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Comment Re:Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... (Score 1) 412

True, but how often have you gotten friends around the pc monitor for playing a fighting game together vs on the whatever inch tv?

Now granted you could also argue that console != display, but I have a desk set up for a single person for work and gaming and a tv with a sofa set up for multiple people.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 412

You seem to misunderstand the point of Crysis as a statement of technology. In some cases "HD/3D" rendering has a lot to do. Just like how some action movies don't have much in terms of story, but can be enjoyable as brainless eye-candy.

It's got decent/average gameplay, but the tech involved in making it pretty is advanced.

Comment Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... (Score 3, Insightful) 412

And it has happened again as it has happened every single generation of consoles and as it will in every future generation.

One platform is constantly shifting and upgrading, the other doesn't.

What do you think happens in the gap between console releases?

Unfortunately they're currently too busy trying to milk motion controls and using that as an excuse to not release new hardware. Hopefully Nintendo will just out of nowhere drop a magic console developed using their profits from their current gen console.

Either way some games are better on consoles (fighting, local multiplayer, driving games etc) , while other games I prefer my mouse and keyboard support (simulation, rts, fps, etc)

Comment It will always be vague. (Score 1) 183

It's not like a less vague system makes anything less vague since the public doesn't have the information the government does. And it all seems to come down to a matter of chance in the end.

Take the UK system for example:

Critical - an attack is expected imminently

Severe - an attack is highly likely

Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility

Moderate - an attack is possible, but not likely

Low - an attack is unlikely

Comment Re:18 months light "by comparison?" (Score 5, Insightful) 83

From TFA: "Anderson will be up for parole after half his sentence has been served and faces punishment other than a £5,000 ($8,000) fine. By comparison, the US youth who hacked the email account of Sarah Palin in 2008 recently received a year in an open prison for much less serious hacking of a small amount of private data from one person." They're not simply comparing the time, but the punishment based on severity of said crime. One figures out Sarah Palins email using simple methods and gets a full year. The other orchestrates a malicious botnet attack and only gets a little longer at a year and a half. In that sense, he is being punished quite lightly.

Comment Missing option: None of the above. (Score 1) 518

Remakes? Seriously? I couldn't care less about replaying the old games with new graphics. What we should be asking for are SEQUELS. Hopefully this won't catch on or they'll be pumping out cheap "remakes" left and right by simply copying what they believe was the successful part of the older counterparts.

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