frygar

Not until broadband is available everywhere. I live in a first world country, but we have 3rd world broadband. Cable is only available to about 5-10% of the population, and the companies that sell it aren't expanding their networks because it's "too expensive".

ADSL2+ is available, but only in our major cities. And our largest telco (Telstra) only puts it into exchanges where their competitors put it first. The rest of the country can get ADSL @ 8MB (up from 1.5MB since November 2006) at best, and a large portion of the country still has nothing better than 56k dial-up.

While internet downloads might work in the USA, some of Europe and some Asian countries, it is not a viable option for most of the world. If the Australian experience is anything to go by, we won't see it happening for at least 10-20 years.

Doshu

The Betamax had better quality and archiving features than the VHS.

That's why VHS won.

Because it was much more cheaply made, and therefore of less quality."

You said this.

Unastheslayer-PSN

More importantly, WHAT IN THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE TOPIC AT HAND!?

Unastheslayer-PSN

It will cost more than HD-DVD, no matter what.

I'm not sure that the world is necessarily comfortable with paying Sony for everything they put out on disc.

hyperion

Despite the "eh" reviews on Heavenly Sword, it looks like a lot of damn fun. I'm back to being interested in buying a copy.

YotaruVegeta

-EDGE-

Galloper

Unastheslayer-PSN

Some of my favourite games were on 2 or more disks.

Ever play Final Fantasy? Panzer Dragoon Saga? Resident Evil 2? Resident Evil 4 (Gamecube)? Grandia?

I think Shenmue was the only console game that ever pissed me off with disk-changing.

I will be happy to save $200 for games that may someday come on multiple disks by choosing not to support blue ray.

--

The truth is that BR and HDD will both lose the "format war". Very few people are buying them.

The real winner will be internet downloads and my money is on the free kind.

Resolution is unlimited, storage is unlimited and cost is way down. Plus, choosing downloads will never interfere with your gaming choices. You will never be stuck on the wrong side of any "format war" because your HTPC will play EVERY FORMAT.

kNZA

hoorayforcorn

mikevanpwn

Sparkamus

Seriously, wasn't there a PS1 Xena game that had the whole guide the arrow after it was shot thing, except they used a chakram? I also like that they make her move and look like a cat.

@ssjmichael: Oooh! Changing discs! Fear and tremble, o ye gamers!

@SG79: Fine. Sony is not the owner of BluRay, yet they still have the most staked on it, by far.

Doesn't actually help your argument much.

@sklav: Because HD-DVD games would call for even more expensive development, and would shaft the majority of 360 owners, who did not buy the add-on. Not that they'd be able to use it, with their system at the shop.

@Americana: Can we get any more fanboy fights going? Wii? Phantom? DS? Commodore 64? It's time to RUMBLLLEEEE!

Jonn

azthegame

tehFluffz

Shadowmist

y2julio

Ether02

Unastheslayer-PSN

madman83

Dogswithguns

It's when they pan an image fast horizontally and one portion of the screen moves faster than the other. Some of the videos from gametrailers have been suffering this lately.

eg. Last night I noticed on the HS review trailer, that sections of the game showed screen tearing where there isn't any screen tearing at all in the demo.

When it happens in a game, it can be resolved by turning vsync (vertical synchronisation) on. This will force each vertical line in the picture to always line up. PC games usually have this as an option, because when you turn it on it can slow down the frame rate.

Doshu

I honestly hope that never, ever happens. Last thing gamers want is for every single game ever released to be a compromise. Do you really want all games to look like Spiderman 3?

Doshu

chickenplucka

fixed that for you, no charge.

TheIrishNinja

crazyspoonhead

@vagrantscholar: Forgive my noobishness but what is screen tearing?

Unastheslayer-PSN

fatbaldnet

Thrallok

BOY IT SURE SUCKS THAT I CAN WATCH PLANET EARTH IN HIGH DEFF ON MY PLAYSTATION FUCK YOU $ONY

Oh yeah, and this clip looks really awesome. For those of you think this might get repetetive, fire up your Stranglehold demo, and do that special move where you just shoot bullets into people's crotches in slow motion. Does it get old? No, no it does not.

KurtSubvert

Those of us who aren't noobs played Bioshock where FPS belongs.

The PC.

Americana

Twisted_Imp

replying to your comment a million posts up -

that's exactly what i mean. from what i've heard, heavenly sword doesn't measure up to GoW, so rather than hoping it will be *more* than "just" a GoW clone, we'd be lucky if it even managed to equal GoW in terms of great gameplay and all around enjoyability.

also, thanks for complementing my rydia avatar! she's my favorite character in what is probably my favorite game ever. when she returns as an adult to rescue the gang by pwning that leviathan with her myst dragon? totally awesome. old-school rydia FTW!

ach77

turkeyfunk

vagrantscholar

DVD was not standard when the PS2 came out. I bought my firs DVD to watch on my PS2, just like I bought my first Blu-Ray (Nine Inch Nails: Beside You in Time in GLORIOUS 1080p) on my PS3. I'm not saying blu-ray will be as successful as DVD, but Sony is doing the EXACT same thing with the PS3 as they did with the PS2. Remember?

When the PS2 came out, there were practically no games and no AAA titles for the first year-- The Bouncer and Fantavision--remember?

And people wondered why they were pushing DVD when CD's had "more than enough space for games".

Again, I'm not saying PS3 will be as successful as PS2. A LOT of things are different this time around. Just saying it's the same formula.

~

Hiroken

frygar

"I really hate how Sony is SHOVING a bluray player on us gamers, just like they shoved that DVD player with the PS2. Of course Im being sacarstic."

Read the last sentence :x

Mpalm

Then wtf is the problem with them advancing the format seven years later?

turkeyfunk

Yeah, this generation nintendo is clearly the only console that is making fun games. Nintendo = fun. All other consoles = not fun. Damn sony and its blu-ray which = not fun! Damn xbox and its xbox live which = not fun. I'm going to go continue to not have fun with my ps3 and 360... *goes to play bioshock*

*stamps foot*

Mpalm

dixon0396

siamgx

Kazidoom

Heavenly Sword has the best characters in games for the next gen. All the scenes are well acted and production value is amazing. Can't wait.

EdPOGI

d4t4

Mii

sxp151, the happy-headed nose

Kyle81

Can you check if remote play works on Heavenly Sword? It would be awsome if it does!

PSmonkey

Petezah

That's 10 dollars an hour.

When did games become so danged short. Incidentally without the overlong kai sections the play time is nearer around 3.5 to 4 hours!

penhalion

Kyle81

Kyle81

There's three things keeping me from liking this game;

1) I've never been able to get into a games (movies, books, or comics) where the central character is female. Raging sexism at its finest!

2) SIXAXIS or not, the first time you're confronted with a swarm of enemies, that arrow crap's going to get old every time it breaks up the action.

3) The fact that I don't have a PS3. Why should I care if I don't have the system its on? That's why every damn title should be multi-platform, thus making the extra hundred dollars spent by respective platform fanboys even more ridiculous. Hoo-rah!

Seriously though, if I had a PS3, I'd definitely rent the game. Rent because I'd be broke after buying the PS3, and partially because I still wouldn't be able to get passed the hot bossomy vixen bouncing around on the screen.

rockosolido

I actually enjoyed the parts as Kai more, there's more to do than just holding R1 and hitting square, square, triangle.

Malefic

Waka in Japan

PS: I kinda like that Heavenly sword girl. Reminds me of Mister Pink in Reservoir dogs.. totally out there ;)

sklav

Forcing you.. heh, I lol'd

IP-Freely

polkadot

(Yes yes, I know it's gameplay mechanics to make it more player friendl..y

DELICIOUS BUNNY

You couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, there is a good way of filtering out console fanboys on movie forums: calling BD Sony's proprietary format. It's not; Betamax was and so was MiniDisc (MD). Sony is simply a co-developer of BD and heading the PR efforts.

Have a look [www.blu-ray.com]

SG79

@cduran:

The Wii is a fad like video games are a fad.

Americana

Doomstalk

kojirodensetsu

kojirodensetsu

Well if the developers like it , Mark Rein comes to mind , it can only encourage them to put more extra stuff and atleast make them think what kind of game could they make that ultimately uses all this space.

iD are making these mega textures. Do they like Blu-ray? I cant imagine them saying "We like it old school and on two dvd disc's yo" (excuse their coolness).

Other people like Bethesda, (Oblivion), i don't know that situation properly but someone can explain what their problem was whilst i take Mark Rein out of my mind.

Klean

If you haven't heard yet. It was actually a smart business move. Not to mention the fact that the PS3 will have a great advantage in gaming as the systems progress. Xbox games are limited in length and depth because of the short capacity in disc space. I rather have a game on one disc than 2 as some future 360 games might be.

LittleBigPlaneteer

cactushooker

NoMorePuppies

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde

JyL

Anael

InsidiousTuna

Sony is doing a great thing with Bluray and the PS3, sure they are pushing a new format out, but that is what business is all about. Making money. Nintendo is having success pushing their toy on us gamers, thats their approach to business, while Sony has a much more long term goal, one that I happen to like which is the inclusion of games into the term "Home Entertainment".

Like it or not, Wii is a fad and like all fads they make a ton of money at first, then they slowly fade away. The gamers will still like it, but the mainstream which they target will loose interest and turn their focus to something more solid and promissing. Which the PS3 fits right in, a well rounded entertainment system.

cduran

its' just this video.

Cool Dude

eakolb

I hate Kai's voice so much. I just find it so annoying.

To anyone who has the game are there actually that many v-sync issues or is it just the video?

Zim

Mega-Driven

MaynardLD50

Cant wait for my pre-order to arrive!! >.<

Slazengar

kojirodensetsu

kiigan

Moonshadow101

Kudos to you for the oldschool Rydia avatar tho.

fatbaldnet

belo

ach77

@eakolb: You gotta be kidding. She looks like a great character. She reminds me of Arlequeen in Batman, but also a little of Bjök and Yuffie in FF7, maybe that's why some people won't like her...

Anael

fatbaldnet

Eirias

mikevanpwn

chenry

d0x

eakolb

landu13

Perhaps you're just dismissing Sony's first legitimate quality offering out of hand because you've not got the cajones to admit that what they're presenting just seems solid for once.

eakolb

Looks fun, bit different than button mashing with that sword for the whole game :D

cant wait for this

Fluffy22

Cool Dude

Anael

Infradead

The game itself looks pretty beautiful, I'll give it a shot if there was a crazy black friday deal on it, or if i had a ps3.

djfalcon909

tbizzle

That looked pretty cool,i love the after touch effect on this game,and it looked awesome when she got the headshot on the guy while he was diving..

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

The game play looks pretty awesome. She scampers around like a monkey (note to developers, we need more games with monkeys). The steering of projectiles comes into play a lot more with this girl. In fact, I didn't even see any melee attacks.

SpacePenguinBot

Vidunder

The arrow-cam is neat, but I could see that getting really repetitive and stupid after about your 50th enemy. I'm still on the fence about this game because their only previous game could, at best, be described as 'poopsack'.

whitey9

tbizzle

...the wrong embedded video.

(I never said I was a songwriter)

OMG! Ponies!

Vidunder

Nariko only wishes she could fly!

Fluffy22

whitey9

CodeNinja

roflcopter616

tbizzle

fatbaldnet

Dragonzigg

resetbutton

tbizzle

Buttah

cyhborg

Dragonzigg

It's still a good game though, and I'll be picking it up when it comes out.
Back to the story, heavenly sword is awesome, but it's "just too short". I don't understand how people can complain about the length though. GOW1 was VERY short, and awesome. GOW2 was longer and even more awesome. Naturally it is safe to assume that ninja theory will be making a sequel; the sequel will be twice as awesome. (don't be afraid of the amount of the word "awesome" that is used int his comment...)

vitasovic

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

Top Gun still haunts me. I shall now forever associate Heavenly Sword with the fake death of Anthony Edwards that has crippled my everday life for 10 years.

Natpalm

Royal_Highness

The_Inquisitor

MaynardLD50

yea. i think they got the wrong vid the first time around

dafthero

Buttah

tbizzle

MoeB