Oath

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  1. Stupid TV doesn't have enough to have 2 game systems and a DVD player all on component at the same time. Grrr.:frusty:

    To combat this problem you could buy a switch box, so you can have everything hooked up and then just flip through your gadgets with a remote. There won't be any significant loss in quality, unless perhaps you buy the cheapest thing available. Something like this might be suitable.


  2. Hmm, from the manual:
    Do not attempt to connect the HDMI/DVI connector to a PC or Laptop Graphics Card. (This will result in a blank screen being displayed)

    So that one's out...

    Huh, that's very odd. You'd think the TV wouldn't care from where the signal was coming, wouldn't you? I'd say try it anyway, with a compatible resolution set on your laptop of course. I don't think that could possibly break it anyway (please don't take my word for it).

    For the 360 I'm using the VGA cables, which I've hooked up to my computer monitor and there's no way I'm going back to Scart on my SDTV. If you're not going to use the component cables that came with the console, please purchase a VGA kit.


  3. Not really. There were some games that had compatability problems with the smaller PS2 compared to the old PS2, and that was the same system! This is less surprising.

    Still, it's better than Microsoft's attempt. Want to play Panzer Dragoon Orta? TOUGH SHIT, GO PLAY KABUKI WARRIORS.

    That was only a few games, this is more than a handful.

    For the Xbox, I've actually purchased Stranger's Wrath ($8 or something, new) and have it waiting if they ever fix that one up. The way Microsoft have handled it is frustrating as hell.

    Maybe we'll see some screw-ups with the Wii as well? Possibly? No?


  4. Just to keep the thread slightly alive:

    GODDAMNIT! I had a 600 or 700 or so long erase in the 10 minute time attack and with 1 second left I fail to place the last block, thus voiding my score.


  5. It's sort of true. It does have 3 MB of embedded graphics memory on the GPU but it also has 24 MB of high speed memory the GPU can use, besides the 64 MB of main memory that the GPU shares access to.

    Some of those IGN screenshots don't look all that great though, but that's not because of HDR in my opionion. AA would be really nice.


  6. I've been playing the game for about a week or so, and I still can't get past the fifth or sixth skin.

    Maybe I suck, but i'm having fun. I've also had absolutely no desire to buy anything else, since I'm so far off from having exhausted the initial content pack.

    My situation is much the same. I've gotten to the seventh stage, but even that didn't net me too much of a score. I'm having fun too, but I'm just amazed by how much better some people are.

    If you go on the leaderboards for the "60 second mode", you can download replays of anyone with a posted score. While that mode is often speed-first, cleanliness second, you can get a good sense for how people match up blocks to get high combos and how they set them up and so forth.

    I downloaded the top guy and it blew my mind, slightly at least. I mean, I know how to do similar set-ups, but that run was so far beyond anything I've ever come close to, except for when I get a nice chaining block and clear out most of the screen in the subsequent wipe.

    I tried playing a lot more agressively, and while that was fun, it didn't raise my scoring at all.


  7. Miffy, what are the none tank battle parts of the game like? I think I heard it compared to Zelda once. Is that true?

    Sort of and not really. There is some light dungeon crawling that you do to progress the story (this is where you reach new tank battles) and gather scrap material for your tank. There are a few puzzles but they're all overly obvious. It does remind slightly of A Link to the Past, but I think that'd be the graphics.


  8. I was playing the trial tonight and suddenly the game just clicked for me. It just became so much better in the blink of an eye, so I caved and bought it. I'm still not really good at it but that'll happen in due time I'm sure.

    Any tips for the apsiring Lumineer?


  9. I actually thought that Dead Rising had a decent shot to be that game, although for the Japanese market, you're right.

    Dead Rising could have done so much better in Japan. The trouble it had was that it was rated Z, which meant they wouldn't/couldn't even put out boxes. If you wanted to buy it you had to get it under the counter, so to speak. It still broke top 20 if my memory serves me correctly, so that's a pretty good achievement for the game.


  10. Well sure, but why bother revitalising the Kid Icarus brand - for a whole new generation of gamers who likely missed out on the original - if you weren't going to do anything more than just a cameo of it's main character? I really want Nintendo to do a new Icarus adventure, and it seems like they may be testing the waters with Pit's inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Brawl first.

    Again, this speculation has been going on since day one.


  11. I'd agree that the console business is on an upswing with regards to interesting content compared to even last year or the year before that, for me personally. I'm seeing a lot more things that I'm at least interested in, perhaps even to the degree where I'll purchase it, which can't be said for the PC where there's maybe three or four games coming out in the next year that I'd even consider.

    What the PC industry has locked itself in to is exactly what they were drawing analogies to with the comic book industry. For me though, I think Capcom is going to plow ahead this coming console generation, under the sagely guidance of Keiji Inafune, because they seem to be trying much harder than most at bringing out new IP that they can build their business on.

    I'd agree with Marek though, that there needs to be a much bigger selection of styles and characters to make the new IP relevant. Even Capcom, who I think are doing as much as possible correctly right now, is missing out quite a bit in that sector.

    Anyway, that video is so much better than the usual stuff that ends up on GameTrailers it's not even funny. Very much looking forward to part 2.