[LUconn]

has anybody been keeping up with this event?

Microsoft really had some big 360 news yesterday. It's Nintendo's turn today. I assume Sony is tomorrow.

Microsoft also announced a partnership with Netflix that would allow Netflix subscribers to instantly stream movies and TV from Netflix to their TVs. For Netflix subscribers and Xbox Live Gold members there is no extra cost for the service.

That's a nice way to get around their HD-DVD format loss.

[LUconn]

Looks like a huge improvement to the wiimote. A little rumblepack looking thing is supposed to make the wiimote even more sensitive and accurate. They played a sword fighting game and it looked freaking awesome. Way better than the previous sword fighting in the Wii games.

[LUconn]

apparently Sony goes today too. In one minute.

[Rocketfan]

apparently Sony goes today too. In one minute.

Keep us updated....hard worker.....haha

[LUconn]

It's going pretty slow so far. They've shown some clips from Resistance 2. And now he's talking about PS2.

[LUconn]

looks like they're pushing their network. Although it's not ready yet. That's not gonna help them catch up to Live anytime soon. But they are doing downloadable rental and purchasing network.


Looks like they're also hosting a MMORPG based on DC superheros "DC Universe Online". That's actually pretty cool.

[LUconn]

ok, they just introuced a game called MAG which is a game that can support 256 players online playing together, complete with character achievements and strategies. That is awesome.

[Hold My Own]

So they are pretty much taking what has been on PC for quite some time and putting it on a Console? I dont think that is helping them play catch up in the console market....



Although, they've been needing a cult following game (like Halo) for sometime...maybeeeee this could be it for them....but I highly doubt my basement dweller friends that play these games on PC will be switching...they already have their lives in these other 2nd life games

[JDUB]

i think it will develop a following like halo has. it will pull people from the computer market, and also some who are bored with halo or looking for something new. they don't have to match halo, but if they get anywhere near that popularity they'll be good to go

[ALUmnus]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/e3-2 ... gs/1227326

[PAmedic]

no idea what the freak any of you are talking about.

[Hold My Own]

Thread: Video Games


Current topic in the thread: A virtual world that people play in where it is just like real life and they talk and interact with people all over the world....its something you do if you're not to happy with your current state in your life...live another one

[PAmedic]

thank you.

I'm going to go eat my gun.

[JDUB]

for PAmedic:
people hold a controller (similar to a tv remote) and push buttons. this makes them interact with what is happening on the screen. we call this a video game.
then they can plug this cord into a box, and it hooks them up to this thing called the internet. then they can play games on the tv screen against other people in different locations. they can also talk to these people with special headsets.

Hope that was simple enough for your technologically deprived mind

[PAmedic]

for PAmedic:
people hold a controller (similar to a tv remote) and push buttons. this makes them interact with what is happening on the screen. we call this a video game.
then they can plug this cord into a box, and it hooks them up to this thing called the internet. then they can play games on the tv screen against other people in different locations. they can also talk to these people with special headsets.

Hope that was simple enough for your technologically deprived mind

I actually did not know that you could hook a Nintendo up to the internet.

I think my kids' game boy machines link to each other via wireless, though. They sit in their rooms and play against each other somehow. I think.

I don't really know- and neither of them will explain it to me. I get this >>>>> and then silence.

[Kolzilla41]

It's ok PAmedic, I thought I knew how to play video games. I haven't been able to catch since after the X Box

[Cider Jim]

Haven't played a video game since Pac-man in the 1980s.

[PAmedic]

I'm a pinball guy. I used to be pretty good at Pong, Asteroids and - later- Pac Man, though.

then there was the dark years.

In the early 90's I tried Mario World (?) on regular Nintendo. didn't like it. couldn't make him hop right. Or beat the dragon guy.

nothing since then.

I'm a real renaissance man

[Cider Jim]

Big fan of pin ball, too, Medic. My laptop even has a pin ball game that I play when I'm really bored.

[PAmedic]

Big fan of pin ball, too, Medic. My laptop even has a pin ball game that I play when I'm really bored.

I'm very familiar with that

gotta turn the volume down after a while, though.