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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer
May 19th 2006, 20:23 CEST by CheesyPoof I never played any form of Riiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer, have you? I wonder why they keep making it? |
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The cool thing about the PS3 is that even with the exorbitant price, they're still probably losing over a hundred dollars per console. |
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I thought released some price estimate that suggested they were losing hundreds of dollars per console. "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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My thrixty is blogging about me! Aeternum vale
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I love it when people post their 360 play-stats and 5 of the top 7 games are stuff they downloaded from Live! That's some money well spent to play Uno. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
Blog. 217 lbs. 37 to go. |
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UNO as in the card game? |
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Yep, Sony is whooping up "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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The original Ridge Racer on the PSX was pretty good at the time. I bought Ridge Racer 4 which included a remake of Ridge Racer 1, only in higher resolution, and it just wasn't the same. こんにちは
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RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER こんにちは
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I hear people are raving about Uno...I think it's because they no friends. :P "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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I love it when people post their 360 play-stats and 5 of the top 7 games are stuff they downloaded from Live! That's some money well spent to play Uno. A very big selling point on the x360 for me was the downloadable games. So fuck your mother. Uno rocks. UNO as in the card game? Yup. Aeternum vale
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I think Sony's problems are 1 part hubris, 2 parts megacorporation. Blu-ray wouldn't even be an issue if Sony was just a gaming company or if their gaming unit had the freedom to do what they want. Pressure from other parts of the company to force Blu-ray inclusion in hopes of helping it become a standard (something Sony has always sucked at in the past, so I'm not sure why they are so confident this time) is very likely. If it pays off, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank because they'll make a fortune on licensing Blu-ray, but I'm hoping it fails miserably. Fuckin' Sony. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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I think I'm gonna go listen to some SACDs while watching some movies on BETAMAX, etc... Aeternum vale
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That reminds me, I was in EB a while back and they had a video poker game that you could hook up to your TV and play with up to 7 other players. And I'm not talking internet play. Talk about the most expensive deck of cards ever. |
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuno. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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I guess buying a deck of Uno cards and having your friends over to play just isn't extreme enough. Now, if they release an online version of Fireball Island, I am totally fucking there. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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SqueakyFoo's Top 10 Games: UNO Oblivion Geometry Wars Evolved Smash TV PGR 3 Gauntlet Hexic HD Yeah the Xbox360 still really needs some good full-blown games outside of Live.... On the plus side, it makes it easy to wait to buy one in hopes that when I do pick one up it has the first rev problems with overheating and such worked out. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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I guess buying a deck of Uno cards and having your friends over to play just isn't extreme enough. Sure, but what if I wanna play with friends on the other side of the world, huh smartypants? Aeternum vale
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Unoooooo Racer! Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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The DVD audio fiasco should have been enough to teach those idiots a lesson. No one wants to listen to a CD in 5.1 stereo while sitting on their couch. Especially when the acronym for said DVD is a porn term that puts two cocks in one hole and two in another. Anyone see many SACDs or DVD-As out there lately? Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Yeah the Xbox360 still really needs some good full-blown games outside of Live.... Well, I've had it for all of a week, and have only really played Oblivion on it. I don't know why Uno is listed as first, because I've only actually played it twice. I've played far more PGR3 than geomtery wars, smash tv, and gauntlet combined. Aeternum vale
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Sure, but what if I wanna play with friends on the other side of the world, huh smartypants? If all of your friends live on another continent, you should probably try and figure out why you can't make friends locally. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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If it pays off, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank because they'll make a fortune on licensing Blu-ray, but I'm hoping it fails miserably. There is no way blu-ray will take off. It's not just blu-ray vs DVDHD, it's both of them vs the consumer's complete disinterest. Just like the minidisk, it's a format with no market. Except the Japanese, those idiots will buy anything just because it's new. |
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Anyone see many SACDs or DVD-As out there lately? A&B Sound has a two foot shelf space dedicated to DVD-A. Or at least they used to. Never seen SACD. Aeternum vale
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If all of your friends live on another continent, you should probably try and figure out why you can't make friends locally. Right, because the only friends I have at all are the ones in my xbox live friends list. Keep trying there, sport. Aeternum vale
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SCEA used to be a cool little side division of Sony, sort of a skunk works. Then they became the main money maker as the rest of the company went to shit. Now that the company is leaning on them, their starting to suck too. |
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Right, because the only friends I have at all are the ones in my xbox live friends list. Keep trying there, sport. Oh, I'm just poking fun. I just never really thought of playing a card game online as a good use of my time. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Don't tell jafd. |
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Oh, I'm just poking fun. I just never really thought of playing a card game online as a good use of my time. That's the sort of thing that would probably interest my Dad a lot. He plays a lot of Hearts and Spades on internet card sites. He has a 360 now ... I wonder if he knows about Uno. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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I haven't downloaded Uno yet, but it's high on my priorities list of things to do this weekend. Many hours were spent skipping class to play back in college. I was reading that the game allows for progressive rules where you can stack the Draw Two/Draw Four/Skip and Reverse cards. This was the way we played back then, and it makes for hilarious gameplay. Funk. I am sofa king. We todd ed.
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Uno on Live is pretty fun. |
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Is it sad that Uno makes me want to buy a 360? |
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riiiidge racer!!!111! I owned Ridge racer for the PSX, but demo-ing the others was enough to let me know I didn't need to own any other versions. SqueakyFoo's Top 10 Games: UNO Oblivion Geometry Wars Evolved Smash TV PGR 3 Gauntlet Hexic HD Woah, can you play Gauntlet against people over live? That would be fun. Also, leave Squeaky alone about using his 360 for Live games. I prefer not to have a bunch of people in my living room eating my food while we play. Stay at home and we'll chat while we play. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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There is no way blu-ray will take off. It's not just blu-ray vs DVDHD, it's both of them vs the consumer's complete disinterest. Just like the minidisk, it's a format with no market. Except the Japanese, those idiots will buy anything just because it's new. I imagine one of the two will take off eventually, but I don't see the point until people are begging for something that looks bettter than DVD. I switched from VHS to DVD because I liked certain features, and I could tell a difference in how it looked. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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I think both formats are an unnecessary intermediary steps before the terabyte holographic disks come out, and even that may not catch on. I think the days of physical media are numbered, and what people really want is a Tivo that not only records TV but also can store your entire media collection, downloaded directly from the internet or their PC or camcorder or whatever. Don't forget that one of the major "features" of both blu-ray and DVDHD is a stupid requirement to lock down the display device and try to close the analog hole. |
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I don't think you play against in Gauntlet, but you can certainly play with. Live Arcade is awesome. |
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You play with 3 other people over live. It is kinda fun, actually. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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frankly, live is the whole reason to get a 360. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I was sold on live with the first xbox. Aeternum vale
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That is cool, I loved Gauntlet. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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The money I spent playing the first few arcade Gauntlets that came out in my youngers could have comprised my retirement. Gregor Samsa woke to find himself changed into a monstrous vermin.
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Live is definitely the best thing about the XBoxes, but unfortunately I don't give a crap about online play. I play games at times when I want to do something by myself. I have all sorts of other things I do with people. |
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Speaking of Fallout (in the old threads) here is an interesting interview with an ex-Troika guy about his new company and new X-Com style game. It also contains this little snippet about Source licensing, which puts the Sin Episodes in a different light: To help everyone better understand, I will explain Publisher funding vs. Developer return process. I'm going to simplify it a lot, but this is more or less how it works.... and it's really quite amazing... After they agree to fund your game for 6 million, you begin production. They give you 500k a month upon receiving, reviewing, and approving your milestone. They are basically checking every month to make sure the game is actually being made and going in a good direction Fair enough. To keep things easy, let's say the game ships on time and they've given you a clean 6 million bucks. Ready?.... You get 10% of the royalties of the game! So like if the game sells 1 million units at Electronics Boutique for 50 bucks a piece, you get 5 million dollars coming back at you right?!??! WRONG EB bought the game for 40 dollars and sells it for 50. Now the publisher takes away their expenses of producing the full color manual and the pretty box and such which we'll say is 10 bucks (usually more like 7, but let's keep the math easy). So now we are down to 30 bucks, and you get 10% of that... 3 bucks.... but WAIT!!! Your 3 dollars doesn't go into your pocket, your 3 bucks goes to pay back the publisher what you borrowed to make the game. They did give you 6 million dollars. So before the developer see's a check in the mail, you would have to sell 2 million units!!!!! So the developer before the developer gets a check, the publisher gets 30 million dollars coming in. Crazy huh? So why choose Steam? I have chosen Steam because if you buy Valves engine to make your game with, you get to keep 100% of what you sell on Steam. That's right 100%. So using our math from above, if I can sell the game on Steam for 30 bucks and cost 6 million to make, I'll be seeing a check after the game sells 200k units instead of 2 million. AND the check I get for the units I sell will be 10 times more than it would be from a publisher AND after all this wonderfulness, you guys all get the game for 30 bucks instead of 50.... It's an all around winner. |
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which puts the Sin Episodes in a different light: It does? In what way exactly? The game is still... uh, of the same quality - regardless of how much money the developers are actually making from it. will work for hate
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SiN sounds exactly like what I expected it to be. Obviously I can just say that, but in my world it means another direct hit by my Awesometastic Extrapolation Engine™. And I think Steam needs a makeover, the current list of all possible games is just too cumbersome, if I can't soon remove games from the list that I don't have access to I shall be very.. annoyed. Aaaaaaand the Troika (whoever they were) thing sounds like what the music and video business is going through, except we're seeing a much faster move towards electronic self-publishing. Who does the advertisements though? Who oversees that a project upholds the laws of all the weird countries it'll appear in? This sure puts the developers directly in the line of fire when it comes to all the weird legal shit that may come their way. On the other hand that's still probably well worth the risk if you feel you have a product you can sell on its own merits, it's not like I'm really arguing for the classic big-publisher approch. "the game will be based on famous battles which actually took place in ancient Japan. So here's this giant enemy crab."
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And I think Steam needs a makeover, the current list of all possible games is just too cumbersome, if I can't soon remove games from the list that I don't have access to I shall be very.. annoyed. Jesus good golly don't say that, it's bad enough I have to update the damn thing every time I load it without you encouraging them. MP3 Of The Week: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist.mp3 (?)
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I'm confused, so is Valve providing the $6 million in dev funding or does the developer have to find someone else to front the money? The rest of it makes perfect sense to me, it's exactly like the situation with the recording industry--you can make more money selling fewer units at a lower price, if you just cut out the middle man. |
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Did any of you Smallville fans see the trailer for the Aquaman show (which due to the UPN/WB merger will never see air). It was surprisingly not too bad. Funk. I am sofa king. We todd ed.
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Valve's licensing is very flexible. You can buy the engine license upfront and pay for your Steam distibution, and you get 100% of sales, but they've also been known to give out an engine and Steam deal in return for a 50% royalty, which is still a far better deal than you'd ever get from a normal publisher. Obviously, you've still got to fund your development yourself, but it is bringing a degree of "garage development" back to the fore and making it more viable. I have a hard time accepting that anyone could achieve this miraculously high level of stupidity. - Caryn
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Worst President Ever. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
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Every president is. Put down the imaginary knife before you pretend to hurt yourself.
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