Dude don't forget about gorillas.bas! I couldn't have passed trig without that game. All I remember thinking about during trig was how bananas fly at gorillas.
Great point, I too was quickly turned off of flying in battlefront because I was "Leaving the battlefield". If I had another 8-10 seconds so I could turn around it would have been nice.
I've played many star wars games, starting with X-wing on a 486 gateway 2000. I've often tried to find one similiar to that, but they still can't create the thrill that the aforementioned one had.
On the other hand, Knights of the Old Republic was an amazing game. I loved the D&D style, and look forward to the sequal coming this december.
I thought battlefront was less than stellar, the single player mode only lasted about 6 hours and Live is only playable on servers with autoaim and bots disabled.
Clone Wars was a terrible, terrible game. It was by far the worst stars game. If you've noticed, gamestop sells these used for $5. The only good thing you get from that $5 is the tetris game that comes with it.
Jedi Academy (II?) was good, I enjoyed it. Fun pod racing, good xbox live, etc., but the game got old fast.
I agree with you, the extended service plans are a ripoff. However, a few that I sold at radio shack were actually cashed in on. One guy backed his truck over his laptop, we replaced it no questions asked. Others would spill water/pop, drop them, jump on them, recover them from theft, you name it, and we would replace them all with no questions asked. I sold those service plans like a mofo. That year I netted over $6000 in commission from service plans alone. They are so easy to sell it's insane.
Anyway, my point is that I've seen these payoff big time. Though a majority of my old customers probably never took advantage of the plan.
Why wouldn't graphics be a new thing? I'd say it is.
I'm sorry, I didn't specify console gaming, but that's what I meant. And yes, it is a revolution in online console gaming.
Yeah, new things. In case you didn't notice, I was refuting the line: "halo2 offers _nothing_ in the creativity department into gameplay". This is clearly incorrect, regardless of how you want to spin it. That's all I'm trying to say. I agree with most of your other points.
Mutations are consistently observed all multicelled organisms. I highly doubt the traits of bees have culminated. They still have predators to evade, climate to endur, changing atmosphere to adapt to, and hive intelligence skills to hone.
Refute them then. Considering you are a professional scientist, it would seem you'd already know that you can refute them. Show us what you got. For gosh sake, make your life worth something.
We even make documentaries about them and write it off to our children as irrefutable truth!
Dude, quit bitching and refute them then. That's what science is all about.
If you come up with an idea (fuck the bible), we'll listen.
I started with muds in the early 90s, played eq for a while, still a q3 nut.
You say no other console has online play.
*THATS MY POINT!!!* It flew right over your head!
Sure, sony has a bandaided POS online service, but I'd MUCH rather pay ~$5/month to have a reliable service with reliable downloads and actual functionality. Yeah, it's free! WHOOP-DE-FUCKING-DO. Look what you get for free.
I paid $70 for a 12 month subscription to live. Now outside of that breaking down to $5.83 a month, I got an awesome game that my entire family loves (Crimson Skies), as well as a headset. Personally, I don't use the headset. It's just a bunch of kids. I'd rather listen to the game.
Hack protection? Not interested. I don't care if my xbox gets hacked. 4-8? Are you nuts? I play crimson skies without lag on a normal cable modem with 12+ people every day. I'm consistently in the top 3, with no lag whatsoever. Just 16, yeah. Have you seen what it takes to run a decent 64 player ut server? 2+ghz amds, 1gb ram, oc3? Nope, Ill stick with *only* 16 players.
Bitch about the hardware if you want, I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, it runs linux and all my games. It's a damn fine media player with XBMC, and it's friggen cheap.
You're right on with about the reviewing, and how much it sucks, but I have a bone to pick:
(besides all this, halo2 offers _nothing_ in the creativity department into gameplay)
You mean dual wielding is common on FPS? I know I could dualwield daggers on my MUDs, but this is the first FPS outside of the crappy gun on UT where I can dual wield(or even a few d&d based games, but those are not FPS). How about bringing about a HUGE revolution on online gaming? I don't have facts, but I will presume that activity for Halo2 on Xbox live will far outnumber all xbox games put together, and blow the shit out of sonys bandaided online garbage. Maybe the jacking the vehicles is something that's common in your fps, but I've never seen it. Having not played the game, I can only base my response on what I read in the reviews, but I will bet my left nut that this game has at least one new thing in it.
You've obviously shown your complete and total ignorance if you think software that took 10s of thousands of man hours to create contains absolutely nothing new in it. This isn't specifically in defense of halo2; it's to point out that you should pay closer attention to the worthless trash your mouth is spewing.
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Uh, thanks yerfatma, you said exactly what I would have said, except much more succinct:)
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I'm far from a Microsoft lover. I own 2 xboxes, one runs linux, the other is still a virgin to my screwdriver. I usually refer to ms as m$, I run linux on my desktops _and_ I'm a gentoo fan (zealot?). Hopefully the sentences above lend credence to me saying, plain as day: You are severely misled, Microsoft _does_ innovate, at least where the xbox is concerned. Despite the original huge pos controller, they created a smaller s controller which is by far the easiest console controller I've ever dealt with. M$ 'innovated' by sticking with x86, some consider this a bad mistake, but it made the consoles considerably cheaper and easier to program on than their alternatives. M$ 'innovated' with an online subscription plan that simply blows its rivals out of the water. M$ innovated with detaching controller cables, something that has saved my boxes lives several times, considering I have a 4 year old daughter running around.
m$ has some incredibly smart people on it's staff, and it seems rather cruel for you to excuse their existence and ingenuity just because you dislike 'the man'.
I should be the last one saying this, because I almost feel hypocritical, but you should really take your blinders off and consider the xbox at it's real value.
Hopefully capitalism will reveal its head and many of these features and more will drive sony to create the best console yet.
Think about it... Scour the code and find a vulnerability. Considering some large financial institutions and government offices run pixes, the code would be worth more than 24k to the right person.
I think his point was that evolution caused this to happen. Creationists generally attribute any types of evolution to god. In this case, (darwins) evolution is incontestable.
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It's faster. find ~/ -type f | wc -l is easier finding my mouse, plugging it in, waiting for usb to init, then navigating around.
lol, good show
Dude don't forget about gorillas.bas! I couldn't have passed trig without that game. All I remember thinking about during trig was how bananas fly at gorillas.
Great point, I too was quickly turned off of flying in battlefront because I was "Leaving the battlefield". If I had another 8-10 seconds so I could turn around it would have been nice.
I've played many star wars games, starting with X-wing on a 486 gateway 2000.
I've often tried to find one similiar to that, but they still can't create the thrill that the aforementioned one had.
On the other hand, Knights of the Old Republic was an amazing game. I loved the D&D style, and look forward to the sequal coming this december.
I thought battlefront was less than stellar, the single player mode only lasted about 6 hours and Live is only playable on servers with autoaim and bots disabled.
Clone Wars was a terrible, terrible game. It was by far the worst stars game. If you've noticed, gamestop sells these used for $5. The only good thing you get from that $5 is the tetris game that comes with it.
Jedi Academy (II?) was good, I enjoyed it. Fun pod racing, good xbox live, etc., but the game got old fast.
Does anyone know if KOTOR 2 will be D&D based?
wtf?
I agree with you, the extended service plans are a ripoff.
However, a few that I sold at radio shack were actually cashed in on.
One guy backed his truck over his laptop, we replaced it no questions asked.
Others would spill water/pop, drop them, jump on them, recover them from theft, you name it, and we would replace them all with no questions asked.
I sold those service plans like a mofo. That year I netted over $6000 in commission from service plans alone. They are so easy to sell it's insane.
Anyway, my point is that I've seen these payoff big time. Though a majority of my old customers probably never took advantage of the plan.
30 day return policy?
Because I have limited knowledge of the subject, perhaps someone here can tell you more.
I'm sorry, I just know of the concept.
Why wouldn't graphics be a new thing? I'd say it is.
I'm sorry, I didn't specify console gaming, but that's what I meant. And yes, it is a revolution in online console gaming.
Yeah, new things. In case you didn't notice, I was refuting the line: "halo2 offers _nothing_ in the creativity department into gameplay". This is clearly incorrect, regardless of how you want to spin it. That's all I'm trying to say. I agree with most of your other points.
I never said Halo 2 was the only fps to have dual wielding. Instead of me shutting my pie whole, you should RTFP.
I didn't say dual wielding was new.
Yeah I guess I meant revolution in online console gaming.
I've haven't played ut2k4, just 3. bf1942 sucked.
Mutations are consistently observed all multicelled organisms. I highly doubt the traits of bees have culminated. They still have predators to evade, climate to endur, changing atmosphere to adapt to, and hive intelligence skills to hone.
hive intelligence.
use google.
Refute them then. Considering you are a professional scientist, it would seem you'd already know that you can refute them.
Show us what you got. For gosh sake, make your life worth something.
We even make documentaries about them and write it off to our children as irrefutable truth!
Dude, quit bitching and refute them then. That's what science is all about.
If you come up with an idea (fuck the bible), we'll listen.
The ps2 couldn't handle halo2. I haven't kept up with nintendo, but I doubt their consoles could either.
99.1% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I started with muds in the early 90s, played eq for a while, still a q3 nut.
You say no other console has online play.
*THATS MY POINT!!!* It flew right over your head!
Sure, sony has a bandaided POS online service, but I'd MUCH rather pay ~$5/month to have a reliable service with reliable downloads and actual functionality. Yeah, it's free! WHOOP-DE-FUCKING-DO. Look what you get for free.
I paid $70 for a 12 month subscription to live. Now outside of that breaking down to $5.83 a month, I got an awesome game that my entire family loves (Crimson Skies), as well as a headset. Personally, I don't use the headset. It's just a bunch of kids. I'd rather listen to the game.
Hack protection? Not interested. I don't care if my xbox gets hacked. 4-8? Are you nuts? I play crimson skies without lag on a normal cable modem with 12+ people every day. I'm consistently in the top 3, with no lag whatsoever. Just 16, yeah. Have you seen what it takes to run a decent 64 player ut server? 2+ghz amds, 1gb ram, oc3? Nope, Ill stick with *only* 16 players.
Bitch about the hardware if you want, I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, it runs linux and all my games. It's a damn fine media player with XBMC, and it's friggen cheap.
You're right on with about the reviewing, and how much it sucks, but I have a bone to pick:
(besides all this, halo2 offers _nothing_ in the creativity department into gameplay)
You mean dual wielding is common on FPS? I know I could dualwield daggers on my MUDs, but this is the first FPS outside of the crappy gun on UT where I can dual wield(or even a few d&d based games, but those are not FPS).
How about bringing about a HUGE revolution on online gaming? I don't have facts, but I will presume that activity for Halo2 on Xbox live will far outnumber all xbox games put together, and blow the shit out of sonys bandaided online garbage.
Maybe the jacking the vehicles is something that's common in your fps, but I've never seen it.
Having not played the game, I can only base my response on what I read in the reviews, but I will bet my left nut that this game has at least one new thing in it.
You've obviously shown your complete and total ignorance if you think software that took 10s of thousands of man hours to create contains absolutely nothing new in it. This isn't specifically in defense of halo2; it's to point out that you should pay closer attention to the worthless trash your mouth is spewing.
Uh, thanks yerfatma, you said exactly what I would have said, except much more succinct:)
I'm far from a Microsoft lover. I own 2 xboxes, one runs linux, the other is still a virgin to my screwdriver. I usually refer to ms as m$, I run linux on my desktops _and_ I'm a gentoo fan (zealot?).
Hopefully the sentences above lend credence to me saying, plain as day: You are severely misled, Microsoft _does_ innovate, at least where the xbox is concerned. Despite the original huge pos controller, they created a smaller s controller which is by far the easiest console controller I've ever dealt with. M$ 'innovated' by sticking with x86, some consider this a bad mistake, but it made the consoles considerably cheaper and easier to program on than their alternatives. M$ 'innovated' with an online subscription plan that simply blows its rivals out of the water. M$ innovated with detaching controller cables, something that has saved my boxes lives several times, considering I have a 4 year old daughter running around.
m$ has some incredibly smart people on it's staff, and it seems rather cruel for you to excuse their existence and ingenuity just because you dislike 'the man'.
I should be the last one saying this, because I almost feel hypocritical, but you should really take your blinders off and consider the xbox at it's real value.
Hopefully capitalism will reveal its head and many of these features and more will drive sony to create the best console yet.
amen to that
Think about it...
Scour the code and find a vulnerability. Considering some large financial institutions and government offices run pixes, the code would be worth more than 24k to the right person.
I think his point was that evolution caused this to happen. Creationists generally attribute any types of evolution to god. In this case, (darwins) evolution is incontestable.