gamingeek said:

Why is Morgan from Chuck there???

Dvader said:

ONE WIN FROM A CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I am going to the next game!!!

Basketball?

Whatever it is best of luck.

Dvader said:

Yup, Lebron and the Heat are one win away.

Will be awesome to be there.

I am finally going to start Halo 3. I need a recap on what happened in Halo 2 been years since I played it. From what I found on youtube MC and the arbiter get tenticle raped by some plant monster that speaks for the flood and says something about all the halos needing to be destroyed. And the gorillas are bad, elities are good and stupid floating chair guys are religous freaks. Whatever I will figure it out.

Dvader said:

I am finally going to start Halo 3. I need a recap on what happened in Halo 2 been years since I played it. From what I found on youtube MC and the arbiter get tenticle raped by some plant monster that speaks for the flood and says something about all the halos needing to be destroyed. And the gorillas are bad, elities are good and stupid floating chair guys are religous freaks. Whatever I will figure it out.

Arbiter gets raked over the coals by the Architects (the zealots). The zealots turn to the gorillas to do their muscle work. You have to go to a place to shoot shit up. That was the story as I understood it in Halo 3 (and I played it this year for the second time). Oh, and the mouthy Navi thing (I think her name is Cornelia or Odessa) is mouthier than usual.

SteelAttack said:

What?

Is that a pic from someone elses FB page or is that yours?

bugsonglass said:

Spent all afternoon in bed in a state of sweaty delirium thanks to a 40+ temperature.  Wanted to play 3DS but thought better of it

I would be in a cold bath of water.

edgecrusher said:

Never consider it.

The design doc from 2010 has Xbox 720 with Kinect 2.0 built in.

Dvader said:

Why is Morgan from Chuck there???

And the guy from Heroes, Ando was it?

U Will Support Used Games


First party games in 1080p.

This Moffit guy does not know what he is talking about. Nintendo's first party games at E3 were confirmed at 720p, because they were also running at 60 frames per second.

FAMITSU reviews

- Pokémon Noir et Blanc 2 - NDS – 10/9/9/8 – (36/40)

- Atelier Ayesha - PS3 – 9/8/9/8 – (34/40)

- Project Zero 2 - Wii – 8/9/8/9 – (34/40)

- Culdcept - 3DS – 8/8/8/8 – (32/40)

- Generation of Chaos 6 - PSP – 8/8/8/8 – (32/40)

- .hack Versus - PS3 – 8/8/8/7 – (31/40)

- Jake Hunter - 3DS – 7/7/7/8 – (29/40)

- Strike Witches - PSP – 7/7/7/6 – (27/40)

Looks like EA just Wii 1ed the Wii U:

EA said:

Are EA's mystery Wii U titles sports related?

Telegraph interview with Executive Vice President of the EA Games label Patrick Söderlund...


T: What about on a professional level. Will we see most of EA's franchises appearing on Wii U?


PS: EA are supporting the Wii U, we have Mass Effect and we're working on the sports titles. Then we'll look at Wii U as any other platform, we'll look at viability versus performance of the market and if it makes sense for us to be on the WiiU, we'll be on the Wii U, of course.

So an old port that wont sell, a couple of sports games no one wants and then, they'll see. Welcome to the world of Wii 1.

gamingeek said:

edgecrusher said:

How exactly do you even "build in" a camera into a games console? So you have to have the console directly under the TV?

I suppose they could do that. When I said built in I meant bundled in with every console, so it would be like it is now.

Then I am not buying one....at least until its real cheap and has like 4 Halo titles.

gamingeek said:

What?

Is that a pic from someone elses FB page or is that yours?

No, somebody else. I lifted it from GAF.

Carmack: next-gen visuals "will be what we already have, but a lot better"


"In many ways I am not all that excited about the next generation."


Some gamers and game developers are crying out for the next-generation of consoles in the hope they will herald significant advances in graphics.


But games programming legend John Carmack remains unconvinced.


"When people ask how tapped out is the current console generation, PCs are 10 times as powerful but you really are still not technically limited," he told GamesIndustry International at E3.

"Any creative vision that a designer could come up with, we can do a pretty good job representing on current generation and certainly on PC. In many ways I am not all that excited about the next generation. It will let us do everything we want to do now, with the knobs turned up."


Amid leaked Xbox 720 strategy documents and rumoured tech specs one thing is certain: the next-generation will bring with it improved visuals. But just how improved?


Developers Eurogamer has spoken with indicate graphics achieved on high-end PCs using the DirectX 11 standard provide a good indication of what we'll see on the next consoles from Microsoft and Sony.

One improvement many gamers are hoping for is games running at 60 frames per second in 1080p natively. But Carmack, whose programming smarts helped make last year's FPS Rage achieve a super smooth 60fps throughout, cast doubt on this becoming a reality.


"If you take a current game like Halo which is a 30 hertz game at 720p; if you run that at 1080p, 60 frames with high dynamic frame buffers, all of a sudden you've sucked up all the power you have in the next-generation," he said.

"It will be what we already have, but a lot better. You will be able to redesign with a focus on D11, but it will not really change anyone's world. It will look a lot better, it will move towards the movie rendering experience and that is better and better, but it's not like the first time you've ever played an FPS. It won't be like putting yourself in the virtual world. All the little things you can do on that, such as playing an audio cue over here, and turning your attention to that. That will be more of the discontinuous step like we've had with first going to 3D or first using a mouse."


Carmack's comments came as part of a demo of his homebrew stereoscopic virtual reality headset, which has a motion sensor stuck to it to allow it to track your head movements. This, he said, could make a big difference to the experience of playing games, in the same way Nintendo's Wii introduced motion control.

"Sony and Microsoft are going to fight over gigaflops and teraflops and GPUs and all this," he said. "In the end, it won't make that much difference. When you get to this (VR headset), it makes a really big difference in the experience. Nintendo went and brought motion into the gaming sphere and while only having a tenth of the processing power was able to outsell all of them in all of these ways. I think someone has an opportunity to do this here. It takes a whole ecosystem though, but it is almost perfect."

Thoughts?

How big of a role to play do graphics have to play for PS4 and Nextbox? If we are literally just talking graphics, assume everything is the same as 360 and PS3 in services, controllers etc.

Have there been any big breakthroughs in graphics in the past 5 years? I remember that normal mapping and HDR came out end of the Xbox cycle.

How will you feel if the graphics we see from Nextbox and PS4 don't blow your socks off and do just look like DX11 PC as it stands? No 60 FPS 1080p either?