{"id":868,"date":"2009-03-16T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2009\/03\/same-old-same-oh-wait\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:33:01","slug":"same-old-same-oh-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2009\/03\/same-old-same-oh-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"same old same oh wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Resident Evil 5, seventh installment of the serie. Announced in 2005, released in 2009. Eurogamer review quote is interesting:<\/p>\n

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“Possibly the most jarring initial impression is how little has changed in the core game mechanics. While the prospect of split-screen or co-op online play tantalises, there’s an inescapable feeling of deja vu and frustration as you play with an AI partner. To all intents and purposes, this looks and feels like a reskinned, high-def Resi 4, and what was hugely impressive back then often struggles to repeat the trick this far down the line.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The producer of the game said it will be like RE 4<\/a>. So all this time for better graphics, new environments and same camera nightmare and bullshit.<\/p>\n

Great. What’s interesting is that improved graphics make people want to have improved gameplay too. But this is not the case. the so called next gen is just a way to keep game developers busy. But it doesn’t care about gamers, they’ll eventually eat that anyway (it’s inevitably better than the old).<\/p>\n

For me RE should only be a FPS if you want an improved experience over the old RE 4 style. Left4Dead took the crowd though.<\/p>\n

In other news, Rock Band gets totally -well a bit- funked up<\/a>, in any case I think that’s cool. Funk is the shit (remember that Black Hole Sun drum part you so love to play? That’s the One, that’s the funk man).<\/p>\n

Wanting to save the planet? Do a game<\/a> (what better simulation could you have?), here are the rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 Flashbang guys interview<\/a> about their last game, Blush.<\/p>\n


Unity in action<\/em>. Indie revolution?<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike Inel<\/a> How<\/a> and Where<\/a> games are special, they have a deep and soothing feeling even if they are more of well polished prototypes than full games. I want more stuffs like this, it’s incredible how in term of visuals it’s always, always same old. Now that’s a bit more fresh.<\/p>\n


Dreamy.<\/em> <\/p>\n

2D Boy<\/a> are making a post mortem of World of Goo in seven parts, here’s the first one<\/a> with the first version of the game, after a week of work. It was in 2006. If you have WoG -I bet you do-, you can now feel the work needed. This post mortem is pure gold.<\/p>\n


Mad props for the polishing of this 48 hours game<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Pulse, the dutch global game jam winner is going to be produced! The original concept is here<\/a>, try it it’s great.<\/p>\n

Unreal Engine 3 is used in every single AAA titles with some Gamebryo hits (Fallout 3), game engines are the core of the industry (Torque, Unity and of course homemade\/open source libs-based ones).<\/p>\n

Jeff Tunnell<\/a> has started a new company called PushButtonLabs<\/a> and they’re releasing something really interesting: a game framework based on Flash to do games for a lot of machines. PushButtonEngine<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n

I hate Flash when it’s not a stupid and simple video player. For the crappy IDE, all the loading in the world, bad audio compression no mouse scroll and lame cursor animation I just want Flash to die in a medieval way. BUT with an engine around, why not leave him alone? Could be useful. I’d like to see more competition in this way.<\/p>\n

But the trend of the super busy browser handling gazillions of javascript and 3D plugins is starting to get annoying: it doesn’t use well the raw power of cpus\/gpus. You could say Windows did that too (compared to closed architectures) but web is getting things worst: if I load five services say FB\/Digg\/Gmail\/Blurst\/Flickr, the browsing experience gets awful, no matter what the browser is. What is all this process power I have that can’t be used? Something is wrong.<\/p>\n

Next time I’ll talk about Asus. Once again.<\/p>\n

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