Hahaha! Awesome! This is the one weakness in Nintendo's strategy of focusing on a controller. That is, it's not like the competition can't make their own. That is, they don't actually HAVE to make their own. This gen is the bluetooth generation. Nintendo did their work FOR them, they just need to add support for the Wii controller to their console, and there's absolutely nothing illegal about it at all, nor SHOULD there be! I'm waiting for Sony to follow suit.
Just imagine this on a 360 game in the future:
*Requires Nintendo Wii controller.*
I love this generation. It's crazy! Heck, we've already got PC independant games using the thing. Mind you, this support was only added to the PC version, but I can't see them going too much longer without adding the support to the 360.
Actually, on second thought, I know that both PS3 and Wii use bluetooth for the controllers, but does MS do that as well, or did they go proprietary in the same mistaken move as their memory card format? Well, no matter, it has USB ports and I have a USB bluetooth adapter.
Clearly the game is heading to the direction that Knights of the old republic did as the Terran scenario with some role playing aspects, Your a clicker scrolling around the Hyperion ship and interact with James Raynor crew.
Whats interesting is that the way you pick out your campaign missions will run like galactic civilizations or some of the older Star trek series. Your not just going from mission one and two anymore you can pick through what you want, Different characters on board the Hyperion will ask and offer various missions and quests with rewards :" such as go to this planet and establish for instance a refueling station" and so you go to the bridge were James Raynor will then order the fleet to set course to such and such. Then the game changes to traditional RTS fashion in the new environment.
You also get a galactic overview screen to view planets you have already visited and what missions are accomplished, Sometimes things will come up in the storyline causing you to return to planets.New characters will be recruited on missions and some will offer new technology.
Well if you go into Steam's online store, you see that apparently ALL of id's old games are there, and advertised all at once.
Well not ALL of them. Most of the Keen games are there, but the 6th chapter, the final one of the second trilogy, is missing. Also, the "mid-chapter" between trilogies, the veggie dream one, is missing. At least that one's a free download anyway from id's site.
I'm looking for someone to test my new .Net based version of my phantom sound engine!
Just unzip to a folder and run PhantomSound Stubb.exe in ../Phantom Sound Stubb/Bin/Release Folder to see a demo. Zip folder includes Stubb application, Stubb Applications Source Code Written In VB.net 2008 (Free Download Now) and fully functional COM complient phantom sound DLL.
Requirements:
.NET Framwork 2.0 or higher
Direct X
I would like feedback on the following areas...
3D sound rendering quality
Rendering Speed
Engine Stability
and Sample Quality
Feel free to tinker with the wave files in the folder, just dont rename them or you'll break the application, also the files must be encoded with the following settings:
I hope you have a bithday with all kinds of family lurve and tons of food... do they make giant chocolate-death cakes in the netherlands? i assume so. it could be dutch tradition to throw carrots at each other and run around naked while fish-cakes and mayonaise cookies are served (like during dutch kwanza or the Baby throwing Oeper Dijoeper Kontejst) <--- 100% culturally accurate
Okay, here's the poll I saw today when, for whatever reason, I actually decided to use this pointless channel (Nintendo, weren't you supposed to be about the games?).
Basically it's asking "What is a better deal? 50% off or two for the price of one?"?
What do they actually expect people to vote here? Do the math idiots! You don't need a vote for this! Popular opinion is not going to change objective reality. Two for the price of one is identical to buying two items at 50% off. The difference is you have a choice to just buy one if you go with 50% off, so you can either get both at the price of what would normally be just one, or only pay half and walk out with that.
It is the better deal, and that's an objective fact. You can't "vote" the other option better. Frickin' idiots...
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