to me this is a clear trend towards reducing personal freedoms through bureaucratic hoops.
hey I hate the current administration as much as the next guy but come on. Sure the Toothpaste thing is stupid but the 21 people who were going to BLOW UP PLANES were using common stuff and going to combine them to make the bombs.
I can understand the hating to wait for 2+ hours in line (hell who wouldn't? though there are people who are willing to wait upto 2 months before something comes out in line just to be the first) but if it means I can board the plane knowing I don't have to worry about some whacked out fucknut thinking he will go to heaven by killing hundreds of innocent people blowing me up then I am all for it.
I have nothing to hide, if you pay taxes or have a social security card they can already find out everything about you, what's the big deal with having your finger prints on file so you can go through that crap faster? (granted it doesn't mean the flight will be faster cause they have to wait for the passengers in the 2+ hour line to get on) unless of course you fall into the category of not paying your taxes and are in the US illegaly.
it all comes back to the extrimests, if you want to blame anyone for the slow moving security at airports, your inability to bring toothpaste and shampoo on the flight it's not the government you should be blaming.
The thing that I wonder most though, what if the liquid you have is medication? Since they have banned ALL forms of liquid (last I knew) that would include that. So do they have to violate their own law by allowing the person on the place with the medication? or do they break the law by denying the person on the place for something that isn't under their controll?
well, Team Ninja (makers of DOA4) said they were dissapointed that Microsoft didn't go with HD-DVD's and said they had to scale down their movies for DOA 4.
I don't think it really rely's on how many movies there are but how long they are. Just 6 minutes for a 12 fighter game is 72 minutes worth of HD video, I tried converting a couple things into the true HD standard with one of the codecs, for about 10 minutes worth of video the outputted file was over 500mb so even though they are dual layer dvd's they are still restricted by size.
Wait till the JRPG's start coming out, they rely HEAVILY on pre-rendered video, so you get one of those you could look at an easy 2-4 DVD set with just the HD movies they made for it (I bet this will be a reason why a Final Fantasy game on the 360).
well it's simple really, What was the point of the i.Link port? what was Sony's original intention for it?
then the USB ports, what was the original intention for them? maybe the ones that made the FPS' to use the keyboard and mouse combo got scolded by sony for not using only the controller.
as for using the PSP as a "really cool feature/option" I say hell no. The console is already $500 or $600 (depending on which one you get) throwing in another $200 "Accessorie" isn't going to appeal to to many gamers.
I got a Gamecube, half the games I enjoy I can't play with anyone else or get some of the hidden stuff because it DEMANDS I have a GBA, well I don't have a GBA, so I lose out in a lot of stuff. Sure I can barrow my nephews GBA to get some stuff but if we want to play multiplayer in Final fantasy Crystal chronicals where does that leave us?
I bought the DSLite with the hope it would let me hook up the GBA Cable to the gamecube, it didn't and I doubt Nintendo will bother to make a wifi addon for the gamecube to let me use that function.
Now the GBASP is only $90, if you have enough friends they would probably see it as ok. when the Wii comes out the DSlite is only $120. Now you will have a hell of a time trying to convince your friends to spend $200 for a "Controller" so you all can play 1 game together on the PS3 (or in the case of Smackdown vs Raw 2007, to unlock ONE CHARACTER nothing else, just one guy so it cost people $300 to unlock a single secret?).
Sony is getting as arrogant as Nintendo used to, the only difference is Nintendo had the games to back them up, Sony doesn't have hardly anything first party that really make people go "I have GOT To get this system!" but it cost Nintendo, even with having the stuff to back themselves up. So Sony is in for one hell of a fight, they are trying to convince the world that we have to have the PS3 or we are some how lowly people who don't deserve to play video games.
Microsoft is stuck in the middle, they offer a pricey system and they watched what Sony did with the PSP and decided to not make a handheld yet cause what Sony came out with was what they were going to do.
Nintendo is at the front of peoples minds now, they saw that gaming was starting to stall and decided to try a different direction or go down the same path as everyone else and offer the exact same experiances all over again.
The DS really impressed people, it offered new ways to play games (granted there aren't as many developers truely using it for what it can do but they are getting there) so it got people interested in the Wii. The PSP on the other hand offered the same stuff we were already used to just in a smaller form, there really isn't a whole lot they can do to "revolutionaize" gaming on the PSP.
In the end Sony just tried to compete WAY to much with Nintendo, they should of looked at the Nokia Ngage, cause that's the first thing I saw people comparing it to, both played games, you could watch movies, browse the web, listen to music, just the Ngage let you talk to people where as the PSP didn't.
Personally I would much rather buy a Gaming machine first (after all that's what it's supposed to be right?) then add all this stuff as extra features, that way they are all done RIGHT and not half assed. Cause if you have a gaming machine you know it will work, you can make it a great gaming machine. Then you make an addon to play movies, you can make a great addon to just play movies. Then a web browser, samething as before. You make a music player addon it's great cause then you can just upgrade the firmware to support more formats. But when you want ALL of those things done right out of the gate they are going to suffer, cause if you just have those four things then you have to devide up the development, 25% to all devisions or 50% to one then the others will suffer and so on.
A third reason for patents is that they allow inventions to go into the public domain (patents are public info, y'know!) after the patent expires.
There's just a problem with that, their trying to get this stuff to last well beyond the lifespan of the person who patented it (just like with copyrights).
Also look at how many patents are out there, I'm willing to bet there are more patents held by corperations who won't EVER let that patent run out cause they know there is someone out there who can easily make that product 10x better but can't cause they will sue the crap out of him/her.
Patent offices with absolutly NO intention to let people make products or make a product themselves, who just hold the Patent to sue plain and simple, are of course the worst of the worst, since they shouldn't even be allowed to hold patents on anything. They deffinatly don't let their patents run out and they own some that could really be bennifical to the US &/or world but unfortunatly they refuse to let anyone make a product with one of their patents without getting 80% of the profits.
I used to wear shirts, Hats, underwear, my shoes had Nintendo laces, I watched the Super Mario super show, read Nintendo Power like it was the bible, ate the ceral, played my NES like it was a gift from god and was damn proud of it.
you make it seem like it's an emberassment to of worn a hat. Tell that to the so called "fanboys" of today with their aligent to a system that don't have any of the merchandise that goes with the system to truely define you as a fanboy!
That's a completely unfair comparison. Roads are essential in today's world. Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for LimeWire, and I'll believe you. I bet you can think of some, but I'm sure most people use LimeWire for illegal purposes.
Limewire can be used to offset the bandwidth loads of legit music and movies (just as torrents are)
Roads can be used to help legit people get from one point to another
Limewire can be used to distribute illegal movies and music.
Roads can be used to transport illegal drugs, illegal movies & music, illegal aliens, illegal weapons, illegal fireworks, illegal bombs.
Limewire can be used to distribute information on how to make bombs and other devices.
Roads can be used to distribute information on how to make bombs and other devices.
Roads can be used to transport kidnappers to a location and kidnap someone who knows how to make a bomb or other device.
Roads can be used to transport the materials to create a bomb or other device.
Roads can be used to transport the device made to it's location and kill hundreds of people.
Roads are used for the Telcos & Cablecos to maintaint their wires so we can have fast internet connections.
Roads are used for people to get to work and earn money to pay for their connection to the internet.
Roads are used to transport people to locations to make the music or film the movie.
Roads are used to transport the finished product to the distributer.
Roads are used to distribute the product.
Roads are used to steal the product in route to it's location.
Roads are used to help people speed away from a crime.
So...can you tell me how Limewire kills people? or transports illegal drugs, aliens, weapons, fireworks, bombs or drugs?
So I guess I will turn your question around on you,
That's a completely unfair comparison. Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for Roads, and I'll believe you. I bet you can think of some, but I'm sure most people use Roads for illegal purposes.
See how stupid it looks? just cause a few (same ammount that use Limewire) use roads for illegal reasons, does it mean that EVERYONE uses them for illegal reasons?
Opera didn't have Slashdot's constant exposure. The problem with having this debate is that there are several ad-supported services that are quite successful.
and the fact you know, you had to PAY for Opera where firefox was free, that's the whole argument people have. If you can get it for free without ads people will go for it. if you can get it for free but it comes with ads it depends on how bad the ads slow everything down (someone on dialup can't exactly download the program and have to look at ads ontop of the ads on the webpage and expect to keep a decent speed).
I decided to try out vista one time and it installed and ran perfectly fine on my computer, the only drawback to it was EVERYTIME I wanted to open a folder or program a window would pop up asking me if I was sure I wanted to open it (apperantly Microsoft doesn't even trust themselves cause I was opening Windows Media Player 11 when I got the most windows) after about the 20th popup window asking me if I wanted to open a file I knew was ok I just started clicking yes to see how the damn thing worked.
now, just imagine someone getting to that point when they launch and it's been out for a little while, how many calls will tech support (Dell, Microsoft any company that makes PCs) get from people asking if it's ok to run a microsoft product? how many calls will they get when they accidentally click No to an important option (say their email, they read it wrong and suddenly they no longer can use outlook), how many calls will family members get when their Mother/Father/Uncle/whatever says they don't have a clue if the security warning that microsoft put in place is ok to click Yes or No to when they run WMP, Outlook, IE or any other MS owned programs.
How does having a BBQ where you invite people over work?
You worked to get the money for the House, The Grill, the charcoal/propane, the lighter fluid, the matches, the food to cook on it, the beverages to drink (a surpluss of them since it's more then you will eat or drink).
Yet everyone you invited over can't have any of it? since it would be stealing (by your own admission) since they did nothing to earn it.
So would that be considered a Free lunch or Stealing?
Same goes for anything else, you work and work and work for something and decide to share it with the world but there are so many limits put on it against your will that anyone who looks at it, listens to it or uses it can get sued or harassed for doing what you had intended them to do.
The eyetoy's flaw is it was released way to soon, I doubt the 360 & PS3 versions are going to be any better.
The speed of them just inst fast enough to keep up with human momvement (just like voice games, they work most of the time but not all of the time) Nintendogs comes close but it just recognizes the voice pattern, if you could repeat words with the same tone and style all the time it wouldn't have a clue what you are actually saying.
Developers still don't fully get the DS but they have come a long way from just porting old N64 games, there still are some that don't use the touch screen like it should be but there are some that really getting the idea behind it....to bad there is only like 3 that get it and the games seem to be the same, even nintendo doesn't fully get the capabilitys like they normally would, though they might be more interested in the Wii then the DS right now.
first time I played it I was using a stereo to play it so every sound was amplified, I still remember seeing one of the ghosts and went to pull up the camera only to have it staring me right in the face when I did. That scared the shit out of me cause it was right there.
The other time was near the end of the game where there was a ghost you could faighntly hear saying "My eyes" well when you went down into this pit she was suddenly RIGHT behind you and screaming "MY EYES!".
it's not as freaky as Silent hill (I doubt ANY series will top that one) but it did have the scare factor that got to you. I know I kept looking over my shoulder and freaked out a couple of times when I woke up thinking there was a ghost staring right at me while I was asleep or sitting in a chair.
It's getting beat by the original GBA (and that thing is a POS). The 360 is actually doing pretty well (much better then I thought it would be anyways).
Blaming the battery is laughable. I guess what Dell is trying to say is that they [Dell] don't add any value to the parts the sell!?
and what happens if it is the battery that is to blame? Like the summery says this isn't the first time Lithium Ion batteries have caused problems.
I dislike dell as much as the next guy (mainly I am tired of all prebuilt PC's anymore, they are so locked down and full of useless shit that I can't properly upgrade them) but when something isn't a company's fault then they shouldn't get the blame for it.
I remember cell phones were blowing up in peoples pockets and when they were using them, was it the cell phone makers fault? no cause they said it was the batteries and it was proven to be the batteries, Was it laughable that they were blaming batteries instead of taking the blame for making a phone out of lower value parts?
The one thing I couldn't understand is in all the interviews with higher ups involved with the Xbox line was they always said "The Xbox failed in japan because there wasn't enough Japan-centric games, nothing was made for that region. We have learned from this though and the Xbox 360 will have more Japan-centric games"
So they launch worldwide and what is the selection of games japan has? All American & European centric games, not one that would appeal to the Japan crowd. Yet they kept pushing that Dead or Alive 4 would change all that, everyone in Japan would buy a 360 once that game was released.
after the 4th delay it get's released and sales for the 360 barely move. NOW they are going on about the two RPG's from Sakaguchi, like he is going to suddenly sell millions of 360's in japan just cause of his games.
Sure he made final fantasy (or is it Dragon quest?) but that was how many years ago? when games like that weren't exactly abundant, Now you have so many companies doing RPG's that it's hard to tell them apart at times. He's starting two whole new franchises, They have never released an Xbox game before, no one knows what to expect from the game (there isn't exactly a whole lot to go off of, cause you always can remember Fable, everytime they talked about it they would talk about ALL the stuff in the game, in the videos you rarely saw anything, it was released and had nothing they said it would). So naturally the Japanese are taking a wait and see approach.
Maybe the game will be a great RPG and revitalize the RPG genre (doubtfull), Maybe it will fail misserably, who knows but there won't be any mass 360 movements untill they start thinking more about the region and that they NEED more Japanese centric (aka LONG &/or FUN) games, not countless sports, Racing & FPS'.
50 cent: Bulletproof
True Crime: Streets of New York (or as it SHOULD of been called, True Crime: Glitches of new york)
True Crime: Streets of LA
Driv3r
Shadow the hedgehog (come on, you can't deny that's what they were going for with this one)
the only ones that were even remotly worth playing in the "urban genre" were Def Jam: Fight for New York, GTA San Andreas that's all I can think of actually.
Maybe if they had gotten people who wanted to make a GOOD game instead of making a Cash grab game the genre wouldn't be a sinking ship with endless clones of two games.
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I can understand the hating to wait for 2+ hours in line (hell who wouldn't? though there are people who are willing to wait upto 2 months before something comes out in line just to be the first) but if it means I can board the plane knowing I don't have to worry about some whacked out fucknut thinking he will go to heaven by killing hundreds of innocent people blowing me up then I am all for it.
I have nothing to hide, if you pay taxes or have a social security card they can already find out everything about you, what's the big deal with having your finger prints on file so you can go through that crap faster? (granted it doesn't mean the flight will be faster cause they have to wait for the passengers in the 2+ hour line to get on) unless of course you fall into the category of not paying your taxes and are in the US illegaly.
it all comes back to the extrimests, if you want to blame anyone for the slow moving security at airports, your inability to bring toothpaste and shampoo on the flight it's not the government you should be blaming.
The thing that I wonder most though, what if the liquid you have is medication? Since they have banned ALL forms of liquid (last I knew) that would include that. So do they have to violate their own law by allowing the person on the place with the medication? or do they break the law by denying the person on the place for something that isn't under their controll?
well, Team Ninja (makers of DOA4) said they were dissapointed that Microsoft didn't go with HD-DVD's and said they had to scale down their movies for DOA 4.
I don't think it really rely's on how many movies there are but how long they are. Just 6 minutes for a 12 fighter game is 72 minutes worth of HD video, I tried converting a couple things into the true HD standard with one of the codecs, for about 10 minutes worth of video the outputted file was over 500mb so even though they are dual layer dvd's they are still restricted by size.
Wait till the JRPG's start coming out, they rely HEAVILY on pre-rendered video, so you get one of those you could look at an easy 2-4 DVD set with just the HD movies they made for it (I bet this will be a reason why a Final Fantasy game on the 360).
well it's simple really, What was the point of the i.Link port? what was Sony's original intention for it?
then the USB ports, what was the original intention for them? maybe the ones that made the FPS' to use the keyboard and mouse combo got scolded by sony for not using only the controller.
as for using the PSP as a "really cool feature/option" I say hell no. The console is already $500 or $600 (depending on which one you get) throwing in another $200 "Accessorie" isn't going to appeal to to many gamers.
I got a Gamecube, half the games I enjoy I can't play with anyone else or get some of the hidden stuff because it DEMANDS I have a GBA, well I don't have a GBA, so I lose out in a lot of stuff. Sure I can barrow my nephews GBA to get some stuff but if we want to play multiplayer in Final fantasy Crystal chronicals where does that leave us?
I bought the DSLite with the hope it would let me hook up the GBA Cable to the gamecube, it didn't and I doubt Nintendo will bother to make a wifi addon for the gamecube to let me use that function.
Now the GBASP is only $90, if you have enough friends they would probably see it as ok. when the Wii comes out the DSlite is only $120. Now you will have a hell of a time trying to convince your friends to spend $200 for a "Controller" so you all can play 1 game together on the PS3 (or in the case of Smackdown vs Raw 2007, to unlock ONE CHARACTER nothing else, just one guy so it cost people $300 to unlock a single secret?).
Sony is getting as arrogant as Nintendo used to, the only difference is Nintendo had the games to back them up, Sony doesn't have hardly anything first party that really make people go "I have GOT To get this system!" but it cost Nintendo, even with having the stuff to back themselves up. So Sony is in for one hell of a fight, they are trying to convince the world that we have to have the PS3 or we are some how lowly people who don't deserve to play video games.
Microsoft is stuck in the middle, they offer a pricey system and they watched what Sony did with the PSP and decided to not make a handheld yet cause what Sony came out with was what they were going to do.
Nintendo is at the front of peoples minds now, they saw that gaming was starting to stall and decided to try a different direction or go down the same path as everyone else and offer the exact same experiances all over again.
The DS really impressed people, it offered new ways to play games (granted there aren't as many developers truely using it for what it can do but they are getting there) so it got people interested in the Wii. The PSP on the other hand offered the same stuff we were already used to just in a smaller form, there really isn't a whole lot they can do to "revolutionaize" gaming on the PSP.
In the end Sony just tried to compete WAY to much with Nintendo, they should of looked at the Nokia Ngage, cause that's the first thing I saw people comparing it to, both played games, you could watch movies, browse the web, listen to music, just the Ngage let you talk to people where as the PSP didn't.
Personally I would much rather buy a Gaming machine first (after all that's what it's supposed to be right?) then add all this stuff as extra features, that way they are all done RIGHT and not half assed. Cause if you have a gaming machine you know it will work, you can make it a great gaming machine. Then you make an addon to play movies, you can make a great addon to just play movies. Then a web browser, samething as before. You make a music player addon it's great cause then you can just upgrade the firmware to support more formats. But when you want ALL of those things done right out of the gate they are going to suffer, cause if you just have those four things then you have to devide up the development, 25% to all devisions or 50% to one then the others will suffer and so on.
Also look at how many patents are out there, I'm willing to bet there are more patents held by corperations who won't EVER let that patent run out cause they know there is someone out there who can easily make that product 10x better but can't cause they will sue the crap out of him/her.
Patent offices with absolutly NO intention to let people make products or make a product themselves, who just hold the Patent to sue plain and simple, are of course the worst of the worst, since they shouldn't even be allowed to hold patents on anything. They deffinatly don't let their patents run out and they own some that could really be bennifical to the US &/or world but unfortunatly they refuse to let anyone make a product with one of their patents without getting 80% of the profits.
that you do sir.
I also forgot about the movie The Wizard (which was and still is one of my favorite movies :P)
pfft, you pussy. Wearing only a Nintendo hat?
I used to wear shirts, Hats, underwear, my shoes had Nintendo laces, I watched the Super Mario super show, read Nintendo Power like it was the bible, ate the ceral, played my NES like it was a gift from god and was damn proud of it.
you make it seem like it's an emberassment to of worn a hat. Tell that to the so called "fanboys" of today with their aligent to a system that don't have any of the merchandise that goes with the system to truely define you as a fanboy!
Roads can be used to help legit people get from one point to another
Limewire can be used to distribute illegal movies and music.
Roads can be used to transport illegal drugs, illegal movies & music, illegal aliens, illegal weapons, illegal fireworks, illegal bombs.
Limewire can be used to distribute information on how to make bombs and other devices.
Roads can be used to distribute information on how to make bombs and other devices.
Roads can be used to transport kidnappers to a location and kidnap someone who knows how to make a bomb or other device.
Roads can be used to transport the materials to create a bomb or other device.
Roads can be used to transport the device made to it's location and kill hundreds of people.
Roads are used for the Telcos & Cablecos to maintaint their wires so we can have fast internet connections.
Roads are used for people to get to work and earn money to pay for their connection to the internet.
Roads are used to transport people to locations to make the music or film the movie.
Roads are used to transport the finished product to the distributer.
Roads are used to distribute the product.
Roads are used to steal the product in route to it's location.
Roads are used to help people speed away from a crime.
So...can you tell me how Limewire kills people? or transports illegal drugs, aliens, weapons, fireworks, bombs or drugs?
So I guess I will turn your question around on you,
That's a completely unfair comparison. Give me a nice list of all the legitimate (read: legal) uses for Roads, and I'll believe you. I bet you can think of some, but I'm sure most people use Roads for illegal purposes.
See how stupid it looks? just cause a few (same ammount that use Limewire) use roads for illegal reasons, does it mean that EVERYONE uses them for illegal reasons?
and the fact you know, you had to PAY for Opera where firefox was free, that's the whole argument people have. If you can get it for free without ads people will go for it. if you can get it for free but it comes with ads it depends on how bad the ads slow everything down (someone on dialup can't exactly download the program and have to look at ads ontop of the ads on the webpage and expect to keep a decent speed).
it's onto season 10 now.
Everything else is correct though.
but I thought Japan already had a lot of studys on protein?
I've seen the videos of it a few times and stumbled across entire collections of them! they call it something like bukkake.
and I know first hand how easy it is to.
I decided to try out vista one time and it installed and ran perfectly fine on my computer, the only drawback to it was EVERYTIME I wanted to open a folder or program a window would pop up asking me if I was sure I wanted to open it (apperantly Microsoft doesn't even trust themselves cause I was opening Windows Media Player 11 when I got the most windows) after about the 20th popup window asking me if I wanted to open a file I knew was ok I just started clicking yes to see how the damn thing worked.
now, just imagine someone getting to that point when they launch and it's been out for a little while, how many calls will tech support (Dell, Microsoft any company that makes PCs) get from people asking if it's ok to run a microsoft product? how many calls will they get when they accidentally click No to an important option (say their email, they read it wrong and suddenly they no longer can use outlook), how many calls will family members get when their Mother/Father/Uncle/whatever says they don't have a clue if the security warning that microsoft put in place is ok to click Yes or No to when they run WMP, Outlook, IE or any other MS owned programs.
if peaches are so dangerous why are they allowed to be around?
seems like the grocery stores have some major plot for killing everyone.
How does having a BBQ where you invite people over work?
You worked to get the money for the House, The Grill, the charcoal/propane, the lighter fluid, the matches, the food to cook on it, the beverages to drink (a surpluss of them since it's more then you will eat or drink).
Yet everyone you invited over can't have any of it? since it would be stealing (by your own admission) since they did nothing to earn it.
So would that be considered a Free lunch or Stealing?
Same goes for anything else, you work and work and work for something and decide to share it with the world but there are so many limits put on it against your will that anyone who looks at it, listens to it or uses it can get sued or harassed for doing what you had intended them to do.
Imagine driving down the road when all of a sudden your whole back end suddenly blows up for no reason.
well the reason the quarterback want's that lump of pig skin to make it to the end zone is so he get's his check at the end of the year.
The less that ball makes it to the endzone the less likely that check will be as big the fallowing year.
The eyetoy's flaw is it was released way to soon, I doubt the 360 & PS3 versions are going to be any better.
The speed of them just inst fast enough to keep up with human momvement (just like voice games, they work most of the time but not all of the time) Nintendogs comes close but it just recognizes the voice pattern, if you could repeat words with the same tone and style all the time it wouldn't have a clue what you are actually saying.
Developers still don't fully get the DS but they have come a long way from just porting old N64 games, there still are some that don't use the touch screen like it should be but there are some that really getting the idea behind it....to bad there is only like 3 that get it and the games seem to be the same, even nintendo doesn't fully get the capabilitys like they normally would, though they might be more interested in the Wii then the DS right now.
I'm suprised no one mentioned this series.
first time I played it I was using a stereo to play it so every sound was amplified, I still remember seeing one of the ghosts and went to pull up the camera only to have it staring me right in the face when I did. That scared the shit out of me cause it was right there.
The other time was near the end of the game where there was a ghost you could faighntly hear saying "My eyes" well when you went down into this pit she was suddenly RIGHT behind you and screaming "MY EYES!".
it's not as freaky as Silent hill (I doubt ANY series will top that one) but it did have the scare factor that got to you. I know I kept looking over my shoulder and freaked out a couple of times when I woke up thinking there was a ghost staring right at me while I was asleep or sitting in a chair.
wow that is pretty bad.
It's getting beat by the original GBA (and that thing is a POS). The 360 is actually doing pretty well (much better then I thought it would be anyways).
I dislike dell as much as the next guy (mainly I am tired of all prebuilt PC's anymore, they are so locked down and full of useless shit that I can't properly upgrade them) but when something isn't a company's fault then they shouldn't get the blame for it.
I remember cell phones were blowing up in peoples pockets and when they were using them, was it the cell phone makers fault? no cause they said it was the batteries and it was proven to be the batteries, Was it laughable that they were blaming batteries instead of taking the blame for making a phone out of lower value parts?
exactly
The one thing I couldn't understand is in all the interviews with higher ups involved with the Xbox line was they always said "The Xbox failed in japan because there wasn't enough Japan-centric games, nothing was made for that region. We have learned from this though and the Xbox 360 will have more Japan-centric games"
So they launch worldwide and what is the selection of games japan has? All American & European centric games, not one that would appeal to the Japan crowd. Yet they kept pushing that Dead or Alive 4 would change all that, everyone in Japan would buy a 360 once that game was released.
after the 4th delay it get's released and sales for the 360 barely move. NOW they are going on about the two RPG's from Sakaguchi, like he is going to suddenly sell millions of 360's in japan just cause of his games.
Sure he made final fantasy (or is it Dragon quest?) but that was how many years ago? when games like that weren't exactly abundant, Now you have so many companies doing RPG's that it's hard to tell them apart at times. He's starting two whole new franchises, They have never released an Xbox game before, no one knows what to expect from the game (there isn't exactly a whole lot to go off of, cause you always can remember Fable, everytime they talked about it they would talk about ALL the stuff in the game, in the videos you rarely saw anything, it was released and had nothing they said it would). So naturally the Japanese are taking a wait and see approach.
Maybe the game will be a great RPG and revitalize the RPG genre (doubtfull), Maybe it will fail misserably, who knows but there won't be any mass 360 movements untill they start thinking more about the region and that they NEED more Japanese centric (aka LONG &/or FUN) games, not countless sports, Racing & FPS'.
With games like
50 cent: Bulletproof
True Crime: Streets of New York (or as it SHOULD of been called, True Crime: Glitches of new york)
True Crime: Streets of LA
Driv3r
Shadow the hedgehog (come on, you can't deny that's what they were going for with this one)
the only ones that were even remotly worth playing in the "urban genre" were Def Jam: Fight for New York, GTA San Andreas that's all I can think of actually.
Maybe if they had gotten people who wanted to make a GOOD game instead of making a Cash grab game the genre wouldn't be a sinking ship with endless clones of two games.
ah but what if there were Zombie Robot Pirate Ninjas?
last time I saw it it was all FPS. The view was from the characters Eyes on the street.
This was just before E3 so I don't know how much has changed with it.
so this is the exact samething as the arcade version? cause that's where the difference lies.
and you can play MAME and any arcade game online using Kaillera