My personal favorite example was from a cartoon showing a series of fences. They were mostly soft, pretty detailed. Except every fence had a few panels in a line that were drawn with heavier lines and flatter colors. It was easy to predict that the scene included a character breaking through those panels.
I also noticed this kind of thing in a scene with a series of closet doors, one of them looking clearly different.
I'd usually agree, but there was one time when it worked incredibly well: the rooftop battle in Shenmue II. It used "Command QTEs" - the game freezes for a moment to show you a whole button combination to replicate. The whole scene felt truly epic. And it felt right, just watch it -- It'd be too hard to enter such precise moves with normal gameplay.
Ditto here, I must have played through Portal ten times before I realized what I was actually expected to do at that point! However, I think they should NOT have allowed me to use the office furniture to get through, since it only made me feel the physics was broken (as it's hard to climb a chair). Had I been stuck there, I'd have searched harder for the proper solution.
From HL2Ep1's commentary track, Valve knows well this: players will always look around, but hardly ever up or down.
Fuck yes, that's 100% correct. D-Link is notoriously bad. I had one, the damn thing would freeze whenever I tried to use torrents! Discarded that shit and moved to TP-Link -- no more connection problems!
A problem, my fellow compatriot, is that prices are INSANE down here! I'd gladly buy more original games if I could find them for decent prices; but, other than those magazines that come with bundled old-ish PC games, everything here costs an arm and a leg. Ditto about hardware. In the US you can get an Xbox360 for $250, around here it's $500. How about an older console? In the US, a Dreamcast or Gamecube goes for $30; around here, $100 for either is still a nice deal.
And that SON OF A BITCH of a president still says taxes around here are TOO LOW!
At first, the mini was the entry-level Mac, but now it's just a rather expensive media center.
2GB RAM? 320GB hard disk? For $699? Goddamnit, Apple! As much as I like OSX, these specs are a joke!
Dreamcast had the second best controller comfort-wise, after the Playstation 1/2/3 style.
I must disagree. Of all the controllers you've just mentioned... no, of ALL controllers in the last three generations, the Playstation is near the bottom of the barrel. Pretty much everything about it is poorly designed: the two analog sticks near the center, no analog triggers, those buttons with wacky symbols rather than letters... and they keep the same bad design unchanged, year after year, and people keep buying that crap. Sad.
Moral of the story, play PC games if you want to have a challenge. Consoles are fun if you like games with stories.
Unless you count emulators, no. Consoles get more arcade ports, and the true challenge is there. Now, here's a test: go play Ikaruga, and don't say a thing about challenging games again until you one-credit it.;-)
There haven't been 24 games released in the past 3 months worth playing for 7 hours. Let alone 7 hours a day.
So what? There are countless old games still worth playing. Get yourself some emulators, a bunch of fullsets, and a decent USB controller -- you'll get years of gaming right there.
The US is the only country, after all, to have used nuclear weapons in battle. So censorship of US leaders being depicted as warmongers would be contemptuous to the memories of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The use of nuclear weapons on Japan was a war crime, and there were no consequences because the US was on the winning side. Just like the atrocities committed by other allied forces.
Around 240 thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if we take the larger estimates; and these attacks brought WW2 to a near immediate halt. Ever wondered what would happen if they had NOT used nukes? Remember, Japan didn't look like it was going to surrender. The planned invasion would certainly have caused several million deaths, mainly civilians.
Consider the numbers, and you can't say a little nuke here and there was really that bad for them.
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To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet
Feet? Come on, grandpa Simpson! Why the hell do you people insist in using that primitive measurement system?
Animated virtual pages? Nicholas Negroponte has been there and done that, back in 1978.
I guess that was a typo, and he meant: "Thank you. -Windows", as in Microsoft's Windows development team gets away with being sloppy too.
My personal favorite example was from a cartoon showing a series of fences. They were mostly soft, pretty detailed. Except every fence had a few panels in a line that were drawn with heavier lines and flatter colors. It was easy to predict that the scene included a character breaking through those panels.
I also noticed this kind of thing in a scene with a series of closet doors, one of them looking clearly different.
I'd usually agree, but there was one time when it worked incredibly well: the rooftop battle in Shenmue II. It used "Command QTEs" - the game freezes for a moment to show you a whole button combination to replicate. The whole scene felt truly epic. And it felt right, just watch it -- It'd be too hard to enter such precise moves with normal gameplay.
Ditto here, I must have played through Portal ten times before I realized what I was actually expected to do at that point! However, I think they should NOT have allowed me to use the office furniture to get through, since it only made me feel the physics was broken (as it's hard to climb a chair). Had I been stuck there, I'd have searched harder for the proper solution.
From HL2Ep1's commentary track, Valve knows well this: players will always look around, but hardly ever up or down.
I really can't stand that slang. What's with the red-head bashing?! (note, I'm not a red-head.)
Or maybe people..you know...like Windows?
Sadly, I'm quite sure that most people don't even know that other systems exist.
Fuck yes, that's 100% correct. D-Link is notoriously bad. I had one, the damn thing would freeze whenever I tried to use torrents! Discarded that shit and moved to TP-Link -- no more connection problems!
So, should we say it's a... dependency conflict?
A problem, my fellow compatriot, is that prices are INSANE down here! I'd gladly buy more original games if I could find them for decent prices; but, other than those magazines that come with bundled old-ish PC games, everything here costs an arm and a leg. Ditto about hardware. In the US you can get an Xbox360 for $250, around here it's $500. How about an older console? In the US, a Dreamcast or Gamecube goes for $30; around here, $100 for either is still a nice deal.
And that SON OF A BITCH of a president still says taxes around here are TOO LOW!
They need to do way instain mother.
At first, the mini was the entry-level Mac, but now it's just a rather expensive media center. 2GB RAM? 320GB hard disk? For $699? Goddamnit, Apple! As much as I like OSX, these specs are a joke!
What's this "TV" thing you speak of? Oh, right: the screen for the game consoles!
Dreamcast had the second best controller comfort-wise, after the Playstation 1/2/3 style.
I must disagree. Of all the controllers you've just mentioned... no, of ALL controllers in the last three generations, the Playstation is near the bottom of the barrel. Pretty much everything about it is poorly designed: the two analog sticks near the center, no analog triggers, those buttons with wacky symbols rather than letters... and they keep the same bad design unchanged, year after year, and people keep buying that crap. Sad.
Moral of the story, play PC games if you want to have a challenge. Consoles are fun if you like games with stories.
Unless you count emulators, no. Consoles get more arcade ports, and the true challenge is there. Now, here's a test: go play Ikaruga, and don't say a thing about challenging games again until you one-credit it. ;-)
There haven't been 24 games released in the past 3 months worth playing for 7 hours. Let alone 7 hours a day.
So what? There are countless old games still worth playing. Get yourself some emulators, a bunch of fullsets, and a decent USB controller -- you'll get years of gaming right there.
The US is the only country, after all, to have used nuclear weapons in battle. So censorship of US leaders being depicted as warmongers would be contemptuous to the memories of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The use of nuclear weapons on Japan was a war crime, and there were no consequences because the US was on the winning side. Just like the atrocities committed by other allied forces.
Around 240 thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if we take the larger estimates; and these attacks brought WW2 to a near immediate halt. Ever wondered what would happen if they had NOT used nukes? Remember, Japan didn't look like it was going to surrender. The planned invasion would certainly have caused several million deaths, mainly civilians.
Consider the numbers, and you can't say a little nuke here and there was really that bad for them.
You actually believed that? *snickers*
Honestly, I never thought the original Pac-Man was all that great... on the other hand, Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness was quite enjoyable.
How about this?
Shatnerology.
Back in the day: 'Whoa, a 1 GB disc! A whole thousand megabytes! I doubt I'll ever get this thing full.'
But consider -- aren't widescreen monitors better for first-person shooters?
A widescreen monitor turned sideways is truly awesome if you play vertical shooters (quite common under the MAME emulator).