21st November 2005, 9:31 AM
ABF, you aren't hearing me! I didn't even mention the $50 yearly fee! I am SPECIFICALLY talking about PAYING for a DOWNLOAD! That is, you go to the download section of a game, and you see a list of things like levels, and next to each one is a price listing. Like, this level is awesome, it's $5. Or, this is 10 levels for the low price of $10. For Halo 2, I waited them out.
GR, it's not "always" like that. First games have never looked as good as later games. That's been true since Atari. What hasn't been true is first games looking just barely above last gen. Since Atari, even the very first gen games have always been able to wow us over what the previous generation looked like. Look at the Gamecube. We were DROOLING over pics of the first games released on it which blew the very best the N64 had to offer out of the water. That's not happening this time.
GR, it's not "always" like that. First games have never looked as good as later games. That's been true since Atari. What hasn't been true is first games looking just barely above last gen. Since Atari, even the very first gen games have always been able to wow us over what the previous generation looked like. Look at the Gamecube. We were DROOLING over pics of the first games released on it which blew the very best the N64 had to offer out of the water. That's not happening this time.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)