Comments on: The Curse of Voodoo http://corvus.zakelro.com/2008/06/the-curse-of-voodoo/ hoc ludite quasi carmen Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Drake http://corvus.zakelro.com/2008/06/the-curse-of-voodoo/#comment-80557 Drake Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:31:31 +0000 http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/?p=1704#comment-80557 What i cant understand this days is that people pay 600$ just for a video card, and there is no games to use then. After microsoft make the xbox, the pc games release are almost 2 or 3 per year (i mean good games), in the past there where more than 10 tittles, good ones. Now pc games are just ports from consola games (mass effect like example). Soo why this war with video cards if there is just few games out there to use the cards... (crysis?? just for one game bad coded? lol). What i cant understand this days is that people pay 600$ just for a video card, and there is no games to use then. After microsoft make the xbox, the pc games release are almost 2 or 3 per year (i mean good games), in the past there where more than 10 tittles, good ones. Now pc games are just ports from consola games (mass effect like example).

Soo why this war with video cards if there is just few games out there to use the cards… (crysis?? just for one game bad coded? lol).

]]> By: Kimari http://corvus.zakelro.com/2008/06/the-curse-of-voodoo/#comment-80541 Kimari Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:37 +0000 http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/?p=1704#comment-80541 The only graphics card I've ever bought in my life is an Nvidia TNT2 because the one that I had at the time was crashing my win98 every 20 minutes because it couldn't handle a resolution greater than 640x480... so... yeah, it has been a while. Sounds pathetic now, and surprisingly enough, it was pathetic at the time. I think it has more to do with the fact that my family can't afford to change hardware for consumeristic reasons. Oh but I'm not alone, I know too many people that still use their Pentium 2 and 3 computers with windows 98, I guess it's because changing hardware in argentina has the same economical blow as sending a satellite to Jupiter. Which is nothing compared to how much consoles cost here (The Wii is currently at... 2100 pesos, or around 700 dollars). The only graphics card I’ve ever bought in my life is an Nvidia TNT2 because the one that I had at the time was crashing my win98 every 20 minutes because it couldn’t handle a resolution greater than 640×480… so… yeah, it has been a while.

Sounds pathetic now, and surprisingly enough, it was pathetic at the time. I think it has more to do with the fact that my family can’t afford to change hardware for consumeristic reasons.

Oh but I’m not alone, I know too many people that still use their Pentium 2 and 3 computers with windows 98, I guess it’s because changing hardware in argentina has the same economical blow as sending a satellite to Jupiter. Which is nothing compared to how much consoles cost here (The Wii is currently at… 2100 pesos, or around 700 dollars).

]]> By: josh bycer http://corvus.zakelro.com/2008/06/the-curse-of-voodoo/#comment-80540 josh bycer Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:59:45 +0000 http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/?p=1704#comment-80540 I decided to pull out of the graphics card race right around the time I started seeing screenshots for Crysis. It's funny that you should mention Shadow of the Colossus as I would love to see a next gen make over for it. As someone who has watched the evolution of graphics back from the atari period to today I say we're about close to hitting photo realism in our games. I've been wondering if we're going to hit the ceiling for improving graphics and what will happen to all the various graphics card companies. Personality give me a stylized look (Wind Waker, Killer7, even Sly Cooper on the Ps2) over a super realistic look any day. I decided to pull out of the graphics card race right around the time I started seeing screenshots for Crysis. It’s funny that you should mention Shadow of the Colossus as I would love to see a next gen make over for it. As someone who has watched the evolution of graphics back from the atari period to today I say we’re about close to hitting photo realism in our games. I’ve been wondering if we’re going to hit the ceiling for improving graphics and what will happen to all the various graphics card companies.

Personality give me a stylized look (Wind Waker, Killer7, even Sly Cooper on the Ps2) over a super realistic look any day.

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