oh, and FYI I didn't use Google or Bing, I was going by memory. I was really excited when I first read about Halo in Mac Format, but lost interest after MS took over..
It appears you're right, however it was a whole 2 years after the Xbox version.. the iPod craze (iPod was released around the same time as the original Halo) made me stop being so interested in Apple and Macs for a while so I guess I missed it. I tried the Windows version, and it was crap. It was like stepping back to the days of the Unreal and Quake single player..
surely sometime within the next century or so we will have moved beyond biology
Whaaaa? Where did you get that idea? Also, do you really think that even if you copied your consciousness to a machine that it would still be you? It will be a copy, and "you" will die anyway. I saw someone once mention the idea of replacing neurons one at a time with digital equivalents.. that might work to retain your consciousness while moving away from biology, but it would be almost impossible to do..
The carriers are all a bunch of bastards. Thankfully here in the UK there is a lot more competition, so eventually the prices came down to reasonable levels (well, also getting a job made prices seem slightly more reasonable).
My first smartphone was provided by my employer though, and I don't have to pay the bills for it, which is great. Recently I just bought my own smartphone outright and put my company SIM into it, so I get the best of both worlds - a device I really want, with free everything..
Forgot about the Rouch, but it's still a crappy input system, and it misses the point of what actually makes mobile phone games so different to the other games we've had so far (I admit a couple of mobile games are mildly fun and vaguely addictive, but I've not liked any enough to actually buy one yet). If you want to move to big screen gaming, you're going to need a better device - and preferably one that has a strap and costs well under $100 if you're going to be swinging it around wii-mote style.
Halo was released for Windows a year or two after Xbox. It was never released for Mac despite that being the original intent. I expect they were making MS a little nervous.
So instead of being a $99 gaming device, it's really only going to be for those who shelled out for an iPhone/iPad, both of which are more expensive than current consoles already? Good luck with that!
Also, don't a lot of iPad games often require you to coordinate your fingers with what's onscreen? You can't do that when you're looking at a TV. Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies will not port over well to a system of the kind you suggest. I think they'd be much better getting a simple control pad so that at least people can play more traditional style games if they're going to go down the console route.
Where are the Mac games? Where are the Mac game developers?
Well, Bungie used to be Mac developers - probably the best Mac games developers.. and Microsoft sucked them up and repurposed Halo as an Xbox game instead of a Mac game (maybe it was originally intended to be for Windows too, can't remember).
It's just a troll, ignore:P Duke Nukem was based on a lot more than just Roddy Piper, and Roddy Piper was Canadian. Wearing a kilt does not make you "a true Scotsman".
That's nice. I have one I bought a couple of years ago myself, I have a friend in Canada who got one soon after, and I bought another for work at the end of last year.. soooo.. whatever. They don't offer it on all models unfortunately, but it's still better than nothing. Nice to get a machine that you know is going to have full hardware support too.
I understand that the iPhone has a much nicer interface than phones of old. I did think the interface sucked on WinMo 5 & 6 (though it wasn't quite so bad with an HTC overlay), and I was glad Apple forced the other guys to actually put some effort into interface design.
But there are a few nice-to-use alternatives now. Nice to use, as well as better featured.
It's not the platform they enjoy if people are always ditching their "old" model as soon as possible. It's the brand. It's fashion, like I said. The latest fashions eventually go out of season and are sold at bargain stores for 1/10th the price. Now human nature, with tech toys especially, is like this in general of course - but I've never seen anything quite so fickle as the trend for people to want to upgrade to the next iPhone simply because it exists. It's perhaps a result of the very limited product range.. if there was the same abundance of iOS phones that there are with Android phones, people wouldn't really care so much about new models.
If people truly love their iPhones, why is everyone always so desperate to upgrade to the latest hardware and software revision? Obviously some people see their iPhones as a fashion statement, but really if the devices were any good in the first place then why would people get so excited over something as basic as 3G or multitasking, that had been in other devices for years?
I'm not tied down in any way to Android really, but I do like it a lot. There are too many things to not like about iDevices - small but practical stuff like not being able to use them as Mass Storage devices or wifi hotspots - it's just really inconvenient when you're used to better. Even my old Windows Mobile 5 & 6 devices were preferable to an iPhone for those reasons.
I chose a Droid that has everything I want right out of the box (HSDPA and large capacitive display for browsing and youtube, GPS), there is no reason for me to upgrade until it dies. It came with Android 1.6. I did upgrade to Android 2.2 for improved interface speed and reduced power consumption through improvements in the virtual machine - but about the only 3rd party app I have ever used for more than a day (Kindle) works on 1.6 and up.
I think that was his point. Somehow he thinks the two are comparable.
Anytime someone says something like "How the fuck can be this considered ART?" it just encourages the pretentious types to try to be even more strange.. I think the first "modern art" "sculpture" was started as a statement about how crap art was becoming, but people embraced it and just started trying to outweird each other for the sake of it.
I was happy to buy ones with good new songs. Part of the reason I didn't buy Rock Band 2 was because so many of the songs on it already came with Guitar Hero 4.. I then bought Guitar Hero: Van Halen, and Rock Band: Beatles and Green Day versions because I enjoy the songs. Bought Rock Band 3 because it has good songs, and like I said I think the full guitar playing is a nice idea (I play guitar, though I do prefer drumming overall) and would consider getting the real guitar when it comes out. I think Activision are showing amazingly poor business acumen here. They should be making a boatload of profit, not turning a loss. Better to have a demand for more games and peripherals than to saturate the market. Probably in their efforts to outdo each other Guitar Hero and Rock Band went overboard.. the Harmonix team have been the ones driving things forward the whole time, and would have been better off doing it all on their own.
There won't be multiple reports because once the first person hits the hole and bumps up and down all the rest behind will see and swerve as well
Troll much, or just stupid? Are there only 10 drivers on the road each day, all in the same convoy? Also, they'll bump down and then up if they hit a hole, and no people don't really watch out for that kind of thing in my experience. If I hit a pot hole, so does the person behind me. Even if I swerve they often still just plough over it.
See, there's this force called "gravity" which acts exactly like accelerating away from the center of the earth.
Really? I was under the impression that gravity was accelerating me towards the center of the earth. At least, when I jump, I seem to come back down again. Maybe I'm standing upside down.
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oh, and FYI I didn't use Google or Bing, I was going by memory. I was really excited when I first read about Halo in Mac Format, but lost interest after MS took over..
It appears you're right, however it was a whole 2 years after the Xbox version.. the iPod craze (iPod was released around the same time as the original Halo) made me stop being so interested in Apple and Macs for a while so I guess I missed it. I tried the Windows version, and it was crap. It was like stepping back to the days of the Unreal and Quake single player..
surely sometime within the next century or so we will have moved beyond biology
Whaaaa? Where did you get that idea? Also, do you really think that even if you copied your consciousness to a machine that it would still be you? It will be a copy, and "you" will die anyway. I saw someone once mention the idea of replacing neurons one at a time with digital equivalents.. that might work to retain your consciousness while moving away from biology, but it would be almost impossible to do..
Touch* wtf
The carriers are all a bunch of bastards. Thankfully here in the UK there is a lot more competition, so eventually the prices came down to reasonable levels (well, also getting a job made prices seem slightly more reasonable).
My first smartphone was provided by my employer though, and I don't have to pay the bills for it, which is great. Recently I just bought my own smartphone outright and put my company SIM into it, so I get the best of both worlds - a device I really want, with free everything..
Forgot about the Rouch, but it's still a crappy input system, and it misses the point of what actually makes mobile phone games so different to the other games we've had so far (I admit a couple of mobile games are mildly fun and vaguely addictive, but I've not liked any enough to actually buy one yet). If you want to move to big screen gaming, you're going to need a better device - and preferably one that has a strap and costs well under $100 if you're going to be swinging it around wii-mote style.
Halo was released for Windows a year or two after Xbox. It was never released for Mac despite that being the original intent. I expect they were making MS a little nervous.
So instead of being a $99 gaming device, it's really only going to be for those who shelled out for an iPhone/iPad, both of which are more expensive than current consoles already? Good luck with that!
Also, don't a lot of iPad games often require you to coordinate your fingers with what's onscreen? You can't do that when you're looking at a TV. Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies will not port over well to a system of the kind you suggest. I think they'd be much better getting a simple control pad so that at least people can play more traditional style games if they're going to go down the console route.
I bought Limbo here in the UK. Surely that's one of the indie games.
Where are the Mac games? Where are the Mac game developers?
Well, Bungie used to be Mac developers - probably the best Mac games developers.. and Microsoft sucked them up and repurposed Halo as an Xbox game instead of a Mac game (maybe it was originally intended to be for Windows too, can't remember).
+1
I don't have any mod points, but you are a comedy genius
More like a declaration of a supposed observation.
No. It was cancelled, but then bought up and Gearbox have finished it up.
It's just a troll, ignore :P Duke Nukem was based on a lot more than just Roddy Piper, and Roddy Piper was Canadian. Wearing a kilt does not make you "a true Scotsman".
That's nice. I have one I bought a couple of years ago myself, I have a friend in Canada who got one soon after, and I bought another for work at the end of last year.. soooo.. whatever. They don't offer it on all models unfortunately, but it's still better than nothing. Nice to get a machine that you know is going to have full hardware support too.
I understand that the iPhone has a much nicer interface than phones of old. I did think the interface sucked on WinMo 5 & 6 (though it wasn't quite so bad with an HTC overlay), and I was glad Apple forced the other guys to actually put some effort into interface design.
But there are a few nice-to-use alternatives now. Nice to use, as well as better featured.
It's not the platform they enjoy if people are always ditching their "old" model as soon as possible. It's the brand. It's fashion, like I said. The latest fashions eventually go out of season and are sold at bargain stores for 1/10th the price. Now human nature, with tech toys especially, is like this in general of course - but I've never seen anything quite so fickle as the trend for people to want to upgrade to the next iPhone simply because it exists. It's perhaps a result of the very limited product range.. if there was the same abundance of iOS phones that there are with Android phones, people wouldn't really care so much about new models.
He was right, I argued because I read it wrong. I do feel my body being pulled downwards by the way, otherwise I wouldn't ever have to slouch :p
If people truly love their iPhones, why is everyone always so desperate to upgrade to the latest hardware and software revision? Obviously some people see their iPhones as a fashion statement, but really if the devices were any good in the first place then why would people get so excited over something as basic as 3G or multitasking, that had been in other devices for years?
I'm not tied down in any way to Android really, but I do like it a lot. There are too many things to not like about iDevices - small but practical stuff like not being able to use them as Mass Storage devices or wifi hotspots - it's just really inconvenient when you're used to better. Even my old Windows Mobile 5 & 6 devices were preferable to an iPhone for those reasons.
I chose a Droid that has everything I want right out of the box (HSDPA and large capacitive display for browsing and youtube, GPS), there is no reason for me to upgrade until it dies. It came with Android 1.6. I did upgrade to Android 2.2 for improved interface speed and reduced power consumption through improvements in the virtual machine - but about the only 3rd party app I have ever used for more than a day (Kindle) works on 1.6 and up.
Dell have been selling machines with Ubuntu for a few years now. Take a look.
Art is anything that wants to be art.
Heh. This sounds like just the type of thing a really crappy artist would say..
Suppose that kills the loser?
I think that was his point. Somehow he thinks the two are comparable.
Anytime someone says something like "How the fuck can be this considered ART?" it just encourages the pretentious types to try to be even more strange.. I think the first "modern art" "sculpture" was started as a statement about how crap art was becoming, but people embraced it and just started trying to outweird each other for the sake of it.
I was happy to buy ones with good new songs. Part of the reason I didn't buy Rock Band 2 was because so many of the songs on it already came with Guitar Hero 4.. I then bought Guitar Hero: Van Halen, and Rock Band: Beatles and Green Day versions because I enjoy the songs. Bought Rock Band 3 because it has good songs, and like I said I think the full guitar playing is a nice idea (I play guitar, though I do prefer drumming overall) and would consider getting the real guitar when it comes out. I think Activision are showing amazingly poor business acumen here. They should be making a boatload of profit, not turning a loss. Better to have a demand for more games and peripherals than to saturate the market. Probably in their efforts to outdo each other Guitar Hero and Rock Band went overboard.. the Harmonix team have been the ones driving things forward the whole time, and would have been better off doing it all on their own.
Oh, I see how he was wording it now. Sounded like he was saying gravity acts by accelerating you away from the center of the earth.
There won't be multiple reports because once the first person hits the hole and bumps up and down all the rest behind will see and swerve as well
Troll much, or just stupid? Are there only 10 drivers on the road each day, all in the same convoy? Also, they'll bump down and then up if they hit a hole, and no people don't really watch out for that kind of thing in my experience. If I hit a pot hole, so does the person behind me. Even if I swerve they often still just plough over it.
See, there's this force called "gravity" which acts exactly like accelerating away from the center of the earth.
Really? I was under the impression that gravity was accelerating me towards the center of the earth. At least, when I jump, I seem to come back down again. Maybe I'm standing upside down.