I believe this came up in a "new games lack imagination" discussion a while back. One thing that was said that I agree with is that the less you have to work with (sound, graphics), the more creative you have to be in other ways.
I think the optimal point between game console power and gameplay was the SNES. Powerful enough to allow things like massive areas and saving your game without passwords (Super Metroid), but not graphically intense enough to just get by with graphics.
Sure beats seeing a new MMO or military-related FPS out every 7.53 seconds.
One of the things I regretted doing was having our old Apple//c be given away to a school back in 1997, right before the explosion of emulators coming out.
I've managed to find disk images of most of the games I had and be able to play them in AppleWin and MESS, but there's still a few elusive ones. Plus, all the BASIC programs I made as a kid are gone (The disks went with the computer).
Since the number of big-time games designed to run on Linux are very few, I've found that most of the time I'm playing games in Linux is through, well, open source emulators that quite often are availible as cross-platform.
Because of this, retro games tend to come to the rescue for entertainment while using Linux.
Let's face it, Frozen-Bubble and Tux Racer get old real quick, whereas Super Metroid and Zelda (for example) are interesting for quite a longer period of time. Besides, I've always preferred the original Puzzle Bobble in xMAME anyway.
It's no wonder that retro gaming is big business. Those who used to play the earliest arcade games are starting to come into positions of influence.
Take a trip back to the early to mid-90s, or whenever you were a kid, and try to recall all the public service announcements and news stories that all had the same message, "Video games are bad, get out more."
Now suddenly, video games aren't so bad anymore. Especially the older ones; those who are intrested are making the moolah.
Throughout the discussions on this subject, I don't think I've ever seen any proof that shows the DRM software being installed. If the Beastie Boys are claiming that there is no DRM software being installed, can somebody prove otherwise? After all, somebody had to cry foul at first to make this a story on Slashdot a few days ago.
I just don't understand how the Beastie Boys' legal team can flat-out say there is no DRM software that allegedly adds copy protection at the driver level when that's how this whole thing started in the first place...unless the original story was overinflated.
According to the many previous discussions, isn't it the DRM that affects Windows and Classic MacOS, in turn affecting OS X only if the Classic portion is installed?
The DRM supposedly runs on 9, and might do the same for 7.x.x. Who knows? My experience with Macs only extends to using Basilisk II with 7.5.5 installed.
I never played the existing Fallout series of games, but a friend did show me the aftermath of the toilet explosion when he loaded up one of his savegames. I can only think an MMO would be worthwhile if you could make the room as brown as it was while some other living, breathing player's character was in there as well.
what the rest of the world seems to forget is that we have freedom for media, and government policy doesn't dictate what tv shows/books/movies/games can be about. if north korea is mistaking a freaking video game for an actual threat, then they should be afraid of game developers, not our government or armed forces.
Although the most powerful media tends to have a corporate-friendly slant on it. With that in mind, propaganda pushing for another war wouldn't be exactly good business for those who own the media.
...how complete the vocabulary of the overhead computer is. One of my friends actually went through and found "ass" and "adios" in the PAK files for HL1. One can only hope for more bizarre words if the overhead computer voice makes a return.
In the first Half-Life, I believe the trick was to made Freeman look progressively weirder with each new piece of box art, magazine promos, etc. His glasses must be super pointy by now.
Because this is Slashdot. A day without mentioning "I, Robot" in a robotics-related article is like a day without, uh, whatever it is nerds need to survive.
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I believe this came up in a "new games lack imagination" discussion a while back. One thing that was said that I agree with is that the less you have to work with (sound, graphics), the more creative you have to be in other ways.
I think the optimal point between game console power and gameplay was the SNES. Powerful enough to allow things like massive areas and saving your game without passwords (Super Metroid), but not graphically intense enough to just get by with graphics.
Sure beats seeing a new MMO or military-related FPS out every 7.53 seconds.
One of the things I regretted doing was having our old Apple //c be given away to a school back in 1997, right before the explosion of emulators coming out.
I've managed to find disk images of most of the games I had and be able to play them in AppleWin and MESS, but there's still a few elusive ones. Plus, all the BASIC programs I made as a kid are gone (The disks went with the computer).
Since the number of big-time games designed to run on Linux are very few, I've found that most of the time I'm playing games in Linux is through, well, open source emulators that quite often are availible as cross-platform.
Because of this, retro games tend to come to the rescue for entertainment while using Linux.
Let's face it, Frozen-Bubble and Tux Racer get old real quick, whereas Super Metroid and Zelda (for example) are interesting for quite a longer period of time. Besides, I've always preferred the original Puzzle Bobble in xMAME anyway.
It's no wonder that retro gaming is big business. Those who used to play the earliest arcade games are starting to come into positions of influence.
Take a trip back to the early to mid-90s, or whenever you were a kid, and try to recall all the public service announcements and news stories that all had the same message, "Video games are bad, get out more."
Now suddenly, video games aren't so bad anymore. Especially the older ones; those who are intrested are making the moolah.
Wow, this really doesn't seen to relate much to tech news....but it involves patents, so fire away!
All they need is a Brazilian robot name....like Robaldo
Robo Hooligans
Throughout the discussions on this subject, I don't think I've ever seen any proof that shows the DRM software being installed. If the Beastie Boys are claiming that there is no DRM software being installed, can somebody prove otherwise? After all, somebody had to cry foul at first to make this a story on Slashdot a few days ago.
I just don't understand how the Beastie Boys' legal team can flat-out say there is no DRM software that allegedly adds copy protection at the driver level when that's how this whole thing started in the first place...unless the original story was overinflated.
According to the many previous discussions, isn't it the DRM that affects Windows and Classic MacOS, in turn affecting OS X only if the Classic portion is installed?
The DRM supposedly runs on 9, and might do the same for 7.x.x. Who knows? My experience with Macs only extends to using Basilisk II with 7.5.5 installed.
Seems after the article got posted, his server needs MORE POWER!
I never played the existing Fallout series of games, but a friend did show me the aftermath of the toilet explosion when he loaded up one of his savegames. I can only think an MMO would be worthwhile if you could make the room as brown as it was while some other living, breathing player's character was in there as well.
...Nobody but you can hear the elevator music
And consequently, nobody can hear you scream.
To Kim Jong-il while standing behind the mansion:
"I don't think you should drink that..."
...how complete the vocabulary of the overhead computer is. One of my friends actually went through and found "ass" and "adios" in the PAK files for HL1. One can only hope for more bizarre words if the overhead computer voice makes a return.
Then video card manufacturers will release video cards that claim to be designed to render the models...oh wait.
I actually saw a Radeon 9800 with the "Designed for Half-Life 2" sticker on it on the returned items shelf. One has to speculate.
In the first Half-Life, I believe the trick was to made Freeman look progressively weirder with each new piece of box art, magazine promos, etc. His glasses must be super pointy by now.
That's the last time you'll ever listen to Edward Diego, I assume......ins-s-s-sect!
Haha, great, thanks for giving me the mental image of the robot on the toilet from Conan O'Brien.
*doonk doonk doonk -- doonk doonk doonk!*
Because this is Slashdot. A day without mentioning "I, Robot" in a robotics-related article is like a day without, uh, whatever it is nerds need to survive.