I do not have a PC/Mac good enought to run Halo, but I have played quite a bit on my brothers rig. I like the xbox version better. The did such a good job on the controls with xbox halo.
Yeah, Marathon was really sweet too... does anyone outside of hardcore gamers even know about it? No. And those that do, know of it because they have researched Bungie's history because the love Halo on xbox so much.
And my vote says that Halo on xbox kicks ass. It s my favorite game ever.
Bungie selling out to MS was the best thing they ever did (IMO). Now I get to play a game that I never would have got to play. All the macs I have ever had suck at playing games. I leave that for my consoles.
Umm... did they say there will not be a large capacity storage device in the xbox 2, or just not a conventional hard drive. That company makes storage media up to 47GB.
Hell, a couple gigs of space should be plenty to store game saves and some extra maps, etc.
I dont see what everyone is getting so worked up about. As long as its not like the current PS2 or Gamecube, who cares...
Would Mr. Kent like to explain how such a game with a "kiddy" image, not to mention one that many (not myself) consider a sub-standard Mario game, outsold such a high-quality game obviously targeted at adults by so large a margin? This only proves either that adults can enjoy colorful games, nullifying the "games for everyone = kiddy" stereotype, or that pandering to adults is not a pre-requisite to success. Win-win for Nintendo
gamecube is a kiddie console. that explains it. you said it yourself. A high quality "adult focused" game got pwned by the sub-par kiddie game.
ps: had i rented super mario sunshine before I bought it, I would have saved the money. I pre-ordered it straight from nintendo so I sould have the first day it was out. I was expecting super mario 128. I got super mario 64 with a squirt gun. It was fun at first, but got old real quick.
Microsoft chomped at the bit to get Rare when Nintendo dumped them, hoping to gain a partner who would help capture the younger market. After all, as P. Diddy tells us in Grabbed By the Ghoulies commercials featuring young pillow-fighting children, they are "the makers of Donkey Kong Country."
and when Rare releases Perfect Dark Zero, they will mention "From the makers of Perfect Dark and Goldeneye".
Nintendo losing Rare as a developer (for whatever reason) is almost as damaging as losing the final fantasy games. Rare did some amazing stuff for Nintendo (Star Fox, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark).
Another point is that by ignoring the internet scene, Nintendo lets Microsoft and Sony run out and get riddled by bullets while they sit back, watch, and take notes. Hopefully Nintendo will glue together the best pieces of Microsoft and Sony's online strategies into a kickass network for their next console.
If by "riddled with bullets" you mean "alienate customers who want to play games online" you are correct. Or maybe you meant, "make sure people who want to play online do not buy the next Ninteno console".
Online gaming is now part of the cost of doing business in this industry. (notice the period)
I have owned NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube. Gamecube was my first console this generation. Nintendo's next console will not be my first choice the next generation. Why, because of no online gaming.
They have little or no chance of competing with MS and Sony in creating an online presence for the next gen. MS and Sony are too far ahead. XboxLive is still cutting baby teeth. The next version should be pretty killer.
I bet they move the HD to external via USB 2.0 or something. It may be useful but its not useful enough to justify forcing people to buy it. They would be able to keep the cost down a little more without the HD. Those that want it can just go buy it for a premium price.
MS is seriously pushing Xbox Live. Without some kind of big, reliable, fast storage half the features of Live won't work (DLC, Patches, Etc
Also, putting a USB2 or Firewire port on there to connect a HD would be stupid. They would be inviting people to Hack.
They bought Virtual PC recently. That emulates X86 architecture on PPC, right?
AFAIK: Virtual PC does not work on the G5 yet. It only works on G4 or earlier.
Also, Virtual PC does not emulate graphics cards, hence the sucky gaming on macs. Don't flame me for that, I am a mac owner.. I just play games on my xbox and gamecube.
I live in an area that used to have lots of arcades. THe local town I lived in had one. Each shopping mall in my area had at least 2 of them. Then there was the Chuck E CHeese places that had games. Then at the NJ SHore on the boardwalk there was a dozen big arcades in each town.
They are mostly gone now. Most have closed down. THe ones that are still open are full of redemption games (skee ball, squirt guns, basketball) where you get tickets to redeem for crap. This is definitely because of consoles.
There is no way the arcades can make enough quality games to warrant a whole arcade (or even a respectable chunk of square footage within a store). It is sad in a way. I used to love going to arcades. Now I despise them.
I was just at my local Chuck E Cheese last month for my neice's birthday. They had a sign on the door advertising the fact that all games were just 1 token. In my opinion, they were not worth it either. I get much better graphics and gameplay at home on my xbox.
There is no arcade at any shopping mall in my area, and the arcades on teh boardwalk are full of video poker and slot machines that dispense redemption tokens. Yay, let me dump $50 in a slot machine so I can get a $10 AM/FM radio.
Master Chief's costume will be made of dyed mink fur and that in scene one, we remove his helmet forever so you can see his long golden hair. And his lipstick.
Are you doing that annoying Mac zealot thing where you try to deny there's a signficintly higher amount of COMPUTER PROGRAMS available to run under Windows as compared to on ANY Mac OS?!?!?
I am a mac guy... I can see that there are 10 or 20 programs for windows for every one for Macs (especially if you count OSX). I am not going to count all the command line unix programs though.
I can also tell you that in the past couple of years, there have been about 4 occasions where I am pissed that I can't run a windows program.
kazaa - although Poisoned is much better than kazaa (supports fasttrack and gnutella, and opennap, and openft), but has only recently been released. The only difference is that there is no spyware and it is free (as in beer and speech)
Half-Life - although a superior cheat free version of Counterstrike just came out for Xbox (and that is all I wanted half-life for anyway)
Battlefield 1942 - Because EA is a mac hating and (xbox hating) company, and battlefield 1942 is not coming out on xbox either
Xbox Connect - The mac counterpart of xboxconnect does not nearly have the number of users that xboxconnect has
Kids games also are not typically OSX friendly, although that is changing recently
I use my mac mostly as a computer, not a game system. I have various consoles for gaming.
so yeah, there are WAY more programs for Windows, but there are plenty of programs for Macintosh as well. And so what if the killer apps are made by apple (iTunes, Safari et al), they are still better than most offerings on Windows.
...Or, if a [Mac] user leaves their front door unlocked, you could walk in and remove their computer...
no, you would still need a password to log on and/or log on as an admin to install system software, because when you steal the mac, you will certainly unplug the power cord...
...unless you could find:
a rogue Russian electrician
a truck and driver
a friend with a roll of "police line - do not cross" tape
to help you
wire an uninterruptable battery backup power supply
rope off a parking spot for the truck on a busy city street
load the mac/power supply into the truck
in a caper similar to George Costanzas great "frogger machine caper"...
of course it helps to have a long extension cord to plug into the drug store across the street in case your batteries run out...
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I do not have a PC/Mac good enought to run Halo, but I have played quite a bit on my brothers rig. I like the xbox version better. The did such a good job on the controls with xbox halo.
Yeah, Marathon was really sweet too... does anyone outside of hardcore gamers even know about it? No. And those that do, know of it because they have researched Bungie's history because the love Halo on xbox so much.
And my vote says that Halo on xbox kicks ass. It s my favorite game ever.
Bungie selling out to MS was the best thing they ever did (IMO). Now I get to play a game that I never would have got to play. All the macs I have ever had suck at playing games. I leave that for my consoles.
just because it is not a hard disc drive does not mean they wont have multiple gigs of storage.
Umm... did they say there will not be a large capacity storage device in the xbox 2, or just not a conventional hard drive. That company makes storage media up to 47GB.
Hell, a couple gigs of space should be plenty to store game saves and some extra maps, etc.
I dont see what everyone is getting so worked up about. As long as its not like the current PS2 or Gamecube, who cares...
Did you guys see the opinion piece from the Gillette CEO? That is good reading... Funny stuff...
http://www.theonion.com/opinion.php?i=1&o=1
whoops... my bad :)
gamecube is a kiddie console. that explains it. you said it yourself. A high quality "adult focused" game got pwned by the sub-par kiddie game.
ps: had i rented super mario sunshine before I bought it, I would have saved the money. I pre-ordered it straight from nintendo so I sould have the first day it was out. I was expecting super mario 128. I got super mario 64 with a squirt gun. It was fun at first, but got old real quick.
and when Rare releases Perfect Dark Zero, they will mention "From the makers of Perfect Dark and Goldeneye".
Nintendo losing Rare as a developer (for whatever reason) is almost as damaging as losing the final fantasy games. Rare did some amazing stuff for Nintendo (Star Fox, Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark).
you know what's funny? they think being able to connect a GBA to your cube is better than playing online...
the author may be referring to Nintendo's recycling of older games from different consoles (metal gear, sonic adventure dx)
ps: that pac man game got canned.
If by "riddled with bullets" you mean "alienate customers who want to play games online" you are correct. Or maybe you meant, "make sure people who want to play online do not buy the next Ninteno console".
Online gaming is now part of the cost of doing business in this industry. (notice the period)
I have owned NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube. Gamecube was my first console this generation. Nintendo's next console will not be my first choice the next generation. Why, because of no online gaming.
They have little or no chance of competing with MS and Sony in creating an online presence for the next gen. MS and Sony are too far ahead. XboxLive is still cutting baby teeth. The next version should be pretty killer.
...I am not a doctor, but I play one on TV...
ummm... prolly because you post as Anonymous Coward? Its just a thought...
... am I supposed to sway people away from the dark side (IE) when the good side keeps changing their friggin name!!!
me: You should definitely use Phoenix. It rocks
them: What is phoenix? All I see is mozilla and Firebird
me: oh yeah, thats it. sorry.
now I have to remember another name?!?!?!
I have to play that game... This has to be the "Toxic Avengers" of video games (so bad its good)...
AFAIK: Virtual PC does not work on the G5 yet. It only works on G4 or earlier.
Also, Virtual PC does not emulate graphics cards, hence the sucky gaming on macs. Don't flame me for that, I am a mac owner.. I just play games on my xbox and gamecube.
I live in an area that used to have lots of arcades. THe local town I lived in had one. Each shopping mall in my area had at least 2 of them. Then there was the Chuck E CHeese places that had games. Then at the NJ SHore on the boardwalk there was a dozen big arcades in each town.
They are mostly gone now. Most have closed down. THe ones that are still open are full of redemption games (skee ball, squirt guns, basketball) where you get tickets to redeem for crap. This is definitely because of consoles.
There is no way the arcades can make enough quality games to warrant a whole arcade (or even a respectable chunk of square footage within a store). It is sad in a way. I used to love going to arcades. Now I despise them.
I was just at my local Chuck E Cheese last month for my neice's birthday. They had a sign on the door advertising the fact that all games were just 1 token. In my opinion, they were not worth it either. I get much better graphics and gameplay at home on my xbox.
There is no arcade at any shopping mall in my area, and the arcades on teh boardwalk are full of video poker and slot machines that dispense redemption tokens. Yay, let me dump $50 in a slot machine so I can get a $10 AM/FM radio.
If you have an xbox and xbox live, you should check out project gotham 2. It is non violent and casual to play. Its a nice game to chat in.
Maybe (hopefully) someone will port it now that is it free (speech and beer).
If it is a modified Quake3 engine, how much work could it be?
Halo 2 for xbox should have made that list for sure.
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the incredible machine series is one of my favorite computer games of all time. that and lemmings
I am a mac guy... I can see that there are 10 or 20 programs for windows for every one for Macs (especially if you count OSX). I am not going to count all the command line unix programs though.
I can also tell you that in the past couple of years, there have been about 4 occasions where I am pissed that I can't run a windows program.
- kazaa - although Poisoned is much better than kazaa (supports fasttrack and gnutella, and opennap, and openft), but has only recently been released. The only difference is that there is no spyware and it is free (as in beer and speech)
- Half-Life - although a superior cheat free version of Counterstrike just came out for Xbox (and that is all I wanted half-life for anyway)
- Battlefield 1942 - Because EA is a mac hating and (xbox hating) company, and battlefield 1942 is not coming out on xbox either
- Xbox Connect - The mac counterpart of xboxconnect does not nearly have the number of users that xboxconnect has
Kids games also are not typically OSX friendly, although that is changing recentlyI use my mac mostly as a computer, not a game system. I have various consoles for gaming.
so yeah, there are WAY more programs for Windows, but there are plenty of programs for Macintosh as well. And so what if the killer apps are made by apple (iTunes, Safari et al), they are still better than most offerings on Windows.
no, you would still need a password to log on and/or log on as an admin to install system software, because when you steal the mac, you will certainly unplug the power cord...
- a rogue Russian electrician
- a truck and driver
- a friend with a roll of "police line - do not cross" tape
to help you- wire an uninterruptable battery backup power supply
- rope off a parking spot for the truck on a busy city street
- load the mac/power supply into the truck
in a caper similar to George Costanzas great "frogger machine caper"...of course it helps to have a long extension cord to plug into the drug store across the street in case your batteries run out...