ShadowPaladin V1.0

Kind of old looking. How many disks does it come on anyway? How much space does KOTOR II take up on the HD ?

Ummm ok.. Try sticking a decompressed EverQuest II onto a CD and tell me how it goes.

Maybe it's because of what I've been playing recently but it lacks a certain alive quality. I'd really like to see it in some sort of situation. Call me strange but I prefer the boars to the dragon.

Well that explains all the multi DVD games knocking around dosnt it. No point applying PC logic to a console, they are totally different in how the storage medium is used. Go back the tail end of the PS and no one could see needing more than 1 DvD. Yet blu ray is all set to displace DVD over the next few years. Maybe this one hasnt occured to you, but do you think that part of the reason your console RPGs are smaller is that you just dont have the space and there is no particular desire to up the costs with another disk when you could just leave out a level or two.

Arse is a very british expression. Yes because an Ass is a relative of the donkey. Got to roll those R's :D

What are you using for a sense of scale? because I cant see anything on their other than the text.

One thing I noticed when looking over gears of war is the gameplay footage dosnt bear much resemblence to the screenshots. I'm also kind of curious about the actual difference between what a normal TV will display as opposed to HDTV. Since ours set us back about

You do want to get a 5 year lifespan out of the 360 dont you ? I mean it really is a no brainer than any comments about DVD's running out of space are still going to be applicable the entire life of the console What happens when people start to make full use of Blu Ray

I do like the boars they have a bit of a reptilian look to them.

Fifa is has a less steep learning curve and you can play it pretty convincingly even when your drunk :D PES is definately the closest thing to actual football though but a Fifa match will look much more flash. Do they still use the weird names in PES ?

Actually I found them a bit fuzzy. Like when you shoot a model through a diffusion filter to disguise the imperfections. They did seem to fit the theme of the game though.But not suited to where you want clearer detail, especially inorganic detail like armour and airships (thinking of FFXII there). No , can't say I have.

PC gamer should be out on the shelves either this week or next week. I'll check it out then. I'm not really following NwNII so not getting worked up

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It's probably the scan but it looks to angular and inorganic. Still it's better than NWN's dragons so it is progress.

It works differently with computers since your storage medium is mostly just that. The bluk of the files play from the HD anyway. Besides you only have to look at the size of those decompacted files to see where things are heading. Really how long did it take for DVD's to take hold,and you have to remember blu ray is in no way going to be like the change from Video to DVD (which were two very different media) ? Since the PS3 is shipping with a Blu Ray thats going to be a lot of Blu Ray players out there next year. Six of the seven studios are jumping on the Blu Ray wagon and it's only MS and one other as far as I'm aware which are in the HDDVD camp as of now, which like I said seems dumb since MS dosnt have a product which uses HDDVD anyway. Somehow I dont see MS giving you a HDDVD out of the kindness of their hearts in a couple of years do you ? If you really think that , then I suggest you ask around retail just where DvD is heading. Video wasnt obsolete at the time of the PS2 release, do you buy videos now ? Your delluding yourself if you think DVD's will last even 5 years let along 10. Stil i've done my bit and if in two years (or less) your moaning about your obsolete DVD and having to swap between four disks I'll probably just chuckle.

Pokemon for adults :D It's a VERY good game. It translates as godess of rebirth (which makes sense after the intro). Your character changes depending on what powers you specialise in. There are I think 6 or maybe 8 endings, two of them are sort of secret. You recruit rather than create your party (hence pokemon reference). Once you have a some demons you can breed (fuse) and sacrifice them in all sorts of ways. As they level they can learn upto 8 skills ,some of which carry over when you merge them. Some of them can evolve too. The game is huge, but there isnt really speech so you can name your character and all the NPCs. Again its VERY dark and demon oriented so if thats not your cup of tea avoid. The bad news is the encounter rate is HIGH and you dont get a reduction power for quite a while so it can get very annoying, especially since the encounters can be pretty tough and it's one of the few JRPGs where a non boss has actually managed to take down my party. Save points are few and far between too, so it's worth bearing that in mind. Should mention it has some fantastic puzzles too, the puzzle based minigame is great fun and the reward is worth it, assuming the puzzles dont make you throw your controller through the screen.

Sons of Liberty, the only game I would rather watch than play. Interactive cutscenes are nice too RE 4 did some interesting things in that area. But if your not going interactive and you want the best like you said you really cant beat the quality of an FMV.

It is for a console I mean it's a no brainer that a console has a 5 year life span isnt it ? No more than an in engine cutscene of the same length would. Heres two interesting little titbits for you anyway and you be the judge. 1. Microsoft is endorsing HDDVD yet the Xbox 360 dosnt have one. 2. Toshiba were way late getting HDDVD ready Now if you still think that DVD was first choice for the 360 your not as smart as I thought you were.

Neo is probably more Ys than traditional Shining Force, not that it's a bad thing. But they are very different games. Wonder if they will release it Europe.

One word Kong

Well for a while it was just like the name above the door had changed. The TORN era was pretty good , even if it didnt have a happy ending.

Even if you do, unless your trying to cut costs then your still going add some specialness with FMV simply because its set appart from everything else. I've also never seen a in engine scene that can approach the dynamism and emotion of an FMV and I've played a lot JRPGs where both are pretty common. I think in a lot of cases too it's probably easier to go the FMV route than trying to get your engine to do something it may not have been designed to do. For example I'm sure FFXII's engine could handle the ship cutscenes, but I doubt it could do the speed blur effects or the explosions in quite the same way. As the saying goes , the devil is in the detail. So unless your someone like Hades who has an irrational hatred of FMV it's just too good and too versitile compared to in engine cutscenes. I mean for a recent example Jade Empires FMV blew the engine cutscenes out of the water, that temple escape done with the engine would have been laughable.

10 feb 2004 seems like a lot longer.

Good enough for some, not good enough for others. Otherwise you wouldnt have pretty much every game using them to get across dynamic scenes, especially intro movies. Kong is going to surpass LOTR simply on the fur effects.