Hurray for Batmud! It was double-edged sword for me - on the one hand it completely fucked up my grades my freshman year of college. On the other hand it hooked me up with a sweet piece of ass.
that this announcement is just a damn lie? There's no way they get out an expansion next year. NO WAY. They're just trying desperately to cling to their user base by promising content that's nowhere near ready. They're just staving off the bleeding.
BUT if you use a small peice of metal and join some of the address bus lines, in order to address higher addresses, these keys can be recovered.
I was under the strict impression this was a software-only hack. They joined 2 addresses in their own code...you don't "join" addresses using soldering wires.
I hate transcoding with a passion - the best media centers out there (TVersity, Orb) still seem somewhat buggy and just stop working sometimes. They're great, but if I have to remote admin to my media server to stop and restart the service to watch a TV show, then I'm less inclined to want to bother with it. At their best, transcoders (for obvious reasons) lower the quality of the video to get it over to your console/system of choice.
I loved the game so much I actually finished it, and that's saying something for me. With my busy work and personal schedule and a glut of great titles on several different platforms I often get distracted by a new game and move on to something different without finishing the prior one off. I'm not alone in this, I know, but for me to be motivated to see a game to completion it has to be a) fun and b) not punish me too harshly when I screw up. R&C does both very well.
As a side note, having finished R&C a week or two ago that puts me at a total of two full completions on the PS3: Resistance and R&C, both developed by Insomniac. Hats off to them for making games that I'm motivated to finish! It's quite an accomplishment!
Dammit, Bob, if you don't stop coming to my cubicle to conduct more of your "informal, non-scientific" poll bullshit, I'm going to thump your skull. No one gives a shit about HD formats except you, and we cared even less about "should I wear white or pink stockings with my Barbie Horse Adventures Halloween costume" last year. The laughs in the lunch room didn't die down for weeks for that one.
You are correct. As someone else has said, if we were able to do AI well, we'd be doing it already, just slowly. We don't have the algorithms, yet, even if such a thing were to exist. As it is, we don't have even a remote grasp of simulating intelligence, let alone doing it authentically.
I completely agree with you, but all the buttsecks-ing Nintendo fanboys on Slashdot are gonna rip you a new one, unfortunately. I also have all three consoles, but happen to think that the Wii is mostly a curiosity that will collect dust more than not for most people. The 3rd party support is atrocious.
What the Wii did was introduce a really different way of playing the games, and in the process has tapped into a market the ps3 and 360 couldn't dream of. Ergo, the impact of the Wii on the console gaming genre is larger even through the technological advances involved aren't.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying so, but that's a lot of bullshit and marketing crap right there. The Wii targeted non-gamers who, by definition, don't buy games. They bought it for Wii Sports and little else. I have one, and it's collecting dust right now alongside a heavily-used Xbox 360. The Wii has suffered a dearth of compelling 3rd party titles (no, you're not allowed to break out your list of things that might come out, we're talking past and present) and has very few first-party titles worth owning at present. To date, most of the motioned controlled crap that they're passing off as "revolutionary" on the Wii-mote happens to substitute swinging the thing instead of pressing the button. That's not revolutionary, that's just swinging-the-remote-instead-of-pressing. In my opinion, the most compelling use of the Wii-mote to date has been Wii Bowling, which is rather sad, since Wii Bowling was fun for a few months. The rest of it just sucks.
I liked the idea of the Wii and bought one on day one, but its underpowered-ness (no, I'm not talking about graphics whoring, I'm talking about not being able to carry out next-gen gameplay ideas like the fantastic Dead Rising for the 360, which couldn't handle that game if it wanted to) and so-so Wiimote implementation really have me wishing that Nintendo had bundled power *and* a Wiimote instead of just duct-taping 2 gamecubes together.
So a $250 console with a game that really grabs outsiders (Wii Sports) is going to outpace a $400 traditional console? Color me unsurprised.
I defy you to show me where the Wii sell-through numbers are anything like the 360's, though. I own a Wii but never buy games for it, and I think that's where many Wii owners are at this point. So it made an impression on non-traditional gamers by virtue of Wii Sports. So what? The "masses", by definition, don't buy many games because they don't care a whole lot. 3rd party support on the Wii has been, to date, sketchy at best whereas it's been stellar on the 360.
So I don't suppose they'd mind replacing my lost or broken discs for free since all I'm doing is "licensing" the software anyway?
Where I work, if a client has a PC with a licensed copy of our imaging software and it or the computer goes tits up, we don't charge them for a new copy of the software when we re-install it, we just go out and re-install it for little to nothing since they're paying a licensing fee and don't actually own the software.
Publishers in the game industry want to treat their games as both purchased and licensed depending on which side of the fence they need to be on at a particular moment without any of the inherent responsibilities. It's not right.
Soon the console market will be like the desktop operating system market, with XBox (running a derivative of WinNT) subsidized into dominance and PS3 (running Linux) relegated to relative obscurity.
That's total bullcrap. As long as the platforms are closed, it's the games that will ultimately drive sales and, hence, dominance in a market. No one really cares what OS the games use to run on consoles except the geeky types.
...but that gamespy.com Assassin's Creed piece reads like someone at Microsoft or Ubisoft did an "OH SHIT" because of the poor on-stage demo and then shoveled a fluff piece toward one of their nearest media outlet lackeys to "get out the word" that it wasn't as bad as it seems.
Seriously, it's not like these game sites really have a choice. Play along to a (great) extent or get shut out of press events, pre-release information, etc. Information access is their bread and butter.
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Perhaps the underlying assumption is that homebrew == piracy in Nintendo's eyes. Not saying it's correct...
Hurray for Batmud! It was double-edged sword for me - on the one hand it completely fucked up my grades my freshman year of college. On the other hand it hooked me up with a sweet piece of ass.
Or maybe it was the other way around...dunno.
a 100 percent guarantee that Home will be released by the end of this calendar year
Thank God. And here I was worried that I might not have anything to do after finishing Duke Nukem Forever.
that this announcement is just a damn lie? There's no way they get out an expansion next year. NO WAY. They're just trying desperately to cling to their user base by promising content that's nowhere near ready. They're just staving off the bleeding.
Actually, it's not illegal, it's simply against the Terms of Service. They can ban your account, but they're not going to issue any arrest warrants.
How about a 4a or a 4b?
4a. No Internet access or Xbox Live is down
4b. Multiple gamertags in the same household
That changes your #5 to:
5. All purchased DLC inaccessible
BUT if you use a small peice of metal and join some of the address bus lines, in order to address higher addresses, these keys can be recovered.
I was under the strict impression this was a software-only hack. They joined 2 addresses in their own code...you don't "join" addresses using soldering wires.
Good idea! I can even supply the headline:
"Moratorium on using the word drops drops on Slashdot"
It does seem like a great idea (the original XBox games). I honestly hope they're able to release their entire back catalog at some point.
The summary is incorrect. This is XBox Live's 5th anniversary: Link
it's about f*****' time!
I hate transcoding with a passion - the best media centers out there (TVersity, Orb) still seem somewhat buggy and just stop working sometimes. They're great, but if I have to remote admin to my media server to stop and restart the service to watch a TV show, then I'm less inclined to want to bother with it. At their best, transcoders (for obvious reasons) lower the quality of the video to get it over to your console/system of choice.
in the economy, as if millions of checkbooks cried out in terror, and were suddenly empty.
I loved the game so much I actually finished it, and that's saying something for me. With my busy work and personal schedule and a glut of great titles on several different platforms I often get distracted by a new game and move on to something different without finishing the prior one off. I'm not alone in this, I know, but for me to be motivated to see a game to completion it has to be a) fun and b) not punish me too harshly when I screw up. R&C does both very well.
As a side note, having finished R&C a week or two ago that puts me at a total of two full completions on the PS3: Resistance and R&C, both developed by Insomniac. Hats off to them for making games that I'm motivated to finish! It's quite an accomplishment!
Dammit, Bob, if you don't stop coming to my cubicle to conduct more of your "informal, non-scientific" poll bullshit, I'm going to thump your skull. No one gives a shit about HD formats except you, and we cared even less about "should I wear white or pink stockings with my Barbie Horse Adventures Halloween costume" last year. The laughs in the lunch room didn't die down for weeks for that one.
You are correct. As someone else has said, if we were able to do AI well, we'd be doing it already, just slowly. We don't have the algorithms, yet, even if such a thing were to exist. As it is, we don't have even a remote grasp of simulating intelligence, let alone doing it authentically.
They had a policy in place that they're not allowed to stop anyone who they see shoplifting.
Hmm, where did your wife work? For, uh, research purposes only, of course.
I completely agree with you, but all the buttsecks-ing Nintendo fanboys on Slashdot are gonna rip you a new one, unfortunately. I also have all three consoles, but happen to think that the Wii is mostly a curiosity that will collect dust more than not for most people. The 3rd party support is atrocious.
What the Wii did was introduce a really different way of playing the games, and in the process has tapped into a market the ps3 and 360 couldn't dream of. Ergo, the impact of the Wii on the console gaming genre is larger even through the technological advances involved aren't.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying so, but that's a lot of bullshit and marketing crap right there. The Wii targeted non-gamers who, by definition, don't buy games. They bought it for Wii Sports and little else. I have one, and it's collecting dust right now alongside a heavily-used Xbox 360. The Wii has suffered a dearth of compelling 3rd party titles (no, you're not allowed to break out your list of things that might come out, we're talking past and present) and has very few first-party titles worth owning at present. To date, most of the motioned controlled crap that they're passing off as "revolutionary" on the Wii-mote happens to substitute swinging the thing instead of pressing the button. That's not revolutionary, that's just swinging-the-remote-instead-of-pressing. In my opinion, the most compelling use of the Wii-mote to date has been Wii Bowling, which is rather sad, since Wii Bowling was fun for a few months. The rest of it just sucks.
I liked the idea of the Wii and bought one on day one, but its underpowered-ness (no, I'm not talking about graphics whoring, I'm talking about not being able to carry out next-gen gameplay ideas like the fantastic Dead Rising for the 360, which couldn't handle that game if it wanted to) and so-so Wiimote implementation really have me wishing that Nintendo had bundled power *and* a Wiimote instead of just duct-taping 2 gamecubes together.
Psygnosis is somewhere in the bowels of Sony
You make it sound like Sony is some Beast from the pit of he...ohhhhhh, I get it!
So a $250 console with a game that really grabs outsiders (Wii Sports) is going to outpace a $400 traditional console? Color me unsurprised.
I defy you to show me where the Wii sell-through numbers are anything like the 360's, though. I own a Wii but never buy games for it, and I think that's where many Wii owners are at this point. So it made an impression on non-traditional gamers by virtue of Wii Sports. So what? The "masses", by definition, don't buy many games because they don't care a whole lot. 3rd party support on the Wii has been, to date, sketchy at best whereas it's been stellar on the 360.
So I don't suppose they'd mind replacing my lost or broken discs for free since all I'm doing is "licensing" the software anyway?
Where I work, if a client has a PC with a licensed copy of our imaging software and it or the computer goes tits up, we don't charge them for a new copy of the software when we re-install it, we just go out and re-install it for little to nothing since they're paying a licensing fee and don't actually own the software.
Publishers in the game industry want to treat their games as both purchased and licensed depending on which side of the fence they need to be on at a particular moment without any of the inherent responsibilities. It's not right.
Soon the console market will be like the desktop operating system market, with XBox (running a derivative of WinNT) subsidized into dominance and PS3 (running Linux) relegated to relative obscurity. That's total bullcrap. As long as the platforms are closed, it's the games that will ultimately drive sales and, hence, dominance in a market. No one really cares what OS the games use to run on consoles except the geeky types.
...but that gamespy.com Assassin's Creed piece reads like someone at Microsoft or Ubisoft did an "OH SHIT" because of the poor on-stage demo and then shoveled a fluff piece toward one of their nearest media outlet lackeys to "get out the word" that it wasn't as bad as it seems.
Seriously, it's not like these game sites really have a choice. Play along to a (great) extent or get shut out of press events, pre-release information, etc. Information access is their bread and butter.
And I'm pissed that I can only play Zelda on Nintendo products and Halo on Microsoft products...
Yes, yes that's all well and good for Slashdot, but what do you think about AVSforums?