First off I don't think we are anywhere near graphical realism.
Now let me explain, in point form:
1.)Immersion is the ability of a player to be lost in the game world, there are many factors to this outside of graphics but they are important. For many anime watchers swotching to CG is a step away from realism. I think this is because they are tied directly to the creators vision and the emotional content of the voice actors. Adding CG is just another level between you and the creator (Same with physical actors). In other words Immersion is in the eye of the audience.
2.Experience leads to more immersion. When I started playing GLQuake it didn't make an ounce of diffrence, I couldn't really tell which I was playing and I still can't to this day. Of course I had logged more hours in Q1 DM than my parent's thought physically possible. My point is that you grow accustomed to a certain graphical level and it colours your opinion, gamers probably aren't the best people to ask about the state of graphics in games, non gamers are!
3. "God of Gaming" mis-quote:"What we'd really like to do is calculate each ion's trajectory and reflection, eventually calculating how it would enter the gamer's iris. I mean anything else is just a hack, some hacks are better than others. When I look at something I can still ask how they did that. We're getting better though." (feel free to quote the actual carmack interview). But what we have is the truth about graphics, we are no where near the point where the people who design 3D environments can't figure out what someone else did, we might look at water and say how realistic it looks, Carmack might see some of the equations they used. His quote puts into perspective how far from reality we are, and that's just lighting! HL2 promises to have large full objects moving with a realistic set of physical perameters but really we are nowhere near true realism where all physics external and internal are based upon the same rules. In reality a door opens because force is applied and the metal in the hinges limits the range of motion, in a game the door is a "door entity" with a fixed range of motion. As long as the seperation is there we are nowhere near a realistic physics system.
4. A message of hope: fortunatly we don't need to be anywhere near true realism, all we need to do is fool people. We are getting near the point where people can find themselves believing when they don't want to (ex:LOTR,.5 sec to figure out if a golf game is real). Pixels and refresh rates for example have passed the human ability to precieve so if you have a high res digital photograph on a screen problems aren't readily apparent. Now we just need to do that with the 10 million other aspects which seperate Reality from realitytm.
Xbox Live(or similar) and Good reporting will eventually solve this problem, an algorithm to calculate player stats based on previous games would be a challenge but think of the EA bucks, some people would do it for prerelease versions of Madden alone.
Um we have video games that have a completely acurate depiction of players skills. (Mental game is gone or well predicted). Game players coach better than rl coaches (I'd bet money we are there already).
Reality will imitate virtual reality OoooOOOOOoooo
We're through the looking glass here people.
If you are going to call the n64 a system you should also list the Master system the Sega Cd sega 32x. I think MSoft could dominate the hand held market. It's a joke. There are PDa's with 800mhz chips full screen kick ass out there and GBA is still a 2d crapfest.
They are still using old video card in their consoles, there has been DirectX 8 and 9 since then. Pushing DirectX 9 would be a good move for Msoft and putting out a DX9 Console would do that admirably.
Casual gamers buy a mod chip. China town is the second stop after EB for most kids. They are simply more up to date technically then the majority of slasdotters. And the equation 1 game $65 1 Mod chip $60 (cdn) isn't too hard to figure out.
I can only suggest that you look at game of the year articles and comparisons between games on both systems if you still think that the cube is a third generation system. It's basically a dreamcast with no vcd or online capabilites.
Does anyone have any difinitive evidence (facts figures eye witness accounts) that the XBox 2 will be out in 2005? Other things Xbox owners are interested in are backwards compatibility, and info on chip suppliers (For the stock market inclined).
There are some problems with certain XBoxes though. The Executor 2.2 (lite and pro) have a switch which disables the Mod chip so you can play online, (or if M$ comes out with a sneaky solution). But the 1.0 Xbox lacks a good bios so you can't acutally disable it.
If you sue a corperation they counter sue immediatly for corperate image damages, hence the bigger the corperation the bigger the damages. You don't lose a lawsuit to M$ and keep your house.
When you start a business you accept risk when you are born you do not. If a company is left destiture no one lives on the street. They file bankrupcy (A rule designed for this specifically).
Companies are more likely to be able to afford it. Perhaps this will encourage companies to not be wrong as much instead of having a high power legal staff. When you pay a company $1 how much of that goes into suing other customers? How much into defending against incompetence lawsuits? How much into the product.
And if you are found guilty after pleading innocent you should pay the government for the trouble? There were criminal charges against Jon, think a bit harder about it. However in his case the impetus for the lawsuit came from corperate America, he has a right to be pissed.
Having played C&C renegade (The hybrid) I can say it is not as good as NS for strategie, both teams are identical which also ruins much of the fun. The FPS part of the game has more weapons and more potential for individual heroism (If going 10-1 makes you a hero as opposed to accomplishing a task in NS).
I played back when there was no voice comm muting (or vote kicking, Imagine the trolling)and there were problems with 12 year olds spamming. The other team couldn't see it so you had to deal with it and it was the responsibility of the Commander to babysit. Maybe others had diffrent techniques to social engineer the little bastards into not wrecking the game but mine involved cajoling, rewards, and keeping in mind that they just want to kill kill kill. Which is fine if one of your soldiers wants to do it, everyone else can just back him up. I got an invite to write the faq's for NS 3.0 (Though I haven't played it yet), maybe I'll write some "How not to freak out" When you command immature useless players faq's.
So you think lag is a positive thing? Don't you find it a little stupid that the game changes when you get to a competitive level? CS has better net code than other games. I played Q1 and I loved the netcode but HL is 10 years ahead of ID in terms of netcode.
The fact is there is sometimes a best way to something, America is letting people patent simple logical perfection, for hundred's of years. The only recourse is the colapse of the copywright system, I bet if the inventor of quicksort had filed a patent form in the U.S. he would have got it, thank god the Greeks invented mathmatics not the Neandrathals in the American patent system. I'd hate to go around using 1+1=3 because it's cheaper.
Could IBM let a patent lapse thereby ensuring it is forever open to all? It makes sense to me and the only reason why they wouldn't let patents lapse yet not enforce them would be a gun to the temple.
Not something Linux needs while trying to break into corperate use.
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Oh no promotional advertising might disapear? We should all stop watching other commericals or they might disapear too?
Microsoft.com has the worst search software I've seen it's fooking terrible. They should get their own $h!t together first.
No offence but slashdot is 2nd.
Ah I said you can't disable the chip with the bios I have perhaps you could offer a solution?
First off I don't think we are anywhere near graphical realism.
.5 sec to figure out if a golf game is real). Pixels and refresh rates for example have passed the human ability to precieve so if you have a high res digital photograph on a screen problems aren't readily apparent. Now we just need to do that with the 10 million other aspects which seperate Reality from realitytm.
Now let me explain, in point form: 1.)Immersion is the ability of a player to be lost in the game world, there are many factors to this outside of graphics but they are important. For many anime watchers swotching to CG is a step away from realism. I think this is because they are tied directly to the creators vision and the emotional content of the voice actors. Adding CG is just another level between you and the creator (Same with physical actors). In other words Immersion is in the eye of the audience.
2.Experience leads to more immersion. When I started playing GLQuake it didn't make an ounce of diffrence, I couldn't really tell which I was playing and I still can't to this day. Of course I had logged more hours in Q1 DM than my parent's thought physically possible. My point is that you grow accustomed to a certain graphical level and it colours your opinion, gamers probably aren't the best people to ask about the state of graphics in games, non gamers are!
3. "God of Gaming" mis-quote:"What we'd really like to do is calculate each ion's trajectory and reflection, eventually calculating how it would enter the gamer's iris. I mean anything else is just a hack, some hacks are better than others. When I look at something I can still ask how they did that. We're getting better though." (feel free to quote the actual carmack interview). But what we have is the truth about graphics, we are no where near the point where the people who design 3D environments can't figure out what someone else did, we might look at water and say how realistic it looks, Carmack might see some of the equations they used. His quote puts into perspective how far from reality we are, and that's just lighting! HL2 promises to have large full objects moving with a realistic set of physical perameters but really we are nowhere near true realism where all physics external and internal are based upon the same rules. In reality a door opens because force is applied and the metal in the hinges limits the range of motion, in a game the door is a "door entity" with a fixed range of motion. As long as the seperation is there we are nowhere near a realistic physics system.
4. A message of hope: fortunatly we don't need to be anywhere near true realism, all we need to do is fool people. We are getting near the point where people can find themselves believing when they don't want to (ex:LOTR,
I'd be willing to be that fewer than 20%
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Xbox Live(or similar) and Good reporting will eventually solve this problem, an algorithm to calculate player stats based on previous games would be a challenge but think of the EA bucks, some people would do it for prerelease versions of Madden alone.
Um we have video games that have a completely acurate depiction of players skills. (Mental game is gone or well predicted). Game players coach better than rl coaches (I'd bet money we are there already).
Reality will imitate virtual reality OoooOOOOOoooo We're through the looking glass here people.
If you are going to call the n64 a system you should also list the Master system the Sega Cd sega 32x. I think MSoft could dominate the hand held market. It's a joke. There are PDa's with 800mhz chips full screen kick ass out there and GBA is still a 2d crapfest.
DC had broadband. You had to buy it like the PS2 one.
They are still using old video card in their consoles, there has been DirectX 8 and 9 since then. Pushing DirectX 9 would be a good move for Msoft and putting out a DX9 Console would do that admirably.
Casual gamers buy a mod chip. China town is the second stop after EB for most kids. They are simply more up to date technically then the majority of slasdotters. And the equation 1 game $65 1 Mod chip $60 (cdn) isn't too hard to figure out.
I can only suggest that you look at game of the year articles and comparisons between games on both systems if you still think that the cube is a third generation system. It's basically a dreamcast with no vcd or online capabilites.
Does anyone have any difinitive evidence (facts figures eye witness accounts) that the XBox 2 will be out in 2005? Other things Xbox owners are interested in are backwards compatibility, and info on chip suppliers (For the stock market inclined).
There are some problems with certain XBoxes though. The Executor 2.2 (lite and pro) have a switch which disables the Mod chip so you can play online, (or if M$ comes out with a sneaky solution). But the 1.0 Xbox lacks a good bios so you can't acutally disable it.
If you sue a corperation they counter sue immediatly for corperate image damages, hence the bigger the corperation the bigger the damages. You don't lose a lawsuit to M$ and keep your house.
When you start a business you accept risk when you are born you do not. If a company is left destiture no one lives on the street. They file bankrupcy (A rule designed for this specifically). Companies are more likely to be able to afford it. Perhaps this will encourage companies to not be wrong as much instead of having a high power legal staff. When you pay a company $1 how much of that goes into suing other customers? How much into defending against incompetence lawsuits? How much into the product.
You are assuming that if you are right you will win. You are clearly an optomist.
Both my parents are lawyers so this is not opinion.
And if you are found guilty after pleading innocent you should pay the government for the trouble? There were criminal charges against Jon, think a bit harder about it. However in his case the impetus for the lawsuit came from corperate America, he has a right to be pissed.
Having played C&C renegade (The hybrid) I can say it is not as good as NS for strategie, both teams are identical which also ruins much of the fun. The FPS part of the game has more weapons and more potential for individual heroism (If going 10-1 makes you a hero as opposed to accomplishing a task in NS).
I played back when there was no voice comm muting (or vote kicking, Imagine the trolling)and there were problems with 12 year olds spamming. The other team couldn't see it so you had to deal with it and it was the responsibility of the Commander to babysit. Maybe others had diffrent techniques to social engineer the little bastards into not wrecking the game but mine involved cajoling, rewards, and keeping in mind that they just want to kill kill kill. Which is fine if one of your soldiers wants to do it, everyone else can just back him up. I got an invite to write the faq's for NS 3.0 (Though I haven't played it yet), maybe I'll write some "How not to freak out" When you command immature useless players faq's.
You will need to look at older games. They removed support for single player offline with STEAM.
So you think lag is a positive thing? Don't you find it a little stupid that the game changes when you get to a competitive level? CS has better net code than other games. I played Q1 and I loved the netcode but HL is 10 years ahead of ID in terms of netcode.
The fact is there is sometimes a best way to something, America is letting people patent simple logical perfection, for hundred's of years. The only recourse is the colapse of the copywright system, I bet if the inventor of quicksort had filed a patent form in the U.S. he would have got it, thank god the Greeks invented mathmatics not the Neandrathals in the American patent system. I'd hate to go around using 1+1=3 because it's cheaper.
That would be quite possibly the most evil scheme I've ever heard of. Could make a cool James Bond Movie.
"Pay me 10,000,000 or I will let the penis enhancements through!"
Could IBM let a patent lapse thereby ensuring it is forever open to all? It makes sense to me and the only reason why they wouldn't let patents lapse yet not enforce them would be a gun to the temple.
Not something Linux needs while trying to break into corperate use.