Also, when you realize that you've hated the last ten hours, you are also very aware that in that entire time you aven't reached a save point, and you'll probably keep playing just so that time doesn't feel too wasted.
And then you get to the most insanely hard, unentertaining boss ever, which requires more ammo to kill than you can even carry. ANd that's for ALL your guns. I've never heard of anybody credile beating the game without cheating.
Damn game.
Still, probably not even in the lowest quartile of games I've played.
Um...I fail to see your point, really. The quality of service of any hacked service is going to be terrible compared to Blizzard's. Absolutely terrible. They have no reason to lose sleep over it. World of Warcraft is going to make about a majillion dollars anyway.
Max Payne 2. I don't feel guilty about liking the game, see, I thought it was good, if short.
But is it normal to pump some ammo into a dead guy, then throw a grenade at him, repeat until you're out of ammo, reload, repeat indefinitely?
Just to see how the dead bodies flop around?
Other than that...just about the entire GameCube-exclusive library gets me pretty excited. Including Luigi's Mansion. And worse, I can't beat Luigi's Mansion.
I think it's just a hobby. Like stamp collecting. Or Slashdotting. It's not really all that complicated. Sure, some of them are all "It'll get me teh ladies," and while it's possible thatthey think so, I honestly have trouble believing it. I think it's more likely they just do it for fun.
It's exactly like making models, only bigger. Lots of people make models. You just don't see them.
Hey, now. My school is about 80/20, with total population about 30,000. But that's not the worst part. Seven of those 20 are...well, I call them "probably girls." Because it's hard to tell. Three are pretty average. But fully half the female population of this place are amazing. But every guy faces horrible odds at getting one of them.
I'm not in the market, myself, but I can see the suffering...I can feel the pain.
The great thing about a capitalist economy is that the cunsumers are nearly always going to have it pretty good, as long as a few conditions are met. Here, those requirements are met, and I don't see how a real problem could evolve. If somebody doesn't want to pay-to-play, they won't. If somebody wants to pay to rent something, rentals will continue to exist. Author of this article needs to learn something about supply and demand.
Well, I don't know if you've played Diablo II since they released 1.10, but man, now solo in Act 4 Hell IS impossible. MUCH harder. They adapted to the players in that case, they've learned to do it now, and it would be easier to implement in a MMO game. I have confidence that if, though I doubt this, the game's not balanced, they'll fix it. It's more important in this case, and they know it. Diablo II was a mindless hack-n-slash, essentially.
Well, you need to look at the worst case scenario. Three people need Melvin's head. One gets it, runs off. Ten minutes later, another gets it, runs off. Somebody else comes along, gets it, runs off. Three fays later guy #3 is still trying to get the damn head.
Maybe he's just slow, maybe he has a bad connection or system. That doesn't sound fun to me.
When you're playing Diablo II in a group and never ever get a single damn item in 5 Baal runs, you understand how much of a problem these things can be.
If you're a big Blizzard fanboy, you should be used to it, honestly. They're very ambitious with their games, which is fantastic. But even for them it gets to a point where it's better to just release the game, and add in new things later. StarCraft had a major patch that added tons of things. Diablo II just had one too. Fan complainsts about announced features not making it into release is the main reason they've gotten more tight-lipped over the years.
Of course, that was two months ago and just yesterday it reminded me that I forgot to turn off StickyKeys. And it messed up my stealth Splinter Cell action!
But come on, six pages? Are they on post-its? Really SMALL post-its? I could fit everything you mentioned on a post-it, no problem. Particularly if I use BlackViper's site to help take care of the services -- his setups are very good, he has four of them for different tastes and uses, and he has.reg files so you can change all the settings instantly.
Hell, that's a great idea just so you can BAN people that need banning. Maybe even use something like a point system, like drivers' licenses. Make it harsher, though.
I think it's a great idea to just make sure you can KEEP TRACK of who's in the building, who's on what equipment, everything. A couple cameras in there couldn't hurt, either.
I don't really know or care who's going to be winning the race in 5 or even 10 years. but i don't see any reason to think the overall trends in console hardware advancement won't continue for as long as they can. no-one has really done anything but pump graphics and move to bigger/cheaper storage for the past 20 years.
In an article posted yesterday, Nintendo president said that just pumping grpahics isn't working as well as it used to, and implied that he wants to take Nintendo away from that direction. That certainly doesn't mean the next-gen system won't be more capable than anything in the current one, of course, just that he doesn't want it to be the focus. And it's not like the guy is changing his mind or anything, this is going to be the first Nintendo console release with him as president. The old guy...well, he was kind of a moron. From what I gather nobody in the company even listened to them. He's the reason GameCube lags so far in internet gaming, he said that the internet was a fad, basically.
While I don't think graphics pumping means death, by any means, I do think it's less important now. Games have reached that level where it looks cool, and it's quick and easy to play, much due to nice GUIs and all that. So what that does is make a little more room for innovation, more than requiring it. But of all the companies in the market, Nintendo's one of the most likely (the single most likely?) to fill that room. Whether it works, we'll see. I expect it to...just because I want it to.
Personally, I just hope that the GC's successor is backwards compatible with GC games. It makes a nice item on the checklist that is important in the first year or so of a console's life, and at the same time saves me some space in my living room;) Despite what some people seem to think today, I believe that the PS2's backwards compatibility was a strong part of it's early success, especially since the PS1 titles plunged in price shortly after the PS2's launch (many PS1 titles are more expensive today than they were in the first year of the PS2's release).
I agree. I never owned a PS1, OR a PS2, but the fact that I get ALL THOSE GAMES is why I'm considering buying one. And have been considering it for some time. But I blew all the food money on this box right here....ah, well. Anyway, I'm positive N reps have said the next console WILL be backwards-compatible. Which is just wonderful.
of course, analysts don't really care about market share won by severely cutting prices. particularly if the increased market share doesn't result in significantly increased software sales. (which is yet to be seen despite the quantity of GC's sold)
Perrin: GameCube software sales for the year were up 53% over 2002 and for the December period in particular they were up 41%.
Funny. In another thread yesterday somebody was complaining about how the GameCube has too many great exclusive games, and that's why he won't buy one. No, it doesn't make sense. I'm just going to keep telling myself it was a big joke.Makes arguing with you seem pointless. Well...more pointless, I mean.
I don't discriminate on the basis of difference. I do discriminate on the basis of people who wish to prevent me from exercising various freedoms. I think that that's wrong -- and I don't actually think my position is irrational. On the contrary, I think that not to discriminate against such people is irrational because by not doing so, you ultimately deny yourself a desired good -- ie, more freedom.
Okay, just have to say, that was good. I'm not really sure what freedoms your talking about, but hell, I feel pretty boxed in by too-popular fundamentalist ideas often enough that I don't care.
I'd prefer not to have personal or professional associations with people who are as irrationally oversensitive. I find it makes my life far easier in the long run.
The first thing I thought while reading the summary was that it was probably a good idea just so they can avoid harassment. I'd bet that at some point somebody's gotten an e-mail about it. And if (when) popularity increases...Maybe some people just cause problems no matter how you deal with them.
Who's next? Children dressed up in Halloween costumes?
Actually, yes, they're against Halloween. Mostly because of the costumes.
There are lots of things that offend me and upset me as well, but I hope that I can avoid mistaking a representation of the thing, for the thing itself.
Yeah, me too. Hmm...I need an analogy. But there isn't one. Part of what makes Satan such a problem for them is that he's a mockery of God. It's that mockery and disrespect that fuels the anger.
In all truth, I'm probably more bitter about the fact that things like this logo-changing have to happen (though I really think it's more important to them just to make it simpler, you know what I mean). At the same time, I'm more informed than most about why it needs to happen. Dated a girl in a crazy-religious (and not in a smart kind of way) family for three years. These people are everywhere.
The Madden games look better every year on the same hardware because they produce the games annually, and each year they learn some more about the process from the previous year's efforts.
Or maybe it's because they just improve the old code rather that rewriting it.
I actually think the parent makes more sense. If the next game didn't look better than the last, who would buy it? They don't care too much about the console itself, no, but leaving room for improvement does still help their game sales. I know people who own every Madden game since they started making them. Just because each time, the graphics were better....gah. Idiots.
Girl I'm with now decided she wanted to be with me after she saw my collection of sci-fi books. Turns out it shared a good number of titles with her own. It's nice, we share interests.
Now that I think about it, that's because years before I met her I had suggested them to a friend, who suggested them to a friend, who suggested them to her. But that's very much beside the point.
Perhaps they might be if they existed outside of the fevered imaginations of religious fundamentalists, but as they are, at most, a metaphor it's hard to see why rational people would be bothered. And why would you try and accomodate the prospective rantings of irrational people? There's no predicting what those could be.
There are two reasons. One is to not lose them as users. I think there are a lot of people who I wouldn't call irrational, or even fundamentalists, who would be turned off on some level by the logo. Don't be an elitist who doesn't accept others who are different than you. It's irrational. Second reason is because the really crazy ones can be annoying. Might as well just avoid that.
Rather like the SCO trademark, you mean?
As many things as I could say about this, I'm just gonna go with this one: So...you're supporting SCO, then?
Not really. A swastika is the symbol of an organization that verifiably eradicated six million jews and similar numbers of gay people, Romany gypsies, etc.
And the devil is the symbol of the same evil that lots of those murderers saw in their victims. And not just during the Nazi period, but for the last couple millenia. The concept of the devil has resulted in far more deaths than the swastika ever did. Be rational about it.
Did anyone ever see that episode of Jackass, where a guy dressed in a red devil suit was being assaulted by passers-by, who clearly thought that by punching a guy in a red suit, they were doing battle with the true Prince of Darkness?
While I do think attacking the guy is nearly as juvenile as being the guy, I think your closed-minded elitism is shown in sharp relief by that comment. I'm SURE they didn't think they were "doing battle with the true Prince of Darkness," and so are you. They were offended by his arrogance and mistreating of a subject that is very important to them. They got angry, and understandably so.
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That guy should be a professional. No doubt about it.
Hold on...you bought this? Forget the developers, what's wrong with YOU?
Also, when you realize that you've hated the last ten hours, you are also very aware that in that entire time you aven't reached a save point, and you'll probably keep playing just so that time doesn't feel too wasted.
And then you get to the most insanely hard, unentertaining boss ever, which requires more ammo to kill than you can even carry. ANd that's for ALL your guns. I've never heard of anybody credile beating the game without cheating.
Damn game.
Still, probably not even in the lowest quartile of games I've played.
bewareoblivionisathand.
Um...I fail to see your point, really. The quality of service of any hacked service is going to be terrible compared to Blizzard's. Absolutely terrible. They have no reason to lose sleep over it. World of Warcraft is going to make about a majillion dollars anyway.
Max Payne 2. I don't feel guilty about liking the game, see, I thought it was good, if short.
But is it normal to pump some ammo into a dead guy, then throw a grenade at him, repeat until you're out of ammo, reload, repeat indefinitely?
Just to see how the dead bodies flop around?
Other than that...just about the entire GameCube-exclusive library gets me pretty excited. Including Luigi's Mansion. And worse, I can't beat Luigi's Mansion.
I think it's just a hobby. Like stamp collecting. Or Slashdotting. It's not really all that complicated. Sure, some of them are all "It'll get me teh ladies," and while it's possible thatthey think so, I honestly have trouble believing it. I think it's more likely they just do it for fun.
It's exactly like making models, only bigger. Lots of people make models. You just don't see them.
Hey, now. My school is about 80/20, with total population about 30,000. But that's not the worst part. Seven of those 20 are...well, I call them "probably girls." Because it's hard to tell. Three are pretty average. But fully half the female population of this place are amazing. But every guy faces horrible odds at getting one of them.
I'm not in the market, myself, but I can see the suffering...I can feel the pain.
I do that in single player games.
I am doomed.
The great thing about a capitalist economy is that the cunsumers are nearly always going to have it pretty good, as long as a few conditions are met. Here, those requirements are met, and I don't see how a real problem could evolve. If somebody doesn't want to pay-to-play, they won't. If somebody wants to pay to rent something, rentals will continue to exist. Author of this article needs to learn something about supply and demand.
The multi drops are ONLY for quest items. Not great items you want to keep.
Well, I don't know if you've played Diablo II since they released 1.10, but man, now solo in Act 4 Hell IS impossible. MUCH harder. They adapted to the players in that case, they've learned to do it now, and it would be easier to implement in a MMO game. I have confidence that if, though I doubt this, the game's not balanced, they'll fix it. It's more important in this case, and they know it. Diablo II was a mindless hack-n-slash, essentially.
Well, you need to look at the worst case scenario. Three people need Melvin's head. One gets it, runs off. Ten minutes later, another gets it, runs off. Somebody else comes along, gets it, runs off. Three fays later guy #3 is still trying to get the damn head.
Maybe he's just slow, maybe he has a bad connection or system. That doesn't sound fun to me.
When you're playing Diablo II in a group and never ever get a single damn item in 5 Baal runs, you understand how much of a problem these things can be.
If you're a big Blizzard fanboy, you should be used to it, honestly. They're very ambitious with their games, which is fantastic. But even for them it gets to a point where it's better to just release the game, and add in new things later. StarCraft had a major patch that added tons of things. Diablo II just had one too. Fan complainsts about announced features not making it into release is the main reason they've gotten more tight-lipped over the years.
He says the quests take anywhere from a half-hour to a week.
It only took me an hour and a half last time.
.reg files so you can change all the settings instantly.
I was surprised as anybody, I assure you.
Of course, that was two months ago and just yesterday it reminded me that I forgot to turn off StickyKeys. And it messed up my stealth Splinter Cell action!
But come on, six pages? Are they on post-its? Really SMALL post-its? I could fit everything you mentioned on a post-it, no problem. Particularly if I use BlackViper's site to help take care of the services -- his setups are very good, he has four of them for different tastes and uses, and he has
Hell, that's a great idea just so you can BAN people that need banning. Maybe even use something like a point system, like drivers' licenses. Make it harsher, though.
I think it's a great idea to just make sure you can KEEP TRACK of who's in the building, who's on what equipment, everything. A couple cameras in there couldn't hurt, either.
While I don't think graphics pumping means death, by any means, I do think it's less important now. Games have reached that level where it looks cool, and it's quick and easy to play, much due to nice GUIs and all that. So what that does is make a little more room for innovation, more than requiring it. But of all the companies in the market, Nintendo's one of the most likely (the single most likely?) to fill that room. Whether it works, we'll see. I expect it to...just because I want it to.
Errr....ohhh-kayyy...
Funny. In another thread yesterday somebody was complaining about how the GameCube has too many great exclusive games, and that's why he won't buy one. No, it doesn't make sense. I'm just going to keep telling myself it was a big joke.Makes arguing with you seem pointless. Well...more pointless, I mean.
In all truth, I'm probably more bitter about the fact that things like this logo-changing have to happen (though I really think it's more important to them just to make it simpler, you know what I mean). At the same time, I'm more informed than most about why it needs to happen. Dated a girl in a crazy-religious (and not in a smart kind of way) family for three years. These people are everywhere.
I actually think the parent makes more sense. If the next game didn't look better than the last, who would buy it? They don't care too much about the console itself, no, but leaving room for improvement does still help their game sales. I know people who own every Madden game since they started making them. Just because each time, the graphics were better....gah. Idiots.
I TOLD you GameCube was dying!
True that.
Girl I'm with now decided she wanted to be with me after she saw my collection of sci-fi books. Turns out it shared a good number of titles with her own. It's nice, we share interests.
Now that I think about it, that's because years before I met her I had suggested them to a friend, who suggested them to a friend, who suggested them to her. But that's very much beside the point.