It wasn't so much that Rare didn't have the creative freedom they wanted...They were getting away with a lot of stuff. As far as Nintendo second parties went, Rare had one of the more loose leashes around. It was the Stamper brothers that didn't want to work with Nintendo...As game designers and programmers go, they were great...As leaders though, they were terrible. So they wanted out...To take a break from making games and then perhaps start up a new studio that didn't have the baggage of the Rare name (No clue what they're up to now, or even if they decided to stick it out with Rare. I do know that not one of the brothers is president of Rare anymore.). They offered all their stock in the to Nintendo, but Nintendo flat out refused saying that Rare was not worth the cash they wanted since they hadn't been delivering for them.
As I understand it they offered their stock to Activision as well, but they also refused because of the high pricetag...In the end it was Microsoft took the bait...Buying the Stamper brothers' stock as well as the 49% Nintendo was holding. Anything any of the Stamper brothers said about how being with Microsoft will help Rare be able to tackle games of a larger scale and so on was complete BS...Were that the case they never would have asked Nintendo to buy them out.
Another problem was that Rare was falling apart at the seams when all of this happened. Nobody in the company knew what was going on and people were leaving and being fired left and right...It was a poorly managed company, and it shows...Once they were bought out, Microsoft placed a new president to take charge of everything and either pushed back or canceled most of the games they were working on...Because Rare may be a moderately large studio, but they were spreading themselves thin with the number of projects they were taking on. Kameo is one title that seems to have gotten the axe prematurely...The game was ready for launch on the GCN, but the title was never approved of by the higher ups in Rare and the title was left to sit there...Never being sent to Nintendo...Never doing anything, and they took the game with them to the Xbox...Though last I heard that was another title that may never see the light of day...At least not any time soon.
Maybe I'm confusing matters, but unless I'm mistaken you not only have the right to make backup copies of any media you own, but do you not also have the right to modify that media so that it may work on a platform it was not originally intended to??? That would...Say...Cover your right to make a backup of your DVD on VHS incase your DVD player broke, rip an audio CD to MP3 incase your CD player broke, or dump a GameBoy game onto your PC for using it in an emulator if your GameBoy broke.
Last thing I've seen like that was back in 2002...A three part Appleseed OAV was released...Sounds like much, but it wasn't. Got all three DVDs the thing and it came to be around five or six mionutes of actual animation. It was more of a long tech demo for the graphic engine this new movie uses...I just wish I would have known about that BEFORE I plopped down the cash for that OAV.
The problem is that Microsoft is going more thrifty with this Xbox Next because of how much money they've lost on the Xbox. They've admitted in the past that their current model will never be profitable with Sony in the market. So they need to be saving money on the hardware side. There is no flash RAM here. Microsoft simply wants to save money asnthey are still losing around $150USD+ on each console sold. They'll only go with a HDD if Sony's PS3 has one.
Actually, a large part of seems to think that this is part of Nintendo's goal with the machine. Force out a brand new console that will require developers to either create all new content or completely rework games that they feel the need to port to every machine that can display graphics...Like Tony Hawk...I couldn't even imagine how that would work.
Kate Rose isn't Japanese sounding, but neither is Asuka Langley Soryu...Seeing as Asuka is suposed to be German. Well...She has a bit of Japanese blood in her, but she's German. I believe it is that one of her parents is half German and half Japanese.
Not like the Japanese do a much better job on creating live action versions of their animes...Barring examples from dramas and romances like Great Teacher Onikuza or the Taiwanese Peach Girl.
Well, seeing that that's a concept house of sorts...Yes, I would imagine they did do that on purpose. I'd say that the colors were chosen in an attempt to make them extra noticable. They aren't trying to sell the room, but the idea of those LEDs lighting up the room. Concidering all the colors they could have chosen to make the LED lighting more apparent and eye catching, at least these purpoe and green lights aren't actually seizure inducing.
Yes, but what's the resolution on a good plasma or projection display??? You can take a 50' diagonal 640x480 display and it would be pretty usless with one desktop icon alone taking up like 5% of the screen.
With a good plasma or projector you can get what??? 1368x768??? The whole point of multiple monitors is so you can make use of having a behemoth sitting on your desk...Not just so you can just have something that fills out your peripheral vision.
Based on the fact that there are more shounen animes released in Japan than shoujo animes and more shoujo mangas released than shounen mangas. There are plenty of shoujo animes as well as shounen mangas being released on a weekly and monthly basis in Japan, but for the most part it's anime for guys and manga for girls. Just talk about any of the bigger channels...TV Tokyo is a good one...Their average of shounen to shoujo titles is almost 3 to 1...If that...Depends on when you catch them though.
Well, there are pretty much two catagories for anime and manga...Shoujo and Shounen...Literally the mean girl and boy respectively, but in an anime sense they refer to animes and mangas that are aimed at girls and boys. For the most part, most animes are aimed at guys and most mangas are aimed at women...Read that as you will, but that's a pretty rough way of saying it. For the most part, not much shoujo is released in the US period. TokyoPop has been doing a great job of licenseing titles like Kodomo No Omocha, Peach Girl, and Paradise Kiss. They're really pushing themselves to become the kings of Shoujo, but more-so than that they are begining to release shounen ai and yaoi mangas like Gravitation, Fake, and Wish (although wish isn't exactly a shounen ai per se). If you don't know what either of those two mean, for the most part shounen ai means "boy love" as in love between boys, and yaoi is short for "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi"...I'm not gonna bother explaining that one, but it pretty much refers to sex for the sake of sex and not children...Shouldn't be too hard to understand what that means in terms of sexual orientation.
Anyways, these animes and mangas are clearly marked as being for girls and just watching one and you'll see all the tell tale signs...Over the top drama, complex romances, involved characters, and MANY bishounens...Pretty boys.
I would expect things to change in the future though, so I'm gonna say that women should be happy. Hell...Give it a little time and even Gravitation will be released in the US and by Right Stuf Internation no less.
They're animes and mangas that completely differ from what people in the US are acustmed to when they think of anime's that star big eyed girls with even larger breasts.
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It wasn't so much that Rare didn't have the creative freedom they wanted...They were getting away with a lot of stuff. As far as Nintendo second parties went, Rare had one of the more loose leashes around. It was the Stamper brothers that didn't want to work with Nintendo...As game designers and programmers go, they were great...As leaders though, they were terrible. So they wanted out...To take a break from making games and then perhaps start up a new studio that didn't have the baggage of the Rare name (No clue what they're up to now, or even if they decided to stick it out with Rare. I do know that not one of the brothers is president of Rare anymore.). They offered all their stock in the to Nintendo, but Nintendo flat out refused saying that Rare was not worth the cash they wanted since they hadn't been delivering for them.
As I understand it they offered their stock to Activision as well, but they also refused because of the high pricetag...In the end it was Microsoft took the bait...Buying the Stamper brothers' stock as well as the 49% Nintendo was holding. Anything any of the Stamper brothers said about how being with Microsoft will help Rare be able to tackle games of a larger scale and so on was complete BS...Were that the case they never would have asked Nintendo to buy them out.
Another problem was that Rare was falling apart at the seams when all of this happened. Nobody in the company knew what was going on and people were leaving and being fired left and right...It was a poorly managed company, and it shows...Once they were bought out, Microsoft placed a new president to take charge of everything and either pushed back or canceled most of the games they were working on...Because Rare may be a moderately large studio, but they were spreading themselves thin with the number of projects they were taking on. Kameo is one title that seems to have gotten the axe prematurely...The game was ready for launch on the GCN, but the title was never approved of by the higher ups in Rare and the title was left to sit there...Never being sent to Nintendo...Never doing anything, and they took the game with them to the Xbox...Though last I heard that was another title that may never see the light of day...At least not any time soon.
No, imagine a Beowulf cluster of pigeons.
Maybe I'm confusing matters, but unless I'm mistaken you not only have the right to make backup copies of any media you own, but do you not also have the right to modify that media so that it may work on a platform it was not originally intended to??? That would...Say...Cover your right to make a backup of your DVD on VHS incase your DVD player broke, rip an audio CD to MP3 incase your CD player broke, or dump a GameBoy game onto your PC for using it in an emulator if your GameBoy broke.
Last thing I've seen like that was back in 2002...A three part Appleseed OAV was released...Sounds like much, but it wasn't. Got all three DVDs the thing and it came to be around five or six mionutes of actual animation. It was more of a long tech demo for the graphic engine this new movie uses...I just wish I would have known about that BEFORE I plopped down the cash for that OAV.
The problem is that Microsoft is going more thrifty with this Xbox Next because of how much money they've lost on the Xbox. They've admitted in the past that their current model will never be profitable with Sony in the market. So they need to be saving money on the hardware side. There is no flash RAM here. Microsoft simply wants to save money asnthey are still losing around $150USD+ on each console sold. They'll only go with a HDD if Sony's PS3 has one.
Actually, a large part of seems to think that this is part of Nintendo's goal with the machine. Force out a brand new console that will require developers to either create all new content or completely rework games that they feel the need to port to every machine that can display graphics...Like Tony Hawk...I couldn't even imagine how that would work.
Kate Rose isn't Japanese sounding, but neither is Asuka Langley Soryu...Seeing as Asuka is suposed to be German. Well...She has a bit of Japanese blood in her, but she's German. I believe it is that one of her parents is half German and half Japanese. Not like the Japanese do a much better job on creating live action versions of their animes...Barring examples from dramas and romances like Great Teacher Onikuza or the Taiwanese Peach Girl.
Well, seeing that that's a concept house of sorts...Yes, I would imagine they did do that on purpose. I'd say that the colors were chosen in an attempt to make them extra noticable. They aren't trying to sell the room, but the idea of those LEDs lighting up the room. Concidering all the colors they could have chosen to make the LED lighting more apparent and eye catching, at least these purpoe and green lights aren't actually seizure inducing.
Yes, but what's the resolution on a good plasma or projection display??? You can take a 50' diagonal 640x480 display and it would be pretty usless with one desktop icon alone taking up like 5% of the screen.
With a good plasma or projector you can get what??? 1368x768??? The whole point of multiple monitors is so you can make use of having a behemoth sitting on your desk...Not just so you can just have something that fills out your peripheral vision.
Don't worry...Give it some time and we'll all get to use those little signature stamps they got in Japan ^_^
Based on the fact that there are more shounen animes released in Japan than shoujo animes and more shoujo mangas released than shounen mangas. There are plenty of shoujo animes as well as shounen mangas being released on a weekly and monthly basis in Japan, but for the most part it's anime for guys and manga for girls. Just talk about any of the bigger channels...TV Tokyo is a good one...Their average of shounen to shoujo titles is almost 3 to 1...If that...Depends on when you catch them though.
Well, there are pretty much two catagories for anime and manga...Shoujo and Shounen...Literally the mean girl and boy respectively, but in an anime sense they refer to animes and mangas that are aimed at girls and boys. For the most part, most animes are aimed at guys and most mangas are aimed at women...Read that as you will, but that's a pretty rough way of saying it. For the most part, not much shoujo is released in the US period. TokyoPop has been doing a great job of licenseing titles like Kodomo No Omocha, Peach Girl, and Paradise Kiss. They're really pushing themselves to become the kings of Shoujo, but more-so than that they are begining to release shounen ai and yaoi mangas like Gravitation, Fake, and Wish (although wish isn't exactly a shounen ai per se). If you don't know what either of those two mean, for the most part shounen ai means "boy love" as in love between boys, and yaoi is short for "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi"...I'm not gonna bother explaining that one, but it pretty much refers to sex for the sake of sex and not children...Shouldn't be too hard to understand what that means in terms of sexual orientation. Anyways, these animes and mangas are clearly marked as being for girls and just watching one and you'll see all the tell tale signs...Over the top drama, complex romances, involved characters, and MANY bishounens...Pretty boys. I would expect things to change in the future though, so I'm gonna say that women should be happy. Hell...Give it a little time and even Gravitation will be released in the US and by Right Stuf Internation no less. They're animes and mangas that completely differ from what people in the US are acustmed to when they think of anime's that star big eyed girls with even larger breasts.