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Apprentice
 
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Or are there no decent games in the near future? Or for that matter, the recent past.
I've gone from being quite a collector to... well, in 2006 I think I've paid for two games. One of which was a birthday present for someone else, and Half-Life: Episode 1. Because it was effort free to buy it via Steam, and I could get it for twenty US dollars, which made it stupidly cheap. And even then, it felt rather... samey.
I was an early adopter for Xbox 360 - which reminds me, I've bought a couple of Xbox Live games. Geometry Wars, and Street Fighter 2 (can you say 'attempting to recapture feelings lost from youth'? Hey, it's not as amazing as I remember from the Nintendo 64. Go figure.). Apart from that, nothing's grabbed me. I picked up a PSP over a year ago, and other than an impulse purchase of Pinball Treasures to get me through an international flight, that's been no inspiration either. Both pieces of kit are now basically used as (extremely sexy and expensive) digital media players.
Partly I wonder if it's down to the proliferation of pre-release demos. I try loads, and decide that the game isn't going to merit purchase. I wonder if I used to persist with a game simply because I'd spent what felt like a lot of money to even try the experience.
I've got high hopes for Dead Rising, Supreme Commander, and a few others - I do keep up to date on upcoming stuff with Gamespy (and a few others) but - have I just got more discriminating, or is the quality level out there just dropping? I remember nights where I realised with horror that I had lectures in an hour, and I'd been up all night, without realising, with Command and Conquer.
I do have much less time to invest in games now, it must be said, so I shy away from games that look like they need a significant relationship with them to be built up - my life needs 'dip-in-and-out-ability' (it IS a word NOW) in my games.
Or am I just getting old? ;-)
I Want a PS3. And it's a Blu-Ray player, so there's a non-gaming justification... :-D
Just starting to wonder if I'd be wasting my money.
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Champion
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Neverwinter Nights II is out in October - if you like that sort of thing. Which, as it happens, I do.
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Heroic Knight
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Buying a PS3 a waste of money? Nah, the waste of money happened when you bought the Xbox 360.  Seriously, though... if you were looking for dip-in-and-out, then the Xbox wasn't a good one since it has tried to make its selling point the Online gaming. And im(ns)ho the value of online gaming increases dramaticly with extended and regular play, giving little to the occational dipper-in. PS3 is selling as future-proofing: the last console you should need to buy for a long time and with Blue-ray dvd to back it up. But games... yeah, games haven't been inspiring me for a while. I tend to pick things over from the pre-owned section that other people have recommended to me, or pick up PC games that I've heard are good. There's just too much sameness in the 'new' lineup.
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Mikey (8/4/2006)
Neverwinter Nights II is out in October - if you like that sort of thing. Which, as it happens, I do.it is? Oh christ there goes my degree!
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Champion
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electrokin (8/4/2006)
Mikey (8/4/2006)
Neverwinter Nights II is out in October - if you like that sort of thing. Which, as it happens, I do.
it is?
Oh christ there goes my degree!
‘Fraid so… But if you recall the last Neverwinter Nights game that came out and how late that was being released.… I think you’ll be okay.
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Heroic Knight
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Dead Rising looks brilliant...
The problem the PS3 has in my eyes, is that its expensive. The reason its expensive is that its got a Blu-Ray player. If Blu-Ray turns out to be the next Betamax, then you've just wasted a crap load of money.
I'm very unconvinced by the whole HD-DVD/Blu-Ray/HDTV thing... HDTV has been around for years, its never had market penetration, because people don't really give a fuck. Standard resolution is fine for normal TV and movies.
HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, well you need a HDTV to use them, and you have to buy all your movies yet again, after buying them all on DVD. To fix a non-existant problem. (who here thinks DVD video is too low quality?) Plus, theres no guarantee that HD-DVDs will look better than normal DVD, because HD notoriously shows up flaws in movies, making special effects look rubbish.
And you'll be able to pick up a 360 and a Wii for the same price as a PS3 (I've even heard rumours of Microsoft and Nintendo collaberating on special double packs, although this may be bollocks... but then Microsoft are actively promoting the 360/Wii combination, so who knows?)
Games wise, there will be plenty of great games on the PS3, but there will be great games on all formats, as always.
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Wag
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I agree with you about the white-elephantness of Blu-Ray, but I do think it has one potential use. Beyond even the predictions of the technoevangelists, the amount of storage needed for games just keeps on increasing. Even now some games are beginning to stretch the edges of what you can get onto a DVD. Having a Blu-Ray reader does mean that there'll be no need for multiple-disk games for a while yet.
The way I see it, the PS3 is like this:
Pros:
- Looks lethally fast on a processor level
- Inline parallelism - meaning you can have truly simultaneous processes running physics and AI, for example, which is revolutionary
- Blu-Ray more-or-less futureproofs the storage
- Guaranteed game library
- Word of home dev kits (perhaps even outside Japan!)
Cons:
- Not enough f**king memory AGAIN (I'm a programmer, see)
- The memory bus is too f**king slow AGAIN (another programmer's issue)
- The graphics hardware is a little underwhelming from what I've seen so far. It's certainly up-to-date, but given Sony's talk of future-proofing the console and the fairly amazing Cell, I'd have expected something better
- Nothing really earthshaking, like the Wii controller (the tilt-controller is a poor substitute) and no vibration function anymore
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Look out for Bioshock (http://www.sshock2.com/bioshock/) by some of the same people who did System Shock.
Portal and Team Fortress 2 by the Valve look absolutely amazing, use the Half Life 2 engine and will come out with HL2:Episode 2. Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmL05OlYA and http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/19/team-fortress-2-is-so-incredibles/ and see the joy.
Also check out Mass Effect by http://www.bioware.com/, new game by the KoToR with an all new engine.
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