Filed under: Culture , Microsoft Xbox 360 , Action , Adventure , Interviews , Video
Continuing with their week-long series, nos amis at X3F talked with Silicon Knights President Denis Dyack over some of Too Human’s biggest perceived faults . Part 1 of today’s video interview is embedded above. Some highlights:
On the community’s early judgment: “People are trying to comprehend a game that’s inherently interactive [by watching a video] … All I can say is try the demo.”
On clipping and texture issues: “There’s glitches in all games. It’s really interesting to me because, as an example, there’s gonna be things you can always improve. To me, framerate’s not really that essential in cutscenes and it never has been for us … I don’t think Too Human’s inconsistent from any of our previous games … So there’s clipping. Oh noes. Bottom line is, does it affect gameplay and by ho...
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Microsoft pulled Halo announcement for a stupid reasonFrom: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-18 04:59:16
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , E3 , Business
Even the L.A. Times is caught up in Bungiegate - and it’s getting (some) answers. The paper spoke with Xbox senior VP Don Mattrick , who told its writers that Microsoft decided to omit the announcement of the next Halo universe game from its pre-E3 press conference … to save time.
As the story goes, Microsoft’s presser was originally planned to run two-and-a-half hours, but Mattrick wanted to get it down ...
more Joystiq E3 hands-on: Geometry Wars 2From: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-18 04:58:46
Filed under: Arcade , Retro , Microsoft Xbox 360 , Action , E3
Some would say Geometry Wars Retro Evolved was Xbox 360’s best launch game — it beat early hyped games like Perfect Dark Zero, Call of Duty 2, and Kameo to win the heart of 360 early adopters, despite the fact that it was 2D and a cheap XBLA version of a game that had previously been included with Project Gotham Racing 2. It held the record for a long time as the system’s most-downloaded game, and tha...
more New mode in Rock Band 2 is like Wii MusicFrom: gamingcity.info
Post Date: 2008-07-17 22:05:48
In case you haven’t heard yet, you can’t lose in Wii Music . Sure, you can bob your head around and make notes higher or lower, but there are no real constraints to the game. Recently, it came to Joystiq’s attention that there’s a new mode in Rock Band 2 called “No Fail Mode.” As the subtitle plainly recommends, there is no way to fail out of a song while utilizing the mode. Sounds like Wii Music , doesn’t it?
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