excuse me for asking,but WHAT IN GODS NAME ARE YOU DOING TO THESE THINGS???.
My bought on the day it came out PS2 failed ONCE, and that was 3 years later with the DVd optics. I bought a 30 dollar part and it was fixed.
Likewise, Sony is known to honor the dvd long after you bought the machine. You just need to call them and they will repair it for free.
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a) Superior hardware, maybe, but since when has that mattered? I can name 10 systems who where superior and did worse than the xBox has.
b) Good gaming library.... not really. Its mostly ports of Nintendo and PS2 games whit the only games being "xbox only" being sports titles and first person shooters which are more in tune to the American male demographic than the rest of the world.
c) We hate America argument..... please they love Apple, Western movies, and all kinds of American products.... The xbox was a poor attempt at Microsoft trying to steal the game market away because Microsoft wants to get their hands into everything.
Ah but see here lies the problem, Cable TV is a strange land.... they bleep out more on Cable TV than they do on network tv now, (especially since even CSI and Law and Order Isee the "finger" on a regular basis)
The stranges part is that for the most part, they are not required to do jack shit. Thats all up to the broadcaster (which I bet you for the Matrix was TBS who used to have heavy christian programing and I think still does on Sundays)
Just to calrify things for those people who dont live in the US
The boob thing caused a problem more cause it was a high profile event with a huge audience and was in prime time (IE it was before 9 for most audiences)
You see those things in the US too, technically showing a boob (even with the current administration) wasnt a crime and infact we have seen Denis Franzes (sp?) ass more times than I would ever want to remember, Still get some cursing and everything else too.... The only problem is exsesive nudity is not allowed that isnt in reason (ie you can show a naked body, but there has to be a legit reason to show it, you cant show a naked bodyy to show a naked body)
What causes a problem in the US is outbursts that arnt explainable (like the boob thing)
You also have to remeber the US has a very vocal Religious majority that stems from the 60's and 70's wild times. In a few years that will most likely change, as the majority of students now leaving school have a very different additude toward these things.
Thanks for calling bullshit, cause the truth is This asshat didnt even contribute to the mac to begin with.... he quit in 1981
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He is not the father, or one of the co-creators or anything... he left the project in 1981, before they even had begun major development BECAUSE his view of the Macintosh wasnt the rest of the teams view.
Likewise if HIS view of the macintosh had made it, it would be on our kitchen table, not run any of the mahor programs it does, not have a mouse, and in all honest probably not even exist today.
K I play FFXI, and if your not a nation resident you get treated badly by the NPC's in the other nations (most notably Sand'Oria where they out and out call you bastokian or windurstian slime sometimes) Thats discrimination but no one bats a eye...
But the minute you put in sexual discrimination its a problem? sorry no it doesnt work like that one isnt worse than the other.
actually I agree... My school has pretty much gotten rid of most of the computer labs (aside from high end unix, chem, and graphic design labs) because 99% of the students bring their own computers and very few actually use the public labs.
what Im interested in is if people on the ground will SEE your ship taking off and landing..
In FFXI when someone leaves on a airship the people in the surounding area SEES the airship leave or fly overhead... which can really be cool if your in the next zone and the airship flies overhead for a landing in Jeuno. Likewise while on the airship you can see the ground with all the terrain changes and such.
I mean if you cant even see the people leave in the starships then you can become very shielded to the fact the ability even exists.
Same here... Only thing I wasnt allowed to watch was MTV, today I think I watch maybe 2-3 hours a week and its usually like law and order or the news. And I had cable growing up...
Simply put people who are exposed to TV early find it to just not be that interesting when they see the SAME things over and over in a different shell. Ill watch something if its new, but the minute it becomes like everything else Im back to dooing other things like reading.
You CAN take on members from the same kingdom, after a certain period it becomes a open invite where anyone can join any side. Likewise if your from a kingdom not participating in battle you can join oposing sides as well. And yes you can go one on one Its a team event but there are plenty of chances to go one on one if the guy you want to kill gets lost from the team which is very easy to happen in the hour you have to play
There are over 300 quests, many you dont need to lvl yourself for and many you need to to even start because they are so hard. Much of the storyline dealing with the shadowlord, the creating gods, the zilart, and the crystals comes from these quests and missions. Its only a lvl fest if you make it that way. In terms of lvling I think Everquest was much worse in the lvl fest idea.
The only people who find that its a "mindless level fest" are those people who arnt willing enough to actually try to start some of the quests because they are too lazy that they might actually have to put in actual effort.
I could have gotten a more detailed look looking at the box. Not any mention of the story and the fact it is another crystal war saga where a war took place over 20 years prior to you "start" of the game and the land you live in is the war ravaged remains. Nothing about the player vs player combat "game" (which I think is the best PK implementation yet since it basically forces you to learn the normal game before you can kill people so your target isnt a noob but someone who can very likely kill you too is you get too cocky) Nothing about the jobs (a re imagining of the FFV job combination which is much more like FFV than FFX-2's misserable and idiotic magic girl transformation system) Really nothing at all printed about it, or any of the 200 hour storyline.
And yes I agree this article is a ripoff of the gamespot one
It might but the problem is it shouldnt.... All MMORPG's Im aware of have clauses that stipulate online currency can not be changed to real money (just like you couldnt exchange play money for real, but you DO spend money to buy play money)
Problem is enough clueless judges and enough moronic players have screwed up the laws to the point that you sould actually have a problem. But truely you shouldnt, a game is NOT real life and should never be treated as such. By making in game money = to real money your setting it up so that people could sue the makers if they decided to shut down the game
Actually your wrong Apple has a lot of clout. As it is the record labels tried and failed to renegotiate the.99 a track deal and Apple flat out said no. Your also wrong in think its a 50% marketshare (its actualy around 70% accourding to soundscan.)
Also lets get a few other things straight.. Balmer was wrong in saying the most common format was stolen music, actually the most common formate is PREVIOUSLY bought music (ie CD's) his methodology in saying that was that.mp3 = stolen. Balmer was in no way trying to say people download from elseware, he was just trying to scare the labels into using Windows user rights free DRM.
Also your right iTunes is ecensially a iPod selling tool... but last I checked Apple owned 70% of the market for music devices as well... so its working. Likewise, Apple DOES make 3 cents a track...03 * 1 mill isnt chump change. Also Apple is selling the distrubution method. Remeber the lables HAVE tried this before... they failed misserably.
Also might help if you used tags to format your post;)
For a long time you wouldnt be caught dead with Netscape on your computer... nothing worked with it because the web standards all used microsoft standards, not the properly selected ones.
But with Netscape turning into Mozilla and then being spunoff into Firefox, and Safari along with Opera and Omni giving even MORE choices, there now are more browsers that dont support microsoft standards than do.
Now you couple the fact that a large number of in the know people have now said to NOT use IE because of numerous widely publisised security breaches, and the once barely existant browser war has regained steam.
The best analogy would be the World Wars. It might be considered one long war, but there was a long break where hostilities stoped.
A even more interesting example would be what I have gotten from playing FFXI... In it there is a all female race called the Mithera... basically cat girls, and nearly 80% of them are controlled by males. The take I got is that if Im going to be stairing at a ass all day, it might as well be a hot females...
NOW on the oposite perspective I got hit on in game by a male hume (Im a male Elvaan) who turned out to be controlled by a female... her take, its easier to party with people if they dont think your a girl. Girls are looked down on as not fighters but mages.
Looking at my girlfriend and 4 of my female friends who DO play as girls in game, 3 of the 5 ARE in fact mages, only two are melee, a ninja and a ranger who is one of the few mithra players who really ARE female that I have found BUT doesnt lead on she's a she, and infact wouldnt tell me her sex untill I eventually figured it out.
actually if you go to aintitcoolnews.com you can see there is a long running battle there now dealing with this, and unlike here where they just find the loopholes, censorship is winning there.
so it goes back to whats the point then.... both systems have USB... its just the developers dont feel like coding them to use the keyboards and mice....
Its called the iType, and we have it here... great keyboard, if FFXI didnt happen to have a crapload of time saving macros...reason being no ctrl key.
there is ALSO the Logitec NetPlay... which is a half size keyboard with the controlers on the side of it... kinda bulky but also VERY good in the sense it DOES allowe you to use the built in macros.
While I guess the xBox doesnt have USB so this is good... its really stupid for the PS2, games that suppoer keyboardand mouse (such as the games listed) already work with a USB keyboard on the PS2... andlast I checked wherent we trying to get AWAY from the PS/2 connector...
barely playable my ass... I STILL dont use a SP, I think the SP form factor sucks ass, and the ONLY benifit the thing has is a backlight which you can easily fix if your into hacking your hardware (whihc I eventually did for the hell of it, not cause I needed to)
When we went out to get my GF's sister a GBA with summer we got her the original, not the SP and you know what, she didnt even flinch she loved it....
Honestly I dont know what dark hole your living in but I NEVER had a problem reading the screen when I didnt have a backlight installed in it.
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My bought on the day it came out PS2 failed ONCE, and that was 3 years later with the DVd optics. I bought a 30 dollar part and it was fixed.
Likewise, Sony is known to honor the dvd long after you bought the machine. You just need to call them and they will repair it for free.
b) Good gaming library.... not really. Its mostly ports of Nintendo and PS2 games whit the only games being "xbox only" being sports titles and first person shooters which are more in tune to the American male demographic than the rest of the world.
c) We hate America argument..... please they love Apple, Western movies, and all kinds of American products.... The xbox was a poor attempt at Microsoft trying to steal the game market away because Microsoft wants to get their hands into everything.
The stranges part is that for the most part, they are not required to do jack shit. Thats all up to the broadcaster (which I bet you for the Matrix was TBS who used to have heavy christian programing and I think still does on Sundays)
The boob thing caused a problem more cause it was a high profile event with a huge audience and was in prime time (IE it was before 9 for most audiences)
You see those things in the US too, technically showing a boob (even with the current administration) wasnt a crime and infact we have seen Denis Franzes (sp?) ass more times than I would ever want to remember, Still get some cursing and everything else too.... The only problem is exsesive nudity is not allowed that isnt in reason (ie you can show a naked body, but there has to be a legit reason to show it, you cant show a naked bodyy to show a naked body)
What causes a problem in the US is outbursts that arnt explainable (like the boob thing)
You also have to remeber the US has a very vocal Religious majority that stems from the 60's and 70's wild times. In a few years that will most likely change, as the majority of students now leaving school have a very different additude toward these things.
Thanks for calling bullshit, cause the truth is This asshat didnt even contribute to the mac to begin with.... he quit in 1981
Likewise if HIS view of the macintosh had made it, it would be on our kitchen table, not run any of the mahor programs it does, not have a mouse, and in all honest probably not even exist today.
sept without McCoy and Scotty telling you about transparent aluminum or having to shuttle whales back and forth...
But the minute you put in sexual discrimination its a problem? sorry no it doesnt work like that one isnt worse than the other.
maybe.... but the dumb shit still wouldnt be able to patch a 3 foot hole
actually I agree... My school has pretty much gotten rid of most of the computer labs (aside from high end unix, chem, and graphic design labs) because 99% of the students bring their own computers and very few actually use the public labs.
In FFXI when someone leaves on a airship the people in the surounding area SEES the airship leave or fly overhead... which can really be cool if your in the next zone and the airship flies overhead for a landing in Jeuno. Likewise while on the airship you can see the ground with all the terrain changes and such.
I mean if you cant even see the people leave in the starships then you can become very shielded to the fact the ability even exists.
Simply put people who are exposed to TV early find it to just not be that interesting when they see the SAME things over and over in a different shell. Ill watch something if its new, but the minute it becomes like everything else Im back to dooing other things like reading.
the only thing that upsets me is that even at two months I dont have 1/10th of the story line done... and they just keep adding more
You CAN take on members from the same kingdom, after a certain period it becomes a open invite where anyone can join any side. Likewise if your from a kingdom not participating in battle you can join oposing sides as well. And yes you can go one on one Its a team event but there are plenty of chances to go one on one if the guy you want to kill gets lost from the team which is very easy to happen in the hour you have to play
There are over 300 quests, many you dont need to lvl yourself for and many you need to to even start because they are so hard. Much of the storyline dealing with the shadowlord, the creating gods, the zilart, and the crystals comes from these quests and missions. Its only a lvl fest if you make it that way. In terms of lvling I think Everquest was much worse in the lvl fest idea.
The only people who find that its a "mindless level fest" are those people who arnt willing enough to actually try to start some of the quests because they are too lazy that they might actually have to put in actual effort.
I could have gotten a more detailed look looking at the box. Not any mention of the story and the fact it is another crystal war saga where a war took place over 20 years prior to you "start" of the game and the land you live in is the war ravaged remains. Nothing about the player vs player combat "game" (which I think is the best PK implementation yet since it basically forces you to learn the normal game before you can kill people so your target isnt a noob but someone who can very likely kill you too is you get too cocky) Nothing about the jobs (a re imagining of the FFV job combination which is much more like FFV than FFX-2's misserable and idiotic magic girl transformation system) Really nothing at all printed about it, or any of the 200 hour storyline. And yes I agree this article is a ripoff of the gamespot one
Problem is enough clueless judges and enough moronic players have screwed up the laws to the point that you sould actually have a problem. But truely you shouldnt, a game is NOT real life and should never be treated as such. By making in game money = to real money your setting it up so that people could sue the makers if they decided to shut down the game
Also lets get a few other things straight.. Balmer was wrong in saying the most common format was stolen music, actually the most common formate is PREVIOUSLY bought music (ie CD's) his methodology in saying that was that .mp3 = stolen. Balmer was in no way trying to say people download from elseware, he was just trying to scare the labels into using Windows user rights free DRM.
Also your right iTunes is ecensially a iPod selling tool... but last I checked Apple owned 70% of the market for music devices as well... so its working. Likewise, Apple DOES make 3 cents a track.. .03 * 1 mill isnt chump change. Also Apple is selling the distrubution method. Remeber the lables HAVE tried this before... they failed misserably.
Also might help if you used tags to format your post ;)
He doesnt even have THAT excuse... Safari does tabbed browsing and is already on the system. Obviously a windows user
But with Netscape turning into Mozilla and then being spunoff into Firefox, and Safari along with Opera and Omni giving even MORE choices, there now are more browsers that dont support microsoft standards than do.
Now you couple the fact that a large number of in the know people have now said to NOT use IE because of numerous widely publisised security breaches, and the once barely existant browser war has regained steam.
The best analogy would be the World Wars. It might be considered one long war, but there was a long break where hostilities stoped.
NOW on the oposite perspective I got hit on in game by a male hume (Im a male Elvaan) who turned out to be controlled by a female... her take, its easier to party with people if they dont think your a girl. Girls are looked down on as not fighters but mages.
Looking at my girlfriend and 4 of my female friends who DO play as girls in game, 3 of the 5 ARE in fact mages, only two are melee, a ninja and a ranger who is one of the few mithra players who really ARE female that I have found BUT doesnt lead on she's a she, and infact wouldnt tell me her sex untill I eventually figured it out.
actually if you go to aintitcoolnews.com you can see there is a long running battle there now dealing with this, and unlike here where they just find the loopholes, censorship is winning there.
so it goes back to whats the point then.... both systems have USB... its just the developers dont feel like coding them to use the keyboards and mice....
there is ALSO the Logitec NetPlay... which is a half size keyboard with the controlers on the side of it... kinda bulky but also VERY good in the sense it DOES allowe you to use the built in macros.
While I guess the xBox doesnt have USB so this is good... its really stupid for the PS2, games that suppoer keyboardand mouse (such as the games listed) already work with a USB keyboard on the PS2... andlast I checked wherent we trying to get AWAY from the PS/2 connector...
I already did, I spelt false wrong :p
When we went out to get my GF's sister a GBA with summer we got her the original, not the SP and you know what, she didnt even flinch she loved it....
Honestly I dont know what dark hole your living in but I NEVER had a problem reading the screen when I didnt have a backlight installed in it.