[Dark RevenantX]

I still could get a computer 2x better than my current one for aprox. $750 (US Dollars).

And $3000 canadian dollars is actually more than $3000 in us dollars

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Deepblue
Weapons you carry in Gears of War are visible. Cool beans no?

That's been around for a while anyway, at least to a certain extent.  IIRC, Renegade put the last weapon you used on your back.  It wasn't all of your weapons, but then Renegade was one of those "carry around a national arsenal" games anyway.

[aldo_14]

Didn't Tomb Raider have that?  Most games don't show it, AFAIK, because you end up carrying a ludicrous amount of guns.  Also with most FPS' there's not much point; you don't see your own back and your NPC allies/enemies generally don't need to change their guns.

[Deepblue]

Only pistols showed up in Tomb Raider, at least the original. Otherwise you had Lara pulling rediculously large things from her tiny little backpack.

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Didn't Tomb Raider have that?  Most games don't show it, AFAIK, because you end up carrying a ludicrous amount of guns.  Also with most FPS' there's not much point; you don't see your own back and your NPC allies/enemies generally don't need to change their guns.

I think its important in multiplayer FPS's. For example, you can charge someone who has a dinky little pistol in Halo 2 on Live with a shotty, smiling as your target's shields fade away, only to have him pull an energy sword on you and cut you in half.

Visible weapon slots would sove this.

[aldo_14]

Or spoil it, depending on your perspective.  I don't think it'd be regarded as an essential or innovative feature, TBH; sort of a gimmicky thing at best.

I defo remember a 3rd person game from quite a while ago where all the avatars weapons were visible on his/her/its back.

[aldo_14]

EDIT; sorry, dp

[FireCrack]

http://www.airtightgames.com/currentproject.html

Some nice movies of the aegia physics system (presumably with physX card installed)

[Carl]

Originally posted by MicroPsycho
everyone knows the best engine is RL 2.0...

They have 2.0 now?! how is it different?

[FireCrack]

All physical constants now have 32 bit precision...

[CP5670]

actually scientific simulations are almost always done in 64-bit (double) precision these days.

[FireCrack]

Yeah, Life:2.0 uses 64 bit floating point values. Only constants are stored to 32 bit


(wow, why am i arguing such a useless not-even-a-point)

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by FireCrack
http://www.airtightgames.com/currentproject.html

Some nice movies of the aegia physics system (presumably with physX card installed)

Do the xbox360 / ps3 actually use the accelerator card, I wonder?  I heard some rumours a while back that the 360 didn't do fluid dynamics atall, although the PS3 did (IIRc the bastardin-complex cell structure is ideal for that sort of thing); which makes me wonder what the difference is, and whether either are using the specific hardware or not.

[FireCrack]

Neither are, but form their website it appears they've programed their physics engine to take best advantage of both the cell and PPC(that's the xbox one right?) processors.

[Deepblue]

They both have licensed the Ageia physX engine as middleware for their respective console.

[Inquisitor]

On a related note, I just saw a promo videon on the Xbox cover disk in this months XBM for Oblivion.

If it looks that good on the 360 (and Morrowind looked really good on just a regular Xbox on a non-HD set), then I may have to break the promise I made to myself that I would wait until 2006 to buy the damn thing.

Say what you want about consoles, it's a good time to be a gamer, so many excellent choices...