Xbox Revealed - Page 4

Null · 05-13-2005, 12:42 PM

lol. i dunno man, Sega's going to have to come up with something awful clever to compete with the ring of light.

something like, the never ending tube of light!

Dark Samurai · 05-13-2005, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

what do you mean either? nintendo? then true, neither Sony nor Nintendo has made thier unvealing.

So youre saying that I shouldve added the 'n'?

Because I did mean Sony and Nintendo...

Null · 05-13-2005, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Samurai

So youre saying that I shouldve added the 'n'?

Because I did mean Sony and Nintendo...

no, it was a question, the way you put it, because we're talking about MS and he started mentioning sony, you said that sony hasnt unvealed anything either. You made it sound like this wanst a real unvealing for MS.

so i was asking. im sure its easy to tell that I, of most people could care less about grammar.

Solid Snake · 05-13-2005, 12:59 PM

Sorry I would have posted earlier, but I was to busy burning everything Microsoft and had too many tears in my eyes to see the computer screen. PD0 looks like crap, what a huge let down I was soooo looking forward to that game. I am going to go take a cold shower now.

Null · 05-13-2005, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Sorry I would have posted earlier, but I was to busy burning everything Microsoft and had too many tears in my eyes to see the computer screen. PD0 looks like crap, what a huge let down I was soooo looking forward to that game. I am going to go take a cold shower now.

you should add a tear coming down her cheek in your sig, hehe

gekko · 05-13-2005, 01:54 PM

It's not the end of the world. At least we have wired controllers!

Well... 3 of them

I'll tell you what though, If I owned Windows Media Center Edition, I'd be all over this thing. But I don't, nor will I ever

EDIT: Actually, found a reason to buy this thing, or at least a controller. The controllers, connecting with USB 2.0, will work with PC games too.

Just as long as we don't have to reach those black and white buttons, we'll be good

Solid Snake · 05-13-2005, 03:14 PM

Ok... After my cold shower I have calmed down a little. I was thinking that maybe not all hope is lost for PDZ, so I was looking around on 1up's exclusive article of the game, and I actualy decided to read the article rather than just look at the screens.

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This is the caveat given as Botwood prepares to show off PDZ for the first time. Running on alpha Xbox 360 development kits (machines that possess only two of the three CPU cores in the final spec, as well as a run-of-the-mill ATI graphics card as opposed to the final, custom GPU set), the game is still very much a work-in-progress. But even at this stage, it's enough to see where they want to go with it.

So the game screens that we have seen may not be what the finished product will be like since it is only running at 2/3 power. Maybe they were just showing us those screens to trick us (doubt it). I really hope Rare can pull off something amazing in the next 6 months, but I'm not going to get my hopes up just to have them crushed again.

DarrenMcLeod · 05-13-2005, 03:46 PM

We're all laughing at Microsoft, but we have to remember that 90% of the gaming market doesn't pay attention to E3 or message boards, and a lot of casual gamers own XBox, and they probably are still salivating from that MTV program. It turned us away from it, sure, but for the average Joe, it was probably worth it.

Solid Snake · 05-13-2005, 04:13 PM

It's sad that the marketing departments for these companines don't try to appeal to the hardcore gamers like us. Even though we probably only repesented a small fraction of their aduience last night we are probably responsible for a big chunk of their business. The casual gamer is going to continue to buy a few games a year like the EA games with big names on the cover, while the hardcore gamers are the ones buying several games a year, subscribing to online services, making sure they have componet cables, dvd remotes, and steering wheels. Hardcore gamers are the ones paying attention to the crap that happened last night, the casual gamer probably didn't even know it was going to happen until he flipped the channel to MTV. I would be suprised if the people in the marketing departments actually bought and played through one or two games a year.

I will just try and forget what happened on MTV and pay attention to E3 where they know the only audience there are hardcore gamers.

Null · 05-13-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DarrenMcLeod

We're all laughing at Microsoft, but we have to remember that 90% of the gaming market doesn't pay attention to E3 or message boards, and a lot of casual gamers own XBox, and they probably are still salivating from that MTV program. It turned us away from it, sure, but for the average Joe, it was probably worth it.

E3 effects a lot more of the market then that statistic would suggest. 90% may not pay attention to E3, however they read the magazines, and websites, the news and info from E3 gets around to most of thoes gamers, even if they dont directly pay attention to E3, they still learn about it.

gekko · 05-13-2005, 04:47 PM

If Rare is using alpha development kits, that means just a few months before the console plans to launch, they still don't have final development kits out. Doesn't look good for Microsoft. And I'm sorry, but ATI makes some nice "run-of-the-mill" graphics cards.

Doom 3 was only shown at medium settings when it was revealed, but it sure looked 100x better than PD0, and that was a few years ago, with worse than a "run-of-the-mill" graphics card.