I thought Blue was just as bad as red (which is...not all that bad) However, that old link (here, worked a little better. First two images were damn near identical
I have to agree with the original poster - Castlevania and Command and Conquer would not have done well, as the system just can't produce a decent game. That machine was a complete disaster, I never played a single thing that was well designed, the closest being my Williams museum cartridge, but somehow even that didn't work well. Come to think of it, Lights Out, the game it came packaged with, was the best option
You know, you two are just bragging but actually I really think you're on to something. These things you did then probably have a lot to do with your posting here today (at least it is for me), but today once the kids learn how to install the games, that's all they need. Maybe one day they'll learn how to install a driver, but learning how to use your comptuer isn't as necessary as it once was, and I worry that that's going to hurt us later on. Take it from the kid who fixes the family computer whenever anybody screws up
I honestly feel a little insulted right. My freshman year on the cross country team I won the most improved award and was fifth on the team. Before that I was about right in the middle, somewhere 11th. I started running three miles in 22 minutes and immediately flew up to 17 minutes. I graduated teh fastest on the team
Eternal Darkness, Conker, Resident Evil (still violent, check the rating it's M). Nintendo immediately tried to shake the family image when the gamecube came out. Take a look at the commercials and advertisements: While they aren't violent like the stupid N-Gage commercials, they aren't trying to be happy either (either wierd of "hip" if you ask me) Nintendo, as the smallest member of this system war, probably realizes that they're fighting an uphill battle. On top of that, GTA does extremely well on other systems, while Nintendo's other reputation that they're trying to shake is lack of third party support. Check it out, GTA would help that out nicely. I agree with the parent comment before, though he started to get a little huffy
I remember a game a while ago called Montezuma's Revenge. I can't remember if it was any good actually, but if serious sam is the pure shooting version of the FPS genre, this is on the opposite end if I remember. You're not going to find it in stores though
The same guy who writes thumpin' tracks for the likes of N'Sync? I've gotta admit his CD might be called genius, but now he's prophecizing technological advancement? I'm astounded!
Imagine 13 year old Jimmy saying saying to his friend, "My neighbor's got hallucigenia in his garage. Oh yeah, every once in a while he takes it out and we go on a trip!"
Whatever you enjoy, that's fine. I prefer the mouse though. I don't have to look down, since I have pretty much the same key configuration for all my first person shooters, and the mouse is simply more accurate. A perfect example: Playing GTA3 on my computer, one mission required that I snipe a series of men from far away. They stood perfectly still and shot at somebody else. On the computer, it was a piece of cake: Point and click. Meanwhile, on my Xbox, I found myself wrestling with the controls to line it up on this one guy. Maybe it's because I don't have the finesse, but the mouse seems like the more fluid answer.
As for realism though, that's mostly a game specific argument. I switch between Team Fortress and Counter-Strike all the time. In team fotress, you honestly might have to hit a heavy weapons guy at least 25 times with one of your guns to take him down. I've done it, I love it. In fact, there's a rush, a sense of triumph from it. Counter-strike gives me a different rush. I'm edgy, easily excitable (and thusly, not very good).
I could argue, however, that on a gamepad, the motions of your hand if you are scared by the random terrorist plugging bullets into you, are completely ignored. The crosshair is aligned and doesn't move as it fires if you don't move the stick. Meanwhile, on a computer if I'm scared or if I get too excited, I'll move my mouse unintentionally, making it harder for me to aim. That's more realistic if you ask me.
I, personally, think it's great that New Zealand is going bonkers over the Premier. I actually wish that such things as unnecessary as a film could have a huge impact over here. It would be like a holiday, only there's no squabble about the moral stance on wether to celebrate or not (unless you want to argue that it sucks, or if you're too snobby for Hollywood).
I attended the Witching Hour at my Barnes and Noble for Harry Potter. I didn't really buy the book, I just went people-watching. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed. All the fun-and-games were done by one magician, and I think that was completely freelance. Instead they were all big huge lines.
I guess it's just me. Admittedly, not many other people dressed up as pirates to go see Pirates of the Caribbean, but I think it would only be fun.
Good job Kiwis. My grandmother lives there, and I eagerly await visiting. Especially beacause I want some Hokey Pokey or Tip Top ice cream!
I'm sure the jury will have quite an open mind towards a company promoting penis enlargement. And they'll surely think him a complete wacko, as most people like spam and are elated when they find these lewd messages in their mailbox.
Seeing as the entire world uses internet explorer, virtually nobody will be using pop up ads, right? Well I don't really expect those comapanies to rest on their laurels. I would only imagine companies will find their ways around it and this time around Mozilla and friends may not be immune.
Either that or web pages will be 50% banner ads, inducing mass epileptic fits.
You know a game is looking for mass-market appeal when it features the linux mascot and is developed by R0x0r games. Surely this will have boys and girls of all ages calling things l33t and going open source
Most of the remarkable game characters of don't say a thing: Lara Croft, Gordon Freeman, Doom guy. The other ones didn't develop a personality until the gaming audience felt comfortable with them. Mario didn't have much of a personality until much later on and Sonic didn't seem like too much of a badass (because he is SOOOOO badass) when you actually played that game.
I realize that this should have gone in the other thread actually about said laptop, but why not a desktop computer or just a monitor. Of course, I don't know how it works. Damn the technicalities, I'm only looking for the ends!
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Good work soldier. Let us await the arrival of IMG tags so we can posts dynamite monkeys all over!
I thought Blue was just as bad as red (which is...not all that bad) However, that old link (here, worked a little better. First two images were damn near identical
Worst demo of 2003?
Next time, when you take a picture, try to get an angle where we can see the thing. Thanks!
I have to agree with the original poster - Castlevania and Command and Conquer would not have done well, as the system just can't produce a decent game. That machine was a complete disaster, I never played a single thing that was well designed, the closest being my Williams museum cartridge, but somehow even that didn't work well. Come to think of it, Lights Out, the game it came packaged with, was the best option
Have you played GTA 2? I think I've still spent more hours at that than the cool 3d sequel.
These games were so innovative. I wish we could still see ideas like that today
Insightful the first time you said it maybe
You know, you two are just bragging but actually I really think you're on to something. These things you did then probably have a lot to do with your posting here today (at least it is for me), but today once the kids learn how to install the games, that's all they need. Maybe one day they'll learn how to install a driver, but learning how to use your comptuer isn't as necessary as it once was, and I worry that that's going to hurt us later on. Take it from the kid who fixes the family computer whenever anybody screws up
I honestly feel a little insulted right. My freshman year on the cross country team I won the most improved award and was fifth on the team. Before that I was about right in the middle, somewhere 11th. I started running three miles in 22 minutes and immediately flew up to 17 minutes. I graduated teh fastest on the team
Eternal Darkness, Conker, Resident Evil (still violent, check the rating it's M). Nintendo immediately tried to shake the family image when the gamecube came out. Take a look at the commercials and advertisements: While they aren't violent like the stupid N-Gage commercials, they aren't trying to be happy either (either wierd of "hip" if you ask me) Nintendo, as the smallest member of this system war, probably realizes that they're fighting an uphill battle. On top of that, GTA does extremely well on other systems, while Nintendo's other reputation that they're trying to shake is lack of third party support. Check it out, GTA would help that out nicely. I agree with the parent comment before, though he started to get a little huffy
Vectrex is 100 times more fancy than N-Gage if you ask me
I remember a game a while ago called Montezuma's Revenge. I can't remember if it was any good actually, but if serious sam is the pure shooting version of the FPS genre, this is on the opposite end if I remember. You're not going to find it in stores though
The same guy who writes thumpin' tracks for the likes of N'Sync? I've gotta admit his CD might be called genius, but now he's prophecizing technological advancement? I'm astounded!
Imagine 13 year old Jimmy saying saying to his friend, "My neighbor's got hallucigenia in his garage. Oh yeah, every once in a while he takes it out and we go on a trip!"
Whatever you enjoy, that's fine. I prefer the mouse though. I don't have to look down, since I have pretty much the same key configuration for all my first person shooters, and the mouse is simply more accurate. A perfect example: Playing GTA3 on my computer, one mission required that I snipe a series of men from far away. They stood perfectly still and shot at somebody else. On the computer, it was a piece of cake: Point and click. Meanwhile, on my Xbox, I found myself wrestling with the controls to line it up on this one guy. Maybe it's because I don't have the finesse, but the mouse seems like the more fluid answer. As for realism though, that's mostly a game specific argument. I switch between Team Fortress and Counter-Strike all the time. In team fotress, you honestly might have to hit a heavy weapons guy at least 25 times with one of your guns to take him down. I've done it, I love it. In fact, there's a rush, a sense of triumph from it. Counter-strike gives me a different rush. I'm edgy, easily excitable (and thusly, not very good). I could argue, however, that on a gamepad, the motions of your hand if you are scared by the random terrorist plugging bullets into you, are completely ignored. The crosshair is aligned and doesn't move as it fires if you don't move the stick. Meanwhile, on a computer if I'm scared or if I get too excited, I'll move my mouse unintentionally, making it harder for me to aim. That's more realistic if you ask me.
I, personally, think it's great that New Zealand is going bonkers over the Premier. I actually wish that such things as unnecessary as a film could have a huge impact over here. It would be like a holiday, only there's no squabble about the moral stance on wether to celebrate or not (unless you want to argue that it sucks, or if you're too snobby for Hollywood).
I attended the Witching Hour at my Barnes and Noble for Harry Potter. I didn't really buy the book, I just went people-watching. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed. All the fun-and-games were done by one magician, and I think that was completely freelance. Instead they were all big huge lines.
I guess it's just me. Admittedly, not many other people dressed up as pirates to go see Pirates of the Caribbean, but I think it would only be fun.
Good job Kiwis. My grandmother lives there, and I eagerly await visiting. Especially beacause I want some Hokey Pokey or Tip Top ice cream!
...Is the ability to magically summon that sound effect from reading rainbow right after the kids say what they think of the book.
Old hat? Look, the bowler never goes out of style. In fact, I'm proud to see that robots are starting to sport them too
I'm sure the jury will have quite an open mind towards a company promoting penis enlargement. And they'll surely think him a complete wacko, as most people like spam and are elated when they find these lewd messages in their mailbox.
I vote for total relaunch. Enjoy your Kessen!
Seeing as the entire world uses internet explorer, virtually nobody will be using pop up ads, right? Well I don't really expect those comapanies to rest on their laurels. I would only imagine companies will find their ways around it and this time around Mozilla and friends may not be immune.
Either that or web pages will be 50% banner ads, inducing mass epileptic fits.
You know a game is looking for mass-market appeal when it features the linux mascot and is developed by R0x0r games. Surely this will have boys and girls of all ages calling things l33t and going open source
Raise your hands if you upgraded your machine solely so that you could run this game at a million frames per second. I know I'm not the only one
Most of the remarkable game characters of don't say a thing: Lara Croft, Gordon Freeman, Doom guy. The other ones didn't develop a personality until the gaming audience felt comfortable with them. Mario didn't have much of a personality until much later on and Sonic didn't seem like too much of a badass (because he is SOOOOO badass) when you actually played that game.
I realize that this should have gone in the other thread actually about said laptop, but why not a desktop computer or just a monitor. Of course, I don't know how it works. Damn the technicalities, I'm only looking for the ends!