This is why I am totally fine with having played the game on 360. While I have a system that could run the game, I would rather it just work and I not have to fiddle with copy protection. Besides the fact that I got to play it last December, instead of waiting until June.
Yes, I miss FASA. I miss old school Battletech, and Shadowrun. I know people are still printing material for them, but when the well has dried up it is gone for good. Never got to play Earthdawn, but I remember how upset its fans were when it was discontinued. It was a sad day when FASA closed their doors!
4e is coming whether we want it to or not. It seems like it is going to have some good and some bad changes. If you want to stick to 3.5 that's your choice, if you want to move to 4e good for you. I'll be sticking with 3.5 for at least another year or so. Wile I'll probably buy the core rules right when they come out, I will not buy anything else.
Unfortunately my setting of choice is Eberron (just ordered City of Stormreach too) and I won't see jack for this setting until who knows when in '09. I guess I can feel happy that I didn't sink a lot of money into source books... Maybe $150 to $200 for all the Eberron source books. I bought most of my collection from the Amazon.com market place for almost nothing due to having small remainder marks on the bottom of the spine. But, I feel slighted that I won't see anything other than a coffee table book (An Adventurer's Guide to Eberron) for what will probably be well over a year.
I know so many Mac... "enthusiasts" I will call them that won't dare touch a PC because Windows sucks as they so often put it. When I tell them that they don't have to use Windows some look at me with an almost deer like gaze. I think this is true for most non-IT/geek types. They correlate that a PC=Windows. For over a decade now you haven't been able to even buy a PC at retail with out Windows being thrown at you. I don't think some people even know that their machine could run with something other than Windows on it.
I think for a lot of people they just don't get that a computer doesn't need Windows to work, and that there are a multitude of operating systems out there to be used. But unfortunately we have things like the Mac Vs PC commercials that just reinforce this idea. At least the commercials are entertaining.
On a side note: I usually try to have one Linux and one Windows system in my house if possible. My old laptop that I used for business and school ran Linux and the desktop I used for games runs Windows. Unfortunately the laptop bit it hard a few months back... I've been craving my Linux fix too. I bought one of the Gateway P-6931FX laptops to game on, and a week ago a latch broke and I was locked out physically:( I didn't want to do the job myself cause I wanted to keep my warranty intact. But once I get the sucker back I'm throwing Linux on my desktop! Can't wait:)
I pounded 20 hours into Mass Effect over the last few days, finishing it yesterday. The ending was so climatic that I immediately told myself I was buying the next one. And I'm ready to go back through it all to. First time through I played as a paragon this time I'll play the rogue's part. Maybe grab a few more achievements while I'm at it. I must say the idea of achievements actually for something other than bragging rights is an awesome idea.
In an interview back in march with Sakaguchi he talked about UE3 and Blue Dragon development.
It's very good overall. Support has been outstanding. But the problem is, for example, Epic's Unreal Engine 3. It's developed in English, of course. And unless you've got programmers who can understand English or are bilingual...we've got numerous bilingual staff, programmers who are highly capable of speaking and understanding English, so they can understand the updated information and versions with respect to the development of UE3. But unless you've got programmers who can understand English, they actually can't read the materials. And even though translation takes place, there is a lag. Oftentimes when they read [about] a version, the very version that they read is outdated. So those are some of the challenges associated with the language barrier. That's one area that Microsoft is poor in: documentation. Seems to me with the exception of it being in English, he had good things to say. Obviously you can't expect Epic(or MS in Sakaguchi's opinion) to have full translations of documents ready to go out the door when new code and features are done. But damn, if you've seen Blue Dragon and Lost Oddyssey you can tell Mist Walker has worked some magic with that engine. IMO, SK just wants to bitch! Too Human has been in development for how long... almost a decade? I don't think there is an inadequacy with the UE3 here, it's SK that has problems.
My mother (being the nice person she is) got me a PSP through her work's reward program a few weeks back. And, while I have a DS to tote around my college campus, I'm loving the PSP. For being a portable system the games have great graphics and music. The down side, most of the UMDs for games I've tried don't seem to have file placement optimized very well. You can hear the system constantly accessing information and having to search the disc. Add the constantly start and stop of the disc drive to the short battery life and you get the biggest downside of the PSP system and the UMD format. 6 hours of battery life is the most I've gotten out of my PSP, when I can definitely say my DS can get around 15 hours. I use my portable systems as a way to pass time between classes when I may only have a half hour to do something, not enough to start on homework or read a chapter and remember it. The PSP battery just isn't reliable enough for me. The DS I can close and put into sleep mode, open it after class and pretty much be sure I can play even after a long week of use. The PSP on the other hand I either have to turn it off and go through all the BS to start it back up, or leave it in sleep and hope the battery doesn't die(which it has done already).
I will have to say, I'm quite impressed with the format itself. It's small, fairly easy to carry, and from what I understand holds about as much info as a GameCube disc. It's the system, it's lack luster battery life, and the horrible disc optimization I'm not to impressed with.
the Wii because of it's low specs and lack of almost any extra features, not even a DVD player
I swear DVD playback in the Wii is such a non-issue it makes me laugh when people complain or use it as an argument for why the Wii is bad. Let me ask a question... how few DVD players do you have that it makes it so important that the Wii can play DVDs? I asked this to a Microsoft rep at my local EB one day and he preceded to count the DVD players in his house. He had to use both hands and finally said to me "good point." An MS rep said "good point." I don't know about your household but in mine between two laptops and a desktop, a PS2, and the two stand-alone DVD players I could care less if I had another one or not.
I haven't played Red Steel or any other Wii game involving shooting with a Wiimote, and I'm sure the best of them still isn't terribly realistic
Yea, it is terribly unrealistic. I think your grasp of how the control works though is pretty good. The amazing thing to think about also is how much buzz Red Steel got. Sure it was a horrible game but before the Wii was released I couldn't go to a game site without seeing something about it. Why didn't he go after it? Does the lack of blood in the game make it a non-issue, cause talking with my media violence professor it the violence is still there whether we see the blood or not. I would seriously love to see his take on the Wii. Has he not gone after it for the web imposed "kiddiness" of Nintendo?
it would be one case I would hope Microsoft wins. Seriously, Jack Thompson is a blithering idiot. I find it quite funny that there are many games out there far more violent than the ones he chooses to single out, yet it is like he is oblivious, Oh wait, that's right... he is!
What really amazes me is the man hasn't gone after the Wii(at least to my knowledge). Come on, a game like Red Steel should be a big fat target for this guy. Not to mention Metroid Prime 3, which is a game that is making some buzz. You would think the controls used in these games would seriously disturb him, those Wiimotes are more like guns than any 360 or PS controller could ever be!
I don't really care. It looks to me like they just gave StarCraft a 3d overhaul and after the Warhammer 40k RTS games I don't think I could play StarCraft again, even if it is in 3d. I loved the original StarCraft, played it for who knows how many years. Even my father loved it. But, once with got to play Dawn of War we just couldn't go back to that style of game play.
Give me my expansion for Dark Crusade, I want a new planet to conquer!
Yes, Goldeneye for the N64 kicked ass. I will admit I played way to much of the game when my friends and I still had N64s. It was one of the few games that I actually had to buy another controller because of over using that analog stick and killing it. The others being Perfect Dark for the N64 and Smash Bros. Melee.
I've never really consider Metroid Prime to be an FPS. It was always just Metroid with a first-person view. It never had the feel of an FPS to me. Metroid makes or breaks if I buy a Nintendo console anymore. I stood out in the cold last October to pre-order a Wii just because MP3 was supposed to released soon after launch, it's unfortunate that it didn't but I think I can wait for it.
IMHO there are 2 reasons I think Halo became as big as it is today...
1. Microsoft hyped it beyond any and all imagination when the first one was coming out. 2. Before Halo there wasn't a single decent FPS on a console, just a whole bunch of shitty ports of PC FPS games.
I honestly couldn't give a rats ass about Halo or Bungie for that matter. I never found Halo to be interesting, and I've always had a decent PC to play my FPS games on. I played Halo on PC and it was tolerable. I still play the original Call of Duty and would much rather play that over Halo any day.
in fact really liked it when it was first released. I even bought an XBox360 controller to use with the game because of how much it really was an action game. My point was that DDO and GW are two different games. The OP was stating that DDO was a fee based Guild Wars, which it isn't and because of its action RPG nature will never be. I was also making out the point that DDO is horribly reliant on stats and items. GW isn't. So comparing the two really can't be done. I've always looked at Guild Wars in that it almost has a Diablo feel to it(probably because heck the people that made it worked for Blizzard before the started Arena.Net), but GW was never about stats or items. DDO unfortunately is, to use a term in the Eberron campaign book, a Monty Haul game at its core. It will always be about PCs having grossly over powered equipment to be able to get by in the end game, it still was when Turbine let old subscribers come back for a weekend in March. I have been playing GW casually for almost a year, and not once have I ran into an outright bump in the road like you can in DDO... 4th Vault of Night quest, Inevitable, no armor-penetrating weapons, 4 hours of your life wasted because you cannot kill an Inevitable without bypassing it's armor and regen.
And please note, not once did I mention CoV, Wow, or LoTRO. I was talking about GuildWars which has no grinding, no standing in a field waiting for monsters to spawn so you can kill them, no digging for ore or searching for flowers. In fact the game is entirely instanced just like DDO and it came out a year before it.
D&D Online is basically a Guild Wars with a monthly fee
Besides the fact that everything is instanced in both games I fail to see any other point of comparison. Maybe the fact that Guild Wars goes up to level 20 as its cap and DDO will be there eventually, but that would be pushing it.
DDO and GW are by far two different games, I know this. I played DDO for about six months right when it was released and I've been playing GW since last June. DDO is a very stat based, hack and slash, action RPG. Stats play so much into how it was made that if you hadn't built your character exactly so that a specific stat could be increased to 25 by use of items, magic, potions some guilds wouldn't even take you because you couldn't run end game. The end game content(well end game when I was playing, Vault of Night to be specific) was also so reliant on the equipment that you had it was impossible to even finish without having anti-death and armor-penetrating items, both of which were near impossible to find unless you could grind one specific quest line 24/7. GW on the other hand comes down to two things: Your own skill in the game, and the ability to use the 8 skills on your bar effectively. Character builds are not static as they are in DDO(yes, DDO has enhancement to alleviate the static nature of D&D character builds, but when I was playing enhancements didn't really help), and builds can be changed when you wish in any town. DDO is all about power gaming, it's truly a D&D campaign gone wrong with horrible imbalances in its core design. Your PC is either horribly over powered or horribly underpowered. GW, while it has portions that just ask for power gamers such as Hero Battles, is a game that isn't dependent on the items your character has(except the first campaign where you have to get your armor to have a special attribute, but that was easy to do) and the end game can be done by just about anyone as long as you are smart enough to create a viable build that works for your style of play and can play as a team.
Honestly, I still have my copy of Secret of Evermore and play it almost once a year if I can get to it. Same to be said for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Actraiser, and a few other S-E games. And then there is Bushido Blade(the original), even though it is going on a decade old it almost gets as much drunken play time as Smash Bros. Melee does in my circle of friends.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but really I could care less. I bought a PS1 because of FFVII, and when I got done with it... eh! I went back and played "FF III" on my SNES. For me the Final Fantasy series has gone on a decline since its transition from Nintendo. I haven't played XII yet, but seriously I'm not too sure I want to drop $50 on a game I'll play once like I have most of the other FFs in the last decade. And honestly, FF XIII is looking to be nothing more than eye-candy, and there is no way I will buy a PS3 just for one game I may or may not enjoy.
I honestly wish Square-Enix would go back to some of their other franchises. How long has it been since Square made Rad Racer? The Chrono series has just been sitting there idle, and while Cross was decent I'm still waiting for a sequel in true faith to the original. And, dare I say it, what happened to Secret of Evermore? I know the IP was basically a joke, but seriously that is a world that could really be built onto and expanded! DQ IX is on the horizon at least! Ten years of FF XIII just doesn't get me too excited.
OH god, DDO. I will admit that game was fun, and then they did the first big content update(Vault of Night). After that it it went downhill, screw it they just pushed it off the cliff. If it wasn't for the good friends I had made the first two months in I wouldn't have stuck to it as long as I did. By June DDO had sucked me into Eberron enough to start reading the novels. Reading the novels flat out killed the game for me, it just couldn't live up to Kevin Baker's vision of Eberron. I paid for up to the end of August, I quit sometime after the beginning of June. I don't think I will ever touch another Turbine MMO.... EVAR!
I hadn't heard about this until the story was put up on here. I had borrowed Stranger Than Fiction a few weeks back from a friend, and watched it on my old PS2(2nd gen, not slimline). My sister wanted to watch it so he said I could give it to her. I was talking about this tonight at dinner and she mentioned it wouldn't play on here Sony Vaio at all. She had to try two other players in her house before finding one it would work on. neither of which were Sony.
Paying for a game that you're playing alone and it still requires a high speed internet connection is just asinine.
I totally agree. I bought Phantasy Star Universe shortly after it came out cause I wanted to play the offline story mode, I could care less about the online portion. But, it uses game gaurd. Forget that it has no CD keys... it uses game gaurd. Not just on the online portion, but on the offline portion! Ugh! So when I want to play the single-player story mode, if my connection is down I can't play. So when I'm on the road or just can't get internet access PSU is 5gigs of wasted space.
Arena.net's Gaile Gray has already said that the high or no level cap would only apply to the PvE portion of the game. When playing PvP everyone would be on a balanced playing field. I can't give you an exact location of the quote for this, but I know it was discussed in this thread on one of the bigger fan sites.
I think that will always be something Playstaion has up on the 360, hardware quality. Obviously MS learned nothing from the crappy xbox drives the first go round.
Oddly enough, neither did Sony. I don't know about you, but the handful of people I knew that had PS1s in highschool all had to get at least a second one due to the first one flat out dieing. I myself had 3, and the PS2 sitting in my entertainment center is my second. The first stopped playing DVDs after 6 months, strangely enough CDs were just fine(both music and games).
Then there is my GameCube. It's always treated me well. I bought it right after release never had a problem.
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This is why I am totally fine with having played the game on 360. While I have a system that could run the game, I would rather it just work and I not have to fiddle with copy protection. Besides the fact that I got to play it last December, instead of waiting until June.
Yes, I miss FASA. I miss old school Battletech, and Shadowrun. I know people are still printing material for them, but when the well has dried up it is gone for good. Never got to play Earthdawn, but I remember how upset its fans were when it was discontinued. It was a sad day when FASA closed their doors!
4e is coming whether we want it to or not. It seems like it is going to have some good and some bad changes. If you want to stick to 3.5 that's your choice, if you want to move to 4e good for you. I'll be sticking with 3.5 for at least another year or so. Wile I'll probably buy the core rules right when they come out, I will not buy anything else.
Unfortunately my setting of choice is Eberron (just ordered City of Stormreach too) and I won't see jack for this setting until who knows when in '09. I guess I can feel happy that I didn't sink a lot of money into source books... Maybe $150 to $200 for all the Eberron source books. I bought most of my collection from the Amazon.com market place for almost nothing due to having small remainder marks on the bottom of the spine. But, I feel slighted that I won't see anything other than a coffee table book (An Adventurer's Guide to Eberron) for what will probably be well over a year.
I know so many Mac... "enthusiasts" I will call them that won't dare touch a PC because Windows sucks as they so often put it. When I tell them that they don't have to use Windows some look at me with an almost deer like gaze. I think this is true for most non-IT/geek types. They correlate that a PC=Windows. For over a decade now you haven't been able to even buy a PC at retail with out Windows being thrown at you. I don't think some people even know that their machine could run with something other than Windows on it. I think for a lot of people they just don't get that a computer doesn't need Windows to work, and that there are a multitude of operating systems out there to be used. But unfortunately we have things like the Mac Vs PC commercials that just reinforce this idea. At least the commercials are entertaining. On a side note: I usually try to have one Linux and one Windows system in my house if possible. My old laptop that I used for business and school ran Linux and the desktop I used for games runs Windows. Unfortunately the laptop bit it hard a few months back... I've been craving my Linux fix too. I bought one of the Gateway P-6931FX laptops to game on, and a week ago a latch broke and I was locked out physically :( I didn't want to do the job myself cause I wanted to keep my warranty intact. But once I get the sucker back I'm throwing Linux on my desktop! Can't wait :)
Cooper Lawrence's new book is getting slammed on Amazon for her appearance, and rightly so. The reviews section for the book is filled with people bashing her and her book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599211793/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I pounded 20 hours into Mass Effect over the last few days, finishing it yesterday. The ending was so climatic that I immediately told myself I was buying the next one. And I'm ready to go back through it all to. First time through I played as a paragon this time I'll play the rogue's part. Maybe grab a few more achievements while I'm at it. I must say the idea of achievements actually for something other than bragging rights is an awesome idea.
there is one major question that must be asked. I believe Peter Potamus said it best: "Did you get that thing I sent you?"
My mother (being the nice person she is) got me a PSP through her work's reward program a few weeks back. And, while I have a DS to tote around my college campus, I'm loving the PSP. For being a portable system the games have great graphics and music. The down side, most of the UMDs for games I've tried don't seem to have file placement optimized very well. You can hear the system constantly accessing information and having to search the disc. Add the constantly start and stop of the disc drive to the short battery life and you get the biggest downside of the PSP system and the UMD format. 6 hours of battery life is the most I've gotten out of my PSP, when I can definitely say my DS can get around 15 hours. I use my portable systems as a way to pass time between classes when I may only have a half hour to do something, not enough to start on homework or read a chapter and remember it. The PSP battery just isn't reliable enough for me. The DS I can close and put into sleep mode, open it after class and pretty much be sure I can play even after a long week of use. The PSP on the other hand I either have to turn it off and go through all the BS to start it back up, or leave it in sleep and hope the battery doesn't die(which it has done already).
I will have to say, I'm quite impressed with the format itself. It's small, fairly easy to carry, and from what I understand holds about as much info as a GameCube disc. It's the system, it's lack luster battery life, and the horrible disc optimization I'm not to impressed with.
I swear DVD playback in the Wii is such a non-issue it makes me laugh when people complain or use it as an argument for why the Wii is bad. Let me ask a question... how few DVD players do you have that it makes it so important that the Wii can play DVDs? I asked this to a Microsoft rep at my local EB one day and he preceded to count the DVD players in his house. He had to use both hands and finally said to me "good point." An MS rep said "good point." I don't know about your household but in mine between two laptops and a desktop, a PS2, and the two stand-alone DVD players I could care less if I had another one or not.
Yea, it is terribly unrealistic. I think your grasp of how the control works though is pretty good. The amazing thing to think about also is how much buzz Red Steel got. Sure it was a horrible game but before the Wii was released I couldn't go to a game site without seeing something about it. Why didn't he go after it? Does the lack of blood in the game make it a non-issue, cause talking with my media violence professor it the violence is still there whether we see the blood or not. I would seriously love to see his take on the Wii. Has he not gone after it for the web imposed "kiddiness" of Nintendo?
it would be one case I would hope Microsoft wins. Seriously, Jack Thompson is a blithering idiot. I find it quite funny that there are many games out there far more violent than the ones he chooses to single out, yet it is like he is oblivious, Oh wait, that's right... he is!
What really amazes me is the man hasn't gone after the Wii(at least to my knowledge). Come on, a game like Red Steel should be a big fat target for this guy. Not to mention Metroid Prime 3, which is a game that is making some buzz. You would think the controls used in these games would seriously disturb him, those Wiimotes are more like guns than any 360 or PS controller could ever be!
I don't really care. It looks to me like they just gave StarCraft a 3d overhaul and after the Warhammer 40k RTS games I don't think I could play StarCraft again, even if it is in 3d. I loved the original StarCraft, played it for who knows how many years. Even my father loved it. But, once with got to play Dawn of War we just couldn't go back to that style of game play.
Give me my expansion for Dark Crusade, I want a new planet to conquer!
Yes, Goldeneye for the N64 kicked ass. I will admit I played way to much of the game when my friends and I still had N64s. It was one of the few games that I actually had to buy another controller because of over using that analog stick and killing it. The others being Perfect Dark for the N64 and Smash Bros. Melee.
I've never really consider Metroid Prime to be an FPS. It was always just Metroid with a first-person view. It never had the feel of an FPS to me. Metroid makes or breaks if I buy a Nintendo console anymore. I stood out in the cold last October to pre-order a Wii just because MP3 was supposed to released soon after launch, it's unfortunate that it didn't but I think I can wait for it.
IMHO there are 2 reasons I think Halo became as big as it is today...
1. Microsoft hyped it beyond any and all imagination when the first one was coming out.
2. Before Halo there wasn't a single decent FPS on a console, just a whole bunch of shitty ports of PC FPS games.
I honestly couldn't give a rats ass about Halo or Bungie for that matter. I never found Halo to be interesting, and I've always had a decent PC to play my FPS games on. I played Halo on PC and it was tolerable. I still play the original Call of Duty and would much rather play that over Halo any day.
in fact really liked it when it was first released. I even bought an XBox360 controller to use with the game because of how much it really was an action game. My point was that DDO and GW are two different games. The OP was stating that DDO was a fee based Guild Wars, which it isn't and because of its action RPG nature will never be. I was also making out the point that DDO is horribly reliant on stats and items. GW isn't. So comparing the two really can't be done. I've always looked at Guild Wars in that it almost has a Diablo feel to it(probably because heck the people that made it worked for Blizzard before the started Arena.Net), but GW was never about stats or items. DDO unfortunately is, to use a term in the Eberron campaign book, a Monty Haul game at its core. It will always be about PCs having grossly over powered equipment to be able to get by in the end game, it still was when Turbine let old subscribers come back for a weekend in March. I have been playing GW casually for almost a year, and not once have I ran into an outright bump in the road like you can in DDO... 4th Vault of Night quest, Inevitable, no armor-penetrating weapons, 4 hours of your life wasted because you cannot kill an Inevitable without bypassing it's armor and regen.
And please note, not once did I mention CoV, Wow, or LoTRO. I was talking about GuildWars which has no grinding, no standing in a field waiting for monsters to spawn so you can kill them, no digging for ore or searching for flowers. In fact the game is entirely instanced just like DDO and it came out a year before it.
Besides the fact that everything is instanced in both games I fail to see any other point of comparison. Maybe the fact that Guild Wars goes up to level 20 as its cap and DDO will be there eventually, but that would be pushing it.
DDO and GW are by far two different games, I know this. I played DDO for about six months right when it was released and I've been playing GW since last June. DDO is a very stat based, hack and slash, action RPG. Stats play so much into how it was made that if you hadn't built your character exactly so that a specific stat could be increased to 25 by use of items, magic, potions some guilds wouldn't even take you because you couldn't run end game. The end game content(well end game when I was playing, Vault of Night to be specific) was also so reliant on the equipment that you had it was impossible to even finish without having anti-death and armor-penetrating items, both of which were near impossible to find unless you could grind one specific quest line 24/7. GW on the other hand comes down to two things: Your own skill in the game, and the ability to use the 8 skills on your bar effectively. Character builds are not static as they are in DDO(yes, DDO has enhancement to alleviate the static nature of D&D character builds, but when I was playing enhancements didn't really help), and builds can be changed when you wish in any town. DDO is all about power gaming, it's truly a D&D campaign gone wrong with horrible imbalances in its core design. Your PC is either horribly over powered or horribly underpowered. GW, while it has portions that just ask for power gamers such as Hero Battles, is a game that isn't dependent on the items your character has(except the first campaign where you have to get your armor to have a special attribute, but that was easy to do) and the end game can be done by just about anyone as long as you are smart enough to create a viable build that works for your style of play and can play as a team.
Honestly, I still have my copy of Secret of Evermore and play it almost once a year if I can get to it. Same to be said for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Actraiser, and a few other S-E games. And then there is Bushido Blade(the original), even though it is going on a decade old it almost gets as much drunken play time as Smash Bros. Melee does in my circle of friends.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but really I could care less. I bought a PS1 because of FFVII, and when I got done with it... eh! I went back and played "FF III" on my SNES. For me the Final Fantasy series has gone on a decline since its transition from Nintendo. I haven't played XII yet, but seriously I'm not too sure I want to drop $50 on a game I'll play once like I have most of the other FFs in the last decade. And honestly, FF XIII is looking to be nothing more than eye-candy, and there is no way I will buy a PS3 just for one game I may or may not enjoy.
I honestly wish Square-Enix would go back to some of their other franchises. How long has it been since Square made Rad Racer? The Chrono series has just been sitting there idle, and while Cross was decent I'm still waiting for a sequel in true faith to the original. And, dare I say it, what happened to Secret of Evermore? I know the IP was basically a joke, but seriously that is a world that could really be built onto and expanded! DQ IX is on the horizon at least! Ten years of FF XIII just doesn't get me too excited.
OH god, DDO. I will admit that game was fun, and then they did the first big content update(Vault of Night). After that it it went downhill, screw it they just pushed it off the cliff. If it wasn't for the good friends I had made the first two months in I wouldn't have stuck to it as long as I did. By June DDO had sucked me into Eberron enough to start reading the novels. Reading the novels flat out killed the game for me, it just couldn't live up to Kevin Baker's vision of Eberron. I paid for up to the end of August, I quit sometime after the beginning of June. I don't think I will ever touch another Turbine MMO.... EVAR!
I hadn't heard about this until the story was put up on here. I had borrowed Stranger Than Fiction a few weeks back from a friend, and watched it on my old PS2(2nd gen, not slimline). My sister wanted to watch it so he said I could give it to her. I was talking about this tonight at dinner and she mentioned it wouldn't play on here Sony Vaio at all. She had to try two other players in her house before finding one it would work on. neither of which were Sony.
I totally agree. I bought Phantasy Star Universe shortly after it came out cause I wanted to play the offline story mode, I could care less about the online portion. But, it uses game gaurd. Forget that it has no CD keys... it uses game gaurd. Not just on the online portion, but on the offline portion! Ugh! So when I want to play the single-player story mode, if my connection is down I can't play. So when I'm on the road or just can't get internet access PSU is 5gigs of wasted space.
Arena.net's Gaile Gray has already said that the high or no level cap would only apply to the PvE portion of the game. When playing PvP everyone would be on a balanced playing field. I can't give you an exact location of the quote for this, but I know it was discussed in this thread on one of the bigger fan sites.
Oddly enough, neither did Sony. I don't know about you, but the handful of people I knew that had PS1s in highschool all had to get at least a second one due to the first one flat out dieing. I myself had 3, and the PS2 sitting in my entertainment center is my second. The first stopped playing DVDs after 6 months, strangely enough CDs were just fine(both music and games).
Then there is my GameCube. It's always treated me well. I bought it right after release never had a problem.