In WoW the dungeons are "instanced" which means that when you group up with people and go into the dungeon only your party is in there, it creates a new dungeon for each party that goes into it.
Regular dungeons are 5-man, meaning if you are of appropriate level it will take a group of 5 people to go through with a decent ammount of time. These 5-man dungeons are usually capped at a max of 5 people also, so you can't roll through with 20 people and get it done in 2 minutes.
40-man dungeons are the "end game" content. They are possible to do with less than 40 but it is ill-advised if you value your time. They differ slightly from regular instance dungeons in that you are "locked" into the instance once you kill a boss. From then on until the instance resets (once a week) you will join the same instance every time you go in. This allows groups of people to complete a dungeon over the course of a week which is often necisary.
The first 40-man raid dungeons were Molten Core and Onyxia's Lair. Molten Core (9 bosses + 1 super end boss) is doable with far less than 40 now if your group has been doing it and has awesome gear. Onyxia is a 1 boss dungeon which is also doable with less than 40. (Average completion time is 8 hours for MC, 1 hour for Onyxia)
They then released Blackwing's Lair which is a lot harder than either of the other 2, most servers have only managed to progress to the first few bosses by the time they released AQ (I forgot how to spell it..) There really is no average completion time for BWL because only a few guilds complete it.
AQ was just released about a month ago, even harder than BWL, I'm not sure how many if any bosses people have killed.
But to sum it up, you need an organized guild of either 40 extremely i-will-lose-my-job-over-a-game dedicated people or a guild of 80 pretty dedicated people to assure that you will be able to do one of these dungeons on a schedualed night. High end raiding guilds will usually have planned raids 3-5 nights a week going to the various dungeons which makes the end game content seem more like a second job than a video game.
The harder they make these dungeons the longer it takes guilds to progress through them, the more raid time is REQUIED the less fun the game becomes.
That game didn't deserve more than a years lifetime in the dark hearts of people still longing for another Serious Sam, much less be the method of determining a "video game champion"
RTFA, it says the actual lawsuit claims he died after playing Warcraft III, the RTS, and that somewhere along the line it got bungled into WoW, most likely in order to get more attention based on the "addicted qualities of mmo's" and other videogame hype.
The release date comment was in there as a means to investigation, someone said hey wait a minute that doesnt add up, then delved further and found that it was indeed War3 that was mentioned in the lawsuit
Now instead of searching for a game crack that disables a CD check (so I dont have to change cds 20 times a day) I will be searching for one that ALSO disables these stupid ads
They have a name for a program that sends and recieves information in the background and then shows you ads..
I followed horizons from around 2000 up until after the blackout and even tried the final product (crap) so I remember a lot of the specific instances mentioned in the article
HOWEVER you have to remember that this article is full of quotes and memmories from DA, so of course the tune of the article is going to be in his favor. This is only 1 side of the story, and while I'm not trying to say it isn't true, I'm mearly saying it may not be the WHOLE story.
so you're saying gta has an awsome storyline and that is why you play it over and over again? I have a feeling it is more because it is open ended and you can run around doing whatever you want to kill time
I played doom1 and doom2 over and over again relentlessly as many people did, and it wasn't because it had an awesome storyline, it was because the gameplay was fun
I think storyline actually kills replay value. Take a look at max payne 1 and 2, sure they were fun games and were packed full of story, but The last thing I want to do is play the game over again when I beat it. It may take a year or longer before I feel like playing the game again.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think they are the first to think something, think their ideas are innovative and original, and that they should get an award for thinking the way they do.
Replies on the other hand, are first come first serve; so unless someone else has typed it on that particular medium before you then it's on.
Joe Schmoe works at Pizza Hut, he makes pizzas. Joe Schmoe does not own the pizzas he makes, Pizza Hut does, until someone pays for it, transfering ownership.
If you expend your own efforts and make something with SOMEONE ELSES PROPERTY then the end product does not magically become yours.
If you "make" something in an online world out of "online world property" (read: a bunch of 1's and 0's on the server the company owns) Then you don't own shit unless the company transfers ownership to you.
There were countless games based on movies:
back to the future, batman, jungle book, jurassic park, indiana jones... and those are just off the top of my head!
More often than not these games had little if anything to do with the movie other than the box art and, at a stretch of the imagination, in-game graphics. Some of these games, despite that, were actually really good games.
If id didn't do it, someone else would have.
It may have taken more time, and it might have not been as good.. heck it might have been 5x better, some project that got scrapped because they didn't think it could compete against DOOM.
Quantum physics, love it or hate it.
why arnt they making max payne, halflife, hell even doom, or one of the thousands of other games that would make much better movies than SPY HUNTER
I would not be suprised to see a pacman movie now
The tongue is just another muscle, excersize it enough and it too will grow.
It will grow so much that there is no room for food in these peoples mouths..
They will starve to death if they don't choke on their tongue first.
+1 for natural selection!
Well theres a few points to be made.. Tons of people say that when a book was released as a movie the book was so much better.. why? Because it was how they imagined it, not what hollywood could afford. It is similar when you compare a game such as Doom to Max Payne. Sure Doom didn't have the best story set up but it was there, and then you had your imagination to guide you through "what happened next". Max Payne on the other hand, tells you exactly what happens next, and that can't change from one person to another. It is linear by all means of the word. I would prefer for a little open ended storyline. I find that I enjoymovies like Memento and Donny Darko better than most simply because it doesn't really tell you everything, it leaves you to discover with your imagination what exactly happened. Of course these movies also bug the hell out of you for weeks because there are multiple scenarios.. but that is beside the point
this of course sucks for all the jobs that will be lost but interplay has seemingly lost it's edge that it once had..
What happened to games like Battle Chess, Kingpin, and Redneck Rampage, Clay Fighter.... Games that took a genre, hung it by its toes and twisted the life out of it until you get some mangled twisted mess that somehow draws you in.
All we seem to get now from them is a bunch of copy and paste.
can't wait until sony starts saying that the people who discovered this "unlinked to information" are hackers, and that they violated some privacy law by "fiddling with the numbers at the end of the url"
upon reviewing the video, and comparing it to my nes emulator (rock nes) running zelda, the video game speed seems increased, or at least link's run speed.
I compared different scenes throughout the video two different ways, with myself doing the same actions in real time to the video, and the "stopwatch" way. I tested various scenes that ranged from running straight across from 1 screen to the next, to ones where more controlled movement was involved, and in all of them the video was signifigantly faster.
I have no doubt this is why the video is "14%" faster, most likely because the emulator's game speed was tweaked up 14%.
It would be possible to record a demo in real time, then play it back at a slightly increased speed
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In WoW the dungeons are "instanced" which means that when you group up with people and go into the dungeon only your party is in there, it creates a new dungeon for each party that goes into it. Regular dungeons are 5-man, meaning if you are of appropriate level it will take a group of 5 people to go through with a decent ammount of time. These 5-man dungeons are usually capped at a max of 5 people also, so you can't roll through with 20 people and get it done in 2 minutes. 40-man dungeons are the "end game" content. They are possible to do with less than 40 but it is ill-advised if you value your time. They differ slightly from regular instance dungeons in that you are "locked" into the instance once you kill a boss. From then on until the instance resets (once a week) you will join the same instance every time you go in. This allows groups of people to complete a dungeon over the course of a week which is often necisary. The first 40-man raid dungeons were Molten Core and Onyxia's Lair. Molten Core (9 bosses + 1 super end boss) is doable with far less than 40 now if your group has been doing it and has awesome gear. Onyxia is a 1 boss dungeon which is also doable with less than 40. (Average completion time is 8 hours for MC, 1 hour for Onyxia) They then released Blackwing's Lair which is a lot harder than either of the other 2, most servers have only managed to progress to the first few bosses by the time they released AQ (I forgot how to spell it..) There really is no average completion time for BWL because only a few guilds complete it. AQ was just released about a month ago, even harder than BWL, I'm not sure how many if any bosses people have killed. But to sum it up, you need an organized guild of either 40 extremely i-will-lose-my-job-over-a-game dedicated people or a guild of 80 pretty dedicated people to assure that you will be able to do one of these dungeons on a schedualed night. High end raiding guilds will usually have planned raids 3-5 nights a week going to the various dungeons which makes the end game content seem more like a second job than a video game. The harder they make these dungeons the longer it takes guilds to progress through them, the more raid time is REQUIED the less fun the game becomes.
Sounds like you need to introduce yourself to the world of par2 ( http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ )
Parity reconstruction
Think of it like the year 2805 where scientists can regrow someones arm if they happen to lose it
That game didn't deserve more than a years lifetime in the dark hearts of people still longing for another Serious Sam, much less be the method of determining a "video game champion"
RTFA, it says the actual lawsuit claims he died after playing Warcraft III, the RTS, and that somewhere along the line it got bungled into WoW, most likely in order to get more attention based on the "addicted qualities of mmo's" and other videogame hype. The release date comment was in there as a means to investigation, someone said hey wait a minute that doesnt add up, then delved further and found that it was indeed War3 that was mentioned in the lawsuit
Now instead of searching for a game crack that disables a CD check (so I dont have to change cds 20 times a day) I will be searching for one that ALSO disables these stupid ads
They have a name for a program that sends and recieves information in the background and then shows you ads..
ITS CALLED SPYWARE
After the leak of Halo 2 the number of pre-order sales went from 1 million to 200,000....
I followed horizons from around 2000 up until after the blackout and even tried the final product (crap) so I remember a lot of the specific instances mentioned in the article
HOWEVER you have to remember that this article is full of quotes and memmories from DA, so of course the tune of the article is going to be in his favor.
This is only 1 side of the story, and while I'm not trying to say it isn't true, I'm mearly saying it may not be the WHOLE story.
so you're saying gta has an awsome storyline and that is why you play it over and over again? I have a feeling it is more because it is open ended and you can run around doing whatever you want to kill time I played doom1 and doom2 over and over again relentlessly as many people did, and it wasn't because it had an awesome storyline, it was because the gameplay was fun I think storyline actually kills replay value. Take a look at max payne 1 and 2, sure they were fun games and were packed full of story, but The last thing I want to do is play the game over again when I beat it. It may take a year or longer before I feel like playing the game again.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think they are the first to think something, think their ideas are innovative and original, and that they should get an award for thinking the way they do. Replies on the other hand, are first come first serve; so unless someone else has typed it on that particular medium before you then it's on.
Joe Schmoe works at Pizza Hut, he makes pizzas. Joe Schmoe does not own the pizzas he makes, Pizza Hut does, until someone pays for it, transfering ownership.
If you expend your own efforts and make something with SOMEONE ELSES PROPERTY then the end product does not magically become yours.
If you "make" something in an online world out of "online world property" (read: a bunch of 1's and 0's on the server the company owns) Then you don't own shit unless the company transfers ownership to you.
microsoft should go sue some porn companies then, I'm sure tons of them use frontpage and asp
Most - Confusing - Title - EVAR!
Remember NES?
There were countless games based on movies:
back to the future, batman, jungle book, jurassic park, indiana jones...
and those are just off the top of my head!
More often than not these games had little if anything to do with the movie other than the box art and, at a stretch of the imagination, in-game graphics. Some of these games, despite that, were actually really good games.
If id didn't do it, someone else would have. It may have taken more time, and it might have not been as good.. heck it might have been 5x better, some project that got scrapped because they didn't think it could compete against DOOM. Quantum physics, love it or hate it.
" I think it did hurt my opinion of The Matrix"
it hurt my opinion of the matrix less than the 2nd and 3rd movies did
What? Wheres the obligitory "In soviet russia..." jokes???
why arnt they making max payne, halflife, hell even doom, or one of the thousands of other games that would make much better movies than SPY HUNTER I would not be suprised to see a pacman movie now
The tongue is just another muscle, excersize it enough and it too will grow. It will grow so much that there is no room for food in these peoples mouths.. They will starve to death if they don't choke on their tongue first. +1 for natural selection!
I bought tribes2 back in the day and I loved it, unfortunately as time goes on the ammount of good servers goes down.
Hopefully this will reintroduce a lot of players to the game and get those servers back up there!
http://iblnews.com/news/noticia.php3?id=106539 they filed :)
Well theres a few points to be made.. Tons of people say that when a book was released as a movie the book was so much better.. why? Because it was how they imagined it, not what hollywood could afford. It is similar when you compare a game such as Doom to Max Payne. Sure Doom didn't have the best story set up but it was there, and then you had your imagination to guide you through "what happened next". Max Payne on the other hand, tells you exactly what happens next, and that can't change from one person to another. It is linear by all means of the word.
I would prefer for a little open ended storyline. I find that I enjoymovies like Memento and Donny Darko better than most simply because it doesn't really tell you everything, it leaves you to discover with your imagination what exactly happened. Of course these movies also bug the hell out of you for weeks because there are multiple scenarios.. but that is beside the point
this of course sucks for all the jobs that will be lost but interplay has seemingly lost it's edge that it once had.. What happened to games like Battle Chess, Kingpin, and Redneck Rampage, Clay Fighter.... Games that took a genre, hung it by its toes and twisted the life out of it until you get some mangled twisted mess that somehow draws you in. All we seem to get now from them is a bunch of copy and paste.
legal for consented sex perhaps, but not legal for playboy.
can't wait until sony starts saying that the people who discovered this "unlinked to information" are hackers, and that they violated some privacy law by "fiddling with the numbers at the end of the url"
upon reviewing the video, and comparing it to my nes emulator (rock nes) running zelda, the video game speed seems increased, or at least link's run speed. I compared different scenes throughout the video two different ways, with myself doing the same actions in real time to the video, and the "stopwatch" way. I tested various scenes that ranged from running straight across from 1 screen to the next, to ones where more controlled movement was involved, and in all of them the video was signifigantly faster. I have no doubt this is why the video is "14%" faster, most likely because the emulator's game speed was tweaked up 14%. It would be possible to record a demo in real time, then play it back at a slightly increased speed