Don't forget RE4. On the PC it just wouldn't play half as well as on the Cube. The game was designed for the controller and it's done to near perfection when the PC port is ment to be terrible to the point of unplayable.
For the sake of questioning your logic. Is someone playing solitaire a gamer or not? Because your logic seems to imply -any- game playing makes you a gamer. Where as IMO a gamer is someone who invests some time in games and is involved in the future. The same way anyone can spend time on a PC, but most -real- geeks invest a massive amount of time in the community and on their PCs (which is usually the same thing in effect).
This is not a "ZOMG BAN THIS" law, rather it is to bring attention to something people are missing. Mobile phones were always illegal for dangerous driving reasons in the UK, but everyone used them. The moment the "heres a £250 fine if you get caught" law came in suddenly everyone switched to head sets and it dropped massively.
It's bringing attention to criminal activity, not making something else illegal.
Talking on a phone while driving distracts you from driving. It only takes a couple of seconds of distraction and a little kid can be run over from running into the road.
The laws are not about insurance companies, it is about being impared while driving an object able to kill a person within a split seconds notice.
Spin it any way you like, mobile phones are dangerous when they distract you from the road.
All these things take your focus OFF driving a high speed large heavy peice of metal. So it doesn't matter what you're using th ephone for you should not be doing any of these.
The ONLY exception would be dialing 999 (911) for an emergency which is also the reason why you cannot stop driving (for example a guy shooting at you from a car behind or such.
But what about introducing plastic to the blood stream? Surely the body is going to flip out and attack it, which isn't exactly helpful in an emergency situation.
I wonder if this really does help us in the long run. We're so used to reading blocks of text that any other form of text may well confuse us. After all if you're left handed for 20 years using your right hand to do the same task is very disorientating.
The example picture is also manipulated unfairly. It has colour changes in the text, which unfairly breaks the smaller blocks of text up, where as the single block is confusing because it is clearly not ment to be read in such a way. It is written like a children's book and so it has short 3-6 word phrases put together. Which does not make for a nice long readable sentence like the (mispelled) non-sense I am putting here.
Not to be a complete jerk and ruin the positive nature of the post but human nature is not going to do Linux any favours.
Step 1 : "Wow I can save $50 by getting this.. Leenix instead of Windows!" Step 2 : Where is internet explorer!? Why doesn't my videos play!? Where the hell is solitaire!? Step 3 : ??? Step 4 : Write off Ubuntu as complete crap, claim Dell makes shitty PCs that don't work and kick up a stink about it to everyone who will listen. Step 5 : Dell from Linux as it causes more problems, wasting more time (hence $$$) than it makes them (which is nothing as they lose money from not selling Windows or their spyware).
- A Ubuntu user who has been trying to get Wine to work right for the last 2 days and still not quite happy with it.
And in 3-4 years we'll see a new console, which is about when the games will dry up for the Wii but your estimate.
Lets put it this way. Games take 2-3 years to make these days. The Wii has a huge console base, so games will get made for it, come out when it "looks old" and carry it until the next generation as all the Triple A titles will be on the Wii and single handedly rule the market until next gen.
PS3 is a fish out of water, 360 is a bit better but both are finding the Wii kicking their asses and can't do anything about it.
FF appeals to many people for many different things. Some enjoy the battle system, others the characters and people like myself enjoy exploring the world and never knowing what big town or country bumpkin we'll find next.
So no one can say "FF is popular because" as there are many reasons.
Is it just me or is Square really out of ideas now? In Japan special editions are common things and a lot of big titles get them, but very few companies would make a special edition for every game they release, yet here is Square with about 10 different games in a row getting special editions. Isn't it about time they either give up on releasing games and just refine one to the point or perfection or admit they are just releasing half arsed unfinished games before they are ready?
I'm looking forward to FF:CC:DS but I find it a shame that they had to do the traditional story thing rather than giving us a sandbox like the original, which would have played perfectly over wifi with the mics for communication between party members.
Lets take magicians, we all know they don't know magic, they can't do half the things they claim, so how come they can claim to do so and be used as entertainers as such? Uri Geller is a creepy asshole, we all know this, but it does not take away from his entertainment value and if you consider him on par with a kids show magician or a clown then his "act" is perfectly legit.
Maybe it's just me here, but I live in the UK and I doubt I could name the shires in just England let alone Scotland and Wales. The United states of America are 50 times the size of the UK and is basicly 50 different countries all roughly pushed together, how you can remember the names of all 50 states when you're working on such a scale?
Sooner or later you have to realize people aren't these magic computers who know everything and desire to. For a kid who never goes much further than 1 or 2 states over to college or on holiday then returns to their home state for the rest of their life, where Kentucky fried chicken was named after just might not be a huge thing to them.
The same with Asian countries. I very much doubt I could named more than 5 *stan countries, because I personally have no need to know them and when I do I have access to google, an atlus or various other nifty resources to use. Because of this modern era we all love here at Slashdot we have to remember no longer are people required to know everything, infact the old saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" very much applies in this era, and to this extent we may just consider the 36th (random number) state and it's location very important to our life.
I remember mega lo mania and similar games and I see Spore as an evoluton of them but it's being sold as a universe simulator with infinity possibilities (they probably count each part 12 times for each colour knowing EA) which I just don't buy. The marketing hype is just too much for me to believe Spore will stand on it's own feet.
Much like Doom 3, major ass hype and it lost out to HL2 because it wasn't just dark tunnels over and over. Not to mention Digimon world 3 on the PSX had hundreds of evolutions and already did that evolutionary lines are "random" aka set stats defined, which is where I see Spore going.
See the way it's implied is you can do 'any thing' which to me personally seems more marketing than truth. Maybe I'm wrong and this will be some huge amazing thing, but I just have the feeling it will have like 3 types of animals with just different parts you can attach to them like so many other games.
If he buys it I will be leaving. The guy is a leech who's got so fat he falls on things and leechs off them while destroying them. I don't wish to support such a creature by any name.
I don't understand why everyone is so hyped for Spore. It seems like it's just the sims but you can make creatures. Maybe I just don't buy the marketing about evolurionary traits or whatever, but spore looks like another person/animal raising sim which will have set paths no matter wgat they claim.
I don't care, Valve pissed on their chips when they added adverts into classic CS.
I'm a huge TFC fan, I play it even to today and love every moment of it, but I absolutely refuse to buy another Valve game ever again due to extremely poor marketeering.
Open source is in more danger of control tan you people believe. It only takes charisma and a big mouth and the whole OSS community could be corrupted. Some would argue it's already happening.
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Don't forget RE4. On the PC it just wouldn't play half as well as on the Cube. The game was designed for the controller and it's done to near perfection when the PC port is ment to be terrible to the point of unplayable.
For the sake of questioning your logic. Is someone playing solitaire a gamer or not? Because your logic seems to imply -any- game playing makes you a gamer. Where as IMO a gamer is someone who invests some time in games and is involved in the future. The same way anyone can spend time on a PC, but most -real- geeks invest a massive amount of time in the community and on their PCs (which is usually the same thing in effect).
This is not a "ZOMG BAN THIS" law, rather it is to bring attention to something people are missing. Mobile phones were always illegal for dangerous driving reasons in the UK, but everyone used them. The moment the "heres a £250 fine if you get caught" law came in suddenly everyone switched to head sets and it dropped massively.
It's bringing attention to criminal activity, not making something else illegal.
Talking on a phone while driving distracts you from driving. It only takes a couple of seconds of distraction and a little kid can be run over from running into the road.
The laws are not about insurance companies, it is about being impared while driving an object able to kill a person within a split seconds notice.
Spin it any way you like, mobile phones are dangerous when they distract you from the road.
All these things take your focus OFF driving a high speed large heavy peice of metal. So it doesn't matter what you're using th ephone for you should not be doing any of these.
The ONLY exception would be dialing 999 (911) for an emergency which is also the reason why you cannot stop driving (for example a guy shooting at you from a car behind or such.
But what about introducing plastic to the blood stream? Surely the body is going to flip out and attack it, which isn't exactly helpful in an emergency situation.
and for every hot girl there is 10 fat women in T strings.
There is a good reason why we stay indoors all day.
I wonder if this really does help us in the long run. We're so used to reading blocks of text that any other form of text may well confuse us. After all if you're left handed for 20 years using your right hand to do the same task is very disorientating.
The example picture is also manipulated unfairly. It has colour changes in the text, which unfairly breaks the smaller blocks of text up, where as the single block is confusing because it is clearly not ment to be read in such a way. It is written like a children's book and so it has short 3-6 word phrases put together. Which does not make for a nice long readable sentence like the (mispelled) non-sense I am putting here.
Not to be a complete jerk and ruin the positive nature of the post but human nature is not going to do Linux any favours.
Step 1 : "Wow I can save $50 by getting this.. Leenix instead of Windows!"
Step 2 : Where is internet explorer!? Why doesn't my videos play!? Where the hell is solitaire!?
Step 3 : ???
Step 4 : Write off Ubuntu as complete crap, claim Dell makes shitty PCs that don't work and kick up a stink about it to everyone who will listen.
Step 5 : Dell from Linux as it causes more problems, wasting more time (hence $$$) than it makes them (which is nothing as they lose money from not selling Windows or their spyware).
- A Ubuntu user who has been trying to get Wine to work right for the last 2 days and still not quite happy with it.
And in 3-4 years we'll see a new console, which is about when the games will dry up for the Wii but your estimate.
Lets put it this way. Games take 2-3 years to make these days. The Wii has a huge console base, so games will get made for it, come out when it "looks old" and carry it until the next generation as all the Triple A titles will be on the Wii and single handedly rule the market until next gen.
PS3 is a fish out of water, 360 is a bit better but both are finding the Wii kicking their asses and can't do anything about it.
FF appeals to many people for many different things. Some enjoy the battle system, others the characters and people like myself enjoy exploring the world and never knowing what big town or country bumpkin we'll find next.
So no one can say "FF is popular because" as there are many reasons.
Is it just me or is Square really out of ideas now? In Japan special editions are common things and a lot of big titles get them, but very few companies would make a special edition for every game they release, yet here is Square with about 10 different games in a row getting special editions. Isn't it about time they either give up on releasing games and just refine one to the point or perfection or admit they are just releasing half arsed unfinished games before they are ready?
I'm looking forward to FF:CC:DS but I find it a shame that they had to do the traditional story thing rather than giving us a sandbox like the original, which would have played perfectly over wifi with the mics for communication between party members.
If you choose to take peopole are face value that is your problem, not my problem. Part of the act or not is just not the issue IMO.
You either go "wahey this guy is nuts" or you go "okay he's real, he's reading my mind". You pick that no one else.
Just for the sake of argument.
Lets take magicians, we all know they don't know magic, they can't do half the things they claim, so how come they can claim to do so and be used as entertainers as such? Uri Geller is a creepy asshole, we all know this, but it does not take away from his entertainment value and if you consider him on par with a kids show magician or a clown then his "act" is perfectly legit.
Why circle out this guy and not the others?
Maybe it's just me here, but I live in the UK and I doubt I could name the shires in just England let alone Scotland and Wales. The United states of America are 50 times the size of the UK and is basicly 50 different countries all roughly pushed together, how you can remember the names of all 50 states when you're working on such a scale?
Sooner or later you have to realize people aren't these magic computers who know everything and desire to. For a kid who never goes much further than 1 or 2 states over to college or on holiday then returns to their home state for the rest of their life, where Kentucky fried chicken was named after just might not be a huge thing to them.
The same with Asian countries. I very much doubt I could named more than 5 *stan countries, because I personally have no need to know them and when I do I have access to google, an atlus or various other nifty resources to use. Because of this modern era we all love here at Slashdot we have to remember no longer are people required to know everything, infact the old saying "Jack of all trades, master of none" very much applies in this era, and to this extent we may just consider the 36th (random number) state and it's location very important to our life.
Didn't we already see this on the PC for years now?
I believe Half-life pretty much sold just for the mods the last 5 years or so.
I remember mega lo mania and similar games and I see Spore as an evoluton of them but it's being sold as a universe simulator with infinity possibilities (they probably count each part 12 times for each colour knowing EA) which I just don't buy. The marketing hype is just too much for me to believe Spore will stand on it's own feet.
Much like Doom 3, major ass hype and it lost out to HL2 because it wasn't just dark tunnels over and over. Not to mention Digimon world 3 on the PSX had hundreds of evolutions and already did that evolutionary lines are "random" aka set stats defined, which is where I see Spore going.
See the way it's implied is you can do 'any thing' which to me personally seems more marketing than truth. Maybe I'm wrong and this will be some huge amazing thing, but I just have the feeling it will have like 3 types of animals with just different parts you can attach to them like so many other games.
If he buys it I will be leaving. The guy is a leech who's got so fat he falls on things and leechs off them while destroying them. I don't wish to support such a creature by any name.
I don't understand why everyone is so hyped for Spore. It seems like it's just the sims but you can make creatures. Maybe I just don't buy the marketing about evolurionary traits or whatever, but spore looks like another person/animal raising sim which will have set paths no matter wgat they claim.
They are permantly added to the maps, they update every round by steam servers phoning home. All I know since I haven't looked any deeper than that.
The prodige drinks machine is still a fictional drink BTW.
http://www.csnation.net/comments.php?id=8645 - Yea, because I remember "Intel" and hollywood movies in Dust personally. They were always there... oh wait no they weren't..
I don't care, Valve pissed on their chips when they added adverts into classic CS.
I'm a huge TFC fan, I play it even to today and love every moment of it, but I absolutely refuse to buy another Valve game ever again due to extremely poor marketeering.
Incorrect, plenty of games do massive battles over huge land scapes, it's just a matter of carefully controling whats on screen at any one time.
Open source is in more danger of control tan you people believe. It only takes charisma and a big mouth and the whole OSS community could be corrupted. Some would argue it's already happening.
Tetris DS, lots of modes and never gets old.