Another MMOG based on a property that doesn't lend itself to MMOGs. AWESOME. Is Sid Meier's Pirates! that obscure that they couldn't use that property? How about this, Disney. MMOGs are not a motherfucking amusement park ride. Letting me interact with a virtual Depp or Knightly is Not Interesting. A game needs More than That.
Hollywood should not be allowed to touch games. And if that means the loss of companies like Tigon Studios and Buena Vista, so fucking be it.
And despite what people are saying, it probably will be a WoW Clone. With Boats.
I'll admit it. I didn't notice the foot. But I don't read slashdot to laugh. I read it for News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Unfortunately, it wasn't funny. And had someone not pointed it out, I'd have never figured out it was a farce of Windows magazines talking about Linux.
Great. He doesn't know how to use windows. He must be retarded......and now you know how I feel when I hop into Linux. Like Bruce Willis in motherfucking 12 Monkies. Linux is a nightmare for people who are used to windows. A goddamn nightmare. A beast fixed permanently on your face gnawing at the important bits. There's too much going on, too many nonsensical commands, and most of all - too many little buttons that aren't important. And the start menu thing that loads up in most versions of XWindows (etc) is more unorganized than a 1st Graders backpack at the end of a school year. I'm sorry, but..well...Just No.
And for any Linux User that doesn't know how to use Windows. You should be ashamed. An ape can use windows. It's made for apes. It's why Linux doesn't have the widespread appeal the/. fanbase wants it to have. Apes can't use it. It's too goddamn complicated. And the original article is just too goddamn stupid. ScuttleWhoever, you should be ashamed of yourself. This article blows.
That's what I was going for, narcissism. Yea. Look, everyone knows what games cost. $50 for a third-party PS2/Xbox game, $40 for a 1st party one. $60 for a third-party 360 game, $50 for a 1st party one. 50/40 on the PSP, 35/30 on the GBA, etc etc. Anyway, it's not like a kid is shocked and thrilled when he gets a game he was going to get himself, but more than that - having worked in gaming retail going on 5+ years now, I can comfortably say that uninformed mothers and fathers shopping for their kids during the christmas season and not understanding the concept of "preordering" is the most aggravating fucking thing under the sun. More than that, if they can't find the game the kid wants (can we say, a new 360?) they'll buy something else and just piss the kid off. It's not worth the drama. If you can't find the item they specifically asked for just get them a gift card. If they didn't specifically ask for something, get them a gift card. And yea, I guess I should have said that if it's games the kid wants, get him a gift card from EB or Gamestop so they can preorder in full whatever game they want.
It's the only way we'll get those youngin's ready for a hard-learned lesson about not preordering.
Also, Hector, Hannukah is about giving family members money. Buying gifts is hard and rarely worth the hassle. Except with girlfriends. You don't get them giftcards if you're expecting to find your princess in the castle. In return, I expect her.... to give me a gift card. Anyway the article was a scientific anal retentive breakdown on how to buy someone under 18 a video game for christmas. And it was very obviously targeted towards buying gifts for guys and for parents who are overly worried that a game will make them kill their schoolmates (write down the ESRB rating? Oh, shove that up your ass. It's on the box in the store). I rarely comment on articles that qualifies as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." That should give you an idea as to what I think of the original post and the linked article.
There, article replaced in one sentence. Jesus. Who pays people to write shit like this? Mom, Dad, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Cousin, Uncle - we don't want you buying us games unless we specifically say "Buy us x."
By ignoring Puzzle Pirates, Planetside and the rest of the casual gaming market, he's gerrymandered the online market to support the argument of his article. Bleh.
I've commented on this at f13, but I have to admit - the prospect of playing movies at full res + enhanced homebrew webbrowsers, email clients, music players and various other web tools has me more interested than playing Final Fantasy II, which I commented on in my first post about this. It's one thing to get more games out of a gaming system, but it's another thing to actually expand functionality. Unfortunately, Sony will squash this with the next big title. Dead to Rights: Reckoning, Coded Arms, Armored Core, Death Jr., Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City - any/all of these WILL have firmware updates on them. Personally I'd skip games I'm looking forward to in order to keep my PSP working the way I WANT it to work.
Assuming the linked hack is real - and we'll know on Wednesday 1PM EST...when they're supposed to post the "launcher" - then I'll be able to do anything I please with my own PSP. If Sony wants to forcefully drive a firmware update down my throat with GTA or Coded Arms, well, shit, I simply will never buy another UMD. There's too much use to be gotten out of the unit when homebrew code can run on it.
I asked the NCSoft people right after this happened (which by the way is more than a month old). Here's the quote:
"Yes, NCsoft has opened up an office in the Orange County area. Yes, some of the staff in that office came from Blizzard. However, that group is not involved with the development of Tabula Rasa, as has been rumored."
There's nothing to see here, move along. Well, nothing to see, other than Slashdot and Gamespot being way the fuck off in left field when shit goes down in the gaming industry that doesn't involve pimping vaporware.
If it comes out for more than $400, I'd be surprised. They need to be more competitive with the 360. I don't mean that in a nice way. This is a 1 on 1 battle all the way, the Revolution is merely a supplemental gaming platform. Sony simply has to shoot for the moon on the price and only be marginally higher than the 360, no matter how much they lose per unit.
You better pick "dudes" to be your booth babes, or be paying the girls a hell of a lot. Any girl that would be a "mediocre" booth babe is not someone you want to have pimping your merchandise. They don't even have the self-confidence to sell themselves let alone your shit. Way to go, morons. Wouldn't it have just been easier to not hire....anybody?
Won't happen. Squeenix needs revenue (badly, they're hemmorhaging on the Square side) and they won't have the market they need with the Revolution. They have 2 choices: MS and Sony. So sorry.
That was a terribly uninteresting roundup. But then, the best Star Wars movie came out over 20 years ago - so I'm not sure what I was supposed to expect by clicking the article link.
I'm far too lazy to actually post examples - So here's 3 pages on why. I will say that I'm surprised there's enough people who care that your mailbox is being "flooded" with complaints or anything at all.
Yes, people play games to be immersed. AO is a futurepunk (well, more future, less punk) style game. It would have advertisements. Now, if there were a giant ad for TI-82 calculators in Everquest, I may be inclined to agree with you./pizza doesn't count simply because it's not visibly noticeable. It interferes in no way whatsoever with your EQ2 catassing. Oh, and the people who stop playing the game or refuse to buy the drink/food/condoms because of the ad. Yea, they weren't going to buy the merchandise anyway - and they're certainly the same people who wouldn't play the game if it weren't free. That type of person doesn't deserve fun.
Who gives a fuck about advertising in online games? Particularly when the game is free for you to play. MMOGs, in case you hadn't read the giant writing on the wall, are expensive to run. They need to make up for that cost. That's called advertising. It's easy, generates steady income, and can be targeted. Good for them, bring on more ads. If you can't deal with ads, just don't play the fucking game. You'll be saving companies bandwidth costs anyway. The above paragraph is the longest anyone should be discussing ads in free games.
1. It was the end of March - not the christmas season ANYWHERE.
2. It was $250.
3. It had very little advertising compared to the Touching is Good campaign last October and November.
4. It had triple the number of games Nintendo had out after 4 months at launch.
5. Despite getting some of the lowest ratings, the top-selling game was a decent Diablo clone.
6. Stores are still able to stock it and people still want it.
There's no doubt in my mind that Sony can sell any PSPs they ship. It may take a while. But they'll sell. As more and more online-enabled games come out and more killer apps start to appear (GTA and Infected anyone? Maybe even Advent Rising if you buy into the hype.) they're just going to sell better. All things considered, they came into a market dominated by Nintendo and are outselling the Nintendo DS by I'd say a margin very close to 2:1. That, by any measurement, is monstrous success.
I've had flying cars in my 20 year plan for about 50 years. I think TIME Magazine and National Geographic have as well. So, we'll see this Japanese stuff in 2057 is what they're saying, right?
Good luck finding the "Preview" version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. That's the point of Starforce. Cracking it is near impossible. There are work arounds, but they involve physically removing hardware. What's bothersome about this is that those of us who use virtual drives for legit reasons get fucked by The Man.
Yea I know. Paint me surprised. That's why I traded in my PC version for an Xbox version because the game is just that awesome. I'm just uberpissed at UBISoft for putting Starforce on something to "stop pirates." When all it did was stop me from buying the PC Version. Oh, but you would have found that out had you managed to actually read the thread.
Doesn't this seem insane to anyone? I'm not exactly a "Microsoft hater" like many of the people around here, but this sort of thing doesn't make much sense to me. If someone wants to block the download of something exclusive on the autoupdater in Windows, there should be no circumventing it by the company. This should apply in any situation (including the way Steam updates itself, even though I'm sure it's incompatible otherwise). Meh, the general shadiness of it just rubs me the wrong way.
This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. You never hear about the terribly awful in reviews when they are the things that really need to be highlighted. I'm not trying to pimp myself here - so if someone has a better example of focusing on the bad, do tell - but here's my website's review of the new Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for the PC: Linkie. Everyone else is giving it high marks, we refused to play it because it has computer crippling, invasive techniques in it's use of Star Force copy protection. Good luck finding that on a corporate site. And this is why I hate the industry I've forced myself into.
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Another MMOG based on a property that doesn't lend itself to MMOGs. AWESOME. Is Sid Meier's Pirates! that obscure that they couldn't use that property? How about this, Disney. MMOGs are not a motherfucking amusement park ride. Letting me interact with a virtual Depp or Knightly is Not Interesting. A game needs More than That.
Hollywood should not be allowed to touch games. And if that means the loss of companies like Tigon Studios and Buena Vista, so fucking be it.
And despite what people are saying, it probably will be a WoW Clone. With Boats.
I embedded these same complaints in a less-than optimistic as this guys article about 20 days ago.
Fixed. Apologies. Toggle boxen are hard.
I'll admit it. I didn't notice the foot. But I don't read slashdot to laugh. I read it for News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Unfortunately, it wasn't funny. And had someone not pointed it out, I'd have never figured out it was a farce of Windows magazines talking about Linux.
Great. He doesn't know how to use windows. He must be retarded... ...and now you know how I feel when I hop into Linux. Like Bruce Willis in motherfucking 12 Monkies. Linux is a nightmare for people who are used to windows. A goddamn nightmare. A beast fixed permanently on your face gnawing at the important bits. There's too much going on, too many nonsensical commands, and most of all - too many little buttons that aren't important. And the start menu thing that loads up in most versions of XWindows (etc) is more unorganized than a 1st Graders backpack at the end of a school year. I'm sorry, but..well...Just No.
And for any Linux User that doesn't know how to use Windows. You should be ashamed. An ape can use windows. It's made for apes. It's why Linux doesn't have the widespread appeal the /. fanbase wants it to have. Apes can't use it. It's too goddamn complicated. And the original article is just too goddamn stupid. ScuttleWhoever, you should be ashamed of yourself. This article blows.
That's what I was going for, narcissism. Yea. Look, everyone knows what games cost. $50 for a third-party PS2/Xbox game, $40 for a 1st party one. $60 for a third-party 360 game, $50 for a 1st party one. 50/40 on the PSP, 35/30 on the GBA, etc etc. Anyway, it's not like a kid is shocked and thrilled when he gets a game he was going to get himself, but more than that - having worked in gaming retail going on 5+ years now, I can comfortably say that uninformed mothers and fathers shopping for their kids during the christmas season and not understanding the concept of "preordering" is the most aggravating fucking thing under the sun. More than that, if they can't find the game the kid wants (can we say, a new 360?) they'll buy something else and just piss the kid off. It's not worth the drama. If you can't find the item they specifically asked for just get them a gift card. If they didn't specifically ask for something, get them a gift card. And yea, I guess I should have said that if it's games the kid wants, get him a gift card from EB or Gamestop so they can preorder in full whatever game they want.
It's the only way we'll get those youngin's ready for a hard-learned lesson about not preordering.
Also, Hector, Hannukah is about giving family members money. Buying gifts is hard and rarely worth the hassle. Except with girlfriends. You don't get them giftcards if you're expecting to find your princess in the castle. In return, I expect her.... to give me a gift card. Anyway the article was a scientific anal retentive breakdown on how to buy someone under 18 a video game for christmas. And it was very obviously targeted towards buying gifts for guys and for parents who are overly worried that a game will make them kill their schoolmates (write down the ESRB rating? Oh, shove that up your ass. It's on the box in the store). I rarely comment on articles that qualifies as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." That should give you an idea as to what I think of the original post and the linked article.
Just buy them a gift card or give them money.
There, article replaced in one sentence. Jesus. Who pays people to write shit like this? Mom, Dad, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Cousin, Uncle - we don't want you buying us games unless we specifically say "Buy us x."
If you're going to use only 1% of a 40GB harddrive, why not just use a tiny bit of onboard memory and remove the entire harddrive from the equation?
By ignoring Puzzle Pirates, Planetside and the rest of the casual gaming market, he's gerrymandered the online market to support the argument of his article. Bleh.
I've commented on this at f13, but I have to admit - the prospect of playing movies at full res + enhanced homebrew webbrowsers, email clients, music players and various other web tools has me more interested than playing Final Fantasy II, which I commented on in my first post about this. It's one thing to get more games out of a gaming system, but it's another thing to actually expand functionality. Unfortunately, Sony will squash this with the next big title. Dead to Rights: Reckoning, Coded Arms, Armored Core, Death Jr., Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City - any/all of these WILL have firmware updates on them. Personally I'd skip games I'm looking forward to in order to keep my PSP working the way I WANT it to work.
Assuming the linked hack is real - and we'll know on Wednesday 1PM EST...when they're supposed to post the "launcher" - then I'll be able to do anything I please with my own PSP. If Sony wants to forcefully drive a firmware update down my throat with GTA or Coded Arms, well, shit, I simply will never buy another UMD. There's too much use to be gotten out of the unit when homebrew code can run on it.
I asked the NCSoft people right after this happened (which by the way is more than a month old). Here's the quote:
"Yes, NCsoft has opened up an office in the Orange County area. Yes, some of the staff in that office came from Blizzard. However, that group is not involved with the development of Tabula Rasa, as has been rumored."
There's nothing to see here, move along. Well, nothing to see, other than Slashdot and Gamespot being way the fuck off in left field when shit goes down in the gaming industry that doesn't involve pimping vaporware.
If it comes out for more than $400, I'd be surprised. They need to be more competitive with the 360. I don't mean that in a nice way. This is a 1 on 1 battle all the way, the Revolution is merely a supplemental gaming platform. Sony simply has to shoot for the moon on the price and only be marginally higher than the 360, no matter how much they lose per unit.
You better pick "dudes" to be your booth babes, or be paying the girls a hell of a lot. Any girl that would be a "mediocre" booth babe is not someone you want to have pimping your merchandise. They don't even have the self-confidence to sell themselves let alone your shit. Way to go, morons. Wouldn't it have just been easier to not hire....anybody?
Won't happen. Squeenix needs revenue (badly, they're hemmorhaging on the Square side) and they won't have the market they need with the Revolution. They have 2 choices: MS and Sony. So sorry.
That was a terribly uninteresting roundup. But then, the best Star Wars movie came out over 20 years ago - so I'm not sure what I was supposed to expect by clicking the article link.
I'm far too lazy to actually post examples - So here's 3 pages on why. I will say that I'm surprised there's enough people who care that your mailbox is being "flooded" with complaints or anything at all.
Please don't breed.
Yes, people play games to be immersed. AO is a futurepunk (well, more future, less punk) style game. It would have advertisements. Now, if there were a giant ad for TI-82 calculators in Everquest, I may be inclined to agree with you. /pizza doesn't count simply because it's not visibly noticeable. It interferes in no way whatsoever with your EQ2 catassing. Oh, and the people who stop playing the game or refuse to buy the drink/food/condoms because of the ad. Yea, they weren't going to buy the merchandise anyway - and they're certainly the same people who wouldn't play the game if it weren't free. That type of person doesn't deserve fun.
Who gives a fuck about advertising in online games? Particularly when the game is free for you to play. MMOGs, in case you hadn't read the giant writing on the wall, are expensive to run. They need to make up for that cost. That's called advertising. It's easy, generates steady income, and can be targeted. Good for them, bring on more ads. If you can't deal with ads, just don't play the fucking game. You'll be saving companies bandwidth costs anyway. The above paragraph is the longest anyone should be discussing ads in free games.
1. It was the end of March - not the christmas season ANYWHERE.
2. It was $250.
3. It had very little advertising compared to the Touching is Good campaign last October and November.
4. It had triple the number of games Nintendo had out after 4 months at launch.
5. Despite getting some of the lowest ratings, the top-selling game was a decent Diablo clone.
6. Stores are still able to stock it and people still want it.
There's no doubt in my mind that Sony can sell any PSPs they ship. It may take a while. But they'll sell. As more and more online-enabled games come out and more killer apps start to appear (GTA and Infected anyone? Maybe even Advent Rising if you buy into the hype.) they're just going to sell better. All things considered, they came into a market dominated by Nintendo and are outselling the Nintendo DS by I'd say a margin very close to 2:1. That, by any measurement, is monstrous success.
I've had flying cars in my 20 year plan for about 50 years. I think TIME Magazine and National Geographic have as well. So, we'll see this Japanese stuff in 2057 is what they're saying, right?
Good luck finding the "Preview" version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. That's the point of Starforce. Cracking it is near impossible. There are work arounds, but they involve physically removing hardware. What's bothersome about this is that those of us who use virtual drives for legit reasons get fucked by The Man.
Yea I know. Paint me surprised. That's why I traded in my PC version for an Xbox version because the game is just that awesome. I'm just uberpissed at UBISoft for putting Starforce on something to "stop pirates." When all it did was stop me from buying the PC Version. Oh, but you would have found that out had you managed to actually read the thread.
Doesn't this seem insane to anyone? I'm not exactly a "Microsoft hater" like many of the people around here, but this sort of thing doesn't make much sense to me. If someone wants to block the download of something exclusive on the autoupdater in Windows, there should be no circumventing it by the company. This should apply in any situation (including the way Steam updates itself, even though I'm sure it's incompatible otherwise). Meh, the general shadiness of it just rubs me the wrong way.
This is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. You never hear about the terribly awful in reviews when they are the things that really need to be highlighted. I'm not trying to pimp myself here - so if someone has a better example of focusing on the bad, do tell - but here's my website's review of the new Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for the PC: Linkie. Everyone else is giving it high marks, we refused to play it because it has computer crippling, invasive techniques in it's use of Star Force copy protection. Good luck finding that on a corporate site. And this is why I hate the industry I've forced myself into.