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    Why did developers make more games for the ps2 than the xbox?

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

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    From what i read at the time, PS2 had the far more complex architecture which meant early games had jaggies and poor textures in a lot of cases, compared to the Dreamcast versions, but the hardware offered you a lot of flexibility.

     

    Middleware engines also helped a lot.

     

    If you look at late era PS2 games like Black, Burnout III, God Of War II etc you get a clearer vision of how software improved throughout it's life cycle.

     

    The Game Cube by comparison was a lot easier to work with and hit the ground running with some stunning looking titles, but there were less tricks to discover and so the system had less wriggle room to find better ways to code? .

     

    The thing with Xbox was it was loosing money for MS. .the decision to include a HDD as standard alone proved costly.

     

    So once the Xbox brand and XBL had been established, MS killed it off to get a head start in Sony in the next generation race.

     

    Pity as games like Far Cry, Doom 3 and HL2 showed what it could do over the PS2.

     

    It was a costly generation as i owned a DC, PS2, GC and Xbox.

     

    Each had enough exclusives to warrant owning.

    I remember getting my xbox in 2006, good times, but i have never touched halo. only ever played 1. Mom's orders, i'm 25

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    Why did developers make more games for the ps2 than the xbox?

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Now, granted, the PS2 supports progressive scan (of which i will never see because most HD tv's are not compatible, but it has no support for texture filtering or any anti aliasing, so this begs the question: why make any games for it when the Xbox version is superior in (mostly) every way. For every Gran turismo, there is a Medal of honor Rising sun.

     

    just curious, and yes i still have my slim. BTW, what HDTV's support progressive scan?

    Dear COD community:Burn in hell

    in Microsoft Xbox One

    Posted · Edited by Ranger03

    i Seriously don't get all the hate. Now, i've played MW1 2 and 3 to death, collected all the intel and gotten bored after all that. Advanced Warfare was fun for a while,

     

    but all you could really do was collect intel and replay missions. Infinite warfare opens with a firecracker bang, has no intel and never lets up. I literally felt like the

     

    game was putting me in an adrenaline fueled stranglehold and would not let go. The Battlestar Galactica inspired space battles, the very first mission with fleet

     

    week, it all looked, sounded and felt AMAZING, which leaves me confused as to why many people dislike the game or are adamant that people like me suck for

     

    liking it. When the original game came out on PC in 2001, it was revolutionary. I can excuse Ghosts and even defend COD 3 but i cannot defend a rabid fanbase

     

    that puts down others simply because they like a game that in the oppositions eyes is "Rushed".

     

    It's really quite simple: The COD fan base is an overly toxic, unbearable mess of "fans" that argue, hurl bile at and at the same time, worship EA for making these

     

    games. Now i'm not defending them, even i thought COD had stretched its limits with FInal Fronts on PS2. While i commend rebellion for trying to at the very least

     

    make the rogue trooper engine work with the PS2, it wasn't possible. I have been a life long fan of COD and yet for me it is difficult to imagine going back to WWII.

     

    Why would you want to go back to the Holocaust? why would you want to re visit Normandy? I understand that some people are praising the graphics these days,

     

    but some things should be left alone. Back in the 90's, Shooters were innovative, fun. We all remember the awesomeness of Doom and the beauty of Unreal (in

     

    fact, when i saw Unreal Gold, my jaw hit the floor, that was in 2005). Even the quake series was a smash. The anticipation to download one of the greatest

     

    shooters in history:Doom, was at an all time high in 1993 (my DOB) and while i never played it growing up, i personally love it, even the reboot is awesome.

     

    Wolfenstein 3D will never die, It may be a maze of corridors and nazis but it was a historic achievement. But i'm getting off track.

     

    EA must die. To create a better generation of video games that are not tainted by Micro transactions or overpriced DLC, EA must be cut to pieces and it's head

     

    stomped into mush. I can understand the fact that i will be flamed for saying this, but i grew up in a time when the word "FPS" meant Doom, Quake or

     

    Wolfenstein. I remember being so excited to get home so i could play Medal of Honor for my PS1, that even though i lived in shit and a screwed up

     

    neighborhood, that i could at least enjoy a good game. Even though we had to suffer through Dial up, and lightning storms, sleeping in the car and risking Motel

     

    6, i was happy, because i could always drift back into my mind, using these games, violent as they were, to unwind, because they contained alternate worlds,

     

    worlds of wonder, worlds where reality did not mean anything, and People want to go right back to an era that is best forgotten because of the hell that the nazis

     

    created. The Next DLC will be playing as Joseph Mengel, experimenting on babies, or playing as a nazi, using Jewish babies for target practice.

     

    The COD community is barely that. Go ahead, insult the newbie, berate him for not knowing how to play. and then taunt him with the words "go kill yourself".

     

    I read about Markiplier (a well known and funny youtuber who i look up to) who's friend Danial was found dead. I weep for those that have to suffer the cruel

     

    words that i see each day youtube. "Kill yourself, no one will miss you" and other things that these people should be admonished for. Words cannot kill, but they

     

    can hurt. I have attempted suicide twice due to bullying. It got so bad that i tried to lay down in the street so i could get run over, because i did not give a

     

    SHIT anymore. And yet, the COD community sees fit to bully the same people because of their skill level, that when they ask for help, they are greeted with fag

     

    and newbie. It...It needs to stop. Gamers? You people aren't Gamers. True Gamers help each other. I hope you realize that you are making the world worse, not

     

    better. And markiplier, My prayers are with you (His daughter died in a car crash last year). Seriously, You aren't gamers. Gaming used to be fun, now it's hell for

     

    new gamers.

     

    And for the love of god, get rid of the usage of "Casual" like its an insult. I'm casual and proud of it, so bite my proud white ass!

    Why is the Vic 20 so hard to program for?

    in Commodore 8-bit Computers

    Posted

    what gives you the idea that i don't like it? personally, i program on it time to time and i view it as one of the easier systems to get used to. The c64 is harder for me to program for and the plus 4 and PET are my personal favorites due to the Latter's BASIC 3.5 and the Former's Green monitor which evokes Aliens levels of nostalgia, besides there's also zork. I'm just curious as to why Commodore insisted on a ton of POKE statements for graphics. if Jack had paid 3 dollars per sale, i would have an easier time. But it is a fun little computer for what it's worth.

     

    I will buy one in the future, because i'm cool with old tech. Sorry you got the wrong idea about me

    Doom

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    I've been jamming it on the PC since the early 90's, but only recently (about a year ago) started DLing Mods and Wads for it, in any appreciable amount. I've been blown away by the plethora of awesomeness available for it. The Aliens TC was re-done in 2017 and is amazing now, as an example. I'm playing on an older version of GZdoom because I have old drivers for my 88GT. One day I'll upgrade so I can play the newer mods like the latest Wolfenstein mods.

     

    Complex Doom is one of my favorite mods, along with Hard Doom, Beautiful Doom, (obviously) Brutal Doom, and one of the most perverse has to be Project Brutality. One day I'll make a host of vids showcasing the Wads and Mods I've DLed and how I have them organized.

     

    To this day, it's my favorite FPS, and always will be now that I have a lifetimes worth of experiences for it. I'll get some screenshots of my current Folders up in a few weeks.

     

     

    Does anyone here still play it? Have any awesome Mods or Wads to suggest?

     

     

    I see the annual blood drive in hell is progressing nicely :D

    New C64 game:Beer drinking sim

    in Classic Computing Discussion

    Posted

    Since I assume you are doing this in emulation, why not use the Plus/4 (BASIC 3.5) or 128 (BASIC 7.0) if the 64’s BASIC 2.0 isn’t cutting it for you? Both of these have graphics commands and sound commands that the 64’s BASIC does not.

    The screen spazzes out when told to run a graphics program in the plus 4. all i get is black bars and some green lines

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