"Also look at how they've kept the Mechwarrior franchise alive and well (through both PC and X-Box titles) and even increased its audience (admittedly while upsetting some of the hardcore).
If by keeping a franchise alive you mean exhuming its rotting corpse and warming it over to serve to the masses, then yes, MS has done a great job keeping the Battletech franchise "alive."
MS destroyed the Battletech franchise. Mechassault and its sequel were mediocre at best, and their attempts to replicate the past successes on the PC failed even more spectacularly.
"What, did they miss Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, Electroplankton, Nintendogs, Killer 7 and countless other examples of innovative games that just happened to not (or not yet) run on the PS2?"
Some of the listed titles are innovative, but many aren't spectacular, or even fun (at least for me)
Have you played Katamari Damacy yet? Did you like Nintendogs better?
Pet stores have carried similar products for a very long time now.
They call it Styptic Powder. Its for clotting blood or stopping bleeding if you accidentally cut too deep when you're trimming your pets' claws or beaks.
DAOC was an unbalanced, incomplete mess at launch and up to a year after launch, with Hibernians being the victims.
Dungeons in Hibernia were itemized the last of the three realms, and classes were not balanced, even up to 6 months after launch.
I never saw two realms cooperating against the dominant realm, ever. Actually I never saw anything except Albion and Midguard picking on the easiest target, Hibernia.
I played on Hibernia Igraine for about 2 1/2 years. 50 Ranger, 50 Druid, 50 Druid (Buffbot), 50 Warden on 3 accounts.
From TFA: "Lets just get right to the point: I'm the chick who shamelessly licked her PSP. And you know something? I loved it, and I would do it again!
I love my PSP. It's slick, long, shiny and new and panders to my every whim. Besides the fact that it is just straight up kick ass! ( Who wouldn't want to put their mouth on that thing!?!)"
Vacuous whore is an understatement..I read that last line as who wouldn't want to stick it straight up their ass.
I distinctly remember spending a fair amount of time on my 2400 dialup on Operation Overkill.
It was I believe the only rpg type door game back then that had any kind of reflex based play to it. The minigames were good fun:)
I spent many hours playing Tradewars, TW2002 and Barren Realms Elite, never really got into LORD. Getting yelled at for hogging the phone line for numerous hours a day sucked though.
I'm still looking for somewhere to play BRE, used to be a couple of telnet BBSes with BRE, but it seems noone is interested any more:(
"The correct Chinese (Mandarin) is "mei you" (pronounced "may yo" with the "y" at the end of the first word hanging a bit)."
That is actually a tad incorrect too. In Mandarin mei you doesn't only translate to "don't have" it can also mean "without" there is a small difference.
Mu is more likely to be a distortion of the Chinese "Wu" e.g. "Wu Suo Wei" = doesn't matter. And the Taoist "Wu Wei" - No action / action without action.
After losing 80GB of data to a pair of 2 week old IBM Deathstar 75GXPs, I switched to Maxtor.
I personally haven't had any problems with Maxtor drives so far. Over the last 3 years I've bought 18 Maxtor PATA and SATA drives both OEM as well as retail boxed(from 40GB - 200GB.)
None have failed yet *knock on wood* Seeing as how I haven't had any problems with Maxtor, and that they are among the cheapest on the market, and perform admirably. I will most likely continue to buy Maxtor drives only.
With regards to the "Poor Mans Raid Array" good luck getting 14x 50GB SCSI2 drives for $70.00
Shipping on that lot of drives must've been scary, and you've got to wonder at the MTBF of a lot of obsolete bulk harddrives you've bought off ebay.
I wonder if the Seagate 5 year warranty applies to these. Maybe its just me but spending more money on a rackmount casing than on the drives for your power hungry 0.5TB RAID 5 Array just gives me the willies.
Its possibly the most challenging (worst xp death penalties etc) MMORPG as far as levelling and farming are involved that is currently on the market.
I have yet to see a game with XP loss to deaths quite as brutal as FFXI, considering how slow xp gain is, not to mention you can't get the xp back except in a full group of the right composition of classes.
And you get to level down if you die enough times in a level.
A trained monkey could play it yes, he'd just be at level 1 for all eternity. What MMORPG then can't be played by a trained monkey by this rationale?
It was probably not the caddy loading system that people hated, as much as the extortion that occurred when you tried to buy extra or replacement CD caddies.
They used to cost $10 - $20 a piece back in the day of 4x SCSI Plextor and Yamaha CDR Drives. Having to switch all your CDs into 1 or if you were lucky 2 caddies that you owned was a hassle, and in effect caused more wear and tear on your CDs.
If they managed to produce low cost CD Caddies, say in the $0.50 to $1.00 a piece range,so that you could realistically keep your frequently used CDs if not all your CDs in their caddies and store those instead of the bare media.
Oddly enough, the motherboard temperature of this case (25C) is identical to the temperature inside my current casing (Lian Li PC-60: 3x 80mm intake fan, 1x 120mm exhaust, and 2 fan power supply)
I guess airflow through most well designed casings is pretty good these days.
Though I bet this "case" won't have any "hotspots". It has to be as noisy as hell though, I can't believe noone else thought to do this first.
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"before hitting the mideast for some far out hindi rhythm"
I think you'll be disappointed when you figure out that you won't be finding any Hindi rhythm in the Middle-East.
"Also look at how they've kept the Mechwarrior franchise alive and well (through both PC and X-Box titles) and even increased its audience (admittedly while upsetting some of the hardcore).
If by keeping a franchise alive you mean exhuming its rotting corpse and warming it over to serve to the masses, then yes, MS has done a great job keeping the Battletech franchise "alive."
MS destroyed the Battletech franchise. Mechassault and its sequel were mediocre at best, and their attempts to replicate the past successes on the PC failed even more spectacularly.
Lol if I had mod points I would have modded parent post funny.
Wouldn't one of the clues be when you and 10,000 of your fellow college mates are receiving love letters in Urdu?
Well, unless your college is in Pakistan it should raise some red flags.
I was at the Linux Hotel this weekend.
The damn Valet service couldn't find drivers for my car.
*ducks*
Actually they use Western Digital Hard drives made in Thailand. And DVD-ROM drives from Korea.
Seagate from Singapore is probably just way too spendy.
Also don't forget the assembly and packaging in Mexico or China! mmmm hmmm made in America!
"What, did they miss Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, Electroplankton, Nintendogs, Killer 7 and countless other examples of innovative games that just happened to not (or not yet) run on the PS2?"
Some of the listed titles are innovative, but many aren't spectacular, or even fun (at least for me)
Have you played Katamari Damacy yet? Did you like Nintendogs better?
weird.
I've given up on Adobe's craptactular Acrobat reader.
I'm currently using the PDF Download extension for Firefox in conjuction with Brava! PDF Reader* (freeware and fast!)
No connections to the company, just found the program to be fast clean and overall just nice to use for those unavoidable PDFs
I'm offering 1 : 10 odds on the kids figuring out their way around V-chip type mechanisms within a month of launch.
Pet stores have carried similar products for a very long time now.
They call it Styptic Powder. Its for clotting blood or stopping bleeding if you accidentally cut too deep when you're trimming your pets' claws or beaks.
eh..I didn't hate DAOC, it just left a lot to be desired.
:)
During the time, it was IMHO the best mmorpg available. Doesn't mean it was perfect, some may argue it was horrid, but thats being a bit too harsh.
It had serious issues, but also many redeeming qualities.
I like watching Albs and Mids whining about Hibs whining, especially whilst AC. Fucking hypocrites
I'm going to have to concur with parent.
DAOC was an unbalanced, incomplete mess at launch and up to a year after launch, with Hibernians being the victims.
Dungeons in Hibernia were itemized the last of the three realms, and classes were not balanced, even up to 6 months after launch.
I never saw two realms cooperating against the dominant realm, ever. Actually I never saw anything except Albion and Midguard picking on the easiest target, Hibernia.
I played on Hibernia Igraine for about 2 1/2 years. 50 Ranger, 50 Druid, 50 Druid (Buffbot), 50 Warden on 3 accounts.
hmm..
I believe that song was by Donna Lewis
From TFA: "Lets just get right to the point: I'm the chick who shamelessly licked her PSP. And you know something? I loved it, and I would do it again!
I love my PSP. It's slick, long, shiny and new and panders to my every whim. Besides the fact that it is just straight up kick ass! ( Who wouldn't want to put their mouth on that thing!?!)"
Vacuous whore is an understatement..I read that last line as who wouldn't want to stick it straight up their ass.
IMO the best multiplayer bomberman ever was on the PC Engine (aka TurbogGraphx 16) circa 1990.
That said, the new Bomberman Hardball for the Playstation 2 is actually pretty decent.
Its a little too fast paced for my old reflexes to handle now though it seems.
I distinctly remember spending a fair amount of time on my 2400 dialup on Operation Overkill.
:)
:(
It was I believe the only rpg type door game back then that had any kind of reflex based play to it.
The minigames were good fun
I spent many hours playing Tradewars, TW2002 and Barren Realms Elite, never really got into LORD.
Getting yelled at for hogging the phone line for numerous hours a day sucked though.
I'm still looking for somewhere to play BRE, used to be a couple of telnet BBSes with BRE, but it seems noone is interested any more
"The correct Chinese (Mandarin) is "mei you" (pronounced "may yo" with the "y" at the end of the first word hanging a bit)."
That is actually a tad incorrect too. In Mandarin
mei you doesn't only translate to "don't have" it can also mean "without" there is a small difference.
Mu is more likely to be a distortion of the Chinese "Wu" e.g. "Wu Suo Wei" = doesn't matter.
And the Taoist "Wu Wei" - No action / action without action.
or the easiest option:
c) don't connect to the internet..
After losing 80GB of data to a pair of 2 week old IBM Deathstar 75GXPs, I switched to Maxtor.
I personally haven't had any problems with Maxtor drives so far. Over the last 3 years I've bought 18 Maxtor PATA and SATA drives both OEM as well as retail boxed(from 40GB - 200GB.)
None have failed yet *knock on wood*
Seeing as how I haven't had any problems with Maxtor, and that they are among the cheapest on the market, and perform admirably. I will most likely continue to buy Maxtor drives only.
With regards to the "Poor Mans Raid Array" good luck getting 14x 50GB SCSI2 drives for $70.00
Shipping on that lot of drives must've been scary, and you've got to wonder at the MTBF of a lot of obsolete bulk harddrives you've bought off ebay.
I wonder if the Seagate 5 year warranty applies to these. Maybe its just me but spending more money on a rackmount casing than on the drives for your power hungry 0.5TB RAID 5 Array just gives me the willies.
You've obviously never played FFXI, Mr AC Troll.
Its possibly the most challenging (worst xp death penalties etc) MMORPG as far as levelling and farming are involved that is currently on the market.
I have yet to see a game with XP loss to deaths quite as brutal as FFXI, considering how slow xp gain is, not to mention you can't get the xp back except in a full group of the right composition of classes.
And you get to level down if you die enough times in a level.
A trained monkey could play it yes, he'd just be at level 1 for all eternity. What MMORPG then can't be played by a trained monkey by this rationale?
It was probably not the caddy loading system that people hated, as much as the extortion that occurred when you tried to buy extra or replacement CD caddies.
They used to cost $10 - $20 a piece back in the day of 4x SCSI Plextor and Yamaha CDR Drives. Having to switch all your CDs into 1 or if you were lucky 2 caddies that you owned was a hassle, and in effect caused more wear and tear on your CDs.
If they managed to produce low cost CD Caddies, say in the $0.50 to $1.00 a piece range,so that you could realistically keep your frequently used CDs if not all your CDs in their caddies and store those instead of the bare media.
We would probably all be using them still.
But does it run Linux?
In Soviet Russia Stratospheric Telescope BLAST you!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
I for one welcome our new stratospheric voyeur overlords.
*waves goodbye to karma*
Mattel announces its new line of mono-molecular Barbie and Ken dolls for the 05 Holiday season!
That would be Bahasa Indonesia it is fairly similar to the Malay language
Oddly enough, the motherboard temperature of this case (25C) is identical to the temperature inside my current casing (Lian Li PC-60: 3x 80mm intake fan, 1x 120mm exhaust, and 2 fan power supply)
I guess airflow through most well designed casings is pretty good these days.
Though I bet this "case" won't have any "hotspots". It has to be as noisy as hell though, I can't believe noone else thought to do this first.