almost but not entirely unlike their characters should have been
Did you mean to say "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike their characters should have been" ?
Oh, great. Just what the video game market needs - yet another ornithological civilization clone. When some real innovation or original ideas be developed?
It could be called "Rolling a Ball - The Game." Only the ball keeps growing as it rolls, like a snowball. Except there's no snow, for that would be silly.
There was a time when games WERE story driven. Back when good writing and hand-drawn art was more important than the underlying technology, games such as Planetfall, Monkey Island, Space Quest, Day of the Tentacle and Gabriel Knight all thrived. This could even be applied to some RPGs.
Did any of these have compelling gameplay? Not really. The puzzles were largely non-sensical and frustrating. Most people played them (and still do) to see how the stories progressed, and reveal what the clever writers had written. The games existed as a more interactive means of telling that story than a film or book.
Of course, these games - modeled after the original 'Adventure', and hence given that misleading genre title - no longer enjoy the prominence they once did, generally relegated to bargain bins and basements. The focus shifted somewhere along the way from art to tech, so that extra features and hardware support became the things to judge a game by. Evaluations of graphics changed from judging the thoroughness of a hand-painted backdrop to the polygon count and framerate. And its now generally accepted that game stories only exist to serve the gameplay, rather than the reverse.
And any artistic theme or coherent feeling that isn't "Dark and Gritty" is pretty much rejected straight out the window. Note the recent changing of Zelda from the controversial cel-shaded Wind Waker back to his "Dark and Gritty" Ocarina roots.
Alas, someday, the tides may again turn. However, as of now, you are correct. Most people evaluate games based on gameplay alone. To me, this is sad.
If you don't see a problem in trying to sell games that are as much as 15 years old at near full price (for GBA games) with a straight face... well, something's wrong.
Dude, no one's holding a gun to your head and FORCING you to buy them. It's called free-market economics, and it means that things are priced based on what a SELLER is willing to give it up for and a BUYER is willing to pay. Nintendo owns these games, they sold them once at $60 a pop on the NES, some of them once again as e-Reader cards or special collections (Zelda Disc, Mario All-Stars), and now they're providing them once again in a portable format for yet another price. If you still feel the price is too high, you can simply refrain from buying them and wait for the price to drop yet again.
As for the collections from other companies, charging any more than $20 would probably lead to a price that NO ONE WOULD BUY, because their games, sadly, don't have the brand recognition that Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong has. (Or even that the company Nintendo has.) All these companies are simply selling at what the market will bear, and none of them are forcing you to buy them, they're simply providing a means to do so for those that missed out on these titles in the 80's, or would like a portable version now.
No, by establishing Bill Maher's 'Piece of Ass' Corps...
[taken from www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/]
And finally, New Rule: If we really want to stop terrorism, we have to get Muslim men laid. Five British Muslims who were recently sent home from our prison at Guantanamo, charge that their American captors brought in prostitutes to taunt them, because most had never even seen a naked woman before.
And it made me wonder how many members of Al Qaeda have even dated a girl? We should hire women to infiltrate Al Qaeda cells and fuck them. Things would change quickly because young Muslim men don't really hate America. They're jealous of America. We have rap videos and the Hilton sisters and magazines with titles like Barely Legal. You know what's "barely legal" in Afghanistan? Everything!
Young men need sex, and if they don't get it for month and after month after month, they wind up cursing the day they ever decided to go to Cornell. Personal.
Have you ever wondered why the word from the Arab street is always so angry? It's because it's a bunch of guys standing in the street! Which is what guys do when they don't have girlfriends, when they're not allowed to even talk to a girl. Of course they want to commit suicide! Unlike this country where it's the married guys who want to kill themselves.
But here we always have hope. You can at least talk to a girl. And one might be crazy enough to go for you. Or you could get rich and buy one, like people do in Beverly Hills. But the connection between no sex and anger is real. It's why prizefighters stay celibate when they're in training, so that on fight night, they're pissed off and ready to kill.
It's why football players don't have sex after Wednesday. And conversely, it's why Bill Clinton never started a war.
And so, to paraphrase the sign in Mr. Clinton's old war room, "It's the pussy, stupid."
We need the Coalition of the Willing to be really willing! We need to mobilize two divisions of skanks - a regiment of ho's, and a brigade of girls who just can't say no. All under the command of Col. Ann Coulter. Who will be dressed in her "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" uniform.
Forget the Peace Corps. We need a "Piece of Ass Corps"! Girls, there's a cure to terrorism, and you're sitting on it!
No, by establishing Bill Maher's 'Piece of Ass' Corps...
[taken from www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/]
And finally, New Rule: If we really want to stop terrorism, we have to get Muslim men laid. Five British Muslims who were recently sent home from our prison at Guantanamo, charge that their American captors brought in prostitutes to taunt them, because most had never even seen a naked woman before.
And it made me wonder how many members of Al Qaeda have even dated a girl? We should hire women to infiltrate Al Qaeda cells and fuck them. Things would change quickly because young Muslim men don't really hate America. They're jealous of America. We have rap videos and the Hilton sisters and magazines with titles like Barely Legal. You know what's "barely legal" in Afghanistan? Everything!
Young men need sex, and if they don't get it for month and after month after month, they wind up cursing the day they ever decided to go to Cornell. Personal.
Have you ever wondered why the word from the Arab street is always so angry? It's because it's a bunch of guys standing in the street! Which is what guys do when they don't have girlfriends, when they're not allowed to even talk to a girl. Of course they want to commit suicide! Unlike this country where it's the married guys who want to kill themselves.
But here we always have hope. You can at least talk to a girl. And one might be crazy enough to go for you. Or you could get rich and buy one, like people do in Beverly Hills. But the connection between no sex and anger is real. It's why prizefighters stay celibate when they're in training, so that on fight night, they're pissed off and ready to kill.
It's why football players don't have sex after Wednesday. And conversely, it's why Bill Clinton never started a war.
And so, to paraphrase the sign in Mr. Clinton's old war room, "It's the pussy, stupid."
We need the Coalition of the Willing to be really willing! We need to mobilize two divisions of skanks - a regiment of ho's, and a brigade of girls who just can't say no. All under the command of Col. Ann Coulter. Who will be dressed in her "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" uniform.
Forget the Peace Corps. We need a "Piece of Ass Corps"! Girls, there's a cure to terrorism, and you're sitting on it!
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Actually, the Revolution consoles itself does have USB ports. (Or at least it did at E3, according to all the usual gaming media.)
Triple Breasted Whore of [... Ack, I've forgetten where she was from!]
Eroticon VI, if I recall?
almost but not entirely unlike their characters should have been Did you mean to say "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike their characters should have been" ?
"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
What the hell is that a quote from that I'm struggling to remember?
State-funded, yes, but they still definitely have commercials. (Or at least, it always did when I lived there...)
Whoever made the rhyme, did the crime!
"While it is meant (I would assume from the feature set) to be a replacement for Pain (and it does this admirably)..."
A replacement for raw, unadulterated pain? Then it *does* match the feature set of GIMP!
*ducks*
Oh, great. Just what the video game market needs - yet another ornithological civilization clone. When some real innovation or original ideas be developed?
But don't take my word for it, go read the reviews at gamespot.com...
Don't take my word for it...go take someone else's word for it!
P.S. What is "Katamari Damacy?"
It could be called "Rolling a Ball - The Game." Only the ball keeps growing as it rolls, like a snowball. Except there's no snow, for that would be silly.
Damn, that's a great sig.
Which explains why this: http://www.zelda.com/fourswords/launch/index.html ...is coming out in, what, 2 days?
There was a time when games WERE story driven. Back when good writing and hand-drawn art was more important than the underlying technology, games such as Planetfall, Monkey Island, Space Quest, Day of the Tentacle and Gabriel Knight all thrived. This could even be applied to some RPGs.
Did any of these have compelling gameplay? Not really. The puzzles were largely non-sensical and frustrating. Most people played them (and still do) to see how the stories progressed, and reveal what the clever writers had written. The games existed as a more interactive means of telling that story than a film or book.
Of course, these games - modeled after the original 'Adventure', and hence given that misleading genre title - no longer enjoy the prominence they once did, generally relegated to bargain bins and basements. The focus shifted somewhere along the way from art to tech, so that extra features and hardware support became the things to judge a game by. Evaluations of graphics changed from judging the thoroughness of a hand-painted backdrop to the polygon count and framerate. And its now generally accepted that game stories only exist to serve the gameplay, rather than the reverse.
And any artistic theme or coherent feeling that isn't "Dark and Gritty" is pretty much rejected straight out the window. Note the recent changing of Zelda from the controversial cel-shaded Wind Waker back to his "Dark and Gritty" Ocarina roots.
Alas, someday, the tides may again turn. However, as of now, you are correct. Most people evaluate games based on gameplay alone. To me, this is sad.
Dude, no one's holding a gun to your head and FORCING you to buy them. It's called free-market economics, and it means that things are priced based on what a SELLER is willing to give it up for and a BUYER is willing to pay. Nintendo owns these games, they sold them once at $60 a pop on the NES, some of them once again as e-Reader cards or special collections (Zelda Disc, Mario All-Stars), and now they're providing them once again in a portable format for yet another price. If you still feel the price is too high, you can simply refrain from buying them and wait for the price to drop yet again.
As for the collections from other companies, charging any more than $20 would probably lead to a price that NO ONE WOULD BUY, because their games, sadly, don't have the brand recognition that Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong has. (Or even that the company Nintendo has.) All these companies are simply selling at what the market will bear, and none of them are forcing you to buy them, they're simply providing a means to do so for those that missed out on these titles in the 80's, or would like a portable version now.
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No, by establishing Bill Maher's 'Piece of Ass' Corps...
[taken from www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/]
And finally, New Rule: If we really want to stop terrorism, we have to get Muslim men laid. Five British Muslims who were recently sent home from our prison at Guantanamo, charge that their American captors brought in prostitutes to taunt them, because most had never even seen a naked woman before.
And it made me wonder how many members of Al Qaeda have even dated a girl? We should hire women to infiltrate Al Qaeda cells and fuck them. Things would change quickly because young Muslim men don't really hate America. They're jealous of America. We have rap videos and the Hilton sisters and magazines with titles like Barely Legal. You know what's "barely legal" in Afghanistan? Everything!
Young men need sex, and if they don't get it for month and after month after month, they wind up cursing the day they ever decided to go to Cornell. Personal.
Have you ever wondered why the word from the Arab street is always so angry? It's because it's a bunch of guys standing in the street! Which is what guys do when they don't have girlfriends, when they're not allowed to even talk to a girl. Of course they want to commit suicide! Unlike this country where it's the married guys who want to kill themselves.
But here we always have hope. You can at least talk to a girl. And one might be crazy enough to go for you. Or you could get rich and buy one, like people do in Beverly Hills. But the connection between no sex and anger is real. It's why prizefighters stay celibate when they're in training, so that on fight night, they're pissed off and ready to kill.
It's why football players don't have sex after Wednesday. And conversely, it's why Bill Clinton never started a war.
And so, to paraphrase the sign in Mr. Clinton's old war room, "It's the pussy, stupid."
We need the Coalition of the Willing to be really willing! We need to mobilize two divisions of skanks - a regiment of ho's, and a brigade of girls who just can't say no. All under the command of Col. Ann Coulter. Who will be dressed in her "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" uniform.
Forget the Peace Corps. We need a "Piece of Ass Corps"! Girls, there's a cure to terrorism, and you're sitting on it!
No, by establishing Bill Maher's 'Piece of Ass' Corps... [taken from www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/] And finally, New Rule: If we really want to stop terrorism, we have to get Muslim men laid. Five British Muslims who were recently sent home from our prison at Guantanamo, charge that their American captors brought in prostitutes to taunt them, because most had never even seen a naked woman before. And it made me wonder how many members of Al Qaeda have even dated a girl? We should hire women to infiltrate Al Qaeda cells and fuck them. Things would change quickly because young Muslim men don't really hate America. They're jealous of America. We have rap videos and the Hilton sisters and magazines with titles like Barely Legal. You know what's "barely legal" in Afghanistan? Everything! Young men need sex, and if they don't get it for month and after month after month, they wind up cursing the day they ever decided to go to Cornell. Personal. Have you ever wondered why the word from the Arab street is always so angry? It's because it's a bunch of guys standing in the street! Which is what guys do when they don't have girlfriends, when they're not allowed to even talk to a girl. Of course they want to commit suicide! Unlike this country where it's the married guys who want to kill themselves. But here we always have hope. You can at least talk to a girl. And one might be crazy enough to go for you. Or you could get rich and buy one, like people do in Beverly Hills. But the connection between no sex and anger is real. It's why prizefighters stay celibate when they're in training, so that on fight night, they're pissed off and ready to kill. It's why football players don't have sex after Wednesday. And conversely, it's why Bill Clinton never started a war. And so, to paraphrase the sign in Mr. Clinton's old war room, "It's the pussy, stupid." We need the Coalition of the Willing to be really willing! We need to mobilize two divisions of skanks - a regiment of ho's, and a brigade of girls who just can't say no. All under the command of Col. Ann Coulter. Who will be dressed in her "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" uniform. Forget the Peace Corps. We need a "Piece of Ass Corps"! Girls, there's a cure to terrorism, and you're sitting on it!