TheMightyEthan

I haven't played it yet (it's on my list), but my understanding is it's based on Heart of Darkness, so that could explain why the plot seems cliche.

Yeah, obviously a lot of that is pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, but it gives us at least some kind of a direction on what kind of processing power they're talking about. Obviously they've got something convincing enough to get Valve on board. Price point is definitely a problem. I just can't see who they're targeting. Anyone PC savvy is going to look at that price and go "why would I buy that when I can build my own gaming PC from parts for $500-600?" And anyone not PC savvy is going to look at that price and go "why would I buy that when I can buy a PS4/Xbox 720 for $400?"

I imagine the hype will go both ways, from different segments. This article at Joystiq has more details from the Kickstarter pitch about the X7A this is supposedly based on:

Why would that drop frames? Having the trees be different would just take more memory, it shouldn't be any harder to render quickly.

All your other points sound very valid to me, but this one specifically they said that they just made a whole bunch of copies to show how much shit it can render, which is why it looks dull and repetitive. If it were to be used in an actual game with actual artists then they could have every tree be different and whatnot.

So apparently this is a thing: If this isn't all just marketing BS, why isn't anyone else working on tech like this?

I totally agree. When my wife and I went married my whole extended family went together to get us a whole set of really nice kitchen knives (expensive enough that my parents had been slowly collecting them one knife each year for their own kitchen). They're amazing.

Yeah, with only slight tweaking of the control scheme this would be perfect for a phone.

Not really. Very occasionally on my TV there will be a little bit of aliasing if there's a thin line of something bright against a dark background, but I can only recall one movie where I noticed that (Avatar), and it was only in one shot. In the cinema there shouldn't be any drop in resolution because [i believe] they actually use two separate projectors, both projecting at full res. Even on the home TV, the drop in resolution is definitely less distracting than the fucked-up 3D any time something moves fast across the screen in active 3D. Contrast my one shot from one movie noticing the passive 3D against the fact that watching the Hobbit in active 3D it was noticeably messed up in every single action scene. *Edit* - I loved the 48 fps but I'll never go see another active-3D movie again.

Yeah, from what I hear that's the best technique. Like how in an RPG you don't do any of the main/primary/urgent missions until you've completed every available sidequest first.

The 48 FPS 3D really reinforced to me that passive 3D glasses are far superior to active (the 48 fps version is only displayed in active 3D, but the 24 fps version can be seen in any kind of 3D theater). With the active 3D anytime anything small moved fast, like a bird or a sword or anything, the 3D got fucked up and the depth got way off because your eyes weren't always seeing the same frame at the same time and so the different perspectives fucked up the effect.

How could it possibly be Linux-based? It won't be able to run 99% of Steam's catalog.

Done.

That's only $20 on PSN?

Plus robot hands are way cooler.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/04/rumor-used-wii-us-let-you-download-previous-users-games/ Apparently if you buy a used Wii U you can download any games purchased by the previous owner, even if all their accounts have been deleted off the machine. That seems like a pretty massive oversight on Nintendo's part.

Whatever, it was the best since Brotherhood. I might even have liked it more than Brotherhood, not sure on that yet.

Oh I totally agree. Like I said, I could never actually destroy the cards, I'd just have to put them in a special "destroyed cards" bag. Also apparently it's a lot more expensive there, cause I could get it from Amazon for $46, or ~£28.

You're a monster with no soul.

I wanna talk about Risk: Legacy some more from P4's status: But that seriously is the whole point, to play it more than once. It's just that you should be playing it more than once with the same people, not on somebody else's board. Stickers on the board from previous games give bonuses/penalties in subsequent games, cards get removed from the deck as they're destroyed, your copy of the game evolves and becomes unique over multiple play sessions.

Wasn't the beginning like the saddest thing you'd ever seen though?

I think that would actually excite me more than the 720, tbh.

27 science fictions that became science fact in 2012.

I would have put Thor in OK movies.

Prototype 2 and FTL.