SoccerDude28

Yeah it's definitely a problem with either ATI or your PC. Mine hasn't crashed once, and I'm using NVIDIA. The game does say plays best on NVIDIA As far as the auto aiming goes, you do have that in the PC version as well. If you go to configure buttons, you can choose which buttons you map it to. If you use a gamepad, it plays exactly like the PS2 version, but with much better graphics and a custom sound track. Seriously, the PS2 version sucks when you get to play the PC one. I was turned off from the moment I couldn't recognize what the hell those tiny blimps on the mini map where (and they are very very integral for not getting lost).

These are kids for god's sake. There won't be coffee, there will be Pepsi.

You know, eventhough you mention it now, I don't even remember that. I was too engrossed in the world to remember how many pearls each place had. And it could be just game design like Thrik said. Not necessarily rushing.

This is a late reply, but I also loved beyond good and evil and it is one of my favorite games this gen. There are these very few games that engulf you in their world, and you wish you never leave. Beyond Good and Evil was one of them. Imaginative, best female protagonist ever, very fun gameplay, surreal, it got it all. And the game was not rushed at all. The ending was intentional because the game originally was intended to have a sequel. To me, Beyond and Evil represents everything I love about gaming.

This game bites IMO.

It's called an Armadillo (I think that's what it is). Never seen one of those? We have a lot of them in Texas. EDIT: Or a big giant rat in the gay parade.

Use a gamepad. They are only 20 dollars and the game is nice enough to detect that you have a gamepad plugged in, and map all the buttons for you.

Check it out Valve's boss is talking about the challenges of programming for the next gen systems. "Technologically, I think every game developer should be terrified of the next generation of processors. Your existing code, you can just throw it away. It's not going to be helpful in creating next generation game titles," said Newell.

I dunno if they have ported it as much as rewritten most of it. They have been working on it for at least a few years now. I guess I would be pissed if I spent 4 years working on a pretty darn good engine (Source) to make my games, and it can support only one game HL2 and now I have to scrap it, just because Microsoft and Sony decided to scrap everything and go with something that is so new that it isn't even popular with personal computers yet. Wouldn't you, if you had a company the size of Valve?

Jack Thompson Wikepedia "Howard Stern An indecency complaint he filed with the FCC regarding the contents of a 2003 edition of Howard Stern's radio show resulted in Clear Channel Communications being fined $495,000 in 2004. The network subsequently dropped Stern from 6 of their stations." Wow this guy is all over the place

Gabe Newell used to program in the Microsoft Windows team, before he left and founded valve. Now Windows is an operating system so it is the most multi-threaded software application you can think of. I'm sure this guy knows how to do multi-threaded programming. But I don't think it is a matter of just writing your code as multi-threaded and voila. For once, lots of these games are performance whores, so you have to scrap a lot of the stuff you learned in college, and think different. Lots of the portions of these programs are programmed not in C++ but in assembly language for performance boosts. So Maybe "Source" will have to be scrapped for next gen, and he's pissed about that.

Yeah he is, but some of what he is saying is true. And I totally agree with the last part: "Statements about 'Oh, the PS3 is going to be twice as fast as an Xbox 360' are totally meaningless . It means nothing. It's surprising that game customers don't realize how it treats them like idiots. The assumption is that you're going to swallow that kind of system, when in fact there's no code that has been run on both of those architectures that is anything close to a realistic proxy for game performance. So to make a statement like that, I'm worried for the customers. And that we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and that we're lying to them all the time. That's a problem because in the long run, it will have an impact on our sales." It's just surprising how many people buy into that crap, after the PS2 FF7 demo/lie.

Is there ever an end to the bad news ?

Didn't God of war have a mini-game in which you had sex, and you saw the women's breasts? and that part was available without even a mod. How come nobody got offended by it?

By the way did anyone try out the hot coffee mod?

2 thumbs up for dissing prince of persia in a totally unrelated thread.

I don't like the XBOX. Can I hate Ed Fries? EDIT: After I watched the interview, I eat my words. This guy is genuinely nice, and he really seems like he cares about us thumb fans. All my respect and appologies go to him.

I don't hate MGS as much as I hate "Stealth and Sneaking" games. I never got into Splinter Cell, and even farcry which has its fair share of sneaking turned me off. I'd rather face my enemies and blast them into oblivion. I don't mind a little bit of stealth for a short period, but when the whole game is structured around stealth, and I get caught about 6 times in a row, it just kills the experience for me.

Well to me personally, forgetting all the hype, Psychonauts IS the best game I have played this year. I have played LOTS of platformers lately, including all Sony's franchises (Ratchet and Clank, Jak, and Sly), and I even rented Tak, and Psychonauts is the most fun among the bunch. The platforming was solid, and unlike Ratchet and Clank, this game is much more varied. After Lungfishopolis, no two levels play, look or feel the same. Also Platformers DO sell judging by the sales of Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Sly. Even Tak is in his third incarnation, so obviously all these games are making money. As far as people not buying Psychonauts because it's not good, I don't buy that. People are not even giving it a shot, judging by 3000+ units sold on the PC. It's not like people care about quality anyway, seeing that the top seller a couple of months back was a WWF game. DOOM 3 maybe had a higher score than it deserves, but unlike Psychonauts, it was the top XBOX seller. I really don't think it's a matter of quality here.

I tried to spread the gospel(sp?) on other forums, by informing people about the Excellent game Psychonauts, but all they talked about was: OMFG PS3 pwns 360, BF2 IZ TEH ROXERZ, I-I 4 I_ O 3 pwns 4I_I_ Maybe Psychonauts is just too good for the world outside Idlethumbs.

Also the presentation. A lot of idiots think that Psychonauts is a "kiddy" game, not mature enough for them. They don't know the deepness and maturity behind it.

Go to a Fry's or an EBGames and you will get your answer. I can't see the bloody game in any electronics or game store I go to. By the way, I heard that Advent Rising tanked too. Hope that will not transfer Majesco into a Ubi$oft

Cool thanks. What about the price here in the US? I heard there are 2 prices one in the 200's and one in the 300's. What's the difference?

It is a little too expensive for me (I heard it is something like 249.99 ??? ), and I really haven't seen any games for it. I don't even know all the other gimmicks it packs. Maybe if you can give us an unbiased run down of all the features it packs and all the games for it, we can have a better understanding of what we think about it. But coming here and giving us an anecdote of how the PSP and the DS are bullies, and how gizmondo is this misunderstood kid with no personal self-esteem is just going to alienate the people on these boards.

What is the scene about?