its because some people actually want the matchmaking/leaderboard/trueskill rank services.
I personally bought a copy of Shadowrun and payed for an xbox live subscription so that I could play online games with my brother who doesn't have a decent computer but has a 360. Unfortunately, I got boned by it because Shadowrun wasn't successful, and it doesn't look like there are any other games coming out with the cross-platform play.
Lucky for me a year subscription is fairly cheap and I still use my live account for split screen capable 360 games.
Tangents aside, I do enjoy not having to go through some of the BS of searching for games and copy pasting IPs to friends that is so common in the PC world. On top of that its nice to have the voip chatting with random other people without having to switch vent/teamspeak servers every time you change games.
have you just recently escaped bizarro slashdot or something? 'Round these parts anything that contains the word "microsoft" must also include the overarching concept of "failure"
if that's the case then why pick on Halo? sure it can be superficially reduced to "run around and kill aliens" but in reducing it to that you have to ignore the plot development that happens before/between/during/after the alien killing.
The problem with the plot/story telling in the Halo series is that if you don't pay attention to it (which is relatively easy to do) it easily boils down to the "run around shooting aliens" concept. One might even be able to argue that this is the reason that Halo is so successful, it can be quite a good story if you so choose, or it can be the run and gun blaster that is so easily likened to the College frat boy demographic.
Anyone who claims that halo has no plot is obviously out of their mind or (more likely) anti microsoft or anti xbox fanbots.
I think the 360 Dx and the PC Dx are extremely similar if not exactly the same. I think that's what they've been using as a selling feature to publishers. Or at least if I were Microsoft I'd be doing that.
"See you should release your game on the Xbox 360 because you could also release it for PC, maximizing profitability while minimizing development costs!"
of course this is from the bizzaro world line of reasoning (where things that make sense prevail)
You can pick up a used six string for 100 and change then spend 5 years getting good enough to play some of those songs, instead of being able to have fun for a few hours playing a puzzle game with some friends.
FIXED!
speaking as a guitarist of 6 years and a bassist of 4, I enjoy guitar hero because it is a fun thing to do with my NON-MUSICALLY INCLINED friends without having to spend 6 months teaching them to play real instruments. Not one of them wants to actually learn guitar, they just want to have some fun playing some videogames. GTFO my internet, elitist-troll.
If Apple owned it, I'm sure they'd have released it already, calling it "your movie studio in a box" etc. And then it wouldn't just be a failure, it'd be a failure that no one played.
speaking as somebody who PLAYED THE SHIT OUT OF Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, their control schemes are so completely horrible. Why should movement and horizontal looking be on the same stick? so you can't look up and down? Having one stick means there must either be a) AUTOAIM or b) all levels are designed to be flat.
Just because you have a hard time moving and aiming at the same time it doesn't mean that moving and aiming is a bad gameplay device. In Halo, you can actually choose to use "LEGACY" controller setting to play, a few of my friends use it, none of them can win in a fight with the others who use 2 sticks, why? Because you cannot circle strafe with one stick.
Fuck, I love Golden Eye as much as the other nintendo fanboys, but your statements are just false.
also, my captcha is corridor, which conveniently is the only place a 1 stick setting can hope to win.
well to be honest I completely expected to be modded as a troll. but seriously, if you care at all about Live I'd recommend not playing a backup on Live at the moment, since there are many reports on http://xbox-scene.com/ as well as on http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/05/17/ 545414.aspx which show that Microsoft has dropped the ban hammer.
nothing is stopping them from creating another account. . . on top of that, it takes no time at all to get back to the point at which they were caught cheating.
I think you read me as a blizzard fanboy, which is not the case. This would be my mentality for any online game, and especially online games where this form of cheating can be a way to make money. If people want to cheat in a single player game, (or in a multiplayer game where everyone has agreed to allowing the cheats) its fine with me. I always maintain that if I meet a cheater I will destroy them, and their computer. I look forward to the day that I bludgeon someone to within an inch of their life's end with their own aimbot laden PC.
agreed, regardless of the rights infringements, cheating violates the EULA. I don't know why people have to make this a big deal. If a company made a device that would allow people to cheat at a casino, do you think the casino would have to live with it?
Shh, remember we're supposed to be an anti-MS news site! You better say something positive about Gnome or KDE quick or fear the wrath of angry slashdotters.
Slashdot Mirror
turn off post processing?
So in other words GTA is a Jesus simulator.
SPARTAN117: Confirmed for Brawl.
I believe there was a man who went by the name of Darwin who would have something to say about this.
isn't it obvious? The crook took a look through the script and realized it was only worth $2000. . .
damn it man, you make me crave the Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and Planescape: Torment games as remakes for DS.
can I have some tinfoil so I can heat up my lunch?
yes. I have the japanese flavour of Elite Beat Agents sitting in my DS while I type this.
since I decided to stream a small sample of my porn collection to the interweb.
its because some people actually want the matchmaking/leaderboard/trueskill rank services. I personally bought a copy of Shadowrun and payed for an xbox live subscription so that I could play online games with my brother who doesn't have a decent computer but has a 360. Unfortunately, I got boned by it because Shadowrun wasn't successful, and it doesn't look like there are any other games coming out with the cross-platform play. Lucky for me a year subscription is fairly cheap and I still use my live account for split screen capable 360 games. Tangents aside, I do enjoy not having to go through some of the BS of searching for games and copy pasting IPs to friends that is so common in the PC world. On top of that its nice to have the voip chatting with random other people without having to switch vent/teamspeak servers every time you change games.
have you just recently escaped bizarro slashdot or something? 'Round these parts anything that contains the word "microsoft" must also include the overarching concept of "failure"
jews, on my slashdot? It's more likely than I thought!
if that's the case then why pick on Halo? sure it can be superficially reduced to "run around and kill aliens" but in reducing it to that you have to ignore the plot development that happens before/between/during/after the alien killing.
The problem with the plot/story telling in the Halo series is that if you don't pay attention to it (which is relatively easy to do) it easily boils down to the "run around shooting aliens" concept. One might even be able to argue that this is the reason that Halo is so successful, it can be quite a good story if you so choose, or it can be the run and gun blaster that is so easily likened to the College frat boy demographic.
Anyone who claims that halo has no plot is obviously out of their mind or (more likely) anti microsoft or anti xbox fanbots.
I think instead they should just buy every user an Xbox 360. . .
I think the 360 Dx and the PC Dx are extremely similar if not exactly the same. I think that's what they've been using as a selling feature to publishers. Or at least if I were Microsoft I'd be doing that.
"See you should release your game on the Xbox 360 because you could also release it for PC, maximizing profitability while minimizing development costs!"
of course this is from the bizzaro world line of reasoning (where things that make sense prevail)
I dunno, but it must involve Cowboy Neal.
You can pick up a used six string for 100 and change then spend 5 years getting good enough to play some of those songs, instead of being able to have fun for a few hours playing a puzzle game with some friends.
FIXED!
speaking as a guitarist of 6 years and a bassist of 4, I enjoy guitar hero because it is a fun thing to do with my NON-MUSICALLY INCLINED friends without having to spend 6 months teaching them to play real instruments. Not one of them wants to actually learn guitar, they just want to have some fun playing some videogames. GTFO my internet, elitist-troll.
speaking as somebody who PLAYED THE SHIT OUT OF Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, their control schemes are so completely horrible. Why should movement and horizontal looking be on the same stick? so you can't look up and down? Having one stick means there must either be a) AUTOAIM or b) all levels are designed to be flat.
Just because you have a hard time moving and aiming at the same time it doesn't mean that moving and aiming is a bad gameplay device. In Halo, you can actually choose to use "LEGACY" controller setting to play, a few of my friends use it, none of them can win in a fight with the others who use 2 sticks, why? Because you cannot circle strafe with one stick.
Fuck, I love Golden Eye as much as the other nintendo fanboys, but your statements are just false.
also, my captcha is corridor, which conveniently is the only place a 1 stick setting can hope to win.
Finally you can't LAN N64s. . .
well to be honest I completely expected to be modded as a troll./ 545414.aspx
but seriously, if you care at all about Live I'd recommend not playing a backup on Live at the moment, since there are many reports on http://xbox-scene.com/ as well as on http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/05/17
which show that Microsoft has dropped the ban hammer.
have fun with your banned console and lack of key game components now Mr. Cheapass-killing-the-industry Pirate.
nothing is stopping them from creating another account. . . on top of that, it takes no time at all to get back to the point at which they were caught cheating.
okay the chess example is better.
I think you read me as a blizzard fanboy, which is not the case. This would be my mentality for any online game, and especially online games where this form of cheating can be a way to make money. If people want to cheat in a single player game, (or in a multiplayer game where everyone has agreed to allowing the cheats) its fine with me. I always maintain that if I meet a cheater I will destroy them, and their computer. I look forward to the day that I bludgeon someone to within an inch of their life's end with their own aimbot laden PC.
agreed, regardless of the rights infringements, cheating violates the EULA. I don't know why people have to make this a big deal. If a company made a device that would allow people to cheat at a casino, do you think the casino would have to live with it?
Shh, remember we're supposed to be an anti-MS news site! You better say something positive about Gnome or KDE quick or fear the wrath of angry slashdotters.