music is not as multidimensional as graphics: e.g.,
with two channels and few instruments you can come close to what humans can hear (ok, a crude example, but you'll get the idea). in graphics we still don't have 1000 inch screens and the graphical power to come even close what humans can see.
you are absolutely right, but i think that the author of that article wanted to say that if GTA3 will be removed from the markets, so should bible and other provocative instruments, too. which isn't going to happen. so GTA3 should be allowed to stay.
i also love mplayer, but what's almost even better is mencoder (in the mplayer package): making divx backups of dvds has never been this easy!;) and if i want to preserve part of a movie (there is only one uh... actor, whose scene i just love), no problemo, mencoder gives me the piece easily.
next week drink one cup less than usually. the following week drop another cup, etc. it's hard to get rid of it quickly, but lower the amount of caffeine you take little by little. the same applies to food if you want to get rid of extra kilos. i lost six kilos in six months pretty easily by leaving few candy bars away and few extra sandwitches...
has someone already mentioned n-gage? huge hype from nokia, big shipping numbers, some games got even good reviews in finnish video game magazines (yeah, the finnish magazines always give good points for finnish games, and nokia's games), but did anyone actually buy it?
i'm bad with physics, but i guess the sun's mass isn't constant over time, which can cause such effects that the planet earth's orbit will change. or have the other planets in our solar system changed somehow? or something like this. anyone smarter try to explain this?
if i just could remember the name of the tool, which generated acid jazz and other bizarre, but very funky and addictive songs... its output was much better than that of zenstrings. but i love the idea - unlimited music for the masses!
I also have that EMS adapter and use my PS2 controllers to play PC games, but PS2 Dual Shock controllers are much like the third party GameCube controllers - made of cheap plastic and they feel like they could break any minute. IMHO Nintendo's GameCube controllers are much superior, much better controllers in every way.
so many posts and no mention about castlevania's awesome _original_ soundtracks. especially that of symphony of the night. i really can't think of a real band, which could borrow its songs to any of the castlevania games.
i think that in games the music is tied to the other material. in snowboarding games it's best to use the music people listen to while snowboarding. but what do you listen to when killing vampires?
It's ok if they didn't release the game in USA, but why has the rest of the world suffer because of the simple minded people of USA? Why not release it in Europe and Japan?
what stunts did you have to pull in space taxi? i remember only flying around... in crazy taxi don't you actually get extra money for those stunts? pretty different games.
Perhaps the same day when consumers realize that they cannot play 3D-games using really slow video cards. Even without the eye candy do you think GfFX 5200 would be able to push those polygons?
DirectX 8.0 class cards with primitive pixel shaders are dirt cheap now. And even if it worked without pixel shader hardware old vidcards would not cut it, because of the high number of onscreen polys... It's not that bad, and yes, time for an upgrade. Like we all do, once in a year or 1.5 years.
well, they look like real monsters so i guess they should behave like ones. what's the reason for all those random encounters where you fight with e.g., orcs? the orcs want to kill you for fun? you kill say 100.000 orcs and their friends and the dog still want to try their luck? and the evil cats, and rats!! even alone!!
how about adding some logic to the random generator? like modeling the real world: let the player know that lots of monsters have been seen around here, looking for item-x. then add twenty random encounters. after that random encoutners stop until some other event (which doesn't have to be that brilliant) occurs generating more random encounters. real monsters just don't pop out of thin air without a reason.
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Visual Studio! The editor is so bad it made me smash the keyboard. Then I realised that you can get XEmacs for Windows!
if they don't make it, i will myself. ;) already wrote one in my master's thesis...
music is not as multidimensional as graphics: e.g., with two channels and few instruments you can come close to what humans can hear (ok, a crude example, but you'll get the idea). in graphics we still don't have 1000 inch screens and the graphical power to come even close what humans can see.
so you can make it run your own software?
you are absolutely right, but i think that the author of that article wanted to say that if GTA3 will be removed from the markets, so should bible and other provocative instruments, too. which isn't going to happen. so GTA3 should be allowed to stay.
i also love mplayer, but what's almost even better is mencoder (in the mplayer package): making divx backups of dvds has never been this easy! ;) and if i want to preserve part of a movie (there is only one uh... actor, whose scene i just love), no problemo, mencoder gives me the piece easily.
next week drink one cup less than usually. the following week drop another cup, etc. it's hard to get rid of it quickly, but lower the amount of caffeine you take little by little. the same applies to food if you want to get rid of extra kilos. i lost six kilos in six months pretty easily by leaving few candy bars away and few extra sandwitches...
has someone already mentioned n-gage? huge hype from nokia, big shipping numbers, some games got even good reviews in finnish video game magazines (yeah, the finnish magazines always give good points for finnish games, and nokia's games), but did anyone actually buy it?
i'm bad with physics, but i guess the sun's mass isn't constant over time, which can cause such effects that the planet earth's orbit will change. or have the other planets in our solar system changed somehow? or something like this. anyone smarter try to explain this?
but isn't this engine a bit too old? i mean, we've seen millions of boring quake 3 clones. why yet another more?
no amount of super hardware will make up for the missing games. this will flop faster than anything else (well, not perhaps including n-gage).
cannot access the document (it's slashdotted!). but is it about... hentai?
gotta get it!
if i just could remember the name of the tool, which generated acid jazz and other bizarre, but very funky and addictive songs... its output was much better than that of zenstrings. but i love the idea - unlimited music for the masses!
I also have that EMS adapter and use my PS2 controllers to play PC games, but PS2 Dual Shock controllers are much like the third party GameCube controllers - made of cheap plastic and they feel like they could break any minute. IMHO Nintendo's GameCube controllers are much superior, much better controllers in every way.
so many posts and no mention about castlevania's awesome _original_ soundtracks. especially that of symphony of the night. i really can't think of a real band, which could borrow its songs to any of the castlevania games. i think that in games the music is tied to the other material. in snowboarding games it's best to use the music people listen to while snowboarding. but what do you listen to when killing vampires?
I thought it meant Neanderthal Technology.
It's ok if they didn't release the game in USA, but why has the rest of the world suffer because of the simple minded people of USA? Why not release it in Europe and Japan?
Where every freak is given a gun, with a smile.
what stunts did you have to pull in space taxi? i remember only flying around... in crazy taxi don't you actually get extra money for those stunts? pretty different games.
no lawsuit without evidence? herecy!
Perhaps the same day when consumers realize that they cannot play 3D-games using really slow video cards. Even without the eye candy do you think GfFX 5200 would be able to push those polygons?
DirectX 8.0 class cards with primitive pixel shaders are dirt cheap now. And even if it worked without pixel shader hardware old vidcards would not cut it, because of the high number of onscreen polys... It's not that bad, and yes, time for an upgrade. Like we all do, once in a year or 1.5 years.
well, they look like real monsters so i guess they should behave like ones. what's the reason for all those random encounters where you fight with e.g., orcs? the orcs want to kill you for fun? you kill say 100.000 orcs and their friends and the dog still want to try their luck? and the evil cats, and rats!! even alone!!
how about adding some logic to the random generator? like modeling the real world: let the player know that lots of monsters have been seen around here, looking for item-x. then add twenty random encounters. after that random encoutners stop until some other event (which doesn't have to be that brilliant) occurs generating more random encounters. real monsters just don't pop out of thin air without a reason.
So, another pretty average (especially on PC) FPS gets a pricecut. What's the news?