Ugh. Totally offtopic, but it always annoys me when people say "It begs the question" when they mean "It raises the question". "Begging the question" is not "raising the question." It's another way to say circular logic. Wikipedia gives the following example:
* Suppose Paul is not lying when he speaks.
* Paul is speaking.
* Therefore, Paul is telling the truth.
To make it somewhat on topic, the customer always loses in the end. The whole point of business is to take money from people.
Police copters do, so they can see things below them, such as suspects on the run.
Some airplanes do too. In the world wars, bombers sometimes had a gunner with a machine gun in a bubble right below the cockpit, and that bubble was mostly glass so the gunner could see.
dk: "What's that smell in the room?" Others: "It might be that 800lb gorilla over there." dk: "What 800lb gorilla?" Others: "The one that's sitting in the corner throwing poo at us." dk: "I don't know what you're talking about." Others: "For the love of god, it's right there! Stop ignoring it!"
I tried looking this up with the wayback machine, but I am having troubles connecting to it. Regardless:
According to wikipedia, the xbox 360 started out with 213 games that were backwards compatible. There are now 478 games that are backwards compatible. It looks like the Xbox had 900-1000 games written for it. So, it would seem that the xbox360 originally had roughly 20% of games backwards compatible. Now it apparently has 51% of games backwards compatible. Custom writing an emulator and testing it out for each game takes a while.
And really. Adding the original xbox hardware to a 360 would cause small planets to orbit the thing due to the size;)
All the games that I wished were on the back-compat list have been backwards compatible for a while now. Except for one. I recently bought Deus Ex: Invisible War (for something like $4) knowing that it wasn't on the back-compat list but hoping that it would be on the next release. I've always been disappointed about that, especially since there are a few Barbie games that are backwards compatible. I have an xbox at home, but the place it was in is too dusty and some dust got in the tray, and now no discs are recognized.
I'm also probably the only person on the planet who is sad that Azurik isn't on the list either. It was a launch title too. And MechAssault.
I guess there were more than one game I wanted to play again.
Are you seriously saying that the only reason WoW has millions of users is because it can be played on all platforms and using OpenGL instead of directx?
In the interest of seeing how stress and anguish co-relate, I'm going to kill you graphically in front of your family, and then force your sister to eat your remains.
And wouldn't it be totally awesome if it sent this data to the government in real-time so they could totally figure out where we were at the time of crimes and terrorist attacks?
Having to reinstall ubuntu because it crashed when I tried to change the graphics and wouldn't go back to allowing graphics no matter what I tried, I'm somewhat interested in figuring out how to get that fallback GUI up.
True, you could. That's what I had originally typed in, but then I realized that they wouldn't know specifically why you didn't buy it.
By e-mailing, you are no longer part of the "presumably not interested in the game at all" group, but are in the "interested, but not buying specifically due to in-game ads" group.
I always find it hilarious that people will always post those "Laws", as if they were Universal Laws such as "1+1=2".
They are a set of fictional laws made up by an author for his science fictional books. Are we seriously going to accept every and all Laws that appear in fiction?
As opposed to what? KotOR? You could barely even talk to random people. Neverwinter Nights? They just complained about their home and yelled now and then. Yea, sure, the NPCs in Oblivion did say the same thing a lot, but you really can't blame Bethesda for that. Giving all the NPCs unique dialog would be a monumental task. At least they changed based on location, and a good chunk of the NPCs had unique things to say now and then. And so what if talking to people won't radically change the world. The world isn't changed by talk anyways. I could say "I will protect you", but that doesn't mean anything if I don't protect you.
As to what you can do without the main quest: Thieves Guild Mages Guild Fighters Guild Chapel of the Nine quests Explore the game. Give yourself things to do. Go Giant Potato hunting and other side quests Collect all the Ayleid statues Do the Daedric quests read the books Find hidden treasures etc.
And that's just Oblivion. For morrowind: Imperial Shrine quests, Imperial Legion Quests, Telvanni Quests, Hlaalu Quests, Redoran quests, Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild, Morag Tone, free slaves for the Twin Lamps, Temple quests, Daedric quests, go hunting for an old warrior's entombed longboat and other side quests, raid the vaults of Vivec, read the huge amount of books, collect the Sanguine items, get all the Indexes for the Propylyn Chambers, etc.
You really shouldn't be lacking for things to do in either.
And seriously, if you really think that the story doesn't draw you into the background at all, then I have my doubts that you've even played the games.
I found Oblivion to be great. I personally have a hard time thinking of linear RPGs as true RPGs, since while you *are* playing a role, it's the role that the developers wanted you to play. I also wouldn't agree that Bethesda makes Action RPGs. An Action RPG is like Diablo or Dungeon Siege: pure combat, very little (if any!) non-combat interaction. You really can't say that the Elderscrolls series falls into that group. The Lore is huge, there's a definite focus on NPC interaction, and they don't railroad you around. If you don't want to complete the main quest, well fine! Don't.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get far in Arena. I haven't been able to get dosbox to work well with the Arena release, so I haven't gotten past the first few rooms.
I'm also having trouble recalling things that they've lied about other than the "set dogs on fire".
All that said, I agree with you about Lionhead. They don't have any credibility left. Fable was promised to be the Second Coming of Jesus in Video Game Form, but it definitely fell far from my expectations.
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Looking at the budget of 2007, looks like a good portion of those major cities were in Iraq :)
Ugh. Totally offtopic, but it always annoys me when people say "It begs the question" when they mean "It raises the question". "Begging the question" is not "raising the question." It's another way to say circular logic. Wikipedia gives the following example:
* Suppose Paul is not lying when he speaks.
* Paul is speaking.
* Therefore, Paul is telling the truth.
To make it somewhat on topic, the customer always loses in the end. The whole point of business is to take money from people.
How can a slave eat cake if the cake is a lie?
Police copters do, so they can see things below them, such as suspects on the run.
Some airplanes do too. In the world wars, bombers sometimes had a gunner with a machine gun in a bubble right below the cockpit, and that bubble was mostly glass so the gunner could see.
...when the underside of your car was glass. And you were looking down through it.
dk: "What's that smell in the room?"
Others: "It might be that 800lb gorilla over there."
dk: "What 800lb gorilla?"
Others: "The one that's sitting in the corner throwing poo at us."
dk: "I don't know what you're talking about."
Others: "For the love of god, it's right there! Stop ignoring it!"
It figures that perl would be the root of one giant misunderstanding.
You're absolutely right. Many third parties can review the code.
But do they?
I tried looking this up with the wayback machine, but I am having troubles connecting to it. Regardless:
;)
According to wikipedia, the xbox 360 started out with 213 games that were backwards compatible. There are now 478 games that are backwards compatible. It looks like the Xbox had 900-1000 games written for it. So, it would seem that the xbox360 originally had roughly 20% of games backwards compatible. Now it apparently has 51% of games backwards compatible. Custom writing an emulator and testing it out for each game takes a while.
And really. Adding the original xbox hardware to a 360 would cause small planets to orbit the thing due to the size
All the games that I wished were on the back-compat list have been backwards compatible for a while now. Except for one. I recently bought Deus Ex: Invisible War (for something like $4) knowing that it wasn't on the back-compat list but hoping that it would be on the next release. I've always been disappointed about that, especially since there are a few Barbie games that are backwards compatible. I have an xbox at home, but the place it was in is too dusty and some dust got in the tray, and now no discs are recognized.
I'm also probably the only person on the planet who is sad that Azurik isn't on the list either. It was a launch title too. And MechAssault.
I guess there were more than one game I wanted to play again.
How many library of congresses can they pull over half a Volkswagen?
Are you seriously saying that the only reason WoW has millions of users is because it can be played on all platforms and using OpenGL instead of directx?
You sir, are a loon.
An open source car that drives itself?
Is that really safe? I mean this test was under very strict restrictions. They cleared the entire course.
It's a violation of trademark.
I'm pretty sure we don't complain about that one.
In the interest of seeing how stress and anguish co-relate, I'm going to kill you graphically in front of your family, and then force your sister to eat your remains.
For science.
I'm more afraid of evidence that they could open doors.
And wouldn't it be totally awesome if it sent this data to the government in real-time so they could totally figure out where we were at the time of crimes and terrorist attacks?
Count me out.
How does one get to that?
Having to reinstall ubuntu because it crashed when I tried to change the graphics and wouldn't go back to allowing graphics no matter what I tried, I'm somewhat interested in figuring out how to get that fallback GUI up.
True, you could. That's what I had originally typed in, but then I realized that they wouldn't know specifically why you didn't buy it.
By e-mailing, you are no longer part of the "presumably not interested in the game at all" group, but are in the "interested, but not buying specifically due to in-game ads" group.
...or you could just not buy it and send an e-mail explaining why.
Just imagine this: Five years from release of a few of these new plant lines. Turns out that the tomato doesn't cause cancer.
Life goes on as normal, and people still fear monger.
I always find it hilarious that people will always post those "Laws", as if they were Universal Laws such as "1+1=2".
They are a set of fictional laws made up by an author for his science fictional books. Are we seriously going to accept every and all Laws that appear in fiction?
Ah yes. Changing from a company that gives other companies your data to a company that gives the US Government your data. Brilliant!
As opposed to what? KotOR? You could barely even talk to random people. Neverwinter Nights? They just complained about their home and yelled now and then. Yea, sure, the NPCs in Oblivion did say the same thing a lot, but you really can't blame Bethesda for that. Giving all the NPCs unique dialog would be a monumental task. At least they changed based on location, and a good chunk of the NPCs had unique things to say now and then. And so what if talking to people won't radically change the world. The world isn't changed by talk anyways. I could say "I will protect you", but that doesn't mean anything if I don't protect you.
As to what you can do without the main quest:
Thieves Guild
Mages Guild
Fighters Guild
Chapel of the Nine quests
Explore the game.
Give yourself things to do.
Go Giant Potato hunting and other side quests
Collect all the Ayleid statues
Do the Daedric quests
read the books
Find hidden treasures
etc.
And that's just Oblivion.
For morrowind:
Imperial Shrine quests, Imperial Legion Quests, Telvanni Quests, Hlaalu Quests, Redoran quests, Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild, Morag Tone, free slaves for the Twin Lamps, Temple quests, Daedric quests, go hunting for an old warrior's entombed longboat and other side quests, raid the vaults of Vivec, read the huge amount of books, collect the Sanguine items, get all the Indexes for the Propylyn Chambers, etc.
You really shouldn't be lacking for things to do in either.
And seriously, if you really think that the story doesn't draw you into the background at all, then I have my doubts that you've even played the games.
I found Oblivion to be great. I personally have a hard time thinking of linear RPGs as true RPGs, since while you *are* playing a role, it's the role that the developers wanted you to play. I also wouldn't agree that Bethesda makes Action RPGs. An Action RPG is like Diablo or Dungeon Siege: pure combat, very little (if any!) non-combat interaction. You really can't say that the Elderscrolls series falls into that group. The Lore is huge, there's a definite focus on NPC interaction, and they don't railroad you around. If you don't want to complete the main quest, well fine! Don't.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get far in Arena. I haven't been able to get dosbox to work well with the Arena release, so I haven't gotten past the first few rooms.
I'm also having trouble recalling things that they've lied about other than the "set dogs on fire".
All that said, I agree with you about Lionhead. They don't have any credibility left. Fable was promised to be the Second Coming of Jesus in Video Game Form, but it definitely fell far from my expectations.