Of course there wouldn't be disability bonuses in multiplayer. Maybe age brackets for player matching. And of course a game design that minimizes unnecessary inaccessibility (e.g. by using large fonts and icons).
Most browsers allow the user to change the text size and colors so the people with good vision can have a lot of text on the screen at once while the people with poorer vision can just tell their browser to adjust it.
Actually I think Europe gets more hurricanes than tornadoes or earthquakes, "hurricane" applies to any wind that reaches level 12 on the Beaufort scale, not just cyclones. Especially coastal regions get hit by level 12 winds pretty often (I hear the weather report talking about hurricane strength winds in the coastal regions quite a few times per year). In fact I haven't heard of tornadoes happening in Europe until recently.
This whole "all reviews are badly rated" rethoric gets a lot of mod points but in the end it's not even true. If the games get rated 8-10 all the time you're not reading the reviews for bad games. Plenty of games get bad reviews, it's just that noone gives a damn about those games anyway unless they're so outrageously bad you just HAVE to see how bad they are. Most games are neither here nor there, neither complete crap that makes you laugh at how bad it is nor good enough to merit attention. The noise on the shelves.
If the review text mentions flaws and the final rating is pretty high those flaws didn't weight enough to make the game bad (e.g. it gets repertitive but you're still having so much fun that you don't mind). Conversely, if there's almost no flaws listed but the rating is low the flaws are either strong enough to kill the game or the positive features of the game simply aren't fun.
Reviews vary since they are subjective by definition but usually looking at a number of reviews (even if you just look at their scores on an aggregator site) should give you a pretty good idea whether the game falls into the great, good or noise brackets.
I understand dedicated and hardcore (when the press uses those words) as meaning a regular gamer who spends some time informing himself about games. Perhaps excluding fanboys since they are beyond reason and only read the articles that say what they want to hear. Most dedicated gamers have been playing for quite some time and have gained an understanding of the conventions present in games and genres. And often they're getting tired of those conventions. I don't think it really takes a Wii to break with those conventions and make games feel fresh again but it takes a Wii to make the game companies willing to deviate from established conventions.
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Few expect truly dedicated gamers to choose the Wii over the PS3 or Xbox.
Really? Last I checked dedicated gamers were complaining left and right about stagnating gameplay, lack of innovation and "next generation" being nothing but prettied up graphics. The dedicated gamer wants the Wii (not necessarily to the exclusion of other consoles) because he hopes for new game experiences.
What, you mean MS should handle 1080p like Nintendo did online with the Gamecube? Great idea, I can already see the gamers suddently agreeing that 1080p is nothing they want.
How about realizing that people want features not to use them but to feel correct in their purchase? Really, noone uses 1080p because they don't have the TVs for that but that doesn't stop them from feeling shafted if MS announces 1080p is unnecessary and noone wants it while the competition touts it as a feature (even though we have no idea whether it can handle that either, most likely not but noone will notice as noone will use it). This is a PR war, nothing else.
Sure, it's even more effective since the shrapnell often cripples the pirate and leaves him unable to pirate any more music. They haven't ironed out the false positives though.
I don't think that'd work. When there's a format as widely used as CD people want players in all shapes and places, including built into the PC. They'll also want to be able to record their own. If the Gamecube's disc format was as widely used as CDs you'd already have a drive to read and burn them.
Perhaps it's like how people tend to think more saturated colors are a good thing and then they wonder why the "full" red their LCD displayed comes out faded when printed.
You're forgetting that these were critical chokepoints for all trade happening between Europe and Asia. All kinds of spices, jewellery and other expensive goods were traded over these routes. By controlling the area the Ottoman Empire made large amounts of money from charging all travelling merchants toll. In order to avoid that chokepoint and find alternate routes to Asia (especially India) Columbus set out to see if India can be reached if you travel far enough in the other direction. So if the turks hadn't occupied that trade route the USA wouldn't exist today.
Of course second hand smoke is no major cancer risk. I mean, how many cigarettes does it take until a smoker develops cancer? The equivalent of how many cigarettes does a passive smoker inhale during his life even in the worst conditions (e.g. working in a badly ventilated bar)?
Never mind that smoking causes more than cancer, there's clogged arteries (maybe banning cigarettes would unclog the tubes that aren't quite trucks?) and non-cancerous lung damage, for example. But I guess noone ever makes studies about those since cancer gets more headlines and thus funding.
But global warming? How much CO2 does smoking add to a human's normal output? Maybe secondary effects like tobacco plantages and the various exploitative farming methods employed by poor farmers could be cited as ecologic damage from smoking but that's not a problem with smoking by itself but the way that stuff is grown and I'd put more blame on free trade than smoking for that. Never mind that allowing people to smoke marihuana instead of tobacco would allow the stuff being grown right here under less ecologically damaging conditions.
So if you consider yourself to be a good person, you should be doing everything that you can to prevent the abuse to women and esp children.
Yes but going on a shooting spree to exterminate all adults so there's noone left to abuse the children is illegal last I checked. Oh well, guess that means plan B, throwing the children into furnaces so there are no children left to abuse.
Ever since the Mortal Kombat incident Nintendo doesn't seem to care about the contents of the games released for their platforms anymore. In fact Sony has made more "think of the children" choices than Nintendo lately.
There's a flaw with using lasers for integral schemes: they go in a straight direction, wires can "steer" and form more complex patterns. Of course lasers can also cross each other and wires can't.
May I introduce you to a groundbreaking new technology called "glass fibres"?
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Of course there wouldn't be disability bonuses in multiplayer. Maybe age brackets for player matching. And of course a game design that minimizes unnecessary inaccessibility (e.g. by using large fonts and icons).
Most browsers allow the user to change the text size and colors so the people with good vision can have a lot of text on the screen at once while the people with poorer vision can just tell their browser to adjust it.
Actually I think Europe gets more hurricanes than tornadoes or earthquakes, "hurricane" applies to any wind that reaches level 12 on the Beaufort scale, not just cyclones. Especially coastal regions get hit by level 12 winds pretty often (I hear the weather report talking about hurricane strength winds in the coastal regions quite a few times per year). In fact I haven't heard of tornadoes happening in Europe until recently.
Of course. What kind of communist government leaves their citizens with enough money to make a boat trip to the north pole?
This whole "all reviews are badly rated" rethoric gets a lot of mod points but in the end it's not even true. If the games get rated 8-10 all the time you're not reading the reviews for bad games. Plenty of games get bad reviews, it's just that noone gives a damn about those games anyway unless they're so outrageously bad you just HAVE to see how bad they are. Most games are neither here nor there, neither complete crap that makes you laugh at how bad it is nor good enough to merit attention. The noise on the shelves.
If the review text mentions flaws and the final rating is pretty high those flaws didn't weight enough to make the game bad (e.g. it gets repertitive but you're still having so much fun that you don't mind). Conversely, if there's almost no flaws listed but the rating is low the flaws are either strong enough to kill the game or the positive features of the game simply aren't fun.
Reviews vary since they are subjective by definition but usually looking at a number of reviews (even if you just look at their scores on an aggregator site) should give you a pretty good idea whether the game falls into the great, good or noise brackets.
I understand dedicated and hardcore (when the press uses those words) as meaning a regular gamer who spends some time informing himself about games. Perhaps excluding fanboys since they are beyond reason and only read the articles that say what they want to hear. Most dedicated gamers have been playing for quite some time and have gained an understanding of the conventions present in games and genres. And often they're getting tired of those conventions. I don't think it really takes a Wii to break with those conventions and make games feel fresh again but it takes a Wii to make the game companies willing to deviate from established conventions.
Few expect truly dedicated gamers to choose the Wii over the PS3 or Xbox.
Really? Last I checked dedicated gamers were complaining left and right about stagnating gameplay, lack of innovation and "next generation" being nothing but prettied up graphics. The dedicated gamer wants the Wii (not necessarily to the exclusion of other consoles) because he hopes for new game experiences.
What, you mean MS should handle 1080p like Nintendo did online with the Gamecube? Great idea, I can already see the gamers suddently agreeing that 1080p is nothing they want.
How about realizing that people want features not to use them but to feel correct in their purchase? Really, noone uses 1080p because they don't have the TVs for that but that doesn't stop them from feeling shafted if MS announces 1080p is unnecessary and noone wants it while the competition touts it as a feature (even though we have no idea whether it can handle that either, most likely not but noone will notice as noone will use it). This is a PR war, nothing else.
Sure, it's even more effective since the shrapnell often cripples the pirate and leaves him unable to pirate any more music. They haven't ironed out the false positives though.
I don't think that'd work. When there's a format as widely used as CD people want players in all shapes and places, including built into the PC. They'll also want to be able to record their own. If the Gamecube's disc format was as widely used as CDs you'd already have a drive to read and burn them.
Perhaps it's like how people tend to think more saturated colors are a good thing and then they wonder why the "full" red their LCD displayed comes out faded when printed.
Ten? From Reporters Sans Frontières's reports it sounded like there are only five.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
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No. You see, it's an indirect threat. "Let us charge them or we'll take the money from YOU instead!"
You're forgetting that these were critical chokepoints for all trade happening between Europe and Asia. All kinds of spices, jewellery and other expensive goods were traded over these routes. By controlling the area the Ottoman Empire made large amounts of money from charging all travelling merchants toll. In order to avoid that chokepoint and find alternate routes to Asia (especially India) Columbus set out to see if India can be reached if you travel far enough in the other direction. So if the turks hadn't occupied that trade route the USA wouldn't exist today.
But... but... Science gave me the microwave! How can the power that made the microwave be wrong?
Of course second hand smoke is no major cancer risk. I mean, how many cigarettes does it take until a smoker develops cancer? The equivalent of how many cigarettes does a passive smoker inhale during his life even in the worst conditions (e.g. working in a badly ventilated bar)?
Never mind that smoking causes more than cancer, there's clogged arteries (maybe banning cigarettes would unclog the tubes that aren't quite trucks?) and non-cancerous lung damage, for example. But I guess noone ever makes studies about those since cancer gets more headlines and thus funding.
But global warming? How much CO2 does smoking add to a human's normal output? Maybe secondary effects like tobacco plantages and the various exploitative farming methods employed by poor farmers could be cited as ecologic damage from smoking but that's not a problem with smoking by itself but the way that stuff is grown and I'd put more blame on free trade than smoking for that. Never mind that allowing people to smoke marihuana instead of tobacco would allow the stuff being grown right here under less ecologically damaging conditions.
Save the planet, smoke weed?
How do you type with boxing gloves on?
So if you consider yourself to be a good person, you should be doing everything that you can to prevent the abuse to women and esp children.
Yes but going on a shooting spree to exterminate all adults so there's noone left to abuse the children is illegal last I checked. Oh well, guess that means plan B, throwing the children into furnaces so there are no children left to abuse.
Slashdot is news for nerds. Many nerds care about what Bioware does. This wouldn't have been posted had it been about e.g. Majesco.
I think that was Command & Conquer.
Ever since the Mortal Kombat incident Nintendo doesn't seem to care about the contents of the games released for their platforms anymore. In fact Sony has made more "think of the children" choices than Nintendo lately.
For Max? I thought you only need one to understand Sam and when Max sounds like a thesaurus he's probably just confused.
There's a flaw with using lasers for integral schemes: they go in a straight direction, wires can "steer" and form more complex patterns. Of course lasers can also cross each other and wires can't.
May I introduce you to a groundbreaking new technology called "glass fibres"?