Or maybe because spam has already been fixed? Very rarely does a spam email end up in my Gmail inbox. Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your rant, continue.
I know everyone's talking about Gamefly, but Gametap does the same thing for PC games. Monthly fee, and you can download all you want. I used it for a year, but lately I realized that Steams sales have been more lucrative for me. Spend $30 on a sale, and I'll have it for ever. Lapse my gametap sub, and it's all gone.
You know, if you think about it, why has Mario not offended me, but just about all the Sonic games with stories and characters have? Is it that sonic takes itself more seriously, and mario tongue-in-cheek? Or is it as you suggested, one is playful and cute, the other full of prepubescent 'tude?
I remember reading about this about a year ago. The man in question was so dedicated to his fantasy that he went through bankruptcy and a divorce before he finished it.
It would have almost been worth it if the teleporter worked.
Sorry, its a bit late for Sega to make a good Sonic game for me. I plan on never buying another of those game again. Sega has proved one too many times that they just don't want to make one worth my time, so I lost all interest. Even my memories of the old games are tarnished. Sonic, that cool guy who once rivaled Mario (in my mind), can just die and burn in hell for all I care. [/jaded rant]
I have a younger brother who is only plays the new 3D sonic games, and loves them. Its horrible, seeing his mind being warped into thinking that somehow these are games that we should welcome into our consoles.
I've only ever passed the first level in these games (heroes and shadow) once, and never EVER felt the urge to play again. You can't see what your doing, but your sure to do it fast. And if the gameplay wasn't enough of a reason to ignore these games, the whole repulsive attitude thing is, as it will make you wish death upon whatever mentally deficient sub-human thought it would be "cool".
Then Shadow comes along, and makes the gameplay and story somehow worse by adding broken and aggravating objective, non-aimable guns, not to mention the idea of a large, anthropomorphic, amnesiac animal in love with a disproportioned eight year old is enough to drive one mad. The guns themselves are the equivalent of adding a dating simulation to Half-Life 2, only instead of courting Alyx, you court headcrabs.
Then, they have to go a prostalatize it with Racers and other spin-offs.
Sonic is the gaming equivilent of Star Wars. The old ones where fun, but the new ones rape all my old memories, leaving me feeling hollow and jaded.
Please Sega, if you have any shread of decency, they will kill him instead off leaving him in this tormented existence that is worse then death.
Am I the only one here that thinks Governmental interference into the market is generally a bad thing? I really don't want to see government subsidized games.
You can talk all you want about market failures, but I seriously doubt that video games qualify as one.
Its ok that the Zune doesn't work with Vista, urge, or playforsure. I never liked those things anyway. Now if it was compatible with somethings I do like (iTunes), then I wouldn't completely dismiss it outright. But it doesn't, so I do.
It reminds me of Windows Activation. It actively denies me the ability to use my legal copy of XP. It's almost like a divine nudge that maybe I shouldn't be subjecting myself to it anyways. So I boot into Kubuntu.
Goverments *coughUKcough* just love keeping information far more sensitive then this about their citizens. Are they just upset about someone else cutting in on their game?
Are you saying that this is just a front for the Giant Nuclear Power Consortium (tm)? Good thing they don't have any valid points, other then being right.
This reminds me of the great Steam Conspiracy, where Valve only made Half-Life 2 in order to push Steam on peoples computers, thus controlling the computer resources of the masses.
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I could only play at night, when my parents had gone to bed, so that didn't help.
You know, a game doesn't have to make you jump to be scary.
A great example would be Silent Hill. Oh sure, I jumped here and there, but nothing big. It wasn't until hours AFTER the game, that I got creeped out. It affected me for DAYS afterword.
I stopped when I got to that sick and twisted school-house. I kept expecting things to jump out at me. I was convenced that just around the next corner, I would run into a hidious boss that would take all 5 of my bullets and then eat me alive.
I just can't get up the courage to play it again.
On the other hand, I no longer find Doom 3 scary after Silent Hill.
I think there is some confusion as to what a success would entail for Nintindo. People cry that the the Gamecube and N64 were not the most popular console, and thus a failure. What their missing is that success in the game business is not a popularity contest, it's a question of profitability and games.
Both consoles made loads of money and sported top of the line games. The only way Nintindo has failed is with their relitivly smaller library of games , due to the lack of third-party devs. But even this is being rectified, what with the two largest publishers (EA and Ubi) heavily on-board the Wii.
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Or maybe because spam has already been fixed? Very rarely does a spam email end up in my Gmail inbox. Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your rant, continue.
I know everyone's talking about Gamefly, but Gametap does the same thing for PC games. Monthly fee, and you can download all you want. I used it for a year, but lately I realized that Steams sales have been more lucrative for me. Spend $30 on a sale, and I'll have it for ever. Lapse my gametap sub, and it's all gone.
I have to admit, this makes us sound an awful lot like hipsters trying to be on the edge and always being different.
Crap, don't remind me. I just flew with a dozen of those in my carry on, and I read most of then during the flight.
What? You mean you DON'T want to play a dry-as-dirt rails shooter for a forth of the game?
You know, if you think about it, why has Mario not offended me, but just about all the Sonic games with stories and characters have? Is it that sonic takes itself more seriously, and mario tongue-in-cheek? Or is it as you suggested, one is playful and cute, the other full of prepubescent 'tude?
For me, my fun is inversely proportanal to the amount of dialog. Really, some diabolical laughter is all I can take anymore. Stop the 'tude. Really.
And for heavens sakes, stop the interspecies pedophilia!
Do you right your email address in your books too?
I remember reading about this about a year ago. The man in question was so dedicated to his fantasy that he went through bankruptcy and a divorce before he finished it.
It would have almost been worth it if the teleporter worked.
How do you get the spyware in the first place?
Sorry, its a bit late for Sega to make a good Sonic game for me. I plan on never buying another of those game again. Sega has proved one too many times that they just don't want to make one worth my time, so I lost all interest. Even my memories of the old games are tarnished. Sonic, that cool guy who once rivaled Mario (in my mind), can just die and burn in hell for all I care. [/jaded rant]
I have a younger brother who is only plays the new 3D sonic games, and loves them. Its horrible, seeing his mind being warped into thinking that somehow these are games that we should welcome into our consoles.
I've only ever passed the first level in these games (heroes and shadow) once, and never EVER felt the urge to play again. You can't see what your doing, but your sure to do it fast. And if the gameplay wasn't enough of a reason to ignore these games, the whole repulsive attitude thing is, as it will make you wish death upon whatever mentally deficient sub-human thought it would be "cool".
Then Shadow comes along, and makes the gameplay and story somehow worse by adding broken and aggravating objective, non-aimable guns, not to mention the idea of a large, anthropomorphic, amnesiac animal in love with a disproportioned eight year old is enough to drive one mad. The guns themselves are the equivalent of adding a dating simulation to Half-Life 2, only instead of courting Alyx, you court headcrabs.
Then, they have to go a prostalatize it with Racers and other spin-offs.
Sonic is the gaming equivilent of Star Wars. The old ones where fun, but the new ones rape all my old memories, leaving me feeling hollow and jaded.
Please Sega, if you have any shread of decency, they will kill him instead off leaving him in this tormented existence that is worse then death.
For me, the whole Generals thing comes down to one element: The only thing it has to do with C&C is that they're both RTS games.
Nothing else! Not the interface, not the mechanics, not the units, not the music (oh gosh, how can you dump the music?) not the story, NOTHING!
Calling it C&C Generals was just a marketing ploy, and an insult to C&C.
Its the parents responsibility, first and foremost. The idea of using the government as a crutch will only encourage people not to think on their own.
Am I the only one here that thinks Governmental interference into the market is generally a bad thing? I really don't want to see government subsidized games.
You can talk all you want about market failures, but I seriously doubt that video games qualify as one.
Its ok that the Zune doesn't work with Vista, urge, or playforsure. I never liked those things anyway. Now if it was compatible with somethings I do like (iTunes), then I wouldn't completely dismiss it outright. But it doesn't, so I do.
It reminds me of Windows Activation. It actively denies me the ability to use my legal copy of XP. It's almost like a divine nudge that maybe I shouldn't be subjecting myself to it anyways. So I boot into Kubuntu.
Goverments *coughUKcough* just love keeping information far more sensitive then this about their citizens. Are they just upset about someone else cutting in on their game?
I hate to point out something so obvious to an "American" like me, but when someone says American, I think of "Resident of USA", not South America.
Ah, but please do anything to attack people with good points to make. DAMN THOSE PEOPLE WITH IDEAS AND THE GUTS TO SAY THEM!
Linux: The wars over: we won. Turns out your the big hero. I get to drive the float. And Red Hat is in charge of confetti!
Microsoft: I'm no stranger to sarcasm sir.
Are you saying that this is just a front for the Giant Nuclear Power Consortium (tm)? Good thing they don't have any valid points, other then being right.
This reminds me of the great Steam Conspiracy, where Valve only made Half-Life 2 in order to push Steam on peoples computers, thus controlling the computer resources of the masses.
I could only play at night, when my parents had gone to bed, so that didn't help.
You know, a game doesn't have to make you jump to be scary.
A great example would be Silent Hill. Oh sure, I jumped here and there, but nothing big. It wasn't until hours AFTER the game, that I got creeped out. It affected me for DAYS afterword.
I stopped when I got to that sick and twisted school-house. I kept expecting things to jump out at me. I was convenced that just around the next corner, I would run into a hidious boss that would take all 5 of my bullets and then eat me alive.
I just can't get up the courage to play it again.
On the other hand, I no longer find Doom 3 scary after Silent Hill.
Send it here.
Let them know your thoughts.
It's called Nintendo Thumb.
I think there is some confusion as to what a success would entail for Nintindo. People cry that the the Gamecube and N64 were not the most popular console, and thus a failure. What their missing is that success in the game business is not a popularity contest, it's a question of profitability and games.
Both consoles made loads of money and sported top of the line games. The only way Nintindo has failed is with their relitivly smaller library of games , due to the lack of third-party devs. But even this is being rectified, what with the two largest publishers (EA and Ubi) heavily on-board the Wii.
I predict success.