Geek S**T NUMBER 5

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[quote]waldo21212 wrote:
I just played Wipeout HD (one of my free welcome back to psn games) and anyone who’s not sure what free games to get, I would highly recommend Wipeout. It’s one of the best arcade racers I’ve ever played. Kinda mad I haven’t played it until now, but I have so many disc based games I haven’t really had time to buy a bunch of stuff from the psn store.[/quote]

No kidding. There are a ton of sweet games on Xbox Arcade and PSN that Ihave ignored for a long time. I bought a bunch for 50% off back in March. I was really digging Tomb Raider: Gaurdian of the Light. Now I’m looking forward to Torchlight and a couple others.

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You guys see the new quad core Sony Playstation Vita?

Holy motherfuck. If it’s truly $249 at launch, I will pick one up…well, so long as storing/downloading games is convenient. If they lock me into some bullshit Sony memory stick, they can go to hell.

Look at those graphics. Shit.

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[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Several of my buddies from way back when telling me that the new Duke Nukem sucks big time. And those were guys I used to play DN3D deathmatch against in class, approximately a billion years ago.

Dungeon Siege 3… Really that bad? Oh well. I thought the second one was already suspiciously lacking in graphics power (esp. considering that the series started out as a graphics powerhouse, sort of), but I had fun with it until I got to the damn desert.
Anyway… DS3 wasn’t really on my radar to begin with, oh well.

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i just tried the demo and couldn’t play more than 5 minutes without getting bored.

Maybe i’m just over medieval rpgs for a while

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
E3 sucking hard!

i will just wait for tgs[/quote]

WTF is up with the new Nintendo controller?

Looks ridiculous.[/quote]

I think the controller is a step in the direction gaming will go.

  • ill preface by card collecting game, I mean like using sd cards. And this is a very rough idea.

a card collecting game - lets say pokemon since everyone here is slightly familiar. anyway your sitting at a table, playing against someone else and you throw a card down and out comes a holographic pickachu, the person oppisite throws down a charmander card and they both battle right in front of you. No needing to look through a screen as the information about the pokemon is contained on that card.

you could walk around with a device like for example an iphone that has a camera that displays the room your looking at and you might see a pokemon in the corner of the room so you throw down your pokemon card and it appears on this screen ready to battle the computer one. Obviously different enviroments have different types of pokemon but to capture it you put down another card that the game recognizes as a pokeball and if you capture the pokemon it’s saved on that card.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You guys see the new quad core Sony Playstation Vita?

Holy motherfuck. If it’s truly $249 at launch, I will pick one up…well, so long as storing/downloading games is convenient. If they lock me into some bullshit Sony memory stick, they can go to hell.

Look at those graphics. Shit.[/quote]

Amazon already has it up for pre-order at the $249 price. I don’t like the idea of digital only games, but other than that and the dumb name it looks awesome.

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[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Several of my buddies from way back when telling me that the new Duke Nukem sucks big time. And those were guys I used to play DN3D deathmatch against in class, approximately a billion years ago

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I stand by my earlier post that it is going to be a shitty game and I will not be getting it. WAY to much hype for it and they even delayed releasing it to possibly create more hype.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You guys see the new quad core Sony Playstation Vita?

Holy motherfuck. If it’s truly $249 at launch, I will pick one up…well, so long as storing/downloading games is convenient. If they lock me into some bullshit Sony memory stick, they can go to hell.

Look at those graphics. Shit.[/quote]

Honestly, I think that is exactly what they should be doing with the next ‘PSP’.

It’s fast, looks good, touch-screen back and front and digital onlhy games is the way forward. No more stupid discs and what not.

I’m very impressed, although I personally have very little use for one.

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Watch them put some measley 2 GB internal storage and say, “most games are 500 MB at most!” (3 games storage because system takes up space, too) and then make the consumer purchase Sony Mem Sticks, and likely a NEW format that’s expensive compared to SDXC or even existing Sony Mem Sticks.

Man, corporations should be ashamed of their predictability.

If they REALLY want to impress, they should score some deal with AT&T to offer free 3G the way the Amazon Kindle has free 3G via Sprint’s network. Not sure why they couldn’t sample 2nd gen LTE chips to run Verizon’s stupid fast 4G; it gets like 12-20 MBps, faster than most cable modems in America.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Watch them put some measley 2 GB internal storage and say, “most games are 500 MB at most!” (3 games storage because system takes up space, too) and then make the consumer purchase Sony Mem Sticks, and likely a NEW format that’s expensive compared to SDXC or even existing Sony Mem Sticks.

Man, corporations should be ashamed of their predictability.

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You’re probably right. After all Sony has been through lately, they’d do well do surprise the consumers with either large internal storage or a variety of models (such as the PS3 offers).

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[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
Fuck Kinect, I would bet my left testicle that the delay in ME3’s release is due to Kinect incorporation. Yay voice commands! Wait…you mean I can just use the buttons on the controller like I did last time? Oh…but VOICE yay!

And I seem to remember needing to be fairly precise in who I wanted my teammates to hit with their powers, not just being able to shout, “Liara, singularity!” Time will tell if that gets hammered out, but I’m not shelling out money for the Kinect either way. [/quote]

I disagree, I think they can make Kinect very cool. Look what they’re doing with Ghost Recon.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2845/

If they doesn’t look cool, you are not a true geek. Sure, it may not appeal to everyone, but I love how they’re innovating with it.

All they need to improve is the accuracy of the Kinect itself (I believe it currently runs at 320x240, whereas the cameras are capable of 640x480 which would [supposedly] improve it up to 4x).

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]kaisermetal wrote:
E3 sucking hard!

i will just wait for tgs[/quote]

WTF is up with the new Nintendo controller?

Looks ridiculous.[/quote]

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220067/updated-e3-new-nintendo-console-is-wii-u-controller-is-a-tablet/

I haven’t been excited for anything Nintendo has done since Golden Eye, Turok, and Perfect Dark on the N64. However, if Okami or No More Heroes came out for Xbox I would play them.

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All I know is I am pretty excited to get my hand on Battlefield 3. Looks absolutely amazing and still has what I love in Battlefield Bad Company 2. I moved onto this game from Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Two DIFFERENT games but Battlefield grabs me to play more.

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[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
All I know is I am pretty excited to get my hand on Battlefield 3. Looks absolutely amazing and still has what I love in Battlefield Bad Company 2. I moved onto this game from Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Two DIFFERENT games but Battlefield grabs me to play more. [/quote]

The one thing I would say is to not get your hopes up too high if you plan to play it on the 360 or ps3…all of the footage I’ve seen so far has been on a PC. I’m waiting to see if the console versions look extremely dumbed down or not.

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[quote]waldo21212 wrote:

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You guys see the new quad core Sony Playstation Vita?

Holy motherfuck. If it’s truly $249 at launch, I will pick one up…well, so long as storing/downloading games is convenient. If they lock me into some bullshit Sony memory stick, they can go to hell.

Look at those graphics. Shit.[/quote]

Amazon already has it up for pre-order at the $249 price. I don’t like the idea of digital only games, but other than that and the dumb name it looks awesome.[/quote]

I’m confused…all of that and no phone?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]waldo21212 wrote:

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You guys see the new quad core Sony Playstation Vita?

Holy motherfuck. If it’s truly $249 at launch, I will pick one up…well, so long as storing/downloading games is convenient. If they lock me into some bullshit Sony memory stick, they can go to hell.

Look at those graphics. Shit.[/quote]

Amazon already has it up for pre-order at the $249 price. I don’t like the idea of digital only games, but other than that and the dumb name it looks awesome.[/quote]

I’m confused…all of that and no phone?

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What do you mean? They have the PS Phone, which runs on Android. It’s nothing special compared to what’s already out there.

Or did you mean integrated?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

I’m confused…all of that and no phone?

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It reminds you of deals on steaks at Krogers. You can even reserve steaks through the handheld.

I would rather it NOT be a phone. I’m tired of integrated devices; all those components suck more juice and battery tech isn’t exactly advancing instep with all other tech.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

I’m confused…all of that and no phone?

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It reminds you of deals on steaks at Krogers. You can even reserve steaks through the handheld.

I would rather it NOT be a phone. I’m tired of integrated devices; all those components suck more juice and battery tech isn’t exactly advancing instep with all other tech.[/quote]

There’s an inverse relationship between the number of functions of a multifunction device and the quality of experience/degree of utility that that individual function brings.

i.e…phone, music player, camera, storage device? There’s little chance that every one of those functions is executed flawlessly. Yes, there are exceptions. No, you don’t get points for mentioning them, because I’m talking about trends, bell curves.

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[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

I’m confused…all of that and no phone?

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It reminds you of deals on steaks at Krogers. You can even reserve steaks through the handheld.

I would rather it NOT be a phone. I’m tired of integrated devices; all those components suck more juice and battery tech isn’t exactly advancing instep with all other tech.[/quote]

There’s an inverse relationship between the number of functions of a multifunction device and the quality of experience/degree of utility that that individual function brings.

i.e…phone, music player, camera, storage device? There’s little chance that every one of those functions is executed flawlessly. Yes, there are exceptions. No, you don’t get points for mentioning them, because I’m talking about trends, bell curves.[/quote]

I agree with not having too much in one device. They really need to work on improving the battery lives of all these upcoming devices next, the company that gets it right first will have a very strong product on their hands, provided the rest of the experience is up to scratch.

Saying that, I think Apple is actually in a good position to use something like Apple TV and Airplay to make it’s own type of console that could work directly from the iPhone.

Once you get around a battery life, if you can get the graphic power of a console from a mobile device like the PSV, you can turn that into a mobile console that pushes your gameplay onto a TV for something rather compelling.

On a side note, I just bought a new TV that should be turning up tomorrow, to replace my Bravia. A 46" Samsung LED with Smart TV.

I’m REALLY looking forward to being able to stream all my videos wirelessly via DLNA, and my goal is to completely replace my cable TV.

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Looks like I spoke too soon:

If Apple gets in on the console market, they will gain a strong position in the market very quickly. MS needs to step it up and get their upcoming products to market ASAP.

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[quote]RSGZ wrote:

I’m REALLY looking forward to being able to stream all my videos wirelessly via DLNA, and my goal is to completely replace my cable TV.[/quote]

Soooooo…

You are saying that I could watch tv episodes I have downloaded on a 40+ inches flatscreen via the magic of W-Lan?