But Anime is hand drawn lines by usually a very talented cartoonist/illustrator, which is then colored by someone just as talented. Videogames cannot compete on this level. They did. For a while there cel-shading became really popular and a crazy percentage of games were using it just to use it. The most beautiful uses of which, however IMHO, was Dragon Quest VIII.
3D-models always start out as sketches and artwork anyway. During the year or years of development there are plenty of talented 3D artists working on keyframes and filling in the gaps and transitioning from one position to another. They've got to cover so much possibility when a non-interactive medium doesn't have to consider every possibility right away.
Also, modern anime (aside from original character drawings) also are all done in computers anyway, from lined art to coloring to staging to production. There's a reason why the underground cel market dried up.
$50 represents a 2nd game for you. Return that console and pick up a reduced one in a week: they don't announce price drops until very close to when it happens. Unless your time in waiting in line to return it is worth more than $50, of course.
They don't have to know. Those that keep up with the news wind up knowing is the content of the story in their local paper or newscast that quotes him.
Kind of like when Congress does something boneheaded that gets reported, the average person that doesn't know their representatives still just generalizes them anyway.
I thought this was about the vanity in gamers that call themselves elite. You know, the ones that use SKU as a word instead of model, those that call it Squeenix instead of Square-Enix, that refer to shooters as shmups, those that say Rogue-Like when they've never personally played Rouge, those that refer to Shigeru Miyamoto as Shiggy, and other stupidity to make themselves feel better than everyone else.
Good point. I would add that gaming in general is a competing factor to movies. The average person might not care what Ebert has to say about some artsy-fartsy sundance film (Full Disclosure: I like artsy-fartsy), but they sure care what he has to say about Contrived Dribble 2: More Dribbles!
As games get more cinematic and more (I might as well say it) important, from an entertainment standpoint, it stands as a barrier to an industry that literally butters his bread. His, and his bretheren, rely on the public-at-large to continually be interested in movies. No interest in movies = no interest in movie critics. Then they'll be relegated to the snooty obscurity where today one might find, say, indie rock critics and fanfiction reviewers.
He's just trying to protect his own. Ain't gonna work, but, hey, those buried alive also tried clawing out of their sealed coffins.
$2.50 protects me from a potentially larger loss by making me disinterested in the game altogether so I save the $60 AND the $2.50.
If I really (and I mean, REALLY) want to take a crack at the game, why not just rent the full thing (as opposed to an incomplete, cherry-picked demo) for a few bucks more?
This is a minor issue. The potential abuse is really nothing that will harm individual privacy rights anymore than having publically viewable license plates does. Pretty much all data on a car owner could be looked up from that data. The difference between a snapshot of a segment of road consisting of a list of license plates and a list of names and addresses is just an inner join away. You could search the other way, too. Put together sets of snapshots along contiguous segments of road and that annoying rights activist or pesky political opponent could easily be monitored.
Those things aren't in the charter for the system? They don't have to be. 1. Put system in place. 2. Wait for statistics to bend showing that the system is working and we're better off with it. 3. Silently request it expanded for additional functionality 4. Silently implement changes, the public doesn't know what's behind the room marked "beward of the leopard." 5. Abuse an originally good-intentioned monitoring system. 6. Profit.
It IS broken, yes, but the video game industry isn't the one to change that. In the meantime they've got to protect themselves and buying congress is a pretty effective way to do it.
Things like term limits and the electing of politicians that actually care about freedoms and liberties instead of their next campaigns' talking points is what's going to fix that problem. When personal freedoms are no longer trumped by the nanny state then dependance on broken political influence mechanism will no longer be required.
In the meantime, the rest of the entertainment industry figured out how not to be a paraiah.
It's easier to get a DVR from your cable company. It's also easier to buy fast food than cook some yourself.
Anyone I've let play with my Tivo for a while thinks it's cool, but to really appreciate getting cherry-picked recommendations, automatic deletions, season tickets, video podcasts, and other features it's gotta be in your home.
It's too bad TiVo isn't in such great financial shape because all they'd really have to do is give away a bunch of boxes for free and let people play with them for a month. They have it now, pure leased boxes where you just pay your subscription. But it's pricey.
I wonder if they could get puchased by a company with more financial backing.
I've been with you on that since the whole realization that AO games can't be bought in retail. Been.
The ESRB was created as a stopgap by the industry to pull the rug out from those who saught government intervention in ratings and permissions. It's very much a "see? We can self-regulate so you don't have to!" Much like the PMRC did with the parental advisory stickers. The same thing was done by the MPAA a about 50 years ago due to movie content concerns, and comic book organizations, too. V-Chip? Yup. All efforts to prevent the government marching in with guns blazin' and screwing everyone up.
If retailers were to tell the industry-imposed ESRB to sod off they would be once again attracting the ire of government and those eager to shut down this subversive* industry.
I think the video game industry needs to learn what the MPAA and cable telecommunications giants have learned. Campaign contributions. Lobbyists. "Favors." You scratch my back we'll scratch yours.
* <sarcasm>Since everything new is subversive to a society.</sarcasm>
Problem is that in windows "launch a command" and "open application referenced in the registry" need not be two different things. The default handler for mailto, for example, could be set in the registry to "shutdown -s -f -t 0"
Then again, if you open a mailto link and Malicious App 2.0 opens, you've ALREADY been compromised by Malicious App 1.0, already on your system, having modified your registry. With those kind of permissions, whatever payload Malicious App 2.0 has could have been done anyway by Malicious App 1.0.
Call me Neanderthal, but I like my cell phones to make phone calls, my coffee pots to make coffee, and my women to...;-) ... make coffee when you call them? I don't get it.
It's so nice when bipartisan initiatives take off. Blech. Parent = +1 Informative.
Can't we give congress more vacations? Maybe if they were in session less they'd make fewer interferances into the lives of the common citizen. In the early years of the US, didn't congress only meet for a few weeks out of the year?
(*#U(*YkaJH(*&F()*&G(SER You are under arrest. You, sir, are one sick bastard.
Seriously, though, in discussions of this sort people always point to encryption and how it's going to solve things. It isn't since the police-state answer to this is to make encryption illegal, make forwaring a packet of encrypted data illegal (with the ISPs bowing to the law). After all, why use encryption if you have nothing to hide? And many of the voting public would freely accept this as a legitimate answer, if it means stopping those sickos.
1. Remake Pac-Man 2. Get ESRB rating of E with a warning of User Generated Content 3. Upon boot, download content from user "NotRockstar", a whole 4 or 5 bytes adding a jmp to the code 4. Execute that code = Manhunt 2 5. ??? 6. Profit!
That's because some USB wireless adapters suck and don't support Linux and since it works in Windows people are going to blame TiVo instead of the faulty manufacturer.
Before they released the "official" TiVo wireless adapter, there was a compatibility guide for popular adapters... but it wasn't very helpful since often times you had to filter down to the exact revision number of it before it will work. The official one is a guaranteed thing.
(and looked cooler next to my box than anything else I hooked up on it. I bit the bullet and later got a compatible USB ethernet adapter instead, though.)
After Wind Waker, which many hardcore gamers seem to dislike, Nintendo has actually gone back to its roots Which is part of the point of Nintendo branching out to other styles of play. There's no room for innovation if your fanbase is going to cry loudly when things change over just a silly thing like graphics. (Some will blame the time spent at sea when a lot of prior Zeldas have similar timesinks like running around Hyrule plains or following the exact same path and fighting the exact same enemies over and over.)
The term "fanservice" stems from having to service the fans. They have to feed them and care for them and give them what they want to keep them as fans. Casual gaming caters to an audience that won't dress up in costumes of characters at conventions, won't be inspired to start web-comics about video games, won't find an undying need to blog about them.
I won't pretend I know what's going on in the grand schemes of Nintendo, behind closed doors. But as more casual gamers jump on the concentration of drooling fanboys would diminish in percentage making it much less risky to take chances with the IP they guard so jealously.
Yes, very nice and all, but, how will they get new works? It's not like anything is entering public domain anymore.
Where I can donate my real books to a library and they'll happily accept them, I can't donate anything to Open Library unless I own the full copyrights.
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To impose moral values on the public at large through the banning 7 dirty words and other nanny-says-no naughtiness.
3D-models always start out as sketches and artwork anyway. During the year or years of development there are plenty of talented 3D artists working on keyframes and filling in the gaps and transitioning from one position to another. They've got to cover so much possibility when a non-interactive medium doesn't have to consider every possibility right away.
Also, modern anime (aside from original character drawings) also are all done in computers anyway, from lined art to coloring to staging to production. There's a reason why the underground cel market dried up.
$50 represents a 2nd game for you. Return that console and pick up a reduced one in a week: they don't announce price drops until very close to when it happens. Unless your time in waiting in line to return it is worth more than $50, of course.
Not sure about those special editions, but the Core is set to get a $20 price cut.
They don't have to know. Those that keep up with the news wind up knowing is the content of the story in their local paper or newscast that quotes him.
Kind of like when Congress does something boneheaded that gets reported, the average person that doesn't know their representatives still just generalizes them anyway.
I thought this was about the vanity in gamers that call themselves elite. You know, the ones that use SKU as a word instead of model, those that call it Squeenix instead of Square-Enix, that refer to shooters as shmups, those that say Rogue-Like when they've never personally played Rouge, those that refer to Shigeru Miyamoto as Shiggy, and other stupidity to make themselves feel better than everyone else.
So, wait, someone actually wants to claim credit for being the man behind MS-DOS?
In other news, No One Admits To Singing, Writing, Producing Nation's No. 1 Song.
Good point. I would add that gaming in general is a competing factor to movies. The average person might not care what Ebert has to say about some artsy-fartsy sundance film (Full Disclosure: I like artsy-fartsy), but they sure care what he has to say about Contrived Dribble 2: More Dribbles!
As games get more cinematic and more (I might as well say it) important, from an entertainment standpoint, it stands as a barrier to an industry that literally butters his bread. His, and his bretheren, rely on the public-at-large to continually be interested in movies. No interest in movies = no interest in movie critics. Then they'll be relegated to the snooty obscurity where today one might find, say, indie rock critics and fanfiction reviewers.
He's just trying to protect his own. Ain't gonna work, but, hey, those buried alive also tried clawing out of their sealed coffins.
So are we witnessing the return of step-activated booby traps in modern civilization?
I for one welcome our new huge-spherical-stone-balls-heading-right-for-us masters.
$2.50 protects me from a potentially larger loss by making me disinterested in the game altogether so I save the $60 AND the $2.50.
If I really (and I mean, REALLY) want to take a crack at the game, why not just rent the full thing (as opposed to an incomplete, cherry-picked demo) for a few bucks more?
Those things aren't in the charter for the system? They don't have to be.
1. Put system in place.
2. Wait for statistics to bend showing that the system is working and we're better off with it.
3. Silently request it expanded for additional functionality
4. Silently implement changes, the public doesn't know what's behind the room marked "beward of the leopard."
5. Abuse an originally good-intentioned monitoring system.
6. Profit.
It IS broken, yes, but the video game industry isn't the one to change that. In the meantime they've got to protect themselves and buying congress is a pretty effective way to do it.
Things like term limits and the electing of politicians that actually care about freedoms and liberties instead of their next campaigns' talking points is what's going to fix that problem. When personal freedoms are no longer trumped by the nanny state then dependance on broken political influence mechanism will no longer be required.
In the meantime, the rest of the entertainment industry figured out how not to be a paraiah.
Anyone I've let play with my Tivo for a while thinks it's cool, but to really appreciate getting cherry-picked recommendations, automatic deletions, season tickets, video podcasts, and other features it's gotta be in your home.
It's too bad TiVo isn't in such great financial shape because all they'd really have to do is give away a bunch of boxes for free and let people play with them for a month. They have it now, pure leased boxes where you just pay your subscription. But it's pricey.
I wonder if they could get puchased by a company with more financial backing.
I've been with you on that since the whole realization that AO games can't be bought in retail. Been.
The ESRB was created as a stopgap by the industry to pull the rug out from those who saught government intervention in ratings and permissions. It's very much a "see? We can self-regulate so you don't have to!" Much like the PMRC did with the parental advisory stickers. The same thing was done by the MPAA a about 50 years ago due to movie content concerns, and comic book organizations, too. V-Chip? Yup. All efforts to prevent the government marching in with guns blazin' and screwing everyone up.
If retailers were to tell the industry-imposed ESRB to sod off they would be once again attracting the ire of government and those eager to shut down this subversive* industry.
I think the video game industry needs to learn what the MPAA and cable telecommunications giants have learned. Campaign contributions. Lobbyists. "Favors." You scratch my back we'll scratch yours.
* <sarcasm>Since everything new is subversive to a society.</sarcasm>
Problem is that in windows "launch a command" and "open application referenced in the registry" need not be two different things. The default handler for mailto, for example, could be set in the registry to "shutdown -s -f -t 0"
Then again, if you open a mailto link and Malicious App 2.0 opens, you've ALREADY been compromised by Malicious App 1.0, already on your system, having modified your registry. With those kind of permissions, whatever payload Malicious App 2.0 has could have been done anyway by Malicious App 1.0.
It's so nice when bipartisan initiatives take off. Blech. Parent = +1 Informative.
Can't we give congress more vacations? Maybe if they were in session less they'd make fewer interferances into the lives of the common citizen. In the early years of the US, didn't congress only meet for a few weeks out of the year?
Seriously, though, in discussions of this sort people always point to encryption and how it's going to solve things. It isn't since the police-state answer to this is to make encryption illegal, make forwaring a packet of encrypted data illegal (with the ISPs bowing to the law). After all, why use encryption if you have nothing to hide? And many of the voting public would freely accept this as a legitimate answer, if it means stopping those sickos.
So, the solution for Manhunt 2 is clearly:
1. Remake Pac-Man
2. Get ESRB rating of E with a warning of User Generated Content
3. Upon boot, download content from user "NotRockstar", a whole 4 or 5 bytes adding a jmp to the code
4. Execute that code = Manhunt 2
5. ???
6. Profit!
That's because some USB wireless adapters suck and don't support Linux and since it works in Windows people are going to blame TiVo instead of the faulty manufacturer.
Before they released the "official" TiVo wireless adapter, there was a compatibility guide for popular adapters... but it wasn't very helpful since often times you had to filter down to the exact revision number of it before it will work. The official one is a guaranteed thing.
(and looked cooler next to my box than anything else I hooked up on it. I bit the bullet and later got a compatible USB ethernet adapter instead, though.)
I wouldn't exactly call Thief an FPS... play it like one and you wind up dead pretty quick.
The term "fanservice" stems from having to service the fans. They have to feed them and care for them and give them what they want to keep them as fans. Casual gaming caters to an audience that won't dress up in costumes of characters at conventions, won't be inspired to start web-comics about video games, won't find an undying need to blog about them.
I won't pretend I know what's going on in the grand schemes of Nintendo, behind closed doors. But as more casual gamers jump on the concentration of drooling fanboys would diminish in percentage making it much less risky to take chances with the IP they guard so jealously.
There is enough stuff written before this madness started to last a lifetime
*shatter*
That's--that's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed... ! It's not fair!
Yes, very nice and all, but, how will they get new works? It's not like anything is entering public domain anymore.
Where I can donate my real books to a library and they'll happily accept them, I can't donate anything to Open Library unless I own the full copyrights.