ok. can i ask, what am i missing? i saw firefly when it was on.
What you're missing is any sense of continuity. When Fox aired the show on tv, they aired the episodes out of order and skipped some episodes. That hurt alot of the subplots that Joss was building over the course of the season. I was a Whedon fan and at the time the show was on tv, I didn't appreciate it much, either. But a friend got me the DVD's, and I went in expecting it not to live up to the hype, and I was way wrong. If you are basing your opinion of the show based on how Fox aired it, you are doing the show a disservice.
No. Right now it is just the Joss Whedon fanboys (of which I am one) who are interested in the movie, and it will probably just be them who go to see the movie. But the problem with being a Whedon fanboy is that we think the show was so good, we want everyone to see it, effectively converting them in to fanboys. So just save you and me the time, go get yourselves the DVD's of the show, and become one of us. Resistance isn't futile, but its going to be a pain for us both...
Of COURSE your post is flamebait. You're saying that anyone who continues to play playing the game is a fool. How can that not be modded down as a troll or flamebait?
As someone who has cancelled their SWG subscription, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The game CAN'T be saved. Its too far gone. SOE has the license, and it has potential, but nothings ever going to come of it. I quit a few months ago when a bug (that reduced all creature pets to level 0) was discovered the day a patch was released to the test server. For ten days, this bug was on the test server, and reported every one of those ten days. Then, the patch was released to the live servers, and the bug was still there. Their schedule of "updates" is more important to them than the quality of updates. That is not good service. And that isn't the only example of that. As much as I enjoyed that game, SOE didn't deserve my $14.99. They don't really deserve anyone's $14.99. It just takes some people longer to notice. (That, and there isn't any other official Star Wars MMO out there.)
Other living species that are counterparts to Pleistocene-era animals in North America include wild horses and asses...
If they want asses on the Great Plains, they don't have to import them from Africa. I know of a few native to the continent that I wouldn't mind sending over...
parents are who dont know are going to pick up the cheaper one, thinking that store just has a better price. then feel ripped off once they find out they could have bought the extras at once - for 100$ cheaper at the outset.
I actually see it working differently, especially given the 80-20 split favoring the more expensive console. Parents will see the 360 advertised as $299, and go to pick it up, but of course that one will be sold out. Determined to get their kid the latest and greatest, they'll rationalize that its only another $50 to $100, and buy the big one. More of a bait and switch than anything else.
So... just how are you suggesting we win this debate? Video games haven't made me that violent.
Clearly, since old is a relative term, he's telling all the young people to use their violent skills learned from years of gaming and rise up and kill the old people. This way, we can rush in the era when games are accepted!!!!
You play a game designer where you use your imagination to come up with the most amazing games possible. Then, the games you finally release fall far short of what you had planned. You then spend the rest of the game giving interviews to online media apologizing that your game sucked.
I don't think that there is any plan to remove the content, just up the rating.
From this: "Rockstar Games has ceased manufacturing of the current version of the title and will begin working on a version of the game with enhanced security to prevent the "hot coffee" modifications. This version will retain the original ESRB M-rating and is expected to be available during the Company's fourth fiscal quarter. Rockstar Games will be providing AO labels for retailers who wish to continue to sell the current version of the title." So maybe the won't remove the content altogether, although given what's transpired, I can't think of any stronger "enhanced security".
Considering that EB's under a pending purchase with Gamestop soon, I wouldn't count them on stocking the title too much longer.
Right... you figure by the time the reworked GTA is ready (sans Hot Coffee content), the merger will be complete, and your Gamestop/EB Games stores can all sell GTA to their heart's content. But for now, Gamestop can claim the moral high road, saying they stood up against those evil perverted developers, while their buddies over at EB Games are raking in the money. (or however much money there is to be raked in given that this game has been out for so long...) If Gamestop was really concerned about this, surely they could pressure EB Games not to sell it as well.
Although one has to wonder, once the reworked version is released, will Gamestop still sell the old previously used versions? I would think that there might be a bit of an aftermarket for that stuff, now that is both contraband and limited in number.
people are being conned out of thousands of dollars for non-real objects
When someone pays admission to a theme park, what *real* object are they getting? When someone pays to watch a movie, what *real* object are they getting? Although the costs to manufacture/maintain are vastly different, people have been participating in "wild fantasies" and "escaping from the reality of the world" for a while now. Its the same concept behind why people buy books; they aren't looking to purchase a bunch of bound pages.
So the article talks about imbalances in Wow and SWG, and says that when an imbalance arises, the devs either make every class equal (and then complain that is boring) or nerf the powerful class. This is all true and pretty much states the obvious. When has a PvP MMORPG been successfully balanced? How does one go about achieving that? As much as it seems to have to do with design, in order to make all the character classes interesting, they wind up giving everybody so many skills that some combination winds up being more powerful than any other, and that's where all the power gamers drift. (Otherwise they make all the classes equal, and as pointed out, that's boring.) I don't know that true balance can ever be achieved in an MMORPG.
On a side note, as a player of SWG, those guys are way screwed on the balance issue. They are stuck with a prominent Jedi class that by design is supposed to be 1.5 x stronger than the other classes. They've really got their work cut out for them...
At least it made it to beta. Imagine if it was vaporware. 3 billion years to get a planet out of Beta doesn't sound so bad when you realize that in 3 billion years Duke Nukem Forever will still be in development.
You seem to have hit upon something that has bothered me. I can recognize when I'm acting apathetic or lazy, but I lack the motivation to change that, since I'm acting apathetic and lazy. It frustrates me from time to time, and I find it best to just ignore it and move on with what I was (not?) doing, but its one of those great chicken-egg arguments. I know enough to know that something needs to break the cycle, but again, being lazy or apathetic, I won't actually do anything to break the cycle.
I wonder if this doesn't stem from that fact that, especially in IT, we're all smart enough to see how everything works and we realize that we aren't going to get ahead. Effectively, we're smart enough to see the rut we're stuck in, but we don't necessarily know how to get out. (If we could, we'd be out of it and not burned out, etc.). And that leads to burnout, depression, etc.
Sometimes, I feel like Charlie towards the end of Flowers for Algernon, when he realizes that he's going to revert to his original state. I can almost feel myself losing whatever intelligence I used to have, and I feel as though I'm unable to do anything about it. I suppose reading/posting to slashdot on any sort of regular basis isn't helping with that...
I wonder if this guy will allow himself to get news from his friends. I don't consider myself totally hardcore, but I know a few times where I've been talking to my friends and have told them some of the latest news about games I've read and informed them. He shouldn't discredit that as a legitimate form of news distribution from his experiment, either. Granted, he could just ask one of his buddies from the website to fill him in on what he missed, but he might hear too much then. Still, it should be interesting to read his results.
It tells the story of Anakin Skywalker (Canada's Hayden Christensen), the Jedi Knight who turns to the Dark Side of the Force and becomes the cyborg villain Darth Vader. Are "spoiler" tags too much to ask for??? Now the whole movies ruined.............:)
I know!!! Now I'm not going to be shocked at the end when we find out Vader is really Canadian...
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Way to prove the original poster's point by screwing up "Five by five".
No. Right now it is just the Joss Whedon fanboys (of which I am one) who are interested in the movie, and it will probably just be them who go to see the movie. But the problem with being a Whedon fanboy is that we think the show was so good, we want everyone to see it, effectively converting them in to fanboys. So just save you and me the time, go get yourselves the DVD's of the show, and become one of us. Resistance isn't futile, but its going to be a pain for us both...
Does this story count as an obligatory Futurama reference?
I figure Xbox 360 Home, XBox 360 Pro, XBox 360 Media Center... what are the other two?
I would think that before G4TV will become profitable, it needs to stop sucking first.
Clearly, since old is a relative term, he's telling all the young people to use their violent skills learned from years of gaming and rise up and kill the old people. This way, we can rush in the era when games are accepted!!!!
Or couldn't we send only people with cancer? Then, when only 10% come back with it, we've cured 90%!!! Hooray!!!
If this includes a representation of the sex mini-game, does that mean it will get an R (M) rating, or will Hilary throw a fit and make it NC-17 (AO)?
You play a game designer where you use your imagination to come up with the most amazing games possible. Then, the games you finally release fall far short of what you had planned. You then spend the rest of the game giving interviews to online media apologizing that your game sucked.
From this: "Rockstar Games has ceased manufacturing of the current version of the title and will begin working on a version of the game with enhanced security to prevent the "hot coffee" modifications. This version will retain the original ESRB M-rating and is expected to be available during the Company's fourth fiscal quarter. Rockstar Games will be providing AO labels for retailers who wish to continue to sell the current version of the title." So maybe the won't remove the content altogether, although given what's transpired, I can't think of any stronger "enhanced security".
Right... you figure by the time the reworked GTA is ready (sans Hot Coffee content), the merger will be complete, and your Gamestop/EB Games stores can all sell GTA to their heart's content. But for now, Gamestop can claim the moral high road, saying they stood up against those evil perverted developers, while their buddies over at EB Games are raking in the money. (or however much money there is to be raked in given that this game has been out for so long...) If Gamestop was really concerned about this, surely they could pressure EB Games not to sell it as well.
Although one has to wonder, once the reworked version is released, will Gamestop still sell the old previously used versions? I would think that there might be a bit of an aftermarket for that stuff, now that is both contraband and limited in number.
When someone pays admission to a theme park, what *real* object are they getting? When someone pays to watch a movie, what *real* object are they getting? Although the costs to manufacture/maintain are vastly different, people have been participating in "wild fantasies" and "escaping from the reality of the world" for a while now. Its the same concept behind why people buy books; they aren't looking to purchase a bunch of bound pages.
You've never played Rez, have you?
... rather, you've never let your girlfriend/wife play Rez, have you?
As someone who plays Star Wars Galaxies, all I have to say is HAHA!!!!!
Yet another IP for Sony to acquire and then squander away the potential while they focus on EQ.
So the article talks about imbalances in Wow and SWG, and says that when an imbalance arises, the devs either make every class equal (and then complain that is boring) or nerf the powerful class. This is all true and pretty much states the obvious. When has a PvP MMORPG been successfully balanced? How does one go about achieving that? As much as it seems to have to do with design, in order to make all the character classes interesting, they wind up giving everybody so many skills that some combination winds up being more powerful than any other, and that's where all the power gamers drift. (Otherwise they make all the classes equal, and as pointed out, that's boring.) I don't know that true balance can ever be achieved in an MMORPG.
On a side note, as a player of SWG, those guys are way screwed on the balance issue. They are stuck with a prominent Jedi class that by design is supposed to be 1.5 x stronger than the other classes. They've really got their work cut out for them...
You seem to have hit upon something that has bothered me. I can recognize when I'm acting apathetic or lazy, but I lack the motivation to change that, since I'm acting apathetic and lazy. It frustrates me from time to time, and I find it best to just ignore it and move on with what I was (not?) doing, but its one of those great chicken-egg arguments. I know enough to know that something needs to break the cycle, but again, being lazy or apathetic, I won't actually do anything to break the cycle.
I wonder if this doesn't stem from that fact that, especially in IT, we're all smart enough to see how everything works and we realize that we aren't going to get ahead. Effectively, we're smart enough to see the rut we're stuck in, but we don't necessarily know how to get out. (If we could, we'd be out of it and not burned out, etc.). And that leads to burnout, depression, etc.
Sometimes, I feel like Charlie towards the end of Flowers for Algernon, when he realizes that he's going to revert to his original state. I can almost feel myself losing whatever intelligence I used to have, and I feel as though I'm unable to do anything about it. I suppose reading/posting to slashdot on any sort of regular basis isn't helping with that...
I wonder if this guy will allow himself to get news from his friends. I don't consider myself totally hardcore, but I know a few times where I've been talking to my friends and have told them some of the latest news about games I've read and informed them. He shouldn't discredit that as a legitimate form of news distribution from his experiment, either. Granted, he could just ask one of his buddies from the website to fill him in on what he missed, but he might hear too much then. Still, it should be interesting to read his results.
You know someone "working" on Duke Nukem Forever? Awesome!!!