Many engines have claimed features like "destructible levels and terrain", but the engines were never fast enough to give both the eye candy demanded by the market and an engine capable of such free-form interaction.
I thought Red Faction was pretty good at that, and the system requirements were not too high.
Halo shares a lot in common with the storyline that ran through the Marathon series, years ago when Bungie was a Mac only developer. I played the original marathon way back when, but never got around to the rest of the trilogy (I think it was a trilogy).
Would you like to play the rest now? Bungie made the series open-source and freely distributable; also, it runs on Windows/Linux/MacOSX. Get it HERE.
The biggest flaw in the Columbine RPG was [SPOILERS AHEAD] sending Harris and Klebold to hell after they commit suicide. Until that point, it was a poor game, but it was a thrilling story. But that turned it into a stupid joke. It should have ended right there. Or, even better, but maybe too big to be viable... it should have had an earlier starting point. It should show the whole story, rather than just its last day; not only the massacre, but what drove them to that path.
Why don't people have phones that sound like real phones? You know... RRRRRRING RRRRRRING. Not a crappy-sounding excerpt from some badly composed, poorly played, awfully sung, insanely overcompressed piece of noise that passes as music these days... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
Oh, and I forgot to mention. At a point IBM planned their PC to be based on their own "801" RISC processor, which - quote Wikipedia - "was at least an order of magnitude more powerful than the Intel 8088, and the operating system many years more advanced than the DOS operating system from Microsoft, that was finally selected."
One can only wonder how things would be now if they hadn't decided to go quick-and-cheap.
But you have to admit, Microsoft helped bring computing to the masses. If there had been no Microsoft, the internet would be what USENET was back in the day: something used by geeks and scientists and not much else.
If IBM had chosen CP/M for their PC, rather than Microsoft's inferior (but cheaper) rip-off, maybe you'd be saying the same thing about Digital Research now.
Falken: I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. Lightman: What's that? Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
Falken: I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. Lightman: What's that? Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
They didn't include this one, so I'll do my take on it.....
ORKUT
What's the story? Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (sëë älsø: hëävÿ mëtäl ümläüt). It's something like Friendster and MySpace, but it also allows users to create "communities", that is, mini-forums about any theme you choose.
Did you know? Orkut is not very popular in the USA, but it is extremely popular in Brazil. It was "invitation only" at first, which probably had something to do with it: Brazilian teenagers invited everyone and their dog. And no civilized person can stand a place with too many Brazilians.
What Orkut says about you You're most likely Brazilian. Your English probably sucks, so you will write in Portuguese (usually with awful spelling and grammar nonetheless). You will do it even in communities that have English as their official language; and if anyone complains, you will cry persecution and toss insults at the opressive imperialist xenophobic gringos.
"I know there's one country in the world that doesn't have some horrible weapon of mass destruction, they don't have some horrible weapons lab in the mountains... Jamaica. They would never make an atomic bomb. They may make an atomic bong. But I'd rather fight a war with an atomic bong. Cuz when the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation and radiation. When the atomic bong goes off there's celebration!" -- Robin Williams
Los Lonely Boys? What a coincidence, I was just reading an article that mentioned their last album as a victim of the loudness war. No matter how good the music itself is: if you overcompress the audio to make it "loud" (as it is fashionable these days), it sounds like shit.
I have just spent way too much time googling for a comic that someone once linked in a/. comment. It was possibly titled "Atlas Shrugged, the sequel", or "Atlas Shrugged, Part II", or similar.
It was hilarious, and an extremely to-the-point comment on the shortcomings of Rand's "philosophy".
No. If you've read the book, that comic does not really make sense. [SPOILERS AHEAD] Galt's Gulch was a closed, self-sufficient community. The "strikers" produced their own food, as well as other goods. Also, they return to the outside world a few weeks after the collapse of the government.
SCO: I'm not dead! Nasdaq: What? Groklaw: Nothing. Here's your ninepence. SCO: I'm not dead! Nasdaq: 'Ere. He says he's not dead! Groklaw: Yes, he is. SCO: I'm not! Nasdaq: He isn't? Groklaw: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. SCO: I'm getting better! Groklaw: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
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"Better" may depend on your priorities. Betamax had better picture quality, VHS tapes had longer running time.
The biggest flaw in the Columbine RPG was [SPOILERS AHEAD] sending Harris and Klebold to hell after they commit suicide. Until that point, it was a poor game, but it was a thrilling story. But that turned it into a stupid joke. It should have ended right there. Or, even better, but maybe too big to be viable... it should have had an earlier starting point. It should show the whole story, rather than just its last day; not only the massacre, but what drove them to that path.
Why don't people have phones that sound like real phones? You know... RRRRRRING RRRRRRING. Not a crappy-sounding excerpt from some badly composed, poorly played, awfully sung, insanely overcompressed piece of noise that passes as music these days... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
Oh, and I forgot to mention. At a point IBM planned their PC to be based on their own "801" RISC processor, which - quote Wikipedia - "was at least an order of magnitude more powerful than the Intel 8088, and the operating system many years more advanced than the DOS operating system from Microsoft, that was finally selected."
One can only wonder how things would be now if they hadn't decided to go quick-and-cheap.
Falken: I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
Lightman: What's that?
Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
Falken: I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
Lightman: What's that?
Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
They didn't include this one, so I'll do my take on it.....
ORKUT
What's the story?
Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (sëë älsø: hëävÿ mëtäl ümläüt). It's something like Friendster and MySpace, but it also allows users to create "communities", that is, mini-forums about any theme you choose.
Did you know?
Orkut is not very popular in the USA, but it is extremely popular in Brazil. It was "invitation only" at first, which probably had something to do with it: Brazilian teenagers invited everyone and their dog. And no civilized person can stand a place with too many Brazilians.
What Orkut says about you
You're most likely Brazilian. Your English probably sucks, so you will write in Portuguese (usually with awful spelling and grammar nonetheless). You will do it even in communities that have English as their official language; and if anyone complains, you will cry persecution and toss insults at the opressive imperialist xenophobic gringos.
"I know there's one country in the world that doesn't have some horrible weapon of mass destruction, they don't have some horrible weapons lab in the mountains... Jamaica. They would never make an atomic bomb. They may make an atomic bong. But I'd rather fight a war with an atomic bong. Cuz when the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation and radiation. When the atomic bong goes off there's celebration!" -- Robin Williams
"If the fear of reward or punishment in the afterlife is the only thing that makes people good, we are a sad lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein
This isn't really new: HP sells PCs with Mandriva across Latin America.
Los Lonely Boys? What a coincidence, I was just reading an article that mentioned their last album as a victim of the loudness war. No matter how good the music itself is: if you overcompress the audio to make it "loud" (as it is fashionable these days), it sounds like shit.
SCO: I'm not dead!
Nasdaq: What?
Groklaw: Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
SCO: I'm not dead!
Nasdaq: 'Ere. He says he's not dead!
Groklaw: Yes, he is.
SCO: I'm not!
Nasdaq: He isn't?
Groklaw: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
SCO: I'm getting better!
Groklaw: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
In Soviet Russia, all our base are belong to YOU!!
Here in Brazil we have a name for those awful things... since they're created artificially, they're called "laboratory bands".