I agree with you, I just find it sad that people think "oh, the new console is released, that means I'm not EVER going to play the old console anymore!"
I just found a used Dreamcast for thirty euros. Because now, I'll have some sweet time to play some of those Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, and Skies of Arcadia games people never stopped talking about.
Interesting theorem : Why push along the technology race so fast when you can use well-known technology to optimize development? As in, why do people care about the specs instead of the software being used on it?
I was thinking the same until I realized I like having sex with my wife. You know... A WOMAN? Don't give me bullshit about how ugly or how timid you are, or how "wimmin, they's all biotches after mah munny and I only get to be friends with them"! Don't be resigned! Get out there and GET ONE! (or buy one if you happen to live in Thaïland, but that's another story)
"I suspect your name starts with an N and ends with a D, though." Dude, most of us have been called so in the past, and it's not funny anymore! I bear that tag proudly : "NerD".
More seriously... DarkFader has done excellent work for the NDS scene, but this is just some adolescent tantrum. Ooh, I wanted to show off some powerrrr, I'm so leet! *sigh*
Mod that +1337(Pwnage), please. And the grandparent maybe -5 (no, great-grandparent never promised to give $10K to charity so it actually IS funny sarcasm, you schmuck!)
- The poster is obviously uninformed about the revolution controller, which he describes as "the old gun in duck hunt", thus essentially comparing 20-year-old technology to today's.
- The poster wants to buy the two most expensive consoles at their very launchdates, but emits reserves on the least expensive system of them all, adopting a waiting attitude. News flash, "You're going to have to work hard to own a PS3" means it would be smarter to wait for a pricedrop on the EXPENSIVE items.
- The poster claims extra-ordinary powers such as prescience : "The new controller isn't going to make new anything. Not new anything that works at least."
- The poster has discovered video games with the PSOne : "I'm almost 30 and I've been playing video games for much of the last ten years", and believes that makes him an authority on video games, or that the number thirty confers him extra manliness.
It does make for some good discussion and time-killing, but frankly, such posts spread dumb jam and stupid butter on the big toast that is teh intarwub.
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What would be funny/cool/(insert superlative here), would be that this guy's API broke out onto the marker BEFORE the clean-and-polished version Nintendo offers.
SEE! The Everlasting fight of Homebrew against Corporation-Produced! FEEL! The rush of ecstasy as one participant battles against sleep, bugs and proprietary locks! HEAR! The PING? PONG! Of an IRC Client in the works! TOUCH! ing is good? SMELL! Uhm, okay, I'm going too far in this old movie poster parody.
Add one happy SP owner, almost 26 and I can bear the commute thanks to Nintendo:)
I've seen a few of these pop up in the last two years, but I've become somewhat of an oddity with my handheld. Sometimes, people ask me questions, but most of them are worried about peer pressure. Maybe a hip and trendy Micro is what people would want to overcome that weakness?
OMG, I'm looking like a kiddy because I play gameboy in the train!
Never quite understood that. Oh, well. Their loss... Back to RebelStar for me. It rawks!
So, whenever the first computer to become sentient decides to judge us, as a whole, so he can communicate that to his machine buddies, how is he gonna do? Download the whole of teh intarbut? OK, check one.
Here's what I'm afraid of :
"Running summary...
- They download pornos. Hmm, okay. Laughable.
- They kill each other instead of cooperating? WTF? Don't they understand that... Oh, wait. This is worse.
- SCAT? GURO? GENOCIDES? THE MAD FUCKERS! I'LL SHOW THE FUCKERS ONE GENOCIDE! YOU GUYS AREN'T WORTH THE OXYGEN YOU WASTE!
- Ooh, Nintendogs rom!"... And Humanity was saved.
No, really, humor aside. What would you think? Would sentient machine number one decide : "Okay, they got litterature, music, and french food. They don't all suck, so maybe I should accept something else than 0 or 1 as an answer." or "Fuck them, they produced Britney Spears and Hitler. Ignition."
It was the first time an Elite clone didn't outright suck. Sure, the controls are hazy at best, but most people mistook that game for what it truly is : An economy simulator with a spaceship look-and-feel GUI.
There are lots of annoying things in the game, many things that should be automatized (I'm not a native ingrish speaker, so bear with me), but the game is scriptable, has seen many outstanding mods, there's a very tight-knit community on the egosoft fora, and there is a level of satisfaction you just can't describe when you start building your economic empire, sending your universe traders gain maximum profits while your factories make the X-Universe a safe, economically balanced place.
It's one of the two games that make me say "MMORPG's? What for?" (the other one being Morrowind)
In a way, I refer to those as "Filtered MMOG's", because you only accept the input from other players of the game that you want. No trolling, play the game however you want it to be, and there are TONS of mods.
Last but not least, even best of all... In-game console!
So, Mazel Tov to this company for porting a good game to Linux. I'd have been willing to shell out the cash, and to wait, for the next installment, though.
PSX sold thanks to its marketing. It began the long downfall of videogames thanks to TV ads, MTV ads, and supposedly "cool" games, while they tried to appeal to a "mature" audience. And by "mature", I mean 12-year-olds who thought they'd look badass because they didn't play mario games anymore.
Video games have now turned into something weird. You have people who base their manliness on what console they own. On a *toy*. And they keep swallowing that shit up!
Gran Turismo 5 Prelude : You were stupid enough to BUY the demo? BWAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAA! Excuse me... *gasps for air* BWAHAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! We'll do it again, since you voted with your bucks! Hey, this one's got only one level and its mirror mode, and two cars, BUT IT'S GRAN TURISMO!!!ONE!
Wow, an american who fails at mentioning any cultural references that aren't from America? Damn, I'm schocked! If I'd been German, Italian or any other non-english-speaking nationality, you wouldn't have been assed to name any work of art from my country. (don't google "german famous books" to impress me, I don't give a fuck, really.)
Congrats! You're an official retard, then!:)
Go back to Star Wars and Harry Potter. Maybe that's too mature for you, you should try LEGO first. But there's no anime backstory with furries or tentacle monsters, so I hope you'll manage. Oh, wait, like the other baboons, you're likely to reply how smart you actually are. No need to, I'm not even bothering at this point. plzokthxbye!
You try to find depth in something that shouldn't have any. Watch a movie. Read a book. These mediums WILL provide you with MUCH, MUCH more food for thought than a video game.
It's just *not* made for that kind of stuff.
Small question, would your ideal game be "press space button" - FMV - "press space button" - FMV ? Of course not. Or, I hope not.
But please, tell me which video games had a story so powerful, so profound, it affected an entire generation.
Background info : As a frenchman, I laugh at americans who fancy themselves as wine connoisseurs, and talk about "cheap ten-dollar bottles". We just drink the stuff, and a ten-euro bottle is something you bring when you're invited to a family dinner, ie, it's not shit. We don't find "fragrances of cherry", "hints of raspberry" in our wine. We look at the glass, the color is nice, it smells good, we drink. Here, the buffoons that could have been characterized in that wine taster movie about pinot noir (don't remember the name) are made fun of. Do you understand?
Story-driven games? I'm sick and tired of seeing this pretentious bullshit all over. If you liked the backstory, fine, if you liked the backstory to the final fantasy series or any other console "RPG", fine! (don't even get me started on these linear, non-tabletop pieces of shit you dare to call "Role-Playing-Game". Change the name to "Linear Story-Driven Experience Point Treadmill", PLEASE.) Ooh, the stories are so deep and poignant. I can't for the life of me remember more than a handful of truly gripping story-driven games, but hey, this one's got the gritty, brooding, dark hero, the even darker, broodier, grittier sidekick, the female love interest sidekick, it's SO original!
But, come the fuck on. Video game characters now need a sensible reason for jumping on mushroom heads or blasting aliens with their rocket launcher?
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?
In the olde days, we played GAMES. We didn't ask for a backstory, because there was no need. There were only RULES to the game. You know. Chess? Monopoly? Why do you want to treat "save the princess", "shoot the target", "mass produce farms and send zerglings against enemy camp" or "fantasy football" differently? It's still a TOY we are talking about.
Repeat after me : A FUCKING TOY, EVEN IF MOST OF YOU WILL BASE YOUR VIRILITY ON WHAT KIND OF TOY YOU OWN!
This kind of reasoning is what turned many video GAMES into "interactive full motion video experiences". View pre-rendered cinematic. Hit square. Rummage about for experience points/bonus/item.
Mod me as trollish as you can, but this is the most pretentious bullshit I've ever heard of. Post #13672602 is the truth that rings down from the mountain!
What's the deal with these? Does that mean LAME is illegal? What's up with it's LGPL license? And for example, if I want to build and sell an MP3 player, do I shell the dollars over to fraunhof, or thompson, or whoever owns the patent, or can I use LAME and get away with it? (or should I release a complete "how to build a LAME-based flash memory MP3 reader" to contribute ?)
You can argue all you want, but the "stereotype" is the awful reality. Take a stroll through your nearest projects - If you have the balls to! This morning, I saw von dutch, diesel, nike, energy, and many other expensive brands labeled as streetwear or sportswear. Worn by the typically jobless, don't-go-to-school-anymore youth, standing around in front of their project buildings doing nothing. It's NOT a stereotype.
When Sony's CEO says "people are going to have to work harder to own a PS3", he means it. And most people ARE going to buy it anyways, because, EVEN THOUGH Nintendo does the superior product at a lower price, people will automatically think "it's less expensive, so it's shit".
It's called BRANDING. Read "NO LOGO", and come back to discuss it, if you want.
Most people WILL buy the systems, even though they're rehashes of old games with new textures. Like it or not! I personally DON'T, but I'm not gonna argue against rain or snow falling either, get it?
Oh, and calling me a sony/MS intern and modding me troll for stating the obvious? Nigga please. The saddest thing is, we actually agree on both points but you're too dense to realize sarcasm.
Hey there! Heres comes the WAAAHmbulance!
WAAAH! I can't buy a ferrari because I don't have money!
WAAAH! I can't buy microsoft or sony's latest crapfest because it's expensive!
Well, maybe they don't WANT to sell it to YOU.
Maybe they KNOW they could sell it for $1000 and you'd still be a tool, gobbling up every sticky drop sony or MS shot in your mouth. There's good reason to hope Big N won't go that way, but come on. Nobody wants to buy the cheaper console, because cheap = suck in most people's minds.
Just like those kids who live the the projects in my town - their mothers kill themselves at work, make huge sacrifices concerning basic necessities, so that they can buy their kids 200 Adidas or Nike shoes and Diesel Jeans.
Hey, maybe this schtick works because you're a mindless tool who hasn't ever thought about the people's ultimate weapon, boycott?
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I agree with you, I just find it sad that people think "oh, the new console is released, that means I'm not EVER going to play the old console anymore!"
I just found a used Dreamcast for thirty euros. Because now, I'll have some sweet time to play some of those Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, and Skies of Arcadia games people never stopped talking about.
Interesting theorem : Why push along the technology race so fast when you can use well-known technology to optimize development? As in, why do people care about the specs instead of the software being used on it?
But you don't understand!!!!!
/. poster : This just shows how immature Nintendo is. MARIO IS FOR TEH BABIEZ LOL!
:)
Sony : GOD OF WAR HAS BLOOD!
Microsoft : DOA HAS BOOBS!
Average
Go ahead, mod me trollish, see if I care
I was thinking the same until I realized I like having sex with my wife.
You know... A WOMAN?
Don't give me bullshit about how ugly or how timid you are, or how "wimmin, they's all biotches after mah munny and I only get to be friends with them"!
Don't be resigned! Get out there and GET ONE! (or buy one if you happen to live in Thaïland, but that's another story)
Age for truth, LoL.
Dude, please accept my apology for attempted humor.
*sigh*
Again... Kids nowadays.
"I suspect your name starts with an N and ends with a D, though."
Dude, most of us have been called so in the past, and it's not funny anymore!
I bear that tag proudly : "NerD".
More seriously... DarkFader has done excellent work for the NDS scene, but this is just some adolescent tantrum. Ooh, I wanted to show off some powerrrr, I'm so leet! *sigh*
Kids nowadays.
Mod that +1337(Pwnage), please.
And the grandparent maybe -5 (no, great-grandparent never promised to give $10K to charity so it actually IS funny sarcasm, you schmuck!)
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Le Figaro, 1849.
s e_Karr
Quaint, isn't it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphon
I live on a street that bears his name, so I'm favored by the stars and granted authority to tell you to stfuplzokthx.
A présent, éloignez-vous avant que je ne me moque de vous une seconde fois!
Mod this parent troll, please :
- The poster is obviously uninformed about the revolution controller, which he describes as "the old gun in duck hunt", thus essentially comparing 20-year-old technology to today's.
- The poster wants to buy the two most expensive consoles at their very launchdates, but emits reserves on the least expensive system of them all, adopting a waiting attitude. News flash, "You're going to have to work hard to own a PS3" means it would be smarter to wait for a pricedrop on the EXPENSIVE items.
- The poster claims extra-ordinary powers such as prescience : "The new controller isn't going to make new anything. Not new anything that works at least."
- The poster has discovered video games with the PSOne : "I'm almost 30 and I've been playing video games for much of the last ten years", and believes that makes him an authority on video games, or that the number thirty confers him extra manliness.
It does make for some good discussion and time-killing, but frankly, such posts spread dumb jam and stupid butter on the big toast that is teh intarwub.
You sure showed him, with your biting sarcasm!
What would be funny/cool/(insert superlative here), would be that this guy's API broke out onto the marker BEFORE the clean-and-polished version Nintendo offers.
http://www.akkit.org/dswifi/index.html
THE RACE IS ON!
SEE!
The Everlasting fight of Homebrew against Corporation-Produced!
FEEL!
The rush of ecstasy as one participant battles against sleep, bugs and proprietary locks!
HEAR!
The PING? PONG! Of an IRC Client in the works!
TOUCH!
ing is good?
SMELL!
Uhm, okay, I'm going too far in this old movie poster parody.
Add one happy SP owner, almost 26 and I can bear the commute thanks to Nintendo :)
I've seen a few of these pop up in the last two years, but I've become somewhat of an oddity with my handheld. Sometimes, people ask me questions, but most of them are worried about peer pressure. Maybe a hip and trendy Micro is what people would want to overcome that weakness?
OMG, I'm looking like a kiddy because I play gameboy in the train!
Never quite understood that. Oh, well. Their loss... Back to RebelStar for me. It rawks!
So, whenever the first computer to become sentient decides to judge us, as a whole, so he can communicate that to his machine buddies, how is he gonna do? Download the whole of teh intarbut? OK, check one.
... And Humanity was saved.
Here's what I'm afraid of :
"Running summary...
- They download pornos. Hmm, okay. Laughable.
- They kill each other instead of cooperating? WTF? Don't they understand that... Oh, wait. This is worse.
- SCAT? GURO? GENOCIDES? THE MAD FUCKERS! I'LL SHOW THE FUCKERS ONE GENOCIDE! YOU GUYS AREN'T WORTH THE OXYGEN YOU WASTE!
- Ooh, Nintendogs rom!"
No, really, humor aside. What would you think?
Would sentient machine number one decide :
"Okay, they got litterature, music, and french food. They don't all suck, so maybe I should accept something else than 0 or 1 as an answer."
or
"Fuck them, they produced Britney Spears and Hitler. Ignition."
It was the first time an Elite clone didn't outright suck.
Sure, the controls are hazy at best, but most people mistook that game for what it truly is : An economy simulator with a spaceship look-and-feel GUI.
There are lots of annoying things in the game, many things that should be automatized (I'm not a native ingrish speaker, so bear with me), but the game is scriptable, has seen many outstanding mods, there's a very tight-knit community on the egosoft fora, and there is a level of satisfaction you just can't describe when you start building your economic empire, sending your universe traders gain maximum profits while your factories make the X-Universe a safe, economically balanced place.
It's one of the two games that make me say "MMORPG's? What for?" (the other one being Morrowind)
In a way, I refer to those as "Filtered MMOG's", because you only accept the input from other players of the game that you want. No trolling, play the game however you want it to be, and there are TONS of mods.
Last but not least, even best of all... In-game console!
So, Mazel Tov to this company for porting a good game to Linux. I'd have been willing to shell out the cash, and to wait, for the next installment, though.
PSX sold thanks to its marketing. It began the long downfall of videogames thanks to TV ads, MTV ads, and supposedly "cool" games, while they tried to appeal to a "mature" audience. And by "mature", I mean 12-year-olds who thought they'd look badass because they didn't play mario games anymore.
Video games have now turned into something weird. You have people who base their manliness on what console they own. On a *toy*. And they keep swallowing that shit up!
So, yeah, emmy awards for ads. Maybe.
Gran Turismo 5 Prelude : You were stupid enough to BUY the demo?
BWAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAA! Excuse me... *gasps for air* BWAHAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
We'll do it again, since you voted with your bucks!
Hey, this one's got only one level and its mirror mode, and two cars, BUT IT'S GRAN TURISMO!!!ONE!
At least three internets.
Wow, an american who fails at mentioning any cultural references that aren't from America? Damn, I'm schocked! If I'd been German, Italian or any other non-english-speaking nationality, you wouldn't have been assed to name any work of art from my country. (don't google "german famous books" to impress me, I don't give a fuck, really.)
:)
Congrats! You're an official retard, then!
Go back to Star Wars and Harry Potter. Maybe that's too mature for you, you should try LEGO first. But there's no anime backstory with furries or tentacle monsters, so I hope you'll manage.
Oh, wait, like the other baboons, you're likely to reply how smart you actually are. No need to, I'm not even bothering at this point. plzokthxbye!
THAT WAS SO FUNNY
IT HASN'T BEEN MENTIONNED MORE THAN 30,000,000 TIMES HERE ON SLASHDOT SO IT MUST BE NEW!!!ONEELEVEN!
You try to find depth in something that shouldn't have any. Watch a movie. Read a book. These mediums WILL provide you with MUCH, MUCH more food for thought than a video game.
It's just *not* made for that kind of stuff.
Small question, would your ideal game be "press space button" - FMV - "press space button" - FMV ? Of course not. Or, I hope not.
But please, tell me which video games had a story so powerful, so profound, it affected an entire generation.
Background info : As a frenchman, I laugh at americans who fancy themselves as wine connoisseurs, and talk about "cheap ten-dollar bottles". We just drink the stuff, and a ten-euro bottle is something you bring when you're invited to a family dinner, ie, it's not shit. We don't find "fragrances of cherry", "hints of raspberry" in our wine. We look at the glass, the color is nice, it smells good, we drink. Here, the buffoons that could have been characterized in that wine taster movie about pinot noir (don't remember the name) are made fun of. Do you understand?
Story-driven games?
I'm sick and tired of seeing this pretentious bullshit all over. If you liked the backstory, fine, if you liked the backstory to the final fantasy series or any other console "RPG", fine! (don't even get me started on these linear, non-tabletop pieces of shit you dare to call "Role-Playing-Game". Change the name to "Linear Story-Driven Experience Point Treadmill", PLEASE.)
Ooh, the stories are so deep and poignant. I can't for the life of me remember more than a handful of truly gripping story-driven games, but hey, this one's got the gritty, brooding, dark hero, the even darker, broodier, grittier sidekick, the female love interest sidekick, it's SO original!
But, come the fuck on. Video game characters now need a sensible reason for jumping on mushroom heads or blasting aliens with their rocket launcher?
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?
In the olde days, we played GAMES. We didn't ask for a backstory, because there was no need. There were only RULES to the game.
You know. Chess? Monopoly?
Why do you want to treat "save the princess", "shoot the target", "mass produce farms and send zerglings against enemy camp" or "fantasy football" differently? It's still a TOY we are talking about.
Repeat after me : A FUCKING TOY, EVEN IF MOST OF YOU WILL BASE YOUR VIRILITY ON WHAT KIND OF TOY YOU OWN!
This kind of reasoning is what turned many video GAMES into "interactive full motion video experiences".
View pre-rendered cinematic. Hit square. Rummage about for experience points/bonus/item.
Mod me as trollish as you can, but this is the most pretentious bullshit I've ever heard of.
Post #13672602 is the truth that rings down from the mountain!
Does this qualify me for an application at the time-honored GNAA? :)
What's the deal with these? Does that mean LAME is illegal? What's up with it's LGPL license?
/.er!
And for example, if I want to build and sell an MP3 player, do I shell the dollars over to fraunhof, or thompson, or whoever owns the patent, or can I use LAME and get away with it? (or should I release a complete "how to build a LAME-based flash memory MP3 reader" to contribute ?)
Please shed a light for this uninformed
You can argue all you want, but the "stereotype" is the awful reality. Take a stroll through your nearest projects - If you have the balls to! This morning, I saw von dutch, diesel, nike, energy, and many other expensive brands labeled as streetwear or sportswear. Worn by the typically jobless, don't-go-to-school-anymore youth, standing around in front of their project buildings doing nothing. It's NOT a stereotype.
When Sony's CEO says "people are going to have to work harder to own a PS3", he means it. And most people ARE going to buy it anyways, because, EVEN THOUGH Nintendo does the superior product at a lower price, people will automatically think "it's less expensive, so it's shit".
It's called BRANDING. Read "NO LOGO", and come back to discuss it, if you want.
Most people WILL buy the systems, even though they're rehashes of old games with new textures. Like it or not! I personally DON'T, but I'm not gonna argue against rain or snow falling either, get it?
Oh, and calling me a sony/MS intern and modding me troll for stating the obvious? Nigga please. The saddest thing is, we actually agree on both points but you're too dense to realize sarcasm.
Hey there! Heres comes the WAAAHmbulance! WAAAH! I can't buy a ferrari because I don't have money! WAAAH! I can't buy microsoft or sony's latest crapfest because it's expensive! Well, maybe they don't WANT to sell it to YOU. Maybe they KNOW they could sell it for $1000 and you'd still be a tool, gobbling up every sticky drop sony or MS shot in your mouth. There's good reason to hope Big N won't go that way, but come on. Nobody wants to buy the cheaper console, because cheap = suck in most people's minds. Just like those kids who live the the projects in my town - their mothers kill themselves at work, make huge sacrifices concerning basic necessities, so that they can buy their kids 200 Adidas or Nike shoes and Diesel Jeans. Hey, maybe this schtick works because you're a mindless tool who hasn't ever thought about the people's ultimate weapon, boycott?