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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2007 17:32 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2007 17:35
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A lot of professional developers use clay models as a base for the computer model. I'm pretty sure that happened in Spore and Kameo, as well as most games with odd looking characters. I even think it was done for Advent Rising. I would do it if I were better with clay, and I'd be uncomfortable with letting someone handle my ideas in such a stage as art design.

@Robert F, some of the games probably ARE stupid. That's what happens when you get a completely new something in a console. It happened with the DS for a while after launch. I like the tennis, golf, and boxing games on Wii sports. Not a huge fan of the bowling game (but everyone else I know loves it), and the baseball one sucks. The games I bought for it though were Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3, which are both amazingly awesome games. I've also gotten Zelda OOT, Starfox 64, Kirby's Adventure, SMB, and Zelda 1 & 2 for the virtual console, which all together cost less than a Wii game. I also got Wii Play, which only has 2 or 3 good games, but it only cost $10 more than getting a controller by itself. And just curious, but wouldn't the fact that your parents got divorced be a lot worse than not having HD anymore? ...You don't have to respond to that.

Edit: Oh yeah, a while ago someone got me Wind Waker and now I can actually play it!

And just a pointer, but...http://nexgenwars.com/


Not a fan of Star Craft. The oldest game I currently play is SMB, but on the computer the oldest is Homeworld, a 1999 game. Still my favorite strategy game ever.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2007 18:27
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Quote: "Erm. What's the point of having armour when someone can just shoot you in the guts or between your tits? Am I the only one who sees nothing by an impractical sci-fi cliche? "

I think this comes from ancient warfare, some civilisations would have whole legions of women and the would wear very little or sometimes no clothes at all, the idea was that this would make it harder for the enemy to fight them. Could you kill a naked woman?
but to be honest it probably has more to do with "Wooo I can partially see her boobs, I'm gonna buy this!"
but yeah, if she gets hit she's GOING DOWN!

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Dr Manette
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2007 22:15
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Oldest game I play is DOOM, and then of course Starcraft, Warcraft III, Half-Life, and even some Quake. I don't think HD makes a huge difference, especially when games today look plenty realistic for me.

Honestly, we'll get to the point where you can't tell the difference between life and video games and then we'll finally see that it's the game play, not the graphics, that make a good game. Hence why Halo 3 has "bad" graphics according to some people, and yet is still an amazing game for many many people.

Quote: "I think this comes from ancient warfare, some civilisations would have whole legions of women and the would wear very little or sometimes no clothes at all, the idea was that this would make it harder for the enemy to fight them. Could you kill a naked woman?
but to be honest it probably has more to do with "Wooo I can partially see her boobs, I'm gonna buy this!"
but yeah, if she gets hit she's GOING DOWN! "


I think you're on to something! All Master Chief needed to do was show a little skin, and all the grunts would stop shooting.


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But Brutes will carry on fighting as brutes are not gay. But if it was the oppisite way round then of-course the brutes would be gay.
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Master Cheif=Female
Shows skin: Grunts stop.
Shows skin: Brutes Fire= Poofters.

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Robert F
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2007 23:58
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Quote: "but wouldn't the fact that your parents got divorced be a lot worse than not having HD anymore?"


Yeah but after a while i got over it, it kept me down for a awile, until i realized that there was nothing i could to about it.

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 03:13
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Quote: "I don't think HD makes a huge difference, especially when games today look plenty realistic for me. "


Noooo way... I got an HDTV in Dec. 05 and will never go back. I played Gears of War on my friend's standard television and just about got a migraine. The HDTV allows for soo much more detail, obviously, as there are more lines of resolution

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 03:19
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Quote: "The HDTV allows for soo much more detail, obviously, as there are more lines of resolution"


I can't wait for something better than HD to come out, thereby making everyone say "wow, HD is so bad, SuperHD is the way to go!".

But yea, it's really more either people care or don't. Do I like amazingly fine graphics: yes. Will I pay extra for it when my standard tv(from the 80s by the way ) works fine for me: no.

But while we're on the topic, a good computer monitors make 360 games look a lot better, I suspect better resolution ect... that's what we use at our LANs, and it's peachy!


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I watch tv and play games on my crt, will not be going back to a standard tv

Will eventually buy a flat screen and call it good


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In some 360 games you can't even read the text properly on a standard TV. Get with the times, people

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Quote: "In some 360 games you can't even read the text properly on a standard TV. Get with the times, people "

Okay, in that case, I've got a solution that's cheaper then a nicely sized HDTV.

First, take your jacket/coat and carkeys/other means of transport. Head towards the nearest optician and have your eyes checked.

Get with the times, Jeku. Glasses/lenses/eye-laserings were invented ages ago. Jeez.


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What Jeku means is that the resolution used in a lot of 360 games makes the text very difficult to read, because it's so small that you need the extra definition to make it out - nothing to do with eyesight.

One example is Dead Rising, if you don't have high def then you'll be struggling to read the text. But HD is just better, and you don't realise that until you actually play on a HD screen - it's actually better to play on an old monitor than any size of standard def screen, ideally you'd use a nice big flat screen TV of course. If you like sniping in FPS games then it makes a lot of difference, but any game looks better in HD, let's not deny that fact just because some people don't have it!.

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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 09:43
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Quote: "unless it's a heavy smoker female "


Wouldn't explain the male inflection or stereotypical tonal variation. A lot of women have deep voices, deeper than a lot of males but noone would mistake them for men.

Still, I'm looking at this and thinking "Oh yes, because everyone knows that females don't need as much armor as males do. Clevage is so much more important than actually protecting one's life.". I'm actually surprised that with such a stark lack of protection that "she" isn't wearing unnaturally high heeled boots.

Nothing I say is intended to be rude. My autism means that I do not know what is rude and what isn't rude. I apologize if I seem rude. It is not my intention.
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 10:42 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2007 10:50
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the attached image is a rough comparison between standard tv def (440lines across) and 1080i (1080 lines high)

My tv isn't hooked up at the moment, but I suspect if you display that image on a tv, both sides should look close to the same. Neat!


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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 11:03
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Quote: "One example is Dead Rising, if you don't have high def then you'll be struggling to read the text."


Yes, that's what I meant Capcom had to release a patch for the text in Dead Rising because people with standard TVs could not read the text. And that wasn't the only game with this problem.

And again, welcome to 2003, people

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Need money, but then I'm going to upgrade to an HDTV. However, I don't have a clue what to get, what do I need, what do I not need?

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You can get a 32'' flat screen HD for about £300(inc VAT) online, check places like MicroDirect.

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I have 2 huge HDTV's in my house I just never use the HD part.

Your about to get pwned.
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2007 15:10 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2007 15:11
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Quote: "One example is Dead Rising, if you don't have high def then you'll be struggling to read the text. But HD is just better, and you don't realise that until you actually play on a HD screen - it's actually better to play on an old monitor than any size of standard def screen, ideally you'd use a nice big flat screen TV of course. If you like sniping in FPS games then it makes a lot of difference, but any game looks better in HD, let's not deny that fact just because some people don't have it!."


Okay, I don't have Dead Rising, so I wouldn't know. With none (about 12) of the games I've played up till now I've ran into that problem, so either you both have terrible eye-sight, or Dead Rising is an example of terrible game-design. I never denied that HDTV looks much better, BTW.


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My point is that 360 games are developed for HD, so when you use a standard def TV it's actually blurring a lot of the detail. I can read text in most games just fine, it's really more of an annoyance than a problem. Some FPS games though, they use a 1 pixel wide line for the sniper scope, like GRAW - that can be a right pain when it's tricky to make out the reticule as is.

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My point is that I classify making the game unplayable for people without HDTV as bad game-design.


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Dead Rising..loved that game, didn't have a clue what otis was telling me casue of our standard tv, rather annoying actually. Favorite thing to do is zombie walk and the knee drop of course..s'how I beat the final boss cause he's a jerk and all.

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Quote: "Need money, but then I'm going to upgrade to an HDTV. However, I don't have a clue what to get, what do I need, what do I not need?"


If you are buying a HDTV buy a samsung. Their latest models are amazing. I bought a 26" samsung when the 360 was released. The quality beats and other TV. but their new tvs are amazing. The contrast ratio is incredible.

O and for all those people saying "Screw Hi-Def" or "Hi-Def is rubbish" its quite obvious your hurting because you don't own one. If you were offered one you would take it.

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Even Halo 2 looks bad on a standard tv, it's sort of blurry and text is also hard to read. And yes, I know HD looks better, but it's definitely not on my top ten things to get.


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Quote: "o either you both have terrible eye-sight, or Dead Rising is an example of terrible game-design"


If you read my post, you'd see that several games have been released on 360 that had to be subsequently patched because you couldn't read the text on a standard TV. It has nothing to do with our eyes

On a side note, I'm amazed the company didn't test this thoroughly during development.

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Quote: "If you read my post, you'd see that several games have been released on 360 that had to be subsequently patched because you couldn't read the text on a standard TV. It has nothing to do with our eyes.

On a side note, I'm amazed the company didn't test this thoroughly during development."


READ POST? DON'T READ POST. POST IS STUPID!
Why would I read posts?

I amazed as well. Example of:
Ooh look how cool! HDTV!
Shouldn't we test this on a normal TV?
Naah. Everyone has HDTV.


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I think hdtvs are great. I have one at home. However, I'm at college and that's a bit out of my price range right now.

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