If we have more web space now, can we finally put the old archives up online again? That'd be awesome! (and if they need formatting, put them up anyway... maybe I could do some of it...)
Quote:I took the Wii home over the weekend and was able to put quite a bit of time into Zelda. There was what I would describe as a “bru ha ha” over at Joystiq when one of their bloggers claimed the game was a flop. He cited its terrible graphics as reason enough to dismiss it entirely. The response in the thread afterwards was heated with lots of people claiming that the graphics weren’t as bad as he claimed and that the game actually looked really good. Having played it all weekend I’m here to tell you that’s not the correct response.
See the problem is that he’s partially right. The game doesn't look very good. I don’t just mean it doesn’t look like Gears of War either, I mean it doesn’t even look good for a GC game and let’s be honest here that’s what we’re talking about. I’ve seen beautiful games on the Cube. Crystal Chronicles, Wind Waker and Resident Evil 4 were all incredible looking games. Twilight Princess can’t really compare to any of them. So he’s right about that, what he’s wrong about is everything else.
Even though the game doesn’t look all that great, it’s still Zelda and it’s fucking awesome. Our crew plays Gears of War every night and I had a hard time putting down my remote and nun chuck to join them. 1up has a minute by minute write up of the first ten hours of the game which seems ridiculous to me. I don’t know why you’d want to ruin such a great experience and it’s really not necessary. Maybe that’s that new games journalism I’ve heard so much about. Here’s everything you need to know about Twilight Princess:
-Playing Zelda with the Wii controller is super fun. -The game play is a blast. -The story is great. -You’ll never even think about the graphics while you’re playing it.
I recommend avoiding any of the extensive write ups about the game. I’m serious, Twilight Princess is too good to ruin it that way. Just wait a few more days and experience it for yourself.
-Gabe out
The question I have to ask is, what game videos was I watching before? Did they have to remove all the good looks because there wasn't enough room on the disk? All the videos I've seen up until now look AMAZING graphically. I mean, amazing even compaired to current gen games. All I've seen made me think "best looking game on the Cube".
So what are they talking about? What was I seeing? Did something change, or is there a major difference seeing it full sized?
So lots of impresions are showing up all over the place... including a lot of unclear stuff about what the hardwares can do...
Some facts:
WII
Wii Photo Channel
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-Supported formats: Image Files: JPEG, baseline only; Size: Up to 848 x 480;
Video Files: QuickTime (motion JPEG) (.mov files) (AVI/other extensions will be fine, as long as it's MPEG encoded); Audio Files: MP3
-SD cards: Photo Channel can display the first 1000 things (images/videos/mp3s I guess) -- files beyond that will not be displayed (it looks in all folders in the card)
-No easy MP3 player - only in the slideshow thing, kind of clumsy supposedly http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-med...214194.php
Virtual Console
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-games are of course tied to the system you download them on; you can transfer them probably through Nintendo if your Wii breaks or something, but that's it.
-some games may require a Classic Controller and not support the GC pad? Unclear and contradictory things heard about this right now...
-*insert rant about awful N64 controller situation here*
Hardware
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-the flaps over the GC controller/memcard ports on top of the console can be removed http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/top-te...t-the-wii/
-currently you can't copy things between the system memory and SD card or delete things from the SD card, though the Wii's manual suggests that you should be able to
-there is a port on the bottom to replace the battery that powers the clock (the same type of battery that shows up in NES/SNES/some N64 games)
-the Wii is smaller than a X360 HD-DVD drive http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/os/install-...214203.php
-people with projectors (or who like to keep their consoles far from their televisions) might be annoyed at the relatively short length of the sensor bar cable; third party extender cords might solve this, or a rumored wireless sensor bar
PS3
hardware
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-the hard drive is user-replacable: it's a standard 3 1/2" SATA drive with easy access and instructions on how to put in a new one.
-even if you use a PSX/2 to USB controller port adaptor, you might not be able to use your old PS1/2 controllers on the system (it is confirmed that Guitar Hero controllers don't work, but I didn't see anything specific about Dual Shocks. They might work.)
-the manual also has instructions on how to replace Sixaxis batteries http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/11/ps3-ma...placement/
Media
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Quote:Music: The Playstation 3 can playback CDs, ATRACs, MP3s, MP4s and Wave files from of USB devices and drives, Memory sticks, CF and SD memory cards.
Backwards Compatibility
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-uses virtual memory cards on the hard drive (or, presumably, PS1/2 memcards used through the memory adaptor? The virtual memory cards are the expected way though.)
-as above, probably can't play games that require special controllers (yet?)
-as we all know, no rumble
-can choose digital or analog controller mode in the OS, for games that require the controller to be in digital mode
-while the full PS2 chipset (Emotion Engine and its attached RAM) is inside the box, developers are told they can't use it for PS3 games -- it's for PS(1/?)2 only
-no graphical improvements for PS2 games
My computer has been making an odd noise (occasional buzzing/grinding-ish noise...) for a few weeks or so now... finally got around to trying to figure out what it was, and it's my videocard's fan. Obviously the fan has gone off balance or something... the question is though if it's actually a problem or if it's just really annoying, but I don't know that...
Giving google a run for it's money, brought to you in part by google. I'm going to make google regret ever giving me access to their API and database.
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