Once I laid eyes on the final colossus, I just sat the controller down. And I turned the game off. I still haven't beaten that colossus and I don't plan to.
Ok I read TFA. It really doesn't say much more than the summary. So I'm not sure I understand why this is being posted to Slash Dot except to get a universal "DUH!!" from all readers. I mean, SURELY, there is something SOMEWHERE on the internets related to gaming that is more newsworthy than THIS?! Anyone? Beuler?
I don't think that's a big concern. Any bank that tries this will watch their tech-savy customers flee to other banks, leaving their online services a deserted wasteland.
Who cares? Who even uses this crap? If you don't have an active virus-shield style app scanning all the time you're just asking to get infected these days. I can't count the number of times that AntiVir Personal Edition virus shield (free for individual home use) has saved me from a virus or trojan while browsing. If I had to rely on a web-based scanner I'd be infected FIRST before I knew about it later.
Either way, I guarantee it has nothing to do with online multiplayer. *Every* console game is sold on the strength of the single-player experience. Only PC games (BF2, CS) can be sold as primariliy multiplayer. Sure, Halo grew into a MP juggernaut, but everyone played the SP first.
Wrong. Everquest Online Adventures (PS2) has no single player mode at all. Same for Final Fantasy XI (PS2). And a LOT of games are sold on the strength of their multiplayer. Also multiplayer doesn't have to mean ONLINE. You wouldn't call Mario Party a single player game?
What I don't understand is WHY Microsoft is trying to push PC gaming. It's not like Apple is competing in that arena, and the whole point of the Xbox seems to have been saving us all from the hell that PC gaming had become, so why are they bothering? Is it just to hinder any screwball antitrust suits that might come from pissed of PC game makers that don't want to do Xbox games?
There's a lot of good reasons for Microsoft to support PC gaming.
1. PC gaming drives PC hardware sales, and PC hardware sales drive sales of Microsoft's OS's on the home front. So if no one is buying new PC's to play the latest games, they also aren't buying Windows Vista on that fancy new PC.
2. Since PC gaming drives PC hardware sales, if PC sales slowed down or if there weren't a lot of new cutting edge games, people wouldn't need to spend money upgrading their fancy video cards, and so video card technology would stagnate. Since MS (and others) are using the same technology to power their newer console graphics systems, it would mean that there would be less hardware innovation for consoles in the long term.
3. The PC gaming scene is a place for anyone with any idea to come along and make games for without regard to having to go through major publishing hoops. The fact that it's open to all comers means it's a good test bed for new gaming ideas. Many gaming genres got their start on the PC.
4. A lot of people stick with Micrsoft Windows because of the games. If there weren't very many games on the platform, many would choose to go with other alternative OS's.
Seems to me that if a store wouldn't let me in unless I told them my name was Frank, I'd only tell THAT store that my name was Frank. I'd start off telling the truth to other stores I encounter. What Opera should do is default to identifying itself as Opera, and the have an option for changing it to IE or whatever FOR INDIVIDUAL DOMAINS. That way you can get through the stupid sites that claim to only work on IE. If Opera 8 already does this, that's cool, I'm not an Opera user, I use Firefox.
That was my favorite of the pre-UO MMO's. It was up on TEN (Total Entertainment Network) and well worth the price of admission. I wish someone would put up a new DSO server.
Nah. The goverment likes their subjects to waste their energies on pointless things like an MMORPG rather than spending their efforts trying to free themselves from the shackles of tyranny.
That may be the point of some blogs but it's not the point of most blogs. Most blogs are not ways for people to avoid confrontation. Most of them are just about people and what they want to talk about. I have two blogs that I regularly keep up with, one is my Live Journal which is just that, general topics and such. And the other is a gaming-centric blog where I discuss whatever games I'm currently playing or other gaming news that is interesting to me.
It doesn't make a difference what the specs are relative to each other. The ONLY thing that is important is the GAMES. Whichever system has the best lineup of games is the one people will buy. It's about the GAMES. It's always been about the GAMES. As long as each of the new systems has at least 3 or 4 exclusive games that I want to play, I'll be buying all three consoles.
Since when is "computer literate" defined as being a programmer? Never. It's always been about "able to use programs on a computer". We have another word for coders: programmer. Or hacker. Or coder. Whatever.
Your analogy to English is wrong. It's like saying someone who is literate must also be an author. Everyone in the world doesn't need to be an author. Everyone in the world doesn't need to be a programmer.
Computers are not "mind enhancing tools." Computers are just TOOLs. You use them however you need to, and that means different things for different people.
I've been using them for years. The only downside to Netflix is that they don't get ALL the new releases, and even if they do, you sometimes have to wait in a queue to get them. But the smart user knows to put the new releases in the queue BEFORE it is released, and you'll get them very quickly. I tried converting my sisters and my mom and my mother in law to Netflix, but none stayed long. Why? Because they didn't figure out or bother to learn how to "play" the queue. They didn't know how to find the new releases. It's as if Netflix tries to HIDE the new releases for some reason. So all they ever got was old movies and they didn't like that.
Intermix: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh screen savers, emptied, steamed, flavoured with games, whipped into a personal information manager, and garnished with spyware.
Spitzer: SPYWARE?!?!?
I: Correct.
S: It doesn't say anything here about spyware!
I: Ah, it does, at the bottom of the EULA, after "rights you agree to relinquish".
S: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: "WARNING: SPYWARE!!!"
I: Our sales would plummet!
S: (screaming)FUCK your sales! We're here to protect the PUBLIC!
Why is it that every developer that goes out of business is dying because of some quirk in the industry? Bleh. Lets call it like it is. Their games weren't fun enough to enough people, period. Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen. What's difficult is making those ideas into a appealing and FUN game.
They should take this a step further. The best gun in the game should be a Colt, or a Remington, or whatever other gun maker ponies up the dough. When you drink Sprite in the game, it should give you health back. OBEY YOUR THIRST! And hey, the bad guys could all be wearing logos of the competitors, you know, like "KILL THE EVIL SIERRA MIST CULTISTS!" Yeah. Rock on!
But yeah, if I wasn't having so much fun in World of Warcraft now I'd probably play AO for free with ads.
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Once I laid eyes on the final colossus, I just sat the controller down. And I turned the game off. I still haven't beaten that colossus and I don't plan to.
Wuss.
Why don't you schedule some crap that nobody wants to watch so you can preempt that instead of the Simpsons.
I thought that's what the Simpsons was. Simpsons was funny... 10 years ago.
for the actors / musicians (except for 50c) who associated themselves with this show. Talk about career limiting decisions.
Ok I read TFA. It really doesn't say much more than the summary. So I'm not sure I understand why this is being posted to Slash Dot except to get a universal "DUH!!" from all readers. I mean, SURELY, there is something SOMEWHERE on the internets related to gaming that is more newsworthy than THIS?! Anyone? Beuler?
I don't think that's a big concern. Any bank that tries this will watch their tech-savy customers flee to other banks, leaving their online services a deserted wasteland.
Who cares? Who even uses this crap? If you don't have an active virus-shield style app scanning all the time you're just asking to get infected these days. I can't count the number of times that AntiVir Personal Edition virus shield (free for individual home use) has saved me from a virus or trojan while browsing. If I had to rely on a web-based scanner I'd be infected FIRST before I knew about it later.
Either way, I guarantee it has nothing to do with online multiplayer. *Every* console game is sold on the strength of the single-player experience. Only PC games (BF2, CS) can be sold as primariliy multiplayer. Sure, Halo grew into a MP juggernaut, but everyone played the SP first.
Wrong. Everquest Online Adventures (PS2) has no single player mode at all. Same for Final Fantasy XI (PS2). And a LOT of games are sold on the strength of their multiplayer. Also multiplayer doesn't have to mean ONLINE. You wouldn't call Mario Party a single player game?
1. PC gaming drives PC hardware sales, and PC hardware sales drive sales of Microsoft's OS's on the home front. So if no one is buying new PC's to play the latest games, they also aren't buying Windows Vista on that fancy new PC.
2. Since PC gaming drives PC hardware sales, if PC sales slowed down or if there weren't a lot of new cutting edge games, people wouldn't need to spend money upgrading their fancy video cards, and so video card technology would stagnate. Since MS (and others) are using the same technology to power their newer console graphics systems, it would mean that there would be less hardware innovation for consoles in the long term.
3. The PC gaming scene is a place for anyone with any idea to come along and make games for without regard to having to go through major publishing hoops. The fact that it's open to all comers means it's a good test bed for new gaming ideas. Many gaming genres got their start on the PC.
4. A lot of people stick with Micrsoft Windows because of the games. If there weren't very many games on the platform, many would choose to go with other alternative OS's.
Hopefully not murlocks.
Seems to me that if a store wouldn't let me in unless I told them my name was Frank, I'd only tell THAT store that my name was Frank. I'd start off telling the truth to other stores I encounter. What Opera should do is default to identifying itself as Opera, and the have an option for changing it to IE or whatever FOR INDIVIDUAL DOMAINS. That way you can get through the stupid sites that claim to only work on IE. If Opera 8 already does this, that's cool, I'm not an Opera user, I use Firefox.
That was my favorite of the pre-UO MMO's. It was up on TEN (Total Entertainment Network) and well worth the price of admission. I wish someone would put up a new DSO server.
Nah. The goverment likes their subjects to waste their energies on pointless things like an MMORPG rather than spending their efforts trying to free themselves from the shackles of tyranny.
That may be the point of some blogs but it's not the point of most blogs. Most blogs are not ways for people to avoid confrontation. Most of them are just about people and what they want to talk about. I have two blogs that I regularly keep up with, one is my Live Journal which is just that, general topics and such. And the other is a gaming-centric blog where I discuss whatever games I'm currently playing or other gaming news that is interesting to me.
It doesn't make a difference what the specs are relative to each other. The ONLY thing that is important is the GAMES. Whichever system has the best lineup of games is the one people will buy. It's about the GAMES. It's always been about the GAMES. As long as each of the new systems has at least 3 or 4 exclusive games that I want to play, I'll be buying all three consoles.
Since when is "computer literate" defined as being a programmer? Never. It's always been about "able to use programs on a computer". We have another word for coders: programmer. Or hacker. Or coder. Whatever.
Your analogy to English is wrong. It's like saying someone who is literate must also be an author. Everyone in the world doesn't need to be an author. Everyone in the world doesn't need to be a programmer.
Computers are not "mind enhancing tools." Computers are just TOOLs. You use them however you need to, and that means different things for different people.
I've been using them for years. The only downside to Netflix is that they don't get ALL the new releases, and even if they do, you sometimes have to wait in a queue to get them. But the smart user knows to put the new releases in the queue BEFORE it is released, and you'll get them very quickly. I tried converting my sisters and my mom and my mother in law to Netflix, but none stayed long. Why? Because they didn't figure out or bother to learn how to "play" the queue. They didn't know how to find the new releases. It's as if Netflix tries to HIDE the new releases for some reason. So all they ever got was old movies and they didn't like that.
Please don't let it be EA
Please don't let it be EA
Please don't let it be EA
Intermix: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh screen savers, emptied, steamed, flavoured with games, whipped into a personal information manager, and garnished with spyware.
Spitzer: SPYWARE?!?!?
I: Correct.
S: It doesn't say anything here about spyware!
I: Ah, it does, at the bottom of the EULA, after "rights you agree to relinquish".
S: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: "WARNING: SPYWARE!!!"
I: Our sales would plummet!
S: (screaming)FUCK your sales! We're here to protect the PUBLIC!
Why is it that every developer that goes out of business is dying because of some quirk in the industry? Bleh. Lets call it like it is. Their games weren't fun enough to enough people, period. Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen. What's difficult is making those ideas into a appealing and FUN game.
Like there's anything else newsworthy to post about going in in gaming world? :)
I'm holding out for the Xbox 720 myself.
Actually I will definitely be getting Xbox 360 if it can play Xbox games. If not, it just depends on what games they have at launch.
At a conference the executives at Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft sit around looking at a large video monitor.
Sony: "What happen?"
Nintendo: "Somebody set up us the bomb!"
Microsoft: "We get signal."
Dr EA: "How are you gentlemen?"
Dr EA: "All your football are belong to us."
Sony: "What you say?!"
Dr EA: "You have no chance to survive make your time."
Dr EA: "UNLESS, you pay us 100 BILLION DOLLARS!"
Dr EA puts pinky to corner of mouth.
Nintendo: "For great justice!"
Dr EA: "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!"
With jail, you are guaranteed a roof, food, and stylish clothes.
And a lover named Bubba.
They should take this a step further. The best gun in the game should be a Colt, or a Remington, or whatever other gun maker ponies up the dough. When you drink Sprite in the game, it should give you health back. OBEY YOUR THIRST! And hey, the bad guys could all be wearing logos of the competitors, you know, like "KILL THE EVIL SIERRA MIST CULTISTS!" Yeah. Rock on!
But yeah, if I wasn't having so much fun in World of Warcraft now I'd probably play AO for free with ads.
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