In response to Kunark
Kunark wrote:
Yeah, although it seems like a gimmick, it sure is a cool gimick :)

Uh huh. I bet there were people who claimed that the joystick/analogue stick was a gimmick, too. ;)
In response to Danial.Beta
Danial.Beta wrote:
As HL2 showed, you need power for physics. From what I have read, the console versions of HL2 are lacking, to a very large degree, the physics that the PC gamers get.

That's got nothing to do with physics. That's because they took the center of the game out in order to port it. If they took the zombies out of Resident Evil it would be crap, but that doesn't mean zombies are an integeral part of gaming.
In response to DarkView
DarkView wrote:
That's got nothing to do with physics. That's because they took the center of the game out in order to port it. If they took the zombies out of Resident Evil it would be crap, but that doesn't mean zombies are an integeral part of gaming.

They took zombies out of Resident Evil 4 and it was the best resident evil game ever made. :P
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
They took zombies out of Resident Evil 4 and it was the best resident evil game ever made. :P

Yeah but I still consider those guys zombies. My only problem with RE4 is that they didn't even try to make the game scary.
In response to DarkView
DarkView wrote:
Yeah but I still consider those guys zombies. My only problem with RE4 is that they didn't even try to make the game scary.

Are you kidding!? I used to start crying after I'd play that game!! =( Sometimes I'd just shake with my hands over my mouth.
In response to DarkView
RE isn't scary.(Though it is still a rather good game, but it's not scary.) I hear the Silent Hill series is scary as hell though.
In response to CaptFalcon33035
The thing is a lot of hardcore gamers like me, can't stand the thought of being limited or locked out to any kind of game and in the end will end buy buying all 3 systems.

I only recetnly put a Xbox360 Delux package on Layway because of Dead Rising. Otherwise I would have waited longer. And another reason why I even thought about buying it was because the Wii and PS3 were not out yet.

The fact is, you NEED the console to play the games. And since the console is more expensive to rent then the game is. I would say more people are going to BUY the console and rent games. The Nintendo Wii is supposed to be quoted UNDER $250. Being that cheap almost everyone is going to at least try the Nintendo Wii. I rented the Gamecube once and the next month bought one.

I think that is a rather ignorant statement to say people are going to buy a friend a game under the intention that they have or will get an Xbox 360. Because when I buy my friends things, I buy them stuff I know they can use, not assume they can use.

And buying a game under the intention that they would go out and buy a Xbox 360 is just as ignorant. "Hey, here is the new Halo 3, now just go spend $299.00 for the core package yourself!"

I've never met a Xbox user who dosen't like Halo either. But then again most Xbox users I know were never PC gamers. And if they were like me, they would have already known Halo was nothing special at all, considering PC games have already had like 10 odds years of FPS goodness going on.

Don't get me wrong, Halo 3 LOOKS good, but even on a next gen system, looking good isn't that imporant to me. Will I play Halo 3? Most likely. Will I buy it? Most likely not. I only Played Halo for like 3 odds hours. And I only Rent Halo 2 for the weekend and then never played it again.

I am more intrested in Fable 2 and the new Shadowrun for the Xbox 360.
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
DarkView wrote:
Yeah but I still consider those guys zombies. My only problem with RE4 is that they didn't even try to make the game scary.

Are you kidding!? I used to start crying after I'd play that game!! =( Sometimes I'd just shake with my hands over my mouth.

Are you like 10? Seriously Elation I've had bowel movements more scarey then RE4. Then again none of the REs were all that scarey. RE4 was FANTASTIC but on the fear factor it was low.

Last game that scared me was a surprise scare in Doom 3 on that stage where you gotta walk the halls in the pure dark with that guy with the lamp. Something jumped out and scared me. =/
In response to Shades
You want scary? Play the "Robbing the Cradle" mission from Thief: Deadly Shadows.

THE CRADLE OWNS YOU
THERE IS NO ESCAPE
In response to Dark_Shadow_Ninja
Dark_Shadow_Ninja wrote:
I hear the Silent Hill series is scary as hell though.

I've never encountered a game that scared me. However in the process of trying to make the original RE games scary they created this really nice horror movie atmosphere that I felt RE4 lacked entirely.
Just take a look at Wii's line at the E3: http://video.google.com/ videoplay?docid=-3032112009016435066&q

Pretty cool, if I must say. =D
In response to Shades
Shades wrote:
Last game that scared me was a surprise scare in Doom 3 on that stage where you gotta walk the halls in the pure dark with that guy with the lamp. Something jumped out and scared me. =/

I hear you, brother. The moment we got to that last circular area with the exit ladder, the lights went off and something flashed in front of my vision. I freaked and just ran for the ladder leaving John Edwards (the lamp guy) and whatever was down there by themselves.
In response to Danial.Beta
Danial.Beta wrote:
SSJ2GohanDBGT wrote:
The XBox 360 is more powerful than most PCs. By most, I mean if you don't want to spend over $3,000 on your PC - the Xbox 360 is more powerful.

Wrong, my PC, which values at around $700USD is just as powerful in most ways, and more powerful in some. I realize to someone who is buying their PC from Dell, you might have to spend $3,000 to get anything close. The only thing that the X360 has on me is the tri-core processor. Graphically my PC is far more capable, and it functions as a PC as well.

Sorry for the slow reply, I don't check the forums much anymore. =P

I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but the truth is - you're wrong. Until you start showing me some specs, I'm going to take a fair guess that you couldn't afford a multi processor socket motherboard with two dual core processors on it for $700. Let alone their 512 MB GDDR3 video card, the HD interface, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to stop, the horse is dead.

Nintendo didn't invent a single piece of technology on the Wiimote,

No, but either way they are innovative. They are taking the risk to put such a risky, new hardware on the market. As I was showing earlier, the craze this controller has going is utterly amazing. People wouldn't be standing in line six hours to try something that they heard sucks. After the last Wii showing, Nintendo produced more Wiis to sell on launch. Nintendo seems pretty confident, too.

Anyhow, in my opinion innovative <> cramming as much faster stuff in the console as possible while leaving everything else pretty much static. If I had to guess, I'd say Nintendo will do a pretty good job this time around. Especially considering their competition is selling their consoles at two to nearly three times the cost of the Wii.
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
I can build a computer under 700 bucks that could probably out brench the xbox360. Of course you would never know because no one knows what a xbox360 benchs at now do they?
In response to Dark_Shadow_Ninja
Of course we don't, but it doesn't take but a shred of common sense to know that an ordinary PC won't do the job. I could build a PC that could outdo the 360, but $700 wouldn't do the job.
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
Roughly speaking around $1000 australian may get the job done but for an uber system were talking maybe $2000 australia
Thats for a
Core 2 Duo E6400(omg godly)
Good mobo
2 gig of DDR800 ram
7950GX2(godly as well)
no case
psu
Thats the system im intending on getting in 8 or 9 weeks. But yeah the reason xboxes can have awesome graphics is because the games are designed for specific hardware which means that the game can be tweaked heavily for that specific hardware. I still dont like consoles that much because you cant run apps and you dont really have an os, they basically play games and watch movies
In response to Critical
That's a good computer, but it still isn't good enough. You're still talking about only having two cores. The 360 has three, it also has a 512MB GDDR3 video card. You're also right, the games are designed specifically for the hardware, and -only- the game runs. The system doesn't have to multitask just to run the game.

Still though, it would take one hell of a system to match the hardware.
In response to Elation
The last time a game scared me was Half-Life 2, in Ravenholm. I was going through a small crawlspace to try and get an item, and my flashlight went dead. As soon as it recharged, a headcrab jumped at me and scared me. >_>
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
Sure it would. That's how much money Microsoft spends on each 360(I belive, I don't exactly remember). This is of course assuming that you are just buying parts and not the case.(If you include the monitor than you have to include the price of an HD TV in which case you could build a computer that would make the Xbox360 look like a joke.)
Processor($151)
Video Card($269)
Mobo($94.99)
512 stick of Ram($67)
Hard drive($57.99)
Total cost 638(before acceseries)
That's besides the point that the point of a console is to be plug and play. (You incert a CD and don't have to worry about anything and just start playing)
[edit Dvd burner(31)]
Keyboard(7)
Mouse(36)
New Total cost 712 Also went down to one stick of ram][/edit]
In response to Dark_Shadow_Ninja
The 360 has three cores. The 3800+ is a good processor, but it's still only a dual core. The 360 has three cores running at 3.2 Ghz each. I'm not posotive, but the chances are the 360 cores are also better. Even if not, it's still another processor. We've seen how much two processors will do compared to one superior one.

The video card you showed is the same clockrate on the GPU, but it's only half the video RAM. The video RAM makes a very large difference in 3D games, as much as system memory makes on your computer. That's a good computer, but it's still not a match.
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