The one thing about global warming that people must understand is that it will throw all the climate regions into chaos, and change them, which will change the local fauna and flora.
Change? Yes, but will it be better or worse? Will the effect be a bad one or a good one overall for the fauna and flora. This is what we really don't know or understand.
Can anyone point me towards a good open-ended rpg game? And I don't mean morrowind. I want a game similar in spirit to the old ultima 6/7 where you could just bake bread if you wanted to, get married etc etc and basically completely ignore what you were supposed to be doing wihout it feeling completely forced?
Even GTA is extremely limited in it's interactions with the surrounding worlds.
Oh and the game should have individual NPC schedules too:D
Thank God that they don't abuse that power.
Oh ye of too much faith. Google is a company. Wait till their share price starts dropping and then we'll see if we thank them for not abusing their power.
For you and the guy who modded it insightful. Please, please use a little website called www.google.com. Do a couple of searches and WAKE UP TO YOURSELF!
I had actually forgotten about this. I had been swept up a bit in the hype and was looking forward to getting myself a 360 when they came out.
But no, I refuse to have to pay to make my games work at the whim of microsoft. They either work for ever or not at all in my opinion.
So bring on the ps3 or the revolution. Hopefully they show a bit more common sense!
I still use my copy of office 2000 I got with a computer way back when. None of that activation rubbish and it does *everything* that I would ever want it to do.
Which is why incidently, I don't use open office either.
Wow. That's some constructive thinking. Do you happen to own a large part of an oil company?
No, do you understand the full workings of our global climate? No, me either, in fact nobody does. Not even close. I don't want to get into the whole butterfly wings thing, but it really is relevant to this case.
Scientists can say that global warming is happening. Fair enough, they probably know their stuff.
What they can't say is *why* it is happening, and what if anything we can or should do about it. Who is to say in trying to reduce the effect we won't speed it up or make it worse?
Which isn't to say that we shouldn't study or try to understand it, but headings like this one don't help. What we need is properly funded research and a good sit down and think about it without trying to raise money and further careers through fud .
With the DS price drop to $129, and the fact that it actually has a lot of *really* fun games, it looks like the PSP may just be a niche device. The super-1337 teenager may want a PSP for the wow factor, but the fact is the DS is more fun, cheaper, and selling better.
This sort of ignores how crap the DS was for a *long* time. Give the PSP the same amount of time and see which one has the better games. Thats exactly what I am waiting for, and if the price drops again all the better!
and play through what will probably be the last computer RPG with a real story.
I really hope this isn't true..but yeah I fear it is the case as well. There are a massive amount of people out there with great rpg stories...but the effort (ie money) to make something like happen just looks more unlikely when the latest EA franchise can just be churned out and make the cash
But I just couldn't get into the game. I loved the similar games around that time, like BG and so on...
I think it comes down to the sheer amount of text and story that was provided. I just couldn't bring myself to read it all and *care*. Could be me getting old, but normally a game will suck me in enough that I'll spend the time and really get into it all.
I had the same trouble with morrowind.
I think it is more referring to the fact that a large part of microsoft's popularity was built by them being the only platform you could play the latest games on.
I know this is why I had windows when I was growing up, and thats why a lot of people would continue to use what they are used to today.
Take away the games, and all of a sudden you have to ask what is really tieing you to windows anymore? Email? browsing? office? development? games? nope, nope, nope and yes!
I love it how people will fire up about racists and tell you how evil and bad they are...then in the next conversation go on and on about how much they hate Americans....
So this post, is considered insightful and underrated. It claims that the mass killing of people in london was organised to help pass a law that allows law-enforcement agencies to check library records.
A post that disagrees with this is moderated as a troll.
Look to history...actually it proves over and over again that things *are* that simple, and are exactly what they appear to be...it just happens that not everybody knows what those things are, no matter how smart they like to think they may be.
So your point is that there are bad people in the FBI?
No there are bad people everywhere. There are also good people. There are lazy people. There are people who invent good things. Does that prove anything? No not at all.
Get over yourself and just get on with life. The important thing is shit like this *just doesn't matter*. If you want to see things that really matter, go to a country like Rwanda and see what real problems are all about.
I mean OMG the FBI can check my library records!!! Thank god we have people like you eternally vigilant that can save us from life shattering changes like this. Wake me up *when* *something* *important* *happens* that is not just people trying to fix a bad situation as best they can by doing their jobs.
It starts being a conspiracy theory when you simply state facts and assume that in someway backs up your view.
"The list goes on" So continue the list? You were getting shaky by the end of it I suppose so you probably can't do so.
How about just maybe there are some fucked up people out there doing bad stuff because thats what they know to do, and the men and women who we elect are just trying to do their job and stop them?
Ever stop to think that it might be just that simple? No oil theories, no aliens, no secret governments..just normal people doing their day to day jobs (be it in government or as terrorists) and going about their lives killing time till they die?
I have to completely agree.
Which makes me sad why it was hailed as so revolutionary and ground-breaking in it's open-endedness....because it was compared to all the other games of recent times, but it is nothing compared to the enjoyment you could have tooling around in games made by Origin and the like quite some time ago
Look no further then Ultimas 6 and 7. Even 9 had it's moments (Looking over bucanneers den for the first time for example).
The thing that got to me about these games was the immersion factor. That is you didn't have to spend time worrying about the quest, you could just run around and make bread for a little while if you wished. Generally most things you tried because you *wanted* to do (like make a sword) worked.
In my opinion nothing since has gone close to what you could do in these games. (If I'm wrong, please let me know so I can play it!). Morrowwind? Meh, it tried hard, but was still a step backward from what was achieved all those years ago!
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The one thing about global warming that people must understand is that it will throw all the climate regions into chaos, and change them, which will change the local fauna and flora.
Change? Yes, but will it be better or worse? Will the effect be a bad one or a good one overall for the fauna and flora. This is what we really don't know or understand.
I would have thought Electronic Arts would have got a much better run
Can anyone point me towards a good open-ended rpg game? And I don't mean morrowind. I want a game similar in spirit to the old ultima 6/7 where you could just bake bread if you wanted to, get married etc etc and basically completely ignore what you were supposed to be doing wihout it feeling completely forced? :D
Even GTA is extremely limited in it's interactions with the surrounding worlds.
Oh and the game should have individual NPC schedules too
and a very sweet appearance by the chainsaw
It makes you think though, why in the world do they have chainsaws on mars anyways?
Thank God that they don't abuse that power.
Oh ye of too much faith. Google is a company. Wait till their share price starts dropping and then we'll see if we thank them for not abusing their power.
thank GOD for the safe=active you added there
For you and the guy who modded it insightful. Please, please use a little website called www.google.com. Do a couple of searches and WAKE UP TO YOURSELF!
never mind, either way it's still LAMP isn't it?
I had actually forgotten about this. I had been swept up a bit in the hype and was looking forward to getting myself a 360 when they came out.
But no, I refuse to have to pay to make my games work at the whim of microsoft. They either work for ever or not at all in my opinion.
So bring on the ps3 or the revolution. Hopefully they show a bit more common sense!
I still use my copy of office 2000 I got with a computer way back when. None of that activation rubbish and it does *everything* that I would ever want it to do.
Which is why incidently, I don't use open office either.
Wow. That's some constructive thinking. Do you happen to own a large part of an oil company?
No, do you understand the full workings of our global climate? No, me either, in fact nobody does. Not even close. I don't want to get into the whole butterfly wings thing, but it really is relevant to this case.
Scientists can say that global warming is happening. Fair enough, they probably know their stuff.
What they can't say is *why* it is happening, and what if anything we can or should do about it. Who is to say in trying to reduce the effect we won't speed it up or make it worse?
Which isn't to say that we shouldn't study or try to understand it, but headings like this one don't help. What we need is properly funded research and a good sit down and think about it without trying to raise money and further careers through fud .
With the DS price drop to $129, and the fact that it actually has a lot of *really* fun games, it looks like the PSP may just be a niche device. The super-1337 teenager may want a PSP for the wow factor, but the fact is the DS is more fun, cheaper, and selling better.
This sort of ignores how crap the DS was for a *long* time. Give the PSP the same amount of time and see which one has the better games. Thats exactly what I am waiting for, and if the price drops again all the better!
and play through what will probably be the last computer RPG with a real story.
I really hope this isn't true..but yeah I fear it is the case as well. There are a massive amount of people out there with great rpg stories...but the effort (ie money) to make something like happen just looks more unlikely when the latest EA franchise can just be churned out and make the cash
But I just couldn't get into the game. I loved the similar games around that time, like BG and so on...
I think it comes down to the sheer amount of text and story that was provided. I just couldn't bring myself to read it all and *care*. Could be me getting old, but normally a game will suck me in enough that I'll spend the time and really get into it all.
I had the same trouble with morrowind.
I'm sure everyone remembers the space-ship in the field..and then you had the zany ways you could kill lord british... *sigh* memories
Well not square...but Grandia III is being done by the enix side of the company. So yeah, how about it???
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/637/637989p1.html
I think it is more referring to the fact that a large part of microsoft's popularity was built by them being the only platform you could play the latest games on.
I know this is why I had windows when I was growing up, and thats why a lot of people would continue to use what they are used to today.
Take away the games, and all of a sudden you have to ask what is really tieing you to windows anymore? Email? browsing? office? development? games? nope, nope, nope and yes!
I love it how people will fire up about racists and tell you how evil and bad they are...then in the next conversation go on and on about how much they hate Americans....
So this post, is considered insightful and underrated. It claims that the mass killing of people in london was organised to help pass a law that allows law-enforcement agencies to check library records.
A post that disagrees with this is moderated as a troll.
Is this really slashdot that I am reading?
Look to history...actually it proves over and over again that things *are* that simple, and are exactly what they appear to be...it just happens that not everybody knows what those things are, no matter how smart they like to think they may be.
So your point is that there are bad people in the FBI?
No there are bad people everywhere. There are also good people. There are lazy people. There are people who invent good things. Does that prove anything? No not at all.
Get over yourself and just get on with life. The important thing is shit like this *just doesn't matter*. If you want to see things that really matter, go to a country like Rwanda and see what real problems are all about.
I mean OMG the FBI can check my library records!!! Thank god we have people like you eternally vigilant that can save us from life shattering changes like this. Wake me up *when* *something* *important* *happens* that is not just people trying to fix a bad situation as best they can by doing their jobs.
It starts being a conspiracy theory when you simply state facts and assume that in someway backs up your view.
"The list goes on" So continue the list? You were getting shaky by the end of it I suppose so you probably can't do so.
How about just maybe there are some fucked up people out there doing bad stuff because thats what they know to do, and the men and women who we elect are just trying to do their job and stop them?
Ever stop to think that it might be just that simple? No oil theories, no aliens, no secret governments..just normal people doing their day to day jobs (be it in government or as terrorists) and going about their lives killing time till they die?
I have to completely agree.
Which makes me sad why it was hailed as so revolutionary and ground-breaking in it's open-endedness....because it was compared to all the other games of recent times, but it is nothing compared to the enjoyment you could have tooling around in games made by Origin and the like quite some time ago
Look no further then Ultimas 6 and 7. Even 9 had it's moments (Looking over bucanneers den for the first time for example).
The thing that got to me about these games was the immersion factor. That is you didn't have to spend time worrying about the quest, you could just run around and make bread for a little while if you wished. Generally most things you tried because you *wanted* to do (like make a sword) worked.
In my opinion nothing since has gone close to what you could do in these games. (If I'm wrong, please let me know so I can play it!). Morrowwind? Meh, it tried hard, but was still a step backward from what was achieved all those years ago!