I wasn't arguing against copyright theft, I was just making general comments. In fact, I love ripping off faceless corporations! I also love owning my own SHINY CASES with instruction manuals inside, and I imagine that they APPRECIATE in value as every day goes by. I can only afford so many, though - so I only BUY games developed and published by the likes EA. FIFA 2001, 2002, 2003 - I have them all. I COPY any that have been developed by tiny outfits and published by tiny outlets. I usually make several copies to give to my friends.
Actually, I do have some morals, too many to name. If I'm going to bootleg a game, I make sure that it's already sold in the trillions, and I also make sure that I don't really want to buy it.
You don't HAVE to play these games again. You can simply "refuse" to purchase them and instead flutter your money away on dairy-related products, if that is your wish. It's your own fault if you paid to play the same game twice, and not that of the kind and undoubtedly warmhearted people who sold it to you.
As for 8-9 hours of gameplay not being worth $50 - well, that all depends. If the gameplay is up to scratch, it can easily RIVAL any movie, and you'll want to replay the game. DVDs are $20 and offer, what - 2-4 hours of entertainment? I'd say that in comparison, both mediums offer a similar amount of "bang" for your buck. Remember, in yonder day games were knocked together by teams of 3 or 4 and still sold at that same high price - sure, they offered INFINITY HOURS entertainment in some cases, but this generally involved the little pixelly things moving faster, and increasing in number, and moving FASTER STILL.
"The only 'new' information in this article is that EA isn't planning on publishing a European football game on the 'Cube.
Umm, so? The 'Cube isn't selling terribly in Europe, which is a large part of the non-Madden-type football-game-buying market. I can hardly say I blame them."
Nah, you misunderstand - football to Europeans means soccer to Americans. We call your football "American Football". I think there should be a debate over which football is the real football! Go!
I think the only true "junk" in that list is Mario Party. I loved the first game, it was a nice idea and carried out well. But every game after that has been almost exactly the same.
The "Mario Kart" are all pretty similar too, but a lot of developers churn out an update of an old game for a new systems - in fact, most do (Capcom [Resident Evil & Street Fighter], Eidos [Tomb Raider], Sega [Sonic], Sony [Gran Turismo], Namco [Tekken], Naughty Dog [Crash Bandicoot], Ubisoft [Rayman] - the list (which is probably inconsistently naming producers and developers) is endless. The point is, some of these rehashes do have a lot of effort put into them and are in actual fact pretty damn good games. Mario Kart: DD is still awesome. It's simply a case of the classic: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Well, they have to be able to talk to their Friends about last nights episode of "Friends" or other random soap operas / drama series, speculate over what's going to happen etc.
I do realise this is a rather broad generalisation, but I firmly believe that every single woman on the face of the earth does this.
"Videogames are created and played by (generally) younger people, who are going to be more progressively minded than the general population."
Actually, the younger you are, the more you view the world as a bunch of stereotypes. It's much easier to understand that all Asian people drive slowly and all British people have bad teeth than it is to recognise that everyone is an individual blah etc.
Why have this law in the first place? If my video games get stolen or are enflamed by various fires then I get a new one from people make roms of games is to distribute them. I'm not saying that I'm opposed to this, but it is most definitely a bad, unfair thing. Maybe all of these "fair use" laws should be replace with "common sense" laws.
As a devout Nintendo zealot and SNES RPGer in my own right, I don't think it matters what console Square use - if FF7-10 were on Nintendo consoles, they wouldn't have been any better. Although I would like to see some more Square games on the Cube, because I'm sick of nicking my brothers PS2 to play the anthologies etc.
I hate Gran Turismo, and racing simulations in general. I don't care how realistic an engine sounds, I want to have fun! I much prefer the Ridge Racer series on the PS2, and Mario Kart & F-Zero on the Cube. The cross-platform Burnout 2 is also excellent.
No, no, no, no. Even if you like that bad, bad genre, you're only going to get the more popular tunes playing on Kerrang. Linkin Park and Papa Roach and all those other excellent acts seem to occur plenty lots!
Bang on. In Britain, I think everything is acceptable (talking terrestrial here) but also has a watershed - eg, you can say "Fuck" after 9:00pm. While it can be found, I don't think the violence or nudity is excessive though. There was a small outcry recently over a woman having her face deposited in a deep fat frier, though.
Of course, if you leave Britain for more liberal European grounds, you can find an excess of nudity.
Blah, "British Humour" is nothing special, and does not automatically equate to "Python fan" (hate). As for The Office, well I'm definitely a fan, but a lot of that character is borrowed from Steve Coogan's "Alan Partridge", which I heartily recommend as 'alternative', weirdo Brit humour.
The thing is, not everyone over here (Britain) 'gets' The Office. It wasn't popular at all until it started winning awards, and a lot of people still can't stand it at all. We don't tend to like Seinfeld & Curb Your Enthusiasm either - which have only ever occupied 1am slots on BBC2 - although "Friends" still brings in the ratings.
The BBC are currently doing a "Top 10 Sitcoms" thing, if you're interested in 'British Humour' see what turns out as number one. I voted for Only Fools & Horses!
Team 17 are still alive and kicking, and we've just seen Worms 3D finally pop onto the shelves. Then there's Rare (Need I mention any titles?), Eidos (Bleh), Lionhead and Revolution, who recently released the excellent Broken Sword 3.
This articles is just incredibly bad. They cite 6 or 7 "classic games" as evidence of the millions of games developers that once spewed out billions of digital children, when in reality that was the case in most countries - the computer gaming world used to consists of lots more teeny developers.
Besides, nobody cares which country developers come from anyway - as long as they make good games, you should be happy. The Brits (which include myself) are no more innovative than any other country, and even if they were it was not due to any sort of "British" sense of humour. Innovation comes from companies willing to take risks, and Monty Python sucks.
There are still loads of references in LucasArts games. I remember Max was in the tatoo parlour in Grim Fandango, and although I don't recall him specifically in EMI there was definitely a file for "Sam N. Max" in the Prosthesis databank. The music in the LUA bar is also from the Bigfoot party at Sam & Max: Hit the Road.
I played it online (for long enough) at a cousins house once, and I was totally unimpressed too - the original version, not the sequel. It just seemed like it was knocked up* conveniently and thrown in with the modem.
Ah, but Monkey Island 4 put you in direct control of Guybrush, meaning you pushed up and he moved up. Sam & Max 2 was a point and click, which makes it a lot more fiddly to play on a console. Not that it couldn't be done, it's just not the best format to play it on.
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Tuh, it still goes for ~40 over here, and I can get gamecube games new at Amazon for 30.
I liked Paper Mario & Super Mario RPG a whole lot better than Superstar Saga.
A "unique combination". It was unique in the way they combined the 2D and 3D.
Actually, I do have some morals, too many to name. If I'm going to bootleg a game, I make sure that it's already sold in the trillions, and I also make sure that I don't really want to buy it.
As for 8-9 hours of gameplay not being worth $50 - well, that all depends. If the gameplay is up to scratch, it can easily RIVAL any movie, and you'll want to replay the game. DVDs are $20 and offer, what - 2-4 hours of entertainment? I'd say that in comparison, both mediums offer a similar amount of "bang" for your buck. Remember, in yonder day games were knocked together by teams of 3 or 4 and still sold at that same high price - sure, they offered INFINITY HOURS entertainment in some cases, but this generally involved the little pixelly things moving faster, and increasing in number, and moving FASTER STILL.
Ack. Bloody VBulletin. :~
Woah! A used Nintendo [b]64[/b]! Screw Playstation 59, mum! I want this!
Nah, you misunderstand - football to Europeans means soccer to Americans. We call your football "American Football". I think there should be a debate over which football is the real football! Go!
The "Mario Kart" are all pretty similar too, but a lot of developers churn out an update of an old game for a new systems - in fact, most do (Capcom [Resident Evil & Street Fighter], Eidos [Tomb Raider], Sega [Sonic], Sony [Gran Turismo], Namco [Tekken], Naughty Dog [Crash Bandicoot], Ubisoft [Rayman] - the list (which is probably inconsistently naming producers and developers) is endless. The point is, some of these rehashes do have a lot of effort put into them and are in actual fact pretty damn good games. Mario Kart: DD is still awesome. It's simply a case of the classic: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Can't comment on Mario Tennis, haven't played it.
Beneath A Steel Sky 2 has been announced. Revolution probably don't realise that underlying economic trends will ensure that the game sells 0 copies.
I do realise this is a rather broad generalisation, but I firmly believe that every single woman on the face of the earth does this.
Actually, the younger you are, the more you view the world as a bunch of stereotypes. It's much easier to understand that all Asian people drive slowly and all British people have bad teeth than it is to recognise that everyone is an individual blah etc.
No such animal!
Why have this law in the first place? If my video games get stolen or are enflamed by various fires then I get a new one from people make roms of games is to distribute them. I'm not saying that I'm opposed to this, but it is most definitely a bad, unfair thing. Maybe all of these "fair use" laws should be replace with "common sense" laws.
Microsoft have second parties such as DoubleFine too. Psychonauts is the best thing the x-box has going for it, and may just convince me to buy one.
As a devout Nintendo zealot and SNES RPGer in my own right, I don't think it matters what console Square use - if FF7-10 were on Nintendo consoles, they wouldn't have been any better. Although I would like to see some more Square games on the Cube, because I'm sick of nicking my brothers PS2 to play the anthologies etc.
I hate Gran Turismo, and racing simulations in general. I don't care how realistic an engine sounds, I want to have fun! I much prefer the Ridge Racer series on the PS2, and Mario Kart & F-Zero on the Cube. The cross-platform Burnout 2 is also excellent.
No, no, no, no. Even if you like that bad, bad genre, you're only going to get the more popular tunes playing on Kerrang. Linkin Park and Papa Roach and all those other excellent acts seem to occur plenty lots!
Of course, if you leave Britain for more liberal European grounds, you can find an excess of nudity.
The thing is, not everyone over here (Britain) 'gets' The Office. It wasn't popular at all until it started winning awards, and a lot of people still can't stand it at all. We don't tend to like Seinfeld & Curb Your Enthusiasm either - which have only ever occupied 1am slots on BBC2 - although "Friends" still brings in the ratings.
The BBC are currently doing a "Top 10 Sitcoms" thing, if you're interested in 'British Humour' see what turns out as number one. I voted for Only Fools & Horses!
This articles is just incredibly bad. They cite 6 or 7 "classic games" as evidence of the millions of games developers that once spewed out billions of digital children, when in reality that was the case in most countries - the computer gaming world used to consists of lots more teeny developers.
Besides, nobody cares which country developers come from anyway - as long as they make good games, you should be happy. The Brits (which include myself) are no more innovative than any other country, and even if they were it was not due to any sort of "British" sense of humour. Innovation comes from companies willing to take risks, and Monty Python sucks.
There are still loads of references in LucasArts games. I remember Max was in the tatoo parlour in Grim Fandango, and although I don't recall him specifically in EMI there was definitely a file for "Sam N. Max" in the Prosthesis databank. The music in the LUA bar is also from the Bigfoot party at Sam & Max: Hit the Road.
Japan has 100,000 subscribers to Xbox live? Are Xbox sales even that good in Japan?
*Knocked up meaning made, not impregnated.
Ah, but Monkey Island 4 put you in direct control of Guybrush, meaning you pushed up and he moved up. Sam & Max 2 was a point and click, which makes it a lot more fiddly to play on a console. Not that it couldn't be done, it's just not the best format to play it on.