Back in the late 90s I was really into the JRPGs on the Playstation, and I wasted hundreds of hours on the Squaresoft games. A memory card died on me one time that had a save game with an 80-some hours save game file on it. After that I bought what I think was called a "Dex Drive"? I could be wrong on the name. It let you backup your Playstation memory cards to your PC over a serial port.
These days I don't play those kinds of games anymore, so I don't have any backup of my console save files. I do keep a folder on my PC with copies of some of my save games from that platform on it though, but I'd hardly be devastated if I were to lose them.
I stopped reading at "Night-Elf Wizards"
Anyone who plays knows that Night Elves cannot be wizards. I don't care of the focus of the article is somewhere else, if they over looked that detail, how many other details did the reporter overlook?
I despise inaccurate information.
I have enjoyed my time with Twilight Princess so far, I'm just past the "intro" dungeons. (First three) The more I play it, the more it seems like Ocarina of Time with a different story. Perhaps that's not too bad of a thing, that game is fondly remembered for good reason.
My experience with the Wii Remote control system in Zelda is not a very good one. The big problem is the motion detection on the nunchuck attachment. Pushing it forward to do a shield block is an exercise in frustration as it never seems to work. I'll often end up shaking it violently for a few seconds before Link will perform a spin attack. This issue only crops up in Zelda, I never have an issue with motion sensing in Wii Sports.
The only work around I've come across is exploiting line of site with the remote. I discovered the nunchuck is a lot more responsive if you drop the remote down by your side, out of line of sight of the when doing nunchuck movements.
I have the full version released to the corporate world on my work PC and I do not boot into it because my company uses Veritas Backup Exec 9.1. It is one of my responsibilities to take a peek at the backups each day and make sure they went off the night before. Too bad Backup Exec 9.1 doesn't run on Vista.
First of all, who gives items away in game simply because the character standing before them is female? That's just stupid. Secondly, I've leveled male and female characters to level 60 in World of Warcraft (Amazingly I still find time to work and have a family life, imagine that. Stereotype destroyed.) No one has ever given me anything based on my avatar's gender and I would never expect anyone to be stupid enough to do so.
I support 140 Macintosh computers at a newspaper. I'd say there are about 200-230 Windows PCs in the building as well. I get just as many calls as the PC techs do and for the most part my Mac users are even more computer illeterate than their PC bretheren. The Mac OS is NOT user friendly, neither is Windows.
I've noticed that switching a PC user to a Mac for the first time is much less painful than switching an OS 9 user to OS X. I can't even describe my sorrow when I see an OS X user start up the Classic Environment just so they can get to the Chooser.
because some people still like to play great games even if those games don't happen to be newest thing. I still drop Street Fighter Alpha 3, Symphony of the Night, Xenogears, and several other Playstation greats into my PS2. I don't have room to have a dozen systems hooked up.
Plus, if a game a truly great and worth paying $50 for than you will want to play it over and over for years to come. Take any Zelda game or Super Metroid for example. I've played through Super Metroid 5 or 6 times in the last 2 years alone. Just because you play a game once and never want to play it again doesn't mean that's how everyone feels.
Yeah, those specs look cool, but they will drain the battery very quickly. Don't forget Sony is using their "minidisc' media (or whatever they call it). That's going to be spinning an awful lot for loading and such. I think that will be the biggest drain of all.
It really might not be that big of a deal, I almost always play my GBA within easy reach of a power source, so the PSP would be fine for me if your thinking about powering it. However, I'm not going to buy a very expensive new portable system just to play Metal Gear Card Battle Deluxe. If they don't get some abosolutely must have games that aren't available anywhere else then it's going to fail in a big way.
Wal-Mart always has the highest prices on video games around here. A good example is Halo for the Xbox. After the "official" price cut to $29 Wal-Mart still continued to sell it for $49.
I've also noticed all of Wal-Mart's GBA games are $5 more than anywhere else. I believe they are still selling Beyond Good and Evil for $49 at my local store as well.
Cheap Ass Gamer has good deals sometimes but I've found the best place to get new games is Half.com
I did not see a yellow cap until about a month after the promotion started and the yellow caps disappeared during the last week of March. I didn't see any caps at all during the month of April.
It would seem that Pepsi did indeed screw up big time with the distribution. It's a shame the caps were only around for about a month, I would have gotten many more free songs if they didn't disappear so fast.
This was the first online game I had played. I really enjoyed the game a lot but it would have been a much better single player game than online RPG. There was an awful lot of down time. If you were the explorer type and wanted to fly around the galaxy before you got a few engine upgrades you were in for some fairly long waits. Engage you warp engines and just wait for 3-5 minutes. Click the jump gate. Rinse and repeat for however many systems you had to go through. At least you could read mission objectives and mess with your stats while you were in warp.
I'm pretty surprised it lasted as long as it did as a pay-to-play service. If EA were to release something similar as a single player game I would surely pick it up.
I got some hair rubber bands, pulled the entertainment center out so I could get behind it and wrapped the cables up and tied them to the exact length they needed to be to reach from the console to the TV, or console to outlet. It's not exactly a techy way to do it, but it sure looks a lot nicer than before. As for controller cables, GameCube is easy. Wavebirds are awesome, get them. As for PS2 and Xbox, I know logitech makes a decent wireless pad for the PS2, but they are very expensive at $60 a pop. I don't have an Xbox so I'm not sure if anyone is making decent wireless controllers for it.
From your description the game your wife was playing sounds a lot like "Breath of Fire" for the SNES. It was developed by Squaresoft, and I believe Capcom published it.
I've always wondered why other RPGs didn't have that same system Earthbound did for fighting very weak monsters. On top of winning right away, those monsters would also run from you if you were to strong for them.
I don't know where Earthbound 64 is, but if we're lucky Nintendo will release Mother 1+2 for the GBA over here. Highly doubtful since Earthbound on the SNES did so poorly around these parts.
This game might just end up being the biggest online RPG for a long time to come. I've never played Everquest but online games I have played are "Earth and Beyond" and "Star Wars Galaxies" So far Final Fantasy XI is my favorite by a long shot. It's actually, fun?! Yeah, this is the first online game I've played that's more fun than it is work.
Downtime seems pretty low so far. One thing I hated in Galaxies was the permanent damage to your character unless you found another player to heal you. Very lame. In this game I can just hit the heal button and wait a few minutes and I'm good as new.
Worst part about this game is definatly the controls. You can tell it was made for the PS2 controller. Luckily you can pick up a USB adapter for the Dual Shock 2 for under $20. It even supports the rumble if your into vibrating electronics...
Damn, I sound like an advertisement. Oh well, I'm really enjoying this game. Well, besides the couple hours it takes to install. Don't count on playing it the day you pick it up if you get it after work.
Very true. Just a few weeks ago when I went to the local GameStop to pick up the new Castlevania game for the PS2 they guy behind the counter thought it important that he told me how good it was.
However, I had just read the GameSpot review before going to the store and everything he told me was almost word for word out of that review.
This patch has been 2 years in the making. This patch is up there with Expansion pack amounts of new things added.
It's pretty cool that Blizzard is still supporting Diablo II so far after release. "This game is old" jokes aside, this is pretty cool and I'm glad Blizzard is throwing the Diablo II people a bone.
I must agree with just about everything in the article. Just two weeks ago I canceled my Star Wars Galaxies account.
It was very fun at first but then you just realize one day your not having fun anymore and are simply logging in to chat with your friends and run some errands just so you character doesn't become completely obsolete. No thanks, I too am going to just wait for World of Warcraft.
Where I work we wait a few weeks to hear about bugs in the patch.
When it comes to applying a Microsoft patch you never know if the machine is going to come back up after a reboot. Not really trolling, it's just the truth.
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20 hours for +1 intellect? Wow, you must really suck. Please don't post if you don't know what your talking about.
Back in the late 90s I was really into the JRPGs on the Playstation, and I wasted hundreds of hours on the Squaresoft games. A memory card died on me one time that had a save game with an 80-some hours save game file on it. After that I bought what I think was called a "Dex Drive"? I could be wrong on the name. It let you backup your Playstation memory cards to your PC over a serial port. These days I don't play those kinds of games anymore, so I don't have any backup of my console save files. I do keep a folder on my PC with copies of some of my save games from that platform on it though, but I'd hardly be devastated if I were to lose them.
I stopped reading at "Night-Elf Wizards" Anyone who plays knows that Night Elves cannot be wizards. I don't care of the focus of the article is somewhere else, if they over looked that detail, how many other details did the reporter overlook? I despise inaccurate information.
I don't get it, that doesn't seem like much to me.
We have many databases that are larger here from MSSQL to Oracle, some around the 600GB mark.
What's so special about Google's database?
I have enjoyed my time with Twilight Princess so far, I'm just past the "intro" dungeons. (First three) The more I play it, the more it seems like Ocarina of Time with a different story. Perhaps that's not too bad of a thing, that game is fondly remembered for good reason.
My experience with the Wii Remote control system in Zelda is not a very good one. The big problem is the motion detection on the nunchuck attachment. Pushing it forward to do a shield block is an exercise in frustration as it never seems to work. I'll often end up shaking it violently for a few seconds before Link will perform a spin attack. This issue only crops up in Zelda, I never have an issue with motion sensing in Wii Sports.
The only work around I've come across is exploiting line of site with the remote. I discovered the nunchuck is a lot more responsive if you drop the remote down by your side, out of line of sight of the when doing nunchuck movements.
I have the full version released to the corporate world on my work PC and I do not boot into it because my company uses Veritas Backup Exec 9.1. It is one of my responsibilities to take a peek at the backups each day and make sure they went off the night before. Too bad Backup Exec 9.1 doesn't run on Vista.
First of all, who gives items away in game simply because the character standing before them is female? That's just stupid. Secondly, I've leveled male and female characters to level 60 in World of Warcraft (Amazingly I still find time to work and have a family life, imagine that. Stereotype destroyed.) No one has ever given me anything based on my avatar's gender and I would never expect anyone to be stupid enough to do so.
You want free stuff? Roll a dwarf priest.
Nonsense.
I support 140 Macintosh computers at a newspaper. I'd say there are about 200-230 Windows PCs in the building as well. I get just as many calls as the PC techs do and for the most part my Mac users are even more computer illeterate than their PC bretheren. The Mac OS is NOT user friendly, neither is Windows.
I've noticed that switching a PC user to a Mac for the first time is much less painful than switching an OS 9 user to OS X. I can't even describe my sorrow when I see an OS X user start up the Classic Environment just so they can get to the Chooser.
Plus, if a game a truly great and worth paying $50 for than you will want to play it over and over for years to come. Take any Zelda game or Super Metroid for example. I've played through Super Metroid 5 or 6 times in the last 2 years alone. Just because you play a game once and never want to play it again doesn't mean that's how everyone feels.
It may do you no good, but head into the Interface options and uncheck that "Fix Lag" box. It did wonders for my game experience.
.5% is unauthorized
2% is from the iTunes Music Store
97.5% is music ripped from my own CDs
I feel like such a dirty thief now.
It really might not be that big of a deal, I almost always play my GBA within easy reach of a power source, so the PSP would be fine for me if your thinking about powering it. However, I'm not going to buy a very expensive new portable system just to play Metal Gear Card Battle Deluxe. If they don't get some abosolutely must have games that aren't available anywhere else then it's going to fail in a big way.
Duke Nukem Forever jokes just aren't funny anymore. Sorry off-topic.
I've also noticed all of Wal-Mart's GBA games are $5 more than anywhere else. I believe they are still selling Beyond Good and Evil for $49 at my local store as well.
Cheap Ass Gamer has good deals sometimes but I've found the best place to get new games is Half.com
It would seem that Pepsi did indeed screw up big time with the distribution. It's a shame the caps were only around for about a month, I would have gotten many more free songs if they didn't disappear so fast.
Install:
Firefox
WinRAR
Bit Torrent
DVD X Copy Platinum
Unreal Tournament 2004
My Windows machine is very barebones, I will never install 10 things.
I'm pretty surprised it lasted as long as it did as a pay-to-play service. If EA were to release something similar as a single player game I would surely pick it up.
I got some hair rubber bands, pulled the entertainment center out so I could get behind it and wrapped the cables up and tied them to the exact length they needed to be to reach from the console to the TV, or console to outlet. It's not exactly a techy way to do it, but it sure looks a lot nicer than before. As for controller cables, GameCube is easy. Wavebirds are awesome, get them. As for PS2 and Xbox, I know logitech makes a decent wireless pad for the PS2, but they are very expensive at $60 a pop. I don't have an Xbox so I'm not sure if anyone is making decent wireless controllers for it.
From your description the game your wife was playing sounds a lot like "Breath of Fire" for the SNES. It was developed by Squaresoft, and I believe Capcom published it.
I've always wondered why other RPGs didn't have that same system Earthbound did for fighting very weak monsters. On top of winning right away, those monsters would also run from you if you were to strong for them.
I don't know where Earthbound 64 is, but if we're lucky Nintendo will release Mother 1+2 for the GBA over here. Highly doubtful since Earthbound on the SNES did so poorly around these parts.
Downtime seems pretty low so far. One thing I hated in Galaxies was the permanent damage to your character unless you found another player to heal you. Very lame. In this game I can just hit the heal button and wait a few minutes and I'm good as new.
Worst part about this game is definatly the controls. You can tell it was made for the PS2 controller. Luckily you can pick up a USB adapter for the Dual Shock 2 for under $20. It even supports the rumble if your into vibrating electronics...
Damn, I sound like an advertisement. Oh well, I'm really enjoying this game. Well, besides the couple hours it takes to install. Don't count on playing it the day you pick it up if you get it after work.
However, I had just read the GameSpot review before going to the store and everything he told me was almost word for word out of that review.
It's pretty cool that Blizzard is still supporting Diablo II so far after release. "This game is old" jokes aside, this is pretty cool and I'm glad Blizzard is throwing the Diablo II people a bone.
It was very fun at first but then you just realize one day your not having fun anymore and are simply logging in to chat with your friends and run some errands just so you character doesn't become completely obsolete. No thanks, I too am going to just wait for World of Warcraft.
Where I work we wait a few weeks to hear about bugs in the patch. When it comes to applying a Microsoft patch you never know if the machine is going to come back up after a reboot. Not really trolling, it's just the truth.