> If SNK made a 3d game, you'd see a > televised snowball fight in hell on CNN.
Eh... sorry to burst your bubble, but they already did. They had an arcade board called Hyper Neo Geo 64, which ran some 3D games such as Samurai Shodown 64, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition, and Road's Edge.
Hand-coding HTML might be fine for geeks, but most regular users could use a WYSIWYG editor that is not as confusing as Dreamweaver and not as simplistic as Mozilla's built-in editor.
What I mean is, of course... good old discontinued CLARIS HOME PAGE. Someone has to make an editor that totally replicates CHP's interface and functionality, but that will generate modern HTML/CSS/whatever.
> Sony does not have a reputation > for making gaming hardware that > has a long life.
Indeed. I'll tell you how crappy Sony's hardware is...
Where I live we use 220V electricity, so anything imported needs a voltage converter. I once used my Sega Saturn without it; it worked well for a few minutes, then it'd get real hot and the image would get distorted. I wondered if it was broken, until I realized the converter was not plugged.
I've plugged it correctly and had no problem with that machine, ever again.
Sony, on the other hand... the lady at the local game rental store told me what happened when she plugged a PSOne without a converter: *POOF* It stopped working immediately, and black smoke came from it. Pathetic!
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think it is comfortable to have more than one player on a single computer. Sharing the keyboard sucks. You should buy a console.
Get a Sega Dreamcast: it is very cheap nowadays, has lots of great games on all genres, and if you have some friends over you can have four-player games.
Recently I got a game that I had heard much about, a game that got some really good reviews: Baldur's Gate 2. Then I started playing it...
*click*click*click*click* Goddamn that's BORING! This game is even more pretentious and uninteresting than Diablo or Ultima. Unintuitive interface, ridiculous combat, awful control, poor graphics, dull sound... everything in this game is awful.
After less than an hour I turned off my computer, turned on my Dreamcast, and resumed playing Grandia 2. Good-looking, good-sounding, fun, well-written, with characters about whom one actually cares.
Then I looked at my other RPGs - Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Phantasy Star Online. And I remembered other RPGs I had played - Final Fantasy VI, Phantasy Star IV, Chrono Trigger. All japanese. All far better.
Is this just an exception? I don't think so. I can't recall any good american RPG (there's Pathways into Darkness, but that stretches the definition of RPG a bit. Oh well, so does Shenmue). Therefore, I must assume the japanese know how to make the best RPGs.
> I'm told, back in the day, americans invented airplanes.
Actually, they did not. The airplane was invented by a brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and first flew at Paris, France, in 1906. You might believe the Wright bros did it first, in 1903 - but theirs was not a real airplane. It could not take off by its own means, it needed a catapult; therefore, one can't say it was really an airplane.
More info: [ http://www.rudnei.cunha.nom.br/FAB/eng/santos-dumo nt.html ]
4x4 Evolution
ChuChu Rocket (USA version works, EURO down)
F355 Challenge
PBA Bowling 2001 (via GameSpy)
Quake III Arena (private servers and clans)
Sega Swirl
StarLancer (via Gamespy)
Worms World Party
Er... my bad... I meant KOF 99, not 98! I probably mixed them up because KOF 98 for Dreamcast was released in USA as KOF 99, while KOF 99 was released as KOF Evolution.
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No, Parodius is a Konami game, not Nintendo.
> Who would buy this?
People who actually PLAY fighting games rather than stare at huge polygon boobs?
> If SNK made a 3d game, you'd see a
> televised snowball fight in hell on CNN.
Eh... sorry to burst your bubble, but they already did. They had an arcade board called Hyper Neo Geo 64, which ran some 3D games such as Samurai Shodown 64, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition, and Road's Edge.
No, Agetec is just the company that published King of Fighters 99 Evolution for the Dreamcast in the USA.
If I did... I'd be a Windows user. ;)
Hand-coding HTML might be fine for geeks, but most regular users could use a WYSIWYG editor that is not as confusing as Dreamweaver and not as simplistic as Mozilla's built-in editor.
What I mean is, of course... good old discontinued CLARIS HOME PAGE. Someone has to make an editor that totally replicates CHP's interface and functionality, but that will generate modern HTML/CSS/whatever.
> Sony does not have a reputation
> for making gaming hardware that
> has a long life.
Indeed. I'll tell you how crappy Sony's hardware is...
Where I live we use 220V electricity, so anything imported needs a voltage converter. I once used my Sega Saturn without it; it worked well for a few minutes, then it'd get real hot and the image would get distorted. I wondered if it was broken, until I realized the converter was not plugged.
I've plugged it correctly and had no problem with that machine, ever again.
Sony, on the other hand... the lady at the local game rental store told me what happened when she plugged a PSOne without a converter: *POOF* It stopped working immediately, and black smoke came from it. Pathetic!
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think it is comfortable to have more than one player on a single computer. Sharing the keyboard sucks. You should buy a console.
Get a Sega Dreamcast: it is very cheap nowadays, has lots of great games on all genres, and if you have some friends over you can have four-player games.
Wrong; they were real 3D, because they were made with polygons. Sega's SVP and Nintendo's SuperFX merely allowed for more polygons.
Well, SonicTeam is making Puyo Pop Fever for DC/XB/GC/PS2. It's not much, but it is something! :-)
But this is not the first time Yu Suzuki turns his own creations into a sick joke. Fighters Megamix, anyone? -_-'
> I about shit my pants seeing 3D on
> my Genesis for the first time.
Actually, there were many other 3D games on the Genesis. I recall these:
- first-person shooters
Zero Tolerance (Technopop/Accolade)
Blood Shot (Domark)
- flight sims
F22 Interceptor (Electronic Arts)
F15 Strike Eagle (Microprose)
- racing games
Hard Drivin' (Tengen)
Race Drivin' (Tengen)
- 2D platformers that used
polygons for cutscenes
Flashback (Delphine)
Out of this World (Delphine)
Ranger-X (Gau/Sega)
(actually, Ranger-X used wireframes, not filled polygons)
As a screenshot on his site shows, he got the size of the consoles pretty much right... EXCEPT for the Neo Geo, which is way too small.
:P
Still, an interesting display of love for one's games. Really cool stuff.
http://maddox.xmission.com/contra3_owns.html
Recently I got a game that I had heard much about, a game that got some really good reviews: Baldur's Gate 2. Then I started playing it...
*click*click*click*click* Goddamn that's BORING! This game is even more pretentious and uninteresting than Diablo or Ultima. Unintuitive interface, ridiculous combat, awful control, poor graphics, dull sound... everything in this game is awful.
After less than an hour I turned off my computer, turned on my Dreamcast, and resumed playing Grandia 2. Good-looking, good-sounding, fun, well-written, with characters about whom one actually cares.
Then I looked at my other RPGs - Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Phantasy Star Online. And I remembered other RPGs I had played - Final Fantasy VI, Phantasy Star IV, Chrono Trigger. All japanese. All far better.
Is this just an exception? I don't think so. I can't recall any good american RPG (there's Pathways into Darkness, but that stretches the definition of RPG a bit. Oh well, so does Shenmue). Therefore, I must assume the japanese know how to make the best RPGs.
Indeed. Nobody but a few stupid fanboys still give a damn about Madden games!
Tulipomania, anyone? [ http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipomania ]
When - if ever - is the Mac version coming out?
One word. BOB.
Try a portable console that doesn't suck:
[ http://www.tapwave.com/ ]
> I'm told, back in the day, americans invented airplanes.
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Actually, they did not. The airplane was invented by a brazilian, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and first flew at Paris, France, in 1906. You might believe the Wright bros did it first, in 1903 - but theirs was not a real airplane. It could not take off by its own means, it needed a catapult; therefore, one can't say it was really an airplane.
More info: [ http://www.rudnei.cunha.nom.br/FAB/eng/santos-dum
Source: [ http://www.onlineconsoles.com/ ]
4x4 Evolution
ChuChu Rocket (USA version works, EURO down)
F355 Challenge
PBA Bowling 2001 (via GameSpy)
Quake III Arena (private servers and clans)
Sega Swirl
StarLancer (via Gamespy)
Worms World Party
> And I'm still looking for
> a broadband adapter
But... what is the point? Most online game servers are gone anyway.
Er... my bad... I meant KOF 99, not 98! I probably mixed them up because KOF 98 for Dreamcast was released in USA as KOF 99, while KOF 99 was released as KOF Evolution.
Yes, Ikaruga rules! Check my review:
[ http://www.shmups.com/reviews/ikaruga/index.html ]