Agreed, the GC version is probably the worst. I shelled out a fair bit for it and was dissapointed. Certainly the earlier versions of the game were better (I think it's got something to do with the top down view).
I hardly think though that a game is 'boring' because it's in a genre you don't like. If you take the sub-genre of Farm Management (I think I just made up a sub-genre, then how about John Deere. Must admit I've never played it but... I get the impression you can't run over your cows in any tractors.
when you consider it is Telstra who we are talking about. Telstra seems to want to charge whatever it wants, however it can only increase it's charges in line with costs. So jumping on Linux would decrease thier costs and the ACCC would jump all over them.
Maybe I'm just a cynic and my logic is flawed, but it doesn't suprise me that one monopoly should use get into bed with another monopoly.
I'm seeing a direct parallel to those old handheld computer game "consoles" from about 10 to 15 years ago.
I assume you mean the Nintendo Game and Watch.
Will I be able to play that King Kong game thing?
You mean Donkey Kong? Yes.
And while there is a chance that the in development also includes the GBA titles currently on the go
I believe it would be hard to pass off a GBA title for a DS title, given that a GBA title would blank the bottom of the screen (or just have a logo or something). Work would still need to be done to convert a GBA title to DS.
I think the launch games would really have to use the dual screens well to improve sales of the DS.
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How about because using a computer is more complex than driving car?
Car: crash - die
Computer: crash - go get coffee
Both cars and computers have different levels on which you can use them. There are people who have had little to no training on how to use a computer and can play solitaire. Perhaps they don't know what a command prompt is. Fair enough.
It takes 6 driving lessons in my state before you can attempt your driving test (so around 3 months I think). Even then there is strong evidence that within the first 3 years after passing the test, there is a high percentage of fatility.
If I spend the same amount of time training to drive as I did with computers, would I be able to become an F1 driver?
Do you know how to refit your car's exhaust manifold?
No, my brother does. Does he know how to install a HDD? No I do. Get a brother rather than a help desk/mechanic.:)
Sorry, but dropping $500 on a video card is just not an option
> help drop
syntax: drop on video card
What $500USD... erm... I'll be playing Doom3 in the future when I go to Mars... nah what's the point? But if it's going to run on Xbox, then how well will it go?
I can't think of any game/system that I've wanted that hasn't been in EB (unless they've sold out). Pretty much thought that the head of EB was lazy and said "get every console system and every game on every major label". The exception to this is computer games, but then E3 really isn't geared to computer games. I'd agree with you if EB actually stocked non-major games...
This is the average gamer let's not forget. So, because we can only age 1 year every year, this means that there are more gamers entering the market. If the average age is going up by approx 5 years per every year, this means that more and more pensioners are entering the gaming market, not more youth. If these games are truly targeting the 'mass market' then we have some really odd pensioners.
Bah, this is an important story, if only it shows that there is a (percieved) market for odd Japanese games in the US. If you check the review it states A European release can't be ruled out, but a US release seems very unlikely..
So not news you say? What if rocks from Mars were coming to Earth (and would take a few years to get here). "Bah," you would say "we have plenty of rocks here already. Why can't we talk more about the rocks that are here?"
Simply put, it wasn't going to happen, it will. Yay!
But this is an exeception of course. If I see anything about EA releasing next years version of one of their sports games I'll be there with you screaming "enough!!".
All the while giving away the vast majority of their music for free!
Which is easy to do at the end or start of a career. In any case there are plenty of bands that don't care about making/selling albums. This Australian band has spent a year making one EP...
I remember a time when all my music was from legal MP3 website (mostly underground bands) downloads. Bit hit or miss, but it was great when a friend came over and heard something new that they loved.
But I'm just not so sure that when these bands 'make it big' that they will continue to give away thier music.
I also heard somewhere that one of the major record labels is planning on releasing a budget range of CDs, no booklets, no cases, just the CDs... which makes you wonder where the value is.
See I read this a little too quick. Missed a bit: get something to drink, hit... a co-worker
Which would be understandable if you worked in a place that had a bar. Or the WWE...
Most Internet cafes give you a choice of Win/IE or Mac/Safari.
Really? I haven't walked into an Internet cafe in Melbourne yet that offers Macs. Then again, I usually do my webbrowsing in Internet bars... so maybe I've seen one and was to drunk to know I was using a mac...
Mr Foster contacted the university for comment, revealing how he had gathered the information. He received an email from the proctors saying they had reason to suspect he had committed a criminal act and would be referred to Thames Valley police. Half an hour later, and three weeks before his exams, Mr Foster's university email account was cut off and all his IT privileges were revoked.
So he waved his name around before the article. In any case (I imagine) the Uni or police probably would have slapped the paper a fine or done something nasty to go after the names. Of course I'm thinking of Australian Uni's here.
Look, Tetris with great GFX is still good right? Halo wouldn't work with bad GFX. Vice City would be a different experience with different GFX (although I've been playing GTA & GTA2 of late and find GTA a little better, even with the not so hot GFX).
GFX without gameplay is like a movie (or something you don't actually play with).
Gameplay without GFX isn't as great.
It's about balance. I suggest we get a delegation from each camp and sort out some sort of peace treaty. This war has raged for too long.
Remember in the way back, before GFX were great? Sure there were great games then, but there were lots of really bad ones. And the same is true today. Hardware getting better doesn't change that at all.
Why is it that you can walk up to any book store and pick up titles that were written centuries ago
Would you pick up something written from the dawn of time? I think at some stage that games will reach the same stage as books (I have a dream...). But even so, there are a lot of bad books written 30 years ago.
IBM is developing the "Cell" processor for future entertainment consoles sold by Sony Corp.; the processor used by the "Xenon," Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox; as well as the "Revolution," Nintendo Ltd.'s next-generation console. IBM has already shipped more than 10 million PowerPCs to Nintendo for use in the current GameCube, each a 485MHz derivative of the G3 called the "Gekko."
I did like this quote though from Nicole Tecco, director of Entertainment, Technology, Digital Arts and Design at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies:
``It's kind of sexy,'' she said. ``Making video games is kind of like a dream come true for them.''
Though I can tell this is a method of advertising... I'd be vaguely interested in meeting this woman. Not for $5k though...
You think that Michael Moore gets a seat on the press bus for George W's campaign?
Why would he want to?
Having said that, no game reviewer can stay in business without access to games
Hmmm.... Edge has a good reputation of reviewing games as they find them, ignoring outside influnces. But they are under Future Publishing. I think if you manage to get a reputation as being reliable and an important voice in the gaming community, it's hard (or at least harder) for publishers to fob you off.
My flatmate used to swear by Lara Croft. It was a bit sad watching her play it really. I kept finding myself telling her that Lara was just a bunch of pixels and she really wasn't sexy. She managed to get all the way through the most recent game, just on the looks of Lara. Truly bad game.
She also loved the Xena game, which I found slightly enjoyable due to the button mashing.
But it's strange that I as a guy will tend to choose female characters in games... probably because I find they jump better... or something.
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Bought out by Fujitsu? Interesting article on how IBM took on Amdahl.
Anyone know if there is a "Where are they now?" website for tech companies?
Good point, perhaps ET doesn't count as a game at all.
No one has mentioned ET yet? Or were boring games only invented in the last decade?
Agreed, the GC version is probably the worst. I shelled out a fair bit for it and was dissapointed. Certainly the earlier versions of the game were better (I think it's got something to do with the top down view).
I hardly think though that a game is 'boring' because it's in a genre you don't like. If you take the sub-genre of Farm Management (I think I just made up a sub-genre, then how about John Deere. Must admit I've never played it but... I get the impression you can't run over your cows in any tractors.
when you consider it is Telstra who we are talking about. Telstra seems to want to charge whatever it wants, however it can only increase it's charges in line with costs. So jumping on Linux would decrease thier costs and the ACCC would jump all over them.
Maybe I'm just a cynic and my logic is flawed, but it doesn't suprise me that one monopoly should use get into bed with another monopoly.
I'm seeing a direct parallel to those old handheld computer game "consoles" from about 10 to 15 years ago.
I assume you mean the Nintendo Game and Watch.
Will I be able to play that King Kong game thing?
You mean Donkey Kong? Yes.
And while there is a chance that the in development also includes the GBA titles currently on the go
I believe it would be hard to pass off a GBA title for a DS title, given that a GBA title would blank the bottom of the screen (or just have a logo or something). Work would still need to be done to convert a GBA title to DS.
I think the launch games would really have to use the dual screens well to improve sales of the DS.
How about because using a computer is more complex than driving car?
:)
Car: crash - die
Computer: crash - go get coffee
Both cars and computers have different levels on which you can use them. There are people who have had little to no training on how to use a computer and can play solitaire. Perhaps they don't know what a command prompt is. Fair enough.
It takes 6 driving lessons in my state before you can attempt your driving test (so around 3 months I think). Even then there is strong evidence that within the first 3 years after passing the test, there is a high percentage of fatility.
If I spend the same amount of time training to drive as I did with computers, would I be able to become an F1 driver?
Do you know how to refit your car's exhaust manifold?
No, my brother does. Does he know how to install a HDD? No I do. Get a brother rather than a help desk/mechanic.
Sorry, but dropping $500 on a video card is just not an option
> help drop
syntax: drop on video card
What $500USD... erm... I'll be playing Doom3 in the future when I go to Mars... nah what's the point?
But if it's going to run on Xbox, then how well will it go?
I can't think of any game/system that I've wanted that hasn't been in EB (unless they've sold out). Pretty much thought that the head of EB was lazy and said "get every console system and every game on every major label". The exception to this is computer games, but then E3 really isn't geared to computer games. I'd agree with you if EB actually stocked non-major games...
This is the average gamer let's not forget. So, because we can only age 1 year every year, this means that there are more gamers entering the market. If the average age is going up by approx 5 years per every year, this means that more and more pensioners are entering the gaming market, not more youth. If these games are truly targeting the 'mass market' then we have some really odd pensioners.
While I did all of these things typing in commands to load a game was something I did 2 weeks ago (as well as in my childhood).
Bah, this is an important story, if only it shows that there is a (percieved) market for odd Japanese games in the US. If you check the review it states
A European release can't be ruled out, but a US release seems very unlikely..
So not news you say? What if rocks from Mars were coming to Earth (and would take a few years to get here). "Bah," you would say "we have plenty of rocks here already. Why can't we talk more about the rocks that are here?"
Simply put, it wasn't going to happen, it will. Yay!
But this is an exeception of course. If I see anything about EA releasing next years version of one of their sports games I'll be there with you screaming "enough!!".
All the while giving away the vast majority of their music for free!
Which is easy to do at the end or start of a career.
In any case there are plenty of bands that don't care about making/selling albums. This Australian band has spent a year making one EP...
I remember a time when all my music was from legal MP3 website (mostly underground bands) downloads. Bit hit or miss, but it was great when a friend came over and heard something new that they loved.
But I'm just not so sure that when these bands 'make it big' that they will continue to give away thier music.
I also heard somewhere that one of the major record labels is planning on releasing a budget range of CDs, no booklets, no cases, just the CDs... which makes you wonder where the value is.
See I read this a little too quick. Missed a bit: ... a co-worker
get something to drink, hit
Which would be understandable if you worked in a place that had a bar. Or the WWE...
Come on, it's the perfect time for Rick Dangerous to come back and take the role of the true Tomb Raider. Retro is big now isn't it?
Your employer pays salary to your hairs?
Maybe he's a rockstar.
Most Internet cafes give you a choice of Win/IE or Mac/Safari.
Really? I haven't walked into an Internet cafe in Melbourne yet that offers Macs. Then again, I usually do my webbrowsing in Internet bars... so maybe I've seen one and was to drunk to know I was using a mac...
Mr Foster contacted the university for comment, revealing how he had gathered the information. He received an email from the proctors saying they had reason to suspect he had committed a criminal act and would be referred to Thames Valley police. Half an hour later, and three weeks before his exams, Mr Foster's university email account was cut off and all his IT privileges were revoked.
So he waved his name around before the article. In any case (I imagine) the Uni or police probably would have slapped the paper a fine or done something nasty to go after the names. Of course I'm thinking of Australian Uni's here.
Look, Tetris with great GFX is still good right? Halo wouldn't work with bad GFX. Vice City would be a different experience with different GFX (although I've been playing GTA & GTA2 of late and find GTA a little better, even with the not so hot GFX).
GFX without gameplay is like a movie (or something you don't actually play with).
Gameplay without GFX isn't as great.
It's about balance. I suggest we get a delegation from each camp and sort out some sort of peace treaty. This war has raged for too long.
Remember in the way back, before GFX were great? Sure there were great games then, but there were lots of really bad ones. And the same is true today. Hardware getting better doesn't change that at all.
Hmmm.... what was my point again?
Would you pick up something written from the dawn of time? I think at some stage that games will reach the same stage as books (I have a dream...). But even so, there are a lot of bad books written 30 years ago.
Something to think about....
From Eweek:
IBM is developing the "Cell" processor for future entertainment consoles sold by Sony Corp.; the processor used by the "Xenon," Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox; as well as the "Revolution," Nintendo Ltd.'s next-generation console. IBM has already shipped more than 10 million PowerPCs to Nintendo for use in the current GameCube, each a 485MHz derivative of the G3 called the "Gekko."
I did like this quote though from Nicole Tecco, director of Entertainment, Technology, Digital Arts and Design at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies:
``It's kind of sexy,'' she said. ``Making video games is kind of like a dream come true for them.''
Though I can tell this is a method of advertising... I'd be vaguely interested in meeting this woman. Not for $5k though...
Why would he want to?
Having said that, no game reviewer can stay in business without access to games
Hmmm.... Edge has a good reputation of reviewing games as they find them, ignoring outside influnces. But they are under Future Publishing. I think if you manage to get a reputation as being reliable and an important voice in the gaming community, it's hard (or at least harder) for publishers to fob you off.
My flatmate used to swear by Lara Croft. It was a bit sad watching her play it really. I kept finding myself telling her that Lara was just a bunch of pixels and she really wasn't sexy. She managed to get all the way through the most recent game, just on the looks of Lara. Truly bad game. She also loved the Xena game, which I found slightly enjoyable due to the button mashing. But it's strange that I as a guy will tend to choose female characters in games... probably because I find they jump better... or something.