Actually, I think that video game ratings, though they have problems, are better than movie ratings. Teen obviously means that the game is suited for teenagers, Mature sounds like it means adult. Plus, video game ratings have "content descripters" which say if the game is violent or sexual or whatever, so you get more infomation than just a letter. Though it would help if games got ratings that make sense, rather than DOA Volleyball being rated Mature when it's about as offensive as a Victoria's Secret Catalog, but that's another arguement.
I'm very much wondering how abotions and video games are connected. One is a form of entertainment, the other, a very serious moral decision. Hey, I know! Let's make a video game about abortion! It would be unique.......
I personally love 2d platformers on 3d systems because they are really creative. Unfortunetly, there's not that many of them. Viewtiful Joe, Kirby 64, and Tomba (PS1) are the only ones I've seen. I would love to see Nintendo make a 2d Mario game for the Cube, though they're probably not going to, since they can't even be bothered to make a new Mario for the Gameboy. Would be nice though, and it would probably beat the hell out of Mario Sunshine.
The article is about exclusive games FROM NINTENDO.
Saying a game is exclusive FROM NINTENDO is kinda redundant. I mean, is Nintendo really going to make the next Kirby game multiplatform? Obviously, if it's from Nintendo, it's exclusive.
Second of all, I think first party games is the least of Nintendo's problems. Ask anyone who knows anything about games, and they could probaly list a half-dozen games first party Nintendo games. Now ask the same person about first-party Sony games. I know a bit about games, and all I'm coming up with off the top of my head is The Getaway and EyeToy. It's pretty clear that Nintendo has plenty of unique and well-known first party games, and it's also pretty clear that that's not good enough to put them back at number one.
Also, I think it's ok he put Sonic on his list. Sonic was one of my reasons for buying a Cube, and Dreamcast is dead anyways.
downgraded from Standard cable (just about everything except premium channels) to Basic cable (local channels)
I don't know much about cable (don't watch TV) but aren't local channels the channels you get without cable? Thus defeating the purpose of having cable? Just curious.
Actually, in order to read DVD movies, the console maker has to pay royalty fees to the people that own DVD technology. Sony doesn't care, because they are one of the companys that own it, but Nintendo and Microsoft sure care, which is why Nintendo doesn't use DVD technology and Microsoft doesn't play DVDs without the remote, moving the royalty fee to just the remote instead of the whole console.
Zelda games have proven to be more and more popular at each new release.
Majora's Mask wasn't as popular as as Ocarina. And no, I'm not saying that the Zelda games are getting less popular, either. The reason that Majora's Mask and Wind Waker are less popular is because, while they are both good, they aren't the genre-changing revolution that Ocarina was. Also, Majora's Mask required a stupid add-on to play, and was depressing.
As for people people being fed up with Mario and Zelda, I'm one of the only people who like the Sonic Adventures better than Mario 64 & Sunshine, so I might not be the person to ask. Though I think most of the makers of the popular, long-standing series need to seriously take a step back and see if they can't come up with something creative, because they're getting pretty boring.
I'm an exception too. I hate tetris, pac-man, and applitude (though, to be fair, I think I just didn't like the music). I like the Final Fantasys and Sonic - wait, can Sonic be called realistic?
I'm sure after a nuclear blast my first thoughts will go to whether or not my files are safe. Since it'll get boring down in that fallout shelter, so I should read paperwork on now-dead customers and play old video games on my computer. Well, at least until the generator dies.
Final Fantasy isn't adventure, it's role-playing. Myst is adventure. Adventure just means that the primary focus of the game is exploring and puzzle solving. Role-playing is where storytelling is the main focus.
Basically, there's only two of them that are numbered funny, FF4 and FF6 (I'm using regular numbers instead of roman for clarity, normally people use roman). See, they were originally released on the SNES, but because they hadn't bothered to give us 2, 3, or 5, they just numbered them 2 and 3 so americans would have their FFs go in order. Then in the playstation era, they decided to go back to the original numbering, and release the old games under the original sceme in two-packs.
Mostly, when people talk about the original 2 and 3, they put a "j" at the end so people understand. As in "FF3j". If there isn't a "j" and the person talking is probably an American, they probably mean 4 and 6.
The rest of the games are numbered right, and once you play them you won't have a problem keeping track of those two.
If you want to play them on playstation, they go in this order:
Final Fantasy Origins (FF1 & 2j), ((FF3j not released yet)), Final Fantasy Chronicles ( FF4 + Chrono Trigger(Not an FF, but really cool)), Final Fantasy Anthology (FF5 & 6), then to the regularly numbered ones: 7, 8, 9, 10...
Since they have no storyline connection, you can play them in any order you want. I'ld recommend 9 or 10 to start, since they are the easiest. 6 is probably the most elaborate (in storyline and charactors, not graphics) and 7 is the most popular.
I hate VIII. Somehow I wound up in the final dungeon at level 20 and now it just sucks. Give me interactive movie any day over sucky gameplay and dungeons that you can get into irreguardless of level and cannot leave.
I'm surprised you think FF3 won't come over here. I mean, they've re-released the all the other pre-sony FFs over the past couple of years, why not 3? Also, I saw on the magicbox not to long ago that FF3+Secret of Mana is their next project once they finish Front Mission First. =)
The police are not obligated to provide anyone with protection.
Actually, protection is their job. "To protect and serve"? Yes, they do tend to spend most of their time writing traffic tickets, but that doesn't change the fact that the reason there are cops is to protect the public.
Do you think that there are officers posted in every elevator and dark stairwell?
I used to work for a law firm. I've been to every major courthouse in my city (Cleveland) and many in the suburbs too. Maybe it's just a Cleveland thing, but there are no dark stairwells (not many elevators either, but that's a different story) and you can't walk from one end of a hallway to the other without spotting a cop. So I think, that because you have so many police officers in a courthouse, that one doesn't really need a gun and perhaps that went into the law. Maybe not. I didn't write the law.
The potential for illegal conduct outweighing the legitimate uses is why both items are prohibited in the places in question.
If we prevented everyone from doing things because they might do something illegal, we'ld have very few freedoms left. Find a lawbook for your city or state, and read through all the stupid laws in there and imagine what it would take to provent people from doing any crime in there. Then multipy that by a hundred (that's about how many lawbooks it takes for Ohio's laws, your state may very). The average person probably has about a million laws (city, state, and federal) affecting then at any time. Don't speed, don't talk on a cellphone and drive, don't download pirated music, etc, etc. Preventing them all would be insane, and would also restrict on too many people's rights. Imagine "no talking on cell phone while driving" going to "no cell phones in cars." Really think about that for a second.
The government can't prevent people from doing everything that's illegal, it just tries to prevent some of the worst of it.
In case you didn't know, it is not always a crime to kill another person.
Uh, self-defense would be the ONLY reason a normal civilian would be allowed to kill another person. And in a courthouse, there tends to be enough police around that I don't really think there's a need for that level of self-defense, which is one of the reasons they don't let regular people bring guns in. Also, you're missing the point, and that would be that the worst case senerio with a gun (random innocent people dead) is a whole lot worse than the worst case senerio with a camera (a crappy copy of a movie).
I used to love Kazaa lite. But, without it, I'll just stop wasteing time downloading songs that static out after 20 seconds, or are mislabeled, or whatever. I haven't found a decent copy of a song in weeks. I think the RIAA is purposefully filling up Kazaa with junk, it's certainly a more effective tactic than sueing people.
Yes, lets have the government regulate what we can take anywhere, because we *might* commit a crime with it.
Guns can kill people. That's worth a little restriction on freedom, that I don't have to worry about being shot in a courthouse. The worst a person with a camcorder is going to do is make a crappy copy of a movie.
As for the train, traffic sucks in most big cities. I live near Cleveland, which isn't as bad as most cities, yet despite owning a car, I still prefer to take RTA downtown. It's just easier than fighting traffic; it doesn't mean you're poor.
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Actually, I think that video game ratings, though they have problems, are better than movie ratings. Teen obviously means that the game is suited for teenagers, Mature sounds like it means adult. Plus, video game ratings have "content descripters" which say if the game is violent or sexual or whatever, so you get more infomation than just a letter. Though it would help if games got ratings that make sense, rather than DOA Volleyball being rated Mature when it's about as offensive as a Victoria's Secret Catalog, but that's another arguement.
I'm very much wondering how abotions and video games are connected. One is a form of entertainment, the other, a very serious moral decision. Hey, I know! Let's make a video game about abortion! It would be unique.......
Something Awful has some reviews of some hentai dating sim games. As it turns out, if you can imagine it, someone has made a game twice as disturbing.
I personally love 2d platformers on 3d systems because they are really creative. Unfortunetly, there's not that many of them. Viewtiful Joe, Kirby 64, and Tomba (PS1) are the only ones I've seen. I would love to see Nintendo make a 2d Mario game for the Cube, though they're probably not going to, since they can't even be bothered to make a new Mario for the Gameboy. Would be nice though, and it would probably beat the hell out of Mario Sunshine.
The article is about exclusive games FROM NINTENDO.
Saying a game is exclusive FROM NINTENDO is kinda redundant. I mean, is Nintendo really going to make the next Kirby game multiplatform? Obviously, if it's from Nintendo, it's exclusive.
Second of all, I think first party games is the least of Nintendo's problems. Ask anyone who knows anything about games, and they could probaly list a half-dozen games first party Nintendo games. Now ask the same person about first-party Sony games. I know a bit about games, and all I'm coming up with off the top of my head is The Getaway and EyeToy. It's pretty clear that Nintendo has plenty of unique and well-known first party games, and it's also pretty clear that that's not good enough to put them back at number one.
Also, I think it's ok he put Sonic on his list. Sonic was one of my reasons for buying a Cube, and Dreamcast is dead anyways.
I didn't see that. Thanks for letting me know. =)
Actually, Ani Difranco's label (Rightous Babe Records) is unfortunetly part of the RIAA.
Check out RIAA Radar
downgraded from Standard cable (just about everything except premium channels) to Basic cable (local channels)
I don't know much about cable (don't watch TV) but aren't local channels the channels you get without cable? Thus defeating the purpose of having cable? Just curious.
Nights doesn't require the analog controller. I don't have one, and I play Nights just fine.
Actually, in order to read DVD movies, the console maker has to pay royalty fees to the people that own DVD technology. Sony doesn't care, because they are one of the companys that own it, but Nintendo and Microsoft sure care, which is why Nintendo doesn't use DVD technology and Microsoft doesn't play DVDs without the remote, moving the royalty fee to just the remote instead of the whole console.
Zelda games have proven to be more and more popular at each new release.
Majora's Mask wasn't as popular as as Ocarina. And no, I'm not saying that the Zelda games are getting less popular, either. The reason that Majora's Mask and Wind Waker are less popular is because, while they are both good, they aren't the genre-changing revolution that Ocarina was. Also, Majora's Mask required a stupid add-on to play, and was depressing.
As for people people being fed up with Mario and Zelda, I'm one of the only people who like the Sonic Adventures better than Mario 64 & Sunshine, so I might not be the person to ask. Though I think most of the makers of the popular, long-standing series need to seriously take a step back and see if they can't come up with something creative, because they're getting pretty boring.
I'm an exception too. I hate tetris, pac-man, and applitude (though, to be fair, I think I just didn't like the music). I like the Final Fantasys and Sonic - wait, can Sonic be called realistic?
I'm sure after a nuclear blast my first thoughts will go to whether or not my files are safe. Since it'll get boring down in that fallout shelter, so I should read paperwork on now-dead customers and play old video games on my computer. Well, at least until the generator dies.
Final Fantasy isn't adventure, it's role-playing. Myst is adventure. Adventure just means that the primary focus of the game is exploring and puzzle solving. Role-playing is where storytelling is the main focus.
When I was a kid my dad had a political sim game. It was the most boring thing I've ever played.
Basically, there's only two of them that are numbered funny, FF4 and FF6 (I'm using regular numbers instead of roman for clarity, normally people use roman). See, they were originally released on the SNES, but because they hadn't bothered to give us 2, 3, or 5, they just numbered them 2 and 3 so americans would have their FFs go in order. Then in the playstation era, they decided to go back to the original numbering, and release the old games under the original sceme in two-packs.
Mostly, when people talk about the original 2 and 3, they put a "j" at the end so people understand. As in "FF3j". If there isn't a "j" and the person talking is probably an American, they probably mean 4 and 6.
The rest of the games are numbered right, and once you play them you won't have a problem keeping track of those two.
If you want to play them on playstation, they go in this order:
Final Fantasy Origins (FF1 & 2j), ((FF3j not released yet)), Final Fantasy Chronicles ( FF4 + Chrono Trigger(Not an FF, but really cool)), Final Fantasy Anthology (FF5 & 6), then to the regularly numbered ones: 7, 8, 9, 10...
Since they have no storyline connection, you can play them in any order you want. I'ld recommend 9 or 10 to start, since they are the easiest. 6 is probably the most elaborate (in storyline and charactors, not graphics) and 7 is the most popular.
I hate VIII. Somehow I wound up in the final dungeon at level 20 and now it just sucks. Give me interactive movie any day over sucky gameplay and dungeons that you can get into irreguardless of level and cannot leave.
I'm surprised you think FF3 won't come over here. I mean, they've re-released the all the other pre-sony FFs over the past couple of years, why not 3? Also, I saw on the magicbox not to long ago that FF3+Secret of Mana is their next project once they finish Front Mission First. =)
That's okay, I've had plenty of practice being mocked in real life. =)
why is the "strike" tag not supported? I can't be the only one sick of seeing ^Hs.
I was wondering what the "^H^H"s were. Now I'm happy. =)
The police are not obligated to provide anyone with protection.
Actually, protection is their job. "To protect and serve"? Yes, they do tend to spend most of their time writing traffic tickets, but that doesn't change the fact that the reason there are cops is to protect the public.
Do you think that there are officers posted in every elevator and dark stairwell?
I used to work for a law firm. I've been to every major courthouse in my city (Cleveland) and many in the suburbs too. Maybe it's just a Cleveland thing, but there are no dark stairwells (not many elevators either, but that's a different story) and you can't walk from one end of a hallway to the other without spotting a cop. So I think, that because you have so many police officers in a courthouse, that one doesn't really need a gun and perhaps that went into the law. Maybe not. I didn't write the law.
The potential for illegal conduct outweighing the legitimate uses is why both items are prohibited in the places in question.
If we prevented everyone from doing things because they might do something illegal, we'ld have very few freedoms left. Find a lawbook for your city or state, and read through all the stupid laws in there and imagine what it would take to provent people from doing any crime in there. Then multipy that by a hundred (that's about how many lawbooks it takes for Ohio's laws, your state may very). The average person probably has about a million laws (city, state, and federal) affecting then at any time. Don't speed, don't talk on a cellphone and drive, don't download pirated music, etc, etc. Preventing them all would be insane, and would also restrict on too many people's rights. Imagine "no talking on cell phone while driving" going to "no cell phones in cars." Really think about that for a second.
The government can't prevent people from doing everything that's illegal, it just tries to prevent some of the worst of it.
I envy you.
In case you didn't know, it is not always a crime to kill another person.
Uh, self-defense would be the ONLY reason a normal civilian would be allowed to kill another person. And in a courthouse, there tends to be enough police around that I don't really think there's a need for that level of self-defense, which is one of the reasons they don't let regular people bring guns in. Also, you're missing the point, and that would be that the worst case senerio with a gun (random innocent people dead) is a whole lot worse than the worst case senerio with a camera (a crappy copy of a movie).
I used to love Kazaa lite. But, without it, I'll just stop wasteing time downloading songs that static out after 20 seconds, or are mislabeled, or whatever. I haven't found a decent copy of a song in weeks. I think the RIAA is purposefully filling up Kazaa with junk, it's certainly a more effective tactic than sueing people.
Yes, lets have the government regulate what we can take anywhere, because we *might* commit a crime with it.
Guns can kill people. That's worth a little restriction on freedom, that I don't have to worry about being shot in a courthouse. The worst a person with a camcorder is going to do is make a crappy copy of a movie.
As for the train, traffic sucks in most big cities. I live near Cleveland, which isn't as bad as most cities, yet despite owning a car, I still prefer to take RTA downtown. It's just easier than fighting traffic; it doesn't mean you're poor.