That's a standard-issue dad line, mine certainly used it. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the original World's Greatest Dad, Bill Cosby is the one who came up with it in his pre-original-Cosby Show stand up act. What a guy!
Since I own a copy of Mario All Stars, FF Origins, and Megaman Anniversary Collection, I'm tempted to say i'm all set with NES games for a while. Truthfully though, I'd love to see new releases of Castlevania/Castlevania 3, Contra, and/or Ducktales 1. I wouldn't be willing to pay $30 though. Plus there's the fact that I don't own a GBA yet, but that's my own fault. I think if I did, I'd either buy a flash card and emulate, or I'd be playing something along the lines of pokemon or golden sun. I think if they came out with a good version of FF VI though I could be swayed to buy one and pay another $30 for the cart.
You'll probably run into problems with the serial number doing that, unless you are very careful. That, however, is a good way to take care of smaller things, like game controllers and so forth.
They should do something with the Sontarans and their eternal struggle against that other race they were fighting against.. if i recall correctly they were the same as the blobby green shapeshifter that the Doctor and Leela (in a hot sweater) fought in that lighthouse once. Doctor who is such a great geek show!
Yeah, they should definitely bring back UNIT for the contemporary-earth stories. The hard-nosed military officer versus the enlightened-but-neurotic scientist concept worked well for the show. I also loved the quote by the Brigadeer, "Why can't we meet some aliens who aren't invulnerable to bullets?"
I remember seeing some awesome concept art for the 96 fox TV movie they made of Dr. Who, with flying daleks and daleks whose cases unfolded into awesome-looking spider legs and stuff like that.. almost Megaman-ian. If the CGI budget was high enough, some of that stuff could be really effective at making our favorite salkshakers into the galactic ass-kickers they really are.
There was actualy a Where's Waldo NES cart late in the NES' lifetime (probably after the SNES was out). It showed you a picture of a bunch of people, and you pointed at waldo, and presto kazam, you beat the level. And of course, it was a terrible horrible game and anyone who got it as a gift must have felt really saddened by their parents' lack of videogame knowledge and angry that a company that would put out such dreck to make a buck. I'm just glad I rented it and didn't buy it.
While ignoring the truth certainly isn't a good way to go through life, I certainly hope you aren't seriously implying that your memory of Phil Hartman is not shaped by the great work he did while he was alive, but merely by the circumstances of his tragic death. (Ditto Ted Williams.) I really don't even see why you had to bring that fact up at all.
I dunno about sending GW a copy.. if anything it looks like his foreign agenda is based around civ-like ideas. "Let's attack the Persians and wipe them off the face of the planet, it's not like the Chinese will really be able to hurt me since i'm on an entirely different continent and everything. And even if they do, who cares, I can just start a space race and jack up my scientific funding." Maybe this is just because Civ ends too soon. It would be cool if Civ4 had some kind of model for "assymetrical warfare."
On a side note, did anyone else notice that the Persians are the best race in the game? They are scientific/military if i recall, which is a formidable combination. God, once I beat the Megaman collection I'm gonna have to play out another good long campaign of Civ 3.
Keep in mind that the Xbox2's operating system is much simpler than XP Home or Pro, and thus will require much less space in the RAM. For example, compare an early 486 with an SNES or Genesis.
Yes, his terms were a little vague. You can tell that this writer didn't necessarily know the most about computer graphics, but that's no crime.
The "blurring" would be doubling the resolution by extrapolating what color the pixel in between two other pixels would be (IE if a blue pixel is next to a white pixel, put a light-blue pixel in between them.. although the algorithm may be more complicated than that). Some of the newer NES emulators can do this (and no, IMO it doesn't improve the graphics as effectively as it does on say ZSNES, where the "blurring" is actually pretty neat).
The "interlacing" the article author describes sounds more like increasing the framerate, which the NES emulator probably doesn't like - it would theoretically exacerbate the sprite flicker problems the NES is (in)famous for. The author does say however that that "feature" was removed.
Either way, I'm extremely glad that A) Capcom released this collection at all and B) They put more thought into it than just dumping the ROMs on a disc with an emulator. I wish Square for example had put slightly more thought into the two-disc FF collections (although they did a nice job with FF Origins IMO). Hearing about this collection made me almost as happy as when I heard Family Guy was coming out on DVD. It will be great to have these classic games in a long-lasting hardcopy and not have to Lewinski your cartridge every time you want to play them.
The article sounds like madden 05 may just provide some kind of front end for an FFL. However, I've been thinking for a while it would be really cool if you could actually play an entire season's worth of games using a league of fantasy draft players. I.E. 8 or however many people enter the league, they all log on at the same time and draft their teams from the same pool, and then set up matches each week or however often they want to play for the championship. Having never played Madden online I don't know if this is something you can already do, but it sounds pretty cool.
I'd also love to see something like this in MVP '05 (being in the Boston area I'm a big baseball fan), although I can see EA not necessarily wanting to invest human resources in something that bold on a less popular franchise.
Either way, this sort of functionality is very exciting and I think we can look forward to a lot of it as the next generation of consoles approaches.
It seems like everyone is overlooking how RealPlayer is one of the most obnoxious programs in the universe. It puts itself all over your computer (system tray, explorer bar, etc), is loaded down with ads and spyware, and so forth. I pretty much refuse to ever support anything involving real, since it's such a crappy crappy suite of programs. I would laud the kind folks at apple (even though I'm a PC user) for making themselves as much of a pain in the ass to Real as they are to their users!
Not to mention the ol' "hat on the eye stalk." I think if I learned one practical thing from Tommy B, it was that you can always escape killer robots by putting your hat over their eyes.
Downloaded and ran this game... very impressive! Gameplay, graphics presentation and sound work are all proffesional quality and better than many of the computer games i've played lately. Also runs beautifully at 1024 on my geforce 2MX.. i bet that it would look like the show on something more modern. I am still working on the training mission, but if the campaign is long enough, i'd say this is a game i would have been more than willing to pay for! too bad it's too late for them to get the license now. but it is a good thing that JMS is aware of this project (according to the faq) and isn't foxing it. Makes me remember how much I liked B5 back when it was on TNT every day and spent a good summer or two watching the entire thing. Maybe I should go rent some of the DVDs?
Now if someone would do something like this for DS9 to make up for that awful Dominion Wars game, I'd be in geek heaven!
True, ever since the 8-9ish area of the FF series, our male heroes have been visibly more and more effeminate. From what I hear though, that is the Japanese idea of the ideal male body form, sort of like how most people think of a buff quarterback type of guy over here in America. Either way, I tend to reserve judgement on the character designs until I play the game. I just hope the story remains interesting.
...And for god's sake Square-Enix, please invest in some good English lipsynching in 12! There are programs out there that do it automatically (Elite Force II has this I think). But, I digress.
They should be named EGI, not XGI... I'm automatically boycotting them for using that marketing cliche "eXtreme." If I had a gun with one bullet and could kill anyone I could, it would be the first ad wizard who thought of using that buzzword.
Secret cameo: You know the cow who wants to be eaten at the restaurant at the end of the universe? That's Peter Davison, the 5th doctor. (AKA the Shark-jumping doctor)
And you can tell that I am a RPGer since I hum the Final Fantasy win theme after aceing a test.
Heh, so I'm not the only one. However, I don't tend to think of that alone as being any more hardcore than someone humming a song by a band you like a lot. (You seem to display more of the "traits" that the article puts forward)
Around these parts (rural New England) I don't see too many hardcore gamers at all. The people I know who play the most games (myself included) all seem to be basically "normal." And I never see people who match the charactersitics mentioned. Plus, we all tend to merge a lot of the groups he wrote about.. myself, I own a PC, Xbox and PS2, haven't thrown out my SNES (and regret throwing out my NES) and tend to play RPGs and shooters about equally (with a slight skew towards RPGs due to their length).
I'm sure nobody really cares about whether i am or am not an exception (I don't know for sure) though. In summary, I tend to find characterizations like the one in the article to be a little insulting and offensive, whether it was meant that way or not. That's all i have to say really.
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The context of the original poster, The Cos', and myself was entirely good-natured and sarcastic. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.
That's a standard-issue dad line, mine certainly used it. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the original World's Greatest Dad, Bill Cosby is the one who came up with it in his pre-original-Cosby Show stand up act. What a guy!
Plus Alan Alda is kinda getting up there in age. Doo doo doo doo doo doo dooooo, dodododo, dododo doooo...
Since I own a copy of Mario All Stars, FF Origins, and Megaman Anniversary Collection, I'm tempted to say i'm all set with NES games for a while. Truthfully though, I'd love to see new releases of Castlevania/Castlevania 3, Contra, and/or Ducktales 1. I wouldn't be willing to pay $30 though. Plus there's the fact that I don't own a GBA yet, but that's my own fault. I think if I did, I'd either buy a flash card and emulate, or I'd be playing something along the lines of pokemon or golden sun. I think if they came out with a good version of FF VI though I could be swayed to buy one and pay another $30 for the cart.
You'll probably run into problems with the serial number doing that, unless you are very careful. That, however, is a good way to take care of smaller things, like game controllers and so forth.
They should do something with the Sontarans and their eternal struggle against that other race they were fighting against.. if i recall correctly they were the same as the blobby green shapeshifter that the Doctor and Leela (in a hot sweater) fought in that lighthouse once. Doctor who is such a great geek show!
Yeah, they should definitely bring back UNIT for the contemporary-earth stories. The hard-nosed military officer versus the enlightened-but-neurotic scientist concept worked well for the show. I also loved the quote by the Brigadeer, "Why can't we meet some aliens who aren't invulnerable to bullets?"
I remember seeing some awesome concept art for the 96 fox TV movie they made of Dr. Who, with flying daleks and daleks whose cases unfolded into awesome-looking spider legs and stuff like that.. almost Megaman-ian. If the CGI budget was high enough, some of that stuff could be really effective at making our favorite salkshakers into the galactic ass-kickers they really are.
Outrageous, How dare he say such blasphemy. I've got to do something. Like, develop a sense of humor?
On that note, don't you think it would be awesome if they re-released Tecmo Superbowl for GBA with modern teams, players, etc?
There was actualy a Where's Waldo NES cart late in the NES' lifetime (probably after the SNES was out). It showed you a picture of a bunch of people, and you pointed at waldo, and presto kazam, you beat the level. And of course, it was a terrible horrible game and anyone who got it as a gift must have felt really saddened by their parents' lack of videogame knowledge and angry that a company that would put out such dreck to make a buck. I'm just glad I rented it and didn't buy it.
While ignoring the truth certainly isn't a good way to go through life, I certainly hope you aren't seriously implying that your memory of Phil Hartman is not shaped by the great work he did while he was alive, but merely by the circumstances of his tragic death. (Ditto Ted Williams.) I really don't even see why you had to bring that fact up at all.
On a side note, did anyone else notice that the Persians are the best race in the game? They are scientific/military if i recall, which is a formidable combination. God, once I beat the Megaman collection I'm gonna have to play out another good long campaign of Civ 3.
Keep in mind that the Xbox2's operating system is much simpler than XP Home or Pro, and thus will require much less space in the RAM. For example, compare an early 486 with an SNES or Genesis.
The "blurring" would be doubling the resolution by extrapolating what color the pixel in between two other pixels would be (IE if a blue pixel is next to a white pixel, put a light-blue pixel in between them.. although the algorithm may be more complicated than that). Some of the newer NES emulators can do this (and no, IMO it doesn't improve the graphics as effectively as it does on say ZSNES, where the "blurring" is actually pretty neat).
The "interlacing" the article author describes sounds more like increasing the framerate, which the NES emulator probably doesn't like - it would theoretically exacerbate the sprite flicker problems the NES is (in)famous for. The author does say however that that "feature" was removed.
Either way, I'm extremely glad that A) Capcom released this collection at all and B) They put more thought into it than just dumping the ROMs on a disc with an emulator. I wish Square for example had put slightly more thought into the two-disc FF collections (although they did a nice job with FF Origins IMO). Hearing about this collection made me almost as happy as when I heard Family Guy was coming out on DVD. It will be great to have these classic games in a long-lasting hardcopy and not have to Lewinski your cartridge every time you want to play them.
I'd also love to see something like this in MVP '05 (being in the Boston area I'm a big baseball fan), although I can see EA not necessarily wanting to invest human resources in something that bold on a less popular franchise.
Either way, this sort of functionality is very exciting and I think we can look forward to a lot of it as the next generation of consoles approaches.
It seems like everyone is overlooking how RealPlayer is one of the most obnoxious programs in the universe. It puts itself all over your computer (system tray, explorer bar, etc), is loaded down with ads and spyware, and so forth. I pretty much refuse to ever support anything involving real, since it's such a crappy crappy suite of programs. I would laud the kind folks at apple (even though I'm a PC user) for making themselves as much of a pain in the ass to Real as they are to their users!
www.minibosses.com Nuff said
Not to mention the ol' "hat on the eye stalk." I think if I learned one practical thing from Tommy B, it was that you can always escape killer robots by putting your hat over their eyes.
Downloaded and ran this game... very impressive! Gameplay, graphics presentation and sound work are all proffesional quality and better than many of the computer games i've played lately. Also runs beautifully at 1024 on my geforce 2MX.. i bet that it would look like the show on something more modern. I am still working on the training mission, but if the campaign is long enough, i'd say this is a game i would have been more than willing to pay for! too bad it's too late for them to get the license now. but it is a good thing that JMS is aware of this project (according to the faq) and isn't foxing it. Makes me remember how much I liked B5 back when it was on TNT every day and spent a good summer or two watching the entire thing. Maybe I should go rent some of the DVDs?
Now if someone would do something like this for DS9 to make up for that awful Dominion Wars game, I'd be in geek heaven!
True, ever since the 8-9ish area of the FF series, our male heroes have been visibly more and more effeminate. From what I hear though, that is the Japanese idea of the ideal male body form, sort of like how most people think of a buff quarterback type of guy over here in America. Either way, I tend to reserve judgement on the character designs until I play the game. I just hope the story remains interesting.
...And for god's sake Square-Enix, please invest in some good English lipsynching in 12! There are programs out there that do it automatically (Elite Force II has this I think). But, I digress.
They should be named EGI, not XGI... I'm automatically boycotting them for using that marketing cliche "eXtreme." If I had a gun with one bullet and could kill anyone I could, it would be the first ad wizard who thought of using that buzzword.
Secret cameo: You know the cow who wants to be eaten at the restaurant at the end of the universe? That's Peter Davison, the 5th doctor. (AKA the Shark-jumping doctor)
How goes the war against the Terrans? Hehehe wing commander two was the awesomest
And you can tell that I am a RPGer since I hum the Final Fantasy win theme after aceing a test.
Heh, so I'm not the only one. However, I don't tend to think of that alone as being any more hardcore than someone humming a song by a band you like a lot. (You seem to display more of the "traits" that the article puts forward)
Around these parts (rural New England) I don't see too many hardcore gamers at all. The people I know who play the most games (myself included) all seem to be basically "normal." And I never see people who match the charactersitics mentioned. Plus, we all tend to merge a lot of the groups he wrote about.. myself, I own a PC, Xbox and PS2, haven't thrown out my SNES (and regret throwing out my NES) and tend to play RPGs and shooters about equally (with a slight skew towards RPGs due to their length).
I'm sure nobody really cares about whether i am or am not an exception (I don't know for sure) though. In summary, I tend to find characterizations like the one in the article to be a little insulting and offensive, whether it was meant that way or not. That's all i have to say really.