Gerard Butler is a great actor and looks similar to Nathan Drake.......but he is like 42-43 and no amount of CGI is going to change his maturity level. If you look at his films he is always playing a mature type role and then you have to find an even older actor for Sully to counter Gerard's mature stance .......
Good example is if you were to ask people who was older Gerard Butler or the actor someone posted above Dylan McDermott most people would pick Gerard Butler but... #30
No bradley cooper doesnt fit as Nathan Drake neither does Harrison ford as Sully. Bruce Campbell would make a better Sully here is a picture from the TV series Burn Notice: http://www.imdb.com/media/r... If you watch the show Burn Notice enough you will begin to notice the similarities in personality type. Even their voices sounds similar. Now I am not saying it is exact...... Just close enough that sh... #24.2
to bozebo
people finding time to complete a game quickly is no indication of depth. Skyrim is considered to have considerable amount of depth but there are accounts of people completing over a hundred hours of skyrim and completing all the main quest within two weeks of the game coming out. A month out (lets say december) people have reported playing all the main quest and side quest and pretty much finished the game. Most rpgs don't extend past 200 hrs of game play and who knows what scale compa... #4
The main culprit that held back both the PS3 and Xbox 360 from greatness was " memory ". Yes, memory, memory, memory, and more memory... My ideal system will have lots of memory.... here is my logic.
Its a given than the processors (both GPU & CPU) in the new upcoming consoles will be better/faster than their current counterparts......
What doesn't make sense is handicapping this power with craptastically low amounts of memory. Just upgradin... #9
Story above all else.... can over look blah graphics and/or less than stellar gameplay if story is fantastic. For a game to survive the "modern" gamer graphics and gameplay have to go hand'n'hand... one can not survive without the other. Online isn't necessary if the story is awesome, gameplay and graphics are stellar. Online is more for replay value and isn't needed to make a great game. #24
Call of Duty is about soldiers-People paid and trained specifically to kill-so in a war type game kill/death ratio makes sense.
Drake's job really isn't to kill, his career choice often has him dealing with people who do kill. Its the unfortunate part of his career choice and he has learned to cope with it but his personality type is way different from a soldiers.
Please don't make comments about Indiana Jones or comparisons (and I have to break m... #1.1.7
In the very beginning of the movie, in the background of the forest,there were glowing eyes in the trees. Something tells me I've seen this before in a game but I can't remember for the life of me where. Can anyone shed some light? #108
Wow! reading comments from other sites sounds like a lot of wanna be id software fans but when they get a game that has the soul of an old school fps but with a fresh coat of paint they complain? This is a new area of exploration for id software: trying to make single player game and experimenting with vehicles for multi-player...........They exceeded my expectations in the graphical department (I'd say a smudge better than Uncharted and Killzone 2 with the high frame rate giving it an ed... #3
Just two cents. Bluray Speed isn't an issue compare to dvd format any more. Since the making of 8x blu-ray drives the format has been on par or better than reading speeds of even the fastest dvd drives. Also you can easily find decent 8x BD-R (burn once) drives; Asus has a really good drive that will burn BD-R at (reliably)12x! Its the re-writable blu-ray burners (BD-RE) that are behind..... the fastest BD-RE drives still hover in the 4x speed area which is too slow. Remember that Blu-... #1.13
sorry zero_cool the average consumer tv is going to be 1080p for at "least" 5 more years. Sony needs to concentrate on faster more consistent frame rates (min 60 fps but 120 would be better for 3d), better AA and filtering, better physics, increase the amount of objects that can be shown and tracked both on and off the screen, etc.... etc.... etc....
The list goes on...........
There is so much more that is going on in a game than resolution. Resol... #21.1
I skipped the first gen of Wii and have been doing fine with PC and PS3 (my xbox 360 died). I was one of the many owners of the Gamecube that felt abandoned by Nintendo and wasn't going through that possibility again. Wii's hardware specs didn't justify the double the price I paid for my Gamecube so I skipped it. I was shocked at how well the Wii sold but I forgot that Nintendo didn't sell many Gamecubes (probably because nobody cared or had a clue) so not many people knew tha... #13
I have to agree with you there dktxx2.....
and Sony's new hardware was the PS3 move. Just because Microsoft chose to present all its hardware upgrades in one year doesn't make it a better E3 than Sony's. Besides Microsoft's New console hardware looked too PS3ish. It was more "we are sort of catching up to PS3" announcement. We could rip on MS more if we wanted by saying that Microsoft needs to just suck up to the fact that blu-ray is the new standard disc format and should have upgraded to a Blu-ray Drive.... #5.1
Lots of Surprises
Just not all "Core" gamer surprises. Portal 2 was a surprise and Valve is just as reputable as Crytek is in the PC community - good to see Valve's full support for the PS3. Twisted Metal was a smaller surprise. It was heavy rumored but nothing substantial until E3 and if your are truly a PS3 aficionado it was fantastic news and the game play portion truly show of the possibility of some challenging new cooperative play mechanics.
Your wrong Chitown......
Sony only has so much time and hardcore gamers are all over the net looking for info even before E3. Sony (and Microsoft) both have realized that the media a large broadcast news events is the only way to get the news out to the casual, and what I call "betweeners", which are gamers who enjoy both casual and hardcore type games but don't live a breath gaming.
Basically Sony balanced it out with Something for everyone. Portal 2 was a surprise as well as twisted m... #2.2.1
Great show Sony. Entertaining, Informative, Well balanced
To everybody who says. Why didn't Sony do bring this or that. Sony doesn't need to bring Guns to a knife fight. Instead they brought sword to a knife fight. Sony still has games we know are in the works that could be powerhouses. Microsoft and Nintendo made it really easy for Sony to deliver a Great E3 without pulling out the Big Guns.
And how about that Entertainment aspect to Sony's E3. From the comedy spoof with Kevin Butler to the Twisted metal Stage prop,... #49
I thing the reason some people thing Nintendo Pwn E3 is Because....
Microsoft completely failed in their delivery of E3. I really thought Nintendo actually failed to impress overall. Your portable should never outshine your console......Ever. I'm not talking just graphically either. Yes I'm bias because I've not a fan of portable gaming - regardless if its 3D. Despite my bias, I'm sure portable fans think this was the best E3 ever. I beg to differ. For Wii console fans its was ok. Still better than Microsoft's E3 performance overall.... #62
The Wii is dead..... long live the Wii!
Its sad when your portable outshines your console Nintendo. Best looking game on there seem to be Kid Icarus. Even more interesting than Zelda or Golden Eye and graphically better than most of the console games for Wii. What do you get when you cross Mario, Kirby, and Little big planet...... Kirby's Epic Yarn. Obvious where Nintendo's true heart is is on the 3DS. Yes I may sound a bit critical, but I've never been a portable gaming man myself.
To Apocaly PS3
Your method that you described using memexport function has a nickname in the Software world and its called "tiling" and is a very inefficient use of memory.
Think about the logic in your qoute ".....And when it needs more it flushes that 10 MB of data to the 512 MB shared memory via the MEMEXPORT function"
Why would you use 10MB of memory only to reuse it again a second time in the main memory. Also, yea you can flush the memory to the main 512MB... #4.6
Don't be fooled Sony, as well as Microsoft, are really watching this one (they secretly want this type of service too)
Imagine playing Crysis (or any highend game on low end hardware). Most modern low end hardware over the last 5 years can display the the necessary pixels equivalent to 720p. (A lot of notebooks and netbooks have 1200x800 LCD screens.
Pixels (what we see on the tv) are only a fraction of what makes a game seem real. I have yet to see a PC game that can imitate the real life of my digital ABC channel which Broadcast in 720p. Yet Crysis on my PC at 1080p is no where near as reali... #17
I will strongly have to disagree on the idea that Onlive won't work
I live in Pheonix AZ and Cox Cable easily surpasses this speed. I moved from Dallas/Fort Worth area during At&t's Fios upgrade but you can bet now there is plenty of Super High Speed bandwidth available even at the Mainstream price. My PS3 Wifi connection consistently tells me that I get 7MB downstream and that is at 70% signal strength so Onlive should be very usable even on my Wireless G netbooks at the house.
Imagine playing Crysis (or any highend game on low end hardware... #3.4
Good example is if you were to ask people who was older Gerard Butler or the actor someone posted above Dylan McDermott most people would pick Gerard Butler but... #30
If you watch the show Burn Notice enough you will begin to notice the similarities in personality type. Even their voices sounds similar. Now I am not saying it is exact...... Just close enough that sh... #24.2
people finding time to complete a game quickly is no indication of depth. Skyrim is considered to have considerable amount of depth but there are accounts of people completing over a hundred hours of skyrim and completing all the main quest within two weeks of the game coming out. A month out (lets say december) people have reported playing all the main quest and side quest and pretty much finished the game. Most rpgs don't extend past 200 hrs of game play and who knows what scale compa... #4
Its a given than the processors (both GPU & CPU) in the new upcoming consoles will be better/faster than their current counterparts......
What doesn't make sense is handicapping this power with craptastically low amounts of memory. Just upgradin... #9
Drake's job really isn't to kill, his career choice often has him dealing with people who do kill. Its the unfortunate part of his career choice and he has learned to cope with it but his personality type is way different from a soldiers.
Please don't make comments about Indiana Jones or comparisons (and I have to break m... #1.1.7
The list goes on...........
There is so much more that is going on in a game than resolution. Resol... #21.1
and Sony's new hardware was the PS3 move. Just because Microsoft chose to present all its hardware upgrades in one year doesn't make it a better E3 than Sony's. Besides Microsoft's New console hardware looked too PS3ish. It was more "we are sort of catching up to PS3" announcement. We could rip on MS more if we wanted by saying that Microsoft needs to just suck up to the fact that blu-ray is the new standard disc format and should have upgraded to a Blu-ray Drive.... #5.1
Just not all "Core" gamer surprises. Portal 2 was a surprise and Valve is just as reputable as Crytek is in the PC community - good to see Valve's full support for the PS3. Twisted Metal was a smaller surprise. It was heavy rumored but nothing substantial until E3 and if your are truly a PS3 aficionado it was fantastic news and the game play portion truly show of the possibility of some challenging new cooperative play mechanics.
All types of PS3 and PSP gamer... #1.16.1
Sony only has so much time and hardcore gamers are all over the net looking for info even before E3. Sony (and Microsoft) both have realized that the media a large broadcast news events is the only way to get the news out to the casual, and what I call "betweeners", which are gamers who enjoy both casual and hardcore type games but don't live a breath gaming.
Basically Sony balanced it out with Something for everyone. Portal 2 was a surprise as well as twisted m... #2.2.1
To everybody who says. Why didn't Sony do bring this or that. Sony doesn't need to bring Guns to a knife fight. Instead they brought sword to a knife fight. Sony still has games we know are in the works that could be powerhouses. Microsoft and Nintendo made it really easy for Sony to deliver a Great E3 without pulling out the Big Guns.
And how about that Entertainment aspect to Sony's E3. From the comedy spoof with Kevin Butler to the Twisted metal Stage prop,... #49
Microsoft completely failed in their delivery of E3. I really thought Nintendo actually failed to impress overall. Your portable should never outshine your console......Ever. I'm not talking just graphically either. Yes I'm bias because I've not a fan of portable gaming - regardless if its 3D. Despite my bias, I'm sure portable fans think this was the best E3 ever. I beg to differ. For Wii console fans its was ok. Still better than Microsoft's E3 performance overall.... #62
Its sad when your portable outshines your console Nintendo. Best looking game on there seem to be Kid Icarus. Even more interesting than Zelda or Golden Eye and graphically better than most of the console games for Wii. What do you get when you cross Mario, Kirby, and Little big planet...... Kirby's Epic Yarn. Obvious where Nintendo's true heart is is on the 3DS. Yes I may sound a bit critical, but I've never been a portable gaming man myself.
Too each his (... #19
Your method that you described using memexport function has a nickname in the Software world and its called "tiling" and is a very inefficient use of memory.
Think about the logic in your qoute ".....And when it needs more it flushes that 10 MB of data to the 512 MB shared memory via the MEMEXPORT function"
Why would you use 10MB of memory only to reuse it again a second time in the main memory. Also, yea you can flush the memory to the main 512MB... #4.6
Imagine playing Crysis (or any highend game on low end hardware). Most modern low end hardware over the last 5 years can display the the necessary pixels equivalent to 720p. (A lot of notebooks and netbooks have 1200x800 LCD screens.
Pixels (what we see on the tv) are only a fraction of what makes a game seem real. I have yet to see a PC game that can imitate the real life of my digital ABC channel which Broadcast in 720p. Yet Crysis on my PC at 1080p is no where near as reali... #17
I live in Pheonix AZ and Cox Cable easily surpasses this speed. I moved from Dallas/Fort Worth area during At&t's Fios upgrade but you can bet now there is plenty of Super High Speed bandwidth available even at the Mainstream price. My PS3 Wifi connection consistently tells me that I get 7MB downstream and that is at 70% signal strength so Onlive should be very usable even on my Wireless G netbooks at the house.
Imagine playing Crysis (or any highend game on low end hardware... #3.4