I didn't think it was possible for a 2D Sprite-based game to lag a 128bit machine until I played Bangai-O. Wow, the number of enemies/bullets/missles/explosions onscreen at once is astounding. The incredible difficulty has kept me from finishing the game though.
A GBA sequel/port of this would be awesome.. but granted, it'd have to be toned down quite a bit.
Until they can start developing decent games again for other people's hardware, they don't need to be wasting their time with their own. I mean, really, the Dreamcast games directly from Sega were awesome, everyone loved them. But once they became 3rd party, they realized people would pay for rehashed crap... so they gave people what they'd pay for. Granted, some of the ports from Dreamcast were cool and helped spread the awesome games around, but really... Sega hasn't made a decent unique (non-port) game in a while. Maybe they're just too afraid to take the risks they did with DreamCast?
The GameBoy Advance version has kept me company in many a lonely extended bathroom visits. The inclusion of User created puzzles from the DC version was brilliant and has provided a lot of hours of entertainment.
I think the author was just mentioning popular Christian titles currently in the market, not suggesting a videogame based on them. Though a Left Behind-esque videogame would be rather interesting. Later in the series it would become more of a Splinter Cell type game.
Who says the games have to be that accurate?
In World War II videogames, do the Germans always have to lose?
A Biblical times based MMORPG or Online FPS would be interesting. Massive armies, interesting weaponry, vast potential.
To provent tampering with major outcomes, you probably wouldn't be a major figurehead in the Bible (Pharoah, Moses, Aaron, etc.), just another one of the ranks following your own story. That way, there's not too much you could do to even tamper with the History.
But even if it wasn't forced Historically accurate, it'd be a neat look at What Could Have Been.
The difference between this and a security guard...
Maybe you can bribe one guard for a certain ammount of time, but not all are going to succumb to the same bribe. With hacking a robot, it's pretty universal and gives you unlimited control until the next patch is released.
Why would you want to submerge your entire PC in the (I'm guessing) expensive chemical? Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just put the proccessor/board in a small tank full of Sapphire and just run all the drives outside of the tank?
Male Nerds who make videogames for a living probably don't have that much contact with females aside from their mother. It's then clear to see why females are portrayed wrongly. We all know that every 'normal' woman is 6'5", can benchpress 230 pounds and doesn't shave.
Farscape ended up being put out way past the expiration date. The first/second seasons, maybe even third were great, but then the plots got weirder and more confusing. Granted, it was still humorous and fun to watch, but.. it was lacking.
Sliders is another example of a TV show gone bad. The first, second were completely awesome. Third started sending it down the drain. Then Sci-Fi picked up the series from Fox and completely ruined it with Seasons 4 and 5. It was still okay to watch, but Season 5 was almost unbearable. The only original character that remained was Rembrant, and Quinn got elimnated by some cockamamy plotline about being fused with an alternate Quinn (shouldn't they have looked identical anyways?) thus bringing in the new actor. It's sickening.
From reading the interview, the 'peace' is not quite even. All the different sides are eyeing each other, waiting for the opportune moment to strike and take the others down. Plus, with three different groups, all slightly against each other (Machines, Humans, Merovigian[sp?]), plenty of conflict can be drawn out, even in 'peaceful' times.
Also, with a story line by the Wachowski's, you can be sure that plenty of weirdness will abound.
The main drawback behind it is Seaman requires a lot of time. Seriously, it sounds stupid, but... it does. If you don't clean Seaman's tank (forget what you exactly do), it fogs up and causes the Seaman to die or get sick. You have to grow weird bugs in a seperate tank to feed him, so you have to worry about them. Plus, he becomes angry with you if you neglect him too long. You have to check up on him every day, two days at the most, or else the problems become severe.
One way around this is adjusting the internal clock. Many a time if I forgot Seaman before school in the morning, and didn't have time until a couple days later to check on him, and knowing his tank would be a mess, the bugs dead, and Seaman angry, I would just turn back the clock a few days. Then, get everything cleaned up, feed him, talk to him, and then save and turn off. Another adjustment of the clock to the next day, talk to him, feed him some more, clean up... Lather rinse repeat.
10-20 minutes a day is a minimum, I'd say. It's meant to be very realistic, like a real talking amphibian in a tank. Eventually Seaman escapes the tank or something of the like, but you still have him around to talk to, I think.
I can't believe no one mentioned the best part of Seaman... Leonard Nimoy does the narrating before you go to Seaman! Not just a one time thing, either. He talks every time you check it. Quite cool.
Voice interactive, at least. Talking to Seaman was a vital part of the game, and no ammount of cleaning the tank or grabbing unmovable objects would let Seaman progress in his evolution. Only through your voice interaction would he grow.
I was born the year NES came out in the US (1986), and with a brother 4 years older than me and grandparents that liked to spoil, I was literally raised on the NES system. Metroid, Super Mario Bros... wow. Before I could even speak I was playing them.
I disagree. The first Pokemon games (red/blue) was an amazing RPG. I remember me and my friend playing it for hours at a time together before it became massively popular. I mean, it had tons of replayablility (gotta catch 'em all, after all) interactivity (have to rely on a friend's cart to get all 150) and overall fun factor. Then Nintendo realized the cash cow capability and raped it for all the milk it was worth... and is still doing so.
Although a 3D Pokemon RPG would be rather cool, as long as they didn't include all these nonsense Pokemon they've added to make each new version different and 'exciting'
No no, as I said in my comment above, nothing can be done to actually PLAY games on the N-Gage. It seems like if they were going to market it as a game system, they'd at least make it have the ability to play games.
Game change chaos - fair, but it will be fixed in the next N-Gage model this year
Nokia's pulling a GBASP with N-Gage, except to actually make the mobile console functional?
'Now you can actually change games to play another one of our ports'
What? You mean people actually got the in store models to RUN the game?
After fumbling around with the clumsy undescriptive keys to find how to get to games, and selecting Tomb Raider finally, it just gets stuck at the Intro screen (I assume). The only button that does something after that is the red "End Call" button...
I'm not the only one with the problem of not being able to play the games. So, please enlighten me as to how someone can play the in store models?
The problem with ranking systems: How would you ever really get better? I got good at Halo and BF1942 because I _had_ to be good in order to even survive. Defense is as important as a good offense. I don't know if I'd want to play with people my same skill level. Having more advanced people on a server is cool, because then someone can fly the helicopter in and drop the newbies off on the enemy base while defending them from above...
Eh, I dunno. I say if a server has too many elite players or newbies on it, then find another server. It's not like there's a lack of servers.
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I didn't think it was possible for a 2D Sprite-based game to lag a 128bit machine until I played Bangai-O. Wow, the number of enemies/bullets/missles/explosions onscreen at once is astounding. The incredible difficulty has kept me from finishing the game though.
A GBA sequel/port of this would be awesome.. but granted, it'd have to be toned down quite a bit.
Until they can start developing decent games again for other people's hardware, they don't need to be wasting their time with their own.
I mean, really, the Dreamcast games directly from Sega were awesome, everyone loved them. But once they became 3rd party, they realized people would pay for rehashed crap... so they gave people what they'd pay for. Granted, some of the ports from Dreamcast were cool and helped spread the awesome games around, but really... Sega hasn't made a decent unique (non-port) game in a while.
Maybe they're just too afraid to take the risks they did with DreamCast?
The GameBoy Advance version has kept me company in many a lonely extended bathroom visits. The inclusion of User created puzzles from the DC version was brilliant and has provided a lot of hours of entertainment.
I think the author was just mentioning popular Christian titles currently in the market, not suggesting a videogame based on them. Though a Left Behind-esque videogame would be rather interesting. Later in the series it would become more of a Splinter Cell type game.
Who says the games have to be that accurate?
In World War II videogames, do the Germans always have to lose?
A Biblical times based MMORPG or Online FPS would be interesting. Massive armies, interesting weaponry, vast potential.
To provent tampering with major outcomes, you probably wouldn't be a major figurehead in the Bible (Pharoah, Moses, Aaron, etc.), just another one of the ranks following your own story. That way, there's not too much you could do to even tamper with the History.
But even if it wasn't forced Historically accurate, it'd be a neat look at What Could Have Been.
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Link credit not mine, linked to earlier in the topic by Annonymous Cownerd
The difference between this and a security guard...
Maybe you can bribe one guard for a certain ammount of time, but not all are going to succumb to the same bribe. With hacking a robot, it's pretty universal and gives you unlimited control until the next patch is released.
...Millions of downloads and still no /.ing!
Why would you want to submerge your entire PC in the (I'm guessing) expensive chemical? Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just put the proccessor/board in a small tank full of Sapphire and just run all the drives outside of the tank?
Male Nerds who make videogames for a living probably don't have that much contact with females aside from their mother. It's then clear to see why females are portrayed wrongly. We all know that every 'normal' woman is 6'5", can benchpress 230 pounds and doesn't shave.
They did it before in Back to the Future 2/3. First set from 1 was lost in an accident, so they had to rebuild it all
Farscape ended up being put out way past the expiration date. The first/second seasons, maybe even third were great, but then the plots got weirder and more confusing. Granted, it was still humorous and fun to watch, but.. it was lacking.
Sliders is another example of a TV show gone bad. The first, second were completely awesome. Third started sending it down the drain. Then Sci-Fi picked up the series from Fox and completely ruined it with Seasons 4 and 5. It was still okay to watch, but Season 5 was almost unbearable. The only original character that remained was Rembrant, and Quinn got elimnated by some cockamamy plotline about being fused with an alternate Quinn (shouldn't they have looked identical anyways?) thus bringing in the new actor. It's sickening.
Photography is not the word that should be used. Filming is more what this has in mind (A video camera, not a snapshot camera.)
When you can pirate other systems games on there as well?
From reading the interview, the 'peace' is not quite even. All the different sides are eyeing each other, waiting for the opportune moment to strike and take the others down. Plus, with three different groups, all slightly against each other (Machines, Humans, Merovigian[sp?]), plenty of conflict can be drawn out, even in 'peaceful' times.
Also, with a story line by the Wachowski's, you can be sure that plenty of weirdness will abound.
The main drawback behind it is Seaman requires a lot of time. Seriously, it sounds stupid, but... it does. If you don't clean Seaman's tank (forget what you exactly do), it fogs up and causes the Seaman to die or get sick. You have to grow weird bugs in a seperate tank to feed him, so you have to worry about them. Plus, he becomes angry with you if you neglect him too long. You have to check up on him every day, two days at the most, or else the problems become severe.
One way around this is adjusting the internal clock. Many a time if I forgot Seaman before school in the morning, and didn't have time until a couple days later to check on him, and knowing his tank would be a mess, the bugs dead, and Seaman angry, I would just turn back the clock a few days. Then, get everything cleaned up, feed him, talk to him, and then save and turn off. Another adjustment of the clock to the next day, talk to him, feed him some more, clean up... Lather rinse repeat.
10-20 minutes a day is a minimum, I'd say. It's meant to be very realistic, like a real talking amphibian in a tank. Eventually Seaman escapes the tank or something of the like, but you still have him around to talk to, I think.
I can't believe no one mentioned the best part of Seaman... Leonard Nimoy does the narrating before you go to Seaman! Not just a one time thing, either. He talks every time you check it. Quite cool.
Voice interactive, at least. Talking to Seaman was a vital part of the game, and no ammount of cleaning the tank or grabbing unmovable objects would let Seaman progress in his evolution. Only through your voice interaction would he grow.
Playing Lifeline is like trying to play a text adventure with a malfunctioning keyboard - Gamespy
Seems to me like a very true statement.
I was born the year NES came out in the US (1986), and with a brother 4 years older than me and grandparents that liked to spoil, I was literally raised on the NES system. Metroid, Super Mario Bros... wow. Before I could even speak I was playing them.
I disagree. The first Pokemon games (red/blue) was an amazing RPG. I remember me and my friend playing it for hours at a time together before it became massively popular. I mean, it had tons of replayablility (gotta catch 'em all, after all) interactivity (have to rely on a friend's cart to get all 150) and overall fun factor. Then Nintendo realized the cash cow capability and raped it for all the milk it was worth... and is still doing so.
Although a 3D Pokemon RPG would be rather cool, as long as they didn't include all these nonsense Pokemon they've added to make each new version different and 'exciting'
But, that's just my 1cent.
No no, as I said in my comment above, nothing can be done to actually PLAY games on the N-Gage. It seems like if they were going to market it as a game system, they'd at least make it have the ability to play games.
Game change chaos - fair, but it will be fixed in the next N-Gage model this year
Nokia's pulling a GBASP with N-Gage, except to actually make the mobile console functional?
'Now you can actually change games to play another one of our ports'
What? You mean people actually got the in store models to RUN the game?
After fumbling around with the clumsy undescriptive keys to find how to get to games, and selecting Tomb Raider finally, it just gets stuck at the Intro screen (I assume). The only button that does something after that is the red "End Call" button...
I'm not the only one with the problem of not being able to play the games. So, please enlighten me as to how someone can play the in store models?
The problem with ranking systems: How would you ever really get better? I got good at Halo and BF1942 because I _had_ to be good in order to even survive. Defense is as important as a good offense.
I don't know if I'd want to play with people my same skill level. Having more advanced people on a server is cool, because then someone can fly the helicopter in and drop the newbies off on the enemy base while defending them from above...
Eh, I dunno. I say if a server has too many elite players or newbies on it, then find another server. It's not like there's a lack of servers.
WAS free, PSOv2 for Dreamcast was about $10 a month as well. Why people continue paying for hardly anything that PSO offers is beyond me.