Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 is a perfect example of a game being developed for a console. Ported to a PC. And being a complete disaster. The game is up to par for a FPS on a console(and I am giving it slack here when I shouldn't), but looks like a FPS from 2004 on a PC. And since it was optimized for a console it runs like shit on a PC. Hell, I play it all the way through on a PC and the amount of bugs I found were atrocious for a final product. Just a piece of shit and the co-op mode is actually some what enjoyable for those that force themselves to look past the faults.
You got caught up in being spoiled by the hype. Its a great game but when you hear nothing but people saying its amazing, and awesome, you kind of psyche yourself out. You expect every part of the game to be the best of the best. And instead of actually enjoying the game, you are forcing yourself to enjoy the game cause everyone else did.
Ill bring up a recent experience I had. The Dark Knight. I was told by many people this movie was amazing, that this would be "The Empire Strikes Back" of my generation. I didn't see the movie till about three weeks after its opening. By the time I saw it, my head was filled with so many people saying how great it is, how amazing, and the fact that a few people were comparing it to one of the best sequels ever made, that I psyched myself out. I was now sitting in a seat in a movie theater trying to enjoy movie instead of actually enjoying the movie. I expected every scene to be amazing. I felt as if the movie was spoiled because everyone said it was amazing and instead of judging it myself, I let others judge it for me. And instead I was criticizing the movie all the way through.
The other issue is aging a game. Some games just don't age properly. Some last years and years, some only a few years. Goldeneye was amazing back in 1997/1998. But try getting someone new to play it now for the first time and they wont get it. Try getting someone to play Half-life now for the first time, they wont get it(and I am talking original build not the Source stuff). Now yes, Goldeneye is from 1997 and Gears of War is from 2006. Its only been two years, but there are so many games that carried mechanics (gameplay, graphics, etc) from it since then, its nothing special anymore. The reason gamers go back to old games is not to play them for the first time, its to play them again. Its tough to go back in time and attempt to play a game with graphics that are considered laughable today. With AI that is simple look and shoot. For a lot of games, there's a window of opportunity to play them, and if you miss that window, you've screwed yourself.
Its a mix between somewhat simple and somewhat complex. I loved the original, loved Simcity 2000, and enjoyed Simcity 3000, but Simcity 4 included so much depth and micromanagement that it turned away a lot of us.
Why couldn't we just use nukes to redirect them? Detonate one of them near the asteroid, push it off course, and keep doing this until a desired trajectory is met that will not cause it to collide with Earth or the Moon. Its kind of like pushing a basketball mid-flight, you wouldn't be stopping the full force of the ball as much as just redirecting the current energy with some other force. It would require that we have early knowledge but still could work.
And of course anything that breaks off could be nuked also into smaller pieces till they are no threat. Of course we would have to be constantly scanning for these pieces but if a ball of death is heading for us I would assume all telescopes would be looking at it anyway.
I'm only 22, I was not alive when the original came out. The first time I heard of Tron was from the Simpson's Halloween special where they reference if anyone has seen the movie in which no one has seen it before. Sometime after that I saw in the TV Guide that Tron was going to be playing on the Disney channel. I watched it, it looked cool, it was pretty awesome, but I am also someone who loves sci-fi movies.
This movie is to cater one demand in entertainment (SCIFI - XMEN,BATMAN,ETC, these movies are making ass loads of cash for the industry currently) and also one demand from studios (REMAKES). I don't see it being a huge box office success but I bet it entertains.
The reason for no DVD playback is that the drive was designed for short reads not constant reading. If the current Wii drive is used to play DVDs you will either wear it out or it will burn out. That's why Nintendo kept telling people who asked about DVD playback they would have to do some manufacturing changes to allow it.
Ive owned a Wii since launch and not because I enjoy it but because its been a thing of my life to own the major Nintendo consoles on release. The current motion sensing is pretty bad, it flinches alot, it jumps around, it felt added on. If they seriously have improved on this and its a true 1:1 then maybe ill dust off the Wii again otherwise ill go back to another button smashing controller.
Its numbers not games. Windows is the dominant OS, unless Linux starts taking a 30-40% share of the market, its still an underdog.
Now, if your a developer with limited funds, would you build both a Linux version and a Windows version? No. Companies that can do this are ID Software and Blizzard because they have the resources to accomplish this. Remember, its not just building the game, its also supporting it later on.
You could apply this theory to the application area of Linux also.
First, Indiana Jones 4 was just terrible. I wont go into why, but you hit one point with the CGI.
Spielberg gets credit for taking a chance with CGI. In the late 80s early 90s he got together Phil Tippet, Dennis Muren, and Stan Winston, told them what he wanted, and they all agreed to help. Originally Jurassic Park was suppose to use Go-Motion for the dinosaurs by Phil Tippet, which is traditional stop-motion with a blur effect, ILM was suppose to do only the field with the running herd of gallimimus. ILM came forth with test footage of some dinosaurs running through a field, which amazed Spielberg, then they had a full body test of the T-Rex done with CGI, then they added the two together and thats when Spielberg pulled the trigger and went with CGI.
Stan Winston was caught in the middle of building the real models and integrating them with this new technology.
Jurassic Park was a gamble that paid off. They didn't know if it all would work. They knew they could film it. Stan Winston knew he could do his part, Spielberg knew he could do his, the actors, etc. ILM on the other hand had faith but didn't know if they could pull it off in time. I think they actually started working on the CGI three years before its actual release.
Today you don't find many directors/producers willing to put their faith in a traditional effects artist over a computer.
I told my friends about Stan yesterday. And my friends are big sci-fi people. They had no clue who this man was, nor did they care. But the thing was, once I told them what movies he worked on, what creatures he created, they were amazed.
Before CGI, this was the guy to go to for special effects and creature creation. In my opinion, he had the privilege to live the high point of traditional movie special effects, and had the honor of working on the film that ushered in CGI(Jurassic Park). And the thing about Jurassic Park, this movie combined both the classic approach and a modern approach seamlessly.
Watching the interview on the JP DVD you can tell how excited he was to work on that project. The time he took with ILM to make sure a shot that had the actual built dinosaur and the CGI created worked seamlessly, shot to shot. To this day I load up the T-Rex attack scene and ask people to pull out the CGI shot and the non-CGI shot. Barely anyone can tell difference. Yet, I load up "i-Robot" and people just laugh at the compositing.
Last week I watched "Aliens", first time I have ever seen the film. I was blown away. The detailed model work was amazing. This was all pre-cgi also. The thing with Stan Winston, he knew CGI was the new hollywood tool, but just like Phil Tippett, he also knew his skills were not gone. There was still room for traditional effects.
He will be missed, and as more and more films use less and less traditional special effects. You can always look back and watch films like Aliens, Predator, Terminator, and tell your kids this is how they did it before we had computers. And one of the masters of the pre-computer era was Stan Winston.
Its so true. I just built my first computer in six years. Building it was ten times easier, buying my parts was ten times harder. I had to do so much research on parts. Keep the price reasonable but still maintain decent power. I was so hesitant to order because I knew that if I just wait another month I can get something even better then what I'm getting now, but it already been six months so I just bit my lip and ordered.
My worst experience was researching video cards. This GTX200 series just popped out of nowhere, I don't know how I missed it. The 9800GX2 is a nice card but I don't think dual-core video cards are driver ready or cooling ready as these things heat up fast as sin and the drivers crash alot(something not mentioned in reviews). Idle temps are 50-60c, unless you speed up the fan, at 100% you can get mid 40's. And I'm not trolling either, I own this card.
Another thing that really pissed me off was reviews. I didn't want to go SLI, I think its bullshit/legacy technology thats too expensive. But every review, every top videocard list, just mentioned SLI configurations and never reviewed just single cards.
I mean consoles are still expensive when you start adding in all the extras to it. Mainly the extra controllers. But at least their designed to last 4-5 years. My computer will need a video card change in about two years to stay competitive. My Geforce 3 lasted about 1.5years before I had to switch to a 9700Pro.
The article fails to talk about security as a deterrent.
The RFID bracelets on an infant can give comfort to the parents but its more of a deterrent then anything. Sure the hospital can tell the parents that their child is protected. But the hospital is not protecting the child as much as its protecting itself. For example:
A guard that is in the bank is not there to stop a bank from being robbed. He deters people from committing the crime itself. In a robbery situation the guard himself is useless because the individual or individuals robbing a bank would take him out first. But in most bank robberies, the criminals are going to go after a bank without a guard anyway.
A mall guard doesn't stop people from stealing, he creates the presence of being watched, therefor deterring people from stealing.
Same goes with cameras in stores. Most of the time no one is monitoring the cameras and if anything their used to watch employees over customers. But their deterring employees from doing anything unethical or illegal and they deter people from stealing.
In my opinion the idea of security theater and feeling safe is crap. You might as well spend the time and effort to know your safe then make it seem like you feel like your safe.
Even if Viacom were to win this, they would still be losing out.
Where is the first place I go to find clips of a show? Youtube. After that I head off to google in hopes of finding it somewhere else.
Would I go over to Comedy Centrals website? SpikeTV? MTV? No, because these sites are cluttered with garbage and intrusive AD supported video players. I usually get lost at these sites anyway.
Also, I'm 22, the perfect demographic for these opportunities and you've seem to have alienated us over the years with your garbage websites.
What are the chances of puttering around on earth for a few hundred meters and finding a fossil? Its pretty good. All they have to do is find a fossil of something that once roamed around on the surface of mars or in the water that is now frozen. And I think the poster by meaning a large complex form of life is meaning something more advanced then bacteria.
And I want a second chance for a first impression with the girl I met last week. I just wasn't performing at top game compared to my competition, but since then I have optimized myself to run more efficiently and smooth. I had some issues moving from one subject to the next but I fixed those issues and now I have a new tool, playing it cool. Just prove me wrong.
My friend started working IT at the local hospital about 3 months ago. Just moved into his new house.
This was the contents of his fridge and pantry:
Bologna
Beer
Hot dogs
Chocolate Syrup (three of these)
Two cartons of ice cream (only two, yet three chocolate syrup bottles)
Three Jack's frozen pizzas
Four containers of butter, and one box of sticked butter.
Bucket of fried chicken
Two pizzas from some pizza joint
The Pantry:
No bread just hot dog buns
Three containers of peanut butter
At least a pound to a pound a half of sugar I'm missing a few items, but its all about time. He just didn't have enough time to think about what hes eating. Hes on call most of the time and instead of buying healthier solutions he chose quickly made and heavily preserved foods.
Yeah but this is like any technology. A few days ago there was an article on why touch table tops are just now coming around. Thats because 30-40 years ago when they were developed they were developed in labs and were extremely expensive. Now with the advancement in technology that produced them its feasible for this technology to be manufactured/developed/sold.
Give this technology another 20-30 years, maybe even less, and the advancement of production will drop the price.
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Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 is a perfect example of a game being developed for a console. Ported to a PC. And being a complete disaster. The game is up to par for a FPS on a console(and I am giving it slack here when I shouldn't), but looks like a FPS from 2004 on a PC. And since it was optimized for a console it runs like shit on a PC. Hell, I play it all the way through on a PC and the amount of bugs I found were atrocious for a final product. Just a piece of shit and the co-op mode is actually some what enjoyable for those that force themselves to look past the faults.
You got caught up in being spoiled by the hype. Its a great game but when you hear nothing but people saying its amazing, and awesome, you kind of psyche yourself out. You expect every part of the game to be the best of the best. And instead of actually enjoying the game, you are forcing yourself to enjoy the game cause everyone else did.
Ill bring up a recent experience I had. The Dark Knight. I was told by many people this movie was amazing, that this would be "The Empire Strikes Back" of my generation. I didn't see the movie till about three weeks after its opening. By the time I saw it, my head was filled with so many people saying how great it is, how amazing, and the fact that a few people were comparing it to one of the best sequels ever made, that I psyched myself out. I was now sitting in a seat in a movie theater trying to enjoy movie instead of actually enjoying the movie. I expected every scene to be amazing. I felt as if the movie was spoiled because everyone said it was amazing and instead of judging it myself, I let others judge it for me. And instead I was criticizing the movie all the way through.
The other issue is aging a game. Some games just don't age properly. Some last years and years, some only a few years. Goldeneye was amazing back in 1997/1998. But try getting someone new to play it now for the first time and they wont get it. Try getting someone to play Half-life now for the first time, they wont get it(and I am talking original build not the Source stuff). Now yes, Goldeneye is from 1997 and Gears of War is from 2006. Its only been two years, but there are so many games that carried mechanics (gameplay, graphics, etc) from it since then, its nothing special anymore. The reason gamers go back to old games is not to play them for the first time, its to play them again. Its tough to go back in time and attempt to play a game with graphics that are considered laughable today. With AI that is simple look and shoot. For a lot of games, there's a window of opportunity to play them, and if you miss that window, you've screwed yourself.
So is this the Ion Storm of the 2000s?
or is it missing 2girls1cup?
This has to do with Blizzard. Ever since Warcraft 3 they have shifted their graphic design to a more cartoonish or anime style.
Its a mix between somewhat simple and somewhat complex. I loved the original, loved Simcity 2000, and enjoyed Simcity 3000, but Simcity 4 included so much depth and micromanagement that it turned away a lot of us.
Why couldn't we just use nukes to redirect them? Detonate one of them near the asteroid, push it off course, and keep doing this until a desired trajectory is met that will not cause it to collide with Earth or the Moon. Its kind of like pushing a basketball mid-flight, you wouldn't be stopping the full force of the ball as much as just redirecting the current energy with some other force. It would require that we have early knowledge but still could work.
And of course anything that breaks off could be nuked also into smaller pieces till they are no threat. Of course we would have to be constantly scanning for these pieces but if a ball of death is heading for us I would assume all telescopes would be looking at it anyway.
Remember how Sony said to give them another year? The wait is over, maybe they will release an extreme version with multiple colors?
I'm only 22, I was not alive when the original came out. The first time I heard of Tron was from the Simpson's Halloween special where they reference if anyone has seen the movie in which no one has seen it before. Sometime after that I saw in the TV Guide that Tron was going to be playing on the Disney channel. I watched it, it looked cool, it was pretty awesome, but I am also someone who loves sci-fi movies.
This movie is to cater one demand in entertainment (SCIFI - XMEN,BATMAN,ETC, these movies are making ass loads of cash for the industry currently) and also one demand from studios (REMAKES). I don't see it being a huge box office success but I bet it entertains.
The reason for no DVD playback is that the drive was designed for short reads not constant reading. If the current Wii drive is used to play DVDs you will either wear it out or it will burn out. That's why Nintendo kept telling people who asked about DVD playback they would have to do some manufacturing changes to allow it.
Ive owned a Wii since launch and not because I enjoy it but because its been a thing of my life to own the major Nintendo consoles on release. The current motion sensing is pretty bad, it flinches alot, it jumps around, it felt added on. If they seriously have improved on this and its a true 1:1 then maybe ill dust off the Wii again otherwise ill go back to another button smashing controller.
Its numbers not games. Windows is the dominant OS, unless Linux starts taking a 30-40% share of the market, its still an underdog.
Now, if your a developer with limited funds, would you build both a Linux version and a Windows version? No. Companies that can do this are ID Software and Blizzard because they have the resources to accomplish this. Remember, its not just building the game, its also supporting it later on.
You could apply this theory to the application area of Linux also.
Were talking about that movie AI with the robot teddy bear that was awesome.
Girls like danger, that's why I cover myself with glass when I go out on the weekends.
I, for one, welcome our new coffee brewing overlords.
First, Indiana Jones 4 was just terrible. I wont go into why, but you hit one point with the CGI.
Spielberg gets credit for taking a chance with CGI. In the late 80s early 90s he got together Phil Tippet, Dennis Muren, and Stan Winston, told them what he wanted, and they all agreed to help. Originally Jurassic Park was suppose to use Go-Motion for the dinosaurs by Phil Tippet, which is traditional stop-motion with a blur effect, ILM was suppose to do only the field with the running herd of gallimimus. ILM came forth with test footage of some dinosaurs running through a field, which amazed Spielberg, then they had a full body test of the T-Rex done with CGI, then they added the two together and thats when Spielberg pulled the trigger and went with CGI.
Stan Winston was caught in the middle of building the real models and integrating them with this new technology.
Jurassic Park was a gamble that paid off. They didn't know if it all would work. They knew they could film it. Stan Winston knew he could do his part, Spielberg knew he could do his, the actors, etc. ILM on the other hand had faith but didn't know if they could pull it off in time. I think they actually started working on the CGI three years before its actual release.
Today you don't find many directors/producers willing to put their faith in a traditional effects artist over a computer.
I told my friends about Stan yesterday. And my friends are big sci-fi people. They had no clue who this man was, nor did they care. But the thing was, once I told them what movies he worked on, what creatures he created, they were amazed.
Before CGI, this was the guy to go to for special effects and creature creation. In my opinion, he had the privilege to live the high point of traditional movie special effects, and had the honor of working on the film that ushered in CGI(Jurassic Park). And the thing about Jurassic Park, this movie combined both the classic approach and a modern approach seamlessly.
Watching the interview on the JP DVD you can tell how excited he was to work on that project. The time he took with ILM to make sure a shot that had the actual built dinosaur and the CGI created worked seamlessly, shot to shot. To this day I load up the T-Rex attack scene and ask people to pull out the CGI shot and the non-CGI shot. Barely anyone can tell difference. Yet, I load up "i-Robot" and people just laugh at the compositing.
Last week I watched "Aliens", first time I have ever seen the film. I was blown away. The detailed model work was amazing. This was all pre-cgi also. The thing with Stan Winston, he knew CGI was the new hollywood tool, but just like Phil Tippett, he also knew his skills were not gone. There was still room for traditional effects.
He will be missed, and as more and more films use less and less traditional special effects. You can always look back and watch films like Aliens, Predator, Terminator, and tell your kids this is how they did it before we had computers. And one of the masters of the pre-computer era was Stan Winston.
Its so true. I just built my first computer in six years. Building it was ten times easier, buying my parts was ten times harder. I had to do so much research on parts. Keep the price reasonable but still maintain decent power. I was so hesitant to order because I knew that if I just wait another month I can get something even better then what I'm getting now, but it already been six months so I just bit my lip and ordered.
My worst experience was researching video cards. This GTX200 series just popped out of nowhere, I don't know how I missed it. The 9800GX2 is a nice card but I don't think dual-core video cards are driver ready or cooling ready as these things heat up fast as sin and the drivers crash alot(something not mentioned in reviews). Idle temps are 50-60c, unless you speed up the fan, at 100% you can get mid 40's. And I'm not trolling either, I own this card.
Another thing that really pissed me off was reviews. I didn't want to go SLI, I think its bullshit/legacy technology thats too expensive. But every review, every top videocard list, just mentioned SLI configurations and never reviewed just single cards.
I mean consoles are still expensive when you start adding in all the extras to it. Mainly the extra controllers. But at least their designed to last 4-5 years. My computer will need a video card change in about two years to stay competitive. My Geforce 3 lasted about 1.5years before I had to switch to a 9700Pro.
Windows 95? That thing? The best "OS" from Microsoft is Windows XP(SP2), thats the milestone in the "OS" area.
As for the best product to come out of Microsoft it would be the Office package.
The article fails to talk about security as a deterrent.
The RFID bracelets on an infant can give comfort to the parents but its more of a deterrent then anything. Sure the hospital can tell the parents that their child is protected. But the hospital is not protecting the child as much as its protecting itself. For example:
A guard that is in the bank is not there to stop a bank from being robbed. He deters people from committing the crime itself. In a robbery situation the guard himself is useless because the individual or individuals robbing a bank would take him out first. But in most bank robberies, the criminals are going to go after a bank without a guard anyway.
A mall guard doesn't stop people from stealing, he creates the presence of being watched, therefor deterring people from stealing.
Same goes with cameras in stores. Most of the time no one is monitoring the cameras and if anything their used to watch employees over customers. But their deterring employees from doing anything unethical or illegal and they deter people from stealing.
In my opinion the idea of security theater and feeling safe is crap. You might as well spend the time and effort to know your safe then make it seem like you feel like your safe.
Even if Viacom were to win this, they would still be losing out.
Where is the first place I go to find clips of a show? Youtube. After that I head off to google in hopes of finding it somewhere else.
Would I go over to Comedy Centrals website? SpikeTV? MTV? No, because these sites are cluttered with garbage and intrusive AD supported video players. I usually get lost at these sites anyway.
Also, I'm 22, the perfect demographic for these opportunities and you've seem to have alienated us over the years with your garbage websites.
What are the chances of puttering around on earth for a few hundred meters and finding a fossil? Its pretty good. All they have to do is find a fossil of something that once roamed around on the surface of mars or in the water that is now frozen. And I think the poster by meaning a large complex form of life is meaning something more advanced then bacteria.
And I want a second chance for a first impression with the girl I met last week. I just wasn't performing at top game compared to my competition, but since then I have optimized myself to run more efficiently and smooth. I had some issues moving from one subject to the next but I fixed those issues and now I have a new tool, playing it cool. Just prove me wrong.
This was the contents of his fridge and pantry: Bologna
Beer
Hot dogs
Chocolate Syrup (three of these)
Two cartons of ice cream (only two, yet three chocolate syrup bottles)
Three Jack's frozen pizzas
Four containers of butter, and one box of sticked butter.
Bucket of fried chicken
Two pizzas from some pizza joint
The Pantry:
No bread just hot dog buns
Three containers of peanut butter
At least a pound to a pound a half of sugar I'm missing a few items, but its all about time. He just didn't have enough time to think about what hes eating. Hes on call most of the time and instead of buying healthier solutions he chose quickly made and heavily preserved foods.
Yeah but this is like any technology. A few days ago there was an article on why touch table tops are just now coming around. Thats because 30-40 years ago when they were developed they were developed in labs and were extremely expensive. Now with the advancement in technology that produced them its feasible for this technology to be manufactured/developed/sold.
Give this technology another 20-30 years, maybe even less, and the advancement of production will drop the price.