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Doom on Xbox Live, Jackson Making Halo Game
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on Wed Sep 27, 2006 01:26 PM
from the holy-xboxen-batman dept.
from the holy-xboxen-batman dept.
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in its X06 Keynote today in Barcelona. The announcements are flying fast and furious: Ensemble studios is making a Halo RTS, and Peter Jackson is making a new Halo game (unrelated to Halo 3 or the RTS). The HD-DVD will be $200 in the U.S. with a release aimed at November of this year. They've got a good deal of 360 exclusive content including the next Splinter Cell and GTA IV Episodes, and (initially) Bioshock. Bioshock will also be on Windows, of course. Windows is also the platform on which Microsoft is announcing a new Massively Multiplayer game from Cryptic Studios, a new super-hero MMOG based on Marvel Comics' IP: Marvel Universe Online.
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Peter Jackson Talks the Halo Movie 90 comments
Via Kotaku, an interview on Ain't It Cool News with Peter Jackson talking about the in-conception Halo Movie. From the article: "QUINT: Now, there's no reason on Earth shouldn't easily and faithfully be adapted into a PG-13 movie. However, do you anticipate there being a harder cut considering how gruesome the Flood aspect of the story is? PETER JACKSON: That's interesting... It's something, I must admit, that's not a conversation I've had with anybody yet. It's a conversation that I'm sure will happen. Look, the reality of the budget is that I would imagine the studio are going to be pretty insistent on a PG-13, which, as you say, is certainly not an impossible thing pull off."
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Peter Jackson on the Future of Storytelling 42 comments
Via VoodooExtreme, an article on Team Xbox covering a panel at X06 on the future of storytelling in games. Along with Mr. Jackson, industry veterans Peter Molyneux and Greg Zeschuck weigh in on this issue. The meat of the article is a video of the presentation, which is regrettably in .wmv format. The Escapist has some highlights of the conversation up in their news section. "'I've got to the stage now where I just end up catching something on DVD and I'm more excited about games coming out in the next 2-3 months than films,' said Peter Jackson, director of Lord of The Rings and founder of Wingnut Interactive, an offshoot of his movie studio. 'That created an awareness in me of the shift in entertainment options out there, and if I'm feeling that others are too.'"
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Halo Film Still On Track 70 comments
Eurogamer reports that, despite the decision by Fox and Universal to back out of the movie's production, the film version of Halo will move forward. From the article: "Now Microsoft has released an official statement via the Bungie website which reads: 'We are disappointed that Universal and Fox wanted to significantly renegotiate the financial points of the deal. But the Halo franchise is hugely popular and our goal remains the same - to find a partner that shares our passion and will creatively collaborate with us to best represent the story and spirit of the Halo franchise ... Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and the rest of the creative team are dedicated to ensuring the Halo movie becomes a reality,' the statement continues.
Offsite: Joystiq Keynote Coverage
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Thank God (Score:3, Funny)
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Erm...you contradict yourself from one sentence to the next.
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Exclusive titles did not start with Microsoft - it did not start with Sony, either - and it's nothing to get all atwitter about.
Re:"Leak" (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad, "People buy the Halo to play Xbox" wouldn't have made any sense at all...
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ATTN: Peter Jackson ! (Score:5, Funny)
Your actors aren't getting any younger.
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Still I was upset PJ even spent time on king kong. If MGM & New Line did indeed get the green light [chud.com] to make The Hobbit, then it should be top priority.
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backward-compatibility (Score:2)
(yes I'm aware that they didn't specify how much of the library would be backward compatible... but 75% is reasonable, right? or whatever we have now + Psychonauts)
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Xbox backwards compatibility is the equivalent of using a big stick to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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Marvel Universe (Score:2)
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Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! (Score:2, Funny)
Good thing the game industry is such a source original thought and creativity.
What's that I hear? (Score:3, Funny)
Really though...these are some big announcements and I haven't heard Sony coming with anything to match them yet.
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Over what? (Score:2)
You mean having a competitor who included HD playback as an add-on that brings up the full price of the 360 to above the cost of the base PS3?
Or perhaps you think the expansion of the Halo empire into RTS is reason enough for hari-kari. Or perhaps Bioshock releasing on the 360 whole months before poor PS3 owners ever see it!
Yes, I'm sure all those things send shivers down Sony spines. Or perhaps not.
Misread (Score:3, Funny)
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Halogen (Score:5, Informative)
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More importantly, is that Craig Mullins' [goodbrush.com] artwork?
Talk about Bungie connections [bungie.org] - at the very least, it's attempting a similar style...
We'll be Back and legal, soon! (Score:2, Informative)
Doom, still going to cost you.a bit. (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously XBLA used to be a place to get cheap legacy games, and interesting unique games, now with every game coming out at 800 points it's sad. I'm probably going to end up buying doom at some point, but while it was a impulse buy at 400 (1.25 per episode, 4 episodes) I'm going to have to consider it now.
Any game that's older than 10 years needs to either have significantly new gameplay (not just co-op, time pilot, but you were 400 points so I love you more) for a 10 dollar investment.
First level 60 superhero (Score:3, Funny)
THREE UNDEAD ROGUES APPEAR
Cheap shot! Cheap shot! Ambush crit!
"OH NOES SPIDEY USE YOUR WEBZ!"
"HE CAN'T! HE WAS BLINDED/KIDNEY SHOTTED/GOUGED/VANISHED/CHEAP SHOTTED FIFTEEN TIMES!!"
"EEEEERRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZ!!"
Can't wait.
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Spiderman will be the Task Force contact in Times Square.
What about a 360 MMORPG?!? (Score:4, Interesting)
And, don't give me that "FFXI" bullshit, either. That was just a poor port of the PC version ("Wait, I need a USB keyboard to talk, WTF?!?!?!"). If I wanted to return to the year 2000, I'd buy it. But I want a modern, *REAL* MMORPG.
-Eric
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Here's a 1up article about it [1up.com].
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Seriously, when are developers going to realize that you don't need a keyboard for chat channels when you can have ACTUAL CHAT. When you're chatting around the water cooler with your friends at work do you need a fucking keyboard?!?! The 360 has built in voice chat--USE IT!!!
-Eric
Re:What about a 360 MMORPG?!? (Score:4, Funny)
"Yes"
-Stephen Hawking
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Mod parent up (Score:2)
-Eric
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There are very simple ways to deal with that. Limit the number of voices heard (outside of one-on-one coversations and team chat) to the nearest 10 or 20 people (I know Xbox can support that, because I've been in plenty of Battlefront II battles where there were at least that many people talking at once). Combine that with private channels for one-on-one and team conversations and it would be little different than it is now, only
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As for Peter Jackson, see: Petr Jackson talks the Halo Movie [slashdot.org]
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Now, it may be that Halo was originally a RTS game, but it was definitely demoed as an FPS before the Microsoft buyout. It was originally demoed at the 1999 Macworld Expo in NYC.
It was a sad day when Microsoft bought Bungie in preparation for the Xbox release and postponed the Mac OS and Windows releases of Halo ti
There is actually a story to Halo (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not a Bungie cultist myself (although I have a friend that works there), but I think there is definately enough to like in the Halo universe, if you're a general sci-fi fan like I am. And if you don't, there's nothing wrong with avoiding what you don't like.
As for people yelling at MS to be more original, and to stop milking the franchise for all it's worth, you can easily say the same for Nintendo's games. How many Zelda, Metroid, and Mario games have there been? And how many of them have been good? Plenty. Franchises != the suck.
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If they manage to make an RTS for a console that doesn't suck, it'll be the first time that that's happened. EVER.
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Re:That's It? (Score:4, Informative)
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I happen to love both WoW and CoH/V.
My keys points on WoW?
HUGE Community, not that hard to find good poeple to play with, though I admit I am no where near up to raid levels (level 33 priest atm).
The game is beautiful, nuff said.
There is high end content.
The grind is not THAT bad if you are only going for levels. However if you want to actualy be viable you NEED to grind for gear/whatever. That is my first complaint.
My second one is travel time, I hate WoW travel time. All classes sho
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COH was my first MMO, played it for about a year, got my level 50 and then moved to WoW. Played WoW for about a year then bought CoV.
I have a love/hate relationship with CoH/CoV, I totally understand what you mean about it being a grind. The game really has almost nothing to it but combat. I think the combat is pretty entertaining but doing mission after mission c
Re:And Sony is too expensive? (Score:4, Insightful)
Blu-Ray is something that many people aren't excited about that also drives the price up and the production quantity down - this makes it the obvious target for people who don't want/aren't willing/can't afford to shell out $580 for a game console before purchasing even a single game (much less any of the usual hardware accessories).
Had the DS been sold at $500, with the only obvious thing that might account for its far-above-the-competition price the second screen, then yes, you would have heard similar complaints about it. If the Wii was priced at $500 because of problems with the Wiimote, then you'd be hearing similar complaints about that.
Say what you want about how great Blu-Ray is, or how it's actually for games, not for pushing Sony's pet format, or whatever else you want to say about it. But what it comes down to is that, for (seemingly) a lot of people, $580 is just too damn much money. And it doesn't matter how cool Blu-Ray is if the price is more than people are willing to pay.
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Not to mention BD movies, great games and backward compatibility.
My PS2 DVD drive is finally giving out after 3 years of brutal use and I'm trying to convince my wife that a PS3 would be a better investment than a new DVD drive since it would play
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I'm thinking of biting the bullet and upgrading to HD-TV this year (between the drop in HD-TV prices and TiVo's new HD unit), and the PS3 is starting to look like the perfect option to handle the "GameConsole/DVD/NextGenMedia" portion and round out my new TV stack. Going for the PS3 is an easier choice than a stand-alone
power supply is internal on PS3 (Score:3, Informative)
360 + 360 power supply is a lot larger than PS3.
360 + 360 power supply + HD-DVD drive is about double the size of the PS3. And a lot louder.
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And as long as the games as good, I think most gamers would disagree with you.