Several years ago, a friend of mine was stuck in a hospital for an exploratory op. My GF and I brought in a N64 (yes, checked out and approved by staff) and we played a few games, including GoldenEye. We eventually played with it set to insta-kill and slappers only. Oh, and my friend was doped up on morphine.
I would personally put Descent in over Quake. I remember trying to explain to a friend in a multiplayer game how to navigate to a certain spot, and just causing confusion. When he finally got there, turns out our "ships" were upside down to one another. The fact that there really was no universal up or down, just in relation to your ship, was great, and something I really haven't seen since. It was a pain to play with just a keyboard though.
I'm surprised that no mention was made of the Half Life mod community. Sure, Doom started the FPS modding in earnest, but it really flourished with HL.
Let's try a slightly different format for this reply...
That's a good point. I honestly don't know nearly enough about the Netherlands to understand how the race issue would be viewed there, but clearly different enough that it isn't the hot-button issue it is here.
From what I understand, its much less of an issue there. Must have something to do with the lack of "years of slavery" thing. I did a quick search, and couldn't find an instance of the locals complaining about the ad... just us.
I was referring to ancestry (and thus the history of relevent racial conflicts), not nationality, so yes I identified the curly-haired black woman as African. I suppose the white woman could be from north Asia as well, but you get my drift.
I honestly wasn't trying to infer you were racist, but just that we all are fairly set in how we view things. Anyone black, we automatically set the label of "African" on. Similarly, anyone with almond shaped eyes we label as "Asian". It is only the whites that we refer to by their nationality (or possibly by the more general "European"), even though we have no idea who's lived where for how long.
A big part of my ranting is out of frustration. I can't help but feel that many of the practices we've adopted to bring a bit more racial equality have served their purpose and are now just holding us back. I'm not talking about job quotas or the like, but rather just the fact that one of the first things we do when presented with a minority is identify them as such so that we can follow certain special rules that apply only when dealing with them. I can't help but feel we need to start moving beyond that. I know it's going to be very tricky, but one of the first things we need to do is not act stupid when it comes to some basic cases where itis obvious that race isn't an issue. Now, this appears to me to be one of those cases... however, I recognize that not everyone feels the same. So be it.
BTW, perchance you're talking about Chicago?
Nope... Kansas City. Have friends and family in Chicago, though, and spent some time around there. It's very similar... except without such a large Greek or Italian community. Asian community is proportionally similar, but without any concentration in any one place to form a Chinatow. And I think there's a greater proportion of Mexicans (I'm not saying Hispanic only because of all the ones I've had chance to talk to, which is actually quite a few, that's been the place of origin). At one point, this city was subject to some terrible "white flight", contributing to what might be the worst case of urban sprawl this side of LA. It has recently been turning around, though.. some good downtown redevelopment, with some areas that were blighted a decade ago now becoming major draws.
*snif* That's such a touching take on Dr. King's dream. Heh. But yeah, I myself who grew up in a black neighborhood with mostly black friends have hated and been hated without race being the cause, though even still our relative races innevitably came up. That's the real tragedy, and will probably take longer to go away.
Yeah, unfortunately when it comes to throwing around insults to piss off your adversary, the racial slurs are just such an easy arsenal to dip into. Interesting story, back in my college days hanging out in the dorms with those late night "deep and philosophical" conversations, myself (yes, I am white) and a black man had a discussion covering a lot of these same topics. Afterwards, it was amusing watching the reactions of those around us the couple times we passed eachother in the hall, when he would call me "nigger" and I'd call him "cracker". I view that as much of a Discordian action than a race relations one, though.
I see your point and agree, so this is a nit, but racism is an issue because it was taken out of context; I really c
That's called "context" and it's important. These ads don't exist in a vacuum. They exist in our world in which one race dominating, slaying, and enslaving another has been one of the continual themes of history. The ad itself pairs two races who have had such a history even up to today. That's significant. That can't be ignored.
They also existed in the Netherlands, not the US. We had to drag it out of it's original context and consider it in our own, a context for which it was never intended. Our reaction and subsequent demands to pull these ads makes less sense than the demands of some Muslims that a Danish newspaper should be punished for printing those Mohammed cartoons.
I'm not trying to deny that racism exists. You seem to have a decent attitude about the whole race issue, ad yet you automatically identified the black woman as African instead of just as European, like the white woman. And I agree, actual racism perpetuates racism more than hypersensitivity about race. And RE: interracial couples: I'll not only agree, but go one further and give an example - a good friend of mine, who's a white male Republican with political aspirations and about as much of a stereotypical caucasian as you can get, and is married to a black woman, staunchly Democratic and daughter of a Southern Baptist minister. You bet that tension (in fact, all sorts of tensions from their myriad differences) enhances their marriage. I myself live in a major city in the American Midwest - I work near downtown, and a trip 15 minutes from my home can take me into some very rural areas. I get to see racial issues on a very regular basis, and man do they ever exist.
Thing is, though, that if we don't acknowledge that yes, occasionally people of different races and/or ethnicities can occasionally interact without race being an issue, then we're all doomed. And I'm not talking just about nice and happy, warm and fuzzy interaction - I'm looking forward to a time when a black person and a white person can truly hate each other with every fiber of their body, and not have race be the slightest cause of it. Yeah, maybe it's a little way off, but it's closer than you might think.
I guess my point is that the only reason that race is an issue in these ads is because some people took it entirely out of context and made it an issue. Let's say someone took some picture of me taken on some vacation, just relaxing or doing something else harmless, cropped my head out of that picture, and then pasted it onto the body of some serial killer eating a baby. Sony apologising for how Americans misinterpreted this ad would be like me apologising for being a serial killer and eating babies because of someone else's photo editing skills.
Well, then, there wouldn't be a problem then, now would there?
My point is, there shouldn't be a problem now. I saw the ad, and somehow managed to not think in terms of two women of different races, but rather just two women with different skin colors. It shouldn't be any different than two women with different hair colors. If it were a blonde and a brunette, would you cry "Oppression Against Brunettes!"?
This is stupid. What if the campaign were recreated, using just two white women, one wearing white and the other wearing black? What if it were two white men? How about two black men? How about two persian women? How about two ______ _______? Oh, but the fact that they are of different races means it's insensitive. You wouldn't have a problem with the ad if it were two persons of the same race and gender.
This hypersensitivity is actually serving to perpetuate racist views. It is forcing people to consider race as an issue when people really shouldn't have to. Please don't feed me a line about the "years of oppression". What if the white woman was Jewish? In that particular ad campaign (of which people only ever seem to show one image of, conveniently leaving out another where the roles are reversed), who's opressing who?
Personally, I'm disappointed in Sony for their retraction. Go ahead and say your sorry people have misinterpreted the intent of the campaign, that's fine. Even pulling the campaign itself s understandable.. apparently, people are too stupid for this ad campaign to work. But to come out and "admit" they were wrong? That's just caving into peer pressure there.
It was meant to be funny, but that wasn't the whole of it. I was actually thinking of the "special edition"of Showgirls that came out a while back, which contained an easter egg that, when triggerred, cycled through all the "naughty bits", skipping the rest of the film. Not a lot of loss on that one, I feel.
Anyways, I hadn't considered using it to skip commercials... that would really take some good synchronization. To perform it reliably, you'd probably have to get your DVD player to sync on some common element, such as some part of the opening title. I just don't think you can get everyone's time settings close enough to make it work that way. Good idea, though.
I also liked another poster's reply about making "Director's Cuts" of movies. Of course, those couldn't really contain additional footage, but there are plenty of movies out there that could use some trimming down.
You know, it seems to me that the Clearplay DVD player mentioned above could become popular, but only if those outside of Clearplay can generate the necessary filters. I can't help but think that there's a market for a DVD player that can skip everything else and play JUST the naughty parts of a DVD...
Most Americans won't play EVE because most Americans don't play MMORPGs in general. Speaking strictly about the Americans who play MMORPGs, though, most won't be playing EVE because of the huge time investment. Most of these gamers play for a diversion... they are playing a game, not trying to work a second virtual job.
You say that Americans like games simple and dumbed down, and say that is why Americans don't like Soccer, but instead play games like (American) Football, Basketball and Baseball. I'm guessing you have never played Soccer, then. It's simplicity is part of what makes it a great sport... at the core, you just need a ball to play it. No fancy rules, no complex strategies, no infield fly rule, no complex screen pass patterns. Once you've mastered the offsides rule, which any 6 year old can do, it's a simple game.
Regarding your comments on music as a reflection on American society - you realize that this applies to the entire world, don't you? And why are you including the Beatles as an example of American music?
Look, I may just be falling into the trap laid by yet another Troll, but the way I see it, you are extremely confused on... well, almost every subject you broached in your brief explanation...
This is a great idea... the only problem with it is lag. Fighting games rely too much on quick reactions that I don't think it could be pulled off well. The player across the world would be noticibly slower than the one standing right next to you.
I have noticed that the arcades that succeed are the ones that offer what you cannot get at home... at least, not easily. I walk into the Dave and Buster's here, and most of the video games here are light gun games, racing games, or DDR. You could get the setup for any one of these, but it's not part of a common console or PC setup anymore. You can get the steering wheel, shifter and pedals, but they aren't set into a sturdy interface like at the arcade, where you can slam the wheel or shifter around and not worry about knocking it off your desk.
I agree, it's the ability to compete against another on a fairly even level (I remember playing Track and Field against those who were actual athletes) that helps to make video games fun, but it's also the ability to offer what you can't get at home. And I would love it if some place offered one of the ultimate combinations of the two, i.e. pinball machines, and offered plenty of them. If D&B had a side room with about 10 pinball machines, I'd be there every week.
Following up my own post: Yeah, If I had read the comment's title, I would have had my questioned answered. Hey, I already read the summary, and am reading the article... next you'll want me to read comments before I respond to them.
I see a comment like this in just about every FF thread anymore. It's the stock response for someone who doesn't care for the FF series and wants to make a witty remark on/. I'll repeat what I said in the last one:
Like most things, there's actually a reason and a story why they name a seemingly unending series "Final". Wikipedia has a nice summation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy#Overvie w
Or, for those who don't feel like following a link:
Square Co., Ltd. first entered the Japanese video game industry in the mid 1980s, developing a variety of simple RPGs for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System (FDS), a disk-based peripheral for the Family Computer (also known as the "Famicom," and known internationally as the Nintendo Entertainment System). By 1987, declining interest in the FDS had placed Square on the verge of bankruptcy. At approximately the same time, Square designer Hironobu Sakaguchi began work on an ambitious new fantasy role playing game for the cartridge-based Famicom, inspired in part by Enix's popular Dragon Quest (known to some in the United States as Dragon Warrior). (At the time, Enix and Square were separate companies; they did not merge until about 17 years later.) Sakaguchi had plans to retire after the completion of the project so he named it Final Fantasy because it was his final game, although it was also going to be Square's final game. In fact, it's commonly believed that the game was named Final Fantasy because of Square and not Sakaguchi, although Sakaguchi himself has confirmed it was named because of his plans for retirement. Either way, Final Fantasy turned out to be far from being Square's or Sakaguchi's last game. Final Fantasy reversed Square's lagging fortunes, and became their flagship franchise.
I for one can see how this would be useful. You see, there isn't one set of terms and conditions, but rather there's a whole range of possible conditions applicable under Creative Commons licensing.
What this looks like is pretty much a wizard that asks you how you would like to allow your work to be used, and then generates the CC license for those conditions. Although a nice add on, it really doesn't look all that complicated. I'm hoping it isn't long until someone makes a good wizard for OpenOffice.org as well.
I want to say The Legend of Zelda series, but even then only a few act like sequels from a previous episode. I'm not sure if someone can put 3 or more of those games in one coherent in-game timeline or not. Link to the past acted as if the NES games didn't exist, story wise, and Ocarina of Time seemed to ignore the NES and SNES games. Majora's Mask seemed a bit like a sequel to Ocarina, but almost more by chance. I haven't played any iterations for handhelds or GameCube, so I can't say there.
I think we might have better luck on this if we open the floor to prequels as well.
Does anyone else feel a little ripped off every time they buy a new sequel to a game called "final fantasy"?
Such is the stock witty remark made by every other person who doesn't care for the Final Fantasy series. Seriously, I've heard this "original" comment from no fewer than 20 different people.
Like most things, there's actually a reason and a story why they name a seemingly unending series "Final". Wikipedia has a nice summation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy#Overvie w
Or, for those who don't feel like following a link:
Square Co., Ltd. first entered the Japanese video game industry in the mid 1980s, developing a variety of simple RPGs for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System (FDS), a disk-based peripheral for the Family Computer (also known as the "Famicom," and known internationally as the Nintendo Entertainment System). By 1987, declining interest in the FDS had placed Square on the verge of bankruptcy. At approximately the same time, Square designer Hironobu Sakaguchi began work on an ambitious new fantasy role playing game for the cartridge-based Famicom, inspired in part by Enix's popular Dragon Quest (known to some in the United States as Dragon Warrior). (At the time, Enix and Square were separate companies; they did not merge until about 17 years later.) Sakaguchi had plans to retire after the completion of the project so he named it Final Fantasy because it was his final game, although it was also going to be Square's final game. In fact, it's commonly believed that the game was named Final Fantasy because of Square and not Sakaguchi, although Sakaguchi himself has confirmed it was named because of his plans for retirement. Either way, Final Fantasy turned out to be far from being Square's or Sakaguchi's last game. Final Fantasy reversed Square's lagging fortunes, and became their flagship franchise.
Though not a bad idea, even plain text arithmetic is far from foolproof. You could go more complex, but then you run the risk of excluding those who have trouble solving those problems, either in translating the word problem into a solvable mathematical format, or whatever. It would seem that a simple logic problem might be better at differentiating human from bot, but I can imagine that it would have an even higher false negative detection rate.
Visual tests with an audio alternative for sight impaired users covers most of your user base in most situations. When it comes to sight and hearing impaired users, though, is there even a standard human interface device for this situation? If so, then the nature of this device will heavily influence what options exist for user athentication.
I second this recommendation. Most standard MMOGs have a lot of grind forming a huge timesink, and if you are restricting it to times when you both can play, advancement will be even slower. Guildwars has a lot less grind to it, and you can make real progress in the time you play it, really conveying a sense of achievement. Plus, each account currently has slots for 4 characters, so you can also create another ton to play solo with. It's also decently easy to pick up and become good at (it's becoming great at it which is difficult... reminds me of those old Othello commercials).
You know, that could be the start of an interesting mechanic... The zombie player starts with one zombie - will call him the "Zombie Lord", for lack of a better term. He gets knocked down, he gets back up, maybe with a penalty, maybe not. He kills a human, the human player goes back to a spawn point of some sort to start again (again, with or without penalty). Meanwhile, the corpse he leaves behind stands up, and becomes the first minion in the Zombie Lord's horde. He follows the ZL around, attacks his targets, etc. Next corpse left by a human he kills becomes the second minion in his blossoming horde. Now, if a minion gets knocked down, does it get back up? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe only after a period of time, and maybe only for a finite amount of time.
Now if they come out with this game and it uses any of these mechanics, we'll have to point back to this thread and demand royalties...
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True... It certainly broke new ground, and did something no other game really did before. It's just, though it led to new vistas, noone else followed.
Shame, really. Makes me want to try and make some UT2k4 maps to relive/revive the experience.
Several years ago, a friend of mine was stuck in a hospital for an exploratory op. My GF and I brought in a N64 (yes, checked out and approved by staff) and we played a few games, including GoldenEye. We eventually played with it set to insta-kill and slappers only. Oh, and my friend was doped up on morphine.
Damn, that was fun.
I would personally put Descent in over Quake. I remember trying to explain to a friend in a multiplayer game how to navigate to a certain spot, and just causing confusion. When he finally got there, turns out our "ships" were upside down to one another. The fact that there really was no universal up or down, just in relation to your ship, was great, and something I really haven't seen since. It was a pain to play with just a keyboard though.
I'm surprised that no mention was made of the Half Life mod community. Sure, Doom started the FPS modding in earnest, but it really flourished with HL.
An analogous argument would be:
Person A: You know, bananas shouldn't be green.
Person B: Yet, your shirt is green.
Admittedly, the GP post about blockquote vs italics for quoting is sort of trivial at best, but still...
But FF38 will be the pinnacle of the series
Fixed your typo of a correction of a typo of a correction of a typo. No need to be temporal bigots, after all.
From what I understand, its much less of an issue there. Must have something to do with the lack of "years of slavery" thing. I did a quick search, and couldn't find an instance of the locals complaining about the ad... just us.
I honestly wasn't trying to infer you were racist, but just that we all are fairly set in how we view things. Anyone black, we automatically set the label of "African" on. Similarly, anyone with almond shaped eyes we label as "Asian". It is only the whites that we refer to by their nationality (or possibly by the more general "European"), even though we have no idea who's lived where for how long.
A big part of my ranting is out of frustration. I can't help but feel that many of the practices we've adopted to bring a bit more racial equality have served their purpose and are now just holding us back. I'm not talking about job quotas or the like, but rather just the fact that one of the first things we do when presented with a minority is identify them as such so that we can follow certain special rules that apply only when dealing with them. I can't help but feel we need to start moving beyond that. I know it's going to be very tricky, but one of the first things we need to do is not act stupid when it comes to some basic cases where itis obvious that race isn't an issue. Now, this appears to me to be one of those cases... however, I recognize that not everyone feels the same. So be it.
Nope... Kansas City. Have friends and family in Chicago, though, and spent some time around there. It's very similar... except without such a large Greek or Italian community. Asian community is proportionally similar, but without any concentration in any one place to form a Chinatow. And I think there's a greater proportion of Mexicans (I'm not saying Hispanic only because of all the ones I've had chance to talk to, which is actually quite a few, that's been the place of origin). At one point, this city was subject to some terrible "white flight", contributing to what might be the worst case of urban sprawl this side of LA. It has recently been turning around, though.. some good downtown redevelopment, with some areas that were blighted a decade ago now becoming major draws.
Yeah, unfortunately when it comes to throwing around insults to piss off your adversary, the racial slurs are just such an easy arsenal to dip into. Interesting story, back in my college days hanging out in the dorms with those late night "deep and philosophical" conversations, myself (yes, I am white) and a black man had a discussion covering a lot of these same topics. Afterwards, it was amusing watching the reactions of those around us the couple times we passed eachother in the hall, when he would call me "nigger" and I'd call him "cracker". I view that as much of a Discordian action than a race relations one, though.
They also existed in the Netherlands, not the US. We had to drag it out of it's original context and consider it in our own, a context for which it was never intended. Our reaction and subsequent demands to pull these ads makes less sense than the demands of some Muslims that a Danish newspaper should be punished for printing those Mohammed cartoons.
I'm not trying to deny that racism exists. You seem to have a decent attitude about the whole race issue, ad yet you automatically identified the black woman as African instead of just as European, like the white woman. And I agree, actual racism perpetuates racism more than hypersensitivity about race. And RE: interracial couples: I'll not only agree, but go one further and give an example - a good friend of mine, who's a white male Republican with political aspirations and about as much of a stereotypical caucasian as you can get, and is married to a black woman, staunchly Democratic and daughter of a Southern Baptist minister. You bet that tension (in fact, all sorts of tensions from their myriad differences) enhances their marriage. I myself live in a major city in the American Midwest - I work near downtown, and a trip 15 minutes from my home can take me into some very rural areas. I get to see racial issues on a very regular basis, and man do they ever exist.
Thing is, though, that if we don't acknowledge that yes, occasionally people of different races and/or ethnicities can occasionally interact without race being an issue, then we're all doomed. And I'm not talking just about nice and happy, warm and fuzzy interaction - I'm looking forward to a time when a black person and a white person can truly hate each other with every fiber of their body, and not have race be the slightest cause of it. Yeah, maybe it's a little way off, but it's closer than you might think.
I guess my point is that the only reason that race is an issue in these ads is because some people took it entirely out of context and made it an issue. Let's say someone took some picture of me taken on some vacation, just relaxing or doing something else harmless, cropped my head out of that picture, and then pasted it onto the body of some serial killer eating a baby. Sony apologising for how Americans misinterpreted this ad would be like me apologising for being a serial killer and eating babies because of someone else's photo editing skills.
Thank you... that's an excellent summation. Dead on.
My point is, there shouldn't be a problem now. I saw the ad, and somehow managed to not think in terms of two women of different races, but rather just two women with different skin colors. It shouldn't be any different than two women with different hair colors. If it were a blonde and a brunette, would you cry "Oppression Against Brunettes!"?
This is stupid. What if the campaign were recreated, using just two white women, one wearing white and the other wearing black? What if it were two white men? How about two black men? How about two persian women? How about two ______ _______? Oh, but the fact that they are of different races means it's insensitive. You wouldn't have a problem with the ad if it were two persons of the same race and gender.
This hypersensitivity is actually serving to perpetuate racist views. It is forcing people to consider race as an issue when people really shouldn't have to. Please don't feed me a line about the "years of oppression". What if the white woman was Jewish? In that particular ad campaign (of which people only ever seem to show one image of, conveniently leaving out another where the roles are reversed), who's opressing who?
Personally, I'm disappointed in Sony for their retraction. Go ahead and say your sorry people have misinterpreted the intent of the campaign, that's fine. Even pulling the campaign itself s understandable.. apparently, people are too stupid for this ad campaign to work. But to come out and "admit" they were wrong? That's just caving into peer pressure there.
Anyways, I hadn't considered using it to skip commercials... that would really take some good synchronization. To perform it reliably, you'd probably have to get your DVD player to sync on some common element, such as some part of the opening title. I just don't think you can get everyone's time settings close enough to make it work that way. Good idea, though.
I also liked another poster's reply about making "Director's Cuts" of movies. Of course, those couldn't really contain additional footage, but there are plenty of movies out there that could use some trimming down.
You know, it seems to me that the Clearplay DVD player mentioned above could become popular, but only if those outside of Clearplay can generate the necessary filters. I can't help but think that there's a market for a DVD player that can skip everything else and play JUST the naughty parts of a DVD...
Most Americans won't play EVE because most Americans don't play MMORPGs in general. Speaking strictly about the Americans who play MMORPGs, though, most won't be playing EVE because of the huge time investment. Most of these gamers play for a diversion... they are playing a game, not trying to work a second virtual job.
You say that Americans like games simple and dumbed down, and say that is why Americans don't like Soccer, but instead play games like (American) Football, Basketball and Baseball. I'm guessing you have never played Soccer, then. It's simplicity is part of what makes it a great sport... at the core, you just need a ball to play it. No fancy rules, no complex strategies, no infield fly rule, no complex screen pass patterns. Once you've mastered the offsides rule, which any 6 year old can do, it's a simple game.
Regarding your comments on music as a reflection on American society - you realize that this applies to the entire world, don't you? And why are you including the Beatles as an example of American music?
Look, I may just be falling into the trap laid by yet another Troll, but the way I see it, you are extremely confused on... well, almost every subject you broached in your brief explanation...
I have noticed that the arcades that succeed are the ones that offer what you cannot get at home... at least, not easily. I walk into the Dave and Buster's here, and most of the video games here are light gun games, racing games, or DDR. You could get the setup for any one of these, but it's not part of a common console or PC setup anymore. You can get the steering wheel, shifter and pedals, but they aren't set into a sturdy interface like at the arcade, where you can slam the wheel or shifter around and not worry about knocking it off your desk.
I agree, it's the ability to compete against another on a fairly even level (I remember playing Track and Field against those who were actual athletes) that helps to make video games fun, but it's also the ability to offer what you can't get at home. And I would love it if some place offered one of the ultimate combinations of the two, i.e. pinball machines, and offered plenty of them. If D&B had a side room with about 10 pinball machines, I'd be there every week.
Following up my own post: Yeah, If I had read the comment's title, I would have had my questioned answered. Hey, I already read the summary, and am reading the article... next you'll want me to read comments before I respond to them.
To what, run a backup, or have a pizza delivered? Be more specific, man!
I see a comment like this in just about every FF thread anymore. It's the stock response for someone who doesn't care for the FF series and wants to make a witty remark on /. I'll repeat what I said in the last one:
Like most things, there's actually a reason and a story why they name a seemingly unending series "Final". Wikipedia has a nice summation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy#Overvie w
Or, for those who don't feel like following a link:
I for one can see how this would be useful. You see, there isn't one set of terms and conditions, but rather there's a whole range of possible conditions applicable under Creative Commons licensing.
What this looks like is pretty much a wizard that asks you how you would like to allow your work to be used, and then generates the CC license for those conditions. Although a nice add on, it really doesn't look all that complicated. I'm hoping it isn't long until someone makes a good wizard for OpenOffice.org as well.
I think we might have better luck on this if we open the floor to prequels as well.
Such is the stock witty remark made by every other person who doesn't care for the Final Fantasy series. Seriously, I've heard this "original" comment from no fewer than 20 different people.
Like most things, there's actually a reason and a story why they name a seemingly unending series "Final". Wikipedia has a nice summation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy#Overvie w
Or, for those who don't feel like following a link:
Hopefully, the line exists between those two genres, never allowing the two to mingle... ever.
If you'll excuse me, I need to take a brillo pad and scrub my brain now.
Visual tests with an audio alternative for sight impaired users covers most of your user base in most situations. When it comes to sight and hearing impaired users, though, is there even a standard human interface device for this situation? If so, then the nature of this device will heavily influence what options exist for user athentication.
I second this recommendation. Most standard MMOGs have a lot of grind forming a huge timesink, and if you are restricting it to times when you both can play, advancement will be even slower. Guildwars has a lot less grind to it, and you can make real progress in the time you play it, really conveying a sense of achievement. Plus, each account currently has slots for 4 characters, so you can also create another ton to play solo with. It's also decently easy to pick up and become good at (it's becoming great at it which is difficult... reminds me of those old Othello commercials).
Are they zombie rats at least?
Now if they come out with this game and it uses any of these mechanics, we'll have to point back to this thread and demand royalties...