How can people be upset? Easy, because they can make money or fuel their persecution complex off it. The whole issue was a non-issue to me, as you had to go out of your way to unlock this, and two other mature games that year, Gow of War and Killer 7, had far more graphic depections of sex yet still got an M rating.
They have had a closed eta for a while you know. IF anything, it sounds like they heard the complaints and are working to make it better. Thats pretty strange, as most companies express nothign but hype over how something is comming along.
Actualy, nintendo knows they make the most money by skipping out on power and only doing the bare minumum to get by. Look at the gameboys for example. Most are underpowered considering what they could offer, and cut features to save money. The Ds is the only exception, but even it was just a N64 with some of the Game.com's abilities. On the console front, they do the same thing. The wii is the home console version of a DS. Nintendo only did enough with the hardware to get by, selling the console based off a controller and hype. The wii2 will be more of the same. It's not about giving you any kind of experience, it's about Nintendo making money on units sold by shorting you on power, same as always.
Actualy, the ps3 wasn't in response to the 360. Sony got screwed by hardware shortages that forced a launch delay. They started talking about the ps3, however, years before the 360 was annouced. On the other hand, the 360 was a direct response to the success of the ps2 over the Xbox. Thats why MS cut the release cycle so short, they hoped to beat the ps3 to market, fearful that it woudl be another ps2.
I'm not sure whats up with me, but I honestly didn't care for galaxy when I played it at GS the other day, something that very much surprised me. Graphically it was decent, but looks a little bloomy and hazy, like they were trying to cover up some flaw with a filter. The gameplay was decent as well, but not the mind blowing experience people keep making it out to be. It was better than sunshine, but not the return to awesomeness for the series that I keep hearing about.
Unless the person lives alone, has a completely secured wireless/wired connection, is free of bots, trojons, and a thousand other things, you can never be entirely sure who was using the machine. It's a fundlemental failing of the law, IMHO, which is a result of bad lobbying, and a lack of technical understanding by those who passed the law.
You do know blu-ray isn't just made by sony right? Lots of other companies make hardware for it. On the UMD side, it died because no one else made UMD hardware that wasn't a psp, not even Sony themselves. That, combined with horrible title choices considering it's userbase, ment the format was doomed from the start.
The wii has a greater library than the ps3? Besides Zelda and Metroid, the rest of the linup has been pretty sorry. Galaxy is getting alot of rave previews, but having played it, i'm not sure what the fuss is about. 360's going strong now, but it took them the better part of a year to release the goods.
As far as the near future goes, i'd say Sony and MS are in good shape games wise, but Nintendo has got to do something besides release endless sequals and rehashes of current francises. It's been a long time since they started a good new series.
That thing was way ahead of its time. Full touch screen, text based internet access, and several big series like resident evil and Duke nukem. It even had some PDF functionality in it. When the DS was first shown, all I could think of was "game.com 2.0". I find it amazing so few people seem to give credit to the little handheld, as without it there would be no DS.
Hasn't Konami said at basically every oprotunity that there are no ports for this one, just like mgs3 had none? It seems to be the rumor that will not die though, just like FF 13 comming to 360.
Tools of Destruction is a pretty good game so far. The sixaxis is used well, the graphics and animations are stellar, the locations vibrant and varied, and the weapons are fun, and useful. Definately the systems best game so far.
The Mute hero has been used before in two other critically acclaimed series: The Legend of Zelda, and hrono Trigger/Chross. It is hard to tell a story like that, but it can be and has been done successfully.
With Gordon, the key principle is your Gordon freeman: everyman. Hes not an epic hero, or a warrior, or some chosen one, he's just an average joe lab worker who gets this fame built around him. I think Dr. Green even points out the oddity of this, during one of the late game rants in half-life 2.
Now, some dialogue choices and multiple paths though the story could be interesting to see in half-life 3. I take it though, that valve wants gordon to gain fame/infamy though his actions, and not any words.
The whole idea of eye of judgement was to create a card game where you had physical cards, which triggered onscreen animations and attacks, as well as kept track of all the numbers and such. It's not really a gimick, just a more physcial, tactile version of something like magic online.
Ever been in an actual conversation before? That's what the cutscenes were modeled after. You ARE Gorden Freeman, the entire naritive was designed with that in mind. So you can't really gripe about that, as well, it's like real life: You have to pay attention, or you'll miss stuff.
Grenade jumping was something all the classes could do, for the most part, and yeah, it was a skill you had to learn, but it wasn't all that hard to master. It's not that they had the courage to get rid of it, after all, they kept rocket jumping, it's just they chose to scrap all grenades for some reason. while this simplified gameplay, it really took out alot of the upper level skills required to play. Now everything is pretty cookie cutter. Still fun, but it will get old quicker than before.
They may be PC hardware these days, but the benefit is the closed specs to them, and the drameticly cheeper cost. Your getting a few grand of PC hardware at a fraction of the cost, and the knowledge you don't need upgrades for 4-5 years. It's hard to pass them up.
Mouse and keyboard support should be added an as option to some games, and despite being an option on the ps2 and ps3 since day one, its amazing we don't see it more often.
I'm pretty sure the developer is all but 2nd party now. David moved on to Eat, sleep, play, but even that company is in bed with sony. What I love about the games is the epic feel of them, which nothing else has really replicated, although Heavenly sword tries, and canon fails at.
I'm thinking the portal gun might find its way into episode 3. There is a hack to use it in HL2's single player, so I don't see why it couldn't be used in ep 3. It wouldn't fit to have human enemies in portal though. Your the labrat plaything of a PC that only cares about testing you. I don't think GLaDOS cares about anything else, not even feeding you. Your just a mouse in a maze to her.
Indie and open source gameing is neat, but support on the console front has always been iffy. Sony Allowed it on the ps1 via the Net yazoo (Devil Dice is a great example), on the ps2 via the linux kit, but the ps3's linux is still too locked down. They seem to be picking up indie developers though, with the recent release of Everyday Shooter and LittleBigPlanet on the horizon. I'd like to see that expanded to get us a greater variety of indie developers on the ps3.
I've heard nintendos new program is simular to this, but i've yet to see the results stateside. I'm not even sure it's really indie, I need to read up a bit on it. Ditto for Live arcade. There are some indie games, but alot i'm sure come from microsoft proper.
They also had the 64DD, and the Panasonic Q DVD playing gamecube. The wii right now lacks two important things: a hard drive/large memory storage and DVD playback. DVD playback was planned but got the axe early on, and the lack of a hard drive just hurts, given how much downloadable content they have.
Alot of the games are good, just not steller. I had fun with resistance, obivian, and Sigma, nto to mention graw2 and vegas, despite thier also being on the 360. Warhawk is fun as well, as is folklore. Also plannign on picking up rachet and eye of judgement this month, both of which have me drooling. Everyday shooter is grand as well, both gameplay wise and in it's experience. At Any rate, it's giving me more games to play than my wii did back when I still had it. I've yet to get some of the back catalog games like motorstorm, but i'll just get them when they become greatest hits or something. More looking at the upcomming list and trying to budget out all my purchases.
The biggest problem with BC though software on the ps3 for ps2 games is the massive size of the ps2's library. IT weight in at something like 9,000 games. Thats a whole lot of man hours of testing to ensure compatability. Toss in ps1 games, and that number shoots up an additional 10,000. I'm glad I have the 60 gig, as it's BC is fairly good so far, at least after the updates.
PVR difinatly needs more than 40 gigs, but luckly it takes any 2.5 inch sata drive and the replacement process is pretty painless from what I understand.
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How can people be upset? Easy, because they can make money or fuel their persecution complex off it. The whole issue was a non-issue to me, as you had to go out of your way to unlock this, and two other mature games that year, Gow of War and Killer 7, had far more graphic depections of sex yet still got an M rating.
They have had a closed eta for a while you know. IF anything, it sounds like they heard the complaints and are working to make it better. Thats pretty strange, as most companies express nothign but hype over how something is comming along.
Actualy, nintendo knows they make the most money by skipping out on power and only doing the bare minumum to get by. Look at the gameboys for example. Most are underpowered considering what they could offer, and cut features to save money. The Ds is the only exception, but even it was just a N64 with some of the Game.com's abilities. On the console front, they do the same thing. The wii is the home console version of a DS. Nintendo only did enough with the hardware to get by, selling the console based off a controller and hype. The wii2 will be more of the same. It's not about giving you any kind of experience, it's about Nintendo making money on units sold by shorting you on power, same as always.
Actualy, the ps3 wasn't in response to the 360. Sony got screwed by hardware shortages that forced a launch delay. They started talking about the ps3, however, years before the 360 was annouced. On the other hand, the 360 was a direct response to the success of the ps2 over the Xbox. Thats why MS cut the release cycle so short, they hoped to beat the ps3 to market, fearful that it woudl be another ps2.
I'm not sure whats up with me, but I honestly didn't care for galaxy when I played it at GS the other day, something that very much surprised me. Graphically it was decent, but looks a little bloomy and hazy, like they were trying to cover up some flaw with a filter. The gameplay was decent as well, but not the mind blowing experience people keep making it out to be. It was better than sunshine, but not the return to awesomeness for the series that I keep hearing about.
Just paint the development tools Red, so they develop faster.
Unless the person lives alone, has a completely secured wireless/wired connection, is free of bots, trojons, and a thousand other things, you can never be entirely sure who was using the machine. It's a fundlemental failing of the law, IMHO, which is a result of bad lobbying, and a lack of technical understanding by those who passed the law.
You do know blu-ray isn't just made by sony right? Lots of other companies make hardware for it. On the UMD side, it died because no one else made UMD hardware that wasn't a psp, not even Sony themselves. That, combined with horrible title choices considering it's userbase, ment the format was doomed from the start.
The wii has a greater library than the ps3? Besides Zelda and Metroid, the rest of the linup has been pretty sorry. Galaxy is getting alot of rave previews, but having played it, i'm not sure what the fuss is about. 360's going strong now, but it took them the better part of a year to release the goods.
As far as the near future goes, i'd say Sony and MS are in good shape games wise, but Nintendo has got to do something besides release endless sequals and rehashes of current francises. It's been a long time since they started a good new series.
and no mention of Tiger's Game.com?
That thing was way ahead of its time. Full touch screen, text based internet access, and several big series like resident evil and Duke nukem. It even had some PDF functionality in it. When the DS was first shown, all I could think of was "game.com 2.0". I find it amazing so few people seem to give credit to the little handheld, as without it there would be no DS.
Hasn't Konami said at basically every oprotunity that there are no ports for this one, just like mgs3 had none? It seems to be the rumor that will not die though, just like FF 13 comming to 360.
Tools of Destruction is a pretty good game so far. The sixaxis is used well, the graphics and animations are stellar, the locations vibrant and varied, and the weapons are fun, and useful. Definately the systems best game so far.
With Gordon, the key principle is your Gordon freeman: everyman. Hes not an epic hero, or a warrior, or some chosen one, he's just an average joe lab worker who gets this fame built around him. I think Dr. Green even points out the oddity of this, during one of the late game rants in half-life 2.
Now, some dialogue choices and multiple paths though the story could be interesting to see in half-life 3. I take it though, that valve wants gordon to gain fame/infamy though his actions, and not any words.
The whole idea of eye of judgement was to create a card game where you had physical cards, which triggered onscreen animations and attacks, as well as kept track of all the numbers and such. It's not really a gimick, just a more physcial, tactile version of something like magic online.
Ever been in an actual conversation before? That's what the cutscenes were modeled after. You ARE Gorden Freeman, the entire naritive was designed with that in mind. So you can't really gripe about that, as well, it's like real life: You have to pay attention, or you'll miss stuff.
Grenade jumping was something all the classes could do, for the most part, and yeah, it was a skill you had to learn, but it wasn't all that hard to master. It's not that they had the courage to get rid of it, after all, they kept rocket jumping, it's just they chose to scrap all grenades for some reason. while this simplified gameplay, it really took out alot of the upper level skills required to play. Now everything is pretty cookie cutter. Still fun, but it will get old quicker than before.
Yeah, but who woudl of thought robot hell would be in new jersey.
Mouse and keyboard support should be added an as option to some games, and despite being an option on the ps2 and ps3 since day one, its amazing we don't see it more often.
I'm pretty sure the developer is all but 2nd party now. David moved on to Eat, sleep, play, but even that company is in bed with sony. What I love about the games is the epic feel of them, which nothing else has really replicated, although Heavenly sword tries, and canon fails at.
I'm thinking the portal gun might find its way into episode 3. There is a hack to use it in HL2's single player, so I don't see why it couldn't be used in ep 3. It wouldn't fit to have human enemies in portal though. Your the labrat plaything of a PC that only cares about testing you. I don't think GLaDOS cares about anything else, not even feeding you. Your just a mouse in a maze to her.
I've heard nintendos new program is simular to this, but i've yet to see the results stateside. I'm not even sure it's really indie, I need to read up a bit on it. Ditto for Live arcade. There are some indie games, but alot i'm sure come from microsoft proper.
They also had the 64DD, and the Panasonic Q DVD playing gamecube. The wii right now lacks two important things: a hard drive/large memory storage and DVD playback. DVD playback was planned but got the axe early on, and the lack of a hard drive just hurts, given how much downloadable content they have.
Alot of the games are good, just not steller. I had fun with resistance, obivian, and Sigma, nto to mention graw2 and vegas, despite thier also being on the 360. Warhawk is fun as well, as is folklore. Also plannign on picking up rachet and eye of judgement this month, both of which have me drooling. Everyday shooter is grand as well, both gameplay wise and in it's experience. At Any rate, it's giving me more games to play than my wii did back when I still had it. I've yet to get some of the back catalog games like motorstorm, but i'll just get them when they become greatest hits or something. More looking at the upcomming list and trying to budget out all my purchases.
it's an expression. Just saying the amount of hours i've put into gaming with them justified their purchases in my mind.
PVR difinatly needs more than 40 gigs, but luckly it takes any 2.5 inch sata drive and the replacement process is pretty painless from what I understand.