What really ticks you off?

[metalgear_yoshi]

[Mick Saige]

I’m sure as this is going to be a small rant about a form of video gaming that I don’t know all that much about – I’m about to be hit with a wave of medial corrections. Alas. Just saw a news heading.

The future of gaming.

I’m aware this is used every time anyone steps up gaming in any sense of the word…

Way back when scientists figured out how to let you play virtual table tennis using two linked dials in the comfort of your own mansion. Some time down the track a bunch of people figured out not only could you play video games on large 4 by 3 televisions – you could play them in the palm of your hand on a screen the size of a calculator with mind blowing 1 by 1mm black and white non lit pixels. Not long after a bunch of boffins found 359 more angles to game in and created 3D.

These days we are slowly bridging the gap between gaming and reality by creating 100% motion censored controls.

Now firstly – don’t get me wrong. I’m all up for sinking a few cans, standing around the tv and playing Wii bowling until 4am in the morning.

But this latest innovation. Gaming without controls. You stand in front your TV… you then jump/kick/punch and what ever as your actions are picked up, interpreted, and mirrored by your on screen character.

Now this is where my issue comes into play.

The reason I sit down and play a video game is because quite frankly. I’m not in the mood to do anything else. Anything else often involving movement.

Last time I checked. Anything that involved speed, reflex and hand eye co-ordination. Was a sport.

How the hell – am I supposed to crawl out of a taxi with a few friends – stagger into a lounge room and then enjoy a realistic fight simulator when it would be less physically demanding to have just stayed at the bar and told that group of guys what I think about their dance moves.

[Benza]

[metalgear_yoshi]

XBOX!!!! I just had a mini stroke. I was getting the new update but it was taking forever and I was annoyed at the fact that there was no real idea of progress given with the single bar so I stopped it and used my computer as for some reason my new 3G vodaphone connection dislikes LAN and runs faster on my PC (by fast I mean still incredibly slow) and than put it on a memory stick and let the 360 do the rest. My 360 must of misunderstood, as it took "do the rest" to mean give me flashing red lights and a error code! After turning it off and on a few times I started searching the Error (71) and found it was of course a Dahboard problem, raged a bit and than decided to give it one last chance before I call Microsoft. When I got up to turn it on I realised the USB stick was still in, took it out and viola! it worked. I'm guessing it was due to the auto start thingy in the updater file or something but it sure did give me a 15 minute silent rage until I figured it out.

Hopefully that's the end of it and it was just a minor error with no repercussions, I really don't want to return my Slim, I love her dearly. Yes "Her", stop giving me odd looks.*talks creepily to xbox* "they don't understand our love my dear, they never will".

Edit: I should add that the new update is quiet pointless for my mind, I don't see how it improves anything that I use the dash for and if given the option would opt for the old colour scheme. It's hardly offensive but I liked the sounds of the old dash and swear they've changed them and it's all a bit "white" really. Oh and add not yet playing Fable III yet after owning it for the good part of 8 hours, between waiting for the collectors bonus items to download and the whole update debacle it's yet to see the ligh of day .
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[canetoad]

One of the major improvements is voice chat, the audio is so much clearer now and of a much better quality - which if you don't use you obviously won't notice. Other than that it does run a bit smoother and I'm quite partial to the squarish design.
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[metalgear_yoshi]

Ok, yeah I don't use voice chat as I've got a crap connection and only use XBL for the arcade and the occasional DLC. After fiddling with it a bit it does move a lot faster, before there was a bit of a delay between flicking through pages and now it's very slick. I don't really have a problem with the design either, I don't dislike it but I liked the old colour scheme better. It may be just that I don't really like their new packaging and marketing design and associate it with the Kinnect which I've never had any interest in. I do think the sharp edges on everything is nice too though. Apart of me longs for the days where you bought a console and the U.I was constant throughout it's lifespan, thing like the PS1 start up and memory card manager give me great doses of nostalgia when I think about them, I feel the 360 has kind of missed out on that kind of familiarity by changing it's dashboard so often, it's a minor thing to be sure and probably came about simply because they want this generation to last as long as it can and to do that they need to change things up every now and again, not that the recent change was anything drastic, I'm thinking more of the change to avatars so they could keep up with Ninty.

Anyway, that's just like, my opinion, man
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[Benza]

[Esposch]

[Benza]

[Esposch]

[Tobias Funke]

[Jarrod]

[Benza]

[IISpacebreakII]

[Benza]

[Esposch]

[Benza]

[Esposch]

[Tobias Funke]

[Benza]

[Spacecow]

[Esposch]

[Benza]

@ Spacecow oh wow that kind of sucks balls.
@ Espoch, I actually agree with you there wich is why I thought the idea of using it in conjunction with a controller sounds like an awesome idea.

The tech backing Kinnect is amazing. I expect to see some creative indie developer come up with something fantastic for it.


Back on topic.

I decided to go try a new bank today at lunch.
It's a lot closer then the one I usually go to just down the road.

Past the horse tracks....


...


Near the T.A.B.


Yeah that was a bad idea.

[EDIT]
Shit sorry got Spacecow and Spacebreak mixed up. My bad sorry guys. Stop having similar names
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[admeister]

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