Try reading his View from the Bottom articles on RPG Vault and you might realize how stupid and off-base your post is. Hell, it doesn't even look like you did more than skim over the blog article that this Slashdot discussion is about, where he makes clear that he's reasonably satisfied with Geneforge 4's performance despite the high price, low-budget graphics, long demo, piracy, and lack of third-party distribution.
Even this guy seems to believe he deserved to make more even though it's amazing the amount he did make for what he's selling.
Well, considering the fact that his games are relatively popular among pirates, it's pretty obvious that he did deserve to make more. Deserving to make more and expecting to make more are two different things, and Vogel isn't doing the latter.
I mean, everyone knows that only the first two seasons of TNG were any good (The Naked Now deserved a frigging Emmy!), after which Roddenberry died and Berman shitted it up with characters like Reginald Barclay, Gowron, and Locutus of Borg. Berman could never help create a character as perfect as Wesley Crusher and he should've stopped trying. And then he comes out with that boring, actionless piece of fluff called Deep Space Nine, which was so awful that it ran for only seven seasons in an oversaturated market. Some Cardassian tailor with a mysterious past? Who cares? An all-out war between the Federation and some major dominion in the Gamma Quadrant, filled with intrigue and plot twists? Who wants to see that?
Sarcasm aside, I think what CmdrTaco meant is that we should hope for the end of the era of Brannon Braga. He's the one primarily responsible for Voyager and Enterprise, and the only things he did that were good for the franchise were because of Ronald Moore.
The difference from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off.
That's kind of like how a Ouija board is operated, isn't it? More proof that Cliff Kushler is Satan, I guess.
Ars' complaint about having to spend $800 to get a $20 game misses the point.
The complaint is only silly because Ars emphasized the wrong thing. What they meant to say is that there's nothing on the Wii worth spending $800 for to begin with. The point being that the Wii has problems that Nintendo should look into before putting effort into something like Club Nintendo.
And people like you and the other guy who replied to the GP are the reason that posting jokes on/. gets you nothing but stupid replies from people who have no grasp of irony.
Not only has the R4 been superceded by other carts, but the no$gba emulator has fairly reasonable DS support. Nintendo has basically no chance of stopping piracy on the DS.
This is just another example of how far behind Nintendo is in the online market. Sony has been selling downloadable PSP games pretty much since the PS3 came out.
The saddest thing is that you actually said "just like we already put a bunch of zeros for years before the year 1000" in the middle of your post. I guess not reading isn't just for articles anymore.
People don't converse in machine code. The so-called "Middle Endian" makes perfect sense because people (at least in America) are more likely to refer to "September 9th" than "the 9th of September." Expecting people to change that convention just because a few geeks don't think it's consistent is just as silly as trying to get the British to drive on the right side of the road.
The biggest difference between a console adventure and an RPG is that the console adventure doesn't have an experience system. In Zelda, your character improves by picking up heart containers and other such concrete items, while in an RPG he generally improves by various deeds such as killing monsters and doing quests, all of which increase an abstract experience meter.
GTA is a hybrid of genres. All of the games put driving/racing and third-person shooting together, while San Andreas also included RPG elements. I wouldn't include console adventure gaming in the mix because the key distinguishing characteristic there is environmental puzzles, which GTA doesn't have. I haven't played Bully, but from what I've heard of it I'd say that it's a mix of action and life simulation.
Rob
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Baldur's Gate II was much more - you could, unlike in nearly any CRPG I've seen except maybe KotOR, actually really develop and roleplay your main character, and while you had to follow the given storyline, you nearly always were given multiple ways to accomplish the current task.
You haven't played Fallout or Planescape: Torment, have you? You poor, poor man.
The Legend of Zelda isn't an RPG. Well, unless you're talking about Zelda II. Surely with the research that's been done in the making of the book, Barton must've noticed the existence of the console adventure genre (of which Zelda is the archetype) in the video-game magazines of the day, a convention that still persists despite many people miscategorizing Zelda as an RPG. Perhaps he included the series because it was arguably the second biggest outside influence on the console RPG genre (behind the Ultima series).
They forgot to mention the most important part: This is a guide for how to get the Wi-Fi to work under Linux. Which makes a lot more sense than having a guide for the relatively simple process of getting it to work in the PS3's native environment.
The MGS2 review is one of his most tolerable, I'll grant, simply because it's actually about the game (sort of) and doesn't ramble on and on for twenty thousand words. Though he apparently didn't get the memo that splitting your review up into a bunch of one-sentence paragraphs doesn't really lend any dramatic weight to it.
The Mother 2 review, on the other hand, is more of Tim's typical tedious and pretentious shit.
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For example, how the Vogons managed to get away with hiding that demolition notice in some planning department out in Bum Fuck, Alpha Centauri.
Rob
...to bring poopsocking to a whole new level.
Rob
Try reading his View from the Bottom articles on RPG Vault and you might realize how stupid and off-base your post is. Hell, it doesn't even look like you did more than skim over the blog article that this Slashdot discussion is about, where he makes clear that he's reasonably satisfied with Geneforge 4's performance despite the high price, low-budget graphics, long demo, piracy, and lack of third-party distribution.
Even this guy seems to believe he deserved to make more even though it's amazing the amount he did make for what he's selling.
Well, considering the fact that his games are relatively popular among pirates, it's pretty obvious that he did deserve to make more. Deserving to make more and expecting to make more are two different things, and Vogel isn't doing the latter.
Rob
I mean, everyone knows that only the first two seasons of TNG were any good (The Naked Now deserved a frigging Emmy!), after which Roddenberry died and Berman shitted it up with characters like Reginald Barclay, Gowron, and Locutus of Borg. Berman could never help create a character as perfect as Wesley Crusher and he should've stopped trying. And then he comes out with that boring, actionless piece of fluff called Deep Space Nine, which was so awful that it ran for only seven seasons in an oversaturated market. Some Cardassian tailor with a mysterious past? Who cares? An all-out war between the Federation and some major dominion in the Gamma Quadrant, filled with intrigue and plot twists? Who wants to see that?
Sarcasm aside, I think what CmdrTaco meant is that we should hope for the end of the era of Brannon Braga. He's the one primarily responsible for Voyager and Enterprise, and the only things he did that were good for the franchise were because of Ronald Moore.
Rob
But a cloak that made an object invisible to light of only one color would not be of much use.
Tell that to the Green Lantern, you insensitive clod!
Rob
The difference from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off.
That's kind of like how a Ouija board is operated, isn't it? More proof that Cliff Kushler is Satan, I guess.
Rob
BUTTKICKING FOR GOODNESS!
Rob
Ars' complaint about having to spend $800 to get a $20 game misses the point.
The complaint is only silly because Ars emphasized the wrong thing. What they meant to say is that there's nothing on the Wii worth spending $800 for to begin with. The point being that the Wii has problems that Nintendo should look into before putting effort into something like Club Nintendo.
Rob
Not only can I do that, I can name one that won the Pulitzer Prize.
It helps if you know the answer to your rhetorical question before you ask it, jackass.
Rob
Complete sense-of-humor failure over there. It's also in a couple of the above replies.
Rob
Don't you mean "began months ago"?
Rob
And people like you and the other guy who replied to the GP are the reason that posting jokes on /. gets you nothing but stupid replies from people who have no grasp of irony.
Rob
Not only has the R4 been superceded by other carts, but the no$gba emulator has fairly reasonable DS support. Nintendo has basically no chance of stopping piracy on the DS.
Rob
This is just another example of how far behind Nintendo is in the online market. Sony has been selling downloadable PSP games pretty much since the PS3 came out.
Rob
They don't already?
Actually, no, they don't; they don't know who the FSF is. And they still won't after this stupid publicity stunt.
Rob
The saddest thing is that you actually said "just like we already put a bunch of zeros for years before the year 1000" in the middle of your post. I guess not reading isn't just for articles anymore.
Rob
People don't converse in machine code. The so-called "Middle Endian" makes perfect sense because people (at least in America) are more likely to refer to "September 9th" than "the 9th of September." Expecting people to change that convention just because a few geeks don't think it's consistent is just as silly as trying to get the British to drive on the right side of the road.
Rob
I guess this takes the concept of Wikigroaning to a whole new level.
Rob
Well, there's your problem: You played Fallout 2. I was referring to Fallout 1.
Rob
The biggest difference between a console adventure and an RPG is that the console adventure doesn't have an experience system. In Zelda, your character improves by picking up heart containers and other such concrete items, while in an RPG he generally improves by various deeds such as killing monsters and doing quests, all of which increase an abstract experience meter.
GTA is a hybrid of genres. All of the games put driving/racing and third-person shooting together, while San Andreas also included RPG elements. I wouldn't include console adventure gaming in the mix because the key distinguishing characteristic there is environmental puzzles, which GTA doesn't have. I haven't played Bully, but from what I've heard of it I'd say that it's a mix of action and life simulation.
Rob
Baldur's Gate II was much more - you could, unlike in nearly any CRPG I've seen except maybe KotOR, actually really develop and roleplay your main character, and while you had to follow the given storyline, you nearly always were given multiple ways to accomplish the current task.
You haven't played Fallout or Planescape: Torment, have you? You poor, poor man.
Rob
The Legend of Zelda isn't an RPG. Well, unless you're talking about Zelda II. Surely with the research that's been done in the making of the book, Barton must've noticed the existence of the console adventure genre (of which Zelda is the archetype) in the video-game magazines of the day, a convention that still persists despite many people miscategorizing Zelda as an RPG. Perhaps he included the series because it was arguably the second biggest outside influence on the console RPG genre (behind the Ultima series).
Rob
They forgot to mention the most important part: This is a guide for how to get the Wi-Fi to work under Linux. Which makes a lot more sense than having a guide for the relatively simple process of getting it to work in the PS3's native environment.
Rob
You mean... people buy Windows?
Rob
The MGS2 review is one of his most tolerable, I'll grant, simply because it's actually about the game (sort of) and doesn't ramble on and on for twenty thousand words. Though he apparently didn't get the memo that splitting your review up into a bunch of one-sentence paragraphs doesn't really lend any dramatic weight to it.
The Mother 2 review, on the other hand, is more of Tim's typical tedious and pretentious shit.
Rob