gamingeek said:

It might work, did you see the story yesterday about how Sony has the augmented reality without markers? Also in the 3DS augmented reality games they warp your real world objects in real time, so they can do things like windows cracking open and stuff. Also with the 3DS and its gyros you change viewpoint and aim using the gyros whilst looking at the 3D screen.

Once I read an alleged Miyamoto quote where he said that he envisioned the future of gaming as being without the constraints of a TV screen. Something that would fill the whole room you were playing in. I guess that's the direction Nintendo is heading towards.

gamingeek said:

Eh, I hope that it's a side thing and not the main event.

But I thought you would love something like this!

Dunno, really. I still believe we are years before getting that kind of tech to be applied in a convincing way in everybody's living rooms.

gamingeek said:

Seriously the review was garbage.

The headline:

Conduit 2 review: More like Con-don't-do-it 2

The graphics are a mess. Faces are badly pixelated, even in cutscenes. The only smooth, 2011 graphics are in the final cutscene. It's the only one fully-rendered. I'm absolutely not joking. The creativity of the level design is ... well, it's non-existent. All of that repetition and it's a six-hour game! Hell, it's probably only a five-hour game if you don't count dying over and over and over to hordes of little creatures that run at you and are all but impossible to aim at with the Wiimote. I even switched to the Classic Controller for about ten minutes, until I found out that was even worse.

That reminds me: The Wiimote controls are akin to trying to hold a drink steady while the train you're riding in crashes. The Classic Controller was steadier, and made the buttons easier to reach, but made the reticule move so slowly, it was way too tough to target anything before I was eaten by monsters.

I didn't spend much time in multiplayer, if only because the sheer thought of ingesting more of this game made me want to sob uncontrollably. I sat around a bit, watching other people run and jump around me, shooting off in random directions, and occasionally I got killed by a grenade. The draw here, I suppose, is that the money you get from playing the game allows you to upgrade your armor and weapons, making you ... exactly the same as everyone else who has played the game. It's not like you are going to get more money than me. It's the same game. Maybe if you come across someone who likes doing multiple playthroughs of a real stinker of a game, they could totally school you. But I never met that guy, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to.

It's appalling, really. I haven't played an FPS on any system that I haven't at least enjoyed on some level, but Sega found the niche I was missing, and I have to thank them for that. There's only one 4-minute bit in the entire thing that was fun to play, and that was tailgunning in the spaceship. So at least the whole review wasn't negative, amirite? It would even give Sega a pull-quote: "T. Michael Murdock at Joystiq.com calls Conduit 2 '... fun to play ...'."



It's not, though. It's really, really not. If you're looking for a solid FPS on a Nintendo console, go pick up Activision's GoldenEye. Heck, break out your N64 instead and replay Perfect Dark. Even that story makes more sense, and, to be honest ... the graphics are a little better.

what the fuck.

Sonic Generations video walkthroughs

I remember playing a VR arcade game back in the 90s. You sat in this pod and a headset the size of a toilet seat was eased onto your head like the weight of a crushing rock.

You played this robot tank game with graphics about as good as SNES Starfox.

It was awesome...... at the time.

So 3DS Snake Eater will be at E3.

I never played it as I didn't have a PS2. What should I expect? What are the changes between 2 and 3? Do I need to have completed 2 to fully understand 3?

If you already played it, what would make you pick up this version?

What would you like to see added or changed?

SteelAttack said:

You don't really need to have played MGS2 to get the third. It does a very good job of presenting a self-contained story within a bigger (and more convoluted) overarching plot. It's the closest thing to a perfect game H. Kojima ever made. Works perfectly like a good spy movie, barring the unfortunate supernatural shit that so many devs are fond of.

If I had to get it for the hypothetical 3DS that I won't get, it would have to have the reworked camera that the Subsistence (or whatever it was called) version had.

WHAT A THRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLL....

What is the camera like in the original version and what is it like in the Subsistance version?

The original camera is like the one in the first MGS. Fixed with changing angles depending on the scene. The one in the superior version is an over the shoulder one, more like the one found in MGS4.

I wouldn't know. Only played like 3 minutes of Chaos Theory.