You can get an Xbox, Xbox Live!, and have it all hookup to an impressive home theatre setup (DD/DTS, component video, etc) for less than the cost of the new everything your computer will need.
It's just different. I think the separation is fine (on Xbox/GCN more than PS2, since the PS2 sticks ace lined up, making them harder to use). The only thing that would make it easier to line up shots on the console versions would be some sort of smooth resistance when moving. The same deceleration you get from a mouse ball. Incidently, that's why I own a wireless ball mouse for gaming (rather than an optical), and only use my optical mouse for office work.
Even if you don't agree, the Dreamcast (huzzah, huzzah) had a keyboard and mouse to go with it, and games like Quake 3, Unreal, and Half-life (recently released through the magic of file trading, even though Sierra pulled the plug) all support it. Since you can buy Q3 for the DC for only a couple of dollars, this is great:)
I'm not saying consoles are 100% super-duper better, I'm just saying they're better overall, and not as bad for fps as people seem to think.
Of course, my PC keyb/mouse setup is different from most people's default WASD since I evolved mine. First was Z and X for strafing in Doom (Wolfenstein didn't support it, IIRC), then game A and Q for forward and backward (respectively), then more buttons for jump/duck, and so on. Since most DX games don't seem to handle dvorak well, though (especially Unreal engine games, they won't let you assign keys like ' , . as movement keys), and the fact that PC gaming involves Windows and a whole driver circle-jerk/cluster fuck, I just went 100% console. Not because it was too hard to get used to the mouse:)
PS: I'm Canadian, and I appreciate you not immolating English to make it easier to spell (ala US Webster's Dictionary spellings).
The Neo Geo Pocket Colour lasted about 15 hours on a pair of alkaline AAs. SNK did a good job on it, it's just that overall, they didn't have the cash.
Well, and the sprites couldn't have very many colours. I didn't like that. It's not a big deal in a game like Capcom Cardfighters Clash, but you really notice it in games like Match of the Millenium.
Do you remember Sega NOMAD? Do you remember how long its batteries lasted, or how clunky it was?
Sometimes, waiting 10 years for technology to mature is good. It's why I can get 10 year old CPUs in things like my watch without my watch needing a nuclear power source.
Competition is good, but don't be so quick to think that suddenly Sony will be putting out VR headsets with games that are totally immersive. Not that those would even be useful, since portable gaming is about pickup and play -- not silly things that are gimmicky (Virtual Boy).
But you'd be hard pressed to find the variety of shooters (not 1st person), Japanese RPGs, simulation games (Harvest Moon!), action games, etc, on the PC.
Plus, with the exception of strategy games and possibly some 1st person shooters, the keyboard/mouse combination isn't the ideal.
] Can you even play Sims Online in single-player mode?
*Notes the "Online" in the title, as opposed to the lack of such in "The Sims"
It's a valid question. Phantasy Star Online has an offline, single-player mode (as well as an offline, multi-player mode).
On the Dreamcast, Next Tetris Online Edition worked fine offline as well (it had online features to suplement it, though).
Just because something has online in the title, doesn't make it an exclusively online game. Which is why that question is valid, and should be replied to seriously.
For every person who is not a thief, there are quite a few people who have their stories which end with, "and to this day he is still the only person I ever met who actually bought most of the games he ever played."
With console gaming, the piracy problem is greatly reduced. You still have people who don't like the idea of paying to support the games that come out, but at least they can rent it from Blockbuster.
That's also why the console revenues always outpace the PC revenues, and why consoles have more than 2 genres of game.
You have a threshold setting of at least 2, which means you missed the critical reply of a person (rated 1) who was trying to debunk the original good post as a troll.
I can probably do a lot more maturing. To think that you're grown up when you're in your 20s is pretty serious hubris.
Also, I haven't had much of a hand in administration of kuro5hin for quite some time. Rusty quietly showed me the door, so to speak. Except for checking in from time to time, and occasionally posting polls (every few months), I really have little to do with things there anymore. I've been much busier with my hobby of video gaming than computers.
You're completely correct. In the case of the person above, they don't realize that just because someone doesn't want to learn, doesn't mean that they're bad. I'm simplifying for someone who seems too immature to understand the subtles of human interaction.
I didn't really feel like spending more paragraphs explaining life to someone who seems smart enough to go out and experience it, even though they've curiously not done so yet.
You have no right to judge how people live their lives. Disagree if you want, but don't go feeling all smug and supperior because you're doing something that other people aren't. That's just ego stroking over your hobby.
Do you understand anything about people? Different people are different in different ways. While you may like to think that people don't want to sit down and understand are stupid, you're ignoring people who don't have time for things, or simply aren't interested in learning something. Part of how humanity has moved forward (besides designing tools that reduce work by not forcing you to spend years in university for every appliance you own), is by specialization. I can't know everything about everything if I want to get anywhere in life. As early as grade 9 I need to start specializing the classes I take towards an eventual career if I want to be in that career by my mid-20s.
If thinking you're better than other people because you know about computers is how you base your fragile ego, I really want you to go outside into the real world and do some growing up. Your intollerance is disgusting. Grow up. No one is better or worse than anyone else because of what they know, people are only better or worse because of how they act. Your actions leave much to be desired.
People like you are the reason that most people stop reading Slashdot or Kuro5hin.
While Shikigami no Shiro is sadly butchered, those of us who own Gunbird 2 on the Dreamcast and enjoyed its wonderful import cry when we play MLF, aka Gunbird. Gunbird was never translated over here properly.
The worst part about XS Games' shitty port is that you can look at the PSX disc and see that it has all the movies and text intact, they just delete all the lines of code in the program which display text or play a movie. Whenever you get up to those crazy pirates, the game pauses for it. Then moves on. Pathetic.
Applications are supposed to be permissive in what they take is input. Granted, you shouldn't hide that it's wrong (IE needs to have popups for malformed pages), and it shouldn't make its own decisions for you (for example, its overzealous mime typing), but making the best logical render of something that's broken is just good software design.
Writting programs that spew un-RFC compliant crap, like IIS or Outlook -- that's poor software design. Always be exacting in what you output, as much as you are permissive with your input.
To the man with a 40gb music collection, 20gb is not enough.
People aren't happy with having all of their music broken up into little pieces. They want everything at their fingertips, wherever they are. That is why people want big portable music devices. No CDs to bring with them, no disc swapping. For someone like me, who cycles for hours, there is no reason not to have many gigs of music with me.
Accidental activation won't happen, only willful malice and intent to kill will. Precisely the things which shouldn't have a system to activate in the first place.
We had Rez, Panzer Dragoon: Orta, Chrono Cross, Soul Calibur, Jet Grind Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, Animal Crossing, Xenogears, FF9, Resident Evil, Shenmue 2...
Not all of these games are RPGs, but they all have many attributes to recommend them to the serious gamer. If you're looking for the ultimate RPG with many mini-games, then you won't get that RPG very often. Every few years is often enough, I think, considering how many decent games are out there that are worth your time (such as Devil May Cry, or Sonic Adventure).
There are lots of good games. You just have to look for them:)
Shenmue 1 had racing of forklifts, the motorcycle sequence, the virtua fighter fighting engine, collectables, QTE events, real arcades with real arcade games, etc, etc, etc.
Shenmue 1 is a trip to Japan. Shenmue 2 is a trip to Hong Kong. They graphics are enough to make you believe and feel very much for Ryo on his quest to avenge his father.
I could say the same thing about Xenosaga, a great game with a very immersive plot. There are lots of games out with these layers and beauty to them, you just have to look for them.
The important part of Live! is your gamertag, which is kept as a file. You can have up to 7 stored on the Xbox, and 1 on each memory card you own. You can delete them.
The new-kit method (which I thought about when a local retailer blew out their Live! kits), would require you cancel your old account + delete your old tag. The new one will be automatically put on when you enter the new validation code + your CC number.
Muting is global and works both ways, so if you do run into some trash-talking 12-yos, muting them will stop you from hearing them (and them from hearing you) in every Live! game you own. You can also send bad feedback, as well as visible bad feedback via www.gamertagdatabase.com.
If you don't like voice stuff, there's no requirement you play with your voice communicator in. Unless you're playing PSO (currently the only game that has serious non-verbal communication support via soft keyb, shortcuts, emot chat, and USB keyboard support), you'll be missing out on the whole playing-with-people experience. But that's only if you're so emotionally crippled that you can't talk to strangers or make new friends.
As I said, overall tie ratios since launch are still higher. MS has given away 2 games with every bundle of their Xbox system (JSRF/Sega GT 2002, Andrenaline pack, etc); Nintendo has only given away one, and that only started in April (MS has had bundles since October 2002 in NA, as well as many other bundles in other regions).
MS hasn't finished its decisions yet, but the early beta people will be up in a couple of months. I hope they don't do anything stupid, like over price it. Live! kits are 69.99 CDN at most places. So, if they don't want to make it so that people just buy new live kits every year, MS will have to price Live at less than 5.80$ CDN a month.
I like my gamertag, but I don't like it enough to pay more than a new live kit. Besides, their cheap, shitty Live headsets break so easily, I'll need a nice supply of them.
MS has talked about other ways of doing it up, like giving you a free game with your subscription (to make it worth not buying a new live kit). That would entirely depend on the game involved.
The RE remake was astounding. As someone who values high-quality graphics, I was litterally knocked over by how good it looked. I have no problem buying it, as I never owned the original. Based on the strength of it, I bought Eternal Darkness, RE 2 and 3 (2 first on the DC, then traded in and bought for GCN), RE 0, Silent Hill 2, etc.
And SNES remakes! Wow! I love it. Most of those cartridges are hard to find, let alone portable in a nomad-like version of the SNES which doesn't exist. On the other hand, I can just go pay 30$ or so and get in on my GBA SP... sign me up again!
And an FF7 remake would rock. I don't care for the grainy PSX graphics of it, nor does the PC version run on anything other than a specific configuration of hardware (I've tried to make it go). To have a better looking version with bugs fixed, that I can play in PL2 surround on my GCN would rock.
They don't make games to NOT sell them. These games are popular for a reason, and rereleasing them is not a crime. It's satisfying a market demand, both of people who want improved versions and people who missed out on it the first time around.
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You can get an Xbox, Xbox Live!, and have it all hookup to an impressive home theatre setup (DD/DTS, component video, etc) for less than the cost of the new everything your computer will need.
That's amazing.
It's just different. I think the separation is fine (on Xbox/GCN more than PS2, since the PS2 sticks ace lined up, making them harder to use). The only thing that would make it easier to line up shots on the console versions would be some sort of smooth resistance when moving. The same deceleration you get from a mouse ball. Incidently, that's why I own a wireless ball mouse for gaming (rather than an optical), and only use my optical mouse for office work.
:)
:)
Even if you don't agree, the Dreamcast (huzzah, huzzah) had a keyboard and mouse to go with it, and games like Quake 3, Unreal, and Half-life (recently released through the magic of file trading, even though Sierra pulled the plug) all support it. Since you can buy Q3 for the DC for only a couple of dollars, this is great
I'm not saying consoles are 100% super-duper better, I'm just saying they're better overall, and not as bad for fps as people seem to think.
Of course, my PC keyb/mouse setup is different from most people's default WASD since I evolved mine. First was Z and X for strafing in Doom (Wolfenstein didn't support it, IIRC), then game A and Q for forward and backward (respectively), then more buttons for jump/duck, and so on. Since most DX games don't seem to handle dvorak well, though (especially Unreal engine games, they won't let you assign keys like ' , . as movement keys), and the fact that PC gaming involves Windows and a whole driver circle-jerk/cluster fuck, I just went 100% console. Not because it was too hard to get used to the mouse
PS: I'm Canadian, and I appreciate you not immolating English to make it easier to spell (ala US Webster's Dictionary spellings).
The Neo Geo Pocket Colour lasted about 15 hours on a pair of alkaline AAs. SNK did a good job on it, it's just that overall, they didn't have the cash.
Well, and the sprites couldn't have very many colours. I didn't like that. It's not a big deal in a game like Capcom Cardfighters Clash, but you really notice it in games like Match of the Millenium.
Do you remember Sega NOMAD? Do you remember how long its batteries lasted, or how clunky it was?
Sometimes, waiting 10 years for technology to mature is good. It's why I can get 10 year old CPUs in things like my watch without my watch needing a nuclear power source.
Competition is good, but don't be so quick to think that suddenly Sony will be putting out VR headsets with games that are totally immersive. Not that those would even be useful, since portable gaming is about pickup and play -- not silly things that are gimmicky (Virtual Boy).
But you'd be hard pressed to find the variety of shooters (not 1st person), Japanese RPGs, simulation games (Harvest Moon!), action games, etc, on the PC.
Plus, with the exception of strategy games and possibly some 1st person shooters, the keyboard/mouse combination isn't the ideal.
] Can you even play Sims Online in single-player mode?
*Notes the "Online" in the title, as opposed to the lack of such in "The Sims"
It's a valid question. Phantasy Star Online has an offline, single-player mode (as well as an offline, multi-player mode).
On the Dreamcast, Next Tetris Online Edition worked fine offline as well (it had online features to suplement it, though).
Just because something has online in the title, doesn't make it an exclusively online game. Which is why that question is valid, and should be replied to seriously.
For every person who is not a thief, there are quite a few people who have their stories which end with, "and to this day he is still the only person I ever met who actually bought most of the games he ever played."
With console gaming, the piracy problem is greatly reduced. You still have people who don't like the idea of paying to support the games that come out, but at least they can rent it from Blockbuster.
That's also why the console revenues always outpace the PC revenues, and why consoles have more than 2 genres of game.
It's much more in depth, and is correct in addressing this.
You have a threshold setting of at least 2, which means you missed the critical reply of a person (rated 1) who was trying to debunk the original good post as a troll.
I can probably do a lot more maturing. To think that you're grown up when you're in your 20s is pretty serious hubris.
Also, I haven't had much of a hand in administration of kuro5hin for quite some time. Rusty quietly showed me the door, so to speak. Except for checking in from time to time, and occasionally posting polls (every few months), I really have little to do with things there anymore. I've been much busier with my hobby of video gaming than computers.
You're completely correct. In the case of the person above, they don't realize that just because someone doesn't want to learn, doesn't mean that they're bad. I'm simplifying for someone who seems too immature to understand the subtles of human interaction.
I didn't really feel like spending more paragraphs explaining life to someone who seems smart enough to go out and experience it, even though they've curiously not done so yet.
You have no right to judge how people live their lives. Disagree if you want, but don't go feeling all smug and supperior because you're doing something that other people aren't. That's just ego stroking over your hobby.
Do you understand anything about people? Different people are different in different ways. While you may like to think that people don't want to sit down and understand are stupid, you're ignoring people who don't have time for things, or simply aren't interested in learning something. Part of how humanity has moved forward (besides designing tools that reduce work by not forcing you to spend years in university for every appliance you own), is by specialization. I can't know everything about everything if I want to get anywhere in life. As early as grade 9 I need to start specializing the classes I take towards an eventual career if I want to be in that career by my mid-20s.
If thinking you're better than other people because you know about computers is how you base your fragile ego, I really want you to go outside into the real world and do some growing up. Your intollerance is disgusting. Grow up. No one is better or worse than anyone else because of what they know, people are only better or worse because of how they act. Your actions leave much to be desired.
People like you are the reason that most people stop reading Slashdot or Kuro5hin.
Nub is slang for newb is slang for newbie is British slang for new boy.
Not neophyte.
While Shikigami no Shiro is sadly butchered, those of us who own Gunbird 2 on the Dreamcast and enjoyed its wonderful import cry when we play MLF, aka Gunbird. Gunbird was never translated over here properly.
The worst part about XS Games' shitty port is that you can look at the PSX disc and see that it has all the movies and text intact, they just delete all the lines of code in the program which display text or play a movie. Whenever you get up to those crazy pirates, the game pauses for it. Then moves on. Pathetic.
Applications are supposed to be permissive in what they take is input. Granted, you shouldn't hide that it's wrong (IE needs to have popups for malformed pages), and it shouldn't make its own decisions for you (for example, its overzealous mime typing), but making the best logical render of something that's broken is just good software design.
Writting programs that spew un-RFC compliant crap, like IIS or Outlook -- that's poor software design. Always be exacting in what you output, as much as you are permissive with your input.
20gb is enough.
To the man with a 40gb music collection, 20gb is not enough.
People aren't happy with having all of their music broken up into little pieces. They want everything at their fingertips, wherever they are. That is why people want big portable music devices. No CDs to bring with them, no disc swapping. For someone like me, who cycles for hours, there is no reason not to have many gigs of music with me.
Main HD, spin up.
It's you!
How are you Gentleman. All your kernel are belong to us.
Compile you say?
You have no chance to link, make your time.
Ha Ha Ha.
(Incidently, it's set up us, not set us up)
But if Bush goes mad, and he sends out the order, we're fucked.
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" says it all, really.
Accidental activation won't happen, only willful malice and intent to kill will. Precisely the things which shouldn't have a system to activate in the first place.
We had Rez, Panzer Dragoon: Orta, Chrono Cross, Soul Calibur, Jet Grind Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, Animal Crossing, Xenogears, FF9, Resident Evil, Shenmue 2...
:)
Not all of these games are RPGs, but they all have many attributes to recommend them to the serious gamer. If you're looking for the ultimate RPG with many mini-games, then you won't get that RPG very often. Every few years is often enough, I think, considering how many decent games are out there that are worth your time (such as Devil May Cry, or Sonic Adventure).
There are lots of good games. You just have to look for them
Shenmue 1 had racing of forklifts, the motorcycle sequence, the virtua fighter fighting engine, collectables, QTE events, real arcades with real arcade games, etc, etc, etc.
Shenmue 1 is a trip to Japan. Shenmue 2 is a trip to Hong Kong. They graphics are enough to make you believe and feel very much for Ryo on his quest to avenge his father.
I could say the same thing about Xenosaga, a great game with a very immersive plot. There are lots of games out with these layers and beauty to them, you just have to look for them.
The important part of Live! is your gamertag, which is kept as a file. You can have up to 7 stored on the Xbox, and 1 on each memory card you own. You can delete them.
The new-kit method (which I thought about when a local retailer blew out their Live! kits), would require you cancel your old account + delete your old tag. The new one will be automatically put on when you enter the new validation code + your CC number.
Muting is global and works both ways, so if you do run into some trash-talking 12-yos, muting them will stop you from hearing them (and them from hearing you) in every Live! game you own. You can also send bad feedback, as well as visible bad feedback via www.gamertagdatabase.com.
If you don't like voice stuff, there's no requirement you play with your voice communicator in. Unless you're playing PSO (currently the only game that has serious non-verbal communication support via soft keyb, shortcuts, emot chat, and USB keyboard support), you'll be missing out on the whole playing-with-people experience. But that's only if you're so emotionally crippled that you can't talk to strangers or make new friends.
Your ISP is Microsoft?
Your post is not complete.
As I said, overall tie ratios since launch are still higher. MS has given away 2 games with every bundle of their Xbox system (JSRF/Sega GT 2002, Andrenaline pack, etc); Nintendo has only given away one, and that only started in April (MS has had bundles since October 2002 in NA, as well as many other bundles in other regions).
MS hasn't finished its decisions yet, but the early beta people will be up in a couple of months. I hope they don't do anything stupid, like over price it. Live! kits are 69.99 CDN at most places. So, if they don't want to make it so that people just buy new live kits every year, MS will have to price Live at less than 5.80$ CDN a month.
I like my gamertag, but I don't like it enough to pay more than a new live kit. Besides, their cheap, shitty Live headsets break so easily, I'll need a nice supply of them.
MS has talked about other ways of doing it up, like giving you a free game with your subscription (to make it worth not buying a new live kit). That would entirely depend on the game involved.
The RE remake was astounding. As someone who values high-quality graphics, I was litterally knocked over by how good it looked. I have no problem buying it, as I never owned the original. Based on the strength of it, I bought Eternal Darkness, RE 2 and 3 (2 first on the DC, then traded in and bought for GCN), RE 0, Silent Hill 2, etc.
And SNES remakes! Wow! I love it. Most of those cartridges are hard to find, let alone portable in a nomad-like version of the SNES which doesn't exist. On the other hand, I can just go pay 30$ or so and get in on my GBA SP... sign me up again!
And an FF7 remake would rock. I don't care for the grainy PSX graphics of it, nor does the PC version run on anything other than a specific configuration of hardware (I've tried to make it go). To have a better looking version with bugs fixed, that I can play in PL2 surround on my GCN would rock.
They don't make games to NOT sell them. These games are popular for a reason, and rereleasing them is not a crime. It's satisfying a market demand, both of people who want improved versions and people who missed out on it the first time around.