Your point about cerebral games might be correct, but I don't see this huge deluge of FPS games you're talking about. Are there a good amount? Yeah, but there are a lot more of RPG-type games, strategy games, and racing/sports games.
Saying, "well, it's because action games sell better than thinking games" might be one point, but laying the blame on the FPS genre specifically makes no sense.
Classic MacOS put the settings for a program under Edit, but it was named Preferences. So the user's train of thought was "Edit Preferences," which I think made perfect sense.
This is off-topic, but why doesn't anyone ever mention ME?
Sure, ME sucks and we've love if it didn't exist, but I know a good portion of the Windows-using public uses ME... and yet it never shows up on any statistics. (Google, for instance, doesn't list ME.) It is being grouped with 98 for these studies?
I can come up with two reasons in the first ten seconds of thinking about this:
1) So they can track how many people connect to the site and view the trailer, and also whether people finish viewing the entire trailer, or whether they move to another site before it finishes.
2) So they can dissuade fake trailers (like the fake Episode 2 trailer for Star Wars). By going to the Flash site, people know they're getting an actual trailer from the studio.
Well, support for it ends 1/16/04, and that was spelled out quite clearly when you bought the product... so I don't really understand how you really could have been upset what that has been clearly spelled-out on Microsoft's webpage for years.
It's pretty easy. If you read the options the dog gives you, one is called "Change Preferences." Click that, then click "Without a Search Companion." Watch it walk away and you're done.
Honestly, if you couldn't find that, you weren't looking very hard.
This is bigtime bullshit. Did I miss the part at the end of Super Mario Brothers where Mario Carjacks koopa, sodomizes the princess and pees on bowser? Have you ever played a violent FPS that you didn't realize was violent within the first 2 minutes of playing it? How long could you play Unreal, Quake, Postal, Mortal Kombat, etc without realizing they are violent? Most of them you can tell just by the screenshots on the back of the box
To be fair, the game The Longest Journey doesn't have any foul language at all until about the third CD, and then they introduce a character who swears every other word. I'm not saying that all games are like that, but you also can't say that all games aren't like that.
That's ignoring the fact that the MPAA ratings system is terrible.
It is designed to maximize the audience size, and therefore movies that *should* be NC-17 (Kill Bill, for instance, or Scary Movie which had a man being killed by having a penis jabbed through his head in a bathroom stall... yet Lost In Translation is *also* rated R for some strange reason.)
So if games are going to have a new rating system, let's make one from scratch that works
Have you PLAYED Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? They could not have done a better job of remaining faithful to the original. And if all else fails, it includes Prince of Persia and Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame on the disk.
Oh, God, and I didn't even notice Dino Crisis 3 on the list. Holy crap, if this game is anything like the demo, it consists of 15 minutes of cut scenes, and 2 minutes of mashing random buttons trying to kill dinosaurs because your character, literally, is off the camera and you can't figure out which way to move him to get back in the shot.
I've never played a game with a worse camera. NO ONE should be recommending Dino Crisis 3.
I'm not an expert at anything but XBox, but this list is completely off.
Why would it include Enter the Matrix but *not* Prince of Persia? Prince of Persia is easily the best game this year for XBox.
Additionally, it's missing Crimson Skies, which is far better than most of the games on this list.
And Rogue Ops is a great *new* game for anyone who enjoyed Splinter Cell.
What about the Intellivision collection, or the Midway Arcade collection? Both are discount priced, and contain dozens of games to occupy your time.
And listing Counterstrike without mentioning that it's practically useless without Live support (which most XBox owners don't have) is going to disappoint a lot of kids.
Backyard Wrestling? Who made this list? It's terrible. I'd almost think this list is generated randomly from the list of all XBox games.
I used Preview and still didn't catch it. 1 point for grabbing the flag, 100 for capping it.
In any case, they didn't listen to user feedback at all in the first place. For instance, I put in a suggestion that aircraft have an artificial horizon added. One of the developers replied and literally promised it would be in the next patch, and it wasn't. I had the same reaction through 3 patches before I completely gave up on Tribes 2.
Yes, but if you hadn't played Tribes 1, you just don't understand. Tribes 2 *should* have been the *exact* same thing as Tribes 1, complete with the exact same scripting language, physics model, maps (with more added)... the only thing that needed changed was the graphics engine.
But they weren't happy with a new graphics engine, they wanted to make all the old MODs (Shifter!) incompatible, make new maps which all kind-of sucked, tweak the physics model *just enough* that all your Tribes 1 skills were obsolete, make strange changes to the scoring system. (1 point for grab, 2 for cap? What the hell is that? Ever heard of 'overtime?')
Anyway, making Tribes 2 should have been easy: Get Tribes 1, and change the graphics engine keeping everything else backwards-compatible, but they fucked it up because they wanted a new game. Tribes 1 rocked. It still rocks. It's one of the best games ever. To throw it away and start from scratch was stupid.
Tribes 1 with pretty graphics is what it should have been all along.
Remember when the Infiniti car was first being introduced and they ran a long series of ads where they *never showed the car*? I remember wondering what the hell "Infiniti" was.
There are many MUDs that cater to people who want "pure" RP without caring about combat systems and the such. (Even ignoring MUSHes.) And yes, MUDs are computer games.
For instance, Eternal Struggle (note: I'm an administrator of this MUD) concentrates on RP only. Levels in the game, although they exist, are given by the assignment of "RP Points" awarded to people who stay in character (by other players), which makes for a rich world.
HALO PC has bluescreen problems with the latest Catalyst drivers with the 7500, 8000, 8500 and 9000 Radeon cards. Same situation; if you downgrade your drivers to the version Microsoft did their QA testing with, the game runs flawlessly.
As a Radeon 8500 owner, I'm eagerly awaiting a patch to this annoyance.
What is W:ET? And what is with people on the Internet just making up damn acronymns thinking that everyone will be able to read their minds and tell what it is?
Is that like, "Warcraft: The Extraterrestrial?" Or something?
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Your point about cerebral games might be correct, but I don't see this huge deluge of FPS games you're talking about. Are there a good amount? Yeah, but there are a lot more of RPG-type games, strategy games, and racing/sports games.
Saying, "well, it's because action games sell better than thinking games" might be one point, but laying the blame on the FPS genre specifically makes no sense.
Classic MacOS put the settings for a program under Edit, but it was named Preferences. So the user's train of thought was "Edit Preferences," which I think made perfect sense.
This is off-topic, but why doesn't anyone ever mention ME?
Sure, ME sucks and we've love if it didn't exist, but I know a good portion of the Windows-using public uses ME... and yet it never shows up on any statistics. (Google, for instance, doesn't list ME.) It is being grouped with 98 for these studies?
I can come up with two reasons in the first ten seconds of thinking about this:
1) So they can track how many people connect to the site and view the trailer, and also whether people finish viewing the entire trailer, or whether they move to another site before it finishes.
2) So they can dissuade fake trailers (like the fake Episode 2 trailer for Star Wars). By going to the Flash site, people know they're getting an actual trailer from the studio.
Yikes. How about an anti-paranoia device?
Airplane, hell... this guy needs something to keep his feet solidly on the ground.
Site's translated from French, but it makes a good point:
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/penta gone/erreurs_en.htm
Well, support for it ends 1/16/04, and that was spelled out quite clearly when you bought the product... so I don't really understand how you really could have been upset what that has been clearly spelled-out on Microsoft's webpage for years.
It's pretty easy. If you read the options the dog gives you, one is called "Change Preferences." Click that, then click "Without a Search Companion." Watch it walk away and you're done.
Honestly, if you couldn't find that, you weren't looking very hard.
Yeah, no joke, how pathetic is that?
I mean, I know everyone here at Slashdot hates intellectual property laws, but let's be real here.
The answer should be: Use the money you saved by being an ASS to artists and buy a crapload of harddrives.
This is bigtime bullshit. Did I miss the part at the end of Super Mario Brothers where Mario Carjacks koopa, sodomizes the princess and pees on bowser? Have you ever played a violent FPS that you didn't realize was violent within the first 2 minutes of playing it? How long could you play Unreal, Quake, Postal, Mortal Kombat, etc without realizing they are violent? Most of them you can tell just by the screenshots on the back of the box To be fair, the game The Longest Journey doesn't have any foul language at all until about the third CD, and then they introduce a character who swears every other word. I'm not saying that all games are like that, but you also can't say that all games aren't like that.
That's ignoring the fact that the MPAA ratings system is terrible.
It is designed to maximize the audience size, and therefore movies that *should* be NC-17 (Kill Bill, for instance, or Scary Movie which had a man being killed by having a penis jabbed through his head in a bathroom stall... yet Lost In Translation is *also* rated R for some strange reason.)
So if games are going to have a new rating system, let's make one from scratch that works
What was the point of this rant?
Have you PLAYED Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? They could not have done a better job of remaining faithful to the original. And if all else fails, it includes Prince of Persia and Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame on the disk.
Oh, God, and I didn't even notice Dino Crisis 3 on the list. Holy crap, if this game is anything like the demo, it consists of 15 minutes of cut scenes, and 2 minutes of mashing random buttons trying to kill dinosaurs because your character, literally, is off the camera and you can't figure out which way to move him to get back in the shot.
I've never played a game with a worse camera. NO ONE should be recommending Dino Crisis 3.
I'm not an expert at anything but XBox, but this list is completely off.
Why would it include Enter the Matrix but *not* Prince of Persia? Prince of Persia is easily the best game this year for XBox.
Additionally, it's missing Crimson Skies, which is far better than most of the games on this list.
And Rogue Ops is a great *new* game for anyone who enjoyed Splinter Cell.
What about the Intellivision collection, or the Midway Arcade collection? Both are discount priced, and contain dozens of games to occupy your time.
And listing Counterstrike without mentioning that it's practically useless without Live support (which most XBox owners don't have) is going to disappoint a lot of kids.
Backyard Wrestling? Who made this list? It's terrible. I'd almost think this list is generated randomly from the list of all XBox games.
I guess you never saw Space: 1999.
It was good compared to what came before, bud.
I used Preview and still didn't catch it. 1 point for grabbing the flag, 100 for capping it.
In any case, they didn't listen to user feedback at all in the first place. For instance, I put in a suggestion that aircraft have an artificial horizon added. One of the developers replied and literally promised it would be in the next patch, and it wasn't. I had the same reaction through 3 patches before I completely gave up on Tribes 2.
Yes, but if you hadn't played Tribes 1, you just don't understand. Tribes 2 *should* have been the *exact* same thing as Tribes 1, complete with the exact same scripting language, physics model, maps (with more added)... the only thing that needed changed was the graphics engine.
But they weren't happy with a new graphics engine, they wanted to make all the old MODs (Shifter!) incompatible, make new maps which all kind-of sucked, tweak the physics model *just enough* that all your Tribes 1 skills were obsolete, make strange changes to the scoring system. (1 point for grab, 2 for cap? What the hell is that? Ever heard of 'overtime?')
Anyway, making Tribes 2 should have been easy: Get Tribes 1, and change the graphics engine keeping everything else backwards-compatible, but they fucked it up because they wanted a new game. Tribes 1 rocked. It still rocks. It's one of the best games ever. To throw it away and start from scratch was stupid.
Tribes 1 with pretty graphics is what it should have been all along.
Why is this moderated +5 Interesting instead of -1 Off-Topic? What does Chairman Mao have to do with open-source software?
Criminy, Moderators, do you even KNOW what the points are for?
Remember when the Infiniti car was first being introduced and they ran a long series of ads where they *never showed the car*? I remember wondering what the hell "Infiniti" was.
Off-topic, I know, but I'm drinking a can of Dr. Pepper right now, and on the side of the can, in small print, it says:
Manufactured for local bottlers for the Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. Somers, NY 10589.
Oh my God! Where can I go see Freddie Vs Godzilla? I'm buying my ticket right now!
Also, the XBox also supports 720p on many games, and virtually *always* runs at 480p unless the game specifically tells it not to.
To my knowledge, the only games that support 1080i are Enter The Matrix and Dragon's Lair.
(Since the XBox uses PC hardware to render the image, it renders progressive-scan by default.)
There are many MUDs that cater to people who want "pure" RP without caring about combat systems and the such. (Even ignoring MUSHes.) And yes, MUDs are computer games.
For instance, Eternal Struggle (note: I'm an administrator of this MUD) concentrates on RP only. Levels in the game, although they exist, are given by the assignment of "RP Points" awarded to people who stay in character (by other players), which makes for a rich world.
telnet/MUD client to esmud.com port 1234
HALO PC has bluescreen problems with the latest Catalyst drivers with the 7500, 8000, 8500 and 9000 Radeon cards. Same situation; if you downgrade your drivers to the version Microsoft did their QA testing with, the game runs flawlessly.
As a Radeon 8500 owner, I'm eagerly awaiting a patch to this annoyance.
What is W:ET? And what is with people on the Internet just making up damn acronymns thinking that everyone will be able to read their minds and tell what it is?
Is that like, "Warcraft: The Extraterrestrial?" Or something?