Is it a matter of ego(expressing talent) in different forms?
Your programmer has the ego of, "Im THIS talented, I can get this many polygons on screen, scrolling in this many directions. come and see my talents!"
whereas your writers/artists' egos take the form of "you have to PAY me for my talents!"
or maybe its more of a learning thing. You can improve your skills programming wise (on a measureable scale) whereas writing cannot be improved(or at least measured as improved) as easily
I may be totally off, this is an OPINION from a programmer (never a good combination)
Well in my opinion, I'd say the GP32 is good, nice and fast, with a big screen. *But* the GBA really REALLY makes up for the slow processor with all its hardware functionality (tile modes, sprite scaling rotation etc) which makes it really easy to write stuff for the GBA
I'd like to think the PSP would be good to write for, but with UMD I'm wondering how long it will be before we can actually put anything on there. Hopefully it wont be as complicated as the PS2 to get some real power out of it
I have no expierence with Palm stuff though so cant comment on that
You can't expect games not to have bugs in them these days. If you(the publisher and/or consumer) want all the features they want, they have to be written. Games take 2 years or so to develop now, they have HUGE levels, HUGE amounts of animation, very complex hardware (ps2, pc), huge amounts of SDK's to go through, each system has its own sets of interface rules to adhere too, plus, you need to add STUFF into the game.
All games released have loads of bugs, theres some big ones in jak and daxter, and even in ratchet and clank (which is like, the most optimised PS2 game there is), theres numerous places where mario can get through walls, etc etc
now, you spend say, the last 3+ months of work fixing bugs on a game, unless, lets face it, some games are rushed (ie. those in the topic)
everyone leaves bugs in their games, these people clearly forgot to fix some of the more important ones. I'm guessing very strict deadlines got in the way. Not that its the developers fault, nintendo, sony, and microsoft all do extensive checks before letting a game through. (unless your EA, who are allowed to bend the rules... but thats anotehr topic entirely)
Please, we all want to make great gameplay games, but many factors bring us down. (publishers)
We need good looking games, or the games are written off by the public as not good enough. Liscences go along with this to an extent. (If its not a liscence its a sequel)
New titles, and ugly games dont sell. If the people in the street *bought* more non-sequels and non-liscenced games, and perhaps some of the uglier games we could do what we wanted when we make games!
I think (unfortunetly) the games industry has gotten to a point where you have to live up the standards, and not just anything will sell.
Work on a good looking game, mimicing something else, add a feature, then if that goes okay, make a sequel and start adding more of your own "original" ideas. (at which point you become one of those sequel and non-original types)
I dunno, if you sign a brand to a particular group sony would probably be best
Nintendo dont deal well with 3rd party titles any more, you dont know how long microsoft will be around, although I'd suspect at least one or more generations, but they just dont have the market shared. You just plain cant trust EA.
Sony have the market share, and now that theyre stronger and more expierienced than when the playstation was around, they have started to look into gameplay details like nintendo used to
And from what I know, Sony support (QA, technical etc) is good
If you want to get yourself an original title, you need to be able to cope with the dismall sales (80%?). To be able to do that, you need money. How do you get money, churn out a liscene or a sequel. Theyre not ALL the same, theyre all quite quite different.
Is there really no difference between mario sunshine, halo and grand theft auto?
If this was 1994(with the same amount of titles availible), people would be complaining about day of the tentacle being just another hugo clone. Same with discworld, sam and max, lure of the temptress.
Thing is, whats different between games is story. but people dont play console games long enough to appriciate it, because theyres 40 other games released that month to try out.
It was the same in the old days. how many variants of 2D games were there REALLY?
Where do the new ideas go if we can't have games like Viewtiful Joe, Shenmue, and Jet Grind Radio? Not sure I understand that question. The answer to this is...
They go to big developers, which usually dont sell. Or somehow a small developer gets a deal for it. which then usually dont sell and the small company goes bust.
#8 - The only good games for the XBox are out for the other systems, except for Halo which i was not impressed with so the only good game on the xbox, you weren't impressed with?
#10 - A buddy bought an Xbox while I was visiting and picked up Halo and and an NHL game (dont' remember which one). No doubt, the graphics looked great (but don't they look great on all the systems?). We decided to stop playing though when the Xbox started crashing consistently. The screen just froze. This happened roughly 5-10 minutes into each game. Needless to say, my buddy returned it and picked up a Gamecube.... on which it never crashed? damn you xboxeggsbox!
my thoughts... The xbox pad isnt too bad, until you find you have to completley shift both hands to use the DPad. The xbox itself is very loud, in our room at work, 5 pc's, 4 tv's, 4 ps2's, 2 gamecubes, and the xbox is the loudest thing in the room!
Just for general information, from what Ive witnessed and know (I've only been working in the games industry for 2 years) is that Testers tend to go onto design/producing or art(bit rarer) rather than programming.
But still its a step in, if you cant get in straight to programming routes, this is at least one way to get your foot into the industry
Those screenshots of egypt (desert stereotype there) and the pirate ship look REALLY REALLY familiar? can anyone think of some platform games with similar backdrops? (VERY similar ones)
Dumb? I'm sure sony made it worth their while. Not to mention concentrating on working on a single platform (or do they use renderware? I forget) Also being limited to the largest user base cant be too bad. especially when your the main reason for increasing that userbase:)
Is wait for Amazon to pantent it, and then wait for microsoft to adopt it, change the standard, and then take away the patent from Amazon and sue any japanese businesses using it
Anything involving puzzles... picking up stuff, using them with other stuff to make things happen.
Its just theyre in 3D, usually 3rd person... And often involve fighting, cos kids of these days wouldnt be able to concentrate for more than 3 minutes on a puzzle. Anyone older generally buys nintendo, or something with more fighting/shooting
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NTL started to disable people's broadband connections if they exceeded a certain amount of data download in a day.
I cant remember if they stopped it in the end because of complaints... anyone know?
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"I think Sony is more of a threat to Palm hardware than the PocketPC is."
but still not as much as their directors it seems
Midlevel priced games? smaller projects?
could id be what the consumers need to kickstart the successfull(in shops) re-emergance of shareware?
Is it a matter of ego(expressing talent) in different forms?
Your programmer has the ego of, "Im THIS talented, I can get this many polygons on screen, scrolling in this many directions. come and see my talents!"
whereas your writers/artists' egos take the form of "you have to PAY me for my talents!"
or maybe its more of a learning thing. You can improve your skills programming wise (on a measureable scale) whereas writing cannot be improved(or at least measured as improved) as easily
I may be totally off, this is an OPINION from a programmer (never a good combination)
Visual Basic? Yuk!
Well in my opinion, I'd say the GP32 is good, nice and fast, with a big screen. *But* the GBA really REALLY makes up for the slow processor with all its hardware functionality (tile modes, sprite scaling rotation etc) which makes it really easy to write stuff for the GBA
I'd like to think the PSP would be good to write for, but with UMD I'm wondering how long it will be before we can actually put anything on there. Hopefully it wont be as complicated as the PS2 to get some real power out of it
I have no expierence with Palm stuff though so cant comment on that
You can't expect games not to have bugs in them these days. If you(the publisher and/or consumer) want all the features they want, they have to be written. Games take 2 years or so to develop now, they have HUGE levels, HUGE amounts of animation, very complex hardware (ps2, pc), huge amounts of SDK's to go through, each system has its own sets of interface rules to adhere too, plus, you need to add STUFF into the game.
All games released have loads of bugs, theres some big ones in jak and daxter, and even in ratchet and clank (which is like, the most optimised PS2 game there is), theres numerous places where mario can get through walls, etc etc
now, you spend say, the last 3+ months of work fixing bugs on a game, unless, lets face it, some games are rushed (ie. those in the topic)
everyone leaves bugs in their games, these people clearly forgot to fix some of the more important ones. I'm guessing very strict deadlines got in the way. Not that its the developers fault, nintendo, sony, and microsoft all do extensive checks before letting a game through. (unless your EA, who are allowed to bend the rules... but thats anotehr topic entirely)
keep bernie alive!
or dead, but in one piece.
Is the GBA successfull really though?
The only games that sell (well, make a decent profit) are liscenced games (including rehashes of SNES games)
The gameplay may be good, but its nothing new. And if it is new, it wont be making a profit
Please, we all want to make great gameplay games, but many factors bring us down. (publishers)
We need good looking games, or the games are written off by the public as not good enough. Liscences go along with this to an extent. (If its not a liscence its a sequel)
New titles, and ugly games dont sell. If the people in the street *bought* more non-sequels and non-liscenced games, and perhaps some of the uglier games we could do what we wanted when we make games!
I think (unfortunetly) the games industry has gotten to a point where you have to live up the standards, and not just anything will sell.
Work on a good looking game, mimicing something else, add a feature, then if that goes okay, make a sequel and start adding more of your own "original" ideas. (at which point you become one of those sequel and non-original types)
I dunno, if you sign a brand to a particular group sony would probably be best
Nintendo dont deal well with 3rd party titles any more, you dont know how long microsoft will be around, although I'd suspect at least one or more generations, but they just dont have the market shared. You just plain cant trust EA.
Sony have the market share, and now that theyre stronger and more expierienced than when the playstation was around, they have started to look into gameplay details like nintendo used to
And from what I know, Sony support (QA, technical etc) is good
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If you want to get yourself an original title, you need to be able to cope with the dismall sales (80%?). To be able to do that, you need money. How do you get money, churn out a liscene or a sequel. Theyre not ALL the same, theyre all quite quite different.
Is there really no difference between mario sunshine, halo and grand theft auto?
If this was 1994(with the same amount of titles availible), people would be complaining about day of the tentacle being just another hugo clone.
Same with discworld, sam and max, lure of the temptress.
Thing is, whats different between games is story. but people dont play console games long enough to appriciate it, because theyres 40 other games released that month to try out.
It was the same in the old days. how many variants of 2D games were there REALLY?
Where do the new ideas go if we can't have games like Viewtiful Joe, Shenmue, and Jet Grind Radio?
Not sure I understand that question.
The answer to this is...
They go to big developers, which usually dont sell. Or somehow a small developer gets a deal for it. which then usually dont sell and the small company goes bust.
You need 128bit encryption iirc (ie too)
hmm, dont want to troll, but...
... on which it never crashed? damn you xboxeggsbox!
#8 - The only good games for the XBox are out for the other systems, except for Halo which i was not impressed with
so the only good game on the xbox, you weren't impressed with?
#10 - A buddy bought an Xbox while I was visiting and picked up Halo and and an NHL game (dont' remember which one). No doubt, the graphics looked great (but don't they look great on all the systems?). We decided to stop playing though when the Xbox started crashing consistently. The screen just froze. This happened roughly 5-10 minutes into each game. Needless to say, my buddy returned it and picked up a Gamecube.
my thoughts...
The xbox pad isnt too bad, until you find you have to completley shift both hands to use the DPad. The xbox itself is very loud, in our room at work, 5 pc's, 4 tv's, 4 ps2's, 2 gamecubes, and the xbox is the loudest thing in the room!
at least its only got one processor.
Just for general information, from what Ive witnessed and know (I've only been working in the games industry for 2 years) is that Testers tend to go onto design/producing or art(bit rarer) rather than programming.
But still its a step in, if you cant get in straight to programming routes, this is at least one way to get your foot into the industry
Those screenshots of egypt (desert stereotype there) and the pirate ship look REALLY REALLY familiar? can anyone think of some platform games with similar backdrops? (VERY similar ones)
Or am I making up memories now
Im pretty sure I got some emails in my inbox about this.
It was buried somewhere between my instructions for degrees and viagra
Which entertainment/mass market online site/tv/newspaper put this at the top of their greatest games of all time list?
Dumb? I'm sure sony made it worth their while. Not to mention concentrating on working on a single platform (or do they use renderware? I forget) :)
Also being limited to the largest user base cant be too bad. especially when your the main reason for increasing that userbase
"due to the downturn in the economy and fears of traveling."
OMG mom, you mean you cant drive me there?
Is wait for Amazon to pantent it,
and then wait for microsoft to adopt it, change the standard, and then take away the patent from Amazon and sue any japanese businesses using it
There are 3D adventure games.
Anything involving puzzles... picking up stuff, using them with other stuff to make things happen.
Its just theyre in 3D, usually 3rd person... And often involve fighting, cos kids of these days wouldnt be able to concentrate for more than 3 minutes on a puzzle.
Anyone older generally buys nintendo, or something with more fighting/shooting