"Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information."
Yes, but they promised that this would be completed by 2069, in honour of the 100th anniversery of the moon landing. (That's what I call thinking ahead). So it'll be a while before this is done.
GamePro has a feature up examining the possible end of days for the Game Boy. From the article: "...it would seem the end is nigh. Sega's Game Gear offers Genesis level power and a beautiful screen next to GB's humble, NES-quality experience. And Nintendo seems be placing its hopes on its quirky but successful Super Game Boy*. Rumors of a next-generation Game Boy system were crushed at E3 2005 with the unveiling of Game Boy Pocket**, a revised GBA selling on its stylish, compact design and beautiful (but minuscule) screen."
*(I know that's just a Game Boy, I didn't have anything else to go with:( )
**(I'm not sure if the Game Boy Pocket was new at this time?)
Of course, we all know how this story ended. Sega crushed Nintendo and the Game Gear flooded the market. Hope it does well against the PSP, which is even more powerful (and therefore more fun).
Of course, 50GB means each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies will fit on one disc...
It could, and in a dream world where companies respect consumers' intelligence, it would even happen. In this world, however, even if a disc could hold 1000GB, the marketing types are gonna say "Better make it a 3 disc set so stupid people will think it's worth more".
Anyway, I can't stand how we're getting a new video format already. Heck, two formats even. Competing with each other. Which means DVD will be phased out in a few years. How long was the VHS format around for again? A whole lot longer, IIRC.
...In fact, I'm going to root for Blu-Ray just so it'll be a little bit longer before we "need" another @#$% video format.
As said before, it's good to have a mix of simple games and complex games.
But if you're going to make you're game complex, then teach people how to play. Most games will attempt to teach you controls in the first level of play (or training mode), but most of them suck at doing so.
Example: Timesplitters Future Perfect. When you play the first level, it will tell you really basic stuff like how to move move, shoot, switch weapons, etc, but it neglects to teach you a lot of important controls, and gives you zero information on what kind of tactics you should use. In other words, people used to FPSs made this game, and the obviously don't understand what it's like to not be an FPS player.
In short, companies really don't spend enough time on tutorial modes, especially when the game is of a common genre.
(Personally, I love playing tutorials, even when I'm familiar with the game).
What a worthless formula. "Uh, the funniness of a sitcom, uh multiplied by the hilarity, uh add how funny the most memorable quote is, and uh divide by amount of unnessesary canned laughter, and uh, that the equation for how good a sitcom is".
Or how about: "The quality of a news site is the number of worthwhile articles multiplied by how enjoyable they are to read minus 1,000,000,000 if the news site posts any articles about bogus formulas that are completely subjective and put way too much weight on minor aspects of a show, and use multiplying and adding in abritrary ways that lead to totally made up numbers".
Keep in mind that the "Revolution" was named so because of this idea of supporting indie gamers. Iwata said so at the Nintendo E3 press conference. So I guess the mysterious interface will be just an additional bonus revolution.
Love indie games, hope Nintendo gets this to work:)
Hmm, a two-screen set-up called the DS? I know I've heard of this before somewhere.
Maybe computers of the future will ditch that whole CD format and have cartridge slots or something. A rumbling mouse? A Virtual Boy-style interface? A 64-bit system as the standard?
What other innovations will Nintendo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the computer industry make in the years to come? Oh my, what a silly post:P
Exploits are bad. Being able to get glitches to work consistently in your favour is exploiting.
However, glitches can offer some of the best moments in a game. Whenever a big glitch happens, whether it results in Game Over or lets you skip a level, you remember it. They give you a story if it's the type of glitch that can't be recreated by others.
For example, on in GTA: San Andreas, we finished some tricky level with lots of shooting and just had to drive a safe truck with a bunch of drugs or money in it (I forget which) back to our territory. Well, this safe truck is unstable and someone starts shooting at us and we didn't want to lose. We tried to turn, but the truck rolled over and starting sliding on it's side.
But it didn't catch on fire, it just kept sliding across the road, frictionless, for about a minute, and then all of a sudden, it turned back upright and we drove it to the goal. It was hilarious at the time, and no one could stop laughing at this crazy truck disobeying physics while cops are swarming it and mission completion was on the line.
Also, once on NHLPA '93, I remember shooting a puck, and it landed on the crossbar at the top of the goal, and got stuck there and started spinning for about 15 seconds. The goalie kind of backs away from it, and then the puck drops and rolls into the net.
As long as they aren't consistant, glitches are good.
You got us Nintendo fanboys right, but let me try touch the others up a bit.
XBox Fanboy: Nintendo is for kids. They proved that with Windwaker and Twilight Princess is a desperate and failed attempt to keep up with today's market. We've been playing online for three years, and it'll be another 2 years before Nintendo makes their first game online. (Obligatory leet).
Playstation Fanboy: This is futher proof that Nintendo is living in the past. "Dur, lets pay money for old games that we already bought when we were young because Nintendo can't make anything new". Meanwhile, Sony is making a new console that is millions of times better than all current consoles put together. Have you seen the screenshots of Killzone 2? What's the Revolution going to have? Another Mario Party and some old side-scroller? Even the Nintendo sheep can't enjoy that.
Charge money for all the games, but give $50 worth of downloads out of the box?
Then people can choose their favourite games and "buy" those instead of getting dredetermined free games, and feel like they're saving $50 off the Revolution.
IMO it was a small price to pay. The dungeons had some huge rooms, which made it feel much more open. Floating through a dungeon with the Deku Leaf was fun to me.
Plus there were tons of islands and side quests, though most of them didn't give any worthwhile rewards (the secret heart containers are surely not needed to beat the game.)
Yeah, IMO, they should have made the ocean about half the physical size that it was. Then you'd see more islands in the distance and it wouldn't take so long to go from point to point.
Even after you get the warp spell (which is late in the game IIRC), the travelling times are just too long.
Aw, c'mon, I had more fun with the Ganondorf battle in Wind Waker than the boring/easy Ganon battle in Ocarina. Once you learned that you had to go between his legs, that it was it, he was a pushover after that.
And the final blow to Ganondorf in WW... I'll never get tired of that:D
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Yeah, this is the case in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, and probably just about everywhere else.
"Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information."
Yes, but they promised that this would be completed by 2069, in honour of the 100th anniversery of the moon landing. (That's what I call thinking ahead). So it'll be a while before this is done.
Why not look at the size of the mod? If it's more than 20 KB it's probably doing more than unlocking a flag.
*checks, 1.2MB*
I dunno, isn't a meg a little big for simply releasing existing content? Sounds like just about enough to add/manipulate content if you ask me.
GamePro has a feature up examining the possible end of days for the Game Boy. From the article: "...it would seem the end is nigh. Sega's Game Gear offers Genesis level power and a beautiful screen next to GB's humble, NES-quality experience. And Nintendo seems be placing its hopes on its quirky but successful Super Game Boy*. Rumors of a next-generation Game Boy system were crushed at E3 2005 with the unveiling of Game Boy Pocket**, a revised GBA selling on its stylish, compact design and beautiful (but minuscule) screen."
:( )
*(I know that's just a Game Boy, I didn't have anything else to go with
**(I'm not sure if the Game Boy Pocket was new at this time?)
Of course, we all know how this story ended. Sega crushed Nintendo and the Game Gear flooded the market. Hope it does well against the PSP, which is even more powerful (and therefore more fun).
This planet is more like that one in Perfect Dark that I forgot the name of.
What? That doesn't make any sense.
Oh. I get it. See, I thought you were referring to a linear sum of contant-scaled non-negative integer powers of a variable.
Of course, 50GB means each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies will fit on one disc...
...In fact, I'm going to root for Blu-Ray just so it'll be a little bit longer before we "need" another @#$% video format.
It could, and in a dream world where companies respect consumers' intelligence, it would even happen. In this world, however, even if a disc could hold 1000GB, the marketing types are gonna say "Better make it a 3 disc set so stupid people will think it's worth more".
Anyway, I can't stand how we're getting a new video format already. Heck, two formats even. Competing with each other. Which means DVD will be phased out in a few years. How long was the VHS format around for again? A whole lot longer, IIRC.
As said before, it's good to have a mix of simple games and complex games.
But if you're going to make you're game complex, then teach people how to play. Most games will attempt to teach you controls in the first level of play (or training mode), but most of them suck at doing so.
Example: Timesplitters Future Perfect. When you play the first level, it will tell you really basic stuff like how to move move, shoot, switch weapons, etc, but it neglects to teach you a lot of important controls, and gives you zero information on what kind of tactics you should use. In other words, people used to FPSs made this game, and the obviously don't understand what it's like to not be an FPS player.
In short, companies really don't spend enough time on tutorial modes, especially when the game is of a common genre.
(Personally, I love playing tutorials, even when I'm familiar with the game).
Actually, Mothlos is right. The dual control scheme isn't so friendly on beginners.
I would support this decision! And get Mr. T to promote it!
"I pity the foo who doesn't get a box of the most scrumptious cereal..." uh, that's all I got.
When price goes down, demand goes up.
Thus, when something is free, some people will take it even if they wouldn't have bought it.
It's a real toughie.
This is the equivilent to selling 100 items for $10 each and saying "Dammit, by not selling them for $20, we effectively lost $1000!".
OverClocked Remix has tons of vg remixes, and they're available for free (legally).
What a worthless formula. "Uh, the funniness of a sitcom, uh multiplied by the hilarity, uh add how funny the most memorable quote is, and uh divide by amount of unnessesary canned laughter, and uh, that the equation for how good a sitcom is".
Or how about: "The quality of a news site is the number of worthwhile articles multiplied by how enjoyable they are to read minus 1,000,000,000 if the news site posts any articles about bogus formulas that are completely subjective and put way too much weight on minor aspects of a show, and use multiplying and adding in abritrary ways that lead to totally made up numbers".
Ok, now I feel better.
Keep in mind that the "Revolution" was named so because of this idea of supporting indie gamers. Iwata said so at the Nintendo E3 press conference. So I guess the mysterious interface will be just an additional bonus revolution.
:)
Love indie games, hope Nintendo gets this to work
Hmm, a two-screen set-up called the DS? I know I've heard of this before somewhere.
:P
Maybe computers of the future will ditch that whole CD format and have cartridge slots or something. A rumbling mouse? A Virtual Boy-style interface? A 64-bit system as the standard?
What other innovations will Nintendo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the computer industry make in the years to come? Oh my, what a silly post
Exploits are bad. Being able to get glitches to work consistently in your favour is exploiting.
However, glitches can offer some of the best moments in a game. Whenever a big glitch happens, whether it results in Game Over or lets you skip a level, you remember it. They give you a story if it's the type of glitch that can't be recreated by others.
For example, on in GTA: San Andreas, we finished some tricky level with lots of shooting and just had to drive a safe truck with a bunch of drugs or money in it (I forget which) back to our territory. Well, this safe truck is unstable and someone starts shooting at us and we didn't want to lose. We tried to turn, but the truck rolled over and starting sliding on it's side.
But it didn't catch on fire, it just kept sliding across the road, frictionless, for about a minute, and then all of a sudden, it turned back upright and we drove it to the goal. It was hilarious at the time, and no one could stop laughing at this crazy truck disobeying physics while cops are swarming it and mission completion was on the line.
Also, once on NHLPA '93, I remember shooting a puck, and it landed on the crossbar at the top of the goal, and got stuck there and started spinning for about 15 seconds. The goalie kind of backs away from it, and then the puck drops and rolls into the net.
As long as they aren't consistant, glitches are good.
You got us Nintendo fanboys right, but let me try touch the others up a bit.
XBox Fanboy: Nintendo is for kids. They proved that with Windwaker and Twilight Princess is a desperate and failed attempt to keep up with today's market. We've been playing online for three years, and it'll be another 2 years before Nintendo makes their first game online. (Obligatory leet).
Playstation Fanboy: This is futher proof that Nintendo is living in the past. "Dur, lets pay money for old games that we already bought when we were young because Nintendo can't make anything new". Meanwhile, Sony is making a new console that is millions of times better than all current consoles put together. Have you seen the screenshots of Killzone 2? What's the Revolution going to have? Another Mario Party and some old side-scroller? Even the Nintendo sheep can't enjoy that.
Charge money for all the games, but give $50 worth of downloads out of the box?
Then people can choose their favourite games and "buy" those instead of getting dredetermined free games, and feel like they're saving $50 off the Revolution.
Biased or not, this article is great. Just looking at that profit graph makes me smile.
:)
$$$ for Nintendo = Lots of Nintendo games to come =
IMO it was a small price to pay. The dungeons had some huge rooms, which made it feel much more open. Floating through a dungeon with the Deku Leaf was fun to me.
Plus there were tons of islands and side quests, though most of them didn't give any worthwhile rewards (the secret heart containers are surely not needed to beat the game.)
Yeah, IMO, they should have made the ocean about half the physical size that it was. Then you'd see more islands in the distance and it wouldn't take so long to go from point to point.
Even after you get the warp spell (which is late in the game IIRC), the travelling times are just too long.
Aw, c'mon, I had more fun with the Ganondorf battle in Wind Waker than the boring/easy Ganon battle in Ocarina. Once you learned that you had to go between his legs, that it was it, he was a pushover after that. And the final blow to Ganondorf in WW... I'll never get tired of that :D
It's pretty tricky to die driving 10 kph :)
And Superman died in the comic books. Again and again and again.
The only thing more priceless than Kutaragi's pose is the hilariously (and probably intenionally) bad photoshopping!
Not since sidetalking.com has the world seen a better site mocking the shape of a console.