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ColdStream
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Yesterday I had to setup a rig for a massive down load that was larger than any spare SSD I had laying around, so I got a 2TB HDD out of an old PVR and turned it into the main drive for an old Optiplex I have. I had forgotten just how slow
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It is a funny thing, while yes the task of 'put pixel on screen' is the same. They are so wildly different in how they function, I don't know how to even quantify it. 15,000x may be an understatement.
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Yeah based on a ROM leak from a while back. The game was almost entirely complete before they moved over to the GameCube.
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It was last night, after seeing Linux on the Atari Jaguar, I was just pondering over that whole scene. Then I decided to throw on Metal Slug X, a classic of the Neo Geo. Then it struck me, "Could I attempt porting this to Jaguar?!"
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That makes sense. Give those under the leader enough rope to hang themselves but only when needed.
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I see it as being sort of like how every 6 months someone is made an example of by the media and they need their retribution. It is a means of keeping people at ease and that the narrative of the system works, 'the bad person' wil
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It is sort of hard to describe but I would say specifically the animation system. Everything has weight and flows spectacularly. They used a combination of key framed animations and procedural to have limbs conform to surfaces and have addi
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Yep... gets a little less funny every year as it comes closer to reality.
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Thus the yearly Call of duty titles.
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It was once the Wii with anemic hardware and waggle ended up outselling the 360 that MS changed. They went from pushing forwards to chasing trends. I agree, they need to be focusing on smaller projects that take risks. Maximum 24 month dev
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We are well into the diminishing returns era now. It not done via better art designs, now you have to push significantly significantly harder to get improved results via brute forcing it. I am very cautiously optimistic about this. It seems
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Still occasionally fire up Red Faction Guerilla just to see the promised future we never got.
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This is something 'The Last Guardian' absolutely nailed! Everything was just so grounded. Yes, as a game it had a lot of flaws that many other games also had, but the things it excelled at were absolutely unique.