In your own words, "that's dead wrong." As of 9/01/10 we in Rochester NY pay $55 for 10/1 (standard) without bundled services (cable, phone). Additionally, we have no RR Extreme in Rochester. There is no "wideband" in Rochester, and I suspect there will be no plans to offer this service any time soon. You guys may falsely advertise it, but we sure as hell don't have it.
I heard it in the South Wedge too, just off of Mt. Hope. I was home for my lunch break and heard something like a dump truck hitting a brick wall. With all the construction going on, I assumed that too;)
It's Nobuo Uematsu's metal group The Black Mages. They do covers of Final Fantasy songs, and I'm pretty sure that one was off their first (self-titled) album.
I'll agree with your opinion on the AI, but unfortunately most games have pretty laughable AI. The best I've seen thus far are all custom AIs used in both Total Annihilation and the Spring engine. They can be downloaded just like new units, maps and mods. It's a pretty cool mod concept, really, and makes playing skirmishes against the computer much more enjoyable.
"Supreme Commander has abysmal AI, and neither it nor the latest C&C features formations."
Wrong. In Supreme Commander, you hold the right mouse button and left click when units are selected. This cycles through the many available formations. Furthermore, in SupCom the units do not move in a straight line as the parent noted about SC1, instead they will by default spread out and move forward in a sort of wall formation with artillery and weaker but longer ranged units staying behind the front line.
Maybe you tried out Supreme Commander, but it seems you didn't check the manual at all, or perhaps just watched the intro and gave up on it.
You also forgot about Homeworld. There is no RTS that plays quite like it in full 3d space. With formations.
Now I need to buy one copy for myself and one copy for my wife if we want to play with/against each other. I don't have to buy two copies of a DVD for us to watch, or two boxes of Settlers of Catan to play. Unless they keep the whole Multiplayer Spawn idea alive of course.
They've already started doing that. Here in Rochester they had their first announcement of their tiers, then after the initial outrage announced some slightly better tiers. Very slightly. On top of it though, they decided to move us up in the schedule from November to August. Here I come Frontier DSL...
As far as I've been informed (and who knows how reliable my info is), you are unable to open any ports on the box Clearwire gives you, which of course can be problematic for torrents or other p2p.
Lost Planet on PC is a huge offender on the "press start" port issue. The dumbest part is that the releases were not simultaneous, the PC version was after the 360 release, so they had plenty of time to iron something so simple out. And yet the game tells me to press A to pass this message, and the tutorial messages tell me to hit the black button or my L trigger. Fucking lazy port of a mediocre game, and it runs like shit too.
Most 4X games these days seem to allow you to more-or-less automate planet development. It does tend to get rather tedious building a new set of factories on every single new planet you colonize. Also, I seem to recall Caesar 2 allowing for automated battles as well, and I swear it worked far better than in MoO2.
More importantly, now I know I'm not the only one who ever played Ascendancy! That game was great back in '95 or whenever.
"name-brand bottled water power-ups"
I know this one's been around for awhile now. That steaming pile known as Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (not to be confused with Tactics) had Bawls in it, which were pretty much just health potions if I'm remembering correctly.
From wikipedia:
Brotherhood of Steel employed in-game advertisement in that Nuka-Cola bottles and even advertising billboards from the original series were replaced with Bawls Guarana bottles and signs.
If I recall, that PS1 version also had your character moving at double normal speeds, which seemed a little strange. I never played it, but a friend of mine in high school owned it after I got him addicted to the PC version.
Also seems it was published by EA. Bet you wouldn't see that happening these days.
Screw paying extra to listen to your music on more than five devices. Pirate yourself some mp3s and buy the CD if you're interested in supporting the musicians. Works for me, and I can listen to my music on my PC, my laptop, my mp3 player, my Xbox, in the car, and I can burn as many copies as I damn well please.
How precisely does an "unfinished POS engine" lay to rest any idealization of BIS' Fallout 3? That's no different than claiming Bethesda's Fallout will suck after seeing the image and hearing the music on their Fallout website. I'm a Fallout fanboy and I check out NMA every day, but I'm willing to give Bethesda's version a chance, as much as I'd love to see one made by its true creators.
What a load of crap. Your friends need to get over themselves and have some fun. Being 'mature' all the time is boring as hell, and so is looking at the same war-torn, blasted industrial grey/brown blood-splattered "mature-audience only" environment in every game.
I wish I knew what my chances are when I'm an animator/modeler as opposed to a programmer. I keep seeing articles like this, but they're never about what I'm trying to do. Curses.
I'll just wing in my 2 cents and agree with you. It was the first FPS that I've played where I was honestly bored. I still can't understand how the game became so intensely popular.
"What about the online experience - that is where games are moving going forward!"
Maybe that's why the Wii is supposed to have free online play, hmm ?
Besides, I don't want to play games with even 1/10 of the douches that play on Xbox Live. It's like a haven for the same types of morons I always encountered in Counterstrike back in college.
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In your own words, "that's dead wrong." As of 9/01/10 we in Rochester NY pay $55 for 10/1 (standard) without bundled services (cable, phone). Additionally, we have no RR Extreme in Rochester. There is no "wideband" in Rochester, and I suspect there will be no plans to offer this service any time soon. You guys may falsely advertise it, but we sure as hell don't have it.
I heard it in the South Wedge too, just off of Mt. Hope. I was home for my lunch break and heard something like a dump truck hitting a brick wall. With all the construction going on, I assumed that too ;)
It's Nobuo Uematsu's metal group The Black Mages. They do covers of Final Fantasy songs, and I'm pretty sure that one was off their first (self-titled) album.
I paid $70 for Chrono Trigger on the SNES in 1995. Secret of Mana and FF6 cost at least 60 as well. This is nothing new by any means.
A big part of the comedy in those games needs to be attributed to Rhianna Pratchett. Fantastic writing and humor in those games.
I love the jester at the beginning of the game... "Overlord? More like over-lard!"
I'll agree with your opinion on the AI, but unfortunately most games have pretty laughable AI. The best I've seen thus far are all custom AIs used in both Total Annihilation and the Spring engine. They can be downloaded just like new units, maps and mods. It's a pretty cool mod concept, really, and makes playing skirmishes against the computer much more enjoyable.
"Supreme Commander has abysmal AI, and neither it nor the latest C&C features formations."
Wrong. In Supreme Commander, you hold the right mouse button and left click when units are selected. This cycles through the many available formations. Furthermore, in SupCom the units do not move in a straight line as the parent noted about SC1, instead they will by default spread out and move forward in a sort of wall formation with artillery and weaker but longer ranged units staying behind the front line.
Maybe you tried out Supreme Commander, but it seems you didn't check the manual at all, or perhaps just watched the intro and gave up on it.
You also forgot about Homeworld. There is no RTS that plays quite like it in full 3d space. With formations.
Now I need to buy one copy for myself and one copy for my wife if we want to play with/against each other. I don't have to buy two copies of a DVD for us to watch, or two boxes of Settlers of Catan to play. Unless they keep the whole Multiplayer Spawn idea alive of course.
They've already started doing that. Here in Rochester they had their first announcement of their tiers, then after the initial outrage announced some slightly better tiers. Very slightly. On top of it though, they decided to move us up in the schedule from November to August. Here I come Frontier DSL...
As far as I've been informed (and who knows how reliable my info is), you are unable to open any ports on the box Clearwire gives you, which of course can be problematic for torrents or other p2p.
Lost Planet on PC is a huge offender on the "press start" port issue. The dumbest part is that the releases were not simultaneous, the PC version was after the 360 release, so they had plenty of time to iron something so simple out. And yet the game tells me to press A to pass this message, and the tutorial messages tell me to hit the black button or my L trigger. Fucking lazy port of a mediocre game, and it runs like shit too.
Most 4X games these days seem to allow you to more-or-less automate planet development. It does tend to get rather tedious building a new set of factories on every single new planet you colonize. Also, I seem to recall Caesar 2 allowing for automated battles as well, and I swear it worked far better than in MoO2.
More importantly, now I know I'm not the only one who ever played Ascendancy! That game was great back in '95 or whenever.
I know this one's been around for awhile now. That steaming pile known as Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (not to be confused with Tactics) had Bawls in it, which were pretty much just health potions if I'm remembering correctly.
From wikipedia:
Brotherhood of Steel employed in-game advertisement in that Nuka-Cola bottles and even advertising billboards from the original series were replaced with Bawls Guarana bottles and signs.
Locked in to WMA? My Zune's full of mp3s; ripped, bought from Amazon, and pirated. WTF are you talking about?
If I recall, that PS1 version also had your character moving at double normal speeds, which seemed a little strange. I never played it, but a friend of mine in high school owned it after I got him addicted to the PC version.
Also seems it was published by EA. Bet you wouldn't see that happening these days.
Screw paying extra to listen to your music on more than five devices. Pirate yourself some mp3s and buy the CD if you're interested in supporting the musicians. Works for me, and I can listen to my music on my PC, my laptop, my mp3 player, my Xbox, in the car, and I can burn as many copies as I damn well please.
How precisely does an "unfinished POS engine" lay to rest any idealization of BIS' Fallout 3? That's no different than claiming Bethesda's Fallout will suck after seeing the image and hearing the music on their Fallout website. I'm a Fallout fanboy and I check out NMA every day, but I'm willing to give Bethesda's version a chance, as much as I'd love to see one made by its true creators.
"Xbox and idiot box is too much."
Gee, no obvious bias in this study at all, wouldn't you say?
What a load of crap. Your friends need to get over themselves and have some fun. Being 'mature' all the time is boring as hell, and so is looking at the same war-torn, blasted industrial grey/brown blood-splattered "mature-audience only" environment in every game.
I wish I knew what my chances are when I'm an animator/modeler as opposed to a programmer. I keep seeing articles like this, but they're never about what I'm trying to do. Curses.
I'll just wing in my 2 cents and agree with you. It was the first FPS that I've played where I was honestly bored. I still can't understand how the game became so intensely popular.
Yoshi was actually in both Smash games so far. He makes the most horrible noises...
Wario's in the new one, look around and find the trailer. Looks to be promising...
Wow, that one hasn't been done to death yet. Almost as bad as people calling out "trenchcoat mafia" at me still.
"What about the online experience - that is where games are moving going forward!"
Maybe that's why the Wii is supposed to have free online play, hmm ?
Besides, I don't want to play games with even 1/10 of the douches that play on Xbox Live. It's like a haven for the same types of morons I always encountered in Counterstrike back in college.