while there are the typical 'boobs booms and blood' games, that exists in hollywood, too. there are artistic games, just as there are artistic movies, and they both have the same problem: very few people play them, (compared to the mass-appeal games/movies that fit into public conciousness formulas.)
even the movies that gets awards is usually formulated: even if its not a 'boom boom' formula, it follows a formula that 'gets awards.' the truly original content in film is found in independent cinema theaters, and the truly artistic games are independant as well.
but i haven't bought a new book in months. i read internet webpages, web comics, documents on theories and some of what amounts to home-spun novels on html....
i know this has sort of gone off-topic, but i think my point is that games aren't exactly a substitute for books, and a good book is always a good thing... but the web is a good alternative. keep in mind, kiddies: you have to be literate to surf the net (or read the text narrating the story in many videogames!) its still a different medium, different market, but it is by no means reducing the amount of reading that is done, and may in fact be increasing it, and that is ALWAYS a good thing.
three, if you count the recrntly-released special edition of pso episode 1&2 (that has the downloadable missions available without having to be downloaded, as well as the GBA minigames stored on the disc instead of the net.)
other than that, though, its really not much changed, but it could be a good introduction to the series if you're just now getting started.
in response to this, the gangs enter into a temporary truce to develop a sword that uses nanotechnology to slice through objects.. however, an aging actress/philanthropist, who is actually a spy for a secret government organization, will steal it, and a terrorist will steal it from them. the terrorist will eventually go on to collapse all communication networks in the civilized world./deus ex
i read that the DS can use the same power cable as the GBA SP. why bother hacking that together (other than the sheer nerdy joy of doing it yourself)? someone already made one: http://www.the-console-corner.com/gba_sp_usb_power _cable.htm (sorry for not making that html. lazy tonight.)
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i don't think its bad translation: friends is just not funny and generally unwatchable, even in english.
i agree with you. when the xbox came out, i was indifferent: i already had a pc. then, i made some friends who had xboxes.... and they did the lan party thing that i used to do in highschool with my pc... only, they used xboxes, and halo. i protested at first, the usual pc rhetoric "this sucks, i need a mouse and keyboard." ok, so they brought me over, ran me through co-op play, and.. i had the time of my life. then, we did another lan party, and...
well, i wouldn't own an xbox if it weren't for my experience with halo with 'the guys.' my best friend and i have now gone through halo's campaign in co-op about a dozen times, and we're currently working our way through in halo2 (i've already beaten it on solo, but we left off about halfway through in co-op, and play when we can spend time together.) my friend is also now considering setting up a Live subscription so that we can play online together.
halo is all about the group experiences. and the best way to get someone into halo, is invite them over to be player 16. the fact that the game creates some of the best social situations means that it gets shared, and thus, hyped by the players, not the company. and i don't feel bad at all about recruiting people to give microsoft money, so they can play halo.
i said the same thing MONTHS ago and was chastised for it. though back then, steam was seen as a viable alternative to the commercial 'disc in a box' market. it has a long way to go before that will happen, there's too much BS like this to think of it that way.
i wonder, will valve eventually release a 'we went bankrupt' patch for when the steam network loses support that lets people at least play the darn game when steam no longer exists? i feel this is relatively shortsighted.
and if they screw me over, I can choose to shop anywhere I want. Thats why I no longer shop at circuit city. Bunch of lazy idiots in there, I swear to god.
i disagree: screw you guys who are going as master chief. thats simple. try going as Cortana, complete with "holographic transparency." now [i]that[/i] takes real dedication!
you'd be surprised how often those two concepts cross over. the dreamcast has HORDES of stupid little games that are insanely great. (and to a lesser extent, ps2, though admittedly, a bunch of them are games that were ports of japan-only dreamcast games.)
that was exactly what i had thought while reading that story. it has a lot of lovecraft's story-telling techniques: starting on an exploration (lovercraft's stories usually seem to involve someone looking for knowledge) and then, curiosity unleashing something a lot more dangerous than one is capable to cope with, physically and emotionally. it was an interesting read, and i sort of knew how it was going to end, but i don't feel disapointed.
actually, the way it works, from what i've been told:
the xbox loads game files onto the hd when needed, and caches them there. it saves caches for three seperate games, and when you play a fourth game, it wipes the oldest cache in favor of the newest one. (quick way to test this: when you play dead or alive 3, the first time you run it, it displays a terms of use agreement. you only see this the first time: subsequent plays don't display it again. however, if you play 3 other games, and then put doa3 in, it will display the terms agreement again (because its 'installing' again.)
he'd leave the house and go find one. women aren't as rare as omega race sit-down arcade machines: there's plenty of us floating around, many of us with geeky interests, and many of us without mates!
this is a good point: i bought the bundle, and frankly, i've only played online a couple times, and ATV offroad fury 2 is only entertaining till you can buy a better game. am I glad i got the bundle? sure: gave me something to do till i could get a game, let me get the console a week earlier.. and its nice to know the adaptor is there should I want it, even though as it stands, i hardly ever use it.
but i thought his mid-air floating thing was from the curry, too? I mean, that stuff can really do a number on the pipes... I thought he floated because of his gas.
don't knock gimmicky controllers. ok, stylus has been done before, in handhelds even (tiger game.com), usually to rather less than thrilling effect. but guess what? technology evolves, grows. i'm sure that the monitor you use today is better than the one you used 10 years ago. same goes for your mouse (at least mine: i use an optical, which is infinitely better than the 'ball' mouse i used 5 years ago) technology grows, and i'm sure nintendo wouldn't put it out if they couldn't make it work.
as for light guns and dance mats, even those have evolved: they both date back (in home consoles) at least as far as the NES, but when you use a guncon2 and a ddr dance pad next to, say, the zapper and the 'power pad', the difference is great. the dance mat now has an actual good game to use with it other than that silly track and field game (that we used to cheat at long jump by completely stepping off the mat), and the zapper? every time you fire it the whole screen flashes, with a different shade for a flash around the ducks, but the guncon's effect is a bit more subtle, and while it still flashes, its not the same seizure inducing flash that i dealt with not 3 years ago trying to play house of the dead 2 on my dreamcast.
there's a playstation2 game called Magic Pengel where you have a very bare-bones mario pait like program (that lets you model an object in 3d) and you draw 'doodles' that they come to life for you to use in creature combat (sort of like a pokemon game, but the characters are 'sketchier.. ooh, bad joke..) something like that would be PERFECT on the DS, and while you can do it on the ps2 with analog controls, it would really shine on the DS with touch-screen drawing.
Sony is on what? It's 3rd or 4th version of the PS2?
sony's on their 10th version of ps2, actually. i just bought one, myself, and the biggest difference between mine and my friend's first-gen, is that his makes a grinding noise while reading discs (from age) and mine has no iLink port, but it does have an infrared port between the reset and eject buttons for use of remote control without needing a 'plug-in.'
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while there are the typical 'boobs booms and blood' games, that exists in hollywood, too. there are artistic games, just as there are artistic movies, and they both have the same problem: very few people play them, (compared to the mass-appeal games/movies that fit into public conciousness formulas.) even the movies that gets awards is usually formulated: even if its not a 'boom boom' formula, it follows a formula that 'gets awards.' the truly original content in film is found in independent cinema theaters, and the truly artistic games are independant as well.
shouldn't that mean that the VIRTUAL police should be investigating this VIRTUAL crime?
but i haven't bought a new book in months. i read internet webpages, web comics, documents on theories and some of what amounts to home-spun novels on html....
i know this has sort of gone off-topic, but i think my point is that games aren't exactly a substitute for books, and a good book is always a good thing... but the web is a good alternative. keep in mind, kiddies: you have to be literate to surf the net (or read the text narrating the story in many videogames!) its still a different medium, different market, but it is by no means reducing the amount of reading that is done, and may in fact be increasing it, and that is ALWAYS a good thing.
except everyone seems to forget: Mutant League Football was published by EA, not sega. it was only released on the genesis, but still an EA game.
Every time an acronym gets posted, it should be explained?
depends on the acronym, really. in this case, however, i don't believe it has to be explained, no-sir!
three, if you count the recrntly-released special edition of pso episode 1&2 (that has the downloadable missions available without having to be downloaded, as well as the GBA minigames stored on the disc instead of the net.) other than that, though, its really not much changed, but it could be a good introduction to the series if you're just now getting started.
the answer to that is "by taking out the battery."
if he's obscenely rich, he should be buying ME the expensive crap! i'll get him a fruitcake or something.
in response to this, the gangs enter into a temporary truce to develop a sword that uses nanotechnology to slice through objects.. however, an aging actress/philanthropist, who is actually a spy for a secret government organization, will steal it, and a terrorist will steal it from them. the terrorist will eventually go on to collapse all communication networks in the civilized world. /deus ex
i read that the DS can use the same power cable as the GBA SP. why bother hacking that together (other than the sheer nerdy joy of doing it yourself)? someone already made one: http://www.the-console-corner.com/gba_sp_usb_power _cable.htm
(sorry for not making that html. lazy tonight.)
i don't think its bad translation: friends is just not funny and generally unwatchable, even in english.
i agree with you. when the xbox came out, i was indifferent: i already had a pc. then, i made some friends who had xboxes.... and they did the lan party thing that i used to do in highschool with my pc... only, they used xboxes, and halo. i protested at first, the usual pc rhetoric "this sucks, i need a mouse and keyboard." ok, so they brought me over, ran me through co-op play, and.. i had the time of my life. then, we did another lan party, and...
well, i wouldn't own an xbox if it weren't for my experience with halo with 'the guys.' my best friend and i have now gone through halo's campaign in co-op about a dozen times, and we're currently working our way through in halo2 (i've already beaten it on solo, but we left off about halfway through in co-op, and play when we can spend time together.) my friend is also now considering setting up a Live subscription so that we can play online together.
halo is all about the group experiences. and the best way to get someone into halo, is invite them over to be player 16. the fact that the game creates some of the best social situations means that it gets shared, and thus, hyped by the players, not the company. and i don't feel bad at all about recruiting people to give microsoft money, so they can play halo.
i said the same thing MONTHS ago and was chastised for it. though back then, steam was seen as a viable alternative to the commercial 'disc in a box' market. it has a long way to go before that will happen, there's too much BS like this to think of it that way.
i wonder, will valve eventually release a 'we went bankrupt' patch for when the steam network loses support that lets people at least play the darn game when steam no longer exists? i feel this is relatively shortsighted.
and if they screw me over, I can choose to shop anywhere I want. Thats why I no longer shop at circuit city. Bunch of lazy idiots in there, I swear to god.
maybe its because the people on the left don't like where this country is going, and the people on the right are quite content with our leaders?
i disagree: screw you guys who are going as master chief. thats simple. try going as Cortana, complete with "holographic transparency." now [i]that[/i] takes real dedication!
you'd be surprised how often those two concepts cross over. the dreamcast has HORDES of stupid little games that are insanely great. (and to a lesser extent, ps2, though admittedly, a bunch of them are games that were ports of japan-only dreamcast games.)
that was exactly what i had thought while reading that story. it has a lot of lovecraft's story-telling techniques: starting on an exploration (lovercraft's stories usually seem to involve someone looking for knowledge) and then, curiosity unleashing something a lot more dangerous than one is capable to cope with, physically and emotionally. it was an interesting read, and i sort of knew how it was going to end, but i don't feel disapointed.
actually, the way it works, from what i've been told: the xbox loads game files onto the hd when needed, and caches them there. it saves caches for three seperate games, and when you play a fourth game, it wipes the oldest cache in favor of the newest one. (quick way to test this: when you play dead or alive 3, the first time you run it, it displays a terms of use agreement. you only see this the first time: subsequent plays don't display it again. however, if you play 3 other games, and then put doa3 in, it will display the terms agreement again (because its 'installing' again.)
he'd leave the house and go find one. women aren't as rare as omega race sit-down arcade machines: there's plenty of us floating around, many of us with geeky interests, and many of us without mates!
this is a good point: i bought the bundle, and frankly, i've only played online a couple times, and ATV offroad fury 2 is only entertaining till you can buy a better game. am I glad i got the bundle? sure: gave me something to do till i could get a game, let me get the console a week earlier.. and its nice to know the adaptor is there should I want it, even though as it stands, i hardly ever use it.
but i thought his mid-air floating thing was from the curry, too? I mean, that stuff can really do a number on the pipes... I thought he floated because of his gas.
don't knock gimmicky controllers. ok, stylus has been done before, in handhelds even (tiger game.com), usually to rather less than thrilling effect. but guess what? technology evolves, grows. i'm sure that the monitor you use today is better than the one you used 10 years ago. same goes for your mouse (at least mine: i use an optical, which is infinitely better than the 'ball' mouse i used 5 years ago) technology grows, and i'm sure nintendo wouldn't put it out if they couldn't make it work. as for light guns and dance mats, even those have evolved: they both date back (in home consoles) at least as far as the NES, but when you use a guncon2 and a ddr dance pad next to, say, the zapper and the 'power pad', the difference is great. the dance mat now has an actual good game to use with it other than that silly track and field game (that we used to cheat at long jump by completely stepping off the mat), and the zapper? every time you fire it the whole screen flashes, with a different shade for a flash around the ducks, but the guncon's effect is a bit more subtle, and while it still flashes, its not the same seizure inducing flash that i dealt with not 3 years ago trying to play house of the dead 2 on my dreamcast.
there's a playstation2 game called Magic Pengel where you have a very bare-bones mario pait like program (that lets you model an object in 3d) and you draw 'doodles' that they come to life for you to use in creature combat (sort of like a pokemon game, but the characters are 'sketchier.. ooh, bad joke..) something like that would be PERFECT on the DS, and while you can do it on the ps2 with analog controls, it would really shine on the DS with touch-screen drawing.
Sony is on what? It's 3rd or 4th version of the PS2?
sony's on their 10th version of ps2, actually. i just bought one, myself, and the biggest difference between mine and my friend's first-gen, is that his makes a grinding noise while reading discs (from age) and mine has no iLink port, but it does have an infrared port between the reset and eject buttons for use of remote control without needing a 'plug-in.'