The Downloadable Content Rumourmill 35
Despite the high hopes of Xbox 360 fans Gamespot pegs it as unlikely that Lumines Live will drop this week, or that there will be a Gears of War Demo on the Xbox Live service. In news that does seem to be legit, though, you can see screenshots of the first downloadable games for the PS3 service over at Game|Life. Titles include the previously mentioned fl0w, Lemmings 2, Blast Factor, and Go Sudoku. Commentary on the games available at GameSetWatch.
Will the slashdot game be ported? (Score:1)
Can we level up the same as on a "regular" pc?
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And you can level much faster, you'll never be modded redundant!
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Those secretaries must be some terribly slow typists. Show me a kid that can do 100+ WPM on a cellphone and I'll be impressed.
That's the problem I see with most "convergent" technologies. When you get down to it the input devices mostly suck. Palm's graffiti system is faster than a cellphone for me (I know that's subjective), but still nowhere close to touch typing. I'll hobble myself
PS3 greater than 360? (Score:1)
Only the Wii is truly next gen... (Score:2, Offtopic)
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You don't even need more power to create this kind of paradigm shift, either. Xbox Live,
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You've obviously never played Robotron:2084.
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Yeah. Next-Gen. Right.
You seem to assume that CPU and GPU upgrades can't enable new gameplay ideas.
And you seem to assume that they do.
Lets just say, by your citation of the exemplary ("Dead Rising"), that the current iteration of CPU ("the Xeon CPU") is heralding gameplay like we've never seen before. That it is definitively "Next Gen", taking us in directions that even the Wii cannot touch.
Trouble is, that your belief in Next-Gen is entirely predicated on one aspect of gaming : high fidelity cine
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So good CPUs and GPUs DID create a new genre, and thus gameplay ideas.
Maybe they aren't likely to create a lot more, but it's not an 'assumption' on anyone's part that they did it.
As for the Wiimote creating new gameplay ideas... So far, there's nothing on the Wii that could
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He was being sarcastic (Score:1)
I think he was being sarcastic.... so.... uh, chill.
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To make this on topic...this is about games that won't be released this iteration
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that is precisely what will kill them. Unless they take the price down drastically after 1 year, it'll take 2, 3, or even more years just to pick up sales for what is supposed to bring the money in (the games and accessories)
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It is an architecture designed for 480p that Microsoft is forcing 360 developers to try to write 720p games for. There is only 10megs of EDRAM in the 360. That is the right size for a 4XAA 480p framebuffer to sit in. If you are forced to write you game to support 720p you have to either give up decent AA or implement a tedious to write and performance degrading tile renderer to fit your framebuffer into the too small EDRAM on the 360.
So what yo
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funny though (Score:2)
I have no idea if that's indicative of any problems whatsoever with the 360 in general, I am only pointing it out for the sake of fairness here.
But, honestly, I don't think AA is too important for 720p and up. OTOH, I agree with the AC that Gears of War doesn't look so hot.
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I have a bad feeling about this... (Score:2)
nope! (Score:1)
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Go Sudoku? (Score:1, Funny)