No, it's the exact same issue with the Xbox that you described for the 360, except we don't know for 100% sure since the 360 isn't out yet. Xbox executables are signed with a private Microsoft key, is the executable isn't signed it won't run on a non-modded Xbox. If MS's private key was brute forced like the project that is currently trying to, then anyone could make a 3rd party game. This has happened with both the PS2 and Gamecube as the Action Replay/Gamesharks are unlicensed software that run on the console. The Xbox's auction replay is nothing more than a thumbdrive that lets you transfer saved games off a computer to your Xbox and vice versa, nothing special there.
Then you don't really now what your talking about. I successfully ran my copy of Half-Life 2 on to seperate machines with no problem. As for issues with reinstalls, what issues? Just download steam and you can download the games back on to your machine with no issue, or you could just backup the game files so you don't have to redownload everything.
With Steam the games you can access are limited to your account. Did you buy Darwina and you want to show it off to your friend? Just goto his house, fire up Steam and login with your account. You can download the game and play.
Yes there has been the rare occasion where Steam's login server has gone down and you can't play the games, but the times that has happened can be counted on 1 hand, and I personally never tried playing on one of those days. And for the record I preloaded Half-Life 2 through Steam, and purchased it through Steam. The day it came out I unlocked the game and played.
You should try Steam before you badmouth it. Since you own Half-Life 1, just download the Steam client and input your CD key. You'll be able to download HL to any computer you access. You'll also get access to Counter Strike 1.6, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift. Learn what your complaing about before you start complaining. The only real issue I have with Steam is that you can't transfer access to games to different accounts. This prevents you selling your old copy of the game, but then again I still have every game I ever purchased...
I'd go with a chipped Xbox and run the Xbox Media Center now. Then in a year or two you can see which console has the best media playback. The 360s default playback is severly limited compared to the Xbox Media Center.
Actually Nintendo did make a GBA emulator for the Gamecube. There have been several Gamecube demo disks at the kiosks in stores that contain demos of GBA games that you play on the Gamecube. Unless there was some wierd hardware add-on hidden in the cabinet, and ignoring the point that the Gamecube is more than powerful enough. You are correct that the GBPLayer was the actual GBA hardware in a different form factor and with different interfaces though.
Hi, I guess I'm Tom. It's try that the media player functionality in Xbox Media Center is very good. I wouldn't call it making Xbox owners happy. The media center requires a modded Xbox, so not being offical you can't give Microsoft props for it.
A lot of the people who enjoyed the Xbox because of it basically being a PC and allowing easy homebrew to give us the mediaplayer and old school emulators aren't really looking forward to the 360. The architecture change makes it less port friendly (homebrew open source), and while the development environment is still going to be Visual Studio, Sony might have the edge. If Sony follows through with there plans to include a hard drive with the PS3, and perform a uncrippled, large scale launch of Linux. The PS3 could become the homebrew system of choice like the Dreamcast used to be. The two things holding back homebrew on the PS2 were that the Linux Kit was not very widely released and difficult and use, and the PS2s architure did not run computer software as easily as the Xbox. The 32MB vs. 64MB was also a huge factor as some of that 32MB was being taken up by the Linux Kernal in the first place. And then Nintendo is still a wild card with the Revolution, who knows what they have up their sleves.
Though Resident Evil wasn't that good of a movie it still was somewhat true to the series. Come on, the series tries to put you in an interactive B Horror Movie. You expected some epic film like Lord of the Rings? I'd personally give it a 7-7.5 as a good but not great movie.
Mortal Kombat on the other hand was one of the best video games to movie conversions. It's true the sequel sucked, but the first film had a very americanized hong kong kung fu movie feel to it. I'm sure being a fan of cheesy kung fu movies helped be enjoy the movie, but I really enjoyed how the movie didn't take itself too seriously. If you haven't seen it, it's a good retail and surprisingly low on the gore and violence that made the games so big. Now that steaming turd Street Fighter that had all of the hollywood "talent"... *shudder*.
While that was true when they first came out Sony started bundling the Network Adapters with the systems. Also the newer slimline PS2s have a built-in network adapter, but sadly not HDD support.
Sony hasn't changed anything. He's probably just taken too many hits off the crackpipe. Every PS2 online game has you create a seperate account, which can be good and bad. I'm also not sure about the newer games, but all of the old one also contained the files that allowed configuration of the network adapter right on the game cd so you'd never need to wait for a disk.
Depends on what type of work you're doing on them. The 360's processor doesn't have the level of branch predition that you can get in a general purpose CPU. This actually hurts things like AI.
Now before your panties bunch up in your ass and you throw a hissy fit, I'm not saying that the 360's processor sucks. It just won't be as efficient as a general purpose CPU. Therefore some games may run the same on the 360 and PC while the PC supposedly has less power.
Then you'll be happy to hear that a smash bros is coming out, and it's going to be online. With luck it will hopefully be a launch title and really make the consoles fly off the shelves.
>Although we will have to wait and see Allard certainly is saying the right
>things. More importantly, Sony has a slightly more powerful machine, but MS has
>XBox live. Any gamer knows, live is pretty sick, and PS3 has no answer to it.
>As more details are revealed about both systems, xbox seems to be more
>conducive to both large and small developers, again, bad for sony.
Everytime I've seen Live it looks like nothing more than a glorified chat room that acts as a gaming hub. The single sign-in for all games is a nice features but Sony and Nintendo will have something simiular. Past interviews with Nintendo have mentioned it, and you can be sure Sony is researching it.
Other than that Live is a pretty big let done when compared to what even the PS2's online mode in Japan can do. You can download movies, music, pictures, and short games/demos and watch, listen, view, or play them. I also already interfaces with Sony cameras for viewing pictures so nothing really big there.
>PS3's big plus over the xbox is Blu-ray (if it takes off). However, if the
>telco and cable company's multi-billion dollar push for streaming high def
>video over the web takes off, then hd-dvd and lu-ray will become obsolete
>before they hit shelfs... only good for storage.
And how does this make a bad choice for the PS3 and a good choice for the 360? First off in the coming 1-2 years not every place will be able to stream this HD video off the web as some places in the US are unable to get broadband. Secondly that still doesn't make MS sticking with a 9GB disk when you are trying to load up with HD content a good idea. So the disks become only good for storage, you'll get a lot of it on that one disk. Gamecube games suffered from only being 1.5GB in some games where the video and audio had to be more highly compressed, will the 360 suffer this fate because as Allard said "the compression isn't there yet".
>I don't know who will win this round, but right now my money is on the xbox.
>Sony is loosing allot more money then MS is on each console, and the console is
>really that more powerful, at least according to the dozens of developers I've
>talked to/ worked with. I personally haven't developed for either yet, but
>anticipate I will sometime next year. The developers I talked too aren't in
>love with the cell at all. Apparently you really can't use all the cores the
>way you would expect.
I'm not trying to be a fan boy but I can't see Sony losing all the much more than MS. Sony as the manufacturing plants to make the parts themselves. As for talking to developers I spoke in person with a friend who is currently doing testing for Activision (I won't say his exact position because they are only a handful of them) but he's not a beta tester. His comments where than it doesn't look any better than a high-end PC. Look at the PC when the PC and Xbox came out. The graphics were far better than the consoles, sure now years later those old PCs can't keep up, but look at what the new ones can dish out compared to the consoles.
As for the cell being hard to program for? We heard the exact some complaint with the PS2. Boo fucking hoo. Take a wild guess which console had the most games released for it? That's right the PS2, developers will release on which ever console has the largest user base. And remember that the 1 year head start didn't help the dreamcast.
>I'm going to buy both consoles, but I'm really not the average user... it will
>be interesting to see how sony handles xbox's initial success this year.
I'll hold my judgement on the 360's initial success until after the smoke clears from the holiday season. As for consoles, I'll probably pickup a PS3 after the first price drop or a nice bundled game with a good coupon, and a Revolution right awa
How would setting the kiosk to 720p help with aliasing issues? Running in a default 480i will hide edges on a TV. Putting the game in HD will only make them stand out more.
I'd say it speaks standard USB since it being marketed as working under Windows XP. http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/258838.asp Those $40 for a controller or $50 for a wireless? Are they fucking nuts?
The FBI will be performing a raid on your crack house at 123 N. Main, on October 27th at 11:45pm. We better not finding anything illegal there.
Your friendly Federal Bureal of Investigation
I'm sorry but are you a fucking retard? The point of a raid is to go in and find indisputalable evidence that the crime was committed. A warrent will show that there is some evidence to it happening, but the raid will produce the evidence that will make the trail happen and get the assholes into jail. Or are you just afraid the FBI will raid your house and steal your computer to arrest you for all your downloaded p0rn, and MP3s.
You must have bad eyes, something is very wrong with your powerbook, or you need to stop downloading the formatted for PSP TV rips. Computers and a higher resolutions than TVs, so sending the video over to a TV will look better. I personally can't watch DVDs on a computer because the quality doesn't look good. Now play it on a TV and it looks great. As for the quality of iTMS to bittorrent, you have a 320x240 vs 640x480, where the 640x480 is normally 2x the file size and is off a HDTV source.
Releasing a better product that your competior and having them go out of business, only for you to purchase their patents and such is much different that frievous law suits bankrupting your competior and then you buying their tech.
Go ahead tell me the Voodoo5s didn't suck compared to the original GeForces. The major delays and lack of hardware T&L was a dead sentence.
Not only that but when I had my old Aureal 3D 2 the headphones coudl accurately represent above and below you. To this day A3D kills the EAX in the original Half-Life. It's too bad Creative killed them with frievous lawsuits and then bought their technology never to release it. Oh well, fuck 'em I'll never purchase a Creative product again, though I still use my SB16s in retro boxen.
Umm... expansions for MMORPGs have a lot of content and aren't just level cap raises. Now if your talking about how those locations should have been available when the game was released and not have to pay for them in an expansion. Well... that's corporate america rushing games out the door, and making the user pay more.
While ATI may be targeting the average gamer "d00d" there are still plenty of people that are looking for mid level graphics cards, and not properly supporting Linux is a major missing feature when your main competitor fully supports Linux when there cards come out of the box at day one without any funky wierd issues like the one mentioned above.
I can't really say it I'll never buy another ATI card since I have never purchased one. I have friends who swear by them, but I've been running NVidia cards for over 7 years now and they have never let me down. So unless NVidia pulls a 3DFX like when the T&L cards were coming out and they didn't support it in their product which was months late. I think I'll stick with what's worked for me.
Xbox Live only had one big feature that hasn't already been done else where, and that's the standardization of how the online interfaces will work. Previously you always had to create accounts for different games, and now you have one which will let you play under the same gamertag in every game.
The voice support that everyone is always ranting and raving about isn't really all that big of a feature. Sure you can now talk to each other rather than needing a keyboard on a computer, but does anyone really have anything useful to say? In some games it makes sense since you can coordinate with teammates (not that you'll get that more than 3% of the time in a pickup game). Also most of the people sound like whiney little 13 year olds spewing forth how they p0wnz that n00b, or what they want to do to your mother. I truely fear an MMORPG that will have full voice in it. Thankfully FFXI for the Xbox360 won't support voice chat as it runs on SquareEnix's servers and not MS's Live servers.
Now don't get me wrong as Voice chat can be highly useful in the right situation if used properly. I enjoy playing Guild Wars and using either Teamspeak or Ventrillo with it while doing PvP to coordinate attacks is great. However I don't want to jump into a random FPS and sit there listening to somebody practicing for their American Idol reject song where they get ripped apart.
In the end is Xbox Live awesome? Not really, it nice to have compared to things have been done before, but we've had things like MPlayer years ago that supported different games. And voice chat is good in certain cases. But my feeling is that Live isn't worth my $50/year as most of the online experiences have been far surpassed by games on the PC.
Dragon's Lair 3 was a PC only version. Back in the day of floppies Dragon's Lair 2 was released with many missing scenes. These scenes made it into a game called Dragon's Lair 3. If you get a CD or DVD version of Dragon's Lair 2 you'll have the complete think now day though.
That's what happens with a fucking chick in public office. First she raised cigarette and alcohol taxes to make more money off "sin tax". Then she made strip clubs either full nudity and no alcohol, or only top-less with alcohol, and you can't get lap dances anymore. Then she fucks with our games..... blah
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No, it's the exact same issue with the Xbox that you described for the 360, except we don't know for 100% sure since the 360 isn't out yet. Xbox executables are signed with a private Microsoft key, is the executable isn't signed it won't run on a non-modded Xbox. If MS's private key was brute forced like the project that is currently trying to, then anyone could make a 3rd party game. This has happened with both the PS2 and Gamecube as the Action Replay/Gamesharks are unlicensed software that run on the console. The Xbox's auction replay is nothing more than a thumbdrive that lets you transfer saved games off a computer to your Xbox and vice versa, nothing special there.
With Steam the games you can access are limited to your account. Did you buy Darwina and you want to show it off to your friend? Just goto his house, fire up Steam and login with your account. You can download the game and play.
Yes there has been the rare occasion where Steam's login server has gone down and you can't play the games, but the times that has happened can be counted on 1 hand, and I personally never tried playing on one of those days. And for the record I preloaded Half-Life 2 through Steam, and purchased it through Steam. The day it came out I unlocked the game and played.
You should try Steam before you badmouth it. Since you own Half-Life 1, just download the Steam client and input your CD key. You'll be able to download HL to any computer you access. You'll also get access to Counter Strike 1.6, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift. Learn what your complaing about before you start complaining. The only real issue I have with Steam is that you can't transfer access to games to different accounts. This prevents you selling your old copy of the game, but then again I still have every game I ever purchased...
I'd go with a chipped Xbox and run the Xbox Media Center now. Then in a year or two you can see which console has the best media playback. The 360s default playback is severly limited compared to the Xbox Media Center.
Right.... just like HD-DVD players won't output a HD signal to a non-Encrypted HDMI-only output.
Actually Nintendo did make a GBA emulator for the Gamecube. There have been several Gamecube demo disks at the kiosks in stores that contain demos of GBA games that you play on the Gamecube. Unless there was some wierd hardware add-on hidden in the cabinet, and ignoring the point that the Gamecube is more than powerful enough. You are correct that the GBPLayer was the actual GBA hardware in a different form factor and with different interfaces though.
A lot of the people who enjoyed the Xbox because of it basically being a PC and allowing easy homebrew to give us the mediaplayer and old school emulators aren't really looking forward to the 360. The architecture change makes it less port friendly (homebrew open source), and while the development environment is still going to be Visual Studio, Sony might have the edge. If Sony follows through with there plans to include a hard drive with the PS3, and perform a uncrippled, large scale launch of Linux. The PS3 could become the homebrew system of choice like the Dreamcast used to be. The two things holding back homebrew on the PS2 were that the Linux Kit was not very widely released and difficult and use, and the PS2s architure did not run computer software as easily as the Xbox. The 32MB vs. 64MB was also a huge factor as some of that 32MB was being taken up by the Linux Kernal in the first place. And then Nintendo is still a wild card with the Revolution, who knows what they have up their sleves.
Mortal Kombat on the other hand was one of the best video games to movie conversions. It's true the sequel sucked, but the first film had a very americanized hong kong kung fu movie feel to it. I'm sure being a fan of cheesy kung fu movies helped be enjoy the movie, but I really enjoyed how the movie didn't take itself too seriously. If you haven't seen it, it's a good retail and surprisingly low on the gore and violence that made the games so big. Now that steaming turd Street Fighter that had all of the hollywood "talent"... *shudder*.
While that was true when they first came out Sony started bundling the Network Adapters with the systems. Also the newer slimline PS2s have a built-in network adapter, but sadly not HDD support.
Sony hasn't changed anything. He's probably just taken too many hits off the crackpipe. Every PS2 online game has you create a seperate account, which can be good and bad. I'm also not sure about the newer games, but all of the old one also contained the files that allowed configuration of the network adapter right on the game cd so you'd never need to wait for a disk.
Now before your panties bunch up in your ass and you throw a hissy fit, I'm not saying that the 360's processor sucks. It just won't be as efficient as a general purpose CPU. Therefore some games may run the same on the 360 and PC while the PC supposedly has less power.
Then you'll be happy to hear that a smash bros is coming out, and it's going to be online. With luck it will hopefully be a launch title and really make the consoles fly off the shelves.
Everytime I've seen Live it looks like nothing more than a glorified chat room that acts as a gaming hub. The single sign-in for all games is a nice features but Sony and Nintendo will have something simiular. Past interviews with Nintendo have mentioned it, and you can be sure Sony is researching it.
Other than that Live is a pretty big let done when compared to what even the PS2's online mode in Japan can do. You can download movies, music, pictures, and short games/demos and watch, listen, view, or play them. I also already interfaces with Sony cameras for viewing pictures so nothing really big there.
You can see what the rest of the world missed here http://bungiefan.tripod.com/psbbn_03-06.html
>PS3's big plus over the xbox is Blu-ray (if it takes off). However, if the >telco and cable company's multi-billion dollar push for streaming high def >video over the web takes off, then hd-dvd and lu-ray will become obsolete >before they hit shelfs... only good for storage.
And how does this make a bad choice for the PS3 and a good choice for the 360? First off in the coming 1-2 years not every place will be able to stream this HD video off the web as some places in the US are unable to get broadband. Secondly that still doesn't make MS sticking with a 9GB disk when you are trying to load up with HD content a good idea. So the disks become only good for storage, you'll get a lot of it on that one disk. Gamecube games suffered from only being 1.5GB in some games where the video and audio had to be more highly compressed, will the 360 suffer this fate because as Allard said "the compression isn't there yet".
>I don't know who will win this round, but right now my money is on the xbox. >Sony is loosing allot more money then MS is on each console, and the console is >really that more powerful, at least according to the dozens of developers I've >talked to/ worked with. I personally haven't developed for either yet, but >anticipate I will sometime next year. The developers I talked too aren't in >love with the cell at all. Apparently you really can't use all the cores the >way you would expect.
I'm not trying to be a fan boy but I can't see Sony losing all the much more than MS. Sony as the manufacturing plants to make the parts themselves. As for talking to developers I spoke in person with a friend who is currently doing testing for Activision (I won't say his exact position because they are only a handful of them) but he's not a beta tester. His comments where than it doesn't look any better than a high-end PC. Look at the PC when the PC and Xbox came out. The graphics were far better than the consoles, sure now years later those old PCs can't keep up, but look at what the new ones can dish out compared to the consoles.
As for the cell being hard to program for? We heard the exact some complaint with the PS2. Boo fucking hoo. Take a wild guess which console had the most games released for it? That's right the PS2, developers will release on which ever console has the largest user base. And remember that the 1 year head start didn't help the dreamcast.
>I'm going to buy both consoles, but I'm really not the average user... it will >be interesting to see how sony handles xbox's initial success this year.
I'll hold my judgement on the 360's initial success until after the smoke clears from the holiday season. As for consoles, I'll probably pickup a PS3 after the first price drop or a nice bundled game with a good coupon, and a Revolution right awa
How would setting the kiosk to 720p help with aliasing issues? Running in a default 480i will hide edges on a TV. Putting the game in HD will only make them stand out more.
I'd say it speaks standard USB since it being marketed as working under Windows XP. http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/258838.asp Those $40 for a controller or $50 for a wireless? Are they fucking nuts?
That why you should have bought an Nvidia card rather than that ATI. They work just fine under Linux with frequently updated drivers.
The FBI will be performing a raid on your crack house at 123 N. Main, on October 27th at 11:45pm. We better not finding anything illegal there.
Your friendly Federal Bureal of Investigation
I'm sorry but are you a fucking retard? The point of a raid is to go in and find indisputalable evidence that the crime was committed. A warrent will show that there is some evidence to it happening, but the raid will produce the evidence that will make the trail happen and get the assholes into jail. Or are you just afraid the FBI will raid your house and steal your computer to arrest you for all your downloaded p0rn, and MP3s.
Ya, a bullet to the head is less expensive to the tax payers and makes other human waste of space think twice.
You must have bad eyes, something is very wrong with your powerbook, or you need to stop downloading the formatted for PSP TV rips. Computers and a higher resolutions than TVs, so sending the video over to a TV will look better. I personally can't watch DVDs on a computer because the quality doesn't look good. Now play it on a TV and it looks great. As for the quality of iTMS to bittorrent, you have a 320x240 vs 640x480, where the 640x480 is normally 2x the file size and is off a HDTV source.
Go ahead tell me the Voodoo5s didn't suck compared to the original GeForces. The major delays and lack of hardware T&L was a dead sentence.
Not only that but when I had my old Aureal 3D 2 the headphones coudl accurately represent above and below you. To this day A3D kills the EAX in the original Half-Life. It's too bad Creative killed them with frievous lawsuits and then bought their technology never to release it. Oh well, fuck 'em I'll never purchase a Creative product again, though I still use my SB16s in retro boxen.
Umm... expansions for MMORPGs have a lot of content and aren't just level cap raises. Now if your talking about how those locations should have been available when the game was released and not have to pay for them in an expansion. Well... that's corporate america rushing games out the door, and making the user pay more.
I can't really say it I'll never buy another ATI card since I have never purchased one. I have friends who swear by them, but I've been running NVidia cards for over 7 years now and they have never let me down. So unless NVidia pulls a 3DFX like when the T&L cards were coming out and they didn't support it in their product which was months late. I think I'll stick with what's worked for me.
The voice support that everyone is always ranting and raving about isn't really all that big of a feature. Sure you can now talk to each other rather than needing a keyboard on a computer, but does anyone really have anything useful to say? In some games it makes sense since you can coordinate with teammates (not that you'll get that more than 3% of the time in a pickup game). Also most of the people sound like whiney little 13 year olds spewing forth how they p0wnz that n00b, or what they want to do to your mother. I truely fear an MMORPG that will have full voice in it. Thankfully FFXI for the Xbox360 won't support voice chat as it runs on SquareEnix's servers and not MS's Live servers.
Now don't get me wrong as Voice chat can be highly useful in the right situation if used properly. I enjoy playing Guild Wars and using either Teamspeak or Ventrillo with it while doing PvP to coordinate attacks is great. However I don't want to jump into a random FPS and sit there listening to somebody practicing for their American Idol reject song where they get ripped apart.
In the end is Xbox Live awesome? Not really, it nice to have compared to things have been done before, but we've had things like MPlayer years ago that supported different games. And voice chat is good in certain cases. But my feeling is that Live isn't worth my $50/year as most of the online experiences have been far surpassed by games on the PC.
Dragon's Lair 3 was a PC only version. Back in the day of floppies Dragon's Lair 2 was released with many missing scenes. These scenes made it into a game called Dragon's Lair 3. If you get a CD or DVD version of Dragon's Lair 2 you'll have the complete think now day though.
That's what happens with a fucking chick in public office. First she raised cigarette and alcohol taxes to make more money off "sin tax". Then she made strip clubs either full nudity and no alcohol, or only top-less with alcohol, and you can't get lap dances anymore. Then she fucks with our games..... blah