Posts by Kosmo

  • Sony makes a bold move to push it's console..

    Some Sony employee slipped a month or so back that with the originally planned price of $600 dollars, they would still lose money for the first few ten thousand consoles.

    Now, I imagine what it might have cost IF Sony had went for their bizarre plans for having a Blu-Ray burner, HDD and the Tivo thing in the console. The cost might have been close to $1000 dollars.

    I think PS3 is just ridiculous.

  • I need to get this out of my system

    Quote from johnm487

    I said it was my brother, and two weeks into his basic training 9/11 happend. Right then we all knew he was going somewhere shitty, but he did it and he came back alive. I know, maybe we shouldnt be there, but what if we did nothing about this stuff? Should countries be allowed to make nuclear weapons? Do you actually trust countries that house terrorist's and manufacture nuclear weapons?

    I'd like to present the good saying here that I think fits the bill.

    "One man's terrorist, is anothers freedom fighter"

    Do I trust countries that house terrorists/warmongers/militants/other such, and manufacture nuclear weapons? You mean like USA? To many people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Columbia and Somalia, the soldiers of USA are just plain terrorists, they are funded by goverment just like Bush is accusing others doing and they fight for a cause THEY think is just, but at the same time, they kill innocent people and destroy their homes, schools and hospitals. Just like terrorists do.

    USA seems to be the only country that allows itself to have nuclear weapons, and they seem to have the right to attack any country no matter how flimsy the motivation is.

    So, you see, it's pretty much a point of view than matter of morale or justice.

  • I need to get this out of my system

    I actually agree with the support the people there.

    But then again, I have to say that most of them are there for their own free will. Many joined after the war had started, just to go over seas to fight for stupid cause.

    So, there is not symphaty left in me for those who marched there and invaded another country just for kicks. It's not "just another job that has to be done" it's killind people and invading a country, a shitty job, nobody should do.

  • The HD Era Begins - 360 Fnazzle

    Quote from JynxDaddy

    As a once strong Nintendo Fanboy I'm surprised by the amount of Revolution support. When I'm still having my doubts whether I want to sit in my living room waving my arms about like an idiot trying to play a game.

    And I'm suprised about the amount of rant I have heard from people regarding the Revolution controller.

    But Revolution actually is the answer to my prayers, I have always hated the FPS and RTS games on consoles, pads are just the worst way to control those games, they were designed for Mouse&Keyboard in mind and adding them to the consoles makes them literally PCs (especially if you use it on a PC monitor.) Revolution controller fixes this, the most intuitive controller for many game genres.

    But then again, I really hope that Nintendo does the pad extension well because even as intuitive as the Revolution controller is, it's close to the worst controller for fighting games I can imagine. So it's a double edged sword.

  • The HD Era Begins - 360 Fnazzle

    The way game industry is right now, the only console I'm going to buy from the new ones is going to be the Revolution. All other games are multiplatformers so I can buy them for my PC regardless.

    And the only games that actually differ from PC games are Revolution games, thanks to their licences and the new controller. Why would I want to buy a console and play the same games I do with PC?

  • Sony makes a bold move to push it's console..

    ..and to push the next-gen format war to their advantage.

    Sony CEO Howard Stringer has announced that Sony is going to sell PS3 under $400 when it arrives in mid-2006.

    Howard stated that Sony is going to sell PS3 at a significant loss to push Blu-ray standard in to the market. This is a huge advantage over the Xenon that uses the standard DVDs for games and multimedia playback. Microsoft has hinted that they might make a HD-DVD version of Xenon in the future, but it will only play HD-DVD movies, the games will remain in the dvd format.

  • The word of the day is "ridiculousity"

    I know alot about Japanese culture and Laon culture, not that much about Chinese culture but I believe they are close to each other, I have learned alot about Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, the corner stones of Asian cultures, they define the culture even more so than Christianity does in Europe and my friend is studying Indology. So I know little something about Chinese/Asian cultures too.

    Just your comment on that Japan is the opposite of China shows how little you know.

    And yeah, people don't like to be controlled, nor arrested, but I don't go and assume things just because I don't do something that they don't do something. And culturally viewed, they are pretty alien compared to us. Japan might be little different since Americans basically shoved their culture down their throat at the end of WW2, effects of which can be seen even today.

  • The word of the day is "ridiculousity"

    Quote from RD

    Are there even such games about China? Most games are just as fictitious as halflife. Besides that you only assume they would get banned, which i doubt. Just look at movies or documentaries, theres plenty critisizing Guantanamo, Iraq, or whatever you can imagine. Theres hundreds of books and shows about 911 conspiracies, they dont need to be banned, people just dont want them. Most of the time ppl dont want to create such nefarious vile in the first place let alone sell it

    Well, to think of it, it mostly isn't the truth that hurts, but it's the image they create about Chinese, just like they created about Soviet Union back then. But I agree that banning games because "they might threaten the national unity" is just plain retard. But I still stand by what I said, it's not that long shot to get a game banned from USA either, the same goes with the rest of the world.

    Quote from RD

    My head would explode if I even started to realise what you are talking about. Are you implying that Soviet Union, Jack Thompson and China are the same?

    You said it yourself You cant have forgotten so fast...

    Oh, I'm glad that you explained what I ment with what I said to me. Where would I be without you. Gosh, I never thought that I compared SU, Jack and China with each other.

    Quote from RD

    Anyways, im trying to be objective, but i dont see how Jack Thompson, Islamic dictators and the Soviet Union make Chinas censorship ok. Can you explain it

    Do they make Chinas censorship ok? Again you just read what I type and twist it to your nefarious needs. Not once I said that it's ok. I said that maybe everything isn't as it seems.

    China is banning games because they see them very differently. Have you ever been to Japan for example? They don't piss on the street corner and throw garbage in to the streets, they don't draw graffiti on the trains and they don't badmouth each other, they keep those things in the privacy of their homes. So who the fuck are you to judge why they ban games? Maybe it's just that they might aswell have those games but like you said about those 911 documentaries "they dont need to be banned, people just dont want them."

    But it's ok, you are too wrapped to your own world that you think that everyone everywhere are just like you and they think, live and shit like you, look like you and like the same things as you.

    So, I'm just here to make sure that you actually ARE objective about it.

  • The HD Era Begins - 360 Fnazzle

    The HD support is the one thing I have been thinking about.

    Xenon and PS3 are both very powerful machines, there is no doubt about it. Revolution has been criticized because Nintendo has said that Revolution has less power thatn Xenon or PS3, while that may be true on the hardware side, I'm pretty confident that Revolution can afchieve comparable graphics since it has the advantage of lower resolution.

    All HD games to be specced HD, need to be atleast 1280x720 resolution, which compared to 640x480 and 768x576 is resource heavy to the machine. Also, if it's true that ALL games support the higher 1080i/p resolutions the machines have to have alot juice to push the 1920x1080 resolutions, again compared to standard PAL and NTSC resolutions, is a major resource hog.

    So Revolution might not have as impressive hardware as Xenon and PS3 has, but I'm fairly confident that Revolution players (AND the people who play Xenon and PS3 games on a ragular TV) don't miss on anything so spectacular.

    Also, I'd like to add this. I was going through the first releases for Xenon and watching the screenshots and I am fairly sure that the quality of the graphics is lower than what they have been showing to us from Call of Duty 2, Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo and other games for the last 3 months or so. Sure, most of the videos and screens have been shown on a PC or some development platform, and some videos have been prerendered. But the quality loss is there. Were they just bullshitting us or what is going on?

  • The HD Era Begins - 360 Fnazzle

    I'm not that excited about the Xenon launch. As I'm broke so I'll have to wait before I can get it anyway, so I'm just going straight to Revolution.

    Aside from Oblivion that is for PC and DOA4 there just isn't anything that interests me enough to keep my attenttion up from day to day.

    As for what comes to HD, well it's nice feature for those who have HD tv, but I don't think that people will change their TVs just for some console, maybe when they start airing HDTV quality programming and HDDVD/Buray comes. I don't think it's complete waste of resources, but I don't think that Revolution is going to lose anything without HDTV support.

  • The word of the day is "ridiculousity"

    Quote from RD

    Halflife: us marines wipe out black mesa :roll: Lotsa games have America portrayed as nuclear evil, none are banned.

    Anyways, you managed to make the connection between communist Russia, Jack Thompson and China, but apparently dont grasp what this means.

    Let me make a game where we rescue prisoners from guantanamo bay, drive American invading forces out of Iraq, defend Columbia against CIA and their war on drugs and assasinate the soldiers involved in planning the attack against the warlors in somalia and then say what isn't banned.

    Are you actually using as fictitious material as Half-Life as an example? My god, your grip on reality is pretty loose.

    I was wondering why USA didn't ban Aliens movie, they happened in future, had a big corporation and space aliens, I think the goverment should have been pretty pissed on that one.

    I'm fairly sure that there are some middle eastern games that portray Americans as the terrorists and invaders, let's publish those there and let's soo how long they stay on the shelf, IF they even get in the stores that is.

    Quote from RD

    Anyways, you managed to make the connection between communist Russia, Jack Thompson and China, but apparently dont grasp what this means.

    My head would explode if I even started to realise what you are talking about. Are you implying that Soviet Union, Jack Thompson and China are the same?

  • The word of the day is "ridiculousity"

    yeah, well I guess you can understand why China is pretty pissed by game developers because they still portray China as some thirdworld nuclear threat, or something.

    It was russians around decade ago, they did the same thing back then, banned books, movies and games that bashed the Russian way, the game and movie studios realized that they lost a major market there, and stopped it. Then it changed to China.

    And I'm fairly sure that if you make a game where Americans are presented as evil nuclear weapon toting terrorists with agenda of evil and world domination, I know one country that will surely ban the game.

    So, be objective on the matter, especially when it comes to games, China just has a Jack Thompson in charge of things.

    And as for files getting screened, well, I can bet you one million dollars that other countries do that aswell, check some images sent from public machines to other countries, world has changed, the terrorist threat is a great excuse to push down human rights. China is just weird that way, they openly do these sort of things, when other countries have secret services and such. You could actually get in close attenttion for your friendly neighbourhood secret service during cold war if you went to the library and took communist manifest and other Marxist books from there often enough. The same is now with bomb building, chemistry books and books about fanatical islamists (that is IF your local library didn't already burn them.)

    Terrorist threat, has gotten every country on their toes, and the recent game scandals have gotten alot of people more aware of "how dangerous" video games might be to their children - even if it is just propaganda.

  • The word of the day is "ridiculousity"

    It's basically what around half the countries in the world do, and most notably countries in middle-east, they block out internet sites that are anti-islam. Ban cartoons that they think are hazardous to children like pokemon.

    It's sad, but you are absolutely right, China controls almost all mediums of informative media. But I don't believe that if China banned videogames that even USA has balls that big that they would set anykind of pressure on China, hell if Bush had his way, I believe he'd do it himself. And the Internet Cafe timelimits are most part there because of the health risk, it's not that common here, but in China, Japan, Korea, people die almost daily due to exhaustion.

    China has banned games in the past, so why wouldn't they ban WoW just the same if they actually tought that it was so hazardous against the goverment. And what comes to political prisoners in China due to the improper use of internet, well, there are hackers in house arrests and in jail in USA and across Europe too. While I believe that China is over the top totalitarian goverment, I still don't think that China has such policy against games.