Comments on: Gundam 00 S2 – 07: A Day that will Live in Infamy

By: Athrun

Athrun — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:10:34 +0000

Dude, you are writing a comedy right? It is hilarious. Keep up with it

By: Firechick

Firechick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:53:08 +0000

Ummm…if you really hate Gundam that much, why don’t you just not watch it?

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:12:28 +0000

… and for Kaioshin, there’s been official Fallout3 DLC announced, including the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (aka: the construction kit), along with Broken Steel, which allows play past the ending. Only for Games for Windows and Xbox360.

Another reason for a big “NOOOO!!!!!” from the PS3 players of the world, who are like Patrick but with fewer hopes for the future.

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By: blind_dead_mcjones

blind_dead_mcjones — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:20:24 +0000

hmmmm, i’m intrigued in regards to the pale green suits giant cannon, the thing looks bigger than virtues and seravee’s bazookas combined

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:37:41 +0000

Kaioshin: This shorter-haired version got a proposal from someone who doesn’t seem to notice girls, and who she only met once before. That’s saying something.

Poor Ismail-kun can’t even get a DATE.

By: Kaioshin Sama

Kaioshin Sama — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:34:44 +0000

@Haesslich: Is this a good or bad time to admit that I preferred longer haired Louise?

By: Crusader

Crusader — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:47:00 +0000

Nice save comrade Haesslich…adding the Gundam related insert using the edit function.

Still console wars stuff belongs elsewhere I am afraid, I don’t need a SDF and then an Xbots invasion.

Louise was hawt and Princess Poverty was useless, looks like the only use we can expect out of her is if she marries in episode 10 if the spoilers are correct. Funny how most of the reaction is over Titeria and Louise while completely ignoring Ms. Wang right now. At least the rest of the episode was up to par even if we could have dispensed with Desu-Yellow and the rather lame cat fight between Marie and Feldt. Still Vowels it was and broken will some people be, and Ribbons the sneaky git…

Patrick and Ali seem to have joined us for reals this time, but I hope Prince Ali just doesn’t let his prey walk away this time I want a chase next week.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:39:16 +0000

Kaioshin: The PS3 theoretically has more horsepower… but nobody’s using it all that well, and the extra-large uncompressed textures they’re applying to models via the extra storage available on Blu-Ray hasn’t exactly HELPED the visuals to any great extent, IMO; especially since with decent compression a lot of those textures will fit just as well on a dual-layer DVD of the type the XBox360 uses. Plus, with the way a lot of titles are multi-platform now, there’s not the same level of customization and tweaking for a single particular device as there was in the heyday of the PS2’s domination of the console market. Oh, and the PS3 code tools, from what I’m hearing, don’t give you a lot of control over the hardware the way you used to get with older systems… which means the low-level tweaking and tricks they used in the past to milk every last bit of performance out of their platforms just don’t happen anymore as the hardware abstraction layers and OOP tools don’t give them that sort of access, even if they DO want to tweak and fine-tune the game to perform superbly on the ‘higher-horsepower’ system.

In contrast, I’ve heard nothing BUT praise for the XBox360’s development tools – even if it’s a lot like DirectX with the level of HALs used, Microsoft understands developers well enough (being primarily a software company) to know that they should give the developers a good amount of leeway with regards to what they can do with the tools and platform. Between that, and the fact that most people don’t have high-enough resolution screens to make the difference in horsepower too significant… I mean, how many fully 1080p games exist at the moment?

None come to mind at the moment – even the newest games generally work at 720p or even 480p, with 1080p kicking in mostly for cutscenes or game menus. Sure, the PS3 promises 1080p gaming, but… And Fallout 3, true to the GameByro engine which its technological predecessor Oblivion is also based on, has… issues with the PS3 – it was never coded correctly for it, and they’ve already had to say they’re patching the game due to the bugs that PS3 owners have encountered. Bugs which should come as no surprise to anyone who played Oblivion… including ‘texture-popping’ which makes the Xbox360 version of Mass Effect look polished in comparison. And THAT game was infamous for the long load times and texture pop-in issues. Hell, don’t get me started on how you have to install stuff to the hardware of the PS3 to get it to run, sometimes… which kinda kills the point of having a console – not having to install games to get them to run, that is.

Oh, and Gundam 00 S2 Ep 8 is out. Louise is smoking HOT in a dress and shorter hair. She’s way, way better than Tieria in a dress. I’m surprised Setsuna got the gumption to pull out a ring for a girl, though. Poor Ismail-chan. Poverty-kun really isn’t all that useful, is she?

Another note: Louise Halevy needs to keep this haircut. I have nothing but praise for her new hairstylist. Long may he or she curl.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:35:27 +0000

@Haesslich and Kaioshin
Okay boys console wars post belong else where…just a bit of advice you don’t have to buy a PS3 to enjoy it, just find a ~~sucker~~ friend who has one, Lord knows I did not get my signed copy of MGS4 just for looks and dust collecting.

By: Kaioshin Sama

Kaioshin Sama — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:19:27 +0000

@I don’t understand the PS3. Honestly. It’s theoretically supposed to be more powerful then the 360 yet I can’t tell the difference between any of the games I’ve seen cross compared and nothing ever seems to run as smooth on the PS3 either from what I’ve seen of it. Cell processor/wave of the future my ass. I make it a point everytime that somebody brings up the PS3 at work to explain to them why they made the wrong choice, and it’s not because I’m a console fanboy or anything, it just strikes me as there is no valid reason at this time to own a PS3 over a 360 unless you really really REALLY like Metal Gear.

For the record I’ve played over 20 hours of Oblivion at this point and I’m hard pressed to think of anytime I’ve encountered an error such as pop in or fault loading of models. The only game that has given me any issues was Supreme Commander which locked up all of once in my 30 hours of playing it on a rental disc.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:21:34 +0000

Kaioshin: I can’t wait for downloadable content… and at least my version of Fallout 3 works, unlike those ~~poor suckers~~early adopters who got it for PS3. If Oblivion didn’t work for the PS3 (not very well), Fallout 3 was unlikely to do any better. And they fell for it. Hook, line, sinker, pop-in/missing texture…

By: Kaioshin Sama

Kaioshin Sama — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:02:52 +0000

@Haesslich: Okay fair enough, I probably shouldn’t have had the “Minovsky/GN Particles” part in my first comment and should have left it as Minovsky particles, but the real point I was trying to make was in how you can create a curved beam saber. Skoll never stated which universe he was talking about.

I will however stand by my earlier suggestion to just get the 360 version of Fallout 3.

By: Crusader

Crusader — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:32:02 +0000

Ah so crashing was about Fallout 3, gotcha. Well not sure if MS operating systems will ever stop being memory hogs, but we will do what we can.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:58:45 +0000

Crusader: The “It sorta works” is for Fallout. The main issue with this page is the WordPress style sheet you’re using and the plugins, including that semi-Twitter thing and all the screencaps. Between that and the 100+ comments, the PDA just runs out of RAM and the browser crashes. But given it’s an Axim x51v with WM6… well, they don’t really SELL PDA’s with more than 192MB of RAM anyhow, and WM takes like 40-50MB easily. The browser needs another 5MB just to run itself…