Nobody complained that the SNES wasn't backward compatible with the NES, or that the N64 wasn't backwards compaitble with the SNES, or that the Gamecube wasn't backwards compatible with the the N64. I think the first backwards compatible games console was the PS2. Now it's something that's a deal breaker?
The first backward compatible console with expanded functionality was the Atari 7800. I think many parents did complain that the systems weren't compatible as they tend to care more about the clutter in their living rooms than the kids typically do.
The generational leaps seem smaller with each generation. Before, the experience was so vastly improved that the new console truly did obsolete the old one in that it made people practically forget the previous generation had existed. But as games become more of an art form and less of a novelty, the older titles have significantly more relevance than before. I've still not played Gears of War, or God of War or any of the other notable games of this generation. I'd like to play them someday. But in time it may become impossible to find anything to play them on.
They should turn of skidmarks if they can't get them to emerge from the tyres for a start.
In the 3DS version of Gameloft's Asphalt, the skidmarks visibly hover above ground when 3D is on (and for some reason car shadows aren't even drawn in first person views).
I've always loved the driving games in which if you do donuts in one spot, your oldest skidmarks eventually begin disappearing. I believe Asphalt3D may have this also...
If the Terracotta Army really is - as I suspect - comprised of ancient freeze-dried warriors, then this could be the site that re-hydrates them and then acclimates the soldiers to current Chinese military technology. Such an operation would be likely be carried out in a remote location and need a lot of water.
IFF there is a god, I am pretty sure he/she/it is against hoarding cash like crazy.
I think the reason Steve often gets a pass on the cash hoarding is because he seemed like the kind of dreamer that just might need that money someday. I don't mind that James Cameron or Richard Branson are filthy rich because I admire the way they spend much of their fortunes.
I suppose we should all go back to Atari 2600s again?
only if we all have fun playing the game on it. dick.
I agree with GP, I've been playing chess for 30 years and though I play many video games chess is still by far my favorite game. you can even play chess without hardware.
Maybe you could. I'd quickly forget where all of my units had moved without having those little statues on the board with the squares to remind me.
Medical Research? FDA has made things slower and increased costs. Need drugs to get to market sooner.
I'm not for deregulation, but I do think that terminal patients should have the option of using any promising treatment available elsewhere. Why should a person ever have to die from a condition because a possible remedy is considered too risky?
It's only weaseling if Jesus really did not believe in paying the taxes, and I don't know of any reason to assume that was the case. There is a Biblical idea that God "ordains" Kings. It's not saying that all rulers or laws are just, only that they should generally be obeyed. Jesus didn't want to encourage lawlessness, yet wanted to remind his followers that God's laws and Caesar's were two separate things. Caesar's laws should be followed when not in direct conflict with God's, and when there is a conflict, changing the law (if possible) is preferable to violating it.
Yeah, but they operate with a mindset similar to Disney and try a little too hard, IMHO, to maintain the family friendly image. I understand the value of parent's trust for a brand, but as a company they seem to be leaving a lot of money on the table. Even Disney has subsidiaries that release R rated films for older viewers. Would Nintendo lose their core audience if they had a more "hardcore" brand targeting mature gamers? (OT, but I for one would pay $100 more for a 3DS with decent cameras.)
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2) "So maybe we're experiencing both global warming and cooling at the same time!" -- That is exactly correct -- the climate is changing. Parts will get hotter, parts will get cooler. The overall trend is up, hence the name "global warming". We're going to lose some arable land but we'll gain some as well. What scares me is sea level rise -- take a look at population density maps over the world to see what I mean.
The human body is mostly water, so overpopulation should offset a rise in the sea level. Failing that we could build lakes and reservoirs. We are good at solving those problems we take seriously enough.
As inflation has been a constant in my lifetime, I'd assume most people expect that the prices of most things will always go up. The relevant question here is whether people's perception of the strength of their money is influenced by how politically content they are at a given time.
In the case of the 3DS you'll learn to move the unit as you move your head once you are accustomed to playing it. The 3D sweet-spot isn't that small, if you are holding it in front of you at a proper angle, it works just fine. (If I were flailing around playing a Kinect or Move game there would be more of a problem...) I don't hear that many complaints about the 3DS from people who actually own it, most of the complaints seem to come from people who've only seen store units mounted at waist-height with the 3D cranked all the way up (possibly even watching someone else play). That's not how you'll actually experience it at home. Also, if you want to look around and explore a movie interactively, you are a gamer and not a movie fan. Directors and cinematographers have those titles for a reason.
"2) The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D. In other words, just yesteryear's "oh that was fun" fad..."
OK, now you're talking about virtual reality/holodeck immersion. That's not what everyone wants. I don't move my head from side to side to look around in a game, I use the controller to change my point of view. I think traditional games and films work well on a display screen. How are movies even going to work when the audience wants to be able to walk away from the characters and look up into the sky (or whatever)? Not having control of your vantage point is essential to how movies currently work.
I really don't understand the backlash against 3D. I can see the "wow-ness" wearing off and people getting jaded on "meh" content that uses 3D as its primary selling point, but isn't glasses-free 3D still something most people would like to see work? I have a 3DS and love it. I play it in 3D almost exclusively, only turning it off for certain tracks in Ridge Racer, or for playing Resident Evil: Revelations for extended amounts of time. I don't want to go back. If rumors that the 3DSXL has easier to view, more effective, 3D are true, I'll be getting one of those also. I may even get a 3D android phone eventually. It seems silly to me that the WiiU pad's display isn't 3D. That would be a selling point for me. I can't get excited by Vita's superior graphics because it doesn't have the 3DS' immersion. Am I really the only one who sees the 3DS as a move forward?
"For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?"
I will speculate based on my memory of the Amiga era. We'd meet occasionally in person and someone would show up with a bunch of cracked games and other stuff pulled from a BBS... The intros and cracktros had to fit on the floppy with the game itself, which was likely already using most of the available diskspace. It seemed that most of Europe had pretty low-end machines, mostly stock Amiga 500s, and that was what the crackers wrote to. In the US, many more Amiga users were into video and/or 3D. Versus Europe, US users tended to have expanded desktop systems with upgraded CPUs, FPUs, and extra memory. It was well known that demos and cracked software often wouldn't run on our upgraded systems, or there would be NTSC/PAL related timing problems. (Xenophobe for the A500 wouldn't work if you had the 512k expansion as it changed the memory addresses) For this reason above all others, US Amiga users valued OS compliant, multitasking applications with style-guide complaint interfaces over metal-banging demos/games that often required trial-and-error with disabling CPU caches, burst modes etc. just to run. Our contribution was artists like Eric Schwartz creating playable system-friendly animations in programs like MovieSetter.
I think dumb stuff can actually improve your cognitive skills if you approach it properly. I hadn't thought about gravity like I should've until I saw how wrong everything was in the Star Trek reboot. I gained an understanding about something without taking in any new information simply by seeing how it was depicted so clearly wrong that I had to reconcile (almost) every notion I held about about gravity. Similarly, American politics never made sense to me until I understood how professional wrestling is booked, scripted, canonized, and repeated or redacted right in front of the audience.
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I don't know what they think about the people of Virginia, but they seem to think that about the people of West Virginia, a state since 1863.
Nobody complained that the SNES wasn't backward compatible with the NES, or that the N64 wasn't backwards compaitble with the SNES, or that the Gamecube wasn't backwards compatible with the the N64. I think the first backwards compatible games console was the PS2. Now it's something that's a deal breaker?
The first backward compatible console with expanded functionality was the Atari 7800. I think many parents did complain that the systems weren't compatible as they tend to care more about the clutter in their living rooms than the kids typically do. The generational leaps seem smaller with each generation. Before, the experience was so vastly improved that the new console truly did obsolete the old one in that it made people practically forget the previous generation had existed. But as games become more of an art form and less of a novelty, the older titles have significantly more relevance than before. I've still not played Gears of War, or God of War or any of the other notable games of this generation. I'd like to play them someday. But in time it may become impossible to find anything to play them on.
Do you even understand what the word Liberty means?
What it has historically meant, or what it means now? Liberty is merely the freedom granted to one entity by another entity.
They did Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts and two Viva Pinatas. I only remember that because both looked like kids games this adult might actually enjoy.
They should turn of skidmarks if they can't get them to emerge from the tyres for a start.
In the 3DS version of Gameloft's Asphalt, the skidmarks visibly hover above ground when 3D is on (and for some reason car shadows aren't even drawn in first person views). I've always loved the driving games in which if you do donuts in one spot, your oldest skidmarks eventually begin disappearing. I believe Asphalt3D may have this also...
They have been a separate company since 2007. No doubt Microsoft does have the source to Halo as they hold the rights to the franchise.
If the Terracotta Army really is - as I suspect - comprised of ancient freeze-dried warriors, then this could be the site that re-hydrates them and then acclimates the soldiers to current Chinese military technology. Such an operation would be likely be carried out in a remote location and need a lot of water.
IFF there is a god, I am pretty sure he/she/it is against hoarding cash like crazy.
I think the reason Steve often gets a pass on the cash hoarding is because he seemed like the kind of dreamer that just might need that money someday. I don't mind that James Cameron or Richard Branson are filthy rich because I admire the way they spend much of their fortunes.
I suppose we should all go back to Atari 2600s again?
only if we all have fun playing the game on it. dick.
I agree with GP, I've been playing chess for 30 years and though I play many video games chess is still by far my favorite game. you can even play chess without hardware.
Maybe you could. I'd quickly forget where all of my units had moved without having those little statues on the board with the squares to remind me.
No, she win't be doing any of those things as long as she maintains her current stance.
She's a person not a cow.
Yellow is a primary of pigment while green is a primary of light.
But that's not what we'd get with a Romney presidency. Romney is not the leader of his party; Clint Eastwood, Paul Ryan, and Grover Norquist are.
And here I thought Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent led the GOP... Seems they are merely the mascots.
Medical Research? FDA has made things slower and increased costs. Need drugs to get to market sooner.
I'm not for deregulation, but I do think that terminal patients should have the option of using any promising treatment available elsewhere. Why should a person ever have to die from a condition because a possible remedy is considered too risky?
It's only weaseling if Jesus really did not believe in paying the taxes, and I don't know of any reason to assume that was the case. There is a Biblical idea that God "ordains" Kings. It's not saying that all rulers or laws are just, only that they should generally be obeyed. Jesus didn't want to encourage lawlessness, yet wanted to remind his followers that God's laws and Caesar's were two separate things. Caesar's laws should be followed when not in direct conflict with God's, and when there is a conflict, changing the law (if possible) is preferable to violating it.
We just made corporations people so we wouldn't have to change our constitution.
Yeah, but they operate with a mindset similar to Disney and try a little too hard, IMHO, to maintain the family friendly image. I understand the value of parent's trust for a brand, but as a company they seem to be leaving a lot of money on the table. Even Disney has subsidiaries that release R rated films for older viewers. Would Nintendo lose their core audience if they had a more "hardcore" brand targeting mature gamers? (OT, but I for one would pay $100 more for a 3DS with decent cameras.)
You mean that stupid tablet?
OK, I'll bite. You do know that WiiU is an entirely new console, right?
1) 2) "So maybe we're experiencing both global warming and cooling at the same time!" -- That is exactly correct -- the climate is changing. Parts will get hotter, parts will get cooler. The overall trend is up, hence the name "global warming". We're going to lose some arable land but we'll gain some as well. What scares me is sea level rise -- take a look at population density maps over the world to see what I mean.
The human body is mostly water, so overpopulation should offset a rise in the sea level. Failing that we could build lakes and reservoirs. We are good at solving those problems we take seriously enough.
As inflation has been a constant in my lifetime, I'd assume most people expect that the prices of most things will always go up. The relevant question here is whether people's perception of the strength of their money is influenced by how politically content they are at a given time.
In the case of the 3DS you'll learn to move the unit as you move your head once you are accustomed to playing it. The 3D sweet-spot isn't that small, if you are holding it in front of you at a proper angle, it works just fine. (If I were flailing around playing a Kinect or Move game there would be more of a problem...) I don't hear that many complaints about the 3DS from people who actually own it, most of the complaints seem to come from people who've only seen store units mounted at waist-height with the 3D cranked all the way up (possibly even watching someone else play). That's not how you'll actually experience it at home. Also, if you want to look around and explore a movie interactively, you are a gamer and not a movie fan. Directors and cinematographers have those titles for a reason.
"2) The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D. In other words, just yesteryear's "oh that was fun" fad..." OK, now you're talking about virtual reality/holodeck immersion. That's not what everyone wants. I don't move my head from side to side to look around in a game, I use the controller to change my point of view. I think traditional games and films work well on a display screen. How are movies even going to work when the audience wants to be able to walk away from the characters and look up into the sky (or whatever)? Not having control of your vantage point is essential to how movies currently work.
I really don't understand the backlash against 3D. I can see the "wow-ness" wearing off and people getting jaded on "meh" content that uses 3D as its primary selling point, but isn't glasses-free 3D still something most people would like to see work? I have a 3DS and love it. I play it in 3D almost exclusively, only turning it off for certain tracks in Ridge Racer, or for playing Resident Evil: Revelations for extended amounts of time. I don't want to go back. If rumors that the 3DSXL has easier to view, more effective, 3D are true, I'll be getting one of those also. I may even get a 3D android phone eventually. It seems silly to me that the WiiU pad's display isn't 3D. That would be a selling point for me. I can't get excited by Vita's superior graphics because it doesn't have the 3DS' immersion. Am I really the only one who sees the 3DS as a move forward?
"For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?" I will speculate based on my memory of the Amiga era. We'd meet occasionally in person and someone would show up with a bunch of cracked games and other stuff pulled from a BBS... The intros and cracktros had to fit on the floppy with the game itself, which was likely already using most of the available diskspace. It seemed that most of Europe had pretty low-end machines, mostly stock Amiga 500s, and that was what the crackers wrote to. In the US, many more Amiga users were into video and/or 3D. Versus Europe, US users tended to have expanded desktop systems with upgraded CPUs, FPUs, and extra memory. It was well known that demos and cracked software often wouldn't run on our upgraded systems, or there would be NTSC/PAL related timing problems. (Xenophobe for the A500 wouldn't work if you had the 512k expansion as it changed the memory addresses) For this reason above all others, US Amiga users valued OS compliant, multitasking applications with style-guide complaint interfaces over metal-banging demos/games that often required trial-and-error with disabling CPU caches, burst modes etc. just to run. Our contribution was artists like Eric Schwartz creating playable system-friendly animations in programs like MovieSetter.
I think dumb stuff can actually improve your cognitive skills if you approach it properly. I hadn't thought about gravity like I should've until I saw how wrong everything was in the Star Trek reboot. I gained an understanding about something without taking in any new information simply by seeing how it was depicted so clearly wrong that I had to reconcile (almost) every notion I held about about gravity. Similarly, American politics never made sense to me until I understood how professional wrestling is booked, scripted, canonized, and repeated or redacted right in front of the audience.