I wish more game studios saw and understood this. There's too many games out there that feel like they should be fun but suffer in some way by control and by association, character animation. Movement in wow is precise. The character goes when you want it to, stops when you want it to, and manages to do it while looking good, as opposed to just swapping animations which is what a lot of games still do. It's also rather jarring when you play a game where a character is moving but his feet animate either too fast or too slow for the speed they're actually going and the character slides across the ground. It's one of those touches that I see often overlooked in games, but it seems so obvious when you consider it's the most common action you will ever see as a player.
No it didn't. It had special mode that could be used that would be able to execute special WinCE applications, but 99.9% of titles didn't go near it. It was almost purely marketing for Microsoft.
My dates were referring to dates in which Nintendo was developing or releasing new hardware for the product line. 2005 was the release of their last Advance hardware, but of course games continued to come out after this date.
First of all, the GB -> GBA SP was not 19 years, it was 16 years, and even then you're putting the Gameboy and the Advance into the same product lifecycle, when they were two distinct products that were merely part of the same branding line. You're also skipping products. It goes: Gameboy -> Gameboy Pocket -> Gameboy Light (JP only) -> Gameboy Color. Then the Advance cycle goes: Gameboy Advance -> Gameboy Advance: SP -> Gameboy Advance Micro.
The original Gameboy line went from 1989 until 1998 and had 4 products in those 9 years, the first 5 years remaining largely untouched, however after those 5 years, Nintendo had consistently released new revisions of their Gameboy in two year increments.
The Advance line went from 2001 until late 2005, releasing 3 products, and ever single one of them involved minor hardware tweaks, and one of them seemed to be a complete gimmick (the micro). You could have played every game on a first generation and had no issues with the latest and greatest games.
The DS line went from 2004 until 2009, releasing 4 products, and only one of them had any edge over the others (the DSi, which had software specific to it and was the only one you might feel you "needed" to buy). The others were just tweaks that were not necessary or even necessarily better (some cases worse, as the XL had worse battery life than the DSi).
My point is that as far as Nintendo handheld products go, this has been business as usual for Nintendo since the original Gameboy days. Every 2 or so years (with the exception of the XL series which is one year, and is mostly a choice and not considered an upgrade path)
This doesn't even just happen to Nintendo, either. Sony has released 5 different PSPs in 6 years.
This happens at the console level too. Look at Sony and Microsoft. They're constantly releasing new revisions of the same hardware, adding or removing features, and reducing production costs.
100 slightly different devices? You mean 2? The DS lite was designed to replace the original DS in the lineup in the same way Sony and Microsoft occasionally sell newer revisions of their consoles. There was no need to get it. It merely sported a better backlight and battery life. The XL was mainly for people who couldn't see smaller screens or would enjoy larger screens.
The DSi was a straight upgrade from the DS line in the same way Apple went from the iPhone 1 to the iPhone 2. Specs were better, screen was better, more services, had specific games (but remained backward compatible), etc.
The 3DS is an entirely different product line from the DS and only shares "DS" in the same way the Gameboy shared it's name with the Gameboy Advance. So far the 3DS and the 3DS XL are the only two products to choose from in the 3DS line, and like the original DS line, it depends entirely on your physical needs whether to get one or the other.
Are you genuinely surprised or are you just being a smartass? I would dare imply that the broad majority of people put far too much real information on facebook. That's what the services is designed for and when you give that kind of service to regular joes/janes, why wouldn't they?
No kidding. This has got to be one of the most bogus claims I've seen in ages. It reminds me of a job I was recently looking into that wouldn't hire unless you had a Facebook account and were willing to friend someone from HR at all times or some nonsense. Feel like I dodged a bullet with that place.
As far as I know there is currently no means to transfer a license between the seller and the buyer on any current digital distribution platform. if they attempt to start their own competing digital download service where people can sell their games back then more power to them. However I think GMG already does this to some extent?
I rarely laugh at these offtopic comments. The original MyCleanPC ones were kinda funny but the later ones just got too ridiculous. But this one was just short and sweet. Got a good laugh out of me.
gradually degrading performance for no particular reason (requiring re-installs every 3-6 months),
I wonder what you were doing on the damn thing to require such frequent reinstalls. I was fine for at least a year or two before I even needed to consider a refresher, and I did constant work with many different applications non stop on the machine.
Not sure why this is modded so high. What did Microsoft really have to do with any of that? Were they suddenly sound card and video card manufacturers?
If anyone other than Apple priced their products the way Apple does in this industry, I have my doubts anyone but the curious few would be buying. Apple can get away with that pricing because they have a huge cultural following to back them up. With Steve gone after having been so intimately involved with pretty much everything Apple does, I'm genuinely curious how long that's going to last.
Seriously? Most (if not all) the AAA games we get now on PC are ports from consoles anyway. Guess which port we always end up getting it from? The 360 codebase, of course.
I wonder if game companies would even bother releasing cross platform games on PC anymore had the architecture not been so easy to switch between. They pretty much have a seething disdain for the PC market these days.
Granted, the eBay monitors work (arguably, having next to no way to change brightness/contrast seems to be a problem), these are not in infinite stock, and have only recently shown up. My comment was meant that you can't say the man was ripped off because this one-off deal showed up out of nowhere on eBay no less. Just because there is a cheaper alternative that may or may not be better at any given moment doesn't suddenly mean anyone who paid more in the past was ripped off.
The truly funny and also incredibly sad thing about this post is that some people out there truly feel exactly this way, even so much as to eating up that bit about Aldrin becoming violent "unprovoked" proving the conspiracy is true. I'm sure this particular post is just is all in jest (I hope), but I've actually spoken to people who act just like this, and it truly makes me sad.
Are you seriously that stupid? You're actually trying to compare an average priced TV purchased through a legitimate retailer to some shady one-off deal on eBay from some unknown in Korea as if it's normally priced that way?
If this were the normal price for 27" IPS displays then you might have a point, but really you're either trolling or just stupid to suggest he was ripped off.
Oh man, this is totally off topic but thanks for reminding me about the WIn+Left/Right/Up/Down. I used to have two displays and these were among my most used shortcuts but my second display died and I never replaced it. Finally got another one and have been getting annoyed with managing them.
Now that I'm re-armed with those shortcuts, my workflow feels so much more fluid again.
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I wish more game studios saw and understood this. There's too many games out there that feel like they should be fun but suffer in some way by control and by association, character animation. Movement in wow is precise. The character goes when you want it to, stops when you want it to, and manages to do it while looking good, as opposed to just swapping animations which is what a lot of games still do. It's also rather jarring when you play a game where a character is moving but his feet animate either too fast or too slow for the speed they're actually going and the character slides across the ground. It's one of those touches that I see often overlooked in games, but it seems so obvious when you consider it's the most common action you will ever see as a player.
and had a Microsoft OS that powered it.
No it didn't. It had special mode that could be used that would be able to execute special WinCE applications, but 99.9% of titles didn't go near it. It was almost purely marketing for Microsoft.
My dates were referring to dates in which Nintendo was developing or releasing new hardware for the product line. 2005 was the release of their last Advance hardware, but of course games continued to come out after this date.
First of all, the GB -> GBA SP was not 19 years, it was 16 years, and even then you're putting the Gameboy and the Advance into the same product lifecycle, when they were two distinct products that were merely part of the same branding line. You're also skipping products. It goes: Gameboy -> Gameboy Pocket -> Gameboy Light (JP only) -> Gameboy Color. Then the Advance cycle goes: Gameboy Advance -> Gameboy Advance: SP -> Gameboy Advance Micro.
The original Gameboy line went from 1989 until 1998 and had 4 products in those 9 years, the first 5 years remaining largely untouched, however after those 5 years, Nintendo had consistently released new revisions of their Gameboy in two year increments.
The Advance line went from 2001 until late 2005, releasing 3 products, and ever single one of them involved minor hardware tweaks, and one of them seemed to be a complete gimmick (the micro). You could have played every game on a first generation and had no issues with the latest and greatest games.
The DS line went from 2004 until 2009, releasing 4 products, and only one of them had any edge over the others (the DSi, which had software specific to it and was the only one you might feel you "needed" to buy). The others were just tweaks that were not necessary or even necessarily better (some cases worse, as the XL had worse battery life than the DSi).
My point is that as far as Nintendo handheld products go, this has been business as usual for Nintendo since the original Gameboy days. Every 2 or so years (with the exception of the XL series which is one year, and is mostly a choice and not considered an upgrade path)
This doesn't even just happen to Nintendo, either. Sony has released 5 different PSPs in 6 years.
This happens at the console level too. Look at Sony and Microsoft. They're constantly releasing new revisions of the same hardware, adding or removing features, and reducing production costs.
100 slightly different devices? You mean 2? The DS lite was designed to replace the original DS in the lineup in the same way Sony and Microsoft occasionally sell newer revisions of their consoles. There was no need to get it. It merely sported a better backlight and battery life. The XL was mainly for people who couldn't see smaller screens or would enjoy larger screens.
The DSi was a straight upgrade from the DS line in the same way Apple went from the iPhone 1 to the iPhone 2. Specs were better, screen was better, more services, had specific games (but remained backward compatible), etc.
The 3DS is an entirely different product line from the DS and only shares "DS" in the same way the Gameboy shared it's name with the Gameboy Advance. So far the 3DS and the 3DS XL are the only two products to choose from in the 3DS line, and like the original DS line, it depends entirely on your physical needs whether to get one or the other.
What a pointless thing to whine about.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that you had to have at least 25 "friends".
Are you genuinely surprised or are you just being a smartass? I would dare imply that the broad majority of people put far too much real information on facebook. That's what the services is designed for and when you give that kind of service to regular joes/janes, why wouldn't they?
No kidding. This has got to be one of the most bogus claims I've seen in ages. It reminds me of a job I was recently looking into that wouldn't hire unless you had a Facebook account and were willing to friend someone from HR at all times or some nonsense. Feel like I dodged a bullet with that place.
I'm genuinely curious if you're being sincere or you're seriously just completely out of touch with reality with regards to how Windows functions.
That's great but has nothing to do with success on the desktop, thus this discussion.
Uncle Bob, is that you?
As far as I know there is currently no means to transfer a license between the seller and the buyer on any current digital distribution platform. if they attempt to start their own competing digital download service where people can sell their games back then more power to them. However I think GMG already does this to some extent?
I think Gamestop is just dreaming.
I'll admit, I originally started replying to this, but there is no way this guy is being genuine.
Probably comically long enough to hit all the explode space station buttons as it flails around uncontrollably.
I rarely laugh at these offtopic comments. The original MyCleanPC ones were kinda funny but the later ones just got too ridiculous. But this one was just short and sweet. Got a good laugh out of me.
gradually degrading performance for no particular reason (requiring re-installs every 3-6 months),
I wonder what you were doing on the damn thing to require such frequent reinstalls. I was fine for at least a year or two before I even needed to consider a refresher, and I did constant work with many different applications non stop on the machine.
Not sure why this is modded so high. What did Microsoft really have to do with any of that? Were they suddenly sound card and video card manufacturers?
If anyone other than Apple priced their products the way Apple does in this industry, I have my doubts anyone but the curious few would be buying. Apple can get away with that pricing because they have a huge cultural following to back them up. With Steve gone after having been so intimately involved with pretty much everything Apple does, I'm genuinely curious how long that's going to last.
Seriously? Most (if not all) the AAA games we get now on PC are ports from consoles anyway. Guess which port we always end up getting it from? The 360 codebase, of course.
I wonder if game companies would even bother releasing cross platform games on PC anymore had the architecture not been so easy to switch between. They pretty much have a seething disdain for the PC market these days.
No one.
Granted, the eBay monitors work (arguably, having next to no way to change brightness/contrast seems to be a problem), these are not in infinite stock, and have only recently shown up. My comment was meant that you can't say the man was ripped off because this one-off deal showed up out of nowhere on eBay no less. Just because there is a cheaper alternative that may or may not be better at any given moment doesn't suddenly mean anyone who paid more in the past was ripped off.
Through the technic/tekkit pack of course.
The truly funny and also incredibly sad thing about this post is that some people out there truly feel exactly this way, even so much as to eating up that bit about Aldrin becoming violent "unprovoked" proving the conspiracy is true. I'm sure this particular post is just is all in jest (I hope), but I've actually spoken to people who act just like this, and it truly makes me sad.
Are you seriously that stupid? You're actually trying to compare an average priced TV purchased through a legitimate retailer to some shady one-off deal on eBay from some unknown in Korea as if it's normally priced that way?
If this were the normal price for 27" IPS displays then you might have a point, but really you're either trolling or just stupid to suggest he was ripped off.
Oh man, this is totally off topic but thanks for reminding me about the WIn+Left/Right/Up/Down. I used to have two displays and these were among my most used shortcuts but my second display died and I never replaced it. Finally got another one and have been getting annoyed with managing them.
Now that I'm re-armed with those shortcuts, my workflow feels so much more fluid again.