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[Squilliam]

NintendoMonopoly said:

Squilliam said:

1. Its difficult for me to describe my feeling here but at the barest level you have a controller which can truely work in 3 dimensions of space mated to a console which has more the performance of a 2.5 D machine. Now the HD twins are moving into the realm of crafting true 3 dimensional worlds but unfortunately how a gamer moves within the space is limited. Its quite frustrating and disapointing when I think about it really. My first thought when I played Gears of War was, "Man I love the new feeling this gives me, im really enjoying the possibilities with this play style". My second thought was, "I think this game would have been great with the Wiimote."

All games consoles have limitations in terms of technology. But for a game developer to truely craft an engaging world in 3 dimensions, at this point you can always use more power.

2. I set the sensitivity to high, I set it to low, I changed where I put the sensor bar (top/bottom) but I can't get it to work properly. My seat is very close to the TV and the way I have it mounted means I can't get a good angle on the sensor bar and the size of the TV doesn't help much at all.

P.S. What quote boxes?

 

1. I think we're going to have to wait to next gen for that. Right now people will just have to be happy with the revolution that's already here. At least you see the potential. It is hard to get over for some. Similar to how I see the CGI artwork that's in movies and know that 1 day games will be able to do that and more. Just not now. I'm not going to hate on any of the systems for that, though. It seems kind of lop sided when HD only owners talk about it. They often fail to realize how big of a difference it can make.

2. Ahhh Now I see what you mean. From a normal distance it works great. If it were me, I'd want my TV to be setup where I get a clear scope of the whole tv and can enjoy it with company, anyways (serious bragging rights j/k). Not to mention I don't want to have to burn my eyes out looking at it. I'm not sure where your seats at, but it sounds like you're not viewing from directly infront, unless this is a really small room. I can usually get it to work fine from the side, if I set it up right, just as long as there's enough room and I still have a clear view of the tv. That's not really the ideal situation for any gaming, though.

Way to kill those quotes. It was really starting to get out of hand. I didn't expect this to turn into a big discussion. I didn't think you needed Kulle to speak on your behalf, either. I'd much rather talk to someone directly, instead of having someone else vicariously answer for them. I can appreciate the other side if a person is reasonable.

 

1. The legitimate issue with the HD consoles is that they really did launch immature. However thats been the model of console development for a long time so you can hardly fault them for that. The tools were simply not there and quite frankly the PS3 would have floundered completely if the tools and software used on the 360 were incompatible with it. Im more for pushing development and striking forward whenever possible and in fact I considered the ideal Nintendo console next generation could very well run on Microsoft developed tools and console hardware with the consumer side being developed by Nintendo. Whilst it may not happen, the thought of a Wii HD using 1gb of GDDR5 memory, a 4 core Power PC architecture with the cache/memory subsystems tweaked and utilizing a more modern direct3d 11 compatible GPU (The current 360 GPU is somewhat direct 3d 11 and 10 compatible but its best described as direct3d 9.5 in terms of features.) would answer the HD question with most likely the most efficiency and still give Nintendo their desired packaging constraints and would require a chassi no bigger than the current Wii so long as a flash based system was used.

2. My TV is mounted on a swivel arm, and its at a particular height and the seats are aranged so the only good angles available are from seats which require me to point my arm at an odd angle as they are too close to the TV. Whilst its brilliant for movie watching, its not so hot for the Wii. Still don't get the whole idea of Blu-Ray though, I download bootleg episodes at 350 mb each from torrents (no local tv unfortunately) and I still don't feel like im missing out on any detail over DVD/Blu Ray.

And yes, I don't need anyone to answer for me.