If I were shelling out $150 for windows I'd be pissed if that shit were spying on me too. I'm pretty sure the pirated copies of windows don't have windows genuine spyware installed anyway, so the only people who are getting spied on are paying customers and pirates dumb enough to download it.
But I don't care, I run Slackware and think that companies using illegal monopolies should be subject to an old school government breakup.
The play mechanic of MMORPGs just isn't fun. And neither is the "social" aspect of playing a game with hundreds or thousands of the most annoying, immature children on the planet. Sure you could spend unreasonable amounts of time meeting people who aren't douche bags and making "friends". But if the only reason the game is fun is because of your "friends", I'd much rather have my buddies over, drink some beers, and play GameCube.
I really don't mean it disrespectfully, but there are certain types of people who are down with the grinding (yes, PvP in MMORPGs is grinding) and loot questing. Which I guess is fine, to a point (never leaving the house and not working while your gf pays the bills is beyond that point, and yes I know a guy who did that until she tossed him out), but the rest of us just don't find that fun. Some day I'd like to see someone do a study on what makes some people like that style of gameplay and others not. Because one of my best friends has been playing World of Warcraft several hours every day for over two years and I tried it out and lost interest after a few weeks, which is about the shelf life of any of those games for me. Would probably be shorter if I didn't feel like I had to get my money's worth out of a $50 box with an expiration date.
The motivation of "competition" against other players seems to be related to the competition for loot. Somehow competing against other people that might as well be AI, and (in most games, MMORPG or otherwise) would be more entertaining to play against if they were, just isn't entertaining.
And give microsoft a shot at adding a video game/set-top box monopoly to their desktop monopoly? Are you fucking retarded?
I know Nintendo could always make a huge comeback with Wii if Sony drops out. But if it comes down to Nintendo vs microsoft there's more than a good possibility that microsoft could and would just spending them out of the market or at least into a distant second supported solely by the big time Nintendo fans.
And there content always breaks out of the bottom of that stupid little frame too. I can't believe anyone bothers reading it with that formatting given how lame and useless their content tends to be.
Video Games are GAMES, they're meant to be challenging and competitive. Locked content is part of that, it keeps the game fresh longer and gives you some goals to shoot for.
This of course assumes that a) the locked content in any way adds to the fun of the game, and/or b) that the process of unlocking the content is actually fun. The vast majority of games with unlockable content don't give a good enough incentive to do so because the features add nothing to the game once it has been completed (yippee! I get a new costume for my character when I'm NEVER playing this game again!!!) They also fail at making the tasks actually fun, and a lot of times the tasks are repetitive and boring and serve no other purpose than as a length-extending feature to be plastered onto the back of the box.
The only kind of people who find this fun are those with whatever compulsive collecting impulse people possess who continue to play MMORPGs long after they have ceased to be about anything but collecting loot.
The author definitely has a point, and it's not that games are too hard or that he sucks at them. Most of this "unlockable" content is just garbage filler to add features and playtime (which in most cases is already too long.) The real point is that most games just aren't that fun and adding on crap that makes you replay large portions of them over and over is even less fun.
Worst case scenario there they'd under estimate how much bandwidth they have. The only reason to count in thousands of bytes is to screw the customer, which is why the ambiguity was introduced where before it was known that sizes were in binary multiples.
I do like the IEEE 1541 names better though, but that's probably just because they're newer and shinier.
Straight from Steve Ballmer's ass. The only consoles to hit less than five years after the previous one by the same manufacturer are those following failed platforms like Dreamcast and XBox (both 4 years).
PS3 had better last 10 years though since it costs more than twice the price of previous 5 year systems.
Are you fucking serious? The way to keep people from coming here looking for illegal work is two fold.
First, make harsh punishments for those caught hiring illegals. Something with real teeth, let's say mandatory ten years in federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison before they're eligible for parole.
Second, make it so that there's no incentive to COME here not to exclude them once they pop over the border. If there was a $4/hour minimum wage in Mexico no one would bother coming here to work illegally for basically the same money. We've created this situation ourselves by constantly beating down wages and workers in Central and South America for our own greed.
You're a moron and a fascist to suggest that linking DNA to employment records is anything but insane. Bloomberg should be thrown out of office for even suggesting. It's undemocratic. It's fascist. And if you support it you'd better get the fuck out of my country because the real Americans are getting a bit tired of your bullshit.
That's half right. Second parties are also those published by Nintendo (which I think is usually what makes them second party, not the ownership), such as Silicon Knights with Eternal Darkness.
Depends on the type of RPG and the nature of the battle system. There are many turn-based RPGs that have pretty complex systems that take a good amount of time to really come to grips with. Even some real-time ones take a while to really get into. Either way, I don't know of any RPG that can really be judged, even by the combat system alone, in 2-3 minutes. Not even the original Dragon Quest, despite the simplicity and high degree of ass kickery.
Don't forget the modeling as well, it's not all texturing and shaders. Not to mention that they're building multiple models for a lot of stuff to get normal mapping data, with high res models in the MILLIONS of polygons. Every time I see one of these demos of PS3 and 360 (at least the good looking ones, not like the launch stuff) gmaes the only thing I can think is, "that must have cost a fortune."
The saddest part for me is that they're spending all that money and the games don't look any different than they have the past 5 years. For all the graphical improvement I haven't seen a single one where it is going to change the gameplay, which in most genres has gotten pretty stale.
I guess it kind of depends on how far Metroid Prime 3 strays from the formula of the previous two. If I want to play a FPS (which I haven't on console since Golden Eye) I definitely wouldn't reach for Metroid Prime.
If it is pretty similar in the exploration/action break down then I think having a more straight up FPS will be a real asset at launch for Nintendo.
Yeah, that's actually the biggest concern for me about the Wii controller. Last time I played my dad at Madden he waved the controller around so much he hit me in the head with it.
You and your buddy AC both seemed to miss the point where I said, 'Maybe America has really gotten so selfish and greedy that we (see!!!) only talk about ourselves and the "others".'
It's possibly a regional difference, but you never hear people use "wee" to mean urine or penis or anything else like that around here. If you think the name is going to hurt the system either way, though, you're just being an idiot. Have you ever stopped to consider that it might be people such as yourself who give Nintendo their "kiddie" image? Grow up.
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If I were shelling out $150 for windows I'd be pissed if that shit were spying on me too. I'm pretty sure the pirated copies of windows don't have windows genuine spyware installed anyway, so the only people who are getting spied on are paying customers and pirates dumb enough to download it.
But I don't care, I run Slackware and think that companies using illegal monopolies should be subject to an old school government breakup.
The play mechanic of MMORPGs just isn't fun. And neither is the "social" aspect of playing a game with hundreds or thousands of the most annoying, immature children on the planet. Sure you could spend unreasonable amounts of time meeting people who aren't douche bags and making "friends". But if the only reason the game is fun is because of your "friends", I'd much rather have my buddies over, drink some beers, and play GameCube.
I really don't mean it disrespectfully, but there are certain types of people who are down with the grinding (yes, PvP in MMORPGs is grinding) and loot questing. Which I guess is fine, to a point (never leaving the house and not working while your gf pays the bills is beyond that point, and yes I know a guy who did that until she tossed him out), but the rest of us just don't find that fun. Some day I'd like to see someone do a study on what makes some people like that style of gameplay and others not. Because one of my best friends has been playing World of Warcraft several hours every day for over two years and I tried it out and lost interest after a few weeks, which is about the shelf life of any of those games for me. Would probably be shorter if I didn't feel like I had to get my money's worth out of a $50 box with an expiration date.
The motivation of "competition" against other players seems to be related to the competition for loot. Somehow competing against other people that might as well be AI, and (in most games, MMORPG or otherwise) would be more entertaining to play against if they were, just isn't entertaining.
And give microsoft a shot at adding a video game/set-top box monopoly to their desktop monopoly? Are you fucking retarded?
I know Nintendo could always make a huge comeback with Wii if Sony drops out. But if it comes down to Nintendo vs microsoft there's more than a good possibility that microsoft could and would just spending them out of the market or at least into a distant second supported solely by the big time Nintendo fans.
And there content always breaks out of the bottom of that stupid little frame too. I can't believe anyone bothers reading it with that formatting given how lame and useless their content tends to be.
Video Games are GAMES, they're meant to be challenging and competitive. Locked content is part of that, it keeps the game fresh longer and gives you some goals to shoot for.
This of course assumes that a) the locked content in any way adds to the fun of the game, and/or b) that the process of unlocking the content is actually fun. The vast majority of games with unlockable content don't give a good enough incentive to do so because the features add nothing to the game once it has been completed (yippee! I get a new costume for my character when I'm NEVER playing this game again!!!) They also fail at making the tasks actually fun, and a lot of times the tasks are repetitive and boring and serve no other purpose than as a length-extending feature to be plastered onto the back of the box.
The only kind of people who find this fun are those with whatever compulsive collecting impulse people possess who continue to play MMORPGs long after they have ceased to be about anything but collecting loot.
The author definitely has a point, and it's not that games are too hard or that he sucks at them. Most of this "unlockable" content is just garbage filler to add features and playtime (which in most cases is already too long.) The real point is that most games just aren't that fun and adding on crap that makes you replay large portions of them over and over is even less fun.
You'd have to get a pretty low angle shot since they don't usually point up.
Worst case scenario there they'd under estimate how much bandwidth they have. The only reason to count in thousands of bytes is to screw the customer, which is why the ambiguity was introduced where before it was known that sizes were in binary multiples.
I do like the IEEE 1541 names better though, but that's probably just because they're newer and shinier.
Straight from Steve Ballmer's ass. The only consoles to hit less than five years after the previous one by the same manufacturer are those following failed platforms like Dreamcast and XBox (both 4 years).
PS3 had better last 10 years though since it costs more than twice the price of previous 5 year systems.
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But you'd probably get very little source code. The problem with the copyright system is that it is broken, not that it exists.
Are you fucking serious? The way to keep people from coming here looking for illegal work is two fold.
First, make harsh punishments for those caught hiring illegals. Something with real teeth, let's say mandatory ten years in federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison before they're eligible for parole.
Second, make it so that there's no incentive to COME here not to exclude them once they pop over the border. If there was a $4/hour minimum wage in Mexico no one would bother coming here to work illegally for basically the same money. We've created this situation ourselves by constantly beating down wages and workers in Central and South America for our own greed.
You're a moron and a fascist to suggest that linking DNA to employment records is anything but insane. Bloomberg should be thrown out of office for even suggesting. It's undemocratic. It's fascist. And if you support it you'd better get the fuck out of my country because the real Americans are getting a bit tired of your bullshit.
I think Comcastica would get the point across well enough. On topic, -10 on google cuz this pos doesn't run.
It's not "The Wii", it's just "Wii". Just as with ships, Wii is a lady and should be treated with some level of respect!
Ben Herman, President of SNK Playmore USA, said, "It's a 2-D game so we can't bring it to PS3 or Xbox 360 as is." in reference to Metal Slug 6.
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I find this new learning fascinating. What does "emacs" mean in your world? ; )
Crap.
That's half right. Second parties are also those published by Nintendo (which I think is usually what makes them second party, not the ownership), such as Silicon Knights with Eternal Darkness.
Depends on the type of RPG and the nature of the battle system. There are many turn-based RPGs that have pretty complex systems that take a good amount of time to really come to grips with. Even some real-time ones take a while to really get into. Either way, I don't know of any RPG that can really be judged, even by the combat system alone, in 2-3 minutes. Not even the original Dragon Quest, despite the simplicity and high degree of ass kickery.
Don't forget the modeling as well, it's not all texturing and shaders. Not to mention that they're building multiple models for a lot of stuff to get normal mapping data, with high res models in the MILLIONS of polygons. Every time I see one of these demos of PS3 and 360 (at least the good looking ones, not like the launch stuff) gmaes the only thing I can think is, "that must have cost a fortune."
The saddest part for me is that they're spending all that money and the games don't look any different than they have the past 5 years. For all the graphical improvement I haven't seen a single one where it is going to change the gameplay, which in most genres has gotten pretty stale.
Which is why I'm only watching football on tv now. No commercial breaks and minimal stadium advertising.
GP might be on to something. If he gets scared off by the crappy gnome interface he won't have time to bitch about anything else.
FISA has basically been a rubber stamp for government spying anyway. It's sad that it is now a preferable option to anything.
I guess it kind of depends on how far Metroid Prime 3 strays from the formula of the previous two. If I want to play a FPS (which I haven't on console since Golden Eye) I definitely wouldn't reach for Metroid Prime.
If it is pretty similar in the exploration/action break down then I think having a more straight up FPS will be a real asset at launch for Nintendo.
Yeah, that's actually the biggest concern for me about the Wii controller. Last time I played my dad at Madden he waved the controller around so much he hit me in the head with it.
You and your buddy AC both seemed to miss the point where I said, 'Maybe America has really gotten so selfish and greedy that we (see!!!) only talk about ourselves and the "others".'
It's possibly a regional difference, but you never hear people use "wee" to mean urine or penis or anything else like that around here. If you think the name is going to hurt the system either way, though, you're just being an idiot. Have you ever stopped to consider that it might be people such as yourself who give Nintendo their "kiddie" image? Grow up.
Doom 3 uses GL under Linux, what are you talking about?