The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:08 pm 0

Alarm wrote:That article doesn't make pleasant reading, if what they say is true.

It's a bit of FUD. The guy seems to have heard (from where he doesn't say) that games get installed to the hard disc and assumes that it's done in the PC way, not the Xbox way.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:17 pm 0

I'm sure that's fairly alarmist. For starters, from all I've read so far, any games that offer installation do it as an option, not a necessity.

I'm fairly sure the PS3 is just going to be doing what the original Xbox did - which was cache some of the games data to speed up subsequent load times. It's just that the PS3 is going to give you the option, rather than handling it automatically like the Xbox did. This suggests it may be a little more intrusive - if only because the quantity of data is going to be massively increased - but I'd guess they'd keep the impact to a minimum - hopefully copying it across in the background when the Blu-Ray drive isn't being used for other things.

Sony should perhaps have called it "caching" rather than "installing" though - that comes with a whole host of bad connotations.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:45 pm 0

Afrika newer trailer from Gametrailers.com

mov file download here

wmv (borks on mine mid section) here

Graphically some bits are obviously looking a bit rough character animation wise on the people etc but could this be Shenmue's mystical tribal african brother?

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:55 pm 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote: Graphically some bits are obviously looking a bit rough character animation wise on the people etc but could this be Shenmue's mystical tribal african brother?

It's a MMORPG.

http://www.africammo.com/

I thought it looked very rough indeed. Nothing like the tech demo we saw a few months ago. Small, sparse environments, poor animation and no particular style to speak of.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:01 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
Old_but_still_a_kid wrote: Graphically some bits are obviously looking a bit rough character animation wise on the people etc but could this be Shenmue's mystical tribal african brother?
It's a MMORPG. http://www.africammo.com/

I thought it looked very rough indeed. Nothing like the tech demo we saw a few months ago. Small, sparse environments, poor animation and no particular style to speak of.

If I were playing that I'd just want to go in there and herd cattle and ride camels

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Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:07 pm 0

Graphics and animation on the animals is ok (elephants look great!), it's the people that need work (oh how true that is of real life too

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Edit the WMV file does look a lot better on mine, are you lot watching the quicktime linky?

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:12 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
I thought it looked very rough indeed. Nothing like the tech demo we saw a few months ago. Small, sparse environments, poor animation and no particular style to speak of.

Christ that does look fugly, very disappointing indeed.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:16 pm 0

Untold Legends:Dark Kingdoms trailer from Gametrailers.com

mov file download here

wmv file download here

Hmmm, finally gauntlet style goodness in polygon era? Looks very tasty.
IF..Gauntlet like gameplay+those graphics = DEFINATE SALE!

If it's a silly RPG wannabe I shall procede to go stab the developers through teh faces!!

*grabs everyone by the collar and shouts "Gauntlet!!!!!!!!!"*

can you tell I love Gauntlet?

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:18 pm 0

ASBO you effing donut, that's not PS3 Afrika. Check your source.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:31 pm 0

Gametrailers Afrika page

IGN

It would indeed seam to be an MMO-RPG, quite a few comments about the difference in quality of animal graphics/animation and rest of it too on the web aswell. Put that down to hopefully work in progress still because those waterfalls remind me of RageRacer on the PSX

Edit: If you check the May 15th E3 2k6 trailer, the animals look amazing on that, its just the people and some of the newer landscapes looking a bit PS2, I hope this isn't rushed out anything like the new trailer!!

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:41 pm 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:Gametrailers Afrika page

IGN

It would indeed seam to be an MMO-RPG, quite a few comments about the difference in quality of animal graphics/animation and rest of it too on the web aswell. Put that down to hopefully work in progress still because those waterfalls remind me of RageRacer on the PSX

Afrika = PS3

Africammo = Some kind of independent PC (I presume) game.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:18 pm 0

Game Trailers has got it wrong, that crap is from Africast Global Media
and Rapid Reality whoever the fuck they are.

Afrika is from Rhino Studios
http://www.rhino-studios.co.jp/

See this page:
http://www.rhino-studios.co.jp/company.html

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:24 pm 0

Well that explains the difference between the May 15th gorgeousness, and the newest so-called trailer on the list looking so crap *lol*

Normal PS3 super-dupery graphicalness has been restored TF

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:42 pm 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:Well that explains the difference between the May 15th gorgeousness, and the newest so-called trailer on the list looking so crap *lol*

Normal PS3 super-dupery graphicalness has been restored TF

Yeah when I read the comments here I downloaded the high res video
thinking how bad could it possibly be?

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:34 pm 0

PS1 o'clock as Rod said before (another game)

So...we still have no idea what it is (can't read Japanese from Rhino's website), I hope it's a hunt 'em up, or a giraffe emulator where you can just "live" in the virtual plains of Africa

Sorry to everyone for the 50mb wasted download, I'll look for another site that doesn't charge for non-crappy low-res free trailers.

YakYak

The Sony PS3 thread (apparently still obnoxious!)