NVidia recently released a PhysX update for the 8series graphics cards and higher, which has lowered the performance scale on some Vista PCs.
XboxMessiah takes a seemingly uncharacteristic look at the Gamecube: A console that was under-appreciated and pushed away by bigger systems. By talking about the pros and cons of the Gamecube, XboxMessiah hopes to put the spotlight on a console that deserved it.
The Game Cube had a very good number of must own games for it. My personal favorite being the remake of Skies of Arcadia. That game was so awesome. =D
Skies of Arcadia wasn't a remake, just a port. The Dreamcast version was superior.
"Previously a Dreamcast-only RPG, Sega's exclusive developer Overworks has taken the time to properly "P-O-R-T" it to GameCube..." http://cube.ign.com/article...
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I was a GC owner since launch and I only have 2 games for it. Metroid Prime and Zelda Wind Waker the rest? A pile of crap. The system was more powerful than the PS2 but nobody took advantage of that to make great games, just crappy Startfox Adventures or stupid shoot-em-up like Rogue Squadron. The N64 and GC were fail consoles with like 2-3 great games. And yeah, great > good but still too few.
I had both a gamecube and a ps2, and I almost never played the gamecube. This was before all of this fanboy bull I just naturally went away from the gamecube, but then again it's unfair to put it up against the ps2, which was the best of all the systems I owned(SNES,N64,psone,ps2,wii,p s3)
I had a Ps2 as well and an xbox but I played my cube far more than my Ps2. Cube had some of the best games of all time. of course I picked it up a year & 1/2 into its life span so there were already a lot of games for me to play through.
why do you have the wii in a list of the best systems you owned even as a massive fan of Nintendo which why I picked it up in the first place I would say its probably my only system that I've ever kind of regretted purchasing I've ever owned.
A couple of friends of mine still love the GC. Eternal Darkness and Pikmin are the games they used to play. Recently I gave them RE 4 and Mario Paper.
The gamecube is a solidly built and capable system but it got no chances against the incredible library of PS2 games. However the GC is back with a vengeance is called the Wii.
The Gamecube was a great Console, those exclusives that I played on it, really deserve more appreciation
me and a group of friends spent 6 hours straight one sunday playing a marathon of super smash bros melee, we actually played the sh!t out of that game
The Gamecube is my favourite console. It had the most amazing games, Rogue Squadron: Rebel Strike= epic MF win.
I sunk a hell of a lot of hours into gamecube games. Possibly the most awesome part of all. The bonus disk I got with windwaker, that had Ocarina of Time, with upgraded graphics.
I agree, I loved my Gamecube, it had Solid Resident Evil titles, and Solid nintendo Titles.
I remember when Windwaker was about to come out, I could'nt accept the cell shaded graphics, boy was I wrong, that game was a masterpeice.
Sadly I havent played any official marios on it. I think Super Mario Galaxy on Wii made up for it.
Its mostly 3rd parties that fail nintendo.
The only reason why the Gamecube worth having was because of Skies, which was originally for the Dreamcast, but you can just play it on your Wii and your set.
TACOMA, Wash. -- A middle school in Tacoma was locked down Wednesday afternoon after a 13-year-old boy was found with a gun.
The boy brought the gun to Mason Middle School to trade with another student. KIRO 7 reporter Kevin McCarty said the boy was going to trade it for a Playstation Portable.
How about keeping your guns in a safe? It doesnt excuse the kids stupidity, but maybe he would have traded the families DVD player instead and kept his ass out a jail!
What an idiot... everyone knows you need two guns to trade for a PSP!
lol
The Police should learn something out of this, and help reduce crime.
Put an ad,"Trade your gun for a PSP", just watch how many other kids will come to hand over the guns that are in their homes!
OMFG.....handgun for a psp, assault rifle for a ps3, what do i get for a bazooka?
some kids have no idea what things are worth now a days
you could probably trade at least ten psp's for a gun.
What I want to know is "who was the he trading the gun to?" I could see why a kid would trade his dad's gun away for a PSP. You can pass that off as a dumb kid who just really wants a video game. But what sort of kid is willing to trade his PSP for a GUN? That sounds like a dangerous kid, IMO.
Unless the kid was planning on selling the gun to a pawn shop to buy the PSP, and just happened to be dumb enough to bring the gun on school grounds.
LOOOOOOL!
kids these days are reaaaaly stupid.
whats the logic in bringing a gun to school?
and imo you should learn to use a gun, becouse most of the kids these days dont know how to use a gun, and what danger it is to have a gun, parents who knows how to shoot should learn their kids how to shoot and tell them what responibility it is to have a gun in your hands. whats the purpose. my father learned me how to shoot when i was 6. you dont see me doing stupid things like this...
Can you tell me what's the purpose of having a gun? I can't seem to find any.
To protect your family. 911 is not always going to be quick enough to save you or your loved ones lives.
You can't protect your family if the dad is a drunk and a wife beater while the wife is a prostitute.
He exchanged firearms for a gaming device...
That kid is doing good for himself in my book..
;)
The government should look into this for getting guns out of the inner city. Offer them PSPs!
so.....if the kid decided the trade the gun for porn....is that considered capital punishment then?
The top 5 Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games from Gamefly. Left 4 Dead, Resistance 2 and Prince of Persia top the charts this week.
Drama Queen. Who even compares Vista scores. Use a real benchmark. If the update has improved actual gaming performance I wouldnt care if Vista gave it a 1.
Single-channel and Dual-channel memory. Its internal 'benchmark' scores are meaningless.
All benchmark tools are just scales. I personally gave up on the chase for better scores long ago and I just stick with the FACTS. Sure, they provide a great estimate about your hardware, but the thing is people like Futuremark are constantly innovating their products, and catering toward extreme gamers, who usually like to just gloat about their setup. And once they've moved on to a new series of graphics and cpus, the previous gen will fare less and less well with its new metrics.
WEI is a great attempt by Microsoft to try and keep the scale uniform, only scaling upwards to make room for newer tech as it comes along. That's the best way to try and gauge a computer's faults and strengths.
About these drivers, I am running modded INF 177.92 (since this is a notebook GPU), with its support for OGL3.0 and CUDA enabled PhysX. I did see my WEI score go down afterward.
Processor: (4.6) "Intel Core2 Duo T5250 @ 1.5GHz"
Memory: (4.6) "2x Hynix 1GB DDR2 PC2 5300"
Desktop Aero: (4.5) (down from 4.9) "nVidia GeForce 8600m GS 256MB"
Gaming Graphics: (5.3) "1024MB total graphics memory 256 + 768"
Primary Hard Disk: (4.6) "2x Fujitsu 120GB 5400rpm SATA 150 8MB cache"
Also, I had a good question as to why I'd be scoring less in Desktop Graphics than in Gaming Graphics.
Would anything I do in the nVidia control Panel affect the score (like putting on 16xQ AA, 16xAF, and enabling Super Sampling)?
J/k
Who cares about that stupid score anyways.