Cheat? When does a gambling machine cheat? I know I've seen slot machines labelled with "the combination 777 will occur half as often as any other combination" but since the label states it it's not cheating, just the fine print.
If the UE code is anything like the UT game scripts it's full of legacy. Did you know that UT2004 still has the whole code from Unreal 1 deep in there with most new stuff inheriting Unreal 1 code? But then again most people license what works and UE seems to work. Almost noone licensed Doom 3's engine even though that was written from scratch, pretty capable and probably much cleaner internally than UE (again, I've only seen the game logic parts but those looked a whole lot cleaner than in UT, I quickly understood what's going on wheras in UT you have inheritance so deep you don't even know which function is where).
Too Human is the console equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever, I recall people fawning over it in the early days of the Gamecube and at that point it was already in development for several years. It's constantly getting delayed, changing engines, etc. Apparently they're changing engines again now, they're going to write their own (says so in the lawsuit explaination part of TFA).
I tend to think of the fast parts as cutscenes. Sure, if you know the levels by heart you can hit jump at the right time to go on a secret path but most of the time you just sit and watch while Sonic moves through the fast part. However, cutscenes do impress people.
I think it was just the usually "OMG graphics" amazement back in the Megadrive era when fast scrolling was unheard of. The games make for nice speedruns but playing through them isn't all that great. That being said Sonic Rush was still fun and the amount of manually controlled time vs. just watching Sonic move through something akin to The Incredible Machine goes down as the game progresses (though Altitude Limit is an awful, AWFUL stage).
Is ripping from the radio actually piracy? Wouldn't this be just like having your VCR/PVR running for a while? Since those devices can be sold I'd assume recording a live stream is not against copyright.
You just turn it on, wait a few hours and see if it caught anything useful. I sure as hell won't listen to web radio live because then I can't skip a track I don't want to hear.
The more hassle every body has with the current media empires the quicker the independent music scene will develop and dominate.
I'm not sure about that, many people could end up not knowing about the less popular stuff and just abandoning the market completely. That's what I did between my early childhood and the rise of MP3, only after I was no longer constrained to the crap they play on the radio did I learn that they actually make music I'd want to listen to.
50? That sounds like way more than the stations here seem to play, they got maybe one hour worth of music that they shuffle and reshuffle all day while making horribly bad jokes and retarded lottery games. It's hell to work in a job where coworkers want to have the radio running for the whole time (not an office job though, mostly manual labor). Pop songs have way too mcuh repetition in them if you listen to them only once (they loop the chorus at least ten times after the verses are over, just to hammer it into your brain), adding reruns should be against the Geneva convention. I'm not sure hammering music into someone's head is a good way to make sales, when I hear a song 20 times a day the last thing on my mind is to buy it and hear it EVEN MORE.
Besides, we don't have any indie stations here. There was one once but it got bought out by a big station and now runs the same stuff everyone else is running. You could probably shut down all but one or two stations without decreasing the musical variety at all.
Are you sure about the fructose? I see glucose syrup in practically everything but that's apparently different from fructose. Wikipedia says it's uneconomic to use fructose syrup in Europe because sugar is cheaper and corn more expensive than in the US.
Yes but they are ambiguous. Box can mean differnet box arts already, version can mean 1.1 and 1.2 and product will usually be understood to mean a different game.
Newer Zeldas are definitely easier, especially the bosses are just "spam the new item". Go back to a 2d Zelda and play it a bit, you will notice that you tend to die more often and bosses aren't pretty much beaten the moment you figure out what to do, you still have to fight them properly and that needs reflexes. In Twilight Princess the later bosses especially are pushovers, figure out the strategy to beat them and you don't need to worry about pesky things like dodging anymore. Even if you got hit, hey, you have huge amounts of money, loads of bottles to fill with potion and an armor that makes you invulnerable as long as you have money!
Samus's suit has a decent heat tolerance even without the varia upgrade? I mean, she doesn't die instantly from falling into lava so that thing can take quite some heat. Perhaps some rooms are just above the threshold while others are below?
MS did a temporary pricedrop in Europe (300€ for the Premium) for a few weeks starting witht he PS3 launch. I think the price went back up because they found out that the PS3 was no real threat. The 360 Premium has 1-2 bundled games and a second controller at most places here for the standard 400€ price, the 300€ one came without those of course.
SMB was 2d, you could see the whole playing field at all times. In 3d it's rare to see everything that's going on around you so you need additional feedback.
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Or, in some circles, as an MMORPG.
on the other hand, will a gov't funded search engine "overlook" material said gov't doesn't want you to find?
Not that govt. The only thing they might agree upon is that the nazis are evil but that's pretty much the limit.
95-98%? From what I've seen of slot machines placed in bars and so the payout is maybe 1-2%.
Cheat? When does a gambling machine cheat? I know I've seen slot machines labelled with "the combination 777 will occur half as often as any other combination" but since the label states it it's not cheating, just the fine print.
If the UE code is anything like the UT game scripts it's full of legacy. Did you know that UT2004 still has the whole code from Unreal 1 deep in there with most new stuff inheriting Unreal 1 code? But then again most people license what works and UE seems to work. Almost noone licensed Doom 3's engine even though that was written from scratch, pretty capable and probably much cleaner internally than UE (again, I've only seen the game logic parts but those looked a whole lot cleaner than in UT, I quickly understood what's going on wheras in UT you have inheritance so deep you don't even know which function is where).
EA doesn't seem to delay very often. They just release the game as-is.
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Too Human is the console equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever, I recall people fawning over it in the early days of the Gamecube and at that point it was already in development for several years. It's constantly getting delayed, changing engines, etc. Apparently they're changing engines again now, they're going to write their own (says so in the lawsuit explaination part of TFA).
I tend to think of the fast parts as cutscenes. Sure, if you know the levels by heart you can hit jump at the right time to go on a secret path but most of the time you just sit and watch while Sonic moves through the fast part. However, cutscenes do impress people.
I think it was just the usually "OMG graphics" amazement back in the Megadrive era when fast scrolling was unheard of. The games make for nice speedruns but playing through them isn't all that great. That being said Sonic Rush was still fun and the amount of manually controlled time vs. just watching Sonic move through something akin to The Incredible Machine goes down as the game progresses (though Altitude Limit is an awful, AWFUL stage).
Well, either it's that or the console market really will give everyone at most two generations in the spotlight.
My hand-me-down has a SCART port.
Is ripping from the radio actually piracy? Wouldn't this be just like having your VCR/PVR running for a while? Since those devices can be sold I'd assume recording a live stream is not against copyright.
You just turn it on, wait a few hours and see if it caught anything useful. I sure as hell won't listen to web radio live because then I can't skip a track I don't want to hear.
The more hassle every body has with the current media empires the quicker the independent music scene will develop and dominate.
I'm not sure about that, many people could end up not knowing about the less popular stuff and just abandoning the market completely. That's what I did between my early childhood and the rise of MP3, only after I was no longer constrained to the crap they play on the radio did I learn that they actually make music I'd want to listen to.
50? That sounds like way more than the stations here seem to play, they got maybe one hour worth of music that they shuffle and reshuffle all day while making horribly bad jokes and retarded lottery games. It's hell to work in a job where coworkers want to have the radio running for the whole time (not an office job though, mostly manual labor). Pop songs have way too mcuh repetition in them if you listen to them only once (they loop the chorus at least ten times after the verses are over, just to hammer it into your brain), adding reruns should be against the Geneva convention. I'm not sure hammering music into someone's head is a good way to make sales, when I hear a song 20 times a day the last thing on my mind is to buy it and hear it EVEN MORE.
Besides, we don't have any indie stations here. There was one once but it got bought out by a big station and now runs the same stuff everyone else is running. You could probably shut down all but one or two stations without decreasing the musical variety at all.
Are you sure about the fructose? I see glucose syrup in practically everything but that's apparently different from fructose. Wikipedia says it's uneconomic to use fructose syrup in Europe because sugar is cheaper and corn more expensive than in the US.
Yes but they are ambiguous. Box can mean differnet box arts already, version can mean 1.1 and 1.2 and product will usually be understood to mean a different game.
Mario is doped up on painkillers anyway, he's probably just imagining the lava.
Yes but you lose the option to use hardware emulation for games that aren't supported by the software.
Newer Zeldas are definitely easier, especially the bosses are just "spam the new item". Go back to a 2d Zelda and play it a bit, you will notice that you tend to die more often and bosses aren't pretty much beaten the moment you figure out what to do, you still have to fight them properly and that needs reflexes. In Twilight Princess the later bosses especially are pushovers, figure out the strategy to beat them and you don't need to worry about pesky things like dodging anymore. Even if you got hit, hey, you have huge amounts of money, loads of bottles to fill with potion and an armor that makes you invulnerable as long as you have money!
It's consistent. Ramming stuff causes the world to "shake" so when you need to shake something you ram it.
There's a mod for the Spring opensource RTS engine that lets you fight that battalion of bugs! [/shameless plug]
Samus's suit has a decent heat tolerance even without the varia upgrade? I mean, she doesn't die instantly from falling into lava so that thing can take quite some heat. Perhaps some rooms are just above the threshold while others are below?
MS did a temporary pricedrop in Europe (300€ for the Premium) for a few weeks starting witht he PS3 launch. I think the price went back up because they found out that the PS3 was no real threat. The 360 Premium has 1-2 bundled games and a second controller at most places here for the standard 400€ price, the 300€ one came without those of course.
SMB was 2d, you could see the whole playing field at all times. In 3d it's rare to see everything that's going on around you so you need additional feedback.