Errr i'm sorry, i actually meant Antialiasing, i got it around backwards:D. Its too late at night, but thanks for clearing that up for people who read my other post. AA isnt quite as needed at 1080i like you said, but AF is.
You also need to remember that a PC game and a Console game are on two completly different platforms. Games can run MUCH MUCH better at higher resolutions on console than on a computer as a console's main task is running games. They have high floating point calculations and the entire game was programmed for that system. Not to mention your not going to be enabling 4x AA and 8x AF on a 1080i resolution. You probably wouldnt even need Antistrophic Filtering as it is such a high resolution the jaggies would be severly diminished already.
Theres your problem right there, your relying on microsoft's console to give you good games. Did you really expect anything more than what they were going to give you? Didnt you see the games that were on xbox? Its going to be the same thing this time around as well. Sadly most americans games are usually crap, while there has been alot of good games released by american companies, the majority of kickass games are made by japanese developers. So far microsoft hasnt gotten into the japanese market, and with the launch titles they have now, i dont think there going to squeeze in there. If microsoft doesnt get in there, your going to get the same old american games. FPS's, Racers, Sports Titles, and every once and a while an action platformer.
I have seen the game, while it looks beautifull, the game looks really stale and seems to think it can use the fighting system of a MMO in a console rpg. Have you seen the game at all? If you decide to use the 'non action' battle system, the game actually pauses while it waits for you to select an action. Not only this, but you only control one person at a time. Meaning that while you move around, your other characters move about and attack on there own. -I- want to be able to control all of my characters, level them and use them as i see fit. I dont want a computer to make a decision for me.
Is it just me or does the main character look like a deformed human chipmunk? Worst character design EVER. Gladly, everyone else seems to actually look normal.
Why is everything starting to go to quick, action based, gameplay? When i play an RPG, i want to be able to sit down, have fun, relax, and follow the storyline while (slowly) leveling up my characters.
"No question about it, Final Fantasy XII is radically different from its predecessors. The days of random battles, isolated "drama stage"-style combat arenas and lining up politely to take swings at bad guys are gone. This is not the old-school Final Fantasy action you've come to expect -- but the trade-off is a fast-paced, combat-intensive game with a vast, contiguous world and danger on all sides."
This is suposed to be Final Fantasy, one of the oldest, most loved rpg's in america, why exactly does it need to change so its more like other rpg's where you can see your enemies? I lived for random battles, random battles MAKE a final fantasy RPG.
"Battles now take place on the main exploration screen. You can see enemies from an impressive distance; when you're far away, they wander around on their own paths, doing their own thing, even getting into skirmishes with one another. There's no transition to combat, no change in music or scene as you engage the foe. Enemies can sneak up on you from behind, and likewise, you can get the jump on foes by initiating combat before they see you."
So now there stripping something else that Final Fantasy is known for? No random battles and now we dont even get a catchy little battle tune to initate combat? What the hell were they thinking?
"Oh, and all your party members are visible at all times; you only have direct control over the party leader. The others are computer controlled. You can, however, change your party leader on the fly by pressing Up on the D-pad and toggling through your active characters. (If you prefer, you can turn off Gambit Mode to prevent your team members from auto-attacking, allowing you to control their actions.)"
Well now it seems like they stripped the RPG element out of the game, no longer are we playing a role, but were controlling an entire team. Are we god now?
It looks like they took a mediocure MMO (FFXI), a mediocure strategy game (tactics) and ripped off a little bit of Chrono Cross and KOTOR and mixed them together to make a hopefully (atleast) mediocure RPG. They really need to stop trying to change the mechanics of the game each time around and try to worry about the storyline a little bit more. It seems sad, but i think the last good Final Fantasy was on the original Playstation.
Have you ever taken an older game, and forcefully applied AA and AF to it, and then set it to the highest resolution it can go? It normally looks worse than without AA and AF.
I'm not talking about the smaller people who want to share your content, i'm talking about the big companies who want to save there bandwith, there not going to put it on these sites. There going to have links to a bitorrent file, its much easier and will got noticed easier. Theres millions of places you could upload your content (deviant-art, image-bucket, file-share), these p2p clients are like 90%+ used for pirateing content.
Well the file sharing that was used on these protocols using software like kazaa, morpheus, and emule is normally used for music, software, and movie file sharing. I dont think i have ever seen a free file of software that a company wanted to host, hosted on one of these networks. Bitorrent is another subject though, as there -are- legal uses for it.
The reason why puzzles, 'real' rpg's, first person shooters, and strategy games like Starcraft/Civilization/Sim City, ect. will stay on PC is because of the control scheme. It has nothing to do with how much intelligence a user needs to play the game or because the game doesnt have action in it.
Its because you have to actually CLICK with these genre's of games, you cant move an analog stick or d-pad quick enough or fast enough to actually beat/have fun in a game like that. Its the same reason why you dont see fighting games, platformers, racing titles (The majority anyway), or third person shooters on pc. You just cant control them well enough to make them fun.
Once a certain genre has been designed for a platform, it cant go to another platform with the same expections, this is why halo is great on the console but is a really crappy first person shooter to put on PC, it was designed with a controller in mind.
What ever happened to the United States being free? It seems in the past year, more government associations are trying to shush up the people's rights and control what they see, what they record, and what they do. Is it really that much of a bane on Television Stations if a person records a football game while he's at work with an old vcr? How is this any different than it being recorded on a DVR? What if that said person doesnt have a digital cable box and watches Fox Sunday Football on his rabit ears? This is not affecting a single damn person and its horrible that there trying to pass a LAW that hinders what someone can do with analog content.
I personally cant wait for all these old government conservative officials that run these shitty conservative government organizations to die and there companies to fall into obscurity.
I honestly dont understand why certain women are going through such lengths to try and get games made specificly for them. There -are- games that are made only for men, but the majority of them are made for a broad range of people. White, black, asian, 8years old or 80years old, the games spread through all types, not just for men. I know several women who love playing games from soul calibur to GTA, just because a few women dont like the games that are in the industry doesnt mean the entire industry should bend over backwards to make games that ONLY women will play.
All of your comments are down right wrong, i cant believe someone could have such a bias towards PC gaming, in which the entire market is run by graphics, first person shooters, and RTS's. You seem to forget that with every console generation (since the Ps1), the console has surpassed the PC in specs, in a year or two it slowly creeps up and passed the console, but none-the-less the console lead the way. Console games have such a greater compacity for different genre's it isnt funny and (your talking about three systems here, not to mention the PSP and DS now) game of the year usually turns into game of the month for consoles. Theres so many great games to pick up on consoles, while your left with (insert random fps) or (insert random RTS) for PC's. Theres just far too many great games that come out on consoles, 20-40 a year, while less than 10 absolutely great games usually get released for PC a year.
1) Why would you give a third world country free software when most of them arnt going to use it or even have computers that can run it? Its a waste of packaging and cd's.
2)Why would you give software to a country that is in more need of food, water, and medicine?
3)Why would you give software to a country that is mostly underdeveloped?
Maybe we should be giving them free -computers-, then maybe they'll need some software to run. Since linux desktops computers already have plans to start selling in as little as 150 dollars for a complete system, i dont think they need microsofts software.
I am sure you marked me down as a troll, even though my comment was neither trollish or hatefull towards nintendo, but whatever. I was saying that atleast with the 360 and ps3 coverage, your getting different news, new news. Your seeing how the consoles are being shaped and what is going to be included with them.
As this article has stated, this and just like most other articles that have came out late are all the same, you already know everything your going to know about the revolution, they havnt released ANYTHING new to write an article about.
I'm not trying to troll, but seriously, how many articles do we need on "How the revolution flipped the game industry on its ass and will be the greatest thing since sliced bread". I get it, its gonna be cool, but we dont need 1000 articles that say the exact same thing, atleast post something new.
I think alot of people have a problem with putting intelligence in the wrong situations. Someone who smokes pot might not want to go to school or may seem 'lazy', but this could just be something that he would of done normally, learning about math is boring to some people. Now, while this same person skipped class after class, he could probably build you a computer or fix that nasty oil leak in your car. Intelligence is not mathematics and reading. Intelligence is being able to put your brain to good use, weather it be at repairing a car, creating that little tray that folds up under the sofa, or creating a law of science. There are MANY degree's of intelligence, you cant just call someone stupid because they misspelled a word, or didnt know how to solve some complex math problem.
Alot of you are also stereotyping people in the worst ways, cheech and chong are a stereotype, they are not the most common form of marijuana smoker. They were -made- for comedy, to laugh at -while- high.
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This was built in mini-form on a show called screensavers. It use to aire on G4 a year or so ago before it go turned into Attack of the Show. They proved that it worked by placing an object infront of the mirror (about 2 feet away) and just about instantly set it on fire.
The problem with mythbusters, and they do this often, is they only did one test to see if it would work in one way. They only aligned the mirrors in one direction, every single one of them at the same degree, meaning that the light that hit the center mirrors wouldnt reflect on the same spot the top mirrors did. If you watch the show they did, you can clearly see the reflection of the mirrors all across the 'boat' from 3 to 6 feet, not on a single point. That means that the mirrors didnt concentrate the light energy in one spot and were only able to get the spot to around 200 degree's.
I dont think there will be a market for cell phone gaming, ever. There may be that tiny market for those card and old NES ripoff games for when your sitting in a park and you forgot your portable console. There will however alwase be a market for the psp/ds/gameboy sp/gameboy mini. There is NO market for cellphones and they shouldnt even think about putting games on cellphones, theres already too many things that get bogged down on a cellphone.
Why wont they learn that any restriction they apply on there content will only hurt the person who is going to use the product for legal use? No matter how hard you try, there will alwase be the pirate groups who will get around it and release it for free to the public.
If they want them to stop, or limit this, start selling your products at cheaper prices so one would be more than happy to be every movie and every game. Its kind of sad that the videogame market has grown widely since it was first introduced, yet prices for the games have increased.
I could actually careless about the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD war, its not going to go bad on the consumer. If anything it will force the companies to use more competative pricing on there products.
I thihnk that means there crap out of luck. I never really understood the use of having a desktop client such as this or yahoo desktop or google desktop. I guess windows users are just getting lazier by the minute. Honestly though, what -are- the benefits of running one of these desktop programs?
Finally hollywood is making some good decisions. I am very glad that Uwe Boll didnt get his chance to create this movie. Maybe videogame movies are starting to get the attention of critically acclaimed producers and directors and we wont have anymore craptastic movies like Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil, and countless others. This is a step in the right direction for both hollywood and game movies alike. I just -might- get opening tickets for this.
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Errr i'm sorry, i actually meant Antialiasing, i got it around backwards :D. Its too late at night, but thanks for clearing that up for people who read my other post. AA isnt quite as needed at 1080i like you said, but AF is.
You also need to remember that a PC game and a Console game are on two completly different platforms. Games can run MUCH MUCH better at higher resolutions on console than on a computer as a console's main task is running games. They have high floating point calculations and the entire game was programmed for that system. Not to mention your not going to be enabling 4x AA and 8x AF on a 1080i resolution. You probably wouldnt even need Antistrophic Filtering as it is such a high resolution the jaggies would be severly diminished already.
Theres your problem right there, your relying on microsoft's console to give you good games. Did you really expect anything more than what they were going to give you? Didnt you see the games that were on xbox? Its going to be the same thing this time around as well. Sadly most americans games are usually crap, while there has been alot of good games released by american companies, the majority of kickass games are made by japanese developers. So far microsoft hasnt gotten into the japanese market, and with the launch titles they have now, i dont think there going to squeeze in there. If microsoft doesnt get in there, your going to get the same old american games. FPS's, Racers, Sports Titles, and every once and a while an action platformer.
I have seen the game, while it looks beautifull, the game looks really stale and seems to think it can use the fighting system of a MMO in a console rpg. Have you seen the game at all? If you decide to use the 'non action' battle system, the game actually pauses while it waits for you to select an action. Not only this, but you only control one person at a time. Meaning that while you move around, your other characters move about and attack on there own. -I- want to be able to control all of my characters, level them and use them as i see fit. I dont want a computer to make a decision for me.
Is it just me or does the main character look like a deformed human chipmunk? Worst character design EVER. Gladly, everyone else seems to actually look normal.
Why is everything starting to go to quick, action based, gameplay? When i play an RPG, i want to be able to sit down, have fun, relax, and follow the storyline while (slowly) leveling up my characters.
"No question about it, Final Fantasy XII is radically different from its predecessors. The days of random battles, isolated "drama stage"-style combat arenas and lining up politely to take swings at bad guys are gone. This is not the old-school Final Fantasy action you've come to expect -- but the trade-off is a fast-paced, combat-intensive game with a vast, contiguous world and danger on all sides."
This is suposed to be Final Fantasy, one of the oldest, most loved rpg's in america, why exactly does it need to change so its more like other rpg's where you can see your enemies? I lived for random battles, random battles MAKE a final fantasy RPG.
"Battles now take place on the main exploration screen. You can see enemies from an impressive distance; when you're far away, they wander around on their own paths, doing their own thing, even getting into skirmishes with one another. There's no transition to combat, no change in music or scene as you engage the foe. Enemies can sneak up on you from behind, and likewise, you can get the jump on foes by initiating combat before they see you."
So now there stripping something else that Final Fantasy is known for? No random battles and now we dont even get a catchy little battle tune to initate combat? What the hell were they thinking?
"Oh, and all your party members are visible at all times; you only have direct control over the party leader. The others are computer controlled. You can, however, change your party leader on the fly by pressing Up on the D-pad and toggling through your active characters. (If you prefer, you can turn off Gambit Mode to prevent your team members from auto-attacking, allowing you to control their actions.)"
Well now it seems like they stripped the RPG element out of the game, no longer are we playing a role, but were controlling an entire team. Are we god now?
It looks like they took a mediocure MMO (FFXI), a mediocure strategy game (tactics) and ripped off a little bit of Chrono Cross and KOTOR and mixed them together to make a hopefully (atleast) mediocure RPG. They really need to stop trying to change the mechanics of the game each time around and try to worry about the storyline a little bit more. It seems sad, but i think the last good Final Fantasy was on the original Playstation.
Have you ever taken an older game, and forcefully applied AA and AF to it, and then set it to the highest resolution it can go? It normally looks worse than without AA and AF.
I'm not talking about the smaller people who want to share your content, i'm talking about the big companies who want to save there bandwith, there not going to put it on these sites. There going to have links to a bitorrent file, its much easier and will got noticed easier. Theres millions of places you could upload your content (deviant-art, image-bucket, file-share), these p2p clients are like 90%+ used for pirateing content.
Well the file sharing that was used on these protocols using software like kazaa, morpheus, and emule is normally used for music, software, and movie file sharing. I dont think i have ever seen a free file of software that a company wanted to host, hosted on one of these networks. Bitorrent is another subject though, as there -are- legal uses for it.
The reason why puzzles, 'real' rpg's, first person shooters, and strategy games like Starcraft/Civilization/Sim City, ect. will stay on PC is because of the control scheme. It has nothing to do with how much intelligence a user needs to play the game or because the game doesnt have action in it.
Its because you have to actually CLICK with these genre's of games, you cant move an analog stick or d-pad quick enough or fast enough to actually beat/have fun in a game like that. Its the same reason why you dont see fighting games, platformers, racing titles (The majority anyway), or third person shooters on pc. You just cant control them well enough to make them fun.
Once a certain genre has been designed for a platform, it cant go to another platform with the same expections, this is why halo is great on the console but is a really crappy first person shooter to put on PC, it was designed with a controller in mind.
Why would it take 90 days to crack the password, all you need to do is put in Allah.
Actually i havnt seen a VCR recorded tv-show in a damn while. Its mostly digital HDTV and digital programming uploaded to torrent sites now.
What ever happened to the United States being free? It seems in the past year, more government associations are trying to shush up the people's rights and control what they see, what they record, and what they do. Is it really that much of a bane on Television Stations if a person records a football game while he's at work with an old vcr? How is this any different than it being recorded on a DVR? What if that said person doesnt have a digital cable box and watches Fox Sunday Football on his rabit ears? This is not affecting a single damn person and its horrible that there trying to pass a LAW that hinders what someone can do with analog content.
I personally cant wait for all these old government conservative officials that run these shitty conservative government organizations to die and there companies to fall into obscurity.
I honestly dont understand why certain women are going through such lengths to try and get games made specificly for them. There -are- games that are made only for men, but the majority of them are made for a broad range of people. White, black, asian, 8years old or 80years old, the games spread through all types, not just for men. I know several women who love playing games from soul calibur to GTA, just because a few women dont like the games that are in the industry doesnt mean the entire industry should bend over backwards to make games that ONLY women will play.
All of your comments are down right wrong, i cant believe someone could have such a bias towards PC gaming, in which the entire market is run by graphics, first person shooters, and RTS's. You seem to forget that with every console generation (since the Ps1), the console has surpassed the PC in specs, in a year or two it slowly creeps up and passed the console, but none-the-less the console lead the way. Console games have such a greater compacity for different genre's it isnt funny and (your talking about three systems here, not to mention the PSP and DS now) game of the year usually turns into game of the month for consoles. Theres so many great games to pick up on consoles, while your left with (insert random fps) or (insert random RTS) for PC's. Theres just far too many great games that come out on consoles, 20-40 a year, while less than 10 absolutely great games usually get released for PC a year.
What does this mean for laser pens?!
40+ hours? There hasnt been a game thats lasted over 10 for years now!~ :D
I have a few questions...
1) Why would you give a third world country free software when most of them arnt going to use it or even have computers that can run it? Its a waste of packaging and cd's.
2)Why would you give software to a country that is in more need of food, water, and medicine?
3)Why would you give software to a country that is mostly underdeveloped?
Maybe we should be giving them free -computers-, then maybe they'll need some software to run. Since linux desktops computers already have plans to start selling in as little as 150 dollars for a complete system, i dont think they need microsofts software.
I am sure you marked me down as a troll, even though my comment was neither trollish or hatefull towards nintendo, but whatever. I was saying that atleast with the 360 and ps3 coverage, your getting different news, new news. Your seeing how the consoles are being shaped and what is going to be included with them.
As this article has stated, this and just like most other articles that have came out late are all the same, you already know everything your going to know about the revolution, they havnt released ANYTHING new to write an article about.
I'm not trying to troll, but seriously, how many articles do we need on "How the revolution flipped the game industry on its ass and will be the greatest thing since sliced bread". I get it, its gonna be cool, but we dont need 1000 articles that say the exact same thing, atleast post something new.
I think alot of people have a problem with putting intelligence in the wrong situations. Someone who smokes pot might not want to go to school or may seem 'lazy', but this could just be something that he would of done normally, learning about math is boring to some people. Now, while this same person skipped class after class, he could probably build you a computer or fix that nasty oil leak in your car. Intelligence is not mathematics and reading. Intelligence is being able to put your brain to good use, weather it be at repairing a car, creating that little tray that folds up under the sofa, or creating a law of science. There are MANY degree's of intelligence, you cant just call someone stupid because they misspelled a word, or didnt know how to solve some complex math problem.
Alot of you are also stereotyping people in the worst ways, cheech and chong are a stereotype, they are not the most common form of marijuana smoker. They were -made- for comedy, to laugh at -while- high.
This was built in mini-form on a show called screensavers. It use to aire on G4 a year or so ago before it go turned into Attack of the Show. They proved that it worked by placing an object infront of the mirror (about 2 feet away) and just about instantly set it on fire.
The problem with mythbusters, and they do this often, is they only did one test to see if it would work in one way. They only aligned the mirrors in one direction, every single one of them at the same degree, meaning that the light that hit the center mirrors wouldnt reflect on the same spot the top mirrors did. If you watch the show they did, you can clearly see the reflection of the mirrors all across the 'boat' from 3 to 6 feet, not on a single point. That means that the mirrors didnt concentrate the light energy in one spot and were only able to get the spot to around 200 degree's.
I dont think there will be a market for cell phone gaming, ever. There may be that tiny market for those card and old NES ripoff games for when your sitting in a park and you forgot your portable console. There will however alwase be a market for the psp/ds/gameboy sp/gameboy mini. There is NO market for cellphones and they shouldnt even think about putting games on cellphones, theres already too many things that get bogged down on a cellphone.
Why wont they learn that any restriction they apply on there content will only hurt the person who is going to use the product for legal use? No matter how hard you try, there will alwase be the pirate groups who will get around it and release it for free to the public.
If they want them to stop, or limit this, start selling your products at cheaper prices so one would be more than happy to be every movie and every game. Its kind of sad that the videogame market has grown widely since it was first introduced, yet prices for the games have increased.
I could actually careless about the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD war, its not going to go bad on the consumer. If anything it will force the companies to use more competative pricing on there products.
I thihnk that means there crap out of luck. I never really understood the use of having a desktop client such as this or yahoo desktop or google desktop. I guess windows users are just getting lazier by the minute. Honestly though, what -are- the benefits of running one of these desktop programs?
Finally hollywood is making some good decisions. I am very glad that Uwe Boll didnt get his chance to create this movie. Maybe videogame movies are starting to get the attention of critically acclaimed producers and directors and we wont have anymore craptastic movies like Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil, and countless others. This is a step in the right direction for both hollywood and game movies alike. I just -might- get opening tickets for this.