GW publishes a magazine, White Dwarf, which is pretty much one giant ad for their stuff.
White Dwarf (along with Wizard's/TSR's Dragon magazine) during their earlier years, did actualy focus on other games outside their respective domains, since they were originaly gaming magazines, and not specific game magazines.
For instance, our local Blood Bowl league commish showed me an old issue of WD he thought I would be interested in. Sure, it had Warhammer and other GW related articles in there (including some house rules for Blood Bowl 2nd Ed), but he wanted me to read it for the old Paranoia adventure published in that issue as well. I introduced the new Paranoia edition to the group about a month earlier, and he thought it might be a good idea to convert that adventure to the newest ruleset.
But yes, today, White Dwarf and Dragon are just heavily focused on their parent company's flagship games, but since the game industry wasn't in the shape that it is today, it promoted gaming in general rather than their own games.
Why don't they remove the static spawning from the game, or make it random, or make these monsters tougher, or stop handing out rewards for camping?
When it comes to NM(Notorious Monster) spawns in FFXI, there are two type of spawns. Timed spawns and lottery pops.
With timed spawns, once the NM is defeated, it cannot appear again until a set amount of time (Such as real life 1 hour for most of them).
The other type of spawn, lottery pops, are tied into the spawning rate of regular monsters. For every monster of a specific type that spawns in the zone, there is a very slim chance that it will be a NM.
Here's an example. In one of the areas of the game, there are a bunch of windmills with giant sheep roaming around them. This area is also home to a NM called "Stray Mary", which happens to be a lottery pop. Now if I wanted to hunt down Mary (which is an actual quest in the game, btw), I would have to go there and hunt down every sheep I can find until one of the respawned sheep spawns as Stray Mary.
As for drops, it's also kind of random as well. With Stray Mary above, she normaly drops some high quality milk that sells pretty good. If you're really lucky, she'll also drop a highly desired bard horn as well (which is the kind of item the Gil farmers/sellers are looking to monopolize as well).
Games i've played, like Lineage 2, FFXI, these games make me use my mouse to move my character around.. and I don't like it..
As an avid FFXI player, I will tell you that since the game was designed for a PS2 pad in mind, the mouse is completly optional. In fact, I believe you can control the game better without one. All my playing on that game is done entirely on keyboard. (numpad for movement, arrows for menu selection, SHIFT+arrows for camera control, F keys for targeting)
Well actualy, Munchkin Fu 2 is scheduled for a Janurary 2005 release, so you're gonna have to wait a while on that...
But yeah, the game with a 700 card dungeon deck with epic level rules is pretty fun. (and the Blender rules say the deck will be to big...sheesh!)
RPGs shouldn't be about rolling dice and counting coup, but that's what the preteen munchkin wants...If the world doesn't have wall-to-wall dungeons with new-never-before-fought monsters on each floor, they're not interested.
Then maybe you should give them the role-playingless dungeon hacking game, Munchkin instead?
Try the "download" link on their site
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Supposedly, the Wives did a follow-up skit on the Dr. D Show involving the DM fudging dice rolls...
...which you can check out by going to rpgmp3.com's download section. Both the original and the follow-up are availiable in the "Random Audio Ramblings" catagory.
Most likely because you pointed the validator to the actual splash page adress, rather than the simple www.johnkerry.com address that redirects you to the splash page.
Oftentimes the REAL WORKING people out there don't get out to the polls because by the time their commute from work is done, the polls have closed. Doesn't Canada do this???
No, but if your boss is nice, he/she should give you time off for you to head to your local polling station!
1. The amount of time it took to/. the article.
2. The number of posts asking you to estimate question #1 above.
3. The number of/.ers that actualy took the quiz, which eventualy led to the event described in question #1.
4. The number of/.ers from question #3 that will most likely reply, "I'm not British, you insensitive clod!"
If you really can't afford a new chair, then one thing you could try is buying a backrest that straps-on to your current chair. Staples Canada sells the Obus Forme backrests at around CA$60.00 (About US$45.00).
The small pad in the middle is attached by velcro, and is completly adjustable/removable. I haven't really found any problems with this thing so far, so I think it might be a good alterantive to your problem.
If memory serves me right, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever for the longest time served up a 0% rating with 93 negative reviews and none positive . I know it's not now, but here's the "worst of 2002" list to prove it.
Allow me to pick off a couple of points the article makes.
1. Comparing it it DDR and Wario Ware. While these game's machanics,
compared to DL are similar, the main difference is the changing and
adjustible difficulty. Almost every DDR song has at least three step
patterns, each with their own degree of dificulty, and even those can
be adjusted even further with options like flipping the step directions
and trying to play on both dance pads. WW also has three degrees of
difficulty on each game, and as you go on, they get faster and harder.
DL, I see no adjustemt whatsoever. Just random scene progression in the
first game and the occasional mirrored scenes. This essentialy lowers the replay value of this game greatly.
2. Narative Driven titles have taken over. Just curious, where is the
"narrative element" in blowing away that lame camper's torso with a
flak cannon in a UT deathmatch, or trying to fend off an Orc tower rush
with your puny archers in Warcraft? Users don't want narrative
gameplay, they want engaging gameplay where they have control over most
of the things they're doing. (Although a good story may help!)
3. Not a counter-point, but one of my own observations, Humor. What made
DL a fun game for me and my friends is that it was really fun to see
the many ways Dirk kick the bucket. This made both winning and losing a
fun element of this game.
4. And finaly, Dirk does speak in the game. His only words are "Uh
oh!", "Hmm?", "Whoah!", "WOW!" and my favorite, "AAAAARRRRRRGH!"
You might want to try the Dragon's Lair 20th Anniversary set produced by Digital Leisure. It basicaly uses the original laserdisc video of DL, DL2 and SA converted to MPEG format. It's pretty enjoyable, although I wasn't to pleased with my continual dying in DL2.
Sure I'll be able to watch 3d live-action movies on this thing, but what about hand drawn 2d animation?
I would assume that the 3d image is generated by comparing the different hues and contrast between pixels or elements in an image. How would this work with animated characters, where most areas are colored in a same uniform color? Would it look like your're looking at a bunch of cardboard cutouts in front of a backdrop?
Then again, cardboard cutouts pretty much describe most of the characters I see in modern movies anyways...
Does anybody else here see a health concern regarding this project?
I mean, you're sticking your tongue on a surface that could be crawling with germs and bacteria all over if it's not taken care of properly. Especialy if someone careless has been using it before. (Eww...dog germs!)
I know how annoying it is when someone with filthy hands doesn't wash them before picking up a control pad that I eventually end up using as well. And let's not forget this previous story about how dirty workstations can really be.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Sammy is only the publisher of the Guilty Gear series. The actual developer is ARC System Works of Japan, which according to their english company profile also lists SEGA as a customer of their products.
You know, this reminds me of an audio replay commentary I heard once on WCReplays once about how the Korean WC3 players deal with a well known cheese strat, the Orc tower rush.
One comment the commentator made was on the difference between how Korean and American players deal with cheese tactics. He said that the American would probably say "OMG!! This cheese is so imba! Nerf it! NERF IT!!!!!" while the Korean would probably say "Ok folks, there's this new cheesy strat going around. What's the best way to beat it?"
There are two main points that this comment brings up.
First, many pro players are most likely accucstomed to cheese exposure that they see it as a normal part of the game. As one guy once said, "If it's in the game, it's in the game."
And second, this got me thinking as to how other cultures deal with this. Starcraft is so huge in Korea, it's practicaly a spectator sport. I would assume that many cheese strats have popped up in public pro matches here and there. Of course, not being able to speak any asian languages, I cannot be certain as to what they say about certain imbalances in competitive games.
But I guess the main point that I'm sure others have pointed out, is that the only thing more annoying than cheese, are the people who do nothing but bitch about it.
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GW publishes a magazine, White Dwarf, which is pretty much one giant ad for their stuff.
White Dwarf (along with Wizard's/TSR's Dragon magazine) during their earlier years, did actualy focus on other games outside their respective domains, since they were originaly gaming magazines, and not specific game magazines.
For instance, our local Blood Bowl league commish showed me an old issue of WD he thought I would be interested in. Sure, it had Warhammer and other GW related articles in there (including some house rules for Blood Bowl 2nd Ed), but he wanted me to read it for the old Paranoia adventure published in that issue as well. I introduced the new Paranoia edition to the group about a month earlier, and he thought it might be a good idea to convert that adventure to the newest ruleset.
But yes, today, White Dwarf and Dragon are just heavily focused on their parent company's flagship games, but since the game industry wasn't in the shape that it is today, it promoted gaming in general rather than their own games.
Why don't they remove the static spawning from the game, or make it random, or make these monsters tougher, or stop handing out rewards for camping?
When it comes to NM(Notorious Monster) spawns in FFXI, there are two type of spawns. Timed spawns and lottery pops.
With timed spawns, once the NM is defeated, it cannot appear again until a set amount of time (Such as real life 1 hour for most of them).
The other type of spawn, lottery pops, are tied into the spawning rate of regular monsters. For every monster of a specific type that spawns in the zone, there is a very slim chance that it will be a NM.
Here's an example. In one of the areas of the game, there are a bunch of windmills with giant sheep roaming around them. This area is also home to a NM called "Stray Mary", which happens to be a lottery pop. Now if I wanted to hunt down Mary (which is an actual quest in the game, btw), I would have to go there and hunt down every sheep I can find until one of the respawned sheep spawns as Stray Mary.
As for drops, it's also kind of random as well. With Stray Mary above, she normaly drops some high quality milk that sells pretty good. If you're really lucky, she'll also drop a highly desired bard horn as well (which is the kind of item the Gil farmers/sellers are looking to monopolize as well).
January 24 also happens to be the day this year's Razzie nominees are announced as well!
Hmmm...What a coincidence!
Games i've played, like Lineage 2, FFXI, these games make me use my mouse to move my character around.. and I don't like it..
As an avid FFXI player, I will tell you that since the game was designed for a PS2 pad in mind, the mouse is completly optional. In fact, I believe you can control the game better without one. All my playing on that game is done entirely on keyboard. (numpad for movement, arrows for menu selection, SHIFT+arrows for camera control, F keys for targeting)
Well actualy, Munchkin Fu 2 is scheduled for a Janurary 2005 release, so you're gonna have to wait a while on that... But yeah, the game with a 700 card dungeon deck with epic level rules is pretty fun. (and the Blender rules say the deck will be to big...sheesh!)
Don't forget Star Munchkin, Munchkin Fu, and Munchkin Bites.
And Munchkin Blender. Don't forget that...
And Munchkin 2 and 3...
And Star Munchkin 2...
And Munchkin Fu 2...
Come to think of it, this is starting to sound a lot like D&D!
RPGs shouldn't be about rolling dice and counting coup, but that's what the preteen munchkin wants...If the world doesn't have wall-to-wall dungeons with new-never-before-fought monsters on each floor, they're not interested.
Then maybe you should give them the role-playingless dungeon hacking game, Munchkin instead?
Supposedly, the Wives did a follow-up skit on the Dr. D Show involving the DM fudging dice rolls...
...which you can check out by going to rpgmp3.com's download section. Both the original and the follow-up are availiable in the "Random Audio Ramblings" catagory.
The reality of it is a simple redirect page shouldn't have any errors, and a simple "splash" page shouldn't have 33.
And for those wondering, his actual index page at www.johnkerry.com/index.html brings back 46 errors when fed through the HTML validator.
a simple "splash" page shouldn't have 33.
Indeed. BTW, his actual index page at www.johnkerry.com/index.html brings back 46 errors on the HTML validator.
Most likely because you pointed the validator to the actual splash page adress, rather than the simple www.johnkerry.com address that redirects you to the splash page.
Bush(www.georgewbush.com): 303 errors.
Kerry(www.johnkerry.com): 2 errors.
Nader(www.votenader.org): unable to validate.
Badnarik(badnarik.org): 13 errors.
Cobb(www.votecobb.org): 217 errors.
...where the author credits Roberta Williams as creating the first female protagonist in a video game in 1987.
Wasn't the first lead lady in a video game Ms. Pacman? in 1981?
Oftentimes the REAL WORKING people out there don't get out to the polls because by the time their commute from work is done, the polls have closed. Doesn't Canada do this???
No, but if your boss is nice, he/she should give you time off for you to head to your local polling station!
Please estimate the following:
/. the article. /.ers that actualy took the quiz, which eventualy led to the event described in question #1. /.ers from question #3 that will most likely reply, "I'm not British, you insensitive clod!"
1. The amount of time it took to
2. The number of posts asking you to estimate question #1 above.
3. The number of
4. The number of
If you really can't afford a new chair, then one thing you could try is buying a backrest that straps-on to your current chair. Staples Canada sells the Obus Forme backrests at around CA$60.00 (About US$45.00).
The small pad in the middle is attached by velcro, and is completly adjustable/removable. I haven't really found any problems with this thing so far, so I think it might be a good alterantive to your problem.
Never seen a 0% movie on rotten tomatoes before.
I have!
If memory serves me right, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever for the longest time served up a 0% rating with 93 negative reviews and none positive . I know it's not now, but here's the "worst of 2002" list to prove it.
...while operating, the player must cheer on the patient using the device's voice recognition.
So let's test it out with an obligatory Simpons quote!
"The hip bone's connected to the leg bone!
The leg bone's conected to the thingy!
The thingy's connected to my wristwatch!
Uh oh..."
-Dr. Nick
Allow me to pick off a couple of points the article makes.
1. Comparing it it DDR and Wario Ware. While these game's machanics, compared to DL are similar, the main difference is the changing and adjustible difficulty. Almost every DDR song has at least three step patterns, each with their own degree of dificulty, and even those can be adjusted even further with options like flipping the step directions and trying to play on both dance pads. WW also has three degrees of difficulty on each game, and as you go on, they get faster and harder. DL, I see no adjustemt whatsoever. Just random scene progression in the first game and the occasional mirrored scenes. This essentialy lowers the replay value of this game greatly.
2. Narative Driven titles have taken over. Just curious, where is the "narrative element" in blowing away that lame camper's torso with a flak cannon in a UT deathmatch, or trying to fend off an Orc tower rush with your puny archers in Warcraft? Users don't want narrative gameplay, they want engaging gameplay where they have control over most of the things they're doing. (Although a good story may help!)
3. Not a counter-point, but one of my own observations, Humor. What made DL a fun game for me and my friends is that it was really fun to see the many ways Dirk kick the bucket. This made both winning and losing a fun element of this game.
4. And finaly, Dirk does speak in the game. His only words are "Uh oh!", "Hmm?", "Whoah!", "WOW!" and my favorite, "AAAAARRRRRRGH!"
You might want to try the Dragon's Lair 20th Anniversary set produced by Digital Leisure. It basicaly uses the original laserdisc video of DL, DL2 and SA converted to MPEG format. It's pretty enjoyable, although I wasn't to pleased with my continual dying in DL2.
Sure I'll be able to watch 3d live-action movies on this thing, but what about hand drawn 2d animation?
I would assume that the 3d image is generated by comparing the different hues and contrast between pixels or elements in an image. How would this work with animated characters, where most areas are colored in a same uniform color? Would it look like your're looking at a bunch of cardboard cutouts in front of a backdrop?
Then again, cardboard cutouts pretty much describe most of the characters I see in modern movies anyways...
Does anybody else here see a health concern regarding this project?
I mean, you're sticking your tongue on a surface that could be crawling with germs and bacteria all over if it's not taken care of properly. Especialy if someone careless has been using it before. (Eww...dog germs!)
I know how annoying it is when someone with filthy hands doesn't wash them before picking up a control pad that I eventually end up using as well. And let's not forget this previous story about how dirty workstations can really be.
If I'm not mistaken Sammy develops Guilty Gear X
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Sammy is only the publisher of the Guilty Gear series. The actual developer is ARC System Works of Japan, which according to their english company profile also lists SEGA as a customer of their products.
One comment the commentator made was on the difference between how Korean and American players deal with cheese tactics. He said that the American would probably say "OMG!! This cheese is so imba! Nerf it! NERF IT!!!!!" while the Korean would probably say "Ok folks, there's this new cheesy strat going around. What's the best way to beat it?"
There are two main points that this comment brings up.
- First, many pro players are most likely accucstomed to cheese exposure that they see it as a normal part of the game. As one guy once said, "If it's in the game, it's in the game."
- And second, this got me thinking as to how other cultures deal with this. Starcraft is so huge in Korea, it's practicaly a spectator sport. I would assume that many cheese strats have popped up in public pro matches here and there. Of course, not being able to speak any asian languages, I cannot be certain as to what they say about certain imbalances in competitive games.
But I guess the main point that I'm sure others have pointed out, is that the only thing more annoying than cheese, are the people who do nothing but bitch about it.For those who don't want to RTFA about the election itself , this BBC link within the story is about the voting machines themselves.