Shenmue cost $40-60 million dollars, and was/is the most expensive video game ever produced. In this case, the result was actually really frickin' good.
Come on, you played that much Shufflepuck Cafe and yet couldn't recall that the final boss's name was Biff Raunch? That's a name I'll *never* forget.
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Subject: "Jetfuel, Babe Chicken Kiev" Subject: "jesus,Hi, Need a $5000.00 loan to help yourself?" Subject: "oblate gumbo horehound deborah" Subject: "Guarantmonoceroseed to profanticipateit with ebay" Subject: "hi there.You are so fat i cant stand to look at you."
From: Waldo Reagan Subject: detroitqyifaimhspk
From: expurgate Fitzgerald
"Every day you see a lot you teens on the streets but you never know what do they usually do when alone! You think studying and learning poems? You're wrong then."
The "article" sucked because the "article" was just a guy reminiscing about whatever sexual-intercourse-containing, mainstream, non-sex-oriented games he could remember. By no means is it a comprehensive or even representative report.
Some research and information about things like the very extensive Japanese dating-sim and H-game scenes would have been interesting.
"Are particular performance problems perennial?" ...
"point of view, to put performance into proper perspective."
Brought to you by the "Alliteration is the Only Literary Device I Ever Learned" School of Writing.
If Shenmue III is announced as an Xbox exclusive, I think my brain might explode in an obsessive/moralistic paradox of "Must Play Shenmue" and "Must not buy Xbox".
If instead the announcement is that Shenmue III-VI are all on the way as Dreamcast2 exclusives, my brain will just explode with happiness.:D
There was something a little more drastic done in Xenosaga.
**SPOILERS**
There's a scene in which the main antagonist nano-liquifies his arm and jams it into the abdomen of a young-girl-type character. In the original Japanese version it's pretty disturbing and pretty obviously suggestive. The US version replaced this scene was changed to him simply "absorbing" data from her brain through the air. It's been said that some of the creators actually prefer the gentler version.
Two other scenes were edited similarly. There is a full description with screenshots at Zenosaga.com.
Later I discovered the deliciously immersive Shenmue I & II; the final disc of II might be the most beautiful gaming I've ever had.
Games like these and other quirky and original titles are what makes DC my favorite console. At first I was turned off by the WinCE logo and the non-fighter-friendly controller, but once I realized the intoxicating level of creativity going on with this system, I was in love with it.
On the subject of cross-platform games, I'm rather surprised more ambitious games have not been released in Flash. You can't put together a MMOFPS or something, but it seems that you could assemble a SNES-grade RPG or something similar. The budget would be tiny and the game would run on nearly any modern PC. Why isn't this kind of thing done more? It seems like the only things I've seen done in Flash are three-minute diversions.
Any true scam would not be written in such clear and correct English. This was obviously written by someone from North America, or at least a native English speaker with the ability to imitate North Americans.
In a Japanese game shop, you see racks and racks of attractive PS2 games with a wide variety of genres from war-simulation to dating (sometimes both in the same game), GameCube and GBA titles galore, shelves and shelves of used PS and DC (and even Saturn games). The packages are very attractively illustrated in a Japanese aesthetic, and then... In the corner, this radioactive-green glow emanates from the XBox shelf, an ugly contrast to the pastels and rich colors of the other games. The games themselves are FPSes, sports, a platformer here and there. It's simply not attractive compared to the competition, in a country where such a thing really matters.
The last time I was in Japan (last summer), there were more new Dreamcast games coming out than XBox games. That's encouraging to a DC fanboy like me, and indicative of the XBox's acceptance there.
Tecmo is arguably the only important Japanese developer that takes the XBox very seriously. Everyone else ports to it or releases a game or two just to cover their bases.
If you go to game shops in Japan, many many many low-quality porn games exist, but sales are tiny for each title. I'm sure that in the USA there are more porn films than normal ones (Squid Orgy XXVIII etc) but the mainstream stuff sells much more.
Damacy is a whimsical romanization of "damashii", which is in turn a modification of "tamashii". Voicing the t, thus turning it into a d, makes it sound better when compounded with another word.
Thus, Katamari Damashii, "Cluster Spirit".
Cue hundreds of people getting +5 Funny for posting verbatim transcriptions of their favorite Homestarrunner lines.
Then hundreds more also getting modded up for replying with the next line of the scene.
I took this picture with my own camera. That means I saw this Mac with my own eyes. If you are suggesting that someone used Photoshop to fake a physical object sitting on a table in a store, we might be in more trouble than I'd originally thought.
The screen looks photoshopped in the upper edges, and just putting some USB keyboard in front of it isn't enough. I'd had been impressed if the mod was detailed, but I, too, can claim to put a bi-g5 in my powerbook 100, with just a photo starring said powerbook powered off...
Why would I fake this?
1. Photochop a G3 + SE/30 mod and post on my photoblog claiming that some random store made it.
2. Wait 2 years, then link to it on Slashdot.
3. ???
Slashdot Mirror
Xenosaga was not introduced by Square in 1998.
Xenogears was introduced by Square in 1998.
Xenosaga was introduced by Monolith Soft and Namco in 2001.
Shenmue cost $40-60 million dollars, and was/is the most expensive video game ever produced. In this case, the result was actually really frickin' good.
Shenmue at Wikipedia
Hi, the song title is "The Spirit of Radio". :D
OmniWeb does this. You can bring up a site-specific prefs pane in the browser window to turn all sorts of stuff on and off.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned OmniWeb. It's a lovely, very Mac-like, RSS-built-right-in browser for OS X. I use it exclusively. :D
OmniGroup
Come on, you played that much Shufflepuck Cafe and yet couldn't recall that the final boss's name was Biff Raunch? That's a name I'll *never* forget.
Subject: "Jetfuel, Babe Chicken Kiev"
Subject: "jesus,Hi, Need a $5000.00 loan to help yourself?"
Subject: "oblate gumbo horehound deborah"
Subject: "Guarantmonoceroseed to profanticipateit with ebay"
Subject: "hi there.You are so fat i cant stand to look at you."
From: Waldo Reagan
Subject: detroitqyifaimhspk
From: expurgate Fitzgerald
"Every day you see a lot you teens on the streets but you never know what do they usually do when alone! You think studying and learning poems? You're wrong then."
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Napster makes me gag every time I look at it. :D
The "article" sucked because the "article" was just a guy reminiscing about whatever sexual-intercourse-containing, mainstream, non-sex-oriented games he could remember. By no means is it a comprehensive or even representative report.
Some research and information about things like the very extensive Japanese dating-sim and H-game scenes would have been interesting.
"Are particular performance problems perennial?"
...
"point of view, to put performance into proper perspective."
Brought to you by the "Alliteration is the Only Literary Device I Ever Learned" School of Writing.
I wish it were true, but you get that page no matter what you put in:m ue9
http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=shenm ue2084
http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=ryo-v s-the-space-mutants
http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=shen
If Shenmue III is announced as an Xbox exclusive, I think my brain might explode in an obsessive/moralistic paradox of "Must Play Shenmue" and "Must not buy Xbox". If instead the announcement is that Shenmue III-VI are all on the way as Dreamcast2 exclusives, my brain will just explode with happiness. :D
There was something a little more drastic done in Xenosaga.
**SPOILERS**
There's a scene in which the main antagonist nano-liquifies his arm and jams it into the abdomen of a young-girl-type character. In the original Japanese version it's pretty disturbing and pretty obviously suggestive. The US version replaced this scene was changed to him simply "absorbing" data from her brain through the air. It's been said that some of the creators actually prefer the gentler version.
Two other scenes were edited similarly. There is a full description with screenshots at Zenosaga.com.
Only Sakura Taisen, the epic mech-strategy/love-sim could make me write something like this: A very long essay about my experiences with Dreamcast and Sakura Taisen
Later I discovered the deliciously immersive Shenmue I & II; the final disc of II might be the most beautiful gaming I've ever had.
Games like these and other quirky and original titles are what makes DC my favorite console. At first I was turned off by the WinCE logo and the non-fighter-friendly controller, but once I realized the intoxicating level of creativity going on with this system, I was in love with it.
"you're mistakes are pretty much written in stone."
On slashdot, your mistakes are, too.
On the subject of cross-platform games, I'm rather surprised more ambitious games have not been released in Flash. You can't put together a MMOFPS or something, but it seems that you could assemble a SNES-grade RPG or something similar. The budget would be tiny and the game would run on nearly any modern PC. Why isn't this kind of thing done more? It seems like the only things I've seen done in Flash are three-minute diversions.
Any true scam would not be written in such clear and correct English. This was obviously written by someone from North America, or at least a native English speaker with the ability to imitate North Americans.
In a Japanese game shop, you see racks and racks of attractive PS2 games with a wide variety of genres from war-simulation to dating (sometimes both in the same game), GameCube and GBA titles galore, shelves and shelves of used PS and DC (and even Saturn games). The packages are very attractively illustrated in a Japanese aesthetic, and then... In the corner, this radioactive-green glow emanates from the XBox shelf, an ugly contrast to the pastels and rich colors of the other games. The games themselves are FPSes, sports, a platformer here and there. It's simply not attractive compared to the competition, in a country where such a thing really matters.
The last time I was in Japan (last summer), there were more new Dreamcast games coming out than XBox games. That's encouraging to a DC fanboy like me, and indicative of the XBox's acceptance there.
Tecmo is arguably the only important Japanese developer that takes the XBox very seriously. Everyone else ports to it or releases a game or two just to cover their bases.
If you go to game shops in Japan, many many many low-quality porn games exist, but sales are tiny for each title. I'm sure that in the USA there are more porn films than normal ones (Squid Orgy XXVIII etc) but the mainstream stuff sells much more.
Damacy is a whimsical romanization of "damashii", which is in turn a modification of "tamashii". Voicing the t, thus turning it into a d, makes it sound better when compounded with another word. Thus, Katamari Damashii, "Cluster Spirit".
Hey, I live at rubicon.cx, you insensitive clod!
Cue hundreds of people getting +5 Funny for posting verbatim transcriptions of their favorite Homestarrunner lines. Then hundreds more also getting modded up for replying with the next line of the scene.
I took this picture with my own camera. That means I saw this Mac with my own eyes. If you are suggesting that someone used Photoshop to fake a physical object sitting on a table in a store, we might be in more trouble than I'd originally thought.