Gaming analyst Michael Pachter has said in his annual industry report that he expects "the ultimate outcome of the console wars to be decided by the motion picture studios. Should the studios embrace Sony's Blu-ray standard for high definition DVDs, we think Sony will gain an insurmountable advantage over Microsoft; should the studios embrace Sony rival Toshiba's HD-DVD format, we think that Microsoft can maintain its first mover advantage and will dominate software sales for years to come."
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Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"
@crow
Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.
Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc
I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.
I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Some food for thought:
Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online
The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.
There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.
This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.
But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii
Wait to be seen, how these formats are conceived. I know some people already think its over.
-Will the Trojan/Rootkit of a Blue-Ray backfire?
-Will Toshiba give up?
One thing for sure, if consumers start adopting more stand alone HD players then HD-DVD will get more support from Movie Makers. Right now Sony's Ps3 is the cheapest player, bu still an expensive console.
So why would the mainstream Gamers purchase a PS3? Movies or games? yada yada yada, I know some for both.
Does having a PS3, mean your a movie buff, and will go out and buy the more expensive format and totally erase your hard-earned 8 years or so DVD Collection? Probably not. Will it still help SONY yes.
If you go out and purchase a Stand Alone HD player, then we know your purchase is directly related to Movies, and you'll probably buy titles.
I don't care so much for the numbers now, will wait to watch this thing play out. Big money at stake for both Toshiba and Sony.(Well a lot more at stake for Sony)
This is the Problem...movie studios and not games decide the fate of Sony's box thats crap
As though this format war has over shadowed the fact that the PS3 is actually a really good gaming machine.
*****Breaking News*****
This just in.. largest movie studio, universal, rumored to be breaking exclusivity with HD DVD and releasing movies onto bluray format...
Everyone Panic
I don't think this is true at all.
If blu-ray fails does that mean PS3 will fail -> i don't think so
If blu-ray wins does that mean PS3 wins this gen - i don't think so