Gaming room (It's a geeks paradise)

[SeanMacGabhann]

I can picture this all too vividly

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7962180.stm

This is, from my (failing) memory the 4th or 5th serious attempt at something like this.

Thoughts, etc?

[Floating Onion]

I don't really think the technology is there yet. Thin client consoles? What's it going to run over? Broadband? That'll work for sending the control signals back, but has nowhere near the bandwidth for the display. Given that the XBox 360 & PS3 can run HD directly into your TV without compressing the image you're looking at pushing more than 3 Gb/s locally. Sure they can compress it, but how will it look? Say they can get that down to 50 - 100 Mb/s, what infrastructure is going to cope with pushing that to every house on the street? They can't even get video on demand working properly & they've been banging on about that for years.

I also don't see how they're going to control round trip latency. We can all tell when there's a bit of latency playing a multiplayer game. Now add in the round trip delay of you responding to the display, sending that to their servers, them sending the updated display back to you and you seeing the result. That will easily result in noticeable lag if the network isn't up for it.

Lastly, if they really had a product that could do all this they could probably make a killing licensing it to Microsoft or VMWare for their virtual desktop products.

They're moving the problems from the consoles to the network. It also means a subscription based purchasing model. You don't like having to pay for online multiplayer? You're going to hate this. You'll get charged every time you start up your favourite game.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

http://kotaku.com/5184207/all-aboard-the-zelda-spirit-tracks-trailer-train

New Zeldy for the DS, though it looks like whoever is in charge of the series has come out of the closet

as a fan of Densha de go, eh?

Hit the second vid link to avoid blurry vision.

EDIT: For those unfamiliar with the HUGE arcade,console,pc and handheld frachise of Densha de go, some vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXjyC1E4K0

And no, I'm *not* a fan of this series, but ever since we had the original arcade cab in a previous career, word got round, and there is now a thriving cult following for the series in the UK, believe it or not.

[Horsebox]

Madworld - (no, not the long lost somewhat unpredictable EDF poster) it's a new game for the Wii.

Has anyone played it yet? I'm quite tempted by this as it looks to be a bit of gorefest and is a massive departure from the usual family-friendly, laughy jokey fluffy stuff.

Intrigued by the use of soley black, white and red graphics - very Sin City / comic stylee.

Madworld

[bon3yard]

The same people who brought us the peculiar but compulsive Killer 7? Is it a Wii only release?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Wii only yes. Which is fine if only I could stop playing "world of goo" on the thing

[mockney piers]

Metacritic gives it an average of 84 which is pretty good.

IGN Uk gives it 89, which is very generous for them, so the signs are good.

Might have to conider it myself as have finally run out of steam on CoD5, even though I never quite released the M1A1 Carbine.

And though not a game it is geeky, look at Watchmen, ever seen anything to split opinion quite so much?

Five 100s and three 20s!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

This weeks ZP

Resident Evil..... FIVE!

The line

""The game I loved is in here, but the creative spark has gone out""

is a proper nail on head moment

[bon3yard]

...If it aint broke? Playing it as we speak. I think its easily the best game I've played this year. Its incredibly buttock clenching(I've been freaking the household out with bellowed exclamations of outright panic "F**king move!!!" is as sophisticated as it gets). The one qualm I have is the lack of any puzzle solving element although that was largely missing from 4 too and that was simply superb. The Chainsaw Majini make me soil myself every time they burst out of the shadows. Help!

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/929/929766/resident-evil-5-20081113105015596_640w.jpg

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

I can't say too much (NDA etc), and personally, I couldn't care less about it, but I've just been offered a contract to do some translating and touch up on (another!) forthcoming side story to a very popular part VII in a famous series...Don't hold your breath though, it won't be out in a while.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Given what I have read on other sites today I think it's safe to say you won't be held responsible if I suspect it's Final Fantasy VII Shu?

Intriguing that you are in some way involved, but Squenix haven't got the best record of revisiting previous sagas have they?

Everyone wants a Hi Def remake - whether they would actually like it if such a thing happened I don't know

[snorky]

just done World at War - bniot as good as modern warfare

[mockney piers]

1 player I agree, though competitive co-op and nazi zombies are pretty good, and the multiplayer I reckon is on a par, and less punishing to the lower levels with the default weapons.

Tommy gun and aperture sight will frankly do fine at any time.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Trailer for modern warfare 2 out today people

[SeanMacGabhann]

Finally got around to starting Fallout 3 - that is one BLEAK game. And having read The Road by Cormac McCarthy recently it's giving me the shivers big time

Then again I have not long finished Bioshock when someone lent me some Ayn Rand - the literary/game crossover continues

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ach Sean, you know The Road was rubbish!

[Mikecg]

I recieved my Xbox360 back from Microsoft yesterday and they replaced the whole unit with a brand new one. so from failure to replacement took 11 days which is very good.

[SeanMacGabhann]

made up as I am to see you in this thread of all places PGC I will not have a word said against T'Road!

[mockney piers]

Oooh, as I was settling down to a self-indulgent weekend of gaming this saturday, I got a weird error, looked across and my red ring was flashing (ooh can I rub your pussy mrs slocombe).

Luckily it was a rotational flash rather than the 3/4 solid RRoD.

So far all still good since, but approaching machine with trepidation every time now.

New games (preowned from Game) Mirrors Edge, nice to see something original being done with an FPS(ish), slick engine, great visuals, but a bit repetitive and limited and short, up for borrowage grabs soon if anyone wants.

And Prince of Persia, which is ok I suppose. Again looks great, plays fine, good level design with almost Zeldaesque feel, actually quite well written too, and has made me genuinely chuckle quite a few times.

But I know what ZP means about the all american hero, it is somewhat out of place, and the fights really are nothing but a button mash, forget trying to learn combos, no point.

[mockney piers]

Haven't really got in to Fallout 3. Prologue was good, that first sight of the wider world very cool gaming moment, but then it just became Oblivion without the pretty fields nor the mushroom picking. Same dreadful characters and acting, and I became bored within a couple of hours, especially the monotony of the game world.

There are still a few good lines here and there, but the moment I lost momentum I knew I'd never recover it.

Currently enjoying Neverwinter Nights on PC, much more fun I must say, give me demonic tendrils of doom over a plasma pistol any day of the week!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Apparently the DLC for Mirror's Edge focuses on the good points of the engine rather than the clunky indoor bits. The sequel should be spot-on

PoP - Sand of Time perfected that worl and everything else since then has not been right. This latest instalment comes closest to being right but borking the combat and making the whole thing too "easy" is a shame

CoD4 however - maybe it's just me. I don't like squad games and the tone of the thing makes me queasy. It's very impressively done tho'

[mockney piers]

CoD4's not really a squad game, it's a single player game with some people around you that are less stupid than the usual, but they don't actually contribute anything, they never save your life or take out anybody but respawners.

Some levels are better than others and the SAS in ex Russian republics are the superioir levels, especially the flsahback sniper ones, superb.

And give me a better leevl in any FPS ever than the one where you jump on and off the helicopter sitting at the 40mm grenade launcher, with it's fantastic denouement and I'll eat my hat!!

[Keef]

Just bought Madworld for Wii. Yet to try it, but looks fun in a gory way.

[SeanMacGabhann]

but looks fun in a gory SIN CITY way

I'm tempted to have a peek at that one too keef