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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21941 |  Phirewind (894) Jul 29, 2009 - 08:45 am
| Did nobody else notice that not only do you now have a proper countermeasure to air support with a lock-on missile launcher, (RPG vs helo support was always suckage) but the AC-130 was dropping countermeasures to try to dodge it?
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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21922 | Phirewind (894) Jul 29, 2009 - 08:42 am
| | Well, you should probably differentiate between the two. I went out of my way to avoid Vista, skipping it entirely until I upgraded my PC and installed Win7 beta (and now the RC), which has been rock solid and high-performance for me, and much less intrusive than Vista (but still could use some work in that area). For the average person, I'd sat keep avoiding Vista, wait for Win7 retail. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21136 | Phirewind (894) Dec 31, 2008 - 10:13 am
| | I predict the loss of backwards compatibility due to change of architecture. If they wanted to keep it, the PS4 would have to be something like "lots more Cell" or "Cell 2: The Worsening", which would probably face a lot more of the same financial and manufacturing problems. If they go with something more architecturally traditional, it would be so unlike Cell that it would require a major software effort to emulate, or require a Cell processor embedded for hardware support, a la the PS1 inside PS2. Considering how quickly they dumped PS2 support inside the new PS3's, it just seems highly unlikely that they would risk taking another major loss per console in the next generation. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21136 | Phirewind (894) Dec 30, 2008 - 02:18 pm » Edited on Dec 30, 2008 - 02:21 pm
| Consider the original cost vs the fact that when the PS3 launched approximately 50% of the people that purchased them bought no games, they only bought the unit intending to resell it on eBay, and most of those apparently still sold for less than the manufacturer's original cost. Sony took a major bath on this one. If they don't make a major comeback in '09, some beancounter may convince the head honchos that their gaming hardware business is expendable, a la Sega.
I'm assuming there will still be a PS4, but my bet is that it is much less "exotic" than the PS3, or relatively even the PS2. It'll be closer to a regular PC in architecture, like the Xbox and Xbox 360. It WILL have rumble controllers, and it will NOT even consider backwards compatibility. So speaks Nostragamus. More or less. Batteries not included. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21122 | Phirewind (894) Dec 19, 2008 - 04:44 pm
| Wallpaper! WOOO YEAAHH!! And it's FREE! Surely people would pay almost as much for this wallpaper as they did for the Gran Turismo Demo, er, Prologue!
These guys are awesome! w000000000000!!! I get 120fps on this monitor as long as I turn the resolution down, it's smooth as silk. Hey Pun-ky, turn on your wallpaper and let's do multiplayer staring at CGI! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21117 | Phirewind (894) Dec 18, 2008 - 03:19 pm
| | Once again, Activision farms IW's work out to a third party that finds some way to screw it up. Basically a good game, but allowing players to alter the values awarded in an RPG system is like letting WoW players grind to lvl 80 in one day by playing on a hacked server. Doesn't do much for the overal continuity of the community. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21114 | Phirewind (894) Dec 18, 2008 - 12:34 pm
| Point is, if the label on the device says "don't move it while it's running or you may cause damage" and then you move it while it's running and it causes damage, the blame rests pretty squarely on the idiot doing the moving. Discs scratched without intervention is one thing. Discs scratched while purposefully fighting against the gyroscopic forces in play against all warnings is your own stupid fault. In college, a friend of mine picked up a hard drive and turned it over while I was workin on a PC with the parts hanging out for diagnostics... hard drive read head ate it's own platter. Physics: It's the Law.
But, scratched discs another reason to appreciate the new "Play from Hard Drive" option. Now, MS needs to give us an eSATA adapter that we can plug into the 360's hard drive slot and attached retail 1TB drives. Four favorite games and some arcade selections installed, and my 60GB HD is half full already. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21109 | Phirewind (894) Dec 15, 2008 - 04:19 pm
| | Yeah, it became more about "be c00l str33t thugzz" visuals and less about a good racing game. Been a long time since I cared about the franchise, would try it out once in a while just to be sure. Burnout Revenge is still one of the best action racers in recent history (better than Burnout Paradise). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21102 | Phirewind (894) Dec 13, 2008 - 12:23 pm
| This is about the most idiotic thing I've heard this week. We've all played with software enough emulators to know that an emulator for a "recent" system is NOT reliable or powerful enough to call it a replacement for the real hardware. And that's assuming that the PC is running an emulator for hardware that is 5 or even 10 years old (or more). Especially for something like the PS3, there would be SO much overhead accounting for the radically different architecture, it just wouldn't go. And if the PS3 sells at a loss for $400, my guess is that an add-on card would require not only a PCI-E slot, but it'd still cost next to $400 if they intended to NO lose money.
Think about it, if the PS3 can't even emulate PS2, and the 360 can only emulate the XBox for certain games which have custom patches prepared, what chance does the average PC have of emulating next-gen consoles? The 360 shipped 850k units just last month. How many of those 850k users would you guess would replace a $300 console with a $2000+ high-end gaming rig, then add another $200 for an add-on card? Answer: Practically Zero. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21098 | Phirewind (894) Dec 11, 2008 - 03:39 pm
| | I just cancelled my War account, and NOT to go back to WoW. I joined to play with a group of friends, and after a few months they stopped playing due to real life, etc. It was fun, but like most MMO's just loses the magic when your guild evaporates. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21094 | Phirewind (894) Dec 11, 2008 - 03:34 pm
| Bluray = duh!
Unless Reisinger expects people to download games larger than 9 GB while having a limited amount of game space, seeing how long it's taken for MS to give us 120 GB hard drives on the 360... the infrastructure just isn't there. Gamers don't want to wait multiple days for a game to download once they've bought it, and there's not enough bandwidth to go around for something like CoD4 or Gears2, where hundreds of thousands of people would be hitting the same mega-file simultaneously upon release, especially if it's over 10 GB. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21056 | Phirewind (894) Dec 02, 2008 - 06:56 pm
| Perhaps a filter that only allows connection to computers in a certain IP range, i.e. 192.168.1.1-100. Maybe online IP spoofing would be possible, but that'd be too much of a major pain to be prolific.
It should at least be possible with current code to allow only 1 online multiplayer connection per Steam login at a time, but allow any number of logins as long as they come from the same IP and only play with each other locally. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21021 | Phirewind (894) Nov 25, 2008 - 12:06 pm
| | I'm buying another month's gamecard this week, it's a great game for small groups of people who like constant combat... I haven't even hit lvl 25 yet so I really haven't even seen half of the suppposed content, markets, or crafting. But it's still good for random conflict resolution via bloodshed. ;) Flag this | Edit this post |
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