Showing posts with label Rant. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ASKmen.com's Top 5 Daniel Craig Bond Replacements

Top 5 Bond Replacements from ASKMEN.com

5. Ewan McGregor
4. Joshua Jackson - the mighty duck kid/dawsons creek
3. Chiwetel Ejiofor - no
2. Jon Hamm - "who???"
1. Clive Owen

okay, first of all, ASKMEN.com, you suck. All your ideas are terrible. all of em, no no no. The ONLY top contenders that the public and forum goers wanted were either:

My Top 2 Bond Replacements
Hugh Jackman. He is a great actor. Basically the Xmen movies were about him and his character Wolverine. The people behind the 007 movies wanted to reboot the Bond franchise so they actually went to Hugh and he turned the Bond role down so that he could do the new Wolverine movie, which costars Ryan Reyonalds, and other people.
Gerard Butler. Everyone thought he was gonna get the role, but somehow he didn't. the lead of 300 couldve been great, he's from the same area as the original connery, although daniel craig isnt bad, w/e


Dragonball movie epic fail?



"There's just so much wrong with this trailer. Where do I begin?!? Why is Goku an adult? This is Dragonball, not Dragonball Z. Goku is supposed to be a little kid that still has a monkey tail! There's no evidence of Kuririn (Krillin) being in the movie. He's not in the trailer and he's not listed in IMDB. Kuririn is a huge part of Goku's life and it's a shame that he's apparently not in the movie. Chow Yun-Fat is awesome, but isn't he a tad young to be playing Master Roshi? The last part might be my hang up, but when did Goku become white?"

1. The movie takes place right before DBZ, therefore Goku is a teenager, not a freakin kid
2. No one likes Krillin
3. Chow Yun Fat is amazing
4. Racist much?

and for the record, the trailer wasn't that bad

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

360 Reaching It's Limitations

Not suprising at all but, According to Kotaku.com Rod Fergusson from Epic thinks that his company is close to squeezing the last few drops of graphical performance from the Xbox 360.
With any console, it takes developers a while to learn how the thing really ticks so they can start exploiting its potential in ways even the designers may not have envisaged. Now that the 360 has been around for a couple of years, Fergusson thinks that Epic may be reaching the limits of that potential, but that consumers will still see improvements through to 2010.
"I'm not the technical guy," The Gears 2 producer told Gamasutra, "all I know is that with the two to three more years of optimization that we've had, we're much further along than I think, three years ago, we thought we were going to get."
He may be right — and Epic certainly know a thing or two about good-looking Xbox games — but you only have to look at the PS2 to see how a console can live some way beyond people's expectations.

Reflection: Personally, I dont believe that Xbox 360 is this generation's PS2. What games does the 360 have? Halo is overrated, half of the games like Gears of War, you can find on PC, so it isn't a true exclusive. Games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, Eternal Sonata, Lost Planet, and more are jumping ship to PS3, and the rest...Too Human was rated poorly and so was Infinite Undiscovery, and Fable? well Fable 1 was broken promises and very short. What do you have left? barely anything worth mentioning.

I believe 360 has reached it's limit technically too. Mass Effect truly showcased this, the game was pushed to its limit. Developers spent nearly 3 monthes polishing it, and either it came out still unpolished or that the hardware couldnt run the software. tisk tisk. stupid xbots.

in the end we shall triumph

in the end there will only be PS3

http://kotaku.com/5044543/epic-hitting-upper-limit-of-xbox-capabilities-says-fergusson

Monday, August 25, 2008

Xbox 360 Price Cuts - Reflections


Recently, there are rumours circulating about Xbox 360's getting a pricecut across all models, that means, the Arcade Model, the Premium and Elite.
It says the Arcade Model which packs, a 512MB memory card substituted for a harddrive, a wired controller, and a disc with mini games for $199.
The Premium Model, targetted to hardcore gamers, contains a 20 GB Harddrive, a wireless controller, ethernet cable(s), an xbox live headset and I believe thats it, for $299 and ofcourse the is the Elite, which has a 120GB harddrive I believe, for $399.
This just makes me wonder, why are they cutting the price, in the last few monthes, the 360 hasn't been selling well at all. Anywhere. It's been in dead last in every monthes NPD reports. Yes, for you xbots trolling the forums, the PS3 has been outselling the 360 every monthes except for April, and one other month. The 360 however has a great installed base in NA, but that's it. Basically those who wanted a 360 have it, and no one else wants it. It's nearly reached its peak sale in NA. So how do you get to sell more consoles? price cut.
Or maybe it's just like how as new technology comes out, older consoles become obsolete and drop in price, in an interview a Microsoft representative said Microsoft would love to be the first to bring out another new console before everyone else, which begs the question, do we need a new set of consoles already? The original Xbox was out only 4 years before they brought out the Xbox 360, and right now, it's almost been 4 years since the release of the 360...with hardware inferior to the PS3, and limitations galore, I can see why. PS3 games are starting to distance themselves in visuals, look at Uncharted, MGS4, and soon, Heavy Rain, and reported God of War 3 which will look like Beowulf. A $59.99 subsription to play online, vs a free online membership...no hdmi or real HD capabilities, limited storage ability on 360 game discs and a high rate of failure, plagues the system. 360, Epic Fail, sorry.