Sorry, but I actually drive a real car, and Gran Tourismo is nothing but a caricature of physics. Particularly where rear-wheel drive cars are concerned.
And, yes, I've done power drifts in a real car (I was young and foolish then).
Moreover, the LAST thing you want to teach a sixteen year old is how to drive fast. Because what a beginning driver really lacks is the judgement to know WHEN they can drive fast safely. Far better to teach them safe driving, and do the race car course next year or the year after.
Sony has done some good things, mainly in pushing Palm to add in features like sound and hi-res.
They also have some long-standing design flaws, though, like bad thumb-boards, and application/up-down buttons that are useless for game playing. You could also argue that the use of the Memory Stick is a major flaw (I would).
Again, I wonder if the division that makes Clies is in an internal power struggle with the division that makes game consoles. That might explain whey Sony hasn't come out with a game-oriented Clie.
In fact, I think it's among the worst things Square has ever put out. It runs like a dog, even on PS2, the graphics are SNES level, it cheats, and the "develop your character any way you want" thing just flat out isn't true. If you don't stick to the right character upgrade paths, you're screwed. Oh, and there's lots of boring levelling.
I've tried to love this game, but I just can't. Disgaea, on the other hand, is actually fun.
Sony hasn't pulled out permanently, they've postponed the release of new models until the end of the fall. They're regrouping, in other words.
My pet theory is they don't want new Clies stealing the thunder of the PSP. Or, Sony Entertainment didn't want new Clies stealing the thunder of the PSP.
It may also be that they are waiting to see what Palm OS 6 does to the market, or they are having toothing problems with new tech like organic LED screens. Or they are unsatisfied with their current designers and are cleaning house and finding people who can produce PDAs with decent keyboards, d-pads and buttons.
Unfortunately, Illuminati suffers from the typical flaw of the Steve Jackson Game: a long, tedious endgame.
Basically, your ability to hinder your opponents is far greater than your ability to make progress on your own. Thus, the end of the game consists of everyone taking down the leader until all the players run out of screw-you cards, and somebody wins. And winning isn't usually a matter of skill, just dumb luck that your opponents were out of cards when you were in a position to win.
We have a lot to learn about the planets in our own solar system, and with current technology we can't even detect most planets circling another star. None of the planets in our soloar system would be detectable if they were circling even the nearest star.
So, any kind of theory-making that goes on now is inherently guesswork without enough data. It's like trying to do a comprehensive study of zoology using only the animals living in the park across the street.
This should be a challenge to open standards everywhere to try and get China on board. It's a huge potential market that would still rather latch onto a good open standard than be yoked to something proprietary. This is a big opportunity.
I have 2 Antec Sonata cases now. They're silent, and pretty, and very nice to work with. Accept no substitute.
For a CPU cooler, I'm using one of the Zalman copper flowers. It comes with a fan on a metal arm that you're supposed to install to blow air over the cooler. Don't install the fan: with a Sonata case your CPU heat sink is directly in front of a 120mm exhaust fan, so you don't need it.
This says to me "send out plainclothes cops with white headphones."
No need for them even to be hooked into an iPod, just the headphones.
Jon Acheson
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If Nokia was smart they'd partner with Tapwave, which has a killer platform in the Zodiac but not enough games. Nokia has games but not a good enough platform. They'd have to add cellphone functionality to the Zodiac, but that's a pretty straightforward problem.
There is a bug where your section breaks get turned from "next page" or "next odd page" breaks to "continuous" breaks. Been there since Word for Windows 1.0.
(If it hits you, the best workaround for modern versions of Word is to go to the section after the offending break, open the Page Setup dialog and select the correct section break from the Section Break list on the Layout tab.)
In fact, what I see is a LOT of Apple users hanging onto their OS 9 machines for dear life, because OS X is such a pig they'd have to buy a new computer to get the same performance on it, and they feel (imho correctly) that OS 9 had a much better user interface.
I have an OS X machine and a Windows box at work. I'm not at all impressed with OS X, even after I replaced the mouse with something decent.
Yeah, but doesn't that basically hold true for anything said on any forum?
More on target, they could pick a platform that is cheap to develop for, or hungry for games, and have a much better chance to break even or even make money. If you eliminate the need for 3D, and use 2D art like the original games, the GBA would be a great platform to rerelease most of the SCUMM games on, since you don't have to type much, just select choices from a list. I'd buy a GBA just to play Sam & Max 2 on.
Sam & Max would be my candidate for best adventure game of all time. I think a sequel would do well. I know a bunch of friends who were waiting for this one.
Maybe they could cut costs by releasing it as a console game instead?
Swimming would be nice. With San Andreas, they could probably use terrain to block off areas anyway.
I'd also like to see:
Police motorcycles (CHiPs?)
Bicycles, and possibly skateboards
A freeway area with high-speed traffic and massive pile-ups.
Protesters. I've always wanted to encounter a crowd of protesters in GTA3.
Steamroller. It would be like a tank, except not bulletproof.
A better airplane.
My dream game that I do NOT expect to see would start in the LA Confidential period, and the game covers the next 60 years in generational increments. You could play either a cop or a criminal, and the path you choose affects the way the city develops over the course of the game.
Actually, there are a number of writers who use out-of-date text-based word processors, such as WordStar, because they don't distract them from the writing process as much, and they're not screwed up feature landfills like Microsoft Word.
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Sorry, but I actually drive a real car, and Gran Tourismo is nothing but a caricature of physics. Particularly where rear-wheel drive cars are concerned.
And, yes, I've done power drifts in a real car (I was young and foolish then).
Moreover, the LAST thing you want to teach a sixteen year old is how to drive fast. Because what a beginning driver really lacks is the judgement to know WHEN they can drive fast safely. Far better to teach them safe driving, and do the race car course next year or the year after.
Jon Acheson
Sony has done some good things, mainly in pushing Palm to add in features like sound and hi-res.
/up-down buttons that are useless for game playing. You could also argue that the use of the Memory Stick is a major flaw (I would).
They also have some long-standing design flaws, though, like bad thumb-boards, and application
Again, I wonder if the division that makes Clies is in an internal power struggle with the division that makes game consoles. That might explain whey Sony hasn't come out with a game-oriented Clie.
Jon Acheson
In fact, I think it's among the worst things Square has ever put out. It runs like a dog, even on PS2, the graphics are SNES level, it cheats, and the "develop your character any way you want" thing just flat out isn't true. If you don't stick to the right character upgrade paths, you're screwed. Oh, and there's lots of boring levelling.
I've tried to love this game, but I just can't. Disgaea, on the other hand, is actually fun.
Jon Acheson
Sony hasn't pulled out permanently, they've postponed the release of new models until the end of the fall. They're regrouping, in other words.
My pet theory is they don't want new Clies stealing the thunder of the PSP. Or, Sony Entertainment didn't want new Clies stealing the thunder of the PSP.
It may also be that they are waiting to see what Palm OS 6 does to the market, or they are having toothing problems with new tech like organic LED screens. Or they are unsatisfied with their current designers and are cleaning house and finding people who can produce PDAs with decent keyboards, d-pads and buttons.
Jon Acheson
Particularly in the graphics. The character models have visible gaps in them on my PC unless you turn the resolution down to cover it up.
Jon Acheson
I'd look to the major news networks for live video coverage, and Scaled Composites will certainly put pictures of the burn up on their website.
http://www.scaled.com/
Jon Acheson
Unfortunately, Illuminati suffers from the typical flaw of the Steve Jackson Game: a long, tedious endgame.
Basically, your ability to hinder your opponents is far greater than your ability to make progress on your own. Thus, the end of the game consists of everyone taking down the leader until all the players run out of screw-you cards, and somebody wins. And winning isn't usually a matter of skill, just dumb luck that your opponents were out of cards when you were in a position to win.
Munchkin and Hacker have the same problem.
Jon Acheson
The PSP is going to be the Game Gear all over again. Size and battery life will kill it.
If Sony took down their Clie operations in order not to "compete with PSP," that only means in two years they'll be out two revenue streams.
Jon Acheson
We have a lot to learn about the planets in our own solar system, and with current technology we can't even detect most planets circling another star. None of the planets in our soloar system would be detectable if they were circling even the nearest star.
So, any kind of theory-making that goes on now is inherently guesswork without enough data. It's like trying to do a comprehensive study of zoology using only the animals living in the park across the street.
Jon Acheson
This should be a challenge to open standards everywhere to try and get China on board. It's a huge potential market that would still rather latch onto a good open standard than be yoked to something proprietary. This is a big opportunity.
Jon Acheson
After the PS2 and the GBA.
And who cares about third place vs. fourth?
Jon Acheson
I have 2 Antec Sonata cases now. They're silent, and pretty, and very nice to work with. Accept no substitute.
For a CPU cooler, I'm using one of the Zalman copper flowers. It comes with a fan on a metal arm that you're supposed to install to blow air over the cooler. Don't install the fan: with a Sonata case your CPU heat sink is directly in front of a 120mm exhaust fan, so you don't need it.
Jon Acheson
This says to me "send out plainclothes cops with white headphones."
No need for them even to be hooked into an iPod, just the headphones.
Jon Acheson
If Nokia was smart they'd partner with Tapwave, which has a killer platform in the Zodiac but not enough games. Nokia has games but not a good enough platform. They'd have to add cellphone functionality to the Zodiac, but that's a pretty straightforward problem.
There is a bug where your section breaks get turned from "next page" or "next odd page" breaks to "continuous" breaks. Been there since Word for Windows 1.0.
(If it hits you, the best workaround for modern versions of Word is to go to the section after the offending break, open the Page Setup dialog and select the correct section break from the Section Break list on the Layout tab.)
Jon Acheson
So, it definitely works on the PC as well.
Jon Acheson
Most of those people don't know Windows either. All they need is icons on their desktop for their apps.
Jon Acheson
In fact, what I see is a LOT of Apple users hanging onto their OS 9 machines for dear life, because OS X is such a pig they'd have to buy a new computer to get the same performance on it, and they feel (imho correctly) that OS 9 had a much better user interface.
I have an OS X machine and a Windows box at work. I'm not at all impressed with OS X, even after I replaced the mouse with something decent.
Jon Acheson
I wonder if you could use the dirigible frame as a microwave receiving antenna and beam power to it?
Jon Acheson
They're cheap, make great Father/Mother's Day presents, and modern burners will run on anything, even the P133 Mom and Dad have.
Then back up their system using the burner.
Jon Acheson
Yeah, but doesn't that basically hold true for anything said on any forum?
More on target, they could pick a platform that is cheap to develop for, or hungry for games, and have a much better chance to break even or even make money. If you eliminate the need for 3D, and use 2D art like the original games, the GBA would be a great platform to rerelease most of the SCUMM games on, since you don't have to type much, just select choices from a list. I'd buy a GBA just to play Sam & Max 2 on.
Jon Acheson
Sam & Max would be my candidate for best adventure game of all time. I think a sequel would do well. I know a bunch of friends who were waiting for this one.
Maybe they could cut costs by releasing it as a console game instead?
Jon Acheson
I'd also like to see:
My dream game that I do NOT expect to see would start in the LA Confidential period, and the game covers the next 60 years in generational increments. You could play either a cop or a criminal, and the path you choose affects the way the city develops over the course of the game.
Jon Acheson
Specs are here:
Celery 600, $2,000.00 price tag.
Didin't say it was cheap, but then I don't expect this thing to be less than $1000.00
Jon Acheson
Actually, there are a number of writers who use out-of-date text-based word processors, such as WordStar, because they don't distract them from the writing process as much, and they're not screwed up feature landfills like Microsoft Word.
Jon Acheson