Woe Is You said:
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I did not. I said that it's a universal high score that takes all the games you play on the platform into account. That I said is the innovative part. No system had really done that before.
still copying an idea someone else had
cleverlymadeup said:
yeah weekly updates to the store is never
I said "seldomly". And I admit I forgot the word "worthwhile". If you check the stuff Japan and the US gets, the Europeans get the shortest end of the stick by far. Unless you're really that into Pixeljunk wallpapers and Spiderman trailers.
can't take it back now, you're just trying to justify someone proving you wrong
But can't anymore. By the way, has the BC games list been updated recently?
i don't really pay attention to it, hey has the 360 one been updated? oh yeah they aren't anymore
metal gear solid 4 and uncharted. metal gear alone, if possible to directly copy would be 10 dvds
I'm not seeing anything that impressive in Uncharted techwise. It's colorful, bright and pretty, yes. Some of that visual glory is marred by amazing amounts screen tearing and lack of AA, though. I'm sure Epic could do that if they weren't so obsessed with their idea that realism means brown.
As for MGS4, the game's split nicely into acts (with install breaks... surely you can switch a disc during that time) and takes around 33GB according to news outlets. There's a lot more that goes into porting of course, but it doesn't sound like an impossibility techwise. And no, it wouldn't be near 10 dvds (where'd you pull such a figure from anyway?).
ummm mgs4 takes a full 50 gig dual layer dvd
oh and for news sources, how about Kojima himself?
http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/2008/02/000150.html
yes there is a few installs during the game, however the 10 dvd figure comes this way
1 not all 360s have hard drives
2 microsoft doesn't allow games for hard drive only games
3 they can't do any hard drive install
4 they must have all the textures and such on the disc and not compressed like you can if you have a hard drive
5 even if you could do hard drive only it would still be at least 6 discs
6 it would be a totally gimped version
as for uncharted there are a lot of other small things that the game does that makes it look and act better, i never noticed an over abundance of brown playing thru it. also the colours do happen to go with tombs and the inca and such, who happened to like to use clay and things that were brownish in colour
at least you can install linux and without ruining your console, you can no longer use live if you mod your 360
And the OS you get is crippled and next to useless. All the people I know that have it installed rarely use it for other than to showcase how it plays their favourite SNES games.
yes and they are still developing stuff for it, at least it's not questionably legal like modding the 360 is
Yes, they've been pretty cocky recently (with all the rumours swirling around their own Wiimote copy, perhaps it's better not to claim the Wii is just a fad), but nothing really tops the cockiness of Sony ridiculing MS's way of handling BC and then going that path themselves. Pot, kettle, black?
you do know that m$ was saying 100% backwards compatibility and then totally removed any reference to it, the xbox live staff were forbidden to even mention it and if a person did we were told the change the subject asap
at least their exclusives are just that, most 360 exclusives appear on the pc 6 months later
Okay, there are plenty of reasons not to like the 360 (RRODs on pre-Falcon boxes, noise) but this reason is a bit silly.
well why spend $400 on something that has a high rate of failure to play one or two games that will appear on the pc a couple months later? that's not very smart
Both are Microsoft platforms. That being said, a lot of people I've noticed using this excuse are the same people saying that PC gaming sucks, because it costs and it's not just pop the disc in and play. So if you happen to be one of those people, you might as well consider those games 360 exclusives.
ummm the pc isn't their platform, apple, linux, unix and a few others are all considered a pc, windows is their platform
I also have to note that games like Gears of War and Viva Piñata aren't designed for the PC in mind and it really shows when you try to play them there. I'd rather play them on the platform they were designed for. That being said, PC is my gaming platform choice, since I still haven't gotten any Witchers or 4X games for the console. KotOR was close, Mass Effect I felt was a step back.
ummmm you do realize they have coding kits for doing cross development with the 360 and the pc right? so it's very easy to move it over, they have to change a couple ppc specific things
Oh, and I forgot another pet peeve with the PS3 that's pretty recent: mandatory HD installs. That's actually a step back from the Atari 2600 days.
actually it's not, see loading stuff onto the hard drive decreases load times. hard drives have a lot higher read/write speed than a disc does, especially when you have a large, up to 50 gig, disc.
i showed my friend dmc4 on my ps3, he saw it start to load and then his jaw dropped once it loaded in the seconds it takes
EDIT:fixed a spelling error
