They spoke of a great nation, a land of the free... a place where folks all around the "oppressed" world came seeking freedom.
Those silly text books also spoke something called The American Revolution which had something to do with this thing called "No Taxation without Representation"
Perhaps we need new text books.
Perhaps history repeats itself and a revolution is needed once again.
The silly text books and their Boston Tea Party:) Hell folks.. TEA ! Thats all it took? Look at the issues today... come on... TEA is the LEAST of our problems:)
O&A didn't want to go to Clear Channel to be backed into the same corner they were at Infinity. Infinity hasn't paid $1 in FCC fines for O&A, and the couple at St. Pat's were not found guilty of anything. Is the pressure from the Christian Right that makes corporations afraid.
Oh, and didn't you listen to Howard. He was the first on Satellite Radio. If the king of radio says it, it must be true, right Robin. HOO HOO!
:) I've been an O&A Fan back before they were syndicated and only on WNEW. I missed the boston days though. Infact, the whole A.F.R.O. crew pretty much breathed life back into radio.
Nice to see another O&A fan out there:)
Yeah CBS refused to pay the fine due to not having not having a clear understanding of what they did wrong, and frankly if thats just PR bullshit.. who cares. O&A did nothing wrong.... and the FCC in the big picture of things, has no case at all.
Sure Sex for Sam is outrageous... but its a radio bit. Real or not, who knows... And i think the boys point all along has been that it is a bit, and you arent supposed to really know if its really happening or not. Chances are it probably was.... but tha ambiguity(sp) allows them legal safety because it is up to the contestants to actually do it, fake it, etc.
Personally.. Paul Macurio is a fucking genious, and the rant he let out during the anal action at st pats was right on and brilliant.
Hell, who's to say F'n in a church isnt the most purest of thigns to do in the name of god?;) They were married after all!
The best part of it of course as we all know... The Anal invader died;) That was a strange twist of fate.
O&A on Sat kind of sucks becuase i dont pay for XM and of course have to now use syndication underground;)
Now that Stern has jumped to Sat... O&A on Sat doesnt seem so bad. XM and Sirius now both have each the best radio comedy shows. Hopefully a price competition between the two will result as they try to split the same fan base.
O&A are the future of radio... infact Ron and Fez are as well. I hope one day the AFRO show will be on SAT, and SAT replaces FM... and the FCC can go fuck themselves.
Groups like the catholic league should not have so much power. There are too many of these letter writing angry jesus freak moms out there... a grou p of 300,000 of them should not have the power to even enter a Rock Paper Scissors game with a Radio show that has millions of listensers who know exactly what they tune in to hear, enjoy it, and mind their own dam buisness.
Free Speech is granted to the 300,000 letter writing angry moms, but not to O&A, or Stern who have millions of fans who simply just want to laugh on their miserable way to work, or way home.
Same thing in the Janet Tit Football extravaganza:) Boner pill commercials, whores posing with mugs of beer commercials... all acceptable... But Janet's 3 pixel wrinkled tit with a COVERED nipple (which is acceptable under FCC rules) makes a big fucking no no.
We all know this. We're smart. The public's not stupid. We like saying "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY" when some dick parks his car blocking you in.
I've been to baseball/football games where fans scream out "RIP THEIR FUCKING HEARTS OUT!" while kids are in the stands.
Free speech is a bitch aint it. The FCC has no fucking right to decide whats heard.
Granted 6 year olds shouldnt be watching daddy's bukkake films. But thats why Daddy hides them.
Opie and Anthony have returned on XM. Stern now announces to move to Sirius.
For O&A it was a matter of survival, not preference. The radio industy is controlled by 2 companies and once your fired from 1, the other is all you have and Clear Channel did not want to risk O&A. Well Stern has no love for clear channel and CBS well... lets just say that he could have stayed right where he is. However the truth is that Stern is getting old and Sirius to him probably means a bigger paycheck.
The governemnt is out of control, we all know this. For Stern this move will be a blessing for his wallet and his peace of mind. I personally am happy for him. Let him ride out the rest of his radio carear on his own terms, doing the show he wants without the FCC up his ass.
Media here in America is a 6 headed monster corperation that shits on us daily. Obviously Sterns large audience and following allows him freedoms. The rest of us listeners though are fucked. We have no leverage against the corperations. Dare i say the only leverage we have is folks like Howard Stern who dare say something when given a mic. Just hope someones listening.
As for Opie and Anthony... The virus is back! XM or your local alt.binaries.opieandanthony;)
" Repeat after me: "You have no right to privacy in public." (especially when you are outdoors)"
Well then you wont mind when i decide to sit down right next to you and your girlfriend in the park, recording everything you say, speaking over you, hitting on your girlfriend, eating your food, farting, and basically doing whatever i dam please.
I personally think we all have a right to privacy no matter where we are, if we desire it. Otherwise, why try to respect each others personal space in public? Because we assume that we enjoy our personal privacy and do not want others to intrude.
Sure you could find a nice spot in the park that is a little more private and folks could still look at you... but you've chosen a place that suits your desires for a little privacy in an open public place. Folks could still observe your doings but any decent person would respect your wishes even in an open public area such as a park.
However, public areas are not private, you are certainly correct. I just hope we dont get to the point where we cant expect a little privacy in an open area.
The government may want to take away our privacy, and you may be willing to give it away... just dont assume others are as willing.
Peter Molyneux is all hype. We suffer through endless bullshit hype everytime he makes a game. Please Peter, stop making games, or stop talking so much about how great your shitty games will be.
Simply dont make it for windows. Why do it? Whats the point?.. hmm Perhaps the point is that more people use windows, and this is just an attempt to profit off them while stepping all over the idea of GPL for the sake of personal profit.
Do you happen to work for s2games, or not realize that half-life and half-life2 do NOT share the same game engine. Or have i just been hooked by a troll?
The funny thing is.. I DO INFACT work for S2games. Well i DID. I was a senior artist as S2 on savage. Left on good terms, they're all great folks.
I'm tired of Valve. Half Life 2 was to be released september 30 2003.
Valve was conviently hacked and their flagship product was revealed to be a fraud.
The game was less than 15% complete as of their anounced release date of sept 30, 2003.
Valve continues to publish little tidbits to remind us that they're alive. Tidbits such as pushing back the releaste date again and again.
So preload their game.
I hope its worth the amount of bullshit everyone has put up with from valve.
It better be good Gabe, you lying fuck:)
Looking at all of those pie charts proves nothing. Linux is 1% on EVERY one of those pie charts. How is that a loss? The only thing it proves is that linux has been steady at 1%
This post is useless and off topic.
There are many differences between air congestion and ground congestion. You don't have to worry about accidents in the air closing off lanes or slowing down traffic.
There is one small difference. You dont have to worry about a flying SUV crashing through your roof randomly;)
I really do. They were fun days. Folks were a little "cooler" back then.
Geeks were geeks, and we ran bbs's:) Myself included. 2lines, renegade, obv2, pcboard, wildcat, telegard, etc.
Ah those were the days. Things were more civilized back then, less people, less noise... usually locals only.
Those were the days when you wouldnt even DARE try to explain what you did after school:) Can you imagine then trying to explain "Well i run a bbs, on my pc, i just set up desqview so i can multitask and have qemm tweaked just about right to squeeze all the ram out of my system that i can. I have 2 lines, 19.2 the NUP is ELITEBADASS ";)
Imagine the horrorific beatings that would have taken place after that discussion.
Ah but today its much cooler to be on a computer. You can scream at people like they're worthless and walk away to get a pepsi from the fridge.
Yeah things haven gotten worse in terms of social behavior.
Though i think moderated forums and blogs have done wonders for keeping things in check. Dare you step into the newsgroups or IRC and you're on your own bud;)
One of the main problems is a lot of software wont work without admin rights hehe.
WinDVD for one. I had just admin'd my mothers laptop. Set her up a USER account. I just got a call from her in virgina before saying "I can play a dvd, i get this error"
Well dam it. I didnt think of that. I would have expected it to work, but clearly it wont run without admin access. I gave her the admin pw, and told her strictly to never run anything else in admin account:)
Probably a mistake;)
Interestingly enough, AOL... which she uses (GOD i'm trying to get her off that peice of shit) But anyways.. AOL's software apparently respects USER account restrictions, and dir access restrictions.
There is one subtle difference between linux and window admins: There is a lot of window software that is written to be run as administrator. Finding all the files to give permissions to causes quite a headache.
Linux, I feel, has a better system at the moment. However, as this is the developers fault, I see no reason why linux would be immune from this problem.
Very True. I'm not a security expert, but simple file sharing is also enabled by default in XP. Which means users are free to copy and paste anythign anywhere just about.
Curious how everyone here that is more security aware than i, thinks about "simple file sharing" being on by default. When its off, a user is restricted to his/her own user dirs only.
While the PC has certainly bloomed into a mainstream gaming platform, the number of console gamers are still larger. The industry has been quite aware of a single fact. More Black Americans own gaming consoles than PCs. A large segment of the console gaming market, are the black audiences who usually buy more sports titles than others. Thats why you have games like NBA Street, NFL Street.
Also i know of several developers that have been approached by very successful rappers/producers, and so forth looking to get into the game industry. They'll fund games, lend talent, music and marketing power.
There is a movement towards black culture in gaming because there is a huge market for it among whites, and even more among blacks.
Games are just like hollywood these days. They go for markets.
Frankly i wish they would make PC games like they used to, New ideas, new concepts. Interplay's Castles 2 etc. Something other than a freaking 3d FPS.
ICO is the finest experience in gaming? What crack are you smoking? I realize that it's a commonly held good game, but the finest experience ever? I think not. Look at the sales
Yes, ICO is the finest experience in gaming. Read the reviews. No game has ever had such an effect on people. Visit Ign's boards or ebgames.com reviews, or amazon.com reviews... read all of the reviews and notice the emotional impact ICO had on the reviewers. Its a work of art.
Judging a game on its sales is silly. We're talking about a brilliant game that didnt sell well because it looked lame on the store shelves. But those who gave it a shot... they all wrote reviews on those sites, on forums all around... their experience is 99% the same. ICO has had a huge effect on gamers.
I'm serious... really read the folks out there who have played ICO. I know there are some who will say it was boring, or they didnt get it... but they are a very small minority. Generally i've found that those who outright hate it (not saying you, because you didnt hate it), but those who seem to blast ICO, tend to be quick on the trigger, tempermental younger gamers, who would be affraid to open up about being emotionally effected by a game. Then again.. some people like Drama, and some people hate it. I dont know. ICO was incredible from every design point of view. While it looks dated now, the music, the ending, the mechanics of two characters working together, animation, music, ambience, and general sense of not knowing what or where you really are, or what your doing.... given up by your family, sacraficed to the castle's ghosts, only to find a friend in need, who you cant even understand, and then the ending and story (which i will not ruin)are perfect. Somehow the relationship grows as you play, yet the mechanics dont really change. Its interesting, and done so well from a story and art point of view. It says so little, and yet you get a whole lot out of the story through its subtle moments. The ambience plays a big part. Anyways...
As for your statement about marketing hype, price, eyecandy, coolness factor, and third party support... i agree completely. I never predicted the future, just tried to relate the past to the present and future.
Nintendo has heart? nah. Nintendo has aging characters and a poor image among adult gamers. Sony has the edge, and Microsoft is the underdog, with a big freaking wallet as you put it:)
Any of them could win, you are correct. I'm just saying xbox is no where close to PS2's sale figures and popularity. In order for Xbox to dethrown PS2, they have to pack a serious punch. And that punch is all of the things you mentioned, marketing, developers, first party games etc, LAUCNH titles...
and you're right. ICO did not make PS2 Dominant. That wasnt my point. ICO is an example of SONY's development goals... which is to develope truly unique and amazing games. Making ICO was a risk, it had not sold anywhere near MGS2... but ICO was the better experience.
Folks will wait for the PS3. Sony Playstation is a name people trust. Its a brand name like Coca Cola, and its gotten sweeter each version.
Xbox may be a performer, but it lacks everything that makes the PS2 a work of a art. Quality games from the japanese developers, original titles etc.
The PS2 hardware is a work of art, that falls short of xbox's power. Fortunately for SONY, the PS2 makes it all up where it counts. GAMES.
And that is why people trust SONY. That is why people trusted Nintendo. That is why people no longer trust nintendo. GAMES.
People will love the xbox2, but wait to see the Ps3 because SONY is the champion of consoles.
Sony could very well pull a Nintendo and see all of their developers flock to another console such as Xbox2.
Marketing will play a big part in this. We are really in a new generation of games. The next gen games are going to be full of normal mapping, high geometry, post processing fx, and all kinds of ram eating graphics power. This is perhaps a very big step, and who takes the biggest can certainly cause a shift. Sony was successful because the Saturn looked terrible, and Sony suddenly had this amazing 3d game system called the Playstation. The gayest name on the planet, grew into the coolest name in the industry.
Microsoft is trying to pull a Sony. And they could win if they take the biggest step and have atleast 2 KILLER APPS. I'm talking insane games, like the upcoming Unreal versions, where they're normal mapped to hell, self shadowing, HDTV resolutions, networking, etc etc...
If MS does it right... they could shake Sony. Its possible. Its going to be difficult without a killer game or 2 on Xbox2 at launch. No its not half life2, or Doom3. It would have to original and mind blowing just as MGS2 was when it was originally used to hype PS2 (not that it was original, but it was a work of art that had everyone drooling for sony.
But hey if Sony keeps making games like ICO and Gran Turismo 4, Xbox aint got a chance. ICO is perhaps the finest experience in gaming one could have, and Gran Turismo 4 is the benchmark by which all others are judged.
Sony's got a lot of good titles in its pocket... speaking of which... PSP looks incredible.
Sony's a strong giant, and Microsoft better have one hell of a big stick if they want to beat Sony.
Yes, but apparently the shell exploit had been a problem for a while. (I beleive i read that)
Its not what i mean really though. I'm talking about folks really hammering on FireFox, as they do IE. It would seem that once that happens, Firefox's dev team will hopefully continue the expected fast fixes.
I think they will.
The IE FUD is certainly working though:) IE just isnt looking good at all these days. The problems seem endless.
GOD DAM FUCKING TYPOS!;) I need to Preview more...
WHO PUT THE DAM "I" Key next to the dam "O" Key!.. You roooooined my fucking joke... you tricky bastard!:)
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This could be a great pr tactic. Release 10 new security problems that effect all windows/ie except the new spiffy XP SP2 :)
Tricky marketing? or just real evidence that MS has done something right?
who knows.
But i'm sure someone at MS will spin this.
They spoke of a great nation, a land of the free... a place where folks all around the "oppressed" world came seeking freedom.
:) Hell folks.. TEA ! Thats all it took? Look at the issues today... come on... TEA is the LEAST of our problems :)
Those silly text books also spoke something called The American Revolution which had something to do with this thing called "No Taxation without Representation"
Perhaps we need new text books.
Perhaps history repeats itself and a revolution is needed once again.
The silly text books and their Boston Tea Party
Nice to see another O&A fan out there
Yeah CBS refused to pay the fine due to not having not having a clear understanding of what they did wrong, and frankly if thats just PR bullshit.. who cares. O&A did nothing wrong.... and the FCC in the big picture of things, has no case at all.
Sure Sex for Sam is outrageous... but its a radio bit. Real or not, who knows... And i think the boys point all along has been that it is a bit, and you arent supposed to really know if its really happening or not. Chances are it probably was.... but tha ambiguity(sp) allows them legal safety because it is up to the contestants to actually do it, fake it, etc.
Personally.. Paul Macurio is a fucking genious, and the rant he let out during the anal action at st pats was right on and brilliant.
Hell, who's to say F'n in a church isnt the most purest of thigns to do in the name of god?
The best part of it of course as we all know... The Anal invader died
O&A on Sat kind of sucks becuase i dont pay for XM and of course have to now use syndication underground
Now that Stern has jumped to Sat... O&A on Sat doesnt seem so bad. XM and Sirius now both have each the best radio comedy shows. Hopefully a price competition between the two will result as they try to split the same fan base.
O&A are the future of radio... infact Ron and Fez are as well. I hope one day the AFRO show will be on SAT, and SAT replaces FM... and the FCC can go fuck themselves.
Groups like the catholic league should not have so much power. There are too many of these letter writing angry jesus freak moms out there... a grou p of 300,000 of them should not have the power to even enter a Rock Paper Scissors game with a Radio show that has millions of listensers who know exactly what they tune in to hear, enjoy it, and mind their own dam buisness.
Free Speech is granted to the 300,000 letter writing angry moms, but not to O&A, or Stern who have millions of fans who simply just want to laugh on their miserable way to work, or way home.
Same thing in the Janet Tit Football extravaganza
We all know this. We're smart. The public's not stupid. We like saying "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY" when some dick parks his car blocking you in.
I've been to baseball/football games where fans scream out "RIP THEIR FUCKING HEARTS OUT!" while kids are in the stands.
Free speech is a bitch aint it. The FCC has no fucking right to decide whats heard.
Granted 6 year olds shouldnt be watching daddy's bukkake films. But thats why Daddy hides them.
Opie and Anthony have returned on XM. Stern now announces to move to Sirius.
;)
For O&A it was a matter of survival, not preference. The radio industy is controlled by 2 companies and once your fired from 1, the other is all you have and Clear Channel did not want to risk O&A. Well Stern has no love for clear channel and CBS well... lets just say that he could have stayed right where he is. However the truth is that Stern is getting old and Sirius to him probably means a bigger paycheck.
The governemnt is out of control, we all know this. For Stern this move will be a blessing for his wallet and his peace of mind. I personally am happy for him. Let him ride out the rest of his radio carear on his own terms, doing the show he wants without the FCC up his ass.
Media here in America is a 6 headed monster corperation that shits on us daily. Obviously Sterns large audience and following allows him freedoms. The rest of us listeners though are fucked. We have no leverage against the corperations. Dare i say the only leverage we have is folks like Howard Stern who dare say something when given a mic. Just hope someones listening.
As for Opie and Anthony... The virus is back! XM or your local alt.binaries.opieandanthony
Well then you wont mind when i decide to sit down right next to you and your girlfriend in the park, recording everything you say, speaking over you, hitting on your girlfriend, eating your food, farting, and basically doing whatever i dam please.
I personally think we all have a right to privacy no matter where we are, if we desire it. Otherwise, why try to respect each others personal space in public? Because we assume that we enjoy our personal privacy and do not want others to intrude.
Sure you could find a nice spot in the park that is a little more private and folks could still look at you... but you've chosen a place that suits your desires for a little privacy in an open public place. Folks could still observe your doings but any decent person would respect your wishes even in an open public area such as a park.
However, public areas are not private, you are certainly correct. I just hope we dont get to the point where we cant expect a little privacy in an open area.
The government may want to take away our privacy, and you may be willing to give it away... just dont assume others are as willing.
Peter Molyneux is all hype. We suffer through endless bullshit hype everytime he makes a game. Please Peter, stop making games, or stop talking so much about how great your shitty games will be.
of windows popularity.
.. hmm Perhaps the point is that more people use windows, and this is just an attempt to profit off them while stepping all over the idea of GPL for the sake of personal profit.
If its GPL, its GPL.
Simply dont make it for windows. Why do it? Whats the point?
BTW i did not write the anon post.
The funny thing is.. I DO INFACT work for S2games. Well i DID. I was a senior artist as S2 on savage. Left on good terms, they're all great folks.
I'm tired of Valve. Half Life 2 was to be released september 30 2003. Valve was conviently hacked and their flagship product was revealed to be a fraud. The game was less than 15% complete as of their anounced release date of sept 30, 2003. Valve continues to publish little tidbits to remind us that they're alive. Tidbits such as pushing back the releaste date again and again. So preload their game. I hope its worth the amount of bullshit everyone has put up with from valve. It better be good Gabe, you lying fuck :)
Looking at all of those pie charts proves nothing. Linux is 1% on EVERY one of those pie charts. How is that a loss? The only thing it proves is that linux has been steady at 1% This post is useless and off topic.
making use of this, or something similar when they return to radio this fall.
It's only good if it is efficient. There will still be traffic jams with flying cars, due to the passage ways.
This will sure make Terrorism much easier.
AH.. BBS days. I miss those days.
:) Myself included. 2lines, renegade, obv2, pcboard, wildcat, telegard, etc.
:) Can you imagine then trying to explain "Well i run a bbs, on my pc, i just set up desqview so i can multitask and have qemm tweaked just about right to squeeze all the ram out of my system that i can. I have 2 lines, 19.2 the NUP is ELITEBADASS " ;)
;)
I really do. They were fun days. Folks were a little "cooler" back then.
Geeks were geeks, and we ran bbs's
Ah those were the days. Things were more civilized back then, less people, less noise... usually locals only.
Those were the days when you wouldnt even DARE try to explain what you did after school
Imagine the horrorific beatings that would have taken place after that discussion.
Ah but today its much cooler to be on a computer. You can scream at people like they're worthless and walk away to get a pepsi from the fridge.
Yeah things haven gotten worse in terms of social behavior.
Though i think moderated forums and blogs have done wonders for keeping things in check. Dare you step into the newsgroups or IRC and you're on your own bud
One of the main problems is a lot of software wont work without admin rights hehe.
WinDVD for one. I had just admin'd my mothers laptop. Set her up a USER account. I just got a call from her in virgina before saying "I can play a dvd, i get this error"
Well dam it. I didnt think of that. I would have expected it to work, but clearly it wont run without admin access. I gave her the admin pw, and told her strictly to never run anything else in admin account
Probably a mistake
Interestingly enough, AOL... which she uses (GOD i'm trying to get her off that peice of shit) But anyways.. AOL's software apparently respects USER account restrictions, and dir access restrictions.
So i have to give AOL that.
Boo on Windvd though.
Market.
While the PC has certainly bloomed into a mainstream gaming platform, the number of console gamers are still larger. The industry has been quite aware of a single fact. More Black Americans own gaming consoles than PCs. A large segment of the console gaming market, are the black audiences who usually buy more sports titles than others. Thats why you have games like NBA Street, NFL Street.
Also i know of several developers that have been approached by very successful rappers/producers, and so forth looking to get into the game industry. They'll fund games, lend talent, music and marketing power.
There is a movement towards black culture in gaming because there is a huge market for it among whites, and even more among blacks.
Games are just like hollywood these days. They go for markets.
Frankly i wish they would make PC games like they used to, New ideas, new concepts. Interplay's Castles 2 etc. Something other than a freaking 3d FPS.
ICO is the finest experience in gaming? What crack are you smoking? I realize that it's a commonly held good game, but the finest experience ever? I think not. Look at the sales
:)
Yes, ICO is the finest experience in gaming. Read the reviews. No game has ever had such an effect on people. Visit Ign's boards or ebgames.com reviews, or amazon.com reviews... read all of the reviews and notice the emotional impact ICO had on the reviewers. Its a work of art.
Judging a game on its sales is silly. We're talking about a brilliant game that didnt sell well because it looked lame on the store shelves. But those who gave it a shot... they all wrote reviews on those sites, on forums all around... their experience is 99% the same. ICO has had a huge effect on gamers.
I'm serious... really read the folks out there who have played ICO. I know there are some who will say it was boring, or they didnt get it... but they are a very small minority. Generally i've found that those who outright hate it (not saying you, because you didnt hate it), but those who seem to blast ICO, tend to be quick on the trigger, tempermental younger gamers, who would be affraid to open up about being emotionally effected by a game. Then again.. some people like Drama, and some people hate it. I dont know. ICO was incredible from every design point of view. While it looks dated now, the music, the ending, the mechanics of two characters working together, animation, music, ambience, and general sense of not knowing what or where you really are, or what your doing.... given up by your family, sacraficed to the castle's ghosts, only to find a friend in need, who you cant even understand, and then the ending and story (which i will not ruin)are perfect. Somehow the relationship grows as you play, yet the mechanics dont really change. Its interesting, and done so well from a story and art point of view. It says so little, and yet you get a whole lot out of the story through its subtle moments. The ambience plays a big part. Anyways...
As for your statement about marketing hype, price, eyecandy, coolness factor, and third party support... i agree completely. I never predicted the future, just tried to relate the past to the present and future.
Nintendo has heart? nah. Nintendo has aging characters and a poor image among adult gamers. Sony has the edge, and Microsoft is the underdog, with a big freaking wallet as you put it
Any of them could win, you are correct. I'm just saying xbox is no where close to PS2's sale figures and popularity. In order for Xbox to dethrown PS2, they have to pack a serious punch. And that punch is all of the things you mentioned, marketing, developers, first party games etc, LAUCNH titles...
and you're right. ICO did not make PS2 Dominant. That wasnt my point. ICO is an example of SONY's development goals... which is to develope truly unique and amazing games. Making ICO was a risk, it had not sold anywhere near MGS2... but ICO was the better experience.
Folks will wait for the PS3. Sony Playstation is a name people trust. Its a brand name like Coca Cola, and its gotten sweeter each version.
Xbox may be a performer, but it lacks everything that makes the PS2 a work of a art. Quality games from the japanese developers, original titles etc.
The PS2 hardware is a work of art, that falls short of xbox's power. Fortunately for SONY, the PS2 makes it all up where it counts. GAMES.
And that is why people trust SONY. That is why people trusted Nintendo. That is why people no longer trust nintendo. GAMES.
People will love the xbox2, but wait to see the Ps3 because SONY is the champion of consoles.
Sony could very well pull a Nintendo and see all of their developers flock to another console such as Xbox2.
Marketing will play a big part in this. We are really in a new generation of games. The next gen games are going to be full of normal mapping, high geometry, post processing fx, and all kinds of ram eating graphics power. This is perhaps a very big step, and who takes the biggest can certainly cause a shift. Sony was successful because the Saturn looked terrible, and Sony suddenly had this amazing 3d game system called the Playstation. The gayest name on the planet, grew into the coolest name in the industry.
Microsoft is trying to pull a Sony. And they could win if they take the biggest step and have atleast 2 KILLER APPS. I'm talking insane games, like the upcoming Unreal versions, where they're normal mapped to hell, self shadowing, HDTV resolutions, networking, etc etc...
If MS does it right... they could shake Sony. Its possible. Its going to be difficult without a killer game or 2 on Xbox2 at launch. No its not half life2, or Doom3. It would have to original and mind blowing just as MGS2 was when it was originally used to hype PS2 (not that it was original, but it was a work of art that had everyone drooling for sony.
But hey if Sony keeps making games like ICO and Gran Turismo 4, Xbox aint got a chance. ICO is perhaps the finest experience in gaming one could have, and Gran Turismo 4 is the benchmark by which all others are judged.
Sony's got a lot of good titles in its pocket... speaking of which... PSP looks incredible.
Sony's a strong giant, and Microsoft better have one hell of a big stick if they want to beat Sony.
Yes, but apparently the shell exploit had been a problem for a while. (I beleive i read that) Its not what i mean really though. I'm talking about folks really hammering on FireFox, as they do IE. It would seem that once that happens, Firefox's dev team will hopefully continue the expected fast fixes. I think they will. The IE FUD is certainly working though :) IE just isnt looking good at all these days. The problems seem endless.
Please go fuck your mother. The arrogance... sheez
GOD DAM FUCKING TYPOS! ;) I need to Preview more...
WHO PUT THE DAM "I" Key next to the dam "O" Key!.. You roooooined my fucking joke... you tricky bastard! :)
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