I am with you... EVE is probably the closest we have... and yet the learning curve is soo steep and the diffrence between haves and have nots is so great... it is impossible to get into without becoming and staying a small time thug, something I won't do.
That's funny I was under the impression that all the blood and violence would be edited out and the shark would be replaced with a Radio taped to a flashlight.
This new 8 disk box set will include the new 20 minute feature and 5 days of Spielberg rabling about various topics.
Crushed childhoods not included for those under the age of 25.
There is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft's way of doing "backwards compatibility" has never worked... even going past there game busness.
They don't seem to get that trying to adapt the game to the new system is doomed to falure. What they need to do is build the console to accomodate the old games but because of the way the Xbox was built the best way to do that is to crazy glue one to a 360.
I feel your pain... esspecaly being stuck with an Xbox during what may have been the Plastation's (1,2,3...) golden era.
Eh... good luck, I hope Microsoft sees money in BCing all of your favorite games, but I don't see that happening.
By unique do you mean exclusive or inovative and of high quality?
Soul Caliber II has ports on all three major last gen platforms. Plus part of the issue might be that there is a Soul Caliber game under development on the 360 on top of the fact that Soul Caliber III is out making Soul Caliber II "obsolete" in the eyes of the porting team.
I may not agree with that tactic but at least you are playing within the rules.
Part of the reason prices inflate like that is the glut of farmer gold in the hands of people who haven't "earned it" and don't assign any in game value to it.
This points out the biggest problem with Wikipedia, people are selfish. When questions of NPOV come up the disscusion offten becomes not what the NPOV is but who's oppinion will be included in the article and accepted as truth.
There is a Penny-Arcade comic that sums wikipedia up nicely I can't (due to a proxy) look it up right now...
Disclaimer: I am a huge Wikipedia fan... but I only "trust" non political geek culture (Comics, video games) to be relitivly accurate.
Gold farming, loot farming and power leveling suck the fun out of all MMOs.
I don't care if someone is making a living off of it, I don't care if it is so commonplace that most players accept it and even use these services and I don't care if you think I am being snooty.
Don't sit there and whine about a broken economy... DEMAND that it be fixed!
Almost all elected officals are in the pockets of corperations and "specal intrest groups", this is also why the US government blindly supports other nations questonable acts.
Naw... the PS3 is already panned for having too many features... if it cures cancer people are just going to throw up there hands in frustration and go buy a Wii.
All kidding aside... if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
Right... sorry, must have gotten mixed up.
I still think it is interesting to watch the reruns and see how far the specal effects and writing have come. At the same time it is hard to jump in in the middle... Stargate is one of the most complicated Sci-Fi worlds on TV right now.
Yeah... the only issue is that there is a lot of it.
Other than that, you have to understand that the show started in '94 and has matured quite a bit so the first couple of seasons are a bit rough around the edges.
I would never deny a little bit of humanizing recreation to our troops. Maybe it is being so de-humanized in a very high stress life or death situation lead to things like PTSD and prisoner abuse scandals.
If you are willing to get shot at, I am willing to let you play playstation and listen to music on you off hours without any objection from me.
Nintendo seems to have the attitude that they know how to make games and consoles without any real input from the consumer... most of the time they are right but sometimes they lay a big fat brick on the market. Big N has been doing well lately and I hope it continues (they are the only ones who seem to care about younger gamers plus compitition is good). IF the Wiimote is hard to use or just not very widely used (wouldn't it suck to have to buy a normal controller to play 90% of your games fully) and if the Wii just doesn't bring much to the table in the way of value and inovation I could easly see it being a sleepy little system that will turn a profit but little else.
as Well as 'Konami Support' lest we forget about Snake being in Smash Bros.
I haven't forgoten... but having there mascot charecter in a brawler is not the same as Konami putting a MGS4 port on the console. It isn't about playing as snake... it's about playing a Metal Gear game for me.
Since when is a personal preference a con? Just because you don't like the games doesn't mean everyone else doesn't. Which is not to say it's not true, just that it's not a valid con when phrased that way. Perhaps "The stable of games so far seem to be mostly games the general gaming crowd would not buy, like the Xbox" would be better, but you'd still need to back this up somehow, since you do not solely speak for the general gaming crowd.
I only speak for myself... and I am not interested in many of the games on the 360, these are my pros and cons... not yours or anyone elses.
Do you actually expect this to work properly? IIRC the PS2 wasn't totally backward compatible with the PS1; do you think the PS3 will be any different (not just with the PS1, but with the PS2 as well, and probably compounding issues with the PS1)? Let's also not forget the lack of memory card ports, so have fun purchasing that dongle and moving all your game saves over.
That's a good point... I didn't think of it that way but it still has to be better than the way the Xbox 360 does it.
Yes, the PS2 has a crapload of games. How many of them are actually any fun? Not shitty clones? Worth paying for?
More games means more good games as well as bad, also what appeals to you or I may not appeal to someone else and games sold (good or "bad") means dollars reinvested in new development.
Time will tell which system (if any) I buy... The games, not the console or the company, in the end will be what motivates me to spend money. (MGS4 is tempting... but I can wait for things to settle a bit.)
I agree, "abandoning" Sony because you don't like what they are selling or the way they sell it is perfectly reasonable.
But what I take issue with is that people don't stop at not buying the PS3 they are doing there best to paint it in as negative a light as possible... it's as if Nintendo is paying for this negative press campain.
I would like to be able to look at some of the potental drawbacks of the Wii without getting into an argument on how bad the PS3 is going to suck (I have actualy had this conversation... I brought up a genuine concern about the Wiimote and they proceded to pantomime the use of a PS3 controler to demonstrate that I was foolish... I hadn't mentioned the PS3)
We all need to take a deap breath and look at things objectivly, here are a few parts of my thinking process.
Wii
Pros: Inexspensive Inovative game play potental. Cons: May have weak 3rd party support. Games may not make use of the Wiimote. Bacwards compatability looks like it requires rebuying your old games. Vurtual Boy, N64. First party games on the gamecube tend to be low on content or at least repetative.
Xbox 360
Pros: Out now, has a head start on games. Xbox live makes multiplayer easier. Cons: "exclusive" titles for the Xbox tended to show up on the PS2... the same may happen here. Hardware is prone to breaking... not a good value. The stable of games so far seem to be mostly games I would not buy, like the Xbox. Backwards compatability is severly limited and from what I hear buggy.
PS3
Pros: Konami support. (I am a huge MGS fan) Backwards compatability. Sony has a track record of more 3rd party support than the big N and Microsoft. Blue Ray... if it is picked up by the industry... though on the other hand who cares what media the games are on? Cons: Price, this is kinda a big one but on the other hand... I spend 1500-2000 on a computer for gameing. DRM... well I don't plan on stealing anything but if it makes my life harder then it's a con. Blue Ray... if it isn't picked up by the industry much of the value of the system is lost. Negative press may put a dent in 3rd party support.
The main thing I see people saying is "I want a PS3 but it is too exspensive WHAAA" well they don't say exactly that but that is what I hear.
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I am with you... EVE is probably the closest we have... and yet the learning curve is soo steep and the diffrence between haves and have nots is so great... it is impossible to get into without becoming and staying a small time thug, something I won't do.
Indeed... I don't think I have ever A) "stolen" Windows or B) paid retail for it.
It pays to have a good relationship with the big computer store in your neghborhood, and the address for Newegg.com handy.
That's funny I was under the impression that all the blood and violence would be edited out and the shark would be replaced with a Radio taped to a flashlight.
This new 8 disk box set will include the new 20 minute feature and 5 days of Spielberg rabling about various topics.
Crushed childhoods not included for those under the age of 25.
There is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft's way of doing "backwards compatibility" has never worked... even going past there game busness. They don't seem to get that trying to adapt the game to the new system is doomed to falure. What they need to do is build the console to accomodate the old games but because of the way the Xbox was built the best way to do that is to crazy glue one to a 360. I feel your pain... esspecaly being stuck with an Xbox during what may have been the Plastation's (1,2,3...) golden era. Eh... good luck, I hope Microsoft sees money in BCing all of your favorite games, but I don't see that happening.
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By unique do you mean exclusive or inovative and of high quality?
Soul Caliber II has ports on all three major last gen platforms. Plus part of the issue might be that there is a Soul Caliber game under development on the 360 on top of the fact that Soul Caliber III is out making Soul Caliber II "obsolete" in the eyes of the porting team.
I may not agree with that tactic but at least you are playing within the rules.
Part of the reason prices inflate like that is the glut of farmer gold in the hands of people who haven't "earned it" and don't assign any in game value to it.
This points out the biggest problem with Wikipedia, people are selfish. When questions of NPOV come up the disscusion offten becomes not what the NPOV is but who's oppinion will be included in the article and accepted as truth.
There is a Penny-Arcade comic that sums wikipedia up nicely I can't (due to a proxy) look it up right now...
Disclaimer: I am a huge Wikipedia fan... but I only "trust" non political geek culture (Comics, video games) to be relitivly accurate.
Gold farming, loot farming and power leveling suck the fun out of all MMOs. I don't care if someone is making a living off of it, I don't care if it is so commonplace that most players accept it and even use these services and I don't care if you think I am being snooty. Don't sit there and whine about a broken economy... DEMAND that it be fixed!
If that is true... then this is human cloning... and that is even more of a no no.
Insightful? The mods need to lay off the cloned beef...
The good news is... they started with a complex...
ONe word... Lobyists.
Almost all elected officals are in the pockets of corperations and "specal intrest groups", this is also why the US government blindly supports other nations questonable acts.
Yeah only this isn't SETI@home... read a little bit... $300 donated to cancer research is a little less "silly" don't you think?
Naw... the PS3 is already panned for having too many features... if it cures cancer people are just going to throw up there hands in frustration and go buy a Wii.
All kidding aside... if you had a PS3 would you run this in down time?
Congrats... that woshing noise is your joke going over everyones head.
Right... sorry, must have gotten mixed up. I still think it is interesting to watch the reruns and see how far the specal effects and writing have come. At the same time it is hard to jump in in the middle... Stargate is one of the most complicated Sci-Fi worlds on TV right now.
If little querky games didn't make there way to market we wouldn't have some of the most fun games I have ever played. Keep that in mind.
Big production games with stories are fun too, but in a diffrent way, sometimes you need a game that can make you smile without much time invested.
Yeah... the only issue is that there is a lot of it.
Other than that, you have to understand that the show started in '94 and has matured quite a bit so the first couple of seasons are a bit rough around the edges.
I would never deny a little bit of humanizing recreation to our troops. Maybe it is being so de-humanized in a very high stress life or death situation lead to things like PTSD and prisoner abuse scandals.
If you are willing to get shot at, I am willing to let you play playstation and listen to music on you off hours without any objection from me.
Nintendo seems to have the attitude that they know how to make games and consoles without any real input from the consumer... most of the time they are right but sometimes they lay a big fat brick on the market. Big N has been doing well lately and I hope it continues (they are the only ones who seem to care about younger gamers plus compitition is good). IF the Wiimote is hard to use or just not very widely used (wouldn't it suck to have to buy a normal controller to play 90% of your games fully) and if the Wii just doesn't bring much to the table in the way of value and inovation I could easly see it being a sleepy little system that will turn a profit but little else.
True... very true... I guess we will see what happens.
I won't decide what (if any) console to buy untill I can compare the games and games I want to play are on the market.
I haven't forgoten... but having there mascot charecter in a brawler is not the same as Konami putting a MGS4 port on the console. It isn't about playing as snake... it's about playing a Metal Gear game for me.
That's a good point... I didn't think of it that way but it still has to be better than the way the Xbox 360 does it.
More games means more good games as well as bad, also what appeals to you or I may not appeal to someone else and games sold (good or "bad") means dollars reinvested in new development.
Time will tell which system (if any) I buy... The games, not the console or the company, in the end will be what motivates me to spend money. (MGS4 is tempting... but I can wait for things to settle a bit.)
I agree, "abandoning" Sony because you don't like what they are selling or the way they sell it is perfectly reasonable.
But what I take issue with is that people don't stop at not buying the PS3 they are doing there best to paint it in as negative a light as possible... it's as if Nintendo is paying for this negative press campain.
I would like to be able to look at some of the potental drawbacks of the Wii without getting into an argument on how bad the PS3 is going to suck (I have actualy had this conversation... I brought up a genuine concern about the Wiimote and they proceded to pantomime the use of a PS3 controler to demonstrate that I was foolish... I hadn't mentioned the PS3)
We all need to take a deap breath and look at things objectivly, here are a few parts of my thinking process.
Wii
Pros:
Inexspensive
Inovative game play potental.
Cons:
May have weak 3rd party support.
Games may not make use of the Wiimote.
Bacwards compatability looks like it requires rebuying your old games.
Vurtual Boy, N64.
First party games on the gamecube tend to be low on content or at least repetative.
Xbox 360
Pros:
Out now, has a head start on games.
Xbox live makes multiplayer easier.
Cons:
"exclusive" titles for the Xbox tended to show up on the PS2... the same may happen here.
Hardware is prone to breaking... not a good value.
The stable of games so far seem to be mostly games I would not buy, like the Xbox.
Backwards compatability is severly limited and from what I hear buggy.
PS3
Pros:
Konami support. (I am a huge MGS fan)
Backwards compatability.
Sony has a track record of more 3rd party support than the big N and Microsoft.
Blue Ray... if it is picked up by the industry... though on the other hand who cares what media the games are on?
Cons:
Price, this is kinda a big one but on the other hand... I spend 1500-2000 on a computer for gameing.
DRM... well I don't plan on stealing anything but if it makes my life harder then it's a con.
Blue Ray... if it isn't picked up by the industry much of the value of the system is lost.
Negative press may put a dent in 3rd party support.
The main thing I see people saying is "I want a PS3 but it is too exspensive WHAAA" well they don't say exactly that but that is what I hear.