Bullshit. First person cover would be fine if I could edge along a wall and peek around.
That's exactly what you do in GRAW. A single shot can kill you, so a usable cover system's vital, and it managed it without making your eyes pop out 8ft behind you.
If you want realistic vision and all that jazz, look at the relative unplayability of Op Flashpoint. Whats next, complaining that holding W doesnt have the intricicies of running over rough terrain, and that we need to use a joystick to balance the characters legs?
Oh please, there's plenty of space between Wolf3D style floating camera and Op Flashpoint style wobble-o-vision, there's no need to turn into Gears of War to make cover work. GRAW managed to make you aware of your body and your use of cover without smashing the fourth wall with a sledgehammer and without making the controls any more difficult than any other FPS.
OK, I think you should actually play GRAW, because I don't think it works like you think it works. But I'll check to make sure.
*Turns on XBox 360.* Tumdetumdetum...loading...Yup, just as I thought. *Turns off XBox*
Yeah, so GRAW is most definitely played from a 3rd-person view, at least the first one anyways. So what precisely are you trying to say?
I think the PS3's GPU is the source of these problems. There's a good chance your computer has something better than a 7800 - and as anyone knows, the processor means nothing if the GPU can't keep up.
I was more focused on debunking the claim that it was architecturally based on Xenon or the Cell; the Wii's processor is, in fact, basically an overclocked die-shrink of the GameCube's. I am well aware clock speed has been basically meaningless since the Pentium 3/K7 era.
The Wii is at least twice as powerful as the original XBox. It also has a specialised CPU that came from the same project that gave birth to XBox 360's CPU and the PS3's Cell CPU.
I hate to rain on your parade but Wikipedia disagrees with you.
FTA:
Unofficial reports claim it is derived from the 485 MHz Gekko architecture used in the Nintendo GameCube and runs 50% faster at 729 MHz.
I'm in the private access beta, and it is legitimate and every bit as awesome as it seems (and then some). I bought Fallout 2 and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for $6 and both were packaged as completely self-contained, DRM-free executable installers and run flawlessly on XP x64. Not to mention the games come with lots of fun extras, including full PDF manuals, MP3 soundtracks, wallpapers, etc. And there's no program to install on your computer, just a sleek website and they store everything for download later on as many computers as you want.
I guess it also means that in ten years when valve shuts down and the person that buys their platform, decides that out of maliciousness they don't want to continue offering the service, and also that at that stage I am too poor to afford 3D Virtual Lesbian Extravaganza on my VR rig, then I might be saying "Well, damn, I can't play TF2 against the other three people that are still trying to play it". But thats fairly unlikely.
Well...kinda. You can only be logged onto your Steam account from one IP at a time. You can actually have an entire 64-person LAN party playing CS:S or TF2 on one account. Whether this is intentional or not, it's been that way for years and Valve's made no effort to correct it (which would be easy enough to do; have LAN servers check for keys like online servers do).
Seeing as all of my Steam games are installed on all of my computers at once all the time, and have been reinstalled countless time without ever jumping through any special hoops to "refund activations," I'd say it's not much of a comparison. And while Steam is pretty restrictive DRM, it comes with upsides - I can install any game I own at any time on any computer without needing the disc. I can even play against other people on my account at LANs.
Spore's DRM, however, doesn't offer any upsides. It's all restrictions, and only on the legit users. I'm pretty sure that despite the online activation and phone home nonsense, you even still need the cocking disc in the drive to play!
From Benjamin "Yahtzee" Croshaw of "Zero Punctuation" fame:
"They could not have missed the point further if they had fired in a completely different direction and the point was in another country altogether."
The point is, EA, I WILL NOT be treated like a criminal. 5 activations is more than 3, yes, but it's still less than infinity, the number I should have. The number every other game (BioShock and Mass Effect aside) gives me. And I will not buy a single-player game that you can turn off at any time for any or no reason. Period. So back off the insane DRM or you will never get another penny out of me ever again. And I doubt I'm alone in that sentiment.
If you really believe that, you must not have tried to use Leopard on a computer that didn't come with it. I have a lot of friends at Uni with Macs, and each and every one of them that installed Leopard on their Tiger Macs have seen massive jumps in boot times and a general slowdown in all usage. Leopard takes longer to boot on a first-gen MacBook Pro than Vista does on my (rather modestly configured) ThinkPad, and Vista's boot times are outrageous!
No, quite simply. If I moved to France, I wouldn't expect the French taxpayers to pay for an interpreter so I didn't have to be bothered to learn French.
Now I suppose if these immigrants wanted to pay their own interpreters, well that's fine I guess. But I can't help but think it would be easier and cheaper to just learn the local language.
Also the 360 is closer to the Wii graphically than the PS3 and desktop PCs. The 360 graphics hardware is designed for 480p with 4XAA.
I know you're just a troll, but this "360 graphics suxx" thing is an absolute fabrication. The 360's GPU is more powerful than the PS3's.
Xenos is a prototype R600 (eg, HD 2900), while the RSX is based on the G70 (eg, GeForce 7800). So please, stop posting this nonsense.
See, I would buy this explanation except that I have several other USB disks (both hard drive based and flash drives) and none of them cause this. Yet my iPod as well as every other iPod I've ever connected to my computer causes this behavior. And not just on this ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, which admittedly is a POS. But also on my friend's EVGA 680i, another friend's Foxconn 750G, my old Inspiron 9300 (i915), my ThinkPad T61 (i965), and an extra old Dell desktop I have laying around (also i915). No other USB disks do this to any of these computers, only iPods. That can't just be one gigantic set of coincidences.
Well, the problem with your theory is that the other thing that's supposed to make capitalism work is competition. Without nVidia, what's going to put the coals to AMD/ATi's proverbial behind? Intel? VIA? Don't make me squirt my water out of my nose.
(I should note that I mean in the graphics card market. I'm very aware that Intel is actually a little ahead of AMD in the processor market right now. But if you honestly believe Larrabee will be a serious threat to the HD 4870 or the GTX 280, I have this bridge you might be interested in...)
As a freelance tech writer who's done some articles for NotebookReview (back when they were smaller and willing to ship review units to people who weren't on-staff) I can say that they do have standard measurements of battery life that are not just "let it sit there idling" - we use a DVD-playback test (which the article you link to, indeed, does) and a full-usage test (typically some video game or similar benchmark, which again, is mentioned in the article) as well. The "idle" test isn't really an "idle" test, either...usually web browsing, word processing, or the like. But of course trying to think of nonsense to type for 9 hours wouldn't work, so I can't vouch for the article you specifically linked on that point.
But on the whole, we certainly find that stated battery figures are generally bullocks. but occasionally you're surprised.
Some games on the the other hand, just slap a stupid rock-techo-pop beat on it, just for having something. (I'm looking at you C&C3)
Such is what happens without good ol' Frank Klepacki. Thankfully he's back for RA3. And Kane's Wrath replaces the stuff from Tiberium Wars with remixes of stuff from old C&C games - much better.
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Want to see something that's _exactly the same_? Click "Show All History" from the Firefox "History" menu. Or open the "History" pane in IE. Unless you've been deleting your info recently, it should also be a long list of links you've visited. Surprise, surprise. And Chrome has a "Delete Private Info..." option in the menu, just like everyone else. And it deletes all of your history and cache, just like everyone else's.
But that tinfoil headwear looks great on you, really.
People want to actually OWN what they pay for! Film at 11!
But before I get modded down as a troll, it's true: DRM turns your purchases into glorified (read: overpriced) rentals since the companies that so graciously allowed you to pay them to use their product can STOP you from using it any time, for little or no real reason (see: Mass Effect and BioShock's DRMs, Steam, the Yahoo! Music store debacle, Zune not "PlayingForSure" after all, etc.) And consumers may finally be getting fed up with be treated like the criminals - especially when the DRM-free pirated versions are vastly superior to our legitimate ones.
I assume you're talking about the Safari 4 Dev Preview? Because Safari 3.0.4 is neither faster than FF nor does it outscore FF 3.0.1 on ACID3. And while Safari 4 is indeed superior to FF3 in some ways, it's lack of important basic UI elements (middle-click-to-close on tabs comes to mind) still hampers it. Not to mention that, like OSX and Apple computers themselves, Apple does very little of the core work for Safari. They just take the open-source WebKit engine and slap their own UI over it, much as they just slap their own UI over BSD and their logos on Quanta and ASUSTek laptops and call them "the world's best operating system" and "the world's best computers" as if Apple deserves any of the credit.
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Bullshit. First person cover would be fine if I could edge along a wall and peek around.
That's exactly what you do in GRAW. A single shot can kill you, so a usable cover system's vital, and it managed it without making your eyes pop out 8ft behind you.
If you want realistic vision and all that jazz, look at the relative unplayability of Op Flashpoint. Whats next, complaining that holding W doesnt have the intricicies of running over rough terrain, and that we need to use a joystick to balance the characters legs?
Oh please, there's plenty of space between Wolf3D style floating camera and Op Flashpoint style wobble-o-vision, there's no need to turn into Gears of War to make cover work. GRAW managed to make you aware of your body and your use of cover without smashing the fourth wall with a sledgehammer and without making the controls any more difficult than any other FPS.
OK, I think you should actually play GRAW, because I don't think it works like you think it works. But I'll check to make sure.
*Turns on XBox 360.* Tumdetumdetum...loading...Yup, just as I thought. *Turns off XBox*
Yeah, so GRAW is most definitely played from a 3rd-person view, at least the first one anyways. So what precisely are you trying to say?
I think the PS3's GPU is the source of these problems. There's a good chance your computer has something better than a 7800 - and as anyone knows, the processor means nothing if the GPU can't keep up.
...can it play Crysis?
Because if not, seeing as modern graphics cards all feature hardware MPEG, I'm kind of underwhelmed by this announcement.
I was more focused on debunking the claim that it was architecturally based on Xenon or the Cell; the Wii's processor is, in fact, basically an overclocked die-shrink of the GameCube's. I am well aware clock speed has been basically meaningless since the Pentium 3/K7 era.
The Wii is at least twice as powerful as the original XBox. It also has a specialised CPU that came from the same project that gave birth to XBox 360's CPU and the PS3's Cell CPU.
I hate to rain on your parade but Wikipedia disagrees with you. FTA:
Unofficial reports claim it is derived from the 485 MHz Gekko architecture used in the Nintendo GameCube and runs 50% faster at 729 MHz.
Well it's easier to move quickly when you cut out all the features.
I'm in the private access beta, and it is legitimate and every bit as awesome as it seems (and then some). I bought Fallout 2 and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for $6 and both were packaged as completely self-contained, DRM-free executable installers and run flawlessly on XP x64. Not to mention the games come with lots of fun extras, including full PDF manuals, MP3 soundtracks, wallpapers, etc. And there's no program to install on your computer, just a sleek website and they store everything for download later on as many computers as you want.
Put simply, it's how business should be done.
I guess it also means that in ten years when valve shuts down and the person that buys their platform, decides that out of maliciousness they don't want to continue offering the service, and also that at that stage I am too poor to afford 3D Virtual Lesbian Extravaganza on my VR rig, then I might be saying "Well, damn, I can't play TF2 against the other three people that are still trying to play it". But thats fairly unlikely.
Because no one still plays online shooters from 10 years ago anymore, right?
Well...kinda. You can only be logged onto your Steam account from one IP at a time. You can actually have an entire 64-person LAN party playing CS:S or TF2 on one account. Whether this is intentional or not, it's been that way for years and Valve's made no effort to correct it (which would be easy enough to do; have LAN servers check for keys like online servers do).
They are also the legitimate makers of the world's best processors, despite what Intel's marketing may claim.
Seeing as all of my Steam games are installed on all of my computers at once all the time, and have been reinstalled countless time without ever jumping through any special hoops to "refund activations," I'd say it's not much of a comparison. And while Steam is pretty restrictive DRM, it comes with upsides - I can install any game I own at any time on any computer without needing the disc. I can even play against other people on my account at LANs. Spore's DRM, however, doesn't offer any upsides. It's all restrictions, and only on the legit users. I'm pretty sure that despite the online activation and phone home nonsense, you even still need the cocking disc in the drive to play!
"They could not have missed the point further if they had fired in a completely different direction and the point was in another country altogether."
The point is, EA, I WILL NOT be treated like a criminal. 5 activations is more than 3, yes, but it's still less than infinity, the number I should have. The number every other game (BioShock and Mass Effect aside) gives me. And I will not buy a single-player game that you can turn off at any time for any or no reason. Period. So back off the insane DRM or you will never get another penny out of me ever again. And I doubt I'm alone in that sentiment.
If you really believe that, you must not have tried to use Leopard on a computer that didn't come with it. I have a lot of friends at Uni with Macs, and each and every one of them that installed Leopard on their Tiger Macs have seen massive jumps in boot times and a general slowdown in all usage. Leopard takes longer to boot on a first-gen MacBook Pro than Vista does on my (rather modestly configured) ThinkPad, and Vista's boot times are outrageous!
No, quite simply. If I moved to France, I wouldn't expect the French taxpayers to pay for an interpreter so I didn't have to be bothered to learn French. Now I suppose if these immigrants wanted to pay their own interpreters, well that's fine I guess. But I can't help but think it would be easier and cheaper to just learn the local language.
Also the 360 is closer to the Wii graphically than the PS3 and desktop PCs. The 360 graphics hardware is designed for 480p with 4XAA.
I know you're just a troll, but this "360 graphics suxx" thing is an absolute fabrication. The 360's GPU is more powerful than the PS3's. Xenos is a prototype R600 (eg, HD 2900), while the RSX is based on the G70 (eg, GeForce 7800). So please, stop posting this nonsense.
We'll see how well this goes over when a few thousand customers sue the US government for illegal seizure.
Except that you can't sue the government unless they let you, apparently.
See, I would buy this explanation except that I have several other USB disks (both hard drive based and flash drives) and none of them cause this. Yet my iPod as well as every other iPod I've ever connected to my computer causes this behavior. And not just on this ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, which admittedly is a POS. But also on my friend's EVGA 680i, another friend's Foxconn 750G, my old Inspiron 9300 (i915), my ThinkPad T61 (i965), and an extra old Dell desktop I have laying around (also i915). No other USB disks do this to any of these computers, only iPods. That can't just be one gigantic set of coincidences.
(I should note that I mean in the graphics card market. I'm very aware that Intel is actually a little ahead of AMD in the processor market right now. But if you honestly believe Larrabee will be a serious threat to the HD 4870 or the GTX 280, I have this bridge you might be interested in...)
As a freelance tech writer who's done some articles for NotebookReview (back when they were smaller and willing to ship review units to people who weren't on-staff) I can say that they do have standard measurements of battery life that are not just "let it sit there idling" - we use a DVD-playback test (which the article you link to, indeed, does) and a full-usage test (typically some video game or similar benchmark, which again, is mentioned in the article) as well. The "idle" test isn't really an "idle" test, either...usually web browsing, word processing, or the like. But of course trying to think of nonsense to type for 9 hours wouldn't work, so I can't vouch for the article you specifically linked on that point. But on the whole, we certainly find that stated battery figures are generally bullocks. but occasionally you're surprised.
Some games on the the other hand, just slap a stupid rock-techo-pop beat on it, just for having something. (I'm looking at you C&C3)
Such is what happens without good ol' Frank Klepacki. Thankfully he's back for RA3. And Kane's Wrath replaces the stuff from Tiberium Wars with remixes of stuff from old C&C games - much better.
Want to see something that's _exactly the same_? Click "Show All History" from the Firefox "History" menu. Or open the "History" pane in IE. Unless you've been deleting your info recently, it should also be a long list of links you've visited. Surprise, surprise. And Chrome has a "Delete Private Info..." option in the menu, just like everyone else. And it deletes all of your history and cache, just like everyone else's. But that tinfoil headwear looks great on you, really.
But before I get modded down as a troll, it's true: DRM turns your purchases into glorified (read: overpriced) rentals since the companies that so graciously allowed you to pay them to use their product can STOP you from using it any time, for little or no real reason (see: Mass Effect and BioShock's DRMs, Steam, the Yahoo! Music store debacle, Zune not "PlayingForSure" after all, etc.) And consumers may finally be getting fed up with be treated like the criminals - especially when the DRM-free pirated versions are vastly superior to our legitimate ones.
One group of people worldwide: Politicians.
Gullible? Check. Paranoid? Check. Guilty conscience...ooh, foiled in the home stretch.
Yes, because holding two fingers on the trackpad and then clicking is so much easier than just clicking the other button...err, wait...
I assume you're talking about the Safari 4 Dev Preview? Because Safari 3.0.4 is neither faster than FF nor does it outscore FF 3.0.1 on ACID3. And while Safari 4 is indeed superior to FF3 in some ways, it's lack of important basic UI elements (middle-click-to-close on tabs comes to mind) still hampers it. Not to mention that, like OSX and Apple computers themselves, Apple does very little of the core work for Safari. They just take the open-source WebKit engine and slap their own UI over it, much as they just slap their own UI over BSD and their logos on Quanta and ASUSTek laptops and call them "the world's best operating system" and "the world's best computers" as if Apple deserves any of the credit.