Yes lost vikings and II were great. This is something begging for a 3rd. And not necessarily 3d either.
With the new mario bros being such a hit maybe developers/publishers will realize there is still a market for 2d games.
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Not much to add just want to say fantastic idea. I have thought (as many others) about a sword based game with a free floating controller even before the wii was announced, but I never thought of workaround to this problem.
I think yours is the best solution, hopefully some developer will have had the same insight.
The mouse and keyboard is perfection but it would be cool if there was an alternative even for a more emmersive factor.
I posted this awhile back on digg on the topic:
What I'd like to hear is just exactly how the wii controller works with a fps.
We all know the venerable mouse/keyboard combo is the superior method for most, with consoles lacking in the precision using a dual analog method.
I'm trying to picture exactly how a fps would work with I assume would be the nunchuck mode.
So the addon part of the controller would replace the wasd, but how would the actual aiming work.
Because what's perfect with the mouse is, you can position it slowly for accurate aiming, or whip it around to do a quick 180'. Now the thing is when one does this quick movement of the mouse, you have to lift the mouse to recenter it, how would that work when translated to the wii?
In one scenario I can picture the motion sensing tracking where your aiming and the onscreen gun actually remains center like a traditional fps and just your view changes.
This works fine when facing one direction, but say you want to quickly turn around? Wouldn't one end up not facing the screen if they simulate a turning around motion? Because the problem is, how do you simulate the lifting of the mouse to recenter?
Or they could make it that the onscreen gun is 'free floating' and can aim at the edge of the screen, and you could use the analog stick to actually change orientation or by aiming at the far edge of the screen, your view rotates. But I could see that being a fixed speed, kind of like rotating in descent.
So even though this controller looks really cool, and might add some truely new styles of gameplay, I'm curious how the nunchuk fairs with a fps. I think it's obvious that it's going to be superior to console's dual analog history of controlling fps's, but can it match a mouse? Or maybe the added 'submersion' by just playing with the controller would make up for any shortcomings?
"Before getting too much further into describing the demo level, we'll talk about how the control scheme is handled in Corruption. The game uses the remote-plus-nunchuk configuration, where you'll want to use the remote in your dominant hand, as that is what handles aiming. Simply point the remote at the screen to aim Samus' arm cannon. The cursor actually moves within the screen, instead of being fixed to the center of the screen as with most first-person shooters. This makes it possible to aim and fire at something you see without moving Samus, but the tradeoff is that your ability to turn quickly is compromised. To turn, you'll need to move the cursor all the way to the edge of the screen, at which point Samus will begin turning. There's definitely a learning curve involved with getting used to how the Wii controller works for aiming, but thankfully you can press on the Z trigger on the nunchuk to lock on to a target, which keeps the interface feeling somewhat consistent with previous Prime games. The lock-on only works if you have an enemy somewhat close to the center of the screen, so it's not exactly a crutch--and lock-on won't work on very fast-moving targets, plus enemies can often break out of target lock by dodging back and forth."
"We did have some trouble here and there when the sensors seemed to have trouble reacquiring the signal whenever we put our hands down--finding that invisible plane where the sensor wants your hands to be can be a little tricky or frustrating if you put your hands down for any reason."
That certainly doesn't sound like a revolutionary way to play a fps, esp if it has a need to give the player a button to lock on to enemies. Sounds like it getting around the same old limitations that console controllers have when playing a fps.
And I haven't seen the vids yet, I'll check them out now, but I don't think the wii will revolutionize the fps.
Kinda OT, but I listened to this clip on what's called the most used 6 sec sample drum loop. Anyway it's a good listen and he brings up copyright and quotes Lessig
A society free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally richer than a controlled one.
Another bit I found interesting is this bit:
To trace the history of the amen break is to trace the history of a brief period of time when it seemed digital tools offered a potentially unlimited amount of new forms of expression; where cultural production, at least muscially, was full of possibilities, by virtue of being able to freely appropriate from the musical past, to make new combinations and thus new meetings.
The only ones now who can sample are the ones who have deep pockets or expensive lawyers.
No your not. And I'd like to see the video of someone a couple of years back getting the record for pacman. Pacman is probably unique in this sense because most of the retro games would repeat and go on forever but because of the bug once you reach a certain board, it becomes unplayable, so people set their sites on getting a perfect game. I'm surprised this was only accomplished a couple of years back. Yes of course pitfall had a end as well, but that was a matter of beat the clock, I don't think anyone thought they could get a perfect game in pacman because of how fast the ghosts change on the later boards.
Hmm, I dunno, I did a fresh install of xp for a friend with a 1 gig duron but 128 megs of ram and it felt pretty sluggish. Not nearly as responsive as 98. Of course I put xp in classic mode and turned off most of the bells and whistles.
But I mainly use linux and I'm sure there are optimizations for xp I'm not aware of, if you know of a good guide for this please link.
I have a bunch of friends who bought their first computer around 98-99 when everyone and their grandma were getting computers. Most of them have gotten hooked and jumped on the upgrade bandwagon. They all have new hardware now and xp except 3 of them.
These 3 found it nice to have a computer but didn't feel the need to get a new machine. Nothing's broke and everything works, well except, strangely to them, their computer keeps getting slower and slower, and crashes more. They don't want something new, they just want it in the state that they originally got it.
I have reinstalled for them a few times but sooner or later it gets back in the 'bad' state. I'd recommend xp but these machines are pII 450's,- pIII 600's and I think only one has 128 megs of ram.
So in the end I made a ghost image of their drive and even showed them how to restore it.
Now, every so often they restore their image, and everything back the way it was and they love it. Cause this way, it's not just a fresh install, it's got all their drivers, programs installed, email configured, shortcuts they like etc all ready to go. I just tell them back up my docs (and save everything there) and copy that back once the restore is complete.
Yes, pretty trivial stuff to the average geek, but my friends feel impowered now that they can always get their machine back into a perfect state if it every starts acting up.
And, to put off restoring, my main piece of advice was never ever launch ie and always stick to firefox.
Ya, I guess these machines are getting really long in the tooth now, but it still does what they want, surf the web, check email, listen to tunes, burn a cd. Thats all they want and these machines and 98 still fit the bill. And sadly, linux isn't an option here. Kde or gnome are pigs on machines like these and believe me they'll want kde or gnome, anything less will seem too barebones to them. Xfce is close, but not yet.
Munch's Oddysee? I was ticked back then that there was no pc version, and never got an xbox but played it in it's entirety on my friends. I thought it was a good attempt, but not great. It seems like some of the puzzle like elements were simplified and some I've seen before. For example when munch controls the levers for abe to pass through gates/doors, I've seen this in the lost vikings and with a little more complexity as you had to open a series of doors and risk your player being squashed if you open the doors in the incorrect sequence. But overall it wasn't bad. And I haven't tried the newer one with the character who looks like clint eastwood but that looks like a totally different direction.
Well, maybe seeing hits like mario, we might see more of these types of games. But mostly, my hopes lied with portable consoles but even they are pretty much going 3d.
Ok, I'm a big fan of these types of games, and thought I played them all. But awhile back I found a thread talking about an old amiga game and that there might be a pc port. I just checked and it's free. It's called oneesapee
It implies that a real human is indistinguishable from a replicant-that-thinks-its-human -- but there is a difference.
Hmmm, isn't that why rachel lasts way longer on the test than any other replicant? Because she believes she's human. And when dekkard tests her he states 'she doesn't know', tyrell says she is beginning to suspect. Imagine the test applied to her when she didn't suspect at all.
I was glad when oddworld and it's sequel came out in 96/97. 3d was really taking off at the time and I was glad to see a 2d game could still be a hit.
I love mario platformers, but I also really loved stuff like out of this world, flashback, heart of darkness, and the oddworld series. It would be great to see some more games in this style, it wouldn't take as big a budget as their 3d brethern, and I think the publishers would be surprised that this style of game could still sell really well.
They promised the writer, Winston Groom, a percentage of the profits, but a little cooking of the books and the top grossing film of that year becomes a commerical failure a la hollywood accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Another example is eddie murphy's 'coming to america'. It grossed 350 mil worldwide but yet failed to produce a profit.
Art Buchwald received a settlement after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount over Paramount's use of Hollywood accounting. The court found Paramount's actions "unconscionable," noting that it was impossible to believe that a movie (1988's Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America) which grossed US$350 million failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for an undisclosed sum, rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.
Even Stan Lee had to sue marvel over spiderman profits.
What I'm curious about is if Art Buchwald didn't settle with Paramount, and these practices were exposed in court, would the studio not be guilty of tax evasion if the movie made way more than reported?
I think it's great that more games support widescreen resolutions, but I've wondered how that impacts multiplayer gaming. For example a lot of people play with fov in quake based games to see more on screen, but in turn some tournament servers would lock the fov to keep it a level playing field.
How is that addressed with widescreen resolutions, if at all?
And sometimes gameplay takes a step backwards (or several steps).
Case in point is ea sports nhl94. I've tried almost every version of hockey since and none compare. Nhl93 had some 'cheese' spots that were guaranteed goals, they fixed that in 94 and it was perfection. 95 and on were all down hill. I remember trying nhl2002 on a ps2 and me and my brother were getting ridiculous goals after about 20 minutes of play. It was just silly. And one of the main reasons for this is the attention to (lack of) the goalie. In the 2002 version the goalie was defaulted to select. Select? wtf. Oh and 94 is best on the snes, not the genesis as everyone used to say back then (genesis is better for sports). Reason being again is because of the goalie. The default geneisis controller lacked enough buttons to have one dedicated to goalie, so you had to press and hold a button a second or two, to get the goalie, well by then the puck was in.
Look at most reviews for most of the hockey games these days. They'll rant and rave about the graphics, the crowd, and all that and give it a 90+% rating, but towards the end of the review concede that advanced players will be able to exploit areas to score after awhile. So in other words, looks pretty, but the heart of the gameplay is flawed.
One thing that has remained true over the 20 years:
Btw, I wonder how this happens behind the scenes. Does cartoon network just pull it and it's done, or do they give the artist some warning, like it's done this year, you've got 10 eps to wrap it up.
I coudln't disagree more. Even though I love akira and I appreciate all the amazing scenes of animation, I've come to despise 'anime'. Anime to me, is what would have happened here if disney took over all of animation in north america(which they almost did). I remember an article a few years back that disney was critized for always drawing the leading lady the same way with just a different hair style. After that flak, disney now goes out of their way to ensure the leading lady has a unique look.
I appreciate unique styles, when I first saw samurai jack I knew right away this was a unique style I had never seen before, it's refreshing. Same with batman tas, (which did have some inspiration from anime but found it's own style). Same with xmen tas. I used to be an avid collector of comics in the 80s-90s. And in one page I could tell who the artist was. Nowadays there a million mcfarlene wannabes.
I've seen a documentary about anime and how it all started with one guy, (I forget what he did, not astro boy but something like that). Anyway, I find it down right sad, that no one there won't try and go out of their way and find their own style. It's like it's settled. That's it. This is the style that will be used til the end of time.
And btw, why the hell do they draw all asian people like white people with big eyes? Why not draw asians how they look? For example in akira, when you see akira himself in the flashback sequences, he is the only one throughout the whole movie that actually looks asian, and it loses that goofy look.
One artist I used to love in comics was jim lee, way back when he used to draw xmen, there was a few issues with the mandarin and I remember thinking back then, why can't asians look like this in akira, they way he portrayed them was bad ass. But enough complaining. anime sucks.
Unfortunately it appears that the supplied passive northbridge heatsink does not provide enough cooling for the integrated graphics processor, at least as it arrived from the factory. Any extended us of the 3D acceleration capabilities will result it a system crash. This is in a large server case with good airflow.
Hmm, if you can't rely on this bare bones 3d then it might not be worth it. I wasn't thinking gaming but a modest rig that can handle xgl once nvidia releases linux drivers for this chipset. Cause afaik, you don't need powerful 3d for xgl. Hell, wouldn't quake 1 from ten years ago being doing more 3d stuff than xgl. Should be simple stuff for any card with good opengl (which unfortunately is few)
Where's an integrated spellcheck?
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Kde has had this for awhile now, so in kedit, konq, kchat whatever you have a spellcheck available to you. Simple idea but when integarted into the os, it's really handy to know it's always there. Why hasn't gnome got on the ball with this?
Soon, some version of direct x (maybe 10?) will be vista only. Then games will come out needing that version. The game would have run on xp, but xp won't have that version of direct x.
I set up a box for a friends kids and he doesn't mind them having the ability to have limited sudo access to install software and check out new stuff. It's for them to tinker around with and he expects them to muck it up eventually. But is there any way to prevent each user from having access to each other's home? He doesn't mind if the system gets hosed, but in some cases what's in a user's home is more important than the actual system. Is there anyway to accomplish this?
When T2 the arcade game came out way back when, arnold took some flak for it as there are scenes in the game where you shoot cops which were scanned in photos a la mortal kombat. And I can't remember his exact lines but he defended the game saying it stayed in line with the film as shooting the cops were for the greater good going with the story line.
Relax? Being able to patent any living thing (or the process in which a living this is modified) is a huge deal. And a scary one. You should really see the documentary 'the corporation' if you haven't already. One section of it deals with genetically modified foods/animals.
Just googling a little I found a bit from that's covered in the docu:
This monopolisation extends to effect the lives of us all, especially peasant farmers in the developing world. Monsanto planned to introduce its genetically modified seeds accompanied by its patented "technology protection system" which makes the seeds from this year's crop sterile. Critics call Monsanto's seed sterilising technology "terminator" and "suicide seeds". Wherever suicide seed technology is adopted, farmers will have to go back to Monsanto year after year too buy new ration of genetically modified seeds.
"By peddling suicide seeds, the biotechnology multinationals will lock the world's poorest farmers into a new form of genetic serfdom", says Emma Must of the World Development Movement. "Currently 80 per cent of crops in developing countries are grown using farm-saved seed. Being unable to save seeds from sterile crops could mean the difference between surviving and going under", she says. "More precisely", says Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer, "it would speed the consolidation of small farms into the hands of those with the money to engage in industrialised agribusiness - which generally means higher profits but less employment and lower yields. http://www.marxist.com/scienceandtech/genetic_engi neering.html
Also these 'terminator seeds' have been found in other crops by plants naturally crossbreeding and they've wanted to sue these farmers when the last thing they ever wanted were these terminator seeds.
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Yes lost vikings and II were great. This is something begging for a 3rd. And not necessarily 3d either.
With the new mario bros being such a hit maybe developers/publishers will realize there is still a market for 2d games.
Not much to add just want to say fantastic idea. I have thought (as many others) about a sword based game with a free floating controller even before the wii was announced, but I never thought of workaround to this problem.
I think yours is the best solution, hopefully some developer will have had the same insight.
The mouse and keyboard is perfection but it would be cool if there was an alternative even for a more emmersive factor.
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I posted this awhile back on digg on the topic:
What I'd like to hear is just exactly how the wii controller works with a fps.
We all know the venerable mouse/keyboard combo is the superior method for most, with consoles lacking in the precision using a dual analog method.
I'm trying to picture exactly how a fps would work with I assume would be the nunchuck mode.
So the addon part of the controller would replace the wasd, but how would the actual aiming work.
Because what's perfect with the mouse is, you can position it slowly for accurate aiming, or whip it around to do a quick 180'. Now the thing is when one does this quick movement of the mouse, you have to lift the mouse to recenter it, how would that work when translated to the wii?
In one scenario I can picture the motion sensing tracking where your aiming and the onscreen gun actually remains center like a traditional fps and just your view changes.
This works fine when facing one direction, but say you want to quickly turn around? Wouldn't one end up not facing the screen if they simulate a turning around motion? Because the problem is, how do you simulate the lifting of the mouse to recenter?
Or they could make it that the onscreen gun is 'free floating' and can aim at the edge of the screen, and you could use the analog stick to actually change orientation or by aiming at the far edge of the screen, your view rotates. But I could see that being a fixed speed, kind of like rotating in descent.
So even though this controller looks really cool, and might add some truely new styles of gameplay, I'm curious how the nunchuk fairs with a fps. I think it's obvious that it's going to be superior to console's dual analog history of controlling fps's, but can it match a mouse? Or maybe the added 'submersion' by just playing with the controller would make up for any shortcomings?
And someone directed me to this article:
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=61502
A relevant bit:
"Before getting too much further into describing the demo level, we'll talk about how the control scheme is handled in Corruption. The game uses the remote-plus-nunchuk configuration, where you'll want to use the remote in your dominant hand, as that is what handles aiming. Simply point the remote at the screen to aim Samus' arm cannon. The cursor actually moves within the screen, instead of being fixed to the center of the screen as with most first-person shooters. This makes it possible to aim and fire at something you see without moving Samus, but the tradeoff is that your ability to turn quickly is compromised. To turn, you'll need to move the cursor all the way to the edge of the screen, at which point Samus will begin turning. There's definitely a learning curve involved with getting used to how the Wii controller works for aiming, but thankfully you can press on the Z trigger on the nunchuk to lock on to a target, which keeps the interface feeling somewhat consistent with previous Prime games. The lock-on only works if you have an enemy somewhat close to the center of the screen, so it's not exactly a crutch--and lock-on won't work on very fast-moving targets, plus enemies can often break out of target lock by dodging back and forth."
"We did have some trouble here and there when the sensors seemed to have trouble reacquiring the signal whenever we put our hands down--finding that invisible plane where the sensor wants your hands to be can be a little tricky or frustrating if you put your hands down for any reason."
That certainly doesn't sound like a revolutionary way to play a fps, esp if it has a need to give the player a button to lock on to enemies. Sounds like it getting around the same old limitations that console controllers have when playing a fps.
And I haven't seen the vids yet, I'll check them out now, but I don't think the wii will revolutionize the fps.
Kinda OT, but I listened to this clip on what's called the most used 6 sec sample drum loop. Anyway it's a good listen and he brings up copyright and quotes Lessig
A society free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally
richer than a controlled one.
Another bit I found interesting is this bit:
To trace the history of the amen break is to trace the history of a brief period of time when it seemed digital tools offered a potentially unlimited amount of new forms of expression; where cultural production, at least muscially, was full of possibilities, by virtue of being able to freely appropriate from the musical past, to make new combinations and thus new meetings.
The only ones now who can sample are the ones who have deep pockets or expensive lawyers.
Anyway here's a link on youtube of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
No your not. And I'd like to see the video of someone a couple of years back getting the record for pacman. Pacman is probably unique in this sense because most of the retro games would repeat and go on forever but because of the bug once you reach a certain board, it becomes unplayable, so people set their sites on getting a perfect game. I'm surprised this was only accomplished a couple of years back. Yes of course pitfall had a end as well, but that was a matter of beat the clock, I don't think anyone thought they could get a perfect game in pacman because of how fast the ghosts change on the later boards.
Hmm, I dunno, I did a fresh install of xp for a friend with a 1 gig duron but 128 megs of ram and it felt pretty sluggish. Not nearly as responsive as 98. Of course I put xp in classic mode and turned off most of the bells and whistles.
But I mainly use linux and I'm sure there are optimizations for xp I'm not aware of, if you know of a good guide for this please link.
I have a bunch of friends who bought their first computer around 98-99 when everyone and their grandma were getting computers. Most of them have gotten hooked and jumped on the upgrade bandwagon. They all have new hardware now and xp except 3 of them.
These 3 found it nice to have a computer but didn't feel the need to get a new machine. Nothing's broke and everything works, well except, strangely to them, their computer keeps getting slower and slower, and crashes more. They don't want something new, they just want it in the state that they originally got it.
I have reinstalled for them a few times but sooner or later it gets back in the 'bad' state. I'd recommend xp but these machines are pII 450's,- pIII 600's and I think only one has 128 megs of ram.
So in the end I made a ghost image of their drive and even showed them how to restore it.
Now, every so often they restore their image, and everything back the way it was and they love it. Cause this way, it's not just a fresh install, it's got all their drivers, programs installed, email configured, shortcuts they like etc all ready to go. I just tell them back up my docs (and save everything there) and copy that back once the restore is complete.
Yes, pretty trivial stuff to the average geek, but my friends feel impowered now that they can always get their machine back into a perfect state if it every starts acting up.
And, to put off restoring, my main piece of advice was never ever launch ie and always stick to firefox.
Ya, I guess these machines are getting really long in the tooth now, but it still does what they want, surf the web, check email, listen to tunes, burn a cd. Thats all they want and these machines and 98 still fit the bill. And sadly, linux isn't an option here. Kde or gnome are pigs on machines like these and believe me they'll want kde or gnome, anything less will seem too barebones to them. Xfce is close, but not yet.
And I'm sure you are as well.
Munch's Oddysee? I was ticked back then that there was no pc version, and never got an xbox but played it in it's entirety on my friends. I thought it was a good attempt, but not great. It seems like some of the puzzle like elements were simplified and some I've seen before. For example when munch controls the levers for abe to pass through gates/doors, I've seen this in the lost vikings and with a little more complexity as you had to open a series of doors and risk your player being squashed if you open the doors in the incorrect sequence. But overall it wasn't bad. And I haven't tried the newer one with the character who looks like clint eastwood but that looks like a totally different direction.
Well, maybe seeing hits like mario, we might see more of these types of games. But mostly, my hopes lied with portable consoles but even they are pretty much going 3d.
Ok, I'm a big fan of these types of games, and thought I played them all. But awhile back I found a thread talking about an old amiga game and that there might be a pc port. I just checked and it's free. It's called oneesapee
http://onescapee.invictus.hu/
Gotta try now.
It implies that a real human is indistinguishable from a replicant-that-thinks-its-human -- but there is a difference.
Hmmm, isn't that why rachel lasts way longer on the test than any other replicant? Because she believes she's human.
And when dekkard tests her he states 'she doesn't know', tyrell says she is beginning to suspect. Imagine the test applied to her when she didn't suspect at all.
I was glad when oddworld and it's sequel came out in 96/97. 3d was really taking off at the time and I was glad to see a 2d game could still be a hit.
I love mario platformers, but I also really loved stuff like out of this world, flashback, heart of darkness, and the oddworld series. It would be great to see some more games in this style, it wouldn't take as big a budget as their 3d brethern, and I think the publishers would be surprised that this style of game could still sell really well.
The stuff at school would last for ages. I always hated when my play doh dried out and I try in vein to add something to bring it back to health.
To expand on this, a famous example of this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_gump/
They promised the writer, Winston Groom, a percentage of the profits, but a little cooking of the books and the top grossing film of that year becomes a commerical failure a la hollywood accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Another example is eddie murphy's 'coming to america'. It grossed 350 mil worldwide but yet failed to produce a profit.
Art Buchwald received a settlement after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount over Paramount's use of Hollywood accounting. The court found Paramount's actions "unconscionable," noting that it was impossible to believe that a movie (1988's Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America) which grossed US$350 million failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for an undisclosed sum, rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.
Even Stan Lee had to sue marvel over spiderman profits.
What I'm curious about is if Art Buchwald didn't settle with Paramount, and these practices were exposed in court, would the studio not be guilty of tax evasion if the movie made way more than reported?
I think it's great that more games support widescreen resolutions, but I've wondered how that impacts multiplayer gaming. For example a lot of people play with fov in quake based games to see more on screen, but in turn some tournament servers would lock the fov to keep it a level playing field.
How is that addressed with widescreen resolutions, if at all?
And sometimes gameplay takes a step backwards (or several steps).
Case in point is ea sports nhl94. I've tried almost every version of hockey since and none compare. Nhl93 had some 'cheese' spots that were guaranteed goals, they fixed that in 94 and it was perfection. 95 and on were all down hill. I remember trying nhl2002 on a ps2 and me and my brother were getting ridiculous goals after about 20 minutes of play. It was just silly. And one of the main reasons for this is the attention to (lack of) the goalie. In the 2002 version the goalie was defaulted to select. Select? wtf. Oh and 94 is best on the snes, not the genesis as everyone used to say back then (genesis is better for sports). Reason being again is because of the goalie. The default geneisis controller lacked enough buttons to have one dedicated to goalie, so you had to press and hold a button a second or two, to get the goalie, well by then the puck was in.
Look at most reviews for most of the hockey games these days. They'll rant and rave about the graphics, the crowd, and all that and give it a 90+% rating, but towards the end of the review concede that advanced players will be able to exploit areas to score after awhile. So in other words, looks pretty, but the heart of the gameplay is flawed.
One thing that has remained true over the 20 years:
Gameplay is king.
It was a great introduction to encryption. I'd love to see it again to show others but never repeated and couldn't find it.
Does anyone else hope he'll still finish this?!
C'mon, send Jack home.
Btw, I wonder how this happens behind the scenes. Does cartoon network just pull it and it's done, or do they give the artist some warning, like it's done this year, you've got 10 eps to wrap it up.
I coudln't disagree more. Even though I love akira and I appreciate all the amazing scenes of animation, I've come to despise 'anime'. Anime to me, is what would have happened here if disney took over all of animation in north america(which they almost did). I remember an article a few years back that disney was critized for always drawing the leading lady the same way with just a different hair style. After that flak, disney now goes out of their way to ensure the leading lady has a unique look.
I appreciate unique styles, when I first saw samurai jack I knew right away this was a unique style I had never seen before, it's refreshing. Same with batman tas, (which did have some inspiration from anime but found it's own style). Same with xmen tas. I used to be an avid collector of comics in the 80s-90s. And in one page I could tell who the artist was. Nowadays there a million mcfarlene wannabes.
I've seen a documentary about anime and how it all started with one guy, (I forget what he did, not astro boy but something like that). Anyway, I find it down right sad, that no one there won't try and go out of their way and find their own style. It's like it's settled. That's it. This is the style that will be used til the end of time.
And btw, why the hell do they draw all asian people like white people with big eyes? Why not draw asians how they look? For example in akira, when you see akira himself in the flashback sequences, he is the only one throughout the whole movie that actually looks asian, and it loses that goofy look.
One artist I used to love in comics was jim lee, way back when he used to draw xmen, there was a few issues with the mandarin and I remember thinking back then, why can't asians look like this in akira, they way he portrayed them was bad ass. But enough complaining. anime sucks.
You see this mentioned:
Stability
Unfortunately it appears that the supplied passive northbridge heatsink does not provide enough cooling for the integrated graphics processor, at least as it arrived from the factory. Any extended us of the 3D acceleration capabilities will result it a system crash. This is in a large server case with good airflow.
Hmm, if you can't rely on this bare bones 3d then it might not be worth it. I wasn't thinking gaming but a modest rig that can handle xgl once nvidia releases linux drivers for this chipset. Cause afaik, you don't need powerful 3d for xgl. Hell, wouldn't quake 1 from ten years ago being doing more 3d stuff than xgl. Should be simple stuff for any card with good opengl (which unfortunately is few)
Kde has had this for awhile now, so in kedit, konq, kchat whatever you have a spellcheck available to you. Simple idea but when integarted into the os, it's really handy to know it's always there.
Why hasn't gnome got on the ball with this?
Soon, some version of direct x (maybe 10?) will be vista only. Then games will come out needing that version. The game would have run on xp, but xp won't have that version of direct x.
I set up a box for a friends kids and he doesn't mind them having the ability to have limited sudo access to install software and check out new stuff. It's for them to tinker around with and he expects them to muck it up eventually. But is there any way to prevent each user from having access to each other's home? He doesn't mind if the system gets hosed, but in some cases what's in a user's home is more important than the actual system. Is there anyway to accomplish this?
When T2 the arcade game came out way back when, arnold took some flak for it as there are scenes in the game where you shoot cops which were scanned in photos a la mortal kombat. And I can't remember his exact lines but he defended the game saying it stayed in line with the film as shooting the cops were for the greater good going with the story line.
Yes I do realize this story predates voyager. Actually, I wondered if this story was of native indian culture.
It was told much better on star trek voyager.
The last lines were something to the effect:
Why did you do this? Now you'll drown to.
'I can't help it' said the scorpion, 'it's in my nature'
Relax? Being able to patent any living thing (or the process in which a living this is modified) is a huge deal. And a scary one. You should really see the documentary 'the corporation' if you haven't already. One section of it deals with genetically modified foods/animals.
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Just googling a little I found a bit from that's covered in the docu:
This monopolisation extends to effect the lives of us all, especially peasant farmers in the developing world. Monsanto planned to introduce its genetically modified seeds accompanied by its patented "technology protection system" which makes the seeds from this year's crop sterile. Critics call Monsanto's seed sterilising technology "terminator" and "suicide seeds". Wherever suicide seed technology is adopted, farmers will have to go back to Monsanto year after year too buy new ration of genetically modified seeds.
"By peddling suicide seeds, the biotechnology multinationals will lock the world's poorest farmers into a new form of genetic serfdom", says Emma Must of the World Development Movement. "Currently 80 per cent of crops in developing countries are grown using farm-saved seed. Being unable to save seeds from sterile crops could mean the difference between surviving and going under", she says. "More precisely", says Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer, "it would speed the consolidation of small farms into the hands of those with the money to engage in industrialised agribusiness - which generally means higher profits but less employment and lower yields.
http://www.marxist.com/scienceandtech/genetic_eng
Also these 'terminator seeds' have been found in other crops by plants naturally crossbreeding and they've wanted to sue these farmers when the last thing they ever wanted were these terminator seeds.