Random rants and ramblings, as would any other be.

• 6Sep 09

  What are you looking foward to in Q4?

  It seems to be a realm of sequels for me. I've fully pre-ordered 2 games so far. I only paid $40 out of pocket for both Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition+ Halo: ODST. The rest was discounted and credit. Go me, CAG4Life. Saved myself a bundle....now to buy the rest. ugh...

  http://www.alturl.com/kpr4

  1. Modern Warfare 2

  

  2. Bioshock 2

  

  3. Halo:ODST

  

  4. Assasin's Creed 2

  

  5. Left4Dead 2

  

  6. Mass Effect 2

  

  >.< Q4 always makes me poor.
  

  
  

  • Posted Sep 6, 2009 5:40 pm PT
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• 26Aug 08

  A Ruined Legacy

  As I and many others have been waiting for the relase of a new KOTOR title. It's been dreaded that it would become a mmo, and now by various sources it's been "confirmed". Yet why would a such great series be put down just by a switch of genre? Well the simple fact is that the storyline of MMOs are generally progressed by the players and their actions, not by the world created by the developers themselves. Therefore a more realistic world created by the players in a MMO will take away from the storyline from the original series. Leaving a much different experience than the last 2 titles.

  Now for better or worse the series will seemingly become an MMO. This has been said here by editors on Gamespot, Game Informer, and other news sources. Now for all the talk that will continously be sturn around by the slight news of a speculitive source. There has yet to be any footage, screens, or other information reletive to this game. Leaving the area of development to progress. Perhaps they'll listen to what needs to be done, but most likely not considering that they now are going to be in "finalizing stages" of development, considering that the talk has provoked intrest and hype pressuring a release date.

  What i'm curious is how much development there is going to be put into the new MMO if that is truly what it'll be in the somewhat near future. It could be as bleak as EVE where essentially the players run the entire game and the story and other such highlighted developments of offline console games would be set in a slump.

  Still nonetheless there is the appeal of the MMO, where new players and long time fans of star wars VG titles will collaberate together massively online. still the success of such star wars titles have been demolished by preivous titles like: Star Wars Galaxies where the development stages in the release of the game where wretchedly thrown out of balence and in turn ruined the game for many players.

  The question is will the success of the KOTOR series depend on luck of the success in the transition of genres? In my opinion, i wouldn't want to risk ruch a successful series, but rather enhance the development of the console brand by making due on such disapointments like the Sith Lords. (Good game, but lacking)

  • Posted Aug 26, 2008 12:06 pm PT
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• 3Oct 07

  Much needed updates( Downgraded PS3 and MS 360 revisions)

  
  

  there's still no word on the upgraded 360's (65nm processor chips being intergraded with a new mother board) arriving in December, but it seems that Sony is making a huge comeback if no one else has noticed.

  Here's some Links:

  http:///news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25958464&page=3#comments

  http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/02/sonys-399-ps3-confirmed-by-best-buy/

  http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.asp?upc=0711719800606

  There are many rumors about the Playstation 3 40 gig model, but here's what's almost solid. The best buy leek has revealed that the 40 gig model is to arrive Oct. 28th 2007, the GS article has is pointed as early as the 10th, but that's a little doubtful. For $400, a PS5(40 gig) and a copy of Spiderman 3, sure seems the bang for your buck. Well there's a little more to it than a smaller hard drive.

  To get the small rumors out of the way the downgraded PS3 will not support wi-fi, will have no card reader and will only come equipped with 2 USB ports. These are minor things that most gamers can live without.

  Sony's attempt at the Multi-Media Console seems to have failed. Some believed that during the supposed course of this progress that modern consoles would eliminate themselbes from the market by beconing so much like a PC. To many the add-ons and plug-ins of the supposed wave of the future are unnessary, and in my personal opinion, they are on that massive scale. Yet the pieces do not all fall into place , why would a course so little affect so much of the Market shceme (after all at some point in time Sony saw that they were heading in the wrong direction: overpriced consoles, no rumble feature, no games{that's still is an issue), and an over excessive console), and how would a price drop so massive to sony happen in such a small change.

  There are many different stories about how this could turn out, first of all. When I noticed this long ago in some news article I long forget, a story of a downgraded PS3 fell into place, this article touched the aspect of massive cruelty. No backwords compatibility.

  For something that is already intergrated into the chipset of the PS3, and remove it for downgrading purposes, sends a strong message: For those who are froogle and sly, you shall receive your comeuppance. However rumors are rumors and are not factual until there's an official source that confirms them(argue with me later on that deifinition if you'd like, but please pay attemtion). However sony and MS seem reluctant to show this confirmation, so that they hope they still have an upper hand in the release. It's always been this way and people have been left to ponder the possibilities.

  Edit: It has been confirmed however that there will be no backwords compatibility.

  http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/05/sony-explains-why-theres-no-bc-in-the-40gb-ps3

  The next aspectof the downgrade came from a comment I read and an idea that had been floating around in my head. The comment read various aspects, but the most peculiar is the part where the downgraded PS3, like the 360 core, will not come with a HDMI port.

  For those of you that aren't exactly technically savy

  -the HDMI port provides a digital picture in the higheset resolution possible, 1080p. The only known consumer products that provide this can be separated into small sects, but the most common is Bluray and HD-DVD, the xbox 360 already uses this in an external device and the PS3 (in bluray) for its DVD player,

  The peculiar aspect of this rumor is that without an HDMI port how is the supposed to provide a digital picture for blueray. Which leads me to the question, in this downgraded model is it possible, is it even fisable to conceive that the bluray player could be removed as a cost cutting measure. I will once again stat that rumors are rumors and nothing more, until fact/or truth is provided, but as food for thought, think of it thousands of consoles without the most expensive DVD player in the world. Sony could definityly make a serious move with this, and I feel uneasy about some of these downgrades, along with the fact of sony's limited game market.

  The downgraded Sony PS3 worth it or not, you decide.

  • Posted Oct 3, 2007 8:17 pm PT
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