Halo is a brilliant game.
People just hate it because it's well liked and they don't understand why.
Some reasons why it's good:
Extremely high production quality
Very few obvious or game breaking bugs
Artistically brilliant
Properly designed and balanced maps
Properly designed and balanced weapons
Constantly tweaked and maintained
Excellent campaign AI
Really fun Vehicles
Pro...
A new engine isn't needed for the console version. The current engine uses the hardware perfectly.
Infact, the engine would even be fine for the PC version if it has dedis. The graphics in MW2 were quite pretty maxed out and CoD really doesn't need fancy physics - what it needs is to actually be a shooter; good maps, no nooby grenade spam, no overpowered explosions everywhere, dedicated servers... oh wait I described CoD4.
TBH, from my experience, BF ...
TBH my only problems with MW2 are the lack of the M40, the lack of dedicated servers and the bad maps.
Didn't buy Crap Ops because Treyarch made it, so of course it's bad. That suspicion seems to be true because it has caused a huge amount of CoD hate and I keep hearing of all the bugs, expliots and lag.
True though, EA are pricks, as with any publisher. Publishers do not have a place in the modern games industry anymore... oh yeah wait, boxed games... But for downloadable titles, publishers should go and burn in hell because all they want to do is take the profits out of the hands of the developers.
Look at minecraft - no publisher, just a game that people can buy from its own site, no DRM whatsoever; and it made a lot of money.
LOL, Stephen Fry had MANY big parts in MANY big TV shows.
Pretty sure I realised them all...
If the article was to list those obvious ones why didn't it list the other hundreds of obvious A-listers' voices in games?
uuhhh.... nearly every console releases at a loss for a while, that is how their business plan works and why they are a very expensive and risky business proposition. Except handhelds, they are sold to make hardware profits.
But yes, MS do charge you to use your own (and other XBL users') internet - which should be totally illegal, and would be if our governments wern't run by technically incapable 60-year-olds who have no validity in the running of the modern world. ...
Well then developers will turn round and refuse to release their games through MS' services.
Last proper good Bioware game was Jade Empire. ME... It isn't an rpg and is bad as a shooter, though the setting and story were amazing. (thats genuinely the only reason, a very valid reason, anybody could like ME or they havn't played any other RPGs or shooters)
But anyway... on topic.
It's a game - it's just maths and logic creating some pixels and audio. There is no need for any controversy at all.
Or in Fable 2 to actually maybe get some gameplay on occassion with some 'extra' quests.
But does it actually matter? At all?
It's some bytes whirling around in a computer...
Some retarded religious group or woman's rights group will get all uppity about some bytes in some computers...
Windows isn't hardware.
I don't think they will be able to use BluRay, Sony are part owners of the hardware license.
But they can't use digital distribution either because the information infrastructure in their core consumer base (North America) - on a consumer level - is inappropriate for the bandwidth levels. (corrupt ISPs and their retarded bandwidth caps etc). Though if any company can push for a reform of the system, Microsoft probably can.
So what does that leave them...
ahahah, so true ^
So... they said nothing at all?
Their R&D will have been working on technology for the 720 since before the 360 was even launched, so this article would have been relevant - probably - in early 2005: "As you can imagine, of course we’re working on all sorts of different things. We do that all the time"
Super, my 360 RRoD again this June.
I'm not going to shell out for another new one again to avoid the repeated breakages... (I bought my elite after my original died twice, and my elite RRoD for the second time this year).
Only the latest Elite models and the S versions are without the RRoD flaw.
So yeah, the majority of gamers' 360s at the moment will be able to RRoD. How is that 2007? More like 2005-next_gen.
Anyway...
this ^
But the 'feel' and content are far more important than graphics. GT5 had no content compared to any GT before it (we have to buy the game then pay extra to have a reasonable amount of content...), so Forza 4 might end up being the better game.
I'll have to try one then the other soon after, with the same car on the same track, and see if they feel different. They should both feel exactly the same if they are sims :P
this ^
And Halo.
Good exclusives died this gen (there are still like... 15 overall, or something, compared to about 200 per platform last gen).
I only started hearing people complaining about quick scoping recently. Isn't that just somebody being faster than said complainer? Seems totally fair...
Thats like complaining you have been wandeaged from the other side of the map in CS, because the other player was very good... hardly makes sense.
I want to go and 'quick scope' some fools right now :P