Old PS1 games remade on a new and better console. People like that stuff. For example... Final Fantasy VII? People begged for a rerelease on PS2. Then at E3 there was that tech demo, and people begged for a rerelease on PS3. Plus I never got to play Tales of Eternia or Valkyrie Profile on the PS1, they were just too hard to find by the time I finally got one. So the PSP rerelease lets me play those.
As for homebrew, you only need Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which is a decent game in and of itself. There's some bug that lets you run homebrew apps from the load screen. Although I think Sony will try to fix it in firmware patches, it's a software bug, so they'll never completely get rid of it unless they make a new version of the game.
The answer is "your opinions aren't the same as everyone else's."
I love MG:A, and Lumines is the most addictive game I've ever played. LOTR:Tactics and LoH are actually really good. Reviews don't mean much anymore. Ever read the reviews for Devil May Cry 3? "It's too hard:(" Game is easy as hell, if you aren't a shitty gamer.
I will admit, I'm a rarity. I'm happy with the PSP library. Those PSP owners that aren't have all the glorious homebrew they could ever want. The PSP has emulators for damn near every older system you could ever want, including GBA.
They could take Halo 2's weapon system, and everything else from the original Halo, and make a game that X-Box 360 owners would snatch up. The pop-culture gamer is idiotic at their best. Case in point, EA Sports games. People will buy anything, whether it's actually good/fun or not. If it even says "Halo" on it, people will buy it, because they like Halo and anything with Halo on it has to be the most godly thing since the last Halo game. Nevermind that the original and its sequel were totally unrevolutionary, badly-written, copy-of-every-other-FPS B-Sci-Fi-Movie video games.
In Sony's defense, "real PS3 hardware" didn't exist for last year's E3, but it's been proven that at least the MGS4 and FF7 tech demo were not pre-rendered. It's also been proven that the Killzone2 trailer would run realtime too... but only at 5 fps >.>
You download music from HUB onto your cute little Memory Stick.
You put that memory stick in your PSP.
You connect that PSP to your PC via the easily available USB Mini-B connector.
Voila.
The PS3 will win this generation only if they can convince the average family that the PS3 is worth 2x the price. The normal fanboys will buy it no matter what the price, but these sales will be limited.
How to convince families: Good movies with Blu-Ray only Special Collector's Edition releases, with Blu-Ray players starting at least twice as high as PS3s. It's happening.
Massively Multiplayer Online game. Sounds like Counter-Strike to me. He didn't say it was an RPG. I think you need to understand video games before you complain that the mainstream media doesn't.
Hey, Exit looks pretty original. You play as a little guy who has to save people from utter peril. It runs into being a bit of a puzzler, where you overcome whatever obstacles prevent you from saving the people, and then using the people to help save more people and eventually get out of wherever the exit is.
I never played more than a demo of Abe's Oddysee on PSX, but I seem to remember it being similar in concept. It's been a damn long time since that game was out, though, hasn't it?
While this would be an interesting tactic, and one that I've even considered as far as a "why hasn't this happened yet?" sort of thing, it would ultimately be totally inneffective. The RIAA seems to only want to target those people sharing several hundred songs, which would not go unnoticed by any half-competent computer user. Moreover, the FBI claims that whatever is on your computer and whatever it does is still the responsibility of that computer's owner. That is to say that computers in the wide world of "bot-nets" are legally liable for any attacks and whatnot they generate, even if they had no idea they were infected.
We haven't taken away freedom of the press in Iraq. In fact, we're teaching them valuable rules about capitalism - The guy with the biggest bribes makes them.
You may find that the item you want isn't available if they don't think you're going to buy other things along with it (especially in the cacse of the ipod) because they want to save it for the next guy who comes in and is willing to buy $300 worth of gadgets to go with it.
I may also find that iPod in stock on the shelf, because it's a real live store. I used to work for Best Buy. They never said "Don't sell PS2s unless they get a memory card." I never heard anything remotely close to that. What I did hear was "We make money off of the accessories, and the customers need these to get the best out of their products," which is essentially true in the cases of the game consoles. But we were never instructed to hold a customer's sale until they agreed to buy the warranties or accessories.
According to the EULA you signed by opening the package containing your music transportation device, you don't actually own the music but are only borrowing it until such time that you get sued for not giving overgrown companies clinging to archaic economical structures enough of your money.
Interesting. A few nitpicks though: She can't be convicted in this case. Apparently civil trials are only used to dispense monetary reparation for damages, not for sending anyone up the river. Also, I believe the FBI has set precedence that the owner of a computer is responsible for the data on that computer, even if it was put their unknowingly. That means if a trojan went and downloaded songs and sent them off to another system, it'd still be this lady's fault because it's her computer and she is responsible for it.
I have to wonder.. How will the RIAA calculate their damages? Surely not from this poor lady's hard drive. Assuming she is even the one to have downloaded music (which is pretty unlikely) she could just delete anything from her system, since there doesn't seem to be any kind of Siezure order mentioned.. Then the RIAA comes to court with a hard drive with no music on it claiming there was music at some point but they're not sure how much, when, where, or why, but that it somehow cost them money that they want back. Even if she has songs on there, it can't amount to much money. Certainly not enough to offset the court fees. 10 CDs can be $150, but all this waiting just to get to court, and the trial itself, is probably costing them an assload more than that. If it isn't worth doing, do you think they'll continue to pursue the other cases?
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Old PS1 games remade on a new and better console. People like that stuff. For example... Final Fantasy VII? People begged for a rerelease on PS2. Then at E3 there was that tech demo, and people begged for a rerelease on PS3. Plus I never got to play Tales of Eternia or Valkyrie Profile on the PS1, they were just too hard to find by the time I finally got one. So the PSP rerelease lets me play those.
As for homebrew, you only need Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which is a decent game in and of itself. There's some bug that lets you run homebrew apps from the load screen. Although I think Sony will try to fix it in firmware patches, it's a software bug, so they'll never completely get rid of it unless they make a new version of the game.
I think they skipped Spaceballs II: The search for more money.
They're already on Spaceballs III: The search for Spaceballs II.
The answer is "your opinions aren't the same as everyone else's."
:(" Game is easy as hell, if you aren't a shitty gamer.
I love MG:A, and Lumines is the most addictive game I've ever played. LOTR:Tactics and LoH are actually really good. Reviews don't mean much anymore. Ever read the reviews for Devil May Cry 3? "It's too hard
I will admit, I'm a rarity. I'm happy with the PSP library. Those PSP owners that aren't have all the glorious homebrew they could ever want. The PSP has emulators for damn near every older system you could ever want, including GBA.
Legend of Heroes?
Lord of the Rings: Tactics?
Metal Gear: AC!D?
Lumines?
Untold Legends?
There's lots of games that are new and different and interesting. And those are just the ones I own. What PSP did you buy?
They could take Halo 2's weapon system, and everything else from the original Halo, and make a game that X-Box 360 owners would snatch up. The pop-culture gamer is idiotic at their best. Case in point, EA Sports games. People will buy anything, whether it's actually good/fun or not. If it even says "Halo" on it, people will buy it, because they like Halo and anything with Halo on it has to be the most godly thing since the last Halo game. Nevermind that the original and its sequel were totally unrevolutionary, badly-written, copy-of-every-other-FPS B-Sci-Fi-Movie video games.
In Sony's defense, "real PS3 hardware" didn't exist for last year's E3, but it's been proven that at least the MGS4 and FF7 tech demo were not pre-rendered. It's also been proven that the Killzone2 trailer would run realtime too... but only at 5 fps >.>
This month's PC Gamer announces Duke Nukem Forever's new release date.
I should think they would do the same thing in China as they are doing in America... Not give it up.
You download music from HUB onto your cute little Memory Stick. You put that memory stick in your PSP. You connect that PSP to your PC via the easily available USB Mini-B connector. Voila.
The PS3 will win this generation only if they can convince the average family that the PS3 is worth 2x the price. The normal fanboys will buy it no matter what the price, but these sales will be limited. How to convince families: Good movies with Blu-Ray only Special Collector's Edition releases, with Blu-Ray players starting at least twice as high as PS3s. It's happening.
Well obviously. Being organics, we're parasite controlled cyborgs, thank you.
When it comes to putting fake news stories out, yes. Yes we do.
Why do two of the "3 Rs" not start with R? Somebody screwed the pooch on that.
Massively Multiplayer Online game. Sounds like Counter-Strike to me. He didn't say it was an RPG. I think you need to understand video games before you complain that the mainstream media doesn't.
Hey, Exit looks pretty original. You play as a little guy who has to save people from utter peril. It runs into being a bit of a puzzler, where you overcome whatever obstacles prevent you from saving the people, and then using the people to help save more people and eventually get out of wherever the exit is. I never played more than a demo of Abe's Oddysee on PSX, but I seem to remember it being similar in concept. It's been a damn long time since that game was out, though, hasn't it?
Canada? It isn't even a real country anyway... (Southpark Movie)
While this would be an interesting tactic, and one that I've even considered as far as a "why hasn't this happened yet?" sort of thing, it would ultimately be totally inneffective. The RIAA seems to only want to target those people sharing several hundred songs, which would not go unnoticed by any half-competent computer user. Moreover, the FBI claims that whatever is on your computer and whatever it does is still the responsibility of that computer's owner. That is to say that computers in the wide world of "bot-nets" are legally liable for any attacks and whatnot they generate, even if they had no idea they were infected.
We haven't taken away freedom of the press in Iraq. In fact, we're teaching them valuable rules about capitalism - The guy with the biggest bribes makes them.
My 5 deans all did this for my highschool Senior class pictures. Not anything new...
Didn't George W. Bush graduate from Harvard Law?
Over the course of filling the grid out he was forced to use the "word" nonesevant in order to fit in the other words. Use your head, dude.
You may find that the item you want isn't available if they don't think you're going to buy other things along with it (especially in the cacse of the ipod) because they want to save it for the next guy who comes in and is willing to buy $300 worth of gadgets to go with it.
I may also find that iPod in stock on the shelf, because it's a real live store. I used to work for Best Buy. They never said "Don't sell PS2s unless they get a memory card." I never heard anything remotely close to that. What I did hear was "We make money off of the accessories, and the customers need these to get the best out of their products," which is essentially true in the cases of the game consoles. But we were never instructed to hold a customer's sale until they agreed to buy the warranties or accessories.
According to the EULA you signed by opening the package containing your music transportation device, you don't actually own the music but are only borrowing it until such time that you get sued for not giving overgrown companies clinging to archaic economical structures enough of your money.
Interesting. A few nitpicks though: She can't be convicted in this case. Apparently civil trials are only used to dispense monetary reparation for damages, not for sending anyone up the river. Also, I believe the FBI has set precedence that the owner of a computer is responsible for the data on that computer, even if it was put their unknowingly. That means if a trojan went and downloaded songs and sent them off to another system, it'd still be this lady's fault because it's her computer and she is responsible for it.
I have to wonder.. How will the RIAA calculate their damages? Surely not from this poor lady's hard drive. Assuming she is even the one to have downloaded music (which is pretty unlikely) she could just delete anything from her system, since there doesn't seem to be any kind of Siezure order mentioned.. Then the RIAA comes to court with a hard drive with no music on it claiming there was music at some point but they're not sure how much, when, where, or why, but that it somehow cost them money that they want back. Even if she has songs on there, it can't amount to much money. Certainly not enough to offset the court fees. 10 CDs can be $150, but all this waiting just to get to court, and the trial itself, is probably costing them an assload more than that. If it isn't worth doing, do you think they'll continue to pursue the other cases?