I recently picked up an HDTV and I specifically needed HDMI 1.3 cables, the 'High Speed' cables. I figure I'll go cheap and see what happens, maybe I could get a good deal. I go to amazon and see a seller selling 'High Speed' HDMI cables for a penny with three dollars shipping. I order one and when it gets here, it doesn't work for 1080p. I go back the page I bought the cable from and it's renamed to something like 'Quick Speed'. I complained, got my money back and a free 'standard speed' cable.
I get the impression that there are a lot of these shitty HDMI cable companies right now that seem to the think 'High Speed' in the HDMI context is a marketing term and not a technical specification. I then went to monoprice and got three 'high speed' cables for cheap. It's disappointing physical retailers sell them for ten times or more what they can be had for online.
My friend Rob used to work for the local EB. Corporate lowered the price on the Warcraft III Collector's Edition to, I think, $15. The regular edition was selling for $30 at the time. Every time someone would come to the register with the regular edition he'd try to point the collector's edition out to them, as a courtesy, and EVERY person told him no and just ignored him. He was trying to save them money and they reflexively just saying, "No." I always at least listen to the sales pitches because it might be in my best interest.
1)Wizards of the Coast doesn't publish the Pokemon card game anymore. They haven't published it for a while.
2)White Wolf launched the new World of Darkness at last year's gen-con, not two years ago.
The whole costume thing is something I never understood. One of the big in-character rules for Vampires in all editions is keep the whole the vampire thing a secret. Despite this, most of these Vampire players wear the most obvious costumes. It's kind of hard to keep your subculture secret when everyone of your kind dresses in some obvious style and really stands out from normal people.
Where can I find a WW/WoD LARP with this kind of behavior? WW doesn't have a fantasy LARP setting and there certainly isn't any physical contact. Come on, D&D is boring gamist crap. Level based? What year is this, 1970?
That makes perfect sense. They had a few giant versions of the awards and my friends and I were doing Ashcroft poses in front of them, looking stern and all that. These statues were clothed though.
White Wolf and Atlas games had their little statues out on their tables. I didn't many more out.
The awards aren't that great, they're just an ugly like grey stature.:D
I'm disappointed that Ebberon won. new Vampire is much better. I can't fault Ars Magica for beating nWoD though. It's pretty decent, except that ugly splash page of those monsters dancing in the introduction.
You get a jirachi and the berry fix from the disc you get for pre-buying Pokemon Colosseum. You get a shiny zigzagoon if you go to EB or Gamestop and patch your game in the store.
The Everybody's Golf series is called Hot Shots Golf over here. It's similar to Mario Golf, it's fast, simple and not very realistic. Camelot, the developers of the first Everybody''s Golf game, developed the two Mario Golf games.
The graphics were reworked. It had totally new textures and revised monster and item sprites. It also had anti-aliasing on most textures, an animated sky, environmental fog, and objests that faded out in the distance rather than just disappearing. It also had some of the exclusive Doom II enemies added.
"What you must realize is that Doom is a bad example, being a 10-year-old game with a limited colour pallete caused by it's original platform's limitations at the time of creation. Most of the console versions of Doom were not much more than ports, with little to no enhancements (except, of course, to get them to work with the controllers)."
Doom 64 wasn't a direct port. It had entirely new maps, a few new enemies, and two new weapons (some hell lazer and the Doom II double shotgun).
Eight player LAN sounds like a great feature, but no one in my group of friends will be able to utilize it without spending extra money. Everyone I know that has a gamecube has it hooked up to a 32" or larger TV with at least component video. None of us have owned anything smaller for years and buying smaller TVs for portability and downgrading to s-video/RCA/RF just wouldn't cost effective for one game.
I don't think the Japanese release date has changed, so I think it's Nintendo's decision. I think their crowded first and second party schedule for the end this year is a big part of it.
It could also be that they realized releasing Crystal Chronicles on the same day FFX-2 was a bad idea.
NoA is publishing FF:CC themselves, not Square. They're publishing all three of the announced Sqaure games for the Nintendo consoles (Sword of Mana, Crystal Chronicles, Tactics Advance) in North America.
"Like I want to run to the computer everytime I have some trouble"
Are games so difficult for you that the frequency at which you view FAQs is inconvenient? Maybe you should try another hobby.
If I get stuck in a game, I like trying to figure it out on my own. Then my games actually last longer than a week.
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I recently picked up an HDTV and I specifically needed HDMI 1.3 cables, the 'High Speed' cables. I figure I'll go cheap and see what happens, maybe I could get a good deal. I go to amazon and see a seller selling 'High Speed' HDMI cables for a penny with three dollars shipping. I order one and when it gets here, it doesn't work for 1080p. I go back the page I bought the cable from and it's renamed to something like 'Quick Speed'. I complained, got my money back and a free 'standard speed' cable. I get the impression that there are a lot of these shitty HDMI cable companies right now that seem to the think 'High Speed' in the HDMI context is a marketing term and not a technical specification. I then went to monoprice and got three 'high speed' cables for cheap. It's disappointing physical retailers sell them for ten times or more what they can be had for online.
My friend Rob used to work for the local EB. Corporate lowered the price on the Warcraft III Collector's Edition to, I think, $15. The regular edition was selling for $30 at the time. Every time someone would come to the register with the regular edition he'd try to point the collector's edition out to them, as a courtesy, and EVERY person told him no and just ignored him. He was trying to save them money and they reflexively just saying, "No." I always at least listen to the sales pitches because it might be in my best interest.
Shakespeare was a journalist? I never knew that.
Blind people don't generally choose to be blind. D&D players choose to play that game.
1)Wizards of the Coast doesn't publish the Pokemon card game anymore. They haven't published it for a while.
2)White Wolf launched the new World of Darkness at last year's gen-con, not two years ago.
The whole costume thing is something I never understood. One of the big in-character rules for Vampires in all editions is keep the whole the vampire thing a secret. Despite this, most of these Vampire players wear the most obvious costumes. It's kind of hard to keep your subculture secret when everyone of your kind dresses in some obvious style and really stands out from normal people.
Where can I find a WW/WoD LARP with this kind of behavior? WW doesn't have a fantasy LARP setting and there certainly isn't any physical contact. Come on, D&D is boring gamist crap. Level based? What year is this, 1970?
Like D&D nerds have any taste. Come on, they play D&D.
That makes perfect sense. They had a few giant versions of the awards and my friends and I were doing Ashcroft poses in front of them, looking stern and all that. These statues were clothed though.
White Wolf and Atlas games had their little statues out on their tables. I didn't many more out. The awards aren't that great, they're just an ugly like grey stature. :D
I'm disappointed that Ebberon won. new Vampire is much better. I can't fault Ars Magica for beating nWoD though. It's pretty decent, except that ugly splash page of those monsters dancing in the introduction.
http://homepage.mac.com/stuart621/dalek.mov Looks cool.
The Flamingo Kid was the first move to receive the PG-13 rating, Red Dawn was the first movie released with the rating.
You get a jirachi and the berry fix from the disc you get for pre-buying Pokemon Colosseum. You get a shiny zigzagoon if you go to EB or Gamestop and patch your game in the store.
The Everybody's Golf series is called Hot Shots Golf over here. It's similar to Mario Golf, it's fast, simple and not very realistic. Camelot, the developers of the first Everybody''s Golf game, developed the two Mario Golf games.
Wario World was developed by Treasure, not Wario Ware.
The graphics were reworked. It had totally new textures and revised monster and item sprites. It also had anti-aliasing on most textures, an animated sky, environmental fog, and objests that faded out in the distance rather than just disappearing. It also had some of the exclusive Doom II enemies added.
Doom 64 wasn't a direct port. It had entirely new maps, a few new enemies, and two new weapons (some hell lazer and the Doom II double shotgun).
Eight player LAN sounds like a great feature, but no one in my group of friends will be able to utilize it without spending extra money. Everyone I know that has a gamecube has it hooked up to a 32" or larger TV with at least component video. None of us have owned anything smaller for years and buying smaller TVs for portability and downgrading to s-video/RCA/RF just wouldn't cost effective for one game.
It could also be that they realized releasing Crystal Chronicles on the same day FFX-2 was a bad idea.
NoA is publishing FF:CC themselves, not Square. They're publishing all three of the announced Sqaure games for the Nintendo consoles (Sword of Mana, Crystal Chronicles, Tactics Advance) in North America.
"Like I want to run to the computer everytime I have some trouble" Are games so difficult for you that the frequency at which you view FAQs is inconvenient? Maybe you should try another hobby. If I get stuck in a game, I like trying to figure it out on my own. Then my games actually last longer than a week.