"Ico, Res, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing - great reviews, no sales"
Um, Katamari Damacy and Animal Crossing did great! Try more along the lines of Psychonauts, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Beyond Good and Evil, Ikaruga, Twinsen's Odyssey, and Realms of the Haunting.
This reminds me of the awkward call I made to cancel my free AOL service that I was running for around a year. (Back in the day, if you kept calling saying that you were trying to make up your mind, they'd give you another free three months).
I thought that they were just going to ask for my phone number or something when I wanted to cancel for good, but no, they wanted the master screen name.
AOL: OK, and your screen name, please? Jakeypants: Umm... uhhh... well... JesusDied4MyPnis...
"As a correlary: How many of you went to see South Park, The movie in the theater? Now how many of you remember sitting within 20 feet of a bunch of little kids?"
Not quite as many kids as I saw at The Passion of the Christ which is the most violent movie I saw last year. All of whom were brought in with their parents.
Apologies to George Smith, author of "Atheism: The Case Against God," but an example he used to refute the probability argument described a raindrop. The odds for a single raindrop to follow the exact path it does as it falls to the earth resulting in the water spreading exactly as it did are infinitely improbable for each raindrop.
Thus, watching a drop of rain fall exactly as it did is a remarkable occurrance.
"I mean, did they even play Burnout 3!? That soundtrack rocked!"
I agree, I just finished crossposting how much I loved the Atreyu, Finger Eleven, Funeral for a Friend, Futurehead, New Found Glory, The Von Bondies, and Yellowcard songs in both my MySpace profile and in my LiveJournal. (-1, sarcastic troll)
Burnout 3 had the most irritating soundtrack I could ever imagine. I guess I just don't get the whole mallpunk scene. I replaced the soundtrack with the Katamari Damacy soundtrack, which made it a lot better. And turning that godawful announcer off. Now if only it saved your soundtrack options instead of always reverting back to the gay My Chemical Romance bullshit.
I hear that the sequel abandons all the Big Band/Techno/Lounge stuff and is pure gore metal performed by Impaled, Cannibal Corpse, Disgorge, and Despised Icon.
"I thought Wind Waker was cool until I dcided to make the graphx all kiddy! My game wsa gay! LamePube is for 6 year olds!!! Nintnedo is doomed!" -Miyamoto
Man, he sure gave his game a hard time in that interview.
"An M rated game about bashing someone with profane language and various racial/religous slurs is much different than an M rated game about bashing someone's head in with a claw hammer."
Amen. I went to see The Devil's Rejects last night, and all I could think during the scene where Otis rapes what's-her-name with a gun was "Hot Coffee is honestly supposed to be worse than this?"
I find myself in stark disagreement with most ratings. I firmly think that The Devil's Rejects, Sin City, and (not trying to start a flame war here) The Passion of the Christ should've all been rated NC-17 for their extreme content. Orgazmo, on the other hand, should not have received an NC-17 rating (if someone can explain to me why it did, please do). Since GTA's violence is comical and cartoony, and the sex is incredibly tame, I think an M rating suits it perfectly (even if the sex scenes had been part of the game's content).
I agree. All of those games you listed are great. I found myself recently playing through some other greats: The Longest Journey, Syberia 1 and 2, Shivers 2, Bioforge, and some others. I'm REALLY looking forward to Dreamfall (The Longest Journey 2).
I've found that adventure games are the only games that really give me a feel for character development, and they're also the only games that can make female characters sexy to me (which is generally because they're the opposite of the huge-tittied Lara Croft types, and instead very human, well-developed characters).
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"The army might not be completely running on auto polite."
That'd be good, otherwise it wouldn't be particularly exciting.
"Pardon me, if I may trouble you for just a moment... we're an undead army on a quest to destroy all living creatures. Would you mind if we killed you and stole your soul to fight alongside us? I don't want to be a bother..."
What I'd like to see is Rockstar pulling out all the stops - reworking the game to include TONS of sexual content that makes it truly deserve the AO rating. GTA is in a unique position where it's been made famous because of all of the violence and controversy. More controversy means more people buying out of curiousity.
If the game was designed to be exactly what the developers intended without restrictions on content, we might get the best GTA game yet. I'd love to see this censorship plot backfire in a big way.
I have to disagree with your analogy. The difference would be that you'd somehow have to alter your DVD player to start playing at a place inaccessible by menus or through the remote control. You'd have to hack your DVD player to see the pornographic content - there'd be no other way.
That is more fitting a comparison. You (AFAIK) can't get to the Hot Coffee parts of GTA:SA without altering the way the game executes.
"(you know, the kind of stuff friends trick you into clicking on without telling you that scat, horses or hammers and nails are involved)"
Haha, dude, you totally fell for the hardcore animal shit-porn on crucified Jesus site! If you want to get back at your friends, there are good revenge instructions on www.goatse.cx.
"Anyone know if the Revolution will increase the frame rate or will it only make the games look prettier?"
Firstly, I don't understand how they plan to update the graphics of Nintendo games without designing them as though they were for a new system. This is something beyond normal emulation (where you do your best to emulate the way the system works - not so much for specific games).
Secondly, to improve the framerate, it would require changes to the game's code. If you run Zelda 64 next to Zelda 64 on the Gamecube (The disc that came with Wind Waker if you preordered), they have the same framerate, although the resolution is increased on the GCN version.
A heightened framerate would require additional work from the developers. As the system intends to emulate another system, it tries to run everything at the speed it originally ran at. Changes would have to be made specific to each game.
Jesus Christ. You turned your obviously uneducated family loose on a Windows box? Do you think that had they been running Linux that they'd magically know "gee, maybe I shouldn't run this app from www.obviouslyspyware.com." No. They'd run as root, download and run every shitty piece of software they could find.
Don't blame Microsoft for problems caused by uneducated users (unless we're talking about Windows ME). I've never gotten a virus or spyware installed that wasn't my fault. Stop spreading FUD.
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"I've found that printers typically only last a year, at most (I'm in college, so I use them alot)"
You missed #7 on the PCWorld list - you can replace ink cartridges.
"Ico, Res, Katamari Damacy, Animal Crossing - great reviews, no sales"
Um, Katamari Damacy and Animal Crossing did great! Try more along the lines of Psychonauts, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Beyond Good and Evil, Ikaruga, Twinsen's Odyssey, and Realms of the Haunting.
This reminds me of the awkward call I made to cancel my free AOL service that I was running for around a year. (Back in the day, if you kept calling saying that you were trying to make up your mind, they'd give you another free three months).
I thought that they were just going to ask for my phone number or something when I wanted to cancel for good, but no, they wanted the master screen name.
AOL: OK, and your screen name, please?
Jakeypants: Umm... uhhh... well... JesusDied4MyPnis...
"As a correlary: How many of you went to see South Park, The movie in the theater? Now how many of you remember sitting within 20 feet of a bunch of little kids?"
Not quite as many kids as I saw at The Passion of the Christ which is the most violent movie I saw last year. All of whom were brought in with their parents.
Apologies to George Smith, author of "Atheism: The Case Against God," but an example he used to refute the probability argument described a raindrop. The odds for a single raindrop to follow the exact path it does as it falls to the earth resulting in the water spreading exactly as it did are infinitely improbable for each raindrop.
Thus, watching a drop of rain fall exactly as it did is a remarkable occurrance.
Troll? Jesus, you guys have no sense of humor. It's my favorite Cube game!
"I mean, did they even play Burnout 3!? That soundtrack rocked!"
I agree, I just finished crossposting how much I loved the Atreyu, Finger Eleven, Funeral for a Friend, Futurehead, New Found Glory, The Von Bondies, and Yellowcard songs in both my MySpace profile and in my LiveJournal. (-1, sarcastic troll)
Burnout 3 had the most irritating soundtrack I could ever imagine. I guess I just don't get the whole mallpunk scene. I replaced the soundtrack with the Katamari Damacy soundtrack, which made it a lot better. And turning that godawful announcer off. Now if only it saved your soundtrack options instead of always reverting back to the gay My Chemical Romance bullshit.
I hear that the sequel abandons all the Big Band/Techno/Lounge stuff and is pure gore metal performed by Impaled, Cannibal Corpse, Disgorge, and Despised Icon.
"I thought Wind Waker was cool until I dcided to make the graphx all kiddy! My game wsa gay! LamePube is for 6 year olds!!! Nintnedo is doomed!" -Miyamoto
Man, he sure gave his game a hard time in that interview.
"An M rated game about bashing someone with profane language and various racial/religous slurs is much different than an M rated game about bashing someone's head in with a claw hammer."
Amen. I went to see The Devil's Rejects last night, and all I could think during the scene where Otis rapes what's-her-name with a gun was "Hot Coffee is honestly supposed to be worse than this?"
I find myself in stark disagreement with most ratings. I firmly think that The Devil's Rejects, Sin City, and (not trying to start a flame war here) The Passion of the Christ should've all been rated NC-17 for their extreme content. Orgazmo, on the other hand, should not have received an NC-17 rating (if someone can explain to me why it did, please do). Since GTA's violence is comical and cartoony, and the sex is incredibly tame, I think an M rating suits it perfectly (even if the sex scenes had been part of the game's content).
I agree. All of those games you listed are great. I found myself recently playing through some other greats: The Longest Journey, Syberia 1 and 2, Shivers 2, Bioforge, and some others. I'm REALLY looking forward to Dreamfall (The Longest Journey 2).
I've found that adventure games are the only games that really give me a feel for character development, and they're also the only games that can make female characters sexy to me (which is generally because they're the opposite of the huge-tittied Lara Croft types, and instead very human, well-developed characters).
Lots of good stuff on www.myadventuregame.com.
"The army might not be completely running on auto polite."
That'd be good, otherwise it wouldn't be particularly exciting.
"Pardon me, if I may trouble you for just a moment... we're an undead army on a quest to destroy all living creatures. Would you mind if we killed you and stole your soul to fight alongside us? I don't want to be a bother..."
What I'd like to see is Rockstar pulling out all the stops - reworking the game to include TONS of sexual content that makes it truly deserve the AO rating. GTA is in a unique position where it's been made famous because of all of the violence and controversy. More controversy means more people buying out of curiousity.
If the game was designed to be exactly what the developers intended without restrictions on content, we might get the best GTA game yet. I'd love to see this censorship plot backfire in a big way.
I can't wait to customizer my Zazzle!
I'd also appreciate being able to conflaggle my blunker, but I'll take what I can get.
I have to disagree with your analogy. The difference would be that you'd somehow have to alter your DVD player to start playing at a place inaccessible by menus or through the remote control. You'd have to hack your DVD player to see the pornographic content - there'd be no other way.
That is more fitting a comparison. You (AFAIK) can't get to the Hot Coffee parts of GTA:SA without altering the way the game executes.
"We need a 'Duh.' rating." (Score:4, Insightful)
4, Insightful for that? We need an "Overrated" rating.
"(you know, the kind of stuff friends trick you into clicking on without telling you that scat, horses or hammers and nails are involved)"
Haha, dude, you totally fell for the hardcore animal shit-porn on crucified Jesus site! If you want to get back at your friends, there are good revenge instructions on www.goatse.cx.
"Anyone know if the Revolution will increase the frame rate or will it only make the games look prettier?"
Firstly, I don't understand how they plan to update the graphics of Nintendo games without designing them as though they were for a new system. This is something beyond normal emulation (where you do your best to emulate the way the system works - not so much for specific games).
Secondly, to improve the framerate, it would require changes to the game's code. If you run Zelda 64 next to Zelda 64 on the Gamecube (The disc that came with Wind Waker if you preordered), they have the same framerate, although the resolution is increased on the GCN version.
A heightened framerate would require additional work from the developers. As the system intends to emulate another system, it tries to run everything at the speed it originally ran at. Changes would have to be made specific to each game.
And he said he was surprised by this where?
Anyone that uses a browser is an idiot. Everyone on slashdot sucks. You are all fat and you can't read good. -1, Flamebait, please!
Oh, I hadn't thought of that... when I went on vacation, I thought it was just the style for all the locals to have hats made out of tin foil.
Me too. I've always wanted to be on the internet but haven't had the opportunity yet.
'Does this belong here?'... "What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch."
In the leaked Windows 2000 source, I saw a comment from a developer near some security functions: "WTF IS SECURATY LOOL PROBLY GAY FAGET CRAP"
Jesus Christ. You turned your obviously uneducated family loose on a Windows box? Do you think that had they been running Linux that they'd magically know "gee, maybe I shouldn't run this app from www.obviouslyspyware.com." No. They'd run as root, download and run every shitty piece of software they could find.
Don't blame Microsoft for problems caused by uneducated users (unless we're talking about Windows ME). I've never gotten a virus or spyware installed that wasn't my fault. Stop spreading FUD.