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  1. Posted

    Looks like I'm officially addicted to COD3 Multiplayer now that they've finally fixed the ranked match connection issues. I might even buy those new maps... expensive as they are! This is the first game I've really got into the multiplayer side of on Xbox360, all the other games I've tried have been really difficult to get into a game (lost connections, game is full, server disconnected etc).

    I hope the forthcoming "secret" addition to GoW adds some better matchmaking code so I can move on to that once I've exhausted COD3.

  4. Posted

    I earned that ages ago mate. :D

     

    No probs, I got the one for complaining about the release of Link to the Past in the Virtual Console... only 5 gs for that though! :D

     

    So it looks like no arcade release tomorrow then, that's two in a row if you don't count the lumines addons last week.

     

    From the list of upcoming games i like the look of all of them except luxor and catan. Though i don't know anything about the original catan board game so it might be the best thing ever. Eets on the PC was a pretty cool, lemmings/incredible machine hybrid so the Xbox version might be cool.

  5. Posted

    Crackdown is my next purchase(my opinion has changed since i played the demo again). I recommend getting a subscription to one of the game rental places, 15-20 a month for all the games you want (2 at a time). It's saved me a ton of money last year and also allowed me to play some really fun games I'd never want to spend 40 quid on due to length of gameplay.

  8. Posted

    Am I the only one not that thrilled with Crackdown? Admittedly I've only played it for about 15 minutes but all i seemed to do is go to the flashing area, lock on and shoot a load of easy guys, then shoot the "leader" for about a minute until his energy fell to zero. Then i went for a wander and ended up under a bridge and facing a long run to somewhere populated to pick up a car. Maybe I should try it again but it didn't really amaze me that much.

  9. Posted

    How much do points cost? Plus what should I be buying off of Live when I get my 360 at the weekend?

     

    Just download the demos of all the arcade games you like the look of, play them and if you want to play them again, buy them.

     

    However, my pick of the bunch are Geometry Wars, Cloning Clyde, Uno and Pac Man. Opinions on the arcade differ wildly.

  11. Posted

    Just jumping into this one from a programmers perspective:

     

    Well let's analyse shall we:

     

    To make a port of mgs4 to the 360, it would need a COMPLETE rebuild (Resi 4 Style)

     

    Not exactly, the vast majority of the game code, including most of the game engine, AI code and event handling could be kept the only major changes would be in the I/O side, namely the conversion of the graphic rendering to direct x (relatively simple these days), tuning of the shaders against the different graphics hardware, sound output and controller input and tuning. This might sound a lot but Konami know what they're doing so will probably have pre written libraries for this stuff already. The main point here is that possibly 95% of the code in MSG4 (or any other game) is engine and game logic which is almost entirely Console independant making ports much simpler.

     

    Now as far as im aware Hideo Kojima wants to stop making MGS games, which is why he wants to end it at number 4. Then he wants to get on with some new projects. I hardly think he is going to be considerate to over zealous people and concentrate on a port.

     

    He has never made a multiplatform game. He won't anytime soon.

     

    Konami own the rights to the software and so could assign anyone to perform a straight no-frills port without anyones approval. Given the current sales figures it would be a wise business decision to release MGS4 on 360 if possible as it could perform just as well as GoW and sell millions in a short space of time.

     

    And finally, on the 6 disc thing, I hope that most of the cut scenes are in-engine and therefore the game should easily fit on a single disk.

  12. Posted

    The Vast Majority of Demos are released globally. If there's any sort of violence it's usually not available in germany and sometimes if it's a non ea american sport game it only comes out in North America.

    I think it's pretty certain it's be out in the UK on that date.

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    I was gonna say that about the graphical look. Also on Mario Allstars you could save your game everytime you finished a level or a section so you didn't have to use warps and could play through the whole game.

     

    Is the save feature there on the VC titles?

     

    Oh, and Mario Allstars was the greatest console release of all time. Never before and never since do I think there has been such a great compilation of killer titles. Yeah, I know people are gonna say the Zelda Collector's Edition, but that missed LTTP and it wasn't available to buy.

     

    There is no save game slot within the game, just the save state thing that happens to all VC games.

     

    I bought SMB the other day so i could be reminded of the good old days. I will however not be buying smb2 or 3, just hoping that they release all stars as i'd want to have the save slots for those games so i can replay some of the cool levels. Also this will probably be the only way we can play the real SMB2 anyway.

  14. Posted

    Gah the last boss on Gears of War contradicts the rest of the game. Its been easy up until now.

     

    I got lucky with the final boss, he ended up getting stuck against a crate and couldn't move, so all i had to do was blast away at him at my leisure!

  17. Posted

    Speak for yourself :p

    Whats the next big Wii game?

     

    Some (maybe most) would say Excite Truck but I'm not too impressed by the sound of it. Not too keen on Driving games at the best of times but this one looks a little empty with not many features.

     

    Also (and I might get flamed for this) I reckon driving games are pretty much the only genre where raw horse-power of the console really does matter most. My optinion is that the graphics, physics and AI are the main selling point of driving games and in this regard any I decide to get will most likely be on the Xbox360. There's not even the controller issue either if you decide to fork out for the driving wheel thing.

     

    Anyway, next big games for me are Eledees and Trauma Center (if there's ever a confirmed release date)

  18. Posted

    But a firmware is extremely hard to explain. My nephew had trouble pinpointing it oo, but he could asure me it isn't an OS. The best way to view a firmware is a driver - that's what he said. but not literally. it's not a BIOS at all. A BIOS is a BIOS, a firmware is different from that. It's extremely hard to define, but it isn't a BIOS or and OS. It's sort-of-a driver.

     

    Maybe I should just let this one go, and ask you to look up Firmware in Wikipedia.

     

    Bottom line, Firmware is a method of storing programs, machine readable code, operating instructions, whatever you want to call the 0s and 1s that computers read. Therefore firmware can technicaly hold any sort of program. In Windows PCs it's the BIOS, on the Xbox360 it's the Dashboard + Drivers. On the Wii, it's the OS (whatever it is officially called) and the drivers.

  20. Posted

    Here some clarification about firmware and OS: A firmware is like a driver, like I said before. It 'drives' the CD or DVD inserted and no more than that. It translates the codes of the discs into images, literally. it can do this with any type of media, though. An Operating System is changable and can be interacted with. An OS doesn't jus trun a CD or a DVD, it interprets it and has many other uses, like Wii CHannels has. That's a little more clarification.

     

    Not exactly. Firmware is software written in a flash device in the hardware. The software could be anything but is typically some sort of low level device management software (e.g. BIOS). In the Wii's case, the OS is stored in firmware along with other device drivers for the peripherals and media storage. Updates to the firmware of a Wii could change the OS, the device drivers or both.

  21. Posted

    Looks like they renamed it because if you translate "Et les bites" (which is pronounced Eh leh beets) from French to English you get..... (wait for it....) ..... "And The Cocks" (as in "Penis").

     

    So, Nintendo Europe had to market a game in France called "And the Cocks" for the Wii....

     

    So they renamed it!

  23. Posted

    Outside of Wario Ware, there's bugger all released for me Q1 then... a little dissapointing but I can't remember a contole launch that had many decent releases post launch in the first half year anyway.

     

    I guess I'm playing the waiting game, and hoping that the quality games will ramp up as time goes by.

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