heh cause you know your not a adult unless there is gratuitous violence and pixelated titties.
Its really too bad, having played a cube and owning a PS2 I tend to feel the cube games are much more polished, fun, and replayable than anything I have gotten on the PS2 aside from Dragon Quest. Not to mention there are a number of M games out for the cube, some of them less censored than their Sony or Microsoft counterparts.
Its obvious this is comment from a 18 year old, as most adults dont really give two craps what they play, as long as its fun.
Metal Gear has never been a exclusive title. It got it's start on Computers/NES. While it did the Square thing for a bit, the Game Cube has a Metal Gear Solid 2 remake on it called Twin Snakes.
Interesting enough, its MSG's own creator who begged to be in SSB. He wanted to be in SSB melee but it was too late to bring Snake on board.
I think what they ment was a Microsoft made one. But then they have canned their plans for one more than once now, so I have high doubts.
That being said, FFXI is doing real well with the Xbox 360 though there are a few headaches, most noticably botched keyboard support, where most major keyboards are not working right despite claims from Microsoft they should work fine.
IS that at least two people I have talked to are buying it SIMPLY cause its a Playstation, it can do no wrong, and refuse to see how just overpriced and junky the system really is. There is such rampant fanboyism that its just sickening that people think all this will equal good games and not well Good GAME DESIGN.
Sept two launch titles on the Wii ARE SE games, one of which Dragon Quest being the #1 all time best seling series in Japan. Final Fantasy is popular, but not nearly as much as Dragon Quest.
oh in general Microsoft knows how to make a profit, but its gaming division has seen NOTHING but red. They are spending more on advertising and getting the 360's into peoples hands than they are making money. Its only the continuous flow of money from elsewhere in the company that helps them out.
Nintendo on the otherhand has not sold a system for a loss in it's entire history (even the Virtual Boy apparently sold for profit). When Nintendo recently reported a profit loss, it was a PROFIT loss, they still made a profit. Microsoft doesnt know what profit in its gaming division IS.
They could have at least looked closely at the handheld market to see that the industry needs a 3rd handheld as much as they needed a third system, not at all.
Maybe Microsoft should focus more on how to keep from hemoraging money out its ass and take a cue from Nintendo on how to run a profitable company.
Um its their own propety, you have to sign a NDA to be able to use those manuals, that NDA was broken by it being posted elsewhere. Its NOT free speech, get off your fucking high horse and learn something about US law before you come in thinking you know everything.
Its not like the are censoring the whole fucking story just the page someone stole out of their manual. Jesus fucking christ I hope morons like you arnt allowed to vote in the US. People like you are the reason Bush won.
well i guess its the difference between big citys and small. I live in the NY/NJ Tri-state area. Pretty much all over here its well known you call 911 for emergancys (car crashes, fires etc.) and the police (or in NY city 311) for police of a non-emergancy nature.
NY city CREATED 311 because far too often 911 was being used for stuff like this and the lines where clogged, and real emergancys where being ignored.
Akihabara is NOT Japan. Most Japanese dont even like that pit of otaku depravity even being associated with Japan as they feel it is a disgusting example of why Japanese schoolchildren need strick discipline and whats wrong with Japanese youth today.
Now the fact remains a lot of why Akihabara is the way it is is BECAUSE of that discipline but regardless.
No she couldnt, and any upper management to suggest that would have been liable for a lawsuit if she HAD been fired.
regardless of the fact had she done that here she would have been arrested for missuse of 911 and likely given 24 hours of public service and a $2000 fine, 911 is for emergancys only, you use the normal police phone number for stuff like this.
Well to be quite honest it isn't that mainstream over there either. Its a bit more popular than it is here, but not by much and not nearly as much as Otaku like you to believe, much like in the US most anime is on less than mainstream channels usually late at night as well as very frequently bought on DVD.
Manga on the otherhand is a lot more popular there than it is here and its a lot more accepted for adults to be reading it there, but then its the same for comics here too which don't have a mainstream adult audience either and I think our culture just generally doesn't accept manga or comics as anything more than a kids/young adults thing, while books are more popular here.
the whole series remastered on DVD is now 50 bucks and you can find it much cheaper. This is why I NEVER buy DVDs when they first come out, especially anime which is always extreamly overpriced to take advantage of the screaming more money than they know what to do with sex deprived otaku out there.
from how the partys involved are describing it, there is a new parent company called RPGholdings who has a division that owns the gaming sites, and a division that owns IGE and their sister sites.
The the CEO of all of them IS IGE's CEO, so in essense, they made a fake company, bought out everyone (including IGE) then said "oh btw, Brock Pierce is now your new boss"
well the partnership with M$ is dead. They parted ways a few months ago, it only lives on in the MSNBC name.
As for spin, its more newscasters have no right reporting tech news (This INCLUDES the want to be tech guy most stations have on staff) The way they spin things they would make you believe that most windows viruses would eat your baby.
Reporters get off on creating a panic about something, 99% its unwarranted.
1) it just came out 1 month ago to the new intel macs that where announced WHEN the product was announced and told would not have intel support quite yet. Thats NOT enough time to expect adoption, especially when people where holding off for the Intel macs themselves.
Rumors are rumors and I take any rumor from Cringely with a huge grain of salt. Not to mention he is the first person I have even HEARD this rumor from, and the Apple spy network is more likely to have heard it before he would have.
well to be honest, the first DVDs where not much of a improvment over tapes either. the few I have from that time period where all obviously poorly done video tape transfers.
But a good marketing exec doesnt need things to be at a point to make it happen, they just need YOU to think its at that point. See CDs and computers, or even DVDs and computers.
because in the end it will be game systems that decide this, with the PS3 having a Blue-ray drive out of the box, and the 360 having a HD add-on before the end of the year.
Its not a unknown fact that for many people, the PS2 was their first DVD player.
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Its really too bad, having played a cube and owning a PS2 I tend to feel the cube games are much more polished, fun, and replayable than anything I have gotten on the PS2 aside from Dragon Quest. Not to mention there are a number of M games out for the cube, some of them less censored than their Sony or Microsoft counterparts.
Its obvious this is comment from a 18 year old, as most adults dont really give two craps what they play, as long as its fun.
Metal Gear has never been a exclusive title. It got it's start on Computers/NES. While it did the Square thing for a bit, the Game Cube has a Metal Gear Solid 2 remake on it called Twin Snakes. Interesting enough, its MSG's own creator who begged to be in SSB. He wanted to be in SSB melee but it was too late to bring Snake on board.
That being said, FFXI is doing real well with the Xbox 360 though there are a few headaches, most noticably botched keyboard support, where most major keyboards are not working right despite claims from Microsoft they should work fine.
IS that at least two people I have talked to are buying it SIMPLY cause its a Playstation, it can do no wrong, and refuse to see how just overpriced and junky the system really is. There is such rampant fanboyism that its just sickening that people think all this will equal good games and not well Good GAME DESIGN.
Sept two launch titles on the Wii ARE SE games, one of which Dragon Quest being the #1 all time best seling series in Japan. Final Fantasy is popular, but not nearly as much as Dragon Quest.
And everyone knows both the 360 AND the PS3 are selling for a major loss. These companys have to be out of their mind.
considering the GC has been selling for 99 for years at this point, i dont think its at all accurate. Im sure they are still profiting off it.
Nintendo on the otherhand has not sold a system for a loss in it's entire history (even the Virtual Boy apparently sold for profit). When Nintendo recently reported a profit loss, it was a PROFIT loss, they still made a profit. Microsoft doesnt know what profit in its gaming division IS.
Maybe Microsoft should focus more on how to keep from hemoraging money out its ass and take a cue from Nintendo on how to run a profitable company.
Its not like the are censoring the whole fucking story just the page someone stole out of their manual. Jesus fucking christ I hope morons like you arnt allowed to vote in the US. People like you are the reason Bush won.
NY city CREATED 311 because far too often 911 was being used for stuff like this and the lines where clogged, and real emergancys where being ignored.
Now the fact remains a lot of why Akihabara is the way it is is BECAUSE of that discipline but regardless.
regardless of the fact had she done that here she would have been arrested for missuse of 911 and likely given 24 hours of public service and a $2000 fine, 911 is for emergancys only, you use the normal police phone number for stuff like this.
maybe you should read better before you comment on others reading abilitys.
Manga on the otherhand is a lot more popular there than it is here and its a lot more accepted for adults to be reading it there, but then its the same for comics here too which don't have a mainstream adult audience either and I think our culture just generally doesn't accept manga or comics as anything more than a kids/young adults thing, while books are more popular here.
sure the skins where there, but they wherent accessable IN game.
ITs the same thing with comics and movie though back in the day, its the new political fallboy, give it 5-10 more years and it will be something else.
the whole series remastered on DVD is now 50 bucks and you can find it much cheaper. This is why I NEVER buy DVDs when they first come out, especially anime which is always extreamly overpriced to take advantage of the screaming more money than they know what to do with sex deprived otaku out there.
The the CEO of all of them IS IGE's CEO, so in essense, they made a fake company, bought out everyone (including IGE) then said "oh btw, Brock Pierce is now your new boss"
Fact is Billy Boy couldnt do it anyway. It's illegal.
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As for spin, its more newscasters have no right reporting tech news (This INCLUDES the want to be tech guy most stations have on staff) The way they spin things they would make you believe that most windows viruses would eat your baby.
Reporters get off on creating a panic about something, 99% its unwarranted.
1) it just came out 1 month ago to the new intel macs that where announced WHEN the product was announced and told would not have intel support quite yet. Thats NOT enough time to expect adoption, especially when people where holding off for the Intel macs themselves.
Rumors are rumors and I take any rumor from Cringely with a huge grain of salt. Not to mention he is the first person I have even HEARD this rumor from, and the Apple spy network is more likely to have heard it before he would have.
I cant help but thing how scary this thing would be from a privacy angle, while at the same time how cool and interesting this idea actually is
But a good marketing exec doesnt need things to be at a point to make it happen, they just need YOU to think its at that point. See CDs and computers, or even DVDs and computers.
Its not a unknown fact that for many people, the PS2 was their first DVD player.