man using the nunchaku was almost like giving him a pair of Uzis. . . Not to say I wouldn't play Ninja Gaiden if they gave him an uzi or two... It seems only fair to me, what with all the enemies having guns...
last I heard programmers can specialize in different areas, like in graphics shaders or physics engines. They obviously don't have enough that specialize in web design, so maybe they've spent the extra wad on more game programmers/designers. Okay, so I'm hoping that's the case.
look at how he plays with the words, his answer to every one of those questions is "It's a complete game, you can buy more levels" I've played it already, and it is not the complete game. I could see it as making sense if they decided you get v and w game modes if you buy the base package, and if you buy the addon pack you get game modes x y and z. They actually give you multiplayer and one single player mode, then one level of the other modes, which on completion tell you to buy more if you want to continue playing.
Personally, I think that's absolutely wrong. They should say something more along the lines of "Congratulations! You've won! If you want additional challenges buy the next package!" For some reason, it seems better if you're told there is more to play if you want, not that you must buy more to finish the game. This is a problem in semantics, that is all. Q! comes off as greedy in this deal, and Microsoft comes off as ignorant, it truly is a pity. I was going to buy Lumines Live until I found out about this, hopefully our wallets will let Microsoft and Q! know that this is unacceptable.
god damn it, dell coupons aren't actually there for you to save. They exist so that Dell can say "Look at this, you can get this $1799 laptop for only $1499!!!!!! YOU SAVE BIG!!!!" when really the laptop is only worth $1499, but it looks like you're saving money. . .
Or you could manufacture planes, cars, and home stereo systems while continuing to ride the gravy train. They've got a good MMORPG I can appreciate that, but there's no reason they can't work on other games (that more people want [in addition to the mmo players]) too. Especially when they've got more money than they know what to do with. They could be working on a new RTS game (or even working on the expansion to push it out the door on time) but instead they're all joyriding around in their platinum plated solid gold ferarri's!
So what you're saying is that Blizzard are stalling significant development until they have enough talent to continue developing quality titles instead of going for the classic EA style murder by numbers?
and since WoW they canned one game and haven't announced any others when typically they've released at least one game every year (all of them, like you said, masterpieces, I won't deny that) and have about 1600 employees? I know that games are getting harder and more expensive to make these days, but how many employees does it take to maintain WoW? Surely they've had enough employees to finish a project or two up since 2004.
well, it may not be Star Trek but we could be closer to another sci-fi. ..
We could have rebuilt her, we may now have the technology. She could have been better than she was. Better, stronger, faster. The Six Million Dollar Woman.
I knew it, Blizzard has no plans whatsoever to make games anymore. As long as WoW is played, Blizzard are not developers, they are simply maintainers. Don't take this the wrong way though, would you or I honestly continue to make new games if we're constantly making billions on one game?
I think the real problem here is that once we make the transition to a 3d virtual internet world, all those CS players will be running around shooting each other while we're at the cs_Office trying to get some damn work done. I don't want to work in a world where every 5 minutes we hear the bang of an AWP (and the subsequent "awpers r n00berz"), a constant "teams, teams, teams" and "teams are fine, teams are fine" all while getting frag and flash spammed. It just wouldn't be very productive.
though I don't have an example of this, most cars are sold (mostly) world wide, just with different names depending on the demographics. Just thought of a couple the Nissan 180, 200, and 240sx's, 300zx, and 350z were all sold in most of the world (North America, Japan, Europe) though not in the same name. I'm not entirely sure of the nomenclature but the 180, 200, and 240 were also called Silvia and S13.
With that said, my suggestion is they buy color climax and put it up on wikipedia.
Not being an older gamer like yourself, I only ever got into the old school arcades at the end of their lives. From what I hear, the only real reason to play classic asteroids or galaga was to get your initials on the high score table. I love the idea of the gamer score and the acheivements because they are a throw back to the high score tables. I agree with you totally on it, its best to use it between friends, not though some bloke you just played a random match with. On top of that, if you join the "recreational" or "casual" groups you totally avoid that competitive "My gamerscore is 15,000,000" I'm b3tt'r than j00 at lif3, and you generally get into the 22-35 group of people who just want to play the game.
I think anyone who is against gamerscore just doesn't understand that concept.
You'd think EB/Gamestop would have learned their lesson the first time. I guess management sees the guaranteed money as more important than actually selling the thing when it comes out. I just think it's rediculous that now you have to stand in line to get a pre-order. I thought the whole idea of getting a pre-order was to skip the outside camping shenanigans. Honestly I think it's less of a hassle to just go to the store when it comes it, and if you get one awesome, if not wait like a few weeks. Hell, take whatever extra money you make in those few weeks to make your initial experience a bit better and buy another game or another controller or something.
Personally, I'm not going to buy a PS3 for a long time, if I even get one. I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting less and less excited about paying out my ass for videogames, I'm already pissed about the $10 increase of retail games prices when they were already steep to begin with. I dunno, maybe I'm just growing out of video games or something but that $700 or so that you're going to end up spending by the time you leave the store could be a significant investment on the car, or a decent used guitar.
Although I'm saying this now, no doubt I won't be saying it when all 3 consoles are in the full swing of things:_(
oh right, a slight miscalculation. It's the extra money made from getting a raise for being more attractive because of the stairmaster use that attracts the subset of the female population that I was thinking of when I made the error.
. . . is to play warcraft 3 instead of world of warcraft. Or to buy a stairmaster and see/feel a difference when you level up. Not to mention when you live in a society where grinding on the stairmaster is guaranteed to increase your charisma dramatically.
s'pose this has something to do with the Halo game that Jackson is making? Or rather, that the Halo game Jackson is working on has something to do with the movie budgeting?
I often wonder why no manufaturer has made an SATA flashdisk (that I know of atleast) I mean, USB2.0 taps out at about 500mbps where SATA2 will tap out at about 3gpbs. I realize that sata is mostly an internal (i mean, inside the computer case) but it would seem to me that people would pay for the added performance. . . Of course, I am speaking out of my ass and I'm sure another/.er will tell me precisely why I'm wrong.
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man using the nunchaku was almost like giving him a pair of Uzis. . . Not to say I wouldn't play Ninja Gaiden if they gave him an uzi or two... It seems only fair to me, what with all the enemies having guns...
last I heard programmers can specialize in different areas, like in graphics shaders or physics engines. They obviously don't have enough that specialize in web design, so maybe they've spent the extra wad on more game programmers/designers. Okay, so I'm hoping that's the case.
look at how he plays with the words, his answer to every one of those questions is "It's a complete game, you can buy more levels" I've played it already, and it is not the complete game. I could see it as making sense if they decided you get v and w game modes if you buy the base package, and if you buy the addon pack you get game modes x y and z. They actually give you multiplayer and one single player mode, then one level of the other modes, which on completion tell you to buy more if you want to continue playing.
Personally, I think that's absolutely wrong. They should say something more along the lines of "Congratulations! You've won! If you want additional challenges buy the next package!" For some reason, it seems better if you're told there is more to play if you want, not that you must buy more to finish the game. This is a problem in semantics, that is all. Q! comes off as greedy in this deal, and Microsoft comes off as ignorant, it truly is a pity. I was going to buy Lumines Live until I found out about this, hopefully our wallets will let Microsoft and Q! know that this is unacceptable.
god damn it, dell coupons aren't actually there for you to save. They exist so that Dell can say "Look at this, you can get this $1799 laptop for only $1499!!!!!! YOU SAVE BIG!!!!" when really the laptop is only worth $1499, but it looks like you're saving money. . .
Or you could manufacture planes, cars, and home stereo systems while continuing to ride the gravy train. They've got a good MMORPG I can appreciate that, but there's no reason they can't work on other games (that more people want [in addition to the mmo players]) too. Especially when they've got more money than they know what to do with. They could be working on a new RTS game (or even working on the expansion to push it out the door on time) but instead they're all joyriding around in their platinum plated solid gold ferarri's!
All I can say is that its a good thing Obsidian didn't leave in a deleted Revan and Bastila sex minigame. . .
So what you're saying is that Blizzard are stalling significant development until they have enough talent to continue developing quality titles instead of going for the classic EA style murder by numbers?
and since WoW they canned one game and haven't announced any others when typically they've released at least one game every year (all of them, like you said, masterpieces, I won't deny that) and have about 1600 employees? I know that games are getting harder and more expensive to make these days, but how many employees does it take to maintain WoW? Surely they've had enough employees to finish a project or two up since 2004.
well, it may not be Star Trek but we could be closer to another sci-fi. . .
We could have rebuilt her, we may now have the technology. She could have been better than she was. Better, stronger, faster. The Six Million Dollar Woman.
I knew it, Blizzard has no plans whatsoever to make games anymore. As long as WoW is played, Blizzard are not developers, they are simply maintainers. Don't take this the wrong way though, would you or I honestly continue to make new games if we're constantly making billions on one game?
"you know who the fuck I am? I'm the mawfuckin Thompsonnaut!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juggernaut_Bitch! !
yes but I believe it is common to look down on the pathetic trading card gamers. . . Not that I support either side.
hey, she could make saving throws couldn't she?
I think the real problem here is that once we make the transition to a 3d virtual internet world, all those CS players will be running around shooting each other while we're at the cs_Office trying to get some damn work done. I don't want to work in a world where every 5 minutes we hear the bang of an AWP (and the subsequent "awpers r n00berz"), a constant "teams, teams, teams" and "teams are fine, teams are fine" all while getting frag and flash spammed. It just wouldn't be very productive.
Yeah, and dinosaurs are just the result of a kernel panic when there was a bad sector on His boot floppy.
though I don't have an example of this, most cars are sold (mostly) world wide, just with different names depending on the demographics. Just thought of a couple the Nissan 180, 200, and 240sx's, 300zx, and 350z were all sold in most of the world (North America, Japan, Europe) though not in the same name. I'm not entirely sure of the nomenclature but the 180, 200, and 240 were also called Silvia and S13.
With that said, my suggestion is they buy color climax and put it up on wikipedia.
Damn, if you had gotten 8 more MPH you could have gone back in time and convinced yourself not to drive that hummer!!!
... and then give me her phone number.
Not being an older gamer like yourself, I only ever got into the old school arcades at the end of their lives. From what I hear, the only real reason to play classic asteroids or galaga was to get your initials on the high score table. I love the idea of the gamer score and the acheivements because they are a throw back to the high score tables.
I agree with you totally on it, its best to use it between friends, not though some bloke you just played a random match with. On top of that, if you join the "recreational" or "casual" groups you totally avoid that competitive "My gamerscore is 15,000,000" I'm b3tt'r than j00 at lif3, and you generally get into the 22-35 group of people who just want to play the game.
I think anyone who is against gamerscore just doesn't understand that concept.
yeah me too. Sony could also advertise "Real time power cranking" to go with that "Real time weapon switching"!!!
You'd think EB/Gamestop would have learned their lesson the first time. I guess management sees the guaranteed money as more important than actually selling the thing when it comes out. I just think it's rediculous that now you have to stand in line to get a pre-order. I thought the whole idea of getting a pre-order was to skip the outside camping shenanigans. Honestly I think it's less of a hassle to just go to the store when it comes it, and if you get one awesome, if not wait like a few weeks. Hell, take whatever extra money you make in those few weeks to make your initial experience a bit better and buy another game or another controller or something.
Personally, I'm not going to buy a PS3 for a long time, if I even get one. I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting less and less excited about paying out my ass for videogames, I'm already pissed about the $10 increase of retail games prices when they were already steep to begin with. I dunno, maybe I'm just growing out of video games or something but that $700 or so that you're going to end up spending by the time you leave the store could be a significant investment on the car, or a decent used guitar.
Although I'm saying this now, no doubt I won't be saying it when all 3 consoles are in the full swing of thingsoh right, a slight miscalculation. It's the extra money made from getting a raise for being more attractive because of the stairmaster use that attracts the subset of the female population that I was thinking of when I made the error.
. . . is to play warcraft 3 instead of world of warcraft. Or to buy a stairmaster and see/feel a difference when you level up. Not to mention when you live in a society where grinding on the stairmaster is guaranteed to increase your charisma dramatically.
s'pose this has something to do with the Halo game that Jackson is making? Or rather, that the Halo game Jackson is working on has something to do with the movie budgeting?
I often wonder why no manufaturer has made an SATA flashdisk (that I know of atleast) I mean, USB2.0 taps out at about 500mbps where SATA2 will tap out at about 3gpbs. I realize that sata is mostly an internal (i mean, inside the computer case) but it would seem to me that people would pay for the added performance. . . Of course, I am speaking out of my ass and I'm sure another /.er will tell me precisely why I'm wrong.