And then there's the fact that Schumacher is nowhere to be seen, and those behind it seem quite competent. One was cowriter for Dark City, whose setting I thought would have made a better Gotham than even Burton's. My hopes are pretty high for this movie.
Plus, movies tend to be finished quite a bit in advance of the release date, allowing reviewers to attend advance screenings or DVD copies distributed esecially for reviewers. In the case of video games, especially those with unspecified release dates like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, et cetera, production and distribution tend to occur as soon as possible after a publisher-approved build is achieved. And you don't tend to run into last-minute compatibility or performance problems with movies.
I think AtariAmarok might have been noting an apparent bias for the exact reason you cited. All consoles rely to some degree on exclusive titles. The columnist citing this trend in reference only to the XBox seems to be ignoring that very fact. And if that wasn't the original point of the post, then I'm claiming it as my own.
I've not seen Run Lola Run, but I want to now. Your description and those in two reviews I just read brought to mind, slightly, the Star Trek: TNG episode Cause and Effect in which the Enterprise is stuck in a temporal loop of some sort until they figure out how to avoid disaster.
And while writing this just now, Groundhog Day came to mind.
I really enjoyed First Contact. Great movie for fans and those new to the series. I saw it for the first time in quite a while on some HBO channel recently. The first few minutes, leading up to and including the battle with the Borg cube near Earth, were amazing to me, and I'm not entirely sure why. Great movie, though.
And then there's Enterprise. But it's not over, which I guess would generally mean no movie yet.
It would be pretty hard to do a prequel to the original series without new actors, unfortunately, and Generations pretty much voided any chance of a TNG prequel with the original crew.
There are two other series. A DS9 prequel might actually be interesting.
And then there's the chance that this is a prequel to all of this, but Enterprise seems pretty early in the Trek timeline. Hard to imagine anything interesting happening before that with the Vulcans watching and all.
Except the emulator is just 125 KB, a pretty much instantaneous download. XBox games come on DVDs, which means they can take up several GB, a rather unwieldly size to download to say the least. Add long download times, limited hard drive space, and low DVD-R drive ownership rates (for now, at least), and it seems at least reasonable that one wouldn't mind paying a little extra to just have the game on a disc.
I like the idea. It's a fairly simple game, though. You can apparently only control the speed of the car (2 and 8 keys = faster and slower, respectively) as it goes along a set path. Looks like there are obstacles and such to avoid, so you do have to adjust the speed throughout.
You apparently dial an 800 number and wait in a queue until it's your turn to play, so I guess playing in the car is not only illegal, but probably quite unlikely.
I seem to have a habit of stating the obvious. Ah well.
I imagine they "dare" because they can sell them at that price. Once I have enough extra money and time, I fully intend to by SSB:M at whatever price it's at. Hopefully it'll be down to $20 by that time, but if it's still $30, then so be it.
According to this post from an earlier story, Dreamworks has the US distribution rights and plans to release it sometime midyear. I can't wait. I hope it gets wider distribution than the last one Dreamworks brought over, Millennium Actress.
You might keep in mind that Neuromancer was Gibson's first novel. Snow Crash was not Stephenson's first novel. That might help a little to explain the inadequacies you perceive. Dunno.
I just got into cyberpunk about two months ago. Since then, I've read five Gibson books and Snow Crash (after three of those five). It was obvious that Stephenson was influenced to some degree by Gibson, but he took the story and style in an entirely different direction. It wasn't completely serious (how could a book whose main character is named Hiro Protagonist strive for complete seriousness, anyway?). I enjoyed the book overall, but the over-the-top extension of corporate trends was really distracting throughout most of the read.
I'm at the end of Gibson's Virtual Light right now, and I was struck in the beginning by apparent similarities to Snow Crash, especially to have been published so soon after. I noted mainly the courier subculture, and the Bridge and the odd religious movements really reminded me of the Raft of Snow Crash. It's turned out to be a great book, though, with plenty to distinguish it from Snow Crash. I may have to re-read Idoru now (or at least skim through it) before I go on to All Tomorrow's Parties.
Also, I'm really not sure how, but I didn't wonder once why they didn't have cell phones when I was reading Neuromancer back in November. Dunno why it didn't occur to me. Guess that's something to be said for the extent of the immersion in the setting.
Isn't the Sony's resolution a mere 320x240? I know that's standard for PDAs now, but it's worth noting that this Zaurus has a 640x480 screen. I've also heard complaints that the Sony PDAs of this form factor have unreasonably small screens. If I had the money to blow, I'd certainly pick this Zaurus over the Sony.
I really liked the movie. Directed by Stephen Frears, it addresses a subculture of illegal immigrants in the London service class, all mutually accepting in a sort of expatriate understanding. Some take advantage of their existence at the fringe of legality and inability to act beyond their bounds for risk of deportation.
Frears is able to hold the movie together masterfully with a thriller-type plot, but the real focus is the complete other world of these people, intersecting the normal world only occasionally and briefly.
Yeah, I'm bad at explaining it. See it if you can. I don't think it's in many or any theaters now, nor is it yet on DVD.
If you're talking about the new Online Pack or whatever they're calling it, the only thing that made it on that was the progressive scan and the broadband adapter. I bought it when it came out (I finally decided there were too many games that I wanted for it to just not get one), and it seems to just be a PS2 with the broadband adapter and updated DVD software (though I've not bought the extra cables to try the progressive scan, nor do I have a TV that even has the right inputs). The iLink port is still there, as are 2 USB ports, and I see absolutely no sign of an IR receiver anywhere.
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And then there's the fact that Schumacher is nowhere to be seen, and those behind it seem quite competent. One was cowriter for Dark City, whose setting I thought would have made a better Gotham than even Burton's. My hopes are pretty high for this movie.
Not really. There have been other good superhero movies in the interim. Hulk, Hellboy, X2...
Plus, movies tend to be finished quite a bit in advance of the release date, allowing reviewers to attend advance screenings or DVD copies distributed esecially for reviewers. In the case of video games, especially those with unspecified release dates like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, et cetera, production and distribution tend to occur as soon as possible after a publisher-approved build is achieved. And you don't tend to run into last-minute compatibility or performance problems with movies.
I'm pretty sure there are emulators designed for the Zaurus. I can't recall if MAME is one of them, but for some reason I want to say that it is.
I think AtariAmarok might have been noting an apparent bias for the exact reason you cited. All consoles rely to some degree on exclusive titles. The columnist citing this trend in reference only to the XBox seems to be ignoring that very fact. And if that wasn't the original point of the post, then I'm claiming it as my own.
Transformers fan here, so my desktop (currently at home in a closet, unfortunately) is Vector_Sigma. The laptop here at school is Teletran-1.
I've not seen Run Lola Run, but I want to now. Your description and those in two reviews I just read brought to mind, slightly, the Star Trek: TNG episode Cause and Effect in which the Enterprise is stuck in a temporal loop of some sort until they figure out how to avoid disaster.
And while writing this just now, Groundhog Day came to mind.
I really enjoyed First Contact. Great movie for fans and those new to the series. I saw it for the first time in quite a while on some HBO channel recently. The first few minutes, leading up to and including the battle with the Borg cube near Earth, were amazing to me, and I'm not entirely sure why. Great movie, though.
And then there's Enterprise. But it's not over, which I guess would generally mean no movie yet.
It would be pretty hard to do a prequel to the original series without new actors, unfortunately, and Generations pretty much voided any chance of a TNG prequel with the original crew.
There are two other series. A DS9 prequel might actually be interesting.
And then there's the chance that this is a prequel to all of this, but Enterprise seems pretty early in the Trek timeline. Hard to imagine anything interesting happening before that with the Vulcans watching and all.
Except the emulator is just 125 KB, a pretty much instantaneous download. XBox games come on DVDs, which means they can take up several GB, a rather unwieldly size to download to say the least. Add long download times, limited hard drive space, and low DVD-R drive ownership rates (for now, at least), and it seems at least reasonable that one wouldn't mind paying a little extra to just have the game on a disc.
Woo! Another Tennessean! Traffic slows during rush hours around Nashville, especially close to downtown, but otherwise is not bad.
I like the idea. It's a fairly simple game, though. You can apparently only control the speed of the car (2 and 8 keys = faster and slower, respectively) as it goes along a set path. Looks like there are obstacles and such to avoid, so you do have to adjust the speed throughout.
You apparently dial an 800 number and wait in a queue until it's your turn to play, so I guess playing in the car is not only illegal, but probably quite unlikely.
I seem to have a habit of stating the obvious. Ah well.
Quake II had a storyline?
I imagine they "dare" because they can sell them at that price. Once I have enough extra money and time, I fully intend to by SSB:M at whatever price it's at. Hopefully it'll be down to $20 by that time, but if it's still $30, then so be it.
And with the Smith/Neo fight at the end of Revolutions, we now know that a live-action Dragonball Z is possible.
According to this post from an earlier story, Dreamworks has the US distribution rights and plans to release it sometime midyear. I can't wait. I hope it gets wider distribution than the last one Dreamworks brought over, Millennium Actress.
And then there's also the Mac demo. I don't recall such an all-encompassing demo release in recent memory.
You might keep in mind that Neuromancer was Gibson's first novel. Snow Crash was not Stephenson's first novel. That might help a little to explain the inadequacies you perceive. Dunno.
I just got into cyberpunk about two months ago. Since then, I've read five Gibson books and Snow Crash (after three of those five). It was obvious that Stephenson was influenced to some degree by Gibson, but he took the story and style in an entirely different direction. It wasn't completely serious (how could a book whose main character is named Hiro Protagonist strive for complete seriousness, anyway?). I enjoyed the book overall, but the over-the-top extension of corporate trends was really distracting throughout most of the read.
I'm at the end of Gibson's Virtual Light right now, and I was struck in the beginning by apparent similarities to Snow Crash, especially to have been published so soon after. I noted mainly the courier subculture, and the Bridge and the odd religious movements really reminded me of the Raft of Snow Crash. It's turned out to be a great book, though, with plenty to distinguish it from Snow Crash. I may have to re-read Idoru now (or at least skim through it) before I go on to All Tomorrow's Parties.
Also, I'm really not sure how, but I didn't wonder once why they didn't have cell phones when I was reading Neuromancer back in November. Dunno why it didn't occur to me. Guess that's something to be said for the extent of the immersion in the setting.
Isn't the Sony's resolution a mere 320x240? I know that's standard for PDAs now, but it's worth noting that this Zaurus has a 640x480 screen. I've also heard complaints that the Sony PDAs of this form factor have unreasonably small screens. If I had the money to blow, I'd certainly pick this Zaurus over the Sony.
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I really liked the movie. Directed by Stephen Frears, it addresses a subculture of illegal immigrants in the London service class, all mutually accepting in a sort of expatriate understanding. Some take advantage of their existence at the fringe of legality and inability to act beyond their bounds for risk of deportation.
Frears is able to hold the movie together masterfully with a thriller-type plot, but the real focus is the complete other world of these people, intersecting the normal world only occasionally and briefly.
Yeah, I'm bad at explaining it. See it if you can. I don't think it's in many or any theaters now, nor is it yet on DVD.
It's playing at the Belcourt theater on 21st ave this week. I saw it on Sunday. Great movie. Campbell was Elvis, not Campbell playing Elvis.
If you're talking about the new Online Pack or whatever they're calling it, the only thing that made it on that was the progressive scan and the broadband adapter. I bought it when it came out (I finally decided there were too many games that I wanted for it to just not get one), and it seems to just be a PS2 with the broadband adapter and updated DVD software (though I've not bought the extra cables to try the progressive scan, nor do I have a TV that even has the right inputs). The iLink port is still there, as are 2 USB ports, and I see absolutely no sign of an IR receiver anywhere.