Doom on Xbox Live, Jackson Making Halo Game 206
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in its X06 Keynote today in Barcelona. The announcements are flying fast and furious: Ensemble studios is making a Halo RTS, and Peter Jackson is making a new Halo game (unrelated to Halo 3 or the RTS). The HD-DVD will be $200 in the U.S. with a release aimed at November of this year. They've got a good deal of 360 exclusive content including the next Splinter Cell and GTA IV Episodes, and (initially) Bioshock. Bioshock will also be on Windows, of course. Windows is also the platform on which Microsoft is announcing a new Massively Multiplayer game from Cryptic Studios, a new super-hero MMOG based on Marvel Comics' IP: Marvel Universe Online.
Thank God (Score:3, Funny)
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Erm...you contradict yourself from one sentence to the next.
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Exclusive titles did not start with Microsoft - it did not start with Sony, either - and it's nothing to get all atwitter about.
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I'm glad, "People buy the Halo to play Xbox" wouldn't have made any sense at all...
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ATTN: Peter Jackson ! (Score:5, Funny)
Your actors aren't getting any younger.
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Still I was upset PJ even spent time on king kong. If MGM & New Line did indeed get the green light [chud.com] to make The Hobbit, then it should be top priority.
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A shame that this has actually gone this far. Let's drop it, it was offtopic in the first place.
The Lovely Bones (Score:2)
How do you make such a fragile fantasy work as a movie?
The closest example would be Robin Williams and What Dreams May Come.
backward-compatibility (Score:2)
(yes I'm aware that they didn't specify how much of the library would be backward compatible... but 75% is reasonable, right? or whatever we have now + Psychonauts)
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Xbox backwards compatibility is the equivalent of using a big stick to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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BC will become less and less important ... (Score:2)
Marvel Universe (Score:2)
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Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! (Score:2, Funny)
Good thing the game industry is such a source original thought and creativity.
Franchises are big business no matter the industry (Score:2)
Every industry, be in TV or movies or games, takes advantage of good franchises. The most obvious examples (especially for us geeks) are Star Wars and Star Trek. Numerous TV shows have had spinoffs, some made into movies, and vice versa.
The games industry is definately no stranger to this. Nintendo is arguably the first to do this (or at leas
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The only thing they have in common whatsoever is that an ancient race build ringworlds in both works. Other than that, I can't think of any similarities at all. If anything, the Covenant "race" is a rip-off of the later Rendevous wi
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What's that I hear? (Score:3, Funny)
Really though...these are some big announcements and I haven't heard Sony coming with anything to match them yet.
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Over what? (Score:2)
You mean having a competitor who included HD playback as an add-on that brings up the full price of the 360 to above the cost of the base PS3?
Or perhaps you think the expansion of the Halo empire into RTS is reason enough for hari-kari. Or perhaps Bioshock releasing on the 360 whole months before poor PS3 owners ever see it!
Yes, I'm sure all those things send shivers down Sony spines. Or perhaps not.
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And it's not forced on you. If you don't want HD-DVD movies you still get a next-gen console that as far as most developers are concerned, is on equal grounding with the PS3 as far as graphical ability. And unlike Sony who is promising downloadable content, and promising online play, the 360 is already delivering on both, and quite well.
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Playstation 3 draws its power
During the witching hour
Everyone's grapes turn sour
Burma Shave
Misread (Score:3, Funny)
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Halogen (Score:5, Informative)
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More importantly, is that Craig Mullins' [goodbrush.com] artwork?
Talk about Bungie connections [bungie.org] - at the very least, it's attempting a similar style...
We'll be Back and legal, soon! (Score:2, Informative)
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On the other hand, SquareEnix hasn't made any announcements or even hinted at a Chrono Trigger 2 (or 3 if you count Chrono Cross).
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I always wonder why those people don't do something original. It is pretty obvious that they have the talent to do so, but yet they prefer to waste efforts in project that are doomed to receive a Cease and Desist sooner than later.
Doom, still going to cost you.a bit. (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously XBLA used to be a place to get cheap legacy games, and interesting unique games, now with every game coming out at 800 points it's sad. I'm probably going to end up buying doom at some point, but while it was a impulse buy at 400 (1.25 per episode, 4 episodes) I'm going to have to consider it now.
Any game that's older than 10 years needs to either have significantly new gameplay (not just co-op, time pilot, but you were 400 points so I love you more) for a 10 dollar investment.
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Meanwhile, all these losers will mess around on XBL with it thinking they are playing a part of history, awkwardly strafing around and hopelessly trying to quickly flick and shoot, when they ar
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Of course all that being said I'll end up buying it. This
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Astrop Pop, Feeding Frenzy, Wik, Zuma, cloning clyde, bejeweled, and texas hold'em. Hell Bankshot billards was 15 bucks.
Anything more complex then a simple arcade game (sf2 being the obviosu exception) is 10 bucks. Funny. except for bejeweled everything I bought on Live was 5 bucks. Even stuff like Geometry wars.
First level 60 superhero (Score:3, Funny)
THREE UNDEAD ROGUES APPEAR
Cheap shot! Cheap shot! Ambush crit!
"OH NOES SPIDEY USE YOUR WEBZ!"
"HE CAN'T! HE WAS BLINDED/KIDNEY SHOTTED/GOUGED/VANISHED/CHEAP SHOTTED FIFTEEN TIMES!!"
"EEEEERRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZ!!"
Can't wait.
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Spiderman will be the Task Force contact in Times Square.
What about a 360 MMORPG?!? (Score:4, Interesting)
And, don't give me that "FFXI" bullshit, either. That was just a poor port of the PC version ("Wait, I need a USB keyboard to talk, WTF?!?!?!"). If I wanted to return to the year 2000, I'd buy it. But I want a modern, *REAL* MMORPG.
-Eric
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Here's a 1up article about it [1up.com].
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And if you've ever played FFXI for PC, you would know that it was specifically designed around console controls. So much so that it was painful to play up until the 2nd expansion that allowed you to reassign movement controls.
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Seriously, when are developers going to realize that you don't need a keyboard for chat channels when you can have ACTUAL CHAT. When you're chatting around the water cooler with your friends at work do you need a fucking keyboard?!?! The 360 has built in voice chat--USE IT!!!
-Eric
Re:What about a 360 MMORPG?!? (Score:4, Funny)
"Yes"
-Stephen Hawking
Mod parent up (Score:2)
-Eric
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i have seen screenshots of people that have 5+ hotbars, each with 10 or so icons.
basicly, playing a setup like that is like playing a piano.
and a rts is similar. the realy skillfull play fast series of hotkey commands.
in that way the blizzard games are genius as they stack each into a 3x4 grid so that you use the area closest to the tab key to play out commands.
your avarage console controller just dont have the keys.
i can think of two console mmorpgs,
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What I am waiting for is a game that combines speech recognition with voice synthesis and thus giving you a voice that actually fits the character and setting. While voice chat alone is already a nice addition, it simply can spoil th
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There are very simple ways to deal with that. Limit the number of voices heard (outside of one-on-one coversations and team chat) to the nearest 10 or 20 people (I know Xbox can support that, because I've been in plenty of Battlefront II battles where there were at least that many people talking at once). Combine that with private channels for one-on-one and team conversations and it would be little different than it is now, only
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That explains the recent Cease & Desist (Score:2)
GTA IV Episodes? That also explains why Sony got their act together finally with the online stuff. It'd be a shame for them to completely lose that exclusive.
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As for Peter Jackson, see: Petr Jackson talks the Halo Movie [slashdot.org]
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Now, it may be that Halo was originally a RTS game, but it was definitely demoed as an FPS before the Microsoft buyout. It was originally demoed at the 1999 Macworld Expo in NYC.
It was a sad day when Microsoft bought Bungie in preparation for the Xbox release and postponed the Mac OS and Windows releases of Halo ti
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The switch to xbox made single player a higher priority. Although they obviously kept quite a bit of multiplayer, the scale and teamwork aspect of the levels was scaled down quite a bit from what they were originally talking about.
Of course, in some of the first interviews they were still consider
There is actually a story to Halo (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not a Bungie cultist myself (although I have a friend that works there), but I think there is definately enough to like in the Halo universe, if you're a general sci-fi fan like I am. And if you don't, there's nothing wrong with avoiding what you don't like.
As for people yelling at MS to be more original, and to stop milking the franchise for all it's worth, you can easily say the same for Nintendo's games. How many Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games have there been? And how many of them have been good? Plenty. Franchises != the suck.
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Please, try Wikipedia (Score:2, Flamebait)
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In my opinion, having to read a book to find the good story in the GAME doesn't make much sense to me.
I played and completed Halo 1 and enjoyed it, not bad 7/10 maybe - but honestly it's by far the most over-rated game of all time, period -full stop, this is the one -good lord is it over-rated.
(I started Halo 2, got about 4 hours in and quit, it was not that good at all)
Now the MP and C
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If they manage to make an RTS for a console that doesn't suck, it'll be the first time that that's happened. EVER.
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Even the sort-of-good players use most of the keyboard shortcuts, and can destroy a player like me. I doubt that the console players can beat someone like that, and those kinds of people constitute the a large portion of the online player base (I mostly play single player, I'm a wuss at RTS
They also probably limited the field of vi
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How'd they get around analog sticks being horribly innaccurate as pointing devices? Every game I've seen either left the player to live with twitchy, poor controls, or slowed down the cursor motion a bunch to help aleviate the problem, but neither approach resulted in games that were fun to play.
That and the screen real-estate issue were always the worst parts of playing RTS on a console. I don't think that the former problem can be solved (it's not a mat
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I happen to love both WoW and CoH/V.
My keys points on WoW?
HUGE Community, not that hard to find good poeple to play with, though I admit I am no where near up to raid levels (level 33 priest atm).
The game is beautiful, nuff said.
There is high end content.
The grind is not THAT bad if you are only going for levels. However if you want to actualy be viable you NEED to grind for gear/whatever. That is my first complaint.
My second one is travel time, I hate WoW travel time. All classes sho
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COH was my first MMO, played it for about a year, got my level 50 and then moved to WoW. Played WoW for about a year then bought CoV.
I have a love/hate relationship with CoH/CoV, I totally understand what you mean about it being a grind. The game really has almost nothing to it but combat. I think the combat is pretty entertaining but doing mission after mission c
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EQ2 has its third expansion coming out in a month. The store box version actually includes the base game and the first two expansions, so it's a nice entry point. It's a pretty fun game that's been attracting a decent amount of new players lately, might be worth giving it a try if you're looking for something, hehe. Free trial version of
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I personally prefer CoX to WoW, WoW got boring quick, whereas CoX didn't get boring until around level 45. But even then, it had compensation in the major task forces and Archvillain hunting in the later levels. Nothing gives you more of a sense of acco
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Re:And Sony is too expensive? (Score:4, Insightful)
Blu-Ray is something that many people aren't excited about that also drives the price up and the production quantity down - this makes it the obvious target for people who don't want/aren't willing/can't afford to shell out $580 for a game console before purchasing even a single game (much less any of the usual hardware accessories).
Had the DS been sold at $500, with the only obvious thing that might account for its far-above-the-competition price the second screen, then yes, you would have heard similar complaints about it. If the Wii was priced at $500 because of problems with the Wiimote, then you'd be hearing similar complaints about that.
Say what you want about how great Blu-Ray is, or how it's actually for games, not for pushing Sony's pet format, or whatever else you want to say about it. But what it comes down to is that, for (seemingly) a lot of people, $580 is just too damn much money. And it doesn't matter how cool Blu-Ray is if the price is more than people are willing to pay.
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Let's say I agree that the PS3 is a fantastic value, it does things the 360 can't even dream of doing, and does it at a price that is less than I would have to spend to bring a 360 into the same performance ballpark.
It doesn't matter.
As an analogy, let's say I'm shopping for a car, because I need to get to work every day. Let's also say someone offers to sell me a new Viper for $40,000. That's a great value, there's no doubt about it. But if I don't care whether my car can g
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Which, as far as I'm concerned, is at best overrated, and at worst completely useless. So, from my point of view, the answer to your question is "nothing." That's why I've got a 360, and I don't plan on getting a PS3.
My point, though, was that even if your typical Sony fanboi is right that the PS3 is somehow a "better value" than the 360, it really dosn't matter if the price is still too high. Which it is.
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Sorry if I came off like a tool.
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Not to mention BD movies, great games and backward compatibility.
My PS2 DVD drive is finally giving out after 3 years of brutal use and I'm trying to convince my wife that a PS3 would be a better investment than a new DVD drive since it would play
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I'm thinking of biting the bullet and upgrading to HD-TV this year (between the drop in HD-TV prices and TiVo's new HD unit), and the PS3 is starting to look like the perfect option to handle the "GameConsole/DVD/NextGenMedia" portion and round out my new TV stack. Going for the PS3 is an easier choice than a stand-alone
power supply is internal on PS3 (Score:3, Informative)
360 + 360 power supply is a lot larger than PS3.
360 + 360 power supply + HD-DVD drive is about double the size of the PS3. And a lot louder.
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Also:
"Also Adding the HD-DVD drive to your size comparison doesn't make sense
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And as long as the games as good, I think most gamers would disagree with you.
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Sorry, No RC3 (Score:2)
I find this particularly sad because I, too, loved the second iteration.
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For me, if I was going to buy into either of the HD formats right now, I'd go HD-DVD. There are more movies currently available and more movies with firm releae dates. If I was
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Dude.