I not so sure about that. My guess is that we won't see a marginal difference between the 360 and ps3 graphics until a few years down the road. And what percentage of this outrageously high price comes from sony's insistance of putting a blue ray drive into that thing? A game on a blue ray media will be better because of what again?
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> W in French is pronounced like v.
No. It is prononced just like in english. And 'i' is prononced like 'e' in english. So the correct prononciation is exactly like 'we', if you ignore the double 'i'.
Following a trend is not perticularly risky. Came you name many companies that set their vision straight and follow it despite of the rest of the industry? Not only that, you can take alot of risk and loose everything, but they are actualy very succesful with their ideas. It was said here very often that Nintendo is racking up huge pile of money with its handheld division, something I don't find hard to believe if you add the numbers.
Witch makes me wonder, what would happen if a real (as in, non streaming from a PC) NES emulator for the 360 was to be released? Would Nintendo sue since that would be a major selling point for their new console?
Shadow of the Colossus deserve attention for it's unique gameplay, mood and originality (compared to most stuff on the market anyway), but it can't possibly win game of the year. I'm almost at the end of the game (13th colossus defeated) and, despite some moment of pure aweness, the lack of good control of the character, the bad camera angles just when you are in the heat of the action, mixed with the horrible frame rate of the game definitely ruins a good part of the fun. The best game of the year can't possibly have that much defect IMO. Beside, Guitar Hero is MUCH more fun.
Only on slashdot you will find people that want to program their game console. So that's a bit why manifacturer just don't care about that. Also, part of the reason I like consoles is that IT WILL ALWAYS WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX! You pick a game from the store and stick the disc into it, press power AND YOU GO AHEAD AND PLAY THE DAMN THING! If there is only a tiny little chance that things could break because of some modding, I don't want to hear about it!
> 4) At $500, why not just spend a few hundred more and get a PC for gaming (and much more)?
Because the games you want to play on a console are not coming to the PC? Have you seen a PC version of Shadow of the Colossus? Guitar Hero? ICO? FF? Resident Evil? God of War?
Why are PC gamers always say such things? I'm not gonna tell you to buy a console if you like playing FPS or RTS.
I've been working in this industry for a little more than a year now, and it has been a pleasant experience so far. I did overtime quite a lot at the begining (I arrive at the end of a project), but after that it wasn't too bad. A little bit here and there, but nothing serious. I have the choice to be paid or to take more paid vacations for the extra work, witch is very nice. Coding wise, it's not like I do really complexe stuff since I'm still relatively new. I did learn *alot* thought
Of course the real problem here is to find the fricking place where it's like that. Forget about EA, Ubisoft, most japanese company... in other words, be prepare to work at a smaller place doing average games. It's sad, but if you are willing to do so in order to work at a place with a human approach to coding games, you will be gaining experience and then, *maybe* in a few years when the industry will *maybe* have changed a bit, you'll be working on better games at another company with the same human values.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it is possible to work in this industry while still having a real life on the side. You won't be making Half Life 3 thought.
Somehow I doubt that $2k figure is for a complete dev kit (including software libraries, compilers, documentation, etc.) considering that DS kits are in the $10k range
I don't know where you saw that price, but if you are a game developper that has access to www.warioworld.com, you will see that a dev kit for the DS is actualy far less than $10k, more closer to $2k.
Well yes, Sim City has a goal: to be a good mayor. If you are not, then nobody will want to move to your town and you won`t be able to make enough money from taxes to expand. Essentially, if you reach that point, you failed.
In Animal Crossing, you don't even have to pay your mortage! You could just mess around and and keep all the money you made to yourself and the game will never punish you for doing so.
The big problem I see with sony for the next couple months is that ALL the attention is going to the PS3, leaving the PSP on the backseat. The current state of affair with this machine isn't pretty. There is barely any games and most of them are just half decent ports of PS1/2. There is an absolute lack of original title on that platform and despite UMDs doing better than expected I dont see that as a way to gain market share. People who buys a portable gaming machine expect to play games on it. They MUST make a big annoncement VERY SOON if they don't want it to go the way of the gamegear.
There is mention of Metroid clones in the article. At one point, he said that all the recent game in the Castlevania series are somewhat a ripoff of that game. My opinion is that this is true since now in a Castlevania game, you have a map, partly hidden at first and to go to one of those hidden area you must somehow upgrade your character with things like items to jump higher, go into water, make your way into little passage...etc.
It's not because you haven't seen it that it doesn't exist. After all, nintendo have always been ultra secretive (and perhaps too much to your taste). Also, please keep in mind that the future of nintendo revolve entirely around their next gen move, unlike microsoft and sony. So chances are, there is such a thing as a revolution prototype with next-gen games running on it, they just don't want to show it to the public yet.
I think it's funny that it's mostly kid that thinks that Wind Waker was looking kiddy. I didn't and i'm almost 30 already. It IS a really good looking game. The graphics are coherent, something you will have a very hard time to achieve with realism. For god's sake, people don't seem to realise that we have a game that is very, very close to a freaking animated film!
You mentionned Paper Mario. I think I honeslty never saw something as beautiful as this game. Because of the lack of a real 3d environnement (it's more of a 2d game) I didn't experience a single graphical glitch over the course of the game. Not once I saw a ugly texture zoomed to the max, or there was a problem with the camera, or I saw a polygon glitch...etc.
I think alot of people just need to open their mind a little and give those kind of game a chance. What you're calling kiddy, I call it beautiful and what you're calling mature, well I dare to call it immature, whether it's running your car over a pedestrian or being part of a highly specialised SWAT team of some sort, in order to kick some 'serious ass'.
You got that word right, imported, witch mean for a niche market. This is nothing compare to what you will find in Japan, where manga reading is on par with newspaper reading, for all age group and gender. And anyway what works very well in America are all hyper masculine type of manga with lots of fighting and firepower, witch does not represent the great majority of manga style in Japan.
Oh, and on the topic of video games, it's not considered weird there to be a male in its 30s and enjoying a game of Pokémon on a gameboy. I somehow doubt that the average kiddy gamer thinks the same here.
That said, once you find a non-defective unit and you drop enough cash into it, the PSP does really outshine the DS.
You just underline the problem I have with the PSP. I bought a DS for 200 CND$, with a game and all taxes include. All games cost about 10$ less and the battery last a good 10-12 hours. I can close the lid in a hurry, the game will pause itself and the unit will fall into a low power mode, while protecting my screens at the same time. That's what I call a HANDHELD device.
The PSP, while having better graphics, cost a hell lot more if you really want to do all the things you describe.
With a 1GB stick in it, I can have a two full-length movies on it, MP3s, and even photos of my kids
A 1GB memory stick from sony cost around 150 USD$. Add to that price a good 250$ for the actual PSP and yet another 50$ for a game and you have a freaking expensive gaming machine. How much money do you really have to put into it before you began to have fun?
True online gaming is supposed to be in hapenning before the year end with game like mario kart and animal crossing. It was said a few time that the service will be free of charge.
The games mentionned in the article are not online ready, but you can play against your friend provide they also have a DS. Note that they don't need the actual game cartridge, just the machine.
That's code we're talking about. There is no map, meshs or textures into this, just the code, no data. So it's basicly 5 megs of text into a zipped archive.
Yes, the article itself is pretty low on details on how to access this debug menu, but after some googling, I found this (from http://ssbm.detstar.com/debug/): If you have an Action Replay, Super Smash Bros. Melee already exists in your list of preset game codes... However, those SSBM codes will only work with SSBM version 1.0.
So, how do you figure out what version you have, to decide which codes to use? Take your Melee disk, and turn it over to the shiny side. Hold it directly in the light, and search for tiny text on the dark ring. You'll have to experiment by holding your disk at different angles in the light, until the text is visible.
Eventually, you should be able to find text that says "DOL-GALE-0-xx".The "xx" will actually be a number, which tells you which version you have. The -Det Erest messing around with textures - version numbers are below: 00: Version 1.0 01: Version 1.1 02: Version 1.2
Sega went under because of all the mistake they did *before* the Playstation came out. The failure of the 32x and the Sega CD led to frustration from the customers, who then decide to stop buying Sega's stuff. And then when the Playstation came out, Sega's answer was a powerful 2D system with 3D stuff hack into it at the last minute. 3 big mistake in a row is not good news for your bank account, especially in the console market, where it cost huge amount of money to fully deploy new hardware.
Nintendo on the other are not very far in terms of unit sold with Microsoft (I'm talking about world sales here) AND they actually make profit from it AND they have their insanely lucrative handheld division. Like it or not, Nintendo will still be around during the next two generation.
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I not so sure about that. My guess is that we won't see a marginal difference between the 360 and ps3 graphics until a few years down the road. And what percentage of this outrageously high price comes from sony's insistance of putting a blue ray drive into that thing? A game on a blue ray media will be better because of what again?
> W in French is pronounced like v.
No. It is prononced just like in english. And 'i' is prononced like 'e' in english. So the correct prononciation is exactly like 'we', if you ignore the double 'i'.
Following a trend is not perticularly risky. Came you name many companies that set their vision straight and follow it despite of the rest of the industry? Not only that, you can take alot of risk and loose everything, but they are actualy very succesful with their ideas. It was said here very often that Nintendo is racking up huge pile of money with its handheld division, something I don't find hard to believe if you add the numbers.
Witch makes me wonder, what would happen if a real (as in, non streaming from a PC) NES emulator for the 360 was to be released? Would Nintendo sue since that would be a major selling point for their new console?
Shadow of the Colossus deserve attention for it's unique gameplay, mood and originality (compared to most stuff on the market anyway), but it can't possibly win game of the year. I'm almost at the end of the game (13th colossus defeated) and, despite some moment of pure aweness, the lack of good control of the character, the bad camera angles just when you are in the heat of the action, mixed with the horrible frame rate of the game definitely ruins a good part of the fun. The best game of the year can't possibly have that much defect IMO. Beside, Guitar Hero is MUCH more fun.
How about lowering the price on the frickin' PSP?
They annonced a price cut, a couple days ago.
Right on.
Only on slashdot you will find people that want to program their game console. So that's a bit why manifacturer just don't care about that. Also, part of the reason I like consoles is that IT WILL ALWAYS WORK RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX! You pick a game from the store and stick the disc into it, press power AND YOU GO AHEAD AND PLAY THE DAMN THING! If there is only a tiny little chance that things could break because of some modding, I don't want to hear about it!
IMO, anyway.
> 4) At $500, why not just spend a few hundred more and get a PC for gaming (and much more)?
Because the games you want to play on a console are not coming to the PC? Have you seen a PC version of Shadow of the Colossus? Guitar Hero? ICO? FF? Resident Evil? God of War?
Why are PC gamers always say such things? I'm not gonna tell you to buy a console if you like playing FPS or RTS.
Sure.
I've been working in this industry for a little more than a year now, and it has been a pleasant experience so far. I did overtime quite a lot at the begining (I arrive at the end of a project), but after that it wasn't too bad. A little bit here and there, but nothing serious. I have the choice to be paid or to take more paid vacations for the extra work, witch is very nice. Coding wise, it's not like I do really complexe stuff since I'm still relatively new. I did learn *alot* thought
Of course the real problem here is to find the fricking place where it's like that. Forget about EA, Ubisoft, most japanese company... in other words, be prepare to work at a smaller place doing average games. It's sad, but if you are willing to do so in order to work at a place with a human approach to coding games, you will be gaining experience and then, *maybe* in a few years when the industry will *maybe* have changed a bit, you'll be working on better games at another company with the same human values.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it is possible to work in this industry while still having a real life on the side. You won't be making Half Life 3 thought.
Somehow I doubt that $2k figure is for a complete dev kit (including software libraries, compilers, documentation, etc.) considering that DS kits are in the $10k range
I don't know where you saw that price, but if you are a game developper that has access to www.warioworld.com, you will see that a dev kit for the DS is actualy far less than $10k, more closer to $2k.
Well yes, Sim City has a goal: to be a good mayor. If you are not, then nobody will want to move to your town and you won`t be able to make enough money from taxes to expand. Essentially, if you reach that point, you failed.
In Animal Crossing, you don't even have to pay your mortage! You could just mess around and and keep all the money you made to yourself and the game will never punish you for doing so.
The big problem I see with sony for the next couple months is that ALL the attention is going to the PS3, leaving the PSP on the backseat. The current state of affair with this machine isn't pretty. There is barely any games and most of them are just half decent ports of PS1/2. There is an absolute lack of original title on that platform and despite UMDs doing better than expected I dont see that as a way to gain market share. People who buys a portable gaming machine expect to play games on it. They MUST make a big annoncement VERY SOON if they don't want it to go the way of the gamegear.
There is mention of Metroid clones in the article. At one point, he said that all the recent game in the Castlevania series are somewhat a ripoff of that game. My opinion is that this is true since now in a Castlevania game, you have a map, partly hidden at first and to go to one of those hidden area you must somehow upgrade your character with things like items to jump higher, go into water, make your way into little passage...etc.
>>> ...would an American colony be bound by law to be in a
>>> geosynchronous orbit over the U.S at all times?
>> What a wonky idea! In any case, it is not possible for anything to be in geosynchronous orbit over the US.
> for more info go here.
I think the GP wanted to say a geostationary orbit, witch is not possible over the US. From your link:
It should also be clear that it is not possible to orbit a satellite which is stationary over a point which is not on the equator.
I might be a little late, but here's mine: 365131 751258
It's not because you haven't seen it that it doesn't exist. After all, nintendo have always been ultra secretive (and perhaps too much to your taste). Also, please keep in mind that the future of nintendo revolve entirely around their next gen move, unlike microsoft and sony. So chances are, there is such a thing as a revolution prototype with next-gen games running on it, they just don't want to show it to the public yet.
I think it's funny that it's mostly kid that thinks that Wind Waker was looking kiddy. I didn't and i'm almost 30 already. It IS a really good looking game. The graphics are coherent, something you will have a very hard time to achieve with realism. For god's sake, people don't seem to realise that we have a game that is very, very close to a freaking animated film!
You mentionned Paper Mario. I think I honeslty never saw something as beautiful as this game. Because of the lack of a real 3d environnement (it's more of a 2d game) I didn't experience a single graphical glitch over the course of the game. Not once I saw a ugly texture zoomed to the max, or there was a problem with the camera, or I saw a polygon glitch...etc.
I think alot of people just need to open their mind a little and give those kind of game a chance. What you're calling kiddy, I call it beautiful and what you're calling mature, well I dare to call it immature, whether it's running your car over a pedestrian or being part of a highly specialised SWAT team of some sort, in order to kick some 'serious ass'.
hottest entertainment media imported to the U.S
You got that word right, imported, witch mean for a niche market. This is nothing compare to what you will find in Japan, where manga reading is on par with newspaper reading, for all age group and gender. And anyway what works very well in America are all hyper masculine type of manga with lots of fighting and firepower, witch does not represent the great majority of manga style in Japan.
Oh, and on the topic of video games, it's not considered weird there to be a male in its 30s and enjoying a game of Pokémon on a gameboy. I somehow doubt that the average kiddy gamer thinks the same here.
That said, once you find a non-defective unit and you drop enough cash into it, the PSP does really outshine the DS.
You just underline the problem I have with the PSP. I bought a DS for 200 CND$, with a game and all taxes include. All games cost about 10$ less and the battery last a good 10-12 hours. I can close the lid in a hurry, the game will pause itself and the unit will fall into a low power mode, while protecting my screens at the same time. That's what I call a HANDHELD device.
The PSP, while having better graphics, cost a hell lot more if you really want to do all the things you describe.
With a 1GB stick in it, I can have a two full-length movies on it, MP3s, and even photos of my kids
A 1GB memory stick from sony cost around 150 USD$. Add to that price a good 250$ for the actual PSP and yet another 50$ for a game and you have a freaking expensive gaming machine. How much money do you really have to put into it before you began to have fun?
True online gaming is supposed to be in hapenning before the year end with game like mario kart and animal crossing. It was said a few time that the service will be free of charge.
The games mentionned in the article are not online ready, but you can play against your friend provide they also have a DS. Note that they don't need the actual game cartridge, just the machine.
One thing that bugs me with this kind of argument:
Do you really have to eat and drink while watching a movie? Is it really hard to stop eating and drinking for about 2 freaking hours?
That's code we're talking about. There is no map, meshs or textures into this, just the code, no data. So it's basicly 5 megs of text into a zipped archive.
That's not tiny at all.
Yes, the article itself is pretty low on details on how to access this debug menu, but after some googling, I found this (from http://ssbm.detstar.com/debug/):
If you have an Action Replay, Super Smash Bros. Melee already exists in your list of preset game codes... However, those SSBM codes will only work with SSBM version 1.0.
So, how do you figure out what version you have, to decide which codes to use? Take your Melee disk, and turn it over to the shiny side. Hold it directly in the light, and search for tiny text on the dark ring. You'll have to experiment by holding your disk at different angles in the light, until the text is visible.
Eventually, you should be able to find text that says "DOL-GALE-0-xx".The "xx" will actually be a number, which tells you which version you have. The -Det Erest messing around with textures - version numbers are below:
00: Version 1.0
01: Version 1.1
02: Version 1.2
Here are the codes to access the Debug Menu:
v1.0:
77H8-Y4CD-H4VRY
JR3K-U29H-U6BH
v1.1:
69KC-WJGT-V09F5
P5A0-GP46-M8EB7
v1.2:
VBF7-P9Y6-2788D
TDA5-YA0R-8947W
PAL:
7X1H-THWE-401YB
47K3-GPZC-DBY82
Baraka is also worth your time.
Sega went under after Playstation came out
Sega went under because of all the mistake they did *before* the Playstation came out. The failure of the 32x and the Sega CD led to frustration from the customers, who then decide to stop buying Sega's stuff. And then when the Playstation came out, Sega's answer was a powerful 2D system with 3D stuff hack into it at the last minute. 3 big mistake in a row is not good news for your bank account, especially in the console market, where it cost huge amount of money to fully deploy new hardware.
Nintendo on the other are not very far in terms of unit sold with Microsoft (I'm talking about world sales here) AND they actually make profit from it AND they have their insanely lucrative handheld division. Like it or not, Nintendo will still be around during the next two generation.