Computer Role Playing Games - My favorite RPGs were actually the nintendo ones: Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario. I did like Diablo 2 though.
FPS - I agree there. I like the Medal of honor franchise. Take a look at Allied Assault for the PC. Damn good. Then look at Frontline for the PS2. They came out around the same time. Frontline has a good story and stuff but the control is shit on the dual shock. And the cutscene graphics look like shit.
RTS - I also agree there. Much better on the PC. I have Starcraft for both PC and N64 (yeah its old - haven't played it for a while) But it was much better on the PC. My fav RTS was probably Microsoft's Rise of Nations
Adventure - Haven't played many of these. Do you have other examples besides monkey island?
You should probaly have mentioned - if not just for completeness sake - that there are some genres that are better on consoles.
Platformers - Mario series, Sly cooper
Driving Games - Grand Turismo, Mario Kart (I love mario games, can you tell?
Puzzle Games - Multiplayer ones anyways. Tetris!
Fighting Games - Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, that kind of thing.
Ok I'm drawing a blank for now but I'm sure there is more.
I'm 23. I have owned a PS2 for a while now. The games seem kind of stale - not really much to look forward to besides GT4 on that platform.
Between my friends and I we have several PS2s, Several XBoxes and several GameCubes.
We get together once a week to drink beer and play video games. We always play GameCube games. GameCube has the best games for Drinking beer and playing multiplayer games on. Mario Party. Mario Kart.
Given, I drive a Toyota and my next car will likely be a Honda. But not all American cars are shit. Most Pontiacs are built well, the Ford trucks and Chevy cars are typically pretty good. If I were to get a truck it would be a Ford F-150. What about higher end American cars like the Corvette?
And there's a lot of non-american cars that are shit. what about Hundai? or Kia? or Geo - shit shit shit. Actually, I'm not sure where Kia or Geo are made, could be America - who cares, they're shit.
All I'm sayin is you shouldn't be so fucking narrow minded about that kind of shit. Genralizations like that are usually wrong and just piss people off. Which is why god invented the Flaimbait modifier. And also which is why I'm sure I offended at least one Hundai, Kia or Geo owner.
I was interested in the Improved Computer Maintenance section. Here it is:
This section provides detailed information about the technologies included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that help inform the user about security technologies and ensure that computers have current security updates. These technologies are either designed to help provide security or have been improved to provide more security than before.
This content is not available in this preliminary release.
The $1,100 iBook is the lowest model. We're talking 12 inch screen, 800 Mhz G4 256 megs of RAM 30 gig drive. Pretty pathetic for $1,100 of anyone's hard earned money.
It took me about 5 seconds to go to www.dell.com and find a laptop that was $150 cheaper that had a 15 inch screen, similiar ram and hard drive but a much faster pentium 4 2.66 GhZ chip - which could easily blow the pants off the 800 Mhz G4 chip.
This, my friend, is why people always complain about apple's prices. Because they ARE too fucking high. Which is why apple only has about 5% consumer market share.
The article states that Microsoft is making the patch process more intuitive and easy to use. How much easier could it be than opening a link to a web site, pressing scan, reading a list of results with descriptions and selecting the ones you want?
I mean, are people retarded or something? My grandpa who could barely figure out how to use a mouse was able to do an update of his computer after some simple instructions.
I suppose they could just have your PC patch itself by default but in my opinion that would suck.
I'm guessing that in order to run an AppleScript to do these things you have to run it on an Apple computer, right? I'm running iTunes on Windows XP so I'm probably out of luck, right?
Sounds nice. How are you going to script the burning to a virtual CD? Don't you have to use Apple iTunes to burn an ACC file? Unless there's some kind of program that can accept command line parameters to do this - if there is, what is it?
I guess same goes for the virtual CD ripper. Is there some kind of program you would use that would be called by the script or what?
Better than a google, go through last week's games.slashdot.org stories, there were 2 last week linking to different sites with the prototype shots, which is probably why he didn't bother linking to the shots for you.
Perhaps . . . not your fault anyway.
That remains to be seen, since they've never competed in this market before (the closest they came was the PocketStation, which was more like a DreamCast memory card than a handheld console). Nokia certainly 'knows their shit' when it comes to cell phones, but that didn't stop them from producing shit.
Point taken, but Sony entered the console market quite gracefully - and they have experience as a game company. This gives them an upper hand entering the portable gaming market.
Quick! Name 10 Sony games. Nevermind, I don't really want to know. Sony has a lot of contracts with people to do PS2 games. I haven't seen anouncements on who has been contractually obligated to make PSP games, whether ports or not.
I think it is safe to assume that sony's portable system will have a similiar game library to their PS1 and PS2 systems.
So get a GBA-SP which has a front/side-light. I think I prefer SMB3 to a 'new' mario platformer, although I agree that if done right it'd be nice to see Mario's 2D legacy continued. 2 of the 3 Castlevania games are excellent. Then there's WarioWare, Golden Sun, Advance Wars, Zelda, and so on.
I was actually thinking of getting an SP - I still may but then again I may just wait until the Psp Comes out. I have super mario 3 on NES and on SNES with the Super Mario All stars. I doubt I'd pay 30-40 bucks again just to take it on the road. I'm glad you agree that some new mario 2d platformers would be nice. Which of the 3 castlevania games isn't excellent? In case I buy an SP.
Which is why more GBAs are selling than PS2s, everywhere. Nokia shot themselves in the foot by saying the GBA was for kids, because, surprise, the market they claimed they were aiming for already owns GBAs. Sony's likely to find that very few people buying PSPs for games don't already own a GBA.
The portable gaming market is different than the home console market. GBA is the only portable - PS2 has competitors this is why GBAs sell more.
The Dream Cast was not in the same console generation as the PS2 - and if they were, who cares? They hardly went anywhere with it.
I will reply to you, though I may be wasting my time as you posted as an anonymous coward (you bastard)
Regarding the PsP prototype shots. It would have been useful for you to supply a link so I knew specifically what the fuck you were talking about but since you did not I'll just have to google it and see if I can find something. Also since you did not supply a link I have no idea of the credibility of your claims of the prototype shots.
I believe the PsP will dominate over the Game Boy Advance for several reasons:
Sony Knows their shit and wouldn't waste time and money by coming out with a piece of shit like the nokia.
Sony has a great library of playstation games to port to the new portable.
I never found the GBA appealing - it is lacking in its game library (no new mario platformer???) and there is no backlighting.
The GBA is marketed primarily towards kids. The PsP will be marketed to teens and young adults. Kids have no money to spend - Teens and young adults do.
How can I predict the popularity of the next Xbox? --- Because Microsoft is the only console maker that appears to be in high gear for their next console. It will be out on the market way ahead of Nintendo and Sony's next attempt. The PS2 is already stale - I own one and might buy one or 2 more games that's about it. The current Xbox has about 3 customers and the GameCube . . . well the Cube is alright - it would be nice to see a Super Mario game though. Regardless, by the time the next Xbox comes out the GameCube will be showing its age pretty badly and gamers will be hurting for a new system. With Nintendo and Sony showing nothing on the horizon, everyone will want - and most will buy - and Xbox.
Same god damn thing happened with the PS2 - it came out first - Nintendo had nothing to offer for a long time and therefore lost their asses. Those Japs can make some F'd up games but I don't think they'll learn their lesson. Microsoft on the other hand are rutheless pricks and will seize this opportunity.
If my prophecy comes true, this will leave Nintendo on their asses. Miyamato might try to come out with a new platform and he may actually be successful with it if he makes some good mario/zelda/metroid games. Otherwise what happens when companies are shit out of luck? They whore themselves off. Is it such an unbelievable concept that mario could appear on other platforms?
Yeah, well, the GameCube is awesome so why not. But, they will never be able to assimilate the Mario franchise.
At least not until the sony PsP comes out and dominates the marketshare on portable gaming and the new Xbox comes out and dominates the console market (not so sure about the second one it all depends on the games man the games - not the hardware)
Mario could soon be pimping himself off just as a certain hedgehog is doing.
Thanks for the reply. So How do you copy iTunes files from a PC to a Mac? Just like any other file? (copy and paste over network share, or burn file on CD and copy paste from that) If this is the case how can they restrict the number of computers you can have the file on? and how could this prevent file sharing?
I have used iTunes and MusicMatch. I run Windows now but am thinking of getting a PowerBook with OS X.3.
The songs I downloaded from iTunes are.m4p (If I remember correctly - some kind of Apple propriatery format). They are stored on my windows box.
I have several questions I hope someone can answer:
If I buy a mac do you think I can copy the iTunes song files from my PC to the mac? Or Re-Download them at no cost or something. point is I want to get the songs I bought on my windows box to the mac.
I also bought songs from MusicMatch which stores them as Windows Media files (bummer). These files don't play on an iPod. I'm thinking of getting an iPod. is there any way I can convert the Windows media files to another format that will play on the iPod?
Last question: I haven't looked at Napster service yet. What format do these download in and If I get a Mac later will I be able to transfer the files to it?
You are assuming that these normal people are familiar with Microsoft software and not with Linux (or other Free Software).
What about non-zealout like computer people? I personally could care less about what platform I worked on. I guess its because of this fact that I don't care to do a CBA on MS and Linux.
Right, This just means in order to move the more massive "mouse" at the same accelleration I'll just have to apply more force.
But what about the greater area of the bottom of the keyboard, this will cause greater resistance to movement across the plane of the desktop requiring even more force.
Of course I could install some little ball bearing wheels on the bottom of the keyboard to reduce the amount of friction. This will lower the overall force required to move the keyboard. Perhaps to levels comparable to the force required to move a standard rolley mouse.
Why not just add a roller thingy under your keyboard? You could be the first kid on your block with a 104-button mouse?
My god that's funny. If you put the two mouse buttons where your wrists go below the space bar, and had lots of desk space this might work. But there's the issue of how you can move the pointer and type at the same time. You'd have to have some kind of straps on your arms or something.
Has anyone actually tried this before? I sense a project coming along if not just for Hiliarity's sake
wouldn't invest in a high-end gaming stations because most high-end games seem to suck. They're all about graphics, but the game-play sucks ass. They are not as enjoyable as a lot of old games like the original quake. Any in-expensive system works great for the old games.
Dude, most games suck. There were about a thousand 8-bit NES games and maybe 20 or so were good. Did you ever play X-Men for NES, or Xenophobe? Horrible, horrible games.
Same story with any gaming platform. True, a lot of games on new platforms place too much emphasis on graphics and not enough on sound but that's why god invented gamespot.com and other sites so you can go and read reviews to find out what games are actually worth playing.
Here's a few recent games that I thought did not suck:
And by the time they can afford the lastest whiz-bang video card, it's already outdated
If you can buy the top of the line video accellerator its not outdated. Its the top of the line video accellerator for a while. Then a new one comes out. Guess what - your video accellerator can still play all the current games. It is by no means "outdated".
If you buy a brand new 500 dollar Radeon 9800 today you can expect it to play the current library of games. You can also expect it to play every single game that comes out for the next three years or so to their full graphical potential (save for a few extra FPS). You can also expect it to be passable for another three years or so after that.
I'd estimate that the life-span of a graphics card is close to that of a video game console. You could get every new console that comes out every couple years to be cutting edge Or you could get a new one every 5-6 years or so to stay somewhat relavent in the gaming world.
The design of the hardware. Hardly think your liebermann example looks better than a mac laptop. The 15 looks alright, the 17 looks better(not better than a powerbook though) but look at the 16. Egad.
Plus going with a mac will take care of that annoying "money" problem. no doubt you'll want to get an iPod and other sleek accessories to go with your powerbook. You'll be money-free in no time!
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watch DVD's - DVD Player
grab and listen to CD's - cd Player
rate your music - pen and paper, mental note
videochat with other people - any computer with a video cam
watch pictures - computers or actual photos combined with the power of sight
and all this on your TV set in the living room, with a remote control - universal remote
they have a good story and are usually pretty entertaining - lots of good humor.
are a decent length - not too long or short. I get sick of playing FF or Chrono games half way through
cover all the basics without getting overly complicated - no need to micro manage
make it fairly obvious what you have to do next unlike zelda games where you pretty much need a strategy guide or the internet.
Mix in a little bit of platformer game play so everythings not just turn based
I like the mario universe / theme / whatever
Another great console RPG was Dragon Warrior for the NES. yeah!
FPS - I agree there. I like the Medal of honor franchise. Take a look at Allied Assault for the PC. Damn good. Then look at Frontline for the PS2. They came out around the same time. Frontline has a good story and stuff but the control is shit on the dual shock. And the cutscene graphics look like shit.
RTS - I also agree there. Much better on the PC. I have Starcraft for both PC and N64 (yeah its old - haven't played it for a while) But it was much better on the PC. My fav RTS was probably Microsoft's Rise of Nations
Adventure - Haven't played many of these. Do you have other examples besides monkey island?
You should probaly have mentioned - if not just for completeness sake - that there are some genres that are better on consoles.
Platformers - Mario series, Sly cooper
Driving Games - Grand Turismo, Mario Kart (I love mario games, can you tell?
Puzzle Games - Multiplayer ones anyways. Tetris!
Fighting Games - Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, that kind of thing.
Ok I'm drawing a blank for now but I'm sure there is more.
I'm 23. I have owned a PS2 for a while now. The games seem kind of stale - not really much to look forward to besides GT4 on that platform.
Between my friends and I we have several PS2s, Several XBoxes and several GameCubes.
We get together once a week to drink beer and play video games. We always play GameCube games. GameCube has the best games for Drinking beer and playing multiplayer games on. Mario Party. Mario Kart.
Given, I drive a Toyota and my next car will likely be a Honda. But not all American cars are shit. Most Pontiacs are built well, the Ford trucks and Chevy cars are typically pretty good. If I were to get a truck it would be a Ford F-150. What about higher end American cars like the Corvette?
And there's a lot of non-american cars that are shit. what about Hundai? or Kia? or Geo - shit shit shit. Actually, I'm not sure where Kia or Geo are made, could be America - who cares, they're shit.
All I'm sayin is you shouldn't be so fucking narrow minded about that kind of shit. Genralizations like that are usually wrong and just piss people off. Which is why god invented the Flaimbait modifier. And also which is why I'm sure I offended at least one Hundai, Kia or Geo owner.
This section provides detailed information about the technologies included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that help inform the user about security technologies and ensure that computers have current security updates. These technologies are either designed to help provide security or have been improved to provide more security than before.
This content is not available in this preliminary release.
It took me about 5 seconds to go to www.dell.com and find a laptop that was $150 cheaper that had a 15 inch screen, similiar ram and hard drive but a much faster pentium 4 2.66 GhZ chip - which could easily blow the pants off the 800 Mhz G4 chip.
This, my friend, is why people always complain about apple's prices. Because they ARE too fucking high. Which is why apple only has about 5% consumer market share.
Yeah, I know . . . I'd like to get an iBook but my parents weren't oil tycoons or royalty so I'll have to live with my PC for now.
I mean, are people retarded or something? My grandpa who could barely figure out how to use a mouse was able to do an update of his computer after some simple instructions.
I suppose they could just have your PC patch itself by default but in my opinion that would suck.
I'm guessing that in order to run an AppleScript to do these things you have to run it on an Apple computer, right? I'm running iTunes on Windows XP so I'm probably out of luck, right?
I guess same goes for the virtual CD ripper. Is there some kind of program you would use that would be called by the script or what?
Perhaps . . . not your fault anyway.
That remains to be seen, since they've never competed in this market before (the closest they came was the PocketStation, which was more like a DreamCast memory card than a handheld console). Nokia certainly 'knows their shit' when it comes to cell phones, but that didn't stop them from producing shit.
Point taken, but Sony entered the console market quite gracefully - and they have experience as a game company. This gives them an upper hand entering the portable gaming market.
Quick! Name 10 Sony games. Nevermind, I don't really want to know. Sony has a lot of contracts with people to do PS2 games. I haven't seen anouncements on who has been contractually obligated to make PSP games, whether ports or not.
I think it is safe to assume that sony's portable system will have a similiar game library to their PS1 and PS2 systems.
So get a GBA-SP which has a front/side-light. I think I prefer SMB3 to a 'new' mario platformer, although I agree that if done right it'd be nice to see Mario's 2D legacy continued. 2 of the 3 Castlevania games are excellent. Then there's WarioWare, Golden Sun, Advance Wars, Zelda, and so on.
I was actually thinking of getting an SP - I still may but then again I may just wait until the Psp Comes out. I have super mario 3 on NES and on SNES with the Super Mario All stars. I doubt I'd pay 30-40 bucks again just to take it on the road. I'm glad you agree that some new mario 2d platformers would be nice. Which of the 3 castlevania games isn't excellent? In case I buy an SP.
Which is why more GBAs are selling than PS2s, everywhere. Nokia shot themselves in the foot by saying the GBA was for kids, because, surprise, the market they claimed they were aiming for already owns GBAs. Sony's likely to find that very few people buying PSPs for games don't already own a GBA.
The portable gaming market is different than the home console market. GBA is the only portable - PS2 has competitors this is why GBAs sell more.
The Dream Cast was not in the same console generation as the PS2 - and if they were, who cares? They hardly went anywhere with it.
Regarding the PsP prototype shots. It would have been useful for you to supply a link so I knew specifically what the fuck you were talking about but since you did not I'll just have to google it and see if I can find something. Also since you did not supply a link I have no idea of the credibility of your claims of the prototype shots.
I believe the PsP will dominate over the Game Boy Advance for several reasons:
How can I predict the popularity of the next Xbox? --- Because Microsoft is the only console maker that appears to be in high gear for their next console. It will be out on the market way ahead of Nintendo and Sony's next attempt. The PS2 is already stale - I own one and might buy one or 2 more games that's about it. The current Xbox has about 3 customers and the GameCube . . . well the Cube is alright - it would be nice to see a Super Mario game though. Regardless, by the time the next Xbox comes out the GameCube will be showing its age pretty badly and gamers will be hurting for a new system. With Nintendo and Sony showing nothing on the horizon, everyone will want - and most will buy - and Xbox.
Same god damn thing happened with the PS2 - it came out first - Nintendo had nothing to offer for a long time and therefore lost their asses. Those Japs can make some F'd up games but I don't think they'll learn their lesson. Microsoft on the other hand are rutheless pricks and will seize this opportunity.
If my prophecy comes true, this will leave Nintendo on their asses. Miyamato might try to come out with a new platform and he may actually be successful with it if he makes some good mario/zelda/metroid games. Otherwise what happens when companies are shit out of luck? They whore themselves off. Is it such an unbelievable concept that mario could appear on other platforms?
At least not until the sony PsP comes out and dominates the marketshare on portable gaming and the new Xbox comes out and dominates the console market (not so sure about the second one it all depends on the games man the games - not the hardware)
Mario could soon be pimping himself off just as a certain hedgehog is doing.
Why diss a movie you haven't seen?
Thanks for the reply. So How do you copy iTunes files from a PC to a Mac? Just like any other file? (copy and paste over network share, or burn file on CD and copy paste from that) If this is the case how can they restrict the number of computers you can have the file on? and how could this prevent file sharing?
The songs I downloaded from iTunes are .m4p (If I remember correctly - some kind of Apple propriatery format). They are stored on my windows box.
I have several questions I hope someone can answer:
If I buy a mac do you think I can copy the iTunes song files from my PC to the mac? Or Re-Download them at no cost or something. point is I want to get the songs I bought on my windows box to the mac.
I also bought songs from MusicMatch which stores them as Windows Media files (bummer). These files don't play on an iPod. I'm thinking of getting an iPod. is there any way I can convert the Windows media files to another format that will play on the iPod?
Last question: I haven't looked at Napster service yet. What format do these download in and If I get a Mac later will I be able to transfer the files to it?
Thanks people.
What about non-zealout like computer people? I personally could care less about what platform I worked on. I guess its because of this fact that I don't care to do a CBA on MS and Linux.
But what about the greater area of the bottom of the keyboard, this will cause greater resistance to movement across the plane of the desktop requiring even more force.
Of course I could install some little ball bearing wheels on the bottom of the keyboard to reduce the amount of friction. This will lower the overall force required to move the keyboard. Perhaps to levels comparable to the force required to move a standard rolley mouse.
I just signed up for MusicMatch and iTunes and payed money for music. And I'm happy.
My god that's funny. If you put the two mouse buttons where your wrists go below the space bar, and had lots of desk space this might work. But there's the issue of how you can move the pointer and type at the same time. You'd have to have some kind of straps on your arms or something.
Has anyone actually tried this before? I sense a project coming along if not just for Hiliarity's sake
Dude, most games suck. There were about a thousand 8-bit NES games and maybe 20 or so were good. Did you ever play X-Men for NES, or Xenophobe? Horrible, horrible games.
Same story with any gaming platform. True, a lot of games on new platforms place too much emphasis on graphics and not enough on sound but that's why god invented gamespot.com and other sites so you can go and read reviews to find out what games are actually worth playing.
Here's a few recent games that I thought did not suck:
If you can buy the top of the line video accellerator its not outdated. Its the top of the line video accellerator for a while. Then a new one comes out. Guess what - your video accellerator can still play all the current games. It is by no means "outdated".
If you buy a brand new 500 dollar Radeon 9800 today you can expect it to play the current library of games. You can also expect it to play every single game that comes out for the next three years or so to their full graphical potential (save for a few extra FPS). You can also expect it to be passable for another three years or so after that.
I'd estimate that the life-span of a graphics card is close to that of a video game console. You could get every new console that comes out every couple years to be cutting edge Or you could get a new one every 5-6 years or so to stay somewhat relavent in the gaming world.
Plus going with a mac will take care of that annoying "money" problem. no doubt you'll want to get an iPod and other sleek accessories to go with your powerbook. You'll be money-free in no time!
From the article: rescanning every inch of the archive's 3,500 hours of 35mm film
not sure how many inches of 35mm film makes one hour but I'm sure that's a lot of inches to scan.
Leads me to wonder what scanning equipment they chose to do the job.