even though your a troll who probably doesnt know anything about the game, Im going to bite.
a) like I said a NA thing, I have seen MNK/DRK WHM/BRD, hell even MNK/BRD party. a lot of that stupid you have to have this to get a party bullshit left when WoW came out (geee think thats a hint to the mentality of the WoW players out there) Hell you can tell from the get go it was a NA thing cause a lot of the JP character ideas where tossed out by new players thinking they where teh uber l337 player. Monks tanking is a great example, try to tank as a mnk in a Na party see how far they will let you, now do it in a JP party. As expected the JPs more open to it since half the high lvl JP tanks ARE monks.
b) The system you read has been expanded much further and with CoP you have mobs up to 90 at lvl 75 making XP a lot easier to get in the upper lvls. Course you totally tossed out a lot of the fun endgame stuff. As for PvP along with Ballista which in it of its self is a fun take on stupid slugfests a lot of PvP systems are set up like they are also adding a PvP slugfest arena type area if you really need to prove how much a of a meathead you really are.
c) like I said in my post the character models are limited, BUT Square didnt blame it at all on the PS2, they just didnt think about it. Anyone who has seen the CoP stuff would see that a lot of the NPCs have been expanded well beyond the old character models.
Regardless of which enough WoW are coming back or starting to play FFXI after leaving WoW to make me beleive your last statement is quite biased and points to the fanboyish nature of your post.
Actually I saw the opposite, after a month or two of people trying WoW I saw most of the die hard MMORPG players come back. Infact right now Fenrir has well over 4000 players on at any one time and the servers are finally starting to sputter and kick people now and again. This AFTER the world migration where a good chunk of our high lvl players went to Hades.
if the chips being used in all three of them (power5) and the fact Nintendo is making 802.11g standard on their next system is any indication low end doesnt even come close.
Try FFXI....
they have everything you listed except maybe character design, but there IS a system in place to uber your stats once your hit 75 by making more XP then buying a skillup or recast timer change. Likewise there are a lot of ways you can play a character as long as your not afraid to experiment something the JPs do a lot in FFXI but the NAs tend to stay away from and stick with "cookie cutter setups"
very funny but the HD its self isnt the problem the connection is. slim only has usb1 like the original but without the firewire connector the original had
so just a HD isnt the problem its how do you connect it
exactly they can only use the old version of the PS2, this actually caused a big tissy with SE and Sony since SE got really pissed off at Sony for doing this without notice.
Interestingly enough, Sony is now working with SE to make something they will allow you to play FFXI on the new PS2.
regardless of which this had to be the worst April Fools joke yet. Slashdot really is sucking wind this year.
its interesting brick sold 31, pretty sure this is likely because of the fact that Brick is the only BestBuy in the area, while those other stores have another best buy within 20-30 minutes away.
Also brick has practically nothing to do durring the winter, the area is really a summer area only booming durring the shore months.
no its not, BUT it is better than most of the Dell sub 600 computers. Having own a Mac Mini and being a IT tech in a schoolsystem who purchases a lot of those POS Dells because we get deals on them I can justifiably say I can expect my Mac Mini to last at least 5 if not more years about as long as my B/W G3 300 mhz lasted me once i upgraded the prossesor to a G4 450. These dells are lucky to last the year as our workbench can atest to. 2 year old computers reduced to scrap parts for the other half who are still working.
Thats the problem with PC and Mac $500. Apple makes a name for its self in providing the best quality parts, Dell is a mass producer, thats their entire gimic they dont inovate they dont create they buy up cheap parts and churn out finished products for dirt cheap. But as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. In Apples case though, as anyone who has actually used and looked inside a Mac Mini can atest to, they actually DESIGNED this thing to be 500, they didnt just get dirt cheap parts.
People whined and moaned about the cell shading DESPITE it actually being more inovative and tougher to pull off than realistic graphics.
Honestly gameplay is number one on my list, and if people wont play a game simply cause they think it looks "kiddie" then they are idiots. YOu think we worried about graphics this much with pacman? how about the original arcade starwars. Graphics really are overrated and really have destroyed gameplay in my opinion because people want its exceleent looking interesting to play and NOW and when your working with that formula something has to give.
Thats my biggest problem with all the no drm arguments. People say they wont buy things DRMd but they already do since most DVDs and software now are.
Truthfully there is a easy way to end all this DRM crap but people will never do it. Stop using P2P services. THATS what started this mess. But no people hadto download and download and download and then tell their none techy friends who told more freinds and thus where we are today.
Courts are going to rule against the public on this one, its already happened in multiple cases so its no long a issue of if you WANT to accept it, its a issue of quit bitching and find one that gives us the most rights cause DRM is here to stay.
You want companies to move into the digital age, but more than half of you abused their move by stealing things. Instead of bitching about DRM, why dont we all bitch about the insain cost of things instead. At least there we actually HAVE a case. Sorry but the history of our stupidity with napster pretty much garenteed we lost.
which is still more money than a iPod shuffle at 99 dollars for 512.
Im sorry buying a MP3 player with AM/FM is like buying a kick ass stereo system with 8 track. Sure it might be cool to have but whats the likelyhood that it will first, work right, and second you actually will use it.
This whole reason is why i got a CD player for my car instead of a CD/cassett. I KNOW I wont use a cassett player anymore, so as long as it had aux, why would I get one that had a cassett? For a long time I got it because it was good to have, and then nenevr used it. so whats the point?
this is NOT the full pilot, this is 45 minutes of the pilot thats not through being finished and was distrubuted to a few places looking to pick up the series, so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done.
Likewise dont go into watching this expecting it to be the BSG remake others where hoping for, THIS IS DR WHO, like Dr Who of when I was a kid and where watching the 60's reruns. Its campy and funny and ejoyable and a real family show. I know a lot of people where hoping for it to be remade but its not they are making this to be just like the old shows minus the cardbord and celophane sets.
Funny I know a lot of people who left WoW for FFXI because WoW bored them to tears.
I also know a lot of people who went to WoW because they just didnt want to work at a game and didnt like the idea of gratification not being instant.
regardless of which WoW got its day in the sun, but it was over before it began. I know a huge number of people who after 2-3 months have left WoW because it got boring fast.
Thats the problem with games that work like WoW if there is nothing there to hold them there, they wont stay. With FFXI there is stuff even JPs having been on for years still havent finished, and they add new lands every 2-3 months now.
And as for NAs not being on FFXI, most servers contain more americans than japanese now, though if you come on at japanese peak times, there is more japanese. But there is easily 4000+ people on my server now on at any one time, there where only a little less than 3000 when i started and we already had a server migration where people left to go to a brand new server.
Trust me there are well over 1 mill FFXI players. But instead of bragging, SE is actually doing what its supposed to be doing, providing content.
thats all good but i see no stats on Ent there... infact i know for a fact Ent beat them on Feb 4th.
BSG has been in the low 2mil since then. Get off it
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a) like I said a NA thing, I have seen MNK/DRK WHM/BRD, hell even MNK/BRD party. a lot of that stupid you have to have this to get a party bullshit left when WoW came out (geee think thats a hint to the mentality of the WoW players out there) Hell you can tell from the get go it was a NA thing cause a lot of the JP character ideas where tossed out by new players thinking they where teh uber l337 player. Monks tanking is a great example, try to tank as a mnk in a Na party see how far they will let you, now do it in a JP party. As expected the JPs more open to it since half the high lvl JP tanks ARE monks.
b) The system you read has been expanded much further and with CoP you have mobs up to 90 at lvl 75 making XP a lot easier to get in the upper lvls. Course you totally tossed out a lot of the fun endgame stuff. As for PvP along with Ballista which in it of its self is a fun take on stupid slugfests a lot of PvP systems are set up like they are also adding a PvP slugfest arena type area if you really need to prove how much a of a meathead you really are.
c) like I said in my post the character models are limited, BUT Square didnt blame it at all on the PS2, they just didnt think about it. Anyone who has seen the CoP stuff would see that a lot of the NPCs have been expanded well beyond the old character models.
Regardless of which enough WoW are coming back or starting to play FFXI after leaving WoW to make me beleive your last statement is quite biased and points to the fanboyish nature of your post.
Actually I saw the opposite, after a month or two of people trying WoW I saw most of the die hard MMORPG players come back. Infact right now Fenrir has well over 4000 players on at any one time and the servers are finally starting to sputter and kick people now and again. This AFTER the world migration where a good chunk of our high lvl players went to Hades.
if the chips being used in all three of them (power5) and the fact Nintendo is making 802.11g standard on their next system is any indication low end doesnt even come close.
Try FFXI.... they have everything you listed except maybe character design, but there IS a system in place to uber your stats once your hit 75 by making more XP then buying a skillup or recast timer change. Likewise there are a lot of ways you can play a character as long as your not afraid to experiment something the JPs do a lot in FFXI but the NAs tend to stay away from and stick with "cookie cutter setups"
very funny but the HD its self isnt the problem the connection is. slim only has usb1 like the original but without the firewire connector the original had so just a HD isnt the problem its how do you connect it
Interestingly enough, Sony is now working with SE to make something they will allow you to play FFXI on the new PS2.
regardless of which this had to be the worst April Fools joke yet. Slashdot really is sucking wind this year.
ohhhh then what i said still stands, sept the oposite, no one bought it BECAUSE there was no one around >.>
its interesting brick sold 31, pretty sure this is likely because of the fact that Brick is the only BestBuy in the area, while those other stores have another best buy within 20-30 minutes away. Also brick has practically nothing to do durring the winter, the area is really a summer area only booming durring the shore months.
Yes this post was ment to be pointless..... they cant all be serious
Man /. is crawling with grammer nazi's these days, do you sit up at night crying someone spelt mississippi wrong?
Thats the problem with PC and Mac $500. Apple makes a name for its self in providing the best quality parts, Dell is a mass producer, thats their entire gimic they dont inovate they dont create they buy up cheap parts and churn out finished products for dirt cheap. But as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. In Apples case though, as anyone who has actually used and looked inside a Mac Mini can atest to, they actually DESIGNED this thing to be 500, they didnt just get dirt cheap parts.
Oh how we all wish we had when Cowboy said almost the same thing a few years back ^_~.
Please this argument is old and false.
Honestly gameplay is number one on my list, and if people wont play a game simply cause they think it looks "kiddie" then they are idiots. YOu think we worried about graphics this much with pacman? how about the original arcade starwars. Graphics really are overrated and really have destroyed gameplay in my opinion because people want its exceleent looking interesting to play and NOW and when your working with that formula something has to give.
Truthfully there is a easy way to end all this DRM crap but people will never do it. Stop using P2P services. THATS what started this mess. But no people hadto download and download and download and then tell their none techy friends who told more freinds and thus where we are today.
Courts are going to rule against the public on this one, its already happened in multiple cases so its no long a issue of if you WANT to accept it, its a issue of quit bitching and find one that gives us the most rights cause DRM is here to stay.
You want companies to move into the digital age, but more than half of you abused their move by stealing things. Instead of bitching about DRM, why dont we all bitch about the insain cost of things instead. At least there we actually HAVE a case. Sorry but the history of our stupidity with napster pretty much garenteed we lost.
wrong in the long run they will win, because while you may waste more of your time to get around it they have the money
exactly, you can buy the music and burn it to a CD, but thats 99 cents on top of the 15 dollar a month fee.
But this is typical of a large group of people who refuse to admit it was Apple forcing support and not PCs waffling support that brought about USB.
ummmmm yes it does, maybe not say the exact version of wine that works for x86, but there is a power PC compatable version of wine out there.
which is still more money than a iPod shuffle at 99 dollars for 512. Im sorry buying a MP3 player with AM/FM is like buying a kick ass stereo system with 8 track. Sure it might be cool to have but whats the likelyhood that it will first, work right, and second you actually will use it. This whole reason is why i got a CD player for my car instead of a CD/cassett. I KNOW I wont use a cassett player anymore, so as long as it had aux, why would I get one that had a cassett? For a long time I got it because it was good to have, and then nenevr used it. so whats the point?
Likewise dont go into watching this expecting it to be the BSG remake others where hoping for, THIS IS DR WHO, like Dr Who of when I was a kid and where watching the 60's reruns. Its campy and funny and ejoyable and a real family show. I know a lot of people where hoping for it to be remade but its not they are making this to be just like the old shows minus the cardbord and celophane sets.
I also know a lot of people who went to WoW because they just didnt want to work at a game and didnt like the idea of gratification not being instant.
regardless of which WoW got its day in the sun, but it was over before it began. I know a huge number of people who after 2-3 months have left WoW because it got boring fast.
Thats the problem with games that work like WoW if there is nothing there to hold them there, they wont stay. With FFXI there is stuff even JPs having been on for years still havent finished, and they add new lands every 2-3 months now.
And as for NAs not being on FFXI, most servers contain more americans than japanese now, though if you come on at japanese peak times, there is more japanese. But there is easily 4000+ people on my server now on at any one time, there where only a little less than 3000 when i started and we already had a server migration where people left to go to a brand new server.
Trust me there are well over 1 mill FFXI players. But instead of bragging, SE is actually doing what its supposed to be doing, providing content.
thats all good but i see no stats on Ent there... infact i know for a fact Ent beat them on Feb 4th. BSG has been in the low 2mil since then. Get off it
says who? BSG hasnt come close to Ent except for their first two episodes. Ent still pulls 1.5 mil over BSG.
And yes racing games ARE sports games im sorry to say.