I've read a lot about the power supplies overheating and causing the system to shut down. I wouldn't know because I've not got the system and the date we've been given is 'Feb 06'!!!!Sophia wrote:The failure rate on these things is absurd.
A few 360's that did overheat were placed on carpet, but any person with an ounce of sense knows not to place anything electrical that generates heat (especially those with air vents to get rid of it) on carpet.cowsmanaut wrote:well, the one here has not overheated yet.. been played a little bit.. so who knows.. perhaps these other people put it in someplace here it was enclosed (to hide the wires or whatever.. being encased as such caused the heat to collect and boom.. over heat. Where as this one is in the open air so to speak.. plus the place is a bit chilly.
anyway.. Nintendo.. the 2 button garage door opener is not impressing me yet.. I'll wait to see it in action.. but their decision to NOT support HD seriously irks me.. HD Tv's are coming down in price and there are more and more shows adopting the new format.. it's gradual.. but it's moving.. there is no reason why it won't eventually take off.. I think they are painting themselves into a corner..
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) and they removed it completely for the N64, whilst the SNES supports it. They don't seem to be particularly wise in choosing output formats particularly well (the colour bleed on the N64 is appauling). However they seem to have an excuse this time round, saying that not including HD support will reduce the cost of the console. Not sure how true that is seeing as that's the excuse they gave on the N64 too... 
*sigh* morons... Hmm... I'm not sure if this is a shame or not. I guess it depends on what you mean. I mean, to be honest, I blame the "hardcore gamers" for the stagnation in the industry. They want the biggest, baddest, best FPS, with groundbreaking revolutionary 3D graphics that require a $400 card (but no major gameplay innovations mind you!) so they can play online for 9 hours a day and show off their 1337 sk1llZ. They want an RPG that takes 80 hours to complete, not counting the subquests, becuase when you spend 15 hours straight leveling up to level 99 before you even enter the first dungeon, you tend to blow through the game pretty quick-- oh yeah, and this one needs cutting-edge visuals too.PadTheMad wrote:Casual gamers, as so many UK gamers seem to be (such a shame really)
I kind of liked the original UT, too, though it seemed entirely too based on multiplayer. The bots were stupid as dirt, and forget about online-- how do you compete with the ones who play it to death and then some?ParuNexus wrote:metroid prime on GC GooD course i'll follow metroid forever...
Jedi Kight serries PC only good!
original Unreal Tournament PC GOOD!
) is one of those for which I still have the box here. There was one I played which was just a tech demo where they were trying to prove they could do something like doom but better. This thing had dynamic lighting and such.. was kind of cool. If doom had been made before DM and Dm had been initially developed on the Amiga.. we may have had more movement to that background.. but then again.. maybe not. Anyway, had to point out that the The amiga was leaps and bounds ahead of PC for a long time.. in fact people were still doing ports of things that came out on PC and everone was saying oooooh.. ahhhh.. and "Amiga can't do that" and someone proves them wrong. For years after Amiga stops being developed. I did 3D on my Amiga 3000 with a program now only for PC called Cinema 4D. pushing and pulling polygons in real time. I head they even did a Quake port for the Amiga 4000 and 1200. Needed AGA to run. I find this amusing because you hit the nail on the head but then you want a 360 anyway.PadTheMad wrote:I just want a game that costs me £20, that I can perhaps spend a couple of hours on and enjoy it. I don't want to sit for hours in front of a game I've played before because the developers just wanted more money and made a half-arsed update or a blatant rip-off. It's a shame that more developers can't see this and instead have become money-hungry corporate machines. Perhaps that's what they have to do to stay in business. I just don't know.
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Now if only I could get my hands on a damn 360!
) so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. Game enjoyment is subjective anyway, so I could be the distant minority, and everything's peachy in the world of games.
) but things like Mario Kart DS.. new game.. old fame. Some new elements added.. just enough to spice it back up a bit. All the old traks you know and love and online play through wifi.. I'm sorry but that is just wicked. I can play with people around the world. An online gamer community based on handhelds. I can see something like that growing. not to mention they will have the same options for metroid.. I think that's just cool. I just want it because I'm a boy and a gadget freak. If something new and shiny appears I immediately want it but once the novelty wares off it'll just sit gathering dust. That's the same mistake I made with the PSP - I bought it the day it came out in the UK and I played on it for about a week or two and not really touched it since. There was only one game that really caught my eye with the PSP and that was Lumines, another example of a simple but fun to pick up and play game. All the other PSP launch titles were essentially, toned down PS2 games anyway. I'd rather listen to music or write on the train home and when I'm in the flat I'd rather play on a big TV with surround sound as opposed to a small screen with dodgy speakers. Now I've had chance to reflect, I'd rather spend the money on a new PC so I can go about creating some games I want to play!Sophia wrote:I find this amusing because you hit the nail on the head but then you want a 360 anyway.
What's coming out for it? Is there anything new, original- is there anything that screams "gotta have it"? There wasn't a single title, for me. It was all FPS this, racing that, sports this, and more and more towards the "hardcore" direction.
Just wondering if they will have stretching exercises before each game? or big warnings to move the coffee table and chairs to a safe distance?
I'm neither a boy nor a gadget freak, but I can understand the reasoning.PadTheMad wrote:I just want it because I'm a boy and a gadget freak. If something new and shiny appears I immediately want it but once the novelty wares off it'll just sit gathering dust...I'd rather spend the money on a new PC so I can go about creating some games I want to play!
I hope you didn't think I meant that as a "scathing indictment" of you or anyone else here, or anything, because I didn't. I was just citing a general trend that I saw.ParuNexus wrote:So yes I do fit some of that Glamer and hardcore gamer but I'm also not completely the Dark side either. So i play a few of these "crapy games" but given the # of them out there here i am playing sometihng somewhat older now thats not your typical FPS, rpg fanatic or whatever.
oh not at all I figure if notihng else anyone hanging around playing DM mroe then makes up for like a "modern harcore badass gamer".Sophia wrote: I hope you didn't think I meant that as a "scathing indictment" of you or anyone else here, or anything, because I didn't. I was just citing a general trend that I saw.
First of all, if your primary purpose in playing games is to have fun, then you can't be that close to the dark side. There are people who treat them as more of a competitive sport than a leisure pursuit-- look at "gaming leagues" that are popping up and such. To me this feels like the entirely wrong mentality, but that's just me.
Well I'm more of a programmer but an unqualified one at the moment. I'm studying Computer Games Development at university so as you can imagine we have a lot of discussions similar to this one. We're mainly being taught 3D programming in DirectX and custom game engines. Can't help feeling I'm on the wrong course sometimes - I'd rather design the games than bloody make them - all that mathsSophia wrote:Saying the words "game creation" gets my interest, though. What kind of games do you like to make? Are you more of a programmer, or an artist, or what? I have tried making a couple simple games; I am pretty good with C/C++ but I don't know anything about 3D.
EVIL EVIL EVILSophia wrote:I enjoy the whole process of game design and such... I can design a twisted dungeon, anyway, you know that firsthand.
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