Remember this was back int he 80's, times got hard for Pac Man and he needed to get money, Sequals of the exact samething weren't popular so he had to put on makeup and a bow in order to get people to touch him again.
My guess is that it wouldn't have anything to do with chess.
sure it will, all the characters in the movie will have chess piece names (Pawn, Rook, Knight, Queen, King ect) and there will be two female characters (say the Queen and bishop) who get nakied and fuck someone for absolutly no reason what so ever.
Ofcourse it will end when the "White Side" defeates the evil "Black King" freeing the universe from 10,000 years of horror!
they had a Zombie on there and were planning an Alien but SciFi decided against it cause they thought if an Alien showed up and had the shit beat out of it it would Hurt SciFi's image and decided against it.
on the bright side, atleast my fridays are now cleared (I don't care for Atlantis) and smart move to cancel one of the big shows your network has going for you, make sure to replace it with really shitty C level "SciFi" original movies.
Yes, I expect them not to. I have a right to my privacy, this is a clear violation of it. Keeping this type of data, even internally, should be illegal and result in criminal penalties against the executives who ok it.
well that would be half of our government gone, cause they approved (or are trying to approve) legistration that would FORCE these companies into keeping your search history for atleast 2 years.
Regardless, the patent for that machine would expire 20 years from its filing date and would then become public domain.
hahaha, your serious aren't you? look at some of the stuff "Patented" today, how much of that stuff do you honestly think will fall into the public domain in 20 years? hell how much stuff has tons of prior art and is already in the public domain that companies and patent leeches are trying to patent & have succefully patented?
if the ones that came up with it patent it and it turns out to be true, how many energy companies would throw billions at these people just so they can aquire it for themselves? and then the technology just never seems to meet their expectations or just vanishes all together.
They are spending lots of money behind yet another braindead Sony proprietary media format
this argument comes up EVERY TIME Blu-Ray is mentioned, it is NOT a Sony Proprietary media format, unless Sony secretly bought 136 companies without anyone knowning, Sony is NOT the only company that can make Blu-Ray discs, Sony is NOT the only company that can make blu-ray drives, Sony is NOT the only company you can buy Blu-Ray discs from, so how is it a Sony Proprietary Media Format?
for me to get a whopping 3mb down and (I think) 1.5mb up it costs $60 a month WITH digital cable.
We have the big package where we have a regular digital reciver, a broadband box (a DVR) Basic Cable, Extended cable, HBO, Cinemax, Stars & Encore no phone (cause really when the power goes out so does your phone, plus everyone who does have it we have talked to said the serivice is HORRIBLE, it's out more then it's working) and we pay something like $140 a month for it. they charge us $15 for the DVR (which I am looking into building my own) $5 for the cable box (which they should get fined for since you can't even get channels past a certain number without the fucking thing) and $5 for the modem (which we are going to be buying our own).
I welcome the day when Verizon brings that fiber here, maybe then the cable company will get it's shit together and lower the damn price...but knowing Verizon they will start with the major cities first then work their way to the smaller citys by the year 2200.
I wonder if they stick with the "Live camera during games" how many people will have unfair advantages when they get girls to flash their tits at people.
ah ok, thank's for clearing that up. Like I said, I didn't fallow much news about the game, I just knew they kept saying it was coming out on the Gamecube and there was absolutly no plans in changing it to a Wii only title.
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that's a pretty big ass percentage there.
I'd like to see more games for older people to play come back. Before the current generation there were TONS of those games around then they went to the PC area but lost the multiplayer aspect of the game so kids could no longer play with parents.
I remember back in the NES days my parents were usually willing to play a game with me (naturally it was harder for them since everything went so fast) My dad didn't care for it (cause the two baseball games we played had weird rules, one was androids and if you stole a base you had to fight for controll and the other had kids that defied gravity and do special hits and what not).
My mom was more willing to try but she to had problems, She never really stopped gaming though. When we got our first computer (a Commodore 64 I think it was, her dad sold it to us for $100) it came with a couple of games but somehow we came across a magazine that sold ALL kinds of games for it and we ordered a couple and she played a few of them but her favorite one was Jeopardy cause it was simple to play (course the keyboard helped the most). She Still plays games but it's mostly just Zuma, Diner Dash, Mystic in ( a clone of DD) and stuff on Pogo.com.
She played all the Spyro games (except for those on the GBA & PS2) she completed the first two games to 100% to, So if they could get more games that offered a challenge but not to the point it just makes you want to quit (like Ninja "Bad camera" Gaiden on the xbox) they would keep more in gaming, just because a controller has a bunch of buttons doesn't mean every single one of them HAS to be used.
With the Wii though, they are looking at everyone for this, from little kids to the elderly to people who can't react quickly. Everyone can flail their arms around and being able to play a game doing that will make people feel happy.
I realize people like to belive that the USA IS the entire world, it's the only place that has money and is the only place that has items for purchase.
but there are things called other countrys, the extra $200-$300 comes from a certain country's currency transfered into US dollars cause you know, Americans are uber smart and know the exchange rate right off th top of their heads and finding a site to find out how much someone is paying for something in their native currency.
oh I'm not denying that the Wii version will be more fun with that (just the bow and arrows and fishing looked great with it) I just didn't know if they were going with two different versions or sticking with what they said when they announced Wii exclusive features (that it would know it was in a Wii and enable those options or you could select them).
for the most part I agree with what others have said though, this game was designed 98% with the gamecube in mind so they are really going to have to prove that the Wii-mote will be adiquit to replace the cube controller.
Since I barely watch other news stations anymore it must of been, I remember there was a big thing all over the place (not just on Daily Show) about that exact same thing and they showed 4 different videos from different parts of the country, all 4 had the exact same "correspondent" reporting on four different things.
Suprised it took the FCC this long to decide to go after them.
People -- the Nintendo people seem a little slow to jump on the latest graphics and such, instead orienting around fun... sometimes a little too kiddie-fun... but the DS is an example of fun triumphing over "omg megahertz!!!".
is that really such a bad thing though?
Gaming is supposed to releave stress, give you enjoyment and maybe even make you happy. What better way to do that then making you feel like a kid again?
it's like what one developer said about the genesis collection
"Violent games are getting more popular lately," Rieko Kodama, who helped design the original Alex Kidd games, told us. "A rocket launcher-carrying Alex Kidd just wouldn't be Alex Kidd anymore." Akira Nishino, the director of Ristar and now a studio head at Sega working on next-gen titles, agreed with that sentiment. "As a game creator, I'd love to do another Ristar. But maybe it's best to leave him be. A new game wouldn't feel the same without us using the Genesis' specs."
I used to be one who was just a devotee to GTA, not because of the violence but for the freedoms it gave you but as time went on more and more games were copying GTA but for the entirly wrong reasons. I would rather play a game that is to kiddy then a game that is so over the top with violence that it just get's boring.
When your objective meeter looks something like this:
Objective 1: Kill the guys in red!
Objective 2: Kill the lying bitch!
Objective 3: Spray paint over the rival gangs turf!
Objective 4: Kill the guys in blue!
Objective 5: Steal 100 cars!
Objective 6: Run over 100 people!
it tends to get very very old very fast, yet you give me a game that looks like this:
Objective 1: Smash the blocks!
Objective 2: Collect the coins!
Objective 3: Fight the monsters!
Objective 4: Build a base!
Objective 5: Stop *insert some big thing here*!
I would take that over the "Mega violence cause that's what you people like!" game any day (and yes I know I combined a platformer, RTS & RPG into one) simply because the second one give me more to work with. I can immerse myself into a Fantasy game, with a game that tries to be "Like Life" I don't want to play that cause if I did, I would just walk out the front door.
Now that's not saying I hate GTA or violent games, infact I am glad there are games like that, Why would I want to go out and actually steal a car? what would I gain from it other then a prison sentance? Why would I want to go out and rob/kill tons of innocent people? I gain nothing (other then money and a big as number of people looking for me and a high bounty put on my head) from doing it.
Then you go over to war games, I'm not particularly fond of wars but I enjoy playing FPS because they put me in a place I don't want to ever be, if I die in the game, not big loss. I reload/restart and try again.
but really those things CAN be done in real life, where as Where can I go to become a plumber, get sucked into another world where a Princess is constantly hounded by a big Dragon/Dinosaur (I haven't got a clue what Koopa is, I think a Dragon since he spits fire) and her guards are little mushroom guys that would of been fired decades ago?
or how about where I can team up with a boy in green who seems to be the savior of the world who always seems to have amazing adventures (including one where he looks like he is holding his penis the entire time)?
The whole point of games is to escape from life and get to experiance things you would never do/never consider doing or things you will never get to experiance in the real world.
If I had the choice between Mario & GTA I would go with Mario, Sure it's not as open or long but atleast I will get to do a lot more stuff where I will actually feal the outcome of it (cause what do you really get for killing the innocent in GTA? just find a Pay & spray and the world acts like nothing happened).
Well Sony COULD offer a Blu-Ray less PS3 but there is one slight problem with that...The games are only going to come on Blu-Ray.
So if Apple was willing to launch the next iPod for $600 and offer no support for either Macs, Windows, Linux, MP3's, MP4's, AAC and all the other formats (basically unable to play anything you bought it for) at a dramatically reduced price then I could see where the similaritys are.
Sure they could decide to drop another bombshell right now on developers by saying they are dropping Blu-Ray and going with Dual layer discs, now tell me, would you continue making your game with the knowladge of you suddenly losing over 10gb of space (the launch discs are supposedly 23gb in space) and be ok with it, or would you be alittle pissed off that you just lost over 10gb of storage space for your game (meaning now you have to make major cutbacks, downgrade the FMV's, downsample the audio, remove some high quality graphics).
Sure if Sony would of done it in the begining they could of gotten away with it, but we passed that point of no return long ago. A lot of the developers were cought off guard with the controller being just like the PS2 controller just with a tilt function (the Tilt is what cought them off guard), so they would just be giving a massive shove and the finger to developers if they dropped BR support at this point.
Epic isn't the kind to go "You want help with what? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! that's a good one *Click*" if you have a problem with something they will help you through it the best they can or fix their engine when to many problems arise.
Their not Sony of Game Development (before you mods get the trigger finger remember, Sony distributed the Devkits and it wasn't untill 3 or 4 years LATER that they started helping developers with it) or Microsoft of the OS market, if there is a problem with the code they WILL fix it.
With the Unreal Engine there have been some impressive games done with it, no one seemed to have problems using the engine for their game, this is the first time a company has had a problem adapting the engine to their game (without it taking to many years or a better engine came along).
How do you explain to the man on the street that yes, a Radeon X800 and GeForce 6800 are both DirectX 9 parts, but both support different Shader Models in their respective architectures. It isn't much fun, trust me. As DirectX 10 and its point releases will also have very little in the way of features that are only optional in the API, buying a graphics board compliant with a particular DirectX 10 version will ensure that it does everything it needs to do to satisfy game titles that use that level of technology.
So wait, now instead of upgrading tot he "latest and greatest" card every 2 years, we could be updating them every 6 months?
Am I reading that right or not? I certinally hope I'm not cause if I am reading it right, then basically Microsoft has just made the holy grail for graphics card manufacturers but at the sametime creating a whole new level of hell for them (cause when you spend $500 on a graphics card you want that thing to last, but if it can be taken out in a simple update no one is going to spend that much).
Apple could gain 95% of the market share if they helped game developers (instead of snubbing them) and offered their OS for computer makers like Microsoft does.
It's not like it would be hard either, you just set those minimum system requirments, certain video card, certain ram, certain speed processor and you are off.
Sony as a whole (which encompasses more then just the almight world that is the USA)
Sony USA (which has been fucking over the US for quite awhile)
cause there is a big difference in the two, SUSA made a lot of formats die when they really didn't need to (such as MiniDisc), while in other countrys the format(s) took off and flurished.
MiniDisc is the best example, it bombed in the US but just about everywheres else it's still used today. So it makes you wonder just how much influance SUSA has in their global operations now, $600 for the PS3, Blu-Ray drives that don't even play Blu-Ray movies, The Blu-Ray spec isn't even finalized yet cause they haven't decided on a Copy protection scheme to use. Sure their main headquarters is in Japan which is right next to China but the lengths they are going through for copy "protection" is more in tune to the DMCA and stripping rights away from people.
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ah thank you, that's the exact comic that was going through my head when I was writting it out but couldn't remember where I saw it.
that's wasn't Ms Pac Man, that WAS Pac Man.
Remember this was back int he 80's, times got hard for Pac Man and he needed to get money, Sequals of the exact samething weren't popular so he had to put on makeup and a bow in order to get people to touch him again.
Ofcourse it will end when the "White Side" defeates the evil "Black King" freeing the universe from 10,000 years of horror!
yes because Nudity is never a choice. Showtime those heartless bastards, forcing nudity on geeks! Didn't they know Cinemax is for nudity?
they had a Zombie on there and were planning an Alien but SciFi decided against it cause they thought if an Alien showed up and had the shit beat out of it it would Hurt SciFi's image and decided against it.
on the bright side, atleast my fridays are now cleared (I don't care for Atlantis) and smart move to cancel one of the big shows your network has going for you, make sure to replace it with really shitty C level "SciFi" original movies.
if the ones that came up with it patent it and it turns out to be true, how many energy companies would throw billions at these people just so they can aquire it for themselves? and then the technology just never seems to meet their expectations or just vanishes all together.
you're getting it cheap.
for me to get a whopping 3mb down and (I think) 1.5mb up it costs $60 a month WITH digital cable.
We have the big package where we have a regular digital reciver, a broadband box (a DVR) Basic Cable, Extended cable, HBO, Cinemax, Stars & Encore no phone (cause really when the power goes out so does your phone, plus everyone who does have it we have talked to said the serivice is HORRIBLE, it's out more then it's working) and we pay something like $140 a month for it. they charge us $15 for the DVR (which I am looking into building my own) $5 for the cable box (which they should get fined for since you can't even get channels past a certain number without the fucking thing) and $5 for the modem (which we are going to be buying our own).
I welcome the day when Verizon brings that fiber here, maybe then the cable company will get it's shit together and lower the damn price...but knowing Verizon they will start with the major cities first then work their way to the smaller citys by the year 2200.
I wonder if they stick with the "Live camera during games" how many people will have unfair advantages when they get girls to flash their tits at people.
ah ok, thank's for clearing that up. Like I said, I didn't fallow much news about the game, I just knew they kept saying it was coming out on the Gamecube and there was absolutly no plans in changing it to a Wii only title.
that's a pretty big ass percentage there.
I'd like to see more games for older people to play come back. Before the current generation there were TONS of those games around then they went to the PC area but lost the multiplayer aspect of the game so kids could no longer play with parents.
I remember back in the NES days my parents were usually willing to play a game with me (naturally it was harder for them since everything went so fast) My dad didn't care for it (cause the two baseball games we played had weird rules, one was androids and if you stole a base you had to fight for controll and the other had kids that defied gravity and do special hits and what not).
My mom was more willing to try but she to had problems, She never really stopped gaming though. When we got our first computer (a Commodore 64 I think it was, her dad sold it to us for $100) it came with a couple of games but somehow we came across a magazine that sold ALL kinds of games for it and we ordered a couple and she played a few of them but her favorite one was Jeopardy cause it was simple to play (course the keyboard helped the most). She Still plays games but it's mostly just Zuma, Diner Dash, Mystic in ( a clone of DD) and stuff on Pogo.com.
She played all the Spyro games (except for those on the GBA & PS2) she completed the first two games to 100% to, So if they could get more games that offered a challenge but not to the point it just makes you want to quit (like Ninja "Bad camera" Gaiden on the xbox) they would keep more in gaming, just because a controller has a bunch of buttons doesn't mean every single one of them HAS to be used.
With the Wii though, they are looking at everyone for this, from little kids to the elderly to people who can't react quickly. Everyone can flail their arms around and being able to play a game doing that will make people feel happy.
I realize people like to belive that the USA IS the entire world, it's the only place that has money and is the only place that has items for purchase.
but there are things called other countrys, the extra $200-$300 comes from a certain country's currency transfered into US dollars cause you know, Americans are uber smart and know the exchange rate right off th top of their heads and finding a site to find out how much someone is paying for something in their native currency.
oh I'm not denying that the Wii version will be more fun with that (just the bow and arrows and fishing looked great with it) I just didn't know if they were going with two different versions or sticking with what they said when they announced Wii exclusive features (that it would know it was in a Wii and enable those options or you could select them).
for the most part I agree with what others have said though, this game was designed 98% with the gamecube in mind so they are really going to have to prove that the Wii-mote will be adiquit to replace the cube controller.
Didn't Daily Show do a story about that to?
Since I barely watch other news stations anymore it must of been, I remember there was a big thing all over the place (not just on Daily Show) about that exact same thing and they showed 4 different videos from different parts of the country, all 4 had the exact same "correspondent" reporting on four different things.
Suprised it took the FCC this long to decide to go after them.
Ok, I haven't been keeping up with the TP news but last I knew the game was gamecube 100%, there was no Wii version of the game coming out.
What was going to happen was, The Wii would know it was TP (thanks to the B/C) and add in new Wii-Mote functions for the game.
So now are we going to get two versions of the exact same game?
But Activision now owns the rights to the James Bond Lisence for games, MGM owns the Lisence to James Bond & Sony now owns MGM.
It will be interesting to see if it shows up on live.
Gaming is supposed to releave stress, give you enjoyment and maybe even make you happy. What better way to do that then making you feel like a kid again?
it's like what one developer said about the genesis collection I used to be one who was just a devotee to GTA, not because of the violence but for the freedoms it gave you but as time went on more and more games were copying GTA but for the entirly wrong reasons. I would rather play a game that is to kiddy then a game that is so over the top with violence that it just get's boring.
When your objective meeter looks something like this:
Objective 1: Kill the guys in red!
Objective 2: Kill the lying bitch!
Objective 3: Spray paint over the rival gangs turf!
Objective 4: Kill the guys in blue!
Objective 5: Steal 100 cars!
Objective 6: Run over 100 people!
it tends to get very very old very fast, yet you give me a game that looks like this:
Objective 1: Smash the blocks!
Objective 2: Collect the coins!
Objective 3: Fight the monsters!
Objective 4: Build a base!
Objective 5: Stop *insert some big thing here*!
I would take that over the "Mega violence cause that's what you people like!" game any day (and yes I know I combined a platformer, RTS & RPG into one) simply because the second one give me more to work with. I can immerse myself into a Fantasy game, with a game that tries to be "Like Life" I don't want to play that cause if I did, I would just walk out the front door.
Now that's not saying I hate GTA or violent games, infact I am glad there are games like that, Why would I want to go out and actually steal a car? what would I gain from it other then a prison sentance? Why would I want to go out and rob/kill tons of innocent people? I gain nothing (other then money and a big as number of people looking for me and a high bounty put on my head) from doing it.
Then you go over to war games, I'm not particularly fond of wars but I enjoy playing FPS because they put me in a place I don't want to ever be, if I die in the game, not big loss. I reload/restart and try again.
but really those things CAN be done in real life, where as Where can I go to become a plumber, get sucked into another world where a Princess is constantly hounded by a big Dragon/Dinosaur (I haven't got a clue what Koopa is, I think a Dragon since he spits fire) and her guards are little mushroom guys that would of been fired decades ago?
or how about where I can team up with a boy in green who seems to be the savior of the world who always seems to have amazing adventures (including one where he looks like he is holding his penis the entire time)?
The whole point of games is to escape from life and get to experiance things you would never do/never consider doing or things you will never get to experiance in the real world.
If I had the choice between Mario & GTA I would go with Mario, Sure it's not as open or long but atleast I will get to do a lot more stuff where I will actually feal the outcome of it (cause what do you really get for killing the innocent in GTA? just find a Pay & spray and the world acts like nothing happened).
Well Sony COULD offer a Blu-Ray less PS3 but there is one slight problem with that...The games are only going to come on Blu-Ray.
So if Apple was willing to launch the next iPod for $600 and offer no support for either Macs, Windows, Linux, MP3's, MP4's, AAC and all the other formats (basically unable to play anything you bought it for) at a dramatically reduced price then I could see where the similaritys are.
Sure they could decide to drop another bombshell right now on developers by saying they are dropping Blu-Ray and going with Dual layer discs, now tell me, would you continue making your game with the knowladge of you suddenly losing over 10gb of space (the launch discs are supposedly 23gb in space) and be ok with it, or would you be alittle pissed off that you just lost over 10gb of storage space for your game (meaning now you have to make major cutbacks, downgrade the FMV's, downsample the audio, remove some high quality graphics).
Sure if Sony would of done it in the begining they could of gotten away with it, but we passed that point of no return long ago. A lot of the developers were cought off guard with the controller being just like the PS2 controller just with a tilt function (the Tilt is what cought them off guard), so they would just be giving a massive shove and the finger to developers if they dropped BR support at this point.
that's why you ask for help.
Epic isn't the kind to go "You want help with what? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! that's a good one *Click*" if you have a problem with something they will help you through it the best they can or fix their engine when to many problems arise.
Their not Sony of Game Development (before you mods get the trigger finger remember, Sony distributed the Devkits and it wasn't untill 3 or 4 years LATER that they started helping developers with it) or Microsoft of the OS market, if there is a problem with the code they WILL fix it.
With the Unreal Engine there have been some impressive games done with it, no one seemed to have problems using the engine for their game, this is the first time a company has had a problem adapting the engine to their game (without it taking to many years or a better engine came along).
or better yet, talk to Epic themselves.
I hear they have a game coming out on the 360, didn't sound like it was giving them much problems using the Unreal engine 3 for it either.
Am I reading that right or not? I certinally hope I'm not cause if I am reading it right, then basically Microsoft has just made the holy grail for graphics card manufacturers but at the sametime creating a whole new level of hell for them (cause when you spend $500 on a graphics card you want that thing to last, but if it can be taken out in a simple update no one is going to spend that much).
Apple could gain 95% of the market share if they helped game developers (instead of snubbing them) and offered their OS for computer makers like Microsoft does.
It's not like it would be hard either, you just set those minimum system requirments, certain video card, certain ram, certain speed processor and you are off.
so who are you blaming?
Sony as a whole (which encompasses more then just the almight world that is the USA)
Sony USA (which has been fucking over the US for quite awhile)
cause there is a big difference in the two, SUSA made a lot of formats die when they really didn't need to (such as MiniDisc), while in other countrys the format(s) took off and flurished.
MiniDisc is the best example, it bombed in the US but just about everywheres else it's still used today. So it makes you wonder just how much influance SUSA has in their global operations now, $600 for the PS3, Blu-Ray drives that don't even play Blu-Ray movies, The Blu-Ray spec isn't even finalized yet cause they haven't decided on a Copy protection scheme to use. Sure their main headquarters is in Japan which is right next to China but the lengths they are going through for copy "protection" is more in tune to the DMCA and stripping rights away from people.
don't forget to report yourself to the local branch of the Homeland Security office, it's your sworn duty to turn yourself in.