Two different perspectives : can you adjust to it???

[London Geezer]

I think it would, on my computer when I first got my Radeon 9700 Pro, I then noticed computers allowed multi-monitor support.. I laughed at it, but then when someone gave me a free monitor, I hooked it up out of curiousity. Now I wont go back to one monitor.

I saw a video of some Matrox Cards with three monitors running a racecar sim, where one big HD widescreen monitor was the windshield and two LCD"s were the side windows, it was unreal, and I think to myself, I want that.

Yeah, me too... I'll sell my virginity online. Read some girl on the papers did it, auctioned her virginity on eBay...

 

[Deadmeat]

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I say the better choice would have been adding a "perspective" button so that the player may choose to lay a transparent alternative perspective over the main perspective and ask the developers to code for this button.

 

[cthellis42]

cthellis42

Yeah in most games on this machine there will be one dominant screen. But I'm not sure why that's a negative thing. Also we've already seen a few idea's posted that show how this can be used without simply moving basic guages from the corners of the main screen to the second screen. I liked the suggestion of a game with the first screen showing the normal world and the second showing some sort of normally unseen world (as in the same world but one being a living view and one dead.. or something like that). I'm sure someone could use this type of idea to make a very interesting game on DS.

It's not a "negative thing," I just don't see it as a huge benefit nor a "totally new concept" thing. Heck, they may even be positioned right next to each other and not in a clamshell design (so as to more easily facilitate a "one big monitor" use), which would primarily make it "one big weirdly-shaped screen with a plastic strip in the middle" if it totally removes screen positioning and gives them close proximity. (In the interview, Beth didn't answer the "will the screens be set right next to each other or will they be separate?" question, which leads me to believe it's still under consideration one way or the other right now.) All that WOULD be, in essense, is a more limited form of split-screening (since it would have physical separation), done to save money (as I imagine two regularly-shaped screens would cost less than a larger, uniquely-shaped one).

As I said in another thread, it's seeming like it might just be a "different way to do the things already done" rather than any major "different experience." The games will be the proving point, as there is no way to tell just by the concept. (But there is certainly no overriding "IT WILL BE GREAT!" or "IT WILL DUCK DINGO KIDNEYS!" right now--we don't know enough yet.)

 

[Teasy]

London-Boy

Not like I really care about Football games (gay and football don't usually go together very well, like Deadmeat and Panajev for instance), but fro the sake of argument, how would 2 screens "bring football games closer to reality"?

I mean, do you have 2 points of view in reality? It is a G I M M I C K.

I've explained this numerous times in my posts about the Football game idea. But to explain it again. In a Football computer game you have one view, a view of your player and the immediate area around him. In real Football you have that view, but you also have a view of the entire field if you look up. You also have a view of your defence if you choose to look behind yourself So yes in effect you have multiple views in real Football compared to one view in current Football games. So no it is not a gimmick.

P.S. Football and gay doesn't mix? But its a field full of athletic men all wearing shorts and getting dirty and sweaty together... I don't understand

 

[London Geezer]

P.S. Football and gay doesn't mix? But its a field full of athletic men all wearing shorts and getting dirty and sweaty together... I don't understand

Yeah well, doesn't go much further than "looking at the fit guys"... But then i'd be an expert in EVERY sport where you can see fit guys running around in shorts... Ok i'll stop now....

 

[Fox5]

If you want a dual screen experience, play Serious Sam The Second Encounter(the demo might work too) set it to windowed, and then choose one of the double resolutions. Bingo, dual screen, and if you have a multimontior set up, you can drag it over and have one screen on your main screen, and the other on another screen!(really, with serious sam's stuff about multimonitor support, I was expecting a bit more, did that really require any special programming to do?)