Maybe you're getting this game confused with the Space World demo that was shown before the gamecube launched?
I guess I am. I am talking about the game that Nintendo said was "already in development" right before the Gamecube launched. They promised to have it released shortly after the GC was launched. It never materialized.
Instead we get some POS cell-shaded kiddie game.
Then last year hope resurfaced as clips from the original demo had been resurrected and built into a new demo that debuted at E3. I figured they were referring to the same game in this article as I haven't heard of any other Zelda announcements.
Shortly after Christmas WoW was not available at most EBGames stores here in Houston. I had them check their databases and only a few stores had one or two copies. I was lucky and managed to nab one.
To your point though, it has been the first game that has been released in a long time where I didn't see it readily available on store shelves. Pre-ordering is kind of lame today so I simply never do it.
Everything published to date is entirely speculation and we hope to announce more about the game at E3 in May."
Maybe by then they will have another "breath-taking" video to show? This game is probably the only game worth playing on the Gamecube short of the Metroid titles.
It really disappoints me and my fellow Zelda fans that this title has been announced, renounced, re-announced and then delay, delay, delay. What is the deal here?
Snippet from the article, "Editor's Note: Please check out
part one of this story if you want to read the background of why I was at
the SOE offices and to see what I learned about EQOA. Also feel free to check
out the
non-VAK version to save yourself the time of composing your own anti-SOE
rant."
The non-VAK version is pretty funny (even if you LOVE to be a "Verant Ass Kisser".
CoolWebSearch has a ton of variants that never even give you an ActiveX tool to install, they are just encoded into certain pages to automatically load onto a machine. Others might have an Active X tool pop-up but it just asks if the user wants to install this tool. Others even tell them that they HAVE to install this tool. Yet if you try to view the license you get a nice "404".
"This is an embarrassment for WIPO," explained EFF European Affairs Coordinator Cory Doctorow. "Settling the debate by locking one side out of the building isn't the way the UN is supposed to work. We love the Development Agenda -- it's supposed to be a new direction for WIPO. A one-sided discussion isn't a new direction, though. It's just more of the same."
How are public interest groups part of the debate to begin with? Aren't these private organizations working together to run their private operations as they see fit?
We don't really need public interest groups to represent what our views are when they don't even talk to us about our views or input.
"Despite the hardware announcements, most of Mr Iwata's speech, entitled "The Heart of the Gamer", was a call for more imaginative game design. Game creators cannot rely on better graphics and more powerful games machines to attract new audiences, Mr Iwata said. He also revealed that Revolution will come with wi-fi connectivity built-in."
I have played almost virtually every single version of the Nintendo since the original unit was introduced in the mid-80's. Many, many fun-filled nights were had on that system (Baseball All-Stars, Super Mario, Zelda, Techmo Football), yet it seems lately that the leadership at Nintendo is just trying to re-hash old titles. Metroid was a great initial title and completely original. That was what made it great.
That rant aside, I just wanted to put in my opinion on the above statement. Developers cannot rely on the latest graphics and more powerful machines? Correct me if I am wrong, but Half-Life 2, EverQuest 2, Doom 3, Far Cry and a few upcoming games (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. etc) rely almost completely on the latest technology. While it might not make for the best games it is a tried and true method to attract new gamers.
Now, Wi-Fi? Serously, why on Earth would a Nintendo home console need Wi-Fi? Sure it sounds really, really cool to add but it also opens up the floodgates to a host of other problems. One of those recent problems was talked about here with Bluetooth and cell phones.
Putting great technology into a console is one thing, but taking advantage of what already exists is another. How can this gentleman sit there and call for a more imaginitive game design and in the same speech announce one of the latest technological advances in home consoles into the next-generation Nintendo system?
start bogus wars that kills tens of thousands of innocent people and bomb the fuck out of everything in the name of oil, tax the poor out of existence, give more wealth to the rich and squander the future
When did that happen? Did I miss the news report on CNN?
Even though video games are protected free speech they can't be protected from frivilous lawsuits or idiotic bills such as this. Putting a bill like this on the table does limit free speech to a point as the game manufacturers in that state and any distributor that pushes in that state will have to take extra steps to "baby-fy" idiots from doing things that they would probably have already done.
Video games might have an impact on someone's social life but it certainly doesn't have an established impact on violent actions. I don't play Grand Theft Auto 3 and then want to go out and shoot up New York City. I don't play Call Of Duty and then want to go shoot up Germany.
Bills like this are rediculous and a waste of tax-payers money. Politicians like this need to be taken out of office.
you aren't kidding. we must be up to 2 or 3 a week now.
and parent should be modded as INFORMATIVE:p
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The technology has changed. While the Voodoo cards used to simply draw every other line on the screen when they were SLI'ed together, today's cards work very differently.
In a nutshell, one SLI'ed card will (attempt) to draw the top half of the screen while the other card draws the bottom half. Now, there are exceptions to this, and this is the biggest change.
If say, the top half of the screen does not have as high a polycount as the bottom half the underperforming card will pick up some of the slack for the over-worked card drawing the bottom half. This results in the cards working together to acheive an optimal frame rate.
For more detailed information than my bland attempt to sound geeky, click here.
Page on a separate partition
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Throwing the page file on a 2-5 gig partition dedicated for it wouldn't hurt either.
Totally out of the question -- PC is better
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If I played EQ2 on the PS2 how would I order my pizza???
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Maybe you're getting this game confused with the Space World demo that was shown before the gamecube launched?
I guess I am. I am talking about the game that Nintendo said was "already in development" right before the Gamecube launched. They promised to have it released shortly after the GC was launched. It never materialized.
Instead we get some POS cell-shaded kiddie game.
Then last year hope resurfaced as clips from the original demo had been resurrected and built into a new demo that debuted at E3. I figured they were referring to the same game in this article as I haven't heard of any other Zelda announcements.
Shortly after Christmas WoW was not available at most EBGames stores here in Houston. I had them check their databases and only a few stores had one or two copies. I was lucky and managed to nab one.
To your point though, it has been the first game that has been released in a long time where I didn't see it readily available on store shelves. Pre-ordering is kind of lame today so I simply never do it.
Everything published to date is entirely speculation and we hope to announce more about the game at E3 in May."
Maybe by then they will have another "breath-taking" video to show? This game is probably the only game worth playing on the Gamecube short of the Metroid titles.
It really disappoints me and my fellow Zelda fans that this title has been announced, renounced, re-announced and then delay, delay, delay. What is the deal here?
I have some dotcom stock I would love to sell you.
Here is an interesting look from a 3rd party perspective on the inside of SOE taken from Mobhunter.com and was written by a (now) SOE EQ2 employee known as "Moorgard".
Snippet from the article, "Editor's Note: Please check out part one of this story if you want to read the background of why I was at the SOE offices and to see what I learned about EQOA. Also feel free to check out the non-VAK version to save yourself the time of composing your own anti-SOE rant."
The non-VAK version is pretty funny (even if you LOVE to be a "Verant Ass Kisser".
Not really.
CoolWebSearch has a ton of variants that never even give you an ActiveX tool to install, they are just encoded into certain pages to automatically load onto a machine. Others might have an Active X tool pop-up but it just asks if the user wants to install this tool. Others even tell them that they HAVE to install this tool. Yet if you try to view the license you get a nice "404".
To me, it already came 21 years ago. =D
I heard it once remarked that the Silmarillion oughtn't be made into a feature film, but rather fake documentary-type thing.
That would make more sense to me. Disney has already raped the "short-story into 90 minute debacle" idea with Grimm's Stories.
Or maybe put the Silmarillion on the "Extended DVD" cut of The Hobbit as a documentary?
CoolWebSearch / Adzilla / Look2Me / Miraclesearch?
Personally I see this as doing really nothing for (or against) spyware.
One of the oldest groups?
:p
I'd take that bet. Didn't they come around in 1998 or so?
I dunno, I stopped keeping up with groups after BBS's went the way of the Dodo. PWA 4 71F3
AOL / Time Warner? Nah, more likely that it would be FOX.
In other news, "Who's Your Daddy 2" will be airing once FOX realizes that they are getting some dignity! =D
Oh ok, I guess I misunderstood the press release. Thanks!
"This is an embarrassment for WIPO," explained EFF European Affairs Coordinator Cory Doctorow. "Settling the debate by locking one side out of the building isn't the way the UN is supposed to work. We love the Development Agenda -- it's supposed to be a new direction for WIPO. A one-sided discussion isn't a new direction, though. It's just more of the same." How are public interest groups part of the debate to begin with? Aren't these private organizations working together to run their private operations as they see fit?
We don't really need public interest groups to represent what our views are when they don't even talk to us about our views or input.
"Despite the hardware announcements, most of Mr Iwata's speech, entitled "The Heart of the Gamer", was a call for more imaginative game design. Game creators cannot rely on better graphics and more powerful games machines to attract new audiences, Mr Iwata said. He also revealed that Revolution will come with wi-fi connectivity built-in."
I have played almost virtually every single version of the Nintendo since the original unit was introduced in the mid-80's. Many, many fun-filled nights were had on that system (Baseball All-Stars, Super Mario, Zelda, Techmo Football), yet it seems lately that the leadership at Nintendo is just trying to re-hash old titles. Metroid was a great initial title and completely original. That was what made it great.
That rant aside, I just wanted to put in my opinion on the above statement. Developers cannot rely on the latest graphics and more powerful machines? Correct me if I am wrong, but Half-Life 2, EverQuest 2, Doom 3, Far Cry and a few upcoming games (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. etc) rely almost completely on the latest technology. While it might not make for the best games it is a tried and true method to attract new gamers.
Now, Wi-Fi? Serously, why on Earth would a Nintendo home console need Wi-Fi? Sure it sounds really, really cool to add but it also opens up the floodgates to a host of other problems. One of those recent problems was talked about here with Bluetooth and cell phones.
Putting great technology into a console is one thing, but taking advantage of what already exists is another. How can this gentleman sit there and call for a more imaginitive game design and in the same speech announce one of the latest technological advances in home consoles into the next-generation Nintendo system?
Just one man's opinion...
hey, you want to go camp out in a mall? it would be, like, totally AWeSomE!
start bogus wars that kills tens of thousands of innocent people and bomb the fuck out of everything in the name of oil, tax the poor out of existence, give more wealth to the rich and squander the future When did that happen? Did I miss the news report on CNN?
I just can't seem to spell that city can I? I should just put down the Red Bull now. ;)
No, still 49. PA isn't being hit with the all-out ban, only all areas except for PhalEdelphia.
Even though video games are protected free speech they can't be protected from frivilous lawsuits or idiotic bills such as this. Putting a bill like this on the table does limit free speech to a point as the game manufacturers in that state and any distributor that pushes in that state will have to take extra steps to "baby-fy" idiots from doing things that they would probably have already done.
Video games might have an impact on someone's social life but it certainly doesn't have an established impact on violent actions. I don't play Grand Theft Auto 3 and then want to go out and shoot up New York City. I don't play Call Of Duty and then want to go shoot up Germany.
Bills like this are rediculous and a waste of tax-payers money. Politicians like this need to be taken out of office.
One man's opinion any way.
Exactly. For free food /. can dupe all day long!
you aren't kidding. we must be up to 2 or 3 a week now.
:p
and parent should be modded as INFORMATIVE
The technology has changed. While the Voodoo cards used to simply draw every other line on the screen when they were SLI'ed together, today's cards work very differently.
In a nutshell, one SLI'ed card will (attempt) to draw the top half of the screen while the other card draws the bottom half. Now, there are exceptions to this, and this is the biggest change.
If say, the top half of the screen does not have as high a polycount as the bottom half the underperforming card will pick up some of the slack for the over-worked card drawing the bottom half. This results in the cards working together to acheive an optimal frame rate.
For more detailed information than my bland attempt to sound geeky, click here.
Throwing the page file on a 2-5 gig partition dedicated for it wouldn't hurt either.
If I played EQ2 on the PS2 how would I order my pizza???
Sorry, but do you expect the serious gamer to design, implement, produce and install said technology?
I'm sure that if it were available it would be the new standard in top of the line rigs.