Yes, I hope so too, but in reality they were probably right about the digital out on the Gamecube. Seriously, how many people did use it? While I'll acknowledge there were some people, they really need to acknowledge that they were in a tiny minority (1%? 2%?) It almost certainly made more sense to remove it to facilitate price drops.
To be honest I really don't think there were that many compelling reasons for component out on the GC. I've always used S-Video, which in my experience is perfectly adequate for 480i sources, and the GC only supported Pro-Logic to begin with, so it's not like it NEEDED a digital audio connection.
Yes, personally I think that makes the Wii SKU the one to get, for a variety of reasons: the fishing game (promises to be better on the wii), and Wii's better native support for 480p widescreen displays.
This is why I think Nintendo's solution is much more workable. Even assuming the video camera processing is able to properly recognize a player's movements in a variety of different non-controlled environments, the problems you pose are exactly what makes it unworkable. At least without full-body VR gear in some kind of roll cage hamster ball. The only real complaints I've read about the Wii demos at E3 were that people would have liked to be able to adjust sensitivity settings. While that was unworkable in an E3 demo setting, I see no reason why it won't be supported on the release version of the console.
as their non-game centered practices seem to be catching up with them. EA corporate hasn't been doing so hot in the last few years, and I'll be cheering their continued decline.
"shameless prick" status however, might be argument for nationalizing their assets, which in my opinion is the only effective answer to corporate graft and corruption.
I think a significant part of this is the already announced plan to allow all new games to be released via the "Virtual Console" system, in a fashion similar to the xbox live marketplace.
Althought, to be honest, I'm going to be very suprised if the Revolution doesn't get hacked, and I'm excited about the possibility. A 700MHz G3, around 80 or so meg of ram, a decent sound chip, and graphics along the lines of RADEON 9800 for as cheap as the revolution sounds like a pretty spiffy system to me. I'd expect XBMC capabilities to added pretty easily.
Ah, yes, but the irony here that that WASN"T true until Israel was founded. Historically (last 1000 years or so prior to 1940), the near east was a relative safe haven for hebrews. Now it sure as hell isn't. And it is completely their fault. Now there will never be peace in the middle east until one of three things happens: safest option, Israelis move completely out of Gaza and contested territories and permit the Palestinian people to start their own independent nation, Israel is wiped off the map, or every last Arab in the world is dead.
I'm not muslim, I'm an atheist Irish-American, who is in the rather small minority of being pro-palestine in the 'states.
As an aside, just because I think its funny, it seems that trying to argue that Sweden is just as badly affected by Arab political machinations as the United States is by Israeli ones is kind of silly. You're annoyed by arab actions, the United States is made an internationally dangerous rogue state by the Israeli's.
What's the life expectancy in Sweden? Infant mortality rate? Teenage Pregnancy rate? Income distribution? Healthcare availability? How many agressive wars has your country started in the last 50 years? Foreign Dictators installed? Military vs. Nonmilitary government spending? Oil use and general energy wastefulness?
My point being that I think politics in the USA are screwed up enormously, with general quality of life statistics generally backing me up. And your climate's better too, from my perspective in the sub-tropics. I would trade US citizenship for Swedish any day of the week.
Um, in what way does a fight for survival NOT justify killing (pretty much anyone as far as that goes). What the Palestinians are doing is RIGHT by any standard I can imagine. Self defense from a material threat to life and liberty is always justified.
The Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world act as they do because they perceive (rightly or wrongly) that the rest of the world is against them. Now, I might be able to take your point of view of neutrality, except for a large list of issues including but not limited to:
1. A concerted international campaign to deny any non-jewish victims of the holocaust recognition or memorial.
2. A notable slander campaign against the Irish for their neutrality (for good reason) in the second world war.
3. Millions of dollars in donations and advertising to the American polical radical right, and religious fundamentalist organizations, which scews politics in the USA in ways which materially affect me.
The sum total of these issues swings my position from one of conflicted neutrality to "Fuck Israel. Free Palestine!" I don't care about jews that live elsewhere, I'm utterly uninterested annhilitating an ethnic group. I don't care about their religion (other than my general wish for reduced religiosity in the world, which applies equally to all monotheistic religions, as in my studied opinion Hinduism and Buddhism are pretty benign.)
But the reality is that there will not be peace in the middle east while israel is in existance (even should they suceed in genociding the palestinian people inside the borders, Palestinian refugees are scattered throughout the world. There WILL be conflict there for hundreds of years. There is no option for peace that doesn't involve a free and independent Palestine (or a Pan-Arab nuclear/biological genocide, but I sincerely hope the rest of the world wouldn't stand by while that happened).
As for the 1000 years of Fanko-Prussion conflict, THAT ended with Germany bombed into the stone age and all of western Europe allied in common fear of the Soviet Union with Germany additionally divided in half. Or are you under the delusion that there was some other cause? If the antics in the present day EU are any guide there really isn't that much keeping age old hostilities check. Although fear of US imperialism may definately help keep the EU together a while.
The Media Computer, "Convergence," and computers in the living room have been around forever. I can remember reading about them and how they would "change everything" in articles about CES and Computex in 1992. Same with FMV, remember that? While arguable the technology to make it viable arrived in about 2004 or so (See MythTV) the consumer demand really isn't there. I mean it really isn't there. When's the last time anyone used any of the "Special Features" on a DVD, I don't mean the scene selections and what not, I mean the interactive stuff that touted years back.
Its just a matter of the average buyer not being technologically literate enough to drive demand. It's the blinking 12 problem. Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. If you want one, there's nothing stopping you from rolling your own. Or if you have the cash, you can pay thousands more and get pre-assembled and set-up. But don't expect any of the this stuff to ever go mainstream, hell TiVo is a hard enough sell already, and the advantages there ought to be blindingly obvious (It's a VCR that'll automatically record your favorite shows!)
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Unfortunate that you only caught it so late. The time to be reading it was in the '80's and '90's. When the Editor in Chief was Russell Snipe (the founder) or Johnny Wilson. During those years, the writing was top notch, and the approach much more mature and sophistocated. Originally it was aimed at the over 25, educated game player. The point of view of the magazine was that it was covering an emerging Art Form. They didn't just whore out praise to the highest bidder. How did the game look? How did it sound? How did it play? How did it make the reviewer feel? How was the writing? How are emerging technologies going to affect the industry in the future? Both the review and the editorial content was superb. As long as they continued to focus on their near 30 demographic (who were always the magazine's primary readership) the magazine was good, and thrived. Ziff-Davis, on the other hand, wanted to grow the readership by targeting an increasingly younger audience, this resulted in reduced quality, and the readership plummeted.
Would you have told the Poles to do the same thing in 1938?
Uh, no. The Israelis have stolen the homeland of an ethnic group through Brittish Imperial fiat and are waging a very literal war of genocide so they can keep. THEY are in the wrong. The Palestinians are fighting for survival, the any other arab groups involved are generally trying to aid them in this. Because what the israelis are doing is 100% wrong. Just as wrong as what the Nazis did to the Gypsies, Slavs, and Jews. The ONLY difference is that Israel is genociding slowing, a family farm in Gaza here, a bus load of students there, and 50 years later we have millions of palestian dead.
That's an exceptionally harsh and rather non-sensical reply. My original post was intended as a joke, and while I delivered it in a rather deadpan serious way, at least a few people seemed to have no trouble recognizing it as such. While I am an Apple fanboy, I fail to see exactly what that has to do with a joke about Intel's misfortune in the marketplace. Nobody, as far as I am aware, takes the idea of an "apple curse" seriously. Why all the hostility? As I perceived it, I was contributing in a relevant way to the discussion by slipping in a related humorous comment.
But its quite possible that Spore could require a HD, or equivalent on any console ports, all the new consoles either have, or support a hard-drive. Including the Wii.
Is this the Apple Curse coming to fruition? Any chip supplier Apple picks seems to constantly have problems. It happened with Motorola, it happened with IBM, now Intel for goodness sake! Let's just hope Intel doesn't start having major production issues out of the blue.
Charged hell! There's a fair possibility they could have been shot outright. Police are fucking dangerous, and often dangerously unbalanced. Yet, as a society we never seem to manage to reel them back in, no manner how many innocent people get gunned down in their own home (happened in my home town, the most recent excuse was "Oops, Wrong address for the drug bust (and he (the victim) was black anyway)." Not a single officer was so much as reprimanded, much less fired.), beaten (how many of these to do we hear about each year, much less the ones that get covered up), or otherwise assualted/harmed.
Bazillion dollars? Good grief! According to Ron Gilbert the original Secret of Monkey Island cost $164,000 for fucks sake. Even accounting for inflation, and growth in the cost of producing assets (more animation, higher resolution animation, voice, etc but this is tempered by tools improvements and other cost reductions) He estimates a top quality adventure would cost around $2million today, even including personnel. $2 million is nothing in game budget terms today. Titles today routinely have budgets well in excess of $20 million.
These episodic snippets must cost NOTHING at all to produce (relatively) probably in the range of $50,000-$75,000. But in reality TellTale games is probably going to force me to upgrade to intel mac pretty damn quick. I want to support these guys.
the "world" terminology is largely irrelevant in the first place, its a purely social construct. In this case, I fully agree with Wittengenstein, meaning is how a word is used. The origin of "first world," "second world," "third world" as a descriptor for groups in the cold war is only significant in a historical context, it has come to refer to the relative economic strength of Nations. Generally, it refers to the value of GDP/(nation's population), those with a high value are "first world," those with a lower one, "third world," with occasional references to borderline "second world" nations. That these groupings largely line up with their cold war counterparts is again only of historical significance.
So what, exactly is the Orion nebula? Or the milky way? If they aren't "objects" what are they? They're assemblages of matter that interact in a meaningful way, such that on the scale of assemblages of matter of similar size to themselves they act in concert with themselves, but not with others. What do you call it?
Furthermore, your definition has numerous problems, how exactly do you determine the mass of your objects? What is mass of YOUR jupiter? No way to know with any degree of precision at all.
The only real 64-bit machines where the the G5 based powermacs and imacs. The new intel machines are a big step backwards in that regard, especially regarding address space.
Lets be honest here, that's EXACTLY what it is. The screenplay for "A New Hope" is ripped almost word for word from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" right down to R2D2 and C3P0 (who are peasant lackeys in the original). Lucas took this movie, juxtaposed it onto the Space Opera genre of pulp fiction, and Star Wars Episode 4 came out fully formed. Star Wars really has VERY little to do with Sci-fi.
This is a VERY important distinction. Nintendo is excellent at melding whatever technology they have available to produce a consistent, compelling graphical style. In my opinion, games like Super Mario World, Mario 64, and Ocarina of Time hold up VERY well even today, despite their ages. The Wii is basically going to have graphics capabilities on the order of a RADEON 9700/9800 or a little better. I have confidence that Nintendo will be able to use it to its fullest, and the screenshots of Mario Galaxy, and Smash Brothers Brawl only bolster that confidence.
And why is that true? For the same reasons other people have pointed as criticism of third world countries: because of political graft and general uselessness. If the United States diverted even a TINY portion of what it spends on the military to education, the quality of education in this country could be phenomenal. The educational system (at all levels) in the United States is fucked, and it is largely the fault of the american people.
The First Prince of Persia was an Apple II release. It later saw PORTS to other platforms, including but not limited to: the Mac, the PC, and the SNES.
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To be honest I really don't think there were that many compelling reasons for component out on the GC. I've always used S-Video, which in my experience is perfectly adequate for 480i sources, and the GC only supported Pro-Logic to begin with, so it's not like it NEEDED a digital audio connection.
Yes, personally I think that makes the Wii SKU the one to get, for a variety of reasons: the fishing game (promises to be better on the wii), and Wii's better native support for 480p widescreen displays.
This is why I think Nintendo's solution is much more workable. Even assuming the video camera processing is able to properly recognize a player's movements in a variety of different non-controlled environments, the problems you pose are exactly what makes it unworkable. At least without full-body VR gear in some kind of roll cage hamster ball. The only real complaints I've read about the Wii demos at E3 were that people would have liked to be able to adjust sensitivity settings. While that was unworkable in an E3 demo setting, I see no reason why it won't be supported on the release version of the console.
as their non-game centered practices seem to be catching up with them. EA corporate hasn't been doing so hot in the last few years, and I'll be cheering their continued decline.
"shameless prick" status however, might be argument for nationalizing their assets, which in my opinion is the only effective answer to corporate graft and corruption.
Althought, to be honest, I'm going to be very suprised if the Revolution doesn't get hacked, and I'm excited about the possibility. A 700MHz G3, around 80 or so meg of ram, a decent sound chip, and graphics along the lines of RADEON 9800 for as cheap as the revolution sounds like a pretty spiffy system to me. I'd expect XBMC capabilities to added pretty easily.
Ah, yes, but the irony here that that WASN"T true until Israel was founded. Historically (last 1000 years or so prior to 1940), the near east was a relative safe haven for hebrews. Now it sure as hell isn't. And it is completely their fault. Now there will never be peace in the middle east until one of three things happens: safest option, Israelis move completely out of Gaza and contested territories and permit the Palestinian people to start their own independent nation, Israel is wiped off the map, or every last Arab in the world is dead.
As an aside, just because I think its funny, it seems that trying to argue that Sweden is just as badly affected by Arab political machinations as the United States is by Israeli ones is kind of silly. You're annoyed by arab actions, the United States is made an internationally dangerous rogue state by the Israeli's.
What's the life expectancy in Sweden? Infant mortality rate? Teenage Pregnancy rate? Income distribution? Healthcare availability? How many agressive wars has your country started in the last 50 years? Foreign Dictators installed? Military vs. Nonmilitary government spending? Oil use and general energy wastefulness?
My point being that I think politics in the USA are screwed up enormously, with general quality of life statistics generally backing me up. And your climate's better too, from my perspective in the sub-tropics. I would trade US citizenship for Swedish any day of the week.
The Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world act as they do because they perceive (rightly or wrongly) that the rest of the world is against them. Now, I might be able to take your point of view of neutrality, except for a large list of issues including but not limited to:
1. A concerted international campaign to deny any non-jewish victims of the holocaust recognition or memorial.
2. A notable slander campaign against the Irish for their neutrality (for good reason) in the second world war.
3. Millions of dollars in donations and advertising to the American polical radical right, and religious fundamentalist organizations, which scews politics in the USA in ways which materially affect me.
The sum total of these issues swings my position from one of conflicted neutrality to "Fuck Israel. Free Palestine!" I don't care about jews that live elsewhere, I'm utterly uninterested annhilitating an ethnic group. I don't care about their religion (other than my general wish for reduced religiosity in the world, which applies equally to all monotheistic religions, as in my studied opinion Hinduism and Buddhism are pretty benign.)
But the reality is that there will not be peace in the middle east while israel is in existance (even should they suceed in genociding the palestinian people inside the borders, Palestinian refugees are scattered throughout the world. There WILL be conflict there for hundreds of years. There is no option for peace that doesn't involve a free and independent Palestine (or a Pan-Arab nuclear/biological genocide, but I sincerely hope the rest of the world wouldn't stand by while that happened).
As for the 1000 years of Fanko-Prussion conflict, THAT ended with Germany bombed into the stone age and all of western Europe allied in common fear of the Soviet Union with Germany additionally divided in half. Or are you under the delusion that there was some other cause? If the antics in the present day EU are any guide there really isn't that much keeping age old hostilities check. Although fear of US imperialism may definately help keep the EU together a while.
Its just a matter of the average buyer not being technologically literate enough to drive demand. It's the blinking 12 problem. Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. If you want one, there's nothing stopping you from rolling your own. Or if you have the cash, you can pay thousands more and get pre-assembled and set-up. But don't expect any of the this stuff to ever go mainstream, hell TiVo is a hard enough sell already, and the advantages there ought to be blindingly obvious (It's a VCR that'll automatically record your favorite shows!)
The Escapist does a significant part of CGW used to do, at least as far as editorial content goes. If The Escapist were to grow to include reviews and some additional content (Hire Scorpia! I know she's still out there, somewhere, I've found interviews with her around the net from time to time) I imagine it would pretty much be what CGW was.
Unfortunate that you only caught it so late. The time to be reading it was in the '80's and '90's. When the Editor in Chief was Russell Snipe (the founder) or Johnny Wilson. During those years, the writing was top notch, and the approach much more mature and sophistocated. Originally it was aimed at the over 25, educated game player. The point of view of the magazine was that it was covering an emerging Art Form. They didn't just whore out praise to the highest bidder. How did the game look? How did it sound? How did it play? How did it make the reviewer feel? How was the writing? How are emerging technologies going to affect the industry in the future? Both the review and the editorial content was superb. As long as they continued to focus on their near 30 demographic (who were always the magazine's primary readership) the magazine was good, and thrived. Ziff-Davis, on the other hand, wanted to grow the readership by targeting an increasingly younger audience, this resulted in reduced quality, and the readership plummeted.
Uh, no. The Israelis have stolen the homeland of an ethnic group through Brittish Imperial fiat and are waging a very literal war of genocide so they can keep. THEY are in the wrong. The Palestinians are fighting for survival, the any other arab groups involved are generally trying to aid them in this. Because what the israelis are doing is 100% wrong. Just as wrong as what the Nazis did to the Gypsies, Slavs, and Jews. The ONLY difference is that Israel is genociding slowing, a family farm in Gaza here, a bus load of students there, and 50 years later we have millions of palestian dead.
That's an exceptionally harsh and rather non-sensical reply. My original post was intended as a joke, and while I delivered it in a rather deadpan serious way, at least a few people seemed to have no trouble recognizing it as such. While I am an Apple fanboy, I fail to see exactly what that has to do with a joke about Intel's misfortune in the marketplace. Nobody, as far as I am aware, takes the idea of an "apple curse" seriously. Why all the hostility? As I perceived it, I was contributing in a relevant way to the discussion by slipping in a related humorous comment.
But its quite possible that Spore could require a HD, or equivalent on any console ports, all the new consoles either have, or support a hard-drive. Including the Wii.
Is this the Apple Curse coming to fruition? Any chip supplier Apple picks seems to constantly have problems. It happened with Motorola, it happened with IBM, now Intel for goodness sake! Let's just hope Intel doesn't start having major production issues out of the blue.
Charged hell! There's a fair possibility they could have been shot outright. Police are fucking dangerous, and often dangerously unbalanced. Yet, as a society we never seem to manage to reel them back in, no manner how many innocent people get gunned down in their own home (happened in my home town, the most recent excuse was "Oops, Wrong address for the drug bust (and he (the victim) was black anyway)." Not a single officer was so much as reprimanded, much less fired.), beaten (how many of these to do we hear about each year, much less the ones that get covered up), or otherwise assualted/harmed.
These episodic snippets must cost NOTHING at all to produce (relatively) probably in the range of $50,000-$75,000. But in reality TellTale games is probably going to force me to upgrade to intel mac pretty damn quick. I want to support these guys.
the "world" terminology is largely irrelevant in the first place, its a purely social construct. In this case, I fully agree with Wittengenstein, meaning is how a word is used. The origin of "first world," "second world," "third world" as a descriptor for groups in the cold war is only significant in a historical context, it has come to refer to the relative economic strength of Nations. Generally, it refers to the value of GDP/(nation's population), those with a high value are "first world," those with a lower one, "third world," with occasional references to borderline "second world" nations. That these groupings largely line up with their cold war counterparts is again only of historical significance.
Furthermore, your definition has numerous problems, how exactly do you determine the mass of your objects? What is mass of YOUR jupiter? No way to know with any degree of precision at all.
The only real 64-bit machines where the the G5 based powermacs and imacs. The new intel machines are a big step backwards in that regard, especially regarding address space.
Lets be honest here, that's EXACTLY what it is. The screenplay for "A New Hope" is ripped almost word for word from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" right down to R2D2 and C3P0 (who are peasant lackeys in the original). Lucas took this movie, juxtaposed it onto the Space Opera genre of pulp fiction, and Star Wars Episode 4 came out fully formed. Star Wars really has VERY little to do with Sci-fi.
This is a VERY important distinction. Nintendo is excellent at melding whatever technology they have available to produce a consistent, compelling graphical style. In my opinion, games like Super Mario World, Mario 64, and Ocarina of Time hold up VERY well even today, despite their ages. The Wii is basically going to have graphics capabilities on the order of a RADEON 9700/9800 or a little better. I have confidence that Nintendo will be able to use it to its fullest, and the screenshots of Mario Galaxy, and Smash Brothers Brawl only bolster that confidence.
And why is that true? For the same reasons other people have pointed as criticism of third world countries: because of political graft and general uselessness. If the United States diverted even a TINY portion of what it spends on the military to education, the quality of education in this country could be phenomenal. The educational system (at all levels) in the United States is fucked, and it is largely the fault of the american people.
The First Prince of Persia was an Apple II release. It later saw PORTS to other platforms, including but not limited to: the Mac, the PC, and the SNES.