Yeah I have to agree with your other replier. Thats great that you don't find a need for satellite radio (I mean it saves you money right?) but others of us have a good need for it. First off the truckers and professional drivers who are looking for consistent radio coverage no matter where they are driving. But ontop of that those of us looking for specific niche channels. Howard Stern fans, Opie and Anthony fans... general sports fans (for instance you can probably get all of your local sports team's games on your local radio, but what if you like a out-of-state team, or you like listening to any game possible). There are comedy channels (24/7 stand-up routines), news channels (CNN, CNN Headline, FoxNews, BBC WorldNews). Satellite really does offer up a lot of options for those not only interested in music.
In terms of music-only listening I think you make a great point, but satellite offers much more than just music.
You nailed it. I completely agree with you. First thing i thought, without reading the article, was "What was the average age of the person polled?"
Back in high-school, first thing I would've asked someone i just met is "So what do you listen to?" And i thought I was so smart because I would build a personality around this person based on what kind of music he/she listened to. Today, now that I'm out of a school, working and married, I could give a damn about what someone else listens to.
Wow, guess I'm outnumbered but I'm enjoying Lost Planet more than GoW at the moment. I was just so tired of the dark, brown, enclosed world of gow, that a white, blue, open world of LP was a nice change. And I laugh when i see people talking about how bad the storyline is. Sure, its pretty cheesy, but good lord GoW's script was just plain awful. I'm not complaining mind you, I just hope the people say the same thing about GoW though.
When you're firing your gun there is some level of auto aiming, at least at the level I'm playing. I guess you could call it cheap and makes it too easy but I enjoy it. I'll admit i'm a bit spastic with the controller on a console FPS, so i enjoy the change. Also the fact that mechs are all over the place, you really get a different game experience from it. Whereas GoW, you're always pressing A to hide behind the next whatchamacallit.
I'm not far along at all, so maybe it'll get to me after awhile. The mission 3 boss took me for freakin' ever. Lots of swearing and things being thrown later, I beat her, and what can i say, I felt a level of satisfaction i haven't felt from a game in awhile.
I do admit the knocking down and getting back up thing can be really frustrating. Especially when the same boss has beaten you for 30 minutes straight and you just want a goddamn chance to win. But when its just here or there, I enjoy the realism of it. Somethings rising, you get knocked down, it takes awhile to get back up. Fair enough, thats the game play.
Also read someone else mention the "pretty smoke." Wow... I think the explosions in this game are the best looking graphics i've seen on a console yet. Personally I enjoyed being surrounded by the smoke of a boss's rocket having no clue which way is up, until I run out of it.
Meh, obviously its not for everyone. It does surprise me though that its getting canned on slashdot, I thought it was decent. I guess I'm an idiot. In summary if you're an idiot too, give the game a shot, I, your fellow idiot, enjoyed it.
Doesn't it make you think? When the Bush administration uses scare tactics and implements a Terror Alert Warning system, the liberals come out and cry foul, "You can't use scare tactics on us!"
And when Gore comes out with a movie with a scene of a polar bear struggling to get onto a floating piece of ice, with a voice-over of the horrors of global warming and how we're all doomed, no one cries scare tactics at all.
I guess it'd be egotistical to hope that both sides will mod me a Troll. But come on, there are others out there that see it like I do right? That both sides are now using fear to promote their agenda? Hell, one of them got a Nobel Prize nomination for scaring the living s out of the world. BRILLIANT!
Funny? Funny how? Funny as in it personally offends you that its specific location isn't mentioned?
Funny like, you naturally assuming the editor purposefully left out the location because it was not an American location?
Or funny like "Hahahah that old woman slipped on some ice and broke her hip" funny? Cuuuuz I gotta tell you, I didn't laugh as hard as I did at that woman this morning.
Yeah I'll have to go ahead and disagree as well. Geometry Wars, very small, great gameplay. Gears of War, large game, amazing graphics, fun gameplay.
All that proves is that large and small games can be fun. It all comes down to what the developers do. Size only determines how shiny and how much is in the package.
I don't really know what you're talking about here.
Because they have the market by the balls
You're saying they (MPAA?) have the market by the balls? They are the market. They are Hollywood. Of course people want to work for them because they have money and they give people fame.
you'd see a FLOOD of people leaving Hollywood to work for Joe Blow because Joe Blow can do it just as good
You mean if like Trenton OH was the new hotspot for movie making, people would flock there? Isn't that robbing Peter to pay Paul? Joe Blow isn't going to want to get ripped off either. And if you're talking like indies, indies make money, and you know why actors act in them for so little money?! BECAUSE THEY WANT SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD TO SEE THEM!
What it sounds like you're saying, to me at least, is that if... when someone... forget it, I have no idea what you're saying.
Like some other repliers pointed out its good in theory but probably won't work or happen in the real world... why give away games people might otherwise buy. On the other hand, what about special Themes or GamerPics that are free to download after certain thresholds, 1000, 2500, 5000 or something like that. Minimal cost for microsoft to create and it gives a little weight to the achievements.
Yet again, people are already going after high scores just for bragging rights so why would they need to give anything away?
They can now dual boot their shiny PS3 into Linux.
While I agree that its a neat ability with the PS3, thinking in pure numbers, this can't attribute more than a tiny tiny fraction of the console buying public.
You could argue the other side too, I have a computer, i don't need a browser on my tv, all I want is games and to stream my photos/videos, why pay more for some things I won't ever use.
But again i'm not trying to be argumentative. You're exactly right, some people will buy the ps3 because they can load linux on it. Some people will buy the 360 because they will soon be able to play the same game with their PC-only friends. And some will buy the Wii because of the controller... its all personal preference and we still have at least a year before we get some hints at who the "winner" will be.
I totally agree that he's stetching it with "proprietary networking" for the 360. What does that even mean? That ps3 users can't use it? Eventually with Vista PC users will be able to play against 360 users, so I have no clue what point he's trying to make.
But you have to be suspect of people who brag about not owning televisions.
Sorry, but I'd rather watch a good film with a good plot and good acting on VHS any day over a whizz-bang technical film with crappy pretty-boy/barbie-girl actors and a script written by a committee...
The silliness in your elitist comment is that the two are not mutually exclusive. You can get most films on dvd now and if you're saying you'd rather watch a film on vhs than a 480p version on dvd and that over a true HD disc; you're either stuck in the past, or horribly ignorant on the differences between the three.
Now if you're only commenting on their selection, then all you've done is state what everyone knows. Of course someone would rather watch a good movie than a bad movie... so bravo to you Captain Obvious.
On a related note, society on the whole is far to sue happy and I'm of the opinion that they should institute a mandatory penalty for bringing frivolous law suits.
How dare you insinuate I'm sue happy... you'll be hearing from my lawyer.
Lemme just say you will LOVE the 360 with its online capabilities. Never messed with a ps3. I'm sure their online service is good too but since i have a 360 and can only speak to that one. It is awesome. I got my 360 with Madden 07 (some kind of best buy deal) but had no intention of opening madden (i wanted to trade it on craigslist). I spent a good week with my 360, never having bought a game just downloading demos and playing with them or watching trailers or whatever, its all very cool.
I suppose you'd have fit right in in Germany circa WWII.
For some reason that comment reads to me like something my rambling grandfather would say... so to be nice with a response you just have to agree.
Yes Grandpa, yes, they're all dirty dirty Nazis. Yes that poster on Slashdot was quite the Nazi wasn't he. We know Grandpa, the Bush administration and your first wife were all filthy Nazis too... now put your teeth in and lets eat.
I never thought I'd be a video game watcher... but once I got GameplayHD with DishNetwork I gotta say i watch a lot of people playing video games in HD. No clue... half the time i don't even know what they're talking about (read Starcraft), but I'm there, watching it, with my wife looking at me like "Why in God's name did i marry this loser?"
I mean yeah I can't really argue that XMBC has more support for a wider variety of formats, but I mean the whole experience is more integrated and seamless with MediaCenter. Its right there on my 360 dashboard as opposed to have to drill down through whatever dashboard I have running on my modded xbox. Shared directories are all controlled via Media Connector on the PC as opposed to having to customize a configuration file, which may be difficult for those non-IT folks. So yeah i think its more seamless. I was a user of both as well. But now theres no need for me to use XMBC. You enjoy it more. Great, good on ya.
Yeah I don't see a need for a browser so much, but I can definitely understand why someone would want it. For me personally I'd see a greater advantage for integrating some kind of email capability. Sync up with your hotmail account or msn account, get email alerts some minor image support and let me respond or create new emails.
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Yeah I have to agree with your other replier. Thats great that you don't find a need for satellite radio (I mean it saves you money right?) but others of us have a good need for it. First off the truckers and professional drivers who are looking for consistent radio coverage no matter where they are driving. But ontop of that those of us looking for specific niche channels. Howard Stern fans, Opie and Anthony fans... general sports fans (for instance you can probably get all of your local sports team's games on your local radio, but what if you like a out-of-state team, or you like listening to any game possible). There are comedy channels (24/7 stand-up routines), news channels (CNN, CNN Headline, FoxNews, BBC WorldNews). Satellite really does offer up a lot of options for those not only interested in music.
In terms of music-only listening I think you make a great point, but satellite offers much more than just music.
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GrayCalx declares his new Gray-DVD format is the winner of the HD-format wars.
You nailed it. I completely agree with you. First thing i thought, without reading the article, was "What was the average age of the person polled?"
Back in high-school, first thing I would've asked someone i just met is "So what do you listen to?" And i thought I was so smart because I would build a personality around this person based on what kind of music he/she listened to. Today, now that I'm out of a school, working and married, I could give a damn about what someone else listens to.
Wow, guess I'm outnumbered but I'm enjoying Lost Planet more than GoW at the moment. I was just so tired of the dark, brown, enclosed world of gow, that a white, blue, open world of LP was a nice change. And I laugh when i see people talking about how bad the storyline is. Sure, its pretty cheesy, but good lord GoW's script was just plain awful. I'm not complaining mind you, I just hope the people say the same thing about GoW though.
When you're firing your gun there is some level of auto aiming, at least at the level I'm playing. I guess you could call it cheap and makes it too easy but I enjoy it. I'll admit i'm a bit spastic with the controller on a console FPS, so i enjoy the change. Also the fact that mechs are all over the place, you really get a different game experience from it. Whereas GoW, you're always pressing A to hide behind the next whatchamacallit.
I'm not far along at all, so maybe it'll get to me after awhile. The mission 3 boss took me for freakin' ever. Lots of swearing and things being thrown later, I beat her, and what can i say, I felt a level of satisfaction i haven't felt from a game in awhile.
I do admit the knocking down and getting back up thing can be really frustrating. Especially when the same boss has beaten you for 30 minutes straight and you just want a goddamn chance to win. But when its just here or there, I enjoy the realism of it. Somethings rising, you get knocked down, it takes awhile to get back up. Fair enough, thats the game play.
Also read someone else mention the "pretty smoke." Wow... I think the explosions in this game are the best looking graphics i've seen on a console yet. Personally I enjoyed being surrounded by the smoke of a boss's rocket having no clue which way is up, until I run out of it.
Meh, obviously its not for everyone. It does surprise me though that its getting canned on slashdot, I thought it was decent. I guess I'm an idiot. In summary if you're an idiot too, give the game a shot, I, your fellow idiot, enjoyed it.
I won one at my work's holiday party. Its great, I use it all the time. That being said I would never have paid cash for the thing.
Doesn't it make you think? When the Bush administration uses scare tactics and implements a Terror Alert Warning system, the liberals come out and cry foul, "You can't use scare tactics on us!"
And when Gore comes out with a movie with a scene of a polar bear struggling to get onto a floating piece of ice, with a voice-over of the horrors of global warming and how we're all doomed, no one cries scare tactics at all.
I guess it'd be egotistical to hope that both sides will mod me a Troll. But come on, there are others out there that see it like I do right? That both sides are now using fear to promote their agenda? Hell, one of them got a Nobel Prize nomination for scaring the living s out of the world. BRILLIANT!
Funny? Funny how? Funny as in it personally offends you that its specific location isn't mentioned?
Funny like, you naturally assuming the editor purposefully left out the location because it was not an American location?
Or funny like "Hahahah that old woman slipped on some ice and broke her hip" funny? Cuuuuz I gotta tell you, I didn't laugh as hard as I did at that woman this morning.
Yeah I'll have to go ahead and disagree as well. Geometry Wars, very small, great gameplay. Gears of War, large game, amazing graphics, fun gameplay.
All that proves is that large and small games can be fun. It all comes down to what the developers do. Size only determines how shiny and how much is in the package.
I don't really know what you're talking about here.
... when someone... forget it, I have no idea what you're saying.
Because they have the market by the balls
You're saying they (MPAA?) have the market by the balls? They are the market. They are Hollywood. Of course people want to work for them because they have money and they give people fame.
you'd see a FLOOD of people leaving Hollywood to work for Joe Blow because Joe Blow can do it just as good
You mean if like Trenton OH was the new hotspot for movie making, people would flock there? Isn't that robbing Peter to pay Paul? Joe Blow isn't going to want to get ripped off either. And if you're talking like indies, indies make money, and you know why actors act in them for so little money?! BECAUSE THEY WANT SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD TO SEE THEM!
What it sounds like you're saying, to me at least, is that if
Please die now, we need the air you're wasting.
Air?!? Who cares about the air, you take his air, I have dibs on the fresh water.
Like some other repliers pointed out its good in theory but probably won't work or happen in the real world... why give away games people might otherwise buy. On the other hand, what about special Themes or GamerPics that are free to download after certain thresholds, 1000, 2500, 5000 or something like that. Minimal cost for microsoft to create and it gives a little weight to the achievements.
Yet again, people are already going after high scores just for bragging rights so why would they need to give anything away?
They can now dual boot their shiny PS3 into Linux.
While I agree that its a neat ability with the PS3, thinking in pure numbers, this can't attribute more than a tiny tiny fraction of the console buying public.
You could argue the other side too, I have a computer, i don't need a browser on my tv, all I want is games and to stream my photos/videos, why pay more for some things I won't ever use.
But again i'm not trying to be argumentative. You're exactly right, some people will buy the ps3 because they can load linux on it. Some people will buy the 360 because they will soon be able to play the same game with their PC-only friends. And some will buy the Wii because of the controller... its all personal preference and we still have at least a year before we get some hints at who the "winner" will be.
I totally agree that he's stetching it with "proprietary networking" for the 360. What does that even mean? That ps3 users can't use it? Eventually with Vista PC users will be able to play against 360 users, so I have no clue what point he's trying to make.
But you have to be suspect of people who brag about not owning televisions.
You sir are confusing content with delivery method.
Sorry, but I'd rather watch a good film with a good plot and good acting on VHS any day over a whizz-bang technical film with crappy pretty-boy/barbie-girl actors and a script written by a committee...
The silliness in your elitist comment is that the two are not mutually exclusive. You can get most films on dvd now and if you're saying you'd rather watch a film on vhs than a 480p version on dvd and that over a true HD disc; you're either stuck in the past, or horribly ignorant on the differences between the three.
Now if you're only commenting on their selection, then all you've done is state what everyone knows. Of course someone would rather watch a good movie than a bad movie... so bravo to you Captain Obvious.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
/obligatory
How dare you assign any company, other than Microsoft, monopoly status on a slashdot thread. Shame on you. Shaaaaame.
On a related note, society on the whole is far to sue happy and I'm of the opinion that they should institute a mandatory penalty for bringing frivolous law suits.
How dare you insinuate I'm sue happy... you'll be hearing from my lawyer.
Lemme just say you will LOVE the 360 with its online capabilities. Never messed with a ps3. I'm sure their online service is good too but since i have a 360 and can only speak to that one. It is awesome. I got my 360 with Madden 07 (some kind of best buy deal) but had no intention of opening madden (i wanted to trade it on craigslist). I spent a good week with my 360, never having bought a game just downloading demos and playing with them or watching trailers or whatever, its all very cool.
The kids of today should defend themselves against the 70s.
I'm surprised the author didn't go with the ol' "Microsoft Windows kills kittens. You don't want your OS to kill kittens... do you Timmy?"
I suppose you'd have fit right in in Germany circa WWII.
For some reason that comment reads to me like something my rambling grandfather would say... so to be nice with a response you just have to agree.
Yes Grandpa, yes, they're all dirty dirty Nazis. Yes that poster on Slashdot was quite the Nazi wasn't he. We know Grandpa, the Bush administration and your first wife were all filthy Nazis too... now put your teeth in and lets eat.
I never thought I'd be a video game watcher... but once I got GameplayHD with DishNetwork I gotta say i watch a lot of people playing video games in HD. No clue... half the time i don't even know what they're talking about (read Starcraft), but I'm there, watching it, with my wife looking at me like "Why in God's name did i marry this loser?"
I mean yeah I can't really argue that XMBC has more support for a wider variety of formats, but I mean the whole experience is more integrated and seamless with MediaCenter. Its right there on my 360 dashboard as opposed to have to drill down through whatever dashboard I have running on my modded xbox. Shared directories are all controlled via Media Connector on the PC as opposed to having to customize a configuration file, which may be difficult for those non-IT folks. So yeah i think its more seamless. I was a user of both as well. But now theres no need for me to use XMBC. You enjoy it more. Great, good on ya.
Yeah I don't see a need for a browser so much, but I can definitely understand why someone would want it. For me personally I'd see a greater advantage for integrating some kind of email capability. Sync up with your hotmail account or msn account, get email alerts some minor image support and let me respond or create new emails.