However, when games are given a 3d engine, everyone instantly makes the game into a 3-d world. Thus you lose out on 2-d gameplay.
How often do you see 3-d engine used to render a 2-d game? Super Mario World turns into a completely different gameplay style when it went to a 3-d engine. 3d engines in general change the gameplay, adds that '3rd' dimension that we expect.
Even 2-d fighters in 3-d engine (virtual fighter?) encorporate "sidestep" features giving another dimension of movement.
Gameplay is directly influenced by the renderer, it's not hard to understand why. You have a 3d engine, why not make the game 3d? And then you lose out on 2d gameplay.
The author forgot to mention RO (Ragnarok Online): the perfect example everything he complains about. (http://www.ragnarokonline.com)
A Korean beta game that offers no story, no actual quests. Just dungeons for people to go to and kill, find items, and kill in new dungeons. I cannot stress how little story and quests (aside from "search for three of these different rare items to recieve an even more rare item" quests) there are. It makes Diablo 2 look like a classic book in comparison.
In fact, people are paying to play this game now, it's no longer a free beta. Definitely a bad direction for mmorpg's to go.
I'm fairly certain if you asked your radiostation to play local bands they would. The whole reason why radiostations are in business is because people listen to the BS they put out. So if people don't complain why change it?
I hate to break this to you (actually I love every moment), but most of the time radio stations only put out music that's already on albums, or will be on albums soon. Playing local band doesn't attract the masses. About two years ago, how often did you hear Eminem on the radio? I heard "Slim Shady please stand up" about ten times a day when I worked at a store with a radio playing the whole time.
The fact of the matter is that p2p is a great way for unknown bands to get their music out there quickly, easily, and cheaply. If you think the local radio is going to play tons of local band stuff and give people a chance to listen to unknown music, think again. They'll play the popular stuff to get their ratings up, then bust out the advertisments so they can make money.
I'm not even going to touch your 'consumers have an ounce of critical thinking" arguments. Counterarguments such as "SNES games that have good gameplay sell again on a new portable system? Oh my God, the tragedy!" can be thrown at you.
Pirating is illegal, yeah they can sue. Absolutely correct. But RIAA is going overboard here. There are underlying reasons for these overblown actions of suing hundreds of p2p users, and pirating is not at the top of that list.
Although I agree with you that D&D is slow, complex and overly complicated (especially for computer gaming), I don't think that's the reason why pen and paper doesn't seem to succeed as well in computer gaming... or that people dislike computer games based on it.
Remember that D&D is based on character and the ability to role-play, not roll-play. Four hours in D&D could go by without any players ever rolling a single dice. It's not a combat orientated game (although it's certainly important), but a game of imagination and ingenuity. Nowhere else but pen and paper could you decide to suddenly drop a ton of water on the Golem in front of you, run up, freeze it, and then hoist it back to town and let it loose.
Computer games simply can't keep it with something like that. You're right, computer games need to be focused... that's why games like Neverwinter and Baldur's probably would've been a lot better based on their own system. Pen and paper is simply freeform role playing...
Pen and paper will remain where it is... a type of game that simply won't be programmed perfectly because of it's incredible diversity.
>So all you need is to develop a "jumping tracker"
that hops from host to host
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to imply "it's not possible". I'm just trying to point out that BT in it's current form isn't meant for warez. BT was originally meant for mass distribution of the 'little guy'. Things like open source software without needing massive donations for bandwidth... not it's current abused state of mass distribution of copyright material. Something like that will definitely attract 'bad attention'.
Personally, I will hazard a guess that BT warez will evolve to a state like freenet: nothing centralized. However, the fact that sites like bytemonsoon and torrentse went down shouldn't have been surprising to -anybody-.
Really, when you offer so many pirated software programs on one single site, where a single click (sometimes... two!) would allow you to begin downloading illegal software.. it shouldn't be at all surprising that these sites were instantly gone after and shutdown. It's just incredibly stupid to be so large and so public for something so obviously illegal
Of course, i guess this wasn't so obvious to the webmasters, was it...;)
So why can I not use KaZaA to download the.torrent file and run it from there? Of Freenet?
People already do that a lot.. look on some of the channels on efnet and other irc networks.. its very common.
This is a really bad idea regardless... If I remember correctly, torrents require a centralized distributor. Even if you have the torrent, you need to connect to the (http-based) tracker.
Taking the tracker down is #1 priority if you're shutting down a torrent movement. Anyone downloading the torrent can connect to the tracker, the tracker is definitely easiest and first to die.
it's no different from host torrents on a website than dcc'ing it person to person. eventually you'll catch the wrong person's ear, they'll follow the torrent and kill the site. "thank you don't come again" for centralized distributing
Yeah, but neither of those markets were anywhere as popular as the current gameboy (which basically owns the handheld gaming market)
Anyhow, it looks almost like these are cassettes, not tv tuners... 20 dollars for only 90 minutes (5 episodes if lucky) of a cartoon is pretty steep though. If they could drop the price or fit more content, they might really be on to something...
Imagine all the kiddies watching pokemon on their gba, then playing the actual game. Definitely a good idea for business.
I believe that Znork implied that a good service is easily worth more than $12 a year (which, for many of us, far under an hour of our work)
Think about this, if we're using your "community/service" idea, for under ten bucks a month we have access to things such as:
"You also must offer alot of things in the members sections, not just mp3s, but video clips, tourdates, blogs, forums, pictures,interviews, etc" (Your words not mine)
If I just want mp3's of that group, I'll end up buying the cd for 12 bucks that year. If I want all those services that a membership implies I get access to, for less than ten bucks a month it's fine.
The price should be related to the services you recieve. And certainly you've implied in all your posts that we should recieve quite a bit by this subscription. So shouldn't we pay a bit more than a dollar (let's see what we can buy with that dollar... a loaf of bread.. a can of pop in a vending machine... a bag of chips.. i think a band I want to subscribe to deserves more than that) a month?
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However, when games are given a 3d engine, everyone instantly makes the game into a 3-d world. Thus you lose out on 2-d gameplay.
How often do you see 3-d engine used to render a 2-d game? Super Mario World turns into a completely different gameplay style when it went to a 3-d engine. 3d engines in general change the gameplay, adds that '3rd' dimension that we expect.
Even 2-d fighters in 3-d engine (virtual fighter?) encorporate "sidestep" features giving another dimension of movement.
Gameplay is directly influenced by the renderer, it's not hard to understand why. You have a 3d engine, why not make the game 3d? And then you lose out on 2d gameplay.
The author forgot to mention RO (Ragnarok Online): the perfect example everything he complains about. (http://www.ragnarokonline.com)
A Korean beta game that offers no story, no actual quests. Just dungeons for people to go to and kill, find items, and kill in new dungeons. I cannot stress how little story and quests (aside from "search for three of these different rare items to recieve an even more rare item" quests) there are. It makes Diablo 2 look like a classic book in comparison.
In fact, people are paying to play this game now, it's no longer a free beta. Definitely a bad direction for mmorpg's to go.
I'm fairly certain if you asked your radiostation to play local bands they would. The whole reason why radiostations are in business is because people listen to the BS they put out. So if people don't complain why change it?
I hate to break this to you (actually I love every moment), but most of the time radio stations only put out music that's already on albums, or will be on albums soon. Playing local band doesn't attract the masses. About two years ago, how often did you hear Eminem on the radio? I heard "Slim Shady please stand up" about ten times a day when I worked at a store with a radio playing the whole time.
The fact of the matter is that p2p is a great way for unknown bands to get their music out there quickly, easily, and cheaply. If you think the local radio is going to play tons of local band stuff and give people a chance to listen to unknown music, think again. They'll play the popular stuff to get their ratings up, then bust out the advertisments so they can make money.
I'm not even going to touch your 'consumers have an ounce of critical thinking" arguments. Counterarguments such as "SNES games that have good gameplay sell again on a new portable system? Oh my God, the tragedy!" can be thrown at you.
Pirating is illegal, yeah they can sue. Absolutely correct. But RIAA is going overboard here. There are underlying reasons for these overblown actions of suing hundreds of p2p users, and pirating is not at the top of that list.
Although I agree with you that D&D is slow, complex and overly complicated (especially for computer gaming), I don't think that's the reason why pen and paper doesn't seem to succeed as well in computer gaming... or that people dislike computer games based on it.
Remember that D&D is based on character and the ability to role-play, not roll-play. Four hours in D&D could go by without any players ever rolling a single dice. It's not a combat orientated game (although it's certainly important), but a game of imagination and ingenuity. Nowhere else but pen and paper could you decide to suddenly drop a ton of water on the Golem in front of you, run up, freeze it, and then hoist it back to town and let it loose.
Computer games simply can't keep it with something like that. You're right, computer games need to be focused... that's why games like Neverwinter and Baldur's probably would've been a lot better based on their own system. Pen and paper is simply freeform role playing...
Pen and paper will remain where it is... a type of game that simply won't be programmed perfectly because of it's incredible diversity.
>So all you need is to develop a "jumping tracker" that hops from host to host
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to imply "it's not possible". I'm just trying to point out that BT in it's current form isn't meant for warez. BT was originally meant for mass distribution of the 'little guy'. Things like open source software without needing massive donations for bandwidth... not it's current abused state of mass distribution of copyright material. Something like that will definitely attract 'bad attention'.
Personally, I will hazard a guess that BT warez will evolve to a state like freenet: nothing centralized. However, the fact that sites like bytemonsoon and torrentse went down shouldn't have been surprising to -anybody-.
Really, when you offer so many pirated software programs on one single site, where a single click (sometimes... two!) would allow you to begin downloading illegal software.. it shouldn't be at all surprising that these sites were instantly gone after and shutdown. It's just incredibly stupid to be so large and so public for something so obviously illegal
Of course, i guess this wasn't so obvious to the webmasters, was it... ;)
People already do that a lot.. look on some of the channels on efnet and other irc networks.. its very common.
This is a really bad idea regardless... If I remember correctly, torrents require a centralized distributor. Even if you have the torrent, you need to connect to the (http-based) tracker.
Taking the tracker down is #1 priority if you're shutting down a torrent movement. Anyone downloading the torrent can connect to the tracker, the tracker is definitely easiest and first to die.
it's no different from host torrents on a website than dcc'ing it person to person. eventually you'll catch the wrong person's ear, they'll follow the torrent and kill the site. "thank you don't come again" for centralized distributing
Yeah, but neither of those markets were anywhere as popular as the current gameboy (which basically owns the handheld gaming market)
Anyhow, it looks almost like these are cassettes, not tv tuners... 20 dollars for only 90 minutes (5 episodes if lucky) of a cartoon is pretty steep though. If they could drop the price or fit more content, they might really be on to something...
Imagine all the kiddies watching pokemon on their gba, then playing the actual game. Definitely a good idea for business.
I believe that Znork implied that a good service is easily worth more than $12 a year (which, for many of us, far under an hour of our work)
Think about this, if we're using your "community/service" idea, for under ten bucks a month we have access to things such as:
If I just want mp3's of that group, I'll end up buying the cd for 12 bucks that year. If I want all those services that a membership implies I get access to, for less than ten bucks a month it's fine.
The price should be related to the services you recieve. And certainly you've implied in all your posts that we should recieve quite a bit by this subscription. So shouldn't we pay a bit more than a dollar (let's see what we can buy with that dollar... a loaf of bread.. a can of pop in a vending machine... a bag of chips.. i think a band I want to subscribe to deserves more than that) a month?