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How anything of the Colony is still standing is astonishing.

I know when a nuclear bomb goes off some structures in the centre of the blast are relatively intact but that's because it's an aerial blast.

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So... any predictions for PS4 on Wednesday?

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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I bet it's backwards compatible with the 4SP.

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TV's Frink said:

I won't buy it?

Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell.

“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”

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C'mon now, pick a useless thread to ruin and I'll gladly help.

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I didn't know it had to be in bad threads only. :(

“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”

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If you ruin good threads too, people will get (more) annoyed.

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Which threads were ruined? I didn't know people complained. I only posted a Simpsons quote in maybe two threads besides the main one with the huge quote wall.

But I apologize if I've bothered anyone.

“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”

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I thought you were going for another quote wall, that's all.

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Recalling the specs first announced for the PS3:

  • two hdmi outs for dual screen action
  • 7 controllers supported
  • Powerful processor that would blow Xbox 360 clean away
  • Make baby dolls cry black goo tears
  • People would pay $800 for it

 

...and their light association with the realized product, I'm not sure how much faith to put in this upcoming announcement.

But I suspect:

  • Tablet integration like MS's Smartglass
    I think this is a smart move.  Anybody developing wicked cool applications for the WiiU can offer the same functionality on Smartglass/Sonyglass if they want to.  And if not, who cares?  Very little effort, I think, on MS or Sony's part for this, and a good percentage of gamers already own tablets... and it can keep WiiU appeal at bay.
  • CPU/GPU better than anything in PCs right now
     that will be comparable with PCs in 6 months, which will still be pretty awesome come Nov.
  • Mini touchpad on the new DualShock3 (DualShock4?) is legit
    But who cares?
  • Still a bluray player
  • A 'Move/Kinect' hybrid of somekind.

 

I hope:

  • All games in native 1080p@60hz
  • OS level stereoscopic output support (similar to PC) so all rendered games support stereoscopy of some kind.
  • IR port for universal remotes!
  • Price < $400
  • Some kind of backwards compatibility

 

I fear: (in addition to the things that are the opposite of the things I hope)

  • License key for all disc games - means no borrowing, loaning, renting or buying/selling used.  I won't buy any console that goes this way.
  • Price > $600
  • Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer

 

NO HARDWARE FAILURES!

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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I seem to be close to reaching my goal of having every game I could possibly want for my Nintegasonysoft Dreamcubeplaybox. Now I just need an infinite lifespan to play them all in.

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Like I said in the last episode of The Observation Lounge, I only use my 360 for media streaming at this point. I'm not sure what a new system will be able to add to that to make me need it, short of them breaking all of the previous generation hardware to force us to buy a new one.

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Gave up your life of video games, 005? What!

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Zuma is freakin addictive. Worse than Tetris and Dr Mario combined!!

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CP3S said:

Gave up your life of video games, 005? What!

Seriously, what?

If your complaint is that there haven't been any games worth playing in the past several years since I saw you online doing anything other than 'streaming media', then you are wrong.

If your complaint is that you don't play games any more, then you are also wrong.

In summary, you are wrong.  Video games are right.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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xhonzi said:



CP3S said:

Gave up your life of video games, 005? What!


Seriously, what?

If your complaint is that there haven't been any games worth playing in the past several years since I saw you online doing anything other than 'streaming media', then you are wrong.

If your complaint is that you don't play games any more, then you are also wrong.

In summary, you are wrong.  Video games are right.
I guess I don't take the time to play video games. It's a lack of conviction, I know.

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Perhaps I could enlist a little help here.  I am trying to install the Star Wars: X-wing Collectors Series on my Windows 7 machine.  This is the re-release of X-wing and TIE Fighter on CD for Win95.  Though I was surprisingly able to install the only slightly newer X-wing Alliance, I cannot install this one.  I've tried setting the Install file to compatibility for Windows 95, I've tried running it as an administrator, but no success.  Now I know that there are some amazing technical geniuses who frequent this site, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to install a stubborn 32 bit game on a 64 bit operating system?

I haven't played these games for ages, and I'm anxious to do so once again...in my very limited free time, of course.

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Can I run a Windows game in DOSbox?  This is after X-wing and TIE fighter were updated for Win95.  Thanks :)

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darth_ender said:


Perhaps I could enlist a little help here.  I am trying to install the Star Wars: X-wing Collectors Series on my Windows 7 machine.  This is the re-release of X-wing and TIE Fighter on CD for Win95.  Though I was surprisingly able to install the only slightly newer X-wing Alliance, I cannot install this one.  I've tried setting the Install file to compatibility for Windows 95, I've tried running it as an administrator, but no success.  Now I know that there are some amazing technical geniuses who frequent this site, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to install a stubborn 32 bit game on a 64 bit operating system?

I haven't played these games for ages, and I'm anxious to do so once again...in my very limited free time, of course.

It's likely a 16bit install file. I ran into this problem with The Phantom Menace game as well, actually. If you know what you're doing you might be able to modify the directions from this guide to suit X-Wing. I'd also recommend looking up VDMSound to see if it works with Windows 7. The old soundcard emulator is a treasure and helps run a lot of old stuff.

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