I dont really think theres anything enherintly wrong with eternal memory, that said though the powers that be have shown that they have no quams using this information to their own advantage (think taken out of context for example). This type of abuse of information would be my concern more than the data existing in the first place.
Like nearly everything in this world information is a tool, its how you use it that counts
I am in no way qualified to comment on this matter but what the hell, i always thought it wasent so much that humans forget stuff, more that we surpress.
Indeed you are right but the point is its a game the core cant play out of the box, something microsoft mandated against. Its only a matter of time before the core (and the no HDD mandate) dissapear. After all the core is not being produced when stocks run out hence the 360 ELITE
Splinter Cell Double Agent was released ages ago and it has a warning on the box : this game REQUIRES a HDD or a memory card to play.
This is microsoft we're talking about as soon as the core holds em back they will change there mandates.
Couldent agree with you more, just today i bought 5 hp's and 5 imacs for the school i work for. the macs were about £700 each, the better speced HP's were £248 each. Needless to say the majority of our 500 boxs are pc's the macs are relegated to the specialist departments such as music.
Couldent agree with you more, but its not only Oblivion. Morrowind was also a buggy mess. Dont get me wrong i enjoyed both immensly but as software becomes more complex testing is going to have to become a higher priority for all software.
This was my biggest worry about gettting a 360, but to be honest ive got about 8 games now and i havent paid more than £25 for any of them (and they were new). The irony is that so far this gen has been much cheaper for me.
Its probably just luck, seeing the deals at the right time and such but i swear if u stay the hell away from brick and motar stores you'll be fine.
I consider all marketing to be spam, i should point out that i have nothing against advertising (here is our product, this is what it does). But marketing (oh my god look how cool this is and how cool you will be if you buy it) sickens me to my stomach, the entire industry is built on deception and has no redeeming features at all.
I think your right, if it can do half of what they say it can then i would have no problem spending that. Its the 2 year contract thats killed my intrest
Ive been wondering that myself and not just about microsoft. The way things are going video on demand is the future, and that needs the tech sector more than the media cartels. Take the net for example, millions of everyday folk are providing content that is often seen by as many people as traditional media. It seems to me that long term the tech companys of today (microsoft, apple and so on) are in a perfect position to dictate the way this is gonna go, yet they seem to be pandering to the media companys at every turn. The only reason i can see for this is the shortsighted thinking of the corperate world but its still unusual for companys like microsoft not to exploit any and all opportunitys.
"Anyone remember when Capcom did the Duck Tales and Chip and Dale games for the NES? Now THOSE were great games first, but with quality TV tie-ins that tried to be true to the source material."
I do, oh the memories that came flooding back after reading that. There was a mickey mouse/disney (sorry forget the name)game on the SNES which was also excellent. They were great games but there is a danger with being too true to the source material. For example spiderman 2 on the PS2 was an excellent game, the major problem with it was it copied the film almost scence for scene which made it about as long as the film.
While I agree with you entirely by changing the metric to a top ten of first party games im sure nintendo would win. in fact im sure we could get the xbox to come out on top if we again changed the metric to suit. My point wasent to attack one console and praise another, im no fanboi i have all 3 and a pc and all have their pro's and cons. i was just wondering if we would see any similarity in the percentage of good games across the systems regardless of the number of titles available.
Just out of amusement i would like to know what the average scores were for games over the entire life of the last gen (PS2/GC/Xbox). While i know that its hardly a fair comparision what with the PS2 having many more titles than it competitors combined i think it would still be interesting from a quality over quantity stand. for an anecdotel example nearly all the gamecube games i have i think are really good, i have twice as many (at least) PS2 games but i would say that only a 1/4 of them are in the excellent range.
Ive been running XP for years without an anti virus, never had a problem but then again i don't go opening random things on a whim. Having said that i would never run windows without a firewall and no the XP SP2 firewall doesent count.
Its better than that. The reason they are pushing compulsory IDs so hard is that they will have a photo of everyone in the UK. Tie that to the facial recognition software they are having developed and its not just when your in the car. End result every citizen in this country can be tracked to within feet of their position both in your car and on foot in real time. Now thats scary.
OK so it was a pretty crap game, but the last level (before the logos, which i refuse to count as a level) with all the smiths was pretty cool. Far from perfect but the first time i did it i really got a sense of "if you see an agent you do what we do.....RUN, RUN YOUR ASS OFF". The survival aspect of it makes it memorable for me even if the game overall was rather forgettable
Just Imagine the weird and wonderful tech we could be using if things were designed to work, rather than being designed from the ground up NOT TO WORK.
Its funny, but i don't really consider the 360 to be "next gen". Its cool and all and I'll probably pick one up at some point but its just better graphics, With the Wii Nintendo are trying to change the way games are played. It might not work, it might be the best thing ever only time will tell. For me next gen is about breaking boundaries not frame rates.
I really had bandwidth intense content like video on demand in mind, but you quiet right. The lawyers in the US would have a field day with that. My main problem is i cant see net neutrality working (not that its not a good idea) its just that as usual it will be people who really have no clue about the net writing these laws. This nearly always causes more problems than it solves in the long run.
I would like to see the root of the problem squashed. If we must have a new law how about this, YOU CAN PROVIDE A NET SERVICE OR PROVIDE CONTENT BUT NOT BOTH.
I realise this is a gross over simplification of the issue but its a major conflict of interest to allow the telcos to do both.
"I actually respect the f* outof Nintendo for essentially going purely the 'it's all about the games' route, and foregoing the graphics pissing contest."
This is because Nintendo is unique in the current industry.
1st - They are the only games company to manufacture a console. Xbox & Playstation are devisions of larger companies.
2nd - Nintendo has been in this since the beginning, well not quite the beginning but by that i mean they were there back in the days of crap graphics and sound, 2 button pads for gods sake. They know theres more to this game than "oh shiny".
And as for those bemoaning the fact that the rev is basically a gamecube i say good, the gamecube is a nice solid little unit (top loading is a pain) with a quality over quantanty approach towards titles. My beast of a gaming rig is an evolution of an old 386 but that doesent mean there the same machine.
TRY RUNNING F.E.A.R. AT MAX ON A 386SX 4MB RAM
When all 3 are available to buy i will definatly end up with a REV and one of the other 2, which one though i couldent tell you. I may have come across as a bit of a big N fanby but im not. I got fed up with them after the N64, i got a used gamecube a few months ago just because it was too cheap not to.) The point is the 360 and the ps3 havent done anything for me, but nintendo have captured my imagination and thus my pre-order.
If i had mod points i'd mod you up, slashdotters are quick enough to state the "mmorpgs are about community and making friends as much as they are games", funny how when it comes to this its the total opposite.
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I dont really think theres anything enherintly wrong with eternal memory, that said though the powers that be have shown that they have no quams using this information to their own advantage (think taken out of context for example). This type of abuse of information would be my concern more than the data existing in the first place. Like nearly everything in this world information is a tool, its how you use it that counts
I am in no way qualified to comment on this matter but what the hell, i always thought it wasent so much that humans forget stuff, more that we surpress.
Indeed you are right but the point is its a game the core cant play out of the box, something microsoft mandated against. Its only a matter of time before the core (and the no HDD mandate) dissapear. After all the core is not being produced when stocks run out hence the 360 ELITE
Splinter Cell Double Agent was released ages ago and it has a warning on the box : this game REQUIRES a HDD or a memory card to play. This is microsoft we're talking about as soon as the core holds em back they will change there mandates.
Couldent agree with you more, just today i bought 5 hp's and 5 imacs for the school i work for. the macs were about £700 each, the better speced HP's were £248 each. Needless to say the majority of our 500 boxs are pc's the macs are relegated to the specialist departments such as music.
It wasent better, it was just fresher
Couldent agree with you more, but its not only Oblivion. Morrowind was also a buggy mess. Dont get me wrong i enjoyed both immensly but as software becomes more complex testing is going to have to become a higher priority for all software.
This was my biggest worry about gettting a 360, but to be honest ive got about 8 games now and i havent paid more than £25 for any of them (and they were new). The irony is that so far this gen has been much cheaper for me.
Its probably just luck, seeing the deals at the right time and such but i swear if u stay the hell away from brick and motar stores you'll be fine.
i live in the UK but ive never had a british passport, gotta love dual citizenship.
I consider all marketing to be spam, i should point out that i have nothing against advertising (here is our product, this is what it does). But marketing (oh my god look how cool this is and how cool you will be if you buy it) sickens me to my stomach, the entire industry is built on deception and has no redeeming features at all.
I think your right, if it can do half of what they say it can then i would have no problem spending that. Its the 2 year contract thats killed my intrest
it only takes three commands to install Gentoo cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
that's the first one
Ive been wondering that myself and not just about microsoft. The way things are going video on demand is the future, and that needs the tech sector more than the media cartels. Take the net for example, millions of everyday folk are providing content that is often seen by as many people as traditional media. It seems to me that long term the tech companys of today (microsoft, apple and so on) are in a perfect position to dictate the way this is gonna go, yet they seem to be pandering to the media companys at every turn. The only reason i can see for this is the shortsighted thinking of the corperate world but its still unusual for companys like microsoft not to exploit any and all opportunitys.
"Anyone remember when Capcom did the Duck Tales and Chip and Dale games for the NES? Now THOSE were great games first, but with quality TV tie-ins that tried to be true to the source material." I do, oh the memories that came flooding back after reading that. There was a mickey mouse/disney (sorry forget the name)game on the SNES which was also excellent. They were great games but there is a danger with being too true to the source material. For example spiderman 2 on the PS2 was an excellent game, the major problem with it was it copied the film almost scence for scene which made it about as long as the film.
While I agree with you entirely by changing the metric to a top ten of first party games im sure nintendo would win. in fact im sure we could get the xbox to come out on top if we again changed the metric to suit. My point wasent to attack one console and praise another, im no fanboi i have all 3 and a pc and all have their pro's and cons. i was just wondering if we would see any similarity in the percentage of good games across the systems regardless of the number of titles available.
Just out of amusement i would like to know what the average scores were for games over the entire life of the last gen (PS2/GC/Xbox). While i know that its hardly a fair comparision what with the PS2 having many more titles than it competitors combined i think it would still be interesting from a quality over quantity stand. for an anecdotel example nearly all the gamecube games i have i think are really good, i have twice as many (at least) PS2 games but i would say that only a 1/4 of them are in the excellent range.
Ive been running XP for years without an anti virus, never had a problem but then again i don't go opening random things on a whim. Having said that i would never run windows without a firewall and no the XP SP2 firewall doesent count.
Its better than that. The reason they are pushing compulsory IDs so hard is that they will have a photo of everyone in the UK. Tie that to the facial recognition software they are having developed and its not just when your in the car. End result every citizen in this country can be tracked to within feet of their position both in your car and on foot in real time. Now thats scary.
OK so it was a pretty crap game, but the last level (before the logos, which i refuse to count as a level) with all the smiths was pretty cool. Far from perfect but the first time i did it i really got a sense of "if you see an agent you do what we do.....RUN, RUN YOUR ASS OFF". The survival aspect of it makes it memorable for me even if the game overall was rather forgettable
Just Imagine the weird and wonderful tech we could be using if things were designed to work, rather than being designed from the ground up NOT TO WORK.
Its funny, but i don't really consider the 360 to be "next gen". Its cool and all and I'll probably pick one up at some point but its just better graphics, With the Wii Nintendo are trying to change the way games are played. It might not work, it might be the best thing ever only time will tell. For me next gen is about breaking boundaries not frame rates.
I really had bandwidth intense content like video on demand in mind, but you quiet right. The lawyers in the US would have a field day with that. My main problem is i cant see net neutrality working (not that its not a good idea) its just that as usual it will be people who really have no clue about the net writing these laws. This nearly always causes more problems than it solves in the long run.
I would like to see the root of the problem squashed. If we must have a new law how about this, YOU CAN PROVIDE A NET SERVICE OR PROVIDE CONTENT BUT NOT BOTH. I realise this is a gross over simplification of the issue but its a major conflict of interest to allow the telcos to do both.
"I actually respect the f* outof Nintendo for essentially going purely the 'it's all about the games' route, and foregoing the graphics pissing contest." This is because Nintendo is unique in the current industry. 1st - They are the only games company to manufacture a console. Xbox & Playstation are devisions of larger companies. 2nd - Nintendo has been in this since the beginning, well not quite the beginning but by that i mean they were there back in the days of crap graphics and sound, 2 button pads for gods sake. They know theres more to this game than "oh shiny". And as for those bemoaning the fact that the rev is basically a gamecube i say good, the gamecube is a nice solid little unit (top loading is a pain) with a quality over quantanty approach towards titles. My beast of a gaming rig is an evolution of an old 386 but that doesent mean there the same machine. TRY RUNNING F.E.A.R. AT MAX ON A 386SX 4MB RAM When all 3 are available to buy i will definatly end up with a REV and one of the other 2, which one though i couldent tell you. I may have come across as a bit of a big N fanby but im not. I got fed up with them after the N64, i got a used gamecube a few months ago just because it was too cheap not to.) The point is the 360 and the ps3 havent done anything for me, but nintendo have captured my imagination and thus my pre-order.
If i had mod points i'd mod you up, slashdotters are quick enough to state the "mmorpgs are about community and making friends as much as they are games", funny how when it comes to this its the total opposite.