because that makes too much sense altogether! if the system isn't confusing as hell, then they can't rip you off for more than they've really earned, and make you pay for someone to explain it to you!
i don't know if any of you have been following the sector 7 arg but there's a new login for that in the trailer. it flickers during part of the trailer, if you pause it when bumblebee's radio is shown in close-up and fritzes out, you'll see it, the code is "codeblack".
is the map any good? what game is it for and where can I download it?
seriously, i can't find any references to what game the map was for..... i'm going to laugh if the kid recreated his school in "the sims" or something of that ilk.
i was hanging out with a few people the other day, and it dawned on me, that I honestly don't have many games that support 3 players for that thing. so i dusted off big bumpin', and it was a huge hit with everyone. great party game, sort of like a fusion frenzy lite (though i'm sure fusion frenzy 2 is a much better party game, you can't go wrong at less than 4 bucks)
if you only have an s-video connection, you don't need HD-DVD. save your money.
also, not all last-gen consoles could play dvd: the cube couldn't, and for that to work on xbox, you'd have to buy a seperate kit. the wii itself doesn't go HD, it'd be perfect for you, and its smaller than most home dvd players, too: its about the size of 3 dvd case stacked together. you don't need to use the base and store it vertically if you don't want to: fits great on top of other things.
the "but it doesn't play dvd!" excuse is a load of crap, seeing as how you can go to walmart and buy a pint-sized dvd player for less than many special edition dvd releases!
never mind. i missed the last page somehow and i see how he's calling what irefer to as "the platinum age," but I'd still have to say, those earlier "golden age" games really leave a lot to be desired by today's standards, and yet, i feel stuff like baldur's gate will NEVER seem out-dated. a friend of mine, who has only recently become very interested in games, was asking about "computer RPG's with great plots" and the Baldur's Gate series was the first thing in my mind, followed shortly by Planescape: torment" (which i think is one of the best rpg's ever, but i hesitate to recommend it to people unfamiliar with the setting, because it can be "too weird" for some people."
i disagree with what they label as the "golden age." i'd venture to say that, for me at least, the golden age was in the mid to late 90's, when we had releases like the Baldur's Gate series, and Planescape: Torment, and Fallout (and bioware and black isle, period!), Daggerfall, diablo (yes, not really an rpg, but we're including it because it helped revitalize the genre at the time) and others. there was a great glut of AWESOME RPG games.
the article's "golden age" I think, is too close to the "original age," and really, i also feel that, while they were great games for the time, they haven't aged as well as most of the stuff released in the mid 90's.
not in GTA, but you can do something similar in postal 2. you can beat them up with a shovel, urinate on them, pour gasoline on them and set them on fire, and so on, and so forth.
and you're right: its still just a game. any idiot can tell the difference, this kid is just a psychopath.
wow. just wow. i've been avoiding falling into the time and money dump that is WoW, but your description there is the most logical, most interesting one i've heard yet, and makes it actually sound like something that i might enjoy..... you may have just converted me over to *wanting* to play it. DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!:-p
i broke my arm when i fell off my bicycle over the summer. specifically, i fractured the radial head, which is a part of the elbow which controls fore-arm rotation. (as the doctor explained it to me, IANAMD) though the arm healed, the range of motion never returned fully. After my first week of having a wii (last week) my arm was INCREDIBLY stiff, and my range of motion limited, so i took it easy for a few days. now, however, the range has returned... and then some, moreso than how it was before i got the wii. its not back to the full, pre-break range yet, but..... its more than it was, and i think the constant and continuous use of my arms motion has probably helped.
is it possible that this thing could be used in physical therapy?
i have a non-gamer friend uses crutches or a wheelchair to get around, and she has difficulty standing on her own. well, i had a whole bunch of friends over for a wii gaming party, and she came over too... she owned at boxing, and was decent at tennis, but had difficulty with bowling: her arm kept getting hung up on the side of the chair. next time we're going to get out my old office computer chair (without armrests) for her. even so, she came in third place (beating the non-gamer who had also had a few too many to drink before coming over.)
even so, she had a great time. however, i just got Super Swing golf, and.... honestly, I can't imagine that being playable for someone who is similarly equipped as her...... which sort of bothers me. (these are the kinds of things i never thought of until i made a couple differently-abled friends, but its a real issue.)
I am inclined to agree... oftentimes, at my computer, i multitask. i have been playing a lot more console games lately, because, with my consoles plugged into the tv next to my computer desk, i can pause between levels and talk to friends in yahoo messenger.
lately, i've found myself playing Yugioh Online because its a fun strategic game that will run in a window. its turn based, and i can keep my eye on the game while chatting with a friend when its not my turn.
since they're not going to complete the game, can i get a refund on the portion i bought? see, this is the problem with episodic content: when they decide to not finish it, people who have been enjoying it up to that point are left in the cold, with an unfinished game and 20 bucks poorer.
actually, Resistance is the Resistance killer. i played it at a friend's and..... it sorta sucks.
gears of war is what's hot, or hadn't you heard? (it is still hot, right? I mean, i'm still playing it.....)
i thought they put this out a year ago, though!
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i thought they put this out a year ago, though!
oh, thats right, they did. it came out for the Xbox, too!
it hit October of 2005 (november for ps2). now, i'm not necessarily a zonk-hater (in fact, I think the guy gets a mostly unfair bad rap), but..... this product isn't anything new: it has existed for a long while. the real news is, simply, that they're dropping the price.
you're in luck: it looks as though the Subservient Chicken is a playable character in the "pocket bike racing" and "big bumping" games. (or at least makes an appearance)
i read somewhere that arcade games have the joystick on the left, and the buttons on the right, because Miyamoto is left-handed, and thats what seemed most natural when making Donkey Kong's controls (game features joystick for left and right movement, and up and down ladder climbing, and one button for jumping)
before Donkey Kong, we had games like pacman used only a joystick, or a few space-shooters which actually *did* have the fire button on the left (or, i know, some had two buttons: one on each side of the stick)... but Donkey Kong was very popular, especially in japan, where many of the innovative arcade games were coming from at the time, so other systems ended up copying the format of "stick on left, buttons on right."
look at the atari 2600 joystick, too: before the popularity of nintendo's lefty-created games, we had a stick (held in the right hand) and a button on the top left side of the controller.
ahh, i'd been told that such people existed, but I never believed it. are there really xbox 360 owners who don't have a hard drive? tell me: are you one of them? what possessed you to buy it? you realize that it ultimately will cost you more to go without it, since memory cards tend to fill up quickly, and two of them cost what 1 hard drive runs?
regarding it eating up the hard drive: sure. thats why you don't keep it installed forever. just like on pc. maybe there's an option from the menu to remove the actual expansion content, without touching save files, just to be sure?
maybe, but i'd say that doesn't really matter, seeing as how most of the people in this top 100 list are product managers, ceo's, and marketing drones. business people. they actually probably don't care about games much at all, other than the fact that it lets them have a paycheck. wheras dani, despite her birth-gender, made some of the most inventive games ever created, and was a true pioneer. as already stated, Will Wright dedicated "the sims" to her.
not necessarily. they put out the expansions for morrowind as the "game of the year" edition, which included the original game and both pc expansions.alternately, they could have it install to the hard drive from a store-bought disc, and run as a modification (much like how the downloads do.) they could easily put out full-on expansion-packs for the console version.
the other thing to remember, is, morrowind was the first game in the series to have an actual expansion. the rest of the series hasn't.
true. we very well could respawn. but the save system is broken: you have to start over at the beginning with a new character every time, and you don't get to keep the benefits of your previous run, other than the fact that you may have made a mark on the world.
or, alternately, maybe we die several times in everyday life... but the 'player' saves every so often. to the character, reloading the last save would be imperceptible, so thats why we don't remember getting hit at the intersection on our way to work: game was reloaded, it never happened, and the "player" knew to give us the urge to look both ways before crossing.
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because that makes too much sense altogether! if the system isn't confusing as hell, then they can't rip you off for more than they've really earned, and make you pay for someone to explain it to you!
actually, monkey island was inspired by the pirates of the carribean ride, hence the (horrible, in my opinion) ending of monkey island 2.
this list is pretty thorough, Vangers is easily the weirdest game i've ever played.
i don't know if any of you have been following the sector 7 arg but there's a new login for that in the trailer. it flickers during part of the trailer, if you pause it when bumblebee's radio is shown in close-up and fritzes out, you'll see it, the code is "codeblack".
Angry Videogame Nerd tackled the ghost busters games in a 3-part video series...
is the map any good? what game is it for and where can I download it?
seriously, i can't find any references to what game the map was for..... i'm going to laugh if the kid recreated his school in "the sims" or something of that ilk.
i was hanging out with a few people the other day, and it dawned on me, that I honestly don't have many games that support 3 players for that thing. so i dusted off big bumpin', and it was a huge hit with everyone. great party game, sort of like a fusion frenzy lite (though i'm sure fusion frenzy 2 is a much better party game, you can't go wrong at less than 4 bucks)
if you only have an s-video connection, you don't need HD-DVD. save your money. also, not all last-gen consoles could play dvd: the cube couldn't, and for that to work on xbox, you'd have to buy a seperate kit. the wii itself doesn't go HD, it'd be perfect for you, and its smaller than most home dvd players, too: its about the size of 3 dvd case stacked together. you don't need to use the base and store it vertically if you don't want to: fits great on top of other things. the "but it doesn't play dvd!" excuse is a load of crap, seeing as how you can go to walmart and buy a pint-sized dvd player for less than many special edition dvd releases!
why can't they just keep a database and have barcodes? wouldn't that be, essentially, the same as this, only less prone to RFID's insecure nature?
never mind. i missed the last page somehow and i see how he's calling what irefer to as "the platinum age," but I'd still have to say, those earlier "golden age" games really leave a lot to be desired by today's standards, and yet, i feel stuff like baldur's gate will NEVER seem out-dated. a friend of mine, who has only recently become very interested in games, was asking about "computer RPG's with great plots" and the Baldur's Gate series was the first thing in my mind, followed shortly by Planescape: torment" (which i think is one of the best rpg's ever, but i hesitate to recommend it to people unfamiliar with the setting, because it can be "too weird" for some people."
i disagree with what they label as the "golden age." i'd venture to say that, for me at least, the golden age was in the mid to late 90's, when we had releases like the Baldur's Gate series, and Planescape: Torment, and Fallout (and bioware and black isle, period!), Daggerfall, diablo (yes, not really an rpg, but we're including it because it helped revitalize the genre at the time) and others. there was a great glut of AWESOME RPG games.
the article's "golden age" I think, is too close to the "original age," and really, i also feel that, while they were great games for the time, they haven't aged as well as most of the stuff released in the mid 90's.
not in GTA, but you can do something similar in postal 2. you can beat them up with a shovel, urinate on them, pour gasoline on them and set them on fire, and so on, and so forth.
and you're right: its still just a game. any idiot can tell the difference, this kid is just a psychopath.
wow. just wow. i've been avoiding falling into the time and money dump that is WoW, but your description there is the most logical, most interesting one i've heard yet, and makes it actually sound like something that i might enjoy..... you may have just converted me over to *wanting* to play it. DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL! :-p
i broke my arm when i fell off my bicycle over the summer. specifically, i fractured the radial head, which is a part of the elbow which controls fore-arm rotation. (as the doctor explained it to me, IANAMD) though the arm healed, the range of motion never returned fully. After my first week of having a wii (last week) my arm was INCREDIBLY stiff, and my range of motion limited, so i took it easy for a few days. now, however, the range has returned... and then some, moreso than how it was before i got the wii. its not back to the full, pre-break range yet, but..... its more than it was, and i think the constant and continuous use of my arms motion has probably helped.
is it possible that this thing could be used in physical therapy?
i have a non-gamer friend uses crutches or a wheelchair to get around, and she has difficulty standing on her own. well, i had a whole bunch of friends over for a wii gaming party, and she came over too... she owned at boxing, and was decent at tennis, but had difficulty with bowling: her arm kept getting hung up on the side of the chair. next time we're going to get out my old office computer chair (without armrests) for her. even so, she came in third place (beating the non-gamer who had also had a few too many to drink before coming over.)
even so, she had a great time. however, i just got Super Swing golf, and.... honestly, I can't imagine that being playable for someone who is similarly equipped as her...... which sort of bothers me. (these are the kinds of things i never thought of until i made a couple differently-abled friends, but its a real issue.)
I am inclined to agree... oftentimes, at my computer, i multitask. i have been playing a lot more console games lately, because, with my consoles plugged into the tv next to my computer desk, i can pause between levels and talk to friends in yahoo messenger.
lately, i've found myself playing Yugioh Online because its a fun strategic game that will run in a window. its turn based, and i can keep my eye on the game while chatting with a friend when its not my turn.
since they're not going to complete the game, can i get a refund on the portion i bought? see, this is the problem with episodic content: when they decide to not finish it, people who have been enjoying it up to that point are left in the cold, with an unfinished game and 20 bucks poorer.
actually, Resistance is the Resistance killer. i played it at a friend's and..... it sorta sucks. gears of war is what's hot, or hadn't you heard? (it is still hot, right? I mean, i'm still playing it.....)
i thought they put this out a year ago, though!
oh, thats right, they did. it came out for the Xbox, too!
it hit October of 2005 (november for ps2). now, i'm not necessarily a zonk-hater (in fact, I think the guy gets a mostly unfair bad rap), but..... this product isn't anything new: it has existed for a long while. the real news is, simply, that they're dropping the price.
you're in luck: it looks as though the Subservient Chicken is a playable character in the "pocket bike racing" and "big bumping" games. (or at least makes an appearance)
i read somewhere that arcade games have the joystick on the left, and the buttons on the right, because Miyamoto is left-handed, and thats what seemed most natural when making Donkey Kong's controls (game features joystick for left and right movement, and up and down ladder climbing, and one button for jumping)
before Donkey Kong, we had games like pacman used only a joystick, or a few space-shooters which actually *did* have the fire button on the left (or, i know, some had two buttons: one on each side of the stick)... but Donkey Kong was very popular, especially in japan, where many of the innovative arcade games were coming from at the time, so other systems ended up copying the format of "stick on left, buttons on right."
look at the atari 2600 joystick, too: before the popularity of nintendo's lefty-created games, we had a stick (held in the right hand) and a button on the top left side of the controller.
ahh, i'd been told that such people existed, but I never believed it. are there really xbox 360 owners who don't have a hard drive? tell me: are you one of them? what possessed you to buy it? you realize that it ultimately will cost you more to go without it, since memory cards tend to fill up quickly, and two of them cost what 1 hard drive runs?
regarding it eating up the hard drive: sure. thats why you don't keep it installed forever. just like on pc. maybe there's an option from the menu to remove the actual expansion content, without touching save files, just to be sure?
maybe, but i'd say that doesn't really matter, seeing as how most of the people in this top 100 list are product managers, ceo's, and marketing drones. business people. they actually probably don't care about games much at all, other than the fact that it lets them have a paycheck. wheras dani, despite her birth-gender, made some of the most inventive games ever created, and was a true pioneer. as already stated, Will Wright dedicated "the sims" to her.
not necessarily. they put out the expansions for morrowind as the "game of the year" edition, which included the original game and both pc expansions.alternately, they could have it install to the hard drive from a store-bought disc, and run as a modification (much like how the downloads do.) they could easily put out full-on expansion-packs for the console version. the other thing to remember, is, morrowind was the first game in the series to have an actual expansion. the rest of the series hasn't.
true. we very well could respawn. but the save system is broken: you have to start over at the beginning with a new character every time, and you don't get to keep the benefits of your previous run, other than the fact that you may have made a mark on the world.
or, alternately, maybe we die several times in everyday life... but the 'player' saves every so often. to the character, reloading the last save would be imperceptible, so thats why we don't remember getting hit at the intersection on our way to work: game was reloaded, it never happened, and the "player" knew to give us the urge to look both ways before crossing.