The UE3 is great for shooters (and bioshock) but I thought Lost Odyssey would have looked so much better with it's own customized graphic engine, I mean LO looks great and all, but since it uses a larger ranges of color, it does show some blemishes on the UE3 engine, Some textures looked a little too blurry. But it call all lead to how well epic gives support of their engine. I mean only epic (and the people who did bioshock) really show the full potential of the engine, other companies haven't gotten the right optimization of the engine. Even Last Rement (using this engine) could look better by using cystal tools (since it is an enix game). I think companies should make their own interal graphics engine too show off their game (like rock start using their RAGE engine (Table Tennis->GTA4) It will make their games look their best...
But controlling the pokemon yourself will help you be in the battle, maybe feel more intense than just on the side line giving command. I see what you mean but if we were able to control them ourselves, it can lead to a real time pokemon battle style
If you own Brawl and played the pokemon event where two pokemon trainers go at each other. How do you feel if the next pokemon game played like that. All in real time and not turn based. The four moves are mapped to the joystiq and there are till dodge/evade/block maneuvers still avalible. Brawl really seems like a real time pokemon game can happen (can be made) it can be more intensive and more stratgy involved. What do you think?
All these controllers are explensive but the Wii mote is literlly indestructable! (+ the strap and the rubber thinging) and when you get mad at a game and "acendently" throw the remote at the tv, you knoe who is going to lose :P
check out this controller stress blog, its intresting read....
Lost Odyssey is SUCH an Amazing game. I think it would have looked so much better if they made their own graphics engine then the Unreal Engine. But the charaters have such life in them, even Kaim. Janson is so funny but so real at the same time. The kids really make it emotional and the Bad Guy really make you want to kill him >:(. But it deserves higher score imo.
a side note: I beat Mass Effect before this game and if you remeber the place where you-know-who funeral, there is a statue there that looked like a Conduit (if you know what I mean) O_o
This tread is to see the opinion on what you consider is a good name for a develper. List reasons why too. If you have a worst name, you can list that too. There were a lot of unique deveoper names shown at GDC 2007.
I start off old school with Nintendo.
Nintendo means "the place where we leave it up to the gods and do the best we can" roughly and some consider them to be the "savior" of video games in the USA after the atari fell through. It is an intresting name that fits them since they started out as a card company, made vacuum cleaners and other intresting contraptions.
I personally don't pay for xbox live but xbox live has such a large install base compare to the psn network. I believe even when yu pay for the service, the number of people (many) will bring down the service. I'm sure PSN will have down time if it had the same LARGE install base Live has now. Now people keep complaining about paying for online but not many people complain paying WOW monthly fee (and thats even more!) Thats on the PC (yet PC play online for "free"-well for most games-can be ad supported) I mean it is nothing new to charge for your services. It is the holidays and many people go on live (for kids not at school, college break, and adults off from work) this adds up and it does put a great strain on the servers. Once PSN has a large enough install base, I'm sure we will to start to see the strain. Just enjoy you will be getting somthing in return = ) Happy New YEars to all.
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