1: Figure out some engaging multiplayer gameplay. I want to be able to play your for years. Not hours. I don't give a shit about your story. Your Single Player game is a complete afterthought to me. Something I do when I'm bored and the internet is out and it's raining outside, so I can't go play street hockey.
And herein lies the problem - some of us LIKE single player games with a good story. Beyond that, not everyone's got the connection needed for gaming to work well online, and enjoyment from multiplayer dies as soon as people move on to the next shiny new game.
'I'd be amazed if the PlayStation 4 has a physical disc drive,' [Sony's Phil] Harrison says.
Considering the reaction to the PS3 thus far, I don't think it's safe to make ANY predictions about the PS4. There will almost definitely be one, yes, but who knows what Sony will have to do to make it successful?
Actually, scratch that - it's an idiotic idea. No longevity once Sony moves on to a new console, no physical ownership, no used games market to help make the hobby more affordable...and there's that fact that broadband still isn't widespread enough or fast enough to support the massive game downloads that this generation of consoles, let alone the next one, is going to demand.
Something tells me that, if Sony eliminates the disc drive, it'll be an even bigger blunder than anything they've done to date.
*Did I mention WASD really isn't a good way to control something. When was the last time your RL movement was confined to North, South, East, and West?
Radio Shack sells convertors that let you use PS2 controllers via a USB port for around $10. It's entirely worth the investment if you play console ports on a computer at all.:)
There are similar products for the GameCube and Xbox controllers, but they don't seem to be nearly as common in stores from my experience. Of course, ordering online is usually quick and painless...
And we're calling him a dumbass because he asked a perfectly legitimate question?
Assuming that because you see a homemade flyer in one store that the entire chain does it is...well, stupid. It's better to err on the side of caution than to make sweeping blanket statements that you'll be ridiculed for when it takes 30 seconds to disprove them.
Just because your store does it too doesn't mean they all do. His question still stands unanswered, for all intents and purposes.
Furthermore, nothing from Konami has indicated that SOTN's appearance on XBLA will keep the title exclusive to Microsoft's Live Arcade.
Does that mean it'll be on the Wii's download service as well? The fit would make sense, considering the majority of titles in the series have been on Nintendo consoles, and because of the Sega and TurboGrafx 16 deals, the fact that this title hasn't been on a Nintendo system before shouldn't be an issue.
Anyone want to guess the over/under on how many fanboy wet dreams that thought is going to cause?;)
The game can be EASILY found for less than $10 now (and yes, finding it new at that price is still possible).
The game had its faults (what doesn't?) and was on the shorter side, but for the $7 it cost me to get the PS2 version from Toys R Us? It was worth every penny, without a doubt.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of people here who have played it didn't spend $40-$50 to do so. I'd have felt let down if I had, yes, but it dropped in price so quickly after release that I didn't have to. As things stand now, the game offers an amazing experience for the cost of a movie ticket...and is probably more enjoyable, considering how much crap is released into theaters.
Most of the tech stuff they had on there was already old by the time they broadcast it, due to the fact that I had already read it on the Internet and began to forget about it by the time they could show it.
I take it, then, that you saw absolutely none of their live programming? The Screen Savers, Call For Help, and TechLive/TechTV News all ran five days a week for the majority of the year and were definitely not "old" when they ran.
Considering that the internet has existed as a distribution method for adventure games for...oh, over a decade now and that there hasn't been a huge resurgence, I've got my doubts here.
Don't get me wrong - I love the genre and would applaud its rebirth. But when you've got a title like Sam and Max, that was close to 90% done with years of anticipation behind it...well, you lose faith. I'm not sure what it'll take to revive the genre, but we haven't hit on it yet.
But on the other hand...the Wii's controller is definitely suited towards a point and click interface.;)
In January 2003, a computer virus shut down airlines, banks and governments. That same year, a tree fell on power lines outside Cleveland, resulting in a blackout for much of the Northeast. Doomsday can be understated.
Little did I know that those words in that seemingly ordinary Slashdot article would bring about the end in seven months' time.
There's a lot of good material out there if you're willing to look for it. Since you mentioned shows, let's use TV as an example. It's easy to stumble upon shows like According to Jim, Hope and Faith, The King of Queens, or Joey (which has been cancelled, thank god) and assume that the sitcom has been left to die a slow and painful death.
If you stop looking there, though, then you miss some of the gems that are out there. Arrested Development never seemed to get the push from Fox that other, lesser shows get even before they win the network multiple Emmys. The Office, up until Steve Carell hit it big with The 40 Year Old Virgin, was mostly ignored. Scrubs, which has been getting critical raves and the occasional award nomination for years, isn't even on the fall schedule.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make with the genre of TV sitcom? You might not be hearing about the best material out there because it's not being pushed because of a lack of sex jokes, explosions, or star power.
There are smart, well-written TV shows and movies out there. You're either not looking for them or looking in the wrong places.
There's more and more research emerging to support the hypothesis that any addiction to a substance without physically addictive qualities (i.e. crack and its ilk) are all rooted in the same dopamine reactions.
You know, a lot of obsessive-compulsive people havev multiple mental "addictions." I wonder if OCD is linked to those dopamine reactions - it'd make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?
You know, I'd be willing to bet that the third party ad gropu vets the porn adverts, because there's a high demand for that service. How many major sites run ads but would be mortified to find porn on their front page?
I highly doubt that MySpace clears every ad that runs on their site, and anyone that says they do is an idiot. Sure, Murdoch has all the money in the world to hire a team of...say, five people to do just that, but why would you when the ad company is supposed to for you?
If sales are not generated that allow those things to happen then price cuts are generally a long ways off unless they console in jeopardy in which case people wont buy it anyway (i.e. dreamcast).
Doesn't Sony have some other sources of income? Like, say...music? Movies? Consumer electronics? Sony will cut the price to move systems even if it means taking a loss; most of the profit comes from software, and Sony can (and may very well have to) take a hit on the consoles to make that software move.
First off, "second set" is pointless to say here. Batteries are typically sold in sets of four, and since the Wii's remote uses two...voila! Problem solved!
Also, Rob Simpson already made this point in another comment on this level, but he used Canadian prices when they're far from the majority on Slashdot. So, I'll say it again: battery chargers are cheap. $20 for four batteries and the charger? I do believe that most people can afford that if they're paying $200+ for a console.
What the hell is "depth," and why don't the mascot games have it?
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the old Mario and Sonic games are still popular and still readily available to this day. The same goes for Mega Man and for some of (though not all of) the third party mascots from that era.
If a game can hold up for more than a decade and still be fun to play, I'd say it has some kind of depth.
Well, if we're talking about their original systems, Altered Beast was an arcade title before it was ported to the Genesis.:P
The point I was trying to make is that, of everything he listed, only one title was a hit for the Genesis...and this is an article on Sega. It seemed incredibly out of place.
Believe it or not, not everyone on Slashdot is in love with the Wii, just like not everyone is a fan of the Xbox 360. Hell, there are even a few people - a scant few, mind you - that are trying to defend Sony every time they make another attempt to shoot themselves in the foot. Maybe, just maybe, he made the same kind of comment about the Wii?
This could happen to any place that allows uploaded video, and probably will happen before too long.
No it couldn't. Because of how open the MySpace profiles are, you could put most any video file imaginable on your profile, without the site modifying it in any way.
What about sites like YouTube where the video is reencoded on the site's servers? There's no possible way that the infected codec would carry over once the video is converted to the.FLV format that those sites use.
To be fair, though, look at how the sites operate.
Digg is based entirely off of user opinion; a story can make the front page in the space of an hour if circumstances allow.
Slashdot, on the other hand, has to rely on its moderators, and any story that gets submitted is likely to get caught up in the backlog for a few days.
For all we know, the stories were submitted at the same time to the two sites.
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1: Figure out some engaging multiplayer gameplay. I want to be able to play your for years. Not hours. I don't give a shit about your story. Your Single Player game is a complete afterthought to me. Something I do when I'm bored and the internet is out and it's raining outside, so I can't go play street hockey.
And herein lies the problem - some of us LIKE single player games with a good story. Beyond that, not everyone's got the connection needed for gaming to work well online, and enjoyment from multiplayer dies as soon as people move on to the next shiny new game.
I think it's safe to argue, though, that guns are far more destructive to kids than breasts are.
When was the last time you heard about a pair of breasts killing a child?
'I'd be amazed if the PlayStation 4 has a physical disc drive,' [Sony's Phil] Harrison says.
Considering the reaction to the PS3 thus far, I don't think it's safe to make ANY predictions about the PS4. There will almost definitely be one, yes, but who knows what Sony will have to do to make it successful?
Actually, scratch that - it's an idiotic idea. No longevity once Sony moves on to a new console, no physical ownership, no used games market to help make the hobby more affordable...and there's that fact that broadband still isn't widespread enough or fast enough to support the massive game downloads that this generation of consoles, let alone the next one, is going to demand.
Something tells me that, if Sony eliminates the disc drive, it'll be an even bigger blunder than anything they've done to date.
*Did I mention WASD really isn't a good way to control something. When was the last time your RL movement was confined to North, South, East, and West?
:)
Radio Shack sells convertors that let you use PS2 controllers via a USB port for around $10. It's entirely worth the investment if you play console ports on a computer at all.
There are similar products for the GameCube and Xbox controllers, but they don't seem to be nearly as common in stores from my experience. Of course, ordering online is usually quick and painless...
Assuming that because you see a homemade flyer in one store that the entire chain does it is...well, stupid. It's better to err on the side of caution than to make sweeping blanket statements that you'll be ridiculed for when it takes 30 seconds to disprove them.
Just because your store does it too doesn't mean they all do. His question still stands unanswered, for all intents and purposes.
Furthermore, nothing from Konami has indicated that SOTN's appearance on XBLA will keep the title exclusive to Microsoft's Live Arcade.
;)
Does that mean it'll be on the Wii's download service as well? The fit would make sense, considering the majority of titles in the series have been on Nintendo consoles, and because of the Sega and TurboGrafx 16 deals, the fact that this title hasn't been on a Nintendo system before shouldn't be an issue.
Anyone want to guess the over/under on how many fanboy wet dreams that thought is going to cause?
It could be worse.
What if the only song it played was "It's Raining Men?"
I think that we're overlooking something...
The game can be EASILY found for less than $10 now (and yes, finding it new at that price is still possible).
The game had its faults (what doesn't?) and was on the shorter side, but for the $7 it cost me to get the PS2 version from Toys R Us? It was worth every penny, without a doubt.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of people here who have played it didn't spend $40-$50 to do so. I'd have felt let down if I had, yes, but it dropped in price so quickly after release that I didn't have to. As things stand now, the game offers an amazing experience for the cost of a movie ticket...and is probably more enjoyable, considering how much crap is released into theaters.
Most of the tech stuff they had on there was already old by the time they broadcast it, due to the fact that I had already read it on the Internet and began to forget about it by the time they could show it.
I take it, then, that you saw absolutely none of their live programming? The Screen Savers, Call For Help, and TechLive/TechTV News all ran five days a week for the majority of the year and were definitely not "old" when they ran.
Considering that the internet has existed as a distribution method for adventure games for...oh, over a decade now and that there hasn't been a huge resurgence, I've got my doubts here. Don't get me wrong - I love the genre and would applaud its rebirth. But when you've got a title like Sam and Max, that was close to 90% done with years of anticipation behind it...well, you lose faith. I'm not sure what it'll take to revive the genre, but we haven't hit on it yet. But on the other hand...the Wii's controller is definitely suited towards a point and click interface. ;)
In January 2003, a computer virus shut down airlines, banks and governments. That same year, a tree fell on power lines outside Cleveland, resulting in a blackout for much of the Northeast. Doomsday can be understated.
Little did I know that those words in that seemingly ordinary Slashdot article would bring about the end in seven months' time.
Maybe you're just missing them?
There's a lot of good material out there if you're willing to look for it. Since you mentioned shows, let's use TV as an example. It's easy to stumble upon shows like According to Jim, Hope and Faith, The King of Queens, or Joey (which has been cancelled, thank god) and assume that the sitcom has been left to die a slow and painful death.
If you stop looking there, though, then you miss some of the gems that are out there. Arrested Development never seemed to get the push from Fox that other, lesser shows get even before they win the network multiple Emmys. The Office, up until Steve Carell hit it big with The 40 Year Old Virgin, was mostly ignored. Scrubs, which has been getting critical raves and the occasional award nomination for years, isn't even on the fall schedule.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make with the genre of TV sitcom? You might not be hearing about the best material out there because it's not being pushed because of a lack of sex jokes, explosions, or star power.
There are smart, well-written TV shows and movies out there. You're either not looking for them or looking in the wrong places.
There's more and more research emerging to support the hypothesis that any addiction to a substance without physically addictive qualities (i.e. crack and its ilk) are all rooted in the same dopamine reactions. You know, a lot of obsessive-compulsive people havev multiple mental "addictions." I wonder if OCD is linked to those dopamine reactions - it'd make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?
You know, I'd be willing to bet that the third party ad gropu vets the porn adverts, because there's a high demand for that service. How many major sites run ads but would be mortified to find porn on their front page?
I highly doubt that MySpace clears every ad that runs on their site, and anyone that says they do is an idiot. Sure, Murdoch has all the money in the world to hire a team of...say, five people to do just that, but why would you when the ad company is supposed to for you?
If sales are not generated that allow those things to happen then price cuts are generally a long ways off unless they console in jeopardy in which case people wont buy it anyway (i.e. dreamcast).
Doesn't Sony have some other sources of income? Like, say...music? Movies? Consumer electronics? Sony will cut the price to move systems even if it means taking a loss; most of the profit comes from software, and Sony can (and may very well have to) take a hit on the consoles to make that software move.
First off, "second set" is pointless to say here. Batteries are typically sold in sets of four, and since the Wii's remote uses two...voila! Problem solved!
Also, Rob Simpson already made this point in another comment on this level, but he used Canadian prices when they're far from the majority on Slashdot. So, I'll say it again: battery chargers are cheap. $20 for four batteries and the charger? I do believe that most people can afford that if they're paying $200+ for a console.
What the hell is "depth," and why don't the mascot games have it?
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the old Mario and Sonic games are still popular and still readily available to this day. The same goes for Mega Man and for some of (though not all of) the third party mascots from that era.
If a game can hold up for more than a decade and still be fun to play, I'd say it has some kind of depth.
Well, if we're talking about their original systems, Altered Beast was an arcade title before it was ported to the Genesis. :P
The point I was trying to make is that, of everything he listed, only one title was a hit for the Genesis...and this is an article on Sega. It seemed incredibly out of place.
Weren't all of your "close seconds" NES titles?
Believe it or not, not everyone on Slashdot is in love with the Wii, just like not everyone is a fan of the Xbox 360. Hell, there are even a few people - a scant few, mind you - that are trying to defend Sony every time they make another attempt to shoot themselves in the foot. Maybe, just maybe, he made the same kind of comment about the Wii?
When has viral marketing ever gone right?
Ever heard of the Blair Witch Project?
This could happen to any place that allows uploaded video, and probably will happen before too long.
.FLV format that those sites use.
No it couldn't. Because of how open the MySpace profiles are, you could put most any video file imaginable on your profile, without the site modifying it in any way.
What about sites like YouTube where the video is reencoded on the site's servers? There's no possible way that the infected codec would carry over once the video is converted to the
Let's just pray that they remember to jump occasionally.
:)
After all, if they fall into one of those bottomless pits, that's going to throw a kink in the release schedule.
To be fair, though, look at how the sites operate.
Digg is based entirely off of user opinion; a story can make the front page in the space of an hour if circumstances allow.
Slashdot, on the other hand, has to rely on its moderators, and any story that gets submitted is likely to get caught up in the backlog for a few days.
For all we know, the stories were submitted at the same time to the two sites.
And if that happens, the school could discontinue their scholarship for (what I'm assuming is now) breach of contract.
Could they? Yes. Will they? Only if they're incredibly stupid.