from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=own ed Owned
v. owned, 0wned, pwned, 0wn3d, pwn3d, own3d.
v. tr.
To be made a fool of; To make a fool of; To confound or prove wrong; embarrasing someone: Being embarrased.
examples: I owned you in counter-strike. You were owned at the party yesterday.
bullshit! give people a fair product at a fair price, and some will buy it the others will still steal it! No matter what the price, there will always be someone who is too cheap to buy it, and there will always be someone idealistic/bored enough to provide the means to acquire it.
so me connecting a World of Warcraft discussion that is under a World of Warcraft news topic to a World of Warcraft Machinema is apparently a cardinal sin. So I suppose you'd freak out if in a discussion about the MMO Dark age of Camelot someone referenced Monty Python? I think you need to get off your high horse there buddy, just because someone "did it first" it doesn't mean that people should be condemned for refering to a remake of/homage to the original work.
I know this is sort of wishful thinking, but let it be known that I think the PS3 would be slightly more favourable at the $600 mark if they included a PSP in the package.
It's like if you were asked to name a game with a black lead character. You might be harded pressed to do it, because you simply didn't care.
Actually CJ from GTA San Andreas popped into mind because I only played the game for the ghetto fabulous lifestyle, drive-bying on BMX bikes and the like. Once they had you going on 20 minute fetch quests on the countryside I quit playing, and you better believe had he been white I would have dropped it earlier. Alright I probably wouldn't have but it was pretty sweet to be inner city for once.
1.Empty the jugs if they aren't already empty. 2.Seal the jug, make sure its good and tight and/or permanent by using ducttape/glue 3.Attach the jugs to the bottom of your bed. 4.throw your bed into a pool/lake/pond, do not throw it in a river or ocean because you may wake up in a far away land.
And there you have it, a floating bed for about $50.00 assuming that you already have a bed and a body of water.
Agreed, Highbrow just means that people who pretend to be intellectual look deeper into a piece of art than the artist themself probably didn't even intend. I mean, just look at Andy Warhol painting pictures of soupcans and sculptures of toilet seats, having a good laugh when people think it's a deep observation on the decline of pop culture.
true, warcraft 3 didn't work out for me either. But say it was implemented in such a way that you could level your hero many more times and outfit with many more abilities and equipment, or maybe that every character levels, I'm sure it would have been more to my liking. The same thing happened to me and WoW, what I expected was the ability to play the game as a giant RTS (no, not in the way you think i mean:) I mean in such a way that, if the horde decided to amass an army to raze ironforge, then they could actually do i, and have it actually affect your every day life in Azeroth. Unfortunately, this would mean that games of WoW could possibly end, and around the world people would hear millions of wow players suddenly cry out, then silence. (which would most definitely effect the potential cashflow towards Blizzard).
well obviously you should buy Civilization 4 because it is much better.
Pardon the sarcasm because I totally agree with you on that. Though, for that reason I think reviews should be done by more than one person. Let's say a team of 5 people review a fighting game, I'd say it should consist of: a Fighting gamer, an FPSer, an RTSer, an RPGer, and a non-gamer (sorry if I didn't include other genres) If all of them looked at the game from their prospective angles, I bet you'd get an amazingly indepth view at the whole game. (provided that it is easily identified who each opinion is coming from)
I don't know about anyone else but sometimes when I'm shopping for games I'll consider what kind of games my friends like, and if a review was like what I described, I could find a somewhat generalized understanding of how people will react to playing it. Maybe in a perfect world developers might even try to develope their games with more than their regular target audience in mind, infusing say strategic and twitch elements into their adventure games, or frenetic button mashing and experience/leveling elements into their FPS games.
last I checked it was more like $30 for mod chip, $0.25 for DVD-R, and $5 for blockbuster. Except you can copy the blockbuster game quite easily (better than waiting like 5 hours for a game to download), and for xboxes atleast, you don't even need the mod chip. Don't get me wrong either, I don't pirate games. Though I know SWIM will often go on a torrent site, downloaded latest game, have it sit collecting virtual dust on the harddrive, then get deleted before SWIM even plays it.
I couldn't agree with you more about the demos. I remember I time when a demo meant that you got the first episode of a 3 to 6 episode series. That really gave you a good view at what the game had to offer. Had I a steady income at the time (not too easy to find work at the single and early double digit ages) I would have boughten wolf3d, Doom, Doom 2, Duke 3d, quake, etc.
some of the residences at my university hold sock assassinations, basically the same thing except with bundled up pairs of socks. You're only safe in class and your own room (if you locked the door). It's a fun orientation activity, it is sad that you can't have fun like that in today's world of terrorisim and all that bollocks.
though from the blurb I thought they were talking about not being allowed to take someone out on the internet!
or Red Orchestra.
Or if you want a demonstration of the frustrating futility of war go get Battlefield 2. You'll thank me when you hose down an enemy 10 feet away with an M249-SAW only to have him go prone, spin around, fire one round and kill you instantly -- Social commentary at its best!
I have a feeling that you've never met an Asian. I don't know enough of them to make a sweeping generalization like you've said, but I do know about 2 dozen rich Japanese students who have come over to study at the various universities in my city. I mean, these students have the nicest apartments, awesome cell phones that we won't even get over here for another year or two, and they buy the best food in the highest quantities just to have cuisine parties. But the one thing they aren't "luxury" about is their video games. They play a lot, but they don't waste money on them. They all have modded ps2's and between the bunch of them they easily have 2 thousand "backup" games. they don't buy their games because it's too much of a waste. They don't plan on buying a new console because it is a waste, they'd much rather use that money for travel, alcohol, and tuition.
My biggest question though is, when you went to Submit did you forget to tick the "Post Anonymously" box or what?
The only reason I had an xbox memory unit was to "extend the usability" of my xbox. Now one of my xboxes and library of xbox games sit on a shelf collecting dust while the other xbox sits on my VCR and runs Media Centre all day.
I guess it's kind of lame that a week before I got my 360 I pretty much gave up on playing video games at all.
sure the old games have been done to death by now, but for the most part the good games from back in the day were pioneering things. Though, it should be said that for the most parts the major driving force behind the remake is the nostalgia factor. I mean, look at NARC. The remake was absolutely horrible because they spent more time saying "Remember how you liked play NARC back in the day? Guess what, It's back! and SHINEY TOO!!!" when they should have been making a game where blast druggies with missiles.
It's not that we crap on game remakes because they don't take us back to 1989, we crap on them because they are absolute garbage that try to change too many things from the gameplay that made it classic in the first place. I mean, my brother just picked up a copy of "Space Raiders" for the gamecube for $10, it hardly changes the gameplay of the original space invaders, and then updates the graphics, but the core game mech stays exactly the same.
If you try to change too much, you alienate the memories we had of the original. If you change too little, you get the same game over again, which may or may not be what the consumers want. I don't know about anyone else, but my fond memories of Ninja Gaiden were rekindled when the new one came out. It gave shiney graphics, slick controls, was still hard as granite, but it didn't alienate the gamers. I think you can mainly credit this to the fact that tecmo actually tried to make a new game out, not just advertise the hell out of a poorly designed potential cashcow.
damn if it were the old xbox I could have said something like the controller is big enough to support you. ..
My guess is that Track & Field won't show up on the 360 until DDR shows up.
That is great news for XBLA and Konami, whoring out (in a GOOD way) all the old classics for us oldschoolers to just eat up, and give all the newschoolers a chance revel in the entertainment that is Konami 80's-90's power period.
FTFA,
Konami is also bringing back other classic hits, some revered (Frogger, Contra, Super Contra, Track & Field) some obscure (Time Pilot), and some really obscure (Scramble).
Super C on XBL scoreboards will be a very good thing.
So by that logic Sony will sell millions!!! it hast the largest shiney surface area, much betterer than that lame no shiney Xbox 360 and that possibly shiney but we don't know Wii thingy!
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from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=own ed
Owned
v. owned, 0wned, pwned, 0wn3d, pwn3d, own3d.
v. tr.
To be made a fool of; To make a fool of; To confound or prove wrong; embarrasing someone: Being embarrased.
examples: I owned you in counter-strike. You were owned at the party yesterday.
Nice one.
bullshit! give people a fair product at a fair price, and some will buy it the others will still steal it! No matter what the price, there will always be someone who is too cheap to buy it, and there will always be someone idealistic/bored enough to provide the means to acquire it.
It's nice to see an opinion from a non-gamer on slashdot!
so me connecting a World of Warcraft discussion that is under a World of Warcraft news topic to a World of Warcraft Machinema is apparently a cardinal sin. So I suppose you'd freak out if in a discussion about the MMO Dark age of Camelot someone referenced Monty Python?
I think you need to get off your high horse there buddy, just because someone "did it first" it doesn't mean that people should be condemned for refering to a remake of/homage to the original work.
reminds me of that WoW machinema, The internet is a wonderful place -- for porn.
I know this is sort of wishful thinking, but let it be known that I think the PS3 would be slightly more favourable at the $600 mark if they included a PSP in the package.
please tell me you're making return on that investment :)
Alright I probably wouldn't have but it was pretty sweet to be inner city for once.
I just did. I'll tell you how you can too!
What you need:
8 water cooler jugs
lots of duct tape or glue.
What to do:
1.Empty the jugs if they aren't already empty.
2.Seal the jug, make sure its good and tight and/or permanent by using ducttape/glue
3.Attach the jugs to the bottom of your bed.
4.throw your bed into a pool/lake/pond, do not throw it in a river or ocean because you may wake up in a far away land.
And there you have it, a floating bed for about $50.00 assuming that you already have a bed and a body of water.
Agreed, Highbrow just means that people who pretend to be intellectual look deeper into a piece of art than the artist themself probably didn't even intend. I mean, just look at Andy Warhol painting pictures of soupcans and sculptures of toilet seats, having a good laugh when people think it's a deep observation on the decline of pop culture.
true, warcraft 3 didn't work out for me either. But say it was implemented in such a way that you could level your hero many more times and outfit with many more abilities and equipment, or maybe that every character levels, I'm sure it would have been more to my liking. :) I mean in such a way that, if the horde decided to amass an army to raze ironforge, then they could actually do i, and have it actually affect your every day life in Azeroth. Unfortunately, this would mean that games of WoW could possibly end, and around the world people would hear millions of wow players suddenly cry out, then silence. (which would most definitely effect the potential cashflow towards Blizzard).
The same thing happened to me and WoW, what I expected was the ability to play the game as a giant RTS (no, not in the way you think i mean
well obviously you should buy Civilization 4 because it is much better.
Pardon the sarcasm because I totally agree with you on that. Though, for that reason I think reviews should be done by more than one person. Let's say a team of 5 people review a fighting game, I'd say it should consist of: a Fighting gamer, an FPSer, an RTSer, an RPGer, and a non-gamer (sorry if I didn't include other genres) If all of them looked at the game from their prospective angles, I bet you'd get an amazingly indepth view at the whole game. (provided that it is easily identified who each opinion is coming from)
I don't know about anyone else but sometimes when I'm shopping for games I'll consider what kind of games my friends like, and if a review was like what I described, I could find a somewhat generalized understanding of how people will react to playing it. Maybe in a perfect world developers might even try to develope their games with more than their regular target audience in mind, infusing say strategic and twitch elements into their adventure games, or frenetic button mashing and experience/leveling elements into their FPS games.
last I checked it was more like $30 for mod chip, $0.25 for DVD-R, and $5 for blockbuster. Except you can copy the blockbuster game quite easily (better than waiting like 5 hours for a game to download), and for xboxes atleast, you don't even need the mod chip.
Don't get me wrong either, I don't pirate games. Though I know SWIM will often go on a torrent site, downloaded latest game, have it sit collecting virtual dust on the harddrive, then get deleted before SWIM even plays it.
I couldn't agree with you more about the demos. I remember I time when a demo meant that you got the first episode of a 3 to 6 episode series. That really gave you a good view at what the game had to offer.
Had I a steady income at the time (not too easy to find work at the single and early double digit ages) I would have boughten wolf3d, Doom, Doom 2, Duke 3d, quake, etc.
some of the residences at my university hold sock assassinations, basically the same thing except with bundled up pairs of socks. You're only safe in class and your own room (if you locked the door). It's a fun orientation activity, it is sad that you can't have fun like that in today's world of terrorisim and all that bollocks.
though from the blurb I thought they were talking about not being allowed to take someone out on the internet!
Ofcourse not, that's what occupational therapists are for!
or Red Orchestra.
Or if you want a demonstration of the frustrating futility of war go get Battlefield 2. You'll thank me when you hose down an enemy 10 feet away with an M249-SAW only to have him go prone, spin around, fire one round and kill you instantly -- Social commentary at its best!
I have a feeling that you've never met an Asian. I don't know enough of them to make a sweeping generalization like you've said, but I do know about 2 dozen rich Japanese students who have come over to study at the various universities in my city. I mean, these students have the nicest apartments, awesome cell phones that we won't even get over here for another year or two, and they buy the best food in the highest quantities just to have cuisine parties.
But the one thing they aren't "luxury" about is their video games. They play a lot, but they don't waste money on them. They all have modded ps2's and between the bunch of them they easily have 2 thousand "backup" games. they don't buy their games because it's too much of a waste. They don't plan on buying a new console because it is a waste, they'd much rather use that money for travel, alcohol, and tuition.
My biggest question though is, when you went to Submit did you forget to tick the "Post Anonymously" box or what?
The only reason I had an xbox memory unit was to "extend the usability" of my xbox. Now one of my xboxes and library of xbox games sit on a shelf collecting dust while the other xbox sits on my VCR and runs Media Centre all day.
I guess it's kind of lame that a week before I got my 360 I pretty much gave up on playing video games at all.
sure the old games have been done to death by now, but for the most part the good games from back in the day were pioneering things. Though, it should be said that for the most parts the major driving force behind the remake is the nostalgia factor. I mean, look at NARC. The remake was absolutely horrible because they spent more time saying "Remember how you liked play NARC back in the day? Guess what, It's back! and SHINEY TOO!!!" when they should have been making a game where blast druggies with missiles.
It's not that we crap on game remakes because they don't take us back to 1989, we crap on them because they are absolute garbage that try to change too many things from the gameplay that made it classic in the first place. I mean, my brother just picked up a copy of "Space Raiders" for the gamecube for $10, it hardly changes the gameplay of the original space invaders, and then updates the graphics, but the core game mech stays exactly the same.
If you try to change too much, you alienate the memories we had of the original. If you change too little, you get the same game over again, which may or may not be what the consumers want. I don't know about anyone else, but my fond memories of Ninja Gaiden were rekindled when the new one came out. It gave shiney graphics, slick controls, was still hard as granite, but it didn't alienate the gamers. I think you can mainly credit this to the fact that tecmo actually tried to make a new game out, not just advertise the hell out of a poorly designed potential cashcow.
The question is: Does it play on a PS3? Because I imagine that is about the same target audience. . .
damn if it were the old xbox I could have said something like the controller is big enough to support you. . .
My guess is that Track & Field won't show up on the 360 until DDR shows up.
wow, that is a conundrum of conundrums!
Though I imagine it could be dealt with by 2 scoreboards, one with code, one without.
FTFA, Super C on XBL scoreboards will be a very good thing.
So by that logic Sony will sell millions!!!
it hast the largest shiney surface area, much betterer than that lame no shiney Xbox 360 and that possibly shiney but we don't know Wii thingy!