We've been paying for stuff that sucks for many years: movies, music, games. It's nice to get the suck for free sometimes. [Insert your own lewd joke here] Making us pay for web content doesn't guarantee it'll be good.
Actually it's more like going into the unlocked car, taking it for a joy ride, bringing it back and then calling the owner and telling him that he shouldn't keep his car unlocked and his brakes might need a change.
Behold the latest trend in licensing! if your licensed product does poorly, blame the people who created the license, not yourself who made the inferior product. First Activision sues Viacom cause Star Trek sucks and now this. Here's an idea, next time don't pick up a license to something you think sucks! The major factor however was that the first film wasn't any good. That's what turned away the mainstream audience from the picture, not the handful of gamers turned away by game reviews.
I'm still waiting for the Wachowski Brothers to sue themselves over Enter the Matrix, claiming it tarnished the franchise:)
While this is a neat little thing, seeing it as the new age of journalism may be a bit much, and a bit dangerous.
Sure all these people will be bringing different perspectives to what's going on in the world, but along with it they may bring prejudices and narrow viewpoints along with it. These are things we try to avoid in accurate journalism. Not everyone is going to care about bringing every side of the story, they may just show their opinion (bias) in order to persuade others. This is already happening today and encouraging everyone, no matter if they lack experience, objectivity, proper reporting skills, to be a reporter may not be a good idea.
So, the question is, is the future going to have news distribution in the hands of everyone, even considering how difficult it is at the moment to find accurate information on the internet? Everyone has the right to show their opinion, but I do not expect this type of journalism to become as revolutionary as the article implies.
First of all I'd be weary of any man who says he understands women enough to simulate one in a game. He's either very arrogant or just full of crap:)
"The tone of interactions with a normal human female"
Do not underestimate the intricacies and fun there is to be had interacting with a girl that's good and crazy.
Regarding physics in the multiplayer, this is in the FAQ:
How do physics behaviors work in multiplayer?
The simple answer is that there are client-side and server-side physics behaviors. You use client-side when maintaining cross-client coherence isn't important. This cuts down the network traffic while maintaining the appearance of physical simulation throughout the world.
It's definable per-object, so exactly what is client-side and what is server-side is tunable by the designer.
Nintendo constantly misses the point on one thing: Diversity. People aren't necessarily looking for violent games, they just want to have that option sometimes. Nintendo, while loosening up over the past few years, is still fairly strict on what they release on their systems.
They want to maintain a certain image, which is great in theory, but tough on sales. They may have a right to be stubborn, considering the quality of the core games they release is always phenomenal. Still they need to broaden the horizons, stop being the diva of the video game world and perhaps they can claim a bit more of the market share. This attitude of superiority has cost them the friendship of Sony and Square, two mistakes that they have been paying for ever since.
It's nice sometimes to be an adventurer and save princesses, but sometimes people do want to rob cars and kill prostitutes. Without giving the gamer a choice of that kind of game on your system, you are hampering your business.
Let him call it a "passing through" technology all he wants. The worse he talks about Linux, the sweeter it will be for all of us when it bites him in the ass.
To him Linux is just "passing through" to us it's "Pass it along"
I think this may be more than just "we couldn't get him." Cause if Sam is around for the next sequel would they really change Max's face back? Switching around your characters likeness is probably not a good idea for brand recognition.
I really feel like there were some legal issues somewhere. If the company's relationship with Sam Lake were to sour in the future (for whatever reason) and they were still using his likeness in a popular game, there would be some definite legal problems. Rather than risk losing the face of their popular main character, they figured they'd switch it now before Max Payne becomes too popular and a switch would be unacceptable
I've been using an item smaller than this printer to reproduce pictures on paper for years. I like to call it the Pen(TM).
I'm looking on getting a patent on the technology.
It can also use random movement technology to create the wonderful Squiggle(TM) effect.
So maybe this article implies that it's the Spaniards' fault for us not having computers earlier?
Could have changed history as we know it. For instance:
America's forefathers could have typed up the Declaration of Independence in Word (having lost it a few times after the system crashed, Jefferson just hands in a sloppy version), organized the Boston Lan Party ("BR1T5 R L4M3RS"), and organized Revolutionary War tactics in Quake arena.
Speaking of Grim Fandango, it'd be so great to see a sequel to that. Even if not an adventure game that world, and it's style, is ripe for other genres as well. Mainly, I miss playing games and actually having them make me laugh, purposefully anyway.
Now we'll have humans spending hours in front of the computer trying to immerse themselves into the digital world of the Matrix, a place where humans trapped inside of a digital world are trying to get unimmersed.
it's not too hard to believe that the robots probably released an early version of The Matrix as an MMORPG...
what I'm wondering is if you have 2 people per cart, can you still have competitive races with 4 people each on their own cart?
That was one of the best parts of Mario Kart 64, just having a great time going up against your buds.
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We've been paying for stuff that sucks for many years: movies, music, games. It's nice to get the suck for free sometimes. [Insert your own lewd joke here] Making us pay for web content doesn't guarantee it'll be good.
Actually it's more like going into the unlocked car, taking it for a joy ride, bringing it back and then calling the owner and telling him that he shouldn't keep his car unlocked and his brakes might need a change.
New Line Cinema, not Universal, is the production company for the Lord of the Rings movies, for anyone who wanted to know.
Guess it's not just us evil american's that love the violence I guess. Wait till those Indian kids get to play Grand Theft Cow, how sacrilegious!
I'm still waiting for the Wachowski Brothers to sue themselves over Enter the Matrix, claiming it tarnished the franchise :)
Sure all these people will be bringing different perspectives to what's going on in the world, but along with it they may bring prejudices and narrow viewpoints along with it. These are things we try to avoid in accurate journalism. Not everyone is going to care about bringing every side of the story, they may just show their opinion (bias) in order to persuade others. This is already happening today and encouraging everyone, no matter if they lack experience, objectivity, proper reporting skills, to be a reporter may not be a good idea. So, the question is, is the future going to have news distribution in the hands of everyone, even considering how difficult it is at the moment to find accurate information on the internet? Everyone has the right to show their opinion, but I do not expect this type of journalism to become as revolutionary as the article implies.
"The tone of interactions with a normal human female"
Do not underestimate the intricacies and fun there is to be had interacting with a girl that's good and crazy.
Regarding physics in the multiplayer, this is in the FAQ: How do physics behaviors work in multiplayer? The simple answer is that there are client-side and server-side physics behaviors. You use client-side when maintaining cross-client coherence isn't important. This cuts down the network traffic while maintaining the appearance of physical simulation throughout the world. It's definable per-object, so exactly what is client-side and what is server-side is tunable by the designer.
They want to maintain a certain image, which is great in theory, but tough on sales. They may have a right to be stubborn, considering the quality of the core games they release is always phenomenal. Still they need to broaden the horizons, stop being the diva of the video game world and perhaps they can claim a bit more of the market share. This attitude of superiority has cost them the friendship of Sony and Square, two mistakes that they have been paying for ever since.
It's nice sometimes to be an adventurer and save princesses, but sometimes people do want to rob cars and kill prostitutes. Without giving the gamer a choice of that kind of game on your system, you are hampering your business.
Let him call it a "passing through" technology all he wants. The worse he talks about Linux, the sweeter it will be for all of us when it bites him in the ass.
To him Linux is just "passing through" to us it's "Pass it along"
I think this may be more than just "we couldn't get him." Cause if Sam is around for the next sequel would they really change Max's face back? Switching around your characters likeness is probably not a good idea for brand recognition.
I really feel like there were some legal issues somewhere. If the company's relationship with Sam Lake were to sour in the future (for whatever reason) and they were still using his likeness in a popular game, there would be some definite legal problems. Rather than risk losing the face of their popular main character, they figured they'd switch it now before Max Payne becomes too popular and a switch would be unacceptable
I've been using an item smaller than this printer to reproduce pictures on paper for years. I like to call it the Pen(TM). I'm looking on getting a patent on the technology. It can also use random movement technology to create the wonderful Squiggle(TM) effect.
And once the expo is over they can lose some money playing all those slot games that evolved from technology they helped develop.
Now if only we could convince Nokia not to release the N-Gage in the U.S. too....
Could have changed history as we know it. For instance:
America's forefathers could have typed up the Declaration of Independence in Word (having lost it a few times after the system crashed, Jefferson just hands in a sloppy version), organized the Boston Lan Party ("BR1T5 R L4M3RS"), and organized Revolutionary War tactics in Quake arena.
Developers are expected to release an apology shortly.
An interesting development, but if they really want to replace human players they still need algorithms for name-calling, complaining and cheating.
Maybe it's some terrible, weird deal to replace Fox Execs with gibberish-spouting Sims. Actually, that sounds like an improvement.
Speaking of Grim Fandango, it'd be so great to see a sequel to that. Even if not an adventure game that world, and it's style, is ripe for other genres as well. Mainly, I miss playing games and actually having them make me laugh, purposefully anyway.
Join a teeming world of intrigue and hilarity as you play on a server full of people looking for their cars. Features Include:
Now we'll have humans spending hours in front of the computer trying to immerse themselves into the digital world of the Matrix, a place where humans trapped inside of a digital world are trying to get unimmersed. it's not too hard to believe that the robots probably released an early version of The Matrix as an MMORPG...
1. Draw money on computer 2. Print money 3. PROFIT!!! wait a minute, that was too easy...
what I'm wondering is if you have 2 people per cart, can you still have competitive races with 4 people each on their own cart? That was one of the best parts of Mario Kart 64, just having a great time going up against your buds.
he's in internet porn eh? Maybe someone can fix it so he can't "pop-up" anymore
Great... now the introduction of DNA can be used by prosecutors to convict a Sim of building walls around friends and watching them die.