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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17116 |  BubbaT (160) Aug 28, 2007 - 10:40 am
| VHS to DVD was revolutionary.
DVD to BRD/HD-DVD is just an upgrade.
If the only advantage of DVD had been a better picture, it would never have caught on. Never rewinding, instant access to any scene, never having the machine "eat" a tape, not having the quality degrade, taking up less space on the shelf - all that mattered too.
That's why DVD was slower to catch on in Asia, where VCDs already provided most of those benefits. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17116 | BubbaT (160) Aug 27, 2007 - 08:53 am
| The article mentions SACD/DVD-A, but fails to mention that that war was won by the "good enough" crowd, in the form of the mp3s. And mp3s at the time did require new hardware to be played outside a computer. That didn't stop people from paying more for a "good enough" product, even though it sounded worse than CD.
That "good enough" crowd is also sitting at #1 in the next-gen console wars, where the 480p Wii outsells the hi-def 1080p PS3 and 360.
Fancy new hi-tech stuff is neat. It's great for techies and status symbolists. But this is still a world where the #1 graphics chip maker is "good enough" Intel. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17027 | BubbaT (160) Aug 21, 2007 - 03:33 pm
| What do you mean, "believe in"?
You don't actually believe you're a real-life elite counter-terrorist Spec Ops soldier when you play Rainbow 6, do you?
Last I checked, there wasn't any in-game psychological profiling or filling out security clearance badge paperwork in R6. Heck, you can even join virtual SWAT even if you're fat in real life. Sooooo unrealistic! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17009 | BubbaT (160) Aug 20, 2007 - 01:29 pm
| It could break First Day/Week records, but I don't think it'll be outselling Super Mario Bros. 3.
That said, I heard somewhere that it could bring in more money on the first day than Spiderman 3 brought in opening weekend. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16838 | BubbaT (160) Aug 07, 2007 - 10:49 am
| Everyone can agree that parents should be involved in their kids' media.
But to codify it into law puts games in the same category as pornography. Porn is the only media that is restricted by law. Not music, books, films, etc., even though some of them are far more violent than games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16819 | BubbaT (160) Aug 07, 2007 - 10:39 am
| lol@ "no PCs can handle Resistance"
hahaha yeah I bet a lot of PCs would choke on a whopping 720 lines of resolution and DX9 graphics. I bet PCs would choke on Gears of War too, right? Oh wait, they already don't!
Oh, and Cryteam has already stated several times that neither PS3 or 360 would be able to handle Crysis. That must mean no PCs will be able to run Crysis for years! I'll be sure to note that game's 0 sales when it's released since no one can run it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16764 | BubbaT (160) Aug 02, 2007 - 12:33 pm » Edited on Aug 02, 2007 - 12:35 pm
| If anything, more zombies should have been black in the earlier RE games.
Zombies were invented by black people in the Caribbean as a voodoo belief. Given that the game is set in Haiti, it would seem a perfect opportunity to talk about how black people have contributed to this aspect of pop culture - the zombie.
Zombies = Caribbean blacks
Mummies = Egyptian Arabs
Vampires = European whites
Not that I should expect things like actual history and facts to get in the way of a race-baiting blogger. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16764 | BubbaT (160) Aug 01, 2007 - 02:58 pm
| Where were all these people when Delta Force: Black Hawk Down was released? That game had you re-enacting real events in Somalia, including shooting black people were weren't trying to eat your brains?
Of course, that game didn't have nearly the publicity that RE5 has, meaning it wasn't worth the time or effort for the publicity whores to speak up about it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16625 | BubbaT (160) Jul 23, 2007 - 04:12 pm
| Ebert is being stupid. If games aren't art because they're interactive, then movies aren't art if I can pause them with a remote.
If I draw an apple in Mario Paint, how is that less art than if I draw it in MS Paint?
And there are plenty of games linear enough to qualify as leading you towards an "inevitable conclusion." The endings of Diablo or Mario 64 are far more set in stone than the endings of "The Lady or the Tiger?" or "The Most Dangerous Game." I guess literature != art, also. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16580 | BubbaT (160) Jul 20, 2007 - 02:56 pm
| According to the complaint Epic promised support and a finished UE3 and didn't deliver, constituting a breach of contract.
According to SK, Epic promised to deliver the finished UE3 by March 2006, but instead delivered an unfinished version. The finished version was not delivered until after Gears was already released - November 2006. SK further alleges Epic delayed on purpose to prevent other UE3-powered games from competing with Gears.
I believe the only UE3-powered game to market before Gears was the budget title Roboblitz. The earliest claimed UE3 title to follow Gears was Rainbow 6 Vegas, which actually used an unfinished UE3, ie a modified UE2.5. R6V is also the only "UE3" game on PS3, where Unreal Tournament 3 will be released later this year.
Epic's likely defense will be that they only promised SK A version of UE3, not THE finished version. What "support" constitutes will boil down to lawyer's interpretations. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16552 | BubbaT (160) Jul 18, 2007 - 11:26 am
| God of War and The Sims had sex, although I wouldn't call them graphic depictions.
I thought it was funny that Romney tried to move to the right to appeal to primary voters, only to have the further-right Brownback blow him out of the water.
Isn't Romney a Mormon? I believe Utah, the most Mormon state in the US, also has the highest rate of hotel room porno-buying in the US. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16475 | BubbaT (160) Jul 12, 2007 - 01:48 pm
| Japanese business is more corrupt than US business.
And Sony doesn't "pay" for exclusivity. They just dump a boatload of money on your porch that you're supposed to use to "tweak" your game for PS3, and help cover marketing costs. *wink, wink, gunfinger* Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16337 | BubbaT (160) Jul 05, 2007 - 11:13 am
| Er, corruption in Japanese business and government is far more rampant and blatant than in the US.
Dozens of high-ranking Japanese officials have had to resign after being caught accepting bribes, including a Prime Minister who spent 20 days in jail. Cabinet members have committed suicide after being exposed.
In 1997 alone 170 Japanese public officials were arrested, 150 of them for accepting bribes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15894 | BubbaT (160) Jun 11, 2007 - 09:20 am
| You mean Hercules didn't ride Pegasus?
Oh, and some games come with pretty solid learning materials. Shogun: Total War came with a supplement called "Way of the Daimyo" that was a basic primer on Japanese history.
Even the Fallout manual described the basic effects of a nuclear explosion. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15833 | BubbaT (160) Jun 07, 2007 - 01:33 pm
| No one got fired, they resigned because they didn't want to move.
San Francisco and New York are probably the two biggest cities in North America in terms of tech press coverage. Several of the bigger gaming magazines are based in San Francisco.
That's why Nintendo's MARKETING division is moving there. Nintendo's main HQ isn't going anywhere. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15792 | BubbaT (160) Jun 05, 2007 - 12:57 pm
| Wii and 360 don't really compete with each other. Wii's main competition is probably the DS Lite and possibly the PS2. The folks who play Animal Crossing aren't interested in 360 anyways, as evidenced by sales of Viva Pinata.
Similarly, there's not really anything on Wii that would appeal to the Gran Turismo or Metal Gear Solid crowds should Sony drop out. MS themselves was telling people to buy a Wi along with a 360.
Yoshi's right in that console gaming in Japan isn't like console gaming in the US - it's more like PC gaming in the US. Hardcore US PCers are like hardcore Japanese gamers - very traditionally oriented and set in their ways. Casual US PCers are like casual Japanese gamers - they play stuff like Nintendogs, The Sims, Brain Age and Bejewled. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15780 | BubbaT (160) Jun 04, 2007 - 10:21 am
| No, PAX is his anti-target audience.
His target audience is ignorant, reactionaries. Soccer moms, politicians, people who constantly worry about "corrupting the youth" with games, comics, "race" music, Socratic philosophy, etc. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15720 | BubbaT (160) May 31, 2007 - 03:45 pm
| How is it based "loosely" on the video game series when the video game series doesn't have a consistent, overarching storyline? Or really any continuity at all, for that matter.
The Final Fantasy series is just a collection of random RPGs under the same branding. It'd be like calling every new FPS Half-Life. You'd have Half-Life: FEAR, Half-Life: Halo, Half-Life: Unreal Tournament, etc. It'd make as much sense. Flag this | Edit this post |
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