The problem with the PS3 is that the pre-order doesn't guarantee you a PS3. My local GameStop manager told me that all that you were guaranteed with a pre-order ticket was a place to stand in line. So not only did you have to wait at obscene hours in the morning to get your pre-order, you now have to wait an obscene amount of time in order to actually get the benefit of your pre-order. Why are people making fun so difficult these days?
Chris Crawford needs to take his own advice and go back to his cabin in the woods. I was there for is rant at the GDC. He's done. He's embittered towards an industry that isn't going the way he wants it to. He wants interactive storytelling, and that's it. If its not a digital "table top roleplaying experience" he doesn't want it and everything else is crap. He's done, put him out to the pasture.
Not all Anime is good. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and apply the 80/20 rule to it. Fortunately, NGE is part of the 20% that isn't crap. Is about big robots? Not really. You have to think a little harder about that. Is it about aliens? Not really. Can it really be described in a summary without giving it all away? Eesh, probably not.
I *thumbs up* this anime specifically, but I don't think you can generalize about NGE and anime any more than you could generalize about most everything else. All governments suck because of African warlords? All TV is crap because of The Simple Life? Nah. Unfortunately there are still some things in this world that require some personal research.
Fun != ... uh... anything standard.
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Your scale of fun doesn't relate to my scale of fun. Some of us require cortex stimulation for fun. Blowing stuff up was cool in Mercenaries, Serious Sam 2, Serious Sam, Grand Thef Auto, Half-Life 2, Half-Life, Quake, Quake 2, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, etc, etc. There are some of us now who would like to have a little more to our games than a spoon and a jar of frosting. Some of us actually want the cake.
Cryptic Studio's City of Heroes/Villains is a great MMO that doesn't focus on PVP. Is it there? Yes. Do people do it? Kinda. Is it the point of the game? Not at all. Do people want it? Meh, its been a mixed bag. Their storyline content is engaging enough, you can group with up to 8 people, and they've done away with a lot of the big MMO time sinks. I highly recommend checking it out.
Then again, if you're not feeling the love for spandex, this probably won't seem like too much fun.
Because we need SUPER *PAN* DRAMA *ZOOM* EFFECT *SHAKE* DA-NAAAH!!!! in a scene where two people are talking to each other. Because I want to concentrate on holding onto my chair while a robot and mindless collective drone ramble on about who wuvs God more. Please. The BSG leeches are about on the same level of all the people out there trying to peg Firefly as the best Sci-Fi EVAR! Why can't people just admit that there's only bad SciFi on right now?
Sci-Fi is not a situational character drama. There are a hundred terrible day time soaps on television that I can tune to if I desire low-quality emotional baggage. Suck it up and stop being a drama queen. No one liked Han Solo because he was an alcoholic enemy traitor robot nemesis cancer-ridden off-the-handle-but-still-reliable goon. ENOUGH. I'm not 13 anymore, I've grown out of high school, you (and that's the collective you, not you BorgCopyeditor personally, I had to pick one to reply to) should too.
Fact check please.
A: Cryptic Studios is the developer of City of Heroes and was the direct target of the lawsuit.
B: Cryptic is based in Los Gatos, California
B: NCSoft is NOT an American company. Their headquarters is Seoul, South Korea. NCSoft Austin is the North American branch. NCSoft Austin is based in Austin, Texas.
C: NCSoft does not own Cryptic. NCSoft is the publisher for City of Heroes/Villains.
D: It is not simply competition. Litigating another company simply because you have a bigger wallet and can drag a court proceding out long enough to bankrupt a competetor is a hostile business tactic and is/used to be illegal.
I believe this term was used in the Silicon Laser article I read earlier today.
"A solution looking for a problem."
The biggest problem I have with this article and in game advertising is the word publisher. The people making the game aren't seeing a dime of this money. Publishers look at games simply as money factories and are being shocked at the fact that recreation caters to the needs of those looking for recreation. It certainly does not cater to X Publisher's bottom line. That's great that Halo was a hit, good job on hitting a new market (xbox users) with a new product (an FPS that is accessible by the unwashed masses) and not having any competition while doing it. You are not going to be able to press the same dough out of the machine for release after release after release AND see an increase in profits each time.
Or maybe you will and the gamer population wants cookie cutter titles brought to you by BrandX(tm) and the people looking for innovation should just go throw themselves into a ditch and await the bulldozer.
Parents who don't involve themselves in their kids lives still attempting to blame society for not raising their kids properly. Lawyers are still fat and happy with irresponsible parents, no plans for change.
I for one can't wait. I mean, Alien Vs. Predator (the movie) was such an atrocity I almost gouged my eyes out with a tic-tac. The reaction from fans at Mr. Anderson's latest bumbling in the film industry should cause geysers of hatred and blood.
Since companies started trading "ip", "liscencing", "assumed net worth" and any other variety of completely intangible goods, I would say yes, most of it is completely made up now.
Why does the market fluctuate? Because of things that happen in the world? Not really. More like the market fluctuates because people THINK that the market SHOULD fluctuate in response to things happening in the world.
Don't try to change the market, that's impossible. Just remember, there is no market.
I suppose that's a fair statement. Wall Street has its fair share of Min-Maxers, Power Gamers, and Exploiters all the same. The Broadcast and Trade channels are full of people trying to rip off the casual players. And most people are throwing away money every month for the ability to waste time and energy on a world that doesn't exist.
Yeah, I'll agree with that statement.
Sensible:
Put milli-, centi-, deci-, deka-, hecto-, and kilo- in front of whatever type of unit you want to measure.
More Sensible:
Remember the names of various containers and their respective relationships to each other. Such as Fluid Ounce, Gill, Pint, Quart, Pottle, Gallon, Peck, Bucket, Pin, Bushel, Firkin, Anker, Strike, Bushels, Rundlet, Kilderkin, Bag, Coomb, Barrel, Tierce, Hogshead, Quarter, Puncheon, Pipe/Butt, and Tun/Ton.
"I'll be needing about a Firkin of milk today there Jim." "Firk you Bob."
I'm sorry, how are these games really, really good again?
King Kong: amazing graphics (the defacto standard of the industry) and no accurate representation of gameplay. I can download the Unreal3 tech demo if I want to look at yet another pretty picture.
Call of Duty 2: Really now, I can't believe you played the game with graphics that ONLY looked like the source engine. Sheesh, I wouldn't play a game that looks that terrible. And I'm biased because I already played the CoD2 demo on my PC with an un-erring 85fps in "hi-def" resolution. Oh, right, and I spent less on a video card than I did for the XBox 360.
Kameo: I didn't play this game because I'm a fanboy. You know, I should never touch another Square game in my life because they made Ehrgeiz. Come on, you get a chance to touch an omfgitsocoolmommyineed500dollarstoplaysequels-Box and you... Gah, forget it.
And that's totally awesome about the home screen. I sit at my computer ALL day and click the start button to watch it roll out, and then I like, extend the menus. It's awesome. Wait, weren't we talking about a GAME console?
I can't agree with your argument model. Being one of those students from a local art college, I can tell you that my 6 lines would not be of a stick figure. And there is the real difference between the artist-geek and the geek-artist. Look at how icons have improved over time. Most of the time (in the Windows world) you were looking at a 16x16 or 32x32 pixel image. Some looked good, most looked like crap. Limitations don't make things look like crap, crap looks like crap.
You can compare the graphics of Metroid to Super Metroid to Metroid Prime. You'll probably agree that MP > SM > M in terms of graphic fidelity. The problem is they all have the same style and even in its 8-bit glory Metroid was put together well.
The medium is not an excuse to push crap. Also, the medium will not make crap look better. Next-Gen games won't look better because their rendering hardware/software can support Pimple-Shading 45.2 and Normalized Vectored Nanomorphic Boob-Mapping. If you put crap in the box, you'll simply have Pimple-Shaded Normalized Vectored Nanomorphic Boob-Mapped crap.
"This would also imply that the computers being economical would become still more disposable. 'This means that they could be used for cheap and therefore disposable simple computers in the future.'"
Why is this a feature? We've already shown ourselves how wonderful "displosable" technology really is. Why do we think we need more useless broken garbage? How reclaimable is it? Can we just throw a bunch of these into a pot, separate the various metals and cook up new ones when the technology improves? Disposable != Economical. You have to have an economy before you can throw it in the garbage.
Blizzard didn't develop StarCraft: Ghost. Nihilistic Software started development on it and now Blizzard is "taking over" and publishing it. A: Not in-house software. B: Any time a product switches hands you can expect a huge increase in the development timeline.
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The problem with the PS3 is that the pre-order doesn't guarantee you a PS3. My local GameStop manager told me that all that you were guaranteed with a pre-order ticket was a place to stand in line. So not only did you have to wait at obscene hours in the morning to get your pre-order, you now have to wait an obscene amount of time in order to actually get the benefit of your pre-order. Why are people making fun so difficult these days?
I didn't realize that Billy got a promotion to Captain...
Chris Crawford needs to take his own advice and go back to his cabin in the woods. I was there for is rant at the GDC. He's done. He's embittered towards an industry that isn't going the way he wants it to. He wants interactive storytelling, and that's it. If its not a digital "table top roleplaying experience" he doesn't want it and everything else is crap. He's done, put him out to the pasture.
Not all Anime is good. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and apply the 80/20 rule to it. Fortunately, NGE is part of the 20% that isn't crap. Is about big robots? Not really. You have to think a little harder about that. Is it about aliens? Not really. Can it really be described in a summary without giving it all away? Eesh, probably not. I *thumbs up* this anime specifically, but I don't think you can generalize about NGE and anime any more than you could generalize about most everything else. All governments suck because of African warlords? All TV is crap because of The Simple Life? Nah. Unfortunately there are still some things in this world that require some personal research.
I like chocolate miiiiiiilk!
Very poorly with bad reproductions of the Bible?
Your scale of fun doesn't relate to my scale of fun. Some of us require cortex stimulation for fun. Blowing stuff up was cool in Mercenaries, Serious Sam 2, Serious Sam, Grand Thef Auto, Half-Life 2, Half-Life, Quake, Quake 2, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, etc, etc. There are some of us now who would like to have a little more to our games than a spoon and a jar of frosting. Some of us actually want the cake.
Cryptic Studio's City of Heroes/Villains is a great MMO that doesn't focus on PVP. Is it there? Yes. Do people do it? Kinda. Is it the point of the game? Not at all. Do people want it? Meh, its been a mixed bag. Their storyline content is engaging enough, you can group with up to 8 people, and they've done away with a lot of the big MMO time sinks. I highly recommend checking it out. Then again, if you're not feeling the love for spandex, this probably won't seem like too much fun.
They obviously haven't received your check for your Slashvertisement.
Because we need SUPER *PAN* DRAMA *ZOOM* EFFECT *SHAKE* DA-NAAAH!!!! in a scene where two people are talking to each other. Because I want to concentrate on holding onto my chair while a robot and mindless collective drone ramble on about who wuvs God more. Please. The BSG leeches are about on the same level of all the people out there trying to peg Firefly as the best Sci-Fi EVAR! Why can't people just admit that there's only bad SciFi on right now?
Sci-Fi is not a situational character drama. There are a hundred terrible day time soaps on television that I can tune to if I desire low-quality emotional baggage. Suck it up and stop being a drama queen. No one liked Han Solo because he was an alcoholic enemy traitor robot nemesis cancer-ridden off-the-handle-but-still-reliable goon. ENOUGH. I'm not 13 anymore, I've grown out of high school, you (and that's the collective you, not you BorgCopyeditor personally, I had to pick one to reply to) should too.
Let me not be the first to say, "Are you fucking kidding me?!"
How does shakey-cam, bad acting, bad plot, and a completely unmaintainable suspension of disbelief turn into show of the year?
"Well I can be my own best friend and I can send myself for pizza so I say,
I think I'm a clone now...."
Fact check please. A: Cryptic Studios is the developer of City of Heroes and was the direct target of the lawsuit.
B: Cryptic is based in Los Gatos, California
B: NCSoft is NOT an American company. Their headquarters is Seoul, South Korea. NCSoft Austin is the North American branch. NCSoft Austin is based in Austin, Texas.
C: NCSoft does not own Cryptic. NCSoft is the publisher for City of Heroes/Villains.
D: It is not simply competition. Litigating another company simply because you have a bigger wallet and can drag a court proceding out long enough to bankrupt a competetor is a hostile business tactic and is/used to be illegal.
Hyped Product X with limited production and moderate demand expected to sell out. Industry analysts not suprised.
I believe this term was used in the Silicon Laser article I read earlier today.
"A solution looking for a problem."
The biggest problem I have with this article and in game advertising is the word publisher. The people making the game aren't seeing a dime of this money. Publishers look at games simply as money factories and are being shocked at the fact that recreation caters to the needs of those looking for recreation. It certainly does not cater to X Publisher's bottom line. That's great that Halo was a hit, good job on hitting a new market (xbox users) with a new product (an FPS that is accessible by the unwashed masses) and not having any competition while doing it. You are not going to be able to press the same dough out of the machine for release after release after release AND see an increase in profits each time.
Or maybe you will and the gamer population wants cookie cutter titles brought to you by BrandX(tm) and the people looking for innovation should just go throw themselves into a ditch and await the bulldozer.
Parents who don't involve themselves in their kids lives still attempting to blame society for not raising their kids properly. Lawyers are still fat and happy with irresponsible parents, no plans for change.
I for one can't wait. I mean, Alien Vs. Predator (the movie) was such an atrocity I almost gouged my eyes out with a tic-tac. The reaction from fans at Mr. Anderson's latest bumbling in the film industry should cause geysers of hatred and blood.
Since companies started trading "ip", "liscencing", "assumed net worth" and any other variety of completely intangible goods, I would say yes, most of it is completely made up now. Why does the market fluctuate? Because of things that happen in the world? Not really. More like the market fluctuates because people THINK that the market SHOULD fluctuate in response to things happening in the world. Don't try to change the market, that's impossible. Just remember, there is no market.
I suppose that's a fair statement. Wall Street has its fair share of Min-Maxers, Power Gamers, and Exploiters all the same. The Broadcast and Trade channels are full of people trying to rip off the casual players. And most people are throwing away money every month for the ability to waste time and energy on a world that doesn't exist. Yeah, I'll agree with that statement.
(From America With Sarcasm)
Sensible: Put milli-, centi-, deci-, deka-, hecto-, and kilo- in front of whatever type of unit you want to measure.
More Sensible: Remember the names of various containers and their respective relationships to each other. Such as Fluid Ounce, Gill, Pint, Quart, Pottle, Gallon, Peck, Bucket, Pin, Bushel, Firkin, Anker, Strike, Bushels, Rundlet, Kilderkin, Bag, Coomb, Barrel, Tierce, Hogshead, Quarter, Puncheon, Pipe/Butt, and Tun/Ton.
"I'll be needing about a Firkin of milk today there Jim." "Firk you Bob."
I'm sorry, how are these games really, really good again?
King Kong: amazing graphics (the defacto standard of the industry) and no accurate representation of gameplay. I can download the Unreal3 tech demo if I want to look at yet another pretty picture.
Call of Duty 2: Really now, I can't believe you played the game with graphics that ONLY looked like the source engine. Sheesh, I wouldn't play a game that looks that terrible. And I'm biased because I already played the CoD2 demo on my PC with an un-erring 85fps in "hi-def" resolution. Oh, right, and I spent less on a video card than I did for the XBox 360.
Kameo: I didn't play this game because I'm a fanboy. You know, I should never touch another Square game in my life because they made Ehrgeiz. Come on, you get a chance to touch an omfgitsocoolmommyineed500dollarstoplaysequels-Box and you... Gah, forget it.
And that's totally awesome about the home screen. I sit at my computer ALL day and click the start button to watch it roll out, and then I like, extend the menus. It's awesome. Wait, weren't we talking about a GAME console?
Thanks for your listless review. *sigh*
I can't agree with your argument model. Being one of those students from a local art college, I can tell you that my 6 lines would not be of a stick figure. And there is the real difference between the artist-geek and the geek-artist. Look at how icons have improved over time. Most of the time (in the Windows world) you were looking at a 16x16 or 32x32 pixel image. Some looked good, most looked like crap. Limitations don't make things look like crap, crap looks like crap.
You can compare the graphics of Metroid to Super Metroid to Metroid Prime. You'll probably agree that MP > SM > M in terms of graphic fidelity. The problem is they all have the same style and even in its 8-bit glory Metroid was put together well.
The medium is not an excuse to push crap. Also, the medium will not make crap look better. Next-Gen games won't look better because their rendering hardware/software can support Pimple-Shading 45.2 and Normalized Vectored Nanomorphic Boob-Mapping. If you put crap in the box, you'll simply have Pimple-Shaded Normalized Vectored Nanomorphic Boob-Mapped crap.
"This would also imply that the computers being economical would become still more disposable. 'This means that they could be used for cheap and therefore disposable simple computers in the future.'"
Why is this a feature? We've already shown ourselves how wonderful "displosable" technology really is. Why do we think we need more useless broken garbage? How reclaimable is it? Can we just throw a bunch of these into a pot, separate the various metals and cook up new ones when the technology improves? Disposable != Economical. You have to have an economy before you can throw it in the garbage.
Congress is made up of petrolium, not carbon. Duh.
Blizzard didn't develop StarCraft: Ghost. Nihilistic Software started development on it and now Blizzard is "taking over" and publishing it. A: Not in-house software. B: Any time a product switches hands you can expect a huge increase in the development timeline.