Ok, I get your point, though I didn't care for any of these games, and seeing as those years saw the demise of Commodore CD32 and Atari's Lynx & Jaguar (and the seeds to Sega's demise a few years later), I'd still say they were pretty disappointing.;)
Yes, but you're talking from the perspective of a PC gamer, and the author is talking about it from a console perspective. Sure, 94-95 were great for PC gamers, but really frustrating for console gamers.
Well who designs these games then? Males by any chance? There just is not going to much of a market for a full priced card game is there now?
Sure there is. Sierra has sold their line of Hoyle's card game for a decade, each at retail and at full price. They were great games as well. And talking of Sierra, they made games that both men and women liked equally well (but then, several of their leading designers were women).
Both the PS2 and the Xbox were hard to come by at launch in Norway, but it was only a matter of a few weeks, not months as another poster here said. I think it's actually better to wait a few months and get consoles where the initial bugs have been ironed out (and have a bigger selection of games to buy as well), but I rarely do this myself. I'm to excited about getting hold of this new stuff:)
At least we're getting some...:) My online retailer sent my unit last night, so I'll have either tomorrow or saturday. My local electronics shops are both gearing for the launch of the console, and both say they will have a few units for sale tomorrow, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't pick up a second set as well.
I generally like his movies, but he didn't re-energize a thing.
Does these ring a bell?:)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1 & 2)
Fantastic Four (yeah, they're "fantastic", but they can't seem to stand on their own without latching onto a smash hit movie)
Judge Dredd (I'm angry they ruined this one!)
The Crow
I agree. I hate in superhero or fantasy fiction, so often the bad guy's motivation for evil is...evil. The Emperor and Vader serve "The Dark Side." Voldemort is "The Dark Lord." Suaron is also the Dark Lord.
To be fair to the above: The Emperor wanted dominance over the Galaxy and absolute power to control it. Vader wanted to save his wife, but was deceived and then bound to his master. Voldemort wanted power, got thwarted and now wants to return to power. Same with Sauron. None of these does evil for evil's sake alone.
The first and the second Superman movie was actually one script, but it got divided because of its length. The last two movies suffered because of budgetary constraints (there's a pretty lurid story behind the making of those), and personal conflicts. The third movie was exceptionally weak technically (horrible blue-screen action that really puts the viewer off. The scene where Superman flies through the subway is so fake that it hurts) -- not even Gene Hackman was able to save that one -- though it did have an interesting main story (Superman destroying all the world's nukes, gets booed by the UN). Richard Pryor was woefully miscast as a comedy sidekick and über-hacker (geeks should actually see this movie to have a laugh at the computer wizardry going on).
GTA is bad example, as the series has gone from strength to strength with its sequels (both in popularity and in quality), and they've all added to the gameplay from their forerunners.
This is actually pretty good advice, although I don't see why you would skip the PS3. Just wait a year or two until it comes down in price and there's some good budget priced games on offer.
Great, they'll throw in some games, some tv shows, and what more? Soon they'll be offering Sony's entire back catalogue of music just so long as you please, please, pretty please don't buy the Xbox 360.
This is the PS2 campaign all over again...
(And I bet it won't cost anywhere near $300-$400 either.)
I don't agree. N64's graphics were adequate for its time, but it was was nothing revolutionary. You can't seriously mean that N64's graphics were superior to Quake 1 (try running Quake 1 with a Voodoo 2 card and tell me that's graphically and technically inferior to Super Mario 64 -- it's not!).
I mean, really. Everyone at/. has known this for some time that USENET has degenerated into a steaming pile. Hell, if you go to Google Groups and browse around Buddhist newsgroups, you'll find lovely spam for things involving "Clitoral Mound Orgasming Chemicals."
Bad example;). It's always been bad around religious groups. You'll rarely find any good discussions there, at least not in the alt.* hierarchy -- like alt.buddha.short.fat.guy;).
I dispute that the chances are higher. In fact, it's lower - especially if you compare using Usenet with a to a web forum using IE.;)
If you avoid the binary groups and don't download attachments, you'll *never* catch a virus from Usenet. It's just text. If you do download binaries, you got to be alert, but you are no more at risk than when downloading binaries from anywhere on the net, be it via web, ftp, telnet or whatever.
They had a time frame to consider too. They could have started with the US and with time released the machine in Japan and Europe, and then to the rest of the world - you know, like Sony does, except they start in Japan and then release their stuff in a "timely" fashion to the rest of the world. Instead, they do a simultaneous release on three continents, and while that will necessarily make it hard to deliver enough units, it does at least show commitment to the users. It's a pretty smart move, I think, and doesn't leave a lot of people (like an entire continent) feel left out. You will have those who won't get their unit and be pissed about it, but I think it more than evens out by getting the box out to as many countries as possible.
Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place."
It's all bull. I've used Usenet for over ten years, and I have never "caught" any viruses or gotten any invitations to unspeakable sexual acts (maybe I hang out in the wrong groups...). Usenet is not as big as it was, but it's still a great resource for information.
Seeing as the sole reason for the Xbox360 is the improvement in graphics capabilities (unless there's some new feature I'm missing), I'd agree with the parent. Stupid.
That's because you haven't been paying attention;). There's the huge RAM increase. The Xbox had 64 MB, the Xbox 360 has 512 MB. This enables much larger maps (and hopefully, better PC versions of console releases -- remember the painfully short Thief 3/Deus Ex 2 maps?).
There's the triple-core processor, which is a bit of a cat in the hat. It's going to be interesting to see how the game manufacturers will take use of that feature.
There's the Xbox Arcade. Remember the Nintendo fanboys trumping the ability the download old NES/SNES games? This is the Xbox version. Sure, you may not get Mario, but you get perfect versions of old arcade hits.
No, Word is the "editor" of doc files, you see the difference? Windows Explorer is the current "type manager" of.doc files.
Glad you put type manager in hyphens, because describing a file manager as a type manager is pretty silly. If you want to use a *real* file manager, look to Directory Opus (www.dopus.com). It does everything a file manager should do, and much more than you could possibly imagine it could do. My only gripe with it is that it's Windows only.
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Hehe, that's rich. After all those years of being so nice to Microsoft, you don't even get a single console to review... Oh, the irony. ;)
Ok, I get your point, though I didn't care for any of these games, and seeing as those years saw the demise of Commodore CD32 and Atari's Lynx & Jaguar (and the seeds to Sega's demise a few years later), I'd still say they were pretty disappointing. ;)
Yes, but you're talking from the perspective of a PC gamer, and the author is talking about it from a console perspective. Sure, 94-95 were great for PC gamers, but really frustrating for console gamers.
It's just stupid. How does Will Wright and Sid Meier fit into all this then, having both made games that women adore?
Both the PS2 and the Xbox were hard to come by at launch in Norway, but it was only a matter of a few weeks, not months as another poster here said. I think it's actually better to wait a few months and get consoles where the initial bugs have been ironed out (and have a bigger selection of games to buy as well), but I rarely do this myself. I'm to excited about getting hold of this new stuff :)
At least we're getting some... :) My online retailer sent my unit last night, so I'll have either tomorrow or saturday. My local electronics shops are both gearing for the launch of the console, and both say they will have a few units for sale tomorrow, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't pick up a second set as well.
Does these ring a bell? :)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1 & 2)
Fantastic Four (yeah, they're "fantastic", but they can't seem to stand on their own without latching onto a smash hit movie)
Judge Dredd (I'm angry they ruined this one!)
The Crow
And a lot more
The first and the second Superman movie was actually one script, but it got divided because of its length. The last two movies suffered because of budgetary constraints (there's a pretty lurid story behind the making of those), and personal conflicts. The third movie was exceptionally weak technically (horrible blue-screen action that really puts the viewer off. The scene where Superman flies through the subway is so fake that it hurts) -- not even Gene Hackman was able to save that one -- though it did have an interesting main story (Superman destroying all the world's nukes, gets booed by the UN). Richard Pryor was woefully miscast as a comedy sidekick and über-hacker (geeks should actually see this movie to have a laugh at the computer wizardry going on).
And as a Fedora Cora 4 user I can attest to this. It's a good OS. Everything is well put together and it's stable as a rock.
You can't possibly estimate a percentage based on reading forums on the net. Seriously. :)
GTA is bad example, as the series has gone from strength to strength with its sequels (both in popularity and in quality), and they've all added to the gameplay from their forerunners.
This is actually pretty good advice, although I don't see why you would skip the PS3. Just wait a year or two until it comes down in price and there's some good budget priced games on offer.
This is the PS2 campaign all over again...
(And I bet it won't cost anywhere near $300-$400 either.)
I don't agree. N64's graphics were adequate for its time, but it was was nothing revolutionary. You can't seriously mean that N64's graphics were superior to Quake 1 (try running Quake 1 with a Voodoo 2 card and tell me that's graphically and technically inferior to Super Mario 64 -- it's not!).
"Everything's relative"
Hmm. There was another story a couple of days ago that highlighted this. Here's the url: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6139690/index.htm l. It's pretty interesting, though a bit sluggish to load.
If you avoid the binary groups and don't download attachments, you'll *never* catch a virus from Usenet. It's just text. If you do download binaries, you got to be alert, but you are no more at risk than when downloading binaries from anywhere on the net, be it via web, ftp, telnet or whatever.
They had a time frame to consider too. They could have started with the US and with time released the machine in Japan and Europe, and then to the rest of the world - you know, like Sony does, except they start in Japan and then release their stuff in a "timely" fashion to the rest of the world. Instead, they do a simultaneous release on three continents, and while that will necessarily make it hard to deliver enough units, it does at least show commitment to the users. It's a pretty smart move, I think, and doesn't leave a lot of people (like an entire continent) feel left out. You will have those who won't get their unit and be pissed about it, but I think it more than evens out by getting the box out to as many countries as possible.
Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place."
It's all bull. I've used Usenet for over ten years, and I have never "caught" any viruses or gotten any invitations to unspeakable sexual acts (maybe I hang out in the wrong groups...). Usenet is not as big as it was, but it's still a great resource for information.
There's the triple-core processor, which is a bit of a cat in the hat. It's going to be interesting to see how the game manufacturers will take use of that feature.
There's the Xbox Arcade. Remember the Nintendo fanboys trumping the ability the download old NES/SNES games? This is the Xbox version. Sure, you may not get Mario, but you get perfect versions of old arcade hits.
Fine. Aiming is easier with a mouse. Everything else isn't.