Guess what - the generation gap is a lie sold to baby boomers and teenagers by the media to get attention. You could copy your post and send it back in time 5, 10, 15 years ago and it would still be the same. 12 years ago when me and my friends were your exact age, we all sat on AIM all the time and sent IM messages all day. Email was what you did when people were at classes, or they were somehow offline.
where the hell did that come from? Did 19th century psuedo scientists use 21st century lasers to destroy entities (virus's) that were discovered in the 20th century?
Does it put cockroaches ahead? Humans adapted successfully to almost every climate zone even before the introduction of agriculture. Even after a nuke war or whatever event destroys civilization, their will still be millions of survivors to spread over the world again... Without the heat zones we create (and the food we leave too), the roaches would still be stuck in the tropics. They're just another creature in the hanger-on's that follow and depend on humanity for success - rats, pigeons skin mites, etc.
According to "The World Without Us", by Alan Weisman - most of the roaches in the industrialized world will be Dead within 3 years of humanity disappearing! Thats without even the radiation. So don't worry... when we go, the roaches will go with us.
But posting an accurate, FUDless article would mean the slashdot editors couldn't pimp their fears that we live in a fascist police state - and thats even worse than posting articles from a troll.
How dare you throw those facts and common sense into our outrage! We live in a fascist society, and our false assumptions and made up facts about this new policy prove it. Now stop bothering us so we can continue to hide in terror from the made up robotic insects that aren't actually watching us.
Yeah cause if there's one thing "he wants" it's to push out a new crapspansion pack for the sims every 6 months. Too many people forget the Origins, the Westwoods, the Bullfrogs. But as long as we can shovel out another crapspansion for the sims they are all too happy.
But that IS the whole point. Will Wright gets the freedom to create new original ideas and implement them (you think he's spent a second of his time on the Sims since publishing the original?), as long as EA gets to inherit the IP and turn it into a franchise (aka - pump out endless expansion packs). And who exactly loses in this deal? Wright gets creative freedom, EA gets new IP, and users get content shoveled at them. No one is forcing anyone to buy more expansions. Personally, I think its a good thing that a years old title is getting regular updates. Those Sims expansions are the closest thing out there to a working episodic gaming model...
Yeah - but EA isn't a town - its a continent. As long as they aren't working out of the same office (and keep their release dates a few months apart), I'm sure they'll never realize they ain't the center of the EA universe...
The fact that they have pampered Will Wright, and pretty much let him do whatever he wants (on two projects now - the Sims and Spore, is a good sign they know how in theory how to not destroy a creative development team. If they can extend that good practice to the entire Bioware group... maybe this won't end up being a disaster like Origin's buyout...
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There are plenty of things that are barely touched on wikipedia and are still full of stubs. Literature. History. Geography. All its done is compiled everything easy to google, and of interest to computer enthusiasts...
Check the forums on abandonia.com - loom CD is out there. Just need to get the binaries from a few different sites, and run them through SCUMMVM. I did it this summer, and even though the game is really short (less than 10 hours gameplay), I had a real blast - the game is still a beautiful work of art -more so with the full music and speech.
Sierra rereleased all their original 80's adventure games in the mid 90's with improved graphics.
In the 90's, Lucasarts also rereleased the original xwing and tie fighter games (which were then a few years old) with improved graphics based off later graphics engines.
And again - in the 90's, Mech Warrior 2 was rereleased a few years after its original debut in a Titanium edition to take advantage of new 3D graphics card.
In this decade? Galactic Civilization and Tomb Raider are about all that come to mind...
Why this was done in the 90's, but stopped 00's? To be honest the only reasons I can think of is maybe the transition from floppies to CD encouraged Gold/rereleased editions, or maybe that was the last gasp of game companies owned and operated by the game designers themselves.
The article (two links in) is so vague, it could be talking about anything. I suspect it could be some sort of work on a smaller, more efficient RTG, but who could tell beyond all the baseless day dreams?
Ever wonder why no one seems to appreciate your insightful long form commentary? Maybe its because 3 lines into a 50 line text block their eyes glaze over and they hit the back key. Paragraphs are your friend - not something to be avoided.
Reading a text block like that is the visual equivelant of listening to those sped up caveats they spit out at the end of car commercials - their must be something in there...but who the hell knows, I stopped paying attention 8 words in.
If you've only played this game once, do yourself a favor and load it up again. The game play and story are so deep, that its worth it. Playing through this the second time, I encountered entire boards and storylines that I never encountered the first time through. Playing through the third time, I still encountered boards, stories, and characters I never encountered before.
And I know I'm still missing some... apparently whenever you make a choice - pick a faction, have a character join your party, some other choices get blocked off. And many characters have their own boards and storylines once they join (Modron, Dakkon most notably) - so depending on who you have in your party, its a completely different experience!
If you liked the structure of AC, then you'll like the structure of Civ 4. Its got the diplomatic options, it has the mix-and-match civics - the only thing its really missing is the build your own unit options, which it kind of replaces with promotions. Plus it has religion and resources - so its has added gameplay components...
I've heard good things about that mod, but I'm waiting for a QA'ed/stable version to come with the expansion. Right now I've just been doing Warlords, with random map generator (continents, islands, fractals, terra), large maps, low oceans, random leader, and regular length. Good fun - and I love the fact that the maps feel "real", but I'm deep into the game before I figure out what kind of map it is - so I still can do exploring without feeling like I know where everything has to be.
Are you kidding? Jump the shark?!?! The gameplay in civ 4 is way better balanced than civ 3, and much more intuitive. The resource system is better crafted so that lack of oil does not equal late game death, the religion and great leader systems are pure genius, and a lot of the pointless micro-management from earlier versions have been removed.
If the graphics bother you, just zoom all the way out - everything will look kinda small, but it will display as flat as it ever did.
After Civ 4.5 comes out (aka the Beyond The Sword edition), who cares what crap they throw at the console market? CIV IV BTS is going to the definitive civilization version for years to come on the computer - its hard enough for me to break away from the game with just the crappy Warlord expansion - this new version is going to be like silicon crack.
Its their loss if they don't think kids can understand this excellently crafted strategy game - but honestly if they're worried about attention span, just make small maps and idiot AI the default options for the console version, and leave it alone. Civ IV is just as intuitive as the original, which plenty of kids played when it came out 15 years ago - and it has pretty graphics to boot - why wouldn't it work on the console?
I thought I had seen the movie before, and like you were not particularly impressed by the visuals (though I enjoyed the story).
But then I finally got to see it in the theaters (a special edition re-release), and was totally blown away. The DVD does not do the movie justice - the amount of detail within this film is staggering, even when blown up onto a large movie screen.
If it ever gets released in an art house by you, do yourself a favor and check it out. While a lot of the look has been copied many many times since then, so loses some of the innovative edge it had at release, its a totally different experience in the theater, with a good copy projected properly on the big screen
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where the hell did that come from? Did 19th century psuedo scientists use 21st century lasers to destroy entities (virus's) that were discovered in the 20th century?
Does it put cockroaches ahead? Humans adapted successfully to almost every climate zone even before the introduction of agriculture. Even after a nuke war or whatever event destroys civilization, their will still be millions of survivors to spread over the world again... Without the heat zones we create (and the food we leave too), the roaches would still be stuck in the tropics. They're just another creature in the hanger-on's that follow and depend on humanity for success - rats, pigeons skin mites, etc.
According to "The World Without Us", by Alan Weisman - most of the roaches in the industrialized world will be Dead within 3 years of humanity disappearing! Thats without even the radiation. So don't worry... when we go, the roaches will go with us.
But posting an accurate, FUDless article would mean the slashdot editors couldn't pimp their fears that we live in a fascist police state - and thats even worse than posting articles from a troll.
How dare you throw those facts and common sense into our outrage! We live in a fascist society, and our false assumptions and made up facts about this new policy prove it. Now stop bothering us so we can continue to hide in terror from the made up robotic insects that aren't actually watching us.
But that IS the whole point. Will Wright gets the freedom to create new original ideas and implement them (you think he's spent a second of his time on the Sims since publishing the original?), as long as EA gets to inherit the IP and turn it into a franchise (aka - pump out endless expansion packs). And who exactly loses in this deal? Wright gets creative freedom, EA gets new IP, and users get content shoveled at them. No one is forcing anyone to buy more expansions. Personally, I think its a good thing that a years old title is getting regular updates. Those Sims expansions are the closest thing out there to a working episodic gaming model...
Yeah - but EA isn't a town - its a continent. As long as they aren't working out of the same office (and keep their release dates a few months apart), I'm sure they'll never realize they ain't the center of the EA universe...
The fact that they have pampered Will Wright, and pretty much let him do whatever he wants (on two projects now - the Sims and Spore, is a good sign they know how in theory how to not destroy a creative development team. If they can extend that good practice to the entire Bioware group... maybe this won't end up being a disaster like Origin's buyout...
There are plenty of things that are barely touched on wikipedia and are still full of stubs. Literature. History. Geography. All its done is compiled everything easy to google, and of interest to computer enthusiasts...
Nope - definitely not a user friendly experience - but for those in the know - or who check out the Abandonia.com forums on loom - its out there.
Check the forums on abandonia.com - loom CD is out there. Just need to get the binaries from a few different sites, and run them through SCUMMVM. I did it this summer, and even though the game is really short (less than 10 hours gameplay), I had a real blast - the game is still a beautiful work of art -more so with the full music and speech.
Sierra rereleased all their original 80's adventure games in the mid 90's with improved graphics.
In the 90's, Lucasarts also rereleased the original xwing and tie fighter games (which were then a few years old) with improved graphics based off later graphics engines.
And again - in the 90's, Mech Warrior 2 was rereleased a few years after its original debut in a Titanium edition to take advantage of new 3D graphics card.
In this decade? Galactic Civilization and Tomb Raider are about all that come to mind...
Why this was done in the 90's, but stopped 00's? To be honest the only reasons I can think of is maybe the transition from floppies to CD encouraged Gold/rereleased editions, or maybe that was the last gasp of game companies owned and operated by the game designers themselves.
The article (two links in) is so vague, it could be talking about anything. I suspect it could be some sort of work on a smaller, more efficient RTG, but who could tell beyond all the baseless day dreams?
Maybe I'm suggesting that the baby cow is pressuring him into writing likes he's drinking lots of caffeinated coffee?
Ever wonder why no one seems to appreciate your insightful long form commentary? Maybe its because 3 lines into a 50 line text block their eyes glaze over and they hit the back key. Paragraphs are your friend - not something to be avoided.
Reading a text block like that is the visual equivelant of listening to those sped up caveats they spit out at the end of car commercials - their must be something in there...but who the hell knows, I stopped paying attention 8 words in.
If your vendor says their software works on Vista, when it clearly doesn't - how is that MS's fault?
And I know I'm still missing some... apparently whenever you make a choice - pick a faction, have a character join your party, some other choices get blocked off. And many characters have their own boards and storylines once they join (Modron, Dakkon most notably) - so depending on who you have in your party, its a completely different experience!
How dare you strip credit from William T. Cat - who personally spit up the hairballs those titles were first written on!!!
Once the page is slashdotted it really will be a cliffhanger...
If you liked the structure of AC, then you'll like the structure of Civ 4. Its got the diplomatic options, it has the mix-and-match civics - the only thing its really missing is the build your own unit options, which it kind of replaces with promotions. Plus it has religion and resources - so its has added gameplay components...
I've heard good things about that mod, but I'm waiting for a QA'ed/stable version to come with the expansion. Right now I've just been doing Warlords, with random map generator (continents, islands, fractals, terra), large maps, low oceans, random leader, and regular length. Good fun - and I love the fact that the maps feel "real", but I'm deep into the game before I figure out what kind of map it is - so I still can do exploring without feeling like I know where everything has to be.
If the graphics bother you, just zoom all the way out - everything will look kinda small, but it will display as flat as it ever did.
Its their loss if they don't think kids can understand this excellently crafted strategy game - but honestly if they're worried about attention span, just make small maps and idiot AI the default options for the console version, and leave it alone. Civ IV is just as intuitive as the original, which plenty of kids played when it came out 15 years ago - and it has pretty graphics to boot - why wouldn't it work on the console?
But then I finally got to see it in the theaters (a special edition re-release), and was totally blown away. The DVD does not do the movie justice - the amount of detail within this film is staggering, even when blown up onto a large movie screen.
If it ever gets released in an art house by you, do yourself a favor and check it out. While a lot of the look has been copied many many times since then, so loses some of the innovative edge it had at release, its a totally different experience in the theater, with a good copy projected properly on the big screen