always run pretty smoothly (well,98SE, 2000 did and XP does now), I've bought a console.
Like you said, it's nice to just to pop in a disc and play. To patches, no driver revisions (except maybe if you have Xbox live, but they've made it seamless anyway, so it's not a huge hassle as on Windows or Linux) And games just feel better when played with a gamepad then when played with a mouse and a keyboard. (Ok, maybe Halo would have been better with a mouse/keyboard combo, but it still rocks nonetheless)
... be VERY afraid.
You should have the Windows one, you'd get even more free stuff.
Does anyone remember that ad about a guy running in the dark screaming Zelda at the top of his lungs? I only realized years later that it was a Zelda ad, since when I saw it I didn't even knew what was a Nintendo, I was too busy playing with my Intellivision. ;)
... because when I see the, it makes me want to buy the games. It's sooo clever. Just like tabacco ads drives people to smoke and beer ads drives me to get drunk
The Xbox contract totally forbids tinkering with the hardware or software included in the Xbox, so what we have right now are hackers (who are doing something clearly illegal since they didn't agree with the terms given to them) complaining about something that Microsoft has done that might also be illegal.
It's like having a street gangster complain to the police that the mafia makes it hard to run their buisness.
any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer
I didn't read the Xbox live contract because I didn't really gave a s*** if Microsoft updated the Xbox with it, but I'm pretty sure they covered their ass with that.
to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer
Come on people, the Xbox Linux users have exploited a security risk (in a buffer overflow/underflow, don't know which) in the Xbox and now that MS has patched it. I wouldn't make that illegal.
But the sig (timing is right... :) -- I beg to differ, but I think his calculation were incorrect. It's 48.
;)
You know - 69. But things are typically a little screwed up and backwards. 96. And you only ever get half of what you wanted anyway (if that): 48.
Simple really. Back to 86'ing Verisign...
Is it normal if I didn't understand a single word of what you have just explained?
I couldn't have said it better. It's a shame you'll probably be modded to -1, Microsoft Zealot.
This way the machine will be down, thus not answering request and we will get errors like before. ;)
I haven't played the latest game [...] Now when I read this, it reduces the rest of your post to nothing but a rant without any authority.
I dunno, I was carefull not to say too much about this particular iteration because I was in the dark about this one.
Maybe I should have elaborated on that "Awesome". But do you really need me to explain to you everything why Zelda 1 was so great? I think most of the people who are going to read this post will have played the Zelda games and don't need me to really remind them of why they were so great, though I did it a little.
Everybody knows what game I'm talking about, and I'm not going to go on a rant about why it was so cool when people all loved dearly those games. That would be intellectual masturbation, and I hate it when people do it.
I think though I've made it clear why I DIDN'T like the 64 versions, and maybe I should have kept my mouth shut about the GC version, but honestly, am I too far from the mark when saying it's mostly a rehash of 64 with Cell shading (Game Boy Advance connectivy IIRC)?
Have you played them? Zelda games were always about action, screen filled with enemies attacking you from all sides. Clear it, move to the next one.
In the 64 incarnations, you only fought once it a while. I was so bored with it, I never finished it and considered it a waste of my friend's money. (he owned the game, and hated it too)
The two Zelda incarnations on the N64 were in my own opinion totally overrated game. It offered somewhat new gameplay, but it just wasn't a Zelda game. It's like that old Coke commercial where you had two guys in front of abottle of a noname Coke-Clone and are comparing it to a real one :
Moves lile coke...
Looks like coke...
Smells like coke...
Tastes like... chicken???
It's as if Nintendo just took the visuals from Zelda and basic story elements (save the princess from Ganon, and you're Link), and used them for a totally unrelated game, like they did with Super Mario Bros 2, which is not a Mario game in Japan. Nintendo swapped the sprites for the American release and named it Mario 2 to cash in the name of the first game.
I remember the Zelda's prior 64 as an all out action game, while the two games on the N64 were about walking a minute in a direction on the world map, kill a monster, walk again, repeat until you reach the next dungeon. I haven't played the latest game, but it looked like a rehash for the 64 version but with cell shading, so I wouldn't call it innovative either.
Think about it:
- Zelda 1 was awesome.
- Zelda 2 was fun, but not a really innovative game.
- Zelda 3 introduced you more of the same, but had a city, somewhat 3d levels, talking characters, two worlds to explore who overlap and more special goodies then you could ever dream of.
- Zelda : The awakening fish or something on the Gameboy was mostly a rehash of Zelda 3.
After that, the only changes were 3D. Nothing to brag about here. Mario 64 was out as the same time as the console and already did that.
Tssk tssk tskk... talking to myself...
People interrested in the subject can start here.
I remember there was a Winamp plugin a few years back that managed to do this in realtime. Basically, it tries to remove the frequencies that are related to human voice in the song. The problem with it of course is that it also censors out some musical instruments that also operate in that frequency, but from my experience it achieved pretty good results. Not perfect, as you could still hear an echo of the lyrics, but anyway, when you're singing on top of it with your friends, you won't hear the echo anymore. They will never sound as good as real karaoke files, but with a little bit of tinkering, they might be able to pull it off quite well.
What would be great are CD's in the DVD Audio format with DD5.1. Imagine ripping each channels except the center one where the voice would be recorded and only get the band playing. Now that would make some pretty cool karaoke files.