Your insistence that he know information above his clearance is an act of treason. The rules are classified Ultraviolet. You will be excuted now, you commie mutant traitor.
Just out of Curiosity, when you say Crystal Theme, are you referring to Prelude? For reference, it's played over the credits in the beginning of FFVII.
As for a cd of this, I believe that one was made in limited edition for the Japanese concert.
The fact of the matter is, Games Workshop could pull that off. They have stores in half a dozen countries, not too mention the fact that there are probably non-GW stores in as many more. I'd be willing to bet that more people play GW games than all of Blizzard's stuff, not to mention that GW has been around for over 30 years.
While the lastest incarnation of Nintendo's older franchises is not necessarily enough to get the gaming industry out of a rut, the innovations and new ideas they bring to the table with them most certainly will be. Who would have imagined that taking Metroid from a 2D side scroller to a 3D First Person adventure type game would have done so well? There are others here, but I'll leave it with metroid for now.
As for the complete lack, as you yourself pointed out, this isn't true. Pikmin is a stellar example of this, as well as Animal Crossing, and a handful of exclusive new RPGs we'll be seeing later this year, such as Baiten Kaitos. Besides, is a whole new character or setting really required to innovate?
Now for the online issue. While you are probably aware of WarpPipe, it certainly deserves a mention. I think that the only real issue with it is that there is simply no first party support for it, and it is not the easiest thing in the world to get running, from my understanding. That said, I believe that the possibility that Nintendo has taken notice that the fans do want online play, and want it bad enough to go do it themselves, that it is highly likely that when they launch the next console, it will either have Broadband/Modem integrated, or will be available as an add-in so that they can keep the price point of the system as low as possible, which we all know them to be keen on. I'm pretty sure that they've got some kind of online effort going on at any rate, since they don't like to lag behind for very long.
Bottom line, while they may be dropping the ball in some places, I think that whatever they have missed on will be getting taken care of in a big way next time around. I still doubt we'll see DVD playback, but then again, I doubt that Sony or MS will include it unless it is necessary for backwards compatibility. As for Nintendo, we can only hope they will take a cue from Sony and allow backwards compatibility, but they've been good about that with the GB, so hopefully they've learned their lesson.
Ah, but feats is an expanded version of character traits from AD&D, which were granted at differing lvls according to your job class. Fallout does not predate that.
NWN uses the 3E rule set to base all of that off of. If anything, WoTC could be sueing the pants off of Black Isle for IP violations, however it was licensed to them from WoTC, as well as all of the ingame settings and locations. FWIW, Neverwinter Forest has been a part of the DnD Forgotten Realms for the better part of 20 years.
No, there was no Sony rep that destroyed my PSOne when I bought a PS2. However, when I bought mine, it was on my own dime, as a High School student, and being able to afford it included trading in the PSOne and around a dozen games that I had beaten and held no interest in ever playing again. This is where the value lies, in that while you can hold on to the old system, you are under absolutely no influence to do so.
Granted, while the rental system currently functioning and in place requires you to return it at the end of the rental period, You have the option to turn around and buy the dvd from the rental store as a previously viewed copy, at significantly reduced rates. I'm not sure if this is the case in all establishments, but Blockbuster does this after the video comes out of 'guaranteed in stock' status.
I do agree with you that this did fail due to the price point, and not a restriction of freedoms. However, the fact still remains that consumers choose and accept their limitation of freedom while renting movies.
SC:Ghost was announced as a multi platform release when it was announced, although I've yet to hear that XBox is getting it first. Splinter Cell will go to GCN eventually too, and if they do what they did with it last time, it'll do just as well there, which, IIRC was better than on either other platform due to the exclusive GCN content.
As for PSO being a niche game, when was the last time you saw a 'niche game' having it's userbase take up running the servers after the company dropped support for it, which was the case for PSO2? As for Metal Gear, it was announced as a GCN exclusive at E3 last year, so don't expect to see that on an XBox any time soon.
Well, as far as I can see, the DoD has been using the same basic scheme for more than 30 years at this point, most of which is covered by the patent. While the patent is more extensive, most of the extra usages are restricted for use in the DoD.mil address by the DoD Instructions governing the usage of a.mil address. As for their being a base@base.BoS.mil, those are out there, however I am unsure as to whether or not they are in use, although they do exist.
While there are no actual 'personal' sites at a.mil address, all tenant services on the base do have a site which is tenant.base.BoS.mil, and that tenant organization will have an org mailbox of some sort. As for a base wide mailbox, that would be covered by the base commander's mailbox, since he IS the base, for all intents and purposes.
How about the US Government? This is how all.mil address are done, AFAIK. the domains are structured base.branchofservice.mil, and all email address associated with them are structured as fname.lname@base.BOS.mil. That being the case, this method of domain name assignment is as old as the internet itself, since DARPA used this method while setting up ARPANet way back in the 70s. This begs the question of 'How the hell did this patent get approved?'
I'm aware of that, which is why my non karma whoring AC post below that has a corrected version. Second, it's not just.h, it's.h%20tm, which is why it's all screwed up. You can thank the grandparent poster for that, since not only can he not write HTML tags, he can't even cut and paste the proper link.
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As for a cd of this, I believe that one was made in limited edition for the Japanese concert.
The fact of the matter is, Games Workshop could pull that off. They have stores in half a dozen countries, not too mention the fact that there are probably non-GW stores in as many more. I'd be willing to bet that more people play GW games than all of Blizzard's stuff, not to mention that GW has been around for over 30 years.
As for the complete lack, as you yourself pointed out, this isn't true. Pikmin is a stellar example of this, as well as Animal Crossing, and a handful of exclusive new RPGs we'll be seeing later this year, such as Baiten Kaitos. Besides, is a whole new character or setting really required to innovate?
Now for the online issue. While you are probably aware of WarpPipe, it certainly deserves a mention. I think that the only real issue with it is that there is simply no first party support for it, and it is not the easiest thing in the world to get running, from my understanding. That said, I believe that the possibility that Nintendo has taken notice that the fans do want online play, and want it bad enough to go do it themselves, that it is highly likely that when they launch the next console, it will either have Broadband/Modem integrated, or will be available as an add-in so that they can keep the price point of the system as low as possible, which we all know them to be keen on. I'm pretty sure that they've got some kind of online effort going on at any rate, since they don't like to lag behind for very long.
Bottom line, while they may be dropping the ball in some places, I think that whatever they have missed on will be getting taken care of in a big way next time around. I still doubt we'll see DVD playback, but then again, I doubt that Sony or MS will include it unless it is necessary for backwards compatibility. As for Nintendo, we can only hope they will take a cue from Sony and allow backwards compatibility, but they've been good about that with the GB, so hopefully they've learned their lesson.
Ah, but feats is an expanded version of character traits from AD&D, which were granted at differing lvls according to your job class. Fallout does not predate that.
NWN uses the 3E rule set to base all of that off of. If anything, WoTC could be sueing the pants off of Black Isle for IP violations, however it was licensed to them from WoTC, as well as all of the ingame settings and locations. FWIW, Neverwinter Forest has been a part of the DnD Forgotten Realms for the better part of 20 years.
Hey mods, you can laugh at this. It's a joke, and kinda funny too. ^_^
No, there was no Sony rep that destroyed my PSOne when I bought a PS2. However, when I bought mine, it was on my own dime, as a High School student, and being able to afford it included trading in the PSOne and around a dozen games that I had beaten and held no interest in ever playing again. This is where the value lies, in that while you can hold on to the old system, you are under absolutely no influence to do so.
I do agree with you that this did fail due to the price point, and not a restriction of freedoms. However, the fact still remains that consumers choose and accept their limitation of freedom while renting movies.
As for PSO being a niche game, when was the last time you saw a 'niche game' having it's userbase take up running the servers after the company dropped support for it, which was the case for PSO2? As for Metal Gear, it was announced as a GCN exclusive at E3 last year, so don't expect to see that on an XBox any time soon.
If you had enough brains to check the user that posted those, it was done by two different people you twit.
Well, as far as I can see, the DoD has been using the same basic scheme for more than 30 years at this point, most of which is covered by the patent. While the patent is more extensive, most of the extra usages are restricted for use in the DoD .mil address by the DoD Instructions governing the usage of a .mil address. As for their being a base@base.BoS.mil, those are out there, however I am unsure as to whether or not they are in use, although they do exist.
Does that cover enough for you?
How about the US Government? This is how all .mil address are done, AFAIK. the domains are structured base.branchofservice.mil, and all email address associated with them are structured as fname.lname@base.BOS.mil. That being the case, this method of domain name assignment is as old as the internet itself, since DARPA used this method while setting up ARPANet way back in the 70s. This begs the question of 'How the hell did this patent get approved?'
I'm aware of that, which is why my non karma whoring AC post below that has a corrected version. Second, it's not just .h, it's .h%20tm, which is why it's all screwed up. You can thank the grandparent poster for that, since not only can he not write HTML tags, he can't even cut and paste the proper link.