Advertisements on XBOX achievements is not really that annoying to the player, is it? If anything, the real annoyance should be that the sizable amount of extra money that EA earns from these ads is not being passed on to the player in the form of a slightly cheaper game.
...NASA has finally set aside a portion of its budget for the hiring of a trombone player to lighten the mood after each disasterous miscalculation with a well-timed "waaah WAAAAAAAAH."
Why does every MMO have to be the same as every other MMO?
Star Trek is going to be very boring if I'm the engineer and all I do during an epic space battle is run from console to sparking exploding console and press the "fix" button. Star Trek doesn't work if you're just one lowly ensign. It's just not fun.
Now, take a completely different approach to the MMO formula, and you have something interesting:
Your main character is your ship. You level the ship up, get new crew, and eventually scrap it for a more expensive model.
You get a crew that you familiarize yourself with and grow to care about. You can switch control to any of these bridge members during the game. During exploration, you probably want to play as helm control. During battle: tactical. Having engine troubles? Play as the Chief of Engineering. Let me play as EVERY member of my crew.
When it's time for an away mission, let me choose the away team. If I want to get something done, I'm going to have to include one or more of my main characters who will have a larger aray of skills and tallents along with the red shirts. Make death permanent for these characters. The game isn't over, I've just lost a character I really cared about. This creates suspense for every mission. I'll have to hire/promote someone new into his place. I should have been more careful when selecting missions/teams.
All of that seems to strip the "MMO" out of "MMOG." But, notice that doing all this allows for some epic battles. Instead of needing 10-40 people to pilot one galaxy class starship into a battle with a Borg ship, I can use those 10-40 people to pilot 10-40 SHIPS into an epic battle with the Borg fleet.
Microsoft has already said that even if an HD-DVD upgrade comes for the XBOX 360, game's will not be shipped using the format. This would alienate all the players who didn't shell out for one of the upgrades. The HD-DVD drive would be used as an option to watch HD-DVD movies only.
The author should have done a little research.
In fact, in my simple Google search for "Microsoft XBOX 360 HD-DVD Support" the front page came up with an article confirming this.
Seriously, "journalists"... research is not that hard. I'll give you a hint: you can't spell 'research' without 'search'.
One small step for man (Score:5, Funny) by LiquidCoooled (634315) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:08PM (#13674792) A giant leap for google kind towards the Copernicus Center [google.com]
Reasoning (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29, @09:15PM (#13674830)
Nasa recently unveiled plans to make another moon landing by 2020 And why not, they've looked for Osama every other place that he isn't.
I can see it all now... (Score:5, Funny) by Linker3000 (626634) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:32PM (#13674915) "Mission Control, this is Mars Pathfinder 1, we are experiencing minor power fluctuations on bus C and require some diagnostic advice, over..." "Pathfinder 1, roger that, wait one..." "Pathfinder, this is Mission Control, please surf to history.nasa.gov/ap13rb/ch4pt.2.pdf. If you need a copy of Acrobat Reader please advise and I will supply the URL, over..."
Re:I can see it all now... (Score:5, Funny) by LiquidCoooled (634315) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:39PM (#13674938) Thats still sounds a like a hell of a lot better future than if they chose Microsoft for the on board diagnosis: "Mission Control, this is Mars Pathfinder 1, we are experiencing minor power fluctuations on bus C and require some diagnostic advice, over..." Clippy: It looks like your all going to die. Would you like to..... *silent scream*
SETI to GETI (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29, @09:42PM (#13674950) The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence will be replaced by Google for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
Re:Moffett (Score:5, Informative) by josephtd (817237) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:27PM (#13674888) Yea, well there is now a surplus of of office space around the Moffett Field area. My office is over on Shoreline and there are For Lease signs everywhere.
Re:Google never should have went public (Score:5, Informative) by bheer (633842) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:44PM (#13674964) Google's stock offering has been very carefully structured to give Larry and Sergei a lot more control[1] than the ordinary shareholding public (and besides, Google is still relatively closely held - the main shareholders of Google are its investors and they trust the founders+Eric Schmidt implicitly). In fact, the non-founding shareholders (mostly Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia) likely know that Google's 'goofiness' makes for good press and share price, and as long as the party continues they're unlikely to rock the boat. [1] WaPo: After IPO, Google Founders Plan to Remain in Control [washingtonpost.com]
Ok, this has to be said. I read this article way too late and thus this will recieve no mod points, but maybe at least one person will read it and realize:
Batman Begins (you remember... the good one) had two villains.
Now shut up. You haven't even seen the movie yet.
That kind of game may have a very sizeable market. My girlfriend seems to enjoy a game in which she turns me on and then leaves the room...
heh heh... girlfriend... I almost kept a straight face...
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These jokes are so Parcheesi...
Or Prince, for the damage he's done to facial hair.
It really says something about the American medical system when a surgeon like yourself has to part-time at a grocery store to make ends meet.
Advertisements on XBOX achievements is not really that annoying to the player, is it? If anything, the real annoyance should be that the sizable amount of extra money that EA earns from these ads is not being passed on to the player in the form of a slightly cheaper game.
we've been assimilated?
"And the Wii shall inherit the Earth."
Wake me up when we're OVERclocking atoms.
...NASA has finally set aside a portion of its budget for the hiring of a trombone player to lighten the mood after each disasterous miscalculation with a well-timed "waaah WAAAAAAAAH."
The fact is, if enough consumers "get it," then you can bet that the developers will "get it."
I really hate that the term "Gay" is being used to tag all of these April Fools posts, but in this case it's actually appropriate:
If everyone on Slashdot signed up for a dating service, the only ones who would find compatible mates would be the gay members.
This article is a dupe. Zonk is just procrastinating posting the original.
Major Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn is calling this a "disastrous" decision.
Why does every MMO have to be the same as every other MMO?
Star Trek is going to be very boring if I'm the engineer and all I do during an epic space battle is run from console to sparking exploding console and press the "fix" button. Star Trek doesn't work if you're just one lowly ensign. It's just not fun.
Now, take a completely different approach to the MMO formula, and you have something interesting:
Your main character is your ship. You level the ship up, get new crew, and eventually scrap it for a more expensive model.
You get a crew that you familiarize yourself with and grow to care about. You can switch control to any of these bridge members during the game. During exploration, you probably want to play as helm control. During battle: tactical. Having engine troubles? Play as the Chief of Engineering. Let me play as EVERY member of my crew.
When it's time for an away mission, let me choose the away team. If I want to get something done, I'm going to have to include one or more of my main characters who will have a larger aray of skills and tallents along with the red shirts. Make death permanent for these characters. The game isn't over, I've just lost a character I really cared about. This creates suspense for every mission. I'll have to hire/promote someone new into his place. I should have been more careful when selecting missions/teams.
All of that seems to strip the "MMO" out of "MMOG." But, notice that doing all this allows for some epic battles. Instead of needing 10-40 people to pilot one galaxy class starship into a battle with a Borg ship, I can use those 10-40 people to pilot 10-40 SHIPS into an epic battle with the Borg fleet.
Sounds a lot more fun to me. I'd buy that.
Microsoft has already said that even if an HD-DVD upgrade comes for the XBOX 360, game's will not be shipped using the format. This would alienate all the players who didn't shell out for one of the upgrades. The HD-DVD drive would be used as an option to watch HD-DVD movies only.
The author should have done a little research.
In fact, in my simple Google search for "Microsoft XBOX 360 HD-DVD Support" the front page came up with an article confirming this.
Seriously, "journalists"... research is not that hard. I'll give you a hint: you can't spell 'research' without 'search'.
Here's the new map of the US.
The military is planning to test this new material on its nuclear wessels.
...and start putting more money into space exploration. Afterall, what good is an exoskeleton without the giant alien queen to fight with it?
OK!:
One small step for man
(Score:5, Funny)
by LiquidCoooled (634315) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:08PM (#13674792)
A giant leap for google kind towards the Copernicus Center [google.com]
Old News.
(Score:5, Funny)
by HugePedlar (900427) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:08PM (#13674794)
(http://www.hugepedlar.com/)
http://moon.google.com/ [google.com] and http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html [google.com]
Reasoning
(Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29, @09:15PM (#13674830)
Nasa recently unveiled plans to make another moon landing by 2020
And why not, they've looked for Osama every other place that he isn't.
I can see it all now...
(Score:5, Funny)
by Linker3000 (626634) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:32PM (#13674915)
"Mission Control, this is Mars Pathfinder 1, we are experiencing minor power fluctuations on bus C and require some diagnostic advice, over..."
"Pathfinder 1, roger that, wait one..."
"Pathfinder, this is Mission Control, please surf to history.nasa.gov/ap13rb/ch4pt.2.pdf. If you need a copy of Acrobat Reader please advise and I will supply the URL, over..."
Re:I can see it all now...
(Score:5, Funny)
by LiquidCoooled (634315) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:39PM (#13674938)
Thats still sounds a like a hell of a lot better future than if they chose Microsoft for the on board diagnosis:
"Mission Control, this is Mars Pathfinder 1, we are experiencing minor power fluctuations on bus C and require some diagnostic advice, over..."
Clippy: It looks like your all going to die. Would you like to.....
*silent scream*
SETI to GETI
(Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29, @09:42PM (#13674950)
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence will be replaced by Google for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
Re:Moffett
(Score:5, Informative)
by josephtd (817237) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:27PM (#13674888)
Yea, well there is now a surplus of of office space around the Moffett Field area. My office is over on Shoreline and there are For Lease signs everywhere.
Re:Google never should have went public
(Score:5, Informative)
by bheer (633842) Alter Relationship on Thursday September 29, @09:44PM (#13674964)
Google's stock offering has been very carefully structured to give Larry and Sergei a lot more control[1] than the ordinary shareholding public (and besides, Google is still relatively closely held - the main shareholders of Google are its investors and they trust the founders+Eric Schmidt implicitly). In fact, the non-founding shareholders (mostly Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia) likely know that Google's 'goofiness' makes for good press and share price, and as long as the party continues they're unlikely to rock the boat.
[1] WaPo: After IPO, Google Founders Plan to Remain in Control [washingtonpost.com]
More pictures here.
Ok, this has to be said. I read this article way too late and thus this will recieve no mod points, but maybe at least one person will read it and realize: Batman Begins (you remember... the good one) had two villains. Now shut up. You haven't even seen the movie yet.
Well crap, what are we going to name Madden 2012 now? -EA Representative
That kind of game may have a very sizeable market. My girlfriend seems to enjoy a game in which she turns me on and then leaves the room... heh heh... girlfriend... I almost kept a straight face...
I looked for the "Reply Humously" button, but I couldn't find it. Or perhaps you were just trying to be "Humorous"