The staff are in some cases pumping their ratings, I know that one of my wife's collegues has had her husband pretend to be a student(s) and leave some positive comment(s) on there. I am aware of course that this could be the only occurance of this but this site spans multiple nations so this would be unlikely to be an isolated example.
Although I don't disagree with that, wouldn't it be better for them to send fully working ones out? This should (hopefully) ensure that those who've had their console replaced wouldn't have to get it replaced again (and again, and again?) and cause all the negative comment about it on teh intraweb.
I agree entirely. I love throwing people into traffic for some reason.
Also game world seems pretty large from the map (haven't played past first couple of missions yet though).
The weapon selction seems better than remembering what number key was assigned to which weapon and also easier to do as fingers are on the buttons (was PC gamer until having kids stopped upgrade cycle budget)
Also must add to nearly everyone else's comments, my entire family have come round, made a Mii and love it. My mum even beat me at boxing! (once)
I wholeheartedly agree, my 2 year old loves playing tennis, she can't manage the button driven games yet (bowling for example) but I wonder what this will do for her co-ordination skills as she continues to use the Wii as she gets older.
While I generally agree with that a few games have experienced the small text thing due to being on LD not HD TVs. Examples from experience: Dead Rising on the 360 and NFS Carbon on the Wii (maybe the others too, only seen it on Wii)
They could have attached a monkey to it and called it
[drumroll]
a monkey with six-axis!!!
with thanks to Dr Mephisto for genetically engineering it for them.
Wouldn't this end up after a few years with ratings of 1000 and so forth. I know this is a little pedantic as no one would be using stuff with the original ratings and expecting the new stuff to run but still it makes an untidy system if there are no top ends to the levels.
But what happens when a new generation of graphics cards / CPUs / etc are released, would your level 3 CPU become level 2 overnight? What impact would this have on the packaging?
An old game rated at CPU level 3 would be the same as a new game with CPU level 3 after the levels get adjusted for new hardware being released unless the older game was issued with new packaging to reflect the change. Whta they could do is have game shops have all the games for certain levels on the same shelves but this would get tedious for the staff who would be contsantly re-arranging their stock.
This is why the old ratings system failed in the early days of CD-ROMs failed, there was an MPC rating which scored on whether you had a CD-ROM, soundcard, etc.
The O2 store on Oxford Street will laser etch an image onto your phone if you're an O2 customer. Its all part of their way of giving away freebies at festivals and other events to keep customers loyal without having to drop their prices.
You realise that most (if not all) grocery deliverers will happily take back and refund items which aren't up to scratch (or have been battered into mush) when delivered. So if some idiot does what you described then you can easily refuse to accept them and the driver will return them and in a day or so the amount will be refunded to your account.
Private schools aren't much better as all the kids mess around and think that there's no comeback from it as their parents will buy them out of trouble at the end of it.
While being IT support in a private school in central London I once heard a teacher rattle out the old chestnut of "if you mess about now you'll pay for it later" and the student replied that it didn't matter as they were going to work for their dad's company when they left school any way.
Also this place had serious disipline issues as the kids would spit on the floors and steal stuff from under the staff's noses. I once went to look into why a PC in the computer suite wouldn't boot and found inside the case was just the motherboard, PSU and FDD, all the rest had been stripped out!
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Schools do have teams. If goalies aren't playing football what the hell are they doing on the pitch interfering with play then?
The staff are in some cases pumping their ratings, I know that one of my wife's collegues has had her husband pretend to be a student(s) and leave some positive comment(s) on there. I am aware of course that this could be the only occurance of this but this site spans multiple nations so this would be unlikely to be an isolated example.
Although I don't disagree with that, wouldn't it be better for them to send fully working ones out? This should (hopefully) ensure that those who've had their console replaced wouldn't have to get it replaced again (and again, and again?) and cause all the negative comment about it on teh intraweb.
There was a level like that in No One Lives Forever 2 if I remember rightly, you had to get through flooded parts and were against a timer too.
I agree entirely. I love throwing people into traffic for some reason. Also game world seems pretty large from the map (haven't played past first couple of missions yet though). The weapon selction seems better than remembering what number key was assigned to which weapon and also easier to do as fingers are on the buttons (was PC gamer until having kids stopped upgrade cycle budget) Also must add to nearly everyone else's comments, my entire family have come round, made a Mii and love it. My mum even beat me at boxing! (once)
I agree entirely about the F-16 and YF-23, they are 2 of the nicest looking planes ever built. The F-16XL was cool too.
I wholeheartedly agree, my 2 year old loves playing tennis, she can't manage the button driven games yet (bowling for example) but I wonder what this will do for her co-ordination skills as she continues to use the Wii as she gets older.
While I generally agree with that a few games have experienced the small text thing due to being on LD not HD TVs. Examples from experience: Dead Rising on the 360 and NFS Carbon on the Wii (maybe the others too, only seen it on Wii)
They do write/type like that outside IM, WOW, etc. My wife's always complaining about it when she's marking essays written like that .
Why that's a wonderful idea. But tell me, what whould you have it do if the button was not pressed?
This was the plot of a Philip K Dick short story, The Pre-Persons. A very good read but then so are most of his works.
As an aside to this I once saw a copy of a passport cover which was sent in as a "copy of their passport" Which kind of proves your point.
You can now get USB heated gloves and slippers. Can't be arsed to find linky though.
They could have attached a monkey to it and called it [drumroll] a monkey with six-axis!!! with thanks to Dr Mephisto for genetically engineering it for them.
Why would you want to dub the Teletubbies? Its all gibberish anyway
Wasn't Rome co-produced by the BBC and HBO?
Wouldn't this end up after a few years with ratings of 1000 and so forth. I know this is a little pedantic as no one would be using stuff with the original ratings and expecting the new stuff to run but still it makes an untidy system if there are no top ends to the levels.
The SanDisk players have scroll wheels, and very good they are too, more features than the nano and slightly cheaper too.
But what happens when a new generation of graphics cards / CPUs / etc are released, would your level 3 CPU become level 2 overnight? What impact would this have on the packaging? An old game rated at CPU level 3 would be the same as a new game with CPU level 3 after the levels get adjusted for new hardware being released unless the older game was issued with new packaging to reflect the change. Whta they could do is have game shops have all the games for certain levels on the same shelves but this would get tedious for the staff who would be contsantly re-arranging their stock. This is why the old ratings system failed in the early days of CD-ROMs failed, there was an MPC rating which scored on whether you had a CD-ROM, soundcard, etc.
I always like the one with Bender as a god when he was ejected into space.
Big American Party!!!
The O2 store on Oxford Street will laser etch an image onto your phone if you're an O2 customer. Its all part of their way of giving away freebies at festivals and other events to keep customers loyal without having to drop their prices.
I have, I'll get right on it... oh, er, whoops!
You realise that most (if not all) grocery deliverers will happily take back and refund items which aren't up to scratch (or have been battered into mush) when delivered. So if some idiot does what you described then you can easily refuse to accept them and the driver will return them and in a day or so the amount will be refunded to your account.
Private schools aren't much better as all the kids mess around and think that there's no comeback from it as their parents will buy them out of trouble at the end of it.
While being IT support in a private school in central London I once heard a teacher rattle out the old chestnut of "if you mess about now you'll pay for it later" and the student replied that it didn't matter as they were going to work for their dad's company when they left school any way.
Also this place had serious disipline issues as the kids would spit on the floors and steal stuff from under the staff's noses. I once went to look into why a PC in the computer suite wouldn't boot and found inside the case was just the motherboard, PSU and FDD, all the rest had been stripped out!