Also, water is wet.
For night racing, please insert disc 2.
According to a a staff who is believed to be on the developing over at the official Project Gotham 4 Racing forums, they are having problems Fitting all the data of the tracks which was unveiled at today into the game.
He writes: "You won't see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn't a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we've worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy."
It's just common sense that it's too small. It was near capacity last-gen with RalliSport Challenge 2 taking up a whopping 6.4GB and the Xbox 360's DVD9 disc has 7.05GB (after security) of available space, which isn't all that much. Say what you will about Blu-ray, but it's got 50GB of space, which by my count is a lot more and with technology, more (not moore) is always better.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Evil Rears it's Ugly Head Once Again
Four pages of nonsense, enjoy.
Blah, blah, blah. The system's still defective, you're still a piece of shit, your customers are still good at taking shit, and so on and so forth.
...BIZ: It's a bit ironic, because when MS first got into the console business, critics laughed because MS is a software company at its core. It's not in the business of creating hardware. Now the company has discovered some faulty design in its 360 hardware, seemingly proving the critics right. What do you say to those critics?
PM: Those critics need to do their homework and look at some of the hardware product failures that this industry has seen in the past 30 years that maybe have not got as much publicity...
Here's a history lesson for you; I bought and Xbox in 2001, IT STILL WORKS TODAY. No one will say the same about the 360, it's disposable.
The 360 is ass-backwards, it lacks a standard HDD, it's unreliable, it's cheaply made and no matter how much duct tape and patches are thrown at it, it's still garbage. What good are games if the system breaks so much that you can't even play them?
When the 360 fails, you know who to blame. Microsoft and Microsoft alone are at fault for all the faults within the system, truly the most brilliant minds in the world are the ones who lack the most common sense. The PS3 is reliable and customers won't keep taking shit forever and will pay the little bit extra for the convenience of not having to going a MONTH without their system WHEN it breaks down again.
MS is just lucky that their customers are braindead tools and the June 07 NPD sales just solidify that:
Top SKU's June 2007
01. Wii Mario Party 8 -- 426.k
02. Wii Play w/ remote -- 291.2k
03. NDS Pokemon Diamond Version -- 288.4k
04. NDS Pokemon Pearl Version -- 214.7k
05. 360 Forza Motorsport 2 -- 197.40k
06. PS2 Guitar Hero 2 w/ Guitar -- 197.35k
07. 360 Guitar Hero 2 w/ guitar -- 177.6k
08. Wii Pokemon Battle -- 157.9k
09. Wii Resident Evil 4
10. 360 The Darkness
11. PS2 Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2
12. PS2 Transformers: the Game
13. 360 Tenchu Z
14. NDS New Super Mario Bros
15. PS2 Tomb Raider: Anniversary
16. Wii Super Paper Mario
17. 360 Transformers: The Game
18. PS2 MLB '07: The Show
19. Wii Big Brain Academy: Wii
20. 360 Dirt
Tenchu Z outsells DiRT, wtf?
XBLA users aren't that bright either:
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Bomberman LIVE
2 Sonic The Hedgehog
3 Golden Axe
4 Texas Hold 'em
5 Yie Ar Kung-Fu
6 UNO
7 Worms
8 Double Dragon
9 TMNT 1989 Arcade
10 Carcassonne
Dear all 360 owners, stop wasting money on CRAP you won't touch after a week, donate it and feed a starving child, not a hungry publisher.
Blah, blah, blah. The system's still defective, you're still a piece of shit, your customers are still good at taking shit, and so on and so forth.
...BIZ: It's a bit ironic, because when MS first got into the console business, critics laughed because MS is a software company at its core. It's not in the business of creating hardware. Now the company has discovered some faulty design in its 360 hardware, seemingly proving the critics right. What do you say to those critics?
PM: Those critics need to do their homework and look at some of the hardware product failures that this industry has seen in the past 30 years that maybe have not got as much publicity...
Here's a history lesson for you; I bought and Xbox in 2001, IT STILL WORKS TODAY. No one will say the same about the 360, it's disposable.
The 360 is ass-backwards, it lacks a standard HDD, it's unreliable, it's cheaply made and no matter how much duct tape and patches are thrown at it, it's still garbage. What good are games if the system breaks so much that you can't even play them?
When the 360 fails, you know who to blame. Microsoft and Microsoft alone are at fault for all the faults within the system, truly the most brilliant minds in the world are the ones who lack the most common sense. The PS3 is reliable and customers won't keep taking shit forever and will pay the little bit extra for the convenience of not having to going a MONTH without their system WHEN it breaks down again.
MS is just lucky that their customers are braindead tools and the June 07 NPD sales just solidify that:
Top SKU's June 2007
01. Wii Mario Party 8 -- 426.k
02. Wii Play w/ remote -- 291.2k
03. NDS Pokemon Diamond Version -- 288.4k
04. NDS Pokemon Pearl Version -- 214.7k
05. 360 Forza Motorsport 2 -- 197.40k
06. PS2 Guitar Hero 2 w/ Guitar -- 197.35k
07. 360 Guitar Hero 2 w/ guitar -- 177.6k
08. Wii Pokemon Battle -- 157.9k
09. Wii Resident Evil 4
10. 360 The Darkness
11. PS2 Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2
12. PS2 Transformers: the Game
13. 360 Tenchu Z
14. NDS New Super Mario Bros
15. PS2 Tomb Raider: Anniversary
16. Wii Super Paper Mario
17. 360 Transformers: The Game
18. PS2 MLB '07: The Show
19. Wii Big Brain Academy: Wii
20. 360 Dirt
Tenchu Z outsells DiRT, wtf?
XBLA users aren't that bright either:
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Bomberman LIVE
2 Sonic The Hedgehog
3 Golden Axe
4 Texas Hold 'em
5 Yie Ar Kung-Fu
6 UNO
7 Worms
8 Double Dragon
9 TMNT 1989 Arcade
10 Carcassonne
Dear all 360 owners, stop wasting money on CRAP you won't touch after a week, donate it and feed a starving child, not a hungry publisher.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Six Reasons The Xbox 360 Is in Trouble
GamePro states the obvious.
The number one reason is:
1. It's unreliable. As Microsoft finally acknowledged this month, Xbox 360s fail more often than the company "is comfortable with." Some reports pin the "Red Ring of Death" failure rates as high as 33%. As a result, Microsoft increased the system's warranty from one to three years at a sizable and appreciated expense, but the company's unwillingness to fully disclose what's causing the problem undermines the solution. Gamers don't want to risk $300-400 at the chance to play games on 360, they want to make sure it can and will play games for years to come. Pile on the recent class-action lawsuits claiming that the machine scratches discs at random, and it becomes clear that the Xbox 360 isn't nearly as dependable as it could be.
If only 360 owners had more brains than money, something might actually get done instead of buying fucking pictures on Live and defending a defective product.
The number one reason is:
1. It's unreliable. As Microsoft finally acknowledged this month, Xbox 360s fail more often than the company "is comfortable with." Some reports pin the "Red Ring of Death" failure rates as high as 33%. As a result, Microsoft increased the system's warranty from one to three years at a sizable and appreciated expense, but the company's unwillingness to fully disclose what's causing the problem undermines the solution. Gamers don't want to risk $300-400 at the chance to play games on 360, they want to make sure it can and will play games for years to come. Pile on the recent class-action lawsuits claiming that the machine scratches discs at random, and it becomes clear that the Xbox 360 isn't nearly as dependable as it could be.
If only 360 owners had more brains than money, something might actually get done instead of buying fucking pictures on Live and defending a defective product.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Peter Moore is GONE
Wow.
He left to EA (Sports) and MS got some EA guy (Don Mattrick) to take his place. After ruining Sega and MS, there's finally someone able to take down EA from the inside.
I feel sorry for the EA guy taking his place, that's like being handed some paper towels and duct tape as Peter Moore takes the last lifeboat off the sinking Titanic.
There's a sort of emptyness now that fills this blog, the curse of Moore is lifted, but things still break, leaving just dust and echoes...
... and a lot of red rings.
He left to EA (Sports) and MS got some EA guy (Don Mattrick) to take his place. After ruining Sega and MS, there's finally someone able to take down EA from the inside.
I feel sorry for the EA guy taking his place, that's like being handed some paper towels and duct tape as Peter Moore takes the last lifeboat off the sinking Titanic.
There's a sort of emptyness now that fills this blog, the curse of Moore is lifted, but things still break, leaving just dust and echoes...
... and a lot of red rings.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Bach Bails Out
Robbie Bach Bails Out!
"Regulatory filings indicate that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division, has sold $6.2 million worth of company stock since May, a period during which mounting Xbox 360 technical problems have come to light..."
Wow, the bad news just keeps on mounting for Microsoft. I don't blame him, the shit's about to hit the fan and he put on some goggles. Then again, the goggles do nothing.
"Regulatory filings indicate that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division, has sold $6.2 million worth of company stock since May, a period during which mounting Xbox 360 technical problems have come to light..."
Wow, the bad news just keeps on mounting for Microsoft. I don't blame him, the shit's about to hit the fan and he put on some goggles. Then again, the goggles do nothing.
Sony won E3
Killzone 2 (stole the show)
Uncharted\
Infamous
Heavenly Sword
Haze
UT3 (mouse/keyboard,mods!)
LittleBigPlanet
GT5
Folklore
Ratchet
Echochrome (an interactive optical illusion, fuck yeah!)
SOCOM
Warhawk
Home
Free online
MGS4!
MS just continues to show they don't know their market. They're trying to increase marketshare that's already gone to the Wii for casual gaming, but they're alienating their current marketshare, which will head to the PS3. Aside from Halo 3 and Bioshock, who cares anymore? I'm sick of dealing with broken systems, cheaped, gimped hardware, paying for pictures, paying for P2P online, a locked down system, I just don't care anymore.
Sony shows they care more about gaming by what they've shown. As a gamer, that's the most interesting and most enticing. Being able to play games in the best way possible, without silly things like mouse/keyboard lockouts, restriction of mods, lack of a standard HDD, smaller disc space.
Kudos Sony, you deserved to win.
Uncharted\
Infamous
Heavenly Sword
Haze
UT3 (mouse/keyboard,mods!)
LittleBigPlanet
GT5
Folklore
Ratchet
Echochrome (an interactive optical illusion, fuck yeah!)
SOCOM
Warhawk
Home
Free online
MGS4!
MS just continues to show they don't know their market. They're trying to increase marketshare that's already gone to the Wii for casual gaming, but they're alienating their current marketshare, which will head to the PS3. Aside from Halo 3 and Bioshock, who cares anymore? I'm sick of dealing with broken systems, cheaped, gimped hardware, paying for pictures, paying for P2P online, a locked down system, I just don't care anymore.
Sony shows they care more about gaming by what they've shown. As a gamer, that's the most interesting and most enticing. Being able to play games in the best way possible, without silly things like mouse/keyboard lockouts, restriction of mods, lack of a standard HDD, smaller disc space.
Kudos Sony, you deserved to win.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Class Action Lawsuit Launched Against 360
A lawsuit regarding another issue, disc scratching has been launched
One of the many issues regarding the 360; disc scratching is fairly prevalent, although not as seemingly widespread as the infamous red rings.
According to numerous reports I've read on Xbox-Scene, this is caused because some felt was not applied to the inside of the tray itself. The felt would have allowed a cushion for the disc as well as elevating it in order to prevent scratches. This is some felt that's a fraction of cent to mass produce and would have easily prevented all this.
*sigh* Come on MS, this is just sad. The Xbox I knew and loved is long gone, as are Ed Fries and Seamus Blackley, among others. It's a shame to see the Xbox name tarnished for no reason other than one of the richest companies in the world being cheapskates.
One of the many issues regarding the 360; disc scratching is fairly prevalent, although not as seemingly widespread as the infamous red rings.
According to numerous reports I've read on Xbox-Scene, this is caused because some felt was not applied to the inside of the tray itself. The felt would have allowed a cushion for the disc as well as elevating it in order to prevent scratches. This is some felt that's a fraction of cent to mass produce and would have easily prevented all this.
*sigh* Come on MS, this is just sad. The Xbox I knew and loved is long gone, as are Ed Fries and Seamus Blackley, among others. It's a shame to see the Xbox name tarnished for no reason other than one of the richest companies in the world being cheapskates.
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