From my limited experience of anime (I've seen a few more unusual ones though) I can confirm that Cowboy Bebop does appear to kick ass, having seen the first four episodes I think. Next time I'm in the USA I'll make a point of renting the rest of them with my friend.
Of course, Hellsing is totally sweet. It has a Scottish Paladin!
You're right of course, but I'm the sort of person that really enjoys story and stuff so I'd want to play GW too. But then I have a few months left to do so before the expansion...
I quit WoW months ago:) Very happily free! However, I have a couple of friends who rave about how good GW is and if it keeps me amused for a few weeks I can just stop playing for a while and come back when I like....plus this new expansion sounds great. *sigh* I'm gonna buy GW, I just know it...
Nice post, just want to say that I'd never buy "his" game. I refuse to play his petty little games, and so should all other gamers. To be honest I think it'd be great if websites just stopped reporting on him, maybe censor out his name too. I wonder how much "justice" he'd be dealing out if everyone just ignored him.
By participating in "alliance missions" and "faction battles," players can take control of cities and towns and actually move the two nations' control zones.
The last time I played it, WoW had nothing like this (and AFAIK still doesn't). This is more akin to the factions in DAoC, from what I understand. It certainly sounds interesting, and I really wish I'd picked up Guild Wars last year instead of WoW - this one looks like it's heading in a direction I'm much more into.
Indeed, it seems some people here have forgotten how to laugh. I thought the article was very amusing and the line you mentioned was the one that made me actually laugh out loud:)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but overall CTR was a much better game than Mario Kart 64. I played the hell out of that game, unlocking all the tracks and characters and spending dangerous amounts of time beating my time trial ghosts for good laps. CTR also had an excellent battle mode which made MK64's look like an afterthought in comparison. Sure, you needed a multitap to really get the most out of the game but that was a fault of the hardware rather than Naughty Dog. I had this very arguement with a Nintendo fanboy just yesterday, in the end we decided that MK64 had the advantage of characters that everyone knew and a SNES prequel that was a real gem itself - whereas only PSX owners had met Crash and his friends (and the characters were mostly a bit rubbish anyway). For me, CTR just felt a bit faster than MK64 a lot of the time, and it's a game I still have very fond memories of playing alone and with my family (My MUM finished the Adventure mode!).It's a real shame that Sony decided to let another developer have a crack at the CTR sequel when Naughty Dog sold the license off. They should have left it alone as I understand the later games in the series were pretty dire.
"As the world became more familiar with ARG through hit games The Art of the Heist, Perplex City, Jamie Kane and Last Call Poker..."
I knew about ilovebees.com and a couple of others, but I've never heard of any of these ARGs. Good acronym though, it sounds exactly like the way they make you groan with confusion.
Whoever modded this Flamebait...who exactly was my post flaming? I take it you must be a journalist who's written a 3-page piece about the Revolution controller based on heresay and your imagination, and made it sound like you've been the future and are back to report on what you saw.
Sheesh, I was just trying to make an amusing comment. I guess I failed but if you don't like it at least mod it down sensibly, Overrated perhaps. Flamebait???
This is a story on Slashdot with the Nintendo logo proudly displayed on the main page...and yet it isn't an article about journalists guessing how the Revolution controller might possibly perhaps be used, or how it might possibly perhaps change the face of gaming simply by existing.
The launch games. In the opinion of myself, and many others, the games available for the DS at launch made for a crap launch. Mario 64 DS was the star, and that was a port of an N64 game with a few new bells and whistles. Or perhaps WarioWare for the DS, amazingly made without an ounce of multiplayer - great for the DS with its much touted wi-fi capabilities.
The fanboys I know (and I'm cursed with a lot of my friends being Nintendo fanboys, it's scary sometimes) all still praised the system for it's amazing features - and all proceeded to spend their time playing with PICTOCHAT.
Sorry, but that isn't how you launch a system. The PSP may not be the better or more popular handheld, but its launch selection was ten times better - varied and with high-quality titles.
NB: I'm commenting on the European launch here, but I gathered from various gaming websites at the time of the US launch that they had the same problems there. Nintendo will have learned from their mistake though, and as I said with a few big-name launch titles they have a good chance of very high sales at launch and in the months following.
I'm in complete agreement with you. Good stories are good stories. If you start choosing not to post them just because the submitter submits a lot of stories then Slashdot becomes a joke. Waiting for a user no one has heard of to submit a good story that hasn't had much publicity could take days.
Ah, I looked there but couldn't find the info. I apologise then, I'd always assumed with the amount of coverage it was getting that Aftermath was going to be a full expansion, and that the episodic HL2 content would begin after its release. It would appear I was wrong, I bow before your superior knowledge:)
What everyone seems to be ignoring is the quality of the games. Of course Nintendo have a long history or excellent first-party titles, but if that was to stop or stutter during the Revolution's lifetime everyone would no doubt blame its failure on "people hate Nintendo".
Personally, I'm going to buy one because I have faith that Nintendo will be able to make at least a few quality titles a year to keep me playing, but they really need some big high-profile games for launch. The DS launch was rightfully laughed at by all but the fanboys, but I bought one before Xmas now some decent games are out for it. Nintendo really need to seize the day and launch the console with a new Mario game and maybe a new Smash Brothers, or other big-name franchises.
From the above: But this is all just wishful thinking, according to Nintendo. "What the magazine has done is imagine how existing franchises would work with the Revolution controller, rather than actually seeing anything," a spokesperson told Eurogamer, adding: "It's all still speculation."
Aftermath is a single expansion for Half-Life 2, it'll be released in the shops in a box (AFAIK). However, Valve have said that episodic content is the future of HL2. An example of this is the new Sin Episodes that will be distributed via Steam - these are going to be "5 hour" downloads available in the next few months.
Also in the pipeline are episodic downloads for HL2, already suggested are episodes playing as Alex and featuring her robot, Dog. These most likely won't be available in stores (unless they release a collection of them further down the line) and will last a few hours (like you said, probably much shorter for competant gamers).
Just wanted to set that straight, Aftermath is a full length expansion pack, not just an episodic download. I haven't heard anything suggesting that, anyway.
I think downloading a Gamecube game would be take too long for the "casual gamer" that the Revolution is aimed at, that's my guess anyway - I hadn't heard of being able to download GC games, just the older generations.
GC game discs will play on the Revolution though, so Nintendo will want to keep selling the games for that.
I think Aftermath is going to kick ass. Yep, this is just my opinion as a gamer but Half-Life 2 was one of the few games of 2004 that really held my interest from the first minute until the ending movie. Not that long, not that hard ("Hard" difficulty should be VERY difficult IMO, shame most developers just use difficulties as a way of prolonging the game experience), but very very fun. If Valve can pull off the "fun factor" again for the expansion I expect to see it winning a lot of awards this year.
Oh grow up. The parent had a valid point, and was certainly not posting in support of pedophilia. Frankly if I had kids and one of mine did something stupid like that I'd feel ashamed at not having taught them better, or teaching them that some warnings kids are given are VERY serious.
This one obviously thought "Don't meet with strangers" was as important as "don't leave your videogame cartridge on a windowsill or other place where it will get direct sunlight".
Oh, and I think pedophiles are weird sickos who should be locked up. It's clearly the guy's fault, like you said kids are niave and still learning but COME ON, what a dumb/arrogant kid.
Of course it could be argued that his father (uncle?) has clearly played the game himself and decided that the child is mature enough to play it. Whether he's right or not isn't the issue, the fact is he's made an educated decision which is more than can be said for most "omg Manhunt made my son get smallpox" parents.
Not much to say other than that I agree strongly with the parent. Playing the race card is just a weak way of ignoring the problem.
It's like saying we shouldn't try to stop Islamic extremists from killing innocent people because they're (often) foreign and so to stop them would be racist.
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From my limited experience of anime (I've seen a few more unusual ones though) I can confirm that Cowboy Bebop does appear to kick ass, having seen the first four episodes I think. Next time I'm in the USA I'll make a point of renting the rest of them with my friend.
Of course, Hellsing is totally sweet. It has a Scottish Paladin!
You're right of course, but I'm the sort of person that really enjoys story and stuff so I'd want to play GW too. But then I have a few months left to do so before the expansion...
I quit WoW months ago :) Very happily free! However, I have a couple of friends who rave about how good GW is and if it keeps me amused for a few weeks I can just stop playing for a while and come back when I like....plus this new expansion sounds great. *sigh* I'm gonna buy GW, I just know it...
Nice post, just want to say that I'd never buy "his" game. I refuse to play his petty little games, and so should all other gamers. To be honest I think it'd be great if websites just stopped reporting on him, maybe censor out his name too. I wonder how much "justice" he'd be dealing out if everyone just ignored him.
By participating in "alliance missions" and "faction battles," players can take control of cities and towns and actually move the two nations' control zones.
The last time I played it, WoW had nothing like this (and AFAIK still doesn't). This is more akin to the factions in DAoC, from what I understand. It certainly sounds interesting, and I really wish I'd picked up Guild Wars last year instead of WoW - this one looks like it's heading in a direction I'm much more into.
Indeed, it seems some people here have forgotten how to laugh. I thought the article was very amusing and the line you mentioned was the one that made me actually laugh out loud :)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but overall CTR was a much better game than Mario Kart 64. I played the hell out of that game, unlocking all the tracks and characters and spending dangerous amounts of time beating my time trial ghosts for good laps. CTR also had an excellent battle mode which made MK64's look like an afterthought in comparison. Sure, you needed a multitap to really get the most out of the game but that was a fault of the hardware rather than Naughty Dog. I had this very arguement with a Nintendo fanboy just yesterday, in the end we decided that MK64 had the advantage of characters that everyone knew and a SNES prequel that was a real gem itself - whereas only PSX owners had met Crash and his friends (and the characters were mostly a bit rubbish anyway). For me, CTR just felt a bit faster than MK64 a lot of the time, and it's a game I still have very fond memories of playing alone and with my family (My MUM finished the Adventure mode!).It's a real shame that Sony decided to let another developer have a crack at the CTR sequel when Naughty Dog sold the license off. They should have left it alone as I understand the later games in the series were pretty dire.
"As the world became more familiar with ARG through hit games The Art of the Heist, Perplex City, Jamie Kane and Last Call Poker..."
I knew about ilovebees.com and a couple of others, but I've never heard of any of these ARGs. Good acronym though, it sounds exactly like the way they make you groan with confusion.
Whoever modded this Flamebait...who exactly was my post flaming? I take it you must be a journalist who's written a 3-page piece about the Revolution controller based on heresay and your imagination, and made it sound like you've been the future and are back to report on what you saw.
Sheesh, I was just trying to make an amusing comment. I guess I failed but if you don't like it at least mod it down sensibly, Overrated perhaps. Flamebait???
This is a story on Slashdot with the Nintendo logo proudly displayed on the main page...and yet it isn't an article about journalists guessing how the Revolution controller might possibly perhaps be used, or how it might possibly perhaps change the face of gaming simply by existing.
Is this one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
The launch games. In the opinion of myself, and many others, the games available for the DS at launch made for a crap launch. Mario 64 DS was the star, and that was a port of an N64 game with a few new bells and whistles. Or perhaps WarioWare for the DS, amazingly made without an ounce of multiplayer - great for the DS with its much touted wi-fi capabilities.
The fanboys I know (and I'm cursed with a lot of my friends being Nintendo fanboys, it's scary sometimes) all still praised the system for it's amazing features - and all proceeded to spend their time playing with PICTOCHAT.
Sorry, but that isn't how you launch a system. The PSP may not be the better or more popular handheld, but its launch selection was ten times better - varied and with high-quality titles.
NB: I'm commenting on the European launch here, but I gathered from various gaming websites at the time of the US launch that they had the same problems there. Nintendo will have learned from their mistake though, and as I said with a few big-name launch titles they have a good chance of very high sales at launch and in the months following.
I'm in complete agreement with you. Good stories are good stories. If you start choosing not to post them just because the submitter submits a lot of stories then Slashdot becomes a joke. Waiting for a user no one has heard of to submit a good story that hasn't had much publicity could take days.
Stories matter, not the submitter.
No. It's a continuation of Half-Life 2, made by Valve.
Ah, I looked there but couldn't find the info. I apologise then, I'd always assumed with the amount of coverage it was getting that Aftermath was going to be a full expansion, and that the episodic HL2 content would begin after its release. It would appear I was wrong, I bow before your superior knowledge :)
Hear hear, I bought the original Eyetoy: Play for my PS2 years back and was exhausted after playing that ninja-slapping game for a few minutes!
What everyone seems to be ignoring is the quality of the games. Of course Nintendo have a long history or excellent first-party titles, but if that was to stop or stutter during the Revolution's lifetime everyone would no doubt blame its failure on "people hate Nintendo".
Personally, I'm going to buy one because I have faith that Nintendo will be able to make at least a few quality titles a year to keep me playing, but they really need some big high-profile games for launch. The DS launch was rightfully laughed at by all but the fanboys, but I bought one before Xmas now some decent games are out for it. Nintendo really need to seize the day and launch the console with a new Mario game and maybe a new Smash Brothers, or other big-name franchises.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62 378
From the above:
But this is all just wishful thinking, according to Nintendo. "What the magazine has done is imagine how existing franchises would work with the Revolution controller, rather than actually seeing anything," a spokesperson told Eurogamer, adding: "It's all still speculation."
I think you're incorrect.
Aftermath is a single expansion for Half-Life 2, it'll be released in the shops in a box (AFAIK). However, Valve have said that episodic content is the future of HL2. An example of this is the new Sin Episodes that will be distributed via Steam - these are going to be "5 hour" downloads available in the next few months.
Also in the pipeline are episodic downloads for HL2, already suggested are episodes playing as Alex and featuring her robot, Dog. These most likely won't be available in stores (unless they release a collection of them further down the line) and will last a few hours (like you said, probably much shorter for competant gamers).
Just wanted to set that straight, Aftermath is a full length expansion pack, not just an episodic download. I haven't heard anything suggesting that, anyway.
I think downloading a Gamecube game would be take too long for the "casual gamer" that the Revolution is aimed at, that's my guess anyway - I hadn't heard of being able to download GC games, just the older generations. GC game discs will play on the Revolution though, so Nintendo will want to keep selling the games for that.
I think Aftermath is going to kick ass. Yep, this is just my opinion as a gamer but Half-Life 2 was one of the few games of 2004 that really held my interest from the first minute until the ending movie. Not that long, not that hard ("Hard" difficulty should be VERY difficult IMO, shame most developers just use difficulties as a way of prolonging the game experience), but very very fun. If Valve can pull off the "fun factor" again for the expansion I expect to see it winning a lot of awards this year.
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This is interesting news to me.
Oh grow up. The parent had a valid point, and was certainly not posting in support of pedophilia. Frankly if I had kids and one of mine did something stupid like that I'd feel ashamed at not having taught them better, or teaching them that some warnings kids are given are VERY serious.
This one obviously thought "Don't meet with strangers" was as important as "don't leave your videogame cartridge on a windowsill or other place where it will get direct sunlight".
Oh, and I think pedophiles are weird sickos who should be locked up. It's clearly the guy's fault, like you said kids are niave and still learning but COME ON, what a dumb/arrogant kid.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=architect s suggests not, at least not when used as a verb as in this case.
Of course it could be argued that his father (uncle?) has clearly played the game himself and decided that the child is mature enough to play it. Whether he's right or not isn't the issue, the fact is he's made an educated decision which is more than can be said for most "omg Manhunt made my son get smallpox" parents.
Not much to say other than that I agree strongly with the parent. Playing the race card is just a weak way of ignoring the problem. It's like saying we shouldn't try to stop Islamic extremists from killing innocent people because they're (often) foreign and so to stop them would be racist.