Considering that that problem is not unique to consoles but applies to all electronic devices it shouldn't get more complaints than any other piece of electronics.
Even moreso, who cares about stability if Linux allows the moon people to make your computer explode?
(PS3 games will not be locked to anyone, stop repeating that rumour, it has been denied already)
About fucking time.
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Region locks should never have existed in first place, they are only there so different publishers can publish the same game in different regions and to enable price fixing.
No matter why this was done, whether to make sure mod chips don't have any legal functions or to really do something useful, it had to be done. Region locks are attempts to suppress international trade and competition. They have been ruled illegal in some countries and are not protected by any DMCA-like laws. There should have been some fines over region locks but well, knowing the corrupt governments we have it'd end up being 5.95$ total.
At least with The Bards Tale on my trusty ol' Atari ST, I could spend hours beneath Skara Brae without having to worry about my bank account being emptyied by Interplay.
Yeah, now move forward a bit and arrive at Neverwinter Nights where you paid by the hour.
Come back in a year or two when the Revolution is released. Then you can compare modern controllers and controllers 20 years ago again and get different results.
But one thing I notice is that while the graphics and sound have leapt forward, the improvements in game play itself hasn't kept up.
What?!? There have been massive improvements in gameplay since back then. Take e.g. racing games, instead of dodging obstacles and ocassionally being pushed to the side (during a turn) you actually do something which resembles driving a car in modern games. Or Karate Champ vs. DOA4 there. While DOA is hardly the pinnacle of fighting it still beats out the old Karate games. Can't say anything about sports games since I didn't play them, neither back then nor now but it seems they are more like sports than pushing a ball around with a solid block.
Either way those screenshots aren't gameplay shots (because you can't play a game with such a perspective). I'd have preferred had they chosen comparable situations in the games and depicted those instead so there's actually something to compare.
And? The textures in Doom 3 are pretty highres and I can run that on a system with 128MB vidram, it would take quite a lot of hires textures to make 256MB insufficient, especially when the games are optimized for the platform.
I stopped reading manuals when games started to include unskippable tutorials, it's pretty pointless to read something the game forces you to read again as the first action after starting it.
Problem is, the same applies to those who wish to use a license that is simply incompatible with the GPL, like BSD. The GPL is almost a minefield if you wish to retain your ability to release code under BSD.
Poaching employees is much easier than buying a company out, they'd just offer your franchise owners better conditions and pay and some of them may defect.
These trademarks exist because they have a logo attached. You could sell a machine called "Forgetful_ca Xeroxer" and as long as you don't use the Xerox logo that wouldn't be trademark infringement.
It does not matter whether they filed for it prior to it becoming a generic term, once it has become generic any existing trademarks (that rely on the word only, a trademark involving a specific logo design remains in effect but you cannot use it against people that only use the term without the logo) are void.
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Last Man Standing Co-Op won for best Doom 3 Mod
Um, what other major Doom 3 mods are there? Dungeon Doom maybe but that's pretty much it.
Considering that that problem is not unique to consoles but applies to all electronic devices it shouldn't get more complaints than any other piece of electronics.
Even moreso, who cares about stability if Linux allows the moon people to make your computer explode?
(PS3 games will not be locked to anyone, stop repeating that rumour, it has been denied already)
Region locks should never have existed in first place, they are only there so different publishers can publish the same game in different regions and to enable price fixing.
No matter why this was done, whether to make sure mod chips don't have any legal functions or to really do something useful, it had to be done. Region locks are attempts to suppress international trade and competition. They have been ruled illegal in some countries and are not protected by any DMCA-like laws. There should have been some fines over region locks but well, knowing the corrupt governments we have it'd end up being 5.95$ total.
At least with The Bards Tale on my trusty ol' Atari ST, I could spend hours beneath Skara Brae without having to worry about my bank account being emptyied by Interplay.
Yeah, now move forward a bit and arrive at Neverwinter Nights where you paid by the hour.
Come back in a year or two when the Revolution is released. Then you can compare modern controllers and controllers 20 years ago again and get different results.
Really? I grew up on a C64 and waiting a minute for a level to load would actually happen.
But one thing I notice is that while the graphics and sound have leapt forward, the improvements in game play itself hasn't kept up.
What?!? There have been massive improvements in gameplay since back then. Take e.g. racing games, instead of dodging obstacles and ocassionally being pushed to the side (during a turn) you actually do something which resembles driving a car in modern games. Or Karate Champ vs. DOA4 there. While DOA is hardly the pinnacle of fighting it still beats out the old Karate games. Can't say anything about sports games since I didn't play them, neither back then nor now but it seems they are more like sports than pushing a ball around with a solid block.
Either way those screenshots aren't gameplay shots (because you can't play a game with such a perspective). I'd have preferred had they chosen comparable situations in the games and depicted those instead so there's actually something to compare.
Microsoft went on the record as saying the HDDVD addon, if it is even made, would not be used for games. Mandatory addons are what killed Sega.
And? The textures in Doom 3 are pretty highres and I can run that on a system with 128MB vidram, it would take quite a lot of hires textures to make 256MB insufficient, especially when the games are optimized for the platform.
A 1024x1024 texture compressed in a high-quality JPEG will eat up roughly 500kB
Ewwww. JPEG. I'd rather use DXT in that case, ends up not much larger and it won't need any reformatting to go into the texture memory.
I stopped reading manuals when games started to include unskippable tutorials, it's pretty pointless to read something the game forces you to read again as the first action after starting it.
I thought all Final Fantasy protagonists are underage?
Problem is, the same applies to those who wish to use a license that is simply incompatible with the GPL, like BSD. The GPL is almost a minefield if you wish to retain your ability to release code under BSD.
5 segments for 7:30? Too many random elements or what?
Marathon 1, 2 or Infinity?
Dude, I'd love to see that but snuff videos are illegal here.
Poaching employees is much easier than buying a company out, they'd just offer your franchise owners better conditions and pay and some of them may defect.
These trademarks exist because they have a logo attached. You could sell a machine called "Forgetful_ca Xeroxer" and as long as you don't use the Xerox logo that wouldn't be trademark infringement.
Did you miss that guy advertising his Democracy game in every second story?
1. It's not a patent.
2. If it were it'd have expired roughly twenty years ago.
They didn't translate Über-Ich as over-I, did they? While it is the correct translation it just sounds stupid. That's why everyone just says superego.
Besides, it's a specific term for a subject of philosophy, latin (or maybe greek) is preferred for scientific lingo.
Microsoft would have to defend its trademark against you doing that, i.e. sue you for trademark infringement.
It does not matter whether they filed for it prior to it becoming a generic term, once it has become generic any existing trademarks (that rely on the word only, a trademark involving a specific logo design remains in effect but you cannot use it against people that only use the term without the logo) are void.