Why do people insist on comparing to the Xbox 360 to the Dreamcast? Microsoft is in a MUCH better position than Sega was on 9/9/99, especially in their wallets.
You who think that EVE is fun should probably just stick to living life unless you derive some glee from participating in scams, destruction, and theft. Then you'd better stick to EVE.
By extension, those who derive glee from killing hookers and cops also play Grand Theft Auto. In which case, there is a Jack Thompson on Line 1 whom would like to speak with you.
But it's hard to tell at this point. Generally when the management is truely asleep at the wheel, you get abominations like the N-Gage. The management for the Xbox division of Microsoft obviously cares enough to give the Xbox a good number of quality games and well known companies backing it.
Oh, they're only giving us what the gamers want in to make money? Sorry bud, but they're a business, and they have marketshare and money to make. If them getting marketshare entails them giving gamers what they want, then it's a win-win situation for both Microsoft and gamers.
I beleive the Doom95 frontend was done by Microsoft, and not by id. It was also bundled with a version of DirectX. Unfortuniatly, I can't find the credits of who ported it to back me up. I'll reply to this thread if I find any details.
Here it is. Microsofts first huge mistake. If they were only selling one version of the 360 at launch it wouldn't be a problem, but since the "CORE" package will not be backwards compatible with anything, we're are going to have a lot of unhappy people on Christmast morning when their old Xbox games don't work. This is a disaster in the making.
How is this a disaster in the making? Well, maybe it will be a disaster for the parents who don't read the packaging on what they buy, but then again, this probably isn't the first dissapointment for those kids either. And it's not like it's unfixable. The dumb parents will probably feel guilty for buying something that didn't work to their kids expectations and then shell out money for hard drive, or return it for the $400 package.
Come on, guys, I know you like predicting doom and gloom for Microsoft, but at least put some effort into it.
Honestly I don't think I was being pessimistic - in the Office wars I do think Microsoft has a vastly superior offering, and if it's just a matter of supporting this format to make some states happy, then after a brief resistance I think they will. Everything will go on just like it was, albeit with a new document format.
It can't come fast enough. I tried creating a document a few days ago which made use of embedded pictures and tables and all that fancy crap, and OpenOffice 2.0 eventually wouldn't stop crashing every 15 minutes. I had to USB key it over to a school computer to finish it on a Word 2003 machine.
Re:World of Warcraft enlarged the "pond"
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Hear hear. Before World of Warcraft, I would not have ever even CONSIDERED paying for an MMORPG. I had, in the past, tried Ultima Online and Everquest on freeshards, and Anarchy Online, but couldn't get past their atrocious interfaces and unintuitive gameplay.
WoW gave me a basic 'feel' of what to look for in MMORPG's and the courage to try out other games that require monthly fees. And I still play WoW from time to time. It did a fantastic job of making the not only the MMORPG but the IDEA of an MMORPG accessable to most everyone. Once I played WoW, games like freeshard Everquest suddenly became a lot easier and intuitive (though I still didn't like it that much). It's the yardstick which I measure other massive games by.
Why are you so concerned with who 'won'? We got three great systems this generation, and the only people who won were the gamers themselves.
I used to be concered with such things (XBOX SUCKS LOL), but as soon as I realized that I played my Xbox more than my PS2 and Cube combined I realized that fanboyism really doesn't have any point at all. Do yourself a favor, and next time you see a blatant fanboy, mod him down, even if you agree with him.
No, I'm not talking about games that don't have cheats for it, that simply means that no cheats exist for it...yet. I'm talking about games where it IS IMPOSSIBLE to cheat at. Show your work.
Can you provide any details to what the game is about?
Nothing major, but a ballpark, something like "First Person Shooter", or "Real Time Strategy" or SOMETHING. Exactly what kinds of games does your company produce?
At least it hasn't for me, or any sizeable portion of the installed userbase since the stupid first wave. You may think Xbox is evil, but knowingly and arbitrarily breaking compatability is another. It's one thing to say "All Game Boy games will not be able to be played on the Game Boy Micro", but it's pretty stupid when you have to make a list of PSOne and PS2 games that specificly don't work on the new system. I thought that the whole point of consoles was to get rid of silly things like compatability problems.
What are you talking about? What is wrong with getting the Windows version and downloading Linux binaries?
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I'm not a big fan of review sites right now. How someone could possibly think that Doom 3's lackbuster single player and fucking terrible multiplayer deserved a better overall score than Quake 4's pretty awesome (though no Half Life 2) single player and safe but great multiplayer (it's essnetially quake 3 with shaders and slight tweaks here and there).
Never has there been a more overrated game since Black and White.
Wrong - installation of Linux is easier than Windows PROVIDED the hardware is supported - which is the point of the article.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't support for most common pieces of hardware made easy because the drivers for 99% of the stuff people use built into the kernel? Or, at the very least, loaded in a module that is in most stock systems loaded by default. I ask this because getting sound to work in Linux for me was as easy as apt-get install alsa. Which is awesome, as long as it's supported already and opensource.
However, what about something that doesn't have built-in support or isn't already included with distros?
This is how I installed the drivers for my nVidia card in Windows XP.
1. I put in the CD -OR- I downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia website and double clicked the installer.
2. I hit next a few times.
3. Reboot, and it's done!
This is how you are supposed to install your linux drivers. Now, it's been a while since I did it the hard way, as I now do things the Debian way, which is equally as unintuitive and required it's own HOWTO, but here goes...
1. I downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia website.
2a. As root, run the shell script.
2b. Unless I built my own kernel, you're probably missing your kernel header files. I then go build my own custom kernel or figure out how to obtain the headers for my pre-built kernel, THEN run the shell script.
3. As root, manually edit my xorg.conf file to load the required modules (glx and something else) and not load dri, plus change the little driver thingy from "vesa" to "nvidia"
4. Kill and restart X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
WHAT THE FUCK!? This isn't anywhere NEAR intuitive. Of course, you could also do things the debian way and use module assistant and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and make sure your current user is added to the video group. Big deal, I didn't even know that module assistant existed or what it was for before trying to install my nvidia drivers.
Now, which set of directions do you think an end user would rather go through?
You're permanently banned from the homebrew community. We won't have anything to do with you ever again. It may be years before we recover from what you've done. Apologize all you want, if it makes you feel better, but you're none the better for it.
As far as I know, the 'homebrew' community isn't centrally located on one site? How do you ban someone 'from the community'?
Also, to take the devils advocate, perhaps he was fed up with what his very own hacks allowed people to do i.e. run commercial games. Or, as a point to not just trust any old asshole with your DS. After all, people didn't care about IE's security flaws until people started taking advantage of them. He stepped forward and admited that it was his work. The next group that comes along might actually have malicious inteinsions and figure out a way to perminently bork it. Hopefully people will be wiser the next time this happens.
I'm reserving judgement until games that I actually care about come out. Project Gotham 3 looks hot, as does Perferct Dark Zero, but it doesn't warrant a $400 investment at launch, especially when the PC front is looking so awesome in the near future.
Sources? Not that I doubt you, but it would be an interesting read, and I'm not coming across a google search that gives much information on said past laws.
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Why do people insist on comparing to the Xbox 360 to the Dreamcast? Microsoft is in a MUCH better position than Sega was on 9/9/99, especially in their wallets.
By extension, those who derive glee from killing hookers and cops also play Grand Theft Auto. In which case, there is a Jack Thompson on Line 1 whom would like to speak with you.
Repeat after me. It is a computer game.
But it's hard to tell at this point. Generally when the management is truely asleep at the wheel, you get abominations like the N-Gage. The management for the Xbox division of Microsoft obviously cares enough to give the Xbox a good number of quality games and well known companies backing it.
Oh, they're only giving us what the gamers want in to make money? Sorry bud, but they're a business, and they have marketshare and money to make. If them getting marketshare entails them giving gamers what they want, then it's a win-win situation for both Microsoft and gamers.
Hope that helps.
I beleive the Doom95 frontend was done by Microsoft, and not by id. It was also bundled with a version of DirectX. Unfortuniatly, I can't find the credits of who ported it to back me up. I'll reply to this thread if I find any details.
How is this a disaster in the making? Well, maybe it will be a disaster for the parents who don't read the packaging on what they buy, but then again, this probably isn't the first dissapointment for those kids either. And it's not like it's unfixable. The dumb parents will probably feel guilty for buying something that didn't work to their kids expectations and then shell out money for hard drive, or return it for the $400 package.
Come on, guys, I know you like predicting doom and gloom for Microsoft, but at least put some effort into it.
Then SoE bought the game. They all just canceled their subscriptions right there.
It can't come fast enough. I tried creating a document a few days ago which made use of embedded pictures and tables and all that fancy crap, and OpenOffice 2.0 eventually wouldn't stop crashing every 15 minutes. I had to USB key it over to a school computer to finish it on a Word 2003 machine.
WoW gave me a basic 'feel' of what to look for in MMORPG's and the courage to try out other games that require monthly fees. And I still play WoW from time to time. It did a fantastic job of making the not only the MMORPG but the IDEA of an MMORPG accessable to most everyone. Once I played WoW, games like freeshard Everquest suddenly became a lot easier and intuitive (though I still didn't like it that much). It's the yardstick which I measure other massive games by.
Do people still play Tribes: Aerial Assault? That was pretty much the only PS2 game I ever bothered playing for an extended period of time.
I used to be concered with such things (XBOX SUCKS LOL), but as soon as I realized that I played my Xbox more than my PS2 and Cube combined I realized that fanboyism really doesn't have any point at all. Do yourself a favor, and next time you see a blatant fanboy, mod him down, even if you agree with him.
That's great. How many people play these games, exactly, compared to the people who play games over Xbox Live?
No, I'm not talking about games that don't have cheats for it, that simply means that no cheats exist for it...yet. I'm talking about games where it IS IMPOSSIBLE to cheat at. Show your work.
Nothing major, but a ballpark, something like "First Person Shooter", or "Real Time Strategy" or SOMETHING. Exactly what kinds of games does your company produce?
Well there you go.
At least it hasn't for me, or any sizeable portion of the installed userbase since the stupid first wave. You may think Xbox is evil, but knowingly and arbitrarily breaking compatability is another. It's one thing to say "All Game Boy games will not be able to be played on the Game Boy Micro", but it's pretty stupid when you have to make a list of PSOne and PS2 games that specificly don't work on the new system. I thought that the whole point of consoles was to get rid of silly things like compatability problems.
What are you talking about? What is wrong with getting the Windows version and downloading Linux binaries?
Never has there been a more overrated game since Black and White.
Oh by the way, Quake 4 is awesome, go buy it.
What isn't supported by hardware is SUPPOSED to be done in software (with exceptions of things too slow in software).
If games aren't doing this, then it follows that pixel shaders are too slow to be done in software. QED.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't support for most common pieces of hardware made easy because the drivers for 99% of the stuff people use built into the kernel? Or, at the very least, loaded in a module that is in most stock systems loaded by default. I ask this because getting sound to work in Linux for me was as easy as apt-get install alsa. Which is awesome, as long as it's supported already and opensource.
However, what about something that doesn't have built-in support or isn't already included with distros?
This is how I installed the drivers for my nVidia card in Windows XP.
1. I put in the CD -OR- I downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia website and double clicked the installer.
2. I hit next a few times.
3. Reboot, and it's done!
This is how you are supposed to install your linux drivers. Now, it's been a while since I did it the hard way, as I now do things the Debian way, which is equally as unintuitive and required it's own HOWTO, but here goes...
1. I downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia website.
2a. As root, run the shell script.
2b. Unless I built my own kernel, you're probably missing your kernel header files. I then go build my own custom kernel or figure out how to obtain the headers for my pre-built kernel, THEN run the shell script.
3. As root, manually edit my xorg.conf file to load the required modules (glx and something else) and not load dri, plus change the little driver thingy from "vesa" to "nvidia" 4. Kill and restart X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
WHAT THE FUCK!? This isn't anywhere NEAR intuitive. Of course, you could also do things the debian way and use module assistant and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and make sure your current user is added to the video group. Big deal, I didn't even know that module assistant existed or what it was for before trying to install my nvidia drivers.
Now, which set of directions do you think an end user would rather go through?
As far as I know, the 'homebrew' community isn't centrally located on one site? How do you ban someone 'from the community'?
Also, to take the devils advocate, perhaps he was fed up with what his very own hacks allowed people to do i.e. run commercial games. Or, as a point to not just trust any old asshole with your DS. After all, people didn't care about IE's security flaws until people started taking advantage of them. He stepped forward and admited that it was his work. The next group that comes along might actually have malicious inteinsions and figure out a way to perminently bork it. Hopefully people will be wiser the next time this happens.
Why did you post AC? This post is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.
I'm reserving judgement until games that I actually care about come out. Project Gotham 3 looks hot, as does Perferct Dark Zero, but it doesn't warrant a $400 investment at launch, especially when the PC front is looking so awesome in the near future.
I laughed.
Sources? Not that I doubt you, but it would be an interesting read, and I'm not coming across a google search that gives much information on said past laws.