Let me tell you, they are much more attractive when they are not in public. I saw a special for their new movie on E! (it was Sunday morning, nothing else was on and it had Eugene Levy) It showed a few of their family pictures at their home, and they looked so much better -- not only in an attractive way, but also in an "I'm not a hoochie" way -- without all the makeup plastered on their faces.
Since the most vocal people about outsourcing are IT workers, I'd like to know how many others in the IT field are experiencing lower prices for licensing software libraries to use with their own product. How many of us consumers are experiencing lower pricing for the software we buy at Walmart, Best Buy, and Circuit City? I know I haven't seen much of a drop in prices for these, except for PC games which are an average of $40 now, as opposed to $50. As long as I (the consumer) am still paying the same price for a product, while at the same time risking not being able to get a job because someone from another country may get it for half the wages I would be paid, I don't see much of a motivation for outsourcing aside from making some CEO a money hat.
I've gotten XP installed on a box with a PentiumPro (?) 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM for work. Well below the minimum requirements. But it is still usable.
For some reason, I don't think they have a boardroom full of executives researching the next best color to put on their machines. Although that does make for a funny situation.
Everybody says MMORPGs need to try something new, but we all forget that they did try something new with PlanetSide, the MMOFPSRPG. I would say that it failed. Maybe it could be attributed to its bland-looking environments, or maybe to the fact that everyone was fighting a war with no purpose (at least there is some purpose to real wars.. whether the reasoning be right or wrong). Everyone was fighting each other only to gain more zones -- only to have those zones taken away after you log off because, for some reason, your army put no defenses on the base you just took.
I'd say that something different being done is City of Heroes. I'm not farming items because there are no items except for power enhancements, which aren't given consistently. I'm not killing rats or some other worthless creature, because the only enemies in the game are thugs and other criminals. When you start the game, if you let yourself be involved with the role-playing aspect, you feel like you're making a difference in Paragon City. When I played FFXI, I wondered what the point was of killing the poor little rabbits of doom. I know that "arresting" a thug should make a difference in the city, so I don't feel like a useless level-grinder. Plus, there are so many missions I can do, if I get tired of killing random thugs, I can do an instanced mission and fight a boss, though the bosses occasionally appear on the street, too.
Real golf is quite fun. Although I don't have enough money to play it a lot. When I first started, I thought it would be easy -- not to play well, but just to play. Boy, was I wrong. I had no idea of the physical effort needed to swing those clubs. And I'm a pretty fit person. I'm usually sore for a day after I play.
What you'd be looking for is Freedom Force (or FF vs. the Third Reich in the future). It's a great SRPG all about super-heroes. Set in the campy 60s comic era. You should be able to pick it up for $5-10 nowadays. No monthly fee, large single-player campaign, and the ability for users to set up their own servers... though I rarely found any when I played. It's definitely worth $10, though.
I actually got mine for the equivalent of $10 if you include the $20 gift certificate from EB along with the $10 rebate from Atari. Not a bad price for an "update".
I had a TG-16 when I was younger. It did have some good games, but the quality of the hardware was rather lacking. While I was playing the game one day, the first controller just sort of fell out of the port. I tried to plug it back in, but half of the pins were stuck inside the machine, broken off from the rest of the unit. This was by the time the machines were no longer in production, so I couldn't just buy a new controller. But thankfully, my grandfather soldered the components together to get me playing again, when the rest of the pins that hadn't previously fallen off did so. Maybe the second time, it could be attributed to my grandfather tinkering with it, but it should never have happened the first time.
I agree. Whatever happened to $0.25/0.50 fun games? Nowadays, all the arcades I go to (only at the beach.. no arcades around my house) only have games with a steering wheel, a gun, or some other weird input device like a sword that has slow motion capture. And not one of them costs less than $1. I'm sorry, but I'll be spending my $2 on the motorized rock-climbing wall until more fun games appear in arcades.
Perhaps one day, the "gaming console" will become as generic as a player and ANYone could publish games for it.
I believe what you're looking for is called a PC. The problem with it is getting your game to run on such a variety of machines, built and certified, or hacked together. Plus the fact that a decent rig will cost you at least a few hundred dollars.
I would also love it if more developers would write games for PCs -- and not just Windows OS versions.. Mac and Linux versions, too. Look around on the internet and you can find a lot of odd/original/innovative games. It's just that they're developed by indie-houses, instead of a big name developer/publisher, so we probably won't ever see them on the shelf at EB or Gamestop (does Gamestop even sell PC games in stores anymore? I know one of my local ones doesn't.. I don't go to the other two around me enough to be sure).
I believe that Rare retained the PD property. They also own Banjo Kazooie.
I, personally, believe that, aside from Blast Corps, Goldeneye, and Conker weren't very impressive. I had no fun at all with Diddy Kong Racing or DK64. Perfect Dark was not as fun, or pleasing as Goldeneye. So much slowdown with an explosion, it reminded me of NES days.
Overall, much too long of a wait for a lot of unimpressive and a few great games.
I believe it's been stated numerous times that they are all different incarnations of Link, Zelda, Gan(n)on, etc. in the kingdom of Hyrule. That's a nice way to explain all of the incongruency.
The GCN WarioWare is almost complete different, granted you're playing it in multiplayer mode. Sure, you play the same games (maybe 10 more than on the GBA version), but there are completely different strategies depending on the multiplayer game.
Playing the balloon burst, you might not want to win the first time, to give your opponent a chance to blow up the balloon, or you might not want to pump the balloon so your opponent can't blow it on you.
Playing the doctor game, gameplay doesn't even matter. Whoever gets the most claps from his/her opponents wins, despite how many games were won or lost.
Anything having to do with DOA? It's a subpar fighting game, whose only REAL redeeming value is destructible environments, which is now commonplace in a fighting game. And don't get me starting on DOA:XBV.
PoP wasn't an RPG. I think he was talking about the tactical side of the fights. The movement was so fluid from one action to the next. I can see why anyone would like it in an RPG, and as long as you control only one character, it'd be fine. But introduce another character you're controlling into the mix, and I think it would be shot to hell.
Have you checked out the City of Heroes manual? I believe (I don't have it with me right now) it is 120+ pages long. I don't remember the size of the FFXI manual, because I don't remember looking it it too often because they gave me a quick reference card with most of the commands on it.
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Let me tell you, they are much more attractive when they are not in public. I saw a special for their new movie on E! (it was Sunday morning, nothing else was on and it had Eugene Levy) It showed a few of their family pictures at their home, and they looked so much better -- not only in an attractive way, but also in an "I'm not a hoochie" way -- without all the makeup plastered on their faces.
Why does that person need a question mark? I read the sentence as if it was a command.
Since the most vocal people about outsourcing are IT workers, I'd like to know how many others in the IT field are experiencing lower prices for licensing software libraries to use with their own product. How many of us consumers are experiencing lower pricing for the software we buy at Walmart, Best Buy, and Circuit City? I know I haven't seen much of a drop in prices for these, except for PC games which are an average of $40 now, as opposed to $50. As long as I (the consumer) am still paying the same price for a product, while at the same time risking not being able to get a job because someone from another country may get it for half the wages I would be paid, I don't see much of a motivation for outsourcing aside from making some CEO a money hat.
Intelligent people? Slashdot?
You slay me!
I've gotten XP installed on a box with a PentiumPro (?) 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM for work. Well below the minimum requirements. But it is still usable.
The Matrox Parhelia was advertised to use 150 degrees of vision in games, utilizing 3 monitors.
Go here and check out the TripleHead Desktop table.
Yep. Definitely not even close to the over-priced-ness of Steel Battallion. Two games released for a $200 controller.
For some reason, I don't think they have a boardroom full of executives researching the next best color to put on their machines. Although that does make for a funny situation.
Everybody says MMORPGs need to try something new, but we all forget that they did try something new with PlanetSide, the MMOFPSRPG. I would say that it failed. Maybe it could be attributed to its bland-looking environments, or maybe to the fact that everyone was fighting a war with no purpose (at least there is some purpose to real wars.. whether the reasoning be right or wrong). Everyone was fighting each other only to gain more zones -- only to have those zones taken away after you log off because, for some reason, your army put no defenses on the base you just took.
I'd say that something different being done is City of Heroes. I'm not farming items because there are no items except for power enhancements, which aren't given consistently. I'm not killing rats or some other worthless creature, because the only enemies in the game are thugs and other criminals. When you start the game, if you let yourself be involved with the role-playing aspect, you feel like you're making a difference in Paragon City. When I played FFXI, I wondered what the point was of killing the poor little rabbits of doom. I know that "arresting" a thug should make a difference in the city, so I don't feel like a useless level-grinder. Plus, there are so many missions I can do, if I get tired of killing random thugs, I can do an instanced mission and fight a boss, though the bosses occasionally appear on the street, too.
Real golf is quite fun. Although I don't have enough money to play it a lot. When I first started, I thought it would be easy -- not to play well, but just to play. Boy, was I wrong. I had no idea of the physical effort needed to swing those clubs. And I'm a pretty fit person. I'm usually sore for a day after I play.
What you'd be looking for is Freedom Force (or FF vs. the Third Reich in the future). It's a great SRPG all about super-heroes. Set in the campy 60s comic era. You should be able to pick it up for $5-10 nowadays. No monthly fee, large single-player campaign, and the ability for users to set up their own servers... though I rarely found any when I played. It's definitely worth $10, though.
I actually got mine for the equivalent of $10 if you include the $20 gift certificate from EB along with the $10 rebate from Atari. Not a bad price for an "update".
I had a TG-16 when I was younger. It did have some good games, but the quality of the hardware was rather lacking. While I was playing the game one day, the first controller just sort of fell out of the port. I tried to plug it back in, but half of the pins were stuck inside the machine, broken off from the rest of the unit. This was by the time the machines were no longer in production, so I couldn't just buy a new controller. But thankfully, my grandfather soldered the components together to get me playing again, when the rest of the pins that hadn't previously fallen off did so. Maybe the second time, it could be attributed to my grandfather tinkering with it, but it should never have happened the first time.
I agree. Whatever happened to $0.25/0.50 fun games? Nowadays, all the arcades I go to (only at the beach.. no arcades around my house) only have games with a steering wheel, a gun, or some other weird input device like a sword that has slow motion capture. And not one of them costs less than $1. I'm sorry, but I'll be spending my $2 on the motorized rock-climbing wall until more fun games appear in arcades.
Canadians?
Perhaps one day, the "gaming console" will become as generic as a player and ANYone could publish games for it.
I believe what you're looking for is called a PC. The problem with it is getting your game to run on such a variety of machines, built and certified, or hacked together. Plus the fact that a decent rig will cost you at least a few hundred dollars.
I would also love it if more developers would write games for PCs -- and not just Windows OS versions.. Mac and Linux versions, too. Look around on the internet and you can find a lot of odd/original/innovative games. It's just that they're developed by indie-houses, instead of a big name developer/publisher, so we probably won't ever see them on the shelf at EB or Gamestop (does Gamestop even sell PC games in stores anymore? I know one of my local ones doesn't.. I don't go to the other two around me enough to be sure).
I believe that Rare retained the PD property. They also own Banjo Kazooie.
I, personally, believe that, aside from Blast Corps, Goldeneye, and Conker weren't very impressive. I had no fun at all with Diddy Kong Racing or DK64. Perfect Dark was not as fun, or pleasing as Goldeneye. So much slowdown with an explosion, it reminded me of NES days.
Overall, much too long of a wait for a lot of unimpressive and a few great games.
But Jungle Beat still uses the bongo (not conga) peripheral to control it.
I believe it's been stated numerous times that they are all different incarnations of Link, Zelda, Gan(n)on, etc. in the kingdom of Hyrule. That's a nice way to explain all of the incongruency.
I'm pretty sure you won't purchase the initial game. As has been stated, the game is free, playing is free, but content updates will cost money.
The GCN WarioWare is almost complete different, granted you're playing it in multiplayer mode. Sure, you play the same games (maybe 10 more than on the GBA version), but there are completely different strategies depending on the multiplayer game.
Playing the balloon burst, you might not want to win the first time, to give your opponent a chance to blow up the balloon, or you might not want to pump the balloon so your opponent can't blow it on you.
Playing the doctor game, gameplay doesn't even matter. Whoever gets the most claps from his/her opponents wins, despite how many games were won or lost.
Anything having to do with DOA? It's a subpar fighting game, whose only REAL redeeming value is destructible environments, which is now commonplace in a fighting game. And don't get me starting on DOA:XBV.
But his game ideas most likely heavily influence Nintendo's hardware ideas.
Wasn't the 2500 only made with a Barton core?
PoP wasn't an RPG. I think he was talking about the tactical side of the fights. The movement was so fluid from one action to the next. I can see why anyone would like it in an RPG, and as long as you control only one character, it'd be fine. But introduce another character you're controlling into the mix, and I think it would be shot to hell.
Have you checked out the City of Heroes manual? I believe (I don't have it with me right now) it is 120+ pages long. I don't remember the size of the FFXI manual, because I don't remember looking it it too often because they gave me a quick reference card with most of the commands on it.