A patch to Darwinia removed the need to use mouse gestures. They always seemed tacked on to me anyway, rather like they'd written what they thought was a neat function, and were looking for something to shoe-horn it into, whether it made sense or not.
A nice game though.
Not to be picky, but Cloning Clyde is 3D, it's just the action all takes place on one plane. However he did leave off the finest game available on Live Arcade, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.
All those control options and yet they didn't manage to find the extra 5 minutes to add swapping the sticks, so us southpaws could enjoy the game. That was a deal breaker for me.
Most the noise comes from the DVD drive, not the internal fans. Compare the noise levels when playing something disk based, like PGR3 to one of the Live Arcade games such as Geometry Wars.
True, but his main point still stands. The speeds have been artificially capped by BT until now. My own line pre MAX was only able to support 1Mb/s according to BT, now it is around 4.5Mb, with nothing changed other than BT relaxing their own devised limits on what a line could handle.
You say that like it's a choice anyone can make. The reality is most people are stuck with BT because of poor coverage by the alternative cable networks.
Most pc users would have no problem running the list of apps you mention either. I think the comment about running 2 or 3 apps simultaneously refers to those which will grab a lot of the CPU, and be using it constantly, ie rendering apps, video transcoders, etc. The list you made will mostly be sitting idle unless you are actually using one of them.
Here in the UK there's a real shortage. Premiums are almost non-existent. Cores can be had here and there, but it's a case of a few units going to each store, and they disappear as soon as they are available.
The situation with cores wouldn't be so bad if the hard drives were available in any decent quantity, but they're pretty rare too.
It's hard to feel anything other than cynical about the Premium/Core situation. It's quite clear that for the early adopters, the Premium is what they want, I doubt sales of the Core system would even register were it not for the scarcity of the Premium. To me it looks like a revenue milking exercise masquerading as altruism. They make a low cost version available, with the proviso that making it up to the equivalent Premium system would cost you more, then launch with way too many Core systems compared to Premium, forcing the purchase of a lot of overpriced extras.
If MS had any intention of supplying what customers wanted, they would have made almost all the initial units Premium systems, and then started selling the Core units later.
As I see it, the only people enjoying the current situation are the Ebay jockeys
Both Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory have a spectator mode, where you can either follow the first person view of players on either team, or simply fly around the map to get whatever view from above you want.
Gran Turismo 3 & 4 both fully support wheel and pedal controllers, but that is a special case of add-on where you can make the game just as functional with or without them. Apart from the little extra time spent handling it, there's no downside.
The main point stands however, moving away from a console being a fixed platform seems to be a very bad idea, as a quick check through the history of console add-ons will confirm.
Those that do not learn from history...
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A patch to Darwinia removed the need to use mouse gestures. They always seemed tacked on to me anyway, rather like they'd written what they thought was a neat function, and were looking for something to shoe-horn it into, whether it made sense or not. A nice game though.
Not to be picky, but Cloning Clyde is 3D, it's just the action all takes place on one plane. However he did leave off the finest game available on Live Arcade, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.
As far as I can tell they are still working on Dirac. http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/index.shtml
All those control options and yet they didn't manage to find the extra 5 minutes to add swapping the sticks, so us southpaws could enjoy the game. That was a deal breaker for me.
Most the noise comes from the DVD drive, not the internal fans. Compare the noise levels when playing something disk based, like PGR3 to one of the Live Arcade games such as Geometry Wars.
True, but his main point still stands. The speeds have been artificially capped by BT until now. My own line pre MAX was only able to support 1Mb/s according to BT, now it is around 4.5Mb, with nothing changed other than BT relaxing their own devised limits on what a line could handle.
You say that like it's a choice anyone can make. The reality is most people are stuck with BT because of poor coverage by the alternative cable networks.
Like there's much AI code in a GTA title.
Irrelevant, my point was a pc will handle a list like yours with ease, just as a mac can.
Most pc users would have no problem running the list of apps you mention either. I think the comment about running 2 or 3 apps simultaneously refers to those which will grab a lot of the CPU, and be using it constantly, ie rendering apps, video transcoders, etc. The list you made will mostly be sitting idle unless you are actually using one of them.
You must be new around here, etc.
The situation with cores wouldn't be so bad if the hard drives were available in any decent quantity, but they're pretty rare too.
It's hard to feel anything other than cynical about the Premium/Core situation. It's quite clear that for the early adopters, the Premium is what they want, I doubt sales of the Core system would even register were it not for the scarcity of the Premium. To me it looks like a revenue milking exercise masquerading as altruism. They make a low cost version available, with the proviso that making it up to the equivalent Premium system would cost you more, then launch with way too many Core systems compared to Premium, forcing the purchase of a lot of overpriced extras. If MS had any intention of supplying what customers wanted, they would have made almost all the initial units Premium systems, and then started selling the Core units later. As I see it, the only people enjoying the current situation are the Ebay jockeys
Both of them.
Both Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory have a spectator mode, where you can either follow the first person view of players on either team, or simply fly around the map to get whatever view from above you want.
All links work for me as expected. Currently still using 1.0.6 on XP.
Strange I always thought there were plenty of people here already talking out of their arses.
Gran Turismo 3 & 4 both fully support wheel and pedal controllers, but that is a special case of add-on where you can make the game just as functional with or without them. Apart from the little extra time spent handling it, there's no downside. The main point stands however, moving away from a console being a fixed platform seems to be a very bad idea, as a quick check through the history of console add-ons will confirm. Those that do not learn from history...
I think you'll find the "real" Van Helsing had nothing going for it but the title as well.
Overclocked, if you will.
Hmm, how about you learning to recognize someone not being entirely serious first? Might save on making pointless po-faced comments about opinions.
Who'd have thought it? George W Bush posting on Slashdot.