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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16669 |  imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 25, 2007 - 11:51 am
| | The lower price point is part of the reason for the Wii's success, but it can't be it. After all, if it was just a matter of price, the Game Cube would have outsold the PS2 and Xbox, but look what happened there. No, a reason just as big is people are getting pulled onto the motion sensitivity bandwagon. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16384 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 07, 2007 - 09:58 am
| | Well, the multiplayer is much faster-paced and over online connections, so to keep things stable they probably deliberately cut down the graphics so there's not as much data being transferred at once. Supposedly they did the same with Halo 2, and the argument itself does make sense. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16347 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 06, 2007 - 04:57 am
| | Yeah, it's a very well written article (except for that "it's saying something" followed immediately "by that's say something" (or something like that), that seemed a little awkward...) It seemed to give the appeal and multiple high points of the device due praise while keeping in mind the definite drawbacks. I think that he is right, at least for me: The only real limiting factor of the iPhone is the price. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16359 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 06, 2007 - 04:28 am
| Says who? Did Bungie or Microsoft say this?
I'm going to take the optimistic view and say this is a step in the right direction, since their fans' faith in the game was shaken a bit by the lackluster graphics in the multiplayer. I really do hope Bungie won't let us down in the singleplayer department this time. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16337 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 06, 2007 - 04:24 am
| | No, I don' think that's right. Developer certainly like the idea of money, but for most of them at least I don't think it's the real reason for their existence. The way I see it, the best developers out there make games because they like making games, and if they like making games for the Playstation, then they'll make games for the Playstation. (Case in point: Insomniac, Hideo Kojima, Factor 5) If they like making games for the Xbox, they'll make games for the Xbox (Case in point: Epic, Bioware) I think the money issue comes in mostly because they do need to make a living and need to fund their games. But it's not about making as much money as possible. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16337 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 06, 2007 - 04:20 am
| | Dude, maybe the studio feels some loyalty towards Sony. Maybe they just don't want to bother with a port and they want to focus on making another game. Who knows? Maybe even they will bring it to the Wii and it simply hasn't been announced yet. Look, it's on the PS3, and they never said they would bring it on to the Wii. Whatever happens, neither the game nor the events behind are hardly significant enough to get your panties in a knot over. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16361 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jul 06, 2007 - 04:10 am » Edited on Jul 06, 2007 - 04:11 am
| | If this really is true, then it certainly is only good news for the Playstation 3. Now Sony just needs to market it correctly and show that while it's still $100 above the 360 it's still got a helluva lot more features that more than make up the gap. Because otherwise all people will think about--as shown by a lot of the response I've seen to this--will be the $500, which is still a big setback. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16227 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jun 28, 2007 - 09:22 am
| | Hey, I'd be happy if all they did was take the gameplay and a mixture of levels, then maybe throw in a few tweaks to keep things a little fresh, and give it a graphics makeover. Hopefully we can get something that relatively resembles next-gen graphically, even though it's a budget title. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15929 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jun 13, 2007 - 01:42 pm » Edited on Jun 13, 2007 - 01:42 pm
| | Misanthrope is right. Halo 2 is better on the PC than on the console, regardless of whether buying Vista to play it is a good deal. Granted, there are better FPS games on the PC than Halo, but that's not the point. I'm saying it's pointless to buy the console or Vista if this program makes Halo 2 PC able to be played on Vista. Hopefully if this program is successful it'll get Microsoft to start thinking twice about how they're marketing and publishing their Vista games. (In any case, I really just want to play Shadowrun.) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15929 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jun 12, 2007 - 05:06 pm » Edited on Jun 12, 2007 - 05:08 pm
| Why? Because some of us PC gamers would like to give Halo 2 and Shadowrun a shot on the PC versus the consoles, and would rather NOT pay the price of Vista in order to do so.
In fact, I'd rather pay for this program, which shouldn't cost anywhere near as much as Vista...or as either Xbox, for example.
I can't wait to see if they can really come through with this. I'd certainly sign up if it looks like they do. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15907 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jun 11, 2007 - 12:01 pm
| Well, I know you've already said it, but no, this isn't the one they're using for Quake Wars. (That's a modified version of the Doom 3 engine; it uses a technology called MegaTexture, which allows for visually complex outdoor environments without much of a hit on the video card. Although I think he said in an interview with PC Gamer that MegaTexture was a prelude to his new graphics engine--presumably this one...)
I'm pretty sure that this is indeed for id's next game. I don't think anything specific has been announced; the Rumor Mill has it last I checked that it'll be a new Wolfenstein game...but that is the Rumor Mill, so take it with a pound of salt.
So what is this Mac-related game announcement going to be, I wonder? Damn, E3 can't come soon enough. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15871 | imfagentsamfisher (236) Jun 10, 2007 - 10:38 am
| I don't know. I think that Obsidian's done a pretty good job so far, at least on the design side. Granted, neither KOTOR2 nor NWN2 were finished, but in both cases it was more of the publisher pushing the game out too early.
Hopefully, this news of NX1 getting plenty of polish time from Atari is a sign of good things to come. Either way, I don't think that it's a bad thing having more (at least relatively) skilled RPG developers making single-player RPGs, especially considering the flood of online RPGs onto the market.
I do agree that BioWare needs to hurry up and get Dragon Age out. Hopefully the big delay has been due to a graphics upgrade to make it look current-gen (versus the KOTOR/Jade Empire graphics that it originally had), and if so that, along with the inevitable amount of polish, it's going to kick ass. But it doesn't make waiting for it any easier. Flag this | Edit this post |
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