the reason why fps games are more appealing is because, well they are more appealing, and they sell better and more often than rts games. (exception: star craft)
it's the same reasons why there is a winner and there is a looser in all aspects in life, one is better than the other. (Generally)
But of course, winning and loosing is all based on ones perspective. So in that case, more people like FPS games than RTS games...
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Wow that's cool, so you just commented here on slashdot with your console?
ER no you didn't, you used your pc.
But if you did use only a console, 99% chance you wouldn't be here and wouldn't have commented.
Well in that case,by all means, throw out your pc please and stick to your console, I'm really grateful you throught of this idea before I did!! Genius!
Seriously, who the fuck would need a pc? they are so useless. Consoles are way better man...WAY BETTER!!!
Consoles are so much better because they just play games and that's it. PC's can do like 100x more things, that's why they suck. Oh yeah, and pc's have the same games as the consoles, almost, and some consoles don't have any of the pc games, but that's the reason pc's suck...durr/sarcasm
It's really hard to get your account disabled. You would have to GO out of your way to have it happen.
And I will have to disagree with you that your point is a online account = DRM. They are different.
The atari and nintendo markets were making way more sales and money that the pc gaming market at the time, if you even wanted to call it a market.
Console's were making more money before PC games were and always have been, until almost recently. It's actually the other way around, PC gaming is catching up to console sales, surely but slowly.
So really, PC gaming is on the rise, which would mean consoles are on the decline. Just wait till star craft 2 comes out. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, it won't be coming out on ANY CONSOLES.
Looks like the same amount as 06' but I didn't count, most likely there are more entries this year than last year.
I attended the IGF in 06 and watched darwinia win some awards and the big prize. I actually had no idea there were that amount of enties. its exciting and scary at the same time, reason being, I plan on taking my game to igf in 08...
thats some serious competition!
I'm curious to go and browse through the games to see what is there, I wish igf had a screenshot preview feature, some of the links to the game's/owner's websites don't contain any information or screenshots about the game...
I can't say im one of the very first original trekkie fans. But I can say TNG was my star trek. One of the things i liked about Star Trek is how Gene Rodenberry and the writers would pick topics based loosely on the events of that time. Racism, terrorists, etc etc. You had several episodes that would reflect on what was happening today on earth, but shot forward 300 years into the future as it was happening again. And usually they had some solution or fake fantasy way of fixing the problem.
The other thing you had was atmosphere and attitude. Remember when a klingon was on main screen or a klingon battle was happening, you had your klingon battle music. You would be surprised how much music changes the immersion and atmosphere. Each race had a distinct style. The thing is here, everyone is talking about character development. But you can't have much character development on first contact, in that 1 episode. But one of the most awesome things about TNG was their first contact episodes. Or even not the first contacts, the first time the race was "showed" like the cardiasians, the ferengi. Both awesome races, you can relate to both of the races as being part of yourself. The races were distinct personality traits, this is what works well, because you can relate to them. Romulans- Reclusive, non trust worthy, secretive. Klingons- Warrior Race, Honor, Combat. To me, each race was a persona of everyone's basic personality, just highly exaggerated.
The races were distinctly clear on their intentions, attitude, and style of life, immediately you could "feel" or "think" of them as they are portrayed.
Take the Borg for example, clearly defined. The Borg invoked emotions from the viewer almost immediately, weather it being COOL!, or OMG CREEPY, or whatever it could be, it did something. even omg thats stupid!, it did something.
In Star Trek, not all, but most of the aliens in had a point to the show, they were relevant to the story and episode. In a lot of other sci fi movies, they have aliens just for the sake of aliens, no reason to have them, except that the show needs some sort of aliens. And i've had a problem with that. All you get to base what you think about these aliens are, um, it looks weird??? uh. but it acts like a human, so what do i think of it?
Another thing id like to point out is DS9. Ever since it first came out, i always thought DS9 was the star treks version of a soap opera. I couldn't stand it, to me, it had too much character development. It wasn't until the Jem'hidar were introduced i become hooked, and then with the addition of the defiant, it was like about freaking time the federation makes a ship that is for combat.
But to change my topic, i think after gene died, it was just over. I honestly started to hate Rick berman, without even knowing him, i just blamed it on him.
Anyways, i think they are doing it all wrong. What is with this fad to do young superman, young batman, young kirk? Didn't Enterprise just flop? why are they returning to the same thing? I think they should do post TNG.
the f'n original enterprise is a ICON! they are going to go fubar it up, or make kirks first ship look way cooler and newer than the enterprise. its something that shouldn't be touched.
and btw, Nemesis was CRAP! OMG, i couldn't believe the script. It had so many things that were incorrect, it didn't feel like the star trek writers at all wrote it. Like it was a pitched scrip and rick berman accepted it as the movie.. sigh.
I've seen some research data snips here and there, and data shows that items prices over 500 drop in sales from simply being 450 or 475. I'm not in marketing or the sort, but most marketing people can tell you in the market research that price POINT, is more important than the price its self. In other words, once it goes over a certain invisible line in price, it instantly turns off consumers no matter if its just a little or alot over.
So if it's price is over 500, parents in paticular will pick a 360 over a p3 just because of the cost, figuring their kid will be happy with either one.
But of course, common sense says if its not worth the price then people wont buy it. But we wont know until its on the market. I did see the SDK ps3 at GDC though, its huge! haha.
As for me, and many people, I will stick to PC, where the costs are becoming much lower. To a degree. Video cards are expensive for the high end cards.
But the best thing about the pc is all the FREE Games!!! And BETA testing is awesome imo. Like right now, im beta testing this awesome, er I mean Alpha testing this awesome little game called Armada Online, and it's open Alpha, so that means you can all go play for FREE TOO!. Seriously go play it so I have some people to play against. honestly. plz...
Anyways Microsoft is probably happy about the news, and the fact they are bringing in the millions while ps3 figures out how much it will cost.
I remember seeing something like this technology being tested with police. They setup a unit like this (might be the same thing) on a busy road. Anyways, a few hours later, the system caught a few stolen cars, speeders, and few other things, that led to a record number of arrests that day.
Kinda werid though, for some reason it reminds me of 1984.
I can do better than write a whole book. Now, I'm not a manager of any kinda. In fact I have a manager boss.
But all he has to do is yell and be an asshole and stuff gets done!
Just be an asshole, that should do it!
I'm pretty sure the article is talking about software that manages managers, and delegates employes and that sorta thing. Like a windows application. A computer running the IT department sorta way.
I don't know where autonomicthingymagingy code came from.
Can anyone confirm that this telescope will be more powerfull than the huble? and by how much. If it's not 3x more magnification at a minimum of the huble scope, then 10 years is going to be a waste of time.
The article explains that the ratings for the SCI-FI channel, not just all SCI-FI, but the SCI-FI channel has the higher female audience.
Regardless of whats on the sci-fi channel, my most means it should have a higher male audience. But it doesn't, because of some of the shows.
It's not a big deal really, so I dunno what all the fuss is about. Yeah I would agree, the sci fi channel should be male dominent. Who would of guessed.
Did we miss the idea that going into a ICE AGE would be a bad for humanity, and now because of our green house gases, we have delayed the ICE AGE, which is a good thing.
In terms of the future, you might want to check out the GameRunner.
It's a treadmill controller designed to work with the computer, xbox, and playstation.
Slashdot Mirror
um..? what?
the reason why fps games are more appealing is because, well they are more appealing, and they sell better and more often than rts games. (exception: star craft)
it's the same reasons why there is a winner and there is a looser in all aspects in life, one is better than the other. (Generally)
But of course, winning and loosing is all based on ones perspective. So in that case, more people like FPS games than RTS games...
Wow that's cool, so you just commented here on slashdot with your console? ER no you didn't, you used your pc. But if you did use only a console, 99% chance you wouldn't be here and wouldn't have commented. Well in that case,by all means, throw out your pc please and stick to your console, I'm really grateful you throught of this idea before I did!! Genius! Seriously, who the fuck would need a pc? they are so useless. Consoles are way better man...WAY BETTER!!! Consoles are so much better because they just play games and that's it. PC's can do like 100x more things, that's why they suck. Oh yeah, and pc's have the same games as the consoles, almost, and some consoles don't have any of the pc games, but that's the reason pc's suck...durr /sarcasm
It's really hard to get your account disabled. You would have to GO out of your way to have it happen. And I will have to disagree with you that your point is a online account = DRM. They are different.
The atari and nintendo markets were making way more sales and money that the pc gaming market at the time, if you even wanted to call it a market.
Console's were making more money before PC games were and always have been, until almost recently.
It's actually the other way around, PC gaming is catching up to console sales, surely but slowly.
So really, PC gaming is on the rise, which would mean consoles are on the decline.
Just wait till star craft 2 comes out. Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, it won't be coming out on ANY CONSOLES.
yeah that is farcry
Looks like fpgamerunner.com is going to suffer a slashdot and a digg effect... poor website..
Digg GameRunner
FpGameRunner.com is /. so it's down. the mirror site is
GameRunner.us
fpgamerunner.com is down.
mirror site is www.gamerunner.us
Looks like the same amount as 06' but I didn't count, most likely there are more entries this year than last year.
I attended the IGF in 06 and watched darwinia win some awards and the big prize. I actually had no idea there were that amount of enties. its exciting and scary at the same time, reason being, I plan on taking my game to igf in 08...
thats some serious competition!
I'm curious to go and browse through the games to see what is there, I wish igf had a screenshot preview feature, some of the links to the game's/owner's websites don't contain any information or screenshots about the game...
I can't say im one of the very first original trekkie fans. But I can say TNG was my star trek. One of the things i liked about Star Trek is how Gene Rodenberry and the writers would pick topics based loosely on the events of that time. Racism, terrorists, etc etc.
You had several episodes that would reflect on what was happening today on earth, but shot forward 300 years into the future as it was happening again. And usually they had some solution or fake fantasy way of fixing the problem.
The other thing you had was atmosphere and attitude. Remember when a klingon was on main screen or a klingon battle was happening, you had your klingon battle music. You would be surprised how much music changes the immersion and atmosphere. Each race had a distinct style. The thing is here, everyone is talking about character development. But you can't have much character development on first contact, in that 1 episode. But one of the most awesome things about TNG was their first contact episodes. Or even not the first contacts, the first time the race was "showed" like the cardiasians, the ferengi. Both awesome races, you can relate to both of the races as being part of yourself. The races were distinct personality traits, this is what works well, because you can relate to them. Romulans- Reclusive, non trust worthy, secretive. Klingons- Warrior Race, Honor, Combat. To me, each race was a persona of everyone's basic personality, just highly exaggerated.
The races were distinctly clear on their intentions, attitude, and style of life, immediately you could "feel" or "think" of them as they are portrayed.
Take the Borg for example, clearly defined. The Borg invoked emotions from the viewer almost immediately, weather it being COOL!, or OMG CREEPY, or whatever it could be, it did something. even omg thats stupid!, it did something.
In Star Trek, not all, but most of the aliens in had a point to the show, they were relevant to the story and episode.
In a lot of other sci fi movies, they have aliens just for the sake of aliens, no reason to have them, except that the show needs some sort of aliens. And i've had a problem with that. All you get to base what you think about these aliens are, um, it looks weird??? uh. but it acts like a human, so what do i think of it?
Another thing id like to point out is DS9. Ever since it first came out, i always thought DS9 was the star treks version of a soap opera. I couldn't stand it, to me, it had too much character development. It wasn't until the Jem'hidar were introduced i become hooked, and then with the addition of the defiant, it was like about freaking time the federation makes a ship that is for combat.
But to change my topic, i think after gene died, it was just over. I honestly started to hate Rick berman, without even knowing him, i just blamed it on him.
Anyways, i think they are doing it all wrong. What is with this fad to do young superman, young batman, young kirk?
Didn't Enterprise just flop? why are they returning to the same thing? I think they should do post TNG.
the f'n original enterprise is a ICON! they are going to go fubar it up, or make kirks first ship look way cooler and newer than the enterprise. its something that shouldn't be touched.
and btw, Nemesis was CRAP! OMG, i couldn't believe the script. It had so many things that were incorrect, it didn't feel like the star trek writers at all wrote it. Like it was a pitched scrip and rick berman accepted it as the movie.. sigh.
ps sorry for spelling/grammar.
I did that but i wasn't in safe mode, worked fine.
I've seen some research data snips here and there, and data shows that items prices over 500 drop in sales from simply being 450 or 475. I'm not in marketing or the sort, but most marketing people can tell you in the market research that price POINT, is more important than the price its self. In other words, once it goes over a certain invisible line in price, it instantly turns off consumers no matter if its just a little or alot over.
So if it's price is over 500, parents in paticular will pick a 360 over a p3 just because of the cost, figuring their kid will be happy with either one.
But of course, common sense says if its not worth the price then people wont buy it. But we wont know until its on the market. I did see the SDK ps3 at GDC though, its huge! haha.
As for me, and many people, I will stick to PC, where the costs are becoming much lower. To a degree. Video cards are expensive for the high end cards.
But the best thing about the pc is all the FREE Games!!! And BETA testing is awesome imo. Like right now, im beta testing this awesome, er I mean Alpha testing this awesome little game called Armada Online, and it's open Alpha, so that means you can all go play for FREE TOO!. Seriously go play it so I have some people to play against. honestly. plz...
Anyways Microsoft is probably happy about the news, and the fact they are bringing in the millions while ps3 figures out how much it will cost.
Yeah SC2 was one of my favorite games as well as Tie Figher. Check out my signature, I'm making a game like SC2
I remember seeing something like this technology being tested with police. They setup a unit like this (might be the same thing) on a busy road. Anyways, a few hours later, the system caught a few stolen cars, speeders, and few other things, that led to a record number of arrests that day.
Kinda werid though, for some reason it reminds me of 1984.
I can do better than write a whole book. Now, I'm not a manager of any kinda. In fact I have a manager boss. But all he has to do is yell and be an asshole and stuff gets done! Just be an asshole, that should do it!
If you want to find underground or indie games, I'd recommend sites like
http://www.gametunnel.com/
http://www.madmonkey.net/
http://www.indiegamer.com/
Don't forgot about sony's DRM stuff. Nobody wants a rootkit included in their PS3.
if (Halo.3 > DRM.rootkit)
DONT_BUY_PS3
I'm pretty sure the article is talking about software that manages managers, and delegates employes and that sorta thing. Like a windows application. A computer running the IT department sorta way.
I don't know where autonomicthingymagingy code came from.
Can anyone confirm that this telescope will be more powerfull than the huble? and by how much.
If it's not 3x more magnification at a minimum of the huble scope, then 10 years is going to be a waste of time.
Go ahead I dare you. Type in " failure " (without qoutes)in google search and click im feeling lucky!
RTFA
The article explains that the ratings for the SCI-FI channel, not just all SCI-FI, but the SCI-FI channel has the higher female audience.
Regardless of whats on the sci-fi channel, my most means it should have a higher male audience. But it doesn't, because of some of the shows.
It's not a big deal really, so I dunno what all the fuss is about. Yeah I would agree, the sci fi channel should be male dominent. Who would of guessed.
I dunno about the rest of you but I didn't find anything hilarious about the 2 page letter. Sounds to me people are playing the blame game here.
Did we miss the idea that going into a ICE AGE would be a bad for humanity, and now because of our green house gases, we have delayed the ICE AGE, which is a good thing.
In terms of the future, you might want to check out the GameRunner. It's a treadmill controller designed to work with the computer, xbox, and playstation.
In other Words, Bill Gates, be afraid, be very afraid.