@SmokeyMcBear
ive never understood all the PS3 fanboys obsession with the snow in Uncharted 2? its nothing we havent seen a million times before. its just the regular footprint texture left where your feet touch the ground, and a bit of basic 3D snow gets shuffled around on your feet, then promptly disappears. the actual snow on the ground doesnt deform or move out of the way, so im really struggling to understand why people think its so revolutionary?
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i still laugh at the 'the devs are lazy' reasoning by PS3 fanboys.
developers are not 'lazy' just because they dont spend far more time learning how to use every drop of the PS3s power than they do on the 360. if there are 2 companies that youre working for, and one of them says 'just work like you usually do', and the second one says 'i want you to forget half of what youve learned already, and start programming using only your left hand and you c...
100% incorrect.
if the 360 cant do HD 3D, how do you explain games like Crysis 2 being released in HD 3D on the 360? it really doesnt matter what BS you try and tell us all, the fact is that games are coming out in HD and 3D for the 360, so they prove you 100% wrong.
Microsoft are taking the SMART approach to 3D. they know very well that their console can do 3D, but they dont want to be the ones looking like idiots by championing 3D only for it to die a swift...
i agree.
never used to like them in their emo days, couldnt stand their music. 'The Black Parade' is a brilliant album though, and this new one is getting absolutely rave reviews/previews from some pretty respectable sites. the first and ONLY song we've heard from it - noone has heard the song that GT5 is using remember - is good ('Na Na Na': http://www.youtube.com/watc... ), so i s...
@Information Minister: "You might want to know then, that you precious Halo has yet to reach (no pun intended) the 720p barrier. "
actually, if you want to claim that Wipeout HD and GT5 are 1080p, then you have to also admit the fact that Halo Reach is native 720p. While Wipeout and GT always maintain the Vertical resolution required for 1080p, neither of them maintain the Horizontal resolution required for it 100% of the time. in fact GT5 NEVER gets anywhere near i...
if they localised the game instead of releasing it with multiple language tracks on every copy, theyd cut gigs off the size. lets not forget that HD Video and Audio are the biggest space-killers there are.
if they really needed more space they wouldve only put english on the english verson, french on the french version, etc.
"I thought next year's 360 exclusive lineup would give the old box a break."
kinda like how the PS3 exclusive lineup this year gave pretty much everyones PS3 a break.
i still have to laugh at people that think that just because Microsoft hasnt announced games for next year that there arent any lol. Sony announce games 3 years in advance, Microsoft announce them 6-12 months in advance. this has always been how they do it. theyll announce 2-3 big ...
its a great deal, provided that some ISPs get on board with it being unmetered. if my ISP does that, and the NRL is included in the Sports package - although by the sounds of it it wont be :( - ill sign up.
gaden_malak: "I honestly do not see the appeal. "
the appeal is foxtel, cheaper than usual by about $10 a month, and with no extra hardware necessary. whats NOT to like about that if you own a 360 and were considering Foxtel? i see no way you can...
there are only 3 games on the PS3 that have more than 32 players online - Resistance 1 & 2, and MAG. there is one on the 360 - Frontline: Fuels of War - which has 50 players online.
but of coruse you didnt know that, did you? lol. you obviously thought that Xbox Live had some sort of limit on player numbers, when in reality no such thing exists. the reason that most multiplayer titles are limited to 16 players, with the odd 32 player game thrown in here and there, is beca...
why are people comparing Reachs sales to pokemons? Pokemon is on a handheld that has an install base of what, 130 million by now? not to mention that Pokemon is a HUGELY more popular franchise. does halo have its own TV show? movies? pokemon does.
look, as pachter has shown, video game sales analysts are very VERY rarely right. reach was only on sale for 2 weeks and sold more copies than pretty much every PS3 or 360 game has sold in the last 12 months. 3.3 million in 2 weeks ...
they didnt mention that the dashboard *finally* renders in HD because the dashboard has always been HD lol.
its been 720p natively since day 1.
im in the beta and i love the new dashboard. much quicker and more professional looking.
i said 60 was too many when R2 came out, and i still believe it. really, anything over 32 players is too much IMO, and even thats pushing it.
to handle 32 players, levels haev to be BIG. when levels are big, it takes you ages to traverse them, and sometimes this just plain takes out the fun.
personally i much prefer the small 4-on-4 and 5-on-5 style in Gears and Gears 2. it forces teamwork, and its much more tense. your lives last a lot longer too. MW2 is pr...
@Fred-G-Sanford: "Killzone 2 has the worst controls/controller lag I have ever seen in a modern FPS. It's beyond laughable.
The only people that deny that fact are blind fanboys (and the developers, sadly)."
the thing is, even the developers admitted that there was ~200ms of input lag - the fanboys just wouldnt admit it, despite the developers they love saying its there.
i LOVED killzone on the PS2. it had the 'weighty'...
i thoroughly enjoyed sonic rush too - but Sonic 4 isnt like Sonic Rush. its a poor attempt at the a sequel to Sonic 3/Sonic & Knuckles.
the physics are terrible, the animations are lousy, and the sense of speed isnt there.
the only reason people say its like Rush is because of the 'target' double jump. apart from that its got nothing in common with Rush.
where did i say it makes it a better game?
i was just pointing out how hilarious it is that the PS3 brigade doubted Reach's selling ability, when its now 100% certain that it will outsell even the highest selling PS3 game within 2 months of release.
you dont find that funny?
the windows phone 7 comes out here in australia in 6 days, and im seriously contemplating buying one. got an iphone at the moment, which does what i want/need, but the new OS on the windows phone just looks fantastic. having xbox live on there is something that is really leaning me towards buying one, as i could check who is online on my phone quickly and easily while im watching tv without having to turn the xbox on. hopefully it also lets you browse the marketplace and add downloads to your...
and to think some of the more PS3 biased people thought Reach would be lucky to crack 2-3 million sales this year lol.
by the end of october it will have sold more than the highest selling PS3 game in history, which is a multiplatform game lol.
i completely agree with this review after playing the game.
it just misses the mark in basically every way. sonic doesnt feel 'connected' to the level, he just slides around everywhere. in the time his animation takes 1 step, hes moved 5m+ on the level. ive had numerous times where ive stopped and had sonic standing at a 45 degree angle and not fallen backwards too, its laughable.
swing and a miss IMO. i just dont understand how every other site is gi...
well i bought it last night, and im not impressed.
it feels like a bad fan-made flash game. the physics are terrible, the animations are terrible - sonic slides about 5m in-game on a single step, and the camera view is way too close, you can barely see in front of you at all.
what i find most baffling though is how sites like IGN reviewed this and said its a worthy sequel.
you wouldve hated it back when i was a kid and all youd know about a game is 'its coming out on this date for this console', and thats about it until it actually came out.
i kinda miss those days to be honest. now everyones complaining about every little thing for months and even years before a game gets released.