they were still going strong into the 90's too. i think it was need for speed 3 that came with my voodoo3... the first (and last imo) time police chases felt right in a racing game.
not sure where you get your info, but not ALL schools exclude second life from DE. You'd probably be surprised how many actually have campuses in second life and pay big bucks for researching/developing SL as a platform. I'm not going to argue the effectiveness of it (and I'm certainly not going to defend it, either), but I will say this much: Bell's first phone looked nothing like an iPhone. Just like 2nd life looks nothing like the Matrix.
Probably the most practical (non-sex) application of 2nd Life is its capacity for distance learning/education. Holding online courses in a virtual world... beats the hell out of the buggy web applet i was using back in the glory days of nortel.
Love the game, but...
i find the difficulty to be all over the map, personally. I fought against an orange guy and 4 whites last night and after I was laid waste to the first two times, I easily whipped them on the 3rd go-round. I think it has to do with a wildly random enemy AI.
I'm finally getting better at playing strategically I guess, but before I hit level 10 I was getting routinely killed by the random encounters. Pretty infuriating to bring down two ogres at a time and then get obliterated by a handful of wolves.
yeah....
1. I think folks should wait to see if the game stands up on its own before declaring a foul here.
2. That dedicated DLC team doesn't work for peanuts, I guarantee.
3. If the main team isn't working on DLC, that means other games come out quicker.
4. This DLC is obviously optional. Nobody's forcing you to buy it.
Blows my mind how quick some folks in the community will turn on one of the most influential and important dev teams.
...so when your optical drive fails, you wrap your 360 in a damp bath towel and start playing battlefield 43 til she pops.
from what i understand, the 360's red ring warranty starts over every time you get the console replaced (i'm on #4. I think?).
I sold my copy (360) of left4dead immediately after l4d2 was announced. I enjoyed the first one, don't get me wrong, but it didn't take long for me to realize it was severely lacking. Asking $60 for it was akin to highway robbery... The demo was free and it comprised one quarter of the full game. The L4D2 announcement was a bit of a slap in the face, imo.
a shooter with 6 guns...two of which are merely more powerful versions of themselves. Is that a joke? Seriously -- how could anyone *not* feel let down by l4d's dearth of out-of-the-box content? Maybe I'm weird by expecting more out of Valve, or maybe I'm stupid for expecting more out of Valve.
uh. gates never said "xbox could do toystory 2". He said "techonology" is "approaching" the level of quality seen in toy story 2. There's a pretty noticable difference between the two statements. Is it gates' fault that you guys can't read?
I'm only attacked by alliance characters 10+ levels above me. The only plausable explaination is that my level 28 Orc Shaman is seen as an enormous threat by level 60 elf rogues.
boy howdy I just can't wait for this new patch to go through and give all level 50-60 elf rogues a reason to scour contested areas in the search of rewarded PVP. There's a name for us level 28 shamans: Target of Oportunity.
you make it sound like the alliance in its entirety is completely innocent of doing that very same thing.
I've lost count of how many times my 28 level shaman has been gutted by level 40-60 alliance in hillsbrad, windshear, and ashenvale. In fact, there has only been 2 times when I came within talking distance to a high-level alliance (both were pallies) and wasn't murdered instantly. real cool! pat yerself on the back!
just as japan rejects american films, american music, american-made computer components, software, aircraft, american pop-culture... american baseball... Japan is not snobbish toward the states. Not sure if that's what you were implying or not. The xbox was just big, ugly, and the competition had better/more games. Releasing Kung-Fu Chaos over there probably didn't help MS's Far-Eastern cause, either.
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The answer is simple: only publish shitty games.
Ever see an Acclaim title at piratebay? negative.
that's the first thing i though of too...
"why do they call him 'bullet dodger'?"
no? just trying it on.
Reminds me of the first time me and my friend played Rainbow Six on the Xbox 1. I told him, "hey try out the voice commands!"
Him: "Vagina!"
His team: "Flash and clear, roger!".
Xbla games (by and large) qualify as shovelware. this venture i see as no different... it'll just be byte-sized shovelware.
they were still going strong into the 90's too. i think it was need for speed 3 that came with my voodoo3... the first (and last imo) time police chases felt right in a racing game.
not sure where you get your info, but not ALL schools exclude second life from DE. You'd probably be surprised how many actually have campuses in second life and pay big bucks for researching/developing SL as a platform. I'm not going to argue the effectiveness of it (and I'm certainly not going to defend it, either), but I will say this much: Bell's first phone looked nothing like an iPhone. Just like 2nd life looks nothing like the Matrix.
Probably the most practical (non-sex) application of 2nd Life is its capacity for distance learning/education. Holding online courses in a virtual world... beats the hell out of the buggy web applet i was using back in the glory days of nortel.
...my wife went nuts on Fallout3 and Oblivion. probably logged 200plus hours between the two.
ENCHANTMENT!
Love the game, but...
i find the difficulty to be all over the map, personally. I fought against an orange guy and 4 whites last night and after I was laid waste to the first two times, I easily whipped them on the 3rd go-round. I think it has to do with a wildly random enemy AI.
I'm finally getting better at playing strategically I guess, but before I hit level 10 I was getting routinely killed by the random encounters. Pretty infuriating to bring down two ogres at a time and then get obliterated by a handful of wolves.
Damned Mobuto Sese Seko...Now his children/lovers/lawyers/psychiatrists are showing up in videogames too?
Go watch a final fantasy game and then get back to me.
yeah....
1. I think folks should wait to see if the game stands up on its own before declaring a foul here.
2. That dedicated DLC team doesn't work for peanuts, I guarantee.
3. If the main team isn't working on DLC, that means other games come out quicker.
4. This DLC is obviously optional. Nobody's forcing you to buy it.
Blows my mind how quick some folks in the community will turn on one of the most influential and important dev teams.
in other news: Water is Wet!!!
The word appallingly, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable. By Fox News standards, of course.
...so when your optical drive fails, you wrap your 360 in a damp bath towel and start playing battlefield 43 til she pops. from what i understand, the 360's red ring warranty starts over every time you get the console replaced (i'm on #4. I think?).
I sold my copy (360) of left4dead immediately after l4d2 was announced. I enjoyed the first one, don't get me wrong, but it didn't take long for me to realize it was severely lacking. Asking $60 for it was akin to highway robbery... The demo was free and it comprised one quarter of the full game. The L4D2 announcement was a bit of a slap in the face, imo. a shooter with 6 guns...two of which are merely more powerful versions of themselves. Is that a joke? Seriously -- how could anyone *not* feel let down by l4d's dearth of out-of-the-box content? Maybe I'm weird by expecting more out of Valve, or maybe I'm stupid for expecting more out of Valve.
...do i need this to set the clown on fire?
I hear the steak is tasty.
you say 'some.' I say 'i could probably count them on three fingers.'
uh. gates never said "xbox could do toystory 2". He said "techonology" is "approaching" the level of quality seen in toy story 2. There's a pretty noticable difference between the two statements. Is it gates' fault that you guys can't read?
I'm only attacked by alliance characters 10+ levels above me. The only plausable explaination is that my level 28 Orc Shaman is seen as an enormous threat by level 60 elf rogues.
boy howdy I just can't wait for this new patch to go through and give all level 50-60 elf rogues a reason to scour contested areas in the search of rewarded PVP. There's a name for us level 28 shamans: Target of Oportunity.
you make it sound like the alliance in its entirety is completely innocent of doing that very same thing.
I've lost count of how many times my 28 level shaman has been gutted by level 40-60 alliance in hillsbrad, windshear, and ashenvale. In fact, there has only been 2 times when I came within talking distance to a high-level alliance (both were pallies) and wasn't murdered instantly. real cool! pat yerself on the back!
just as japan rejects american films, american music, american-made computer components, software, aircraft, american pop-culture... american baseball... Japan is not snobbish toward the states. Not sure if that's what you were implying or not. The xbox was just big, ugly, and the competition had better/more games. Releasing Kung-Fu Chaos over there probably didn't help MS's Far-Eastern cause, either.