Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The story may have sucked but it was still aimed at adults, as is the new FFVII Advent Children, which looks very promising.
Sunday 11th April:
Sony announce that after long term testing of a new copy protection method (in collaboration with companies such as Konami) all future games will feature this new technology called MetaReality.
MR works by gamers having to physically use part of the gaming material to progress, whereas other forms of copy protection are software based and so can be easily circumvented before pirated copies are distributed.
Many developers are looking at this new technology and seeing what they can do with it, some even taking it beyond the idea of just an anti-piracy measure, but to expand the game itself. One lead designer we spoke to was particually interested in it.
"I believe that using this new MetaReality technology we can enhance the gaming experience beyond gaming itself. Previously we have only tested in in small ways, such as by making people read the manual (which the manual designers really liked, they complained too many people just ignored it and their efforts were ignored by the community) but now we are considering much larger plans. One of our new games revolves around a cyber crime syndicate and we believe we can incorporate MR technology so that players will not only think they are playing the hacker but can BE the hacker, we've even planned a level where you have to hack into a random bank account and transfer it to an off shore bank account. By incorporating MR in this level we'd make the user actually hack a bank account and put the details into the game to proceed, we'd place the account details on a card we insert into the game box, and by collecting the results of this mission we can make sure people can't reuse the same old accounts, to progress they'd have to buy a new game and get a new account to hack."
Of course there are groups against the new technology. Worried law makers are horrified at the possibilities. "What we've heard of this MR technology is that part of a game requirs the player to do things in real life. It seems innocent enough until you see the games people are playing, what if we'd had this technology on Doom? It already warped the minds of many innocent people, who had only just been let out of our mental health institutes, if it incorporated MR then we'd have had a much greater problem on our hands".
One problem I really noticed in the article was that it tried to say gay people are put off of games because they can't identify with the charecters. Maybe it's just me but I can identify pretty well with straight charecters, they just happen to be attracted to the opposite sex, BIG DEAL!
The only difference being gay makes is that you're attracted to the same gender, it doesn't make you unable to identify with straight people that are in all other ways the same as you. It's like saying I can't identify with a charecter that doesn't like curry. And even if I don't identify with a charecter it's not the end of the world, if the game play is good I get engrosed by that, if the plot is well written I'm engrossed in that, even if I can't identify with the main charecter I can still enjoy the plot.
If you did a proper survey you'd find the percentage of gay people that play games similar to straight people that play games.
If you'd RTFA you'd have seen it say that while the internet has a large number of people with social isolation and related problems, many of them first encountered their problems before the internet, and that the net helps them because they can have social interactions with some amount of immunity.
Someone doesn't know their chemistry. Something is oxidised if it loses electrons, regardless of if it reacts with oxygen. In silver sulphide the silver has been oxidized.
My local gameshop (gamestation if you're in the UK) was doing Logic 3 foam pads for 20 and from what I can tell the only thing it's missing compared to the RedOctane pad is the raised sensors. The important thing is the thick foam stuff, which it has.
www.dc-dvd.co.uk is a good place for region 1 discs especially because their prices are inclusive of tax and delivery (though there is a small surcharge for certain ypes of credit/debit cards). Saves on all the importing hassle and is usually quite well priced too.
Because a friend recommended it, or I heard one thing they did and wanted to see what other stuff they have done, without wanting to risk 15. Or maybe I'm bored, search for [insert favorite genre] and download some random songs and maybe find something new.
1. As a hiring manager, unless you go to a school I've heard of, in an English-speaking country, I'm probably not going to think very highly of your degree. Honsetly, for most geek jobs, the cultural diversity factor you'll gain is rather irrelavent. If you end up doing some important work or publishing in major journals, then you might be OK
When thinking of the name of a university there are two types of employer to consider. Those that accept the name to mean a quality education and good standards and those that feel the top unis are too elitist. There is starting to be a slight backlash in some areas. Some engineering comapnies in the UK now don't headhunt pupils from Oxford or Cambridge (the Harvard and Yale of the UK) because of this. Many of the top 20 will all offer just as good an education without the ego that can come from going to oxford or cambridge. Sometimes of course the other unis will also do better, hype isn't all it's cracked up to be.
2. From a pragmatic perspective, you're going to end up spending more money (tuition, exchange rates, visas, long distance, airfare) and at best get the same education you'd get here.
Actually Ivy League universities cost 2-3 times as much as UK universities, so even factoring exchange rates, visas, airfare etc it works out considerably cheaper.
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I'm sure he meant "Ever [b]been[/b] laid on a bed of nails?"
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The story may have sucked but it was still aimed at adults, as is the new FFVII Advent Children, which looks very promising.
Maybe, but Yuji Naka has also stated he'd never allow a NiGHTS 2, would be interesting to see who wins out.
I suspect a Google tinfoil hat.
A lot of British comedies are mostly written by one or two writers and manage to pull out some great stuff too.
Sunday 11th April: Sony announce that after long term testing of a new copy protection method (in collaboration with companies such as Konami) all future games will feature this new technology called MetaReality. MR works by gamers having to physically use part of the gaming material to progress, whereas other forms of copy protection are software based and so can be easily circumvented before pirated copies are distributed. Many developers are looking at this new technology and seeing what they can do with it, some even taking it beyond the idea of just an anti-piracy measure, but to expand the game itself. One lead designer we spoke to was particually interested in it. "I believe that using this new MetaReality technology we can enhance the gaming experience beyond gaming itself. Previously we have only tested in in small ways, such as by making people read the manual (which the manual designers really liked, they complained too many people just ignored it and their efforts were ignored by the community) but now we are considering much larger plans. One of our new games revolves around a cyber crime syndicate and we believe we can incorporate MR technology so that players will not only think they are playing the hacker but can BE the hacker, we've even planned a level where you have to hack into a random bank account and transfer it to an off shore bank account. By incorporating MR in this level we'd make the user actually hack a bank account and put the details into the game to proceed, we'd place the account details on a card we insert into the game box, and by collecting the results of this mission we can make sure people can't reuse the same old accounts, to progress they'd have to buy a new game and get a new account to hack." Of course there are groups against the new technology. Worried law makers are horrified at the possibilities. "What we've heard of this MR technology is that part of a game requirs the player to do things in real life. It seems innocent enough until you see the games people are playing, what if we'd had this technology on Doom? It already warped the minds of many innocent people, who had only just been let out of our mental health institutes, if it incorporated MR then we'd have had a much greater problem on our hands".
You naive fool, that's what they want you to think! *gets the tin foil hats*
One problem I really noticed in the article was that it tried to say gay people are put off of games because they can't identify with the charecters. Maybe it's just me but I can identify pretty well with straight charecters, they just happen to be attracted to the opposite sex, BIG DEAL! The only difference being gay makes is that you're attracted to the same gender, it doesn't make you unable to identify with straight people that are in all other ways the same as you. It's like saying I can't identify with a charecter that doesn't like curry. And even if I don't identify with a charecter it's not the end of the world, if the game play is good I get engrosed by that, if the plot is well written I'm engrossed in that, even if I can't identify with the main charecter I can still enjoy the plot. If you did a proper survey you'd find the percentage of gay people that play games similar to straight people that play games.
If you'd RTFA you'd have seen it say that while the internet has a large number of people with social isolation and related problems, many of them first encountered their problems before the internet, and that the net helps them because they can have social interactions with some amount of immunity.
Someone doesn't know their chemistry. Something is oxidised if it loses electrons, regardless of if it reacts with oxygen. In silver sulphide the silver has been oxidized.
My local gameshop (gamestation if you're in the UK) was doing Logic 3 foam pads for 20 and from what I can tell the only thing it's missing compared to the RedOctane pad is the raised sensors. The important thing is the thick foam stuff, which it has.
www.dc-dvd.co.uk is a good place for region 1 discs especially because their prices are inclusive of tax and delivery (though there is a small surcharge for certain ypes of credit/debit cards). Saves on all the importing hassle and is usually quite well priced too.
Because a friend recommended it, or I heard one thing they did and wanted to see what other stuff they have done, without wanting to risk 15. Or maybe I'm bored, search for [insert favorite genre] and download some random songs and maybe find something new.
1. As a hiring manager, unless you go to a school I've heard of, in an English-speaking country, I'm probably not going to think very highly of your degree. Honsetly, for most geek jobs, the cultural diversity factor you'll gain is rather irrelavent. If you end up doing some important work or publishing in major journals, then you might be OK When thinking of the name of a university there are two types of employer to consider. Those that accept the name to mean a quality education and good standards and those that feel the top unis are too elitist. There is starting to be a slight backlash in some areas. Some engineering comapnies in the UK now don't headhunt pupils from Oxford or Cambridge (the Harvard and Yale of the UK) because of this. Many of the top 20 will all offer just as good an education without the ego that can come from going to oxford or cambridge. Sometimes of course the other unis will also do better, hype isn't all it's cracked up to be. 2. From a pragmatic perspective, you're going to end up spending more money (tuition, exchange rates, visas, long distance, airfare) and at best get the same education you'd get here. Actually Ivy League universities cost 2-3 times as much as UK universities, so even factoring exchange rates, visas, airfare etc it works out considerably cheaper.