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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20728 |  HeadRusch (106) Aug 01, 2008 - 10:11 pm
| » Someone Wake Me..
...when John Carmack and ID release something that isn't a glorified Tech Demo. The normal course of action since the days after Doom has been "lets release a shitty FPS on a really cool engine, and then let a 3rd party developer license the engine and actually make a good game out of the thing".
Congratulations....the PS3 finally has justification for having BD. This makes....one game and counting.
Doom 3 was great until you realized, from the first level to the last, it was exactly the same thing. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20705 | HeadRusch (106) Jul 24, 2008 - 05:40 am
| » Nintendo is the new Atari
This is exactly what killed the 2600 Atari Empire. Even with Coleco and Mattell having better looking systems on the market, Atari died because it began drowning in shovelware. Suddenly the A+ titles were loss in the crowd and people abandoned the system as "just more shovelware".
Nintendo has effectively turned the gamecube into a machine that plays Beer Pong, Frisbee Toss and turned FPS's into Light-Gun "Lethal Enforcers" type shooters. Driving games need not apply. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20555 | HeadRusch (106) Jun 12, 2008 - 07:37 am
| » What a bunch of whiney fucktards
I love you guys who are "Mine Broke, so I got it replaced free and then sold it, screw microsoft!"
What kind of RETARDED position is that to take? Yeah, Microsoft screwed up. Yeah, they finally acknowledged it (so their stock and consumer confidence wouldn't tank). THEY FIX THEM ALL, for FREE....AND KEEP DOING SO. WTF are you whiney-ass crybabies STILL going on about?
So....your free exchange wasn't enough, you said "I don't WANT to play on LIVE and I don't WANT a huge selection of decent games because Microsoft made my system kinda crappy, and I'm an angry young person who has nothing ELSE to take a stand for except..well...WELL BUILT CONSOLES! NEYYYAAH!"
What a bunch of absolute tools.....can't wait till you guys grow up and have REAL stuff fail on you, like crap that matters that you can't get fixed FREE :P Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20477 | HeadRusch (106) May 21, 2008 - 04:15 pm
| » You can't beat Vice City. Period.
....Vice City remains the best game in the series because its the one that they seemed to put the most effort into. The celebrity voices, the diverse music channels, the use of the same celebs on the funny radio commercials, and the game never once stopped to take itself seriously....and of course the setting and soundtrack were just perfect.
San Andreas was such a huge letdown for me...I can see what they wanted to do but it was just too much nonsense, and I got tired of being a hoodrat pretty quickly in the game.
But VC, it was like a Miami Vice episode with kooky, over-the-top characters. How could you not laugh when Burt Reynolds or Lee Majors or Gary Busey are the guys giving you these crazy orders.....GTA4 captures on that more than San Andreas did.....
GTA4 has its funny parts, and I like the characters so far, but as a game its already taking itself a little too seriously...and I agree, some of the slow motion executions really seem to take me out of the moment...they just seem, I dunno, inappropriate for the overal vibe of the game. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20464 | HeadRusch (106) May 15, 2008 - 04:04 pm
| » You could have bought a PS3
Sony said that their PS3 was going to be like no other console, that it was going to remain a viable system for at least 10 years!
Of course nobody at the time knew how right they were, since its apparrantly going to take at least FIVE FUCKING YEARS for decent quality games to come out for the thing :D
"Killzone 2, 2009...Killzone 3, coming soon in 2015!"
Oh yes..Gran Turismo PSP.....wonder how many people are waiting for that one, eh? :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20401 | HeadRusch (106) Apr 25, 2008 - 08:50 am » Edited on Apr 25, 2008 - 08:54 am
| » Nintendo first in systems, and last in games
Nintendo will easily win in console sales, but its games are almost all crap, it has a terrible attach rate, or they are leftover Gamecube games "retooled" for the silly 3D controller. The Nintendo Wii is to games what Jerry Bruckheimer is to movies...make it dumb, simple and everyone will buy one. Way to go Nintendo.
The PS3 will eventually outsell the 360 because of its BD drive, but that was expected since Microsoft will have a 360 replacement in a few years, but the PS3 is expected to remain on the shelves for another 8+ years.
The 360 is still the best system to own yesterday, today, and largely tomorrow as its got the most robust selection of good games and a bulletproof online component.
Nintendo is eventually going to be the system where the only games you can buy that are any good come directly from Nintendo, kinda like the cube, only this time around it REALLY seems to be the case. I mean the big "winning Nintendo strategy" now seems to be to port over every successful DS game into a Wii version, and vice versa.
I can't really complain too much, however, because all of my favorite PS3/360 games are rehashes of games I played already on previous generations anyhow :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20317 | HeadRusch (106) Apr 06, 2008 - 11:51 am
| » You guys have missed the point..
The problem with vista is that it doesn't do anything BETTER, in fact...it does most things slightly WORSE.
Software doesn't seem to run any better on it, it takes up more resources for negligible or negative gain.
DX10 is a joke, no GPU's can push it at high rez and none appear to be able to do so that are currently on the horizon (if the 980)GTX is a bust we're all doomed for another year at least).
I want this product why? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19968 | HeadRusch (106) Mar 13, 2008 - 01:20 pm
| » I love it..one month and now the 360 is doomed
So long as games keep appearing on the 360, Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
Sony, on the other hand, still has almost nothing but BD movies and cross-platform ports going for it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4460 | HeadRusch (106) Mar 07, 2008 - 04:40 pm
| Yeah the reason most people never "got" watchmen is because its really just a murder mystery that happens to involve people in costumes. Its pretty boring if you ask me, and not nearly as deep as most fanboys like to make it out to be.
Marshal Law books are more interesting if you want to read about Superheros going rogue and having to have someone hunt them down ;)
I told a buddy of mine today that every time I look at pictures of WATCHMEN characters, I can't help but think..."Mystery Men II".
Old comic nerds are like the only people that are going to get what this movie is supposed to be about. Yes I count myself among those ranks (I haven't bought a book in 15 years however), and even I am skeptical.
Whats next...Secret Wars?
Hmmm..ok that would probably be cool. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19855 | HeadRusch (106) Mar 06, 2008 - 08:03 am
| » Its simple math..
Studios have been selling DVD's at tremendous profit for the past 10 years or so, mostly the past 5 years. That well is drying up. They have released many of their big-budget pictures 2, 3, 4 times already and people just aren't buying. Their second tier releases dont sell nearly as well as the big bugdet films.
Theatre movies aren't generally that profitable. So the only way to get more cheap revenue for the studios is by relesing on a NEW format, get people to re-buy all the stuff they arleady own on DVD.
With two formats, MOST consumers wont jump in.
They will "wait until one format wins". That means less people to buy movies. MEANWHILE those people are getting bombarded with ON DEMAND ads..........that means the studios are running out of time to ESTABLISH a new format before they lose more and more people to downloads.
So now the studios have made the choice for us. With a winner, more people will now buy BD drives.....which means more potential sales for the studios. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19033 | HeadRusch (106) Jan 09, 2008 - 02:53 pm » Edited on Jan 09, 2008 - 02:54 pm
| » Truly Amusing
"This is Comcast Security..we've noticed you've downloaded more than 300gigs of data yesterday. Even though it only took you about 3 hours, we consider that excessive usage and if you dont cut back, we're going to ban you..."
:P
So basically, its just to boot people off their network quicker. :D Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18998 | HeadRusch (106) Jan 07, 2008 - 10:17 am
| » Funny
The player is sitting too far away for this monitor to count as "peripheral vision", nor is the curve extreme enough.
Now, if this wrapped around your head....that would be something :)
Soon all monitors will attach to the back of your chair and drop down around your head like a gigantic donut, or toilet-bowl seat! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18677 | HeadRusch (106) Dec 10, 2007 - 02:05 pm
| | And if you haven't tried it, MOH:Airborne is actually a pretty damned good WW2 FPS. Instead of levels that are linear and have loads between them, MOH:Airborne lets you parachute into one big level..there are six or seven big levels, I forget, and you have to accomplish objectives across each one. The last 2 or 3 are VERY interesting, because you chute in the game is very vertical...land on top of buildings, etc, etc. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18588 | HeadRusch (106) Dec 06, 2007 - 06:43 am
| Michael Bay isn't as bad as that nimrod Joel Schumacher, hell I'd rather watch a MB film than anything by M. Night Salamiman at this point.
Miami Vice was actually a damn good movie, particularly if you liked the TV show, since half of the movie was based on one of the best episodes from the series.
Armageddon was one of the best brain-dead Sci-Fi flicks ever made, a true popcorn classic.
But I do have to agree that he's very 50/50...Pearl Harbor was straight-up atrocious.
Its like asking John Woo to make a Pearl Harbor film, with GI's flying through the air in slow-mo shooting Akimbo Colt .45's at incoming Zero's :P Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18428 | HeadRusch (106) Nov 22, 2007 - 06:56 pm
| Either that or members of the Romantics are tired of playing Birthday Parties and State Fairs and eager to make a few quick bucks while the iron is still hot :)
Go back and listen to "talking in your sleep", that guy has the worst lisp I've ever heard in a song :D It helps if you watch the video.
"I smell..the things you've had to eat....When you're farting in your sleep" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18338 | HeadRusch (106) Nov 16, 2007 - 06:27 am
| Please don't bring this up....GI Joe and Transformers were ripped off the air and replaced by Asstacular shows like "Saved by the Bell" thanks in large part to the "30 minute commercial" crackdown that you reference above.
I mean, for gods sake, GI Joe and Cobra would have 10,000 round firefights in every freakin episode and NOBODY EVER GOT HIT. WHATS THE PROBLEM!? :D Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18318 | HeadRusch (106) Nov 14, 2007 - 06:04 pm
| » Wii makes sense...other systems? Why...
I'd rather they just penned a new movie, forget a video game.
I mean, seriously...what type of game is it..its either a first or third person shooter right? Is your only weapon the Proton Pack? Whats the hook.....
Ghostbusters is rolling up on..what...25 years old pretty soon I think, and while it was an utterly fantastic film (and remains so to this day), the second one was atrocious made-for-kids drek.
If Akroyd and Ramis are penning the script, are they aiming it at the mature 30-somethings who grew up with the first movie, or are they aiming it at the Wii owning kids who aren't even going to know about the movies, let alone the cartoon series that came afterwards... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18231 | HeadRusch (106) Nov 08, 2007 - 05:58 pm
| » I think most sane people..
..will just buy both. Its what I did, its what others will do.
I'm sick to 'effing DEATH of whine-baby sites like TheDigitalBits just endlessly whining over and over about the dreaded "format war", how its ruining it for everyone, blah blah blah.
HDDVD and BD will continue to be like LaserDisc was for years, this kinda oddball technology that only rich people had..until one thing happens: DVDS GO AWAY.
Until that time most people are still blown away by how DVD looks and sounds. And half of the people who own DVD players have only owned them for a few years, and now they are supposed to rush out and buy a new format?
DVD looks amazingly good even at 100" or more....its just irritating listening to websites pontificate about a format war and how its all HDDVD or BD's fault and so on.
Its like..get over yourselfs, buy both and enjoy both. If one format dies, so what, its not like your collection of movies will suddenly be useless :P Flag this | Edit this post |
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