it is no difference. Easy goals = bronze while harder goals = platinum. This is no difference with Live. Easy goals can be 5 or 10 points. Harder ones are 15-25. And insane ones are 30-50.
I dunno. I guess on PSN if you get all platinums your in a secret club or something.
My opinion is that they are all the same. But I can see it becoming boring. Imagine a year from now when everyone has a ton of these trophies in their profiles. Boring. I really like how Live has...
your forgetting that we get "trophies" too. Each achievement is special icon that is relative to the accomplished goal.
I'd rather have a ton of sweet icons vs a pile of metal.
When you open up someone's profile and look at their accomplishments, on PSN you'll see a bunch of the same trophies just a different color. On Live they are varied and not tired. The last 4-5 also get displayed directly on your profile so other players get a quick glance at what you...
Mario Kart Wii has it. If you have a Mario Galaxy Save... you can unlock a character.
This is nothing new, but it is neat.
Kinda like Legends of Zelda: Season and Ages game for gameboy. If you beat one before the other, you start off with a special item that will change gameplay in the next game. It added good replay value as you had to beat both games twice to really beat it.
Thats not really all that bad. You can buy a Core 2 Duo & Motherboard combo for cheap (Under $99). You'll also need DDR2 Ram... but that is cheap. I think 2gb of DDR2 ram is like $30. You may also need a new case if you have a Dell or something.
You can reuse the graphics, HDD, DVD, etc.
So for maybe $150-$200 you can get a new start. Once you get it up you can replace one at a time, ending with a newer faster CPU in a year.
I bought my wife a budget Laptop at Bestbuy for like $350 last year. It has pretty nice specs but with Vista... it was almost useless. She couldn't even play MP3's without the sound cutting in and out.
I formatted and tossed XP on it. Drivers were a big issue, especially the HD Audio, but I managed to get it eventually using 3rd party drivers and such.
Now it runs like a champ. Audio is smooth even with doing other things.
They're not disagreeing with him, they're giving him negative feedback; as to say... "No, your old as hell PC probably can't run Halo"
I think every true gamer wants their favorite games remade and some don't.
Most remakes ruin the game. I don't think a remake will ever match what once was. I think they should simply try to update the character models within the games themselves.... much like the classic Doom and Quake have had upgrades.
Reworking FF7 with todays graphics would be enormous. I just don't think they could really remake it while preserving everything in the original.
I me...
this is exactly what MS wants. They don't want you to know everything. Everyone is getting so excited about what games MS has up their sleeves.
Thats like waking up christmas morning and already knowing every present you got before you open them. Kinda ruins the surprise.
I liked it better back in the day when games were just released at the store without any hype. Not watching, "The complete Walkthrough + All secrets" video on youtube before the game eve...
They wait for the patents to make as much money as they can before suing for their cut of it.
If you sue immediately... when they have only sold a few thousand... the percentage cut is small. IF you wait until the very end when millions were sold... now you have a nice chunk of money.
Basically they are suing because "that money was generated off our profit and should be ours".
I think there is a 7 year limit to sue.
They say free because there isn't any hardware to buy on the client side. Basically they have servers setup running virtual environments (multiple concurrent OS's running simultaneously) each able to play games.
So what you would do is remote desktop into this virtual OS and run the game from there. The local controls are sent to the server, which streams back the real time video of the game output.
So basically the hardware is all at a central location. The software...
It upconverts with any cable.
Also the fall update that is mentioned was a previous fall update. Basically means that all 360's have this feature. Upconverting was added in a long time ago.
All 360's upscale with the normal DVD drive and using either the Component cables or HDMI.
Component and HDMI cables both provide the exact same image. HDMI is basically an evolved cable that includes all 5 inputs (blue, red, green, left audio channel, right audio channel).
This is not a new feature.
Having official support for homebrew would be awesome. But Nintendo won't go that route. They'll suck the info out of him, patch the hole, and kill him.
Nintendo doesn't mess around
I thought I read about a way around that...
can't you use a US proxy service to get a US ip address for your xbox... then when you connect to live, you actually connect through the US proxy.
I read an article about how to do that a few months ago. Supposedly Live only looks at your IP address to determine what features are available to you.
Connecting your PC to your TV is not only a difficult task, but also impossible for some.
Not all TV's have VGA or DVI inputs... just like most PC's don't have compatible outputs to a TV.
If you DO happen to have compatible ports on both the TV and PC.. you also have to manage to get a cable between the two. If your PC is RIGHT next to the TV then your fine... but in most cases this won't work either. And VGA/DVI/HDMI cable is expensive when you start looking at dis...
Looks like a sweet game. RPG's are great ways to evolve characters.
wtf are you rambling about. This is completely off topic and makes no sense.
The 360 already pleases the hardcore gamer. The only reason why the 360 is introducing family games and mii-like avatars is to appeal to casual gamers too. Remember the 360 is in the middle price range of all 3 systems. In order to dominate it has to provide the best of everything.
It doesn't mean they are throwing their hands up and not focusing on the hardcore gamers still, no. They're ju...
what good is a bronze/silver/gold medal? it doesn't tell you anything about the game. The current "medals" are diverse and created by the developer. They are graphical representations of the actual goal in mind. It makes it easier to look at your friends past achievements and visually see right off the bat how they game.
Plus I like that the current medals are varied per game. If all we got were bronze/silver/gold medals then that would be a BIG step back.
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This is exactly what your profile already has. Games already have "medals" that are unlocked via getting certain achievements. Each game has their list of medals depicted by their own graphic already. The system in place works great.
Most importantly the rewarded points for gaining those are added up in a nice simple numeric value and displayed right on your profile page along with the last several "medals" you've achieved.
This is exactly what we...
Everyone already has a 360. If sales kept up at that rate... everyone would personally own a 360. Its only common sense to think that sales would have to slow eventually.
All of my friends own a 360. ONE of them also owns a PS3 and he thinks it sucks because there aren't any games for it.
The sad thing is that sales for the 360 are low... and the PS3 isn't doing much better.