Exactly. It isn't even an issue of wanting to play online or not. It is all about wanting to hang out with friends and play games with them. What ever happened to that? I love playing online, but I also really love hanging out with some friends playing some co-op and maybe throwing in some pizza'n'beer in there as well. Hard to get pizza and beer over the interweb.
I think that developers have largely neglected non-networked multiplayer games. Even Ghost Recon had a split screen, but it just plain sucked. I hope GoW has started a trend.
This is one of the first games to come out for XBOX 360 that has a really engaging co-op. I always crave a game I can team up with a friend when they are over, and this one delivers.
That alone provides great reply value in my book, but I think that the true replay value is based on online play. Sadly, my firewall won't let me get to Xbox Live so I can't completely vouch for this.
Back in the yesteryear of 1995 I was attending UCSB. My roomate decided to pull one of the best final exam pranks I have yet to hear about.
He scoped out a good sized class with enough students (~300) to ensure that the professor would not recognize him...especially since he wasn't enrolled in the class. He also wanted to make sure that the test was nice and long. 3 hours should do.
He shows up to the final exam. Takes his seat. Receives the exam. Promptly gets to answering the questions, quite diligently, regardless of the fact he knows nothing of the subject matter. He continues to get thoroughly involved in the test. Biting his pencil. Scratching his head. Huffing when needed.
Half an hour of this goes by, and then he administers his coup de grace.
He reaches an apex of huffing and pencil biting, stands up, yells at the top of his lungs, "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!", grabs his exam, rips it up into shreds, scatters it onto the heads of his "fellow" students and promptly storms out of the lecture hall.
For some reason I'm thinking that San Andreas is going to be akin to "Hells Angels" ala Hunter S. Thompson.
Think about it. Starts off in the bay area, works his way down south to LA... Drugs, guns, violence, et al. Perfect for Rockstar. Just throw in some movie references and music from the early 70's and your done!
Now, if they actually were to put Hunter's voice into the game...
...with its stupidity and complete lack of good content (on slow news days).
I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...
And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that/. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?
The more I sift out the bad jokes, and on slashdot there are only bad jokes (more acurately, the same bad jokes repeated endlessly), the more I am merely left with the original post, a reply shouting out that it has been/.'ed, and a follow-up listing the mirror.
I hope that once the US is done "disarming" Iraq they can take a moment to disarm all geeks or their joke rendering portions of their brain.
To be more accurate, I think we may need to do some research as geeks (as represented on slashdot) clearly do not have that portion of the brain to generate jokes, but instead have something severely wrong with some other part of their heads...
"I have no idea whether they have ever visited porn sites, but I would suspect its un-likely - but even if they had, so what."
What would be 'un-likely' would be a teenager NEVER hitting up some porn sites.
Has anyone who has been on the 'net for any extended period of time not been to a porn site? And if not, why not????
If those people do exist, I am willing to bet that the only reason they have not is because they don't want to have to admit to themselves that they "visited a naughty pornographic web site like all those naughty people [they] hear about on the news!"
-=T.bias=-
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Exactly. It isn't even an issue of wanting to play online or not. It is all about wanting to hang out with friends and play games with them. What ever happened to that? I love playing online, but I also really love hanging out with some friends playing some co-op and maybe throwing in some pizza'n'beer in there as well. Hard to get pizza and beer over the interweb. I think that developers have largely neglected non-networked multiplayer games. Even Ghost Recon had a split screen, but it just plain sucked. I hope GoW has started a trend.
This is one of the first games to come out for XBOX 360 that has a really engaging co-op. I always crave a game I can team up with a friend when they are over, and this one delivers.
That alone provides great reply value in my book, but I think that the true replay value is based on online play. Sadly, my firewall won't let me get to Xbox Live so I can't completely vouch for this.
Back in the yesteryear of 1995 I was attending UCSB. My roomate decided to pull one of the best final exam pranks I have yet to hear about. He scoped out a good sized class with enough students (~300) to ensure that the professor would not recognize him...especially since he wasn't enrolled in the class. He also wanted to make sure that the test was nice and long. 3 hours should do. He shows up to the final exam. Takes his seat. Receives the exam. Promptly gets to answering the questions, quite diligently, regardless of the fact he knows nothing of the subject matter. He continues to get thoroughly involved in the test. Biting his pencil. Scratching his head. Huffing when needed. Half an hour of this goes by, and then he administers his coup de grace. He reaches an apex of huffing and pencil biting, stands up, yells at the top of his lungs, "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!", grabs his exam, rips it up into shreds, scatters it onto the heads of his "fellow" students and promptly storms out of the lecture hall.
Think about it. Starts off in the bay area, works his way down south to LA... Drugs, guns, violence, et al. Perfect for Rockstar. Just throw in some movie references and music from the early 70's and your done!
Now, if they actually were to put Hunter's voice into the game...
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I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...
And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that /. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?
The more I sift out the bad jokes, and on slashdot there are only bad jokes (more acurately, the same bad jokes repeated endlessly), the more I am merely left with the original post, a reply shouting out that it has been /.'ed, and a follow-up listing the mirror.
I hope that once the US is done "disarming" Iraq they can take a moment to disarm all geeks or their joke rendering portions of their brain.
To be more accurate, I think we may need to do some research as geeks (as represented on slashdot) clearly do not have that portion of the brain to generate jokes, but instead have something severely wrong with some other part of their heads...
-- T.bias
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What would be 'un-likely' would be a teenager NEVER hitting up some porn sites.
Has anyone who has been on the 'net for any extended period of time not been to a porn site? And if not, why not????
If those people do exist, I am willing to bet that the only reason they have not is because they don't want to have to admit to themselves that they "visited a naughty pornographic web site like all those naughty people [they] hear about on the news!" -=T.bias=-