Sorry, I misinterpreted the intention of the article. But yeah, kicking your console can never be a good thing, in the long run.
Why do people persist in trying to find half assed workarounds for what is an obviously broken 360? Call Microsoft and send the damn thing in for the warranty repair and be done with it.
Should Microsoft have issued a recall? Yes. Are they ever going to initiate a recall? No. Microsoft will continue to sail along with their RROD warranty program, but let's hope that they've learned their lesson and that their next console -- if there is one -- has none of these problems.
I was going to post the very same information. Until recently I was also under the impression that ANA/HANA was responsible for image scaling, but I ran across an ARS Technica article that cleared up this misconception. Microsoft appears to be perfectly fine with perpetuating this myth, even though it is not true.
As for the PS3, we've known for a long time that the PS3 contained some form of scaling hardware, but access to that hardware is restricted by the system software for w...
Apparently the PS3 DOES have a hardware scaler, but only in the horizontal plane. Some games take advantage of this and render 960 x 1080 and have the scaler upscale the image to 1920 x 1080.
It's possible that the PS3 hardware is also capable of vertical scaling, but the current system software does not support it.
I am going to echo those above me and say that "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" was an absolute gem of a game. Perfect balance of action, puzzle solving and just plain fun. It was true to the Indiana Jones universe without straying into the bizarre like "Emperor's Tomb."
Speaking of "Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb", it was actually a very good game that unfortunately lost sight of what it was trying to be when in the last quarter of the...
1. Fix the pathetic D-pad on the controller.
2. Get rid of the Arcade model; make a hard drive standard.
3. Reliability.
Totally! And not only did Microsoft hamper developers but themselves. The idiotic decision to make the hard drive optional meant that Microsoft was jeopardizing their entire on-line strategy of sucking a monthly service fee for on-line gaming and nickel and diming gamers for a dizzying array of upgrades and add ons.
Don't get me started on the price of the wireless adapter, which even the $129 Nintendo DS includes.
This is retarded. Unless you're a drooling moron you should be able to hit any Target, Wal-Mart, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc. and pick up a copy. I was at Wal-Mart earlier this afternoon and saw a crapload of copies, and boxes more in the back the associate said.
I think if you wait a few days to maybe a week it might be hard to find the game, but over the next few days even a relatively lazy shopper should have no trouble finding this game.
Really? Walmart and the other retailers all ran out, did they? I just came back from my lunch break and stopped in at a local retailer to buy an unrelated game and saw stacks and stacks and stacks of GTA4. Perhaps in a few days to a week it could be hard to find, but stock will be replenished very quickly. Well, for those retailers that have a working supply chain (that excludes EB Games).
Unless the retailer is offering a specific incentive, pre-ordering is a joke.
With nearly a dozen different retailers all selling GTA4 pre-ordering makes no sense. I haven't pre-ordered a game since my PS1 days and have never had a problem buying the game I want on release day. Thanks to the ubiquity and minuscule manufacturing costs of DVD media there no longer exists a scarcity issue with most video games. The days of scrambling to find that last Mortal Kombat cartridge in the city are long, long gone.
In some cases it actually makes more sense to put of...
Thanks. You're the hero of the thread with the original link down. :)
It's part of the challenge of the game. Once you've committed yourself to a move you have to live with the consequences. The combat is perfect and everything you mentioned would just serve to unnecessarily complicate the game and water down the experience to a new level of button mashing.
No thanks.
Honestly. The level of idiocy that surrounds gaming and gaming journalism is simply astonishing.
Pre-order? Why, when you can just walk in to any Wal-Mart, Target, Bestbuy, Circuit City or similar store on release day and buy a copy.
Pre-ordering is for people with more money than sense.
That's the very comment I was going to make.
If it's so bloody important to you, why not wait a few days until the reviews, screenshots, comparison videos and the reaction from the gaming community starts trickling in, then decide? It's not like the game is going to be hard to find (which raises the question of why people pre-order games in the first place, but whatever).
Another difference with the Wii version is you can skip cut scenes with the "+" button. Thank god. The Japanese have this f*cking obsession with forcing you to watch cut scenes.
I will say that despite my rabid hatred for cut scenes, Okami was a beautiful, spiritual, absolutely engrossing game.
Agreed. And I am not doing a single thing on the retarded list. Oh, I will probably pop GTA 3 into my PS3 for a wee bit, but that's about it.
I suppose not, because if you did you know you can create Penisville to your heart's content and share it with your friends, you just cannot upload said creation to a public area.
Have fun in Penisville.
Yes, sonarus, just the other day I had a rather in-depth discussion over Xbox live regarding Mersenne prime numbers.
/sarcasm
OK, I sort of get your point, but in the heat of battle I don't see what is so wrong with a little trash talk and a few unguarded comments on your opponent. If you don't like the salty talk take your game private where you can discuss fine wines and the stock market to your heart's content.
Did you even bother watching the video, coolguy6? Yahtzee elucidates quite clearly why he hates JRPGs. Namely, that they amount to a retarded form of choose you own adventure, where there is very little choosing and a crap load of dialog intense, cut scene/text "adventure." Calling JRPGs "games", in my opinion, is stretching the definition of "game" to the very limit. Any game where I can put the controller down, make a sandwich and grab a drink with plenty of ti...