So hard core gamers can't buy mass-market licensed games? Maybe these licensed games are finally starting to be decent. There are some licensed games (ex. X-Men Legends/Marvel Alliance) that are licensed and appeal to gamers who I would consider "hard core." Of course they also like their "Gear of War."
Pull the plug already. Let him die in peace and hopefully he'll be remembered in his Genesis glory days instead of in his 3D form that never did quite work out. Not every franchise can or should last forever.
I'm not a very active online gamer so please believe me when I tell you this question is genuine. Is this really a new feature? There's always the mute button on the TV/computer but I would think the ability to shut off voice contact with other players was already taken care of. Do other on-line games that allow voice contact offer this off button feature of is Halo breaking mainstream ground here? I don't know in practice how big a deal it is. I'm just surprised it's taken this long.
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The Return of Toys
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Legos are fun but if you want to get your kids the most fun toy they've ever had, find a nice big refrigerator box (or better yet, a refrigerator box and the boxes from a washer and dryer). You can thank me later.
I must be getting old. I remember reading job posting after job posting asking for 10 years Java experience back when there was no such thing. It was a running joke for a long time. I've just now realized that it's not a joke anymore. People actually can have 10 years experience in Java now that it's over 10 years old.
This is from the CEA and it's pretty consistent with everything else I've seen on the subject: "On average, current owners paid $783 for the primary TV in their home, but plan to spend $966 on their next set." $1200 is still a lot to spend on a TV and will continue to be a lot to spend on a TV in the foreseeable future. And even if there are people a lot of people willing to spend $1200 on a new HDTV, I'd wager most of them opt for a larger 720p set over a smaller 1080p set at the price they're willing to spend, especially considering the content available in HD on TV is 720p or 1080i right now.
HD is finally starting to pick up some popularity largely in part to the cost of mid-sized HDTVs plummeting. There are decent 720p LCD monitors out there for $500 online now. It won't be too long before that price is reflected in places like Wal-Mart, Costco, etc. That will only further fuel people's desire to jump to HD, not because of the quality as much as the price. It no longer makes much sense to buy an standard def TV when the HD isn't that much more. An LCD or plasma set is starting to become necessary to keep up with the Jonses. NONE of the decently priced LCD, Plasma, whatever support 1080p right now and right now is the beginning of any semblance of mass adoption. By the time 1080p sets catch up in price, most folks will have their HDTVs and those HDTVs will mostly be 720p/1080i sets. If you thought it was hard to get the Average Joe to upgrade his SDTV for 720p, just try to convince them to upgrade their 720p/1080i for a 1080p.
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Yahoo Pipes
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So Yahoo has this great new service and has talked O'Reilly into covering it. Unfortunately, the Yahoo site promoting that technology was down before Slashdotters even got a chance to check it out. Supposedly, this is because the site was already Dug, but you and I know that Digg is really a front for the Federal government to collect all the weirdos in one online community. I think Yahoo doesn't really have a pipe system is place at all and they're just trying to build hype about it by paying off O'Reilly to write a favorable but not over-the-top review of the non-existant program. I think Pipes only exists as a screenshot right now. It's probably just another attempt to get Google to spend money on a project Yahoo has no real interest in. That way Google will never notice President Bush wiretapping Google monitoring China.
"How is this possible? Gamespot reports that 'Oblivion will make extensive use of the PS3's hard drive by caching multiple gigabytes of data, which seemed to help with load times from what we saw.'"
This would be very possible on the 360 if they could assure the 360 actually had a hard drive. Unfortunately, this assumption cannot be made due to the hard driveless 360s floating around out there. Not including one of the best features of the XBox on the value edition 360s was a big mistake and it looks like Microsoft is already beginning to pay for it.
You obviously condoned an issue you claim to later expect to take someone to task on. Sorry, but you'll have to do better than cry sarcasm to have a coherent argument. It's not my fauly you didn't think things through. Better luck next time.
"You want me to play your game? I expect a copy of Vista to come with it"
You made the two equivalent, not me. If a copy of Vista came with the game then it would be a-OK from your stated position. In your agrument, you completely ignore the risks involved in upgrading the OS and then try to blast my argument for not taking that into account. For someone who was "waiting for someone to state that exact response" you sure didn't set up well for it.
If they're really targeting contractors, $99 is a bit too cheap. The perception will be that if there is a $1000 program out there that can do the same thing, it must be better than this little $99 program. Never underestimate a business' ability to blow money.
And the double irony is that games labelled "mature" don't appeal all that much to the average mature gamer. Older gamers don't really care how much blood and boobs you pack into a game as a general rule. If the "mature" video game section really lived up to its name, it'd be stocked with copies of Bejeweled, the Sims (God help us), any number of Sim* or *Tycoon games, maybe a nice arcade compilation or two, a few proper adventure games, and for some reason Red Alert and Red Alert 2.
Yeah, go double f yourselves, Remedy! I'm not going to go out there and buy a whole $400 console just to play one of your games! You want me to play your game? I expect an XBox 360 to come with it, and we all know that that's NOT going to happen.
Oh wait a minute, that sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? Just as silly as expecting any other system requirement to come with a game.
"The original Doom was the first FPS game with multiplayer."
I think you forgot about someone important. Midi Maze is the reason there are so many qualifiers tacked onto Doom's "first" multiplayer achievements in the Wiki. Granted, Doom was more infleuntial to the modern FPS multiplayer, but if you really want to argue about who was more influential to the modern multiplayer FPS, I still would put Doom 2nd behind ROTT which supported more players and had more modes of multiplayer, including the now-popular capture the flag. ROTT was released after Doom but given the development timeframes, they didn't copy from one another. The only things they shared were the Wolf3D codebase they each had license to use, much of which Doom discarded.
The PSP doesn't get original games. You should know that by now. I share your hesitation to call Symphony the best Castlevania ever but it was probably the best one not to star Simon Belmont.
NCAA Football games after about 2004 didn't make it to the Gamecube. I was a little cheesed about that since I prefer them to Madden but I didn't exactly cry myself to sleep over it.
"I don't even know if they promoted when the sliver stripe on the cans disappeared and Classic Coke was just Coke again."
Then I wonder if you were alive back then. They promoted it to death. That 90% of people who recall this story refer to the old Coke as either Coke Classic or Classic Coke is proof of how large-scale that advertising was. They didn't just take away the silver stripe. They continued to sell reformulated Coke under the moniker "New Coke" (still with silver stripe) and then sold the old formula under the title "Coca-Cola Classic." Then they relentlessly advertised Coca-Cola Classic for about 2 to 3 years when they finally just started labelling it Coca-Cola again. New Coke continued to be an option but it wasn't one that many bottlers picked up so it varied by region (much like Tab) but it dropped out of sight for most markets pretty quickly. From what I remember, it was around the late 90's when the last New Coke bottler finally abandoned the soft drink for good.
Um, used games typically are not garbage (at least not anymore garbage than new games). I've bought many used and have only had to return one due to defect. The EB (or was it Gamestop?) exchanged no problem (with receipt). They're not as good a deal as they used to be. I still remember getting Ghost Recon for the PC 1 week after it came out for $25 and I got Red Alert II for $20 used while the new copy was still going for $40. Those types of deals are long gone, but you can pick up good used games at reasonable prices. Seeing as you're getting the exact same game, I'll take the used copy as long as the price is even a dollar or so lower than the new copy.
One thing I've learned by really being an adult is that real adults often don't care too much one way or another about T&A or violence in the games they play. Those "adults only" games are more often than not just attempts to make a game more popular to minors by making it forbidden fruit but that's really beside the point.
If Wal-Mart doesn't stock a game people want, they'll get it elsewhere. The music industry still sells quite a bit of material that Wal-Mart refuses to carry and there's a whole industry devoted to movies Wal-Mart refuses to carry. Somehow they get by.
Not only TFA, but even the Wiki will back me up in stating that they are not in fact the same game. The arcade version is a lot more of a MK ripoff in terms of mechanics. They look similar due to their use of the same digitized graphics but there isn't much similarity beyone that.
"Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game" existed in two forms: arcade and console. The arcade version was completely different from the console version. Since the summary doesn't elaborate on which version is referred to, I thought it important to point out that the linked posting involves the arcade version.
Thank you, brave gamma testers for being bold enough to put this OS on your computer now so that at least some of the more glaring bugs can be worked out by the time some software company puts out a "must have" app that only runs on Vista at which point I'll have to upgrade.
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So hard core gamers can't buy mass-market licensed games? Maybe these licensed games are finally starting to be decent. There are some licensed games (ex. X-Men Legends/Marvel Alliance) that are licensed and appeal to gamers who I would consider "hard core." Of course they also like their "Gear of War."
Pull the plug already. Let him die in peace and hopefully he'll be remembered in his Genesis glory days instead of in his 3D form that never did quite work out. Not every franchise can or should last forever.
"Some people don't like caveman games"
Who doesn't like Caveman Games?! Mate tossing, Fire Staring, Dino Vaulting... What more could you want?
I'm not a very active online gamer so please believe me when I tell you this question is genuine. Is this really a new feature? There's always the mute button on the TV/computer but I would think the ability to shut off voice contact with other players was already taken care of. Do other on-line games that allow voice contact offer this off button feature of is Halo breaking mainstream ground here? I don't know in practice how big a deal it is. I'm just surprised it's taken this long.
Legos are fun but if you want to get your kids the most fun toy they've ever had, find a nice big refrigerator box (or better yet, a refrigerator box and the boxes from a washer and dryer). You can thank me later.
"Coming from 10 years full-time Java experience"
I must be getting old. I remember reading job posting after job posting asking for 10 years Java experience back when there was no such thing. It was a running joke for a long time. I've just now realized that it's not a joke anymore. People actually can have 10 years experience in Java now that it's over 10 years old.
This is from the CEA and it's pretty consistent with everything else I've seen on the subject: "On average, current owners paid $783 for the primary TV in their home, but plan to spend $966 on their next set." $1200 is still a lot to spend on a TV and will continue to be a lot to spend on a TV in the foreseeable future. And even if there are people a lot of people willing to spend $1200 on a new HDTV, I'd wager most of them opt for a larger 720p set over a smaller 1080p set at the price they're willing to spend, especially considering the content available in HD on TV is 720p or 1080i right now.
"There are decent 720p LCD monitors out there for $500 online now."
Hate to reply to myself, but I meant to say, "There are decent 32" 720p LCD monitors out there for $500 online now"
HD is finally starting to pick up some popularity largely in part to the cost of mid-sized HDTVs plummeting. There are decent 720p LCD monitors out there for $500 online now. It won't be too long before that price is reflected in places like Wal-Mart, Costco, etc. That will only further fuel people's desire to jump to HD, not because of the quality as much as the price. It no longer makes much sense to buy an standard def TV when the HD isn't that much more. An LCD or plasma set is starting to become necessary to keep up with the Jonses. NONE of the decently priced LCD, Plasma, whatever support 1080p right now and right now is the beginning of any semblance of mass adoption. By the time 1080p sets catch up in price, most folks will have their HDTVs and those HDTVs will mostly be 720p/1080i sets. If you thought it was hard to get the Average Joe to upgrade his SDTV for 720p, just try to convince them to upgrade their 720p/1080i for a 1080p.
So Yahoo has this great new service and has talked O'Reilly into covering it. Unfortunately, the Yahoo site promoting that technology was down before Slashdotters even got a chance to check it out. Supposedly, this is because the site was already Dug, but you and I know that Digg is really a front for the Federal government to collect all the weirdos in one online community. I think Yahoo doesn't really have a pipe system is place at all and they're just trying to build hype about it by paying off O'Reilly to write a favorable but not over-the-top review of the non-existant program. I think Pipes only exists as a screenshot right now. It's probably just another attempt to get Google to spend money on a project Yahoo has no real interest in. That way Google will never notice President Bush wiretapping Google monitoring China.
"How is this possible? Gamespot reports that 'Oblivion will make extensive use of the PS3's hard drive by caching multiple gigabytes of data, which seemed to help with load times from what we saw.'"
This would be very possible on the 360 if they could assure the 360 actually had a hard drive. Unfortunately, this assumption cannot be made due to the hard driveless 360s floating around out there. Not including one of the best features of the XBox on the value edition 360s was a big mistake and it looks like Microsoft is already beginning to pay for it.
You obviously condoned an issue you claim to later expect to take someone to task on. Sorry, but you'll have to do better than cry sarcasm to have a coherent argument. It's not my fauly you didn't think things through. Better luck next time.
"You want me to play your game? I expect a copy of Vista to come with it"
You made the two equivalent, not me. If a copy of Vista came with the game then it would be a-OK from your stated position. In your agrument, you completely ignore the risks involved in upgrading the OS and then try to blast my argument for not taking that into account. For someone who was "waiting for someone to state that exact response" you sure didn't set up well for it.
If they're really targeting contractors, $99 is a bit too cheap. The perception will be that if there is a $1000 program out there that can do the same thing, it must be better than this little $99 program. Never underestimate a business' ability to blow money.
And the double irony is that games labelled "mature" don't appeal all that much to the average mature gamer. Older gamers don't really care how much blood and boobs you pack into a game as a general rule. If the "mature" video game section really lived up to its name, it'd be stocked with copies of Bejeweled, the Sims (God help us), any number of Sim* or *Tycoon games, maybe a nice arcade compilation or two, a few proper adventure games, and for some reason Red Alert and Red Alert 2.
Yeah, go double f yourselves, Remedy! I'm not going to go out there and buy a whole $400 console just to play one of your games! You want me to play your game? I expect an XBox 360 to come with it, and we all know that that's NOT going to happen.
Oh wait a minute, that sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? Just as silly as expecting any other system requirement to come with a game.
"The original Doom was the first FPS game with multiplayer."
I think you forgot about someone important. Midi Maze is the reason there are so many qualifiers tacked onto Doom's "first" multiplayer achievements in the Wiki. Granted, Doom was more infleuntial to the modern FPS multiplayer, but if you really want to argue about who was more influential to the modern multiplayer FPS, I still would put Doom 2nd behind ROTT which supported more players and had more modes of multiplayer, including the now-popular capture the flag. ROTT was released after Doom but given the development timeframes, they didn't copy from one another. The only things they shared were the Wolf3D codebase they each had license to use, much of which Doom discarded.
The PSP doesn't get original games. You should know that by now. I share your hesitation to call Symphony the best Castlevania ever but it was probably the best one not to star Simon Belmont.
NCAA Football games after about 2004 didn't make it to the Gamecube. I was a little cheesed about that since I prefer them to Madden but I didn't exactly cry myself to sleep over it.
"I don't even know if they promoted when the sliver stripe on the cans disappeared and Classic Coke was just Coke again."
Then I wonder if you were alive back then. They promoted it to death. That 90% of people who recall this story refer to the old Coke as either Coke Classic or Classic Coke is proof of how large-scale that advertising was. They didn't just take away the silver stripe. They continued to sell reformulated Coke under the moniker "New Coke" (still with silver stripe) and then sold the old formula under the title "Coca-Cola Classic." Then they relentlessly advertised Coca-Cola Classic for about 2 to 3 years when they finally just started labelling it Coca-Cola again. New Coke continued to be an option but it wasn't one that many bottlers picked up so it varied by region (much like Tab) but it dropped out of sight for most markets pretty quickly. From what I remember, it was around the late 90's when the last New Coke bottler finally abandoned the soft drink for good.
Um, used games typically are not garbage (at least not anymore garbage than new games). I've bought many used and have only had to return one due to defect. The EB (or was it Gamestop?) exchanged no problem (with receipt). They're not as good a deal as they used to be. I still remember getting Ghost Recon for the PC 1 week after it came out for $25 and I got Red Alert II for $20 used while the new copy was still going for $40. Those types of deals are long gone, but you can pick up good used games at reasonable prices. Seeing as you're getting the exact same game, I'll take the used copy as long as the price is even a dollar or so lower than the new copy.
One thing I've learned by really being an adult is that real adults often don't care too much one way or another about T&A or violence in the games they play. Those "adults only" games are more often than not just attempts to make a game more popular to minors by making it forbidden fruit but that's really beside the point.
If Wal-Mart doesn't stock a game people want, they'll get it elsewhere. The music industry still sells quite a bit of material that Wal-Mart refuses to carry and there's a whole industry devoted to movies Wal-Mart refuses to carry. Somehow they get by.
Not only TFA, but even the Wiki will back me up in stating that they are not in fact the same game. The arcade version is a lot more of a MK ripoff in terms of mechanics. They look similar due to their use of the same digitized graphics but there isn't much similarity beyone that.
"Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game" existed in two forms: arcade and console. The arcade version was completely different from the console version. Since the summary doesn't elaborate on which version is referred to, I thought it important to point out that the linked posting involves the arcade version.
Thank you, brave gamma testers for being bold enough to put this OS on your computer now so that at least some of the more glaring bugs can be worked out by the time some software company puts out a "must have" app that only runs on Vista at which point I'll have to upgrade.