While this may be sarcasm or an obvious troll, I'm going to respond anyway.
It's a hospital. There are plenty of non-abortion things to do. What, are you going to let your best doctor go because they don't like the idea of abortion? That sounds like a bad business move to me.
Let's hope that achievement gives something to the user. A good example is the crown in Don't Shit Your Pants, which is obtained by getting the achievement for getting every achievement. http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rete/dont-shit-your-pants
Yes, but the point is to trade up. Sell the old PS2, and move up to the PS3 at a "reduced" price. Requiring two or even three (If you want PSX games) consoles for what the original PS3s did in one just seems kind of... backwards.
Clock Tower for the PSX did this... You had no idea when Scissorman would show up. And if he did, you had two options: Run, or fight him. You had maybe a 1 in 4 chance of beating him in a straight-up fight. And even if you did "win", you'd just knock him over so you can run past him, and he'd be back on his feet in a few seconds. This led to an unexplainable fear of him in me. Yes, he was the silliest looking murderer ever, but what he could do to you was genuinely terrifying.
A short guy with a pair of huge garden shears doesn't sound scary; until you realize that he is, despite his appearance, very intelligent and skilled in combat. There is not a firearm or even melee weapon to be found in Clock Tower. All you can do is hope that you can trip him or kick him in the junk so you can get past him if you get stuck in a corner. And you can only do this three times before you get exhausted and get killed the fourth time you try.
If you took the "RUN!!!1" response, hiding from him wasn't exactly easy, either. You'd think that hiding in a bathroom stall would be enough; it isn't. In the time I spent with it, I'd usually get killed every time I hid, unless I put a significant amount of distance between the two of us before hiding. For example: I was being chased down a hallway, and stopped, because I couldn't decide if the stairs were a better idea than the bathroom. I went for the bathroom as he got closer and closer. Hiding in a stall, I waited. He came in, looked stumped, and walked around a bit. Then, he did something I hadn't thought of: He started forcing his scissors through each stall door. I died instantaneously with no chance of correcting my error. I never tried that again.
So, yes. Having enemies that are more than powerful enough to kill you, without you being able to fight back is terrifying. A non-horror game managed to pull this off, and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't their intent. Breakdown had non-human enemies that required a special power to kill, or even harm. Once you realize that every weapon in your arsenal is useless against them, and they can kill you in one or two hits, you experience pants-wetting fear of them. You're forced to crawl through fallen bookcases to get away from them, hoping they don't grab your leg and kill you quickly afterward. There's a segment where two of these guys are locked in separate rooms, divided by a glass door from each other, and a glass door between them and you. Your goal is the door behind them, a steel door opened by a wheel. Pressing the button next to the door, or inside of it, opens ALL of these doors. If you didn't think to trap them, you have to run for your life.
What makes something scary? The environment, the enemies, and your range of abilities. If any of these is out of balance, it ruins everything. Your death must be an easy thing for your enemies to achieve for a game to be truly scary, but you still have to be able to hold out long enough to stun the bigger guys or kill the smaller ones for it to still be playable. It's a fragile balance, sadly.
Never mind that Sony has been cutting features from the PS3 ever since launch, and the only thing MS has cut is the hard drive. While I'm sure that the PS3 is a nice console, and it does have some games I'd like to try (Killzone 2), I'm not willing to shell out all of that money for a crippled console compared to the launch version. If the fully-featured (read: backwards-compatible) version were still available at a competitive price, I'd probably have dropped the money on it by now. But every time I hear of a price drop being accompanied by a reduction in features, and the discontinuation of the models that have the features I want, I'm less likely to buy as it gets cheaper.
The question is, what do you do when they actually give you the money you ask for? Do you go to the post office the following morning? If I have a need for something ASAP, I'll pay the extra money, and I'm sure that other people under pressure to get something before a certain date will do the same, or take their business somewhere else that can get the item to them by the time they need it.
Some of us don't like having to buy a huge stack of CDs that we're just going to throw away afterward. Once you factor in the cost of CDs, you're paying more per track.
Let's see... 99 cents a track, 10.99 (approx.) for an album. For a stack of 100 CD-Rs of decent quality, it's an extra 14.99 (According to Newegg). That's an extra 15 cents per album. This doesn't sound like much, but what if you never use them all? Or if a couple of burns fail?
My point is that I should not have to buy anything extra to make my purchases work how I want them to. The inevitable car analogy: It's like buying a car for 10,000 and then being told you have to pay an extra thousand for the (now optional!) ignition system to be installed.
My music purchases shall continue to be secondhand CDs, or purchased directly from the artist.
If you know their head of IT, it's even easier. That's how I landed my job. High School degree and 2 years of college with nothing to show for it. (Dropped out.) I met with their head of IT (unknowingly) at a couple of Megadeth concerts. He'd always bring a Linux mag or something to read in the car, so we'd talk about it. Before I knew it, I was offered a job.
Why has no one mentioned the various Exterminatus methods from Warhammer 40k? Virus bombs that wipe out populations and burn atmospheres, orbital bombardments from ships the size of planets, etc.
Oh, and any weapon from Paranoia has the potential to be a doomsday weapon. Plasma Generators, Probability Grenades, Soda cans (Bouncy Bubble Beverage, or as it's known in-game, B3), etc.
And if the person at the front is the opposite sex? I think at that point, most of us would say "To hell with *Insert cause for line here*" and walk off in search of a full body mirror.
Imagine this technology abused... I mean, used properly in rhythm games like Guitar Hero. This would allow for a mode that changes the currently playing song on the fly, as if you were playing a real concert. Or, for the FREAKS that can 5-star everything on Expert... (I'm looking at you, Dave. >:O) Up the tempo when the guitar shows signs of button-mashing panic. When the tempo gets fast enough, have instruments drop, siphoning off your meter as you go, until the tempo returns to normal. This "feature" would only be enabled in an adequately dubbed "Impossible" mode.
I know there's a way to use this in rhythm games to add a challenge without seeming horribly arbitrary, but I'm way too tired to think of it right now. I got the ball rolling. Let's see if any of you can think of something challenging, but not too punishing.
As a current Lowe's employee, I find this comment amusing. There are better ways, like pressing every call button in the store, provided they aren't broken or otherwise removed.
Try Super Robot Taisen: OG 2. Now THAT gives you some seriously unfair odds. 3 mass-produced 'bots (Think GMs from Gundam, Leos from Gundam Wing, or Generic Bad Guy/Grunt #465 in any action movie) against 13 superior units and two bosses.
Yes, but wearing anything colored higher than your clearance is treason. Then again, so is touching anything higher than your clearance. Trust The Computer... I mean the Bush family.
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While this may be sarcasm or an obvious troll, I'm going to respond anyway.
It's a hospital. There are plenty of non-abortion things to do. What, are you going to let your best doctor go because they don't like the idea of abortion? That sounds like a bad business move to me.
Let's hope that achievement gives something to the user. A good example is the crown in Don't Shit Your Pants, which is obtained by getting the achievement for getting every achievement. http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rete/dont-shit-your-pants
Yes, but the point is to trade up. Sell the old PS2, and move up to the PS3 at a "reduced" price. Requiring two or even three (If you want PSX games) consoles for what the original PS3s did in one just seems kind of... backwards.
Clock Tower for the PSX did this... You had no idea when Scissorman would show up. And if he did, you had two options: Run, or fight him. You had maybe a 1 in 4 chance of beating him in a straight-up fight. And even if you did "win", you'd just knock him over so you can run past him, and he'd be back on his feet in a few seconds. This led to an unexplainable fear of him in me. Yes, he was the silliest looking murderer ever, but what he could do to you was genuinely terrifying.
A short guy with a pair of huge garden shears doesn't sound scary; until you realize that he is, despite his appearance, very intelligent and skilled in combat. There is not a firearm or even melee weapon to be found in Clock Tower. All you can do is hope that you can trip him or kick him in the junk so you can get past him if you get stuck in a corner. And you can only do this three times before you get exhausted and get killed the fourth time you try.
If you took the "RUN!!!1" response, hiding from him wasn't exactly easy, either. You'd think that hiding in a bathroom stall would be enough; it isn't. In the time I spent with it, I'd usually get killed every time I hid, unless I put a significant amount of distance between the two of us before hiding. For example: I was being chased down a hallway, and stopped, because I couldn't decide if the stairs were a better idea than the bathroom. I went for the bathroom as he got closer and closer. Hiding in a stall, I waited. He came in, looked stumped, and walked around a bit. Then, he did something I hadn't thought of: He started forcing his scissors through each stall door. I died instantaneously with no chance of correcting my error. I never tried that again.
So, yes. Having enemies that are more than powerful enough to kill you, without you being able to fight back is terrifying. A non-horror game managed to pull this off, and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't their intent. Breakdown had non-human enemies that required a special power to kill, or even harm. Once you realize that every weapon in your arsenal is useless against them, and they can kill you in one or two hits, you experience pants-wetting fear of them. You're forced to crawl through fallen bookcases to get away from them, hoping they don't grab your leg and kill you quickly afterward. There's a segment where two of these guys are locked in separate rooms, divided by a glass door from each other, and a glass door between them and you. Your goal is the door behind them, a steel door opened by a wheel. Pressing the button next to the door, or inside of it, opens ALL of these doors. If you didn't think to trap them, you have to run for your life.
What makes something scary? The environment, the enemies, and your range of abilities. If any of these is out of balance, it ruins everything. Your death must be an easy thing for your enemies to achieve for a game to be truly scary, but you still have to be able to hold out long enough to stun the bigger guys or kill the smaller ones for it to still be playable. It's a fragile balance, sadly.
Never mind that Sony has been cutting features from the PS3 ever since launch, and the only thing MS has cut is the hard drive. While I'm sure that the PS3 is a nice console, and it does have some games I'd like to try (Killzone 2), I'm not willing to shell out all of that money for a crippled console compared to the launch version. If the fully-featured (read: backwards-compatible) version were still available at a competitive price, I'd probably have dropped the money on it by now. But every time I hear of a price drop being accompanied by a reduction in features, and the discontinuation of the models that have the features I want, I'm less likely to buy as it gets cheaper.
"If you're going to ride my ass, at least buy me dinner first!"
The question is, what do you do when they actually give you the money you ask for? Do you go to the post office the following morning? If I have a need for something ASAP, I'll pay the extra money, and I'm sure that other people under pressure to get something before a certain date will do the same, or take their business somewhere else that can get the item to them by the time they need it.
Some of us don't like having to buy a huge stack of CDs that we're just going to throw away afterward. Once you factor in the cost of CDs, you're paying more per track.
Let's see... 99 cents a track, 10.99 (approx.) for an album. For a stack of 100 CD-Rs of decent quality, it's an extra 14.99 (According to Newegg). That's an extra 15 cents per album. This doesn't sound like much, but what if you never use them all? Or if a couple of burns fail?
My point is that I should not have to buy anything extra to make my purchases work how I want them to. The inevitable car analogy: It's like buying a car for 10,000 and then being told you have to pay an extra thousand for the (now optional!) ignition system to be installed.
My music purchases shall continue to be secondhand CDs, or purchased directly from the artist.
Blah. Reading "degree" so many times kinda put it in my head. I meant diploma.
If you know their head of IT, it's even easier. That's how I landed my job. High School degree and 2 years of college with nothing to show for it. (Dropped out.) I met with their head of IT (unknowingly) at a couple of Megadeth concerts. He'd always bring a Linux mag or something to read in the car, so we'd talk about it. Before I knew it, I was offered a job.
Why has no one mentioned the various Exterminatus methods from Warhammer 40k? Virus bombs that wipe out populations and burn atmospheres, orbital bombardments from ships the size of planets, etc. Oh, and any weapon from Paranoia has the potential to be a doomsday weapon. Plasma Generators, Probability Grenades, Soda cans (Bouncy Bubble Beverage, or as it's known in-game, B3), etc.
And if the person at the front is the opposite sex? I think at that point, most of us would say "To hell with *Insert cause for line here*" and walk off in search of a full body mirror.
Don't give them any ideas! They could be watching!
Imagine this technology abused... I mean, used properly in rhythm games like Guitar Hero. This would allow for a mode that changes the currently playing song on the fly, as if you were playing a real concert. Or, for the FREAKS that can 5-star everything on Expert... (I'm looking at you, Dave. >:O) Up the tempo when the guitar shows signs of button-mashing panic. When the tempo gets fast enough, have instruments drop, siphoning off your meter as you go, until the tempo returns to normal. This "feature" would only be enabled in an adequately dubbed "Impossible" mode.
I know there's a way to use this in rhythm games to add a challenge without seeming horribly arbitrary, but I'm way too tired to think of it right now. I got the ball rolling. Let's see if any of you can think of something challenging, but not too punishing.
I believe that he was comparing them based on their sharing of the same engine, and then kinda went off on a tangent.
I have the name of a certain well-hated Prime Minister.
As a current Lowe's employee, I find this comment amusing. There are better ways, like pressing every call button in the store, provided they aren't broken or otherwise removed.
The cake is a lie!
I'm an only child. Wait. You meant the prime minister of Australia. Damn it all.
You mean "Commie Mutant Traitor", don't you, citizen?
The prices are already high enough. $50 a month is a bit much for what I'm getting, if you ask me.
Not to mention the Japanese TV show where he has a giant robot.
There's only one problem: His UID is 6 digits.
Try Super Robot Taisen: OG 2. Now THAT gives you some seriously unfair odds. 3 mass-produced 'bots (Think GMs from Gundam, Leos from Gundam Wing, or Generic Bad Guy/Grunt #465 in any action movie) against 13 superior units and two bosses.
Yes, but wearing anything colored higher than your clearance is treason. Then again, so is touching anything higher than your clearance. Trust The Computer... I mean the Bush family.