OzzyJ88: From the cartoon character Osmosis Jones who was some kind of bacterial cop defending our bodies against disease. Not sure why it stuck but I wouldn't change it for the world.
I'm hard up for the cash at the moment and want to make sure I can pay my quarterly, until then I want to cancel my gold membership. How do I do that? There's no option under the account management tab on the 360...do I have to do it online?
It would be nice to have the same definitiveness with games as you have for films. Whether VHS, DVD or HD-DVD/BluRay there will be constantly refined iterations of thousands of older films. With games we rarely see this, and when we do it can often leave much to be desired (random stabs in the dark make me think of the Final Fight game bundled with Streetwise which was poor quality, or how games such as Power stone and the original mario bros are ported to handhelds, which detract a lot from the TV console feel.
It kind of proves that videogames are considered a trivial medium by some; that theyre disposable entertainment whereas films are immortalised.Â
So my dreamcast broke today :( and as I was browsing ebay for a new one (well...new second hand one) it occured to me that eventually - maybe ten, maybe a hundred year time- the remaining dreamcasts will either be possessed by gaming aficiados who will never let it go, or have become such a rare commodity that the price to buy one will be astronomical. When this happens, how do we play dreamcast games?
The same could be said for any consoles; but whereas the PS was safe two generations ago with the introduction of backwards compatibility, this generation we're seeing considerable less attention payed to the games that were.
So what now? Will old xbox and ps2 (or further into the future 360 and ps3) games be emulated on PCs like the 8, 16 and 32 bit era ones have been? Will third party manufacturers like Joytech introduce third party machines to play the old classics? Or will the hundreds of great games just fade away?
Yeah I think its overrated. Most of the game looks exactly the same, the same corridor, the same bad guys. And nothings detailed, everything is big blocks and jagged edges. There's no subtlety to the design. The only redeeming feature is the driving.
The second one is better, but consider its rival FPS's such as Doom 3 or Farcry Instincts, it still looks atrocious. Nice story it may be (apparently, I didn't think it was that good) but it's sure no benchmark for what the xbox can do.
I don't know, but I just have to say good on you for giving the game a chance. It got a very bad rep for its bugs but I see it as a modern Oblivion. Good luck with it.
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