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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Miyamoto mentions 2 'undisclosed' titles

« on: March 12, 2004, 04:25:27 PM »

Erm, that extra 2 seconds of dramatic tension really didn't make much of a difference to me, sometimes camera angles capturing emotion does have a better effect than actual gameplay.

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General Chat / RE: Interesting Article. Draws strange conclusions.

« on: March 11, 2004, 11:59:29 AM »

It doesn't matter how good the system is, remember turbofx?

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox2 = No Hard Drive?

« on: March 10, 2004, 02:24:01 PM »

At 14k for 40GB, don't count on much killer, I read the inquirer too.

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General Gaming / RE: Xbox2 = No Hard Drive?

« on: March 08, 2004, 11:39:10 AM »

Flash memory is faster anyway, and by the time xbox2 comes out, a 4GB flash module will be around 30 dollars, so it isn't that big of a deal.  The whole HDD thing on xbox is far more detailed than just a HDD.  It was a full scale annihilation of the piracy prevention, dumping of the ROM, and the hard drives being used are almost always 120GB+, the origonal is tossed in the garbage.

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TalkBack / RE: Editorial: Don't Leave Me Now

« on: March 08, 2004, 11:35:09 AM »

I'm sorry, but thats how things work.  You court the company.  How the hell do you think xbox got into the industry?  It certaintly wasn't with hype, they went after the developers, and it worked.  They paid, promised, whatever it took to ensure that they wouldn't fall flat on their face. Nintendo hasn't done that, they have only done enough to get off on this generation, and to some extent I agree with johnny on that, Nintendo can't completely control the mature aspect, but anyone who argues they can't do atleast a little more is insane.  

Nintendo Power is now completely devoid of intelligence, there is nothing intelligent written in it, and all game scores are obsurdly high.  When was the last time they hyped ED?  Never, oh yeah forgot about that.

If we were a big developer, we would do what every sane business company does, put the product where it will suceed, then later we could worry about who we liked.  This is business, this isn't fanboy world.

Canuck, why would you make such a blatently stereotypical comment in a place that it is guarenteed to offend.  It's like coming to a reading group and saying that because they prefer an author they are pompous stuck ups for not reading a lot of other authors.  People prefer certain things, and it's their choice, insulting them for being in a place that is better (say a GAMECUBE FORUM) than say, an xbox forum, is in itself stupid.

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General Gaming / RE:PS2 hard drive / FF XI

« on: March 03, 2004, 11:48:41 AM »

I suggest getting it on PC.  1) the hard drive is useless, other than for FFXI, 2) I already made my point.

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General Gaming / RE:DDR for a beginner.

« on: March 02, 2004, 03:10:55 PM »

PS2 versions still are superior in that they have the larger selection, service packs or not.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: March 01, 2004, 02:10:44 PM »

Perhaps you are talking about your sister?

On another note, god do I need a spell checker.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: March 01, 2004, 10:04:33 AM »

I guess some of my teachers are different.  It really comes down to what do you consider open minded, willing to listen to different ideas, or willing to accept those ides.  Most adults are more of the first and less of the last.  To me, the first and a very very small ammount of the last is open minded, but full out the second isn't being open minded, it's having no mind.

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 29, 2004, 02:04:16 PM »

I guess I don't see much of a difference between the AF crowd and most of the other crowds.  Most of them are ideoligically the same, they think that they need to be different and that most of everyone else is odd.

There are a lot of people who are more open minded, but I honestly know very few that aren't adults.  (A good deal of my friends are teachers/college guys, probably explains why I think that.)

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General Gaming / RE:Fight Club

« on: February 29, 2004, 06:25:18 AM »

A video game about a movie about a book that was butchered a little is butchered even more, what a great idea!

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General Chat / RE:Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 28, 2004, 05:51:57 AM »

Pedophilic beastiality perhaps?

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General Gaming / RE: Xbox live???

« on: February 27, 2004, 04:49:37 PM »

The point is that you are using about a tenth of your bandwith, you could use the lowest available speed for DSL and never know the difference, as most downloading sites wont have much of a difference in upload speeds.

When you are gaming online you quickly learn why dial up sucks, and why broadband is just so great.

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General Chat / RE: Anti-Aliasing?

« on: February 27, 2004, 04:42:39 PM »

The greedy crap is what killed OpenGL as being the number one API for graphics.  Had it been more freely available perhaps directx wouldn't even be around anymore.

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General Chat / RE: Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 27, 2004, 04:39:13 PM »

Ya mouse, tell them about your fettish for 12 year olds again

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 25, 2004, 02:14:16 PM »

Don't worry, I didn't think you were.  My xfire name is wangfoo if anyone cares.

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 25, 2004, 09:59:02 AM »

It's a buddy list for PC games.  Do I want a list of eveyr single person playing on an PC game?  No, if I did I would get gamespy, which is basically a much larger version of xfire.  Gamespy offers nearly everything xbox live does, if thats your thing, go ahead for it.

I personally don't use it, instead the ingame server lists, or xfire.

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General Chat / RE: Nintendo has started to study customer responses on the Internet!

« on: February 24, 2004, 03:30:54 PM »

Denis was on here not more than a month or two ago, atleast that was the last time mouse told me he saw him.  Obviously he will read a little, not a lot, and obviously most of that is nothing really too much to think about.  Occasionally there is probablly something that he might atleast give a second look, but then again, I'm neither a developer, nor Denis.

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 24, 2004, 03:25:23 PM »

Yes, you can.  

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General Chat / RE: Emergence of Social Classes

« on: February 23, 2004, 04:28:42 PM »

I'm a good kid, I just got OSS for knowing too many console commands. heh.  

On the whole school uniform crap, it doesn't really make much of a difference to me, it's just funny for teachers to oggle a STFU shirt and never know what it means.

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General Chat / RE:Anti-Aliasing?

« on: February 23, 2004, 04:22:29 PM »

Depends on how the AA is used.  There are a lot of times it makes zilch difference, but then again it can make a difference.  But to answer your question, it can make games look better, but the skill with which the tool is used determines how well it works, not the other way around.

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 22, 2004, 04:39:14 PM »

So what are your names on D2?  Mine would be *censored for the younger crowd* c0ksm0k3er  

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 22, 2004, 12:54:55 PM »

What is this crap about low lag?  Know what my ping in 3/4 of the games I play is around? It is  around 15ms.

Lag is absolutely nothing in pc games.

Now lets get down to other things.  How many games on xbox have mods freely available, as well as other home made levels?  How many games have patches to fix glitches that may be in the multiplayer?  Don't lay the line that there are no glitches, there are plenty, it's the nature of creating games.

Another thing, have you never been in a game where the guy keeps team killing everyone?  That's the beauty of rcon stuff, you can control to a great extent the play of a lot of gamers.  Of course in a game like diablo 2, there is some lag, especially when there are tons of things being casted, but for christ sake, the game has been out so long people have already documented how fast you can cast before it does no damage, at this point it is usually a nonfactor.

Low ping, is again, relative.  It's relative to where the server is located.  Your not going to have a 30 ping in a server on the other side of the US.  It will be more like 80ms, or higher.  If low ping means no dial up, what is so different from a decent online server?  Most have autokicks for people over pings of 350, and if they are lagging so bad, it's easy enough to kick.  

What is it with gotham though?  Name your five favorite games on Live!, would be nice to see what games you like.  Also, please name what other games you play on PC.

Are PC games limited in some genres, probablly so, but it has more to do with the control set up of a PC.  A PC is designed (atleast keyboard anyway) can handle more complex games, and has more freedom for the user, which explains why you see more RTS, and a lot of real time RPGs on PC.  

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General Gaming / RE:Xbox live???

« on: February 20, 2004, 03:49:27 PM »

...yet you still don't understand the concept of xbox live using peer to peer connection for most of the games, thus negating most of the "expensive online servers"

Honestly though, I would like you to try something out, it's called an article.  For instance a, an, the.  You are acting like a newbie.  

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General Gaming / RE: Xbox live???

« on: February 20, 2004, 10:05:05 AM »

Kid, listen to me, read what I said.  I said it was my choice to pay that much.  I could very easily give up paying and I could still play, this is a choice for me.

Do I know how much it costs to maintane servers?  Obviously a lot more than you do.  Having run two servers for my own use for about a year now, I am very familiar with the amount of bandwith required to maintane about 30 people playing a game with a decent frame rate.  

The funny thing about the live servers you keep raving about is that for more than a few of the games its running p2p, the only thing connecting the servers is the user interface.  Try it sometime.  But that wasn't my point.  My point is that if I am going to have to pay for a service straight out, and still have to pay for the games that truely require servers (PSO) I don't feel like playing.

One more thing, have you ever even heard of Punkbuster?  There are so few cheaters its not even funny.  Even if there were having rcon (remote console) I can kick whoever I feel is cheating, or ban them if they persist.  Is it a hassle?  Not really, in fact I find humorous to kick people constantly. How about closed battle.net?  There is some hacking that gets through, there is in reality next to nothing.

BTW,

www.teamspeak.org www.ventrilo.com, VoIP.  Works fine for me, or is the fact that it is seperate and far more advanced a turn off for you?

One more thing,  How am I pathetic?  I have been playing online games longer than you have known what online means?  How does this work?