I'm not sure whether you're voluntarily closing your eyes or if you really can't see that not all kind of games do run on consoles.In my personal case, i love simulators.
Tell me, which console offers me *one* flight simulator? And please, i *mean* simulator, i don't mean 'a game featuring a plane'. Where are the equivalents to MS Flight Simulator, X-Plane or FlightGear?
I also happen to play wargames. I *mean* wargame here, not RTS. What the heck on a console comes close to the Combat Mission series?
Even when looking at game styles also present on consoles, there *are* huge differences. I enjoyed a lot the first game of Thief series and the first Deus Ex. I hated the last Thief, and the second Deus Ex. Guess what? Both titles were designed to *also* sell on consoles. In both cases, the games have been dumbed down. The gaming style seemingly did not fit to the mainstream console public.
I could go on to find more examples, but i suppose you get the point. Consoles do *not* provide everything. And please don't think i have anything against consoles: i have very good times playing FIFA/NBA/etc sports game, as well as GTA:SA on my PS2, and i'll probably buy some next-generation console. But there is no way i can ditch the PC as a gaming platform, and i'm far from being alone in that case. It *does* provide lots of games which simply have no equivalent on consoles. Do you really think that PC gamers are stupid enough not to buy a console instead of a PC if it was *really* doing the same thing?
It's probably not that modern consoles can't accomodate such games, as they now are gaming-oriented full computers. It is more of a decision by the game editors/designers. You don't find every genre on a console, and even in the same genre, the gaming style sometimes vary as the public is not the same...
But still, the french version brings some new insights: in Episode IV, when the Falcon needs to flee from an ISD, Solo calls Chewbacca "Chico", hence betraying some very secretly kept latino origins of the wookie.
Well, it's mainly a matter of taste, but i *love* the Cultural Influence. It finally allows to develop (more or less) peacefully and win in a different way.
Considering the age of the game, you should find Civ3 and the Play the World expansion for quite cheap as a bundle. I would say it is definitely worth it.
Well, on the other hand, American development houses dont indulge into the manga hero/schoolgirl/robot/angel graphic style the Japanese do.
The games might have gameplay merit, but for some of us, the graphic style *is* a definite turnoff. I'll take Morrowind any day, even though it's easier.
Yeah, i was feeling exactly the same. This sillyness just end up bothering the legit customers. In the end, i might end up 'stealing' and giving away music just for vindication...
Erm... The location of the wreck is indicated in a book called "Great shipwrecks of our century" or something like that. One dive, one sunken treasure (which happen to be the front ornament of the wrecked ship hull).
The library is more useful that just getting the lens in the model lighthouse.:D
Indeed, Java is not as 'open' as Perl/Python, if only for the licensing of the original sdk fron Sun. Still, all the language specs are open and documented, and patent grants apply to allow anyone to implement a jvm and distribute it.
The Java situation looks a lot like the old C situation, don't you think? With the progress of gcj, GNU Classpath and Kaffe, free base classes are becoming a reality. On the JVM front, both Kaffe and SableVM also provide nice portability and functionality. Sure, it's not yet the 'real thing', but i have very good hopes for Java becoming a real "no strings attached" language for the F/OSS community.
Easy one. I'll pick DirectX. Games easily ported through platforms... *dreams*
Now, such a move would be a commercial suicide for them, as it would definitely cut the last major interest of the Windows platform as a home desktop. I won't hold my breath:).
For the rest of your post, well, keep on your crusade, i wouldn't want to be disturbing you. But i was just wondering, is it the last digit of my/.id that identified me as a linux/anti-choice/gpl/source thief zealot? Your deductive skills are even deeper than mine...
Indeed. That's the reason why i switched from the Irish Times to the Irish Independant. I usually read news online on weekdays and buy the paper edition on the weekend.
The Independant having the courtesy of providing me free news on the web (yeah, still requires a free registration), i definitely prefer to buy *their* paper when i go for the physical media.
Here's one lost reader of the Times thanks to their charging on the web...
Is Nintendo really threatened on the market? I thought they still had most of the kid gaming market due to their popular franchises around the Mario character, and so far, i didn't see any development by Sony or Microsoft to really threaten this dominance.
Anyway, i can understand why they file such patents. If they don't, they get exposed to another company filing them later. Though they suck, the IP laws exist, and a business has no other choice than to play according to those rules...
I wish i had a mod point for this one! You're spot on! 8-D
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While I agree some of the added scenes do add to the movies, some of them are simply unacceptable. Greedo shooting first for example.
Indeed. All this weird stuff around Greedo is more proof than we need to justify that it is a conspiracy!
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b) telling them to pay $70, yet refusing to tell them what they're actually getting, so they can "check them out for themselves."
When I buy a DVD, I damn well want to know what I'm getting.
Is this *such* a big deal? 24h after the release of the box, reviews are going to pop-up on every web site, including/.
I can understand not liking the non-release of the originals, but complaining about the fact that the content of the box is not yet known is not such an issue. Unless of course you can't wait 24/48h after the initial release, which usually means maximum price tag.
Personnaly, after the years waiting for those movies on dvd, i'll survive long enough for *at least* read reviews...
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I'm not sure whether you're voluntarily closing your eyes or if you really can't see that not all kind of games do run on consoles.In my personal case, i love simulators.
Tell me, which console offers me *one* flight simulator? And please, i *mean* simulator, i don't mean 'a game featuring a plane'. Where are the equivalents to MS Flight Simulator, X-Plane or FlightGear?
I do also appreciate submarine simulations. Where are Jane's 688 games or the Silent Hunter titles? Nowehere near.
I also happen to play wargames. I *mean* wargame here, not RTS. What the heck on a console comes close to the Combat Mission series?
Even when looking at game styles also present on consoles, there *are* huge differences. I enjoyed a lot the first game of Thief series and the first Deus Ex. I hated the last Thief, and the second Deus Ex. Guess what? Both titles were designed to *also* sell on consoles. In both cases, the games have been dumbed down. The gaming style seemingly did not fit to the mainstream console public.
I could go on to find more examples, but i suppose you get the point. Consoles do *not* provide everything. And please don't think i have anything against consoles: i have very good times playing FIFA/NBA/etc sports game, as well as GTA:SA on my PS2, and i'll probably buy some next-generation console. But there is no way i can ditch the PC as a gaming platform, and i'm far from being alone in that case. It *does* provide lots of games which simply have no equivalent on consoles. Do you really think that PC gamers are stupid enough not to buy a console instead of a PC if it was *really* doing the same thing?
It's probably not that modern consoles can't accomodate such games, as they now are gaming-oriented full computers. It is more of a decision by the game editors/designers. You don't find every genre on a console, and even in the same genre, the gaming style sometimes vary as the public is not the same...
What about making as many copies as baskets you require then?
Seconded. How can they dare to brand a non-wireless keyboard as a 'keyboard for elite'??
Showing no cable on the images and putting such a price tag, they sure go for deceptiveness.
Well, that maybe qualify as 'news' for the rest of the world...
Even so, the article forgets to mention nakedness and breast size as a co-factor with geopolitic friendship.
He does yeah. Not so much difference here.
But still, the french version brings some new insights: in Episode IV, when the Falcon needs to flee from an ISD, Solo calls Chewbacca "Chico", hence betraying some very secretly kept latino origins of the wookie.
Well, it's mainly a matter of taste, but i *love* the Cultural Influence. It finally allows to develop (more or less) peacefully and win in a different way.
Considering the age of the game, you should find Civ3 and the Play the World expansion for quite cheap as a bundle. I would say it is definitely worth it.
I'm an engineer! Not a miracle worker!
monkeys (which are not the same as apes).
Oook!
And why do you think the parent mentioned 'Big Ironic' ?
Well, on the other hand, American development houses dont indulge into the manga hero/schoolgirl/robot/angel graphic style the Japanese do.
The games might have gameplay merit, but for some of us, the graphic style *is* a definite turnoff. I'll take Morrowind any day, even though it's easier.
Yeah, i was feeling exactly the same. This sillyness just end up bothering the legit customers. In the end, i might end up 'stealing' and giving away music just for vindication...
Erm... The location of the wreck is indicated in a book called "Great shipwrecks of our century" or something like that. One dive, one sunken treasure (which happen to be the front ornament of the wrecked ship hull).
:D
The library is more useful that just getting the lens in the model lighthouse.
Indeed, Java is not as 'open' as Perl/Python, if only for the licensing of the original sdk fron Sun. Still, all the language specs are open and documented, and patent grants apply to allow anyone to implement a jvm and distribute it.
The Java situation looks a lot like the old C situation, don't you think? With the progress of gcj, GNU Classpath and Kaffe, free base classes are becoming a reality. On the JVM front, both Kaffe and SableVM also provide nice portability and functionality. Sure, it's not yet the 'real thing', but i have very good hopes for Java becoming a real "no strings attached" language for the F/OSS community.
Easy one. I'll pick DirectX. Games easily ported through platforms... *dreams*
:).
Now, such a move would be a commercial suicide for them, as it would definitely cut the last major interest of the Windows platform as a home desktop. I won't hold my breath
Nice deductive skills.
:)
/.id that identified me as a linux/anti-choice/gpl/source thief zealot? Your deductive skills are even deeper than mine...
Yeah, i've always been proud of those.
For the rest of your post, well, keep on your crusade, i wouldn't want to be disturbing you. But i was just wondering, is it the last digit of my
Fair enough... Well, then either your memory is affected by CRT radiations, or you are the most positive-minded unix user i ever met/read. :)
which make the version of Unix you use a matter of choice, and not something you are tied to.
You must be young...
bruno@debian:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 30 10:53 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-3.3
Indeed. That's the reason why i switched from the Irish Times to the Irish Independant. I usually read news online on weekdays and buy the paper edition on the weekend. The Independant having the courtesy of providing me free news on the web (yeah, still requires a free registration), i definitely prefer to buy *their* paper when i go for the physical media. Here's one lost reader of the Times thanks to their charging on the web...
And that's precisely why Perl is so much more cool ;)
Is Nintendo really threatened on the market? I thought they still had most of the kid gaming market
due to their popular franchises around the Mario character, and so far, i didn't see any development by Sony or Microsoft to really threaten this dominance.
Anyway, i can understand why they file such patents. If they don't, they get exposed to another company filing them later. Though they suck, the IP laws exist, and a business has no other choice than to play according to those rules...
I wish i had a mod point for this one! You're spot on! 8-D
While I agree some of the added scenes do add to the movies, some of them are simply unacceptable. Greedo shooting first for example.
Indeed. All this weird stuff around Greedo is more proof than we need to justify that it is a conspiracy!
b) telling them to pay $70, yet refusing to tell them what they're actually getting, so they can "check them out for themselves." When I buy a DVD, I damn well want to know what I'm getting.
/.
Is this *such* a big deal? 24h after the release of the box, reviews are going to pop-up on every web site, including
I can understand not liking the non-release of the originals, but complaining about the fact that the content of the box is not yet known is not such an issue. Unless of course you can't wait 24/48h after the initial release, which usually means maximum price tag.
Personnaly, after the years waiting for those movies on dvd, i'll survive long enough for *at least* read reviews...
After all those years of Gauntlet or D&D... :)
Nethack: soon in an arcade room near you!
Do you think we'll get a bargain on credits for playing tourists ?