In the old Sierra games (King's Quest, Colonel's Bequest etc), you could enter the debug mode easily - like pressing both shift buttons and the minus key for instance - and go to places never intended for gamers. You could read debug notes, supply yourself with inventory items etc, and of course transport to any place in the game that you wanted.
Aside from a really bad ending, Indigo Prophecy was a really good game, with a good story and a few good input ideas. The dance dance rev.-type thingy in the action sequences was mostly annoying, so I hope there's less focus on that in this one.
And just when you thought table-based design was gone!:)
I find the idea interesting, but not very practical. It seems to work well for brain storming. With just a few keywords, you get a lot of results that can shed a fresh light on what you were thinking about. Well worth a try.
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Yeah, you can read the story on allowe.com. It's nothing new.
However, Softporn adventure is shit. The parser is horrendous, and playing it is not very funny, even for someone who like text adventures. Larry is very funny, and it's laced with Al Lowe's brand of humor (which was not a feature in Softporn). So while it's a rewrite, Larry is significantly better than Softporn.
Opera is a phenomenal browser. Seriously, they keep churning out useful features for their browser, and it's a pleasure to use. It definitely feels faster than the other major browsers, though they're all pretty good nowadays.
Hehe, you want new and exciting and then you say you want Starfox and FZero. Ok, I seem to remember those titles from the SNES days, if not even before.;)
Announcing a new Super Mario is good though, but how many years will it be stuck in development before release? Hopefully, it will be better than Galaxy.
Remeber Sierra? The last official remake they released of King's Quest 1 is now 19 years old. And I remember playing the original on my 286...
I also played MI 1 on the Amiga. It was a wonderful game, and I'm guessing Telltale is going to do a good job remaking it:)
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Point taken. Perhaps SQL, being backend, is less interesting to replace than the programming layer itself?
That said, I've seen and tried many different database solutions, going back to Commodore 128 and Geofile, to stuff like Filemaker on Windows, but nothing quite beats SQL.
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It works really well, it's an open standard, and it has been with us for about as long as we've had Personal Computers. Let's all be glad Microsoft Access didn't dethrone SQL.
The article is a look back to a barely-remembered but (for the time) forward thinking movie tie-in for the Commodore 64.
Just because it was a computer game, and not a Nintendo/Sega game, it's not fair to call it a "barely-remembered" title. It was one of the big hits of the year it was released, and was constantly referred to as an example of how to do a movie tie-in.
There have been at least two decent spiederman games to my knowledge. One was a rather strange title for the Amiga, which starred a really tiny spiderman on playing field reminiscent of old games like jet set willy and its ilk. The other was the second spiderman game for the xbox generation, the one with the freeform movement around New York. The story weren't all that good, but it played like a dream.
Lemmings is a solid download, and it's easily the best new Lemmings game since Lemmings 2 on the Amiga (though I've yet to try the new Lemmings game for PSP). Its only problem seems to the save feature. I've played through the entire "Fun" section, but every time I boot the game I have to start at the beginning.;/
I'm european. I did not get a copy of Casino Royale when I registered, nor was there ever a mention of a free disc when registering... Not all europeans are born alike, it would seem.;)
Not that it matters much. I already own it on DVD. And I'm actually quite impressed with my PS3. It has a lot going for it, though the game selection could stand to improve. I'm currently playing Resistance, and after playing Gears of War on the 360, Resistance is not very impressive.
Zork is a refined version of Adventure. Well, Zork 1, 2 and 3, to be precise. It's also heaps better.
And why there are no Sierra games on that list is beyond me.
OTOH, a top ten classics list with only one console game is nice for a change. It's even got an Amiga game.:)
Oh man, where to start, where to start. HDMI? This provides very little advantage over component connections, and as most people on this planet have NO HDTV, let alone one with HDMI, this is pretty irrelevant.
I don't know if this is just the Slashdot segment, but this argument keeps popping up. I've got two HD-TVs, and all of my friends have got HD-TVs. They're getting inexpensive, and you rarely see SD-TVs advertised for sale anymore.
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In the old Sierra games (King's Quest, Colonel's Bequest etc), you could enter the debug mode easily - like pressing both shift buttons and the minus key for instance - and go to places never intended for gamers. You could read debug notes, supply yourself with inventory items etc, and of course transport to any place in the game that you wanted.
As long as they get the original cast and no restrictions imposed on the show with regards to somebody thinking about "the children" :)
Aside from a really bad ending, Indigo Prophecy was a really good game, with a good story and a few good input ideas. The dance dance rev.-type thingy in the action sequences was mostly annoying, so I hope there's less focus on that in this one.
And just when you thought table-based design was gone! :)
I find the idea interesting, but not very practical. It seems to work well for brain storming. With just a few keywords, you get a lot of results that can shed a fresh light on what you were thinking about. Well worth a try.
Yeah, you can read the story on allowe.com. It's nothing new. However, Softporn adventure is shit. The parser is horrendous, and playing it is not very funny, even for someone who like text adventures. Larry is very funny, and it's laced with Al Lowe's brand of humor (which was not a feature in Softporn). So while it's a rewrite, Larry is significantly better than Softporn.
Opera is a phenomenal browser. Seriously, they keep churning out useful features for their browser, and it's a pleasure to use. It definitely feels faster than the other major browsers, though they're all pretty good nowadays.
It's not worth the hassle or your money to pay for a squatted domain. It's always possible to find a decent substitute, maybe even a better one.
Hehe, you want new and exciting and then you say you want Starfox and FZero. Ok, I seem to remember those titles from the SNES days, if not even before. ;)
Announcing a new Super Mario is good though, but how many years will it be stuck in development before release? Hopefully, it will be better than Galaxy.
Remeber Sierra? The last official remake they released of King's Quest 1 is now 19 years old. And I remember playing the original on my 286... I also played MI 1 on the Amiga. It was a wonderful game, and I'm guessing Telltale is going to do a good job remaking it :)
Point taken. Perhaps SQL, being backend, is less interesting to replace than the programming layer itself? That said, I've seen and tried many different database solutions, going back to Commodore 128 and Geofile, to stuff like Filemaker on Windows, but nothing quite beats SQL.
It works really well, it's an open standard, and it has been with us for about as long as we've had Personal Computers. Let's all be glad Microsoft Access didn't dethrone SQL.
I wouldn't want to be the one going through your slow-queries.log ;P
Plus you can catch the early bird specials. That's a two-fer!
And Mario Sunshine was one of the early games for the gamecube. Not exactly a original Wii release...
There have been at least two decent spiederman games to my knowledge. One was a rather strange title for the Amiga, which starred a really tiny spiderman on playing field reminiscent of old games like jet set willy and its ilk. The other was the second spiderman game for the xbox generation, the one with the freeform movement around New York. The story weren't all that good, but it played like a dream.
Then provide a demo, like MS does on the 360, and Sony on its PS3. I really hate wasting my wii points on games that prove to hugely disappointing.
Lemmings is a solid download, and it's easily the best new Lemmings game since Lemmings 2 on the Amiga (though I've yet to try the new Lemmings game for PSP). Its only problem seems to the save feature. I've played through the entire "Fun" section, but every time I boot the game I have to start at the beginning. ;/
Not that it matters much. I already own it on DVD. And I'm actually quite impressed with my PS3. It has a lot going for it, though the game selection could stand to improve. I'm currently playing Resistance, and after playing Gears of War on the 360, Resistance is not very impressive.
If you'd been around when Doom shook the gaming world, you'd know why it's on the list, and why Wolfenstein is not.
Because every SMB is more or less the same thing, with the same characters, the same plot and the same soundtrack? ;)
OTOH, a top ten classics list with only one console game is nice for a change. It's even got an Amiga game. :)
It's just the Slashdot groupthink. They'll find someone else to hate in a few months. ;)