gamingeek said:

This generation stinks in reliability. I've had broken DS Lite hinges that I have to pay to replace. I mean what? Nintendo makes them crappy and I have to pay for it to get fixed? Then I get red and green dots on the Wii thanks to an overheated GPU. Thank God it only happens occasionally and that the games still run at least. And now my 360 has packed in.  

What happened to consoles that last?

SteelAttack said:

Raven said that his 2600 system still worked after 20 years, well, no shit. The system is now barely more than a fucking toaster in terms of complexity.  

  I really want to take offense to that statement, but . . . I can't. cry

Atari 2600 > toaster > this entire gen.

SteelAttack said:

One is the undeniable fact that many game developers and publishers choose to release games that are not finished, in their rush to recoup dev costs as quickly as possible. 

 cough Fable 2 cough

gamingeek said: 

What happened to consoles that last?

 According to Steel, they became toasters.

I saw Transformers 2 last night, this movie kind of sticks to the same formula of the first film. If you didnt like that one, nothing to see here. This is not like Empire or any quality second movie in a trilogy where things get darker or whatever, its just more of what happend in the first movie. The movie starts off great, at the start you see that the Autobots and the US military have formed a strike force to hunt down Deceptacons, so 2 minutes in you already have some awesome robot on robot action. That is when the movie is at its best when its freaking Transformers. I hardly saw the cartoons but the little I did see of it showed me that the show was dumb, pointless and was only about having giant robots fighting each other. This movie is just like that, its dumb, its pointless but you get freaking giant robots fighting each other!

The fights are clearly better than the first movie, for one I can kind of see whats going on in this one. The shaky cam is still there but its not as bad as the first movie where it was hard to piece together wtf was going on at times. There are some "fatality" like kills in this movie that had the entire theater going nuts. When the movie was about giant robots fighting other giant robots I was thoroughly entertained.

The first hour or so was great then it hits this funk where it takes away the focus from the Transformers and it becomes the adventures Sam Witwicky and friends. It was like a horrible version of National Treasure, and it goes on and on until the final 20 minutes when robots show up for the final battle. While the final war scene had its moments, it was overfilled with shots of the US military. All Michael Bay films do this but this was ridiculous. Here is a scene where an army of Deceptacons are fighting an army of Autobots AND cut away to some dude in a US command vessel as he deploys his forces. Two minutes goes by of fighter jets taking off, helicopters, these smaller boats (wtf is a boat going to do when they are fighting in the middle of the desert). There are a bazillion cuts to these US army guys, hello I got robots fighting robots I dont care about us puny humans and our pitiful weaponry.

The movie is filled with stupidity, a ton of testicle jokes, robots acting like sterotypes. There is a true funny moment or two in there, I am just warning you that it has plenty of stuff for kids, well I assume its for kids, either that or Michael Bay is still a 12 year old... hmm. Its a big dumb action movie, and yes its more of a mess than the first movie, but at least its fun and exciting to watch which I cant say for some of this year's summer movies.

SPOILERS (if you care about the "plot" in any way, stay away)

Anyone else notice that the movie took a turn for the worst the moment Optimus Prime died and once he was revived the movie became awesome again. When he died the Deceptacons made that radio broadcast which said they would destroy cities if Sam was not found, the movie goes on for about an hour before you even see the main Deceptacons again, where was the destruction. It went completely away from that and followed Sam around. And where in the hell did this Fallen guy come from. All of a sudden Megatron is Darth Vader and this Fallen guy is his master, serious Star Wars ripoff.

aspro73 said:

^Since when does complexity trump simplicity? I love my simple consoles that still work much more than the garbage XB and 360's I've owned (or have owned me).

Bak in the Atari Age a patch was seomthing Activision mailed you when you sent them a photo of a high score.

 I remember those! They were so cool! I never did get one, though.  

Here's one for H.E.R.O. 

Activison should bring these back!

EDIT: Here's a whole page devoted to 'em!

SteelAttack said:

Just adressing Raven's point that his 2600 still works after 20 years when it's clear that a piece of electronics so simple is bound to last longer than a complex one due to having less things prone to break or malfunction.

You are  oversimplifying this here a bit Steelio!

SteelAttack said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

SteelAttack said:

Just adressing Raven's point that his 2600 still works after 20 years when it's clear that a piece of electronics so simple is bound to last longer than a complex one due to having less things prone to break or malfunction.

You are  oversimplifying this here a bit Steelio!

Do elaborate.

 No!

SteelAttack said:

Archangel3371 said:

Ok seriously I want to know why patches on the PS3 are so huge compared to those on the 360. I don't think I've ever had one that took longer then 5 seconds max.

I wonder if that has anything to do with PS3s WiFi ports. When I DLed the Uncharted 2 beta, it took ages to download 50% of it through my wireless connection. When I got pissed off, I hooked the ethernet cable, and the rest of the DL completed in about 10 minutes. Now I'm permanently hooked through ethernet in both my 360 and PS3.