I personally didn't like.hack at all. I thought the concept was screwy and fun, but the gameplay itself was not very good, as well as every level being a version of the previous one.
The monsters being slightly better versions of previous monsters (granted with a different colour)
It all seemed destined for me to be unimpressed by trying to recreate an online experience, and being entirely unable to duplicate it. The smiley faces from people running by was funny. The message board was kind of neat. But after the concept wore on, I realized I was playing a dull game with really bland levels.
Every human endeavor until a new number set comes out.
Relgion, computers, etc.
Isn't that a huge reason why several of us are in computers. The concept of creating something that has never been created before. A new tool, a new outlook on an issue.
I use computers every day, and bask in solving problems I have never seen before with only the tools, and previous knowledge I have gained.
Maybe it's just me. I think the only reason I ever got into breaking into systems for fun was to have a set problem in front of me, and do my best to use any tools in my power to defeat it.
Just a game. Something new, where maybe, just maybe, I have come across something that is completely original. Something I would never be able to do in poetry, art, music, etc.
With the 2k series, EA and 2k have been increasing their titles every year at a rate unseen previously in sports games.
The reason being is, EA was happy with just updating rosters, and adding virtually nothing aside from some small extra goals each time around until they were losing money to superior gameplay.
Even something unthought of, like online updatable rosters is now something common place. I never thought that would happen, as with updated rosters, you honestly don't even need to purchase a new game unless the gameplay improves dramatically.
DDR has to be the most addicting game I have ever played. It is also the only game since I was a kid that I would make a trip to the arcade to sit and play for hours on end. Daily.
Once you start, and gain a vendetta against the game to improve, it drives you to succeed. Other games just don't fill the same void.
As I get older, only multiplayer games are any fun. The concept of losing to a friend is the only real drive to succeed. I could care less about obtaining a virtual goal.
Everyone waxes on about how wonderful the days of nintendo were, if only for the pure plethora of gaming selections.
Monster League Football, A game in which players die on the field, you can bribe the ref once per half, and the half time show consisted of both players mutually attempting to blow up the band.
The more graphically intense videogame systems get, the fewer original titles we seem to have.
I miss videogames having incredibly outlandish charcters, or concepts. Bubble Bobble was a wonderful game that held my attention.
Now aside from Civilization, All the games are FPS, RPG, or a style of Warcraft gameplay.
I end up playing Battle Tetris more than the majority of action games I own. I still have yet to complete more than a few levels of Neverwinter Nights, Warcraft 3, or Desert Ops.
And I want a remake of River City Ransom.
(Mildly off topic, what was the videogame with 5 charcters, a Husband, Mother, Daughter, Son, and Dog. The Dog was invincible, but had a poor jump. You went through levels, purchasing items to make it to other levels. Brilliant game I played for months to beat. What was this game called?)
Standards are important. Standards make moving from one system to another easier. Standards make understanding a system easier because the general traits relay over.
That is why there are standards. What is the point of innovation to a system which is accepted, and enjoyed?
You could add innovation to coffee pots. Numerous different brands of coffee pots all with gadjets that you must study before using.
Well I just want coffee. I don't care if you can make my coffee in a variety of new an innovative ways. I want to hit a button, walk away, and in a various ammount of time afterwards have coffee.
I want to view a webpage. I want content. I don't want new and innovative ways to view the content, Just give me the webpage.
Once something works, and works well, I could care less about innovation as it concerns changing what works.
If it ain't broke.
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Thanks for the tip. I gave up on adaware quite awhile ago.
It basically came up with a simulation that is so highly unlikely that any hope that it is correct is insane.
I'm sure the reason this happened in the game has an internal setting that cars in back will natrually do slightly better than cars in front so that the game is competitive and not 500 laps of left turns.
Nice to meet you, I am just some asshole who will berate you for your karma whoring in an attempt to not only gain karma myself, but commit some holier than thou power trip.
The website that they targeted does not use frames. They use tables, which consitute as frames in the minds of SBC considering tables are now used in the same manner.
SBC is suing every web page in existance not conspired of plain text, single page view.
Maybe it is just from the expectance of victory, but this is the most outrageous thing I have heard about concerning the internet, especially concerning patented material.
I have always judged the online boycott letters, and the mix a very wasteful piece of time, but this is serious. They want to own the internet, and every piece of software, on a concept which they didn't create.
They will eventually if they succeeded (which they will hopefully not), force every single user to pay a huge copyright, which will in effect kill the internet.
I have never hated a company more.
The audacity that they show is amazing, and every judge that will take the countless appeals this will inevitably take better have all of their facts straight.
I've felt all along that at some point the internet would let me know that I wasn't needed anymore.
I will admit that it was subtle. I thought the pop-up ads were a plea for attention, but the concept of full screen ads is a direct hint that I am no longer needed.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's utterly pathetic how excited I am about reading it.
:)
I really need a life.
I loved that game so much. I haven't played another game (aside from a multiplayer game) for so long.
The only game I would sit for hours on end and try to figure out puzzles. How many levels were in that game? It took months!
And then, what do we get for our months of hard work?
All the charcters waving?!
@#@%$@!%!%
I was an irate kid all right!
When I get paid on Friday, I am going out and purchasing a gameboy advance.
That simple!
(Thanks for the information, You've made my day better... I am a sad, sad individual.)
Better Graphics?
.hack at all. I thought the concept was screwy and fun, but the gameplay itself was not very good, as well as every level being a version of the previous one.
Were we playing the same game?
I personally didn't like
The monsters being slightly better versions of previous monsters (granted with a different colour)
It all seemed destined for me to be unimpressed by trying to recreate an online experience, and being entirely unable to duplicate it. The smiley faces from people running by was funny. The message board was kind of neat. But after the concept wore on, I realized I was playing a dull game with really bland levels.
It is quite enjoyable to nit-pick incessantly, and judge what is original! (As well as tell others their opinions are wrong!)
For everyone standout, there may have been 100 crapfests, but I played everyone of them and enjoyed them!
I find that it has to do with the time/money it takes to create a game is much more labor intensive.
It's not as easy to chuck out 100's of games when they cost so much, take so much time, and each need to make a profit.
Every human endeavor until a new number set comes out.
Relgion, computers, etc.
Isn't that a huge reason why several of us are in computers. The concept of creating something that has never been created before. A new tool, a new outlook on an issue.
I use computers every day, and bask in solving problems I have never seen before with only the tools, and previous knowledge I have gained.
Maybe it's just me. I think the only reason I ever got into breaking into systems for fun was to have a set problem in front of me, and do my best to use any tools in my power to defeat it.
Just a game. Something new, where maybe, just maybe, I have come across something that is completely original. Something I would never be able to do in poetry, art, music, etc.
Dreamcast was an amazing system, with a variety of titles that were inventive and original.
Maraca controllers!
With the 2k series, EA and 2k have been increasing their titles every year at a rate unseen previously in sports games.
The reason being is, EA was happy with just updating rosters, and adding virtually nothing aside from some small extra goals each time around until they were losing money to superior gameplay.
Even something unthought of, like online updatable rosters is now something common place. I never thought that would happen, as with updated rosters, you honestly don't even need to purchase a new game unless the gameplay improves dramatically.
Which is does now.
DDR has to be the most addicting game I have ever played. It is also the only game since I was a kid that I would make a trip to the arcade to sit and play for hours on end. Daily.
Once you start, and gain a vendetta against the game to improve, it drives you to succeed. Other games just don't fill the same void.
As I get older, only multiplayer games are any fun. The concept of losing to a friend is the only real drive to succeed. I could care less about obtaining a virtual goal.
Everyone waxes on about how wonderful the days of nintendo were, if only for the pure plethora of gaming selections.
Monster League Football, A game in which players die on the field, you can bribe the ref once per half, and the half time show consisted of both players mutually attempting to blow up the band.
The more graphically intense videogame systems get, the fewer original titles we seem to have.
I miss videogames having incredibly outlandish charcters, or concepts. Bubble Bobble was a wonderful game that held my attention.
Now aside from Civilization, All the games are FPS, RPG, or a style of Warcraft gameplay.
I end up playing Battle Tetris more than the majority of action games I own. I still have yet to complete more than a few levels of Neverwinter Nights, Warcraft 3, or Desert Ops.
And I want a remake of River City Ransom.
(Mildly off topic, what was the videogame with 5 charcters, a Husband, Mother, Daughter, Son, and Dog. The Dog was invincible, but had a poor jump. You went through levels, purchasing items to make it to other levels. Brilliant game I played for months to beat. What was this game called?)
Standards are important. Standards make moving from one system to another easier. Standards make understanding a system easier because the general traits relay over.
That is why there are standards. What is the point of innovation to a system which is accepted, and enjoyed?
You could add innovation to coffee pots. Numerous different brands of coffee pots all with gadjets that you must study before using.
Well I just want coffee. I don't care if you can make my coffee in a variety of new an innovative ways. I want to hit a button, walk away, and in a various ammount of time afterwards have coffee.
I want to view a webpage. I want content. I don't want new and innovative ways to view the content, Just give me the webpage.
Once something works, and works well, I could care less about innovation as it concerns changing what works.
If it ain't broke.
Thanks for the tip. I gave up on adaware quite awhile ago.
Didn't notice they resumed updates.
I thought the exact same thing when I read it.
It basically came up with a simulation that is so highly unlikely that any hope that it is correct is insane.
I'm sure the reason this happened in the game has an internal setting that cars in back will natrually do slightly better than cars in front so that the game is competitive and not 500 laps of left turns.
is that some of the adware it removes is horribly out of date from lack of updates.
Some of it's procedures for removing adware can harm your system.
It's generally just safer to run Spybot.
My job gets moved to India because the worker is happier.
Just my luck to be stuck with The depressing religion of Christianity.
and if anyone owned a Gamecube, this would mean something.
Nice to meet you, I am just some asshole who will berate you for your karma whoring in an attempt to not only gain karma myself, but commit some holier than thou power trip.
Desolation Angels was much more like a blog than on the road. It is nothing but stream of conciousness throughout the first half.
It's him on a mountain top, and what he thinks. Not much of an underlying story aside from a few rats attempting to hyjack his food.
Great book.
We can get a gamecube verison of Metal Gear!
*drool*
Look at the website that SBC is targeting. They use tables.
That is what SBC is charging for. The use of tables!
Slashdot, and every other website in existance is in direct grevience of their complaint!
The website that they targeted does not use frames. They use tables, which consitute as frames in the minds of SBC considering tables are now used in the same manner.
SBC is suing every web page in existance not conspired of plain text, single page view.
Maybe it is just from the expectance of victory, but this is the most outrageous thing I have heard about concerning the internet, especially concerning patented material.
I have always judged the online boycott letters, and the mix a very wasteful piece of time, but this is serious. They want to own the internet, and every piece of software, on a concept which they didn't create.
They will eventually if they succeeded (which they will hopefully not), force every single user to pay a huge copyright, which will in effect kill the internet.
I have never hated a company more.
The audacity that they show is amazing, and every judge that will take the countless appeals this will inevitably take better have all of their facts straight.
I will never use an SBC product, or service.
I knew the day would come when my 300 baud modem would be obsolete.
*sniff*
I've felt all along that at some point the internet would let me know that I wasn't needed anymore.
I will admit that it was subtle. I thought the pop-up ads were a plea for attention, but the concept of full screen ads is a direct hint that I am no longer needed.
It's time to curl up to an ex called sunlight.