Perhaps they should have hired a japanese writer then, when an anime is SciFi you can be damn sure that the majority of the combat is either with swords or devices that rely on the power of their owner, guns are rarely used and never "the great equalizer" people call them in real life. Come on, in a scifi environment you could replace people's arms with plasma cannons and there you have your fireballs. Or you could have them genetically modified to be able to shoot poison from their mouth. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", remember?
We don't even expect much different gameplay, all we want is a game that doesn't put us into a quasi-medieval scenario. Star Wars is fantasy but it's a refreshing change from the usual swords, magic, dragons and orcs you get in 97% of all fantasy settings. Same with WW2 shooters vs. Prey, it's not about gameplay as much as it is about us being sick and tired of shooting Nazis in different implementations of the same few battles.
when they cancelled their SciFi MMO with a fairly rare topic (romans in space) and replaced it with a Warhammer MMO. Most likely because they noticed Warhammer's imitators made big money with an MMO and now they wanted to cash in on the same niche. Well, if you really believe you have the skills to beat Blizzard in terms of game design...
Some do it like this, many others rely on item sales. Maple story, FlyFF, Pangya, Shot Online and Hero Online are the ones I can recall right now, there are many more.
When people criticise any larger group they usually criticise the leaders and their policies. Do you think that when people say they "hate america" that they really care about Joe down at the burger station? No, they're talking about the decision makers.
Or have the foot of God come down from the heavens and squash the farmers to a fart sound, show the farmers "and now, for something completely different..." and put them on a farm where all they can do is farm vegetables with no connection to the outside world.
Yeah and then that retard does something you never would have done (like watching idly while the evil guys execute their plan instead of charging in, cutting off as many heads as possible and THEN looking what they wanted to do) and all the immersion breaks away. Or when you have 10000 hitpoints, can survive a nuclear blast and in a cutscene you die from a single bullet.
nothing ruins it more than me bunny hopping around as my long lost father is running in front of a bullet to save me.... a bullet that would have taken 12 out of your 7000 hitpoints.
Sony is making ALL games region free, meaning that import games will work in the PS3 without needing a Modchip or hacked BIOS.
They could have thought of that earlier. The PS2 swapping solution is infinitely more annoying than the one on the Gamecube and region free beats everything.
it keeps people from mucking with the PS3's internal hardware and its pretty much kills any possible demand for pirated PS3 games, or at least minimizes it.
Nonsense. We're talking about territories where the cost of one game is 25% of the average monthly income. They aren't going to stop buying counterfeit versions for a tenth of the price just because they can play imports.
Kill your mshtml.dll, reboot. Notice how Windows doesn't complain. Start IE. Notice the "no mshtml.dll found" error. Open explorer. Type an internet address into the address bar. Notice the same error.
English classes in school do not necessarily teach only the British spelling. Due to the number of websites that use American English many people use that instead of what they learned in school. Mostly because "a native speaker probably knows better than me" which is also how things like the there/they're/their confusion get picked up by foreigners.
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Perhaps they should have hired a japanese writer then, when an anime is SciFi you can be damn sure that the majority of the combat is either with swords or devices that rely on the power of their owner, guns are rarely used and never "the great equalizer" people call them in real life. Come on, in a scifi environment you could replace people's arms with plasma cannons and there you have your fireballs. Or you could have them genetically modified to be able to shoot poison from their mouth. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", remember?
We don't even expect much different gameplay, all we want is a game that doesn't put us into a quasi-medieval scenario. Star Wars is fantasy but it's a refreshing change from the usual swords, magic, dragons and orcs you get in 97% of all fantasy settings. Same with WW2 shooters vs. Prey, it's not about gameplay as much as it is about us being sick and tired of shooting Nazis in different implementations of the same few battles.
when they cancelled their SciFi MMO with a fairly rare topic (romans in space) and replaced it with a Warhammer MMO. Most likely because they noticed Warhammer's imitators made big money with an MMO and now they wanted to cash in on the same niche. Well, if you really believe you have the skills to beat Blizzard in terms of game design...
Scientists can't even prove that a rock will fall down when you let go of it, how do you expect them to prove ideas that exist only in philosophy?
Some do it like this, many others rely on item sales. Maple story, FlyFF, Pangya, Shot Online and Hero Online are the ones I can recall right now, there are many more.
I'm not sure how hard it would be to design a decompiler that could, say, play navy puzzles all day long and just harvest gold from duty puzzling
I'm not sure if you know what a decompiler does.
When people criticise any larger group they usually criticise the leaders and their policies. Do you think that when people say they "hate america" that they really care about Joe down at the burger station? No, they're talking about the decision makers.
You make the assumption that the farmers aren't 20+ levels above their prey.
Or have the foot of God come down from the heavens and squash the farmers to a fart sound, show the farmers "and now, for something completely different..." and put them on a farm where all they can do is farm vegetables with no connection to the outside world.
I'm referring to his claim that the GC was the best selling console this gen when it clearly wasn't.
Yeah and then that retard does something you never would have done (like watching idly while the evil guys execute their plan instead of charging in, cutting off as many heads as possible and THEN looking what they wanted to do) and all the immersion breaks away. Or when you have 10000 hitpoints, can survive a nuclear blast and in a cutscene you die from a single bullet.
nothing ruins it more than me bunny hopping around as my long lost father is running in front of a bullet to save me. ... a bullet that would have taken 12 out of your 7000 hitpoints.
That combination creates a weird mental image.
Do all games have to consist only of action scenes and movies?
Only Soul Calibur 2 (sword master mode) makes me do that. Ghosts and Goblins was peaceful.
I think you're pulling numbers out of your butt since the Gamecube came nowhere close to selling the most units. It sold about on par with the XBox.
I thought that's what the DMCA was introduced for?
Sony is making ALL games region free, meaning that import games will work in the PS3 without needing a Modchip or hacked BIOS.
They could have thought of that earlier. The PS2 swapping solution is infinitely more annoying than the one on the Gamecube and region free beats everything.
it keeps people from mucking with the PS3's internal hardware and its pretty much kills any possible demand for pirated PS3 games, or at least minimizes it.
Nonsense. We're talking about territories where the cost of one game is 25% of the average monthly income. They aren't going to stop buying counterfeit versions for a tenth of the price just because they can play imports.
Not if I have a microwave.
That was just an attempt to teach our children how to recognize trees. Number one: The larch.
Kill your mshtml.dll, reboot. Notice how Windows doesn't complain. Start IE. Notice the "no mshtml.dll found" error. Open explorer. Type an internet address into the address bar. Notice the same error.
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English classes in school do not necessarily teach only the British spelling. Due to the number of websites that use American English many people use that instead of what they learned in school. Mostly because "a native speaker probably knows better than me" which is also how things like the there/they're/their confusion get picked up by foreigners.
Yes but it's not smaller than the XBox 360's market which is ~3 million worldwide IIRC.
0*10000=10000? I'd like to have a word with your math teacher.
MathException: Division by zero error.
I think they are more worried about kids accidentally googling for "furry".
Imagine the uproar should some unsuspecting toy manufacturer call his newest product "yiff".