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That'd be awesome.

Of course it did! How can you go wrong mixing the insane mech game masters at Sandlot(Robot Alchemic Drive) with the insane bargin-bin masters at D3(makers of such deep thoguht-provoking titles as "Zombie VS Ambulance")? It's a pity D3 could never get US licenses for their PS2 games. Apparently they tried several times, but SCEA always requested changes that either defeated the purpose of the game or cost too much to be viable. Hooray!

Shouldn't this thread be called "The XBox 360 Thread Elite Edition"?

As a combiner!

Ootake should work. http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ But Ootake is SLOW. Author seems to be going for maximum accuracy, and speed suffers greatly. There's a few other emus, but I haven't tried them enough to give a verdict.

You just answered your own question. They also did Alien VS Predator VS Terminator at one point. Which is one of the most comically overdone, easily-mocked titles a comic book has ever carried.

Ya know.... the sad part is that with everything ELSE DC did with crossover licenses, I can ALMOST see "Starcraft VS Terminator VS Predator VS Scientology." Except that it's missing Aliens.

Yeah... Is it just me, or is the Silverado a gun-hand away from being a decent Shockwave?

I've always been a bit skeptical of those. Putting a fan on top of another fan isn't the same thing as having 2 fans. If the fans aren't matched well, you actually REDUCE airflow. But the big problem is that piggybacking it onto the power supply is a Bad Idea. The old DC and PS2 fan modules ones that hooked to the AC side weren't hurting anything, but parasitizing the power supply's output is NOT an equivalent option. Especially since I think the 360 supply is regulated, which means the system itself is far less tolerant of voltage fluctuations. There were also issues with Nyko's connectors being iffy. Given there's a peak of about 200 watts going through that connector*, it's not something you want wiggling around(hence why the connector has locking tabs on it), and there were accounts of electrical arcing in the Intercooler connections, which left visible burn marks in the XBox connector. It's a bad design made worse by shoddy construction. That's why MS did that release saying if you wanted to add fans, get a USB-powered one. Plus the official party line that the 360's cooling solution is perfect as-is, more fans aren't needed, and unlicensed peripherals are wrong and evil and will void your warranty while eating your firstborn(even though they recommended an unlicensed Pelican fan unit as a viable Intercooler alternative). *For those that care... The 360 supply, according to the sticker on the bottom, is actually 2 seperate supplies. The one we're really worried about is 12 volts, with a max of 16.5 amps. 12V*16.5A = 196 watts at peak consumption. There's also a 1 amp 5-volt circuit. 5V*1A, of course, is 5 watts. It's a trivial supply, though. The NES drew more power than that.

*twitches* LENSES DON'T GO BAD! ... Well, some cheap-ass plastic ones have been known to fog, but that's not the point! The LENS is the clear piece of glass that focuses the laser. The HEAD is the entire read assembly, and is almost certainly what you mean.

But PSX was FIRST used to refer to the PlayStation, for inscrutable reasons. Sony decided to be confusing by adopting the most popular abbreviation for their first system's name as the name for their PS2 TiVo wannabe.

Take your own advice.

You're thinking live-action FMV. It fared MUCH better when dealing with animation. The low number of colors made available by the Genesis/MegaDrive(the CD expansion added no new video hardware) resulted in aliasing rather than the pixellation hell showcased so effectively by most live-action titles.

It did get a US release. I own it(it was cheap, and I needed an obligatory FMV title). As far as the dub... it was an early 90s CD game. The only time a dub was worth even mentioning was when it WASN'T horrible.

The Cell is a pain, indeed. But not a LOT more of a pain than the 3-core processor on the 360. And I gather there's some strong pluses in the PS3's approach to CPU memory access. Separate system and graphics RAM actually has advantages. Not that unified RAM doesn't(both approaches have their uses), but it's not what modern developers are used to. Besides, pain in the ass hardware worked REALLY well for the PS2. Never mind that part of what drove the PS1's developer adoption was how incredibly easy it was to use. Not only was it simple hardware, the dev kits even included C libraries! You didn't HAVE to use raw assembly anymore!

As if making a mess ever stopped anyone from playing with their food.

"How can they cut the power? They're animals!"

What, you don't have an NES? The PS3 has a metric buttload of CPU power, which IS quite relevant. It's just set up in a fundamentally different way than the 360, so it's difficult to use without explicitly planning for it. It's split up a LOT more than the 360 processor, so if your code isn't VERY threadable it's hard to make good use of a PS3. PS3 also has massively more floating-point power, while the 360 has moderately more integer power. So if you aren't coding with a heavy bias towards floating-point(which you aren't if you weren't explicitly planning for PS3), the 360 has an edge. And actually, they have the SAME amount of RAM. BUT... the 360 has 512 MB of "unified architecture" RAM and the PS3 has 256 MB of system RAM and another 256 MB of graphics RAM. Again, this results in fundamental differences in approach, and if you aren't considering the PS3 while developing your game, it WILL hurt it when you port from the 360. And yes, I'm a raving Sony fanboy. That's why I own a 360 and not a PS3D0.

Spamspamspammityspam! I got hit by the flood control earlier. Doesn't happen often, but occasionally... We should all set up a spare computer, then DDoS the spambots!

I'm tempted to mod my 360 so the standard power light is a red ring. It'd be hilarious. If history is any indication, that'll be ported to the PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, GBA, and PS2. It's good to see the original omnigame still has some ports in it. And Son of Prince of Persia still has some miles left too! Seriously, the resprite is beautiful. Should be done far more often.

Remember, the records Skynet has access to were sketchy. It didn't even know who to look for. All it had was a name. The original Terminator was just running around shooting everyone named Sarah Conner. And going back another 2 generations and killing absolutely everyone named Conner might be just a LITTLE more damaging to the future than Skynet wants(what if one of those Grampa Conners was an electrical engineer that laid the groundwork for one of Skynet's critical components?). Hence, it needs to stick to a close generation, where it can more or less guarantee it's own birth. As far as the end of the war being known... Yeah, it is, for the most part. Skynet's gotten desperate and started playing with time travel, which is dangerous at best. But the war isn't over yet(heck, Skynet's still designing and deploying new models according to the later movies), and you still have billions dead in a nuclear holocaust and an Earth that's been utterly devastated by everything. It's a dark future regardless of who wins.

What about alien robots from another planet that evolved from naturally occurring gears, levers, and pulleys? http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Pulleys.jpg That's from the first issue of the comics. And since the comic bok made it to market before the TV show, that's the first piece of Transformers fiction ever. I actually have that issue. I laughed the first time I saw that panel.

Ironically, I feel the opposite. The first, in both cases, was a modern update of the traditional horror movie. In Terminator's case, there's no "happily ever after" either. Sarah Conner is hiding out in Mexico, waiting for the robots to launch a nuclear holocaust that wipes most of humanity off the face of the Earth They don't explicitly illustrate it, but you know it's going to happen, because it HAS to happen. The entire movie fails to occur otherwise. It's a causality paradox. (Not that Ripley being adrift in Middle of Nowhere, Deep Space, population 1, with nothing but a cat and her underwear was particularly uplifting, but the aliens aren't already destined to get loose on Earth and kill everyone) Terminator 2, like Aliens, was converting a horror film into a standard action movie. But while Aliens remained respectful of it's roots if not true to them, Terminator 2 bends the original over a table and rapes it in the ass. The robot is a GOOD GUY, for Pete's sake! And to top it all off, there IS a happily-ever-after ending that, at least in theory, stops the entire franchise from ever happening. And it merrily ignores the fact that the Governator's swim in a vat of molten steel aborts John Conner's existence. If they'd made the causality paradox an actual plot element, with John being forced to choose his existence or the billions of lives lost in the impending rise of the robots, and kept the entire rest of the movie the same(even the cheesy scenes and the intentionally humorous ones), I'd have a LOT more respect for it. Instead it was about a kid teaching a robot to be a cool person, and saving the world in the process. Terminator 3... actually gets back to basics in many regards. I heard people cursing in the back of the theater when they started nuking everyone, but I was ready to cheer*. That one scene fixed the entire franchise. John's continued existence is explained, and rather than just imply the future isn't all sunshine and roses, they explicitly SHOW it. And on top of it, heroic macho man John Conner's gonna die too! At the hands of heroic macho man Arnold, even! Even T1 didn't have the balls to say "BTW, Sarah... You gonna die. You know why? Because your hubby's gonna come back from the dead and shank you!" *Especially given they swore up and down they were going to a secret base where they could STOP Skynet, painting the whole thing as Terminator 2.1 right up until the final minutes, where it goes Terminator 1 on everybody.

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Not to lend any real weight to the argument, but over time it will be. 'S one of the things I REALLY hate about the polygon-era hardware. It's all doomed due to lots of moving parts that aren't easily replaceable. Hell, the XBoxes have (semi-)proprietary hard drives to go with their (semi-)proprietary DVD-ROMs. Add active cooling requirements for everything Dreamcast and up. Also: I have a 360 now. And Bullet Witch, which I very much like. Library set to expand soon. Still debating an extended warranty. I probably need one, but I hate the idea of making a monetary bet that my system will fail in X amount of time.