That and it seems there might be more of a time commitment to play many, many hours a week so I haven't tried a MMORPG yet. Battlefield 2 was fun to go online and play though I thought. I'm not going to pay a monthly fee for a game I already bought, I must be too cheap I guess. Elder Scrolls to me is one of the best series of games evah! I trust Fallout in their hands, looking forward to seeing this trailer at lunch. I may have to try the upcoming Conan MMORPG though...that's the plan anyways, we'll see.
It's amazing the life (and bucks) Nintendo is getting out of these titles. Take the original Super Mario Bro, it appeared on nintendo, then later packed with preceding titles (Allstars) then on the GBA, and now on a virtual console. Who else can take the same game and then over abnd over 20 years later still be selling it again pretty much the same as ever. I'll take the free emulator versions over these anyday thank you. I wish more emulators could establish some multiplayer TCP/IP stuff though. I suppose though then you have problems with cheaters. Fucking bastards.
It's good to read the hackers are continuing to fight for our rights to not only pirate (yeah, I know there are a lot of anti-pirate people here, I don't blame them one bit for being steadily opposed) games, but get access to the online community through a modded system. I've always wanted a modded console, but I know if that were to happen I would end up buying pratically nothing brand-new other than like maybe one or two games a year total across my systems, and I own every sytem except the wii. Even if I had to buy every single game I play from here on out, I have so many games to play waiting for me collecting dust or taking up HD space, I can easily wait for 90% of what comes out to drop in price or pick of used 6 mo to a year later for a signifigant fraction of what they cost new. If everyone was like me buying almost exclusively used or playing a lot of emulated retro titles, or even like the hardcore hacker/pirates (that don't buy anything at all anymnore cause they don't have to) the industry would change so much it would be hard to recognize. On the same hand, Pirates of the Carribean 3 the game will probably sell like ten times the numbers of copies sold of Psyconauts and Shin Megami Tensei 3 combined, so go figure..but I digress, pirating/hacking/modding will not be the death of the industry-just a continued challenge, and I love to read a bout a good digital brawl, being on the edge fringes of modding/piracy/emulation/backup stuff from decades ago to now.
So I'll have at least two years to play and finish Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, IX, Revenant Wings, and Tactics A2.:D Then other than Crystal Chronicles, Mystic Quest, X2 and Chocobo Fudgepackers, I can claim to have played through and beaten every US released FF title:D
Interesting stuff. I have a question though, and it sounds like you're just the person to ask. Not sure if you'll see this inquiry, but if you do and have a few minutes of free time to spare...how hard would it be for a person with say a engineering/tech/graphic background and little to no hjeavy experience programming, but a heap of experience using 3D CAD software to design structures, mechanical equipment and architectural structures with a creative disposition and heaps of gaming experience, how long would it take me in hours roughly to get up to speed with the NWN world-builf toolkit to even start to make a module worth entering in this competition? Roughly, just a ballpark guesstimate based on your expertise with it to give me an idea if it's something worth attempting. Thanks a lot in advance.
Windbreaker and Twilight Princess both had me quitting towards the end. With Windbreaker it was some dungeon with the little bird chickie and with Twilight Princess it was the sky dungeon. I just got bored and didn't wanmt to play anymore. I've completed 1,2, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Tine, and The Minish Cap and love eavery one of those (or did at one time) but for some reason the last two failed to hold my interest towards the last stretch. TP is too long imo for rehashing much of Ocarina, and with Windbreaker I hated sailing around and stupid Tingle, and the camera BS (Beyond Good and Evil did it better and was worth finishing, even if it took what, 25 hours) - sheesh. They definitely need to do something different with the console followup. I hope Phantom Hourglass is worth playing through.
That was my first memorable experience with gaming. I think for me it was around 1975/76, playing pong with those little controllers that were just a round cylinder you turned back and forth. My uncle pretty much got me into gaming with that and then a couple years later atari 2600 which gave way to interesting me more in computers of the time with the c64, trs80, iie etc. I didn't know the pong game on tvs went back to 72. The 2600 was released in late 77 according to wiki - those games were fun then, but now..yuck;)
...well, I just started playing it for the first time this weekend and am about 5 hours into it or so. So far it's a solid FPS, but I don't get the hype to be honest - unless you're a x-box fanboy anyways, there's been dozens of better FPS titles to precede Halo as well as suceed it. I think the industry overhyped it as well...I could rattle off fifty games from the last decade plus without much effort that school Halo, among then SMB 1,2,3,4. It's very good, but I was expecting more: probably much so from avidly playing PC FPS titles since Wolfenstein was released ages ago. so far Halo is about a 7.5-8 out of 10. Supermario World or SMB3 are both around 9-9.5 easily
Day and Age -- I've noticed a trend with online gaming-it's a way to make steady revenue for providers, and in turn developers alike. People seem to be more than willing to pay for it. I'm a bit of a pirate, have been for a long, long, long time. Sure I buy games, but I play about a 50/50 mix of games bought (many used) vs games downloaded/emulated. When I was a kid and playing games on the TRS, Apple IIe, C64, hell even the 286/386 we weren't always buying games, we'd copy them once someone bought them and then install them. Even when I played Atari 2600 as a child, or later NES and SNES - friends and myself would trade games instead of everyone having to have all the same games. Gaming companies have been losing revenue due to thrifty consumers like myself for decades. Now with a service like Live or the MMORPG these age-old, tried and true frugal game-playing methods don't apply so much and they can make a lot of money with LIVE or a WOW type game beyond initial sales. Get used to it people, Microsoft is just one of many that have found a way to make more money in this day and age, they're not the exception and these trends will continues. When it's become as easy for 8 year old Jimmy on Mom's Packard bell to avoid buying every title or get a ROMdevice or modchip etc etc, as a guy like myself that's been stretching his dollar since Space Invaders, then it's high time game developers and providers find other ways to make a living. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it.
So now that IBM plans to use the same cell processors found in the ps3 what effect will it have on manufacturing costs or even supply issues? Anyone? It sounds like good news for Sony at least PR wise. ANd if it drives costs down, even better news for them.
For the short time anyways, but then that is at least half the war this generation around. The other half will be to continue to provide great content to keep up with the superior horsepower of its two competitors a year or two down the road. They've got a good start as developers like EA are shifting more resources to develop games for it and everyone inside and out of the industry is taking note. Wherever we see cross platform games, the wii is going to suffer among those gamers that are gamers and own multiple systems. But like the article says, the wii is marketed to those people that aren't necessarily gamers or don't care about the best graphics or hottest games. Very smart decision from the getgo by Nintendo, they took risks and the rewards are now plain to see and Sony has had the rug pulled out from under them. I t will be interesting to see thing as they are towards the end of '07. But for now, Nintendo and their wii console are the golden boy,...again.
I'm another Montanan here on/. that voted for Schweitzer. Glad to see this make national news, I hope more states will follow this example, not just this but a bevy of issues better left to state/local goverment.
I have a sneaky feeling though that the Feds will deny us tax revenue to persuade us otherwise, like the speed limit thing, or the Supreme court will just overrule us like on the medicinal marijuana law. The game is rigged.
I think this is a smart decision, especially the buiilt in wi-fi. Stupid Microsoft should have built in the wifi as well instead of ripping people off with it costing $100 more, that's a rip-off just like their live market place and additional online content e-sodomy points/pricing. The 60 GB hard drive would be nice once downloading full content games really takes off, and for those people that will find ways to mod the sytem to play pirated games. It's not a real big deal the 60 GB, but more is better - now if only they could get that price down and provide some games worth playing on it over the other sytems and PC.
Man this is getting expensive! First you have the consoles shooting up in prices. Then every periphreal is much more expensive from the controllers to the wifi adaptor. Games are now $60 new. And on top of that you have the whole xbox live thing that is raking in cash re-releasing games that you can download to play on emulators free minus the slick ranking and online features. Am I the only one that thinks the majority of their content is overpriced? Maybe I'm just cheap, but it seems like Microsft is trying to nickle and dime gamers out the wazoo. Additional content is great, but the prices are a bit much IMO. I have the same problem with PC expansions and DS titles, so maybe Microsoft is just like everybody else. But it seems online gaaming has become a way to extract more money from gamers after the initial sale and it's working very well...I just Microsoft and co don't continue to get greedier without the gamers saying enough already.
was the prices mostly. The screen looked gorgeous, the design slick. The games I figured would come. Movies/video I could care less about, I love movies but I want a great portable gaming system first and foremost, not a video player so much. I'll admit the lure of the GBA and NES also in it's homebrew capabilities.
A interesting thing though, buy the time I bought a GBA with homebrew rom device, a DS with homebrew rom, and a newer brighter DS I could have bought a PSP and a gamer or two. Greanted I don't buy hardly any GBA/NS games anymore though thanks to homebrew and that's saved me a lot of money.
I'll prob get a PSP someday, maybe when the price gets down to around $120
I don't think anyone can predict exactly which console will be the most dominant (short of the DS and it's successor wink wink nudge nudge) in a year and a half's time from now. These figures showing the wii so far out in front have to get under Sony's collar, and were probably part of their 'worst case scenario' or something like that amounting to miscalculating their launch and the power of Nintendo to surge ahead in the initial leg of this race. It's all going to come down to titles, in the long run, if Sony can get them developed over the wii and 360, they can be the winner and depending a bit on the blu ray debacle with them being the most powerful system of the three if they can get the titles and the inevitable price drop, people will buy it. It's all too early to tell though. Initially with the wii's low point cost and appeal with their controller, and support of their DS in sales to support the wii win or lose - they're the winner right now. Remember the PS usurped control over the 64 a one time and became the heir apparent, now thing are starting to come full circle except it remains to be seen whether the big N can keep the dominance with a lack of exclusive titles. Nintendo are going to need a lot more quality exclusive titles than they did with the Gamecube to stay on top IMO. That's been their problem since the 64, a lack of titles really. Essentially right now, there's (3)800 pound gorillas in this ring and anything is possible right here and now looking a year off down the road.
Well first off I'm 36 (see sig) and I game for around 10-15 hours a week (no I don't really play MMOG - well BF2 is prob the only one) and probably have averaged that for the last 20 years or so. Now that's out of the way: hmmm, very interesting perspectives in this article's feedback. One thing I might mention is - looking as a nightmare scenario of a world dominated by movie or other popular items licensed into games, casual cutesy games marketed towards girls (no offense) and those looking for 5-10 minutes of simulation, and the vast majority of games designed with less interest in content and design over sales and ease - retro gaming will be our savior. We'll all be firing up our emulators and reliving those glory days of great game design and classic goodness from days long gone when games were developed for gamers with original gameplay and memorable accents and content - all of which are no farther away than the right emulator, roms (or isos), a gamepad, and a 300 dollar pc. But I don't think it will come to that. It will probably balance more, but the pendulum will swing both ways
The PS3 is going to change over revisions more so than the PS2 I'm willing to speculate. Those of us that wait for the PS3 to gain some success with better titles and more industry support and licensing will not only reap the benefits of a better price for the unit itself, but a better system design. Whether the cell processor is more efficient or newer, or better design to allow for airflow, or tweaks on the mobo or GPU, etc - you name it. It's worth waiting. Anyone that bought a first generation PS or PS2 can tell you that...it's been so long ago though that it might be hard to remember for many of us that have had faulty early 3000 units, which are pretty much junk compared to the newer revisions in my opinion. There's no way to avoid it, as time progresses the system revisions become more efficient with newer materials, technology and design. The nextgen consoles will see it even more progressive and earlier with significant changes in revisions IMO.
who here hasn't played Oblivion already? Probably everyone but the most casual of gamers or those almost completely uninterested in a fantasy action adventure RPG or without a PC rig of any stature or xbox360. So it's still good news that the PS3 can crank out some gorgeous eye candy, although expected - definitely a breath of fresh air for anyone interested in the PS3 or Sony themselves. But there's still a lack of games now and on the horizon and a hefty price tag that needs alot more than a one year old game looking almost as good as a current entry level gaming rig will produce to sell me on this system. You know, I know I'll own a PS3 some day...probably around the middle of 2008. Oh yeah, already logged over 100 hours playing Oblivion on my PC, that's just about enough depending on the upcoming expansion's worth in added content...
The people who own wiis, or the target audience for wiis compared to the target audience of Unreal are like comparing Slayer fans to Radiohead fans, they're so far apart it's like night and day almost. I mean there's really no reason to have unreal on the wii when it's on every other platform. That said, there will be FPS titles on the wii and I'm sure a developer with a 3d engine developed for the wii will emerge as the defacto wii 3d engine soner or later, or a ported engine will take that place until something beter comes along. It obviously won't be able to compete graphically, but the gamers on the wii are looking forward to Mario Planet (or whatver it's called) or Metroid Prime to establish what we can come to expect from the wii in graphics as well as gameplay, we don't particuariuly care if unreal makes it to wii or not and we know the hardware isn't going to support Crysis or Company of Heroes really - but that's not the wii's niche anyways.
to get me to replace my PS2 or add to my plethora of gaming options. I'm happy with my current - PC/PS2/NDS/X360/GCB setup. And counting all the great old SNES titles and other emulation games I barely have time to play if any - why do I need a PS3 or even want one? There's no reason really.
Sony and it's partners have to convince me to buy it and they're doing a piss-poor job of that. A haughty, defiant attitude from Sony, exhorbant price tag and lack of titles doesn't cut it this day and time and I think we're going to see price drop if they can't get some great exclusive titles out in the next six months. They should have had the backwards PS2 compatibility thing ironed out by release and they definitely should have had a handful of -exclusive titles of high calibre- to sell the system in these first months. Unless they come up with the later they're not going to have a choice but to lower the cost of the unit to increase their base in the nextgen market. They've really screwed up on all fronts with the PS3 other than the superior firepower of the comnsole itself, which is what will save it eventually I think (if they get some games out) otherwise it's like a high performace, expensive engine in a pinto station wagon - what good is it?
they had some #$@# games worth playing on the thing. I saw a mountainous stack of PS3s the other day at Best Buy. I thought of the $600 price tag, then I thought of Resistance:Fall of Man and then I couldn't think of anything else but $600. What kinda nut is going to pay that and not have anything to play that is worth a #$%@ If they would have just got half a dozen or so exclusive titles that all were of a calibre equal to Resistance:FOM or better they wouldn't have to drop the price cause the games would move the system. Why they haven't realized this is indicative of just how out of touch they've really become with their market superiority they've enjoyed for nearly a decade.
And after recently finishing FFXIII and FFIII - I'm neck deep in Zelda:TP, Okami, Bully, Castlevania:POR, Gears of War, and NWN2 (among others) - I barely have time to get them completed let alone go 'gee, I really need to play Resistance:FOM for $650 - I don't think so...it's just not a good time to get a PS3 and they have no titles.
What a giant turd this guy is. Really, I'm so sick of *insert celebrity name here* opening their fat pieholes to air absurd, ridiculous, malformed comments for the media to perpetuate. I mean really, who here cares what this joker has to say about video games or anything else for that mattter? It's a sign of our times I guess that anyone can air their opinion, no matter how far off base and the more assinine or audacious, the more exposure it receives. It's no wonder people don't care or seek other avenues for entertainment or try to avoid having to deal with people like this guy.
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That and it seems there might be more of a time commitment to play many, many hours a week so I haven't tried a MMORPG yet. Battlefield 2 was fun to go online and play though I thought. I'm not going to pay a monthly fee for a game I already bought, I must be too cheap I guess. Elder Scrolls to me is one of the best series of games evah! I trust Fallout in their hands, looking forward to seeing this trailer at lunch. I may have to try the upcoming Conan MMORPG though...that's the plan anyways, we'll see.
It's amazing the life (and bucks) Nintendo is getting out of these titles. Take the original Super Mario Bro, it appeared on nintendo, then later packed with preceding titles (Allstars) then on the GBA, and now on a virtual console. Who else can take the same game and then over abnd over 20 years later still be selling it again pretty much the same as ever. I'll take the free emulator versions over these anyday thank you. I wish more emulators could establish some multiplayer TCP/IP stuff though. I suppose though then you have problems with cheaters. Fucking bastards.
It's good to read the hackers are continuing to fight for our rights to not only pirate (yeah, I know there are a lot of anti-pirate people here, I don't blame them one bit for being steadily opposed) games, but get access to the online community through a modded system. I've always wanted a modded console, but I know if that were to happen I would end up buying pratically nothing brand-new other than like maybe one or two games a year total across my systems, and I own every sytem except the wii. Even if I had to buy every single game I play from here on out, I have so many games to play waiting for me collecting dust or taking up HD space, I can easily wait for 90% of what comes out to drop in price or pick of used 6 mo to a year later for a signifigant fraction of what they cost new. If everyone was like me buying almost exclusively used or playing a lot of emulated retro titles, or even like the hardcore hacker/pirates (that don't buy anything at all anymnore cause they don't have to) the industry would change so much it would be hard to recognize. On the same hand, Pirates of the Carribean 3 the game will probably sell like ten times the numbers of copies sold of Psyconauts and Shin Megami Tensei 3 combined, so go figure..but I digress, pirating/hacking/modding will not be the death of the industry-just a continued challenge, and I love to read a bout a good digital brawl, being on the edge fringes of modding/piracy/emulation/backup stuff from decades ago to now.
So I'll have at least two years to play and finish Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, IX, Revenant Wings, and Tactics A2. :D Then other than Crystal Chronicles, Mystic Quest, X2 and Chocobo Fudgepackers, I can claim to have played through and beaten every US released FF title :D
Interesting stuff. I have a question though, and it sounds like you're just the person to ask. Not sure if you'll see this inquiry, but if you do and have a few minutes of free time to spare...how hard would it be for a person with say a engineering/tech/graphic background and little to no hjeavy experience programming, but a heap of experience using 3D CAD software to design structures, mechanical equipment and architectural structures with a creative disposition and heaps of gaming experience, how long would it take me in hours roughly to get up to speed with the NWN world-builf toolkit to even start to make a module worth entering in this competition? Roughly, just a ballpark guesstimate based on your expertise with it to give me an idea if it's something worth attempting. Thanks a lot in advance.
Windbreaker and Twilight Princess both had me quitting towards the end. With Windbreaker it was some dungeon with the little bird chickie and with Twilight Princess it was the sky dungeon. I just got bored and didn't wanmt to play anymore. I've completed 1,2, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Tine, and The Minish Cap and love eavery one of those (or did at one time) but for some reason the last two failed to hold my interest towards the last stretch. TP is too long imo for rehashing much of Ocarina, and with Windbreaker I hated sailing around and stupid Tingle, and the camera BS (Beyond Good and Evil did it better and was worth finishing, even if it took what, 25 hours) - sheesh. They definitely need to do something different with the console followup. I hope Phantom Hourglass is worth playing through.
That was my first memorable experience with gaming. I think for me it was around 1975/76, playing pong with those little controllers that were just a round cylinder you turned back and forth. My uncle pretty much got me into gaming with that and then a couple years later atari 2600 which gave way to interesting me more in computers of the time with the c64, trs80, iie etc. I didn't know the pong game on tvs went back to 72. The 2600 was released in late 77 according to wiki - those games were fun then, but now..yuck ;)
...well, I just started playing it for the first time this weekend and am about 5 hours into it or so. So far it's a solid FPS, but I don't get the hype to be honest - unless you're a x-box fanboy anyways, there's been dozens of better FPS titles to precede Halo as well as suceed it. I think the industry overhyped it as well...I could rattle off fifty games from the last decade plus without much effort that school Halo, among then SMB 1,2,3,4. It's very good, but I was expecting more: probably much so from avidly playing PC FPS titles since Wolfenstein was released ages ago. so far Halo is about a 7.5-8 out of 10. Supermario World or SMB3 are both around 9-9.5 easily
Day and Age -- I've noticed a trend with online gaming-it's a way to make steady revenue for providers, and in turn developers alike. People seem to be more than willing to pay for it. I'm a bit of a pirate, have been for a long, long, long time. Sure I buy games, but I play about a 50/50 mix of games bought (many used) vs games downloaded/emulated. When I was a kid and playing games on the TRS, Apple IIe, C64, hell even the 286/386 we weren't always buying games, we'd copy them once someone bought them and then install them. Even when I played Atari 2600 as a child, or later NES and SNES - friends and myself would trade games instead of everyone having to have all the same games. Gaming companies have been losing revenue due to thrifty consumers like myself for decades. Now with a service like Live or the MMORPG these age-old, tried and true frugal game-playing methods don't apply so much and they can make a lot of money with LIVE or a WOW type game beyond initial sales. Get used to it people, Microsoft is just one of many that have found a way to make more money in this day and age, they're not the exception and these trends will continues. When it's become as easy for 8 year old Jimmy on Mom's Packard bell to avoid buying every title or get a ROMdevice or modchip etc etc, as a guy like myself that's been stretching his dollar since Space Invaders, then it's high time game developers and providers find other ways to make a living. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it.
So now that IBM plans to use the same cell processors found in the ps3 what effect will it have on manufacturing costs or even supply issues? Anyone? It sounds like good news for Sony at least PR wise. ANd if it drives costs down, even better news for them.
For the short time anyways, but then that is at least half the war this generation around. The other half will be to continue to provide great content to keep up with the superior horsepower of its two competitors a year or two down the road. They've got a good start as developers like EA are shifting more resources to develop games for it and everyone inside and out of the industry is taking note. Wherever we see cross platform games, the wii is going to suffer among those gamers that are gamers and own multiple systems. But like the article says, the wii is marketed to those people that aren't necessarily gamers or don't care about the best graphics or hottest games. Very smart decision from the getgo by Nintendo, they took risks and the rewards are now plain to see and Sony has had the rug pulled out from under them. I t will be interesting to see thing as they are towards the end of '07. But for now, Nintendo and their wii console are the golden boy,...again.
I'm another Montanan here on /. that voted for Schweitzer. Glad to see this make national news, I hope more states will follow this example, not just this but a bevy of issues better left to state/local goverment.
I have a sneaky feeling though that the Feds will deny us tax revenue to persuade us otherwise, like the speed limit thing, or the Supreme court will just overrule us like on the medicinal marijuana law. The game is rigged.
I think this is a smart decision, especially the buiilt in wi-fi. Stupid Microsoft should have built in the wifi as well instead of ripping people off with it costing $100 more, that's a rip-off just like their live market place and additional online content e-sodomy points/pricing. The 60 GB hard drive would be nice once downloading full content games really takes off, and for those people that will find ways to mod the sytem to play pirated games. It's not a real big deal the 60 GB, but more is better - now if only they could get that price down and provide some games worth playing on it over the other sytems and PC.
Now if I could just finish Twilight Princess, damn that game is long...
Man this is getting expensive! First you have the consoles shooting up in prices. Then every periphreal is much more expensive from the controllers to the wifi adaptor. Games are now $60 new. And on top of that you have the whole xbox live thing that is raking in cash re-releasing games that you can download to play on emulators free minus the slick ranking and online features. Am I the only one that thinks the majority of their content is overpriced? Maybe I'm just cheap, but it seems like Microsft is trying to nickle and dime gamers out the wazoo. Additional content is great, but the prices are a bit much IMO. I have the same problem with PC expansions and DS titles, so maybe Microsoft is just like everybody else. But it seems online gaaming has become a way to extract more money from gamers after the initial sale and it's working very well...I just Microsoft and co don't continue to get greedier without the gamers saying enough already.
was the prices mostly. The screen looked gorgeous, the design slick. The games I figured would come. Movies/video I could care less about, I love movies but I want a great portable gaming system first and foremost, not a video player so much. I'll admit the lure of the GBA and NES also in it's homebrew capabilities. A interesting thing though, buy the time I bought a GBA with homebrew rom device, a DS with homebrew rom, and a newer brighter DS I could have bought a PSP and a gamer or two. Greanted I don't buy hardly any GBA/NS games anymore though thanks to homebrew and that's saved me a lot of money. I'll prob get a PSP someday, maybe when the price gets down to around $120
I don't think anyone can predict exactly which console will be the most dominant (short of the DS and it's successor wink wink nudge nudge) in a year and a half's time from now. These figures showing the wii so far out in front have to get under Sony's collar, and were probably part of their 'worst case scenario' or something like that amounting to miscalculating their launch and the power of Nintendo to surge ahead in the initial leg of this race. It's all going to come down to titles, in the long run, if Sony can get them developed over the wii and 360, they can be the winner and depending a bit on the blu ray debacle with them being the most powerful system of the three if they can get the titles and the inevitable price drop, people will buy it. It's all too early to tell though. Initially with the wii's low point cost and appeal with their controller, and support of their DS in sales to support the wii win or lose - they're the winner right now. Remember the PS usurped control over the 64 a one time and became the heir apparent, now thing are starting to come full circle except it remains to be seen whether the big N can keep the dominance with a lack of exclusive titles. Nintendo are going to need a lot more quality exclusive titles than they did with the Gamecube to stay on top IMO. That's been their problem since the 64, a lack of titles really. Essentially right now, there's (3)800 pound gorillas in this ring and anything is possible right here and now looking a year off down the road.
Well first off I'm 36 (see sig) and I game for around 10-15 hours a week (no I don't really play MMOG - well BF2 is prob the only one) and probably have averaged that for the last 20 years or so. Now that's out of the way: hmmm, very interesting perspectives in this article's feedback. One thing I might mention is - looking as a nightmare scenario of a world dominated by movie or other popular items licensed into games, casual cutesy games marketed towards girls (no offense) and those looking for 5-10 minutes of simulation, and the vast majority of games designed with less interest in content and design over sales and ease - retro gaming will be our savior. We'll all be firing up our emulators and reliving those glory days of great game design and classic goodness from days long gone when games were developed for gamers with original gameplay and memorable accents and content - all of which are no farther away than the right emulator, roms (or isos), a gamepad, and a 300 dollar pc. But I don't think it will come to that. It will probably balance more, but the pendulum will swing both ways
The PS3 is going to change over revisions more so than the PS2 I'm willing to speculate. Those of us that wait for the PS3 to gain some success with better titles and more industry support and licensing will not only reap the benefits of a better price for the unit itself, but a better system design. Whether the cell processor is more efficient or newer, or better design to allow for airflow, or tweaks on the mobo or GPU, etc - you name it. It's worth waiting. Anyone that bought a first generation PS or PS2 can tell you that...it's been so long ago though that it might be hard to remember for many of us that have had faulty early 3000 units, which are pretty much junk compared to the newer revisions in my opinion. There's no way to avoid it, as time progresses the system revisions become more efficient with newer materials, technology and design. The nextgen consoles will see it even more progressive and earlier with significant changes in revisions IMO.
who here hasn't played Oblivion already? Probably everyone but the most casual of gamers or those almost completely uninterested in a fantasy action adventure RPG or without a PC rig of any stature or xbox360. So it's still good news that the PS3 can crank out some gorgeous eye candy, although expected - definitely a breath of fresh air for anyone interested in the PS3 or Sony themselves. But there's still a lack of games now and on the horizon and a hefty price tag that needs alot more than a one year old game looking almost as good as a current entry level gaming rig will produce to sell me on this system. You know, I know I'll own a PS3 some day...probably around the middle of 2008. Oh yeah, already logged over 100 hours playing Oblivion on my PC, that's just about enough depending on the upcoming expansion's worth in added content...
The people who own wiis, or the target audience for wiis compared to the target audience of Unreal are like comparing Slayer fans to Radiohead fans, they're so far apart it's like night and day almost. I mean there's really no reason to have unreal on the wii when it's on every other platform. That said, there will be FPS titles on the wii and I'm sure a developer with a 3d engine developed for the wii will emerge as the defacto wii 3d engine soner or later, or a ported engine will take that place until something beter comes along. It obviously won't be able to compete graphically, but the gamers on the wii are looking forward to Mario Planet (or whatver it's called) or Metroid Prime to establish what we can come to expect from the wii in graphics as well as gameplay, we don't particuariuly care if unreal makes it to wii or not and we know the hardware isn't going to support Crysis or Company of Heroes really - but that's not the wii's niche anyways.
I suppose that would be an extra fifty bucks. Sony really have lost their minds - mayday, going down, mayday!
to get me to replace my PS2 or add to my plethora of gaming options. I'm happy with my current - PC/PS2/NDS/X360/GCB setup. And counting all the great old SNES titles and other emulation games I barely have time to play if any - why do I need a PS3 or even want one? There's no reason really. Sony and it's partners have to convince me to buy it and they're doing a piss-poor job of that. A haughty, defiant attitude from Sony, exhorbant price tag and lack of titles doesn't cut it this day and time and I think we're going to see price drop if they can't get some great exclusive titles out in the next six months. They should have had the backwards PS2 compatibility thing ironed out by release and they definitely should have had a handful of -exclusive titles of high calibre- to sell the system in these first months. Unless they come up with the later they're not going to have a choice but to lower the cost of the unit to increase their base in the nextgen market. They've really screwed up on all fronts with the PS3 other than the superior firepower of the comnsole itself, which is what will save it eventually I think (if they get some games out) otherwise it's like a high performace, expensive engine in a pinto station wagon - what good is it?
they had some #$@# games worth playing on the thing. I saw a mountainous stack of PS3s the other day at Best Buy. I thought of the $600 price tag, then I thought of Resistance:Fall of Man and then I couldn't think of anything else but $600. What kinda nut is going to pay that and not have anything to play that is worth a #$%@ If they would have just got half a dozen or so exclusive titles that all were of a calibre equal to Resistance:FOM or better they wouldn't have to drop the price cause the games would move the system. Why they haven't realized this is indicative of just how out of touch they've really become with their market superiority they've enjoyed for nearly a decade. And after recently finishing FFXIII and FFIII - I'm neck deep in Zelda:TP, Okami, Bully, Castlevania:POR, Gears of War, and NWN2 (among others) - I barely have time to get them completed let alone go 'gee, I really need to play Resistance:FOM for $650 - I don't think so...it's just not a good time to get a PS3 and they have no titles.
What a giant turd this guy is. Really, I'm so sick of *insert celebrity name here* opening their fat pieholes to air absurd, ridiculous, malformed comments for the media to perpetuate. I mean really, who here cares what this joker has to say about video games or anything else for that mattter? It's a sign of our times I guess that anyone can air their opinion, no matter how far off base and the more assinine or audacious, the more exposure it receives. It's no wonder people don't care or seek other avenues for entertainment or try to avoid having to deal with people like this guy.