The Wii is only roughly 1.5 to 2 times as powerful as the Gamecube.
I'm sure you can still push decent graphics out of it, but Lucas is a graphics snob, and he will want the best. Regardless this game is real heavy on the use of physics, which requires a top-notch processor, which the Wii does not have.
This is what I feared, the Wii would be very popular early on, but the truth is that good graphics sell. When people initially saw screenshots for Oblivion two years ago, no one believed a console could push out graphics like that, and now people are saying they're mediocre and they expect better.
If the Wii can't continue to meet consumer demands, then developers will turn to more powerful consoles.
Sad, but true. If the Wii will sustain it's initial amazing success, it will be largely based on in-house franchises (Zelda, Mario, Starfox, Metroid, etc).
And I do hope LucasArts makes a lightsaber Wii game, but likely it will be one that isn't so intensive on physics.
You like Halo 2 more because of your friends. It is easier to play with your friends because of Live. The game isn't better, the method of meeting up with your friends is.
Grabbing a router, pulling computers together and LAN gaming is a chore for many.
Setting up something like TeamSpeak and meeting online via the internet is a chore for many.
But it was around first, and in many ways allows for more freedom (not to mention is free as opposed to paying for Live).
I'm not discounting that you have fun with your friends online playing Halo 2. I'm discounting whether or not Halo 2 is the greatest game EVA!
It was well marketed, and all you had to do was plug one cord into your XBox, and soon you could play online. For many people, it was a first. For many, it was revolutionary.
However, when Halo was first in development as a Mac title, they were talking about fully-destrucible environments, interactive environments, and this really revolutionary game. Instead, we got repetitive, boring levels.
I've been playing FPS games since Wolfenstein 3D, and I'm particular to the Half Life series myself. That doesn't mean I'd averse to console games. In fact, I actually prefer two analog sticks to a mouse, and some call my crazy.
If Halo added advanced physics, realism, interactive environments, or half the things they talked about, then maybe I'd appreciate it more. (In many ways it openly ripped off Half Life, with the combat armor, headcrabs, style, etc). But in reality, it was just cheap and easy to pick up and thusly vastly popular.
I hate to quibble, but I have played an 8-player system link game of Halo with buddies, and it wasn't earth shattering. I'm one of the few that finds Halo grossly overrated.
Maybe I'd get into Madden, or NCAA online, or maybe GRAW. But people keep telling me that Halo online is the Holy Grail of gaming experiences. I'm guessing that they haven't played a whole lot of PC FPS games online before.
...I don't have Live and don't care to have Live. I used to play Half Life and Counter Strike online quite a bit, and I loved having the headset at first. But I tired of it quickly. For the most part, I enjoy single player games, because then I know I'm the only asshole I have to contend with.
I agree the article is largely content free. It doesn't say how to free up memory while using Ubuntu. It suggests using different distros (like Xbuntu).
Different distros are aimed at different levels of computing power?
Is this/. worthy?
The only thing that made this article worth my thirty seconds is that I was shocked to see in every category, the KDE apps used less memory than the Gnome apps.
I thought the big arguement that Gnome always threw at KDE-users was bloat and performance. Most KDE apps offer more customization, more options, more features, and apparently use less memory these days.
I can't wait to see comparisons once everything is ported to the even faster and leaner QT 4.2
You claim that you do research and that you can diagnose yourself.
Society actually says that you can't legally write a prescription without a proper education, which you seem to discard as meaningless. Those who devoted their life to studying medicine are idiots.
And because you claim to know more than them, it means conventional wisdom and reasonable rules should go out the window.
That isn't logic. It means you're an asshole.
Let's assume for one second that you actually did enough research to in one particular case make a meaningful diagnosis. Not only does this not even remotely compare to the broad knowledge to diagnose all illnesses, and keep up with the evolving tides of pharmacology, it would also mean that you are not the average American.
I said that the average American shouldn't be able to self-diagnose, and they shouldn't. I also said they shouldn't base medical decisions off commericials, which you didn't.
Clearly you have nothing to do with my statement. The fact that you can't understand it seems to contradict the genius you claim to have.
Clearly you know more than someone who went through probably twelve years of schooling in medicine, an internship and does it professionally, so much that you are advocating the average uninformed citizen to self-proscribe based on television commercials.
You're just being arrogant and obstinate. You also clearly have no idea how complicated pharmacology can be, thus proving your arrogance to be falsely-founded. Someone please mod this guy as a troll. I'm moving on.
Only certain games can be played with one hand. For playing Halo 2 (why would you, but people do) you need two analog sticks, and really two hands. But there are remotes that you stick on your knee, piloting one analog with one hand, and the other with your knee.
There is a big distinction between games designed specifically to be played one-handed and allowing others to play most every other game on the planet.
You miss that I also don't care for doctors. But because you diagnosed yourself by doing research, this does not prove that the average American on the whole is capable of requesting drugs simply because they saw a commercial on the TV.
I'm sorry for your circumstance, but it is a poor argument in defense of drug companies advertising on TV. Those who wish to do serious research into illness don't need a twenty-second touchy-feely spot about puppies and cholesterol medication.
I'm not a big fan of doctors either. I have my own horror stories. That doesn't mean the average American idiot should be self-prescribing drugs based on commercials that do little to nothing in the way of informing.
Google's version allows you to click an X to close, minimize, maximize, drag-and-drop, expand tree-level navigation, use multiple tabs within a page, etc. etc.
Google's version is all AJAX-ified. Have you tried it recently?
I've seen special controllers for people with one hand/arm, etc.
But part of me just misses the Adventure genre. It didn't require lightning reflexes, complicated movements, or anything like that. In fact a good Adventure game can be enjoyed by the deaf and blind as well.
I've been replaying Quest For Glory out of nostalgia, and while most people wouldn't pay $50 for a game like this, couldn't we see a resurgence via Shareware, XBox Live Arcade, or such for these games at say $10-$20 a pop?
Indigo Prophecy is the only major proper Adventure game that I've seen in years, which is a damned shame.
Oops. I didn't finish my thought because I was typing so fast.
Bush told the drug companies that if they didn't lower the cost of AIDS medicine in Africa, he would forbid those companies from selling out of the country period and allow someone else to take over that market. He also fought drug companies to lower costs of prescriptions for senior citizens.
We're not doctors. We don't know what is wrong with us. We don't know what we need. We shouldn't be going in and requesting specific drugs. The bad thing is that doctors are only getting so much money to see us because of the HMO system, so they get us in and out as fast as possible. If I ask for a certain drug, more than likely I'm going to get it, regardless of whether or not it is beneficial or harmful to my health.
I also thing as a society we are treating symptoms by developing dependencies on medication rather than fixing problems.
If drug companies can afford every other Super Bowl commercial, and drug reps can throw money at every doctor and pharmacist in the country, maybe they can afford to sell drugs at reasonable prices to third world countries.
George W. Bush (love him or hate him, who am I kidding, everyone hates him) maybe did one thing right. He found American drug companies were charging five times as much for AIDS medications in Africa as they charged here. They openly profitted from people's deaths, and played upon their fears.
And yes, I believe their ads play upon emotions. I'd like to see a ban on drug ads on TV. They can spend the money in better places, like further drug research or third world countries.
Did you only skip to the last page? If you looked over every benchmark, the new kernel had improved performance in almost every test, save for two of the last three.
The only thing that is limited is GPU support. Sony doesn't want you running pirated or homebrew games on it, so now graphics hardware acceleration (until someone writes an unofficial driver).
How the hell do these pend end up determining what counts as justice in our society?
Do they have any clue how such a system might be implemented? Is it even remotely feasible to determine who is a child, and whom their parents are while maintaining any semblance of privacy?
Is a private company just supposed to know exactly whom every minor and their parents are worldwide? Can we invent a special kind of web browser that forces kids to truthfully enter in their correct age?
And in truth, wouldn't that help child predators more than hurt them?
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The Wii is only roughly 1.5 to 2 times as powerful as the Gamecube.
I'm sure you can still push decent graphics out of it, but Lucas is a graphics snob, and he will want the best. Regardless this game is real heavy on the use of physics, which requires a top-notch processor, which the Wii does not have.
This is what I feared, the Wii would be very popular early on, but the truth is that good graphics sell. When people initially saw screenshots for Oblivion two years ago, no one believed a console could push out graphics like that, and now people are saying they're mediocre and they expect better.
If the Wii can't continue to meet consumer demands, then developers will turn to more powerful consoles.
Sad, but true. If the Wii will sustain it's initial amazing success, it will be largely based on in-house franchises (Zelda, Mario, Starfox, Metroid, etc).
And I do hope LucasArts makes a lightsaber Wii game, but likely it will be one that isn't so intensive on physics.
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I'm shocked that Lucas of all people would allow a game that caters to the Dark Side fan-base so much.
I'm light-side for life, but my wife's panties will no doubt get wet when she sees this.
I never played Marathon as I don't have a Mac. But I'm familiar with it.
The heavy emphasis on the combat armor, and the headcrabs however weren't in Marathon. They were in Half Life, and then later appeared in Halo.
You nailed it.
You like Halo 2 more because of your friends. It is easier to play with your friends because of Live. The game isn't better, the method of meeting up with your friends is.
Grabbing a router, pulling computers together and LAN gaming is a chore for many.
Setting up something like TeamSpeak and meeting online via the internet is a chore for many.
But it was around first, and in many ways allows for more freedom (not to mention is free as opposed to paying for Live).
I'm not discounting that you have fun with your friends online playing Halo 2. I'm discounting whether or not Halo 2 is the greatest game EVA!
It was demystified and easily accessible.
It was well marketed, and all you had to do was plug one cord into your XBox, and soon you could play online. For many people, it was a first. For many, it was revolutionary.
However, when Halo was first in development as a Mac title, they were talking about fully-destrucible environments, interactive environments, and this really revolutionary game. Instead, we got repetitive, boring levels.
I've been playing FPS games since Wolfenstein 3D, and I'm particular to the Half Life series myself. That doesn't mean I'd averse to console games. In fact, I actually prefer two analog sticks to a mouse, and some call my crazy.
If Halo added advanced physics, realism, interactive environments, or half the things they talked about, then maybe I'd appreciate it more. (In many ways it openly ripped off Half Life, with the combat armor, headcrabs, style, etc). But in reality, it was just cheap and easy to pick up and thusly vastly popular.
I hate to quibble, but I have played an 8-player system link game of Halo with buddies, and it wasn't earth shattering. I'm one of the few that finds Halo grossly overrated.
Maybe I'd get into Madden, or NCAA online, or maybe GRAW. But people keep telling me that Halo online is the Holy Grail of gaming experiences. I'm guessing that they haven't played a whole lot of PC FPS games online before.
...I don't have Live and don't care to have Live. I used to play Half Life and Counter Strike online quite a bit, and I loved having the headset at first. But I tired of it quickly. For the most part, I enjoy single player games, because then I know I'm the only asshole I have to contend with.
This is a step in the right direction.
Ain't this the truth.
I agree the article is largely content free. It doesn't say how to free up memory while using Ubuntu. It suggests using different distros (like Xbuntu).
/. worthy?
Different distros are aimed at different levels of computing power?
Is this
The only thing that made this article worth my thirty seconds is that I was shocked to see in every category, the KDE apps used less memory than the Gnome apps.
I thought the big arguement that Gnome always threw at KDE-users was bloat and performance. Most KDE apps offer more customization, more options, more features, and apparently use less memory these days.
I can't wait to see comparisons once everything is ported to the even faster and leaner QT 4.2
You claim that you do research and that you can diagnose yourself.
Society actually says that you can't legally write a prescription without a proper education, which you seem to discard as meaningless. Those who devoted their life to studying medicine are idiots.
And because you claim to know more than them, it means conventional wisdom and reasonable rules should go out the window.
That isn't logic. It means you're an asshole.
Let's assume for one second that you actually did enough research to in one particular case make a meaningful diagnosis. Not only does this not even remotely compare to the broad knowledge to diagnose all illnesses, and keep up with the evolving tides of pharmacology, it would also mean that you are not the average American.
I said that the average American shouldn't be able to self-diagnose, and they shouldn't. I also said they shouldn't base medical decisions off commericials, which you didn't.
Clearly you have nothing to do with my statement. The fact that you can't understand it seems to contradict the genius you claim to have.
Clearly you know more than someone who went through probably twelve years of schooling in medicine, an internship and does it professionally, so much that you are advocating the average uninformed citizen to self-proscribe based on television commercials.
You're just being arrogant and obstinate. You also clearly have no idea how complicated pharmacology can be, thus proving your arrogance to be falsely-founded. Someone please mod this guy as a troll. I'm moving on.
Only certain games can be played with one hand. For playing Halo 2 (why would you, but people do) you need two analog sticks, and really two hands. But there are remotes that you stick on your knee, piloting one analog with one hand, and the other with your knee.
There is a big distinction between games designed specifically to be played one-handed and allowing others to play most every other game on the planet.
No, one exception does not prove a rule wrong.
You miss that I also don't care for doctors. But because you diagnosed yourself by doing research, this does not prove that the average American on the whole is capable of requesting drugs simply because they saw a commercial on the TV.
I'm sorry for your circumstance, but it is a poor argument in defense of drug companies advertising on TV. Those who wish to do serious research into illness don't need a twenty-second touchy-feely spot about puppies and cholesterol medication.
I'm not a big fan of doctors either. I have my own horror stories. That doesn't mean the average American idiot should be self-prescribing drugs based on commercials that do little to nothing in the way of informing.
Too bad LucasArts axed it initially, along with the Full Throttle sequel.
Also check out:
http://www.himalayastudios.com/
http://www.agdinteractive.com/
http://www.bigbluecup.com/
http://www.justadventure.com/
Google's version allows you to click an X to close, minimize, maximize, drag-and-drop, expand tree-level navigation, use multiple tabs within a page, etc. etc.
Google's version is all AJAX-ified. Have you tried it recently?
google.com/ig
I've seen special controllers for people with one hand/arm, etc.
But part of me just misses the Adventure genre. It didn't require lightning reflexes, complicated movements, or anything like that. In fact a good Adventure game can be enjoyed by the deaf and blind as well.
I've been replaying Quest For Glory out of nostalgia, and while most people wouldn't pay $50 for a game like this, couldn't we see a resurgence via Shareware, XBox Live Arcade, or such for these games at say $10-$20 a pop?
Indigo Prophecy is the only major proper Adventure game that I've seen in years, which is a damned shame.
Aren't there a huge plethora of sites that allow you to basically collect little applets and RSS feeds for a customized home feed?
/. worthy?
Hasn't this been the case for years and years?
Can anyone please explain how this
Oops. I didn't finish my thought because I was typing so fast.
Bush told the drug companies that if they didn't lower the cost of AIDS medicine in Africa, he would forbid those companies from selling out of the country period and allow someone else to take over that market. He also fought drug companies to lower costs of prescriptions for senior citizens.
Not even Bush likes drug companies.
We're not doctors. We don't know what is wrong with us. We don't know what we need. We shouldn't be going in and requesting specific drugs. The bad thing is that doctors are only getting so much money to see us because of the HMO system, so they get us in and out as fast as possible. If I ask for a certain drug, more than likely I'm going to get it, regardless of whether or not it is beneficial or harmful to my health.
I also thing as a society we are treating symptoms by developing dependencies on medication rather than fixing problems.
If drug companies can afford every other Super Bowl commercial, and drug reps can throw money at every doctor and pharmacist in the country, maybe they can afford to sell drugs at reasonable prices to third world countries.
George W. Bush (love him or hate him, who am I kidding, everyone hates him) maybe did one thing right. He found American drug companies were charging five times as much for AIDS medications in Africa as they charged here. They openly profitted from people's deaths, and played upon their fears.
And yes, I believe their ads play upon emotions. I'd like to see a ban on drug ads on TV. They can spend the money in better places, like further drug research or third world countries.
Personally, I think they shouldn't have tested on a laptop with a 5400 RPM HDD.
h / designed with this in mind?
I'd go with a system that spouts pretty fast dual-channel memory and a fast HDD and focus heavily on I/O tests.
Wasn't http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/interbenc
Or http://ck.kolivas.org/kernbench/
I'd rather see interbench scores than FPS.
Fair enough. You could say the differences are minute, but it isn't fair to say performance worsened on the whole. That was my point.
Did you only skip to the last page? If you looked over every benchmark, the new kernel had improved performance in almost every test, save for two of the last three.
The only thing that is limited is GPU support. Sony doesn't want you running pirated or homebrew games on it, so now graphics hardware acceleration (until someone writes an unofficial driver).
How the hell do these pend end up determining what counts as justice in our society?
Do they have any clue how such a system might be implemented? Is it even remotely feasible to determine who is a child, and whom their parents are while maintaining any semblance of privacy?
Is a private company just supposed to know exactly whom every minor and their parents are worldwide? Can we invent a special kind of web browser that forces kids to truthfully enter in their correct age?
And in truth, wouldn't that help child predators more than hurt them?
My head hurts.