To be fair, who hasn't had an issue where you were SURE it wasn't one thing, when it actually was. I would imagine most of you, like me, have seen issues where you still can't explain how you fixed it.
For my next lesson, we'll learn about varios modifiers to hit due to varions situations and weather and such.
First, since the grass is wet ans slippery, making dodgeing hard, you suhbtract -1 from thac0, then you have to calculate if the sun is in their eyes, the formula for this is pi * the speed of an african swallow divided by the half life of bannaium, a radioactive metal often found on the planet blargh. After that you add George Bush's IQ to the total number of cheeto stains on your DM's shirt and divide by the number of stars in the cosmos. After that, you say screw this game and go hit a bar instead.
Take your character's thac0, subtract target's AC, that is the number you need to roll to hit (Note, 20 always hits)
So for example, someone has a thac0 of 20 and attacks something with an AC of 6. 20-6=14 or someone with a thac0 of 9 attacks something with an AC of -3, 9 - -3 = 12
It'd be freaking 2nd grade math if it wasn't fior the negatives (which isn't exactly a difficult concept)
There is a warp very early in the snake level that is easy too hit. I don't recall 100% where it is, but I know it takes you to level 8, which is also retardedly hard:D
The funniest thing is gamespot isn't the only place to do this. G4TV did the exact same thing, it's sad how little reviewers really know about the stuff they review sometimes. You'd think someone reviewing a rhythm game would know a little bit about them.
To be fair though, most beginners at DDR are worth a laugh. I get a kick out of my mother playing myself, she refuses to play anything above novice (I play In the Groove over DDR), but she plays regularly enough that she's gotten FECs on stuff (Bubble Dancer Novice for example).
You don't need to beat Warcraft 3 to unlock God mode, so why mention it at all? And god mode even after you've beaten a game can be fun just for the sake of screwing around. My cousin, for example, is a huge Resident Evil 4 fan and has unlocked everything, but he still plays with the uber weapons you unlock because you can still have fun with mindless destruction without worrying about life or ammo or whatever.
Uhm..... F-Zero GX has 3 difficulty levels (4 with unlocks) on the standard cup race, which is the main focus of the game. Two of those difficulties are really easy, even for a beginner. You may be talking about Mission mode which only has Normal and Hard, both of which are really difficult, but they seem to be intended for people who have beaten the Master difficulty based on the kind of stuff the unlock (Secret racers and top end parts for custom vehicles)
Anyawy, I think i'm gonna go dust off my cube and play some F-Zero, I haven't touched it in awhile.
What you forget to mention is the more recent(But still a couple years old) debacle where NVIDIA released a forceware version that caused the card not to render scenes properly for an illigitimate FPS boost. The truth is, neither company is paticularly trustworthy, although I use ATI cards myself.
May be a policy change (It's been a couple years since I worked there), or you just got the wrong people.
That's an interesting theroy, if MS was to shut people's computers down through WGA I imagine it would be through activation. I'm not sure any form of activation is active on OEM versions because IIRC wpa.dbl and wpa.bak (files used to verify activation) are absent on OEM versions. I could be wrong, however.
I can't say I fully agree about the jump from PS1-PS2. Sure, the PS1 did 3d graphics but for a lot of games(not all) they were terribly ugly (Xenogears, and FF7 for a couple quick titles). For the most part I find that PS1's graphics aged terribly. It's too early to tell just how much of a graphics jump we will see for the PS2 and PS3 seeing as it isn't even out yet. The first couple generations of games for a system NEVER look nearly as good as the system is capable of.
Personally, i'm hoping we see more AA in next-gen titles, there is something about jaggies that just drives me crazy, and so many console games have them.
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One of 2 explanations, an enormously bad judgement call, or, what I suspect, he was under pressure to make a statement.
To be fair, who hasn't had an issue where you were SURE it wasn't one thing, when it actually was. I would imagine most of you, like me, have seen issues where you still can't explain how you fixed it.
For my next lesson, we'll learn about varios modifiers to hit due to varions situations and weather and such.
First, since the grass is wet ans slippery, making dodgeing hard, you suhbtract -1 from thac0, then you have to calculate if the sun is in their eyes, the formula for this is pi * the speed of an african swallow divided by the half life of bannaium, a radioactive metal often found on the planet blargh. After that you add George Bush's IQ to the total number of cheeto stains on your DM's shirt and divide by the number of stars in the cosmos. After that, you say screw this game and go hit a bar instead.
thac0 is easy as pie to figure out.
Take your character's thac0, subtract target's AC, that is the number you need to roll to hit (Note, 20 always hits)
So for example, someone has a thac0 of 20 and attacks something with an AC of 6. 20-6=14
or someone with a thac0 of 9 attacks something with an AC of -3, 9 - -3 = 12
It'd be freaking 2nd grade math if it wasn't fior the negatives (which isn't exactly a difficult concept)
Ah yes, Dark Queen, the patron hottie of the NES.
I personally never really found karnath's lair that hard myself, it's like level 3 I guess, it's hard until you know how to do it, then it is easy.
I never got to try the gear myself unfortunatly, maybe I should swallow my pride and use a game genie sometime.
There is a warp very early in the snake level that is easy too hit. I don't recall 100% where it is, but I know it takes you to level 8, which is also retardedly hard:D
The funniest thing is gamespot isn't the only place to do this. G4TV did the exact same thing, it's sad how little reviewers really know about the stuff they review sometimes. You'd think someone reviewing a rhythm game would know a little bit about them.
To be fair though, most beginners at DDR are worth a laugh. I get a kick out of my mother playing myself, she refuses to play anything above novice (I play In the Groove over DDR), but she plays regularly enough that she's gotten FECs on stuff (Bubble Dancer Novice for example).
Actually uploading on P2P apps is also considered legal in Canada, this has been tested in court even.
Which resulted in a lawsuit from the edison family due to their patented Chron-o-John.
I really must recommend you rent the game and play again, starting on Grand Prix mode on novice, F-Zero-GX is really the best in the series IMHO.
You don't need to beat Warcraft 3 to unlock God mode, so why mention it at all? And god mode even after you've beaten a game can be fun just for the sake of screwing around. My cousin, for example, is a huge Resident Evil 4 fan and has unlocked everything, but he still plays with the uber weapons you unlock because you can still have fun with mindless destruction without worrying about life or ammo or whatever.
Uhm..... F-Zero GX has 3 difficulty levels (4 with unlocks) on the standard cup race, which is the main focus of the game. Two of those difficulties are really easy, even for a beginner. You may be talking about Mission mode which only has Normal and Hard, both of which are really difficult, but they seem to be intended for people who have beaten the Master difficulty based on the kind of stuff the unlock (Secret racers and top end parts for custom vehicles)
Anyawy, I think i'm gonna go dust off my cube and play some F-Zero, I haven't touched it in awhile.
Because you uninstalled it and deleted your save games and now have to unlock everything again?
Once you start selling the stuff you download on the internet you deserve anything you get as far as the law is concerned IMHO.
The company was called Working Designs. Despite several hit games they are out of business.
Woah.
What you forget to mention is the more recent(But still a couple years old) debacle where NVIDIA released a forceware version that caused the card not to render scenes properly for an illigitimate FPS boost. The truth is, neither company is paticularly trustworthy, although I use ATI cards myself.
I did not know that, thanks for the info.
May be a policy change (It's been a couple years since I worked there), or you just got the wrong people.
That's an interesting theroy, if MS was to shut people's computers down through WGA I imagine it would be through activation. I'm not sure any form of activation is active on OEM versions because IIRC wpa.dbl and wpa.bak (files used to verify activation) are absent on OEM versions. I could be wrong, however.
I used to do XP tech support, and all I have to say is this:
Yes they can generate XP OEM keys.
Konami doesn't make Stepmania.
I can't say I fully agree about the jump from PS1-PS2. Sure, the PS1 did 3d graphics but for a lot of games(not all) they were terribly ugly (Xenogears, and FF7 for a couple quick titles). For the most part I find that PS1's graphics aged terribly. It's too early to tell just how much of a graphics jump we will see for the PS2 and PS3 seeing as it isn't even out yet. The first couple generations of games for a system NEVER look nearly as good as the system is capable of.
Personally, i'm hoping we see more AA in next-gen titles, there is something about jaggies that just drives me crazy, and so many console games have them.
Most anyone who would buy this will have both (I've never seen a mobo with more then 2) PCI-E slots in use with dual graphics cards.
That's funny, I just ran a search for linux on msn.com, my results?
u x&srch_type=0&geovar=56&FORM=REDIR
linux.org
linux.com
kernel.org
linux article on wikipedia
IBM
and more, that doesn't seem very biased to me.
URL: http://search.sympatico.msn.ca/results.aspx?q=lin