The main reason I'm excited about Bluray is the Japan / US region are the same. I don't have to bother with working around the region locks anymore. I wanted to lend a disc to a co-worker, so they could get a feel for an art style. Guess what? I had to rip the damn disc. I couldn't transfer the ownership of that disc even if it's for a short time. Also I wonder with Bluray if some smart company will start offering rentals of Japanese Bluray in the US. I know in areas with large Japanese populations on top of otaku it's a no brainer!
I find it more interesting that clip dug up views about:
Korean morality ( Those stuffy Christians over there shouldn't have fetishes! )
Racism ( I won't even repeat the claims. )
etc
The fun part is youtube has more and more non-english content. I've started to notice Flicker has several Japanese only comments too. I remember when "we lost Orkut" happened, and everyone should know why that happened. Orkut was a closed invite system. The population that invited the most could reach a critical mass with their language, and drown out the rest. Thankfully these newer web sites are open, so you can see various languages mixing. I find it refreshing to see several languages in one thread, and translations for the non native speakers of the videos / photos.
Not really. Think of all the people that might get a PS3 for the region free games, and the bluray that plays both Japanese and US blurays. Sure, it's not a large number of people -- however that's one household nintendo won't sell a console or games maybe for this entire generation. Having region free games is very important to me. I own more PSP Japan games than US. It's just great for people like me, and hell I can even write simple games and kanji practice tools for PSP. Hopefully PS3 'hobby SDK' will allow me to even add networking to simple applications and share them with others.
You're blaming Sony for this? Wow, that's pretty funny. It might just be a problem with production, which is very common with consoles -- not just PS3. Can you even remember the 360 launch, or any console before? Don't buy into the rumors you create on internet forums is the lesson to learn here. Just because everyone says a console will be $150 and have a magical flute controller doesn't make it so...
If you're so upset with Sony over this then you should be furious with Microsoft after what they've done over the years. Are you 'boycotting' the Xbox or are you just a fad troll? A fun game on slashdot is to watch the people that bash something for a while, and then a month or two later wholey support it. This will happen with PS3.
I guess you never worked for an 'at will empolyer', which means they don't even have to tell you the reason you're being fired. It can and does happen in normal contracts too. They can simply say 'your lifestyle hurts the company image, and therefore will hurt our profits'. I don't think you see christian book stores allowing empolyees into demonic worship for this reason. It also helps to be a privately held company.
Actually if you have a PSX ( japan only ) you can save your DVR / movies to your PSP already. In fact the PSP interface is from PSX. It would be hard for them not to do something a PS2 with DVR ( PSX ) could do on the PS3. It just makes sense. If the US had PSX then the PSP might be even more popular.
The big problem is making sure the scripting work EVERY time on EVERY machine for EVERY play through the game. Prerendered cutscenes are more than just better looking, but they always are the same. All the people that bitch about no stories in games should realise how hard it is for scripters to do this. I worked on a major RPG title, and I'll let you in on the 'secret' that the scripters grind as hard as us programmers. I felt sorry for the guys, because they are very limited in what they can and can't do -- and they still have to make it always work. Due to the way games are rushed these days you can't make a full cutscene editor for them, so they're patching into AI systems, animation hooks, etc to make these artifical cutscenes. You can end up having months sunk into mintues of these in game cutscenes. I'd rather have more gameplay time investment for scripters, and more FMV cutscnenes.
If you want to tell a story with your game you'll either have to double the development time for the tools, or you can just do FMV with writers and animators having far less restrictions.
You try fitting Final Fantasy XXX on a small rom image. All posts like yours assume everyone wants to play DS style games only. Developers for consoles and PC have a market that wants -- ney needs -- FMV and the latest graphics. If you don't believe that you never left the 80s arcade era. Don't forget every generation moves the bar up in one way or another, and this generation is still pushing graphics. People want nice graphics, AI, etc and a STORYLINE... there is more to life than feel the magic. We don't just use sprites anymore.
I done several OSS projects: 3d modeler, a couple of game engines, and other stuff like that. Pretty simple really. I had no experenice, and I got a pretty good job my first time out doing engine / gameplay work. If you can do what they need they'll hire you. The main thing for me is the hours are too long to be reasonable, but if you can stand it have fun.
You start with about 20MB install image, and add on what you need from there. That's why it's so popular for old boxes, servers, base for other distros, etc.
It seems a lot of people on internet fourms don't consider the possibly of the DS keeping the Wii market share low. There is a big difference with casual mobile and casual on the console. Also the recent Xbox Live arcade has more to do with the lack of titles than the appeal of the actual games. What happens if you can get the same title for DS as Wii? Which do you think people would buy? This is one of the ideas leading analysts to think of Wii as a '3rd place' in next gen. Once it gets down to the SNES and 'arcade' titles people will want to play those on DS more than Wii.
Ah... the PS2 Linux 'kit' wasn't locked down really at all from a software standpoint. Hell, I don't even run the default distro on mine. All the cool kids run the debian based Black Rhino on theirs. It's not like the limits of the DMA access DVD drive mattered in the end. I just used the hdd, usb, and network personally. It was fun to port my little fps game engine over and play net games with PC clients. No signed binaries -- the main control feature was how you boot into OS, and I will admit there were work arounds for that to share your homebrew games with people w/o the kit.
That's what people want. You try making an A title RPG -- I assure you it's not that easy. You'd kill yourself just giving half of the people what they want. =)
Good one, as some people may not know here that demo would've been bad for anything requiring response time. There was a delay issue in the video setup, which is why I made my hands on comment.;)
I guess I'll comment on the controller a little too.
Due to the legal issues with rumble functionallity, I think Sony wanted to add something back in it's place. Tilt motion is as good of a choice as any for 'replacement functionality'. The Wii controller on the other hand will have a lot more issues to deal with. Aspect mapping, distance from screen, and lighting issues affect if the control even works properly. I was told most of the issues for the Wii at E3 were due to not having each control setup for each person. The storage on the remote is supposed to keep this setup info for you, so you can bring it to a friend's house I guess. It's not the same using a device, seeing a demo, or listening to some moron from the press trust me.
It would be wise for someone that's not played either to not comment until YOU get hands on -- I'm talking to you Slashdot.
Warhawk at E3 played well for me, and the controlls were very responsive. Hell even a cameraman from some game rag was able to pick it up and play, since the controls were fairly intutive. The only thing I didn't like is the game 'played it safe' in that you can't just loop-the-loop without pressing a button. I think they were afraid people wouldn't figure out to stop pulling back once they started to flip.
Kojima will be using this feature in the new Metal Gear, so I can't wait to see what he does more importantly than warhawk. I normally don't play flight games like that.
I shouldn't have to point this out, but you're missing the point of the game. Some people actually want to add properites to items for damage ( such by sunlight ). It's called role playing. Go back to playing halo where you feel safest. =)
Bluray isn't just Sony anymore than OpenGL Kronos/ARB is just Nvidia. I just want to remind all you preteens that post here, before you go off on MySpace and PS3 jokes. This is just another meme I, like other older posters, don't like. At least get your facts correct. ( Also Sony is very important for OpenGL, so I guess you can protest OpenGL by not using your mac ha ha. )
There was one in development for a while by a 3rd party. It's assumed SONY didn't want to help with specs and _altering firmware_, so it got canned. It's hard to tell what 'SONY' is thinking, because it's a multiheaded beast with rotating rings of management -- that are sometimes at odds. For example the old movie v game divisions stories.
The PSP does have a USB port, since I use it everyday I can assure you it works great. It's just not a type A / type B. That's kind of moot, however since you could make an adapter if you so wished. The hard part is getting more than one game to use your device without Sony changing the firmware. =)
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The main reason I'm excited about Bluray is the Japan / US region are the same. I don't have to bother with working around the region locks anymore. I wanted to lend a disc to a co-worker, so they could get a feel for an art style. Guess what? I had to rip the damn disc. I couldn't transfer the ownership of that disc even if it's for a short time. Also I wonder with Bluray if some smart company will start offering rentals of Japanese Bluray in the US. I know in areas with large Japanese populations on top of otaku it's a no brainer!
I find it more interesting that clip dug up views about:
Korean morality ( Those stuffy Christians over there shouldn't have fetishes! )
Racism ( I won't even repeat the claims. )
etc
The fun part is youtube has more and more non-english content. I've started to notice Flicker has several Japanese only comments too. I remember when "we lost Orkut" happened, and everyone should know why that happened. Orkut was a closed invite system. The population that invited the most could reach a critical mass with their language, and drown out the rest. Thankfully these newer web sites are open, so you can see various languages mixing. I find it refreshing to see several languages in one thread, and translations for the non native speakers of the videos / photos.
Not really. Think of all the people that might get a PS3 for the region free games, and the bluray that plays both Japanese and US blurays. Sure, it's not a large number of people -- however that's one household nintendo won't sell a console or games maybe for this entire generation. Having region free games is very important to me. I own more PSP Japan games than US. It's just great for people like me, and hell I can even write simple games and kanji practice tools for PSP. Hopefully PS3 'hobby SDK' will allow me to even add networking to simple applications and share them with others.
You're blaming Sony for this? Wow, that's pretty funny. It might just be a problem with production, which is very common with consoles -- not just PS3. Can you even remember the 360 launch, or any console before? Don't buy into the rumors you create on internet forums is the lesson to learn here. Just because everyone says a console will be $150 and have a magical flute controller doesn't make it so...
If you're so upset with Sony over this then you should be furious with Microsoft after what they've done over the years. Are you 'boycotting' the Xbox or are you just a fad troll? A fun game on slashdot is to watch the people that bash something for a while, and then a month or two later wholey support it. This will happen with PS3.
It was a joke... sigh...
I guess you never worked for an 'at will empolyer', which means they don't even have to tell you the reason you're being fired. It can and does happen in normal contracts too. They can simply say 'your lifestyle hurts the company image, and therefore will hurt our profits'. I don't think you see christian book stores allowing empolyees into demonic worship for this reason. It also helps to be a privately held company.
Send me your email address and personal information, and I'll invite you. ;)
Actually if you have a PSX ( japan only ) you can save your DVR / movies to your PSP already. In fact the PSP interface is from PSX. It would be hard for them not to do something a PS2 with DVR ( PSX ) could do on the PS3. It just makes sense. If the US had PSX then the PSP might be even more popular.
The big problem is making sure the scripting work EVERY time on EVERY machine for EVERY play through the game. Prerendered cutscenes are more than just better looking, but they always are the same. All the people that bitch about no stories in games should realise how hard it is for scripters to do this. I worked on a major RPG title, and I'll let you in on the 'secret' that the scripters grind as hard as us programmers. I felt sorry for the guys, because they are very limited in what they can and can't do -- and they still have to make it always work. Due to the way games are rushed these days you can't make a full cutscene editor for them, so they're patching into AI systems, animation hooks, etc to make these artifical cutscenes. You can end up having months sunk into mintues of these in game cutscenes. I'd rather have more gameplay time investment for scripters, and more FMV cutscnenes.
If you want to tell a story with your game you'll either have to double the development time for the tools, or you can just do FMV with writers and animators having far less restrictions.
You try fitting Final Fantasy XXX on a small rom image. All posts like yours assume everyone wants to play DS style games only. Developers for consoles and PC have a market that wants -- ney needs -- FMV and the latest graphics. If you don't believe that you never left the 80s arcade era. Don't forget every generation moves the bar up in one way or another, and this generation is still pushing graphics. People want nice graphics, AI, etc and a STORYLINE... there is more to life than feel the magic. We don't just use sprites anymore.
I done several OSS projects: 3d modeler, a couple of game engines, and other stuff like that. Pretty simple really. I had no experenice, and I got a pretty good job my first time out doing engine / gameplay work. If you can do what they need they'll hire you. The main thing for me is the hours are too long to be reasonable, but if you can stand it have fun.
You start with about 20MB install image, and add on what you need from there. That's why it's so popular for old boxes, servers, base for other distros, etc.
It seems a lot of people on internet fourms don't consider the possibly of the DS keeping the Wii market share low. There is a big difference with casual mobile and casual on the console. Also the recent Xbox Live arcade has more to do with the lack of titles than the appeal of the actual games. What happens if you can get the same title for DS as Wii? Which do you think people would buy? This is one of the ideas leading analysts to think of Wii as a '3rd place' in next gen. Once it gets down to the SNES and 'arcade' titles people will want to play those on DS more than Wii.
Sadly, many of you will get this reference.
Ah... the PS2 Linux 'kit' wasn't locked down really at all from a software standpoint. Hell, I don't even run the default distro on mine. All the cool kids run the debian based Black Rhino on theirs. It's not like the limits of the DMA access DVD drive mattered in the end. I just used the hdd, usb, and network personally. It was fun to port my little fps game engine over and play net games with PC clients. No signed binaries -- the main control feature was how you boot into OS, and I will admit there were work arounds for that to share your homebrew games with people w/o the kit.
That's what people want. You try making an A title RPG -- I assure you it's not that easy. You'd kill yourself just giving half of the people what they want. =)
Good one, as some people may not know here that demo would've been bad for anything requiring response time. There was a delay issue in the video setup, which is why I made my hands on comment. ;)
;)
No comment on NWN2.
That's not the topic I was addressing, so please learn to read for context.
Thanks,
Native English Speaker
I guess I'll comment on the controller a little too.
Due to the legal issues with rumble functionallity, I think Sony wanted to add something back in it's place. Tilt motion is as good of a choice as any for 'replacement functionality'. The Wii controller on the other hand will have a lot more issues to deal with. Aspect mapping, distance from screen, and lighting issues affect if the control even works properly. I was told most of the issues for the Wii at E3 were due to not having each control setup for each person. The storage on the remote is supposed to keep this setup info for you, so you can bring it to a friend's house I guess. It's not the same using a device, seeing a demo, or listening to some moron from the press trust me.
It would be wise for someone that's not played either to not comment until YOU get hands on -- I'm talking to you Slashdot.
Warhawk at E3 played well for me, and the controlls were very responsive. Hell even a cameraman from some game rag was able to pick it up and play, since the controls were fairly intutive. The only thing I didn't like is the game 'played it safe' in that you can't just loop-the-loop without pressing a button. I think they were afraid people wouldn't figure out to stop pulling back once they started to flip.
Kojima will be using this feature in the new Metal Gear, so I can't wait to see what he does more importantly than warhawk. I normally don't play flight games like that.
I shouldn't have to point this out, but you're missing the point of the game. Some people actually want to add properites to items for damage ( such by sunlight ). It's called role playing. Go back to playing halo where you feel safest. =)
Bluray isn't just Sony anymore than OpenGL Kronos/ARB is just Nvidia. I just want to remind all you preteens that post here, before you go off on MySpace and PS3 jokes. This is just another meme I, like other older posters, don't like. At least get your facts correct. ( Also Sony is very important for OpenGL, so I guess you can protest OpenGL by not using your mac ha ha. )
Thanks,
Older and Wiser
There was one in development for a while by a 3rd party. It's assumed SONY didn't want to help with specs and _altering firmware_, so it got canned. It's hard to tell what 'SONY' is thinking, because it's a multiheaded beast with rotating rings of management -- that are sometimes at odds. For example the old movie v game divisions stories.
The PSP does have a USB port, since I use it everyday I can assure you it works great. It's just not a type A / type B. That's kind of moot, however since you could make an adapter if you so wished. The hard part is getting more than one game to use your device without Sony changing the firmware. =)