Grand Theft Auto 1 series The first title in the series, Grand Theft Auto, appeared on the PC and PlayStation in 1997/1998[1] as well as a reduced Game Boy Color port, and subsequently two expansion packs were offered: Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 (1969), an expansion pack of the original game, set in 1969 London. Available in PS and PC boxed versions. Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961 (1961), another expansion pack of Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969, with missions taking place in 1961 London. London, 1961 is a free PC download.
These are just a few derivations. Vice City and San Andreas belong to the 3rd series. Each series is basically a derrivation of the engine used in the first title. GTA4 will be a new engine.
If they're now making desiel engines this size for cargo, I'm curious if perhaps it's time to switch to nuclear. The waste-return equation seems out of whack for petrochemical solutions.
I'm a noise hater actually. The PS2 was noisy as hell. The xbox360 is even worse. I'll take some silence since I can't crank my systems to ungodly volume levels (lofts play hell with acoustics and neighbors).
I hope so but given the margins pounding that Sony will be tempted to shore-up, I can't see a price drop unless demand goes into the toilet. Once some unforseen video-crack title emerges I expect all hell to break lose. My nomination is a new title being developed in Australia called LA Noir, which not only has the chops graphically, it screams movie-immersion far beyond GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas. Plus I'm a sucker for a good late-40s period game that has jazz from the likes of Charlie Parker. Sony has enough publishers to push the wild-card option. For all the also-rans and incrimental franchieses, there's one group that will use that as an opportunity to blow them away.
Granted GTA wasn't a wholly-origonal franchise, but the game that appeared in Oct 2001 - GTA3 created a genre. That's the trick, and I'm confident that some group is looking to do it again. I haven't seen Nintendo leaning to this in spite of the controller. Zelda is great - but the control scheme (what little of it that was added) feels so tacked on, I hardly point the darn wiimote at the screen. Mostly because the fairy cursor is annoying (can it be turned off? I can't find an option for it). Plus I"m sorry casual gamer-marketing be damned-this Zelda outing has the most convoluted control scheme EVER. Geez - I can't count the number of times I toggled my damn inventory when I didn't want to. The rest of the Wiimote centric games seem as dated as flash inspired mini games. I'm hopeful, but I don't see a Mario 64 or Zelda 64 on the horizon yet (those were fanastic leaps in interface and immersion).
I don't know anyone who'd trade their Wii and Zelda for a VCS and adventure - but it's fun to think about. Obviously you're joking of course, but if you weren't - you sir - would be among the hardest of the hardcore.
Breaking it down (and yes one computer is a couple of years old) a g5 tower, a one month top of the line intel macbook, and a (one year old) mac mini (which has better video than newer mac minis). Apple's video architecture is anemic at best. The games ported are top-heavy beyond top heavy and sluggish. Doom3 is a joke on the G5. None of these boxes which have more than paid for themselves in the service in doing digital video and hardcore graphics work (including 3d) can't chug a FART with games. My clients aren't going to be non-mac (some) anytime soon, and the others don't merit the outlay to go Wintel (plus I'm too busy to fuck around with all the spyware and general crap that just consumes BILLABLE HOURS to go Windows).
So yes - I'm stuck at the Quake III engine level at present and would like a non-1000 / 1500 dollar solution to play PC games. That would be the PS3 - sorry to piss off the haters.
Right. Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Nintendo never goes back to the well. Insightful fuck ain't-cha? How many dead horses are up at Nintendo of America in Redmond these days? The stench must be worse than a glue factory.
re:"and craigslist had scalper hunters unjustly flagging scalpers"
Uh - you were scalping and they didn't permit that. How was that "unjust"? I find it highly just. For the rest of you - go inform the police in advance when you sell tickets in front of the ballpark and complain to the arresting officer later.
Well, I know a few ebay postings where the sellers were grousing on having to "re-post" the system for sale. So yes, they're getting hit with the cost of putting the post on eBay in addition to the system. If they withdraw it and never sell it - they took a bigger loss, and one that's not recoupable at the retailer-return level. Karma - gotta love it.
I liked the disclaimers on hard-numbers etc, but it did give an idea of what the retail action is as well as the charting of prices. For those who want to wait until prices fall on the PS3, I suggest checking the price curves on the PS2. Here's a hint: They didn't move for over a year. You've got a long - LONG wait. Sony after taking a loss on intitial units will take the profits on the hardware as long as they can when they emerge.
Still - cheaper than the Atari 2600 / VCS on an inflation adjusted dollar bla bla bla. All I know is it can knock 4000 dollars worth of computers I have sitting in front of me out of the ballpark graphicswise. Once some decent games emerge I'll be heading to the retailer myself to get one. Probably around the time I finish Zelda for the Wii (geez it's huge).
Want to see all the pages in the UK that are lambasting the BBC for their program bugs which are screwing up CRT and Plasma tvs? Who the fuck are you? A rep for one of these lousy firms?
Another sad commentary. Those lines for baseball and football game tickets are lame too. Those people spending all that money for Super Bowl tickets? FUCK THEM IN THE EAR! Cocksucking anti-social sports fan cunts! I hope their dicks fall off.
Who said anything about what they're putting on their tv's in this thread apart from games and burn-in problems? I personally don't watch much tv apart from news, but it's useful for movies and games and spends 9/10ths it's time as a monitor. What the fuck do you have against monitors? Go play with some sticks you fucking luddite.
lightingwise - that's a good point, but I've noticed at both Best Buy and Fry's that they've been keeping their overhead lights away from the tv section. Didn't click on the possible reason for it until now. That's doubly good since most stores used to compensate by cranking all the settings up, which made the picture look worse.
Yes. Static images like score and gameplay gauges tend to burn into plasma very fast. The latest available fixes attempt to erase these burns by turning on every pixel very bright and for a long time to burn-in the whole of the screen (they call this "wear your new plasma's phosphors evenly" which is bullshit - they're basically burning down the remaining screen to match the burn). This of course lessens the life of the screen and reduces overall brightness. Basically it's a fix that breaks the whole of the screen. Unless brightness isn't important to you of course (or the lifespan of your screen), don't bother. It's the edsel of the 21st century in screen tech.
Don't forget rez. If you're ever going to see a 1080p Blue Ray movie - you're going to shell out huge bucks for plasma - and get a huge screen. That and a sizable power-bill.
Screen burn. I play console games. New plasmas attempt to mask the dammage by doing an entire screen burn - which reduces brightness. That isn't a fix.
The kink here is that the practice wasn't illegal at the time. The amount companies are losing in accounting costs trying to back-file for the SEC retroactive laws should make you boil over. Oh well.
I'm thankful that I haven't played Zelda since the N64 so the graphics seem nicely bumped - but they in NO WAY showcase the system. I'm hoping for the developers to get on track but some of the ports are looking WORSE than N64 titles (according to wii.ign.com). I know it's not a graphic powerhouse, but come-the-fuck-on.
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Now you can pay 100.00 to see the same shit you could see at Best Buy. SUCKERS!
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Grand Theft Auto 1 series
The first title in the series, Grand Theft Auto, appeared on the PC and PlayStation in 1997/1998[1] as well as a reduced Game Boy Color port, and subsequently two expansion packs were offered:
Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 (1969), an expansion pack of the original game, set in 1969 London. Available in PS and PC boxed versions.
Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961 (1961), another expansion pack of Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969, with missions taking place in 1961 London. London, 1961 is a free PC download.
These are just a few derivations. Vice City and San Andreas belong to the 3rd series. Each series is basically a derrivation of the engine used in the first title. GTA4 will be a new engine.
If they're now making desiel engines this size for cargo, I'm curious if perhaps it's time to switch to nuclear. The waste-return equation seems out of whack for petrochemical solutions.
I'm a noise hater actually. The PS2 was noisy as hell. The xbox360 is even worse. I'll take some silence since I can't crank my systems to ungodly volume levels (lofts play hell with acoustics and neighbors).
Next Generation magazine panned GTA3. So much for the gaming press.
Like being an asteroid target eh? Our species is fucking doomed with this kind of logic.
A slashdot boycott of sony would be as effective as a slashdot campeign for the movie firefly, or snakes on a plane..
no wait...
I hope so but given the margins pounding that Sony will be tempted to shore-up, I can't see a price drop unless demand goes into the toilet. Once some unforseen video-crack title emerges I expect all hell to break lose. My nomination is a new title being developed in Australia called LA Noir, which not only has the chops graphically, it screams movie-immersion far beyond GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas. Plus I'm a sucker for a good late-40s period game that has jazz from the likes of Charlie Parker. Sony has enough publishers to push the wild-card option. For all the also-rans and incrimental franchieses, there's one group that will use that as an opportunity to blow them away.
Granted GTA wasn't a wholly-origonal franchise, but the game that appeared in Oct 2001 - GTA3 created a genre. That's the trick, and I'm confident that some group is looking to do it again. I haven't seen Nintendo leaning to this in spite of the controller. Zelda is great - but the control scheme (what little of it that was added) feels so tacked on, I hardly point the darn wiimote at the screen. Mostly because the fairy cursor is annoying (can it be turned off? I can't find an option for it). Plus I"m sorry casual gamer-marketing be damned-this Zelda outing has the most convoluted control scheme EVER. Geez - I can't count the number of times I toggled my damn inventory when I didn't want to. The rest of the Wiimote centric games seem as dated as flash inspired mini games. I'm hopeful, but I don't see a Mario 64 or Zelda 64 on the horizon yet (those were fanastic leaps in interface and immersion).
I don't know anyone who'd trade their Wii and Zelda for a VCS and adventure - but it's fun to think about. Obviously you're joking of course, but if you weren't - you sir - would be among the hardest of the hardcore.
Breaking it down (and yes one computer is a couple of years old) a g5 tower, a one month top of the line intel macbook, and a (one year old) mac mini (which has better video than newer mac minis). Apple's video architecture is anemic at best. The games ported are top-heavy beyond top heavy and sluggish. Doom3 is a joke on the G5. None of these boxes which have more than paid for themselves in the service in doing digital video and hardcore graphics work (including 3d) can't chug a FART with games. My clients aren't going to be non-mac (some) anytime soon, and the others don't merit the outlay to go Wintel (plus I'm too busy to fuck around with all the spyware and general crap that just consumes BILLABLE HOURS to go Windows).
So yes - I'm stuck at the Quake III engine level at present and would like a non-1000 / 1500 dollar solution to play PC games. That would be the PS3 - sorry to piss off the haters.
Yes, emulation is wonderful. Until you want to play robotron with a keyboard at which point it's pure comedy gold baby.
re:"Same games all over again."
Right. Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Nintendo never goes back to the well. Insightful fuck ain't-cha? How many dead horses are up at Nintendo of America in Redmond these days? The stench must be worse than a glue factory.
re:"and craigslist had scalper hunters unjustly flagging scalpers"
Uh - you were scalping and they didn't permit that. How was that "unjust"? I find it highly just. For the rest of you - go inform the police in advance when you sell tickets in front of the ballpark and complain to the arresting officer later.
Well, I know a few ebay postings where the sellers were grousing on having to "re-post" the system for sale. So yes, they're getting hit with the cost of putting the post on eBay in addition to the system. If they withdraw it and never sell it - they took a bigger loss, and one that's not recoupable at the retailer-return level. Karma - gotta love it.
I liked the disclaimers on hard-numbers etc, but it did give an idea of what the retail action is as well as the charting of prices. For those who want to wait until prices fall on the PS3, I suggest checking the price curves on the PS2. Here's a hint: They didn't move for over a year. You've got a long - LONG wait. Sony after taking a loss on intitial units will take the profits on the hardware as long as they can when they emerge.
Still - cheaper than the Atari 2600 / VCS on an inflation adjusted dollar bla bla bla. All I know is it can knock 4000 dollars worth of computers I have sitting in front of me out of the ballpark graphicswise. Once some decent games emerge I'll be heading to the retailer myself to get one. Probably around the time I finish Zelda for the Wii (geez it's huge).
Want to see all the pages in the UK that are lambasting the BBC for their program bugs which are screwing up CRT and Plasma tvs? Who the fuck are you? A rep for one of these lousy firms?
Another sad commentary. Those lines for baseball and football game tickets are lame too. Those people spending all that money for Super Bowl tickets? FUCK THEM IN THE EAR! Cocksucking anti-social sports fan cunts! I hope their dicks fall off.
Who said anything about what they're putting on their tv's in this thread apart from games and burn-in problems? I personally don't watch much tv apart from news, but it's useful for movies and games and spends 9/10ths it's time as a monitor. What the fuck do you have against monitors? Go play with some sticks you fucking luddite.
lightingwise - that's a good point, but I've noticed at both Best Buy and Fry's that they've been keeping their overhead lights away from the tv section. Didn't click on the possible reason for it until now. That's doubly good since most stores used to compensate by cranking all the settings up, which made the picture look worse.
Yes. Static images like score and gameplay gauges tend to burn into plasma very fast. The latest available fixes attempt to erase these burns by turning on every pixel very bright and for a long time to burn-in the whole of the screen (they call this "wear your new plasma's phosphors evenly" which is bullshit - they're basically burning down the remaining screen to match the burn). This of course lessens the life of the screen and reduces overall brightness. Basically it's a fix that breaks the whole of the screen. Unless brightness isn't important to you of course (or the lifespan of your screen), don't bother. It's the edsel of the 21st century in screen tech.
http://www.plasmasaver.com/
Don't forget rez. If you're ever going to see a 1080p Blue Ray movie - you're going to shell out huge bucks for plasma - and get a huge screen. That and a sizable power-bill.
Screen burn. I play console games. New plasmas attempt to mask the dammage by doing an entire screen burn - which reduces brightness. That isn't a fix.
The kink here is that the practice wasn't illegal at the time. The amount companies are losing in accounting costs trying to back-file for the SEC retroactive laws should make you boil over. Oh well.
Didn't say they weren't expensive. Learn english as your primary language. Good luck.
I'm thankful that I haven't played Zelda since the N64 so the graphics seem nicely bumped - but they in NO WAY showcase the system. I'm hoping for the developers to get on track but some of the ports are looking WORSE than N64 titles (according to wii.ign.com). I know it's not a graphic powerhouse, but come-the-fuck-on.