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

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Darkflame wrote:And its not really straightforward, where do you "insert" an enterance to a dungeon that isnt there to start with?
Silly. ANYWHERE! :) Unless there's not an inch free of wall, ground, sky or anywhere else.
Darkflame wrote:Zelda is completely seamless.
Ocarina was at least designed with some hocks for a never-released add-on. TP wouldnt have been, because its a cube game.
Oh please, it'd take days to sort this out if they wanted to. It's not like they haven't re-written large chunks of the input handling system so you can fling the Wiimote around :D If they wanted to add downloadable content then I can assure you those hooks would be there.
I wouldnt say its impossible; They could have a door in town locked, that suddenly leads to a new dungeon, or maybe a split in a "loading the next bit corridoor".
But it would look like a hack job unless designed in advance.
Naah it wouldn't look like a hack. You wouldn't notice it unless you bought the content - adding a door where there is none, or adding a whole area to a map where there's a big space is dead easy. I can think of tonnes of ways to add content to a game like Zelda - it just requires a little imagination!

Much depends on how they've dealt with the thing on a platform by platform basis. MS have obviously mastered the downloadable update having started it with the xbox. And I suspect Sony have probably taken a step in the right direction. Whether Nintendo will have prepared adequate features in their OS, or the VC store for this kind of thing I don't know. But I'd imagine they have, given their shrewd business sense :)

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Some interesting information about SACD and Blu-ray on the PS3.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36188
H.264 decoding itself was not very difficult for Cell with moderate optimization and they could play a movie in realtime at the first try unlike very difficult SACD optimization. However, because they began the development without knowing the final Blu-ray standard, they set the goal very high for decoding 2 full HD H.264 streams at 40Mbps simultaneously. Besides the clockspeed of the devkit was lower than the final product which made the development difficult. The current decoder can decode full HD H.264 with 3 SPEs.
Hmmm maybe Apple should have picked Cell after all, FCP on that? Holy shit!
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HGFB wrote:http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sony_bullshit
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Well done. Now fuck off.
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Oh piss off idiot. I was just posting a link I found funny in a thread that's well used to it. Sorry for derailing your cell processor masturbation session.
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According to Nintendo of America's George Harrison...
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Maddox wrote:Tough shit Sony. We've moved on. We're dating your younger, hotter sister, Wii. Even your fuglier step-sister, Xbox 360, looks hotter than you do. At least she's been around the block a few times and knows how to turn tricks. You've got nothing, and it's going to stay that way until you stop being a crabby old cunt.
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andy wrote:
According to Nintendo of America's George Harrison...
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What's wrong? That's the second stage of one of the best games ever.
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(Apologies for continuing this thread-topic divergence, but...)

Really? Weird, cos I thought it was the second stage of one of the most curiously over-rated (by a small but select band of delusive types) games in history.

I'm not saying it's really bad, mind. I've played through it in its entirety several times, when there was nothing else available. But despite that, I still can't help but feel it's really not very good.

Even for a side-scrolling beat/hack-em-up.
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Looks like Kutaragi has been demoted, and Kaz Hirai has been given his job...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=asia
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Foozwah wrote: I'm not saying it's really bad, mind.
I would, it's complete gash.
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grue wrote:
andy wrote:
According to Nintendo of America's George Harrison...
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What's wrong? That's the second stage of one of the best games ever.
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I know, it wasn't very good. :)
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Foozwah wrote:(Apologies for continuing this thread-topic divergence, but...)

Really? Weird, cos I thought it was the second stage of one of the most curiously over-rated (by a small but select band of delusive types) games in history.

I'm not saying it's really bad, mind. I've played through it in its entirety several times, when there was nothing else available. But despite that, I still can't help but feel it's really not very good.

Even for a side-scrolling beat/hack-em-up.
Sticking with my naughty diversion, I couldn't say that it was a great game either; but have always looked on it as being reasonable for the time and significant in terms of it being an at least fair conversion of the arcade original - and it gets an extra me-point for being an early Megadrive/Genesis title. Surely it could be thought of as one being one of the first 'arcade in the home' games on mass-market hardware and wasn't it also just a couple of years behind the arcade release?

Besides, being included with the console, it was the first game that I put in my Megadrive and [feeling back then that it was so bad] it made me laugh. So bad, it's good! So, in conclusion...

Yay, Altered Beast! :D
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The Megadrive version actually played worse than the master system one though.
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Foozwah wrote:(Apologies for continuing this thread-topic divergence, but...)

Really? Weird, cos I thought it was the second stage of one of the most curiously over-rated (by a small but select band of delusive types) games in history.

I'm not saying it's really bad, mind. I've played through it in its entirety several times, when there was nothing else available. But despite that, I still can't help but feel it's really not very good.

Even for a side-scrolling beat/hack-em-up.
If you mean Altered Beasts .. well .. the graphic was super cool for its
time and all ..

But I have to admit its control system and all never appealed me much.

Cool idea but a bit "weird" the way you play it.

So I'd say "yes good game but I've seen better".

It give you the feeling like "I can't play this stuff the way I'd like to play it".
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