Well, most real roleplaying games are good fodder. Anything with a good story even if its not all about the game mechanics itself. STALKER has an interesting story behind it. Half-Life 2 is a decently well told story. Just because a movie is based on a game doesn't mean it has to try and include some kind of convoluted game mechanic if it doesn't really translate well to watching it "in real life". Bioshock seems like another good idea. Those are all FPS so we might also toss out something like Alpha Centauri which had an interesting story, or even Oblivion.
A rich well thought out universe is key, and good writers for the movie. A commitment to quality will take you a long way as long as you have something with depth behind it on which to draw. A mediocre game could be launched by a really well done movie.
You misread what I wrote. I didn't say build a game franchise first then launch a movie. I said leverage a good movie in combination with a good game to create more interest in the game and thus create a larger fan base to build a franchise on.
If your game is good you'll get a certain amount of attention, but combine that with a good movie and you'll significantly increase your attention. Which means merchandise and more game sales. Reinvest that in another quality film and another quality game and you've built a successful franchise that you can get at least 1 more of each out of.
And really not that insightful. Yes. Some people might be tempted by quick easy money, okay maybe a lot of people. That isn't exactly news though...
What would be smarter would be to leverage a good movie which gets the average movie goer interested in it, which would result in more game sales, and create a franchise. You always make more money with a franchise than a one-off.
So while short-term greed can explain some of it, it doesn't explain why we're not really seeing some quality video game movies. Sure not all games translate well, but just about any roleplaying game out there really should (actually RPG, not some action rpg hack n slash)
Ectaco already had a contract with some US police forces and I think the department of defense with their speechguard devices which were bidirectional voice translators. I also believe they were cheaper than these.
it wasn't artsy, it was digital masturbation. What they were alluding to was painfully clear. The entire purpose of the movie was to say how great and important the movie was.. on the other hand look at http://www.delivery.framebox.de/ Delivery made with far less support, and a hell of a less horn tooting.
There is a big difference between doing routing and switching well compared to taking half a dozen hours to learn the basics of IP communication. I never said he had to be an expert. I said he had to be able to plug a couple boxes in to a switch or possibly two sides of a router (something like a linksys, not a cisco) and make them talk.
I did. That doesn't mean at every company you will work for will you have the luxury of working strictly within your "name of degree" skill set. Smaller companies, or companies with staffing shortages will often necessitate you work outside that and basic understanding of switching and routing, something you can pick up in only a few hours if you really want to, can be invaluable. Especially for programmers who might have to create some kind of test environment on their own.
Your test environment that you need to test your software may fall outside the responsibility of the IT department. So picking up the basics and then making sure you have a good reference book handy to refresh them when you need it can make your job easier and make you look a lot more competent.
Its amazing what sort of monstrosities can develop when a programmer at my company attempts to set something up and then calls me for help when it "just won't work". I'm not saying you need to know how to completely configure a cisco router with advanced features, but understanding general concepts like ip addresses, host and network portions of an address and how that relates to the subnet mask as well as the basic principal behind how a packet gets from point A to point B would do wonders.
about who has the most real-estate, some of the machines we assemble for control stations have 8 monitors capable of 1600x1200 in them, stacked 4x2 for a resolution of 6400x2400 running on a couple of nvidia nvs 440s.
"The fact is that Microsoft isn't a content provider and because of that they can't leverage any monopoly this time to win this format dispute."
They're a publisher for software, including games. They still have a virtual monopoly on home operating systems regardless of what anecdotal stories you hear about some guys entire neighbourhood going linux.
They still have a healthy percentage of the console market.
Trying to pick the lesser of two evils between Microsoft and Sony is a bit tough, but I'd rather see MS win this one than Sony.
"With this transition, it will finally be possible for two internet hosts to communicate without using IPv4 at all" nowhere in there does it specify "useful" or "easy". It simply claims possible.
If ping works, and no ports are blocked, any communication is possible, including websites, telnet, ftp, and any other service you can imagine.
The summary implied that communication was impossible until now which is false.
its called a routing table..
DNS is only domain name resolution, it ties easy to remember names to ip addresses. Regardless of whether those are IPV6 or IPV4.
If you have the IP of an IPV6 and you have an IPV6 IP address, and all the routers in between you have complete routing tables, you can reach that other host no problem. DNS doesn't even get involved.
The same way DNS doesn't get involved if I try to reach google by going to:
http://64.233.187.104/
"it will finally be possible for two internet hosts to communicate without using IPv4 at all."
DNS has nothing to do with enabling to IPV6 hosts to communicate on the internet... it only provides name resolution. The routers make it possible for 2 IPV6 hosts to communicate... you just do so by using their IPV6 address instead of the name..
than elephant's dream.. or pretentious circle jerk or whatever it was called.
In all seriousness, I can only hope that there are some truly good writers and designers on the team. You can make it so bright it outshines the sun, but if any of the story of the game reads like it was written by a child, and you're not making a children's game, it is going to suffer for it.
I remember reading something 6-8 months ago about them studying wii tennis vs real tennis, and drawing the same pointless conclusion. The amount of calories you burn is extremely dependent on how "hard" you play the game and which game you're playing. Tennis burns next to nothing. Boxing on the other hand after 30 minutes I can work up a good sweat.
While there may have been earlier faster modes of communication, the real point is, was this the first one that really caught on? Its not usually the first one, but the popular one that really changes the world.
Because as has been pointed out many times wikipedia isn't a compendium of all human knowledge. If it was, then you could store your family tree, write about your garage band, co-write your latest novel there, etc..etc..etc..
The community has drawn a line in the sand on things it won't contain. However some of those lines are a little fuzzy, and what one person considers a textbook, another person might not.
If I was a network and had a number of pilots I was unsure of, I'd "leak" them and listen to the chatter. While you can't guarantee your demographic with that, it will give you some feedback.
I'm all for revoking America's access to the internet... could you imagine what a world it would be if the MPAA and RIAA and other special interest groups couldn't get online? Not saying there aren't groups like this in other countries, but they're not nearly as vocal or as damaging.
What? Impossible. Ron paul probably hung them himself and he should be arrested for causing a possible unsafe situation. Burn him, he's a witch!
I actually hate him as much as 90% of the people on the internet and am sick of seeing stories about him, but I'm also not much for drawing loose connections.
Done through enough channels you wouldn't know if it was you, me or George Bush who paid them to do it.
Just saying that things don't always seem as they appear especially in the spam world.
late goodbye? that's probably one of the best original songs, with lyrics for a game (okay.. its probably second best to still alive, but its darn close)
but even if you trace it to a spammer does it really prove the campaign had anything to do with it? Do you think viagra is behind the v1 4ga spam you see in your inbox?
Heaven forbid someone in American politics play dirty and hire a company to "promote" another candidate...
just saying..
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Well, most real roleplaying games are good fodder. Anything with a good story even if its not all about the game mechanics itself. STALKER has an interesting story behind it. Half-Life 2 is a decently well told story. Just because a movie is based on a game doesn't mean it has to try and include some kind of convoluted game mechanic if it doesn't really translate well to watching it "in real life". Bioshock seems like another good idea. Those are all FPS so we might also toss out something like Alpha Centauri which had an interesting story, or even Oblivion.
A rich well thought out universe is key, and good writers for the movie. A commitment to quality will take you a long way as long as you have something with depth behind it on which to draw. A mediocre game could be launched by a really well done movie.
Those were movies first, not games. I don't think its ever been done in reverse.
You misread what I wrote. I didn't say build a game franchise first then launch a movie. I said leverage a good movie in combination with a good game to create more interest in the game and thus create a larger fan base to build a franchise on.
If your game is good you'll get a certain amount of attention, but combine that with a good movie and you'll significantly increase your attention. Which means merchandise and more game sales.
Reinvest that in another quality film and another quality game and you've built a successful franchise that you can get at least 1 more of each out of.
That's a fairly short sighted view.
And really not that insightful. Yes. Some people might be tempted by quick easy money, okay maybe a lot of people. That isn't exactly news though...
What would be smarter would be to leverage a good movie which gets the average movie goer interested in it, which would result in more game sales, and create a franchise. You always make more money with a franchise than a one-off.
So while short-term greed can explain some of it, it doesn't explain why we're not really seeing some quality video game movies. Sure not all games translate well, but just about any roleplaying game out there really should (actually RPG, not some action rpg hack n slash)
Ectaco already had a contract with some US police forces and I think the department of defense with their speechguard devices which were bidirectional voice translators. I also believe they were cheaper than these.
it wasn't artsy, it was digital masturbation.
What they were alluding to was painfully clear. The entire purpose of the movie was to say how great and important the movie was.. on the other hand look at http://www.delivery.framebox.de/ Delivery made with far less support, and a hell of a less horn tooting.
There is a big difference between doing routing and switching well compared to taking half a dozen hours to learn the basics of IP communication. I never said he had to be an expert. I said he had to be able to plug a couple boxes in to a switch or possibly two sides of a router (something like a linksys, not a cisco) and make them talk.
I did. That doesn't mean at every company you will work for will you have the luxury of working strictly within your "name of degree" skill set.
Smaller companies, or companies with staffing shortages will often necessitate you work outside that and basic understanding of switching and routing, something you can pick up in only a few hours if you really want to, can be invaluable. Especially for programmers who might have to create some kind of test environment on their own.
Your test environment that you need to test your software may fall outside the responsibility of the IT department. So picking up the basics and then making sure you have a good reference book handy to refresh them when you need it can make your job easier and make you look a lot more competent.
Its amazing what sort of monstrosities can develop when a programmer at my company attempts to set something up and then calls me for help when it "just won't work". I'm not saying you need to know how to completely configure a cisco router with advanced features, but understanding general concepts like ip addresses, host and network portions of an address and how that relates to the subnet mask as well as the basic principal behind how a packet gets from point A to point B would do wonders.
about who has the most real-estate, some of the machines we assemble for control stations have 8 monitors capable of 1600x1200 in them, stacked 4x2 for a resolution of 6400x2400
running on a couple of nvidia nvs 440s.
"The fact is that Microsoft isn't a content provider and because of that they can't leverage any monopoly this time to win this format dispute."
They're a publisher for software, including games.
They still have a virtual monopoly on home operating systems regardless of what anecdotal stories you hear about some guys entire neighbourhood going linux.
They still have a healthy percentage of the console market.
Trying to pick the lesser of two evils between Microsoft and Sony is a bit tough, but I'd rather see MS win this one than Sony.
"With this transition, it will finally be possible for two internet hosts to communicate without using IPv4 at all" nowhere in there does it specify "useful" or "easy". It simply claims possible.
If ping works, and no ports are blocked, any communication is possible, including websites, telnet, ftp, and any other service you can imagine. The summary implied that communication was impossible until now which is false.
its called a routing table.. DNS is only domain name resolution, it ties easy to remember names to ip addresses. Regardless of whether those are IPV6 or IPV4. If you have the IP of an IPV6 and you have an IPV6 IP address, and all the routers in between you have complete routing tables, you can reach that other host no problem. DNS doesn't even get involved. The same way DNS doesn't get involved if I try to reach google by going to: http://64.233.187.104/
"it will finally be possible for two internet hosts to communicate without using IPv4 at all." DNS has nothing to do with enabling to IPV6 hosts to communicate on the internet... it only provides name resolution. The routers make it possible for 2 IPV6 hosts to communicate... you just do so by using their IPV6 address instead of the name..
than elephant's dream.. or pretentious circle jerk or whatever it was called. In all seriousness, I can only hope that there are some truly good writers and designers on the team. You can make it so bright it outshines the sun, but if any of the story of the game reads like it was written by a child, and you're not making a children's game, it is going to suffer for it.
I remember reading something 6-8 months ago about them studying wii tennis vs real tennis, and drawing the same pointless conclusion.
The amount of calories you burn is extremely dependent on how "hard" you play the game and which game you're playing. Tennis burns next to nothing. Boxing on the other hand after 30 minutes I can work up a good sweat.
While there may have been earlier faster modes of communication, the real point is, was this the first one that really caught on?
Its not usually the first one, but the popular one that really changes the world.
Because as has been pointed out many times wikipedia isn't a compendium of all human knowledge. If it was, then you could store your family tree, write about your garage band, co-write your latest novel there, etc..etc..etc..
The community has drawn a line in the sand on things it won't contain. However some of those lines are a little fuzzy, and what one person considers a textbook, another person might not.
If I was a network and had a number of pilots I was unsure of, I'd "leak" them and listen to the chatter. While you can't guarantee your demographic with that, it will give you some feedback.
I'm all for revoking America's access to the internet...
could you imagine what a world it would be if the MPAA and RIAA and other special interest groups couldn't get online? Not saying there aren't groups like this in other countries, but they're not nearly as vocal or as damaging.
What? Impossible. Ron paul probably hung them himself and he should be arrested for causing a possible unsafe situation. Burn him, he's a witch!
I actually hate him as much as 90% of the people on the internet and am sick of seeing stories about him, but I'm also not much for drawing loose connections.
Done through enough channels you wouldn't know if it was you, me or George Bush who paid them to do it. Just saying that things don't always seem as they appear especially in the spam world.
late goodbye? that's probably one of the best original songs, with lyrics for a game (okay.. its probably second best to still alive, but its darn close)
but even if you trace it to a spammer does it really prove the campaign had anything to do with it? Do you think viagra is behind the v1 4ga spam you see in your inbox? Heaven forbid someone in American politics play dirty and hire a company to "promote" another candidate... just saying..