Never played Unreal Tournament? Or Grand Theft Auto? How about every sports game ever made for the PS2? None of them?
Just because the pressure sensitive buttons weren't used in every game doesn't mean they were a useless addition. Lots of games did use them, and in interesting ways. The problem is people (like you) who can't tell the difference between a hit and a press to know when you get a different effect.
If that's the case, why don't they get more than 8GB/s out of DDR2-800 RAM? (according to Anandtech review of AM2) It should be running more along the lines of 10-11GB/s out of its max 12... If that isn't caused by not having the bandwidth available, what causes it?
I'm sure lots of people have thought of this before me, and probably even in this topic, but I have to ask: is there any reason they can't implement a HyperTransport link straight to the RAM? Has that already happened? I'm only a layman when it comes to processor/motherboard architecture, but it seems to me that with all that available bandwidth we should be throwing the kitchen sink into it.
Half Life Source is disppointing. It would've been the work of days or perhaps just hours to remake the character models. They already had models for several of the aliens used for Half-Life 2, and it wouldn't have been to difficult to take NPC models from City 17 and replace their clothes to get the scientists and security guards. But they didn't even bother with that?
They released HL:S for the sole purpose of making people think they were getting more stuff and not paying for it.
If you make little tin foil hats for your speakers, it should reduce the interference from government spy sweeps. It might work for your cell phone too, I guess.
A PC that can play games with x-box 360 graphics costs well over a grand.
The PS3 will be no different.
Console graphics have historically been way ahead of their average PC counterparts when they first release. As time goes by and technology keeps moving, your console stays the same but your PC can get upgrades. Near the end of a console's life, PCs might start getting better graphics. There are still PS2 games that look better than anything I can get on a PC (though admittedly not by much).
Video games are protected under the right to free speech, therefore any game you make about anything can't implicate you for anything.
Like the books that teach you how to make bombs, the author is merely providing information. They aren't forcing anyone to read it, or follow the advice in the book.
You know in the US felons lose their right to vote, and must inform any employers that they are ex-convicts, right? There are no physical marks, but that doesn't change the fact they're 'branded.'
Not exactly true. Anyone who's ever played a shooter can tell you that your FPS mileage may vary depending on what's going on around you. If you're running at 40 FPS when there's two guys on screen, but 20 FPS when they start shooting, the game ends up being choppy during fire-fights and that could get you killed.
Case-in-point, I saw an Anandtech review of some new hotness video cards and they tested F.E.A.R. on the highest settings, and they averaged about 50 FPS, until some explosions went off and their framerate dropped to zero. Having more FPS means that when shit happens, you don't take a hit that will kill your experience.
Granted, that doesn't justify buying an expensive-as-a-game-console video card.
Yes, people were very satisfied with their SNESs when the PlayStation released. But the Playstation was leaps and bounds ahead of the SNES. Even the kind of lame launch titles of the PlayStation were 'better' than the SNESs last-gasp titles. Just the fact that most of the PSX games were 3D was a huge advancement.
By comparison, there are many players who express that the 360 isn't that great. They say the graphics are good but don't look like the next-gen. They certainly aren't anywhere near the leap from 16-bit to 32/64 bit, or from 32/64 to.. whatever the hell the PS2/NGC/XBX were. That kind of improvement is probably impossibly on a purely technical level, but it's what we expected and it wasn't delivered.
Okay, your logic is so flawed it isn't funny.
The entire point of the department of homeland security is to.. well.. be secure.
The time to create a security system is when there is no threat, because that gives you time to test it and make sure it works.
It does no good to beef up security after the terrorists have already hacked your computers, does it?
Nothing about the word 'live' has anything to do with network connectivity. Back when X-Box Live was first revealed, I understood that it was an x-box network of sorts, but I'm a nerd (I'm here, aren't I?). I'd guess anyone outside of the gaming circle could've thought it was any number of things. Playstation Network Platform doesn't have much of a ring to it, but it clearly and obviously states what it is. It is the network platform for the Playstation console. Simple enough.
I live in Illinois, and we're a damn poor state. The politicians can't have a press conference without saying something about how far in debt we are. That said, I'm not sure what side of this I'm on. Our governor was a total idiot for introducing the bill in the first place, and the ESA is right that most of the time when someone loses a lawsuit they have to pay the legal fees associated with the case... but we've already wasted taxpayer dollars on the bill itself and the court costs. Now they're asking for more money. I guess my state just needs to learn how to not be stupid.
Many games are still unconfirmed or haven't gotten final titles yet, though.
There are several games to look forward to anyway. Metal Gear Solid 4, Devil May Cry 4, the innevitable Final Fantasy (XIII now I think) game...
The trouble is if they have too many franchised games in their lineup, people will complain that the games are nothing but sequals and ports. But if they don't have any names gamers know and love, people will complain that the system has no good games irregardless of the quality of the games they're unfamiliar with.
Mario is an antagonist. Bowser stole his woman, so he runs through forty levels of turtles and goombas and stuff to save her? Those poor saps didn't have anything to do with it. He's just a jerk.
Ever play any of the little Korean MMOs like Gunbound or MapleStory? You can play for free, or buy stuff from their online shops for stuff in-game. Or Guild Wars? You buy it once and never pay again unless you want one of the (still unreleased) expansions.
When I buy a box set, I expect to be paying for the media containing the content. If I can get an entire box set of DVDs in a single disk, I would expect the cost to drop dramatically. However, the companies publishing the media will decide it's time to start pricing on amount of content rather than cost of media since the cost of media had dropped by a factor of (however many DVDs were in the box set). So I'll be able to get Hi-Def Seinfeld Seasons 1-4 on one disk, but it will still cost just as much, if not more than the DVDs.
It sure is a good thing that Sony isn't the only company behind Blu-Ray, otherwise the one sale they almost missed out on from your boycott would've really screwed them -_-;;
Here's a duh. The "Gaming industry" is the industry of gaming - that is to say, the X-box 360 is in the same industry as the PS2 and Gamecube and X-box. It encompasses everything from the console manufacturers to the software houses producing games. The industry was not prepared to take such a hit as the X-box 360 caused. Software houses had to rush out subpar games or flat ports (with the exception of Fight Night Round 3, which has a totally different feel on the 360).
If the 360 hadn't come out, more consumers would've had a lot more money to buy some of the absolutely awesome games that came out over the christmas season, and that would've meant more profit for the industry as a whole. As it is, many people bought 360s, and those people didn't have enough cash to get ten or fifteen new games along with it. There was more potential revenue before the 360. That's all.
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Never played Unreal Tournament? Or Grand Theft Auto? How about every sports game ever made for the PS2? None of them? Just because the pressure sensitive buttons weren't used in every game doesn't mean they were a useless addition. Lots of games did use them, and in interesting ways. The problem is people (like you) who can't tell the difference between a hit and a press to know when you get a different effect.
If that's the case, why don't they get more than 8GB/s out of DDR2-800 RAM? (according to Anandtech review of AM2) It should be running more along the lines of 10-11GB/s out of its max 12... If that isn't caused by not having the bandwidth available, what causes it?
I'm sure lots of people have thought of this before me, and probably even in this topic, but I have to ask: is there any reason they can't implement a HyperTransport link straight to the RAM? Has that already happened? I'm only a layman when it comes to processor/motherboard architecture, but it seems to me that with all that available bandwidth we should be throwing the kitchen sink into it.
As another poster has already commented, grenades and flashbangs have definite effects on players.
If a grenade goes off near you, you'll hear a loud ringing for several seconds that slowly fades out.
A flashbang causes the screen to white-out and slowly fade in, complete with an after-image to simulate retina burn.
I agree that grenades should be more powerful, but the other aspects of their realism are fine.
Half Life Source is disppointing. It would've been the work of days or perhaps just hours to remake the character models. They already had models for several of the aliens used for Half-Life 2, and it wouldn't have been to difficult to take NPC models from City 17 and replace their clothes to get the scientists and security guards. But they didn't even bother with that?
They released HL:S for the sole purpose of making people think they were getting more stuff and not paying for it.
Surely the bar won't let him follow other suits while he's technically suspended with these SLAPP charges, right?
If you make little tin foil hats for your speakers, it should reduce the interference from government spy sweeps. It might work for your cell phone too, I guess.
A PC that can play games with x-box 360 graphics costs well over a grand. The PS3 will be no different. Console graphics have historically been way ahead of their average PC counterparts when they first release. As time goes by and technology keeps moving, your console stays the same but your PC can get upgrades. Near the end of a console's life, PCs might start getting better graphics. There are still PS2 games that look better than anything I can get on a PC (though admittedly not by much).
Video games are protected under the right to free speech, therefore any game you make about anything can't implicate you for anything. Like the books that teach you how to make bombs, the author is merely providing information. They aren't forcing anyone to read it, or follow the advice in the book.
You know in the US felons lose their right to vote, and must inform any employers that they are ex-convicts, right? There are no physical marks, but that doesn't change the fact they're 'branded.'
Not exactly true. Anyone who's ever played a shooter can tell you that your FPS mileage may vary depending on what's going on around you. If you're running at 40 FPS when there's two guys on screen, but 20 FPS when they start shooting, the game ends up being choppy during fire-fights and that could get you killed.
Case-in-point, I saw an Anandtech review of some new hotness video cards and they tested F.E.A.R. on the highest settings, and they averaged about 50 FPS, until some explosions went off and their framerate dropped to zero. Having more FPS means that when shit happens, you don't take a hit that will kill your experience.
Granted, that doesn't justify buying an expensive-as-a-game-console video card.
Yes, people were very satisfied with their SNESs when the PlayStation released. But the Playstation was leaps and bounds ahead of the SNES. Even the kind of lame launch titles of the PlayStation were 'better' than the SNESs last-gasp titles. Just the fact that most of the PSX games were 3D was a huge advancement.
By comparison, there are many players who express that the 360 isn't that great. They say the graphics are good but don't look like the next-gen. They certainly aren't anywhere near the leap from 16-bit to 32/64 bit, or from 32/64 to.. whatever the hell the PS2/NGC/XBX were. That kind of improvement is probably impossibly on a purely technical level, but it's what we expected and it wasn't delivered.
Okay, your logic is so flawed it isn't funny.
The entire point of the department of homeland security is to.. well.. be secure.
The time to create a security system is when there is no threat, because that gives you time to test it and make sure it works.
It does no good to beef up security after the terrorists have already hacked your computers, does it?
Nothing about the word 'live' has anything to do with network connectivity.
Back when X-Box Live was first revealed, I understood that it was an x-box network of sorts, but I'm a nerd (I'm here, aren't I?).
I'd guess anyone outside of the gaming circle could've thought it was any number of things.
Playstation Network Platform doesn't have much of a ring to it, but it clearly and obviously states what it is.
It is the network platform for the Playstation console. Simple enough.
I live in Illinois, and we're a damn poor state. The politicians can't have a press conference without saying something about how far in debt we are. That said, I'm not sure what side of this I'm on. Our governor was a total idiot for introducing the bill in the first place, and the ESA is right that most of the time when someone loses a lawsuit they have to pay the legal fees associated with the case... but we've already wasted taxpayer dollars on the bill itself and the court costs. Now they're asking for more money. I guess my state just needs to learn how to not be stupid.
You realize that third party game developers don't work at Sony, right? Anyone in the industry that is working on a PS3 game has seen one running :P
There is an unconfirmed North American game release on April 30th, and 3 more on June 1st.
You can browse this site for a list of PS3 games:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps3/
Many games are still unconfirmed or haven't gotten final titles yet, though.
There are several games to look forward to anyway. Metal Gear Solid 4, Devil May Cry 4, the innevitable Final Fantasy (XIII now I think) game...
The trouble is if they have too many franchised games in their lineup, people will complain that the games are nothing but sequals and ports. But if they don't have any names gamers know and love, people will complain that the system has no good games irregardless of the quality of the games they're unfamiliar with.
Mario is an antagonist. Bowser stole his woman, so he runs through forty levels of turtles and goombas and stuff to save her? Those poor saps didn't have anything to do with it. He's just a jerk.
Finally.. Nethack in hi-def...
Ever play any of the little Korean MMOs like Gunbound or MapleStory? You can play for free, or buy stuff from their online shops for stuff in-game. Or Guild Wars? You buy it once and never pay again unless you want one of the (still unreleased) expansions.
When I buy a box set, I expect to be paying for the media containing the content. If I can get an entire box set of DVDs in a single disk, I would expect the cost to drop dramatically. However, the companies publishing the media will decide it's time to start pricing on amount of content rather than cost of media since the cost of media had dropped by a factor of (however many DVDs were in the box set). So I'll be able to get Hi-Def Seinfeld Seasons 1-4 on one disk, but it will still cost just as much, if not more than the DVDs.
It sure is a good thing that Sony isn't the only company behind Blu-Ray, otherwise the one sale they almost missed out on from your boycott would've really screwed them -_-;;
We'll just ignore the rest of his well-written post, then.
Here's a duh. The "Gaming industry" is the industry of gaming - that is to say, the X-box 360 is in the same industry as the PS2 and Gamecube and X-box. It encompasses everything from the console manufacturers to the software houses producing games. The industry was not prepared to take such a hit as the X-box 360 caused. Software houses had to rush out subpar games or flat ports (with the exception of Fight Night Round 3, which has a totally different feel on the 360).
If the 360 hadn't come out, more consumers would've had a lot more money to buy some of the absolutely awesome games that came out over the christmas season, and that would've meant more profit for the industry as a whole. As it is, many people bought 360s, and those people didn't have enough cash to get ten or fifteen new games along with it. There was more potential revenue before the 360. That's all.
$2,142,000 to own 51% of the company.