I'd have to respectfully disagree a bit - for a while, the nanosuit provides quite fun gameplay. I mean, grabbing a North Korean by the neck and throwing him into a shitty little shack (in strength mode), causing it to collapse and kill everyone inside as well as the guy you threw, then shooting the gas tank (I know, nothing new) of the passing vehicle and speeding away at about 40mph on foot.. It's fun.
But I'll definitely admit that the game stops being fun around the tank level (about halfway through) and although the snow was cool, aliens are just NOT fun enemies - nor were the mutants in Far Cry. When will Crytek learn that people only like the first halves of their games when you only fight humans, who are much more satisfying to kill?
And why, WHY, Crytek, must you make the final boss battle of each of your games run at like 5 frames per second on what is near-high-end hardware at the time of release?! Most of the game runs 30-40fps on high, and by the end you're turning everything to low settings only to still get a framerate in the single digits!
Good for Sonic. Keep in mind that series has been run into the ground, while Nintendo continues to make Mario games that everyone loves (except for people who hate fun). Play through Mario Galaxy instead of just passing it off as a gimmick repackaging something an mediocre game for a failed system did briefly, and tell me which game you had more fun with.
When I was in high school, 5-6 years ago, I used PSCP to copy homework to and from my home computer, and PuTTY to view the filenames, etc. This was before USB flash drives were cost-effective for a high schooler, and - well, fuck floppy disks. The school's IT department "caught" me - since none of them actually knew what SSH was, they assumed I was doing something malicious and banned me from school computers for an entire semester.
Much worse than this 2-day detention hoax, if you ask me. They just told me not to be a smartass when I tried to explain. If only I could go back with my mind now - I'd sure give them a piece of it, those bureaucratic fucks.
The school is Hudson High School if anyone wants to know, hs.hudson.k12.wi.us, 715-377-3800 is their number.
Yeah, but like the GP said, it definitely would have benefited from a singular tone, instead of switching between the Onion-esque review of the "new" XP OS (satire), and the straight-up sarcastic Vista bashing.
Yeah, TF2 certainly isn't worth buying if you have TF1 - just like HL2 isn't worth buying if you have HL1, and hell, who needs Mario Galaxy when you have Mario 3?
As far as the worth of a product, Valve set a price (and a mighty fair one, just ask someone who's actually PLAYED the new games) - same as any other product. If you don't like being dictated the worth of a product, shop on eBay or at the flea market.
Sounds like you just don't like Valve games to begin with, and you only value linear length as a measure of worth, not the replayability or quality/fun of the game. You should look into JRPGs.
People with a median income can easily spare $20 more than what they originally expected to pay for a product, and I'd say most of them would do that rather than sitting around bitching about the 20 bucks, irrationally boycotting the company, and not enjoying some of the year's best games.
Okay, I'll stop responding and arguing - but you should really play Episode 2, Portal, and TF2 - they're fantastic.
It's more like Britney Spears records 3 new songs (and one is the third in a series of songs), and it's announced before they're even done that there will be a release for $3 with those 3 songs on it.
Later, they decide to include the 2 songs leading up to the 3rd in the series, and charge $5 for the release. No biggie, because the 3 new songs are 3 of the best songs released this year, and given how much quality listening time you get out of them, they really should be charging $3 for each!
You remember the room with the 2 ancient statue guys in the wall, and the little pool/waterfall of fuel gel you had to freeze? That FUCKING TURTLE that shot shit in the air at you when you were trying to jump across to the next fuel gel platform.. godDAMNIT.
Well, what made it easy to platform in the Prime games was that Retro was smart enough to have your view tilt down a little when you jump, so you can see where you're landing.
***SPOILERS THAT MAY IMPLY WHAT EVENTS TRANSPIRE BUT DON'T STATE THEM OUTRIGHT*** Yeah, but Alyx will probably just be crying like a little bitch the whole time because of what happened.
Yeah, because $50 for TF2 (worth it alone), Portal, and Episode 2 was SUCH a ripoff. I'm SO FUCKING PISSED that it came with HL2 and HL2E1, even though I had them. Not.
Really? That's weird, because every time I merge onto 94, the jackass in the right lane just seems to LOVE staying there instead of politely moving over.
Or they could do something like eBay and seller fees - they keep a credit card on file, invoice you every month for the fees you've racked up, and if you don't pay that within a certain amount of time they charge it to your card (and they warn you like a week before they do that).
Granted, people might use a card linked to a checking account that won't overdraft, so Microsoft actually couldn't take their money without their consent, however then Microsoft could just disable the account until it was paid.
To the GP, yes that's true, but with TF2's abundance of orangish-red desert textures, the same could be said about Red.
To the parent, while that'd be nice to always have the opponent be the same color, they'd have to drop the whole Builders League United and Reliable Excavation Demolition branding thing that they have the maps branded with (something I think gives the game a nice bit of personality) - unless they could find a way to dynamically load the textures, which I don't think they can do with Source and the BSP format.
Just because it's set as default doesn't mean it's "forced", considering it's extremely easy to switch to another search engine and homepage in Firefox.
And don't forget that Google isn't the default on everything: for example, a new HP computer comes with Yahoo as IE's default search engine.
And no, I don't think anyone smart enough to use Firefox would have a problem with that:-D
I'm a long-time PC gamer (well, if 10 years is a long time). I've always loved consoles, more for Nintendo-type games you can't get on PC - however, I've been PC at heart since I first played Half-Life 1.
That having been said, I just threw down for a 360, Wii, a bunch of games, and a 40" 1920x1080 HDTV - for reasons you and the GP stated. The TV cost more than a new high-end PC would have, but I can have a bunch of people over and watch HD cable, or movies, or play multiplayer games, or when I get home from work I can kick back, have a brew, and play a game on my couch instead of hunched over an uncomfortable chair by myself. And the games I'd be playing on PC (Oblivion, Orange Box) are also on 360, and a lot of times were designed for 360 before they were for the PC.
But most importantly, I no longer have time to dick around building a new PC every 3 years, installing games, finding patches, and updating and comparing drivers. Shit just works, leaving more time for actually playing games.
And if I end up changing my mind, the TV is a kickass monitor when viewed from 2 feet away at 1920x1080 over a DVI/HDMI connection;-D
TFA doesn't list ALL the possible ways data can be corrupted. It fails to mention the scenario of Dark Data (an evil mirror of your data, happens more commonly with RAID 1) corrupting your data with Phazon. In this case, the only way to repair the corruption is to send your data on a quest to different hard drives across the world (nay, the GALAXY) to destroy the Seeds that spread the corruption.
You fucked up. It'd be "In Soviet Russia, Windows Live installs you!". Maybe on slashdot.ru, people actually get it right when they use old Simpsons jokes!
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I'd have to respectfully disagree a bit - for a while, the nanosuit provides quite fun gameplay. I mean, grabbing a North Korean by the neck and throwing him into a shitty little shack (in strength mode), causing it to collapse and kill everyone inside as well as the guy you threw, then shooting the gas tank (I know, nothing new) of the passing vehicle and speeding away at about 40mph on foot.. It's fun.
But I'll definitely admit that the game stops being fun around the tank level (about halfway through) and although the snow was cool, aliens are just NOT fun enemies - nor were the mutants in Far Cry. When will Crytek learn that people only like the first halves of their games when you only fight humans, who are much more satisfying to kill?
And why, WHY, Crytek, must you make the final boss battle of each of your games run at like 5 frames per second on what is near-high-end hardware at the time of release?! Most of the game runs 30-40fps on high, and by the end you're turning everything to low settings only to still get a framerate in the single digits!
Good for Sonic. Keep in mind that series has been run into the ground, while Nintendo continues to make Mario games that everyone loves (except for people who hate fun). Play through Mario Galaxy instead of just passing it off as a gimmick repackaging something an mediocre game for a failed system did briefly, and tell me which game you had more fun with.
Well how many times do people need to download OpenOffice? Does Australia have CDs? DVDs? Thumb drives? External hard drives? Partitions? ;-)
When I was in high school, 5-6 years ago, I used PSCP to copy homework to and from my home computer, and PuTTY to view the filenames, etc. This was before USB flash drives were cost-effective for a high schooler, and - well, fuck floppy disks. The school's IT department "caught" me - since none of them actually knew what SSH was, they assumed I was doing something malicious and banned me from school computers for an entire semester.
Much worse than this 2-day detention hoax, if you ask me. They just told me not to be a smartass when I tried to explain. If only I could go back with my mind now - I'd sure give them a piece of it, those bureaucratic fucks.
The school is Hudson High School if anyone wants to know, hs.hudson.k12.wi.us, 715-377-3800 is their number.
Yeah, but like the GP said, it definitely would have benefited from a singular tone, instead of switching between the Onion-esque review of the "new" XP OS (satire), and the straight-up sarcastic Vista bashing.
Yeah, TF2 certainly isn't worth buying if you have TF1 - just like HL2 isn't worth buying if you have HL1, and hell, who needs Mario Galaxy when you have Mario 3?
As far as the worth of a product, Valve set a price (and a mighty fair one, just ask someone who's actually PLAYED the new games) - same as any other product. If you don't like being dictated the worth of a product, shop on eBay or at the flea market.
Sounds like you just don't like Valve games to begin with, and you only value linear length as a measure of worth, not the replayability or quality/fun of the game. You should look into JRPGs.
People with a median income can easily spare $20 more than what they originally expected to pay for a product, and I'd say most of them would do that rather than sitting around bitching about the 20 bucks, irrationally boycotting the company, and not enjoying some of the year's best games.
Okay, I'll stop responding and arguing - but you should really play Episode 2, Portal, and TF2 - they're fantastic.
It's more like Britney Spears records 3 new songs (and one is the third in a series of songs), and it's announced before they're even done that there will be a release for $3 with those 3 songs on it.
Later, they decide to include the 2 songs leading up to the 3rd in the series, and charge $5 for the release. No biggie, because the 3 new songs are 3 of the best songs released this year, and given how much quality listening time you get out of them, they really should be charging $3 for each!
Oh wait, the allowance part.. get a real job?
Well, what made it easy to platform in the Prime games was that Retro was smart enough to have your view tilt down a little when you jump, so you can see where you're landing.
Haha, "Adding a true DIGITAL interface through a powerful serial port"... Yes, the POWER of SERIAL!!!!!111!!1!
***SPOILERS THAT MAY IMPLY WHAT EVENTS TRANSPIRE BUT DON'T STATE THEM OUTRIGHT*** Yeah, but Alyx will probably just be crying like a little bitch the whole time because of what happened.
Yeah, because $50 for TF2 (worth it alone), Portal, and Episode 2 was SUCH a ripoff. I'm SO FUCKING PISSED that it came with HL2 and HL2E1, even though I had them. Not.
Really? That's weird, because every time I merge onto 94, the jackass in the right lane just seems to LOVE staying there instead of politely moving over.
Or they could do something like eBay and seller fees - they keep a credit card on file, invoice you every month for the fees you've racked up, and if you don't pay that within a certain amount of time they charge it to your card (and they warn you like a week before they do that).
Granted, people might use a card linked to a checking account that won't overdraft, so Microsoft actually couldn't take their money without their consent, however then Microsoft could just disable the account until it was paid.
To the GP, yes that's true, but with TF2's abundance of orangish-red desert textures, the same could be said about Red.
To the parent, while that'd be nice to always have the opponent be the same color, they'd have to drop the whole Builders League United and Reliable Excavation Demolition branding thing that they have the maps branded with (something I think gives the game a nice bit of personality) - unless they could find a way to dynamically load the textures, which I don't think they can do with Source and the BSP format.
Well, you have to at least admit that XP is still much better than Vista.
I want my fucking face back.
- John Archer
I disagree that it'd be Dell's problem anyway, unless their warranty covers software.
These dumbasses should hire someone who understands relative directory structure.
Just because it's set as default doesn't mean it's "forced", considering it's extremely easy to switch to another search engine and homepage in Firefox.
:-D
And don't forget that Google isn't the default on everything: for example, a new HP computer comes with Yahoo as IE's default search engine.
And no, I don't think anyone smart enough to use Firefox would have a problem with that
I'm a long-time PC gamer (well, if 10 years is a long time). I've always loved consoles, more for Nintendo-type games you can't get on PC - however, I've been PC at heart since I first played Half-Life 1.
;-D
That having been said, I just threw down for a 360, Wii, a bunch of games, and a 40" 1920x1080 HDTV - for reasons you and the GP stated. The TV cost more than a new high-end PC would have, but I can have a bunch of people over and watch HD cable, or movies, or play multiplayer games, or when I get home from work I can kick back, have a brew, and play a game on my couch instead of hunched over an uncomfortable chair by myself. And the games I'd be playing on PC (Oblivion, Orange Box) are also on 360, and a lot of times were designed for 360 before they were for the PC.
But most importantly, I no longer have time to dick around building a new PC every 3 years, installing games, finding patches, and updating and comparing drivers. Shit just works, leaving more time for actually playing games.
And if I end up changing my mind, the TV is a kickass monitor when viewed from 2 feet away at 1920x1080 over a DVI/HDMI connection
TFA doesn't list ALL the possible ways data can be corrupted. It fails to mention the scenario of Dark Data (an evil mirror of your data, happens more commonly with RAID 1) corrupting your data with Phazon. In this case, the only way to repair the corruption is to send your data on a quest to different hard drives across the world (nay, the GALAXY) to destroy the Seeds that spread the corruption.
You fucked up. It'd be "In Soviet Russia, Windows Live installs you!". Maybe on slashdot.ru, people actually get it right when they use old Simpsons jokes!