Jarvi

Grok-thar: Horde!!

I want to know what was brewing on that organ above the turtleneck all this time.

Quick Look?

Live View?

Transparency?

Cover Look?

Make fun of vista all you want,but it looks like they are copying from the windows playbook.

# 3, this was said of the Xbox (1) before it. This is version 1 of the device, so OBVIOUSLY it is going to be disappointing ( even V.1 of the ipod wasn't that great or popular.) What I see happening for zune is integration with live anywhere, a 20$ attachment to play XBLA games ( or compatible ones, like ZUno or something) and the opening of Wi-Fi. XBL is already a psuedo social networking platform- wouldn't a " currently listening to" thing be awesome integration?

I should note, despite my interest in the device, I am hoping for one for christmas -because I probably wouldn't buy one with my own money :)

Yah, a podcast would be nice, as well as personal stories and reviews. ( of course, I applied, so I guess I may be a little biased towards what I like to write about :) )

At Central Connecticut state university, I have been creating a game studio/club on campus, using my own beauracratic terminology for it: Interactive Electronic Entertainment.

"Now Your a man" - DVDA

We are hitting the point of Graphical Diminishing Returns. People need to put out a major amount of work for a minimal output to get the bleeding edge graphics. In the old days, the SNES was out. When the N64 came out, it was AMAZING. "Holy god, 3d! Look at that!" And Designers said " I can do cool stuff with this...." and genre's such as the 3d platformer, etc was created.

We, as gamers, need to face the fact that Games may never look better than they currently do.

Or if they are going to look better, they will be much MUCH more expensive.

By that same idea, you can see why it is very possible for Next-gen DVD's will fail . Put a VHS and a DVD next to each other, it's night and day. Put A DVD and Blu-Ray? Much harder to notice details.

Designers are going to have to look outside of graphics ( In terms of the " Quality" of their graphics) to make new, interesting games with an aestheic style. Look at the new PS2 game based on japenese caligraphy- amazing game, not realistic graphics.

Basically, Graphics will soon become a moot point, and gamers ( and designers) will have to look for other ways to innovate. Perhaps the control scheme?

I am sure someone will change that soon. :D

"I'll take the game that is fun to play, even if it has John Madden going on a quest to take revenge against the Nazis for burning down his village."

They are saving that feature for Madden 08.

I am a pretty strong supporter of Ninty- And if they let us down (no new info) again, then They will have officially run out of their E3 Hype steam.

System will still be awesome- just not alot of "excitement", whihc is what they are really gonna need.