You've gotta wonder; what's left to buy? What 'is' Rare?
The IP. I think all that Rare really has at this time is a whole load of IP. Mikey.S. won't let go of that without a fight... but has the Wii given Nintendo enough pocket money and gumption to make it a done deal?
I'm suprised this hasn't happened before. (Well, it did. But nobody cared. And rightly so.)
In a virtual world where you can script any object and have it any other player interact with it, there's bound to be an errant object which bounces 100ft into the air and splits into thousands of self-replicating drones. It's only natural.
Heck, I'd do that in my 'first life', but I'm not that good at origami.
I once saw an old DOS virus that displayed the lyrics of the song onscreen and played the melody through the PC speaker after the POST on some specific date...
Would we be reliable for distributing the song if it were the fault of a virus?
Don't worry, folks. Linux comes with it's own set of headaches.
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So if the weight of a gun is an option, then should the type of ammo consumed, firing rate, number of bullets per clip, damage per bullet, and ability to dual-wield also be an option for each gun?
Absolutely. It should all be there, if you really want to set that stuff.
An aside: I've read that you can make some pretty bizarre weapon hacks in GE and PD with the right Gameshark code templates.
In markets that allow game rental (such as the United States), some publishers have tried to extract income from renters by selling personalized unlock codes to players for real money. Or is that too obtuse?
Now that's just being silly.
Everybody knows that 'personalized unlock codes' means finding somebody elses half finished Lode Runner passwords scrawled in pencil all over the Nintendo Hotline pages at the back of the manual after buying it second hand.
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And just stand there while the other human players shoot him, right?
TimeSplitters games pause everything until all players have left pause mode. Perfect Dark allows any one player to hit Start, and then turn on Pause. All other players have to wait until this player has turned off Pause. (At least, that's how I remember it. I think it's possible to turn off somebody elses Pause, which is a bit of a bummer. But that's why you don't play against people like that.)
Of course it's an option to drop the weapon. You complain about lack of fixed gun emplacements, but then you complain that the heavy guns are slow to carry. Just use the gun close to where it spawns.
There's no excuse for not having it as an option.
Even when the other human players are waiting (im)patiently for the player with controller 1 to finish taking fifteen minutes to set everything up?
You must've had some bad experiences playing against folks in Perfect Dark, I guess. Whenever I played, we always used to make a good scenario and then save it.
Is it acceptable if this code is different for each console that you use the game disc on?
Depends if there's a (fairly obtuse) method to figuring out the code. If there was an Xbox 360 game (random example of console with Ethernet port) which showed you a series of 6 coloured lights (think of a random 'Mastermind' combination. Or even better, a series of Vib Ribbon esque swiggles, or a Mortal Kombat-like series of pictures) on the title screen, based on a hash of the MAC address, and you could work a code out from that, with a little help from some kind of method. (Each coloured light could correspond to a pair of controller combinations, or something along those lines.) Type in the entire code, and you get the Unlock Menu, where Player 1 can set various 'Unlock All X...' options which last until the console is powered down. These codes don't stop your player profiles from saving (having all the guns that a completed game save would give you shouldn't be punishable), but they don't give you any sort of advantage in the single player game.
GoldenEye has a code where you can unlock all the hidden characters in multiplayer, so you're not all fighting over Bond.
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The IP. I think all that Rare really has at this time is a whole load of IP. Mikey.S. won't let go of that without a fight... but has the Wii given Nintendo enough pocket money and gumption to make it a done deal?
Hahaha... I've personally talked with some of the folks at Rare, and the mere mention of porting Killer Instinct drives them to the brink of insanity.
Wow... that's pretty cool.
Although I can't say anybody's ever fired a heat-seeking missile at my wallet before.
I misread that as Illegal Information, which I guess works too.
'Of course it's erased!'
'But what does that mean?'
'Magic self recycling future paper.'
'Oh. So Marty is still going to get fired in 2015?'
'Yep!'
I still don't believe they're safe, y'know.
Shut 'em down. We wont miss much anyway.
(Granted their calendar would register '1st century BC' at somewhere between year 3000 and year 4000, at a random guess.)
Changing a system which works is a very, very bad idea.
Wont this open up the system to many more phishing attacks involving addresses which include non-latin characters which look similar to latin ones?
I'm suprised this hasn't happened before. (Well, it did. But nobody cared. And rightly so.)
In a virtual world where you can script any object and have it any other player interact with it, there's bound to be an errant object which bounces 100ft into the air and splits into thousands of self-replicating drones. It's only natural.
Heck, I'd do that in my 'first life', but I'm not that good at origami.
You won't be saying that after you've had my cooking.
I once saw an old DOS virus that displayed the lyrics of the song onscreen and played the melody through the PC speaker after the POST on some specific date...
Would we be reliable for distributing the song if it were the fault of a virus?
Do not get the games degree. Stick with CS. It's worth something.
Please.
For the English folks on Slashdot, does anybody else still have old Betamax tapes of 'Rolf's Cartoon Club', and 'Woof'?
> if they are too afraid/stupid to stop their car from being towed...where are they going to the bathroom for 3 days?
Hint: You know that water that's everywhere? That's not because of the storm.
Don't pick sides, pick games.
Everything else will follow from there.
Mod parent up +1: Inter.... ah.... forget it.
/me yells 'There's no fire! Everything's OK!'
I wonder how many times I could yell that before they'd stop believing me.
Don't worry, folks. Linux comes with it's own set of headaches.
Absolutely. It should all be there, if you really want to set that stuff.
An aside: I've read that you can make some pretty bizarre weapon hacks in GE and PD with the right Gameshark code templates.
Now that's just being silly.
Everybody knows that 'personalized unlock codes' means finding somebody elses half finished Lode Runner passwords scrawled in pencil all over the Nintendo Hotline pages at the back of the manual after buying it second hand.
GoldenEye has a code where you can unlock all the hidden characters in multiplayer, so you're not all fighting over Bond.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Perfect Dark.
In the sequel, Content Breakers, they explore ways of making your website innavigable.
It includes such design decisions as: splitting your content onto 8 seperate pages when one would have one.
Where do you work?!
Round here, they wouldn't settle for anything less than 110%.
Fixed it for you: Boring Peter Molyneux.
But why?