wow I think you entirely missed the point of battlefield 2. If battlefield 2 was entirely devoid of any spoken word it would end up with a squad or two at most on either team doing stuff together then the other 90% of the team running in circles blasting themselves up. Ever play CounterStrike on a pub server? It would be exactly like that except magnified. I do agree that it sucks that each character sounds the same and that there are no female characters at all, except for the nice lady who tells you about the artillery your noob commander just dropped on your head. That would be an easy fix though, ADDING more VOAs! One other thought though, is that if they would have shipped a headset with every copy the game they could have done away with the VOAs.
oh sorry that second one must have come out in the last few months. You didn't have to get all high and mighty about it, All I was saying is that for it to be a competitive handheld system it has to sell far more than 40,000 units and it has to have software that is easy (read: you take it out of the package and put it in the system and it works) for people who aren't computer savvy. Do you believe that the Nintendo DS would be just as successful in selling over 22 million units if for all of the software, you had to download it then put it on a flash disk?
With that said, those students who made the fake myspace for their "lesbian" vice-principal (about a week ago, too lazy to dig up) sure picked the wrong social minority to lump her into if they wanted to damage her reputation!
Okay, so in all seriousness the GP2X is a good looking system and I wish I had one, but the problem is that the normal handheld system buyer has never even heard of it, and on top of that there has been 1 game officially released for it, with one "on the way"? If the GP2X is to score any recognition at all it needs "real" games that the average kid in EB can pick up and look at the box art for, not more tux racer and frozen bubble ports. Christ, for that matter the GP2X needs shelf space at the average EB before it can become a hot commodity.
I highly doubt the average Joe family that buys the Wii over the PS3 on price, wouldn't even consider hooking it up to the internet anyway. To said average Joe family, the internet is that phone cable thingy (or fat phone cable thingy if they have broadband) that plugs into the PC and magically gives them the awesome power of AOL. I live in a fairly small (population wise) area of Canada where everyone and their dog has broadband, I can imagine if we're in that state here, it must be around the same adoption rate as similarily sized cities in USA. I'd also be so bold as to say that the adoption of broadband rate would be higher in the US cities simply because of the better infrastructure in the american towns. Without researching the national broadband to dial-up ratios, I'd put money on there being more than 50% broadband connections.
With that said, why should any of the console manufactures shoot for the minority when the amount of broadband connections are increasing, the number of dial-up connections are decreasing, and in a few years time broadband making up more like 75% of the internet connections in North America? Furthermore, Don't you think that the majority of people lining up to preorder these new consoles are more likely to keep current in technology? (read: more likely to have a broadband internet connection)
While I agree with your sentiment, you know as well as I do that Syphon Filter blows. Please, don't try to sugar coat your argument, it will stand without the washed up console game - 1.
Well you see, this is all just EB/GameStop's elaborate plan for the next-next-gen console launches: The Pre-pre-order. The idea is to avoid standing in line for your pre-order, so you can put money down in January 2007 for the opportunity to be first in line to put money down on putting money down on the PS4, Xbox 720, or Nintendo's WiiWii.
the only benefit is that this 1yr warranty is more than likely an instore warranty. Meaning not having to go through the hassle of calling the outsourced chinese call center and then shipping the unit to some place and wait 2 weeks to get it back. The $3 game warranties are the real ripoffs from EB, I hate how pushy they are about selling it to you.
A quick look in a fitness catalog and you'll see decent fitness machines for roughly the same pricetag as a PS3. . . Now speaking as a terribly lazy gamer I think I'd vastly prefer the fitness machine (one of the models w/o the BluRay disc player) to a PS3. . .
The $500 does, however, ensure that there won't be any open source Windows drivers.
Bullshit! I see small communities of gamers all pitching in to buy gaming servers. I see donation based internet radios http://soma.fm/ start and survive off community donations. In fact I think the last time I went to the Ubuntu site I saw a donate http://www.ubuntu.com/donations button. I highly doubt that the $500 signing pricetag is going to doom the open source communities. I think the only communities this will lock out is the open sores community, and I for one wouldn't mind that at all.
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wow I think you entirely missed the point of battlefield 2. If battlefield 2 was entirely devoid of any spoken word it would end up with a squad or two at most on either team doing stuff together then the other 90% of the team running in circles blasting themselves up. Ever play CounterStrike on a pub server? It would be exactly like that except magnified.
I do agree that it sucks that each character sounds the same and that there are no female characters at all, except for the nice lady who tells you about the artillery your noob commander just dropped on your head. That would be an easy fix though, ADDING more VOAs!
One other thought though, is that if they would have shipped a headset with every copy the game they could have done away with the VOAs.
actually in ripping Morrowind GOTY to my hdd it was 1gb. . . I think about 940mb to be somewhat precise.
oh sorry that second one must have come out in the last few months. You didn't have to get all high and mighty about it, All I was saying is that for it to be a competitive handheld system it has to sell far more than 40,000 units and it has to have software that is easy (read: you take it out of the package and put it in the system and it works) for people who aren't computer savvy. Do you believe that the Nintendo DS would be just as successful in selling over 22 million units if for all of the software, you had to download it then put it on a flash disk?
With that said, those students who made the fake myspace for their "lesbian" vice-principal (about a week ago, too lazy to dig up) sure picked the wrong social minority to lump her into if they wanted to damage her reputation!
that sounds really, really kinky. I mean who's sexual fantasies include star wars blasters, jedis, AND track & field???
Yes, all 400 of you have made the GP2X so hot.
Okay, so in all seriousness the GP2X is a good looking system and I wish I had one, but the problem is that the normal handheld system buyer has never even heard of it, and on top of that there has been 1 game officially released for it, with one "on the way"? If the GP2X is to score any recognition at all it needs "real" games that the average kid in EB can pick up and look at the box art for, not more tux racer and frozen bubble ports. Christ, for that matter the GP2X needs shelf space at the average EB before it can become a hot commodity.
you obviously missed out on freebasing cookies. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200959 &cid=16453683
You're damn right you should regret buying drugs from the two stoners hanging around the front of the bakery! For Shame!
I'd prefer to keep with the monopolistic naming convention:
/.er will save the day.
purple iron linux
green wheelbarrow linux
orange racecar linux
and finally silver battleship linux.
I may have missed something but I'm sure another
Yes, unfortunately all but 3 of those units are going on ebay on Launch Day plus one.
I highly doubt the average Joe family that buys the Wii over the PS3 on price, wouldn't even consider hooking it up to the internet anyway. To said average Joe family, the internet is that phone cable thingy (or fat phone cable thingy if they have broadband) that plugs into the PC and magically gives them the awesome power of AOL. I live in a fairly small (population wise) area of Canada where everyone and their dog has broadband, I can imagine if we're in that state here, it must be around the same adoption rate as similarily sized cities in USA. I'd also be so bold as to say that the adoption of broadband rate would be higher in the US cities simply because of the better infrastructure in the american towns. Without researching the national broadband to dial-up ratios, I'd put money on there being more than 50% broadband connections.
With that said, why should any of the console manufactures shoot for the minority when the amount of broadband connections are increasing, the number of dial-up connections are decreasing, and in a few years time broadband making up more like 75% of the internet connections in North America? Furthermore, Don't you think that the majority of people lining up to preorder these new consoles are more likely to keep current in technology? (read: more likely to have a broadband internet connection)
While I agree with your sentiment, you know as well as I do that Syphon Filter blows. Please, don't try to sugar coat your argument, it will stand without the washed up console game - 1.
You mean I don't have to get off my ass to finally get my PC copy of Call of Duty 2???? I'm totally there!!!
I don't know about you but I hit it. . . then I hit reload like two dozen times. . .
doing my part, one click at a time!
Well you see, this is all just EB/GameStop's elaborate plan for the next-next-gen console launches: The Pre-pre-order. The idea is to avoid standing in line for your pre-order, so you can put money down in January 2007 for the opportunity to be first in line to put money down on putting money down on the PS4, Xbox 720, or Nintendo's WiiWii.
the only benefit is that this 1yr warranty is more than likely an instore warranty. Meaning not having to go through the hassle of calling the outsourced chinese call center and then shipping the unit to some place and wait 2 weeks to get it back.
The $3 game warranties are the real ripoffs from EB, I hate how pushy they are about selling it to you.
A quick look in a fitness catalog and you'll see decent fitness machines for roughly the same pricetag as a PS3. . . Now speaking as a terribly lazy gamer I think I'd vastly prefer the fitness machine (one of the models w/o the BluRay disc player) to a PS3. . .
WTF, one of the EBs in Fredericton NB took a pre-order from my brother like 3 months ago!
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Well this wouldn't have been a problem if she already had a MySpace would it?
obviously you've never eaten a green musroom before.
that's odd, I didn't think you could get any funnier than +5. . .
the funny thing is that I spelled it ICANN twice and ended up correcting myself.
Duh! We're on the internets supporting the filthy terrorists by stealing music every day! Obviously.