Vanguard has been advertised as a hardcore-only game since it's inception. I actually like hell levels, grinding and slow travel. It gives me the feel that I'm actually in the world and not just playing a game. I want immersion in an MMORPG, not another game.
There is something to be said for having to wait for 30 minutes for a boat ride from Freeport to Butcherblock with islands to visit on the way. It keeps people more inclined to explore their current environment instead of looking for the fastest way to level up and going to the appropriate zone to do that.
I do hope the game lives up to what it is being advertised to be.
And I'll say it one more time: THEY HAVE BEEN ADVERTISING THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE "WOW" CROWD FOR YEARS. That alone has driven up their popularity with the hardcore MMORPG gamers because honestly, very few hardcore people even PLAY WoW to begin with.
All that's missing from your rant is the line, "Just get OpenOffice 2.0. It's free".
Sheesh. A lot of those features look really awesome and could work great together if utilized with Sharepoint. I'm not a fan of having to buy a 2nd Microsoft product to produce the best productivity from the 1st one but it _is_ rather cool. I've seen several of the demos on Microsoft's website and, if utilized the way M$ advertises will help me immensely with several regular tasks.
And if anyone upgrades their enterprise to this new version without getting rid of the older version(s), well, they need a new IT director. You _always_ upgrade everyone / everything at once to the same version. Anomolies should be kept to a minimum.
It is a complete waste. It's like a George Lucas remake of the original camera that we have already seen over the last 4 1/2 years. And by "George Lucas" remake I mean it is 99% original material, but from new angles!
No plane can be seen and all you really see is a flash of light then an explosion.
I'm not one of those whack-job conspiracy theorists but for Judicial Watch to make claims of, "this will end all conspiracy theories" and then go on to release this load of steaming dog poo is poor judgement and will only continue to be fodder for the tin foil hatters the world over.
Thank you. I said "REPORTED", not "announced". Personally, I haven't seen the rumored sites either but all of my friends / sites that I visit all project a $250 price. Maybe I should have used the term, "projected". Whatever.
Doesn't matter what either of these two overbloated behemoths do. Nintendo has already stolen the show at E3 and with its reported launch price of $250 and 27 available games on launch day it will trounce the PS3 and Xbox in both innovation, marketing and an all-around great and FUN system.
As long as I get my Tony Hawk and Final Fantasy games on the Wii I could really care less what these other two consoles do with themselves. I mean, the PS3 isn't even going to support HDMI (unless you wanna fork over $600 which I am definitely not doing).
And honestly, what in the hell is so great about Halo in the first place? I played Halo 1 on the PC and it was a "meh" game. It was fun for a little while but got incredibly repetitive and boring. Halo 2? Same story but with prettier graphics. Halo 3? OMGWTFBBQ graphics but those don't sell me. I demand gameplay.
This has to be the biggest non-story I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Seriously, did ELSE anyone read that summary and just think, "Wow, who cares what Novell is doing OS-wise internally?".
Yes, I realize that this story is here for the purpose of reporting on another company converting to a pure-linux environment but the way the story reads, at least to me, is that Novell should be ashamed of itself for not doing it sooner or something.
I run Red Hat 9 (yea yea, need to upgrade, blah blah) under VMWare when I surf the web or just want to mess around. I _would_ put Linux as my main OS if it had support for games. And yes, I know all about the emulators that are out there that will emulate DirectX9 but they don't run as well under those environments as they do under Windows.
I read such a topic 3 weeks ago in National Geographic. The article was pretty well written. Chemical imbalances, irregular brain patterns and oxcotin (i think that was the chemical).
Everyone just had to wait for Hollywood. Their screenwriters are so full of dry storylines that they need fresh material. It will only be a matter of time before they ruin games, too.
What is wrong with in-game advertising? I personally see nothing wrong with it so long as it fits the personality of the game.
Let's take GTA: San Andreas. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to see a Pepsi sign on the billboards vs. some other made-up brand? It would definitely make the game seem more realistic (oops, wait, we want GTA to avoid the courtroom, yes? hahahah
World War II FPS are very popular right now. Seeing ads for companies that were around at the time on signs etc implemented in the game would also give it a more 'realistic' feel.
On the other side are game where advertising has no real use, say EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Mario, Zelda etc. How would advertising fit into all of that? Surely we wouldn't want to see advertisements for real life products in these enterprises.
Where does the line get drawn?
Honestly, I have no issue with in-game advertising so long as it helps support the game. I have no problem seeing ads for Viagra in games such as "The Matrix Online" or "GTA: San Andreas". I do have a problem with advertising showing up in games where it doesn't belong, like seeing an ad for "Trimspa" in WoW".
Possible, but it seems to happen mainly with Paramount DVDs. Any Enterprise DVD placed in my drive gives me this error as does any movie made by Paramount. It does happen with other publishers from time to time.
Ok, before I start: XBox game? What the motherf*ck? Can we please shoot the editor? Please?
This game has as much to do with the Xbox as Jane Fonda has to do with Oprah. I mean, really? WHAT THE F*CK?????
Ok ok, all obvious references (and anger aside at the total lack of observation for the gaming industry for the, oh i don't know, last 15 YEARS) aside, here is an honest gamer's review:
Doom has been a mainstay for the PC gaming industry for
well over a decade. To this day it is still the pioneer for multiplayer deathmatch
and cooperative games in general and as the foundation for first person
shooters (FPS). If you play any game, whether it be Metroid for the Gamecube, Halo for the Xbox or any other type of FPS
game, you have Doom to
thank. Doom launched the FPS
genre to stardom. id had previously released the WWII FPS game Wolfenstein but the genre wasnt
credited as taking off until Doom
came into the picture.
First off, let me say that since
Doom for the PC first came out over a decade ago I have been a
die-hard fan. I have been a fan since the original shareware version of Doom and will always continue to be a fan
due to the fact that it has been the most inspired game that I played back in
the 1990s. To this day I still go back and replay the game, both
in single-player and multi-player. I am however continuously concerned
about any video game movie that graces the big screen. They usually suck,
flat out. Doom does draw
the first exception I think I have ever seen.
The director, producers and writers seemed to take great care to stick
to the storyline as much as humanly possible and took great pride in the story
that the Doom franchise
presented. With that said, let me give my review.
Doom starts off with a prologue. You see a few scientists
running away from "something". This "something" pulls
the scientists through ceilings, floors (ala grating them in many pieces) and
various other methods of morbid slaughter. Dr. Carmack (obvious homage to the game's creator) sends out a
distress call to Earth shortly before becoming food for a giant creature that
blasts his office door open.
Enter the marines on Earth after a nice rendition of the Doom logo on the big screen. Sarge
(The Rock) takes center stage as the leader of the marine squad being
dispatched to the Mars UAC facility. Shortly after assembling his
octet-numbered squad we find them looking for the missing scientists and trying
to retrieve data for the UAC complex. Only a small portion of the
facility has been compromised so there are still a good number of UAC workers
on-site.
After a while, Sarge and his crew quickly discover that there is more than
meets the eye. There is a serum which ends up being the culprit, turning
regular humans into these "monsters" Apparently this effect is
selective to only certain people with disdainful DNA. "The
Doom Guy" (see how long it takes you to figure out who he is) ends up
saving the day with a nice final climax against the obvious if you have played
"Doom 3".
The BFG 9000 (Bio Force Gun, yea right) makes a very big appearance several
times as the weapon of choice for Sarge.
The storyline isn't stellar but it isn't anything to scoff at. This isn't Friday The 13th Part CXII: Jason In Space
or Aliens but the feel is
relatively similar if you don't follow the game series. The writing could
also have been more refined than presented but it will do for a casual movie.
Except for the serum the movie follows the game (Doom 3) relatively well. Dont
expect the good ol flying heads or Cyberdemon: The most you will
see are imps and zombies since Hell isnt involved in the storyline
(though Hell is referred to continuously).
There is a 5-7 minute segment in the movie where you go into First Person View
with "The Doom Guy". It is during this sequence t
Let's hope that they run better than the W2100z workstations. Dual Opteron 250 processors and 16 gigs of RAM (at least the model that my company bought) and all we have had so far is horrendous problems.
4 BIOS updates later and the problems have dwindled a bit but we constantly get BSP error messages on boot up and random DIMM error messages during POST (on both sockets and chips that have been thoroughly tested and known to be good). Daughter processor cards have been bad as well (already replaced 4 in a batch of 40 which, according to Sun is "acceptable rate of failure").
Their latest BIOS update (version R01_B4_S2, released last month) does resolve the frequency of some of these errors but now we have machines that lock up on that BIOS release but not previous ones.
I only post this because the chips are Opteron 250s by AMD (64-bit) and the main board is another AMD.
Based on my experience with these workstations I wouldn't touch anything put out by Sun until they can get a quality control department set up and running anything with AMD chips.
You stopped me from making my own thread on that subject.
Half-Life was a good game but it hardly "saved" anything. In 1998 I was still playing Duke Nukem 3D, System Shock and a host of others. I wasn't aware that PC Gaming needed to be "saved" at the time and upon reflection I would still argue that it needed to be saved.
Undisputed? I very much dispute that claim. Ugh, with the way that most people these days prattle on about Half-Life you would think that Valve created the damn FPS in the first place! I had much more fun playing Duke Nukem 3D than I ever did with Half-Life, especially in Multiplayer.
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This isn't going to piss off investors or potential shareholders, it's good for them.
...except for maybe those that want OUT.
Yea, it won't piss off any of the investors.
Vanguard has been advertised as a hardcore-only game since it's inception. I actually like hell levels, grinding and slow travel. It gives me the feel that I'm actually in the world and not just playing a game. I want immersion in an MMORPG, not another game.
There is something to be said for having to wait for 30 minutes for a boat ride from Freeport to Butcherblock with islands to visit on the way. It keeps people more inclined to explore their current environment instead of looking for the fastest way to level up and going to the appropriate zone to do that.
I do hope the game lives up to what it is being advertised to be.
And I'll say it one more time: THEY HAVE BEEN ADVERTISING THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE "WOW" CROWD FOR YEARS. That alone has driven up their popularity with the hardcore MMORPG gamers because honestly, very few hardcore people even PLAY WoW to begin with.
All that's missing from your rant is the line, "Just get OpenOffice 2.0. It's free".
Sheesh. A lot of those features look really awesome and could work great together if utilized with Sharepoint. I'm not a fan of having to buy a 2nd Microsoft product to produce the best productivity from the 1st one but it _is_ rather cool. I've seen several of the demos on Microsoft's website and, if utilized the way M$ advertises will help me immensely with several regular tasks.
And if anyone upgrades their enterprise to this new version without getting rid of the older version(s), well, they need a new IT director. You _always_ upgrade everyone / everything at once to the same version. Anomolies should be kept to a minimum.
It is a complete waste. It's like a George Lucas remake of the original camera that we have already seen over the last 4 1/2 years. And by "George Lucas" remake I mean it is 99% original material, but from new angles!
No plane can be seen and all you really see is a flash of light then an explosion.
I'm not one of those whack-job conspiracy theorists but for Judicial Watch to make claims of, "this will end all conspiracy theories" and then go on to release this load of steaming dog poo is poor judgement and will only continue to be fodder for the tin foil hatters the world over.
Thank you. I said "REPORTED", not "announced". Personally, I haven't seen the rumored sites either but all of my friends / sites that I visit all project a $250 price. Maybe I should have used the term, "projected". Whatever.
Sorry, I was just stating my opinion. Sorry that it didn't meet with you Halo fans. Trust me, if I were trolling I would at least make it funny.
Jesus. Speak your opinion and get blasted. Oh well, I should have expected as much.
Doesn't matter what either of these two overbloated behemoths do. Nintendo has already stolen the show at E3 and with its reported launch price of $250 and 27 available games on launch day it will trounce the PS3 and Xbox in both innovation, marketing and an all-around great and FUN system.
As long as I get my Tony Hawk and Final Fantasy games on the Wii I could really care less what these other two consoles do with themselves. I mean, the PS3 isn't even going to support HDMI (unless you wanna fork over $600 which I am definitely not doing).
And honestly, what in the hell is so great about Halo in the first place? I played Halo 1 on the PC and it was a "meh" game. It was fun for a little while but got incredibly repetitive and boring. Halo 2? Same story but with prettier graphics. Halo 3? OMGWTFBBQ graphics but those don't sell me. I demand gameplay.
Ahh my friend, I see that you too have dealt with Duke University. Duke does indeed suck.
/me runs away
This _is_ fark.com right? No?
This has to be the biggest non-story I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Seriously, did ELSE anyone read that summary and just think, "Wow, who cares what Novell is doing OS-wise internally?".
Yes, I realize that this story is here for the purpose of reporting on another company converting to a pure-linux environment but the way the story reads, at least to me, is that Novell should be ashamed of itself for not doing it sooner or something.
Not trolling, just saying...
I run Red Hat 9 (yea yea, need to upgrade, blah blah) under VMWare when I surf the web or just want to mess around. I _would_ put Linux as my main OS if it had support for games. And yes, I know all about the emulators that are out there that will emulate DirectX9 but they don't run as well under those environments as they do under Windows.
Drivers are another issue but ehh, whatever.
I read such a topic 3 weeks ago in National Geographic. The article was pretty well written. Chemical imbalances, irregular brain patterns and oxcotin (i think that was the chemical).
Check out this video. Pretty cool.
Everyone just had to wait for Hollywood. Their screenwriters are so full of dry storylines that they need fresh material. It will only be a matter of time before they ruin games, too.
If this ever happens any way...
What is wrong with in-game advertising? I personally see nothing wrong with it so long as it fits the personality of the game.
Let's take GTA: San Andreas. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to see a Pepsi sign on the billboards vs. some other made-up brand? It would definitely make the game seem more realistic (oops, wait, we want GTA to avoid the courtroom, yes? hahahah
World War II FPS are very popular right now. Seeing ads for companies that were around at the time on signs etc implemented in the game would also give it a more 'realistic' feel.
On the other side are game where advertising has no real use, say EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Mario, Zelda etc. How would advertising fit into all of that? Surely we wouldn't want to see advertisements for real life products in these enterprises.
Where does the line get drawn?
Honestly, I have no issue with in-game advertising so long as it helps support the game. I have no problem seeing ads for Viagra in games such as "The Matrix Online" or "GTA: San Andreas". I do have a problem with advertising showing up in games where it doesn't belong, like seeing an ad for "Trimspa" in WoW".
Perhaps even UNIX? Solaris? Wait, aren't all of these OS's the source of rootkits in the first place, hence the name, "ROOTkit"?
Because it didn't run on Linux!!!!!!
:p
yuct, yuct
Possible, but it seems to happen mainly with Paramount DVDs. Any Enterprise DVD placed in my drive gives me this error as does any movie made by Paramount. It does happen with other publishers from time to time.
I promise you, I have no spyware on my system.
Doom has been a mainstay for the PC gaming industry for well over a decade. To this day it is still the pioneer for multiplayer deathmatch and cooperative games in general and as the foundation for first person shooters (FPS). If you play any game, whether it be Metroid for the Gamecube, Halo for the Xbox or any other type of FPS game, you have Doom to thank. Doom launched the FPS genre to stardom. id had previously released the WWII FPS game Wolfenstein but the genre wasnt credited as taking off until Doom came into the picture.
First off, let me say that since Doom for the PC first came out over a decade ago I have been a die-hard fan. I have been a fan since the original shareware version of Doom and will always continue to be a fan due to the fact that it has been the most inspired game that I played back in the 1990s. To this day I still go back and replay the game, both in single-player and multi-player. I am however continuously concerned about any video game movie that graces the big screen. They usually suck, flat out. Doom does draw the first exception I think I have ever seen.
The director, producers and writers seemed to take great care to stick to the storyline as much as humanly possible and took great pride in the story that the Doom franchise presented. With that said, let me give my review.
Doom starts off with a prologue. You see a few scientists running away from "something". This "something" pulls the scientists through ceilings, floors (ala grating them in many pieces) and various other methods of morbid slaughter. Dr. Carmack (obvious homage to the game's creator) sends out a distress call to Earth shortly before becoming food for a giant creature that blasts his office door open.
Enter the marines on Earth after a nice rendition of the Doom logo on the big screen. Sarge (The Rock) takes center stage as the leader of the marine squad being dispatched to the Mars UAC facility. Shortly after assembling his octet-numbered squad we find them looking for the missing scientists and trying to retrieve data for the UAC complex. Only a small portion of the facility has been compromised so there are still a good number of UAC workers on-site.
After a while, Sarge and his crew quickly discover that there is more than meets the eye. There is a serum which ends up being the culprit, turning regular humans into these "monsters" Apparently this effect is selective to only certain people with disdainful DNA. "The Doom Guy" (see how long it takes you to figure out who he is) ends up saving the day with a nice final climax against the obvious if you have played "Doom 3".
The BFG 9000 (Bio Force Gun, yea right) makes a very big appearance several times as the weapon of choice for Sarge.
The storyline isn't stellar but it isn't anything to scoff at. This isn't Friday The 13th Part CXII: Jason In Space or Aliens but the feel is relatively similar if you don't follow the game series. The writing could also have been more refined than presented but it will do for a casual movie.
Except for the serum the movie follows the game (Doom 3) relatively well. Dont expect the good ol flying heads or Cyberdemon: The most you will see are imps and zombies since Hell isnt involved in the storyline (though Hell is referred to continuously).
There is a 5-7 minute segment in the movie where you go into First Person View with "The Doom Guy". It is during this sequence t
Is the closed source code of Windows preventing us from actively defending our systems?"
If you can go in to the source code and tinker with it, chances are you don't need any help defending your system in the first place.
"Are FTP and /usr/sbin/scp next?"
Yes, run for the hills!
Haha.
:p
But these problems are mostly during POST so the OS has nothing to do with it.
By the way, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is our OS of choice on these machines. We're staying away from Solaris.
Let's hope that they run better than the W2100z workstations. Dual Opteron 250 processors and 16 gigs of RAM (at least the model that my company bought) and all we have had so far is horrendous problems.
4 BIOS updates later and the problems have dwindled a bit but we constantly get BSP error messages on boot up and random DIMM error messages during POST (on both sockets and chips that have been thoroughly tested and known to be good). Daughter processor cards have been bad as well (already replaced 4 in a batch of 40 which, according to Sun is "acceptable rate of failure").
Their latest BIOS update (version R01_B4_S2, released last month) does resolve the frequency of some of these errors but now we have machines that lock up on that BIOS release but not previous ones.
I only post this because the chips are Opteron 250s by AMD (64-bit) and the main board is another AMD.
Based on my experience with these workstations I wouldn't touch anything put out by Sun until they can get a quality control department set up and running anything with AMD chips.
Sorry if redundant:
u isiana_Radio_Communications_%20Audio_Live_Feeds
http://wiki.nola-intel.com/index.php/Main_Page#Lo
Live audio feeds, webcasts, IRC channels and blogs.
Aww, come on! Doesn't the GRAVITY GUN OMFGGTFOBBQWTF!!eleven!!!one!!11! deserve some credit?
:p
:)
Forget the fact that Quake invented it first!
The mod community yet again gets no respect.
You stopped me from making my own thread on that subject.
Half-Life was a good game but it hardly "saved" anything. In 1998 I was still playing Duke Nukem 3D, System Shock and a host of others. I wasn't aware that PC Gaming needed to be "saved" at the time and upon reflection I would still argue that it needed to be saved.
Undisputed? I very much dispute that claim. Ugh, with the way that most people these days prattle on about Half-Life you would think that Valve created the damn FPS in the first place! I had much more fun playing Duke Nukem 3D than I ever did with Half-Life, especially in Multiplayer.