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Well, ive been walking around the gdc expo hall and such for these 3 days (been here since monday, but since wednesday they opened the general e3ish things).
1. Blizzard booth has no starcraft 2. Just a job employment booth t-t really sad
2. Got a chance to try out Punch Out for the Wii. Looking fucken awesome. They are trying to go with the Mike Tysons punchout look, rather than the SNES version. Looks like they have a winner, it feels a lot like the old punchout, fun as hell.
3. Got a chance to try out the Nintendo DSi. Sucks ass. Nothing more to say about that.
4. Went to check out the new on live device. The onlive is basically a new "console" which you plug to any pc or tv and you can play next/current gen games on any piece of crap device you have. No need for high end computers on your side since its all transfered via internetz (more info on www.onlive.com). I could actually play crysis on my netbook.. astonishing. I played unreal tournament 3 here and god... response time was really great. I was trying to see the video detail as its all streamed, and the encoding algorithm they are using is fken bad ass. The quality looks great on the standard definition... looks like a 90% quality jpeg image. Simply astounding.
5. Not actually part of the GDC, but my game got featured on the appstore when i arrived to the GDC! :D This means more downloads more money and hopefully gonna be able to cover development costs! :D Check it out if you havent! (Its called Wackylands Green http://www.wackylands.com/ )
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Can you elaborate on that OnLive thing?
What didn't you like about the DSi? From what I've heard, it's just a DS Lite, but with improvements [speakers are bigger/better, screens are larger, back light has been improved etc.].
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yeah I'm quite surprised at how much hype OnLive has gotten and people saying "it will change gaming forever." I personally think the whole internet requirement and monthly fee will make its influence quite limited
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On March 28 2009 04:42 blabber wrote:
yeah I'm quite surprised at how much hype OnLive has gotten and people saying "it will change gaming forever." I personally think the whole internet requirement and monthly fee will make its influence quite limited
im curious how much lat there will really be when tuns of people log in...
but... in the video on IGN there was way to much tearing for it to be competitive...
but maybe that was just the screen they were using and the video recorder....
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On March 28 2009 04:20 Salv wrote:
Can you elaborate on that OnLive thing?
I really cant haha, I posted every single impression of the OnLive service i had. They had like 11 different comps/tvs etc, each one with a different onlive device. Check their site for more info :O
Oh, and check this review: http://pc.ign.com/articles/965/965535p1.html
On March 28 2009 04:20 Salv wrote:
What didn't you like about the DSi? From what I've heard, it's just a DS Lite, but with improvements [speakers are bigger/better, screens are larger, back light has been improved etc.
This is exactly what I don't like about it. When the DS came out, it was crap compared to the PSP, but what made it succesful was the double screen plus the touch screen. Then came the iPhone.. basically a PSP with a touchscreen and no buttons(yeh, specs are way lower, but its definitely more like the PSP than the DS).
Now, after the release of the DS (about 5 years now LOL), there has been a cooldown of the DS features and now the huge trend is going to iphone/ipod touch graphicwise.
The DSi is basically an upgraded version of the DS lite without these upgrades standing out that much. I mean, a bigger screen (its like 1 inch bigger, wtf), more RAM and two shitcameras attached?? Give me a break. Theres a reason why the Nintendo stocks went down when they announced the DSi. Graphics STILL look the same.. no antialias FTL.
That said, I haven't reaaally had all that time with the DSi, nor do I know how much processing it can do... so I guess thats more of a shallow perspective of the product. But those are my first impressions of it.
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On March 28 2009 05:43 liger13 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 28 2009 04:42 blabber wrote:
yeah I'm quite surprised at how much hype OnLive has gotten and people saying "it will change gaming forever." I personally think the whole internet requirement and monthly fee will make its influence quite limited im curious how much lat there will really be when tuns of people log in... but... in the video on IGN there was way to much tearing for it to be competitive... but maybe that was just the screen they were using and the video recorder....
I didnt feel any latency when i tried it...
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did they have the OnLive servers with them, or in another location? because obviously there won't be any latency if you're connected to their servers via LAN
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The video at IGN said the servers were 50 miles away.
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oic. I'd be more interested to see how they act 1000 miles away.
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they said a minimum requirement is to have a 1.5mbps connection... so obviously you'll need a strong connection to use it
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