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Vasot on 10 September 2008
FaRmLaNd said:
Age of empires 2 > newer versions.

FaRmLaNd = Troll



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Fei-Hung on 10 September 2008
Squilliam said:

Multiplatform equality?

Some might call it affirmative action while others might call it pandering to minorities. Whatever you call it, the result is that it doesn't matter what your race is out in the multiplatform wilderness you still get an equal shot with 90% of the titles which will be released now and into the future.

  • No PS3 game or Xbox 360 game shall look better than the other if the developer can so help it.

  • No ability on either console shall be used which the other console cannot manage. So if one console cannot afford to wear a suit, then suits shall not be required for these multiplatform jobs.

    If this were true, to be fair, every console would have to stoop its standards to the lowest common denominator:

    1) graphically all games wont have better graphics then the wii.

    2) there won't be no HD gaming

    3) There would be no motion sensing

    4) Live and PSN would only be as good as the WII online.

Affirmitive action in action.

In order to help the minorities, the government (Microsoft) has decided to offer certain jobs first to Xboxes as timed exclusives. This has required considerable investment of incentives and other grants in certain industries. Whilst it has come under considerable crititicism in the past for this practice, the government has pledged to continue offering them to the Xbox 360.

  • 3rd party exclusives and series are to be given great incentives by the government so that they may give jobs to the Xbox 360s before they are offered to the wider console population.
  • The reason to do this is to break up the old boys clubs of Sony and Nintendo by giving Xboxes a fairer chance in the work place as they are offered jobs by virtue of their 'make' not according to any particular talent.
  • They made the Xbox 360s Arcade $200, Premium $300, Elite $400 to help give people more incentive to hire an Xbox 360 for the job than ever before.

1) Dude this affirmative action section goes against the 1st section which is multi-platform equality :S 

2) Yes and when you pay for all the other necessities to make the console complete you will have eventually forked out atleast $300-350 if not more for the arcade model. Name one REAL GAMER who does not require Live subscription and a decent size HDD! 

Healing the attrocious Xbox 360 health statistics.

Its no surprise to many people that compared to their PS3 and Wii brothers, Xbox 360s die well before their time on average. The government has been slowly but surely changing this statistic and bringing positive change to the Xbox 360 minority. Over the years numerous health initiatives have been put into place to stem the tide and bring the Xbox 360 mortality rate back into line with the other consoles.

  • Free health care for 3 years from birth, instead of the standard 1 year.
  • Better treatment for those who do become sick to prevent a reoccurence (Opus motherboard)
  • Reducing the primary causes of the health problems by introducing the Zephyr, and Falcon revisions as well as the upcoming Jasper revision which is said to finally put an end to the problems.

  • Slimming down the console to reduce the mortality rate from complexity and bring the Xbox 360 size into line with the majority of the consoles. This is called the Valhalla program, and from next year new Xbox 360s will be slim and healthier than even the Jasper revision.

    This is like saying " we will shoot you but do not worry, after we shot you, we will give you free health care for 3 years. ermmm no, there is no justification!

     

The Microsoft future!

Microsoft wants to improve the lives of every Xbox  MS employee and shareholder now and into the future. They want to ensure that they get enough jobs money, that they are healthy and that the 3rd generation children of Xboxes XBOX Executives can lead even better lives than the current generation.

:)

 

there you, all is fixed now :D

 



Xen on 10 September 2008

Squilliam, you're quickly becoming more annoying than CrazzyMan.



Fei-Hung on 10 September 2008

Squilliam, you are the equivalent of .... oh i really dont want to say this.... im tryyna fight this.... aaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YOU ARE BECOMING THE MIKEYB OF MS!!!

kidding mate, you aintthat bad, but i would say you are the megaman2 of xbox. you use sarcasm and humor to point things out and make funny threads. Keep it up mate, we loves it!!!



Phasma on 10 September 2008
Shadowblind said:
Phasma said:
Omg, enough already.

Thats what we said about the first 40 anti-360 threads. And PS3 zealots didn't quit. Squilliam shouldn't either.

 

 

Well, enough of all of them. For both sides.



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gebx on 10 September 2008
Xen said:
Squilliam, you're quickly becoming more annoying than CrazzyMan.

Comparing Squilliam to Crazzyman is like comparing Angus Beef to the crap they use at McD's...

Seriously.. last I checked both the front page and MS forum page show who created the post. So if you have issues with his post then buzz off and don't come in...

Signed - Stern Supporter of Squilliam!, Boycotter of Whinny PS3 fanboys...



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Squilliam on 10 September 2008
gebx said:
Xen said:
Squilliam, you're quickly becoming more annoying than CrazzyMan.

Comparing Squilliam to Crazzyman is like comparing Angus Beef to the crap they use at McD's...

Seriously.. last I checked both the front page and MS forum page show who created the post. So if you have issues with his post then buzz off and don't come in...

Signed - Stern Supporter of Squilliam!, Boycotter of Whinny PS3 fanboys...

 



Tease.

perpride on 10 September 2008
Onyxmeth said:
Impulsivity said:
There is indeed affirmative action going on, which is why multiplat games never measure up to PS3 only games in graphics, gameplay or anything else. Why doesn't GTA4 look like MGS4? Because they had to make the 360 and PS3 versions equal so having higher res textures and other enhancements the PS3 is capable of was out of the question.

This is actually enforced by Microsoft. They charge a BONUS fee for every DVD you use after the first one for all 360 games and it's apparently pretty hefty according to several developers. They make devs pay through the nose since having 3 DVD games makes the 360 look inferior to the one blu ray PS3 special.

If anyone ever wonders why I hate Microsoft in the console war even though I like competition (I don't want Nintendo to go at all) its that drop in quality. If you make it for the PS3 and PC you can keep quality since the PC has scalers to let multiple kinds of hardware use it and disk space to make up for the lack of blu ray. The 360 though, dumbs down all multi platform titles by making them drop to the 360s lowest common denominator particularly in terms of media capacity. I'm sick of playing half baked multi platform titles! More MGS4 quality less GTA4 equality! At least most of these games aren't ported to the Wii too or we'd be playing GTA4 in lovely 480i.

Tell me, did you equally hate Sony last generation when every multiplat needed to be dropped in quality on the Xbox and Gamecube so it could be playable on the Playstation 2?

 

No, because a good 90% of the games I played on PS2 were exclusives. Those that werent were ported from other consoles after they had already been released. For example, RE4 used the cube's capabilities. Then it had to be dumbed down for PS2...no side lost. PS2 owners got to play the game, but Cube owners did not have to pay.

 



heruamon on 10 September 2008

I approve of this message!



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gebx on 10 September 2008
perpride said:
Onyxmeth said:
Impulsivity said:
There is indeed affirmative action going on, which is why multiplat games never measure up to PS3 only games in graphics, gameplay or anything else. Why doesn't GTA4 look like MGS4? Because they had to make the 360 and PS3 versions equal so having higher res textures and other enhancements the PS3 is capable of was out of the question.

This is actually enforced by Microsoft. They charge a BONUS fee for every DVD you use after the first one for all 360 games and it's apparently pretty hefty according to several developers. They make devs pay through the nose since having 3 DVD games makes the 360 look inferior to the one blu ray PS3 special.

If anyone ever wonders why I hate Microsoft in the console war even though I like competition (I don't want Nintendo to go at all) its that drop in quality. If you make it for the PS3 and PC you can keep quality since the PC has scalers to let multiple kinds of hardware use it and disk space to make up for the lack of blu ray. The 360 though, dumbs down all multi platform titles by making them drop to the 360s lowest common denominator particularly in terms of media capacity. I'm sick of playing half baked multi platform titles! More MGS4 quality less GTA4 equality! At least most of these games aren't ported to the Wii too or we'd be playing GTA4 in lovely 480i.

Tell me, did you equally hate Sony last generation when every multiplat needed to be dropped in quality on the Xbox and Gamecube so it could be playable on the Playstation 2?

 

No, because a good 90% of the games I played on PS2 were exclusives. Those that werent were ported from other consoles after they had already been released. For example, RE4 used the cube's capabilities. Then it had to be dumbed down for PS2...no side lost. PS2 owners got to play the game, but Cube owners did not have to pay.

 

 

Last I checked the 360 version ran at a higher resolution then the PS3 for GTA IV.. so I'm not sure how you can think its the 360 that was holding it back.

 

Edit: one more thing to add!

It works both ways - It took 2K a year to release a Bioshock port... imagine how much time and energy Rockstar spent on the PS3 port that could of been used to improve the 360 version!



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