You could always petition outside a big name music store in New York, LA, etc. Hold up signs, tip off the national news media. You might get a few hits here and there, but over time it grows and people get word of it.
I'd be pissed if I got a refurb item for a replacement on a new console. Especially if it was scratched. You'll be painted a liar by the Nintendo fans (Nintendo can do no wrong!) and praised by everyone else. Welcome to the war. Thanks for volunteering!
I know this is going off topic here, but I've seen what your talking about. Places I've worked over the years have shown me that men generally make better waiters, cooks, and bankers. Most of the time, they don't get tipped as much, but that's another issue. I don't know if it's a gender role per se, but I think it has to do with the fact that most guys I know (except those that are gay [again, another issue]) seem to be focused on the job at hand instead of something off in the distance or their personal appearance. Of course, your construction worker types will all stop to stare at someone walking by, but they go right back to the job at hand and get it done. Society pins us to strange rules sometimes.
One wonders if it should have even happened at all? Did they not catch the fact that there were tons of people all getting the beat stick at one time? Couldn't they correlate this with the fact that most of them were on the same OS? Have we moved beyond the stages of "innocent before proven guilty"? Is this how Vista's licensing will be handled as well? "Might as well ban everyone, if they feel they need to get back in the game, they can petition." It seems kind of counter-productive.
Sorry for the rant, but this reflects on the society we are in today. Is it okay to ban someone without first investigating the cause?
Hell I get on average 6 hours during the week then end up sleeping upwards of 10 hours on the weekends after some long Fridays. You eventually get the sleep in, but it comes at a later time. Perhaps a much later time when you put to sleep for good. (shrug)
I blame women! Ok, so maybe some of them. Joking aside, most women I meet base their opinion of a man on his social status or his job title. If he has an upstanding title, he must be driven to succeed and some other nonsense. It apparently shows confidence, though I'd argue that it shows the opposite. You can be just as confident in yourself if you didn't bust balls every day to try to put yourself in the coffin at an early age.
I don't remember saying that it "does not count as 'replay value'". Perhaps you can point out where I stated that?
I simply stated that there are differences in the two games you mention. One is a story-driven game and the other is a pure competition based game. I never said one or the other did not have replay value, but they both have different types of replay value.
That solely relies on the fact that you are playing against other people online. Replay value for some people actually involves a story in the game to follow. Replay value in that situation comes from different paths and one-shot courses through the game.
Let's say you have to cross the bridge. If you fail, you fall to the bottom and can't reach the point where the bridge takes you. You now have to (or want to) take another path to achieve your goal facing challenges that are different than the other run.
Lets also mention character development common in most RPGs. Do you develop your character to play like a ranged combatant or skill him in plate mail and a two hander? Does each of their skills present then with a different storyline? With thieving skills, do you gain access to areas unreachable by the pure fighter or mage?
Replay is not just competeing against your friends. I think this is the major difference between the story driven and PVP driven gamer. Thus the difference between an FPSer and an RPGer.
Yeah, we could pull out of Iraq right now and build Fusion reactors to supply us energy for our plasma rifles when we have to go in and nuetralize the entire country later when the "unfavorables" take over.
Why not just call everything a satellite? Everything is affected by the gravity of something else. If you simplify it to say that all objects are satellites, but some of those satellites have satellites, you replace an ever complicated system with one simple word. Now, you'd have satellite classifications which could get complicated as well, but if it's well thought out, you should be able to tell by the classification what type of object it is.
Graphics, greater storage(well, for one at least), faster processor, enhanced controller...I guess the graphics increase was the only improvement:rolleyes:
All the PS3 people I talked to were very open with the info they had. Most knew how many the store was to get and were all courteous when I asked questions. I can only think of one that wasn't stoked to get it home and fire it up, but he was a little wierd anyway (quiet and secluded, like he was hiding something... It didn't help that his parent showed up for the midnight release and they both wreaked of "class".) Maybe it's where you live? Maybe you (like a great many other people) think that if one person get's shot waiting in line that it also happened in every other line across the US? Maybe you like spreading fud...
I'd argue to say that most people have read less about the Wii than has been read about the PS3/360. There are all kinds of fun technical docs and specs on the PS3 and 360's processor architecture trying to find out which one is more powerful, etc.
The only thing you get with Wii reading is a bunch of people all shouting (the best they can in text), "Wiiiii!". Most people fail to see that you are basically buying a GameCube with a new controller. Very little of the system has changed except the case and controller. While this isn't a bad thing, it's definately not a step forward as far as technology is concerned. The Wii is kind of like introducing a new version of Windows 2000 without a new file system or kernel, calling it XP and giving it colorful window borders...oh, damn.
You will have those that say graphics alone don't make the game fun, and I'll agree, but graphics can do alot for the user, playability, eye-strain, immersion and all that jazz.
Which is what my parents asked me about just this past week! They asked if they should wait for Blu-Ray or buy a new DVD player. HD-DVD didn't even cross their lips. People will confuse HD-DVD with DVD thinking it's just an extra mode or something like CD vs. CDR vs. CDRW. New name = New tech to them and I'm sure many others.
As opposed to the last great format war, your DVDs will still play in the new drives. Some of the drives will even attempt to upscale the image to make it look better. Let's see you do the same with that massive collection of VHS tapes.
I hardly know anyone who's had a PS2 for more then a couple years and hasn't had to get a new ones
...now you know one more. I bought my PS2 back in 2001 and I play the hell out of it with no problems so far (knock on wood.) I had a roomate then that had a Sony receiver that was the only thing in the apartment that survived a surge we had during one of the big storms previous to me buying the PS2. I actually don't know anyone that has any Sony equipment that failed on them prematurely except for a few PS1 systems that they had to turn upside down to get them to play, but that was after some serious abuse (carrying it around, dropping it in a backpack, etc.) Maybe I have a "Good Electronics Aura" around me or something since I seem to be the only one that sees a very low failure rate on stuff. Then again, maybe I take care of my stuff and keep my electronic clean and as free from dust as I can./shrug
Come to think of it, I did recently have my Hitachi projection TV input board go out, but it happened to be the same time my cable box went out, so I can only assume this was some surge through the cable lines. The repairman didn't seem to find any evidence of such, but I'm sure he checked it using the old trusty convex lens method.
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You could always petition outside a big name music store in New York, LA, etc. Hold up signs, tip off the national news media. You might get a few hits here and there, but over time it grows and people get word of it.
Persistence.
I'd be pissed if I got a refurb item for a replacement on a new console. Especially if it was scratched. You'll be painted a liar by the Nintendo fans (Nintendo can do no wrong!) and praised by everyone else. Welcome to the war. Thanks for volunteering!
I know this is going off topic here, but I've seen what your talking about. Places I've worked over the years have shown me that men generally make better waiters, cooks, and bankers. Most of the time, they don't get tipped as much, but that's another issue. I don't know if it's a gender role per se, but I think it has to do with the fact that most guys I know (except those that are gay [again, another issue]) seem to be focused on the job at hand instead of something off in the distance or their personal appearance. Of course, your construction worker types will all stop to stare at someone walking by, but they go right back to the job at hand and get it done. Society pins us to strange rules sometimes.
With the Playstation on the market now, people have to come up with reasons to bash Sony, even if it is completely off the wall.
One wonders if it should have even happened at all? Did they not catch the fact that there were tons of people all getting the beat stick at one time? Couldn't they correlate this with the fact that most of them were on the same OS? Have we moved beyond the stages of "innocent before proven guilty"? Is this how Vista's licensing will be handled as well? "Might as well ban everyone, if they feel they need to get back in the game, they can petition." It seems kind of counter-productive.
Sorry for the rant, but this reflects on the society we are in today. Is it okay to ban someone without first investigating the cause?
Hell I get on average 6 hours during the week then end up sleeping upwards of 10 hours on the weekends after some long Fridays. You eventually get the sleep in, but it comes at a later time. Perhaps a much later time when you put to sleep for good. (shrug)
I blame women! Ok, so maybe some of them. Joking aside, most women I meet base their opinion of a man on his social status or his job title. If he has an upstanding title, he must be driven to succeed and some other nonsense. It apparently shows confidence, though I'd argue that it shows the opposite. You can be just as confident in yourself if you didn't bust balls every day to try to put yourself in the coffin at an early age.
It still doesn't explain bad dreams and those of us that tend to move while sleeping. ;)
I don't remember saying that it "does not count as 'replay value'". Perhaps you can point out where I stated that?
I simply stated that there are differences in the two games you mention. One is a story-driven game and the other is a pure competition based game. I never said one or the other did not have replay value, but they both have different types of replay value.
That solely relies on the fact that you are playing against other people online. Replay value for some people actually involves a story in the game to follow. Replay value in that situation comes from different paths and one-shot courses through the game.
Let's say you have to cross the bridge. If you fail, you fall to the bottom and can't reach the point where the bridge takes you. You now have to (or want to) take another path to achieve your goal facing challenges that are different than the other run.
Lets also mention character development common in most RPGs. Do you develop your character to play like a ranged combatant or skill him in plate mail and a two hander? Does each of their skills present then with a different storyline? With thieving skills, do you gain access to areas unreachable by the pure fighter or mage?
Replay is not just competeing against your friends. I think this is the major difference between the story driven and PVP driven gamer. Thus the difference between an FPSer and an RPGer.
Are you talking about Three Mile Island in 1979? Chernobyl's accident was in 1986, and neither of them "blew up".
Yeah, we could pull out of Iraq right now and build Fusion reactors to supply us energy for our plasma rifles when we have to go in and nuetralize the entire country later when the "unfavorables" take over.
Why not just call everything a satellite? Everything is affected by the gravity of something else. If you simplify it to say that all objects are satellites, but some of those satellites have satellites, you replace an ever complicated system with one simple word. Now, you'd have satellite classifications which could get complicated as well, but if it's well thought out, you should be able to tell by the classification what type of object it is.
star(Sun) = satellite
Earth = satellite
Moon = satellite
asteroids = satellites
Damn Jews! It's all their fault.
Graphics, greater storage(well, for one at least), faster processor, enhanced controller...I guess the graphics increase was the only improvement :rolleyes:
Let the stereotypes prevail I guess.
All the PS3 people I talked to were very open with the info they had. Most knew how many the store was to get and were all courteous when I asked questions. I can only think of one that wasn't stoked to get it home and fire it up, but he was a little wierd anyway (quiet and secluded, like he was hiding something... It didn't help that his parent showed up for the midnight release and they both wreaked of "class".) Maybe it's where you live? Maybe you (like a great many other people) think that if one person get's shot waiting in line that it also happened in every other line across the US? Maybe you like spreading fud...
I'd argue to say that most people have read less about the Wii than has been read about the PS3/360. There are all kinds of fun technical docs and specs on the PS3 and 360's processor architecture trying to find out which one is more powerful, etc.
The only thing you get with Wii reading is a bunch of people all shouting (the best they can in text), "Wiiiii!". Most people fail to see that you are basically buying a GameCube with a new controller. Very little of the system has changed except the case and controller. While this isn't a bad thing, it's definately not a step forward as far as technology is concerned. The Wii is kind of like introducing a new version of Windows 2000 without a new file system or kernel, calling it XP and giving it colorful window borders...oh, damn.
You will have those that say graphics alone don't make the game fun, and I'll agree, but graphics can do alot for the user, playability, eye-strain, immersion and all that jazz.
How am I to fight cancer if my PC keeps shutting down!
No thanks, the 1% porn content of the internet is already keeping those tubes fully "squirted".
What, no Dvorak layout? Is there no love?
Which is what my parents asked me about just this past week! They asked if they should wait for Blu-Ray or buy a new DVD player. HD-DVD didn't even cross their lips. People will confuse HD-DVD with DVD thinking it's just an extra mode or something like CD vs. CDR vs. CDRW. New name = New tech to them and I'm sure many others.
As opposed to the last great format war, your DVDs will still play in the new drives. Some of the drives will even attempt to upscale the image to make it look better. Let's see you do the same with that massive collection of VHS tapes.
The war is different this time around.
Come to think of it, I did recently have my Hitachi projection TV input board go out, but it happened to be the same time my cable box went out, so I can only assume this was some surge through the cable lines. The repairman didn't seem to find any evidence of such, but I'm sure he checked it using the old trusty convex lens method.
Ah, but people do shell out that kind of cash for games and bleeding edge technology... and that's just the video card!