They have to turn down the settings to process the video stream on the same machine or it kills framerate. At least that's what I saw they had to do for other live streams.
That could mean a lot of things. Is it a HD update of 16 bit graphics? (Wow, really huge sharp pixels!) an HD update of the DS version? (Wow, vast expanses of interpolated shading!) I seriously doubt it's going to be a true HD graphics overhaul.
Mount and Blade is single player, this is multiplayer.
This game looks too chaotic. Hopefully it's not just one for me and all for me. There is a reason these medieval guys lined up to fight. If one side lines up all their players and fights together they should be able to trounce another side that doesn't. If that's not an effective tactic then this is totally unrealistic. How many simultaneous players are supported?
They had the specs, they just made it unduly difficult to find and play with people with their 900 character random ID string you had to know up front because there is no way to search for friends.
The Wii had a lot of 3rd party support up front - they pretty much all made crap shovelware trying to cash in, and/or they didn't know how to translate their game to the motion controller. People figued out if the game wasn't made by Nintendo, it was going to be crap. 3rd parties got out because no one bought their lousy games.
Hopefully with that experience under their belts and a traditional controller available they'll do better this time. The thing I worry about is if and when MS and Sony launch their much more powerful systems and devs have to remove eye candy or (worse) functionality to make them run on WiiU they're not going to bother. Hopefully Nintendo has been smart enough to design their system to let games gracefully degrade visually on their hardware without a ton of code changes so games can be ported easily.
Otherwise we're left with pretty much only Nintendo first party games as we have now with the Wii. Then the only thing between success and bankruptcy for them is a string of bad games. (It could happen.)
In America the Cafe would get sued. But this is Asia. They allow child labor and virtual slave labor in sweatshops. I'm pretty sure if anything bad happens to you in Asia you just suck it up.
Probably didn't drink. It takes, on average, 2 weeks to die of starvation and 2 days to die of dehydration. I'm betting this isn't the first time he's done htis, and his system was probably weakened from past abuse.
This is addiction. Same thing that drives people to drink too much and destroy their lives. The game is designed to be addictive, and some people don't have the willpower to control themselves, same as with alcohol.
I find it strange the people who work at the Internet Cafes don't do anything when someone goes way overbord like this. People must go on these marathon sessions a lot without ending up dead.
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