How about this: The new Macs, apparently, can run Windows as well as OS X. Dual-booting the two would seem really attractive for would-be switchers. The type of people who want a really good, solid OS, and Windows for gaming and the occasional nonported software.
Now, the solid OS option in a dualbooting situation is mostly Linux right now. But with the new Macs, the "solid" option can be either Linux, or OS X. Personally, this would be enough to turn me over to Macs and OS X, and possibly away from desktop Linux.
(Note: I'm nearly 100% certain that Jobs or someone said the new Macs will likely run Windows and they will do nothing to stop it, they will only stop folks from using OS X on nonMacs. Makes sense since it's the hardware they sell)
What the heck? Over here in Winnipeg, they're usually around $7 ($6.75 according to the Famous Players site, and their theatres are probably the best around here). We complain about that price, $16 is insanity.
A) If you have an internet connection running, it will not run in online mode. It may also not not let you do it if you have a LAN-only connection, or at least it takes awhile to check and see if it can connect to the Steam Servers. As well, should the Steam servers be overloaded and you try to log on, you have no ability to play offline as the key info is deleted. You have to log in successfully and quit Steam totally once, and not log in again until you intend to use it online.
B) If any update is not complete, you have to allow it to complete before going into offline mode. This could be problematic for a dialup user who just pops onto it to have a game with a buddy, sees an update being required, and chooses to delay it.
C) You still need to be connected online to install in the first place
I don't exactly get the classification of "cyberpunk gear", but I did hear something about those sunglasses. More accurately, it's currently more like the other "head mounted computers" or whatnot, wearing a computer on your belt and some glasses over your eyes hooked up to it (though the glasses may be less dorky, can't remember too much). They figure that they'll eventually get it so useful information is displayed in the place of billboards. Weather forcasts or email or whatnot.
That's just one application of that technology though, and it's still probably not being commercially produced.
and it's the only console that can hook up to a PC (through the Xbox Media Center).
The Xbox Media Center is a homebrew program requiring a softmod or modchip. They might have meant "Media Center Extender for the Xbox" (Microsoft product, works with Media Center PCs), but at least we know that 1UP.COM uses and endorses mod chips now:)
I do see your point about the variable map sizes, the variations are quite interesting to see (and the demo doesn't include the 64 player map). At that I was just basing my little report on the technical things I saw, mostly. I really do like the gameplay, especially how they improved the support classes like the medic.
As for the settings, I did muck around a bit and run it okay at high settings, 1024x768, with shadows and something else at medium (like yours). It's still not quite good enough on 32 player servers that I've tried AA, but I'll do some tweaking and see what I can get.
I must say, when I tried to do a system update of Ubuntu, using the included package-manager frontend, the thing died on me. I could get to the login screen, but none of the window managers would load. Instead X.org just died and restarted.
I like Ubuntu, but I'm giving Fedora Core a chance after this last experience.
I've a Radeon 9800 Pro, Althon XP 2700+, and 1GB of RAM. I have to play at medium graphic settings (and no AA/AF), it doesn't look particularily nice and still doesn't run altogether smoothly. The load times are especially horrendous (minutes), and it has to do "shader optimizing" each time you load after changing your video settings, which takes even longer.
It does have a fairly nice draw distance though.
The full version will only have 12 maps, however, and this demo doesn't look incredibly bright. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, I must play more =)
Does anyone have a nice link or document that summarizes/analyzes some of the worst aspects of this act? I wouldn't exactly love to poke through the whole thing looking for it, and I'm not a legal expert.
1) No one cares how "hardcore" you are. 2) These games attempt to create a certain mood, and having crates in them may ruin that 3) Console gamers care, because they only have a dinky analog stick (and often simple or shallow gameplay) and so the games make up for it with "story" and "atmosphere"
That doesn't seem to work on the SP2 Internet Explorer. Little bar at the top tells you that it blocked some potentially dangerous thing from running, and if you allow it nothing happens.
He wasn't necessarily talking about playing games the day (or month) they come out, the games are still good if you have the patience to wait a little.
And besides, an AIW is a TV capture card, of course it cost a fair amount...
Nintendo seems to be aiming for (and may succeed in a degree) two things:
1) Non-gamers will play their games. The people who don't care for the GTAs and Halos of gaming (or may be bored of them), the type who would like something that's intuitive, easy, and fun to play. Oddball things like Nintendogs, Electroplankton, and whatever the heck the Revolution is should only help that.
2) Gamers may want the Nintendo Revolution in addition to one of the other consoles. It's likely that, with the low power estimations they've been giving us (though they tend to be quiet), the console will not be that expensive. It is also likely that it will have some off the wall controller or the likes, and it will definately have ROM downloading. These things could make it attractive to normal gamers, even if they already have an Xbox360 or PS3. Not a replacement for those, since it can't stand in the normal gaming sense, but as an addition.
... are that many of them are pretty dern alike, and there are limited genres within. Yet, this is why they sell. People like buying every GTA game, every run-and-shoot platformer, all the nearly identical FPS games. Until there start to be strategy games (I love Galactic Civilization and Sim City 4), moddable games, online games like Tribes/Tribes 2/Battlefield/BF2/Others that have a real good amount of depth (and should be possible with the increased console RAM), and etc., several PC gamers will stubbornly own just a PC or both.
I don't see how these types of games aren't possible anymore. TVs are at HD, allowing strategy games to work better. At least one of the consoles is using standard USB (hello keyboards/mice). They'll have harddrives, they'll have lots of RAM, they'll have downloadable things. I'm just hoping we don't get more of these simplisitc console games this time around (not that all are like that, just >90%), which is exactly what I hoped last time.
Also why I'm looking (bit doubtfully) at Nintendo, since they make completely insane things that work only as console games and aren't like shallow versions of PC genres.
I've heard music (from a station I didn't recognize) from my computer speaker system, with the computer off. It was oddly rectified by switching the subwoofer off and then back on, though.
There are more than just one "Mario" game rehashed over and over. Every Mario platformer adds something new, and there are the many many spinoffs. The only thing those share with the original are the character, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, whatever that new one is, they're all very different (besides the mascot) and always introduce new gameplay elements in each revision.
Compare this to several other console games that, while they might even be completely different titles, their gameplay is always the same and unfun.
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How about this: The new Macs, apparently, can run Windows as well as OS X. Dual-booting the two would seem really attractive for would-be switchers. The type of people who want a really good, solid OS, and Windows for gaming and the occasional nonported software.
Now, the solid OS option in a dualbooting situation is mostly Linux right now. But with the new Macs, the "solid" option can be either Linux, or OS X. Personally, this would be enough to turn me over to Macs and OS X, and possibly away from desktop Linux.
(Note: I'm nearly 100% certain that Jobs or someone said the new Macs will likely run Windows and they will do nothing to stop it, they will only stop folks from using OS X on nonMacs. Makes sense since it's the hardware they sell)
What the heck? Over here in Winnipeg, they're usually around $7 ($6.75 according to the Famous Players site, and their theatres are probably the best around here). We complain about that price, $16 is insanity.
Offline mode is still problematic.
A) If you have an internet connection running, it will not run in online mode. It may also not not let you do it if you have a LAN-only connection, or at least it takes awhile to check and see if it can connect to the Steam Servers. As well, should the Steam servers be overloaded and you try to log on, you have no ability to play offline as the key info is deleted. You have to log in successfully and quit Steam totally once, and not log in again until you intend to use it online.
B) If any update is not complete, you have to allow it to complete before going into offline mode. This could be problematic for a dialup user who just pops onto it to have a game with a buddy, sees an update being required, and chooses to delay it.
C) You still need to be connected online to install in the first place
I don't exactly get the classification of "cyberpunk gear", but I did hear something about those sunglasses. More accurately, it's currently more like the other "head mounted computers" or whatnot, wearing a computer on your belt and some glasses over your eyes hooked up to it (though the glasses may be less dorky, can't remember too much). They figure that they'll eventually get it so useful information is displayed in the place of billboards. Weather forcasts or email or whatnot.
That's just one application of that technology though, and it's still probably not being commercially produced.
Can you remove the iLife apps from OS X, though? Wasn't the Microsoft problem that they wre "tied" to the OS?
and it's the only console that can hook up to a PC (through the Xbox Media Center).
:)
The Xbox Media Center is a homebrew program requiring a softmod or modchip. They might have meant "Media Center Extender for the Xbox" (Microsoft product, works with Media Center PCs), but at least we know that 1UP.COM uses and endorses mod chips now
I do see your point about the variable map sizes, the variations are quite interesting to see (and the demo doesn't include the 64 player map). At that I was just basing my little report on the technical things I saw, mostly. I really do like the gameplay, especially how they improved the support classes like the medic.
As for the settings, I did muck around a bit and run it okay at high settings, 1024x768, with shadows and something else at medium (like yours). It's still not quite good enough on 32 player servers that I've tried AA, but I'll do some tweaking and see what I can get.
I must say, when I tried to do a system update of Ubuntu, using the included package-manager frontend, the thing died on me. I could get to the login screen, but none of the window managers would load. Instead X.org just died and restarted.
I like Ubuntu, but I'm giving Fedora Core a chance after this last experience.
Evil as that might be, Disney isn't the only entity at fault here. Someone in government has to actually propose/pass the act, do they not?
Export as a PDF, or heck, even a simple RTF document?
I've never had problems exporting to DOC myself, but I don't need to very often.
Not really so with usenet though, and he said he couldn't locate on there.
I've a Radeon 9800 Pro, Althon XP 2700+, and 1GB of RAM. I have to play at medium graphic settings (and no AA/AF), it doesn't look particularily nice and still doesn't run altogether smoothly. The load times are especially horrendous (minutes), and it has to do "shader optimizing" each time you load after changing your video settings, which takes even longer.
It does have a fairly nice draw distance though.
The full version will only have 12 maps, however, and this demo doesn't look incredibly bright. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, I must play more =)
Does anyone have a nice link or document that summarizes/analyzes some of the worst aspects of this act? I wouldn't exactly love to poke through the whole thing looking for it, and I'm not a legal expert.
Or the user who enjoys the likely niche-aimed game. And since there will be many of these, many users win.
1) No one cares how "hardcore" you are.
2) These games attempt to create a certain mood, and having crates in them may ruin that
3) Console gamers care, because they only have a dinky analog stick (and often simple or shallow gameplay) and so the games make up for it with "story" and "atmosphere"
Voila
That doesn't seem to work on the SP2 Internet Explorer. Little bar at the top tells you that it blocked some potentially dangerous thing from running, and if you allow it nothing happens.
He wasn't necessarily talking about playing games the day (or month) they come out, the games are still good if you have the patience to wait a little.
And besides, an AIW is a TV capture card, of course it cost a fair amount...
Nintendo seems to be aiming for (and may succeed in a degree) two things:
1) Non-gamers will play their games. The people who don't care for the GTAs and Halos of gaming (or may be bored of them), the type who would like something that's intuitive, easy, and fun to play. Oddball things like Nintendogs, Electroplankton, and whatever the heck the Revolution is should only help that.
2) Gamers may want the Nintendo Revolution in addition to one of the other consoles. It's likely that, with the low power estimations they've been giving us (though they tend to be quiet), the console will not be that expensive. It is also likely that it will have some off the wall controller or the likes, and it will definately have ROM downloading. These things could make it attractive to normal gamers, even if they already have an Xbox360 or PS3. Not a replacement for those, since it can't stand in the normal gaming sense, but as an addition.
That and they're indeed completely nuts =)
... are that many of them are pretty dern alike, and there are limited genres within. Yet, this is why they sell. People like buying every GTA game, every run-and-shoot platformer, all the nearly identical FPS games. Until there start to be strategy games (I love Galactic Civilization and Sim City 4), moddable games, online games like Tribes/Tribes 2/Battlefield/BF2/Others that have a real good amount of depth (and should be possible with the increased console RAM), and etc., several PC gamers will stubbornly own just a PC or both.
I don't see how these types of games aren't possible anymore. TVs are at HD, allowing strategy games to work better. At least one of the consoles is using standard USB (hello keyboards/mice). They'll have harddrives, they'll have lots of RAM, they'll have downloadable things. I'm just hoping we don't get more of these simplisitc console games this time around (not that all are like that, just >90%), which is exactly what I hoped last time.
Also why I'm looking (bit doubtfully) at Nintendo, since they make completely insane things that work only as console games and aren't like shallow versions of PC genres.
And the update seems to say that it's not a hack.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=802
I've heard music (from a station I didn't recognize) from my computer speaker system, with the computer off. It was oddly rectified by switching the subwoofer off and then back on, though.
The strangest things.
There are more than just one "Mario" game rehashed over and over. Every Mario platformer adds something new, and there are the many many spinoffs. The only thing those share with the original are the character, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Kart, whatever that new one is, they're all very different (besides the mascot) and always introduce new gameplay elements in each revision.
Compare this to several other console games that, while they might even be completely different titles, their gameplay is always the same and unfun.
And will again less because people still have the foolish "kiddy game" thing jammed in their heads?
Again, did you actually do this? Just start iPodder, click "Add feed", and paste in the URL of the podcast (ie. http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/quirks.xml).
The first link on google for "podcast" or "podcasting" is to iPodder.
Not only that, but the page itself (linked to from the story) has a link to iPodder and instructions.
What the heck did you search for, "magic software device that will allow my computer to recieve podcasts through the vast super information highway"?