The REAL Irony to him getting satisfaction that the V is being used in protests, is that most people would not of even known of his work if not for the movie (which he didn't want made).
Sure there were plenty of comic book fans that were well aware of Alan's work, but not as many outside the medium. Not for the last 20-ish years (Same with Watchmen).
heavily discounted digital download titles on the PC, which is something I've yet to see matched on the console side.
Are PC games typically discounted such that someone can buy four copies of the PC game for the price of one copy of a console game? Because that's what it would take to make up for the difference in the multiplayer paradigm between the two markets.
Yeah, pretty much. Steam Sells "4 packs" of a lot of multiplayer games where you can buy 3 copies and get 1 free. This is especially awesome when that game goes on sale. For Example this Christmas Left 4 Dead 2 was 75% off so you could either buy the game for $5 instead of $20, or a 4 pack for $15 and gift the rest. Of course once activated you can't trade/loan/ re-gift a steam game but given the price I'm ok with that.
What about multiplayer in games? The Wii doesn't multitask. It can't have the app running while also playing Mario Kart to translate the new user accounts and connectivity to existing Wii games.
but the Wii U will be significantly more powerful and hopefully they can add this functionality (and at least make VoIP a system level function like the 360) to former Wii games that supported online MUTE play.
Love Mario Kart Wii and most of my friends have it, but we never play it online sue to the lack of voice support.
All they have to do is sell the games cheap and DRM-free to turn pirates into customers.
You do know the Humble indie bundle was pirated even though you could set your own price, and that even some of the people who bought it, paid a dollar or less for it. Simply put, there's too many Eurotrash and Second World pirates out there who simply aren't willing to pay for ANY intellectual property.
Any yet they are now pulling in over 2 million dollars every time they do one and for (mostly) games that have limited to know advertising budget and no built in audience. They are also typically older games at the "long end of the sales cycle" where sales dollars are sparse. So despite having some content pirated, they also made a bunch more money than if they hadn't done the HIB... it's about profit maximization.
All jokes aside, those people are not in any way remotely a threat to an aircraft or the other people on board.
I had an airline PILOT in front of me going to work when TSA asked him to take off his shoes, and I was like "Really? If he wanted down the plane, do you think he'd have to use a shoe bomb ? He's the pilot for Christ's sake... " the pilot did take off his shoes, but I got him to laugh, and pissed off the TSA guy so it was a Win-win.
The Wii would be good for FPS if the fucking cursor actually pointed where the Wiimote is pointing and it had sufficient precision. Alas, neither of those things are true. It's just a big, clumsy, imprecise floating mouse. For FPS it's worse than an analogue stick, let alone a mouse.
Disagree, I prefer the Wiimote to analog stick AND KB / mouse and all I had to do was "learn to close the drapes" when I play. The wiimote is looking for the 2 points on the sensor bar as fixed points to triangulate from but that big bay window in the living room let it too much sun light so the remote couldn't tell where the fixed points are and I got "studder". If you play a game that Allows you to calibrate your bounding box (Metroid Prime 3/ Trilogy, Medal of Honor Heroes 2, the Conduit etc...) then the control and the immersion beats anything else available.
We considered selling it to Gamestop in trade for Skyrim or Portal 2, but a full system with 4 Wiimotes, 4 Classics, and 4 Nunchucks nets you about $25 store credit (yes, I know Gamestop sucks, but its tons better than trying to fuck around with Craigslist or a pawnshop).
Hell at that price I'll take another one. PM Me and I'll give you $25 + shipping.
The Humble Indie Bundle said that their most requested feature was Steam support. It just blew me away that people would be so dependent that they would be asking for DRM.
Because it isn't SOLELY DRM for the publisher, it's a service to the costumer as well. It's convenient to have an account with all your games and potentially cloud saves wherever you go, and be able to install on any machine you own on a whim without worrying about having the cd's, codes or any of that. The reason Steam WORKS at ALL for customers is because most people are inherently lazy. Valve offered a system to manage all the games you own, install on multiple pc's, cloud saves, auto-patching (even when idle, but logged in), an "offline mode" (which is increasingly disappearing from PC games), no "CD checks" (which is great for us net book owners) and achievements.
Steam IS DRM, but it provides a service, which is why I support it. I will however not buy any game over Steam that uses any additional form of DRM as it would only offer complications and aggravation.
I also understand that the DRM free games from HiB contain many of these features but not all. Personally I've been a big HiB supporter from the beginning and have something like 7 or 8 "download pages" all registered to the same email address. If I want to install one of those games I would rather boot steam than jump to each of those sites until I guess/ grab the right one. Once again, Steam keeps things simple.
It's not my opinion, it's self evidently true. Take any 3D film and lose the 3D effect - you've lost none of the story. Indeed that's exactly what they do at cinemas - show the 3D films also in 2D.
Now take any film with a complex story and watch it for the first time with the sound off. You're going to lose lots of the story.
EXACTLY!
I can barely stand going to the theater anymore thanks to #3, #4 and below's #8 and #9.
The biggest issue I have is NOT the expense of the film, or the concessions but inconsiderate people RUINING the experience. That's why I prefer my home theater and NetFlix / Blurays / Video On Demand. I can actually watch and ENJOY the movie.
This makes me less likely to buy indie games. I paid full price for Gratuitous Space Battles not six weeks ago.
I get what you're saying... What the HIB taught me is I NEVER have to pay retail for an Indie game. I'll just wait around for the next bundle throw in some $ and play what's there. At the rate they are releasing them I can't keep up with the games anyway so I'll never starve myself for new content AND I will constantly be introduced to new games.
I've been a big supporter of the Humble Bundles (anyone willing to give me native games for Linux gets my attention), but kind of "ran out of steam" (no pun intended) and gave the Voxatron one a pass.
At the beginning, just the marketing concept was enough to "sell" a bundle for me. But now I actually look at the games and decide if I feel that it's worth my while.
Even if they release new bundles every 2 weeks I will continue to support them. At the very minimum I'll throw in $1 and give it all to charity then evaluate the games themselves and if they are worth more. If they are then I'll kick some more in, but if not then it's another $1 for charity.
I just don't want DRM, and Steam is still DRM no matter how many fans fawn over it.
Correct, Steam IS DRM, but unlike most DRM schemes Steam usually gets a pass in the DRM discussions, because they actually provide something of value to the user in return for using their service.
1) an Offline mode
2) no cds to inventory / no game requires a CD check (important for netbooks).
3) Install on any and every computer you own
4) "Steam Play" for people who own PC and Mac
5) Increasing support for Steam Cloud Saves
6) Autopatching of games
7) Achievements and other community features we've now come to expect from a gaming platform.
I also stick with Steam for their insane and frequent sales, and their growing support for games in the various Humble Bundles. Its shocking the amount of cash I've split on random Steam impulse buys
This is a good reason to stick with Steam, and a good chunk of the reason why I refuse to go elsewhere anymore.
Same here. I support GOG, Steam and the Humble Bundles which has the best of both worlds IMO. I bought more games from Steam in the last 6 months than I spent on PC games in the last 10 YEARS due to their insane deals.
During Quake Con they had all the iD and Bethesta games for $60 total. That's 34 games, and most of them are choice. Some I play on my desktop, some I play on my netbook when traveling. Last weekend they had a ton at 75% off, so I grabbed a few that I was on the fence about.
I very much like the HIB, but they've turned down quite a few game developers who would have liked like to join. (They didn't name them.)
Personally I LOVE the HIB as there usually is a Headlining game I'm interested in (World of Goo, Braid, And Yet it Moves), and I get to "discover" some other Gems, I would not of known about or picked up. In a way I'm glad they have turned some people away... there isn't a whole lot of "chaff" to their offerings, which makes me more inclined to blind buy / donate when they come around.
" I'll often build female characters if it's an option, or other species, like the Kajiit, Argonians and Orcs in the Elder Scrolls series. "
Personally for Every 3rd person game where I build a character (Including elderscrolls since I play most of it in 3rd person) I prefer to have a female avatar, because given the choice I'd rather be staring at a chick the whole time than a dude. The only exception is Rock Band, my voice coming out of a woman is just weird, but for the rest of it yeah... I'd rather spend my idle time looking at women.
"Even with motionplus the Wii jitters like a mad bastard. "
Motion plus does nothing to the pointer. If you are getting Jitter you are probably in a room with too much light (sunlight's the worst) washing over the front of the Wiimote. The sensor bar is nothing but 2 lights the wiimote uses as fixed points to calculate where it is in relation to the screen, if there are too many lights near it (or a window), the wiimote can't properly distinguish where those points are an jitters.
To test this Try playing a Game in complete darkness (only have the TV and Wii on), and stand between 3-10 feet away and watch how smooth the pointer is. From there look at anything that's generating IR light like a window, candles and other light sources. Not knowing your setup, I'd assume you have too much sunlight in the living room. My parents have a Big BAY window that needs the curtains drawn to be able to play anything.
Hopefully that helps, and even though I haven't played golden eye a FANTASTIC FPS game to try on Wii is Metroid Prime 3 (or the Conduit, or Medal of Honor Heroes 2), the controls are tight and it's well worth a play.
happy gaming.
Yup and for some of us that means there's 2 games from Blizzard we didnt buy.
I still LOVE starcraft 1, but won't buy anything with this kind of DRM. Hell even steam has an Offline mode so I can play games while on a plane.
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The REAL Irony to him getting satisfaction that the V is being used in protests, is that most people would not of even known of his work if not for the movie (which he didn't want made). Sure there were plenty of comic book fans that were well aware of Alan's work, but not as many outside the medium. Not for the last 20-ish years (Same with Watchmen).
heavily discounted digital download titles on the PC, which is something I've yet to see matched on the console side.
Are PC games typically discounted such that someone can buy four copies of the PC game for the price of one copy of a console game? Because that's what it would take to make up for the difference in the multiplayer paradigm between the two markets.
Yeah, pretty much. Steam Sells "4 packs" of a lot of multiplayer games where you can buy 3 copies and get 1 free. This is especially awesome when that game goes on sale. For Example this Christmas Left 4 Dead 2 was 75% off so you could either buy the game for $5 instead of $20, or a 4 pack for $15 and gift the rest. Of course once activated you can't trade /loan/ re-gift a steam game but given the price I'm ok with that.
Don't forget the problem of them only having 1 data-center.
What about multiplayer in games? The Wii doesn't multitask. It can't have the app running while also playing Mario Kart to translate the new user accounts and connectivity to existing Wii games.
but the Wii U will be significantly more powerful and hopefully they can add this functionality (and at least make VoIP a system level function like the 360) to former Wii games that supported online MUTE play. Love Mario Kart Wii and most of my friends have it, but we never play it online sue to the lack of voice support.
All they have to do is sell the games cheap and DRM-free to turn pirates into customers.
You do know the Humble indie bundle was pirated even though you could set your own price, and that even some of the people who bought it, paid a dollar or less for it. Simply put, there's too many Eurotrash and Second World pirates out there who simply aren't willing to pay for ANY intellectual property.
Any yet they are now pulling in over 2 million dollars every time they do one and for (mostly) games that have limited to know advertising budget and no built in audience. They are also typically older games at the "long end of the sales cycle" where sales dollars are sparse. So despite having some content pirated, they also made a bunch more money than if they hadn't done the HIB... it's about profit maximization.
Except they already declined a buyout for billions. They're not hurting.
Why have Billions when you could have... Millions ... *Raises Pinky finger*
All jokes aside, those people are not in any way remotely a threat to an aircraft or the other people on board.
I had an airline PILOT in front of me going to work when TSA asked him to take off his shoes, and I was like "Really? If he wanted down the plane, do you think he'd have to use a shoe bomb ? He's the pilot for Christ's sake ... " the pilot did take off his shoes, but I got him to laugh, and pissed off the TSA guy so it was a Win-win.
The Wii would be good for FPS if the fucking cursor actually pointed where the Wiimote is pointing and it had sufficient precision. Alas, neither of those things are true. It's just a big, clumsy, imprecise floating mouse. For FPS it's worse than an analogue stick, let alone a mouse.
Disagree, I prefer the Wiimote to analog stick AND KB / mouse and all I had to do was "learn to close the drapes" when I play. The wiimote is looking for the 2 points on the sensor bar as fixed points to triangulate from but that big bay window in the living room let it too much sun light so the remote couldn't tell where the fixed points are and I got "studder". If you play a game that Allows you to calibrate your bounding box (Metroid Prime 3/ Trilogy, Medal of Honor Heroes 2, the Conduit etc...) then the control and the immersion beats anything else available.
We considered selling it to Gamestop in trade for Skyrim or Portal 2, but a full system with 4 Wiimotes, 4 Classics, and 4 Nunchucks nets you about $25 store credit (yes, I know Gamestop sucks, but its tons better than trying to fuck around with Craigslist or a pawnshop).
Hell at that price I'll take another one. PM Me and I'll give you $25 + shipping.
I'd also make sure to add Tiger Woods 10/11/12 ... IE: any additions since they added WM+ support.
The Humble Indie Bundle said that their most requested feature was Steam support. It just blew me away that people would be so dependent that they would be asking for DRM.
Because it isn't SOLELY DRM for the publisher, it's a service to the costumer as well. It's convenient to have an account with all your games and potentially cloud saves wherever you go, and be able to install on any machine you own on a whim without worrying about having the cd's, codes or any of that. The reason Steam WORKS at ALL for customers is because most people are inherently lazy. Valve offered a system to manage all the games you own, install on multiple pc's, cloud saves, auto-patching (even when idle, but logged in), an "offline mode" (which is increasingly disappearing from PC games), no "CD checks" (which is great for us net book owners) and achievements.
Steam IS DRM, but it provides a service, which is why I support it. I will however not buy any game over Steam that uses any additional form of DRM as it would only offer complications and aggravation.
I also understand that the DRM free games from HiB contain many of these features but not all. Personally I've been a big HiB supporter from the beginning and have something like 7 or 8 "download pages" all registered to the same email address. If I want to install one of those games I would rather boot steam than jump to each of those sites until I guess/ grab the right one. Once again, Steam keeps things simple.
This sums up the argument fairly nicely: http://vimeo.com/31100268
It's not my opinion, it's self evidently true. Take any 3D film and lose the 3D effect - you've lost none of the story. Indeed that's exactly what they do at cinemas - show the 3D films also in 2D.
Now take any film with a complex story and watch it for the first time with the sound off. You're going to lose lots of the story.
Not if it's a Michael Bay film.
EXACTLY! I can barely stand going to the theater anymore thanks to #3, #4 and below's #8 and #9. The biggest issue I have is NOT the expense of the film, or the concessions but inconsiderate people RUINING the experience. That's why I prefer my home theater and NetFlix / Blurays / Video On Demand. I can actually watch and ENJOY the movie.
This makes me less likely to buy indie games. I paid full price for Gratuitous Space Battles not six weeks ago.
I get what you're saying... What the HIB taught me is I NEVER have to pay retail for an Indie game. I'll just wait around for the next bundle throw in some $ and play what's there. At the rate they are releasing them I can't keep up with the games anyway so I'll never starve myself for new content AND I will constantly be introduced to new games.
I think the punishment here is perhaps disproportionate, but I agree with the sentiment.
It could of been worse. He could of been forced to watch the movie repeatedly through his 1 year sentence; thankfully the 8th amendment prevents that.
I've been a big supporter of the Humble Bundles (anyone willing to give me native games for Linux gets my attention), but kind of "ran out of steam" (no pun intended) and gave the Voxatron one a pass.
At the beginning, just the marketing concept was enough to "sell" a bundle for me. But now I actually look at the games and decide if I feel that it's worth my while.
Even if they release new bundles every 2 weeks I will continue to support them. At the very minimum I'll throw in $1 and give it all to charity then evaluate the games themselves and if they are worth more. If they are then I'll kick some more in, but if not then it's another $1 for charity.
I just don't want DRM, and Steam is still DRM no matter how many fans fawn over it.
Correct, Steam IS DRM, but unlike most DRM schemes Steam usually gets a pass in the DRM discussions, because they actually provide something of value to the user in return for using their service.
1) an Offline mode
2) no cds to inventory / no game requires a CD check (important for netbooks).
3) Install on any and every computer you own
4) "Steam Play" for people who own PC and Mac
5) Increasing support for Steam Cloud Saves
6) Autopatching of games
7) Achievements and other community features we've now come to expect from a gaming platform.
This is a good reason to stick with Steam, and a good chunk of the reason why I refuse to go elsewhere anymore.
Same here. I support GOG, Steam and the Humble Bundles which has the best of both worlds IMO. I bought more games from Steam in the last 6 months than I spent on PC games in the last 10 YEARS due to their insane deals.
During Quake Con they had all the iD and Bethesta games for $60 total. That's 34 games, and most of them are choice. Some I play on my desktop, some I play on my netbook when traveling. Last weekend they had a ton at 75% off, so I grabbed a few that I was on the fence about.
You sure that's not just a "glitch" in the payroll system ? #OfficeSpace
I very much like the HIB, but they've turned down quite a few game developers who would have liked like to join. (They didn't name them.)
Personally I LOVE the HIB as there usually is a Headlining game I'm interested in (World of Goo, Braid, And Yet it Moves), and I get to "discover" some other Gems, I would not of known about or picked up. In a way I'm glad they have turned some people away... there isn't a whole lot of "chaff" to their offerings, which makes me more inclined to blind buy / donate when they come around.
" I'll often build female characters if it's an option, or other species, like the Kajiit, Argonians and Orcs in the Elder Scrolls series. " Personally for Every 3rd person game where I build a character (Including elderscrolls since I play most of it in 3rd person) I prefer to have a female avatar, because given the choice I'd rather be staring at a chick the whole time than a dude. The only exception is Rock Band, my voice coming out of a woman is just weird, but for the rest of it yeah... I'd rather spend my idle time looking at women.
Motion plus does nothing to the pointer. If you are getting Jitter you are probably in a room with too much light (sunlight's the worst) washing over the front of the Wiimote. The sensor bar is nothing but 2 lights the wiimote uses as fixed points to calculate where it is in relation to the screen, if there are too many lights near it (or a window), the wiimote can't properly distinguish where those points are an jitters.
To test this Try playing a Game in complete darkness (only have the TV and Wii on), and stand between 3-10 feet away and watch how smooth the pointer is. From there look at anything that's generating IR light like a window, candles and other light sources. Not knowing your setup, I'd assume you have too much sunlight in the living room. My parents have a Big BAY window that needs the curtains drawn to be able to play anything.
Hopefully that helps, and even though I haven't played golden eye a FANTASTIC FPS game to try on Wii is Metroid Prime 3 (or the Conduit, or Medal of Honor Heroes 2), the controls are tight and it's well worth a play. happy gaming.
Yup and for some of us that means there's 2 games from Blizzard we didnt buy. I still LOVE starcraft 1, but won't buy anything with this kind of DRM. Hell even steam has an Offline mode so I can play games while on a plane.