Games that tanked go for much cheaper than successful games, and they generally get a price reduction more quickly. These days I don't see classic/platinum editions anymore. At least not of console games. And I was only referring to new games.
For example, after half a year, successful games get reduced to about 30 euro, while games that have tanked go for 20 euro, 15 euro or even 10 euro (if it really tanked badly and they need to get rid of their stock).
Countless people on this very site have claimed that linux is unsuitable because it typically has a single simple place to find apps rather than doing things the same way windows does.
Do you know why? Because this "single simple place" can't possibly have everything, and installing something from somewhere else is hell. I know I still haven't installed the damn printer driver I need properly.
This is mostly a Western thing. In, say, Japan, there are flexible pricing structures. The latest blockbuster RPGs cost $80 while the rest of the games cost $50. Mind you, this might seem like a lot of money, but the economy there is different.
I don't know about DC VS Mortal Kombat, but Mirror's Edge didn't sell too well. It's easy to get games that tanked for really cheap after at least a couple months.
If you didn't like even one of the 3D Sonic games, then the problem is not with Sonic; it's with you. You're hard to please and won't take anything else than the exact 2D gameplay of the early 90s.
If you think Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles sucked, there is no hope for you. Maybe you're arguing that they should only be viewed together, but that doesn't make the individual games suck.
I think you're being a bit too harsh on the game. The tricks system is there exactly to get you through the obstacles unharmed and maintain your speed. As for the level design, it's not that bad. Try the Sonic Advance games to see what bad looks like. Too many large bottomless pits.
Actually, the three Sonic Advance games weren't that good. They had poor level design. Sonic Rush was a step up with the tricks system, better level design, and great music, but it's still not the same thing as the original series. Everything is still about going fast. The original series was about good level design with platforming, and momentum. Not constant speed.
Never underestimate what a higher amount of video memory can mean for the graphical quality. You seem to forget that the Dreamcast was short-lived, and improvements could still be made, just like they happened on the PS2.
Also the Dreamcast can only do 640x480, while the PS2 can do 1280x1024.
That the PS2 can do that is pointless, as it's used on SDTVs, and there is no VGA support. The Dreamcast, however, does support VGA, and through that it supports higher resolutions like 800x600. Try Sonic Adventure and Power Stone in VGA mode sometime. Word has it that higher resolutions are possible as well.
At the end of the day, these higher resolutions don't matter, as you get better performance at 640x480.
The Dreamcast has no surround sound support whatsoever. The Dreamcast also doesn't have USB.
To most, this doesn't matter.
Dreamcast VMU's only hold 128KB of data compared to the 8MB of PS2 Memory Cards.
But can you play mini-games on the PS2 memory cards? Can you view your save data while not connected to the console? Can you exchange save data with friends by connecting your memory cards? No, you can't.
Another advantage of the Dreamcast over the PS2 is that it was much easier to develop for.
Skies of Arcadia's sound quality went down in its GameCube port, though, due to being compressed. As for Shenmue, it didn't get ported to the GameCube. However, Shenmue II did get ported to the Xbox. Actually, the reason Shenmue II wasn't released on the Dreamcast in the USA and had no English voice acting in the PAL version is because Microsoft paid them to not release it in the USA, and said they would pay the English voice acting costs for the Xbox version.
Where are Sega's consoles and the Nintendo 64 in that post of yours?
Notable is that (at least in Europe) the Sega Dreamcast came with RGB cables for the best picture quality possible through SCART connectors. It also introduced 60 Hz mode in Europe, which was a godsend.
My apologies. When I hear "open relationship", I think of one where there's no commitment at all, and the two just meet regularly as a couple and do things together, but nothing else.
Makes me wonder why you have an open relationship if there's that much commitment to each other. I don't get it. It sounds to me like "We're together now, but we're always preparing to quit each other eventually by dating other people.".
I agree. However, ever since the PS2 the purpose of game consoles has been blurry with all the added media features. Microsoft entered this market in the first place because they wanted to enter the multimedia box market, which Sony was entering.
*locking in users - The free software community is as much to blame as Microsoft.
You're going to have to explain this one, as it sounds like bullshit to me.
every OS should in this day and age ship with those anyway and you can't blame them for shipping their own
Yes, we can. They have a monopoly.
*enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy - Unfortunately for MS no one uses WMA, everyone uses MP3 (or rarely Ogg) for their music and this is how it ends up on the file sharing networks. Maybe it was evil of MS to try to go that route, but it has been scientifically proven that DRM cannot work and all material anyone wants is available without MS's DRM on it, so this is a huge non-issue.
You haven't heard of Vista's DRM scheme, have you?
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Games that tanked go for much cheaper than successful games, and they generally get a price reduction more quickly. These days I don't see classic/platinum editions anymore. At least not of console games. And I was only referring to new games.
For example, after half a year, successful games get reduced to about 30 euro, while games that have tanked go for 20 euro, 15 euro or even 10 euro (if it really tanked badly and they need to get rid of their stock).
If all that matters is that the software gets shipped, sure. But I doubt that the quality of the program doesn't matter at all.
It's this attitude that leads to unfinished and buggy software getting shipped.
Do you know why? Because this "single simple place" can't possibly have everything, and installing something from somewhere else is hell. I know I still haven't installed the damn printer driver I need properly.
This is mostly a Western thing. In, say, Japan, there are flexible pricing structures. The latest blockbuster RPGs cost $80 while the rest of the games cost $50. Mind you, this might seem like a lot of money, but the economy there is different.
I don't know about DC VS Mortal Kombat, but Mirror's Edge didn't sell too well. It's easy to get games that tanked for really cheap after at least a couple months.
If you didn't like even one of the 3D Sonic games, then the problem is not with Sonic; it's with you. You're hard to please and won't take anything else than the exact 2D gameplay of the early 90s.
If you think Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles sucked, there is no hope for you. Maybe you're arguing that they should only be viewed together, but that doesn't make the individual games suck.
I think you're being a bit too harsh on the game. The tricks system is there exactly to get you through the obstacles unharmed and maintain your speed. As for the level design, it's not that bad. Try the Sonic Advance games to see what bad looks like. Too many large bottomless pits.
Actually, the three Sonic Advance games weren't that good. They had poor level design. Sonic Rush was a step up with the tricks system, better level design, and great music, but it's still not the same thing as the original series. Everything is still about going fast. The original series was about good level design with platforming, and momentum. Not constant speed.
Never underestimate what a higher amount of video memory can mean for the graphical quality. You seem to forget that the Dreamcast was short-lived, and improvements could still be made, just like they happened on the PS2.
That the PS2 can do that is pointless, as it's used on SDTVs, and there is no VGA support. The Dreamcast, however, does support VGA, and through that it supports higher resolutions like 800x600. Try Sonic Adventure and Power Stone in VGA mode sometime. Word has it that higher resolutions are possible as well.
At the end of the day, these higher resolutions don't matter, as you get better performance at 640x480.
To most, this doesn't matter.
But can you play mini-games on the PS2 memory cards? Can you view your save data while not connected to the console? Can you exchange save data with friends by connecting your memory cards? No, you can't.
Another advantage of the Dreamcast over the PS2 is that it was much easier to develop for.
Skies of Arcadia's sound quality went down in its GameCube port, though, due to being compressed. As for Shenmue, it didn't get ported to the GameCube. However, Shenmue II did get ported to the Xbox. Actually, the reason Shenmue II wasn't released on the Dreamcast in the USA and had no English voice acting in the PAL version is because Microsoft paid them to not release it in the USA, and said they would pay the English voice acting costs for the Xbox version.
Please don't abuse the apostrophe!
The Dreamcast was not the weakest. It was more powerful than the PS2. The Dreamcast had more video memory, and a better graphics chipset.
There was more than the Genesis, though. The Master System and the Saturn were also Sega consoles.
Grainy and shitty my ass. My component cable outputs in VGA, and the picture looks great on my monitor.
Where are Sega's consoles and the Nintendo 64 in that post of yours?
Notable is that (at least in Europe) the Sega Dreamcast came with RGB cables for the best picture quality possible through SCART connectors. It also introduced 60 Hz mode in Europe, which was a godsend.
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Also, the better e-mail clients automatically italicise text between slashes, bolden text between asterisks, and underline text between underscores.
One of the story tags is "wortthless".
My apologies. When I hear "open relationship", I think of one where there's no commitment at all, and the two just meet regularly as a couple and do things together, but nothing else.
Makes me wonder why you have an open relationship if there's that much commitment to each other. I don't get it. It sounds to me like "We're together now, but we're always preparing to quit each other eventually by dating other people.".
I agree. However, ever since the PS2 the purpose of game consoles has been blurry with all the added media features. Microsoft entered this market in the first place because they wanted to enter the multimedia box market, which Sony was entering.
People in a so-called "open relationship" generally are. Sounds more like "fuck buddies" to me.
You're going to have to explain this one, as it sounds like bullshit to me.
Yes, we can. They have a monopoly.
You haven't heard of Vista's DRM scheme, have you?
How about 2-character indentation, then? That's my preference. 4-character indentation is already too wide for my tastes.
The way I read it, is that misleading product descriptions are illegal.