They want a super-smooth and polished purchase, install, and play path for casual gamers. They want an experience as reliable and smooth as that of purchasing a game for a console, but for a computer with Windows installed.
This is more to mickeysoft but since I quoted you I used reply. Mickeysoftie, STFU. If you haven't played games since Lumpy for DOS and have never seen the type of funny errors and workarounds, from force feedback issues to "out of memory" at 4GB's; from crackling SB Live! with chipset issues to cannot install to F: because your/$Windows/ or C: has less than 2GB left, STFU. There's no way on earth you can CERTIFY any games to be played on ANY PC because PC changes! Drivers updates.
The fact is that all PC's are different and until you puny little gaming ass assimilated all our bases and PC's, there's no way you can certify jack. You can't even certify your Vista will run smooth on ALL PC's. I am so mad.
Well the way I see it, are we alone isn't that important. You can call it faith on my part much like religion, I already think we're not alone. The practical concern however is my hope in driving this thing. Imagine the land and resources we can exploit on another planet. We're animals! We eat everything and kill off white dolphins! Just imagine what you could do on mars. All the women and all the cattles you can have! RICH!!!
Do it like the good old days when colonizing the states, send criminals to mars.
Wolfenstein is evil. Those who don't believe violent video games makes us 4 corners are evil and stupid! Wolfenstein caused this shooting in Germany. Automobile accidents are caused by Destruction Derby(TM). If you fail to see this, you're educated stupid and should be castrated. Hill fires are caused by fire spells in all RPG games. Homicide from PvP in MMORPG's. All digitally generated blood have corners. Even with antialiasing, no corners = infinite corners. Hugo House of Horrors is evil and stupid. Bio-hazard, aka Resident Evil as the name suggests, is evil and stupid. Tony Hawk series causes teenage infinite grinds on youtube resulting in deep hurts. However kick flips are peace.
I don't know anything about copyrights. But after reading so much in this thread I am starting to think. Why are we allowed to copy Vincent's work then? If the IP mentality is so high up in heaven, why don't some of us feel a wee bit guilty about color copying Vincent's work on a printer?
What is the difference between copying/distributing illegal music and copying/distributing starry night? Can we copy Beethoven's work? Are we copying some of the "intellectual properties" merely because the author is dead for some time and therefore we could care less about them whooping our butts?
How do you think Vincent would feel if he sees his scanned paintings on wiki? Flattered? Angered? Intrigued? Disgusted? Do you disregard the feelings of the original artist and abide by "the law" on this piece of "intellectual" property that would probably survive long after the original artist can feel anything anymore?
So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality...
To know the date, not just the day, I turn on my Nintendogs(TM) To know the temperature, I visit a local weather website. (I do RC Planes also) To know what my neighbor looks like, I hang my webcam outside my window for some bathroom windows slit peeping. And to know my neighborhood, I google earth.
They don't know anything...
Quite the contrary, with search engines, I believe most people here knows almost everything. However, knowing the path is different from walking the path. Mr. O might know a lot, but what can you really DO? That's the key.
And yeah I am detached from reality that's why I am posting this from work. STFU.
Wow smart move PRC, it doesn't really matter who writes "sensitive" articles. I will just monitor who reads them and who searches them! Weeeee profits! Uh.. maybe not but a good list for reference..
While these two consoles may initially seem wildly different (the PS3's price tag starts at twice that of the Wii, after all), a few startling similarities put them in direct competition: Both feature free out-of-the-box online access and revolutionary motion-sensing controllers that fundamentally alter how you'll be playing games from here on out. --from page 1
Then it went on giving ps3 a "Extra Functionality" point. STFU. I can give an extra point to my PC for 0ms ASIO latency.
Dude you need to come to Hong Kong then. Our arcade has been filled with DDR, guitar freaks, drum mania, air dance with arms, keyboard mania, taiko drums, mexican shake shake thing (forgot the name), etc. since year 2000. It's dope, but I am afraid to try things cuz there're these props around and don't wanna look stupid hehe. So these things for the PS2 is perfect.
For the Wii I believe they already have these in plan. I am still waiting for Mr. Lucas to give us the light saber.
Yeah I actually have a china ripoff full sized guitar controller collecting dust. The pick and the blue button is some times irresponsive because it uses silly rubber nipple buttons (aka cellphone buttons mech) underneath. But I never get around to mod that with nice arcade button from radio shack:) You know when you have to play you just pick it up and play and couldn't care less about how you do it.
But yeah I agree as I totally enjoy playing guitar freaks in the arcade. Btw I don't know if the US version "Guitar Hero" is the same version, but the Japanese version of Guitar Freaks just came out it's called "Masterpiece". Way cool and includes Drum Mania on 1 disc.
The controller that comes with your game, or the japanese version: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-88-49-zh-70-14 xa.html are both inadequate. There are some third parties that made a controller for this game (guitarfreaks in jp) that's substantially heavier, but most importantly, the buttons are more tactile. They click like mouse buttons. Unfortunately I've lost the name.
I get so PO'ed using any guitar controllers I switched back to the PS2 pads. Just choose the inverse button layout, or assign your own layout by holding the pad upside down, using the analog sticks for picks. You'd be surprised how good it is to handle.
The Chinese word for code, "luan ma," literally means "messy symbols" or "messy digits."
Dude this has nothing to do with TFA but your sig.. Code in Chinese is , "dai ma", means "representative symbol". "Luan ma" actually means "luan (adj.)", "messy", + "dai ma" = "messy symbol".
But he's not interested in fighting cancer. I don't mean to downplay him, it sure is a very cool thing he did. But he's different from the Marie Curie, or the A. Einstein type. I totally understand why he did it just that we do stuff like that in another facet.
He's addicted. He's not inspired, but he's addicted to the process of schooling, of getting A's, of competing with someone. It's like how we're addicted to slashdot. Someone on slashy dotty can post up 12 grand of replies in a day, a great feat, but he might not be interested in starting a digg, or writing a book on his own or partnered.
Well I am sick cuz I actually know why I love airports so much. It's because most if not all of the time when I am AT an airport, it usually means I am on vacation. My job doesn't require business travels.
So whenever I am at one, I feel happy and just a side note, there's only one Burger King in the whole Hong Kong; and it's inside the airport's restricted zone.
People who are going to skip class will either way, and they'll eventually get a copy regardless of your counter measures. Why make the "good" students jump through hoops or make the job overly difficult for yourself?
Your point sounds awfully familiar... You mean why bother with SecuROM? I completely agree:)
I wouldn't use sex toys as siblings suggest he prolly seen them twice a month. However I find it really interesting when they searched my bags for no reason, really, I was only carrying underwears, toothbrush, the usual for a 4 day trip, wtf??
Anyway this summer I flew from Toronto to Seattle and without any checked baggages, I got stopped, checked, x-ray, and x-ray again. It was real funny cuz I just bought this new backpack and it's pretty complicated to open. The lady had trouble and it felt like a brain teaser to her lol. I was trying to help but didn't want to look alarming, and I wasn't sure if I could touch my bag while she works.
So she fiddles for a bit and finally got it opened. But it's cool watching it.
Instead of dildos, why don't we pack 12 bags into each, kinda like the russian dolls? With items sorted in each layer like sub-directories?
btw I always arrive early and I don't give a jackass if the officer take their time. Believe it or not, I arrive 5 hours earlier. I love doing nothing at the airport.
They "hope" to achieve branding thru audio influence as the intel inside "dun dun dong dun!" thing. But in reality, they've already achieved this in a negative way. I haven't met anyone who's not annoyed by the xp or 98 start up sound. So whenever people hear that god damn sound, they hate it and think of Microsoft.
So I think they've suceeded anyway. But really, the real question is, why do they need to suceed, and in what?
It's a game, it's ok to have no sword resistence. Though if there was it'd be "better" or more "correct".
If you look at the gaming world, so far we only have force feedback wheels and joysticks. Mostly for racing and flight sim type games with resistence provided by pulleys and motors. Who know there might be a FFB sword/stick later but I don't see a market. There's just not enough sword games for now that supports it.
But then again, where's the recoil in firing a Glock in CS?
People are excited for something fresh and new. They're also excited for something old and familiar.
Now that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Damn it that's exactly how I felt about my ds lite but couldn't put it in words. You owns man!
I decided on a whim to buy a Nintendo DS when the lite came out, and I've been playing it every single day since then. I'm constantly amazed at how people who have no interest in video games keep wanting to play Brain Age, or the mini games in Super Mario on my DS.
I've also purchased the lite on a whim 1 week before I had to take my 16 hours plane trip with 6 planes trips planned. The funny thing is I've always thought it's silly to play games on tiny screens. I was actually against it like moms on guns. And when my friend bought his PSP and NDS lite, I thought pffftt, yeah whatever.
But when the plane trip calls, I had to do something else other than reading my rainbox six. And once you've held a lite, and examine the details put in the UI and the hardware, you'd noticed that it's a piece of art like the iPod. I thought I'd only play it in the subway since it's so portable. But I spit at myself everyday now cuz I play it on my sofa with the TV off and let my 6800GT cries in loneliness..
P.S. I've successfully assimulated 2 more mates to get the lite and they got it within 1.5 days of thinking.
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They want a super-smooth and polished purchase, install, and play path for casual gamers. They want an experience as reliable and smooth as that of purchasing a game for a console, but for a computer with Windows installed.
/$Windows/ or C: has less than 2GB left, STFU. There's no way on earth you can CERTIFY any games to be played on ANY PC because PC changes! Drivers updates.
This is more to mickeysoft but since I quoted you I used reply. Mickeysoftie, STFU. If you haven't played games since Lumpy for DOS and have never seen the type of funny errors and workarounds, from force feedback issues to "out of memory" at 4GB's; from crackling SB Live! with chipset issues to cannot install to F: because your
The fact is that all PC's are different and until you puny little gaming ass assimilated all our bases and PC's, there's no way you can certify jack. You can't even certify your Vista will run smooth on ALL PC's. I am so mad.
Well the way I see it, are we alone isn't that important. You can call it faith on my part much like religion, I already think we're not alone. The practical concern however is my hope in driving this thing. Imagine the land and resources we can exploit on another planet. We're animals! We eat everything and kill off white dolphins! Just imagine what you could do on mars. All the women and all the cattles you can have! RICH!!!
Do it like the good old days when colonizing the states, send criminals to mars.
Wolfenstein is evil. Those who don't believe violent video games makes us 4 corners are evil and stupid! Wolfenstein caused this shooting in Germany. Automobile accidents are caused by Destruction Derby(TM). If you fail to see this, you're educated stupid and should be castrated. Hill fires are caused by fire spells in all RPG games. Homicide from PvP in MMORPG's. All digitally generated blood have corners. Even with antialiasing, no corners = infinite corners. Hugo House of Horrors is evil and stupid. Bio-hazard, aka Resident Evil as the name suggests, is evil and stupid. Tony Hawk series causes teenage infinite grinds on youtube resulting in deep hurts. However kick flips are peace.
Duke Nuken Forever is also peace.
I don't know anything about copyrights. But after reading so much in this thread I am starting to think. Why are we allowed to copy Vincent's work then? If the IP mentality is so high up in heaven, why don't some of us feel a wee bit guilty about color copying Vincent's work on a printer?
What is the difference between copying/distributing illegal music and copying/distributing starry night? Can we copy Beethoven's work? Are we copying some of the "intellectual properties" merely because the author is dead for some time and therefore we could care less about them whooping our butts?
How do you think Vincent would feel if he sees his scanned paintings on wiki? Flattered? Angered? Intrigued? Disgusted? Do you disregard the feelings of the original artist and abide by "the law" on this piece of "intellectual" property that would probably survive long after the original artist can feel anything anymore?
Morality isn't so simple.
Wing Commander
Yesh yesh, what's better than checking on your torrents in starbucks with VNC on your NDS? Weeee!
So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality...
To know the date, not just the day, I turn on my Nintendogs(TM)
To know the temperature, I visit a local weather website. (I do RC Planes also)
To know what my neighbor looks like, I hang my webcam outside my window for some bathroom windows slit peeping.
And to know my neighborhood, I google earth.
They don't know anything...
Quite the contrary, with search engines, I believe most people here knows almost everything. However, knowing the path is different from walking the path. Mr. O might know a lot, but what can you really DO? That's the key.
And yeah I am detached from reality that's why I am posting this from work. STFU.
Or no brain location at all, the whole thing is a brain. Look at them borgs. The idea of a borg queen is completely unnecessary.
Wow smart move PRC, it doesn't really matter who writes "sensitive" articles. I will just monitor who reads them and who searches them! Weeeee profits! Uh.. maybe not but a good list for reference..
FTA:
While these two consoles may initially seem wildly different (the PS3's price tag starts at twice that of the Wii, after all), a few startling similarities put them in direct competition: Both feature free out-of-the-box online access and revolutionary motion-sensing controllers that fundamentally alter how you'll be playing games from here on out. --from page 1
Then it went on giving ps3 a "Extra Functionality" point. STFU. I can give an extra point to my PC for 0ms ASIO latency.
You know what's cool, I bet there's no law against concealed laser in the Hong Kong firearm regulations. Ooooo..
Dude you need to come to Hong Kong then. Our arcade has been filled with DDR, guitar freaks, drum mania, air dance with arms, keyboard mania, taiko drums, mexican shake shake thing (forgot the name), etc. since year 2000. It's dope, but I am afraid to try things cuz there're these props around and don't wanna look stupid hehe. So these things for the PS2 is perfect.
For the Wii I believe they already have these in plan. I am still waiting for Mr. Lucas to give us the light saber.
Yeah I actually have a china ripoff full sized guitar controller collecting dust. The pick and the blue button is some times irresponsive because it uses silly rubber nipple buttons (aka cellphone buttons mech) underneath. But I never get around to mod that with nice arcade button from radio shack :) You know when you have to play you just pick it up and play and couldn't care less about how you do it.
But yeah I agree as I totally enjoy playing guitar freaks in the arcade. Btw I don't know if the US version "Guitar Hero" is the same version, but the Japanese version of Guitar Freaks just came out it's called "Masterpiece". Way cool and includes Drum Mania on 1 disc.
The controller that comes with your game, or the japanese version: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-88-49-zh-70-14 xa.html are both inadequate. There are some third parties that made a controller for this game (guitarfreaks in jp) that's substantially heavier, but most importantly, the buttons are more tactile. They click like mouse buttons. Unfortunately I've lost the name.
I get so PO'ed using any guitar controllers I switched back to the PS2 pads. Just choose the inverse button layout, or assign your own layout by holding the pad upside down, using the analog sticks for picks. You'd be surprised how good it is to handle.
The Chinese word for code, "luan ma," literally means "messy symbols" or "messy digits."
:)
Dude this has nothing to do with TFA but your sig.. Code in Chinese is , "dai ma", means "representative symbol". "Luan ma" actually means "luan (adj.)", "messy", + "dai ma" = "messy symbol".
The Chinese characters' from google tranny.
I personally believe rolling the dice is more fun than always doing the Smart Thing
I roll my dice every night too.
Bring it on!!
But he's not interested in fighting cancer. I don't mean to downplay him, it sure is a very cool thing he did. But he's different from the Marie Curie, or the A. Einstein type. I totally understand why he did it just that we do stuff like that in another facet.
He's addicted. He's not inspired, but he's addicted to the process of schooling, of getting A's, of competing with someone. It's like how we're addicted to slashdot. Someone on slashy dotty can post up 12 grand of replies in a day, a great feat, but he might not be interested in starting a digg, or writing a book on his own or partnered.
The problem with access is if you hate phone, imagine webcams. Oh noes!!11!
Well I am sick cuz I actually know why I love airports so much. It's because most if not all of the time when I am AT an airport, it usually means I am on vacation. My job doesn't require business travels.
So whenever I am at one, I feel happy and just a side note, there's only one Burger King in the whole Hong Kong; and it's inside the airport's restricted zone.
People who are going to skip class will either way, and they'll eventually get a copy regardless of your counter measures. Why make the "good" students jump through hoops or make the job overly difficult for yourself?
:)
Your point sounds awfully familiar... You mean why bother with SecuROM? I completely agree
I wouldn't use sex toys as siblings suggest he prolly seen them twice a month. However I find it really interesting when they searched my bags for no reason, really, I was only carrying underwears, toothbrush, the usual for a 4 day trip, wtf??
Anyway this summer I flew from Toronto to Seattle and without any checked baggages, I got stopped, checked, x-ray, and x-ray again. It was real funny cuz I just bought this new backpack and it's pretty complicated to open. The lady had trouble and it felt like a brain teaser to her lol. I was trying to help but didn't want to look alarming, and I wasn't sure if I could touch my bag while she works.
So she fiddles for a bit and finally got it opened. But it's cool watching it.
Instead of dildos, why don't we pack 12 bags into each, kinda like the russian dolls? With items sorted in each layer like sub-directories?
btw I always arrive early and I don't give a jackass if the officer take their time. Believe it or not, I arrive 5 hours earlier. I love doing nothing at the airport.
They "hope" to achieve branding thru audio influence as the intel inside "dun dun dong dun!" thing. But in reality, they've already achieved this in a negative way. I haven't met anyone who's not annoyed by the xp or 98 start up sound. So whenever people hear that god damn sound, they hate it and think of Microsoft.
So I think they've suceeded anyway. But really, the real question is, why do they need to suceed, and in what?
It's a game, it's ok to have no sword resistence. Though if there was it'd be "better" or more "correct".
If you look at the gaming world, so far we only have force feedback wheels and joysticks. Mostly for racing and flight sim type games with resistence provided by pulleys and motors. Who know there might be a FFB sword/stick later but I don't see a market. There's just not enough sword games for now that supports it.
But then again, where's the recoil in firing a Glock in CS?
People are excited for something fresh and new. They're also excited for something old and familiar.
Now that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Damn it that's exactly how I felt about my ds lite but couldn't put it in words. You owns man!
I decided on a whim to buy a Nintendo DS when the lite came out, and I've been playing it every single day since then. I'm constantly amazed at how people who have no interest in video games keep wanting to play Brain Age, or the mini games in Super Mario on my DS.
I've also purchased the lite on a whim 1 week before I had to take my 16 hours plane trip with 6 planes trips planned. The funny thing is I've always thought it's silly to play games on tiny screens. I was actually against it like moms on guns. And when my friend bought his PSP and NDS lite, I thought pffftt, yeah whatever.
But when the plane trip calls, I had to do something else other than reading my rainbox six. And once you've held a lite, and examine the details put in the UI and the hardware, you'd noticed that it's a piece of art like the iPod. I thought I'd only play it in the subway since it's so portable. But I spit at myself everyday now cuz I play it on my sofa with the TV off and let my 6800GT cries in loneliness..
P.S. I've successfully assimulated 2 more mates to get the lite and they got it within 1.5 days of thinking.