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95 days 20 hours ago

Lost Planet 2?

Sweet! I wasn't expecting that.

Any co-op options on the demo? View

95 days 20 hours ago

@ mastiffchild

While I agree to some extent with what you've said.
Obviously you can't see the level of AA, the resolution or texture quality there are other things that you can tell from the video.

The main one for me is: Enemies reactions to being shot ... i.e. they don't react at all.
Maybe I've been spoilt by animation system on KZ2, Uncharted etc but the way the enemies reacted to being shot could have come straight out of a Wii title (or Resident Evil 5)

Watch around the 1.20 mark. The enemy that thinks its in cover but isn't "actually" in cover. He gets shot twice, with NO reaction at all. On the third shot he skips from a crouched position straight to standing in order for the canned death animation to play out.
Poor poor poor!

The AI is equally woeful. Although the demo could be set to "super noob - enemies want to die" difficulty so I'll give the AI a pass until we see more of the game.
The animations on the other hand aren't good.

Hopefully the game is still quite early on and they are going to sort enemy animations out, but then again I hoped Capcom would upgrade the animations from RE4 for the next gen RE5 and they didn't bother.

We'll see. At this moment in time colour me unimpressed. View

272 days 18 hours ago

I second that YEEEEEEEESSSSSSS

Syndicate was an Awesome game! View

272 days 18 hours ago

@coolfool - have you tried a company that used Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) like BeThere?

I could only get 5mbps out of a 8mg exchange but because of LLU I managed to get 19mbs out of a possible 24mg. View

272 days 20 hours ago

Yeah, I admit Crysis is extremely feature rich. But with gameplay I guess it's down to personal preference.
I'm a Killzone 2 multiplayer man (just my opinion). I can take the hit in Graphics from high end PC down to PS3 because the PS3 does all those other things that Crysis isn't doing yet.
(I realise Crysis is also doing hundreds of things the PS3 isn't doing)
In Crysis, I'm immersed because of the beautiful world, but when I shoot an enemy it pulls me out of the game and reminds me that I'm playing a game.
Although the graphics in Killzone aren't as good the animation is much more akin to a real life opponent.
And the AI is so good that when you are playing through the single player it almost feels like you're in a multiplayer match without mics.

I wasn't trying to flame. Crysis has exceptional graphics, but there are things that are currently being done better on consoles.
Primarily character AI, motion capture and animation.

See Killzone 2 and any game using the Euphoria engine (GTA4 and Force Unleashed.) for realistic character reactions.
Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, RE4 - facial capture, and motion capture.

To me. PC's are still the kings of graphics, but more devs are heading to console first and that is where the non-graphics technology is progressing. View

272 days 22 hours ago

Its the U.S. that have the slow data infrastructure outside of their major cities. UK is relatively fast by comparison.

Sky offer 24Meg. I have 24Meg with Be There.
Virgin offer 50Meg.

And considering that the U.S. are the biggest market then the PS Cloud would have to take off there to make it truely worthwhile.

The PS Cloud is actually possible with the PS3. The PS3 can already handle 1080p so as long as the cloud servers handle all the heavy processing they can stream the data back to the PS3 where it is put together and displayed in beautiful 1080p. The PS3 would only need a firmware update to make it possible. View

272 days 22 hours ago

Crysis is cool. Graphics are phenomenal, BUT the AI and animation engine of Killzone 2 trounces Crysis.

The Helghast are so SO much more realistic than the enemies in Crysis.
From their flanking, reactions to being shot and their animations.

Crytek may be the kings of graphics, but they don't hold a candle to Guerilla when it comes to the realism of the Helghast soldiers.

EDIT:
Crysis:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Killzone 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Graphics:
Crysis wins

Gameplay:
Killzone 2, because - lets be honest - what are you going to be doing a lot of in a FPS? Shooting people. And in KZ2 shooting people never gets old. It's amazing and fresh everytime you play. View

273 days 16 hours ago

"I have seen comments on here form Ps3 360 owners who want this game released on psn or live for 20-30 bucks.Why can't it retail for 60 dollars? Won't you pay for an all flash stylistic gory five hour long game?"

Compare all the game modes and richness of features you get from Brawl or Mario Kart and then look at how much Madworld gives you for $60.
I think the game looks great, but if I were a kid still living at home and going to school I couldn't afford $60 for 5 hours - no matter how cool the visuals are. View

273 days 16 hours ago

Madworld was quite pricy for a short single player with no proper multiplayer.
The game would definitely suit being a downloadable title on PSN and/or live.
As the game doesn't have much going on "on screen" you could easily increase the resolution to 1080p. And as a downloadable title you don't need to add any other current gen effects or richness of features like you'd find in a full retail game. Add trophies and achievements.
$20 a pop sounds about right. Earn back some revenue.

I'd definitely buy it. View

276 days 19 hours ago

Look closely at exactly 1:34 the first mystery perk is a picture of Mercury's winged foot.
That means some kind of speed boost or will it replace "extreme conditioning"? Definitely speed related.

The second perk looks like a knife crossed with something else. Throwing knives?

Third: A wine glass with a hoola hoop? j/k I think it looks like a gun blast with a ring round it. Increased bullet spread? Or larger radius for auto aim.

Fourth: A down arrow. No idea. View

277 days 16 hours ago

Don't blame me scissor_runner I bought Metroid 3.
I made my contribution.

In general I agree with your post. I always liked Nintendo because their games are different.

But I guess there just aren't enough gamers like us to fully support the games like No More Heros, Zack and Wiki and Madworld alone. View

277 days 16 hours ago

caffman - I don't even need to mention Galaxy mate. Everyone knows it's the best game. Common knowledge.

I was only using an example of three games.

I picked one poor casual game, one average semi-casual game and one excellent gamers game.

I would have picked Galaxy for the excellent game, but it's Mario - that name alone bucks the trend.

See Mario and Sonic at the Olympics as an example of that. Game is nasty but it has Mario and Sonic on the cover therefore high sales. View

277 days 17 hours ago

@product

I didn't know that. I get no satisfaction in predicting Nintendo would take core resource away from Mario and Zelda to put them on the non-core titles.

In fact what you've told me has made me feel a little sad inside. View

277 days 17 hours ago

Lol.
Yeah, it is funny seeing people getting upset over sales.

Wii Fit sales sure is an incredible feat, but is it something to be happy about if you are a Wii owner?

1) Wii Fit
2) Mario Kart Wii
3) Metroid 3

I've put those 3 Wii games in sales order. If you had to place them in quality order
i.e. order them best game to worst, I bet most gamers on here would order the games in the opposite direction.
So while it is great that Nintendo is making money. It isn't so good for the gamer.

PS3 and 360 on the other hand "generally" have the best games selling the most. There are a few overhyped exceptions in there like RE5, CoD:WaW and GTA4, but even though they aren't as good as they're sales they are still pretty good.

How did I know that you wouldn't own Wii Fit?

I'd be interested to see how many N4G users actually do own the game.

Anyone on these boards own Wii Fit? View

277 days 17 hours ago

IW made the name Call of Duty what it was. I can't blame them for wanting to put their own mark on an IP they own.

How would you feel if every other year a less talented company brought down the name of the franchise you have worked hard to build up? Treyarch only managed an acceptable job on W@W because they used IW's COD4 engine.

Break away from the Call of Duty name. Let it die with Treyarch and build up the Modern Warfare name. Perhaps MW2 won't make millions, but by MW3 they'll be rolling in sales and brand recognition.

Smart move IW. View

277 days 17 hours ago

Hey Arius, how's it going?

You sound pretty happy with that news.

Looks like Nintendo are beginning to appreciate how lucrative titles like Wii Fit really are.

I guess the news could only get better if Nintendo announced that they intend to pull "core" title resources to put them on Wii Fit style exercise peripherals? I mean it makes financial sense doesn't it? It's all about winning the console war.
Sales sales sales...

Nintendo should pull some of the team members from the Mario team and some from the Zelda team to help get Wii Sports resort released.
I mean, it makes financial sense to get the real big money earners out the door before the core titles, right? View

279 days 21 hours ago

"the writing of that article is barely passable at a high school writing level"

I know. Lol. I was expecting it to end with:

...and then my mommy came in with some cookies and milk and put me to bed. Seriously I really enjoyed the cookies more than milk, but I gotta sleep now it school tomorrow for real.

HipHopGamer - seriously - get rid of this dude. He is a joke and he makes your site look amateurish. View

279 days 21 hours ago

@Captain Obvious

Did you ever play Captain Planet (your avatar) on the Amiga?

That was one tough game! I could beat the first level where you had to fix the ozone layer. The second where you rescued the dolphins and the third where you had to grow plants ... for some reason. But I never had enough lives to beat all of them on a single go. View

279 days 21 hours ago

Both Flashback and Another World (Out of this World in U.S.) were awesome games.

I prefered Flashback personally because it was a longer.
I remember having to look for access cards and guns etc in Flashback. And I remember the game being longer and requiring a bit more work. I also loved the green jungle stage.

Another World you could beat in half an hour or something if you knew where you were going. Still great though.
Remember swinging the cage at the end?
And that Alien that becomes your friend and helps you? Classic! View

279 days 23 hours ago

Bubbles for you Baba. I feel the same way.
The multiplayer is second to none.
Sales don't affect me as I have the game, my mates have the game. That's all that affects me personally.

Sales don't directly bother me, although I would like the game to do well as the guys at Guerilla deserve the money and I want them to earn lots of it ... so they can put some of it back into the company and produce KZ3 :-) View