Because, let's face it, if you want a puzzle game, there are loads of shareware games you can download off the internet. Puzzle games like the 7th Guest were really the first wave of CD-Rom games. When CD-Roms first came out, no-one seemed to know what to do with them, given most games then could fit on floppies. Hence we had people shoving as much FMV onto a CD as they could and linking it with a few puzzles. Whereas now CD-Roms are needed because todays games are so big, and some games actually come on DVD-Rom.
It wasn't unlike the now-deceased Mega CD - when that first came out, you had two basic game types. There were Mega drive games with the odd FMV sequence thrown in, and and then there were the full FMV games along the lines of Dragons Lair/Cobra Command etc. But whereas CD-Roms become commonplace, so few people actually bought the Mega-CD, it died a death. FMV heavy games such as the 7th Guest are best left dead and buried. If you really want puzzles, you can buy a decent paper and pen puzzlebook for about two pounds.
.. and are covering it with a news article here. As luck would have it, the Thief 1 Gold I ordered off E-Bay just turned up today, so I guess I'll be playing Thief 1 till they fix this bug - if they fix it.
I don't have the full version yet, but I just double-checked in the demo and it appears you can set the difficulty on a per level basis. Is this true? If so, just play through a whole level without loading. Don't save and load after each enemy you manage to sneak by. That doesn't strike me as very 'expert' of a tactic.
It's not just that, either. Gamers sometimes don't have the time on their hands to spend four hours playing through a single level. They want to save the game so they can go to sleep or do something else. Also, it's not just saving the game that sets this off. Levels in Thief 3 - on the X-Box, at least - have one part which is loaded separately, and so when you enter a room where it needs to load up that part, and then go back through, the bug takes hold.
I disagree. The intelligence of the AI isnt something that is explicitly visible. You could wrongly assume you are just doing good, or the likes.
Except that the AI is one of the things to have got a lot of press in the various Thief 3 preview articles. So people buying the game for the better AI end up disappointed.
Someone already thought of that - certainly owners of modded X-Boxes could also try that - but it apparently doesn't work, according to the intial post in this thread at the Ion Storm boards. Shame.
I was wondering why even on expert difficulty, the enemies seemed pretty clueless...oh well, it's still a fun game even at normal difficulty.
Exactly. Give that man a donut. It was exactly that that alerted folks to the bug - some people swearing blind the AI was great on expert mode, others saying it stunk. The people who thought it stunk had either gone through a portal twice or saved and loaded game and, joy of joys, the guards went back to their 'normal' AI level, making them about as bright as the Thief 1 and 2 guards.
so they are crippling their own consol by not allowing buggy games to be fixed.....I normally don't mind MS, but this just takes the cake....
I believe this was because MS didn't want to be in a position where developers saw Live as a way to get into the same release and patch rut as PC games have got into. MS probably didn't want that stigma attaced Buggy console games are actually far less common that buggy PC games simply because there's no easy patch mechanism in place. The only bugged console games that spring to mind, apart from this one, are WWF No Mercy on the N64, and Morrowind on the X-Box, though Slashdotters could probably think of more.
.. how difficult can English be? *ducks* Seriously, though, the Australian version at least could be released in the UK, which would boost the Gamecube's performance here.
Maybe the videogame industry will wake up and realize that originality is the way to go! Oh, wait, no, false alarm - they've just announced another six Army Men games hitting the Gamecube.
.. would be releasing Animal Crossing in Europe. For some bizarre reason this Sims-meets-the-fuzzy-wuzzies game has been released in Australia but never over here.
That way maybe the actors would get paid more good episodes and less for really crappy episodes - Lisa episodes, basically. And let's face it, while this will no doubt get modded as flamebait, The Simpsons is nowhere as near as good as it was.
Not just because Fox have cancelled series at the drop of a hat, either. They've also got enough Simpsons episodes to keep them in repeats for years. Sky One shows a new episode on average once every two months. Plus, they had no qualms about dealing with the woman who played Maude Simpsons after she made too many demands. Granted, it's unlikely they'd off the characters - The Flanders Show, anyone - but it shows they're not going to put up with nor do they need to put up with these tactics.
.. we'll be showing you how to your own Autobot Matrix of Leadership out of two egg cartons, some sticky tape and your Mum's QVC cubic zirconium necklace.
Since when did capitalism have anything to do with morality?
Since those with the most money twigged they could buy the morality of those with less money pretty easily.
Now all we need is for someone to wander into the path of a juggernaut while playing this and for them/their parents to sue the game maker - it'll be like the GTA fiasco all over again. Hmm.. now I think about it, imagine if you could use this with GTA - see a car you want to steal? Just wander over to it and you can steal it in the game.
Namely that of porn and disturbing images - mind you, would want a seeing eye device describing just what the goatse guy is/was doing to his ass? And don't even get me started on a S.E. device trying to wrap its head round pain.jpg
I was working as a consultant at a large oil company, and one of my tasks was to train up an employee on the framework. She was this older Chinese lady, very nice and seemed to pick things up as well as any other employee there.
The thing was, she'd come over to my cube, which was in a very quiet area of the floor, and let off these loud farts. She never gave the slightest reaction. I didn't know how to handle it at all. I couldn't bring myself to make a joke about it to this lady who was probably someones grandmother. Definately the most awkward joke ever.
So if these virtual items are worth money, I wonder what will happen when some enterprising hacker finds a way to copy them for free? Will the company try to sue the person for copying items that have no inherent value anyway. And what when someone asks for their virtual engagement ring back when they break up with their virtual fiancee?
... maybe the people who are prepared to pay out cash for virtual items will be so busy trading their nonexistent gifts they won't have time to breed, and the average IQ will go up. At the very least, it should keep the terminally gullible out of circulation.
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It wasn't unlike the now-deceased Mega CD - when that first came out, you had two basic game types. There were Mega drive games with the odd FMV sequence thrown in, and and then there were the full FMV games along the lines of Dragons Lair/Cobra Command etc. But whereas CD-Roms become commonplace, so few people actually bought the Mega-CD, it died a death. FMV heavy games such as the 7th Guest are best left dead and buried. If you really want puzzles, you can buy a decent paper and pen puzzlebook for about two pounds.
.. and are covering it with a news article here. As luck would have it, the Thief 1 Gold I ordered off E-Bay just turned up today, so I guess I'll be playing Thief 1 till they fix this bug - if they fix it.
I don't have the full version yet, but I just double-checked in the demo and it appears you can set the difficulty on a per level basis. Is this true? If so, just play through a whole level without loading. Don't save and load after each enemy you manage to sneak by. That doesn't strike me as very 'expert' of a tactic. It's not just that, either. Gamers sometimes don't have the time on their hands to spend four hours playing through a single level. They want to save the game so they can go to sleep or do something else. Also, it's not just saving the game that sets this off. Levels in Thief 3 - on the X-Box, at least - have one part which is loaded separately, and so when you enter a room where it needs to load up that part, and then go back through, the bug takes hold.
Except that the AI is one of the things to have got a lot of press in the various Thief 3 preview articles. So people buying the game for the better AI end up disappointed.
Someone already thought of that - certainly owners of modded X-Boxes could also try that - but it apparently doesn't work, according to the intial post in this thread at the Ion Storm boards. Shame.
I was wondering why even on expert difficulty, the enemies seemed pretty clueless...oh well, it's still a fun game even at normal difficulty. Exactly. Give that man a donut. It was exactly that that alerted folks to the bug - some people swearing blind the AI was great on expert mode, others saying it stunk. The people who thought it stunk had either gone through a portal twice or saved and loaded game and, joy of joys, the guards went back to their 'normal' AI level, making them about as bright as the Thief 1 and 2 guards.
I believe this was because MS didn't want to be in a position where developers saw Live as a way to get into the same release and patch rut as PC games have got into. MS probably didn't want that stigma attaced Buggy console games are actually far less common that buggy PC games simply because there's no easy patch mechanism in place. The only bugged console games that spring to mind, apart from this one, are WWF No Mercy on the N64, and Morrowind on the X-Box, though Slashdotters could probably think of more.
.. as your biometric data says you're made entirely of deep fried mars bars.'
.. how difficult can English be? *ducks* Seriously, though, the Australian version at least could be released in the UK, which would boost the Gamecube's performance here.
Maybe the videogame industry will wake up and realize that originality is the way to go! Oh, wait, no, false alarm - they've just announced another six Army Men games hitting the Gamecube.
.. would be releasing Animal Crossing in Europe. For some bizarre reason this Sims-meets-the-fuzzy-wuzzies game has been released in Australia but never over here.
That way maybe the actors would get paid more good episodes and less for really crappy episodes - Lisa episodes, basically. And let's face it, while this will no doubt get modded as flamebait, The Simpsons is nowhere as near as good as it was.
Not just because Fox have cancelled series at the drop of a hat, either. They've also got enough Simpsons episodes to keep them in repeats for years. Sky One shows a new episode on average once every two months. Plus, they had no qualms about dealing with the woman who played Maude Simpsons after she made too many demands. Granted, it's unlikely they'd off the characters - The Flanders Show, anyone - but it shows they're not going to put up with nor do they need to put up with these tactics.
.. we'll be showing you how to your own Autobot Matrix of Leadership out of two egg cartons, some sticky tape and your Mum's QVC cubic zirconium necklace.
Since when did capitalism have anything to do with morality? Since those with the most money twigged they could buy the morality of those with less money pretty easily.
Now all we need is for someone to wander into the path of a juggernaut while playing this and for them/their parents to sue the game maker - it'll be like the GTA fiasco all over again. Hmm.. now I think about it, imagine if you could use this with GTA - see a car you want to steal? Just wander over to it and you can steal it in the game.
Namely that of porn and disturbing images - mind you, would want a seeing eye device describing just what the goatse guy is/was doing to his ass? And don't even get me started on a S.E. device trying to wrap its head round pain.jpg
At least Goldie the Guide Dog would't end up leading someone under a juggernaut due to an error in unpatched software..
The correct response would be 'And then?'
Surely chocolate laxatives would keep the boss out of your hair for much longer..
I mean, if Oz is going Linux, it's not going to be cheap. Just think how much it'll cost to buy all those kangaroos extra-large pocket protectors.
So if these virtual items are worth money, I wonder what will happen when some enterprising hacker finds a way to copy them for free? Will the company try to sue the person for copying items that have no inherent value anyway. And what when someone asks for their virtual engagement ring back when they break up with their virtual fiancee?
... maybe the people who are prepared to pay out cash for virtual items will be so busy trading their nonexistent gifts they won't have time to breed, and the average IQ will go up. At the very least, it should keep the terminally gullible out of circulation.
A name like Elon Musk and he's *not* a porn star? Talk about missing your vocation.
Really? I heard it was the final nail in the coffin of David Duchovny's acting career.