You have to do it every time you boot, you can' t save those settings. You can also decrease loading times there. Personally I own a PS1,2&3 and I' d rather play FF8 on my HDTV with the PS3 smoothing on, the only game I' d rather play with its native bad graphics is Silent Hill. On the other hand I' d rather plug my PS1&2 and my Wii on my cathodic TV, their graphics look horrendous on my HDTV.
---------- None of that remotely touches what I'm talking about. Regardless, the only thing mentioned in that video is a lack of evidence. That...
Well actually we have lots of elements that tip the scale on the side that doesn' t please you, as I briefly mentioned in my first post. Alzheimer, amnesic people, there' s all kind of things showing that what makes you you is your brain and that its physical state shapes your personality. Spoiler [video=youtube;V6dgozJxj34]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dgozJxj34[/video] There' s still room for doubt of course, there' s always room for doubt, but as Styx worded it until we have scientific evidence supporting the existence of an after-life I' ll believe in it as much as I believe in Hogwarts.
I suppose what you say is true for most people, but not necessarily, and anyway that' s not what I meant. Take money for instance, if you have very little money to go through the month you' ll make damn sure every penny is wisely spent. Or, to make another analogy, if you only had one life to play Kingdom Hearts you' d probably play differently than if you had infinite lives and would find the experience more thrilling, at least that' s what happened to me when I used to play arcade games with a single credit. Are you speaking to Makaze without quoting him ? Yeah, I was surprised to see him say, basically, "on that one topic screw evidence, I' ll just pick a self-delusion that seems morally comfortable to me". At least that' s how it sounded. I suppose it has something to do with him being a solipsist, I dunno *shrugs*.
Well yes, even with actual "powers" there can be a number of reasons why a medium could be wrong, I wasn' t thinking about 100% accuracy but...
It does lead to new beginnings, even if there' s indeed no after-life sooner or later your decaying or burned body will sustain other living beings. You know, the circle of life thing. Personally I think it' s much more poetic than any after-life prospect. I have a hard time following ... do you never watch movies, play games or read books just because they happen to have an end ? To me it is the opposite : it' s because the few time I have is all I have that it is so precious, the less you think you have the more you try to make it count.
It doesn' t work ? That' s weird ... Well anyway, apparently you already realize that "she' s actually psychic" is not the only possible...
---------- Recently my aunt went to see a medium... ---------- I' m not saying she wasn' t legit but ... ever watched The Mentalist ? Some people...
Depends what you mean. Dying, the event in itself, frightens me, because it might be painful and because I' d like my life to be as long as possible. I don' t fear what comes after though. Everything we know about our consciousness points to the brain, altering a brain alters its consciousness. My memories, my behavior, my likes and dislikes ... everything that makes me "me" has been proven to be a byproduct of my brain activity so ... chances are no brain, no me. Which doesn' t frighten me in the slightest, I wasn' t me before I was born and I couldn' t care less. I know some people believe in something called a "soul", which has yet to be observed or clearly defined, but even if I have indeed a soul that will be passed on after I die, so what ? As long as my brain doesn' t tag along I see little difference with passing on a toe or a DNA molecule, big whoops, the thing that I call "I", my consciousness, would still be very much dead.
They also officially and adamantly denied that the second stick extension was true, two weeks before they officially revealed it, in case you didn' t notice before big N is a big fat liar. Marketing as a whole is heavily relying on lies, don' t trust any news you read just because it is "official". Given the DS multiple versions history it was glaringly obvious the 3DS would also have improved versions sooner or later, but admitting it out loud too soon would only lower the current versions sales and/or anger those who bought the normal version. Welp, it doesn' t really make sense. Also, still no second stick so I' ll pass too. Starts with "Mo", ends with "ney". [video=youtube;N2KLyYKJGk0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2KLyYKJGk0[/video]
Personally I couldn' t care less, all my consoles are set on English by default anyway. Well, true, we suck at learning English compared to your country, but when a debate on the subject arose last year (when Duodecim was released) some people raised some very good points : - Not everyone is cut out for learning English, or any language, or school in general. Some people also chose to learn other languages. They like video games as much as anyone else. Most SE games are aimed at wee kids anyway. - Some people who do understand English would rather play in their own language. - The language issue is SE' s problem, not ours, we are the clients in this picture. European and American developers have no problem translating their games in every major language there is on the market, why the fuck is it so hard for Japanese developers to do the same elementary thing ? It' s, like, courtesy 101. After all the years they had to change their methods regarding this issue it is hard not to read their enduring lack of caring as insulting. - Last but not least : untranslated games clearly have lower sales, especially RPGs and their walls of text. So ... can you think of one good commercial reason for them to avoid an easy and cheap way to make more money and at the same time prevent them from being perceived as self-centered pricks ? I sure can' t. Most of their French translations are on amateur level anyway. FF VII for instance is just horrendous, it looks like they gave the job to their janitor' s dog or something.
Spoiler Four months ago : Toriyama explained that there are a number of reasons they displayed the message at the end of the game. One is that the game has a number of Paradox Endings hidden away, and they want players to first look for all these endings. Another reason is that FFXIII-2's world will be extended through download content, meaning players can expect a long play experience. They plan on continually releasing download content, said Toriyama. Kitase: It might seem that the line “To Be Continued…†means that Lightning’s chapter will continue in more download content, but we are doing it in a different interpretation. So ... what Kitase is really saying here is "it might seem that the explanation we fed you ourselves four months ago was just a lie by omission to sell as much DLC as possible". I can' t say I' m surprised, it felt like blatantly obvious marketing cant.
I' m not surprised, they recently half-assed Duodecim' s translation and often don' t even bother to translate their handheld games at all. Over the last decade SE made efforts to release the same games in Europe as in the US, instead of just giving us the leftovers, but it looks like improving their localization effort is dropping lower and lower in their priorities list. I mean, KH 1&2 were their most spectacular European localization, their only good one actually, so that decision regarding DDD says a lot ...
Smells like google translate indeed. I checked the French source, to be fair the original sentence isn' t grammatically correct either. What he actually said is that MGS5 will have much more infiltration and espionage than MGS4, that the players will have to convince people to help them, and that he liked the social interactions featured in Deus Ex.
He thought the cop was just shooting randomly because he was drunk. Turns out he was just really dead. If you' re already scratching your head this game will be a major mindfuck for you. BTW, don' t feel ashamed to use a walkthrough : the secondary objectives are nearly impossible to figure out on your own, and even if you cheat and read up what you' re supposed to do the game remains insanely hard.
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As Wingly said I think the "problem" isn' t that video games are becoming too violent, it' s that they have more and more realistic graphics. Video games have always exploited humdrum violence, it' s nothing new. Hell, realistic violence is nothing new either, it' s been part of the industry since Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon, or even before that : back on the Nes Konami renamed Contra and replaced its human enemies with robots for western releases, lousy sprites or not we were indeed controlling mass-murderers. I don' t think it' s really a problem though. Ultra-violence (Mortal Kombat, Re-Vengeance, Mad-World) is meant to be funny, I can' t for the hell of me figure out why anyone would think it' s meant to be taken seriously. As for believable violence it' s just meant to be as cathartic as hitting a punching ball. The kind of violence that usually raise flags in video games is the obvious graphic violence, but that' s just meat. To me real violence is psychological, much more insidious than purely graphic violence, I don' t think video games put any more emphasis on that kind of violence than any other media or, well, real life. The dichotomy presented by Warren Spector seems to be blood/no blood, but that' s a false dichotomy, as long as you stomp/eat/firaga/whatever whole crowds of living beings into oblivion being bloody or not doesn' t make any relevant difference, I' d even say that adding blood is more honest really. Personally what I would really like to see is game concepts made by girls because let' s face it, for now the industry is essentially (completely ?) ruled by masculine minds.
Let' s add this one for good measure. Spoiler
^ Guilty of this, except I' ve climbed much higher, wasn' t a kid, and (thankfully) never really learned my lesson. For instance there' s this place near a river in the middle of nowhere, I spent many summer nights there with my friends. They spotted me on top of the surrounding cliff once, when they asked if it was dangerous to get there I said "well, there' s this one tough spot, but otherwise it' s easy-peasy", so they all wanted me to lead the way and get them there. They enjoyed the view, but once we got back down they were unanimous : I' m absolutely, completely and definitely crazy and they' d never do it again. I don' t think it counts as bravery because I was barely afraid. I also did a few acrobatic things with horses (mounting an already running horse and get up on its back while it' s still running), and I ski rather well thanks to my uncle, he made us follow him through all sorts of crazy places in the Alps. At least with these activities I had to master my fear at first.
