I still maintain that the NFL license shouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately the only games that lack the NFL license just tend to suck from the core gameplay elements. Blitz: the League was a good idea, unfortunately it was executed poorly. I think my fondest memories of a football game have all come from Mutant League on the genesis.
Personally, I'd like to see less uberrealistic football games, and more simply fun games. I mean, who wants to see the sweat piling up on some fat linesman's asscrack anyway?
The difference is that RPGs don't get released every single year, and they tend to be fundamentally different. Anyone who says that Oblivion and Morrowind are the same - a few minor details, never played them both. The baldur's gate series is fairly close to what you're saying, but Neverwinter Nights is quite dissimilar to baldur's gate. I have not played Champions of Norath, so I shall not comment. But I will comment that D&D Online and World of Warcraft aren't even close to the same as far as gameplay mech goes.
For the most part though, the games in the series you mentioned often involve a core engine rewrite, whereas the Madden games seem to only get engine upgrades each console generation, yet they charge full price for it. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not complaining because it obviously works for them. EA would probably be long gone by now if they didn't have their EA Sports line-up.
To be fair, when I quit playing I didn't feel like I was losing a part of me. I felt like I was just really bored with fetch quests. I guess some people just really like collecting red bandannas.
You're absolutely right. In regards to the Halo 2, I think the problem is that it became the flagship for online play with xbox live and the fun that you'd get crowding around for LAN play maybe once or twice a month got diminished by the ability to play it whenever you wanted in a big (online) group. I know some of my best times playing videogames has been in getting 12-16 people all together in a crowded room to play Halo 1. One time we'd actually gotten 22 people with some 6 TVs of various sizes all playing (multiple games going on at once) Halo. We never had that much fun, or even close to that many people after Halo 2 came out.
Yeah I'd be horrified if they got my 'reel sensitive' text message history. .. omg u g01n 2 da m0vi tonyt? may b i hav 2 get f00d b 4 tho ok ttyl:) cya
I didn't mind when I got fired from a dollar store, on the phone no less, and they didn't even have the balls to tell me I was fired, just that I didn't get any hours that week. I only didn't mind because I hated that job. . . and that I got a job a few months later that pays more than twice what my boss was making. I also got a good laugh when I learned 2 months later that ex-boss got fired for being a dipshit.
If it had been a decent job (even Radio Shed would have been a better job) I probably would have been a little more upset with that kind of firing. Had I been fired by a company form letter (which I normally filter to my delete folders anyway) it would have been much more embarassing when I showed up for my next shift not even having read the letter. ..
. . . as long as Sony adopt's extremtech's click-through-one-sentence-ad-fest business model. Honestly, I think they should just put it all on one page and just have an ad every few lines instead of forcing me to click through like 12 pages.
and what does the machine shop do, magically do some mod that doesn't work? or do they have some super secret mods that only they can do? All I was saying was that the guys/gals who do the engine work, aspiration, weight reduction, and tuning tend to pull some nice performance out of their cars. These cars are generally around 15 years old, before the car manufacturers started trying to lock out the backyard mechanics. When I was talking aestetics I meant people who go up to the local wallmart or canadian tire and "deck out" their cars with the $25 fake air intakes, the $50 loud mufflers, and the god awful skull and crossbone decals. But Once again, these guys enjoy what they do. Is it really that hard to accept that some people have fun in different ways than you?
#1 that's the joke. I like to have people remember what I've done. I never said anything about cool or uncool, I have fun doing it which is all that matters. If all you ever do in life is what other people want you to, you'll have a pretty shitty life.
#2 I take it you've never heard of a dynamometer before have you?
Nice try at being a troll though, better luck next time:)
easy. Have friend codes for kids and napkins with phone numbers written in lipstick for adults.
In all seriousness, I think it could work in such a way that people younger than 18 get friend codes and may only communicate with other friends. Anyone older than 18 may freely communicate with other adults. The only thing is you have to trick people into entering the right age data because if you ask for an age the pedos will just say they're 12. . . Possible solution would be to have to have a legal guardian cosign or something. ..Either that or bundle Brain age with each system and determine their age that way:P
for those of you behind firewalls and corporate domains. ..
New Games
Aggressive Inline
All-Star Baseball 2005
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
Burnout 3: Takedown
Catwoman
Counter-Strike
Dead to Rights
ESPN Major League Baseball
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Director's Cut
Freaky Flyers
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Island Thunder
IndyCar Series 2005
The Legend of Spyro: A Beginning
Lego Star Wars II
Links 2004
Maximum Chase
MTX: Mototrax Featuring Travis Pastrana
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
Outlaw Tennis
Over the Hedge
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Richard Burns Rally
Rogue Trooper
Serious Sam
Shincho Mahjong
Smashing Drive
Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run
The Suffering
Taz: Wanted
Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
Trigger Man
True Crime: Streets of LA
Vietcong: Purple Haze
Wrath Unleashed
X-Men II: Wolverine's Revenge
Updated Games
All-Star Baseball 2003
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart
Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Ford vs. Chevy
Half-Life 2
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
Kabuki Warrior
Magatama
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Sneakers
I don't mean to flame or anything of the sort, but I think you're missing the point of flash drives. They're not meant to store your pirated movies. They're really meant for temporary traveling important documents, projects, and presentations. With that in mind, portable hard drives are meant for what I described earlier.
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I still maintain that the NFL license shouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately the only games that lack the NFL license just tend to suck from the core gameplay elements. Blitz: the League was a good idea, unfortunately it was executed poorly. I think my fondest memories of a football game have all come from Mutant League on the genesis. Personally, I'd like to see less uberrealistic football games, and more simply fun games.
I mean, who wants to see the sweat piling up on some fat linesman's asscrack anyway?
arg, the one time I forget to use my HTML tags. . .
The difference is that RPGs don't get released every single year, and they tend to be fundamentally different. Anyone who says that Oblivion and Morrowind are the same - a few minor details, never played them both. The baldur's gate series is fairly close to what you're saying, but Neverwinter Nights is quite dissimilar to baldur's gate. I have not played Champions of Norath, so I shall not comment. But I will comment that D&D Online and World of Warcraft aren't even close to the same as far as gameplay mech goes. For the most part though, the games in the series you mentioned often involve a core engine rewrite, whereas the Madden games seem to only get engine upgrades each console generation, yet they charge full price for it. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not complaining because it obviously works for them. EA would probably be long gone by now if they didn't have their EA Sports line-up.
wait, you're a CEO?What are you doing on slashdot during worktime? Shouldn't you be stamping papers, assaulting secretaries and firing people?
I think we should be more concerned with nuking LV-426 from orbit. . .
its a nice one way vacation to Guantanamo Bay.
I didn't quit though, they just stopped scheduling me and didn't pay me severance. I don't mind though, I wouldn't take their money after that anyway.
at which point I'd just have to burn the place down.
To be fair, when I quit playing I didn't feel like I was losing a part of me. I felt like I was just really bored with fetch quests. I guess some people just really like collecting red bandannas.
You're absolutely right. In regards to the Halo 2, I think the problem is that it became the flagship for online play with xbox live and the fun that you'd get crowding around for LAN play maybe once or twice a month got diminished by the ability to play it whenever you wanted in a big (online) group. I know some of my best times playing videogames has been in getting 12-16 people all together in a crowded room to play Halo 1. One time we'd actually gotten 22 people with some 6 TVs of various sizes all playing (multiple games going on at once) Halo. We never had that much fun, or even close to that many people after Halo 2 came out.
yeah I always find myst starts to hurt my eyes if I play it too long.
I hate to be a geometry nazi, but I think you meant a 20 meter diameter. Aside from that you do raise some excellent points :)
thank you. I was waiting for the obligatory Aliens quote :)
Yeah I'd be horrified if they got my 'reel sensitive' text message history. . . :)
omg u g01n 2 da m0vi tonyt?
may b i hav 2 get f00d b 4 tho
ok ttyl
cya
I didn't mind when I got fired from a dollar store, on the phone no less, and they didn't even have the balls to tell me I was fired, just that I didn't get any hours that week. I only didn't mind because I hated that job. . . and that I got a job a few months later that pays more than twice what my boss was making. I also got a good laugh when I learned 2 months later that ex-boss got fired for being a dipshit.
If it had been a decent job (even Radio Shed would have been a better job) I probably would have been a little more upset with that kind of firing. Had I been fired by a company form letter (which I normally filter to my delete folders anyway) it would have been much more embarassing when I showed up for my next shift not even having read the letter. . .
. . . as long as Sony adopt's extremtech's click-through-one-sentence-ad-fest business model. Honestly, I think they should just put it all on one page and just have an ad every few lines instead of forcing me to click through like 12 pages.
and what does the machine shop do, magically do some mod that doesn't work? or do they have some super secret mods that only they can do?
All I was saying was that the guys/gals who do the engine work, aspiration, weight reduction, and tuning tend to pull some nice performance out of their cars. These cars are generally around 15 years old, before the car manufacturers started trying to lock out the backyard mechanics. When I was talking aestetics I meant people who go up to the local wallmart or canadian tire and "deck out" their cars with the $25 fake air intakes, the $50 loud mufflers, and the god awful skull and crossbone decals. But Once again, these guys enjoy what they do. Is it really that hard to accept that some people have fun in different ways than you?
#1 that's the joke. I like to have people remember what I've done. I never said anything about cool or uncool, I have fun doing it which is all that matters. If all you ever do in life is what other people want you to, you'll have a pretty shitty life.
:)
#2 I take it you've never heard of a dynamometer before have you?
Nice try at being a troll though, better luck next time
I think its more like growing out of us like all total recall style.
easy. Have friend codes for kids and napkins with phone numbers written in lipstick for adults.
.Either that or bundle Brain age with each system and determine their age that way :P
In all seriousness, I think it could work in such a way that people younger than 18 get friend codes and may only communicate with other friends. Anyone older than 18 may freely communicate with other adults. The only thing is you have to trick people into entering the right age data because if you ask for an age the pedos will just say they're 12. . . Possible solution would be to have to have a legal guardian cosign or something. .
for those of you behind firewalls and corporate domains. . .
New Games
Aggressive Inline
All-Star Baseball 2005
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
Burnout 3: Takedown
Catwoman
Counter-Strike
Dead to Rights
ESPN Major League Baseball
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Director's Cut
Freaky Flyers
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Island Thunder
IndyCar Series 2005
The Legend of Spyro: A Beginning
Lego Star Wars II
Links 2004
Maximum Chase
MTX: Mototrax Featuring Travis Pastrana
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
Outlaw Tennis
Over the Hedge
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Richard Burns Rally
Rogue Trooper
Serious Sam
Shincho Mahjong
Smashing Drive
Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run
The Suffering
Taz: Wanted
Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
Trigger Man
True Crime: Streets of LA
Vietcong: Purple Haze
Wrath Unleashed
X-Men II: Wolverine's Revenge
Updated Games
All-Star Baseball 2003
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart
Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Ford vs. Chevy
Half-Life 2
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
Kabuki Warrior
Magatama
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Sneakers
oh dear god I hope not.
it's cause they all have a copy of the GP's joke too!
I don't mean to flame or anything of the sort, but I think you're missing the point of flash drives. They're not meant to store your pirated movies. They're really meant for temporary traveling important documents, projects, and presentations. With that in mind, portable hard drives are meant for what I described earlier.
well how would we post on slashdot if we didn't?