Maybe the survey was conducted outside a pirate store in Malaysia?
When I was a kid I could afford maybe five NES games a year. If I had pirated a thousand games I still only would only have been able to buy five, not a thousand. Most pirates probably just leave the loot unused and have like five things they use anyways.
And who knows, maybe Schrödinger's cat applies to unused files?
Well, if you look at Quake 3 and the bot AI they just made the bots slide around on a preprogrammed path while pointing the aim exactly at the target and then adding some shake based on skill. Yes, I do know it's not a new game, but the AI is pathetic compared to the gfx.
Why not give the aim a bit of weight so it has to be swung around, and gradually stabilize on the target if it stops moving relating to the aim angle? That's what players do and it wouldn't be hard to simulate. Right now it doesn't matter how much I move. If I stand 100 meters away they keep missing me when trying to snipe, and if I'm in close combat and move a lot in relation to their aim they always hit me. That's not how players work.
Why not have the AI's gather information just like humans and then face the same/similar weighted choices as the player? Anything better than - if shot then target=attacker - that seem to be popular.
I know this would probably make the bots more stupid, but I'd prefer that over predictable.
First run:
Install: "Find the disc, put in in, select your install folder, install the application, find the installed shortcut, run the game, wait while it loads."
T&P:"Find the disc, wait longer while it loads, every time it loads because the disc has to spin up while sounding like a vacuum cleaner."
Following runs:
Install:"Click Icon, wait while the game loads."
T&P:"Find the disc, wait longer while it loads, every time it loads because the disc has to spin up while sounding like a vacuum cleaner."
If anyone wonders about installing, here's what I did:
The DL link can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
After downloading that I closed all windows and uninstalled 1.0 (winXP) by using add/remove programs and clicked yes on delete folder. My settings/profile/chrome stuff is not in that folder, but here in my case:
C:\Documents and Settings\My puter name\Application Data\Mozilla\
Then I installed 1.01 by clicking the exe
Done. My extensions, chrome, bookmarks seem to be intact, which of course was my biggest worry. My start menu just turned black though:/
The update thing in 1.0 just checked/updated my extensions, and my flash blocker stopped working. I took a look in about:config and the build and version number was still old, so that thing definately didn't update to 1.01
Check out the grass foliage, just some years ago they couldn't do that stuff!!!1 The amazing gfx you can do nowdays with up to 16 colors and a staggering 200x160 resolution makes me wonder what's next!
Also, here's Doom III as it actually plays and looks, The 'real' Doom III is actually an illusion - HYPE, level 3 (contagious), can only be cast by larger developer entities.
btw. check out the bevels on the map!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/doom3.gif
Ah, yes, Ur-Quan Masters (UQM) was actually the game that introduced me to StarControl II. There's a small forum community alive aswell (Pages of now and forever).
I also managed to miss Exile (gravity/2D/exploration game) back in the day, and only came into contact with it quite recently (C64 version). It's a real gem! Blows most new games out of the water.
Sadly, most games today have such weak and inconsistant rulesets that they have too resort to invulnerable characters, impregnable forcefields and linear scripted setups.
Bending the rules is one of the things I enjoy the most in games, but nowdays everything is too controlled in favour of storylines.
It also seems to me that back in the day people/geeks made games because they wanted to and they had an idea, and nowdays it has to be 'safe' and they want to make money, so they make another WW2 shooter with some sneaker elements cuz that seem to be popular too.
Here's some games I'm still wating for:
Exile was a little confusing and hard but it's just blew my mind. It's strange how a game that runs on a BBC micro with 16/32kb of mem can beat the crap out of...something new and recent. When will I again see a game where I can just blow the door with a big pile of 'nades up instead of finding the key?
Paradroid? Great concept, it had the sneaker and LoS paranoia element, lots of replay value with the free roaming and different droids you could take over.
Lemmings. Is anyone else wondering why they aren't making a lemmings-like game with like... structural integrity and awesome physics?
Wrecking crew would be pretty neat with physics too wouldn't it?
SuperCars II? I want to buy missiles and armor again. I'm tired of running over symbols or driving in normal traffic.
Utopia K240... it was like Sim City and a RTS in one. Beats HomeWorld by a parsec if you ask me.
SimLife... imagine this with some new life algoritms and 3D morphing.
Star Control II! Imagine that with a dynamic realtime political universe with vast fleets of Umgah and Spathi or whatever going at it.
Metroid and Zelda never really had any sequels if you just look at how unlinear they were. There's no more walking into Dungeon 8 right from the start anymore. Sigh.
Blaster Master + Excite bike = my wet dream. It's so awesome to jump out with Jason and just swim or crawl around. Nowdays they don't accept characters smaller than 48 pixels even on GBA...
Stunt Car Racer felt so real! You were actually in that rollcage when you played that game.
Dogs of War was really unlinear, but it was balanced so it was just better to pick the easier missions from the start. I really like that kind of responsibility.
Elite. No elite... no, I don't want to play as "Slater - the ungrommed mercenary looking for his auntie's killer"... I want to play Elite... no, I don't want to play 'missions' where I shoot generic plasma balls on hoardes of pointless enemies... Just give me another Elite Dagnabbit!
Scorched tanks/earth, again, imagine what could be done with modern processors.
Oh well, maybe I'm just old and nostalgic, but so are many others my age, so it should be a market, no?
I just bought Metroid and Zelda (Classic NES) for my GBA. Metroid has a 3+ rating (pegi). I don't think a 3 year old can get much out of it with all the cloned screens and free roaming.
I love how metroid 1 has both gibs and nudity, well, striptease atleast. The pegi guys probably wasn't leet enough to get the less than 1hr ending though. After having concluded no tits or blood they slapped a 3+ rating on it and Nintendo probably liked that. I don't think the rating on that specific game is for the consumer's best.
In my opinion you need to be about 7 to enjoy Metroid 1.
Also, the GBA boxes were terrible! They're completely littered with warning marks, important notices, symbols, etc, in all kinds of languages. The 'important' information gets lost in the noise, and the box looks very unappealing. I'm a big Metroid 1 fan so I expected a neat box and manual. (Got a longer rant about the Metroid box on my site)
I just took a look at the old Metroid box (NES), and it's completely clean!... well, the dog some chewed on it.
As for ESRB and ratings in general, I think it would be much better to write a sentence or two about the game content on the back instead. You can't sum it all up with one letter. ESRB is probably run by soccer moms.
Type about:config in the url to bring up the config then in the filter field type search. That will list the relevant config settings I think.
I had trouble finding any good explaination for all the settings in the config. I wish they had made an little info button or alt hover text text for each setting.
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Maybe the survey was conducted outside a pirate store in Malaysia?
When I was a kid I could afford maybe five NES games a year. If I had pirated a thousand games I still only would only have been able to buy five, not a thousand. Most pirates probably just leave the loot unused and have like five things they use anyways.
And who knows, maybe Schrödinger's cat applies to unused files?
Well, if you look at Quake 3 and the bot AI they just made the bots slide around on a preprogrammed path while pointing the aim exactly at the target and then adding some shake based on skill. Yes, I do know it's not a new game, but the AI is pathetic compared to the gfx.
Why not give the aim a bit of weight so it has to be swung around, and gradually stabilize on the target if it stops moving relating to the aim angle? That's what players do and it wouldn't be hard to simulate. Right now it doesn't matter how much I move. If I stand 100 meters away they keep missing me when trying to snipe, and if I'm in close combat and move a lot in relation to their aim they always hit me. That's not how players work.
Why not have the AI's gather information just like humans and then face the same/similar weighted choices as the player? Anything better than - if shot then target=attacker - that seem to be popular.
I know this would probably make the bots more stupid, but I'd prefer that over predictable.
Actually, it's more like this:
First run:
Install: "Find the disc, put in in, select your install folder, install the application, find the installed shortcut, run the game, wait while it loads."
T&P:"Find the disc, wait longer while it loads, every time it loads because the disc has to spin up while sounding like a vacuum cleaner."
Following runs:
Install:"Click Icon, wait while the game loads."
T&P:"Find the disc, wait longer while it loads, every time it loads because the disc has to spin up while sounding like a vacuum cleaner."
If anyone wonders about installing, here's what I did:
:/
The DL link can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
After downloading that I closed all windows and uninstalled 1.0 (winXP) by using add/remove programs and clicked yes on delete folder. My settings/profile/chrome stuff is not in that folder, but here in my case:
C:\Documents and Settings\My puter name\Application Data\Mozilla\
Then I installed 1.01 by clicking the exe
Done. My extensions, chrome, bookmarks seem to be intact, which of course was my biggest worry. My start menu just turned black though
The update thing in 1.0 just checked/updated my extensions, and my flash blocker stopped working. I took a look in about:config and the build and version number was still old, so that thing definately didn't update to 1.01
Also, if you multiply the number of persons by 4, and multiply the number of days a year by 4, so you get figures like... uh...
92 persons
1461 days a year
Then it's nearly a 95% chance that one (or more) shares a bday. On average almost 3 persons shares a bday per group.
(That's what my nested for-to-next loops told me anyways.)
Ur wrong! MMORPGs r0xx0rz my b0xxorx! I love pressing that attack icon and see the damage come up!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/wow.gif
Check out the grass foliage, just some years ago they couldn't do that stuff!!!1 The amazing gfx you can do nowdays with up to 16 colors and a staggering 200x160 resolution makes me wonder what's next!
Also, here's Doom III as it actually plays and looks, The 'real' Doom III is actually an illusion - HYPE, level 3 (contagious), can only be cast by larger developer entities.
btw. check out the bevels on the map!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/doom3.gif
http://itchstudios.com/psg/photo/gba.jpg
:D
Ah, yes, Ur-Quan Masters (UQM) was actually the game that introduced me to StarControl II. There's a small forum community alive aswell (Pages of now and forever).
... 3rd sequel... if you ignore SC3 http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/main.php?id=sce.
Being a geek, I could not resist starting my own SCII project with ideas for a
I also managed to miss Exile (gravity/2D/exploration game) back in the day, and only came into contact with it quite recently (C64 version). It's a real gem! Blows most new games out of the water.
I got an Exile project aswell http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/main.php?id=retro
Someone notified me about a game called Cave Story, I can't play it atm. cuz of hardware problems but supposedly it's very neat.
http://maxdamage.justblank.net/cavestory.htm
Bending the rules is one of the things I enjoy the most in games, but nowdays everything is too controlled in favour of storylines.
It also seems to me that back in the day people/geeks made games because they wanted to and they had an idea, and nowdays it has to be 'safe' and they want to make money, so they make another WW2 shooter with some sneaker elements cuz that seem to be popular too.
Here's some games I'm still wating for:
Oh well, maybe I'm just old and nostalgic, but so are many others my age, so it should be a market, no?
I just bought Metroid and Zelda (Classic NES) for my GBA. Metroid has a 3+ rating (pegi). I don't think a 3 year old can get much out of it with all the cloned screens and free roaming.
... well, the dog some chewed on it.
I love how metroid 1 has both gibs and nudity, well, striptease atleast. The pegi guys probably wasn't leet enough to get the less than 1hr ending though. After having concluded no tits or blood they slapped a 3+ rating on it and Nintendo probably liked that. I don't think the rating on that specific game is for the consumer's best. In my opinion you need to be about 7 to enjoy Metroid 1.
Also, the GBA boxes were terrible! They're completely littered with warning marks, important notices, symbols, etc, in all kinds of languages. The 'important' information gets lost in the noise, and the box looks very unappealing. I'm a big Metroid 1 fan so I expected a neat box and manual. (Got a longer rant about the Metroid box on my site)
I just took a look at the old Metroid box (NES), and it's completely clean!
As for ESRB and ratings in general, I think it would be much better to write a sentence or two about the game content on the back instead. You can't sum it all up with one letter. ESRB is probably run by soccer moms.
Type about:config in the url to bring up the config then in the filter field type search. That will list the relevant config settings I think. I had trouble finding any good explaination for all the settings in the config. I wish they had made an little info button or alt hover text text for each setting.