How does passing laws to restrict the sale of violent games and put tight restrictions on the industry's labeling systems help parents raise their children?
Just razzing you and testing your memory, remember the large forum war over your arrival on Lums site all too well.
Glad to see your baby, WWII online is still alive and kicking, might just give it a try finally, now that it might be less buggy.
has been running for over a year now, it just recently developed the "cant read discs" problem. The XBOX rep came in, formatted the hard drive somehow, and, it works now.
I know there is a way to reformat your home hard drive, some set of controls to press on some dashbaord screen, but, I dont know what, anyone care to spill the beans?
Head to your local Gamestop or Software etc. Plenty of used copies there for people who bought it, and, are sick of the franchise. Lots of people I know bought ESPN after playing, or, hearing about Madden's lack of innovation for another year. I am sure ESPN will fall into that trap soon, but, at least they have new stuff this year, plus its only 19.99.
In SWG, the main professions are the Melee skills. I dont see many toting around ranged weapons anymore, its all swords, pikes and Vibroknucklers. Sad really, since it was supposed to be a space based RPG, and the most popular skills are beating people down with hand weapons.
So I guess Wizards of the coast are now furries?
I remember reading about this stuff in Shipbuilding guides for the recent Star Wars D20 games.
I havent played in over a year, but, I may be wrong.
In this case More does equal better. In all the other MMORPG's I have played, if I was a crafting character, I was stuck doing that, craft. I would have to rely on others for my resources. In this case, the combat system they have designed has come up with a way for me, a lowly chef, to kill a beast and get the stuff from it I need.
If that isnt enjoyable, I dont know what is. No longer limiting combat to combat only characters is awesome. What are you smoking?
Maybe Pac-Man Online would be more your speed. You know, same damn maze all the time, one thing to do. No weapons.
No, EA has made no announcement, Ms Has though. In last months Game Informer they stated that they were still in negotiations with EA over live. Perhaps the sports title dropping, and this is the first step in those negotiations.
Having just two football games, one sucking, the other being really awesome, is bad for competition. ESPN has owned this segment of the Xbox market for a year now, and maybe we will finally get to see some REAL innovation in these titles in the future.
EA may be a big behemoth, but, they have real talent in spots, and, I hate to see that talent confined to one system, or, one online service for that for one system.
Nintendo is crazy. They have the worlds most advanced handheld, and they continue to pump out older game titles on it, and, expect us to pay 20 to 40 US dollars for it.
I dont see the logic in it anymore. I am through waving their flag. They can go down without me.
We dont have space for the old stuff that sells for a LOT less than a newer used game. No one in their right mind is going to pay 30.00 for a copy just because its in an original box. That stuff would sit there collecting dust. Mint condition stuff is what E-bay is for, not retail places.
The stuff moves so infrequently and there is such a small trade in value for it, we just recently stopped taking it in. Yes, thats right, as of today, the location I work at no longer accepts 8-bit NES, Sega Genesis, Super NES, Sega Dreamcast games or peripherals. The stuff just doesnt sell. Maybe they will keep doing it at the larger metro areas, but our store just doesnt sell enough of the stuff to keep it here.
I am not happy about it. People would bring in their broken NES, Sega, and the like and we would tell them we couldnt take it, they just told us to throw it away, I liked getting a broken Sega a month, taking it home and fiddling with it to see if I could fix it, which I could sometimes. Oh well.
This would make an already great service better. I still dont like the idea of the next one not having a HD though. Not everyone lives in a boradband area, maybe they will put a dual adapter in the next one, like Sony.
Not that online gaming has been that sucessful for Sony. I think it wont hurt things to even offer ISP service, give them something to do with all those MSN nodes out there.
Never had. So, my expectations herein are solely based on where I work, a game store.
Sony, by far is the poor mans system. There are more poor people who buy this thing and its games. Why do I know they are poor? They never buy the new games, always the cheap 2 year old useed ones, or once in a while a greatest hits.
This leads me to beleive that it was marketing, not games and a quality system that drive the system today. Studies have shown that the lower economic class watch more TV. Sony has lots of TV ads and thus, marketing blitzes the poor to death.
It may have started out as a Rich system, primarily because of its huge price tag, but, I see more of the poor buying it now.
Also, I would never buy an old used PS/2 I would buy the new + version, we simply get too many used PS2's back after selling them in trade. We also get 5-10 people a month asking if we repair the things. We have only had 6 broken XBox and 3 Broken Gamecube the 6 Months I have worked at the store I work at. I stopeed counting the broken PS2's at 50.
So, in short, no, I dont think they lived up to expectations. I dont own one, but from a retail standpoint, they are hell to deal with.
This is what I think, and have observed. Games in development now can be delayed a lot longer than the past because of the technology curve is flattening out. Look at older games that had "killer graphics and sound". The graphics technology leaped forward and left them behind, so they couldnt afford to delay.
I dont see graphics and sound and AI getting that much smarter in the next few years so modern games can delay for alonger time, not worrying too much about thier game looking old. Looks at the specs on most modern PC titles. still designed for 1ghz machines. Most still have Radeon 7500 cards as the minimum card that it will run well on.
I know there is nowhere to go but up, but, I dont see any holodecks in the near future, you have to actually MOVE in a holoroom, something most gamers dont like doing (cept for those DDR freaks). They can take all the time they want now, as far as I am concerned. My Machine should be able to run thier game just fine. I would rather get a polished product with a low percewntage of bugs, than a rough product with bugs I will have to patch out later, possibly making my save games not work with the new version, etc.
The GBC processor was faster than the GB processor. Any attempt to put a GBC game into a GB will reult in an error screen, or nothing at all./gamestore employee
is gone. It was just there last week and I was watching two people play Soul Calibur II. I was amazed at how big the screen was and how much fun they were having.
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It doesn't.
I love How I am Modded redundant cause I get to the submit button 2 seconds too late.
So much for "Great Minds think alike"
Could it be Tiger is helping MS get into the handheld gaming platform market?
I hope so, considering the way Game.com sold.
Its 2005... I want my flying car too. And my house that runs itself. Bah!
Just razzing you and testing your memory, remember the large forum war over your arrival on Lums site all too well. Glad to see your baby, WWII online is still alive and kicking, might just give it a try finally, now that it might be less buggy.
Ah, more commentary from Lums kicking boy. I see you can still toot your own horn pretty well.
Predicting the end of UO again, eh Brucie?
has been running for over a year now, it just recently developed the "cant read discs" problem. The XBOX rep came in, formatted the hard drive somehow, and, it works now.
I know there is a way to reformat your home hard drive, some set of controls to press on some dashbaord screen, but, I dont know what, anyone care to spill the beans?
Head to your local Gamestop or Software etc. Plenty of used copies there for people who bought it, and, are sick of the franchise. Lots of people I know bought ESPN after playing, or, hearing about Madden's lack of innovation for another year. I am sure ESPN will fall into that trap soon, but, at least they have new stuff this year, plus its only 19.99.
I was a warrior in FFXI, too.
In SWG, the main professions are the Melee skills. I dont see many toting around ranged weapons anymore, its all swords, pikes and Vibroknucklers. Sad really, since it was supposed to be a space based RPG, and the most popular skills are beating people down with hand weapons.
Must be the Jedi thing.
So I guess Wizards of the coast are now furries? I remember reading about this stuff in Shipbuilding guides for the recent Star Wars D20 games. I havent played in over a year, but, I may be wrong.
Hey, the expansion, last I checked was going to be 19.99 retail. Sure, it is still cash, but its a lot less than you were expecting.
Did you even RTFA?
In this case More does equal better.
In all the other MMORPG's I have played, if I was a crafting character, I was stuck doing that, craft. I would have to rely on others for my resources. In this case, the combat system they have designed has come up with a way for me, a lowly chef, to kill a beast and get the stuff from it I need.
If that isnt enjoyable, I dont know what is. No longer limiting combat to combat only characters is awesome. What are you smoking?
Maybe Pac-Man Online would be more your speed. You know, same damn maze all the time, one thing to do. No weapons.
No, EA has made no announcement, Ms Has though. In last months Game Informer they stated that they were still in negotiations with EA over live. Perhaps the sports title dropping, and this is the first step in those negotiations.
Having just two football games, one sucking, the other being really awesome, is bad for competition. ESPN has owned this segment of the Xbox market for a year now, and maybe we will finally get to see some REAL innovation in these titles in the future.
EA may be a big behemoth, but, they have real talent in spots, and, I hate to see that talent confined to one system, or, one online service for that for one system.
Nintendo is crazy. They have the worlds most advanced handheld, and they continue to pump out older game titles on it, and, expect us to pay 20 to 40 US dollars for it. I dont see the logic in it anymore. I am through waving their flag. They can go down without me.
Thats strange, the place I work keeps the jewelcases and instructions. The only time we sell a PSX game with no instructions is if it came that way.
We dont have space for the old stuff that sells for a LOT less than a newer used game. No one in their right mind is going to pay 30.00 for a copy just because its in an original box. That stuff would sit there collecting dust. Mint condition stuff is what E-bay is for, not retail places.
The stuff moves so infrequently and there is such a small trade in value for it, we just recently stopped taking it in. Yes, thats right, as of today, the location I work at no longer accepts 8-bit NES, Sega Genesis, Super NES, Sega Dreamcast games or peripherals. The stuff just doesnt sell. Maybe they will keep doing it at the larger metro areas, but our store just doesnt sell enough of the stuff to keep it here.
I am not happy about it. People would bring in their broken NES, Sega, and the like and we would tell them we couldnt take it, they just told us to throw it away, I liked getting a broken Sega a month, taking it home and fiddling with it to see if I could fix it, which I could sometimes. Oh well.
Times they are a changin.
This would make an already great service better. I still dont like the idea of the next one not having a HD though. Not everyone lives in a boradband area, maybe they will put a dual adapter in the next one, like Sony. Not that online gaming has been that sucessful for Sony. I think it wont hurt things to even offer ISP service, give them something to do with all those MSN nodes out there.
Never had. So, my expectations herein are solely based on where I work, a game store.
Sony, by far is the poor mans system. There are more poor people who buy this thing and its games. Why do I know they are poor? They never buy the new games, always the cheap 2 year old useed ones, or once in a while a greatest hits.
This leads me to beleive that it was marketing, not games and a quality system that drive the system today. Studies have shown that the lower economic class watch more TV. Sony has lots of TV ads and thus, marketing blitzes the poor to death.
It may have started out as a Rich system, primarily because of its huge price tag, but, I see more of the poor buying it now.
Also, I would never buy an old used PS/2 I would buy the new + version, we simply get too many used PS2's back after selling them in trade. We also get 5-10 people a month asking if we repair the things. We have only had 6 broken XBox and 3 Broken Gamecube the 6 Months I have worked at the store I work at. I stopeed counting the broken PS2's at 50.
So, in short, no, I dont think they lived up to expectations. I dont own one, but from a retail standpoint, they are hell to deal with.
This is what I think, and have observed. Games in development now can be delayed a lot longer than the past because of the technology curve is flattening out. Look at older games that had "killer graphics and sound". The graphics technology leaped forward and left them behind, so they couldnt afford to delay.
I dont see graphics and sound and AI getting that much smarter in the next few years so modern games can delay for alonger time, not worrying too much about thier game looking old. Looks at the specs on most modern PC titles. still designed for 1ghz machines. Most still have Radeon 7500 cards as the minimum card that it will run well on.
I know there is nowhere to go but up, but, I dont see any holodecks in the near future, you have to actually MOVE in a holoroom, something most gamers dont like doing (cept for those DDR freaks). They can take all the time they want now, as far as I am concerned. My Machine should be able to run thier game just fine. I would rather get a polished product with a low percewntage of bugs, than a rough product with bugs I will have to patch out later, possibly making my save games not work with the new version, etc.
I thought the disc spun backwards.
I may be wrong though. Maybe I better research this instead of posting first.
Nah, much more fun to look stupid publicly than to research it, like half the people who post here.
You're gonna go to the software store
You're gonna give em all your money
MacIntosh plays what they want you to play
I just cant believe it
Sell out
With me oh yeah
Sell out
With me alright
Software company gonna make me lots a money
and everythings gonna be alright.
No, actually your mom is quite expensive. Worth every dime too.
No, it wasnt.
/gamestore employee
The GBC processor was faster than the GB processor. Any attempt to put a GBC game into a GB will reult in an error screen, or nothing at all.
is gone. It was just there last week and I was watching two people play Soul Calibur II. I was amazed at how big the screen was and how much fun they were having.
Now its gone.
Hey buddy can you spare a token?