probably, but Disney is losing a cash cow, and all they're able to do is milk existing properties. Disney was a company that thrived on new ideas, and it looks like that proverbial well has dried out.
well, yeah. of course they're using the characters to drive profits in their other sectors.
but isn't Tokyo Disneyland still losing money, and getting throroughly spanked by the Sanrio theme park? Mickey Mouse might still be an icon of sorts, but he doesn't compare to the home-grown products. and of course Disney is going to be all over the media; they PAY MONEY to get news stories, they put out press releases so they can keep mindshare. that's like saying SCO isn't losing money because they're all over the news.:)
Disney's marketing machine? you mean the one that's steadily decreasing mindshare since Hunchback of Notre Dame? the only reasonably popular movie since that time was Lilo & Stitch, and it didn't do anywhere near as well as Lion King or the movies preceeding it.
the marketing machine can only go so far. all the McDonald's Happy meals and various other merchandise did very little to make movies like "The Emperor's New Groove" a hit.
it's possible that they might not know who Pixar is (though I bet I could round up five people on the street right now that would). but Disney loses a very large advertisement, and Pixar loses nothing. Disney gets 5 movies to sequel-ize, and Pixar gets to say "From the Creators of Monsters Inc, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Cars, and The Incredibles..."
I'll bet that parent is going to watch the latter movie.
well, they'll certainly attend. I have to agree with you on this, but don't underestimate the amount of interest that Disney has lost in the past 10 years. after Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame, the only truly blockbuster Disney movies have been from Pixar. if you judge from box office receipts and vhs/dvd sales, Disney's mind (and market) share is dwindling. that would suggest that the soccer moms are falling out of love with them.
there's no way that people will really sit for this. I figure by the time this is released, there will be a big stink in the public (read: non-geek) sector about Pixar going solo, and people will just see this as more Disney Sequel-itis (see Little Mermaid 2, Cinderella 2, Lion King 2).
odd, as a libertarian, I would have assumed that you'd look to the constitution as some sort of guide on federal regulations.
so, where in the constitution, bill of rights, or any amendments does it corroborate your idea that the federal government should be in regulation of the country's airwaves? shouldn't this be allocated on a state-by-state basis?
government exists, in the truest libertarian tradition, to enforce (and by bound by the chains of) the constitution. everything else is not in their jurisdiction. not anti-trust law, not regulation of communications mediums, nothing.
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Chicken-Egg problem is a red herring.
Eggs have been around much longer than chickens.
for instance, dinosaur eggs were around much earlier than the first chicken.
everything has an answer. you just might not like it.
if they open everything, and the card is able to play Doom 3 reasonably well, I will devote myself to the company exclusively. I would name my second child after the person responsible for getting the company to divulge all the information.
this is the one thing that every linux user has wished for. and damnit, someone needs to finally make the decision. others will have to follow, or lose market share.
I think the people that say this are the ones that compare every RPG to a Final Fantasy game. if anything, Fable would have more to do with Black & White (same producer) or Legend of Mana than Final Fantasy, as the games very core is based upon the decisions one makes.
well, good luck with the site. the only thing I could suggest is some sort of copy editor that can do a bit of fact-checking.
I guess a large part of this was my fault, as I had assumed from the/. headline that it was some sort of history. However, when writing the foreward (or whatever introductory piece) you might want to think about adding some sort of explanation of the motives or purpose of the article. you'd be amazed on how much this helps to not only clear up misconceptions, but provide the reader with some sort of expectations from the piece.
depth is really irrelevant. most people were more than happy with the content in the average Gamespot "history of" article. though an in-depth blowout of every game would be amazingly cool, the big issue was that not even a bare minimum amount of research was done before attempting to write. you are especially guilty, as you were responsible for writing an overview for three games you didn't even play. if that's not poor research, I don't know what is.
It is painfully obvious that Chris St. Pierre hasn't actually played the first three games of the series. normally, this wouldn't be something I'd hold against someone, but one would expect that someone who is writing a history of a certain topic would actually be fairly well-versed in the subject matter.
the reason the above gripe is so important, is because the author starts making more assumptions on the series based on his lack of knowledge ("Some say it resembled an early Final Fantasy V"). to anyone that has actually played the first three games (all fully translated by various romhacking groups), this is a direct assault on their intelligence.
Later sections tend to fluctuate between downright amateurish and passable, but all read like high school essays. Nobody cares about the author's personal experiences with the games. What's worse, in later articles, many of the authors start openly speculating on the motives of Squaresoft's development team, while trying to pass these comments off as fact.
Minus numerous factual errors (Uematsu stopped being the primary composer near the end of FF8, not X2 as one author speculated), and largely sub-par writing styles, it's obvious that the authors actually care for the series. But would it have hurt them to spend at least an hour researching before writing something that's supposed to be a big draw on their site?
if this lack of discipline is what I am to expect with the rest of the site, I don't think I'll ever be going back. and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
unfortunately, as of Final Fantasy XII, that's simply untrue. the game takes place in the Tactics world. this is a direct result of Hironobu Sakaguchi being replaced by the producer of the FFT series.
to like a site doesn't mean you have to enjoy the choices of articles.
sorry. your piece was fluff. poorly-researched, and poorly-written. it's nothing personal. though I would suggest actually playing every Final Fantasy before trying to publish some sort of definitive history.
if you actually read anything past "release date", you would have noticed that final fantasy was also released in 1987, alongside 3D Worldrunner, and Rad Racer. only the US/International release was delayed for 3 years.
so yes. they were released at the same time. the fears of bankruptcy have never been corroborated by anyone in Square. it's simply hearsay, and further proof that this "article" wasn't reasearched very well.
being that Roosevelt's New Deal was the first four parts of the Communist Manifesto. compare the two. you might be pleasantly surprised.
more and more, we're experiencing marxism in our day-to-day lives. perhaps we should try something new?:)
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you're on crack.
PSP plays UMD Discs. that's it. no music CD's, no DVD's. it's a proprietary format. they are gonna have some movies for it, but I don't envision them taking off. limited choice of movies for a limited media. sorry.
perhaps you should do some research before posting.
funny. the pirated copy I found on a large bittorrent site a few days before release (don't worry. I still bought the damn game) worked just fine with Daemon Tools. you just needed a recent version of it. didn't conflict with any software. didn't complain about CD burning software.
that's okay, because if you don't like using XMESS, here's a few other NES emulators:
FCE Ultra NEStopia VirtuaNES FakeNES TuxNES Nesti cle NESten iNes FWnes Famtasia
these are just the ones I could name off the top of my head. I'm sure one will work. in any OS you'd like, in fact.
XMESS is going to for complete accuracy over speed. unfortunately, accuracy depends on the skills of the developers, not to mention free time and motivation.
there are good emulators for just about every system, on every OS. this is not an issue. check out Zophar's Domain for a list of good emulators for every system.
well, if brazil is given an orkut.br, that sorta defeats the purpose. however, this would mean that I wouldn't have to see the brazillian neo-nazi skinheads that are slowly infecting many communities.
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probably, but Disney is losing a cash cow, and all they're able to do is milk existing properties. Disney was a company that thrived on new ideas, and it looks like that proverbial well has dried out.
well, yeah. of course they're using the characters to drive profits in their other sectors.
:)
but isn't Tokyo Disneyland still losing money, and getting throroughly spanked by the Sanrio theme park? Mickey Mouse might still be an icon of sorts, but he doesn't compare to the home-grown products. and of course Disney is going to be all over the media; they PAY MONEY to get news stories, they put out press releases so they can keep mindshare. that's like saying SCO isn't losing money because they're all over the news.
Disney's marketing machine? you mean the one that's steadily decreasing mindshare since Hunchback of Notre Dame? the only reasonably popular movie since that time was Lilo & Stitch, and it didn't do anywhere near as well as Lion King or the movies preceeding it.
the marketing machine can only go so far. all the McDonald's Happy meals and various other merchandise did very little to make movies like "The Emperor's New Groove" a hit.
it's possible that they might not know who Pixar is (though I bet I could round up five people on the street right now that would). but Disney loses a very large advertisement, and Pixar loses nothing. Disney gets 5 movies to sequel-ize, and Pixar gets to say "From the Creators of Monsters Inc, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Cars, and The Incredibles..."
I'll bet that parent is going to watch the latter movie.
well, they'll certainly attend. I have to agree with you on this, but don't underestimate the amount of interest that Disney has lost in the past 10 years. after Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame, the only truly blockbuster Disney movies have been from Pixar. if you judge from box office receipts and vhs/dvd sales, Disney's mind (and market) share is dwindling. that would suggest that the soccer moms are falling out of love with them.
there's no way that people will really sit for this. I figure by the time this is released, there will be a big stink in the public (read: non-geek) sector about Pixar going solo, and people will just see this as more Disney Sequel-itis (see Little Mermaid 2, Cinderella 2, Lion King 2).
somewhere, right now, Roy Disney is laughing.
yay karma burn.
you're preaching to the choir, dude. I voted Badnarik.
the rest of the world can hate Bush. that's just peachy. as long as they don't think the majority of Americans voted for him.
280 million americans.
120 million voted.
just over half of them voted for Bush.
so you're angry at less than 1/4th of america.
and you only respect less than 1/4th of america.
apparently the other 50+ percent don't matter or something?
odd, as a libertarian, I would have assumed that you'd look to the constitution as some sort of guide on federal regulations.
so, where in the constitution, bill of rights, or any amendments does it corroborate your idea that the federal government should be in regulation of the country's airwaves? shouldn't this be allocated on a state-by-state basis?
government exists, in the truest libertarian tradition, to enforce (and by bound by the chains of) the constitution. everything else is not in their jurisdiction. not anti-trust law, not regulation of communications mediums, nothing.
Chicken-Egg problem is a red herring.
Eggs have been around much longer than chickens.
for instance, dinosaur eggs were around much earlier than the first chicken.
everything has an answer. you just might not like it.
if they open everything, and the card is able to play Doom 3 reasonably well, I will devote myself to the company exclusively. I would name my second child after the person responsible for getting the company to divulge all the information.
this is the one thing that every linux user has wished for. and damnit, someone needs to finally make the decision. others will have to follow, or lose market share.
I think the people that say this are the ones that compare every RPG to a Final Fantasy game. if anything, Fable would have more to do with Black & White (same producer) or Legend of Mana than Final Fantasy, as the games very core is based upon the decisions one makes.
actually, what I was getting at was the need to include Final Fantasy Tactics, as it's going to be official canon very soon.
well, good luck with the site. the only thing I could suggest is some sort of copy editor that can do a bit of fact-checking.
/. headline that it was some sort of history. However, when writing the foreward (or whatever introductory piece) you might want to think about adding some sort of explanation of the motives or purpose of the article. you'd be amazed on how much this helps to not only clear up misconceptions, but provide the reader with some sort of expectations from the piece.
I guess a large part of this was my fault, as I had assumed from the
depth is really irrelevant. most people were more than happy with the content in the average Gamespot "history of" article. though an in-depth blowout of every game would be amazingly cool, the big issue was that not even a bare minimum amount of research was done before attempting to write. you are especially guilty, as you were responsible for writing an overview for three games you didn't even play. if that's not poor research, I don't know what is.
man. where should I start on this one?
It is painfully obvious that Chris St. Pierre hasn't actually played the first three games of the series. normally, this wouldn't be something I'd hold against someone, but one would expect that someone who is writing a history of a certain topic would actually be fairly well-versed in the subject matter.
the reason the above gripe is so important, is because the author starts making more assumptions on the series based on his lack of knowledge ("Some say it resembled an early Final Fantasy V"). to anyone that has actually played the first three games (all fully translated by various romhacking groups), this is a direct assault on their intelligence.
Later sections tend to fluctuate between downright amateurish and passable, but all read like high school essays. Nobody cares about the author's personal experiences with the games. What's worse, in later articles, many of the authors start openly speculating on the motives of Squaresoft's development team, while trying to pass these comments off as fact.
Minus numerous factual errors (Uematsu stopped being the primary composer near the end of FF8, not X2 as one author speculated), and largely sub-par writing styles, it's obvious that the authors actually care for the series. But would it have hurt them to spend at least an hour researching before writing something that's supposed to be a big draw on their site?
if this lack of discipline is what I am to expect with the rest of the site, I don't think I'll ever be going back. and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
unfortunately, as of Final Fantasy XII, that's simply untrue. the game takes place in the Tactics world. this is a direct result of Hironobu Sakaguchi being replaced by the producer of the FFT series.
to like a site doesn't mean you have to enjoy the choices of articles.
sorry. your piece was fluff. poorly-researched, and poorly-written. it's nothing personal. though I would suggest actually playing every Final Fantasy before trying to publish some sort of definitive history.
if you actually read anything past "release date", you would have noticed that final fantasy was also released in 1987, alongside 3D Worldrunner, and Rad Racer. only the US/International release was delayed for 3 years.
so yes. they were released at the same time. the fears of bankruptcy have never been corroborated by anyone in Square. it's simply hearsay, and further proof that this "article" wasn't reasearched very well.
funny you should mention Marxism.
:)
being that Roosevelt's New Deal was the first four parts of the Communist Manifesto. compare the two. you might be pleasantly surprised.
more and more, we're experiencing marxism in our day-to-day lives. perhaps we should try something new?
you're on crack.
PSP plays UMD Discs. that's it. no music CD's, no DVD's. it's a proprietary format. they are gonna have some movies for it, but I don't envision them taking off. limited choice of movies for a limited media. sorry.
perhaps you should do some research before posting.
oh. wait. slashdot. nevermind.
funny. the pirated copy I found on a large bittorrent site a few days before release (don't worry. I still bought the damn game) worked just fine with Daemon Tools. you just needed a recent version of it. didn't conflict with any software. didn't complain about CD burning software.
I say this story is a pile of horsecrap.
that's okay, because if you don't like using XMESS, here's a few other NES emulators:
i cle
FCE Ultra
NEStopia
VirtuaNES
FakeNES
TuxNES
Nest
NESten
iNes
FWnes
Famtasia
these are just the ones I could name off the top of my head. I'm sure one will work. in any OS you'd like, in fact.
XMESS is going to for complete accuracy over speed. unfortunately, accuracy depends on the skills of the developers, not to mention free time and motivation.
there are good emulators for just about every system, on every OS. this is not an issue. check out Zophar's Domain for a list of good emulators for every system.
well, if brazil is given an orkut.br, that sorta defeats the purpose. however, this would mean that I wouldn't have to see the brazillian neo-nazi skinheads that are slowly infecting many communities.
give and take, I suppose.