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If that's the lag he's referring to, then no computer is immune :D I don't believe the memory leak is fixed, and I doubt it ever will be as I wouldn't be surprised if its somewhere in the .exe

Plot device #247!

Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck, Goose!

The XBOX360 is a Halo fanboy naturally.

I haven't tried on the uber-maximum. I'll give it a whirl some time with my new computer (I never even tried to go uber-maximum with my 9800 Pro, but I didn't notice any significantly slowdown on the beach). Definitely not in the Hollywood club either.

At the uber-maximum right?

Really? My 9800 Pro could handle it fine.

Not necessarily. Depends on what (and more importantly how much) they have to move. Having said that, isn't the "local memory" essentially the cache for the RSX? Why would the Cell need access to that?

Naturally because it's PS2 versus XBOX, he'll find a way to point out that it is not an appropriate comparison.

Surely it's obvious now

I quickly ran through the article, and there's some reservations I have with it. He cites ET as a game that couldn't have gone wrong with sales, yet didn't sell at all. He says that Atari "didn't realize that by 1983 the vast majority of 2600s were sitting in closets." He didn't bother mentioning that ET: The Video Game, is typically referred to as one of, if not the, Worst Game(s) ever. They also spent $20 million in licensing the game (astronomical for the time). So optimistic they were of this craptacular game, that the number of cartridges they built was half the total number of consoles sold. Publications such as Electronic Gaming Monthly declared ET to be the worst game of all time. He also cites that game console don't keep our attention for more than a couple years. Specifically, he mentions that "the gaming experience itself still couldn't keep our interest for more than a few years. Attention waned again, but this time new, fancier systems arrived just in time, offering a new and novel experience thanks to prettier graphics and character animation. And yet those systems (the Sega Genesis and later the SNES), as great as they were, eventually were retired to closets and attics and the sandy carpets of the Pakistani black market." However, he seems to ignore the fact that, possibly, the waning interest in consoles such as the NES came about because of the fact that the SNES and Sega Genesis were coming out. He assumes that both 16-bit consoles came out in response to waning interest, rather than exploring the possibility that the waning interest came about because of the new consoles. Next up, he cites that games today are not nearly as revolutionary (and hence not as novel) as previous generations. He's citing diminishing returns on graphical improvement. He may have a point here, but the two screenshots he shows seems to have been picked for the blandest possible picture for Red Faction 2 (why he'd pick Red Faction 2 and not something like Farcry or Half-Life 2 is entirely beyond me). He also credits Red Faction 2 with a time of 2004, when it came out in 2002. The extra two years helps make his argument seem more convincing. It also ignores the fact that a game like Red Faction 2 offered some interesting novel gameplay compared to GoldenEye, such as destructable environments. "So consoles are left to butter their bread with the latter, with the immersion-type games, with the Final Fantasies and Grand Theft Autos and F.E.A.R., games that put you in a movie, basically. The competition here, then, is Hollywood. When teens are in the mood for a mobster story, the game industry hopes you'll be in the mood to play The Godfather game rather than watch the movie. The problem is that people can watch the movie version over and over and over again, there is a human element to the story that lets a person enjoy it all over again, 20 years later. Games really don't give you that." I disagree personally. I can replay a quality game just like I can rewatch a quality movie. Having said that, I tend to actually replay games more than I rewatch movies. But maybe that's just me. Later he goes on to say that movies can be linear and we still enjoy them because of the human element element that allows us to create sympathetic characters. Comments on forums seem to indicate that there are people that find the stories behind video game characters. I felt bad for Dak'kon when I learned he was manipulated by a scheming bastard into essentially becoming a slave....something which I learned about from Dak'kon was a horrible slight upon his people. He was screwed over in a way he couldn't have possibly imagined given the circumstances, and I felt bad for the chap. Forums seem to indicate that other people, while they may not have necessarily felt sympathy, enjoyed it as a story telling device. He also mentions that an advantage movies have is that they're based upon "an art form (drama) with a thousand years of popularity under its belt." Apparently the fact that the acting medium has evolved over a thousand years has escaped him. Relatively speaking, gaming is in its infancy. Compared to earlier generation games though, storywriting and sympathetic characters have significantly increased. I'd go on, but my post is already long enough as it is.

I'm playing with a retarded codebase that makes me waste time trying to figure out WTF it is doing.

Absolutely. I forgot that a Muslim University Professor is a University Professor simply because he can regurgitate information. Not because he possesses abstract problem solving skills, and the ability to complete a doctoral thesis! It's because they were taught by intelligent non-Muslims! How could I be so blind!

Nope, its true. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's right! You can actually complete the game without advancing the plot of the story at all. Oh wait...no you can't.

No you haven't. They've been taught by intelligent people giving the illusion that they themselves are also. Then they try and pass on those teaching to people such as yourself, once again reinforcing the illusion. Is a parrot intelligent because it can mimic human speech? For your benifit that was a rhetorical question. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What? If a parrot can demonstrate the ability to have abstract critical thinking as well as problem solving skills, then yes. But hey, you've just given yourself the illusion that you are somehow correct when assessing the intelligence of people that believe in religion because of your own biases against religion. I'm sure the fact that my Muslim calculus teacher was a complete fraud when he taught me transcendental caculus, and was actually not intelligent at all.

No. It's my "Hey look, there is a story" attitude speaking. I don't see how it's "holier than thou" at all, when all I need to do is watch the intro video and see that there is, indeed, a story. Couldn't I claim that you are being "holier than thou" by stating faliciously that Diablo doesn't have a story? I'd give you arguments for Tetris and whatnot, but the story is the entire raison d'etre for Diablo. Even people that want to power through the game and just collect the phat lewt cannot ignore the story outright. In Diablo 2, they're still going to need to save Cain, kill Andariel, enter Tal Rasha's Tomb (but not before acquiring the Horadric Cube and assembling the Horadric Staff), Kill Duriel, Kill Mephisto, Kill Diablo, Defeat the Ancients, and destroy Baal. The fact that people can continue playing in the environment to collect fat lewt doesn't mean that the story doesn't exist. I know myself, and many other people I played the game with, when first starting to play the game, were curious what happened after Diablo 1's hero did what he did at the end. We all watched the cutscenes, and followed the story closely on our first playthrough.

I forgot. You like to use your own definitions of words and apply them in your own specific way. /me smacks self.

I can't remember if pong did. But I never really played pong. I'm pretty sure Tetris did, but I have no idea what it is anymore.

If you don't think Diablo had a story, then you clearly weren't paying any attention. You can argue all you want about whether or not the story is any good. But implying that it didn't have a story is just false.

Define "reinstall."

While I decided to ignore this thread for the most part, I just had to come back in to see what "he" had to say.

I wouldn't have much confidence in it working though.

God does not want you to play this game.

Well, during those 3 years gaming on the Apple II was still around

Buying the games while I work! :cool: