You ought to keep an eye on Guild Wars 2 then. It's going to have its own take on the DAoC Frontiers with large keeps, siege weapons, along with lots of small group content. They said so far each of the four PvP maps can handle 500 players. Though it doesn't have factions, instead they'll be matchmaking three servers against each other, changing it up every two weeks with the victor declared at the end of the period.
Do you know what's actually inside SOPA? There are a whole slew of problems with the way enforcement is accomplished, the mandates that it would place upon ISPs, the undermining of DNS similar to what Iran and China do, the vigilantism that big entertainment would be allowed to partake in, the gross lack of due process, the undermining of the DMCA safe harbor clause, and the list goes on.
It is a very dangerous piece of legislation that threatens to cripple Internet innovation and entrepreneurship due to the extremely high level of uncertainty it would create among investors. It has also been perceived as a threat by the international community and the UN is already considering changing the treaty that thus far has allowed an Internet with no borders to exist. Many countries are now accusing the US of abusing its control over the top level domains and SOPA would make this true.
Why do you keep making the assumption that the people here have not written their representatives? I've done it, nearly everyone I know who cares about the issue has done it. Are we supposed to stop caring after that? What point are you even trying to make here?
The point the rest of us are trying to make is that Capcom is a member of and supports the ESA, a lobbying group. Do you know who really writes most of the legislation such as this today? Lobbying groups! Not the members of Congress. You think Lamar Smith wrote SOPA? No, it was almost certainly some RIAA and/or MPAA lawyers. As long as the ESA allows their name to remain in support to this particular bill, we will hold them and their clients accountable. If customers can get a significant lobbying group to back down due to accountability and pressure, that would be a great victory.
Hate to shoot holes in your metaphor, but there's plenty of secondary markets in WoW where you can trade gold for game time codes. Many gold selling companies will get game time cards at wholesale prices then trade them at the going gold to US dollars rate.
I agree for the most part. I've found myself outright fatigued by games in the past such as Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 or Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl by having to unlock all the characters. In many cases by the time I was done actually unlocking the characters, I felt like putting the game down for awhile. Of course then I left my memory card (or entire Wii) at home and end up bitter that I still have to play using the base roster with friends.
Thinking back to similar games where you'd get the entire roster from the get go, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, even Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 takes all of 10 minutes to unlock everyone. I realize in many of those cases I enjoyed the games more because I could always pick my favorite characters without being concerned if my friends had unlocked them.
Thinking back to similar games where you'd get the entire roster from the get go, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, even Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 takes all of 10 minutes to unlock everyone. I realize in many of those cases I enjoyed the games more because I could always pick my favorite characters without being concerned if my friends had unlocked them.
Definitely Cataclysm. So many wasted opportunities with a villain they had spent years setting up, poorly executed end game that felt like an afterthought. Anything good it brought was all made part of the core WoW game, no expansion needed.
Agreed. There are already various disguises that players can assume that allow them to appear as opposite faction races. Already at that point character model appearance has become useless in friend or foe identification. The UI is the only reliable way to tell. Regardless, I'd love to see separate armor styles for Alliance and Horde when it comes to PvP gear.
You're completely confusing the timeline. Kael'thas's betrayal and the forming of the Blood Elves all comes after they had been abandoned to the Scourge and the Sunwell destroyed. That is the event that leads them to hate Humans and forsake the Alliance.
While Rare certainly produced several gems, they produced a far greater number of mediocre games throughout their history. Some of the Angry Video Game Nerd's much hated LJN games were developed by Rare. Late in the Nintendo years you have examples such as Donkey Kong 64, Diddy Kong Racing, or Star Fox Adventures which should have told Microsoft what they were getting.
I was quite dubious about the direction MML3 had been taking, especially with the "new protagonist" in what I thought was supposed to be the finale of the core series. I can't help but think Inafune left them a poison pill that will sadly discourage them from ever trying to do it right.
Usually being holstered in plain sight is a good tip off that they're permitted to carry. Besides, what good does banning guns do? Cocaine is banned, how has that worked for us? In your world, prohibition was a roaring success, yes?
Police have response times. The worst tragedies happen when on one fights back. Why is it that we want everyone to be craven sheep who happily go to their slaughter? The Tuscon shooting earlier this year wasn't as bad as it could have been because people tackled the bastard when he was trying to reload.
Also if we didn't say fuck the government, fuck the army, we'd still be part of the British Empire here. ;)
Also if we didn't say fuck the government, fuck the army, we'd still be part of the British Empire here. ;)
More severe gun restrictions do nothing but disarm law abiding citizens. Those seeking to use guns for violence or crime already obtain them illegally the vast majority of the time, with gun bans doing little to affect black market sales. Norway already has strict gun regulation, in which obtaining a license to own a gun is a very time consuming process and must be regularly renewed and justified, with self defense not being a valid reason to carry. As such it makes a very appealing country for someone who wishes to commit violence, with a fair amount of certainty that he will face no resistance due to a lack of armed civilians.
I'd be thrilled if they deliver on these promises. The AI has been by far the weak point of the games and about time they took it seriously. Though I hope this includes goalie AI which has been the worst offender of them all. I'll be awaiting the demo to make my decision.
Corey Perry, is that you?
Well that's kind of a bullshit extension. It's not long enough for most people who were actually, I dunno, doing stuff for this holiday weekend in the US to find out about it. Fail, Sony.
Really? Trying to use Columbine to attack video games still? I just get ill whenever I see this. Columbine didn't happen because of some perceived new violence in our culture. Humans have been brutal for all of human history. Violence in our media is a reflection of ourselves, not a cause of the world's ills.
What truly contributed to Columbine was bullying. You, like many people who grew up in a different time, may still romanticize about the single schoolyard bully with his few toadies. No, that's not what bullying is today. Today it's warped into outright harassment and mental torment. From all I've heard, this is what truly pushed the Columbine shooters over the edge. Have you been there, Archbishop? Have you been made an outcast and harassed with no point of escape because you have to be in this prison-like school by law? Day after day, five days a week? I'm sure you haven't. The human mind can't take it, eventually it will want to make it all go away somehow.
What truly contributed to Columbine was bullying. You, like many people who grew up in a different time, may still romanticize about the single schoolyard bully with his few toadies. No, that's not what bullying is today. Today it's warped into outright harassment and mental torment. From all I've heard, this is what truly pushed the Columbine shooters over the edge. Have you been there, Archbishop? Have you been made an outcast and harassed with no point of escape because you have to be in this prison-like school by law? Day after day, five days a week? I'm sure you haven't. The human mind can't take it, eventually it will want to make it all go away somehow.
Well there's your problem. They butchered the SNES trilogy ports of the games. Whereas the NES games have pixel perfect control and are a joy to play as a result, the SNES port is a sloppy mess that didn't even attempt to accurately recreate the controls. The greatest offense is the collision hitboxes are too large for most of the sprites.
If you had any common sense you would put your efforts towards a platform that wanted your attentions. Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with the indie scene. I buy plenty of indie titles, but it's through Xbox Live or Steam.
There's never an advantage to being an early adopter of hardware. This is especially true for Nintendo handhelds which are always at first large, clunky, and poorly designed. Then in a year or two they release a far better designed model. I'll wait until that becomes a reality for the 3DS.
