Or maybe, like all people, your tastes are not always perfectly in tune with the rest of the world's. Or not in tune with reviewers who are told by publishers they can't put up sub 90% reviews before the release date? If you're a reviewer and you got the game early and after playing it, feel the game deserves an 8/10, but if you were to just bump that review up to a 9, you could post your review right now garnering hits and press, would you do it? I wouldn't but there have been many reports of just this situation going on lately. Assassin's Creed is one example.
Look at the fallout from Gamespot's bad review of Kane and Lynch, Ubisoft pulled a ton of ads and Gamespot fired one of their top reviewers (which later lead to a TON of fallout in the company).
My tastes don't seem in line with any reviewers anymore, except for maybe Zero Punctuation. Review scores are incredibly inflated these days and so-called blockbuster games are given amazing treatment because of all the ad money spent. Sites like Metacritic and Game Rankings are simply compiling over inflated scores where reviewers consider average an 8. People made a huge fuss over IGN giving Mario Kart Double Dash a 7.9. To me, that's a good score, definitely above average, but the way IGN (and Gamespot) have ingrained in our head that sub-8 is bad, that's just the kind of reaction they should have expected.
Why are you posting Python code? If you aren't able to do what Java can do in Python in less lines, then there's a major problem with Python, not Java. Python is a dynamically typed language with an IO API that is readily available without import. The comparison can be made, but they're off topic to this discussion.
public class Example { public static void main(String... args) throws FileNotFoundException { Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("C:\\blah.txt")); while(scanner.hasNext()) System.out.println(scanner.next()); } }
Except Metacritic gives Assassin's Creed a score of 81/100. A game which after completing I gave a 5/10. This single game alone has made me lose so much faith in video game critics. The only thing I trust anyone is my friend's word of mouth.
Anyone else try to pronounce "endwar" as en-dwar? It took me a moment to realize what they were trying to say. Anything wrong with separating words appropriately? Hyphenate? Camel Case?
Personally, I've owned it for years and never replayed it after I beat it the first time. It's tough to say if that's because it doesn't have replayability or that I just like to move from game to game. It's great fun though and I'll probably play it again before the next one comes out.
I actually like short games, I'm pretty much sick of RPGs that take forever. I used to be able to play them, in high school and even a bit in college, but life has interfered too much now.
Actually, we can guess at this number pretty well. WoW currently has around 10 million users. So the number of daily downloads is going to be less than 10 million, but obviously greater than zero. So there you go, somewhere between zero and 10 million. We don't need your fancy percentages here.
Then use the Nightly Tester Tool plugin to force it to work. Plugins will only work natively in Firefox 3 if the developer specifically typed that version in. I'm running Firefox RC1 at the moment and every plugin I need, large and small, works. Not all out of the box, but with Nightly Tester Tools, I can enable them and force them to work. As long as they're not dependent on an API that changed, which could be likely depending on the plugin, they will work.
I'm actually not sure if Firefox 2 will automatically update to Firefox 3. For one, Firefox 3 doesn't support older OSes like Windows 98, ME, and OS X 10.3.9. I'm sure the update manager can sense this though so maybe it's not a big deal. Secondly, Firefox 3 is slightly visually different, I'm not sure if they want to force it on users until they're ready.
This has been a problem with a few other games, notably Dead Rising which was a few years ago. I think Capcom patched it but it just seems odd that it's still happening. I agree that you shouldn't piss off any of your potential customers.
Honestly, Beyond Good and Evil is a great game. I'm really excited for the game even if the trailer makes things a little too realistic looking. The original seemed to have a few more filters running through it giving it a unique look, but of course this is an early video of the game. As long as the story continues from the last game's cliffhanger, I'll be happy.
I can't see any obvious links to the trailer on Gamespot's website, so here's a link to it:
11% of households may own an HDTV but I would bet many pennies that the overlap between HDTV owners and Xbox 360 owners is much higher. Honestly, I know about 10 people who own 360s in real life and they all have HDTVs.
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I don't plan to vote for either McCain or Obama at the moment, but man, am I happy that Hilary lost.
Are you having a laugh?
Interesting read, have you ever seen the BBC show Extras? Seems similar to your situation.
I haven't seen this listed yet and a lot of great ones have been mentioned but I'd just like to throw Tor out there.
http://www.torproject.org/
The bananas had it coming to them. Karma anyone? They've been spinning out karts for far too long.
Look at the fallout from Gamespot's bad review of Kane and Lynch, Ubisoft pulled a ton of ads and Gamespot fired one of their top reviewers (which later lead to a TON of fallout in the company).
My tastes don't seem in line with any reviewers anymore, except for maybe Zero Punctuation. Review scores are incredibly inflated these days and so-called blockbuster games are given amazing treatment because of all the ad money spent. Sites like Metacritic and Game Rankings are simply compiling over inflated scores where reviewers consider average an 8. People made a huge fuss over IGN giving Mario Kart Double Dash a 7.9. To me, that's a good score, definitely above average, but the way IGN (and Gamespot) have ingrained in our head that sub-8 is bad, that's just the kind of reaction they should have expected.
I know nothing about that book but it was hardly banned by Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/America_Deceived
They're already basically do that. Here are some stats from HL2:Ep 2, maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I'm sure they have that info too.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/ep2/ep2_stats.php
Why are you posting Python code? If you aren't able to do what Java can do in Python in less lines, then there's a major problem with Python, not Java. Python is a dynamically typed language with an IO API that is readily available without import. The comparison can be made, but they're off topic to this discussion.
The Scanner class was introduced in Java 1.5, so yeah, things were more verbose before.
//Two objects (File and Scanner) and an exception to watch out for (FileNotFoundException)
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Example {
public static void main(String... args) throws FileNotFoundException {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("C:\\blah.txt"));
while(scanner.hasNext())
System.out.println(scanner.next());
}
}
Except Metacritic gives Assassin's Creed a score of 81/100. A game which after completing I gave a 5/10. This single game alone has made me lose so much faith in video game critics. The only thing I trust anyone is my friend's word of mouth.
Anyone else try to pronounce "endwar" as en-dwar? It took me a moment to realize what they were trying to say. Anything wrong with separating words appropriately? Hyphenate? Camel Case?
I know phrases like "less than," "greater than," and "between" are tough to comprehend, instead, let us look at the alligator math.
0 downloads 10,000,000 (ten million)
Personally, I've owned it for years and never replayed it after I beat it the first time. It's tough to say if that's because it doesn't have replayability or that I just like to move from game to game. It's great fun though and I'll probably play it again before the next one comes out.
I actually like short games, I'm pretty much sick of RPGs that take forever. I used to be able to play them, in high school and even a bit in college, but life has interfered too much now.
Actually, we can guess at this number pretty well. WoW currently has around 10 million users. So the number of daily downloads is going to be less than 10 million, but obviously greater than zero. So there you go, somewhere between zero and 10 million. We don't need your fancy percentages here.
Then use the Nightly Tester Tool plugin to force it to work. Plugins will only work natively in Firefox 3 if the developer specifically typed that version in. I'm running Firefox RC1 at the moment and every plugin I need, large and small, works. Not all out of the box, but with Nightly Tester Tools, I can enable them and force them to work. As long as they're not dependent on an API that changed, which could be likely depending on the plugin, they will work.
I'm actually not sure if Firefox 2 will automatically update to Firefox 3. For one, Firefox 3 doesn't support older OSes like Windows 98, ME, and OS X 10.3.9. I'm sure the update manager can sense this though so maybe it's not a big deal. Secondly, Firefox 3 is slightly visually different, I'm not sure if they want to force it on users until they're ready.
This has been a problem with a few other games, notably Dead Rising which was a few years ago. I think Capcom patched it but it just seems odd that it's still happening. I agree that you shouldn't piss off any of your potential customers.
Starting off our post with that almost guarantees that your slightly controversial/off-color/funny comment will get modded up.
Honestly, Beyond Good and Evil is a great game. I'm really excited for the game even if the trailer makes things a little too realistic looking. The original seemed to have a few more filters running through it giving it a unique look, but of course this is an early video of the game. As long as the story continues from the last game's cliffhanger, I'll be happy.
I can't see any obvious links to the trailer on Gamespot's website, so here's a link to it:
http://kotaku.com/5011404/ubisoft-officially-announces-beyond-good--evil-2
11% of households may own an HDTV but I would bet many pennies that the overlap between HDTV owners and Xbox 360 owners is much higher. Honestly, I know about 10 people who own 360s in real life and they all have HDTVs.
Well, it was announced almost two years ago, so I guess it's a matter of opinion if that's a short time or not. But I agree with everything else.
And obviously since this is episodic the next episode is not two years away (I hope).
I may be wrong, but the 360 version is the only one that doesn't allow you to download it for any other platform and play at will.