I hate to not include a source but I remember reading from a slashdot article that only 11% of regular Xbox games actually crossed the 4.7gb line into dual layer discs. The only game I can think of off the top of my head that used dual layer was Ninja Gaiden : Black. I'm relatively sure it crossed that line only because of the prerendered cutscenes. My guess is the only games that will need more than 9gb (for the first few years atleast) on the Xbox 360 will be the asian, story driven RPGs. Anything else will render everything JIT in the game engine, which as far as I know doesn't require quite as much space. I think Halo 2 had just about as much cutscene as Ninja Gaiden, except it was all in-engine and was less than 4.7gb.
The thing is, I think eventually 9gb will not be enough space for X360 games. Honestly though, nobody minded when FF7 was 4 discs, RE:2 was 2, why is it going to be such a huge problem for the X360? Deep down is it because it is Microsoft?
Jesus Christ, why the hell are you an AC. That is more insightful than most non-AC's I've read in a long time.
the most immature online person I ever met was a monk in EQ, who turned out to be a 45 year old man with a wife and kids - but who acted like an 8 year old in every respect (and threw tantrums).
I think I met that guy before. . . he was the Admin for a CS clan server I was in probably 6 years ago, I found out he was cheating on the server when clanmates weren't around. Told everyone what happened and was promptly kicked out of the clan and banned from the server.
Morality in online games is incredibly different, first off, in games it is not only common place, but it is the very point of the game, to kill thousands if not millions of mobs and people (depending on your pvp/pve preference) as sport, for the property they may or may not have, or because they get in your way - always because they have something to offer you. This by itself makes for radically different morality - therefore it is necessary to recognize video games as not reality, and apply a different moral code to them as part of a mental excercise - or fantasy. This means that you expect to have different morality by it's very nature - which makes it very difficult, and definitely futile to compare one with the other on any reasonable measure. Real world morality is not worth creating a fantasy world for, even things as simple as The Sims employ subtle shifts in morality to liven things up, though they purport to be life simulators.
I'd just like to say to that, I would actually enjoy a MMO where you could be held accountable for your actions, I think the easiest way to do this is to make death count for something. Say for instance, if your character dies in the game that's it. Game over. Start a new character. I know it sounds harsh but maybe after a certain level you could start a family lineage or something, and select a certain number of your items to get passed down to the next in your family or something, everything else gets dropped as loot. If the consequence of death or jail is harsh enough, I think it will cause a fair percentage of people to smarten up. This might pose a problem with veterans just killing all the lowbies, but if there is a decent law/bounty system involved (possibly nerfing people with bad karma), a mob of lowbies could then cause justice to run its course.
. ..at which point I spend another $200-$300 and extend it for another 2 or 3 years. If you had chosen to read the rest of my response, I stated that my last system lasted from 1998 until approximately 2004, with about $300 in upgrades. Also, the GP said $500 every year, implying that was above and beyond the initial purchase price. Once again, I've been hoisted by my own (unclear, I'll give you that) implications.
I've got to say that if your friends have to spend $500+ (I'm assuming CAD) per year just to stay competitive in multiplayer games they are either doing something wrong or aren't very good at them. I spent $1500 a year ago and I can still compete in all the latest games, and will still be able to (as I ramp details down) compete probably for the next 2 years atleast. My last machine before this one was a PIII 450mhz machine, and had only missed out on a year or two of PC games with only about $400 worth of upgrades (that's since I got it in around '98). If you can live without having 90xAA (exageration) then you can probably go a few years, some key strategic upgrades and they'll last a lot longer. I've moved my PC into my living room aswell, and it seems to have worked out nicely for me. I do have to say though that I still consider myself a console gamer too, I just think comparing PC to console is apples to oranges. PC games do things that console games can't, and vice versa. I mean, there's nothing like sharing a couch with a few other people and blasting the crap out of each other, all in the same room.
I know the final match at a BF2 tournament that took place a few weeks ago was recorded and we had close to 150 people watching it go down. I'm not sure what they did for camera set up as I was too busy in the match to look up. I think they had a few screens and just had each spectator following a cap point. I'm relatively sure they got a nice birds eye view of me knifing one of the other dudes. But anyway my point is that there was a lot of crowd reaction, especially since it was such a close match. Also, ours was a fairly unprofessional (it was all for fun and non-profit) so I imagine if they had a bigger/better budget then I'm sure the camera work could be more complex and follow the match better. I've also heard that Battlefield has a built in recorder which monitors how the game is progressing, not just how each player is playing.
to be fair, does anyone really enjoy playing the public consoles after the initial marketing rush? No one ever plays the ones at my local EBs and walmarts.
about a year ago my local walmart had a bunch of Suikoden 2 sitting in a bargain bin for $20. That is until a friend of mine found out, bought all the copies, then sold them on ebay for like $120 each. . . But I know what you mean, some games just seem to have a high demand for seemingly no reason at all. Hell, I played a few hours (read 10 hours) of it and was bored out of my tree.
I was the same way when I was considering learning bass/guitar. Especially where the crucial work (fretting and chording and such) is done with your lefthand anyway. Its the one place where I can say that I benefit from being a leftie. as far as mice go, it does seem relatively foolish to use your left for the mouse, anytime you go to use someone else's computer, you'd have to competely thrash their desk space anyway, and they'd have to do the same to yours. as far as touch screens go, is it really all that necessary to swap sides? why not use your right hand, it's not like you have to be that dexterous to move a scroll bar.
One thing is sure, it needs to accomodate both fighting classes and socializing classes and keep them equally important.
. . . and not "improve" that feature out of it once they do have it:) Unfortunately, I was one of the people to try Galaxies out after the improvements. Unfortunately aswell, I was one of the people who wanted to make my living mining resources and building cool stuff (I wanted to Pimp your TIE, like xzibit). Unfortunately the trader classes were so nerfed I couldn't survive outside for Mos Eisley, not even with the help of my jedi friend.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that nerfing the people who don't want a mindless shooting game isn't the most productive move to make.
Fair use is a 3 option process: 1. Buy a patent 2. Sell a patent 3. Bribe the US patent office to grant your rediculously vague, sweepingly generalized "patent"
so its our fault if we don't patrol 100% of your border? fair enough. Why don't we discuss the time a year ago when a man murdered his neighbors with a chainsaw, put the bloody chainsaw on the seat beside him, and crossed into America where he was detained for 3 hours and then released? http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/10/border.chainsaw/ index.html
and you obviously need better glasses. I said my $50 dvd player is better than my expensive dvd players. I should have used my --verbose command to state what I was implying. My $50 DVD player is better featurewise than my expensive dvd players. I've also noticed that my expensive DVD players "crash" more often than my cheap one, most of the time if they read say a heavily scratched portion of a disc they'll completely lock up and I'll have to unplug them and plug them back in again to recover this disc. Oversampling and buffering be damned, a piece of dedicated hardware like that should never crash like that. If my toaster, George Foreman Grill, or fridge crashed I'd expect the companies who made them wouldn't stay in business very long. Sometimes my toilet will suffer from buffer-overrun, but that's only when I try to flush too much data down the tube, not when I give it something that would have been in its regular test cases and error handling. Also, its nothing a good 'injection attack' won't fix.
I know what you mean, the $45 walmart DVD player I bought like 3 years ago is much better and much more reliable than any of my other dvd players (which all cost from $75 to about $250)
actually as long as steam still exists in some form you can continue to play the games. They let you make backups of all software you've purchased, they also keep track of what you've boughten. If my hdd goes kaput, as long as I remember my login/password they'll let me download the game again. I can also manage to get some games that either cannot be purchased in physical form, or are a bitch to find now. As far as reselling goes, it does really suck, but I could imagine you could add $10 to what you were going to charge the guy/gal. .. I guess I'm saying that steam could be a lot tighter, so be happy about that.
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I hate to not include a source but I remember reading from a slashdot article that only 11% of regular Xbox games actually crossed the 4.7gb line into dual layer discs. The only game I can think of off the top of my head that used dual layer was Ninja Gaiden : Black. I'm relatively sure it crossed that line only because of the prerendered cutscenes. My guess is the only games that will need more than 9gb (for the first few years atleast) on the Xbox 360 will be the asian, story driven RPGs. Anything else will render everything JIT in the game engine, which as far as I know doesn't require quite as much space. I think Halo 2 had just about as much cutscene as Ninja Gaiden, except it was all in-engine and was less than 4.7gb.
The thing is, I think eventually 9gb will not be enough space for X360 games. Honestly though, nobody minded when FF7 was 4 discs, RE:2 was 2, why is it going to be such a huge problem for the X360? Deep down is it because it is Microsoft?
*tinfoil hat*
AMD.
. . .at which point I spend another $200-$300 and extend it for another 2 or 3 years. If you had chosen to read the rest of my response, I stated that my last system lasted from 1998 until approximately 2004, with about $300 in upgrades. Also, the GP said $500 every year, implying that was above and beyond the initial purchase price. Once again, I've been hoisted by my own (unclear, I'll give you that) implications.
I've got to say that if your friends have to spend $500+ (I'm assuming CAD) per year just to stay competitive in multiplayer games they are either doing something wrong or aren't very good at them. I spent $1500 a year ago and I can still compete in all the latest games, and will still be able to (as I ramp details down) compete probably for the next 2 years atleast. My last machine before this one was a PIII 450mhz machine, and had only missed out on a year or two of PC games with only about $400 worth of upgrades (that's since I got it in around '98).
If you can live without having 90xAA (exageration) then you can probably go a few years, some key strategic upgrades and they'll last a lot longer.
I've moved my PC into my living room aswell, and it seems to have worked out nicely for me. I do have to say though that I still consider myself a console gamer too, I just think comparing PC to console is apples to oranges. PC games do things that console games can't, and vice versa. I mean, there's nothing like sharing a couch with a few other people and blasting the crap out of each other, all in the same room.
I know the final match at a BF2 tournament that took place a few weeks ago was recorded and we had close to 150 people watching it go down. I'm not sure what they did for camera set up as I was too busy in the match to look up. I think they had a few screens and just had each spectator following a cap point. I'm relatively sure they got a nice birds eye view of me knifing one of the other dudes. But anyway my point is that there was a lot of crowd reaction, especially since it was such a close match. Also, ours was a fairly unprofessional (it was all for fun and non-profit) so I imagine if they had a bigger/better budget then I'm sure the camera work could be more complex and follow the match better.
I've also heard that Battlefield has a built in recorder which monitors how the game is progressing, not just how each player is playing.
to be fair, does anyone really enjoy playing the public consoles after the initial marketing rush? No one ever plays the ones at my local EBs and walmarts.
arg LESS THAN or EQUAL to $100. . . stupid html tags...
Hey, if it keeps coming down they might buy it even though they don't want it. . . I know I'd buy a PS3 if it were = $100. . .
about a year ago my local walmart had a bunch of Suikoden 2 sitting in a bargain bin for $20. That is until a friend of mine found out, bought all the copies, then sold them on ebay for like $120 each. . . But I know what you mean, some games just seem to have a high demand for seemingly no reason at all. Hell, I played a few hours (read 10 hours) of it and was bored out of my tree.
I was the same way when I was considering learning bass/guitar. Especially where the crucial work (fretting and chording and such) is done with your lefthand anyway. Its the one place where I can say that I benefit from being a leftie.
as far as mice go, it does seem relatively foolish to use your left for the mouse, anytime you go to use someone else's computer, you'd have to competely thrash their desk space anyway, and they'd have to do the same to yours.
as far as touch screens go, is it really all that necessary to swap sides? why not use your right hand, it's not like you have to be that dexterous to move a scroll bar.
But it didn't happen accidentally. . . It was just. . . Someone Who Isn't Me. . . yeah, that's it! SWIM did it.
did you try it backwards? everyone knows that everything played backward is more evil!
did you try to Konami code?
owned by html tags. . .
Yes but most of us in North America don't really enjoy tentacles 'attacking' scantily clad anime girls.
Fair use is a 3 option process:
1. Buy a patent
2. Sell a patent
3. Bribe the US patent office to grant your rediculously vague, sweepingly generalized "patent"
Amilcar Perez???
dear god! its a terr'ist!
so its our fault if we don't patrol 100% of your border? fair enough. Why don't we discuss the time a year ago when a man murdered his neighbors with a chainsaw, put the bloody chainsaw on the seat beside him, and crossed into America where he was detained for 3 hours and then released? http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/10/border.chainsaw/ index.html
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You said something about an armed gunman, but your biggest worry about the guards shutting their post down is traffic problems? WTF mate! Running for cover? I know this isn't the first news article about it, but didn't Canadian CT's foil a group of 17 terrorists' plans? http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&art
Finally, please try to link to news if you're going to talk about events like that, it makes it easier on the rest of us
and you obviously need better glasses. I said my $50 dvd player is better than my expensive dvd players. I should have used my --verbose command to state what I was implying. My $50 DVD player is better featurewise than my expensive dvd players. I've also noticed that my expensive DVD players "crash" more often than my cheap one, most of the time if they read say a heavily scratched portion of a disc they'll completely lock up and I'll have to unplug them and plug them back in again to recover this disc. Oversampling and buffering be damned, a piece of dedicated hardware like that should never crash like that.
If my toaster, George Foreman Grill, or fridge crashed I'd expect the companies who made them wouldn't stay in business very long. Sometimes my toilet will suffer from buffer-overrun, but that's only when I try to flush too much data down the tube, not when I give it something that would have been in its regular test cases and error handling. Also, its nothing a good 'injection attack' won't fix.
I know what you mean, the $45 walmart DVD player I bought like 3 years ago is much better and much more reliable than any of my other dvd players (which all cost from $75 to about $250)
actually as long as steam still exists in some form you can continue to play the games. They let you make backups of all software you've purchased, they also keep track of what you've boughten. If my hdd goes kaput, as long as I remember my login/password they'll let me download the game again. I can also manage to get some games that either cannot be purchased in physical form, or are a bitch to find now. .
As far as reselling goes, it does really suck, but I could imagine you could add $10 to what you were going to charge the guy/gal. .
I guess I'm saying that steam could be a lot tighter, so be happy about that.
excellent no cure for cancer reference!