...squeezed into 256MB of memory. Gotta cut the steak into little pieces and chew quickly I guess.
I know huh, it's sad that PS3 has nothing like it :D It will blow away Heavy Rain pretty easy an RPG.
I guess Heavy Rain will set new standards for voyeuristic female bathroom pampering and poor dubbing :)
I think they meant the Geth. But man, the invasion of the Reaper fleet is gonna be one awesome plot to play through. This is one serious game.
Actually Naughtydog has been on record saying that their cinematics are done prerendered, that is they are video files saved in 1080p to look like they're actually realtime. They did that because of concerns over level loading and texture popin.
You can still see quite a lot of it while playing, plus the models you play as are much lower quality than the ones used for the cinemas.
Sad but true :\
The Galaxy Map of the original Mass Effect is basically like the World Map of any common RPG. Traveling to another system results in a quick cg movie of the Normandy going through a Mass Relay and then another cg movie of it going FTL on course to the selected destination. The elevator scenes would be placed between sections of the current map, but not all environments had them. The entire map on any of the uncharted planets would be loaded when you land in the Mako, and would also load when ...
Uncharted will be old news when Mass Effect 2 comes out, so they're not competing for GotY in the same year. UC2 might get GotY this year, Mass Effect 2 definitely will be going for the top spot next year.
The story and cinematic scenes in Mass Effect don't get in the way. You can make choices as to how the conversation progresses and decisions that affect side quests as well as the main plot.
Mass Effect is the only truly next gen game I've come across. It's so ambitious in its every effort and resulted in one huge and satisfying RPG, with excellent 3rdPS action.
It's a good thing to be hearing some news about this game, I've been really looking forward to seeing how it's coming together finally after so long. Another AAA Xbox 360 jRPG!
Uh...I need to buy an Elite soon then :) it's definitely a good time to get one.
Gonna need one if you're planning on moving up from that old PS3 :)
Bluray's only bonus is convenience. Space on one disc intead of 4. It doesn't make a game look better nor does it make a game perform better. Truth be told optical drives and compact disc media are old and obsolete technologies. But because of their being an inexpensive way of the digital distribution of games music and movies, discs have been able to survive 20+ years.
Lame.
Disagree.
There are actually very few games on either console that run in 1080p. Show me a copy of MGS4 that does otherwise...
It's funny that you fanboys continuously nag on about Halo being the only game on Xbox or Xbox 360.
There have been 2 on Xbox, 3 on 360. And then there's Halo Reach, which is WIP. So you really can't claim that Halo is IT, it's just barely a negligible percent of the total library of games on both consoles.
They invented the HD gaming console. In 2005. And successfully launched the premiere console online gaming service, which they have fully backed for 2 generations of video game consoles.
Seriously, try to argue with that statement. You'll look delightfully foolish and it would very well entertain me :D
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where did i say 2 "consoles"? they backed XBOX LIVE for those two gens, that's what i said. and even still, for cutting off xbox that does...
ya i know, the disagrees were fanboys seething with jealousy that i got that one in before they did xD
Half of Women Would Bang Gamers
Better heading, since basically it's the other half :D
You're so right Obama...gosh get over yourself.
It's very technically possible on Xbox 360. But breaking it down to yes or no whether it'll ever be ON the 360, the answer is no. But it's more than capable of handling it.
Especially considering the leap in performance when going from working on the RSX to working on the Xenos...
Of course DVD is old! But so is disc technology in general, it's done! Bluray is just the 3rd major revision in a series of evolutions from the original compact disc of the 80's. It's just space, nothing more. It went from 700MB to 4.7GB to 25GB per layer/side. It would've been nice of Microsoft to have included bluray or hd dvd support built into 360.
But it wasn't meant to be, Microsoft had their own plans for Xbox and stood by them. My gut tells me that if I'm still satisfied ...