prophetik music

that was scary.

so, what was left to do on my track? i seem to remember you saying that you want a live guitarist. is there any way i can get around that thought? i kind of wanted this to be shreddage only.

oh. that's good to know. i guess i'll change careers from what i'm already doing. actually, there's no reason that they couldn't use the design information - everything from AP and EXP trees to damage ratios - as is. they use the engine from FFXIII ( if you thought i actually meant FFVII's engine), just like they're doing for FFXIII Versus, and they remodel the artwork (a significant portion of which they can nab from FFXIII, since reusing stuff like boxes and buildings is done pretty often) and rerig the characters. as for those articles, if you really think that escapist magazine is a great reference for something like this, YOU have no concept of what you're talking about =) not to mention that the main reason they cited for not doing an FFVII remake was because "the art would take a long time". oh, wait - didn't i hear about square hiring like forty more modelers and riggers recently? yeah, i think i did. they weren't linked to any specific project, either. huh. you might want to be a bit more careful when you make blanket statements like that.

seconded. asdfasdf

...or not, since stuff like the overworld and side quests is the entire point of the game. ff7 would be a relatively simple remake, mostly because the engine is already done. it's art and some basic programming, and voice acting. the design, which is a significant portion of the game's build time, is already done. so is the engine work.

money's a good point. kinect costs 150$ plus games, for up to four people. the move costs 50$ a person, plus the eye, plus the glasses since everything's going to be 3D. that's WAY more money right there.

i'm a little confused here. i read that the move is only going to cost 50$, and that's a big deal and that's why sony's presentation is so winrar. penny arcade put up an article that's pretty good, asking how much it'll cost after you've got a second controller, and the eye camera. that's about how much the kinect's going to cost, right? and, what about how expensive stereoscopic 3D glasses are? you'll need 2-4 pairs, probably, just to play with someone else. you get one with your tv if you buy it now. that's going to add up, too.

halo 3 is quite cheap in a used game store. or rent it, it's not that long (and the multiplayer gameplay without the ODST multi disc is going to be poor). gears 2 has been one of my favorite shooters, thanks to the addition of horde mode. i'm sure gears 3 will continue that trend. fable 2 is excellent fun. it's long enough to merit a purchase, and costs about 20$ in most game stores. now that the arcade unit's 150$, used sale prices will drop precipitously. i already could get an arcade for 130$ before this that still had a manufacturer's seal, so i'm assuming that'll drop to around 110$ or so. 20-30$ for a used 20g hard drive (unless you aren't going to be getting downloadable games, most of which are only ok but there are some real jewels) and you're set. at this point, i'd be incredibly surprised if the new slims had any hardware issues at all, really. the biggest bane of these systems is heat, and it's completely gone. beyond that, you've got simple stuff like true hardware failure (which is very unlikely nowadays, 3-5% for modern consoles over 3 years), disc drive failure (around the same, probably 2-3% over 3 years), and stuff like that. i'm not foreseeing a lot of issues.

this is where i start getting orders for systems. already got a few for sc2 when the beta came out, and i'm sure i'll get some for this too =)

i agree. although, what's the #1 thing to fail on Wiis and PS3s? the slot loader itself. plus, when your media is so scratchable, it's easy to get some grit in there and fry disc after disc.

that's a pretty shitty argument. how hard is it to not kick your 300$ entertainment computer? generally people don't kick their (expensive) TVs. can't you extend that to the console, too? not to mention kinect is wired on a 6-foot cable, so you can put the console off to the side.

lulz when you figure it out, let me know. i've been wanting to play those games again, but even on the psp screen they look like ass =(

holy shit MICROSOFT edit: thank god my new tv supports 3d. i'll definitely be utilizing that functionality with some of these games. twisted metal makes me very excited. too bad the move presentation was terrible - they were ADVERTISING that their motion controller had buttons. wasn't the whole point of a motion controller to NOT have buttons?

the nice thing is that the old units are discounted by 50$. buy an arcade unit for 150$ plus two games, and pick up a used hard drive for 30$. problem solved. the 360 can back up saves onto hard drives - even big-ass external hard drives - easily. that's how you transfer stuff between them. you can't save onto an external, or install a game to an external, but you can use them for file transport. like i said about the hard drives - they're not backwards-compatible because they're using a faster drive. this is a GOOD thing, people - not bad. there's no reason to buy another hard drive when the slim already comes with a 250gb one. whatever 360 you heard that was loud was at least 1.5-1.75 years old, since jaspers were released in q3 2008. nuff said.

no, i'm pretty sure that's wrong. i'm pretty sure you're allowed to play backups of games on a pc, as long as you own the game and system and both are in playable condition.

three reasons, chad. 1. your other stuff doesn't have a single-disc tray that comes out forward. the little metal tabs that cause this issue are in there to prevent the drive from being broken off or leaning down when it's extended. 2. your other stuff doesn't spin a quarter as fast as these drives. 3. your other stuff doesn't use dvd9 discs, which are possibly the most damageable discs known to man. oh, and schwaltz, take a kitchen knife and scratch it across your blu-ray disc. notice anything? yeah, that doesn't scratch it. blu-ray discs are made out of the hair of superman, and therefore you could have the ps3 loaded with satanic dolls chewing away at the disc while it's running and nothing would happen. that loud fan is from the launch models, in 2005. people need to give it up already, before they start sounding incredibly stupid parroting crap back that they heard before. my ps3 idling (ceche01) is much louder than both of my 360s running at the same time while spinning discs. did you really just bring up backwards compatibility? again, you don't know what you're talking about. you can play an xbox1 game on the 360, no sweat - you just can't play online anymore, since ms shut down the servers. the games function fine, though. why can't i play ps2 games on the ps3? your atari 2600 works as well as you do because it used less electricity than a wall clock. an xbox 360 is a cheap computer. it uses about 2000% more electricity. more electricity = more heat. more heat = fires. simple as that. why don't computers last as long as they used to? it amazes me how much people don't understand about the stuff that they use (or don't use) every day.

are you certain? if it wasn't, then wouldn't all emulator programmers have to cease and desist?

hey bleck, you don't know anything about what you're talking about...at all. maybe you should just say "i don't really like microsoft's products" and go away. os, i've known about the slims (as have most 360-based game studios) for about four months now, and to be honest there's a lot changed about them other than the glossy exterior, a bigger hard drive and wifi. the biggest change is the chipset update - the jasper chipset (65nm) kicked the RROD problem in the ass, with squaretrade reporting that in the two years that they've been out fewer than 1% have failed, of any problem. period. that's 600% less than PS3s and 500% less than wii's failure rate. now, they've unified the cpu and the gpu into one integrated chip, and made it with 45nm tech, which both reduces the power requirements by almost 40% (down from 203, 164, or 121 watts per version to around 80 or so) and reduces heat by ANOTHER 40% beyond the jasper. so what? so this system is half the volume while running, is cool enough to stack with other stereo components in a cabinet and have no ill effects (unlike the ps3 and the gamecube+), and uses 40% less power than the previous jasper model, 60% less than the slim, and about 10% less than your average HDTV. there's also the fact that they sped up the hard drive a little (spins around 7200rpm now instead of the 5900 that it has since inception), updated the disc drive, and updated the controller (shoulder buttons are more resilient now, triggers feel less stiff and last longer, and all the face buttons including the d-pad is more responsive). lastly, they integrated a significant amount of the power brick and interface plugs into the case, so the power jack's way smaller, and there's an optical plug built into the back now. so, that's what the slim is. i think i'll probably be getting it.

lots of misinformation running around in this thread. it IS legal to back up your psx bios, as long as your unit is fully functional. it IS legal to back up your games in .iso or other formats, as long as your unit is fully functional AND you still own the games. it IS legal to download backups for your games in .iso or other formats, as long as your unit is fully functional AND you still own the exact same version of the game.

this isn't actually totally true. if it was, then rom sites would be illegal, once and for all. you're allowed to download a version of your game as long as you own the discs/carts AND you own a working system AND it's the EXACT SAME version. so, if you own the original and there's a re-release on a different system, that's illegal. if you own the normal version and the platinum hits version includes a bit of extra content, that's illegal. but you can download the rom of Super Mario Kart if you own a working n64 and use it on your computer, no problem. edit: for those suggesting the PC versions, they're glitchy as hell on modern computers thanks to architecture changes and the simple fact that no one's using w98 anymore. it's rare that you can play the whole way through without it taking a dump a few times, too. ff7, particularly, is just a poorly done port, which is why ff8 sold so poorly and then why they didn't make ff9 on pc.

nice job noticing the title: E3: MICROSOFT. we know everyone here is a nintendo fanboy. we don't have to fanboy so much that we discuss their crap in threads completely unrelated to that. as a guy with both a ps3 and a 360, i really just don't like ps3's online play. it feels so much less streamlined. not to mention that for 35$ a year (no one really pays 50$ any more, they just wait for amazon's once-a-month sale) you get very smooth matchmaking that doesn't freak out and drop like psn's does all the time. not to mention stuff that's coming or here like hulu, espn, last.fm, twitter, facebook, and the complete integration with windows through the media center stuff. now that the new 360's got wifi built in, the primary reason anyone would want a ps3 is to get the exclusive games. i don't think there's that many anymore, either. edit: i just noticed toadofsky's post. does anyone else think that this is a gross understatement? i'm sure, dude, that you've never looked at what games your friends have played, or interacted with humans through the voice chat with 360 or text chat (do people really think that ps3 is more advanced if you don't even have cross-game voice-chat until three years into the life of the console still) on the ps3. that's ok. see, everyone else who owns a 360 has taken it online at least once unless they don't have a cable connection. so your majority of one can sit in the corner and enjoy yourself. i'll join the 21st century. have a nice time. edit 2: that came out wrong. i'm not trying to be mean, i'm trying to point out how ridiculous it is to buy a system that costs 300$ and a game that costs 60$ (with a majority of the development costs for both going into multiplayer connectivity) and then never use the online play. why would you even buy games, then? most of the games nowadays would be total ripoffs to you, since there are very few games that are worth the price for the single-player campaign only.

oh, totally =) don't get me wrong - the kinect isn't going to sell on the order of the wii or the ps3. it is, however, going to be probably one of the best-selling "accessory" units ever, behind the motion plus. that's why it's cool, and a big deal. let's wait and see if they make decent games for it, or if it turns out to be more "eye of judgment" crap.

no one cares about the uber-ds. i don't think a console's portable when it's the size of your torso. rising isn't 360 only, but it's being developed lead on 360. that means that it'll look way better on 360, then PC, then PS3 last. lead consoles always blow away the ported console. not to mention that, thanks to this conference, you can now get a 360 for 150$. which is a better price point than any other console - including stuff like the go and the newer DS models.

i think you're all missing something here. MS is the only one of the big three to release new hardware. sure, sony'll show the Move camera again (or whatever they're calling it now), but Kinect represents the first time you're going fully controllers-off on big-name games. plus a new console refresh, which sony proved was enough to take the show last time. plus GOW3, MGS:R, COD: Black Ops, halo: reach, and the crytek teaser. i don't see sony able to bring up that many big-name games. GOW has sold what, 15 million from two games? plus exclusive content for COD, first MGS game on a system other than sony's, crytek's first game in a year or two for a console, and halo reach which will probably sell 10m easy. awesome presentation, i think.

got one coming your way. i knew i had a wave somewhere, just took forever to find it.