Poll: Open Pandora. The New Handheld!

[DazZ.]

I was more commenting on the quality then what they were actually programed on

Were you?

You won't have any problem playing Open Source games. There are many of those too.

you mean those crappy flash games that make newgrounds look like a model of gaming quality

Doesn't look like it.

Even so open source games are usually much higher quality, seeing as any bugs in them can get fixed by the community. Which means the end product is much, much more polished than anything a company will produce. They'll just give up on something once it stops making them money, open source games will get bug fixes and updates for as long as people play them.

 

[DazZ.]

show me a game that beats a triple a title, show me one

Hurray for subjectiveness.
Spelunky will do for now, the only one I'm currently playing.

What about games that were triple A titles then became open source? Like Quake.

Edit: Penumbra is also the best horror game I have ever played.

 

[DazZ.]

Quake is not up to the quality of modern games sorry, I would not consider it the equal of halflife 2, unreal tournament 3, or hell halo.

You're saying Quake 3 doesn't hold up to UT3?
I'm not going to argue your opinions, because in mine you're clearly wrong. I would take Quake 3 over any UT or Halo.

You didn't even mention Penumbra.

Edit: Also I know Spelunky is off to XBLA, improving the graphics only not adding the multiplayer mods/extra levels the community has.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Looks like a great device for the pirate on the go.

 

[DazZ.]

Look at the graphics look at the game modes look at what it has.

Gameplay > graphics. Every time. I'm playing a game, not watching a movie. Also if you want more gamemodes you want open source, there will be hundreds compared to whatever a company can think up at launch.

they are simpler games

No, they are most certainly not. If anything they are more complex because they don't have to be made for the masses and simplify everything.

The rest of your post is baseless assumption and I haven't even mentioned the handheld.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Looks pretty decent, nice spec and battery life for a handheld, great potential for gaming due to emulators even if there's bugger all chance of any decent new games coming out on it.

But then there's the price...330euros, heh. Pass.

 

[DazZ.]

this thread is about the handheld. I looked at the game it had nothing, im sorry your obsessed and dream yourself to sleep with open source, but ive played freeware and opensource games but they are not as good or as fun. Sorry I want quality in my games, especially shooters. so please if its so great show me a game that beats the pants off of Half-life 2 that is open source?

Your opinion of a good game is graphics. There is no point in arguing what games you find better as I don't value your opinion.

Also I've mentioned already I'm only playing 1 open source game at the moment. If that's obsessed you've got some problems with a lot of things you do.

 

[DazZ.]

I am trying to get you to defend your OPINIONS!!! sorry your unable to have a debate, but I know nothing about you and you declaring opensource is better then none open source is a rather bold statement that you gave no evidence to. You clearly are young person who doesn't know how to do research, debate or provide evidence. Ive clearly won this debate as you have yet to actually do anything besides put your fingers in your ears and chant loudly that opensource is better because you say so. When you mature enough to prove opensource is better in every way, ill reconsider my fact that your not to mature.

I love the way you've obviously got very ranty and upset about this conversation. If "winning" this is important to you go ahead, make yourself feel better. I don't feel the need to defend my opinions, and have stated why not, you clearly need reassurance that your opinions are better than another's so I feel it's best that you have your victory.

You're in no position to question others maturity however.

 

[DeaconSawyer]

While I am both a PC gamer and a Linux user, I would say that this system has potential, however, as it is, it isn't worth it.

I like the potential it has as a tool, and I like the idea of a handheld pc game type of thing. However, I use windows when I game. Why? Because I like Steam. It gives me good games, that I pay for, and that are new. etc. etc.

So as this is, where to use it you would be essentially forced to steal, and where it falls short as a pocket pc; no it is not worth much of anything, let alone that much money. There are some good ideas there, but I'd rather that linux users like myself not be known as pirates because of things like this. Also I would rather play new games on a legit DS, or use a PPC/netbook.

To be honest this strikes me as yet another case of overzealous linux users feeling the need to install it on EVERYTHING. Like I said, I love linux and use it but sometimes it can really go too far.

LRR did something on this actually.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/1726-Installation-Anxiety-2010

So did xkcd.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Hmm, the power to do great good AND great evil...

It seems to be made for emulation, which, of course, isn't illegal as long as you own the console and games you're emulating. But why would you emulate something you could just play on the original platform?

Only thing it would be good for, is playing your PSOne and N64 games on the go.

But everyone knows you eventually end up in the deep end and start emulating stuff you don't legally own.

 

[BlackWidower]

One problem, Where/what is its library? A console is no good if no one programs for it. i would have thought they would have some titles listed on their site.

It's open source.

I can almost guarantee it will have more games on it than any other handheld.

I'd absolutely love one, but at a cheaper price because I don't need to start spending even more of my non existent money into games. Had I disposable income I'd be all over this.

And how many quality games? Chances are you'll be filtering through so much crap just to find anything worth playing, seems like to much hassle for 330 euros or whatever it is.

That goes with any console. What are you talking about? I have 36 DS games and most of them are shit.

 

[faselei]

Trust... this is why Windows gets away with a monopoly position whilst being, frankly, stone age compared to Mac and Linux; why morons wanted a DECADE old OS on their netbooks as opposed to a fast, zippy, and wonderful Ubuntu specifically designed to make best use of limited resources; why PCs are dying as a gaming platform; why people pay £300 for office when open office and other equivalents are about as good for £30 or even free...

You are all morons. You don't deserve nice things.

This is the spiritual successor to GPX32 isn't it? Hopefully it will do well, this will be a great gizmo for open source games like OpenTTD and retro-emulation. Bit expensive though :/

 

[Twilight_guy]

Hum, open source handheld. Interesting. I wonder if anyone will create some open source games for it.

 

[PurpleSky]

i like how it looks..... thats it.... never been a fan of handheld games except for tetris anyway