the review was slashdotted by the time i got here. however, the pictures of the actual product on the site show the wheel as being on the left hand side of the gun. that does not equal ambidexterous, at least not if you want to remain ergonamic.
looking at the design of that, it looks like it would be COMPLETELY unusable for a left handed person since the scroll wheel would be right under the crease between my thumb and trigger-finger. AUGH!! I know i'm a minority here, but come on! when will they make things for us lefties??
it can't. at least i haven't gotten it to.:-( i would love to play both Little Big Adventure games again, but i'm not willing to set up an 'old-game box' on the side. small apartment, not enough space as it is.
a few of my top moments would have to be in these three games, in no particular order. there's more, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind the most at the moment. list of games described with suitable {{SPOILER WARNING}} Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Adventure, Space Channel 5, Fallout, and Omega Boost. if you haven't played them, and intend to, you may wish to avoid reading my reasons, but they're mostly old anyway, so....
chrono trigger, with the really triumphant theme. the first time you hear it, Marle has just gone through the vortex, and Crono has to go and get her... and this heroic, epic theme starts playing. and it comes back at several other points in the game, too. sends shivers down my spine each time.
Final Fantasy Adventure (on game boy classic): this game is a TRAGEDY. nearly every character in it dies either a horrible death, or a sacrificial one. the game starts with the main character's friend dying.. and then he meets the girl, who's traveling companion has just been killed... then later on one character gets crippled after falling from an airship..... then later on a girl sacrifices herself to remove a curse from her brother..... then, at the very end, the 'girl hero' who is really a seed for the 'tree of life' sacrifices herself to become the next tree, so that purity can emain in the world.. and the hero swears his life to protect the tree so it never happens again. first time a game ever made me cry.
the ending of Space Channel 5. the game is very silly, but at the end you learn of a different bad guy, and since he controls the media, he cuts out the audio so you can't hear the rythm you need to follow. every character in the game up to that point, even all of the 'bad guys', comes up behind you, and starts humming the theme song. you beat the final boss with an acapella version performed by EVERYONE IN THE GAME, WORKING TOGETHER, FOR THE GREATER GOOD, dancing, singing, humming, snapping their fingers, etc. you kind of have to be there to get it, but it brings a tear of joy to my eyes and a smile to my face, every time (the game can be beaten in about an hour if your good, so sometimes i'll just pull it out and go through it for a quick bit of fun, HIGHLY RECCOMENDED TO EVERYBODY.)
Fallout 1. the game begins with the leader of a "vault" community coming to you with a desperate plea to save them, and you go out, on your quest, to get the 'water purification chip' that can save the day... then, when you finaly do it, after numerous other adventures, and then stop a mutant uprising, going above and beyond what the vault dwellers had originally needed... the leader of the vault infomrs you that, since you've seen the outside world, and lost your innocence, you are no longer welcome there. the wastelands have changed you, and you no longer fit into that community, so you are cast out. cue closing cinema of the hero walking off into the sunset, away from the home he fought to save, while the song "maybe by the ink spots plays, and.. that was probably the third game that brought me to tears by its ending.
Omega Boost. its a silly 3d shmup game, with a cliched plot, that isn't even delivered in a new way. however, despite the cheese, a good soundtrack and a good sense of style save it, and elevate it. from the intro cinema, which has the pilot suiting up, getting into a giant robot, and then flying off to go back in time to prevent an evil AI from implanting itself into the first computer so it can get a head start on erradicating those pesky humans, while a kicking song plays, with lyrics that just plain work and make it feel more epic than it really actually is... from there, the flow of the game has you in space, and then on a planet, and then going down a 'time tunnel' (which has music that works well for what is really just a journey down a giant tube,) and then, oops, you go back in time but you're too late, the AI has already taken over, and you seem to be the last remaining human flying over
what if its something that has been released somewhere else? if i want to watch fansubs of anime that haven't been picked up for US distribution, or obscure british comedies that aren't in american theaters yet, or even kung fu movies that probably won't come here, either.... if i view those, or share them, will i still go to jail for 3 years? just because its not out here does not mean it is unreleased.
disclaimer: no, i didn't read the whole article, nor did i look for the congress proposal. IANAL, nor do i pretend to understand legal-ese.
yeah, i got a raise in march, also, it was my birthday. seeing as how i have no life at all, and dump most of my expendable income into gaming (and have friends who did the same, as birthday presents)... yeah, thats gotta explain the increase.
I k now this is WAY off the original topic, but....
you may need the drugs, and there are probably a few people who do. but most people who have bad days or shitty lives do not. shit happens to most of us. you cry, get over it, and then do what you can to beat it. sure, some people who are chemically depressed most certainly need drugs, but if i have a bad day, or break up with a singificant other, or get fired, thats not depression. thats shit happening and making me sad, and I shouldn't take a happy pill to make me feel better for it.
i'm glad that the drugs exist for the people who genuinely need them, but i'm at certain that a large population of people who are on them really don't. i was on several different prescription antidepressant drugs for most of my childhood, adolesence, and teenage years. turns out, i wasn't depressed, i was just 'sad' because i didn't fit in. i stopped taking the drugs because my life sucked and the drugs didn't make things better, they made me 'numb'. so I went out and got a life. guess what? i got better. i found friends, with similar interests as me. found a 'group' where i fit in. I still have bad days, shit still happens, and you know what? i cry, get over it, and learn and grow from it. i never did any of that when i was on the drugs, and frankly, today, i'm probably a bit 'socially stunted,' because all through my development phases of life, i was 'numb' to my pain, rather than crying, getting over it, and growing from the experience. but I'm feeling now, and getting better, and growing.
someone obviously hasn't played Barker Bill's Trick shooting. there's a mode in that game where the dog from duck hunt floats baloons from behind a barricade. if the dog pops out and you shoot him, instead, you do get penalized, but it is soooo worth it just to see the dog shot in the face.
is that the amount the article cites? haven't RTFA'd yet. that said, i think i've probably bought over 14 games this year... since january. god i'm a loser.
SP2 and my video card's current drivers are incompatible. i can have one or the other, but if i have both, my screen becomes garbled. my best friend has the same problem that I do. whereas i have third party firewall (zonealarm, which is excellent) and antivirus (antivir, which is decent), and suffer without completely up to date windows, my friend suffers with out-of-date drivers and a glitchy-as-hell-anyway SP2 install.
plus, you're completely ignoring the fact that, even on a broadband connection, it can take a while to download sp2, and honeynet has stated that it takes only a few minutes from going online before their computer is no longer secured... which means by the time you have downloaded sp2 and are ready to start installing it... your compy is already pwned.
you're half wrong: the gba slot will, alegedly, be able to be used for additional accessories. none have so-far been announced, but there are some third-party unlicensed devices for gba out now(like flashcard readers, etc.,) that read as slot-2 devices as opposed to gba software (the DS shows the cart as a 'device' instead of a 'gba cart' from the boot menu.)
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and later as an old man in a nursing home who wants to be a vampire so he won't die and get ressurrected again. (spoiler, like you care) he succeeds, but stupidly steps out into the sunlight.
ok, i hated black and white, but i have to be honest:
i liked fable. it wasn't what the game we were promised, but it turned out to be a simplistic hack and slash action-rpg... which is fine. what it did end up doing, it did damn well.
i was as disapointed as anyone that it wasn't the game we were promised, but if you take it at face value its actually a quick, fun romp through a fairy-tale world. the setting was much different from most of the stuff out there since it wasn't just tolkein rip-off number 397, but instead inspired by fairy-tales and fables. the narration, and the fact that the none of the main characters had complex names: the hero was just "the hero". his wife/wives were nameless, but he either loved them or beat them till they left him... the villain was simply named "jack". its classic fairy-tale stuff. and that made it stand out.
because little caesers doesn't have the market saturation it once did. i have to drive more than 10 miles from where i live to find a little caesars restaurant, and i live smack dab in the middle of the Houston metroplex where there are at least 5 pizza huts and dominoes between here and there (not to mention the little mom and pop pizza places such as Bambolino's that make an infinitely superior product than mass-market crap.)
i don't know what kind of range you get on a headmouse, but would i be correct to assume that when using one, you wouldn't have easy access to a keyboard, as well? if thats the case, i'd reccomend a game that doesn't use a keyboard (or is turn-based). try Diablo 1 (can be played completely without keyboard without losing too much actual playability. even the main menu has an icon on the HUD to make it appear with just a click, no hot-key required.
alpha centauri is turn-based, and all the important options are available in pop-up menus.
maybe even a game like fallout, which is turn-based and almost completely mouse-driven (and has most options you'll need to use within clickable icons in the HUD.
another game i'd reccomend is a little shootemup from Jeff minter's llamasoft called Gridrunner ++ which only uses a button for smart bomb and starting the game from the main menu. the rest of it just uses gentle mouse motion to "sweep" the screen. the little spaceship automatically shoots a stream of bullets with no input required. the game is insane and has no real cohesive plot, but if you can gently push a cursor across the screen (and want something a bit more action oriented without being quite as intense as diablo, this may be a good option for you.)
see, i'd be your girlfriend because you're a gamer, as I am one too, and would probably have a hard time being with someone who didn't understand my passion for electronic entertainment...
...But then, when i realize you're an Everquest gamer, I'd dump everything out of your apartment window and take all your money for not spending enough time with me.
Disclaimer: not really going to dump all your stuff or steal your cash. Disclaimer fine print: not really going to date you, either.
and if this ever happens, you simply stop the game, punch the guy who is screwing with you, kick him out of the tournament, and go on. thats the wonderful thing about playing games 'in person' as opposed to online: its a lot harder to get away with bs. if you see a guy with an RF fuxxoring device, you kick him out. if there are any issues caused by something you can't see, you just stop the game until you figure out who's not playing fair.
or, you can just play with friends and not have to worry about it. my current friends don't cheat, but someone in a group i used to play with tried, and the organizer of the gaming session simply cut their network cables and went on with the gaming. not only were they out of the game for the evening, but they had to go and buy a new cable.
if your tournament organizer can't tell when someone is cheating and prevent it, you don't want to be participating in that tournament anyway.
actually Alan Rickman is voicing Marvin. Warwick Davis is merely acting as the role of marvin, the man in the suit, so to speak. why they didn't just have a CG marvin is beyond me.
in my circles, we consider that to be an exploit rather than a cheat. we consider it to be cheating if you use an external device (like gameshark or pro action replay) or if you use a cheat code (though you'd be hard pressed to find a game that didn't disable the cheat codes for multiplayer.)
the nice thing about the xbox is that if an exploit is found in multiplayer, the developers are allowed to fix it.
wow. i thought i was the only one who bought that game! i was so disapointed when i couldn't find the little toys that they advertised in the back of the manual anywhere, would have been great fun to have kicking around my desktop for when i am loading stuff (or should be working...):-(
the way i see it, i view sci-fi 'skiffy' as more of a form of "fantasy in space"(well, usually in space), since its not real, and the ideas presented are often implausible and bear no scientific realities. that said, I personally enjoy all three (sci-fi, SF, and flat out fantasy) and i'm not ashamed to be seen reading any of them.
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the review was slashdotted by the time i got here. however, the pictures of the actual product on the site show the wheel as being on the left hand side of the gun. that does not equal ambidexterous, at least not if you want to remain ergonamic.
looking at the design of that, it looks like it would be COMPLETELY unusable for a left handed person since the scroll wheel would be right under the crease between my thumb and trigger-finger. AUGH!! I know i'm a minority here, but come on! when will they make things for us lefties??
it can't. at least i haven't gotten it to. :-( i would love to play both Little Big Adventure games again, but i'm not willing to set up an 'old-game box' on the side. small apartment, not enough space as it is.
a few of my top moments would have to be in these three games, in no particular order. there's more, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind the most at the moment.
,) and then, oops, you go back in time but you're too late, the AI has already taken over, and you seem to be the last remaining human flying over
list of games described with suitable {{SPOILER WARNING}} Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Adventure, Space Channel 5, Fallout, and Omega Boost.
if you haven't played them, and intend to, you may wish to avoid reading my reasons, but they're mostly old anyway, so....
chrono trigger, with the really triumphant theme. the first time you hear it, Marle has just gone through the vortex, and Crono has to go and get her... and this heroic, epic theme starts playing. and it comes back at several other points in the game, too. sends shivers down my spine each time.
Final Fantasy Adventure (on game boy classic): this game is a TRAGEDY. nearly every character in it dies either a horrible death, or a sacrificial one. the game starts with the main character's friend dying.. and then he meets the girl, who's traveling companion has just been killed... then later on one character gets crippled after falling from an airship..... then later on a girl sacrifices herself to remove a curse from her brother..... then, at the very end, the 'girl hero' who is really a seed for the 'tree of life' sacrifices herself to become the next tree, so that purity can emain in the world.. and the hero swears his life to protect the tree so it never happens again. first time a game ever made me cry.
the ending of Space Channel 5. the game is very silly, but at the end you learn of a different bad guy, and since he controls the media, he cuts out the audio so you can't hear the rythm you need to follow. every character in the game up to that point, even all of the 'bad guys', comes up behind you, and starts humming the theme song. you beat the final boss with an acapella version performed by EVERYONE IN THE GAME, WORKING TOGETHER, FOR THE GREATER GOOD, dancing, singing, humming, snapping their fingers, etc. you kind of have to be there to get it, but it brings a tear of joy to my eyes and a smile to my face, every time (the game can be beaten in about an hour if your good, so sometimes i'll just pull it out and go through it for a quick bit of fun, HIGHLY RECCOMENDED TO EVERYBODY.) Fallout 1. the game begins with the leader of a "vault" community coming to you with a desperate plea to save them, and you go out, on your quest, to get the 'water purification chip' that can save the day... then, when you finaly do it, after numerous other adventures, and then stop a mutant uprising, going above and beyond what the vault dwellers had originally needed... the leader of the vault infomrs you that, since you've seen the outside world, and lost your innocence, you are no longer welcome there. the wastelands have changed you, and you no longer fit into that community, so you are cast out. cue closing cinema of the hero walking off into the sunset, away from the home he fought to save, while the song "maybe by the ink spots plays, and.. that was probably the third game that brought me to tears by its ending.
Omega Boost. its a silly 3d shmup game, with a cliched plot, that isn't even delivered in a new way. however, despite the cheese, a good soundtrack and a good sense of style save it, and elevate it. from the intro cinema, which has the pilot suiting up, getting into a giant robot, and then flying off to go back in time to prevent an evil AI from implanting itself into the first computer so it can get a head start on erradicating those pesky humans, while a kicking song plays, with lyrics that just plain work and make it feel more epic than it really actually is... from there, the flow of the game has you in space, and then on a planet, and then going down a 'time tunnel' (which has music that works well for what is really just a journey down a giant tube
what if its something that has been released somewhere else? if i want to watch fansubs of anime that haven't been picked up for US distribution, or obscure british comedies that aren't in american theaters yet, or even kung fu movies that probably won't come here, either.... if i view those, or share them, will i still go to jail for 3 years? just because its not out here does not mean it is unreleased.
disclaimer: no, i didn't read the whole article, nor did i look for the congress proposal. IANAL, nor do i pretend to understand legal-ese.
yeah, i got a raise in march, also, it was my birthday. seeing as how i have no life at all, and dump most of my expendable income into gaming (and have friends who did the same, as birthday presents)... yeah, thats gotta explain the increase.
I k now this is WAY off the original topic, but.... you may need the drugs, and there are probably a few people who do. but most people who have bad days or shitty lives do not. shit happens to most of us. you cry, get over it, and then do what you can to beat it. sure, some people who are chemically depressed most certainly need drugs, but if i have a bad day, or break up with a singificant other, or get fired, thats not depression. thats shit happening and making me sad, and I shouldn't take a happy pill to make me feel better for it.
i'm glad that the drugs exist for the people who genuinely need them, but i'm at certain that a large population of people who are on them really don't. i was on several different prescription antidepressant drugs for most of my childhood, adolesence, and teenage years. turns out, i wasn't depressed, i was just 'sad' because i didn't fit in. i stopped taking the drugs because my life sucked and the drugs didn't make things better, they made me 'numb'. so I went out and got a life. guess what? i got better. i found friends, with similar interests as me. found a 'group' where i fit in. I still have bad days, shit still happens, and you know what? i cry, get over it, and learn and grow from it. i never did any of that when i was on the drugs, and frankly, today, i'm probably a bit 'socially stunted,' because all through my development phases of life, i was 'numb' to my pain, rather than crying, getting over it, and growing from the experience. but I'm feeling now, and getting better, and growing.
someone obviously hasn't played Barker Bill's Trick shooting. there's a mode in that game where the dog from duck hunt floats baloons from behind a barricade. if the dog pops out and you shoot him, instead, you do get penalized, but it is soooo worth it just to see the dog shot in the face.
is that the amount the article cites? haven't RTFA'd yet. that said, i think i've probably bought over 14 games this year... since january. god i'm a loser.
in japan, i have read, they registered the trademark "chrono brake." thats about it though.
SP2 and my video card's current drivers are incompatible. i can have one or the other, but if i have both, my screen becomes garbled. my best friend has the same problem that I do. whereas i have third party firewall (zonealarm, which is excellent) and antivirus (antivir, which is decent), and suffer without completely up to date windows, my friend suffers with out-of-date drivers and a glitchy-as-hell-anyway SP2 install. plus, you're completely ignoring the fact that, even on a broadband connection, it can take a while to download sp2, and honeynet has stated that it takes only a few minutes from going online before their computer is no longer secured... which means by the time you have downloaded sp2 and are ready to start installing it... your compy is already pwned.
you're half wrong: the gba slot will, alegedly, be able to be used for additional accessories. none have so-far been announced, but there are some third-party unlicensed devices for gba out now(like flashcard readers, etc.,) that read as slot-2 devices as opposed to gba software (the DS shows the cart as a 'device' instead of a 'gba cart' from the boot menu.)
and later as an old man in a nursing home who wants to be a vampire so he won't die and get ressurrected again. (spoiler, like you care) he succeeds, but stupidly steps out into the sunlight.
ok, i hated black and white, but i have to be honest:
i liked fable. it wasn't what the game we were promised, but it turned out to be a simplistic hack and slash action-rpg... which is fine. what it did end up doing, it did damn well.
i was as disapointed as anyone that it wasn't the game we were promised, but if you take it at face value its actually a quick, fun romp through a fairy-tale world. the setting was much different from most of the stuff out there since it wasn't just tolkein rip-off number 397, but instead inspired by fairy-tales and fables. the narration, and the fact that the none of the main characters had complex names: the hero was just "the hero". his wife/wives were nameless, but he either loved them or beat them till they left him... the villain was simply named "jack". its classic fairy-tale stuff. and that made it stand out.
because little caesers doesn't have the market saturation it once did. i have to drive more than 10 miles from where i live to find a little caesars restaurant, and i live smack dab in the middle of the Houston metroplex where there are at least 5 pizza huts and dominoes between here and there (not to mention the little mom and pop pizza places such as Bambolino's that make an infinitely superior product than mass-market crap.)
i don't know what kind of range you get on a headmouse, but would i be correct to assume that when using one, you wouldn't have easy access to a keyboard, as well? if thats the case, i'd reccomend a game that doesn't use a keyboard (or is turn-based). try Diablo 1 (can be played completely without keyboard without losing too much actual playability. even the main menu has an icon on the HUD to make it appear with just a click, no hot-key required.
alpha centauri is turn-based, and all the important options are available in pop-up menus.
maybe even a game like fallout, which is turn-based and almost completely mouse-driven (and has most options you'll need to use within clickable icons in the HUD.
another game i'd reccomend is a little shootemup from Jeff minter's llamasoft called Gridrunner ++ which only uses a button for smart bomb and starting the game from the main menu. the rest of it just uses gentle mouse motion to "sweep" the screen. the little spaceship automatically shoots a stream of bullets with no input required. the game is insane and has no real cohesive plot, but if you can gently push a cursor across the screen (and want something a bit more action oriented without being quite as intense as diablo, this may be a good option for you.)
see, i'd be your girlfriend because you're a gamer, as I am one too, and would probably have a hard time being with someone who didn't understand my passion for electronic entertainment...
...But then, when i realize you're an Everquest gamer, I'd dump everything out of your apartment window and take all your money for not spending enough time with me.
Disclaimer: not really going to dump all your stuff or steal your cash.
Disclaimer fine print: not really going to date you, either.
and if this ever happens, you simply stop the game, punch the guy who is screwing with you, kick him out of the tournament, and go on. thats the wonderful thing about playing games 'in person' as opposed to online: its a lot harder to get away with bs. if you see a guy with an RF fuxxoring device, you kick him out. if there are any issues caused by something you can't see, you just stop the game until you figure out who's not playing fair.
or, you can just play with friends and not have to worry about it. my current friends don't cheat, but someone in a group i used to play with tried, and the organizer of the gaming session simply cut their network cables and went on with the gaming. not only were they out of the game for the evening, but they had to go and buy a new cable.
if your tournament organizer can't tell when someone is cheating and prevent it, you don't want to be participating in that tournament anyway.
actually Alan Rickman is voicing Marvin. Warwick Davis is merely acting as the role of marvin, the man in the suit, so to speak. why they didn't just have a CG marvin is beyond me.
missing a visible second head is excusable. (if you watch the trailer, it looks like they'll pop it out from under his clothes from time to time?)
at least its not the crappy paper machet head that flopped around rediculously in the BBC series. at least they got the extra arm in...
in my circles, we consider that to be an exploit rather than a cheat. we consider it to be cheating if you use an external device (like gameshark or pro action replay) or if you use a cheat code (though you'd be hard pressed to find a game that didn't disable the cheat codes for multiplayer.)
the nice thing about the xbox is that if an exploit is found in multiplayer, the developers are allowed to fix it.
...harvest moon. please tell me i'm not the only one who thought this was an article about harvest moon!
wow. i thought i was the only one who bought that game! i was so disapointed when i couldn't find the little toys that they advertised in the back of the manual anywhere, would have been great fun to have kicking around my desktop for when i am loading stuff (or should be working...) :-(
the way i see it, i view sci-fi 'skiffy' as more of a form of "fantasy in space"(well, usually in space), since its not real, and the ideas presented are often implausible and bear no scientific realities. that said, I personally enjoy all three (sci-fi, SF, and flat out fantasy) and i'm not ashamed to be seen reading any of them.
yeah, but the thing is, now, for Poland's national security, they'd rather be forgotten, thank you very much.