I think that before getting 3d on monitors, we should solve the problem of those monitors not displaying the vivid range of colors that the eye can percieve. If you know a bit about digital compositing, you've probably heard about HDR, and I personally think this is the next logical step in monitors. There's at least one company, who was kind enough to show us a demo unit where I work, who's working on that. Basically, they have two panels : a regular 1600x1200 LCD panel, and a panel comprised of about a thousand while LEDs. So, instead of having a backlight that illuminates the whole screen at same intensity, they have this LED grid that gets brighter in certain areas or tones itself down off in others. This way you can achieve true blacks and really bright whites(think about the sun kind of whites). I've seen a regular monitor and an HDR display next to each other (based on the same NEC LCD), and I've got to tell you, this is really the future. After seeing this, I'll take better colors over 3d any day of the week.
Nintendo made those games. They own the rights. They should be allowed to do what they want with it. How about that? I don't get it why people want everything to be free after a while. If Nintendo judges it can still make money off these games in a few years, then it is in their own right to arrest people who steal from them.
Better than that. Make a speicla jackass episode. Have Johny Knoxville kids kicking him in the nuts while he uses the Xbox-camera as a jackstrap to see if it's sturdy or put the controller in his underwear and walk around in the city. Or just have Steve-O pee on a turned on machine and see how much pain from electric shock he can tolerate.
Weird how I enjoy both Yoshi's Touch and Go on my DS with it's pastel colors while I can enjoy a good game of Ninja Gaiden on my Xbox or Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
Don't buy into the age group propaganda. I'm 24 and see games only as they are, regardless of the look : games. A good game doesn't rely on the user being a certain age to enjoy it. If you let yourself be limited by that, then too bad for you.
If you think TV resolution doesn't matter, try playing any game wih component out on a widescreen 32 inch TV. Even with that 'small' a TV, you can see jaggies. The only game I didn't notice them much was when I played SoulCalibur2 in 720p on the Xbox. That and fullscene antialiasing is going to make for a great visual experience for the next generation of games. I can't wait for my console to use the full potential of my TV.
Interrestingly, isn't it odd that people pay 2000$ displays to play wit their 300$ console while PC gamers pay 300$ to play with their 2000$ machine?
Acutally, poeple who snubbed the GC are probably going to snub the Revolution too. I only have an Xbox right now, and I was considering a GC recently, I decided to go with a DS instead. Now when revolution comes out and I get it, I'll be able to find out I missed on.
have the tools to prepare it or the skill to do it well Given the state of my hamburger at McDonald's when I unwrap it, I'm not too sure they have the skill either.
Well, IIRC, what you lose by having HD mpeg2 you get back by using MPEG4 for compression. So you use roughly the same amout of space, so we'll asume you'll end up using a bit more. So what? Ship the game on two DVD's. The media is still going to be cheaper.
Actually, who care for HDDVD in consoles? I mean, most of the games are about 3 gigs right now. Since these console are going to be much more powerfull, they are going to use better compression techniques for both images and video, and games that do need more than 7 gigs will just ship on two DVDs. It took years before games shipped on more than 1 CD (except for the games with prerendered crap). There's a lot of great games still shipping on 1CD for the PC. DVD's are going to be fine. Anyway, if you give less space to the game producers, they'll have to put more gameplay and less prerendered cutscenes, which is better IMOO.
nothing new has come out in a long time that was also fun.
I won't say Katamari Damacrai because somebody already said so, and anyway, I haven't played it.
What I'll say tough is as far as PCs are concerned, yeah, maybe there's nothing really new. I can't really say, I dropped PC gaming a years ago in favor of consoles.
For something fresh and new, the DS is probably what the industry needs. Just look at the gameplay elements in Castlevania DS, Yoshi Touch and Go and Wario Ware Touched. Those are great ideas and in the case of Yoshi Touch and Go brand new gameplay ideas.
As far as TV based consoles go, I think the most refreshing game I've played on this current generation of consoles (owning only an Xbox) was Beyond Good and Evil, whose only fault is that it came out when a lot of AAA sequels came out and didn't get enough coverage. It a stleath game that doesn't piss you off like the original splinter cell did. It's got some fighting in it, and has great gameplay mechanics to earn money and solve missions.
Ninja Gaiden is by far the most gorgeous game I've played in this generation of consoles, especially in widescreen 480p. RE4 comes close second tough I have to admit.
They must not have played Ninja Gaiden. I'm still playing that game regularly a year after I bought it, while I sold my copy of Halo2 last week. All the poeple I know got bored with the single player quickly. I might have enjoyed XBox Live, but I'll wait for the next generation consoles to jump on the online bandwagon. and don't delude yourself into thinking people buy Halo2 for playing online. Most of poeple play by themselves.
Sure, you could get lvl 60 in no time. I never played the game, but one of my friend plays it (yeah, I know how that sounds) and he's played 16 DAYS (total time, not between when he started and today) and he's only lvl 43 or something. He just plays with his friends, learns his craft and talk with people. We're talking about someone who doesn't have a job here and does this about 8-10 hours a day.
I can't even begin to think how I could reach that level and enjoy the game as much as he does with a 40 hour work week and have a social life in the meantime. Useless I rushed through the game like you did and miss out on everything that makes the game cool.
When you put as much effort writing in a second language as I'm putting right now, then you might come and critisize me. For the time being, stop feeling special because you found a typo.
Come on. All this because it's Bill Gates. Poeple, companies do this all the time. Some companies are always threatening the Parti Quebecois in Quebec to leave Quebec if it ever separates from Canada. Company threaten governments to leave if they raise the taxes to much. This is not news.
I'm not saying this is an okay thing. Companies should not do this. I'm just saying it's unfair to make this newsworthy only because it's Microsoft.
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I think that before getting 3d on monitors, we should solve the problem of those monitors not displaying the vivid range of colors that the eye can percieve. If you know a bit about digital compositing, you've probably heard about HDR, and I personally think this is the next logical step in monitors. There's at least one company, who was kind enough to show us a demo unit where I work, who's working on that. Basically, they have two panels : a regular 1600x1200 LCD panel, and a panel comprised of about a thousand while LEDs. So, instead of having a backlight that illuminates the whole screen at same intensity, they have this LED grid that gets brighter in certain areas or tones itself down off in others. This way you can achieve true blacks and really bright whites(think about the sun kind of whites). I've seen a regular monitor and an HDR display next to each other (based on the same NEC LCD), and I've got to tell you, this is really the future. After seeing this, I'll take better colors over 3d any day of the week.
Hum... when even the .torrent are slahsdotted, then we really have a problem.
Nintendo made those games. They own the rights. They should be allowed to do what they want with it. How about that? I don't get it why people want everything to be free after a while. If Nintendo judges it can still make money off these games in a few years, then it is in their own right to arrest people who steal from them.
Better than that. Make a speicla jackass episode. Have Johny Knoxville kids kicking him in the nuts while he uses the Xbox-camera as a jackstrap to see if it's sturdy or put the controller in his underwear and walk around in the city. Or just have Steve-O pee on a turned on machine and see how much pain from electric shock he can tolerate.
Even the great controller mistake was largely corrected.
You couldn't have chose better words.
Maybe they could work on an X or VNC client. Even better, have the client streamed via Wifi to the DS so you don't even need hacks like PassMe.
This way I could just use my DS to connect to my PC from my living room and check mail while watching the TV.
Well, a lot of them will a few years, say 2008, from now. Some might not vote for her only for that reason.
Weird how I enjoy both Yoshi's Touch and Go on my DS with it's pastel colors while I can enjoy a good game of Ninja Gaiden on my Xbox or Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
Don't buy into the age group propaganda. I'm 24 and see games only as they are, regardless of the look : games. A good game doesn't rely on the user being a certain age to enjoy it. If you let yourself be limited by that, then too bad for you.
How about "dequessé"?
If you think TV resolution doesn't matter, try playing any game wih component out on a widescreen 32 inch TV. Even with that 'small' a TV, you can see jaggies. The only game I didn't notice them much was when I played SoulCalibur2 in 720p on the Xbox. That and fullscene antialiasing is going to make for a great visual experience for the next generation of games. I can't wait for my console to use the full potential of my TV.
Interrestingly, isn't it odd that people pay 2000$ displays to play wit their 300$ console while PC gamers pay 300$ to play with their 2000$ machine?
... when the article's title will go from "N-Gage Hardware and Software Price Dropped" to "N-Gage Hardware and Software Dropped"
Acutally, poeple who snubbed the GC are probably going to snub the Revolution too. I only have an Xbox right now, and I was considering a GC recently, I decided to go with a DS instead. Now when revolution comes out and I get it, I'll be able to find out I missed on.
have the tools to prepare it or the skill to do it well
Given the state of my hamburger at McDonald's when I unwrap it, I'm not too sure they have the skill either.
Well, IIRC, what you lose by having HD mpeg2 you get back by using MPEG4 for compression. So you use roughly the same amout of space, so we'll asume you'll end up using a bit more. So what? Ship the game on two DVD's. The media is still going to be cheaper.
I'm sure the Phatom will use it. :)
Actually, who care for HDDVD in consoles? I mean, most of the games are about 3 gigs right now. Since these console are going to be much more powerfull, they are going to use better compression techniques for both images and video, and games that do need more than 7 gigs will just ship on two DVDs. It took years before games shipped on more than 1 CD (except for the games with prerendered crap). There's a lot of great games still shipping on 1CD for the PC. DVD's are going to be fine. Anyway, if you give less space to the game producers, they'll have to put more gameplay and less prerendered cutscenes, which is better IMOO.
nothing new has come out in a long time that was also fun.
I won't say Katamari Damacrai because somebody already said so, and anyway, I haven't played it.
What I'll say tough is as far as PCs are concerned, yeah, maybe there's nothing really new. I can't really say, I dropped PC gaming a years ago in favor of consoles.
For something fresh and new, the DS is probably what the industry needs. Just look at the gameplay elements in Castlevania DS, Yoshi Touch and Go and Wario Ware Touched. Those are great ideas and in the case of Yoshi Touch and Go brand new gameplay ideas.
As far as TV based consoles go, I think the most refreshing game I've played on this current generation of consoles (owning only an Xbox) was Beyond Good and Evil, whose only fault is that it came out when a lot of AAA sequels came out and didn't get enough coverage. It a stleath game that doesn't piss you off like the original splinter cell did. It's got some fighting in it, and has great gameplay mechanics to earn money and solve missions.
as long as human beings are involved.
If science-fiction is any indication, we might even fare worse when robots rule.
Ninja Gaiden is by far the most gorgeous game I've played in this generation of consoles, especially in widescreen 480p. RE4 comes close second tough I have to admit.
They must not have played Ninja Gaiden. I'm still playing that game regularly a year after I bought it, while I sold my copy of Halo2 last week. All the poeple I know got bored with the single player quickly. I might have enjoyed XBox Live, but I'll wait for the next generation consoles to jump on the online bandwagon. and don't delude yourself into thinking people buy Halo2 for playing online. Most of poeple play by themselves.
But I remember upgrading my Cirrus Logic video card to a whooping 2 megs in 1995.
they'd have realized by now that forcing the employees to work such long hours is part of the reason that their games are all complete crap.
Well, sales figures say otherwise, and that's what's important to them.
Sure, you could get lvl 60 in no time. I never played the game, but one of my friend plays it (yeah, I know how that sounds) and he's played 16 DAYS (total time, not between when he started and today) and he's only lvl 43 or something. He just plays with his friends, learns his craft and talk with people. We're talking about someone who doesn't have a job here and does this about 8-10 hours a day.
I can't even begin to think how I could reach that level and enjoy the game as much as he does with a 40 hour work week and have a social life in the meantime. Useless I rushed through the game like you did and miss out on everything that makes the game cool.
When you put as much effort writing in a second language as I'm putting right now, then you might come and critisize me. For the time being, stop feeling special because you found a typo.
Come on. All this because it's Bill Gates. Poeple, companies do this all the time. Some companies are always threatening the Parti Quebecois in Quebec to leave Quebec if it ever separates from Canada. Company threaten governments to leave if they raise the taxes to much. This is not news.
I'm not saying this is an okay thing. Companies should not do this. I'm just saying it's unfair to make this newsworthy only because it's Microsoft.