I didn't know people who bought SIMS and The Movies games had a political voice. Or at least, one that reached beyond what soda is king.
Er... Why wouldn't they have views on politics? Not everyone that plays The Sims is a bored homemaker or 9-year-old giggling that they can make two girl models kiss each other. What does enjoying a particular genre of gaming have to do with politics?
"For example, the movie, Minority Report, carries red for violence and profanity and yellow for sex. The Lion King carries no colours, except yellow for mild violence." So green means there isn't any, yellow means it exists and red means there's a whole flippin' lot of it? That seems a little oversimplified, if you ask me...
PSV sounds like a workable concept, but it seems like the big trouble is that all of these video game ratings are reinventing the wheel. Little Billy Schmidt's Mom may not know an E rated game from an M, but she sure knows what an R rated movie is.
So roughly how many organizations would need massive payoffs in order to use the movie rating system for games?
I've been having the absolute WORST luck with EB lately. In my little nook of Orlando, I'm ringed by about six of them. Honestly, I don't know if they're all just terminally depressed from the merger notification or if they all just hire out of the same gene pool, but it was a nightmare just trying to get a stinkin' preorder done a month or two ago. The following is a direct quotation:
[I walk into the store, currently draped in Madden '06 flags, standees and posters] Me: Hi, I can I preorder-- Clerk: Madden, right? Me: Uh, n-- Clerk: Because it's coming out soon. It's gonna be the best one yet! Me: Actually, I wanted Sigma Star Saga. [Clerk stares vacantly for a second before cocking his head towards the GBA rack] Clerk: Oh. Yeah. Well... Mario Superstar Saga's been out forever. Me: No, Sigma Star Saga. It's a new one. Clerk: They're not making a sequal to that one. Me: It's a different franchise. Done by Wayforward? Namco's the publisher? Clerk:... Me:... Clerk: Yeah... We don't do preorders here... You'll have to go to our Longwood location. [I turn the PREORDER MADDEN 06!!!! standee on the desk to face him. He glances at it.] Clerk: Excuse me, but I have to check our inventory for another customer. [Clerk walks into the back room. I wait another 10 minutes before giving up and leaving. During this time, several college fratboys take the opportunity to shoplift several copies of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 while the counter is unmanned.]
And this is why I only preorder at Gamestop now. They not only let me do the preorder, but they also had copies of Riviera (which EB never even got) and a used Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis. Gotta slog through hell before reaching heaven, I guess.
It's not like this is a phenomena that sprung up overnight...
Four years ago, I bought the special edition of Morrowind, which netted me a soundtrack, pewter figurine and art book. Back in high school, I bought the limited Might and Magic 6 box. Came with the entire series up until that point, maps and an entry form for an enormous lithograph of the cover art (which I won:D). And back in elementary school, my grandpa bought me the special trilogy pack of Hugo's House of Horrors, which came with hand-printed hint books.
Basiclly, if I really like the game/series, I'm probably going to shell out a little more for little goodies like that.
Amazingly enough I didn't bother doing in-depth research in the matter. The article made it sound as if they were just squatting on the name, so that was my assumption.
For example, the PSP trademark has apparently been registered by a small Bristol-based IT and design firm, called Owtanet.
I'm sorry, but that just sounds sloppy to me. I'm a wee bit on the unfamiliar side of UK business laws, but shouldn't Sony have filed for trademark rights the moment they even considered selling the system in Europe? I honestly think the guys that registered it before them are just money-grubbing scumbags, but it seems to me Sony should've taken action long ago.
I'm going to hazard a guess.
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Contractual difficulties? Wouldn't be the first time a character got killed off because of it.
...Halo 2 received with a collossal "meh"? I mean, it flew off the shelves, but after a few days all I was hearing was a melange of "What the hell?" and "That was the lamest thing I've ever played." After that, is #3 really expected to be such a blockbuster?
Maybe I just don't hang out with enough XBOX players. I dunno...
What happens if these plants reproduced and got into the natural order?
If leaves didn't fall, wouldn't that eliminate a lot of the nutrients in the ground that come from them? Even if any new trees grew from the deprived soil, all the herbavores would be eating their young shoots instead of the itty-bitty grass blades. Once all the young trees are gone, the plant eaters'll die off and there'll be no meat for the carnivores! And then society will fall into disarray as we battle each other in post-apocolyptic wastelands for rations and gasoline with our superpowered death cars, seeing only by the light of cinematic explosions!
If anything, I worry MORE now that gaming has become big business. I can look at pretty much any given shelf in an EB or GameStop and immediately denote half of the titles as the shovelware they are. The rest are probably the "prestige" titles of various publishers from the last year or two.
Honestly, the comparisons between Hollywood and gaming aren't that far off...
I've honestly wanted to give AO a try for the longest time, but I haven't had the spare cash to pick up a boxed copy as an experiment. If it turns out I enjoy the game, I'll definitely be acquiring the expansions.
You know, that actually got me wondering about those GBA flash carts... What would you say the odds are of them working with the DS? My knowledge of how they work is still fairly limited by their prohibitive cost. I'll always prefer to play the original game cart, but this could be a case in which I'd be willing to go with backups of my collection...
It could have a scheduled release a year from now and it won't be a big deal to me. After finding out that the backwards compatability stops at GBA titles, I've lost a lot of interest in the thing. Most of my favorite titles are from the Gameboy and it's Color cousin...
Unless those clever dickens over in Hong Kong come up with a utility that plays older carts, I may just give the DS a miss.
I'd say the precident groundwork has been laid. Has anybody approached EA with the intent to purchase the code and rights from them? Granted, there's a bit of a difference in scale between 3DO and EA, but you never know.
There's been worse copy protection schemes. Anybody remember having to type word 36 on page 16 of the manual before being able to start a game? And then discovering your Mom threw it out months ago? Then that bastard Timmy who sat across the lunch table from you wouldn't let you borrow his copy because he was still mad you lost the Victoria's Secret he swiped from his Dad's closet?
Now it all becomes clear. Playing it on the NES, the worst you could do was fling the controller. That was only a couple bucks to replace if it broke. So now when today's generation gets to the Grim Reaper and suffers a frustrating defeat, they'll have to shell out for a whole new GBA after their old one shatters against the wall.
I don't know how many other people have played this game, but I'm very interested in seeing how this turns out for the DS. The original played very much like A Link to the Past except that the hero was the tradition Dragon Quest slime. A big portion of the game revolved around you BEING a slime; you'd stretch out and snap forward for a dash, squish down to avoid things and generally ricochet off of every surface and monster you could find.
I remember hearing two high school friends of mine talking about the release of the original back in keyboarding class. Nothing really about the gameplay itself, of course. It was an extended description of how to get into a secret room where you hit the keyboard buttons to a music beat, promptly followed by Lara doing a strip tease and returning to the regular game stark nekkid.
He hadn't tried it, of course, but he knew people that pulled it off. And it was printed in all the gaming magazines, so you know it's true. Not the only one you subscribe to, no. The other ones.
CoH for soloers and FFXI to social folks. I've spent 95% of my time in CoH doing things my own way, while FFXI forced me to either beg my friends to play or join up with often unreliable strangers.
Or CoH for people with imagination that dig a healthy character generation and FFXI for folks that don't mind looking and performing exactly like someone else of the same class and level.
To each his own, of course.
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Er... Why wouldn't they have views on politics? Not everyone that plays The Sims is a bored homemaker or 9-year-old giggling that they can make two girl models kiss each other. What does enjoying a particular genre of gaming have to do with politics?
This wouldn't happen to include the release date, would it?
Redub [i]Van Helsing[/i] with Castlevania-based dialog and digitally add a whip to Wolverine's hand in a few scenes. Viola.
PSV sounds like a workable concept, but it seems like the big trouble is that all of these video game ratings are reinventing the wheel. Little Billy Schmidt's Mom may not know an E rated game from an M, but she sure knows what an R rated movie is.
So roughly how many organizations would need massive payoffs in order to use the movie rating system for games?
I've been having the absolute WORST luck with EB lately. In my little nook of Orlando, I'm ringed by about six of them. Honestly, I don't know if they're all just terminally depressed from the merger notification or if they all just hire out of the same gene pool, but it was a nightmare just trying to get a stinkin' preorder done a month or two ago. The following is a direct quotation:
... ...
[I walk into the store, currently draped in Madden '06 flags, standees and posters]
Me: Hi, I can I preorder--
Clerk: Madden, right?
Me: Uh, n--
Clerk: Because it's coming out soon. It's gonna be the best one yet!
Me: Actually, I wanted Sigma Star Saga.
[Clerk stares vacantly for a second before cocking his head towards the GBA rack]
Clerk: Oh. Yeah. Well... Mario Superstar Saga's been out forever.
Me: No, Sigma Star Saga. It's a new one.
Clerk: They're not making a sequal to that one.
Me: It's a different franchise. Done by Wayforward? Namco's the publisher?
Clerk:
Me:
Clerk: Yeah... We don't do preorders here... You'll have to go to our Longwood location.
[I turn the PREORDER MADDEN 06!!!! standee on the desk to face him. He glances at it.]
Clerk: Excuse me, but I have to check our inventory for another customer.
[Clerk walks into the back room. I wait another 10 minutes before giving up and leaving. During this time, several college fratboys take the opportunity to shoplift several copies of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 while the counter is unmanned.]
And this is why I only preorder at Gamestop now. They not only let me do the preorder, but they also had copies of Riviera (which EB never even got) and a used Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis. Gotta slog through hell before reaching heaven, I guess.
Four years ago, I bought the special edition of Morrowind, which netted me a soundtrack, pewter figurine and art book. Back in high school, I bought the limited Might and Magic 6 box. Came with the entire series up until that point, maps and an entry form for an enormous lithograph of the cover art (which I won :D). And back in elementary school, my grandpa bought me the special trilogy pack of Hugo's House of Horrors, which came with hand-printed hint books.
Basiclly, if I really like the game/series, I'm probably going to shell out a little more for little goodies like that.
Scumbag statement retracted, though.
I'm sorry, but that just sounds sloppy to me. I'm a wee bit on the unfamiliar side of UK business laws, but shouldn't Sony have filed for trademark rights the moment they even considered selling the system in Europe? I honestly think the guys that registered it before them are just money-grubbing scumbags, but it seems to me Sony should've taken action long ago.
Contractual difficulties? Wouldn't be the first time a character got killed off because of it.
Maybe I just don't hang out with enough XBOX players. I dunno...
Call me crazy.
If leaves didn't fall, wouldn't that eliminate a lot of the nutrients in the ground that come from them? Even if any new trees grew from the deprived soil, all the herbavores would be eating their young shoots instead of the itty-bitty grass blades. Once all the young trees are gone, the plant eaters'll die off and there'll be no meat for the carnivores! And then society will fall into disarray as we battle each other in post-apocolyptic wastelands for rations and gasoline with our superpowered death cars, seeing only by the light of cinematic explosions!
Yeah. Think about it.
If anything, I worry MORE now that gaming has become big business. I can look at pretty much any given shelf in an EB or GameStop and immediately denote half of the titles as the shovelware they are. The rest are probably the "prestige" titles of various publishers from the last year or two. Honestly, the comparisons between Hollywood and gaming aren't that far off...
I've honestly wanted to give AO a try for the longest time, but I haven't had the spare cash to pick up a boxed copy as an experiment. If it turns out I enjoy the game, I'll definitely be acquiring the expansions.
You know, that actually got me wondering about those GBA flash carts... What would you say the odds are of them working with the DS? My knowledge of how they work is still fairly limited by their prohibitive cost. I'll always prefer to play the original game cart, but this could be a case in which I'd be willing to go with backups of my collection...
Unless those clever dickens over in Hong Kong come up with a utility that plays older carts, I may just give the DS a miss.
If they announce an NA release of this one, it'll guarantee that I preorder the system.
Assuming the poster is from Australia, can't he just import instead of resorting to theft? Or is flat out possession of the title illegal?
Probably would have wrote some fanfiction and cosplayed at an EQ convetion, too.
I'd say the precident groundwork has been laid. Has anybody approached EA with the intent to purchase the code and rights from them? Granted, there's a bit of a difference in scale between 3DO and EA, but you never know.
Yeah, I hated that.
Now that's what I call marketing.
Now imagine doing that with the stylus...
He hadn't tried it, of course, but he knew people that pulled it off. And it was printed in all the gaming magazines, so you know it's true. Not the only one you subscribe to, no. The other ones.
CoH for soloers and FFXI to social folks. I've spent 95% of my time in CoH doing things my own way, while FFXI forced me to either beg my friends to play or join up with often unreliable strangers. Or CoH for people with imagination that dig a healthy character generation and FFXI for folks that don't mind looking and performing exactly like someone else of the same class and level. To each his own, of course.