Same thing happened to me with doom3. I was going to buy sims2 as a gift (today actually) but now I'll be finding a different game for the person. I can't stand this BS.
CD check, ok, I don't mind that, I've been playing with the cd in the drive since CD games came out, and hell, at liest I don't have to swap between cd's anymore.
I think the happy middle ground is to check for the cd key on install. Then check the cd key against again for TCP/IP games on the publisher's servers (not lan, so freaken annoying you'd need an internet connection to play on a lan) and that's the best you can do.
Actually my lack of socialization came from not knowing how to dress "cool" and not being good at sports and not liking the same thing any other kids did in my small town. My soclization amounted to being tripped and laughed at or just generally ignored by other people. Tends to make you avoid them all and not talk, which makes me pretty bad at being social.
Ironically it was the first time I got online that I started learning how to talk to people and got to know that there actually were people out there similar to me, just not at my school. That in turn gave me enough confidence to go out and get a job in another town, meet even more people, and actually learn how to communicate.
I guess it's true somewhat what you are saying, but I think the biggest barrier to being social is the steep learning curve and harsh penalties you face until you have learned enough to play the game.
That's what I said when I finally fired up halo after it had been out a year or so. I looked at it and thought "wow another fps, snore".
But then we just couldnt put it down. The biggest feature of it is co-op in my opinion. Not many games take the time to do a really fun co op mode, which makes playing the game twice as fun as by yourself.
Really I think the reoccuring fun factor for me has been grenades and vehicles. Watching bodies fly through the air and massive grenade chain reaction explosions never ceases to become boring. Waxing the flood with a shotgun doesnt get old either. Cramming vehicles in places they arent supposed to go was another fun pasttime.
I guess its really all the stuff you can do outside the standard run through the level and kill everything that draws you back to it time and time again.
Yeah, but real life doesn't have a fast foward button to skip through work:)
The fun is also in doing crazy things that you can't do in real life, like set fire to the house, make out with the neighbor, have a wierd guy living on your couch, or deconstructing the door and watching your sim starve to death.:)
Why do people need to do all this guesswork. Wait until an official release of the specs, then decide if you want to buy it. How does knowing if it's backwards compatable effect you now? I mean you have a 50/50 shot of being right or wrong, so you don't even get bragging rights for predicting whether it has it ahead of time.
Sounds like my slashdot browsing experience to me.
In the 1.0 pr now and it still has the same problem. Sometimes one refresh fixes it, sometimes it takes 2 or 3, but now I'll try the text size thing.
I attribute it to having the browser sized down in the corner of my screen about 600 px wide. Still, pretty lame that it happens about every other thread I open up in a new tab.
I find it pretty funny that people are angry they have more options as to what to buy. It's not like someone is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to buy the new release of star wars. What are people complaining about really? OH NO!! I HAVE THE OPTION TO BUY MORE STAR WARS STUFF!!! LUCAS IS SUCH A JERK!!!!
I've gotten it ever since going to.9xx I attribute it to browsing with firefox while its shrunken down to about 500 x400 pixels. I don't seem to notice it as much when its full screen, but then again, i never seem to browse slashdot full screen.
No crap, I feel like a tool when I talk to people and am like "Yeah, i just saved xxxx on my car insurance by switching to geico". But it's true, I saved around 800 a year by switching from all state.
As to the parent, if you want nj manufactors insurance, you need to work for a company that has a deal with them or be related to someone already covered. Otherwise, you are sol.
You guys need to look at suprnova.org. I saw torrent files that had a 10 gig dl of every snes game out there and a 3 gig one for every nes game. I don't know if they are still there, but I'd keep my eyes out to try downloading those.
Then you can carefully find the games you owned and delete the rest of the illegal ones:)
Yeah, I've had a chair for consol gaming downstairs and pulling it up to the tv when and such. It's a great chair, though not very durable and doesnt look like it'll take over 300 pounds for very long, which can be why your gf leaping onto your lap would probably crack it or something. But for just one person it's a pretty good chair, I just think it's too low for my computer desk and couldn't game in it at all (but would be finr for keyboarding it up)
Why is that though? What if you payed for the cable channel that Star Trek is broadcast on. You are able to legally record it from the channel via a vcr or tivo or computer or whatever. Why is it you can not obtain the episode via the internet? Is there some sort of agreement from the cable companies that say "if you forgot to record it when we broadcast it, you can't watch it"?
I don't mind them suing for copyright infringment, but I would just like to see enough evidence to actually prove that the person is doing something illegal.
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I would argue that some of the things you list, such as prostition, are not bad things. In fact I'm really against the fact that victimless crimes are illegal. I guess it just seems odd to me that a woman or man could sleep around by picking up a different person at a bar or though online personals every night, and this is legal, yet the moment they accept cash for favors, it is illegal.
Also, when looking at tso, you have to rememember that it was a game where there was nothing to do. I played in beta, and it took me about three days to relize that there was no game behind tso besides crappy mini games you would get for free on yahoo and watching your character hit a pinatta for 8 hours.
Playing EQ as a newbie, most everybody I interacted with was really helpful, taking an hour or two out of their time to help me get a corpse or guide me through a new area when I was lost. The nature of the game is what shapes people's behavior and the type of people you get in the game. The game doesn't prove a point about humanity besides showing that similar people will play similar games.
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Good call Mr. AC. If they were living together, you would think that he would walk over to the room where she was playing and watch her for a bit and perhaps chat with her while she was playing. That would seem to be the best way to get to know how she was playing her game besides going behind her back to snoop.
I usually name one of my rpg party characters after myself and my fionce because it's pretty funny to watch ourselves kill things and do silly stuff. Even when playing top spin, I made myself as a male player, and made her as the female player. International tennis stars now.
It's called having fun, the sims just lets you take it to the next level by making the appartment you live in and watching funny situations unfold. When I did the sim's, I made myself, my ex, a child, and "That Guy", a hippy looking character who lived on the couch. I wasn't trying to send a message to my ex, I was having fun playing around with the sims, which is probably what she was doing.
I'd like to know too. I managed to get someone to tape the gold medal womens fencing off bravo for me (only have limited cable at home) but havent had a chance to watch it yet.
My friend ripped badmittion and ping pong off bravo on his pc, but he compressed it too much so you can't follow the action at all. These sports would be hard to get on the pc because they are so fast.
I usually will try one of the major titles every couple of years. A new one I havent seen that I'm loving is fight night 2004. They added in a really really great control scheme for the game that really makes you feel like you are boxing. The game pacing is great. It lacks the large varieity of features that the sports games that have been intereated every year do, but in 3 or so years it ought to be one phenominal boxing game.
EA games tend to keep the core gameplay feeling the same, and add features and options to the games are developed. So really, buying every 4 years or so and you are garonteed to have better graphics and a much more feature rich game. Buying year to year should only be for the people who play only that game all the time.
I loved amped. Amped 2 added some great stuff, but they took away the great feel of just boarding down the mountain that amped had. I was hoping for an amped 3 that had the features of amped 2 and the boarding physics of the original. Sigh.
Yeah, I remember there was a really good winter games , game, I used to play. I totoally forget the name of it and who made it though. It had downhill skiing, ski jumpping, speed skating, luging, and i think a couple more. We used to spend hours with it, it was pretty good. It needs a remake.
I have a list like you, except my list of not finished but purchased games is small. I never got around to baldurs gate 2, and then told myself I'd buy it when it was 20 bucks in a doublepack with the expansion. Lo and behold, a couple months ago, there it was, so I bought it, even though I didn't really feel like playing it (just cause i waited so long to buy it). I played a night or two, but didn't get very far at all in it. That's ok though, because I didn't plan on playing it.
I try to budget myself by not buying a game unless I've finished what I have unless it's a "MUST HAVE IT NOW!!!" game, like rome, total war. This way, I play all the games I have until I'm satisisfied with that amount of time that I've played them, or how far I've gotten in the game. This has the added benafit of prices coming down on games I didn't get to.
I love games more then anything, and I have a very tough time holding back from dropping 50 bucks everytime I come with in 10 miles of a video game store, but I do, and I save money, and get to enjoy all the games I've bought much more then if I had a stack of unfinished ones.
Yeah, so would I. X-wing was freaken awesome. That was the first game I actually felt like I was doing something useful out in space. I can still remember the first mission. Standard patrol around a new star base. You are some newb pilot and are stuck patroling cargo containers and the like. This introduces you to identifying targets and inspecting, as well as balancing guns and engine speed.
Eventually you find some rebel scum hiding on a container! You get to watch as 3 gunships are dispatched to take care of if, while you try to help weaken the shields.
There was always so much more going on then, fly to waypoint 1, kill a ship, fly to waypoint 2, kill some more ships. These things always happened dynamicly, lots of big capitol ships around that you could fly up to. For the first couple missions, you weren't even leading your wing, it was fun as crap.
They need to remake these with upped ai and graphics and bigger battles. Drool...
I remember dune 2 coming out and it just blowing me away. I sucked so hard at it (was really young) and couldn't get very far without using trainers. The first time I saw a sandworm swallow up my guys crossing the desert scared the crap out of me.
I think they eventually remade the game with better graphics, didnt they? Either way, was a great first rts. I took more of a liking to warcraft though, simply because I like the whole sword and magic thing better then sci fi.
Warcraft 2 was a benchmark. Maybe just for me. My first RTS games I ever saw were Dune 2 and the original warcraft. I eagerly awaited warcraft 2 to come out. I played it, it was great, but put it down after a while.
Then I found this program called kali (10024 --5 digit newb). It let you play ipx games over tcp/ip. Kali + war 2 = about 3 years of my life gone. This was the first time I saw an online service for a game and got online to talk with people. The game was freaken awesome against other people. C&C was popular too, but there was something about it that wasnt as fun as war 2 to me.
So yeah, when TA came out, I had already been playing warcraft 2 online against people for a long time. So warcraft was a benchmark. I don't see why you are saying TA did something special when it came after war2. Of coarse it's going to have more features and better graphics, it came later. Still, you cant deny that warcraft was a benchmark in rts, if simply for coming out around the time that internet gaming became popular.
TA did some nice stuff, and maybe it set it's own benchmark in the genera, but warcraft and warcraft 2 came way before it, and those both made their own marks on the genera.
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Same thing happened to me with doom3. I was going to buy sims2 as a gift (today actually) but now I'll be finding a different game for the person. I can't stand this BS.
CD check, ok, I don't mind that, I've been playing with the cd in the drive since CD games came out, and hell, at liest I don't have to swap between cd's anymore.
I think the happy middle ground is to check for the cd key on install. Then check the cd key against again for TCP/IP games on the publisher's servers (not lan, so freaken annoying you'd need an internet connection to play on a lan) and that's the best you can do.
Actually my lack of socialization came from not knowing how to dress "cool" and not being good at sports and not liking the same thing any other kids did in my small town. My soclization amounted to being tripped and laughed at or just generally ignored by other people. Tends to make you avoid them all and not talk, which makes me pretty bad at being social.
Ironically it was the first time I got online that I started learning how to talk to people and got to know that there actually were people out there similar to me, just not at my school. That in turn gave me enough confidence to go out and get a job in another town, meet even more people, and actually learn how to communicate.
I guess it's true somewhat what you are saying, but I think the biggest barrier to being social is the steep learning curve and harsh penalties you face until you have learned enough to play the game.
That's what I said when I finally fired up halo after it had been out a year or so. I looked at it and thought "wow another fps, snore".
But then we just couldnt put it down. The biggest feature of it is co-op in my opinion. Not many games take the time to do a really fun co op mode, which makes playing the game twice as fun as by yourself.
Really I think the reoccuring fun factor for me has been grenades and vehicles. Watching bodies fly through the air and massive grenade chain reaction explosions never ceases to become boring. Waxing the flood with a shotgun doesnt get old either. Cramming vehicles in places they arent supposed to go was another fun pasttime.
I guess its really all the stuff you can do outside the standard run through the level and kill everything that draws you back to it time and time again.
Yeah, but real life doesn't have a fast foward button to skip through work :)
:)
The fun is also in doing crazy things that you can't do in real life, like set fire to the house, make out with the neighbor, have a wierd guy living on your couch, or deconstructing the door and watching your sim starve to death.
Why do people need to do all this guesswork. Wait until an official release of the specs, then decide if you want to buy it. How does knowing if it's backwards compatable effect you now? I mean you have a 50/50 shot of being right or wrong, so you don't even get bragging rights for predicting whether it has it ahead of time.
Well whatever, speculate on.
Sounds like my slashdot browsing experience to me.
In the 1.0 pr now and it still has the same problem. Sometimes one refresh fixes it, sometimes it takes 2 or 3, but now I'll try the text size thing.
I attribute it to having the browser sized down in the corner of my screen about 600 px wide. Still, pretty lame that it happens about every other thread I open up in a new tab.
I find it pretty funny that people are angry they have more options as to what to buy. It's not like someone is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to buy the new release of star wars. What are people complaining about really? OH NO!! I HAVE THE OPTION TO BUY MORE STAR WARS STUFF!!! LUCAS IS SUCH A JERK!!!!
I've gotten it ever since going to .9xx I attribute it to browsing with firefox while its shrunken down to about 500 x400 pixels. I don't seem to notice it as much when its full screen, but then again, i never seem to browse slashdot full screen.
No crap, I feel like a tool when I talk to people and am like "Yeah, i just saved xxxx on my car insurance by switching to geico". But it's true, I saved around 800 a year by switching from all state.
As to the parent, if you want nj manufactors insurance, you need to work for a company that has a deal with them or be related to someone already covered. Otherwise, you are sol.
You guys need to look at suprnova.org. I saw torrent files that had a 10 gig dl of every snes game out there and a 3 gig one for every nes game. I don't know if they are still there, but I'd keep my eyes out to try downloading those.
:)
Then you can carefully find the games you owned and delete the rest of the illegal ones
Yeah, I've had a chair for consol gaming downstairs and pulling it up to the tv when and such. It's a great chair, though not very durable and doesnt look like it'll take over 300 pounds for very long, which can be why your gf leaping onto your lap would probably crack it or something. But for just one person it's a pretty good chair, I just think it's too low for my computer desk and couldn't game in it at all (but would be finr for keyboarding it up)
Why is that though? What if you payed for the cable channel that Star Trek is broadcast on. You are able to legally record it from the channel via a vcr or tivo or computer or whatever. Why is it you can not obtain the episode via the internet? Is there some sort of agreement from the cable companies that say "if you forgot to record it when we broadcast it, you can't watch it"?
I don't mind them suing for copyright infringment, but I would just like to see enough evidence to actually prove that the person is doing something illegal.
Shop Smart, Shop, S, Mart!
I would argue that some of the things you list, such as prostition, are not bad things. In fact I'm really against the fact that victimless crimes are illegal. I guess it just seems odd to me that a woman or man could sleep around by picking up a different person at a bar or though online personals every night, and this is legal, yet the moment they accept cash for favors, it is illegal.
Also, when looking at tso, you have to rememember that it was a game where there was nothing to do. I played in beta, and it took me about three days to relize that there was no game behind tso besides crappy mini games you would get for free on yahoo and watching your character hit a pinatta for 8 hours.
Playing EQ as a newbie, most everybody I interacted with was really helpful, taking an hour or two out of their time to help me get a corpse or guide me through a new area when I was lost. The nature of the game is what shapes people's behavior and the type of people you get in the game. The game doesn't prove a point about humanity besides showing that similar people will play similar games.
Good call Mr. AC. If they were living together, you would think that he would walk over to the room where she was playing and watch her for a bit and perhaps chat with her while she was playing. That would seem to be the best way to get to know how she was playing her game besides going behind her back to snoop.
I usually name one of my rpg party characters after myself and my fionce because it's pretty funny to watch ourselves kill things and do silly stuff. Even when playing top spin, I made myself as a male player, and made her as the female player. International tennis stars now.
It's called having fun, the sims just lets you take it to the next level by making the appartment you live in and watching funny situations unfold. When I did the sim's, I made myself, my ex, a child, and "That Guy", a hippy looking character who lived on the couch. I wasn't trying to send a message to my ex, I was having fun playing around with the sims, which is probably what she was doing.
I'd like to know too. I managed to get someone to tape the gold medal womens fencing off bravo for me (only have limited cable at home) but havent had a chance to watch it yet.
My friend ripped badmittion and ping pong off bravo on his pc, but he compressed it too much so you can't follow the action at all. These sports would be hard to get on the pc because they are so fast.
That sounds like it was it. I think we only played the events that didnt require frantic joystick shaking and just timing and movment.
I usually will try one of the major titles every couple of years. A new one I havent seen that I'm loving is fight night 2004. They added in a really really great control scheme for the game that really makes you feel like you are boxing. The game pacing is great. It lacks the large varieity of features that the sports games that have been intereated every year do, but in 3 or so years it ought to be one phenominal boxing game.
EA games tend to keep the core gameplay feeling the same, and add features and options to the games are developed. So really, buying every 4 years or so and you are garonteed to have better graphics and a much more feature rich game. Buying year to year should only be for the people who play only that game all the time.
I loved amped. Amped 2 added some great stuff, but they took away the great feel of just boarding down the mountain that amped had. I was hoping for an amped 3 that had the features of amped 2 and the boarding physics of the original. Sigh.
Yeah, I remember there was a really good winter games , game, I used to play. I totoally forget the name of it and who made it though. It had downhill skiing, ski jumpping, speed skating, luging, and i think a couple more. We used to spend hours with it, it was pretty good. It needs a remake.
I have a list like you, except my list of not finished but purchased games is small. I never got around to baldurs gate 2, and then told myself I'd buy it when it was 20 bucks in a doublepack with the expansion. Lo and behold, a couple months ago, there it was, so I bought it, even though I didn't really feel like playing it (just cause i waited so long to buy it). I played a night or two, but didn't get very far at all in it. That's ok though, because I didn't plan on playing it.
I try to budget myself by not buying a game unless I've finished what I have unless it's a "MUST HAVE IT NOW!!!" game, like rome, total war. This way, I play all the games I have until I'm satisisfied with that amount of time that I've played them, or how far I've gotten in the game. This has the added benafit of prices coming down on games I didn't get to.
I love games more then anything, and I have a very tough time holding back from dropping 50 bucks everytime I come with in 10 miles of a video game store, but I do, and I save money, and get to enjoy all the games I've bought much more then if I had a stack of unfinished ones.
Woops, lost in my zeal.
Yeah, so would I. X-wing was freaken awesome. That was the first game I actually felt like I was doing something useful out in space. I can still remember the first mission. Standard patrol around a new star base. You are some newb pilot and are stuck patroling cargo containers and the like. This introduces you to identifying targets and inspecting, as well as balancing guns and engine speed.
Eventually you find some rebel scum hiding on a container! You get to watch as 3 gunships are dispatched to take care of if, while you try to help weaken the shields.
There was always so much more going on then, fly to waypoint 1, kill a ship, fly to waypoint 2, kill some more ships. These things always happened dynamicly, lots of big capitol ships around that you could fly up to. For the first couple missions, you weren't even leading your wing, it was fun as crap.
They need to remake these with upped ai and graphics and bigger battles. Drool...
I remember dune 2 coming out and it just blowing me away. I sucked so hard at it (was really young) and couldn't get very far without using trainers. The first time I saw a sandworm swallow up my guys crossing the desert scared the crap out of me.
I think they eventually remade the game with better graphics, didnt they? Either way, was a great first rts. I took more of a liking to warcraft though, simply because I like the whole sword and magic thing better then sci fi.
Warcraft 2 was a benchmark. Maybe just for me. My first RTS games I ever saw were Dune 2 and the original warcraft. I eagerly awaited warcraft 2 to come out. I played it, it was great, but put it down after a while.
Then I found this program called kali (10024 --5 digit newb). It let you play ipx games over tcp/ip. Kali + war 2 = about 3 years of my life gone. This was the first time I saw an online service for a game and got online to talk with people. The game was freaken awesome against other people. C&C was popular too, but there was something about it that wasnt as fun as war 2 to me.
So yeah, when TA came out, I had already been playing warcraft 2 online against people for a long time. So warcraft was a benchmark. I don't see why you are saying TA did something special when it came after war2. Of coarse it's going to have more features and better graphics, it came later. Still, you cant deny that warcraft was a benchmark in rts, if simply for coming out around the time that internet gaming became popular.
TA did some nice stuff, and maybe it set it's own benchmark in the genera, but warcraft and warcraft 2 came way before it, and those both made their own marks on the genera.