I've played adventure games since they were solely text based, and I've played just about every Sierra and Lucasarts games that were published (and tons of adventure games by less popular labels), but I still wouldn't want to see a new adventure game made like in the old days. The sudden death of the Sierra games, and the often twisted logic of puzzle solving in both Sierra and Lucasarts games are not something I would want to see in a new adventure game.
For me, it's all about the story, and so for me, GTA: San Andreas is an adventure game. It's got everything the old adventure games had, except for the puzzle solving. I would like to see more games like GTA, that gives you the freedom to do "anything*, but which also includes more stuff to do outside the predefined missions. It's a huge task for the programmers though.:)
I whole heartedly support the author's definition of an adventure game. Paraphrasing:
An adventure game is a game in which first and foremost contains: a very strong and coherent story or narrative structure, sharply developed characterization (of people, places, and/or things), a clearly defined set of goals, challenges that require and emphasize thought and logic reasoning, and elements of exploration and discovery."
Point and click is dead, long live the adventure genre:=)
Do you actually have to download anything, though? I heard it was actually a console/configuration setting (turning the blur size to zero, basically). However, the Sims doesn't have anything to hide really, as neither sex seem to have reproductive organs.
I think it's a nice name. It's better than Longhorn, for sure:)
Most of the comments seems to be humorous jabs at what Vista means in other languages. I don't see what's so incredibly funny about what Vista means in sanskrit or whatever. Ah well. In Norwegian, a "dott", which is pronounced like dot in english, means an imbecile.;)
It really is. I installed it last night and it does exactly as promised. My desktops are a lot less cluttered now that I no longer need one keyboard and one mouse for each machine.:) This is one open source project I'm definitely going to support.
Wow! I'm not that other guy, but this blows me away. I've got to try this *right away*:) (I have four computers on two desks, all with their own monitor).
You raise a valid point, but personally, I don't think the Simpsons has gotten much worse or much different these last few seasons, or since Futurama started anyway (and I *do* love Futurama:) ). There are a a few episodes I'd rather not see again (season 13 had a few stinkers), but there have been quite a few good ones as well, and more than a few sterling ones, especially in the later seasons (from 14 and onwards). And the Treehouse episodes are always great. IMHO, of course.
If successful, it *may* bring the show back. Maybe even replace the crapfest that the Simpsons have become.
Simpsons and Futurama is not mutually exclusive. You don't like Simpsons, fine, but why would you deny people who like the Simpsons the show just because you don't like it? Other than that, I completely agree with your post.:)
Brute force attacks are the predominant form of attack on my web server, which are host to several large web shops in Scandinavia. Just this weekend, I've gotten tons of requests from 80.18.87.243 and 200.163.190.132. Most attacks come from Italy, South-America, Korea and China... We don't have a root login, and the user logins are restricted, so the login attempts are annoying more than anything else.
They [Nintendo] also have the remarkable ability to be and stay tremendously profitable. Since the launch of the NES, they have not had a single year in the red, and have remained the most profitable game industry company though clever licensing and milking everyone for all they're worth.
Sure, they've been pretty good at milking their products, and they've produced a string of great games over the years. However, Nintendo is far from the gaming power house that they were at the time of the NES/SNES. They have gone from being a significant player in the console market to being an outsider. They're still king of the handheld market, though, and while I do love my PSP, I find the GBA/DS to be the platform I keep coming back to.
Now, I could dredge up the ghosts of all those consoles in decades past that tried to become computers (Intellivision, ColecoVision/Adam), and computers that tried to become consoles (Atari 5200, Amiga CD^32, Apple Pippin), and I could point out the one thing they all have in common: They all flopped. (Incidentally, rumors said that the CD^32 was selling pretty well, right up until Commodore imploded underneath it.)
The CD32 sold well in Europe, actually, as did the Amigas too. It was a lot of other factors that brought Commodore down, most notably the huge losses incurred trying to enter the PC market in the early nineties, and an incredibly corrupt and greedy board of directors who did not care either for their company, their shareholders or their customers. If Commdore UK had been able to break away from its parent company, there's a good chance they might still have been with us...
I wouldn't even know what to do with an AS/400. but I admire your collection never the less. I can tell you're an american by your choice of gear, though. I'm an european, so I don't have a 3DO, Fairchild or anything like that. I've mostly restricted myself to the popular micros of the 80s and 90s that were sold in Europe, so I've got a complete collection of Amigas (including the consoles), Commodores (except that C64 game console - the one without the keyboard - that I can't seem to find any where) and a few Ataris, Spectrums, BBC and such.
Yes, agreed. How on earth could you finish a game in Civ in just a few hours? Spiffy hardware would help I suppose - I haven't played the original Civ since I had my Amiga, and it did run a bit slowly on that machine (though it was more satisfying playing it on the Amiga than on a wintel box).
I agree with the other poster about Rise of Nations. Pretty fun game, and you can always do it in an hours time.
Going to be a good year with RON 2 and Civ 4 is due out:).
Yes, but seriously, even at the time, EVERY WEB SHOP WORTH ITS SALT USED A RELATIONAL DATABASE!
Sorry, for yelling, but the key word is RELATIONAL. This is what databases is for! I understand Amazons eagerness to patent everything it can, but this is just ridiculous!
You're right! It's SO hard to type a simple command. The terminal is very scary! People just want to double-click and never have to type anything! "rpm -ivh something.rpm" or "apt-get install something" or "urpmi something" thats SO hard to remember and to type! Sometimes I think computers, like cars, should require a licsence to operate...
The shell console *is* very scary for a lot of people. Yes, people want to double click a file to install it, not open the console, find the file and type rpm -somethingsomething/wheresthefile/something.rpm. It *is* hard to remember, and it *is* easy to get it wrong.
You'd like a licence? Sure. You'd probably like it if we went back to the main frame. You could wear a nice, white coat and all, and people would queue to your desk for a moment of your time.
True. I've used computers since the dawn of the micro, and I still find Linux/Unix to be a bear to use. It's not that I dislike the complexity and the ability to fine tune the OS to your heart's desire, but it's far from perfect.
After setting up a computer for Linux a few years back, I've slowly gained enough experience to use it effectively, mostly through the command shell and using VI as editor (hey, the Amiga's Ed is a cousin of VI, so at least that one was familiar to me), so I have no problems using a Linux computer today, but then, I'm not a "regular" Joe Blow/Sixpack/whatever user anymore. Whenever I show my Linux setup to my wife, she just snorts in contempt at her inability to do things that are a snap in Windows. There's no fault to Linux or the computer, but it's not very user friendly.
I remember purchasing the fastest computer around in june 1997: A Pentium II 266mHz machine. That thing blazed so fast. I wonder how this machine will stack up in a decade (check my site in 2015 if you're curious!)
Hey, I bought that rig too, with a Voodoo2 card and a SoundBlaster Awe64 to boot. I remember being awe struck at the absolutely stupendous graphics of Quake II and the *ripping* sound track.:)
Wing Commander: Armada ran slower than I had anticipated, though.:/
This is not an anti-Microsoft gesture. Norway and the norwegian government has never shown any hostility towards Microsoft and its products. I believe this is about the principle of using an "open" standard (whatever that means, the ministry isn't saying -- yet).
In norwegian:
"For å få til brukerrettede tjenester via Internett eller andre elektroniske kanaler, må løsningene kunne virke sammen. Standardisering, spesielt innenfor kommunikasjon og datautveksling, er viktig for å få til økt elektronisk samhandling. Offentlige virksomheter skal bruke åpne standarder i sine IT- og informasjonssystemer. Avvik fra dette skal begrunnes. Der det er behov for å fastsette tverrgående standarder for hele eller deler av offentlig forvaltning, såkalte forvaltningsstandarder, skal de baseres på åpne standarder. Det skal etableres forvaltningsstandarder for bl.a. utveksling og presentasjon av tekstlige dokumenter. Standardene skal inneholde krav til tegnsett som dekker de offisielle språk i Norge (norsk og samisk).
Short translation: yada, yada yada. Government bodies are to use open standards. Any deviations from this must be reasoned.
It doesn't really say anything about open source.
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Could anyone PLEASE air Dr Who in Germany! I mean, seriously, what have we done that we never get to see him?
Sssh, everybody, whatever you do, don't mention the war...
Yes I know, but the blurb merely said it provided fast network speed for high res pics on the desktop. Nothing about decentralized storage or the *use* of the hookup.:)
Fiber-optics cables are connected to every artist desktop, allowing high-resolution images on each computer.
This doesn't seem like a logical connection to make.:)
Obviously, it's for fast transfer of high-res images between workstations, but hey, I could be wrong. They *could* have fiber-optic cables for the pure intent of having high-res images on the desktop, but it doesn't seem very likely;P.
even bill gates can be quoted as saying 'software should be free' from back in the day when geeks traded puch tapes of code in the back of vans and copied them;)
Are you sure? I'm quite certain I read that Bill Gates was mad at hell at the people who lifted his Basic code this way.
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For me, it's all about the story, and so for me, GTA: San Andreas is an adventure game. It's got everything the old adventure games had, except for the puzzle solving. I would like to see more games like GTA, that gives you the freedom to do "anything*, but which also includes more stuff to do outside the predefined missions. It's a huge task for the programmers though. :)
I whole heartedly support the author's definition of an adventure game. Paraphrasing:
Point and click is dead, long live the adventure genreDo you actually have to download anything, though? I heard it was actually a console/configuration setting (turning the blur size to zero, basically). However, the Sims doesn't have anything to hide really, as neither sex seem to have reproductive organs.
Most of the comments seems to be humorous jabs at what Vista means in other languages. I don't see what's so incredibly funny about what Vista means in sanskrit or whatever. Ah well. In Norwegian, a "dott", which is pronounced like dot in english, means an imbecile. ;)
It really is. I installed it last night and it does exactly as promised. My desktops are a lot less cluttered now that I no longer need one keyboard and one mouse for each machine. :) This is one open source project I'm definitely going to support.
Wow! I'm not that other guy, but this blows me away. I've got to try this *right away* :) (I have four computers on two desks, all with their own monitor).
"Lost connection to MySQL server during query"
Must be symbolic then... :)
You raise a valid point, but personally, I don't think the Simpsons has gotten much worse or much different these last few seasons, or since Futurama started anyway (and I *do* love Futurama :) ). There are a a few episodes I'd rather not see again (season 13 had a few stinkers), but there have been quite a few good ones as well, and more than a few sterling ones, especially in the later seasons (from 14 and onwards). And the Treehouse episodes are always great. IMHO, of course.
Simpsons and Futurama is not mutually exclusive. You don't like Simpsons, fine, but why would you deny people who like the Simpsons the show just because you don't like it? Other than that, I completely agree with your post. :)
Brute force attacks are the predominant form of attack on my web server, which are host to several large web shops in Scandinavia. Just this weekend, I've gotten tons of requests from 80.18.87.243 and 200.163.190.132. Most attacks come from Italy, South-America, Korea and China... We don't have a root login, and the user logins are restricted, so the login attempts are annoying more than anything else.
There was also an Amiga version, which was pretty nice: http://www.lemonamiga.com/reviews/view.php?id=91
Sure, they've been pretty good at milking their products, and they've produced a string of great games over the years. However, Nintendo is far from the gaming power house that they were at the time of the NES/SNES. They have gone from being a significant player in the console market to being an outsider. They're still king of the handheld market, though, and while I do love my PSP, I find the GBA/DS to be the platform I keep coming back to.
The CD32 sold well in Europe, actually, as did the Amigas too. It was a lot of other factors that brought Commodore down, most notably the huge losses incurred trying to enter the PC market in the early nineties, and an incredibly corrupt and greedy board of directors who did not care either for their company, their shareholders or their customers. If Commdore UK had been able to break away from its parent company, there's a good chance they might still have been with us...
I wouldn't even know what to do with an AS/400. but I admire your collection never the less. I can tell you're an american by your choice of gear, though. I'm an european, so I don't have a 3DO, Fairchild or anything like that. I've mostly restricted myself to the popular micros of the 80s and 90s that were sold in Europe, so I've got a complete collection of Amigas (including the consoles), Commodores (except that C64 game console - the one without the keyboard - that I can't seem to find any where) and a few Ataris, Spectrums, BBC and such.
The question is, has anyone patented the concept of "first post" yet? Could be a gold mine, that.
I agree with the other poster about Rise of Nations. Pretty fun game, and you can always do it in an hours time.
Going to be a good year with RON 2 and Civ 4 is due out :).
Sorry, for yelling, but the key word is RELATIONAL. This is what databases is for! I understand Amazons eagerness to patent everything it can, but this is just ridiculous!
Atari quickly expanded the controller to this: http://www.atariage.com/5200/images/misc/5200_Cont roller_intro.jpg though. ;)
The shell console *is* very scary for a lot of people. Yes, people want to double click a file to install it, not open the console, find the file and type rpm -somethingsomething /wheresthefile/something.rpm. It *is* hard to remember, and it *is* easy to get it wrong.
You'd like a licence? Sure. You'd probably like it if we went back to the main frame. You could wear a nice, white coat and all, and people would queue to your desk for a moment of your time.
After setting up a computer for Linux a few years back, I've slowly gained enough experience to use it effectively, mostly through the command shell and using VI as editor (hey, the Amiga's Ed is a cousin of VI, so at least that one was familiar to me), so I have no problems using a Linux computer today, but then, I'm not a "regular" Joe Blow/Sixpack/whatever user anymore. Whenever I show my Linux setup to my wife, she just snorts in contempt at her inability to do things that are a snap in Windows. There's no fault to Linux or the computer, but it's not very user friendly.
Hey, I bought that rig too, with a Voodoo2 card and a SoundBlaster Awe64 to boot. I remember being awe struck at the absolutely stupendous graphics of Quake II and the *ripping* sound track. :)
Wing Commander: Armada ran slower than I had anticipated, though. :/
In norwegian:
"For å få til brukerrettede tjenester via Internett eller andre elektroniske kanaler, må løsningene kunne virke sammen. Standardisering, spesielt innenfor kommunikasjon og datautveksling, er viktig for å få til økt elektronisk samhandling. Offentlige virksomheter skal bruke åpne standarder i sine IT- og informasjonssystemer. Avvik fra dette skal begrunnes. Der det er behov for å fastsette tverrgående standarder for hele eller deler av offentlig forvaltning, såkalte forvaltningsstandarder, skal de baseres på åpne standarder. Det skal etableres forvaltningsstandarder for bl.a. utveksling og presentasjon av tekstlige dokumenter. Standardene skal inneholde krav til tegnsett som dekker de offisielle språk i Norge (norsk og samisk).
Short translation: yada, yada yada. Government bodies are to use open standards. Any deviations from this must be reasoned.
It doesn't really say anything about open source.
I mean, seriously, what have we done that we never get to see him?
Sssh, everybody, whatever you do, don't mention the war...
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Yes I know, but the blurb merely said it provided fast network speed for high res pics on the desktop. Nothing about decentralized storage or the *use* of the hookup. :)
This doesn't seem like a logical connection to make. :)
;P.
Obviously, it's for fast transfer of high-res images between workstations, but hey, I could be wrong. They *could* have fiber-optic cables for the pure intent of having high-res images on the desktop, but it doesn't seem very likely
Are you sure? I'm quite certain I read that Bill Gates was mad at hell at the people who lifted his Basic code this way.