So, when is somebody gonna port Firefox for the Xbox? Those of us who use all the other wonderful user built apps and homebrews on the Xbox only have one choice at the moment for web browsing: Linksbox. While decent, I'd love to have Firefox on there. Would be useful for those times where I'm too lazy to get up and use the computer. Any takers?
Unfortunately, EA also has an exclusive on College Football for at least next year. EA also has exclusive on NASCAR and PGA. Sega has exclusive on College Basketball.
Okay troll, I'll bite.
Sega voluntarily decided not to continue their college football games for the 2003-4 and 2004-5 seasons after sales for the 2002-3 season (Sega NCAA Football 2K3). Sega has made excellent NCAA football games in the past (though not as good as EA's NCAA Football line in my opinion) but their NFL line has excellent play mechanics, and they already have a lot of the college info digitized (digital stadiums, fight songs, mascots, etc. from 2K3) so now's a phenomenal time to get back into the college football market. The NCAA is smart with their money (read that as "money grubbing whores"), so they're not dumb about creating rediculous monopolies and limiting the amount of licenses they give out. Now an exclusive with the BCS would be one thing, but let's remember that Sega/ESPN's game was the only one that had the Rose Bowl licensed back in 2002 [the other 3 BCS bowls were only licensed to EA].
EA does have an exclusive with NASCAR, but honestly sales of NASCAR 2005 aren't nearly up there with the level of the pro football games. And we all know about the Tiger Woods games, but honestly the PGA license isn't even remotely required to have a successful golf game. For proof just see the excellent Links for the Xbox and Mario Golf for the GBA and GameCube.
Oh, and Sega does not have an exclusive on college basketball. EA's March Madness series and 989's NCAA Final Four have been going strong for years, though ESPN's College Hoops 2K5 is the best of the bunch in my opinion. And like somebody else commented before, no NCAA games are allowed to have player names in them, since such an act would constitute an endorsement for which the player would have to be compensated - thus making them a professional and violating NCAA amateur rules. Ever wonder why last year's best player is always the cover boy of the new NCAA game for this year? [Carson Palmer, Josh Childress, Drew Brees, Eric Crouch, to name a few from years past].
Another is joking about bombs while you're waiting to get aboard an airplane. These forms of speech are not protected. Anyone who does them is stupid.
I can attest to this - I was in the Raleigh/Durham (NC) Airport this past weekend and saw a sign while waiting in line for security. It stated that making jokes about bombs or other security threats was not permitted and would lead to interrogation. Fun times, eh?
No, dumbass. Extradition is for when you commit a crime in one country [where the act is illegal], and either flee or reside in another country [where the act may or may not be illegal]. Spitting out gum is illegal in Singapore, but is not illegal in the United States. So if you spit out your gum in the U.S. nobody cares - you're just an asshole [find a trashcan!]. If you did it in Singapore [again, where the act is illegal] AND FLED THE COUNTRY [or if you somehow were able to spit your gun out from your house in America and it landed on the street in Singapore] - then you could be extradited FROM the United States TO Singapore pending an extradition request and hearing by the government of Singapore to be heard in a court of law in the United States. And only if the court approves the request may you be extradited.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you just sounded dumb.
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Until they start packing better NTFS support (Captive NTFS is a pain in the ass, and still doesn't work for me most of the time) along with 802.11b/g/a card support in Knoppix, it's hard for a lot of current Windows users [XP users, mainly] to switch over. I'd love to try out more in Knoppix as I love that you can pop in a live CD, learn some Linux, and if needed, reboot and go back to Windows - and when I sufficiently knew enough about what I was doing in Linux, only then would I make the permanent switch.
One thing about all these articles is that they expect users to quit Windows cold-turkey and immediately jump head first into Linux. But from what I've seen personally, that's not necessarily the best approach. Those that I've seen try making the hard switch install their distribution of choice, then after a few hours of trying to regain the functionality of their last OS [figuring out what does what, where it is, etc] they get frustrated with Linux and wonder what made them give up their previous OS when it worked "just fine". I like the gradual approach that Knoppix and other live CD-based distros can afford. You can pop it in, screw with it for a while, learn some, then pop it out and go back to your old OS if you get frustrated or tired. I commend Gagne for using Knoppix as the teaching tool of his book.
NFL Blitz and NBA Jam were both redone and updated by Midway, but the franchises turned to shit - no good updates, the games felt old and tired. If you want games with the same level of fun those old games had, then check out EA's "Street" games. NBA Street vol 2 and NFL Street are both a lot of fun, and the original NBA Street can probably be picked up new for less than $10 for all three consoles.
This could work great for Sega, but there's a pretty high potential for backlash. Sure, they'll sell a lot more copies - but Sega's market share in the football game market is what, maybe 15% as of now? They'll sell more copies, but at less than half the amount they used to make - that's a nice hit to their profit margins. No matter if Sega's ESPN games are of better quality than Madden, they don't have EA's hype and marketing machine [and tradition]. Some better advertising plus this rediculously affordable price, and they really could gain some ground, even if only for a year. For the record, I bought NFL2K the day it came out for Dreamcast, and I'm a huge fan of the ESPN NFL games - up to the point where they dropped support for my Gamecube [jerks!]. I guess I'll have to play them on Xbox now.
Speaking of Xbox, that's really where these games stood above Madden, with the Xbox live play - with EA jumping onto Xbox Live next year, forget that advantage.
But at $19.99? Hell, I'd buy copies for my cross-country friends just so I can whoop their asses on Xbox Live. If Sega does this with their other sports games, their very-excellent NBA and NHL games could catch fire. The ESPN presentation elements is fantastic.
So I guess it's the Matrix Online announcement. Is anybody else underwhelmed? I'm a self professed Sega fanboy, but with the incredible PSP and DS announcements, and even the FPS barrage of Halo 2 / Half-Life 2 / Doom 3, it's hard to get too excited about Sega's announcement. A lot of us are still washing the bad taste of Enter The Matrix out of our mouths, and it'll take a great game to redeem the Matrix license. Sega can do it, hopefully.
I firmly believe that competition is a good thing, but let's face it folks, the only two companies putting out good sports games these days are Sega and Electronic Arts. 989 had good games early in the PS1 life-cycle, when they were taking advantage of the Sony machine's graphics better than the other guys. Guess what? EA caught up with them. And vastly surpassed them. If it weren't for Sega resurrecting their Sports department with the 2K games on the Dreamcast, EA would be the only name out there, other than Midway and those dopey NFL Blitz/MLB Slugfest games.
Sports games are big business, but if you're 989, only selling games for ONE of the consoles (unlike EA and Sega), and you're fighting for that marginal percentage of the market share called third or forth place on that ONE console, then the well runs dry pretty quick.
I applaud 989 for still making PS1 games, I always like to see old systems get love, but the creativity, the enhancements, and the feel and play of their games has taken a nose-dive over the past few years. 989 Sports, hate to see you go, but honestly, you won't be missed.
I remember picking up my Dreamcast the day it came out. I'm an avid Sega fanboy (yes, I was the kid with the SMS, GG, Genesis/32x/SCD, and Saturn), so I couldn't wait for it. Best games?
Soul Calibur (blew the arcade version away)
NFL2K (the first "beautiful" sports game, led to what is now a great line of 'ESPN' branded games)
Ikaruga (the hardest goddamned game I've ever played)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (arcade perfect)
Rez (a beautiful, amazing experience)
Jet Set/Grind Radio (cell shading done right)
Crazy Taxi (insanely fun arcade driving)
Chu Chu Rocket (the best multiplayer puzzle game ever.)
Looney Tunes Space Race (a fun kart-style racer)
PowerStone 2 (chaotic 4-player fighting)
Tennis 2K2/Virtua Tennis (best tennis game, till M$ copied a la Top Spin)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (a port, but great)
Shenmue/Shenmue 2 (immense RPGs)
and of course, the homebrews and emulation (especially Feet of Fury and NESterDC)
The Sonic Adventure games were fun, but never captured the magic of the 16-bit Genesis games. Even with the new Sonic Heroes it's still lacking. Sonic 2 still is the best in the series in my opinion. The voice and music acting since SA1 is just comically bad. Please Sega, restore the dignity in that franchise! The old Sonic games had great music, now we have to deal with bad J-Pop while we fight Eggman (Robotnik).
Dr Pepper is not a Pepsi or a Coke product (though it is sometimes bottled and distributed by either Coke or Pepsi bottlers). And contrary to popular belief, neither is 7-Up.
The Dr. Pepper / Seven Up company is the #3 soft drink company in the US. They have DP, 7Up, Canada Dry, Sunkist, and A&W.
The aforementioned comments do not in any way reflect our organization's commitment to bringing the consumer the best product we care to make available, and to ream money out of everyone involved along the way.
True regards,
The RIAA
Yes, I know that Paper Mario was an N64 game, but I would love to see it ported to the GBA. Mario&Luigi:Superstar Saga is one of the best games I've played on the GBA [just tons of fun] and I'd love to see the unofficial prequels to it make an appearance on the handheld. Oh, and I'd pay good if they packed the three Zelda GBC games into one GBA package [2 Oracle games, Zelda DX].
As for Square-Enix games, the original Dragon Warrior [from the NES], and a release of the Earthbound games for those of us outside of Japan would be nice. I'd import it, but since I don't read Japanese, I think I'd rather not waste my money.
I know it's OT, but does anybody else having any problems deleting files from their database in iTunes? I tried to remove some moved files, and it just soared up to 100% CPU usage and locked (mem+pagefile was at 1GB of usage). Everything else works great, this is just pissing me off.
Not so much soundtracks, but effects noises from the 2600 will always stick with me:
From Donkey Kong:
Jumping to start a level, the pitter-patter of Mario's footsteps, the noise of successfully and unsuccessfully jumping barrels, and the little ditty you get when you clear a level - I can still vividly hear those when I think about them. [And no, I'm not an ancient, I'm 22].
From Pitfall:
The 'Tarzan swing' music when you hopped on a vine, and the Dragnet-style music when you die - those really stick out too.
And as far as game soundtracks themselves go, you have to give credit to Megaman 2. Want proof of how good MM2's music was? Listen to this track by video-game-cover-band The Minibosses. It's a great track.
Not all of nintedos proteges pan out, the game "tube slider" by NEC Interchannel was going to be an F-zero title. nintendo wasn't happy with what NEC had managed to put together, so they cut them loose and gave the project to one of Sega's teams.
And after playing both of those games, Tube Slider and F-Zero GX, you have to applaud Nintendo for making the right move. Tube Slider is horrible compared to the Sega output, and I for one applaud Nintendo's choice for quality over the quick money - if Tube Slider would've been called F-Zero, it would've sold a ton of titles on name alone. I am glad it didn't.
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We can handle our own lawsuits, thank you.
There's no money in simple criminal prosecution! Civil suits are where the dough is!
So, when is somebody gonna port Firefox for the Xbox? Those of us who use all the other wonderful user built apps and homebrews on the Xbox only have one choice at the moment for web browsing: Linksbox. While decent, I'd love to have Firefox on there. Would be useful for those times where I'm too lazy to get up and use the computer. Any takers?
Okay troll, I'll bite.
Sega voluntarily decided not to continue their college football games for the 2003-4 and 2004-5 seasons after sales for the 2002-3 season (Sega NCAA Football 2K3). Sega has made excellent NCAA football games in the past (though not as good as EA's NCAA Football line in my opinion) but their NFL line has excellent play mechanics, and they already have a lot of the college info digitized (digital stadiums, fight songs, mascots, etc. from 2K3) so now's a phenomenal time to get back into the college football market. The NCAA is smart with their money (read that as "money grubbing whores"), so they're not dumb about creating rediculous monopolies and limiting the amount of licenses they give out. Now an exclusive with the BCS would be one thing, but let's remember that Sega/ESPN's game was the only one that had the Rose Bowl licensed back in 2002 [the other 3 BCS bowls were only licensed to EA].
EA does have an exclusive with NASCAR, but honestly sales of NASCAR 2005 aren't nearly up there with the level of the pro football games. And we all know about the Tiger Woods games, but honestly the PGA license isn't even remotely required to have a successful golf game. For proof just see the excellent Links for the Xbox and Mario Golf for the GBA and GameCube.
Oh, and Sega does not have an exclusive on college basketball. EA's March Madness series and 989's NCAA Final Four have been going strong for years, though ESPN's College Hoops 2K5 is the best of the bunch in my opinion. And like somebody else commented before, no NCAA games are allowed to have player names in them, since such an act would constitute an endorsement for which the player would have to be compensated - thus making them a professional and violating NCAA amateur rules. Ever wonder why last year's best player is always the cover boy of the new NCAA game for this year? [Carson Palmer, Josh Childress, Drew Brees, Eric Crouch, to name a few from years past].
I can attest to this - I was in the Raleigh/Durham (NC) Airport this past weekend and saw a sign while waiting in line for security. It stated that making jokes about bombs or other security threats was not permitted and would lead to interrogation. Fun times, eh?
I know you were trying to be funny, but you just sounded dumb.
[Blogger allows you to post to your blog via an email address. Just edit your .forward and post everything!]
Since we're all chiming in, here's one I've been editing for a while: http://www.tfn.net/~mdjordan/mozilla_adblock_filte rs.txt
Until they start packing better NTFS support (Captive NTFS is a pain in the ass, and still doesn't work for me most of the time) along with 802.11b/g/a card support in Knoppix, it's hard for a lot of current Windows users [XP users, mainly] to switch over. I'd love to try out more in Knoppix as I love that you can pop in a live CD, learn some Linux, and if needed, reboot and go back to Windows - and when I sufficiently knew enough about what I was doing in Linux, only then would I make the permanent switch.
One thing about all these articles is that they expect users to quit Windows cold-turkey and immediately jump head first into Linux. But from what I've seen personally, that's not necessarily the best approach. Those that I've seen try making the hard switch install their distribution of choice, then after a few hours of trying to regain the functionality of their last OS [figuring out what does what, where it is, etc] they get frustrated with Linux and wonder what made them give up their previous OS when it worked "just fine". I like the gradual approach that Knoppix and other live CD-based distros can afford. You can pop it in, screw with it for a while, learn some, then pop it out and go back to your old OS if you get frustrated or tired. I commend Gagne for using Knoppix as the teaching tool of his book.
I just always fill in either root@[domain] or webmaster@[domain] of whatever site I'm signing up for (RealPlayer, etc).
NFL Blitz and NBA Jam were both redone and updated by Midway, but the franchises turned to shit - no good updates, the games felt old and tired. If you want games with the same level of fun those old games had, then check out EA's "Street" games. NBA Street vol 2 and NFL Street are both a lot of fun, and the original NBA Street can probably be picked up new for less than $10 for all three consoles.
Speaking of Xbox, that's really where these games stood above Madden, with the Xbox live play - with EA jumping onto Xbox Live next year, forget that advantage.
But at $19.99? Hell, I'd buy copies for my cross-country friends just so I can whoop their asses on Xbox Live. If Sega does this with their other sports games, their very-excellent NBA and NHL games could catch fire. The ESPN presentation elements is fantastic.
Stop speaking for us, idiot. [That's our job.] -the riaa
So what is it? Here's all I could rake up about Sega so far:
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Sega to Co-Publish Matrix Online
- Sega pledges support for DS and PSP
So I guess it's the Matrix Online announcement. Is anybody else underwhelmed? I'm a self professed Sega fanboy, but with the incredible PSP and DS announcements, and even the FPS barrage of Halo 2 / Half-Life 2 / Doom 3, it's hard to get too excited about Sega's announcement. A lot of us are still washing the bad taste of Enter The Matrix out of our mouths, and it'll take a great game to redeem the Matrix license. Sega can do it, hopefully.I firmly believe that competition is a good thing, but let's face it folks, the only two companies putting out good sports games these days are Sega and Electronic Arts. 989 had good games early in the PS1 life-cycle, when they were taking advantage of the Sony machine's graphics better than the other guys. Guess what? EA caught up with them. And vastly surpassed them. If it weren't for Sega resurrecting their Sports department with the 2K games on the Dreamcast, EA would be the only name out there, other than Midway and those dopey NFL Blitz/MLB Slugfest games. Sports games are big business, but if you're 989, only selling games for ONE of the consoles (unlike EA and Sega), and you're fighting for that marginal percentage of the market share called third or forth place on that ONE console, then the well runs dry pretty quick. I applaud 989 for still making PS1 games, I always like to see old systems get love, but the creativity, the enhancements, and the feel and play of their games has taken a nose-dive over the past few years. 989 Sports, hate to see you go, but honestly, you won't be missed.
Soul Calibur (blew the arcade version away)
NFL2K (the first "beautiful" sports game, led to what is now a great line of 'ESPN' branded games)
Ikaruga (the hardest goddamned game I've ever played)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (arcade perfect)
Rez (a beautiful, amazing experience)
Jet Set/Grind Radio (cell shading done right)
Crazy Taxi (insanely fun arcade driving)
Chu Chu Rocket (the best multiplayer puzzle game ever.)
Looney Tunes Space Race (a fun kart-style racer)
PowerStone 2 (chaotic 4-player fighting)
Tennis 2K2/Virtua Tennis (best tennis game, till M$ copied a la Top Spin)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (a port, but great)
Shenmue/Shenmue 2 (immense RPGs)
and of course, the homebrews and emulation (especially Feet of Fury and NESterDC)
The Sonic Adventure games were fun, but never captured the magic of the 16-bit Genesis games. Even with the new Sonic Heroes it's still lacking. Sonic 2 still is the best in the series in my opinion. The voice and music acting since SA1 is just comically bad. Please Sega, restore the dignity in that franchise! The old Sonic games had great music, now we have to deal with bad J-Pop while we fight Eggman (Robotnik).
Dr Pepper is not a Pepsi or a Coke product (though it is sometimes bottled and distributed by either Coke or Pepsi bottlers). And contrary to popular belief, neither is 7-Up.
The Dr. Pepper / Seven Up company is the #3 soft drink company in the US. They have DP, 7Up, Canada Dry, Sunkist, and A&W.
The aforementioned comments do not in any way reflect our organization's commitment to bringing the consumer the best product we care to make available, and to ream money out of everyone involved along the way. True regards, The RIAA
As for Square-Enix games, the original Dragon Warrior [from the NES], and a release of the Earthbound games for those of us outside of Japan would be nice. I'd import it, but since I don't read Japanese, I think I'd rather not waste my money.
Enter the Matrix.
I know it's OT, but does anybody else having any problems deleting files from their database in iTunes? I tried to remove some moved files, and it just soared up to 100% CPU usage and locked (mem+pagefile was at 1GB of usage). Everything else works great, this is just pissing me off.
The rest of us call those jobs.
Peachtree? Which one?
From Donkey Kong:
Jumping to start a level, the pitter-patter of Mario's footsteps, the noise of successfully and unsuccessfully jumping barrels, and the little ditty you get when you clear a level - I can still vividly hear those when I think about them. [And no, I'm not an ancient, I'm 22].
From Pitfall:
The 'Tarzan swing' music when you hopped on a vine, and the Dragnet-style music when you die - those really stick out too.
And as far as game soundtracks themselves go, you have to give credit to Megaman 2. Want proof of how good MM2's music was? Listen to this track by video-game-cover-band The Minibosses. It's a great track.
I always thought she said "Oni", japanese for "brother" - but I guess it's like song lyrics, you hear what you want to hear.
And after playing both of those games, Tube Slider and F-Zero GX, you have to applaud Nintendo for making the right move. Tube Slider is horrible compared to the Sega output, and I for one applaud Nintendo's choice for quality over the quick money - if Tube Slider would've been called F-Zero, it would've sold a ton of titles on name alone. I am glad it didn't.