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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15722 |  w00t (870) May 30, 2007 - 09:54 pm
| This one was fun at the time.
However I find a bit sad the trend (not just with Sony) of offering old games in their vanilla form, I wish they would preserve all the game elements, but redo the graphics in HD. These are 2D games after all, the budget for redoing the sprites wouldn't be high... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15609 | w00t (870) May 30, 2007 - 11:48 am
| Because you don't know how to count?
A decent computer is $1000, and at that price you won't be able to play DX10 games with anything maxed out. Give it a couple more years, and it'll be so outdated you'll have to turn everything off or run in 640x480.
Your $1000 TV will see more uses than games, your LCD will see what? email and browsing? Get a bluetooth keyboard for your PS3 and you can do it.
Photo editing and printing? It's coming to the PS3, and is already there if you use YDL.
In 5 years, your PS3 will still be kicking butt, while a $1000 PC of today would be an hopeless piece of old junk. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15606 | w00t (870) May 28, 2007 - 10:58 pm
| | Well, there ain't gonna be any DX10 games for a while... and even the first DX10 games seem to play better (visually and performance-wise) under DX9, cf. the tests, and will probably do so for a year or two, until they fix Vista with a SP1 and nVidia/ATI get better drivers. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15606 | w00t (870) May 28, 2007 - 10:56 pm
| I suppose you're comparing an old XP install to a fresh Vista one. MS OS get slower as time goes.
If you made a fresh XP install over your Vista, you would see a very noticeable speedup (fresh XP is faster than fresh Vista). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15672 | w00t (870) May 25, 2007 - 10:41 pm
| Yeah, that ones looks nextgen water with PS2 GTA buildings. All the distant stuff looks blocky too, like if it was rendered at a low resolution, and then stretched to fit.
Distant buildings in #1 are better though. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15675 | w00t (870) May 25, 2007 - 10:30 pm
| I second that. Had a few multi-player battles that turned out very interesting.
My top would have KOTOR first, then the X-Wing and Tie Fighter up top (XW vs TF up top because of multi) with Rebellion, RS 2, and then everything else way behind.
Never found any of the StarWars FPS to be of any interest, but that may be because the competition on the FPS front was much fiercer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15667 | w00t (870) May 25, 2007 - 10:25 pm
| Yeah, this ESRB thing seems to be managed by a bunch of people that have lost their wits.
In a game featuring ultra-violence, all they care about are bits of video-game flesh (not that realistic looking) you see in practically every movie. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15664 | w00t (870) May 25, 2007 - 04:21 am
| "Right now there is a $299 HD-DVD player on sell at Wal-Mart"
Not exactly $299...
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=495769
..and also
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/04/26/fuh-yuan-retracts-299-wal-mart-hd-dvd-statement/
"Basicly we are talking about less than a half million movies in a country with 300 millon people."
Oh look! Another silly numbers comparison!
The truth is that the war is over, HDDVD will limp 'till years end when Universal exclusive contracts ends, and Universal can go Bluray too (they've made no mystery of it).
Bluray is leading in the sales, took the overall lead despite launching later, and the replication price advantages HDDVD had a year ago have almost fully evaporated as technology and manufacturing progressed, cf.
http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-replication-costs-revealed/111/ Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15647 | w00t (870) May 24, 2007 - 10:19 pm
| The only ones that care are the MS execs that thought making Halo2 a Vista exclusive could boost Vista sales... LOL.
Dated game with dated graphics on an unstable OS. No thanks. You can probably get the Xbox+Halo2 for the price of Halo2 PC if you really want to play it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15664 | w00t (870) May 24, 2007 - 10:16 pm
| This would probably only make the war longer.
HDDVD is losing badly and BluRay was trampling it on every front. Throw doubt on the winner, and the HD war could be lasting an extra 2 years...
Since they're putting the *injunction* forward so much, this sounds like the usual patent Mafia tactic of bullying: abuse the system by making sure that if the other party will lose money if they don't pay now, whether or not the patent is valid.
All they need to find to succeed is a gullible or corrupt enough court, which in the US of A isn't so hard. Happened to RIM, MS, etc. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15644 | w00t (870) May 23, 2007 - 11:16 pm
| It goes to show that Wii's customer aren't eating into PS3 or 360 customers. They're just a different market.
Nintendogs is supercute, but it's nothing more than a glorified tamagochi, you can do all there is to do within 15 min of "gameplay". It just doesn't appeal to the same public. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15612 | w00t (870) May 22, 2007 - 11:07 pm » Edited on May 22, 2007 - 11:09 pm
| Wii is low res. This is as high quality as it will ever get.
Don't expect to see anything coming close to 360 or PS3 graphics, the Wii is at the level of the original XBox and barely above the PS2. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15606 | w00t (870) May 22, 2007 - 01:12 pm
| "If someone’s complaining of an unstable Vista installation, the problem lies in the hardware."
Actually, since the hardware worked well before Vista x64, doesn't it mean that the problems lies in the software? ie. Vista itself not being ready or compatible?
MS being the monopoly they are, the trouble of supporting hardware variety should rest on their shoulders first and foremost, rather than on IHVs. Flag this | Edit this post |
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