Recent content by sunscar

All due respect, but his are always elaborate trolls. That's why several forums have banned him, his IP, and permutations of his screen name. He's been at it around a decade, ranging from neogaf to opaages to psinext/e-empire and here. He's always had a hardline anti-sony bent that's the...

It should be, though. That's where you'd expect an EAP-based muscle suit to be bulkiest - In areas directly related to upright strength. Seeing as the nano-suit 2.0 is supposed to be an evolution of the previous model, it's reasonable that the technology hasn't changed much, which means that...

Is it really that hard for people to understand that the suit is made of what basically boil down to thick slats/strips that function like muscles? They add a great deal of bulk to the actual wearer's frame. The wearer isn't built like the Hulk, he's built like a marine, wearing inch-thick...

That's because it isn't. IIRC, they're officially composite photos of a CG character pasted over in-game materials. Makes sense when you consider we'd never really see our character from these angles, except for maybe in cut scenes.

What precisely are we all bitching about here? Seems the list goes... 1.) UMD is irrelevant. 2.) ME is a multi-purpose processor. 3.) There is no HAL. 4.) Memory Stick isn't an option. 5.) PSP2 will require UMD because SONY demands backwards compatibility. 6.) Nothing can...

It's legit.... and Ooooold. But it is semi-obscure, I believe, so no worries.

^^^^ And I'd say for the i5 comparison it should be pretty easy to figure. We have two actual cores divided up to act like four, or we have four actual cores. Which sounds better? It's a gross over-simplification, but for this particular scenario, it's kinda fitting.

I can confirm that.

That a ton of that power goes toward pixel shaders. I suppose the question on my mind is why the prioritization in favor of pixel shaders as opposed to geometry? But that's likely an easy answer - memory bandwidth!.. and dealing with the ineficiencies of micropoly-size geometry. Back when the...

I'm still waiting for the part of the article that makes sense...

For reference, this video is of a procedurally-generated world that was built from ~ 4KB of data. It'd fit on a floppy disk 256 times over. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE

Now *that's* more reassuring. Do believe I remember him from Metroid 2. Strangely though, I loved the Primes (still need to play 3, though). The Xeno info you popped has taken a bit of the edge off me, btw. I haven't been a happy camper with the Xeno knockoffs, honestly. Xeno represented a...

^^^^^^^^^^^ Saw this "Xenoblade" a few days ago... And damn!! do I hope they're not going to try to tie this into the Xeno series. It was bad enough to chuck out all that was Xenogears as if it never happened. On the previous topic, it is reassuring that Itagaki-san is out, but I knew...

Also keep in mind that particular demo represents a very naive approach, in that there's an incredible amount of wasted geometry because distance isn't factored into their tesselation system. Everything is tessellated uniformly no matter how far it is from the screen (meaning they...

So far I have borderline *zero* interrest in this. It already has the earmarks of Team Ninja - everything appearing to be made of action-figure plastic, characters looking like they got kicked out of a bad Masami Obari anime. Frankly, I'm worried for it, and I feel giving the game to TN is a...