you're entitled to your opinion, as immature as it may be, but some of us living here in Texas use some common sense, and aren't able to uproot and move to a more rational state. it costs money........ so unless i can come crash at your place, kindly shut up. thanks!
Bush isn't from texas! he came from connecticut originally, he wasn't raised here, he only governed and did business here, and we don't claim him as our own! at least, I don't, and all of my friends, who also live in texas, can't stand him, so apparently, those of us texans with functioning brains aren't quite as stupid as the rest of those dwelling here make us appear to be.
thank you for not making gross generalizations! have a nice day, ya'll!
and after the gov gets rid of network neutrality, they'll demand their benefactors at the telcos block all foreign content that is deemed to be unsavory.. so that their **AA benefactors will be pleased. and then everyone will give our politicians even more money.
I don't know, this movie may be bad, but its apparent that ebert just hates games, and I'm going to take any review by him with a grain of salt.
look at these two blurbs: "They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain, if my brain has synapses and they're supposed to light up"
"At first, when they were figuring out the games," he said, "the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point." Walking out after "Silent Hill," I thought of that lonely pilot light, and I understood why I failed to understand the movie. My damn brain lit up too much.
he contradicts himself there. I believe he went into this movie fully expecting it to be awful. he probably made his opinion before he went to see it. I don't trust him.
dude, it would be nice if any game still did that. i remember that in the 16 bit era, every other fighting game came with some kind of tournament mode. the only recent fighting game i've played that came with one (that I can think of off-hand) is dragonball z budokai 3 (which I recently dug out of the bargain bin, so its still fresh in my memory.) I have no idea why this isn't a demanded-feature: i'd organize parties based around the latest fighting game if that were the case!
as far as I know, all the official sega servers are offline, so the only reason you'd need one is if you want to make backups of the gamediscs (though its probably easier to configure the pc link cable than to set up a lan for ripping dc discs)
the handheld market has never supported more than one system for a very long time. the home console market usually has a couple competitors that are succeeding... this current generation, when we can easily say that there are three 'successes' (if you can consider the ps2 and xbox, which are both hemmoraging money for their prospective companies to be "successes") is really an amazing fluke: before sony entered, it was always just sega and nintendo. now that sony is a competitor, sega's out, microsoft is in, and only one of them is making any actual profit.
now, the handheld market has always been different. there have been several attempts, but nintendo has always owned it. and once again, the only competitors that have even come close.. are sega (with their game gear, which failed because there weren't enough really good games, it ate battery life, and the graphic capabilities took precedent over gameplay) and sony (with their psp, which, in my opinion, fails for the same reasons the game gear failed: not enough games I actually want, eats battery, glitz over gameplay.)
let microsoft try. I have serious doubt that anyone will ever dethrone nintendo from the handheld market. they've been doing it the longest, and they've done it the best.
/fan-girl mode off.
seriously, ebert gives his "thumbs up" aproval to any old garbage film these days. we may not be playing metal gear, or tekken tag 500 years from now, but we'll also probably not be watching any modern day films, either.
I predict, however, that 500 years from now, there will still be a "madden football" every year. however, they'll just call it "madden" and "football" out of habit, as in 500 years, nobody will have any clue who "madden" is, or why the game of "football" doesn't involve people kicking a round white ball with black pentagons painted on it.
yeah, and Seventh cross: evolution was absolute and utter garbage. don't try to compare that to this: its a similar idea, but this looks to actually be *playable*
a better example would be E.V.O. on the snes. at least that game didn't suck.
you wouldn't get attacked by an incompetent rude ninja in the woods. (not that there were any woods).
if you played the first expansion, tribunal, you get attacked while your sleeping by an assassin. the assassin was dressed sort of like a ninja, and being waked by a guy who wants to kill you is pretty darn rude... and when it happened to me, i was near a clump of trees, so...... yeah, I just refuted that one. oh well.
i disagree. while Shodan is awesome, and evil... kefka is petty. I doubt Shodan would go very far out of her way just to be nasty.. whereas Kefka is the type who would travel on a 300 mile journey, by foot if necessary, just to piss on your shoes and murder everyone you hold dear, for the sheer fun of it.
nintendo is smart. there are actually MANY female oriented games on the DS, but the catch is, you'd never know it if you're looking for "Barbie horse adventures." and thats a good thing. Games like "barbie horse adventure" is insulting to gamers, and insulting to women. games like "nintendogs" and "animal crossing" can capture the female non-gamer eye.. and then there's plenty of other games for everyone else that they might be interested in trying, too.
Nintendo does things differently, and that is why they are succeeding.
what if you gave the characters a day job, like some folks do in D&D campaigns. say, you have to make your character go to a business, get hired, and then, when you're not out adventuring, you can be said to be doing the "day job." day jobs probably don't provide much advancement, but certain jobs could be based off of skills. in one campaign, a character got a job as a 'blacksmith'.. and after finishing a particularly long dungeon exploration, we decided that "the next adventure happens two months later, when you're all summoned to the village elder's house....." in that two-month's span, they got a salary (based on their chosen job, and if any of their 'skills' seemed like it would make them better at performing that job), and recieved X amount of money for 2 months of labor. nothing much, granted, but enough to seem reasonable and provide a more interesting level of immersion.
the term "faggot" used to describe homosexuals was actually not coined by homosexuals. it was coined by the people who would burn them. how do you start a fire? with a bundle of kindling twigs, of course.
I have no idea where "gay" came from, though. especially since most homosexuals, having to deal with biggots like you, are hardly "happy."
by that logic, the penny arcade guild is out of character, and the ctrlaltdel comic guild is out of character, and half the things that people do while playing the game is out of character ("dur-hur-hur but my character is actually really a munchkin, thats my character! dur-hur-hur.")
blizzard needs to just come out and say it: they're biggots who are "afraid of catching teh ghey".
I got a copy of half-life 2 in a box containing a handful of cds at gamecrazy a couple weeks ago, and I only spent 10 bucks, brand new. requires steam registration, which is like connecting the game to the internet and getting a free no-cd crack from the developer, I think. I have no complaints with the game.
try again.
I buy games. a lot of games. I can show you pictures of what I call "the wall of game" which is a bookshelf that i've stuffed to the brim with games. the bookshelf is so full that i've had to double-stack the shelf (meaning that there are actually two layers of games: if you pull of everything thats visible,there's another stack of games behind it) I like having hard copies, with manuals. I don't care much for piracy, because I love games, and I want to give them money so they can make more games.
I crack almost every game that I legally own. I hate having to look for the discs in that massive pile. ok, so I'm lazy. but most of the time, the games start spinning up in the drive while I'm playing, and its very annoying, because it slows the game down, and makes a spinning noise that takes me away from the game. but also, the performance in cracked games is better. one of my favorites was morrowind. at the time that I got it, I could barely run it. but I donwloaded a crack, and... guess what? I got a few extra FPS, because it wasn't checking to be sure I didn't steal the game. so, I crack all the games that I buy. that should be the end of it, right? I bought it, I own it, I should be able to do what I want with it.
however, I must confess: there's a couple recent games that i've pirated. I am ashamed of that, but they are a couple of games that really deserved to be played, because the creators really outdid themselves on the game design. I could most certainly afford them, its not an issue of not wanting to spend money: I could eat ramen noodles for a few weeks while enjoying the gaming goodness.. but its the copy protection. if you're calling me a thief for buying your game, and then breaking the games performance while I'm trying to enjoy your creation.... well, its annoyng and insulting. stop it.
game developers need to realize one thing: copy protection only hurts the paying customer. when I start pirating games because the version I got using bittorrent runs better than the version I bought on a disc, THAT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. Stop punishing me for giving you money!
I actually have a few solutions to the piracy problem. its very simple, and if you follow these guidelines, you'll definitely win a few people over.
1. stop with the copy protection. it sucks. it slows the game down, it punishes the gamer, it encourages piracy, blah blah. see the above rant.
2. NO MORE PAPER SLEEVES! if I drop money on a game, and it comes in paper sleeves, and not a jewel case, I feel gypped. I don't care if you're saving 15 cents for each package, its a ripoff. Fire one of your do-nothing executives to make up for the 15 cent increase, or stop wasting your money on third-party copy protection solutions. lately, there's been a few games that have came in plastic boxes. those are pretty nice, but take up a bit too much shelf-space if you're just putting one or two crummy discs in it.
3. include a nice manual if your game needs it. this should be obvious, but lately i've been getting these chintzy little flyers in place of instruction books. LAME. manuals like those included with civilization 4, and neverwinter nights platinum are awesome. kudos on those! but shame on you for the crappy pamphlet I got with the retail version of half-life 2.
4. No more cd's!! none! why is it that I'm still opening a box to find a stack of 5 cd's? wouldn't it be easier to just stick it all on one dvd? no, i'm not talking about a "special dvd edition." just put the game on one dvd. its ok, we've all got dvd drives now. and, if your game requires a brand-spankin-new video card to run, I'm pretty sure its no big deal for your target audience to get a special drive to play it on, too.
5. not mandatory, but stick something in the box in addition to the game dvd, the manual, and the jewel case. I bought the special edition of morrowind for the soundtrack cd and the pewter figurine of the ordinator. I have the cloth map that came with Neverwinter Nights hanging on my wall. the vers
blizzard is still "blaming the pretty girl for getting raped."
they're still "blaming the jews for the holocaust." wonderful.
"yes, lets get rid of racism! no blacks in the game, and nobody can call them mean racial nicknames!"
yes, you may argue that its a private game and they set whatever policies they want. well, its my money, and don't count on me giving any more of it away to blizzard until they change their policy and stop this backwards discrimination.
your example hits the nail on the head. its the same old argument: rapist: "your honor, the woman was asking to be raped: look how hot she is!" Judge: "well, he's right. if you don't want to get raped, you shouldn't have worn such a short skirt."
its like saying "no jews allowed: you're presence will only bring in the nazis, and we don't want any people committing genocide in our games."
or like saying "no blacks allowed: we don't want any KKK members in our game, and if there's no black people, then the KKK have no reason to be here.
shame on you, blizzard. I'm going to wait and watch and see what happens, but I wouldn't be surprised if blizzard gets a boycott from the GLBT community for their backwards blame. I'm half-certain this is not company policy, and perhaps just a few overzealous moderators, but... we'll see, I guess.
do it in his home town of corpus christi: the beaches are cleaner, and there's a very nice functional harbor (with real cargo ships!) to dump things off of!
originally from corpus christi. the best thing I ever did was leave. its a stifling, retarded, closed-minded little town masquerading as a tourist resort.
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you're entitled to your opinion, as immature as it may be, but some of us living here in Texas use some common sense, and aren't able to uproot and move to a more rational state. it costs money........ so unless i can come crash at your place, kindly shut up. thanks!
Bush isn't from texas! he came from connecticut originally, he wasn't raised here, he only governed and did business here, and we don't claim him as our own! at least, I don't, and all of my friends, who also live in texas, can't stand him, so apparently, those of us texans with functioning brains aren't quite as stupid as the rest of those dwelling here make us appear to be.
thank you for not making gross generalizations! have a nice day, ya'll!
and after the gov gets rid of network neutrality, they'll demand their benefactors at the telcos block all foreign content that is deemed to be unsavory.. so that their **AA benefactors will be pleased. and then everyone will give our politicians even more money.
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I don't know, this movie may be bad, but its apparent that ebert just hates games, and I'm going to take any review by him with a grain of salt.
look at these two blurbs:
"They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain, if my brain has synapses and they're supposed to light up"
"At first, when they were figuring out the games," he said, "the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point." Walking out after "Silent Hill," I thought of that lonely pilot light, and I understood why I failed to understand the movie. My damn brain lit up too much.
he contradicts himself there. I believe he went into this movie fully expecting it to be awful. he probably made his opinion before he went to see it. I don't trust him.
yes! and they need to let you use the eyetoy to direct the music video!
I can see it now already: a hip-hop themed sequel, where you get to use the guncon to shoot the rapper!
dude, it would be nice if any game still did that. i remember that in the 16 bit era, every other fighting game came with some kind of tournament mode. the only recent fighting game i've played that came with one (that I can think of off-hand) is dragonball z budokai 3 (which I recently dug out of the bargain bin, so its still fresh in my memory.) I have no idea why this isn't a demanded-feature: i'd organize parties based around the latest fighting game if that were the case!
as far as I know, all the official sega servers are offline, so the only reason you'd need one is if you want to make backups of the gamediscs (though its probably easier to configure the pc link cable than to set up a lan for ripping dc discs)
the handheld market has never supported more than one system for a very long time. the home console market usually has a couple competitors that are succeeding... this current generation, when we can easily say that there are three 'successes' (if you can consider the ps2 and xbox, which are both hemmoraging money for their prospective companies to be "successes") is really an amazing fluke: before sony entered, it was always just sega and nintendo. now that sony is a competitor, sega's out, microsoft is in, and only one of them is making any actual profit.
/fan-girl mode off.
now, the handheld market has always been different. there have been several attempts, but nintendo has always owned it. and once again, the only competitors that have even come close.. are sega (with their game gear, which failed because there weren't enough really good games, it ate battery life, and the graphic capabilities took precedent over gameplay) and sony (with their psp, which, in my opinion, fails for the same reasons the game gear failed: not enough games I actually want, eats battery, glitz over gameplay.)
let microsoft try. I have serious doubt that anyone will ever dethrone nintendo from the handheld market. they've been doing it the longest, and they've done it the best.
seriously, ebert gives his "thumbs up" aproval to any old garbage film these days. we may not be playing metal gear, or tekken tag 500 years from now, but we'll also probably not be watching any modern day films, either.
I predict, however, that 500 years from now, there will still be a "madden football" every year. however, they'll just call it "madden" and "football" out of habit, as in 500 years, nobody will have any clue who "madden" is, or why the game of "football" doesn't involve people kicking a round white ball with black pentagons painted on it.
yeah, and Seventh cross: evolution was absolute and utter garbage. don't try to compare that to this: its a similar idea, but this looks to actually be *playable*
a better example would be E.V.O. on the snes. at least that game didn't suck.
you wouldn't get attacked by an incompetent rude ninja in the woods. (not that there were any woods).
if you played the first expansion, tribunal, you get attacked while your sleeping by an assassin. the assassin was dressed sort of like a ninja, and being waked by a guy who wants to kill you is pretty darn rude... and when it happened to me, i was near a clump of trees, so...... yeah, I just refuted that one. oh well.
damn you, now i'm craving chocolate milk. oh, but I'll get my revenge, my sweet, sweet revenge: I won't buy hershey's! I'll buy nestle quik!
i disagree. while Shodan is awesome, and evil... kefka is petty. I doubt Shodan would go very far out of her way just to be nasty.. whereas Kefka is the type who would travel on a 300 mile journey, by foot if necessary, just to piss on your shoes and murder everyone you hold dear, for the sheer fun of it.
"then people would go crazy and start killing each other, resulting in global war and the nuclear holocaust...
and then nobody would hear about it because nobody watches the news anymore!
nintendo is smart. there are actually MANY female oriented games on the DS, but the catch is, you'd never know it if you're looking for "Barbie horse adventures." and thats a good thing. Games like "barbie horse adventure" is insulting to gamers, and insulting to women. games like "nintendogs" and "animal crossing" can capture the female non-gamer eye.. and then there's plenty of other games for everyone else that they might be interested in trying, too. Nintendo does things differently, and that is why they are succeeding.
what if you gave the characters a day job, like some folks do in D&D campaigns. say, you have to make your character go to a business, get hired, and then, when you're not out adventuring, you can be said to be doing the "day job." day jobs probably don't provide much advancement, but certain jobs could be based off of skills. in one campaign, a character got a job as a 'blacksmith'.. and after finishing a particularly long dungeon exploration, we decided that "the next adventure happens two months later, when you're all summoned to the village elder's house....." in that two-month's span, they got a salary (based on their chosen job, and if any of their 'skills' seemed like it would make them better at performing that job), and recieved X amount of money for 2 months of labor. nothing much, granted, but enough to seem reasonable and provide a more interesting level of immersion.
the term "faggot" used to describe homosexuals was actually not coined by homosexuals. it was coined by the people who would burn them. how do you start a fire? with a bundle of kindling twigs, of course.
I have no idea where "gay" came from, though. especially since most homosexuals, having to deal with biggots like you, are hardly "happy."
Vin Diesel would eat both of them for breakfast, and then crap diamonds.
in a game, it is TOTALLY out-of-character anyway.
by that logic, the penny arcade guild is out of character, and the ctrlaltdel comic guild is out of character, and half the things that people do while playing the game is out of character ("dur-hur-hur but my character is actually really a munchkin, thats my character! dur-hur-hur.")
blizzard needs to just come out and say it: they're biggots who are "afraid of catching teh ghey".
I got a copy of half-life 2 in a box containing a handful of cds at gamecrazy a couple weeks ago, and I only spent 10 bucks, brand new. requires steam registration, which is like connecting the game to the internet and getting a free no-cd crack from the developer, I think. I have no complaints with the game.
try again.
I buy games. a lot of games. I can show you pictures of what I call "the wall of game" which is a bookshelf that i've stuffed to the brim with games. the bookshelf is so full that i've had to double-stack the shelf (meaning that there are actually two layers of games: if you pull of everything thats visible,there's another stack of games behind it)
I like having hard copies, with manuals. I don't care much for piracy, because I love games, and I want to give them money so they can make more games.
I crack almost every game that I legally own. I hate having to look for the discs in that massive pile. ok, so I'm lazy. but most of the time, the games start spinning up in the drive while I'm playing, and its very annoying, because it slows the game down, and makes a spinning noise that takes me away from the game. but also, the performance in cracked games is better. one of my favorites was morrowind. at the time that I got it, I could barely run it. but I donwloaded a crack, and... guess what? I got a few extra FPS, because it wasn't checking to be sure I didn't steal the game. so, I crack all the games that I buy. that should be the end of it, right? I bought it, I own it, I should be able to do what I want with it.
however, I must confess: there's a couple recent games that i've pirated. I am ashamed of that, but they are a couple of games that really deserved to be played, because the creators really outdid themselves on the game design. I could most certainly afford them, its not an issue of not wanting to spend money: I could eat ramen noodles for a few weeks while enjoying the gaming goodness.. but its the copy protection. if you're calling me a thief for buying your game, and then breaking the games performance while I'm trying to enjoy your creation.... well, its annoyng and insulting. stop it.
game developers need to realize one thing: copy protection only hurts the paying customer. when I start pirating games because the version I got using bittorrent runs better than the version I bought on a disc, THAT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. Stop punishing me for giving you money!
I actually have a few solutions to the piracy problem. its very simple, and if you follow these guidelines, you'll definitely win a few people over.
1. stop with the copy protection. it sucks. it slows the game down, it punishes the gamer, it encourages piracy, blah blah. see the above rant.
2. NO MORE PAPER SLEEVES! if I drop money on a game, and it comes in paper sleeves, and not a jewel case, I feel gypped. I don't care if you're saving 15 cents for each package, its a ripoff. Fire one of your do-nothing executives to make up for the 15 cent increase, or stop wasting your money on third-party copy protection solutions.
lately, there's been a few games that have came in plastic boxes. those are pretty nice, but take up a bit too much shelf-space if you're just putting one or two crummy discs in it.
3. include a nice manual if your game needs it. this should be obvious, but lately i've been getting these chintzy little flyers in place of instruction books. LAME. manuals like those included with civilization 4, and neverwinter nights platinum are awesome. kudos on those! but shame on you for the crappy pamphlet I got with the retail version of half-life 2.
4. No more cd's!! none! why is it that I'm still opening a box to find a stack of 5 cd's? wouldn't it be easier to just stick it all on one dvd? no, i'm not talking about a "special dvd edition." just put the game on one dvd. its ok, we've all got dvd drives now. and, if your game requires a brand-spankin-new video card to run, I'm pretty sure its no big deal for your target audience to get a special drive to play it on, too.
5. not mandatory, but stick something in the box in addition to the game dvd, the manual, and the jewel case. I bought the special edition of morrowind for the soundtrack cd and the pewter figurine of the ordinator. I have the cloth map that came with Neverwinter Nights hanging on my wall. the vers
blizzard is still "blaming the pretty girl for getting raped."
they're still "blaming the jews for the holocaust." wonderful.
"yes, lets get rid of racism! no blacks in the game, and nobody can call them mean racial nicknames!"
yes, you may argue that its a private game and they set whatever policies they want.
well, its my money, and don't count on me giving any more of it away to blizzard until they change their policy and stop this backwards discrimination.
your example hits the nail on the head. its the same old argument:
rapist: "your honor, the woman was asking to be raped: look how hot she is!"
Judge: "well, he's right. if you don't want to get raped, you shouldn't have worn such a short skirt."
its like saying "no jews allowed: you're presence will only bring in the nazis, and we don't want any people committing genocide in our games."
or like saying "no blacks allowed: we don't want any KKK members in our game, and if there's no black people, then the KKK have no reason to be here.
shame on you, blizzard. I'm going to wait and watch and see what happens, but I wouldn't be surprised if blizzard gets a boycott from the GLBT community for their backwards blame. I'm half-certain this is not company policy, and perhaps just a few overzealous moderators, but... we'll see, I guess.
do it in his home town of corpus christi: the beaches are cleaner, and there's a very nice functional harbor (with real cargo ships!) to dump things off of!
originally from corpus christi. the best thing I ever did was leave. its a stifling, retarded, closed-minded little town masquerading as a tourist resort.