About IGN, sure I know they have to get money somehow and their bussinessidea is smart. But why would I want to pay for membership when I can get the same stuff for free somewhere else?
They' ve got some exclusives I won' t get my hands on for some time but paying for it... nah that' s just their way of sucking money from jackasses. They could make that for free and still live on the ads the content will generate. But they won' t because they know suckers like us will pay them for it.
It' s company strategy, as much money as possible in the easiest possible way. I' m just saying I' m not going to fall for their strategy.

About MGS4. I was never impressed by the original trailers if concidering the graphics by pure power. The environments also looked pretty bad imo. What made me go wow was the art direction (as usuall), the animation, the cool angles (as in any MGS sequence) and the character details.
Other than that it was the least that I would expect from a next-gen title developed by a company like Konami.

I HATE IGN.

You don' t think that Sony' s deal with IGN and their GameSpy division to do PlayStation HUB is going to make them even more biased than they already are?! Even GameSpot get paid by Sony for no apparent reason. I despise both sites!

Mmmm there are Ads on IGN even if you pay for it, i pay for it, and i stil have Adds

I used to be an IGN Insider, before last E3, then around that time they made a lot of their stuff accessable to mainstreamers albeit at lower quality with a couple more ads.

So after my year with them expired I let it go, but I signed up as I remember back in college and after they had a lot of stuff as insider-only.

sure most of the intersting insider articles are posted on forums anyway.

I' m just saying I' m not going to fall for their strategy.

:)

I' ve been an insider a long time ago , but lately the CHEAP BASTARD VERSION is enough for me , for HD videos I go to kikizo :)

You don' t think that Sony' s deal with IGN and their GameSpy division to do PlayStation HUB is going to make them even more biased than they already are?! Even GameSpot get paid by Sony for no apparent reason. I despise both sites!

Well in that case they (IGN) need to flame MS as much as they can , since Nintendo' s WI-FI service was also made with gamespy

Conspiracy theories at their best :)

Ginjirou - I totally agree about all that you said about MGS4 - those effects are quite common now but using them in cool ways is the key.

Mmmm there are Ads on IGN even if you pay for it, i pay for it, and i stil have Adds

My bad :)

Vx maybe you could post some cool articles from INSIDER - like Oblivion HEAD to HEAD and some other interesting features?

Oblivion Head to Head, was actually the most boring head to head iv read! The PC version one, but only slightly, and if you had a Super Super PC.

But ill keep an eye out for cool articles :)

thanks :)

if that stuff is all real time, its pretty impressive. still, i want to see a breakdown of gameplay, not cinematic real time stuff.

And I want fries , coke and a toilet paper - supersized please :)

It' s certainly realtime but the actions are predetermined and so when factoring in user control, physics, AI and everything else that' s needed to be able to play the game, it' s obviously not going to look THAT good.

I don' t for one minute doubt that it will look nice, but i also don' t expect it to be on store shelves for another 18 months or so.

During thoe 18 months they should be able to make the game look as good as it did in the trailer or even better.
Isn' t that what you always say about other games majik? That when the development team gets extra time they can optimize the game and stuff like that. As with GRAW. Oh I forgot, this is a PS3 game so it' s a different story...

No no, that' s exactly the case. But as with every other MGS game, the cutscenes are of far superior quality to the actual gameplay.

Because it' s a cutscene and doesn' t require things like AI, it frees up processing power and enables developers to add post production effects.

It' s the same with Gears of War on 360 where some of the stuff that we' ve seen is obviously from a cutscene and looks of higher quality than the game looks when you' re playing it. This is from a cutcene...



...and the thing ingame doesn' t look like that.

I' m not saying that MGS will look bad ingame, just that i don' t expect the game to look as good as the cutscenes do, though as you noted, with 18 months left of development, the gameplay could very well look like the stuff we' ve seen so far with the cutscenes looking even better.

However, what we' ve seen so far has been little more than a tech demo, or at least that' s what i believe. It' s not an early build of the game, just an early build of the engine showing off what can be done.

I doubt we' ll see anything ingame at E3 either, just another cutscene like they do with all MGS games.

Okay.. I have decided.. I' m selling my 360

What... why?

Becuase ps3 is obviously the way of the future.

Yeah that word future sure is right since it' s a loong wait before PS3 arrives and it' ll be an even loooonger wait before it' s got enough good games to be worth buying. And to some it will be even loooonger since they have to save up for one. So yes the PS3 is the way of the (distant) future. I prefer having fun today though...

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