I know a friend of mine got burned when buying his rig about 2 years ago, PCI-e had just come out, and he didn't expect it to kill AGP in a matter of days. So, I'd say that was a bad time to buy a midrange system. (PCI-e was at the expensive end at the time)
either that or it could be more like a campaign of multiple smaller battles where the total outcome could take 10 hours but each individual battle could be more like 2 hours. Though I'm speaking entirely out of my ass on the subject.
D'oh. Silly me, I thought it was "this amount" when you actually meant "this number of this currency". Simplified, like I thought $100, and you meant $100 times an undetermined number.
I disagree with your sentiment. You asked "how many games outside of arcade use lightguns" to which the obvious answer is basically "none" This is an unfair question though because rail shooters and first person shooters aren't the same thing. The reason why there are no FPS games that support lightguns is spread between the design and the economics of development.
#1 every lightgun game that I know of is designed as a rail shooter, you don't (or have VERY limited) control the game. With that in mind a regular controller cannot suffice. This is where the Wii controller improves, apparently it can act as a control (nunchauku attachment) and as a lightgun (pointer) a the same time
#2 for the most part, lightgun games have had to use custom hardware to deal with problem #1. This is generally an expensive ordeal, especially if the company isn't Sega. I guess what I'm getting at is I imagine that it will be easier for a dev studio to work on implementing lightgun styled controls if the first party control already does precisely what they want in the first place.
In the sea of negative reactions to the PS3 this is one of the few positive ones I've seen (well atleast on slashdot) I'm both happy that this has happened, but I'm still completely underwhelmed about the PS3. I know I'll end up owning all three consoles, but with Ken Kutaragi personally telling me I'm too poor to enjoy video games I can't help but feel that PS3 will be the last.
. . . But I think more shows should end before they get stagnant anyway. I'm not saying that studios should just drop their show entirely, I think they should just make room for new series once they get their point across. I'm happy that SG1 is getting retired as long as they're giving space for atlantis to breathe. The same should have been done for Futurama when The Simpson's got old.
I'm starting to wonder about that Unreal 3 engine. I mean, its being made out to be this super engine that can do ANYTHING. We're seeing everything from FPS to RPG to EDUTAINMENT titles popping up all using it.
I know that if anyone can make a game engine its their engineers, but do you suppose it's really THAT robust?
I wouldn't mind seeing Leeroy Jenkins in there. . .
maybe the cast of FF1, Fighter, BlackMage and Ninja would be pretty awesome. Again some of Capcom's characters would be pretty sweet, someone mentioned Gem Fighter SD style chars. ..In Fact, I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo, Capacom, and SNK, to collaberate, like maybe making the "funny, non serious" Smashbros style, then the more serious Capcom VS SNK VS Marvel kind of thing.
AFAIK the wifi dongle plugs into a PC which can either be on a LAN or w-LAN, which then acts as a gateway for the DS to connect to (using its built in WiFi device.) So the DS keeps the same formfactor that we all know and love, AND it gets teh internets from the PC.
I hear that. In fact, I'll confirm that there really were no NPCs in Morrowind that you couldn't kill.
I will comment that you could indeed screw up your Morrowind game by killing some NPCs. One of which I believe had the underground haven for the zombie people I think they were called "Corprus Diseased." Part of the main quest was to get infected with this disease and that NPC would give you a potential cure. I forget how the rest turned out but I know if you killed him a message would pop up that you could no longer finish the game and asks if you want to load your game or continue screwing around.
Yeah really, my older brother went in like 2 weeks ago to EB and they took his pre-order for the Wii. . . Man I think they need to stop hiring the useless nerds that they usually do. Last night I went in to buy a DS lite, asked the guy if it came with anything (The Walmart around the corner gave some extra accessories but were sold out) and he told me it came with a charger. When I was browsing in the store I saw some guys approach him with a copy of Oblivion and asked him if there was multiplayer in it. He told them that there was "probably some mod for it that gives online play." So I guess his manager will have a fun time tonight:P
Bullshit, you dredge up 2 ads from Microsoft's website and you can say their primary market is children?
how about the front page with ads for Ninety Nine Nights; one of the biggest hack/slash games in the past few years. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; a game that would largely fly over the heads of anyone younger than 16. Or maybe Prey; ultraviolent, bizarre, first person shooter that would give nightmares to anyone younger than 16. Why don't we try Gaming with Audioslave, how many children do you know that listen to Audioslave? Dead Rising, Saint's Row, and Call of Duty 2 all have visual presence on the front page, that's gotta say more about their advertising than finding the link to the family oriented software that your links slant to.
Also, you must have read into the fact that the leet speak is only what I read into your last post, obviously that wasn't the message you wanted to spread, so don't attack me if I call you on it! Childish my ass, I brought up a good point and you slanderize me by calling me childish? CLASSIC.
rtb61 and marketing, truth has no meaning.
One last thing, you mentioned that Microsoft is evil by stupidity, if they're such a stupid company then why are they on top of the home computing world? why are they netting in the money they are grabbing? I think it's not that Microsoft is stupid, it's that their consumers are stupid for just eating up their product!
Okay that was a little on the insensitive side, but I wonder if these terrorists are going through the same frustrations as you albeit in an entirely opposite way? Now the questions is, which is making the bigger difference? Is using your democratic right as a "free person" to demand things of your political representative making any sort of change to the world around you? probably not I would suspect.Now would your message be heard if you hijacked a bus full of school children and made your demands then?
or lightning sharks!! Honestly though, what the hell would a terrorist want with a kid anyway? I could see them kidnapping some billionaire's kid, president's kid, or whatever generic action movie/video game plot line. But taking an average person's kid? that my friends is FUD.
I think you're trying to put too much anti-microsoft spin on it. This could be ANY company at all but because it happens to be Microsoft it is "extra evil." I call bullshit on this! You're also trying to pull this Jack Thompson "Somebody please think of the childrens!!!1" when last I checked Microsoft is marketing to the right market, the majority of gamers are approximately 16-25 year old males. 16-25 year old males tend to have the most disposable income to be used on entertainment. I could see Nintendo doing the very same thing, possibly selling special rare Pokemons on the Wii, so please keep your "Microsoft is teh ev1l cause they are on to an idea that will make them money" to yourself. I can guarantee that other companies have been trying to nail down an infrastructure that would allow them to do the exact same.
I mean, it might destroy gaming but don't think for a minute that only microsoft would dream of doing it because they are "teh big evils corp3rationz."
All this and they're jumping on a dying operating system! By the time this service shows up (if it shows up at all) their target audience will all have made the jump to Vista.
I was bullied too in elementary/middle school for being large. The only thing that ever worked was beating the fuck out of the bullies, though I was fairly successful in doing it steathily. I was never once caught for laying a beating on one of them, I generally did it when no one else was around, they generally didn't try and tell anyone I guess because they got what was coming to them.
What I don't understand is why those skinny little kids always try to pick on the big quiet kid. A buddy of mine was teaching english in China, and he was saying one of his students was like 5'10 and about 180lbs where all the other students were like 4'4 and half his weight. They'd always pick on this kid for being "fat" and my buddy couldn't figure out why this kid wouldn't just tear them in half and shit in the stumps. He even told the kid that he'd give him 10 minutes before "noticing" what was happening, but I guess the kid was too shy/gentle to take him up on the offer.
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I know a friend of mine got burned when buying his rig about 2 years ago, PCI-e had just come out, and he didn't expect it to kill AGP in a matter of days. So, I'd say that was a bad time to buy a midrange system. (PCI-e was at the expensive end at the time)
either that or it could be more like a campaign of multiple smaller battles where the total outcome could take 10 hours but each individual battle could be more like 2 hours. Though I'm speaking entirely out of my ass on the subject.
D'oh. Silly me, I thought it was "this amount" when you actually meant "this number of this currency". Simplified, like I thought $100, and you meant $100 times an undetermined number.
My bad.
I disagree with your sentiment. You asked "how many games outside of arcade use lightguns" to which the obvious answer is basically "none" This is an unfair question though because rail shooters and first person shooters aren't the same thing. The reason why there are no FPS games that support lightguns is spread between the design and the economics of development.
#1 every lightgun game that I know of is designed as a rail shooter, you don't (or have VERY limited) control the game. With that in mind a regular controller cannot suffice. This is where the Wii controller improves, apparently it can act as a control (nunchauku attachment) and as a lightgun (pointer) a the same time
#2 for the most part, lightgun games have had to use custom hardware to deal with problem #1. This is generally an expensive ordeal, especially if the company isn't Sega. I guess what I'm getting at is I imagine that it will be easier for a dev studio to work on implementing lightgun styled controls if the first party control already does precisely what they want in the first place.
Well, those are my inflated $0.02.
10,000.00Y ~= 95.6891 CAD http://www.xe.com/
Would have been extra cool if you made it convincing. . .
In the sea of negative reactions to the PS3 this is one of the few positive ones I've seen (well atleast on slashdot) I'm both happy that this has happened, but I'm still completely underwhelmed about the PS3. I know I'll end up owning all three consoles, but with Ken Kutaragi personally telling me I'm too poor to enjoy video games I can't help but feel that PS3 will be the last.
. . . But I think more shows should end before they get stagnant anyway. I'm not saying that studios should just drop their show entirely, I think they should just make room for new series once they get their point across. I'm happy that SG1 is getting retired as long as they're giving space for atlantis to breathe. The same should have been done for Futurama when The Simpson's got old.
OMG its a wachowski brother!!!
you should just buy one of their compilaton CD's, pirate it in high volume, then resell making sure to undercut those bastards while you're at it!
forget the tinfoil hat, we need to get you into a tinfoil room FAST!
I'm starting to wonder about that Unreal 3 engine. I mean, its being made out to be this super engine that can do ANYTHING. We're seeing everything from FPS to RPG to EDUTAINMENT titles popping up all using it.
I know that if anyone can make a game engine its their engineers, but do you suppose it's really THAT robust?
I wouldn't mind seeing Leeroy Jenkins in there. . . maybe the cast of FF1, Fighter, BlackMage and Ninja would be pretty awesome. Again some of Capcom's characters would be pretty sweet, someone mentioned Gem Fighter SD style chars. . .In Fact, I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo, Capacom, and SNK, to collaberate, like maybe making the "funny, non serious" Smashbros style, then the more serious Capcom VS SNK VS Marvel kind of thing.
AFAIK the wifi dongle plugs into a PC which can either be on a LAN or w-LAN, which then acts as a gateway for the DS to connect to (using its built in WiFi device.) So the DS keeps the same formfactor that we all know and love, AND it gets teh internets from the PC.
I will comment that you could indeed screw up your Morrowind game by killing some NPCs. One of which I believe had the underground haven for the zombie people I think they were called "Corprus Diseased." Part of the main quest was to get infected with this disease and that NPC would give you a potential cure. I forget how the rest turned out but I know if you killed him a message would pop up that you could no longer finish the game and asks if you want to load your game or continue screwing around.
Yeah really, my older brother went in like 2 weeks ago to EB and they took his pre-order for the Wii. . . Man I think they need to stop hiring the useless nerds that they usually do. Last night I went in to buy a DS lite, asked the guy if it came with anything (The Walmart around the corner gave some extra accessories but were sold out) and he told me it came with a charger. When I was browsing in the store I saw some guys approach him with a copy of Oblivion and asked him if there was multiplayer in it. He told them that there was "probably some mod for it that gives online play." So I guess his manager will have a fun time tonight :P
but how will we justify that control scheme for use in Duke Nukem Forever?
how about the front page with ads for Ninety Nine Nights; one of the biggest hack/slash games in the past few years. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; a game that would largely fly over the heads of anyone younger than 16. Or maybe Prey; ultraviolent, bizarre, first person shooter that would give nightmares to anyone younger than 16. Why don't we try Gaming with Audioslave, how many children do you know that listen to Audioslave? Dead Rising, Saint's Row, and Call of Duty 2 all have visual presence on the front page, that's gotta say more about their advertising than finding the link to the family oriented software that your links slant to.
Also, you must have read into the fact that the leet speak is only what I read into your last post, obviously that wasn't the message you wanted to spread, so don't attack me if I call you on it! Childish my ass, I brought up a good point and you slanderize me by calling me childish? CLASSIC.
rtb61 and marketing, truth has no meaning.
One last thing, you mentioned that Microsoft is evil by stupidity, if they're such a stupid company then why are they on top of the home computing world? why are they netting in the money they are grabbing? I think it's not that Microsoft is stupid, it's that their consumers are stupid for just eating up their product!
have you tried bombing a plane or a subway yet?
Okay that was a little on the insensitive side, but I wonder if these terrorists are going through the same frustrations as you albeit in an entirely opposite way? Now the questions is, which is making the bigger difference? Is using your democratic right as a "free person" to demand things of your political representative making any sort of change to the world around you? probably not I would suspect.Now would your message be heard if you hijacked a bus full of school children and made your demands then?
or lightning sharks!!
Honestly though, what the hell would a terrorist want with a kid anyway? I could see them kidnapping some billionaire's kid, president's kid, or whatever generic action movie/video game plot line. But taking an average person's kid? that my friends is FUD.
I think you're trying to put too much anti-microsoft spin on it. This could be ANY company at all but because it happens to be Microsoft it is "extra evil." I call bullshit on this!
You're also trying to pull this Jack Thompson "Somebody please think of the childrens!!!1" when last I checked Microsoft is marketing to the right market, the majority of gamers are approximately 16-25 year old males. 16-25 year old males tend to have the most disposable income to be used on entertainment.
I could see Nintendo doing the very same thing, possibly selling special rare Pokemons on the Wii, so please keep your "Microsoft is teh ev1l cause they are on to an idea that will make them money" to yourself. I can guarantee that other companies have been trying to nail down an infrastructure that would allow them to do the exact same.
I mean, it might destroy gaming but don't think for a minute that only microsoft would dream of doing it because they are "teh big evils corp3rationz."
All this and they're jumping on a dying operating system! By the time this service shows up (if it shows up at all) their target audience will all have made the jump to Vista.
but those are really good anime clips :P
Actually I'm quite surprised at how much foreign (japanese in particular) rock is represented on YouTube already.
vista wants to be on PC hardware you insensitive clod.
I was bullied too in elementary/middle school for being large. The only thing that ever worked was beating the fuck out of the bullies, though I was fairly successful in doing it steathily. I was never once caught for laying a beating on one of them, I generally did it when no one else was around, they generally didn't try and tell anyone I guess because they got what was coming to them.
What I don't understand is why those skinny little kids always try to pick on the big quiet kid. A buddy of mine was teaching english in China, and he was saying one of his students was like 5'10 and about 180lbs where all the other students were like 4'4 and half his weight. They'd always pick on this kid for being "fat" and my buddy couldn't figure out why this kid wouldn't just tear them in half and shit in the stumps. He even told the kid that he'd give him 10 minutes before "noticing" what was happening, but I guess the kid was too shy/gentle to take him up on the offer.