I want to know how the hell is this Flame Bait? Didn't the New York Times last week say that the Pentagon is conducting intelligence on a possible invasion?
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper. 750 million is something like 1.5% of his total worth? Is this a huge amount for him? It would be like if I had a hundred bucks and I gave the homeless guy on the street a $1.50
Alien Trilogy for the original PlayStation also had atmospher up the wazzu. Although AvP had better graphics, Alien Trilogy got the job done with everything you said. Also, just the fact that to take out one alien you needed like 5 shotgun shells made the game hard and scary as hell. You were constantly trying to conserve ammo and god help you if two or more aliens came at you at once.
Can we really trust a website to tell us about design when their website design is full of popup flash ads and "Click here to go to the article or just click our ad" pages thrown throughout the site.
Remember when AOL and Time Warner got together and people were like "crap dude, they have the content and the means to give it to people they are going to make billions!" Last time I heard AOL just went through another round of layoffs and Time Warner dropped the AOl name. Same thing is very possible if a Media giant wants to take over a succesful game company.
Look I'm going with the Dictionary.com answer on this.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sport
sport ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spôrt, sprt)
n.
Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
A particular form of this activity.
"that may very well get the mainstream crowd interested in gaming as a viable sport"
Video games are not a support. If it were than playing cards would be sport. Last time I checked you had to do some phsyical activity to be considered a sport.
If you don't like it then don't buy it. Last time I checked there were at least half a dozen online music services, 3 types of Operating systems to use, and numerous mp3 players.
Apparently, every person over the age of 21 that you work with is an idiot when it comes to video games.
That sir I will agree with you. Like I'm just about to finiih Metroid: Zero Mission and nobody can understand why I'm wasting my time on a Nintendo game. That game is in my top 5 games list of 2004.
My complete ignorance? I still play nintendo gamesand I'm 25 years old. However, NONE of my friends who are the same age won't touch Nintendo because of the cuteness factor. Maybe the people in your social circle have a robust outlook on playing games but not mine. Hell, every person over the age of 21 that I work with looked at me strange when I told them I got a DS for Christmas. Pretend that the kiddy sterotype isn't there. The vast majority of the consumer market put the image of a console and the fun/game play factor into the same category.
This guy brings up some interesting ideas but it's not about innovation and gameplay style that is killing them. I got a DS for Christmas and I challenge anybody to say that thing is not innovative. The problem with Nintendo is for every Eternal Darkness game they make they have 10 Pokemon/Harvest Moon/Talking animal games. Teenagers and adults have the money and the market share for videogames. They are the ones that will save up and plop down 50 bucks for Halo 2, GTA, etc.. Buying a cutesy nintendo game means that 5 year old needs to pester his or her parent for the game. Better said then done. Most parents I talk to are apprehensive to shell out money for their child's game habit. Innovation is not the problem. Disney style games are./my two cents.
I remember when I got KOTOR for the PC and starting playing around with the sound settings in the game. At one point my game froze and my sound card stopped working for the entire computer. After about 20 minutes of tinkering around with it I finally had to do a Windows Backup Recovery to get back my sound card. When was the last time PS2, XBox, or GameCube did that to your Television? Hell, I bought a mid-top of the line computer last May and Doom 3 stil looked like crap on it. WTF? I don't know about the rest of you guys but PC games are pretty much dead to me.
Hopefully now I can play GTA in HD. Seriously though I played that game on PS2 and it definitly shows the limited graphic capacity of the system. Good game though.
I'm going to log in tonight and shoot everything that moves (friendly soldiers, women, children). If they send me off to Iraq I'll be sure to have the database data at my court martial.
True. But, look at the XBox. Microsoft is loosing money everytime a console is sold. I would imagine if Bill wanted to get into the portable gameing scene he would make a XBOX type windows ce device and try to undercut sony and nintendo.
24 seconds to from power off to Title/Menu for a game seems a little extreme. The DS seems to gimmicky for me and the PSP seems like the system can't handle all the graphics powers making the games less enjoyable because you have crappy load time and battery life. I think I'll keep waiting for another portable system to come out (I'm looking in your direction Microsoft) **shutters**
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I want to know how the hell is this Flame Bait? Didn't the New York Times last week say that the Pentagon is conducting intelligence on a possible invasion?
Don't forget the upcoming Iran war.
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper. 750 million is something like 1.5% of his total worth? Is this a huge amount for him? It would be like if I had a hundred bucks and I gave the homeless guy on the street a $1.50
I had to read the Red Badge of Courage in 9th grade. However, I didn't feel the need to shoot southerners immediatly after finishing the book.
Alien Trilogy for the original PlayStation also had atmospher up the wazzu. Although AvP had better graphics, Alien Trilogy got the job done with everything you said. Also, just the fact that to take out one alien you needed like 5 shotgun shells made the game hard and scary as hell. You were constantly trying to conserve ammo and god help you if two or more aliens came at you at once.
Can we really trust a website to tell us about design when their website design is full of popup flash ads and "Click here to go to the article or just click our ad" pages thrown throughout the site.
Remember when AOL and Time Warner got together and people were like "crap dude, they have the content and the means to give it to people they are going to make billions!" Last time I heard AOL just went through another round of layoffs and Time Warner dropped the AOl name. Same thing is very possible if a Media giant wants to take over a succesful game company.
people have too much time on their hands. Even more so then people who are commenting about this crap on a website.
Look I'm going with the Dictionary.com answer on this. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sport sport ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spôrt, sprt) n. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. A particular form of this activity.
"that may very well get the mainstream crowd interested in gaming as a viable sport" Video games are not a support. If it were than playing cards would be sport. Last time I checked you had to do some phsyical activity to be considered a sport.
If you don't like it then don't buy it. Last time I checked there were at least half a dozen online music services, 3 types of Operating systems to use, and numerous mp3 players.
Apparently, every person over the age of 21 that you work with is an idiot when it comes to video games.
That sir I will agree with you. Like I'm just about to finiih Metroid: Zero Mission and nobody can understand why I'm wasting my time on a Nintendo game. That game is in my top 5 games list of 2004.
My complete ignorance? I still play nintendo gamesand I'm 25 years old. However, NONE of my friends who are the same age won't touch Nintendo because of the cuteness factor. Maybe the people in your social circle have a robust outlook on playing games but not mine. Hell, every person over the age of 21 that I work with looked at me strange when I told them I got a DS for Christmas. Pretend that the kiddy sterotype isn't there. The vast majority of the consumer market put the image of a console and the fun/game play factor into the same category.
This guy brings up some interesting ideas but it's not about innovation and gameplay style that is killing them. I got a DS for Christmas and I challenge anybody to say that thing is not innovative. The problem with Nintendo is for every Eternal Darkness game they make they have 10 Pokemon/Harvest Moon/Talking animal games. Teenagers and adults have the money and the market share for videogames. They are the ones that will save up and plop down 50 bucks for Halo 2, GTA, etc.. Buying a cutesy nintendo game means that 5 year old needs to pester his or her parent for the game. Better said then done. Most parents I talk to are apprehensive to shell out money for their child's game habit. Innovation is not the problem. Disney style games are. /my two cents.
I remember when I got KOTOR for the PC and starting playing around with the sound settings in the game. At one point my game froze and my sound card stopped working for the entire computer. After about 20 minutes of tinkering around with it I finally had to do a Windows Backup Recovery to get back my sound card. When was the last time PS2, XBox, or GameCube did that to your Television? Hell, I bought a mid-top of the line computer last May and Doom 3 stil looked like crap on it. WTF? I don't know about the rest of you guys but PC games are pretty much dead to me.
If it isn't then it could infect your computer like the naughty FireFox broswer doo-hicky thing.
Since playing GTA my hooker killing activities have gone up 32% and my randomly killing strangers on the street have gone up a shocking 67%.
Hopefully now I can play GTA in HD. Seriously though I played that game on PS2 and it definitly shows the limited graphic capacity of the system. Good game though.
Watch their ad video for it. I guy says "Tower of Bab-el" WTF ftp://ftp.funcom.com/media/alieninvasion/ao_ai_rel ease.wmv
you would have to register your oven over the Internet. /Got Nutin
I'm going to log in tonight and shoot everything that moves (friendly soldiers, women, children). If they send me off to Iraq I'll be sure to have the database data at my court martial.
and put 5 fingers to your kids face and be like "stop worrying or I'll give you something to worry about."
True. But, look at the XBox. Microsoft is loosing money everytime a console is sold. I would imagine if Bill wanted to get into the portable gameing scene he would make a XBOX type windows ce device and try to undercut sony and nintendo.
24 seconds to from power off to Title/Menu for a game seems a little extreme. The DS seems to gimmicky for me and the PSP seems like the system can't handle all the graphics powers making the games less enjoyable because you have crappy load time and battery life. I think I'll keep waiting for another portable system to come out (I'm looking in your direction Microsoft) **shutters**
Goverments have been overthrown for less than this.