ok but all the analysts agree, the people who have the money to buy a HDTV and 500 dollar system are 2-3% of the population, ask anybody out there and while they would love to have that, no one is willing to pay 1300-1500 for a video game system... the EXACT problem PC gamers are experiencing now.
The simple fact is people are seeing the wolf for the clothes now, Microsoft and Sony bit of WAY more than they realized trying to push players into thinking that they NEEDED these overpriced low end PCs and only the most hardcore gamers who have more money than brains are biting.
actually I dont even own a gamecube, but your not a real gamer if you cant admit that nintendo has some really good games that are nintendo only.
Windwaker was awsome, Im sorry but if you couldn't get past the graphics then thats your fault, the story was great and was not kiddy... I mean come on Hyrule is under water destroyed, the Link from the N64 games ended up failing (and possibly dying in trying to kill a big bad) thats NOT kiddy material.
Animal Crossing is adictive as hell.
Super Smash Brothers is got to be one of the best fighting games out there hands down, only Soul Caliber is as good, again looks kiddy but is fun in the way Street Fighter 2 used to be fun in its first version before they tacked on everything under the sun to it.
Final Fantasy CC was a fun party game, there is nothing like kicking your friends ass because he screwed up and didnt cast a spell in time to you to make a bigger spell
Mario Party is a awsome game, especially when your drunk!
And these are just ones off the top of my head. The only thing that actually stoped me from geting a Cube was the revolution comming out, had I known it wouldnt come out till Nov. I would have picked one up 2 years ago. As it is now I find myself taking my girlfriends cube to play more and more often simply cause compaired to my masive library of PS 2 games, I find the GC games FUN something a lot of developers missed. Only KD has had the same funfactor on a PS2 game recently comepaired to a GC one.
In the effect of Microsoft still has some hiccups 6 months or more down the line thanks to its rather lame game lineup, Sony shoots it's self in the foot with Blu-ray, and Nintendo instead takes the lead with its realization that 90% of the people dont want a uber system for 500 dollars, but would rather a 200 dollarish system that plays fun games, does it well, is backwards compatable, and has some inovative features (like the controller)
I have said it before but I think the gaming industry in its thrust to make people spend computer system like amounts of money and to add the absolute best crap to their system without really testing it are prepping themselves for another video game crash like 81. And we ALL know who came out tops after that one.
I have the digital one, and while great, I would much rather the executive myself cause the digital just LOOKS cheap, not nice and shiny like the executive.
Sadly I do find just a normal keydisk to be a lot easier to use though.
It never happened that's what happened, De Beers killed it with blood diamond marketing tactics, and practically holding jewelers at gunpoint to prevent them from being sold. Not a shock from a cartel
As it is now, there are wonderful new and extremely cheap techniques to make prefect artificially grown diamonds. But the inventors are so scared by De Beers who have sent death threats already (of course not traceable to De Beers themselves), that no one will sell them and you have to practically be underground to get your hands on them.
Seriously wouldn't manipulating the orbit of the asteroid into one around earth or in one of our L points make a lot of sense in the creation of orbiting settlements. Rather than simply blowing the sucker up.
Worked for Gundam. And I would think by that point we would have gotten our collective heads out of our asses to be making a legitimate play at space settlements.
Um no, it was because that was what they had on hand and they SAID it was only being done cause they had that laptop on hand having already been hacked and that they never did the hacking.
And as it was, the Dell did beat them barely in a few tests, it was just a shit and giggles example, NOT a lets prove the Macbook is better, cause for one thing the Dell would always be fighting with one arm tied behind it thanks to the fact you DO have to hack OS X to work on it.
I played a lot of games (FFXI, Evercrack, UO, Lin) before trying out WoW. In beta I wasnt very impressed with the game so when I decided to buy it later I kept my FFXI account. Needless to say while fun (though easy to the point of boring at some points) soon it became imposible for me to play. Weekends where one thing (and I tended to not play weekends anyway because those where when I had major events in FFXI) but when it became a wednesday and I had to wait 2 hours to get in I got fed up and canciled my subscription (sadly after it had already paid up to July)
I couldnt beleive how bad it became logging in, I played through FFXI throughout its DDoS attacks and even though it was tough to log in, I still could get in 10 minutes after or so. 2 hours? thats just BS. and IMHO not worth it when most people only play for 1-2 hours at most.
It always amazed me how hard it was for college IT depeartments to handle multiple platforms when I can name a number of Public School IT departments who have been doing it for ages. In particular it amazes me how dumb IT techs are toward OS 9/X, its like if they dont know where one preference is located then its useless and needs to be replaced with a PC.
I mean I even tried running Apple intro to support classes for Montclair State U's IT department back when I was a Campus Rep for Apple and I couldnt get one person down there aside from Unix geeks who where interested in learning how OSX worked (right around the time OSX.1 came out) The reason? Cause it was too difficult to learn something new when they could just say "we dont support it" and let the person flounder.
Fast forward 8 years and while I work in a very PC centric schoolsystem, the staff cant get enough of learning OSX because they know eventually they will need to know it and it was better to know it on the fly then call me up while Im working on my own problem.
bullshit my 2 year old iBook with ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 runs WoW just fine... this chip is actually more powerful than what was in the older Macmini which ALSO ran WoW fine.
Make a foolproof machine, break in and tamper with the data then have the machine show someone tampered with it, or have them decide to do a recount and see that something is amiss. The party that won would instantly be accused of having had something to do with it.
Now look at the current example
Have one of these machines be tampered with, they have no paper backup so they have nothing that might tip off it was tampered with. You can just as easily say the machine isnt working right if someone DOES think its tampered with, nulling the vote but likely changing nothing. No one gets caught, no one gets into trouble
yes but how long have you been working at that job, where do you live, and was that the job you started with.
Those all play into it to. I live in the NY/NJ area and there are plenty of jobs, BUT they pay shit starting out. My cousin made less than I did working as a School IT tech working for Lucent.
Talent will move you up in a job, thats for sure, but talent has little to do with you actually being hired for a job. Its who you know.
its not that they cant make a decent machine, its they dont WANT to. Plenty of people have told them how to make a near foolproof machine, but with a machine that good its too hard to say it was a machine screwup than say human tampering.
With a bad machine you can just as easily blame the machine as you could someone going in and changing the results.
I agree.. As a mac user I take a certain sumg pleasure out of seeing you guys fight about how good Win (your version here) is when I know I have been using a superior product for 5-6 years now. No use wasting hot air on lemmings.
Im sorry given the choice between a quality PS2 game and a quality PC game that gameplay wise is exactly the same as the PS2 game but requires me to buy a 300 dollar graphics card only to replace it 1-2 years later with possibly the whole system, Im going to buy the PS2 game.
Going through a quick look of my PC games (rather mac games) every one of them minus 2 do not require my entire system yet are entertaining, the way it should be. But far too often even the games that seem like they would require lower system requirements end up when comming out requireing me to take out a second morgage to update my system to even play with a decent framerate. The reason many of my games dont have such high system requirements is 90% of them are 2-3 years olf or more.
The problem PC gamemakers create while system gamemakers have no problems with, is that system gamemakers have little wiggle room to expand the system as it is, forcing them to make the best with lower system requirements. On the OTHER hand, PC game makers assume that everyone has the absoulte best system ending up with games that require the most out of your system with complete dissregard that aside from the hard core gameplayers, 80-90% of the people with PCs DONT have Alienware x9000l337ass systems. Why do you think some of the best selling games out there are those puzzle games that take more of a cue from tetris than Unreal.
If PC game makers would take a cue from the system makers and make a great looking game within the confines of apretty basic Dell PC without the thrills, it would go a long way to getting PC gamers back who do feel they need the best of the best to get the game looking good and playing well.
simple. It shows that you dont HAVE to buy a iPod to listen to the music you have other ways to go about it which dont involve the iPod and thus the iPod is not being forced onto people.
how long a time ago can you really be talking about here... wifi enabled games for the DS only recently came out, and as it is setup now, anyplace that has a open 102.11 b/g wifi setup works as a uplink for the DS.
well the formfactor was thanks to the tech at the time, look at the older palms, they where just as clunky as the later versions of the Newton which where MUCH smaller than the original computing bricks.
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The simple fact is people are seeing the wolf for the clothes now, Microsoft and Sony bit of WAY more than they realized trying to push players into thinking that they NEEDED these overpriced low end PCs and only the most hardcore gamers who have more money than brains are biting.
actually I dont even own a gamecube, but your not a real gamer if you cant admit that nintendo has some really good games that are nintendo only. Windwaker was awsome, Im sorry but if you couldn't get past the graphics then thats your fault, the story was great and was not kiddy... I mean come on Hyrule is under water destroyed, the Link from the N64 games ended up failing (and possibly dying in trying to kill a big bad) thats NOT kiddy material. Animal Crossing is adictive as hell. Super Smash Brothers is got to be one of the best fighting games out there hands down, only Soul Caliber is as good, again looks kiddy but is fun in the way Street Fighter 2 used to be fun in its first version before they tacked on everything under the sun to it. Final Fantasy CC was a fun party game, there is nothing like kicking your friends ass because he screwed up and didnt cast a spell in time to you to make a bigger spell Mario Party is a awsome game, especially when your drunk! And these are just ones off the top of my head. The only thing that actually stoped me from geting a Cube was the revolution comming out, had I known it wouldnt come out till Nov. I would have picked one up 2 years ago. As it is now I find myself taking my girlfriends cube to play more and more often simply cause compaired to my masive library of PS 2 games, I find the GC games FUN something a lot of developers missed. Only KD has had the same funfactor on a PS2 game recently comepaired to a GC one.
I have said it before but I think the gaming industry in its thrust to make people spend computer system like amounts of money and to add the absolute best crap to their system without really testing it are prepping themselves for another video game crash like 81. And we ALL know who came out tops after that one.
I have the digital one, and while great, I would much rather the executive myself cause the digital just LOOKS cheap, not nice and shiny like the executive. Sadly I do find just a normal keydisk to be a lot easier to use though.
one up on evilbay right now for 500 dollars, if it was a bit cheaper I'd buy it myself.
As it is now, there are wonderful new and extremely cheap techniques to make prefect artificially grown diamonds. But the inventors are so scared by De Beers who have sent death threats already (of course not traceable to De Beers themselves), that no one will sell them and you have to practically be underground to get your hands on them.
Worked for Gundam. And I would think by that point we would have gotten our collective heads out of our asses to be making a legitimate play at space settlements.
And as it was, the Dell did beat them barely in a few tests, it was just a shit and giggles example, NOT a lets prove the Macbook is better, cause for one thing the Dell would always be fighting with one arm tied behind it thanks to the fact you DO have to hack OS X to work on it.
I played a lot of games (FFXI, Evercrack, UO, Lin) before trying out WoW. In beta I wasnt very impressed with the game so when I decided to buy it later I kept my FFXI account. Needless to say while fun (though easy to the point of boring at some points) soon it became imposible for me to play. Weekends where one thing (and I tended to not play weekends anyway because those where when I had major events in FFXI) but when it became a wednesday and I had to wait 2 hours to get in I got fed up and canciled my subscription (sadly after it had already paid up to July) I couldnt beleive how bad it became logging in, I played through FFXI throughout its DDoS attacks and even though it was tough to log in, I still could get in 10 minutes after or so. 2 hours? thats just BS. and IMHO not worth it when most people only play for 1-2 hours at most.
I mean I even tried running Apple intro to support classes for Montclair State U's IT department back when I was a Campus Rep for Apple and I couldnt get one person down there aside from Unix geeks who where interested in learning how OSX worked (right around the time OSX.1 came out) The reason? Cause it was too difficult to learn something new when they could just say "we dont support it" and let the person flounder.
Fast forward 8 years and while I work in a very PC centric schoolsystem, the staff cant get enough of learning OSX because they know eventually they will need to know it and it was better to know it on the fly then call me up while Im working on my own problem.
next time troll if you know something.
Look at this example
Make a foolproof machine, break in and tamper with the data then have the machine show someone tampered with it, or have them decide to do a recount and see that something is amiss. The party that won would instantly be accused of having had something to do with it.
Now look at the current example
Have one of these machines be tampered with, they have no paper backup so they have nothing that might tip off it was tampered with. You can just as easily say the machine isnt working right if someone DOES think its tampered with, nulling the vote but likely changing nothing. No one gets caught, no one gets into trouble
Those all play into it to. I live in the NY/NJ area and there are plenty of jobs, BUT they pay shit starting out. My cousin made less than I did working as a School IT tech working for Lucent.
Talent will move you up in a job, thats for sure, but talent has little to do with you actually being hired for a job. Its who you know.
With a bad machine you can just as easily blame the machine as you could someone going in and changing the results.
but now far from it. The ammount of money cellphone carriers make off of the service now is shamefull in relation to normal phonecalls.
Comp Sci courses that are paid by Microsoft for this. Sad day indeed.
I agree.. As a mac user I take a certain sumg pleasure out of seeing you guys fight about how good Win (your version here) is when I know I have been using a superior product for 5-6 years now. No use wasting hot air on lemmings.
Im sorry given the choice between a quality PS2 game and a quality PC game that gameplay wise is exactly the same as the PS2 game but requires me to buy a 300 dollar graphics card only to replace it 1-2 years later with possibly the whole system, Im going to buy the PS2 game.
Going through a quick look of my PC games (rather mac games) every one of them minus 2 do not require my entire system yet are entertaining, the way it should be. But far too often even the games that seem like they would require lower system requirements end up when comming out requireing me to take out a second morgage to update my system to even play with a decent framerate. The reason many of my games dont have such high system requirements is 90% of them are 2-3 years olf or more.
The problem PC gamemakers create while system gamemakers have no problems with, is that system gamemakers have little wiggle room to expand the system as it is, forcing them to make the best with lower system requirements. On the OTHER hand, PC game makers assume that everyone has the absoulte best system ending up with games that require the most out of your system with complete dissregard that aside from the hard core gameplayers, 80-90% of the people with PCs DONT have Alienware x9000l337ass systems. Why do you think some of the best selling games out there are those puzzle games that take more of a cue from tetris than Unreal. If PC game makers would take a cue from the system makers and make a great looking game within the confines of apretty basic Dell PC without the thrills, it would go a long way to getting PC gamers back who do feel they need the best of the best to get the game looking good and playing well.
simple. It shows that you dont HAVE to buy a iPod to listen to the music you have other ways to go about it which dont involve the iPod and thus the iPod is not being forced onto people.
There is no point to make kiosks if we ha ve nothing to play on them, unlike the Japanese.
how long a time ago can you really be talking about here... wifi enabled games for the DS only recently came out, and as it is setup now, anyplace that has a open 102.11 b/g wifi setup works as a uplink for the DS.
you sure about that. http://www.newtonmuseum.com/images/image08.jpg http://www.palm.com/us/images/products/palmpilot/p almpilot.jpg
both where about the same size, with the Newton being a bit heavier and wider.
worse than that, its been proven in a few sound quality tests that Ogg is infact inferior to a lot of the new standards including AAC.
if your mp3 player doesnt play AAC, then you have a inferior player.
well the formfactor was thanks to the tech at the time, look at the older palms, they where just as clunky as the later versions of the Newton which where MUCH smaller than the original computing bricks.