You probably are older. I'm only pushing 30. I was just making a little joke. Honestly though, I know that quake was more than a 2.5D game, but to me the feel of it was a lot closer to ROTT or Doom than it was to later games like Q3A or UT. Then again, I've always used the mouse for left-right movements (dating back to Wolf 3d) and used the keyboard for forward-reverse and strafing. Quake II was the first time I really felt like I had left 2.5D but YMMV (and obviously does).
"I played this game already, back when it was called Quake."
Silly youngster. I played Quake back when it was called Rise of the Triad.
Seriously though, I'm sot so sure there will be a "next big thing" in this genre any time soon. Enough people seem to be content with the current model to keep it going as is.
Like I had to tell the Jeep dealership, "It's not about the payments. It's about the value of what I'm getting." I can completely understand the poster's reluctance to shell out $1/hr for a game that most people are paying half that for. I am a lightweight gamer (1-5 hours per week) and I've never played an MMO with a monthly subscription because I would not be getting my money's worth compared to others using the same product. This is the same reason I do not purchase brand new games. Let the people who are going to play it non-stop when it first comes out pick up the highest price.
I'm really not trying to troll here, but what specific homeopathic treatments were effective for you? The few I've tried (all allergy-related) do not work at all in my experience.
...so I'm going to have to vote for the NFL and NFLPA giving Madden an exclusive license. I don't think that gaffe will be realized this year, but it will in years to come.
You mean like the B.E.T.? (It stands for Broadcast Energy Transmitter, but I think it's funnier to think of GI Joe and Cobra battling over control of Black Entertainment Television)
I certainly agree that offering one or two fantastic deals is a tried and true method of getting shoppers, but I've never really noticed Walmart being guilty of this to any large degree. Walmart no longer has the best prices around. They don't really pretend to be the best prices around. They do claim that their prices are low (as in "Always low prices"). Walmart makes money off of having 90% of what you're looking for under one roof 5 miles away from your house at a reasonable price. I think some of the electronics giants like Circuit City or Frys are much better examples here.
Maybe he compiles it himself and decided to just call it apache.
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Running bytecode will always be somewhat slower than native binary, but Sun has done a good job of getting most of the overhead out of the running code and into the VM startup. Most overhead people experience now with Java isn't from the VM at all but from the constraints Sun puts on the Java language specification (exs. ALL arrays must be bounds-checked, dynamically allocated memory must be garbage collected). C,C++,BASIC,etc. do not have these requirements built into their language specification and therefore their compiled code has a leg up if the user decides not to implementthese features.
With the vast improvements being made over the VM's design in Java's case, I wonder if a chip that natively runs the code would really be "hardware acceleration" vs. a stock chip with a good VM.
There wasn't a quintessential game/software package that made me want a CD-ROM drive. I found a dual-speed drive at CompUSA for $150 and jumped on it. I didn't own a CD-ROM game until a few months later when I bought (ironically enough) the Wing Commander II Speech Pack.
It's ok if a system is not a catch-all, but if it's not then don't tout it as one. My primary point (at the bottom of the post) is that I fear these new IDs being scrutinized less because they are so hard to duplicate.
"The only issue is if the cost is too high to make it worthwhile to copy."
Herein lies the problem. These things are still going to be copied by folks (like terrorists) who find it worth the money to fake an ID. Johnny Underagecollegekid's fake ID isn't going to pass police inspection, so this is completely useless in that case (our downtown police radio the info in to the station to verify that the ID is real anyways). his scenario is similar most other lesser reason for getting fake ids. The people this ID is targeted at will be the ones with the resources to fake the info. On top of that, will the IDs that these unsavory folks fake be less scrutinized by law enforcement. After all, the card scaned properly and nobody can fake this ID.
The only problem I see is that an officer could determine that the person is an immigrant from looking at the card. I could see police unfairly treating a person differently because of that.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing illegal immigrants deported whether at a traffic stop or even at the local Wal-Mart. I'm really not too concerned about our immigration policy, but I do think if someone is doing something illegally and then get stopped for allegidly doing something else illegally (with just cause of course), they should be charged with both. The policeman's job is to enforce the law. If he can get a tool that will better help him to enforce that law (that doesn't violate any laws itself), I'm all for that.
We've started playing the older versions where we give the player is given the answer and has to come up with the question. That makes things more interesting for the questions we already know. For example if I gave "Warren Beatty", the correct answer would be something along the lines of "The Carly Simon song 'You're so Vain' is based on what Hollywood actor?"
I don't buy games there, but I don't avoid them. I usually buy games used at EB once their price falls to a reasonable level. Wal-Mart is a decent store. They don't have good prices like they did before the advent of the super-center, but they are close to the house and they are open 24/7 (which is very important to someone with an infant and before that a pregnant wife).
Why would people travel to a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of town when there are corner stores nearby that have everything that Wal-Mart does? It happened here in the US (especially the South).
I imagine these mega-casinos will be quite competitive. For one reason, with so many people playing in one room everyone is bound to actually see someone win big. They'll probably also have nice amenities such as the buffets and hotels common to the US casinos. That will attract people looking for a spot for vacation. If a casino can get someone to go there for a vacation, then they will stand to make a lot more money than they do off someone killing an hour or two after work.
Sega Hologram. I can't believe the article actually went there. At least they pointed out that it was not in fact a 3-D picture. If you don't believe me, try playing one where someone removed the colored blocks.
The Dahlsim music on the SNES version might have been off compared to the arcade, but my point is that it didn't make the Genesis version any better for being closer. Closer to crap is still crap. Also, the only problem I had with the arcade verion was mastering the moves to begin with. Just to be clear, here's the timeline:
1. Learn moves in the arcade. At first hard but then ok. 2. Use moves on SNES with no problem. 3. Use moves on Genesis but with some difficulty.
You can argue the point that SF2SCE was closer to the arcade version, but being closer to the arcade version does not make it the better game. A good approximation taking SNES's hardware abilities and limitations into account beats a bad copy where Capcom tries to take a CPS (or was it CPS2?) game and shoehorn it onto a pseudo System 16 platform.
The fighter stick I had for the SNES took care of all of my controller woes. The stock Genesis controller did feel better than the stock SNES controller, but the actual response I got from the stock SNES controller seemed to be better than the Genesis. For example, I had a hard time getting a Dragon Punch to come out right on the Genesis which has never happened to me on the SNES or at the arcade (at least ever since I learned it at the arcade).
I didn't notice the music being particularly bad on either version, but the actual sound effects and voices sound terrible on the Genesis version. I don't think that a "raspy" direct copy of the arcade version beats a clearer approximation of the arcade version of the sound. Also, in case you didn't notice the Dahlsim music was terrible on every platform, arcade or otherwise. I didn't notice the SNES being better or worse than the rest.
I will say that the 6-button Genesis and Saturn controllers are indeed the pinnacle of game console controllers, but I stand by my claim that SF2SCE is inferior to SF2 Turbo and the last I looked sales numbers back me up here.
It isn't realistic to expect people to shullfe their schedules around for TV for long, but it is certainly realistic now. This is a period of adjustment.
I doubt the TV execs expect Tivo to be thwarted by this move, but I do think they might have bought some time (however short) for themselves to keep things running the old way.
Of course, this is coming from someone who never looks for the remote. It's either there and I user it or it's not so I use the TV controls.
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You probably are older. I'm only pushing 30. I was just making a little joke. Honestly though, I know that quake was more than a 2.5D game, but to me the feel of it was a lot closer to ROTT or Doom than it was to later games like Q3A or UT. Then again, I've always used the mouse for left-right movements (dating back to Wolf 3d) and used the keyboard for forward-reverse and strafing. Quake II was the first time I really felt like I had left 2.5D but YMMV (and obviously does).
"I played this game already, back when it was called Quake."
Silly youngster. I played Quake back when it was called Rise of the Triad.
Seriously though, I'm sot so sure there will be a "next big thing" in this genre any time soon. Enough people seem to be content with the current model to keep it going as is.
With all the girl-geek comments going around, has anyone checked to see if Stroker is on the C64 joystick?
Like I had to tell the Jeep dealership, "It's not about the payments. It's about the value of what I'm getting." I can completely understand the poster's reluctance to shell out $1/hr for a game that most people are paying half that for. I am a lightweight gamer (1-5 hours per week) and I've never played an MMO with a monthly subscription because I would not be getting my money's worth compared to others using the same product. This is the same reason I do not purchase brand new games. Let the people who are going to play it non-stop when it first comes out pick up the highest price.
I'm really not trying to troll here, but what specific homeopathic treatments were effective for you? The few I've tried (all allergy-related) do not work at all in my experience.
...so I'm going to have to vote for the NFL and NFLPA giving Madden an exclusive license. I don't think that gaffe will be realized this year, but it will in years to come.
You mean like the B.E.T.? (It stands for Broadcast Energy Transmitter, but I think it's funnier to think of GI Joe and Cobra battling over control of Black Entertainment Television)
I certainly agree that offering one or two fantastic deals is a tried and true method of getting shoppers, but I've never really noticed Walmart being guilty of this to any large degree. Walmart no longer has the best prices around. They don't really pretend to be the best prices around. They do claim that their prices are low (as in "Always low prices"). Walmart makes money off of having 90% of what you're looking for under one roof 5 miles away from your house at a reasonable price. I think some of the electronics giants like Circuit City or Frys are much better examples here.
Maybe he compiles it himself and decided to just call it apache.
Running bytecode will always be somewhat slower than native binary, but Sun has done a good job of getting most of the overhead out of the running code and into the VM startup. Most overhead people experience now with Java isn't from the VM at all but from the constraints Sun puts on the Java language specification (exs. ALL arrays must be bounds-checked, dynamically allocated memory must be garbage collected). C,C++,BASIC,etc. do not have these requirements built into their language specification and therefore their compiled code has a leg up if the user decides not to implementthese features.
With the vast improvements being made over the VM's design in Java's case, I wonder if a chip that natively runs the code would really be "hardware acceleration" vs. a stock chip with a good VM.
There wasn't a quintessential game/software package that made me want a CD-ROM drive. I found a dual-speed drive at CompUSA for $150 and jumped on it. I didn't own a CD-ROM game until a few months later when I bought (ironically enough) the Wing Commander II Speech Pack.
It's ok if a system is not a catch-all, but if it's not then don't tout it as one. My primary point (at the bottom of the post) is that I fear these new IDs being scrutinized less because they are so hard to duplicate.
I rented that one time. I found it while looking for "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup" at my local video store.
"The only issue is if the cost is too high to make it worthwhile to copy."
Herein lies the problem. These things are still going to be copied by folks (like terrorists) who find it worth the money to fake an ID. Johnny Underagecollegekid's fake ID isn't going to pass police inspection, so this is completely useless in that case (our downtown police radio the info in to the station to verify that the ID is real anyways). his scenario is similar most other lesser reason for getting fake ids. The people this ID is targeted at will be the ones with the resources to fake the info. On top of that, will the IDs that these unsavory folks fake be less scrutinized by law enforcement. After all, the card scaned properly and nobody can fake this ID.
The only problem I see is that an officer could determine that the person is an immigrant from looking at the card. I could see police unfairly treating a person differently because of that.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing illegal immigrants deported whether at a traffic stop or even at the local Wal-Mart. I'm really not too concerned about our immigration policy, but I do think if someone is doing something illegally and then get stopped for allegidly doing something else illegally (with just cause of course), they should be charged with both. The policeman's job is to enforce the law. If he can get a tool that will better help him to enforce that law (that doesn't violate any laws itself), I'm all for that.
Heck, most of us aren't even Flintheart Glomgold.
We've started playing the older versions where we give the player is given the answer and has to come up with the question. That makes things more interesting for the questions we already know. For example if I gave "Warren Beatty", the correct answer would be something along the lines of "The Carly Simon song 'You're so Vain' is based on what Hollywood actor?"
I don't buy games there, but I don't avoid them. I usually buy games used at EB once their price falls to a reasonable level. Wal-Mart is a decent store. They don't have good prices like they did before the advent of the super-center, but they are close to the house and they are open 24/7 (which is very important to someone with an infant and before that a pregnant wife).
Why would people travel to a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of town when there are corner stores nearby that have everything that Wal-Mart does? It happened here in the US (especially the South).
I imagine these mega-casinos will be quite competitive. For one reason, with so many people playing in one room everyone is bound to actually see someone win big. They'll probably also have nice amenities such as the buffets and hotels common to the US casinos. That will attract people looking for a spot for vacation. If a casino can get someone to go there for a vacation, then they will stand to make a lot more money than they do off someone killing an hour or two after work.
Sega Hologram. I can't believe the article actually went there. At least they pointed out that it was not in fact a 3-D picture. If you don't believe me, try playing one where someone removed the colored blocks.
The Dahlsim music on the SNES version might have been off compared to the arcade, but my point is that it didn't make the Genesis version any better for being closer. Closer to crap is still crap. Also, the only problem I had with the arcade verion was mastering the moves to begin with. Just to be clear, here's the timeline:
1. Learn moves in the arcade. At first hard but then ok.
2. Use moves on SNES with no problem.
3. Use moves on Genesis but with some difficulty.
You can argue the point that SF2SCE was closer to the arcade version, but being closer to the arcade version does not make it the better game. A good approximation taking SNES's hardware abilities and limitations into account beats a bad copy where Capcom tries to take a CPS (or was it CPS2?) game and shoehorn it onto a pseudo System 16 platform.
You mean this ET?
The fighter stick I had for the SNES took care of all of my controller woes. The stock Genesis controller did feel better than the stock SNES controller, but the actual response I got from the stock SNES controller seemed to be better than the Genesis. For example, I had a hard time getting a Dragon Punch to come out right on the Genesis which has never happened to me on the SNES or at the arcade (at least ever since I learned it at the arcade).
I didn't notice the music being particularly bad on either version, but the actual sound effects and voices sound terrible on the Genesis version. I don't think that a "raspy" direct copy of the arcade version beats a clearer approximation of the arcade version of the sound. Also, in case you didn't notice the Dahlsim music was terrible on every platform, arcade or otherwise. I didn't notice the SNES being better or worse than the rest.
I will say that the 6-button Genesis and Saturn controllers are indeed the pinnacle of game console controllers, but I stand by my claim that SF2SCE is inferior to SF2 Turbo and the last I looked sales numbers back me up here.
It isn't realistic to expect people to shullfe their schedules around for TV for long, but it is certainly realistic now. This is a period of adjustment.
I doubt the TV execs expect Tivo to be thwarted by this move, but I do think they might have bought some time (however short) for themselves to keep things running the old way.
Of course, this is coming from someone who never looks for the remote. It's either there and I user it or it's not so I use the TV controls.
We still have the welfare system.