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Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Nintendo's Wii E3 event

May 9th 2006 2:42PM (Joystiq)
The controller looks really good,the graphic on the other hand is ok,not very impressive.
It was expected it wont be on par with the 360 but common Nintendo at least the graphics should be twice as good as the old xbox.Maybe it is I dont know,but it didnt look like it.
If it aint that is fair to say Nintendo did a mistake here.How expensive can 5 year old technolige just be.

Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E3 event

May 9th 2006 2:40PM (Joystiq)
rofl,wtf..is the wrong topic.I was suppose to comment on the nintendo presentation.Im not sure what happend.

Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E3 event

May 9th 2006 2:36PM (Joystiq)
The controller looks really good,the graphic on the other hand is ok,not very impressive.
It was expected it wont be on par with the 360 but common Nintendo at least the graphics should be twice as good as the old xbox.Maybe it is I dont know,but it didnt look like it.
If it aint that is fair to say Nintendo did a mistake here.How expensive can 5 year old technolige just be.

Sony steals motion idea, but not from Nintendo

May 9th 2006 4:41AM (Joystiq)
Is nice to know that there are people who can see the obvios truth and not try to change or denie it.
I like your post Varian,it makes sense, unlike 99% of the posts around the web.

Sony steals motion idea, but not from Nintendo

May 9th 2006 3:34AM (Joystiq)
OK,Im sorry but this not so much about techologie,what kind of technologie has been used is not the point.
The point is:
Sony would never bring motion sensing controller to this generation if it wasnt for Nintendo.
They ripped off Nintendo's idea there is just no way around it.If they did that down the road 1 or 2 years later after Nintendo's lunch it be little different.But even befor Nintendo is able to show of the idea they are pushing,is just not cool.
We all remember the boomarang as the conventional controller except it looked like a boomarang.
Sony never mentioned of any motion sensing ability,and we can see that no Sony game is taking advantage of the motion sensing, except the only one we were shown,which is more a demo.
Lets face it, if Sony really planed to have motion sensing in there controllers built in from the start, wouldnt they design games to take advantage of that?
Well guess what Nintendo did and is clearly there idea to bring the techologie to this generation.
Is not that hard to figure this out.

Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Sony's PlayStation 3 E3 event

May 8th 2006 11:31PM (Joystiq)
Sony showing was really gay,from the very begining of some kids talkin about playstation coolnes,blah..till the very end where it got ultra gay.
It was sad watching the speakers just beging for an applause,and it never comes but just barely.
Metal Gear 4 was one of the only cool games and I hope it comes to the 360 sooner than later.
At the end watching that old sneaky bastard comme out with the dual shock controller made me happy for a moment thinking they didnt rip off nintendo idea.
But when they shamefully started talkin on how it looks the same on the outside(lets make this easy and just stick with the old design) but is so much different in the inside,then they started moving the controller, and seeing the camera move on screen(but let us just steal nintendo idea),with a grinn on there faces,my blood pressure exploded and I felt deep hate towards Sony,and I thought I wasnt going to care even if they did copy Nintendo.
Yes it is not Nintendo who came up with all the motion sensing technologie,but they are the first who were going to use the technologie for there console from the very begining.Remember Sony's boomarang it was a regular controller that only looked different,and as soon as nintendo reveald to all what they were going to do, Sony pulled back the boomarang and didnt say a word until now.
It dont look like is much, but still its a Nintendo idea to implement the technologie for this next generation of consoles.
Anyway I was never going to buy PS3,and now knowing how expensive it will be just makes me laugh.After all everything PS3 can do 360 can do just as well for much less.
FUCK SONY!!!!!!!!!

Gamer feels cheated by FFXI's sneaky hidden fees [update 1]

Apr 28th 2006 4:31AM (Joystiq)
Do your research is such a laime comment....gahh.
#201 It just amazes me.. the nonsense people post.
I mean wtf are you talkin about,you cant compare this to Energizer or Duracell, and stuff like that.
You see is not the price problem,but hiden costs,even if there is some micro print on the box thats still bull.
Again you should have done your research comment is bull.This is a console game, not a PC game, where you actually have to do a resarch,since you dont just put the CD into the comp and play but you have to install,know if your hardware can run it and so on.
Now I see this game has to be installed on your hard drive as well,and this is something very new to console gaming,and not everybody owns a 360 with a hard drive so that should be clearly stated as well,I guess it is.
Now when you buy Energizer batteries in store you own those batteries no matter how much they suck you got nothing else to pay.
But you see in this case you just bought a game but you cant play it because that money you spent is just a part of the bill that you was not aware of.
I visit gaming sites almost every day and I dont know shit about Final Fantazy games.I see Final Fantazy games geting released and see even some pictures,as well check out the score than laugh about it.Because common is not a video game but more like a video-book-story with crappy game play,well thats my opinion,lol, at least until the fights in the game are in realtime..
Anyway Square is clearly trickin 360 gamers into buying this game,even if they see is an online game they think is covered with live,which isnt.
Square could easly have added big flashy letters on the box saying something like:
Only (what) $13 a month...or whatever, Im sure you need a character,lol.
Now if that sounds cheap to you,OK...not to me, not a game like this.
Square knows it and is trying to chash on it otherwise they would state it upfront,fishing is fun,right,lol.
Many companies use the fine print to clarify the purchase,but we all know why the fine print is there.Not to inform us but to make us overlook some things that might change our mind,and when you find out about it you see its there,and the company is immune to your lawyer.
Now this might not be the case with this game cuz Im not sure,Im just trying to say I dislike fine print in any case.Square should be more clear about this so morons like me dont fall for its tricks,lol.

Nintendo "Revolution" now called "Wii" [update 6]

Apr 28th 2006 12:21AM (Joystiq)
Nintendo in a meeting with the marketing department.
Need a new name fast.
What you all think we should call it.
Did you come up with something cool yet.
Marketing department:We got some ideas would you like to hear?
Miyamoto:Of course thats why we here.
Honda:How about Nintendo Gee.
Miyamoto:.............
Toyota:Tee.
Miyamoto:..............
Mitsubishi:How about Bii.
Miyamoto:................
Suzuki:Pii.
Yoshimitsu:Jee.
Subaru:Eee..
Miyamoto:Gahhh..............
Miyamoto:What you think Bob.
Bob:We think umm..we...we..,we think Pii might be a good name.
Miyamoto:What did you just say?..say that again.
Bob:I just thought,I thought Pii might be a good one,not trying to make fun or anything.
Miyamoto:No,no,not that,what you said befor that?
Bob:ummm...We???
Miyamoto:Yeah thats it,thats it you got it Bob,WE,yes we, thats what I was lookin for,perfect,It sounds amazing,Weeee...
But now imagine we just spell it different more modern ,more iPodish, like Wii..see,iGay,WiFi,iSONY,i360,all you have to do is put a lower case letter i, infront or back and you got a winner.
Miyamoto:Thanx God, Microsoft or Sony dont know it.
Bob:OK,whatever you say Boss,sounds amazing,Weeeee..I LIKE HOW YOU SPELL IT TOO,you are a genius.
Everybody else:Yes you are a genius Mr.Miyamoto !!!long live MIYAMOTO!!!!!

Gamer feels cheated by FFXI's sneaky hidden fees [update 1]

Apr 23rd 2006 12:49AM (Joystiq)
WOW.. just wow,shut the heck up all you idiots.
Final Fantazy games suck,they still have those gay random battles right..lol.That is really the worst thing in the game, you do nothing just push buttons and go through some bs menus.
I havent played any of those games since Final Fantazy 7, and no I have not beat that game,I just gave up.
I just dont get it why people still like those games.
Anyway to the topic.
I dont give a damn nor should anybody give a damn if you know or whoever that this game charges you a monthly fee to play.
I didnt know that and Im sure many people dont.So you see the point,it should say on the box in big flashy letters that the game is multiplayer only, or whatever, and that it requires a monthly fee.
I mean common after a long gay install for an old port for what you just payed 40 bucks, or whatever, you get a nice pop up message telling you to pay befor you play, even tho you just did that, lol.
Thats just ultra greedy,those bastards..lol.You all are wrong, whoever keeps saying you should have known it,is just bull, and you know it.
Now that I've seen how much Square charges per month it makes me laugh,and Im sure Square is laughing at you as usual.I mean WTF,I dont want to play that crap for free,lol.
If you want to play a real multiplayer game,I mean a true game not half game or a freakin book with nice pictures you got no control of,get STEAM,play counter strike and get some skill.


Red Steel: first Revolution screens revealed [Update 5]

Apr 11th 2006 6:21AM (Joystiq)
Yes there is a noticable difference between a ps2 game and Perfect Dark 0 on the HDTV,trust me I know.
But still resolution dont make the graphics.
Perfect Dark 0 looks pretty nice resolution wise on a HDTV,and on the TV I played it on, any higher resolution than 720p would not make the game look much better if at all.After all the TV was like most HDTV of today are, only capable of 720p, 1080i.
Anyway game like Soul Calibur 2 on the Gamecube looks better than Perfect Dark 0 despite having a lower resolution.
Thats because the game is much more detailed as well graphics look more realistic,not as cartoonish as perfect dark.
I just brought up old games like Max Payne 2 to make a point, which is:higher resolution does not add much to the graphics,the game still looks the same only slighly sharper/smoother,and higher you turn the resolution up less difference you notice.
Is the same with any game old or new.
Most difference we can notice in the comp games on a tube monitor is inbetween 640x480 and 1024x768,but still even 640x480 still preservs all the detail only not as sharp and smooth.
It dont bother me playing CSS at 640x480 on my comp the game still looks good to me,but turn the detail down at any resolution and the game will look much worse,your high resolution wont help you.Im actually running CSS at medium settings with resolution of 640x480.
Oblivion on the 360 runns pretty bad,it barely does 30 fps,and that game dont look all that good.
Even on a ultra fast comp it dont run all that fast with all the detail at max.
Now if you were be able to change the resolution to 1080p on the 360 for Oblivion,Im sure the game would become unplayable.The 360 is powerfull and yes I know Oblivion is not taking everything out of the 360,but still the 360 is not all that powerfull after all, and neither is PS3,thats why it is unlikely you'll see any 1080p games on any console.Detail is just way more important for the graphics.
Some old games might look better at higher resolution,I dont know.But what I do know is that PS games like Metal Gear looks really bad on high resolution,it simply looks better on a low resolution TV.High resolution dont get you anything except ugly textures to look at.
Well again I'll choose detail over high resolution anytime.I know that bad graphics looks bad at any resolution.Good graphics looks good at any resolution above 480/480p,and yes it looks even better at 720p,but what Im saying is that high resolution does not all of a sudden makes a blocky face look rounder,nor does it make for better animation.
This is the kind of comments that make me post here.

"We all know that the Rev will be running at standard resolutions. Well, run your favorite PC game at 640x480, take a screenshot and print it out. See if it looks anything like this."

People dont seem like they understand what resolution is,or why higher resolution is more important on biger TVs than smaller once.
640x480 image of a game will look just as good as a 1024x768 image only difference will be the size,that is why those revo shots are small.

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