A demo just came out here... I haven't downloaded it yet myself. But I hope it's good because apparently the Sam & Max games are going to be done in a similar format.
I am probably in a very small percentage of users here but my PC had USB 1.1 so I bought a firewire PCI card which I use for my current iPod... not that I am looking to buy a nano but someone in my same situation would appreciate the firewire support.
Out of curiosity, has anyone verified that the nano definitely doesn't support firewire? When they were released last week, someone on/. said that they used their iPod firewire connector and it worked. And out of the kindness of my heart I believed them.
If someone "can't be bothered with the hassle of an actual pet" and they're playing nintendogs (and yes, even only having read about it, it is indeed a game, as much as The Sims is a game), why are you sad that they aren't getting a real pet? Devoting time to a quirky little DS game is a lot different from owning a real pet. The sad thing would be the reverse, if someone bought a dog thinking they could treat it like a video game.
There's a big difference between "something you can do IRL" and the simple pleasure of a video game, which have the ability to take realistic (or not) situations and abstract them into a game playing format, i.e. with a controller/mouse/joystick/etc, and the gameplay fun factor takes a much different form than the fun factor (and potential cost, difficulty, time commitment) of doing it IRL. Sure, I like playing basketball, and I like playing NBA 2k5, but holding a controller and moving five 3d characters down the court is a lot different experience from playing basketball IRL, and there is a much different context in which I would do one or the other.
If I saw someone playing Nintendogs, I'd probably ask them if I could play it for a few minutes -- I should hope they wouldn't be like "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET A DOG, JERK!?"
but "ultimate" in this case refers to "last", as in "second to last". An author's penultimate work being their second to last (that's the context I've usually heard it in).
ah lol... I must have been thinking of a different game on Sega Channel. I did play Nights though. The problem is, I had 32X and Saturn and I like to pretend that neither ever existed. I apologize for the confusion.
Here's a few more:
-Elevator Action
-Bionic Commando
-Ikari Warriors
-Baseball Stars (baseball video games used to be fun!)
For some reason I'm only thinking of NES games right now.
On a related note, Capcom is remaking Final Fight, that rocks! From the looks of it, Haggar is not going to be in it, which sucks. He was the best/most ridiculous looking main character. HIS SHIRT WAS A BELT! And he was the mayor, so you knew he meant business when he took up the streets to kick some ass.
wowwww..... I totally forgot about NiGHTS. Believe it or not, I actually played it on Sega Channel (along with VectorMan), the old subscription service where you could download Genesis games over cable. I think it lasted for like 3 days.
yeah, and they squashed the Sam and Max sequel too! Such teases!
At least Tim Schafer (Full Throttle creator) is running his own studio now (Double Fine), Psychonauts was a fun game with an interesting, quirky story and the dialogue actually made me laugh a few times (so rare in games these days).
and while they're at it... Ice Climbers and Wrecking Crew! They did bring Ice Climbers back in Super Smash Bros Melee, that was pretty funny.
I would definitely buy the Revolution if they starting whipping up old NES remakes like nobody's business... I think that's been said by everyone on/. at least once.
Unless John Madden starts raping and eating small children and ruins the franchise's name, they'll continue to have the income to support the "risk" of investing in R&D.
Or... what if something unfortunate were to happen to him... $633 million in R&D, huh?
Hmm.....
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic Madden.
He will be better than he was before.
Better... stronger... faster... eat more turkey legs than ever. Able to incoherently ramble fluently in 35 different languages. And with the biggest goddamn Madden bus you've ever seen.
How much playing time is that extra SLT going to get you? 20 minutes of "cool, I own a 360!" plus 10 minutes of "hey guys, check out my 360!" plus 5 minutes of "man this game sucks, but look at this 360! It's so fuckin new, and I own it!" That's 35 minutes, 45 MAX if you're really bored. So, pony up and get the $400 version. That extra SLT was not worth it.
> business week: google=52% > clickz: google=59% > zdnet: google=36.9%
that makes 147.9% total... which makes sense, because Earth is actually a subset of Google Earth, so Google not only encompasses Earth but an extra 47.9% Earth units of space on top of that.
I feel the same way. Every time I see an ad for a new movie out on DVD with "also on UMD for the PSP!" (Sin City being the latest), I can't help but chuckle... I just can't imagine buying a movie that plays only on the PSP, for essentially the same price (are UMD movies generally cheaper? more expensive? I don't know but from what I've seen they seem to be fairly equivalent to DVD prices).
It would be brilliant if Sony could manage to get UMD's packaged with the retail DVD (maybe special combo packs for a few dollars more?), but that doesn't sound very feasible. Not that I currently own a PSP, but if I did... that's the only way I could see myself purchasing a UMD. With Netflix, it takes a really good movie or worthwhile TV box set (Curb, anyone?) to get me to purchase a DVD as it is, and those are actually useful.
As far as I can remember, Pepsi ads have sometimes mentioned Coke (I just saw one yesterday... a Diet Pepsi machine with a Diet Coke machine next to it... a truck keeps coming back to remove the Diet Coke machine and replace it with Coke Light, Semi-Diet Coke, whatever, etc. but they all fail because Diet Pepsi ownz0rz wow OMG!!) but not the other way around.
It seems that leading brands (Coke, McDonald's) tend not to mention their competitors, because there's really no need to from a marketing perspective. Their competitors, on the other hand, will sometimes target them specifically (i.e. Subway pointing out less fat in their sandwich than a Big Mac, the Pepsi example).
In any case, this all seems to slightly deviate from the original Adwords example... specifically searching for a brand or product and seeing a competitor's ad with "better than brand A!" seems different from just seeing an ad on TV... at least that seems to be the point of the Geico lawsuit, which I admittedly don't entirely understand (nor care to) myself.
As everyone and their mother has pointed out, this is MTV, and these types of nominations are expected. But this is the MTV Video Music awards (not a fan of that name, btw), an awards show which is not even remotely centered around video games. In fact, their nominations are perfectly appropriate given the setting. I think that Zonk and the article's author "missed the point", in terms of the "point" and target audience of the MTV Video Music awards.
Not that I don't think "Best videogame score" should be celebrated, but in the appropriate context, at a proper video game awards show... if one existed...
That is a shame... reminds me of the article that was linked a while back, where John Davison described an experience going on a TV show where they were supposed to give him time to talk about the future of games, and instead the show was centered entirely on violence, and the role of video games in violent behavior, etc... and he ended up walking off the set.
And like he said in the article, about his reason why he didn't want to talk about violence and video games: "that's been done to death, it's boring." Same goes for the completely stale "female gamers appalled at scantily clad women, violence in games" retread.
Oh well... seeing this come from the mainstream media (ABC 6 *Action* News!! Dunn dunn DUNNN!) is nothing new, really.
really? it seems like the first billion hits I get on google images are from this site .
I wasn't really interested enough to try image number 1,000,000,001.
That's exactly the problem... for one thing, these people won't stop complaining/protesting until games like GTA are banned altogether (in other words, they'll never stop), and another reason: for a lot of people who have weighed in on the issue (i.e. Hillary, congressman Yee), it is their job to create and represent a particular public image, in this case taking a known source of controversy (GTA) and voicing their stance on it. They do what they think the parents aka voters want. Do you think they really give a shit whether or not Hot Coffee is a mod or it was unlockable content, or that they would even understand the difference?
People ask "what about God of War, after all, it has boobs and sex mini-games?" Well, for one, people like Hillary Clinton and millions of random parents know what GTA is because of the public spotlight. Plus the hookers and "gangsta" lifestyle glorification are much easier targets than R-rated Greek mythology.
When it comes down to it... there are some people who simply hate that the first amendment allows for things like rap music and GTA. Jack Thompson is an idiot and a hypocrite (a groundbreaking revelation, I know!). Saying that the ESA are the ones who don't understand the constitution, get a fucking clue! The point of the ESRB, MPAA, explicit lyrics labels, etc. is that we allow free speech, but we take measures to protect children and minors from inappropriate content--or at least attempt to. Sure, continue revamping these measures, but don't try to ban GTA or knock it out of retail.
The truth is that if a game was so ridiculously offensive, vile or terrible, people probably wouldn't buy it... you might even see hardcore gamers protesting it. We don't need these so-called champions of moral dignity to tell us what's right. If a game like GTA is selling like hotcakes, it's for a reason: it kicks ass. So fuck off, Jack Thompson, and let me get back to stealing cars, killing hookers and blowing shit up, because it's fun... and I sure don't have the time or energy to do that in real life.
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A demo just came out here... I haven't downloaded it yet myself. But I hope it's good because apparently the Sam & Max games are going to be done in a similar format.
I am probably in a very small percentage of users here but my PC had USB 1.1 so I bought a firewire PCI card which I use for my current iPod... not that I am looking to buy a nano but someone in my same situation would appreciate the firewire support.
/. said that they used their iPod firewire connector and it worked. And out of the kindness of my heart I believed them.
Out of curiosity, has anyone verified that the nano definitely doesn't support firewire? When they were released last week, someone on
start the reactor, free Mars. Only then can the miners prosper here.
If someone "can't be bothered with the hassle of an actual pet" and they're playing nintendogs (and yes, even only having read about it, it is indeed a game, as much as The Sims is a game), why are you sad that they aren't getting a real pet? Devoting time to a quirky little DS game is a lot different from owning a real pet. The sad thing would be the reverse, if someone bought a dog thinking they could treat it like a video game.
There's a big difference between "something you can do IRL" and the simple pleasure of a video game, which have the ability to take realistic (or not) situations and abstract them into a game playing format, i.e. with a controller/mouse/joystick/etc, and the gameplay fun factor takes a much different form than the fun factor (and potential cost, difficulty, time commitment) of doing it IRL. Sure, I like playing basketball, and I like playing NBA 2k5, but holding a controller and moving five 3d characters down the court is a lot different experience from playing basketball IRL, and there is a much different context in which I would do one or the other.
If I saw someone playing Nintendogs, I'd probably ask them if I could play it for a few minutes -- I should hope they wouldn't be like "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET A DOG, JERK!?"
what, the combination "informative offtopic flamebait" doesn't make sense to you?
but "ultimate" in this case refers to "last", as in "second to last". An author's penultimate work being their second to last (that's the context I've usually heard it in).
Someone was bound to say it...
ah lol... I must have been thinking of a different game on Sega Channel. I did play Nights though. The problem is, I had 32X and Saturn and I like to pretend that neither ever existed. I apologize for the confusion.
Here's a few more:
-Elevator Action
-Bionic Commando
-Ikari Warriors
-Baseball Stars (baseball video games used to be fun!)
For some reason I'm only thinking of NES games right now.
On a related note, Capcom is remaking Final Fight, that rocks! From the looks of it, Haggar is not going to be in it, which sucks. He was the best/most ridiculous looking main character. HIS SHIRT WAS A BELT! And he was the mayor, so you knew he meant business when he took up the streets to kick some ass.
wowwww..... I totally forgot about NiGHTS. Believe it or not, I actually played it on Sega Channel (along with VectorMan), the old subscription service where you could download Genesis games over cable. I think it lasted for like 3 days.
yeah, and they squashed the Sam and Max sequel too! Such teases!
At least Tim Schafer (Full Throttle creator) is running his own studio now (Double Fine), Psychonauts was a fun game with an interesting, quirky story and the dialogue actually made me laugh a few times (so rare in games these days).
and while they're at it... Ice Climbers and Wrecking Crew! They did bring Ice Climbers back in Super Smash Bros Melee, that was pretty funny.
/. at least once.
I would definitely buy the Revolution if they starting whipping up old NES remakes like nobody's business... I think that's been said by everyone on
Unless John Madden starts raping and eating small children and ruins the franchise's name, they'll continue to have the income to support the "risk" of investing in R&D.
Or... what if something unfortunate were to happen to him... $633 million in R&D, huh?
Hmm.....
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic Madden.
He will be better than he was before.
Better... stronger... faster... eat more turkey legs than ever. Able to incoherently ramble fluently in 35 different languages. And with the biggest goddamn Madden bus you've ever seen.
We have the technology. It's in the game.
WAAAAHH, the new video game console costs a lot of money, WAAAHH! especially when bundled with accessories and 11 games, WAAAAH!
But I do agree about the $300 version being worthless. For the 3 skeptics out there, here is a handy guide:
$300 X360 + Memory Card + 2 Shitty Launch Titles (tm) = $460
$400 X360 + 1 SLT = $460
How much playing time is that extra SLT going to get you? 20 minutes of "cool, I own a 360!" plus 10 minutes of "hey guys, check out my 360!" plus 5 minutes of "man this game sucks, but look at this 360! It's so fuckin new, and I own it!" That's 35 minutes, 45 MAX if you're really bored.
So, pony up and get the $400 version. That extra SLT was not worth it.
> business week: google=52%
> clickz: google=59%
> zdnet: google=36.9%
that makes 147.9% total... which makes sense, because Earth is actually a subset of Google Earth, so Google not only encompasses Earth but an extra 47.9% Earth units of space on top of that.
I feel the same way. Every time I see an ad for a new movie out on DVD with "also on UMD for the PSP!" (Sin City being the latest), I can't help but chuckle... I just can't imagine buying a movie that plays only on the PSP, for essentially the same price (are UMD movies generally cheaper? more expensive? I don't know but from what I've seen they seem to be fairly equivalent to DVD prices).
It would be brilliant if Sony could manage to get UMD's packaged with the retail DVD (maybe special combo packs for a few dollars more?), but that doesn't sound very feasible. Not that I currently own a PSP, but if I did... that's the only way I could see myself purchasing a UMD. With Netflix, it takes a really good movie or worthwhile TV box set (Curb, anyone?) to get me to purchase a DVD as it is, and those are actually useful.
As far as I can remember, Pepsi ads have sometimes mentioned Coke (I just saw one yesterday... a Diet Pepsi machine with a Diet Coke machine next to it... a truck keeps coming back to remove the Diet Coke machine and replace it with Coke Light, Semi-Diet Coke, whatever, etc. but they all fail because Diet Pepsi ownz0rz wow OMG!!) but not the other way around.
It seems that leading brands (Coke, McDonald's) tend not to mention their competitors, because there's really no need to from a marketing perspective. Their competitors, on the other hand, will sometimes target them specifically (i.e. Subway pointing out less fat in their sandwich than a Big Mac, the Pepsi example).
In any case, this all seems to slightly deviate from the original Adwords example... specifically searching for a brand or product and seeing a competitor's ad with "better than brand A!" seems different from just seeing an ad on TV... at least that seems to be the point of the Geico lawsuit, which I admittedly don't entirely understand (nor care to) myself.
As everyone and their mother has pointed out, this is MTV, and these types of nominations are expected. But this is the MTV Video Music awards (not a fan of that name, btw), an awards show which is not even remotely centered around video games. In fact, their nominations are perfectly appropriate given the setting. I think that Zonk and the article's author "missed the point", in terms of the "point" and target audience of the MTV Video Music awards.
Not that I don't think "Best videogame score" should be celebrated, but in the appropriate context, at a proper video game awards show... if one existed...
use the word "troll" and thus shall you be modded. Hey, unless in quotations, of course!
That is a shame... reminds me of the article that was linked a while back, where John Davison described an experience going on a TV show where they were supposed to give him time to talk about the future of games, and instead the show was centered entirely on violence, and the role of video games in violent behavior, etc... and he ended up walking off the set.
And like he said in the article, about his reason why he didn't want to talk about violence and video games: "that's been done to death, it's boring." Same goes for the completely stale "female gamers appalled at scantily clad women, violence in games" retread.
Oh well... seeing this come from the mainstream media (ABC 6 *Action* News!! Dunn dunn DUNNN!) is nothing new, really.
really? it seems like the first billion hits I get on google images are from this site . I wasn't really interested enough to try image number 1,000,000,001.
for using the Halo 2 "Flaming Tea" mod that allows me to cyber with my online gf?
That's exactly the problem... for one thing, these people won't stop complaining/protesting until games like GTA are banned altogether (in other words, they'll never stop), and another reason: for a lot of people who have weighed in on the issue (i.e. Hillary, congressman Yee), it is their job to create and represent a particular public image, in this case taking a known source of controversy (GTA) and voicing their stance on it. They do what they think the parents aka voters want. Do you think they really give a shit whether or not Hot Coffee is a mod or it was unlockable content, or that they would even understand the difference?
People ask "what about God of War, after all, it has boobs and sex mini-games?" Well, for one, people like Hillary Clinton and millions of random parents know what GTA is because of the public spotlight. Plus the hookers and "gangsta" lifestyle glorification are much easier targets than R-rated Greek mythology.
When it comes down to it... there are some people who simply hate that the first amendment allows for things like rap music and GTA. Jack Thompson is an idiot and a hypocrite (a groundbreaking revelation, I know!). Saying that the ESA are the ones who don't understand the constitution, get a fucking clue! The point of the ESRB, MPAA, explicit lyrics labels, etc. is that we allow free speech, but we take measures to protect children and minors from inappropriate content--or at least attempt to. Sure, continue revamping these measures, but don't try to ban GTA or knock it out of retail.
The truth is that if a game was so ridiculously offensive, vile or terrible, people probably wouldn't buy it... you might even see hardcore gamers protesting it. We don't need these so-called champions of moral dignity to tell us what's right. If a game like GTA is selling like hotcakes, it's for a reason: it kicks ass. So fuck off, Jack Thompson, and let me get back to stealing cars, killing hookers and blowing shit up, because it's fun... and I sure don't have the time or energy to do that in real life.
So does that mean you won't be happy when he casts Ben Affleck as Optimus Prime?
ironically, the parent post actually said hours spent "waiting on line" ...
ooh! ooh! pick me for your group! I want to go on the mission too! I'm a redshirt, everybody needs one of those!
Now, if only I could make it through a single mission...