Ever hear of Dystopia?
Not sure if you would call it MUST-PLAY, but it is very good mod.
A few other fun ones: Hidden Source (fun and unique multiplayer mod), Eclipse was posted on slashdot awhile back - its good but only has an hour or so worth of gameplay, Garry's mod also, but everyones heard of that.
If Valve decides to stop providing activation servers, how do you play the Half Life 2 game you purchased? My understanding is that the bits on the disk are insufficient to actually run the game.
I believe Valve has stated (due to many worrying about the issue) that if Valve were to become a defunct company like the one you mentioned, that they would release a patch or something similar, allowing it to be run without the authentication servers.
I could be wrong about this, but i think it is in an FAQ somewhere.
King's Quest and Quest for Glory (my personal favorite Sierra games) were a good start, but there are many better games that should be there.
First and foremost Legend of Zelda: OOT for obvious reasons, and it probably wouldnt be that hard to control since they got Mario 64 working. I have not purchased a DS yet, but I would get one the instant a OOT port was announced.
Diablo 2. Starcraft would probably work better because the DS is perfect for RTS games, but the stylus is also perfect for the point-and-click style of Diablo. Diablo 2 still has a suprisingly large online community and many of them being addicted as they are, would love to be able to play D2 on a portable. Of course, this would be all but useless if it was not online
Perfect Dark. There have already been mentions of Rare making DS games and im sure they would be able to perfect the First-person shooter using the stylus and the DS, they way they did on the console with Goldeneye and PD so many years ago.
The final and perhaps most desperately needed port- Super Smash Brothers. I have been trying to figure out why Nintendo has never come out with a portable version of SSB, and i still don't know why, but the DS would be perfect for it. The wireless would be great for having multiplayer battles with friends. The top screen could show the whole used playing field as it does in the console Super Smash Brothers games, while the bottom could show a more focused view on your character (something that would even be useful on the console games when everyone is spread out, yet it would infeasible on a TV screen)
"The game is targeted for next gen PC hardware. Xbox360 and PS3 are also possible and we are excited about bringing Project Offset to these platforms."
I subscribe to EGM and this section with the exact same content came out months ago. In the corner of the section on the site it even says "*Interviews conducted before the PSP's release." So that just shows how outdated this is.
You can hardly laugh at the Clerks when nobody really knew about the next-gen consoles at the time
Well, Sony is still producing the PSX in Japan. They even recently came out with new models, showing that they want to continue to put effort into it, even though its failed. So yeah, it did teach people nothing.
Actually, just recently they came out with the awesome 2 gig memory sticks. I don't know how much they cost, but you really cannot even find a 1 gig for less than $120.
Pre-ordering a game is only necessary if 1) it has reached a certain level of hype, 2) you know the store you go to is likely to sell out, and 3) you absolutely must have it the first day.
And the fourth, and normally most important to me, a special item comes with the game only if you preorder (ie. getting Zelda Master Quest with Windwaker preorder)
The point was that while online can be a great feature for a small subset of players, the lack of online capability is not something that is going to stop developers from supporting a system.
The lack of online capabilites may not directly stop developers from supporting a system, but indirectly, that is what happened with the gamecube. Because people would rather buy a game that can go online rather than one that can't, sales of third-party games on Gamecube are very low. Looking at the low sales a developer would not see enough of a reason to support this console and therefore the lack of online capabilities indirectly caused a decrease in support from other developers.
For one feature to make it in, another has to be cut.
This may be true, but if a multi-platform game has online added to it and features are cut to add it in, the Gamecube version will be losing the other feature and will still no be gaining the online ones.
I agree that most people don't go online with their games on a normal basis. But given the choice between getting a game without online, and getting a game that can go online, there is really no reason that someone would want the non-online Gamecube game, over having at least the option to play online.
The reason this all started with developers not really making Gamecube games all began with Gamecube having no real online capabilites. This caused most people who wanted a multi-platform game, to get it on PS2 or Xbox, due to the additional online capabilites.
That was when the Gamecube began headed in the wrong direction and there was really no way to recover. It's too late now for the Gamcube to start really getting any good third-party games.
If the Revolution is very impressive and has excellent online capabilites from the beginning, then I feel that Nintendo will be able to recover from the absence of many third-party companies as seen on Gamecube.
Exactly.
The information that it will be on the next-gen consoles was in the Blizzard product catalog as stated Gamespot has stated.
The blizzard spokesperson even said that this product catalog was old to begin with. To quote the aritcle '"The catalog hasn't been updated," was all the Blizzard rep would say.'
What i find odd though is that nobody noticed this sooner even though World of Warcraft (where the product catalog can be found) has been put for sometime.
Those aren't release dates. That was countdown for them announcing the top ten most anticipated of 2005. They announced two anticipated games each day, Legend of Zelda was announced on their countdown on January 18th.
2. Isn't offering a DirecTV deal going to hurt them in the long run? If they plan to get their users to use their Television service, why would their customers have a need to do this after getting a deal from Verizon on Satellite TV.
2005 is going to be a bad year for video/computer games, except for handhelds maybe. The only thing i am looking forward to is Timesplitters: Future Perfect.
This is Sony's plan to take out the competition, the
Nintendo DS. PSP users will go to their friends who have a DS and then will have their UMD shoot out at the DS and thereby breaking it.
Apparently a lot of people have been getting multiple demo disks that do not have Viewtiful Joe 2 on them, but instead have Area 51, Prince of Persia 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 demos replacing some of original demos.
Luckily i got my disk the day after i got my email so i took out my memory cards.
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Where does it really mention that this character signed over [his] profits to those industry fat cats?
As far as I can tell, he never officially signed with any labels and if true, can do whatever he pleases with his music.
Ever hear of Dystopia?
Not sure if you would call it MUST-PLAY, but it is very good mod.
A few other fun ones: Hidden Source (fun and unique multiplayer mod), Eclipse was posted on slashdot awhile back - its good but only has an hour or so worth of gameplay, Garry's mod also, but everyones heard of that.
If Valve decides to stop providing activation servers, how do you play the Half Life 2 game you purchased? My understanding is that the bits on the disk are insufficient to actually run the game. I believe Valve has stated (due to many worrying about the issue) that if Valve were to become a defunct company like the one you mentioned, that they would release a patch or something similar, allowing it to be run without the authentication servers. I could be wrong about this, but i think it is in an FAQ somewhere.
Not to mention that SOE had no involvement in the creation of The Matrix Online. They just bought it after a few months of it doing horribly.
King's Quest and Quest for Glory (my personal favorite Sierra games) were a good start, but there are many better games that should be there.
First and foremost Legend of Zelda: OOT for obvious reasons, and it probably wouldnt be that hard to control since they got Mario 64 working. I have not purchased a DS yet, but I would get one the instant a OOT port was announced.
Diablo 2. Starcraft would probably work better because the DS is perfect for RTS games, but the stylus is also perfect for the point-and-click style of Diablo. Diablo 2 still has a suprisingly large online community and many of them being addicted as they are, would love to be able to play D2 on a portable. Of course, this would be all but useless if it was not online
Perfect Dark. There have already been mentions of Rare making DS games and im sure they would be able to perfect the First-person shooter using the stylus and the DS, they way they did on the console with Goldeneye and PD so many years ago.
The final and perhaps most desperately needed port- Super Smash Brothers. I have been trying to figure out why Nintendo has never come out with a portable version of SSB, and i still don't know why, but the DS would be perfect for it. The wireless would be great for having multiplayer battles with friends. The top screen could show the whole used playing field as it does in the console Super Smash Brothers games, while the bottom could show a more focused view on your character (something that would even be useful on the console games when everyone is spread out, yet it would infeasible on a TV screen)
"The game is targeted for next gen PC hardware. Xbox360 and PS3 are also possible and we are excited about bringing Project Offset to these platforms."
I subscribe to EGM and this section with the exact same content came out months ago. In the corner of the section on the site it even says "*Interviews conducted before the PSP's release." So that just shows how outdated this is.
You can hardly laugh at the Clerks when nobody really knew about the next-gen consoles at the time
The slim PS2s are smaller. But it never said it was the smallest console ever, just the smallest Nintendo console ever.
Uhm, that is exactly what he said.
Thats odd, considering the DS has sold more than half a million more units the PSP in Japan, and were released only within a few weeks of each other.
Well, Sony is still producing the PSX in Japan. They even recently came out with new models, showing that they want to continue to put effort into it, even though its failed. So yeah, it did teach people nothing.
Actually, just recently they came out with the awesome 2 gig memory sticks. I don't know how much they cost, but you really cannot even find a 1 gig for less than $120.
Pre-ordering a game is only necessary if 1) it has reached a certain level of hype, 2) you know the store you go to is likely to sell out, and 3) you absolutely must have it the first day. And the fourth, and normally most important to me, a special item comes with the game only if you preorder (ie. getting Zelda Master Quest with Windwaker preorder)
The point was that while online can be a great feature for a small subset of players, the lack of online capability is not something that is going to stop developers from supporting a system.
The lack of online capabilites may not directly stop developers from supporting a system, but indirectly, that is what happened with the gamecube. Because people would rather buy a game that can go online rather than one that can't, sales of third-party games on Gamecube are very low.
Looking at the low sales a developer would not see enough of a reason to support this console and therefore the lack of online capabilities indirectly caused a decrease in support from other developers.
For one feature to make it in, another has to be cut.
This may be true, but if a multi-platform game has online added to it and features are cut to add it in, the Gamecube version will be losing the other feature and will still no be gaining the online ones.
I agree that most people don't go online with their games on a normal basis. But given the choice between getting a game without online, and getting a game that can go online, there is really no reason that someone would want the non-online Gamecube game, over having at least the option to play online.
The reason this all started with developers not really making Gamecube games all began with Gamecube having no real online capabilites. This caused most people who wanted a multi-platform game, to get it on PS2 or Xbox, due to the additional online capabilites.
That was when the Gamecube began headed in the wrong direction and there was really no way to recover. It's too late now for the Gamcube to start really getting any good third-party games.
If the Revolution is very impressive and has excellent online capabilites from the beginning, then I feel that Nintendo will be able to recover from the absence of many third-party companies as seen on Gamecube.
Exactly. The information that it will be on the next-gen consoles was in the Blizzard product catalog as stated Gamespot has stated.
The blizzard spokesperson even said that this product catalog was old to begin with. To quote the aritcle '"The catalog hasn't been updated," was all the Blizzard rep would say.'
What i find odd though is that nobody noticed this sooner even though World of Warcraft (where the product catalog can be found) has been put for sometime.
Actually, that was also a dupe this is a dual-dupe.
You know two dupes with one post.
Those aren't release dates. That was countdown for them announcing the top ten most anticipated of 2005. They announced two anticipated games each day, Legend of Zelda was announced on their countdown on January 18th.
I doubt he would knowingly buy his little kids bootleg games for christmas, and then go complain about them to the media.
1. Your new link doew not work either.
2. Isn't offering a DirecTV deal going to hurt them in the long run? If they plan to get their users to use their Television service, why would their customers have a need to do this after getting a deal from Verizon on Satellite TV.
The judge used to have AOL, how much could he possibly know about this topic?
2005 is going to be a bad year for video/computer games, except for handhelds maybe. The only thing i am looking forward to is Timesplitters: Future Perfect.
This is Sony's plan to take out the competition, the Nintendo DS. PSP users will go to their friends who have a DS and then will have their UMD shoot out at the DS and thereby breaking it.
Apparently a lot of people have been getting multiple demo disks that do not have Viewtiful Joe 2 on them, but instead have Area 51, Prince of Persia 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 demos replacing some of original demos.
Luckily i got my disk the day after i got my email so i took out my memory cards.