The DirectX Conspiricy

[wyrd]

Nintendo is the only company that comes to mind that has consistantly released game titles that have essentillay remained unchanged since the good old days of the NES.

 

That's because they're trying to milk their franchases for all their worth, and just reinventing the wheel. If they essentially remained unchanged, then why are you paying $50 for what you can get for free on an emulator? I just didn't see the point, and there are only 2 games I even remotely liked on the GC. That's why I no longer own one; even for $100, it 'aint worth it.

 

I personally think Nintendo needs to get off their lazy bums and make something original for once. In their current state, they're no more better than PC game companies who produce games with lackluster gameplay w/ "uber" graphics.

 

Oh.. and IMO, the above reasons are exactly why the GC is doing so horribly this generation. They're just about neck and neck with the Xbox, and with Nintendos reputation and well known products, this is quite sad. Nintendo needs to take a hint.

 

Asside from games nintendo produces there has only been one game(s) that has trully captivated me in all my years of game play ( And I've been playing games since the original atari ) Soul Reaver: Legacy Of Kain, Soul reaver 2, Blood Omen, Blood Omen 2, and the newest eddition Soul Reaver Defiance witch I can't wait to play.

 

I disagree. I found those games mediocre, and they certainly don't stand up to some of the PC and PS2 games that were released within the same time span.

[createdbyx]

Ahhh you dised Soul Reaver! You evil evil person. How could you.

 

lol

 

Mediocre! Well I did not find them to be mediocre.

 

I personally think Nintendo needs to get off their lazy bums and make something original for once. In their current state, they're no more better than PC game companies who produce games with lackluster gameplay w/ "uber" graphics.

 

Actually I hope nintendo sticks with the whole mario, zelda, games etc. The only beef I have with these games is the storyline IE bowser kidnaps princess and mario to the rescue. If they used a completly different story line for each mario game it would be a much more enticing series of games. With the exception of supermario RPG witch did sway from a tradishonal marios story line.

[igotjunk]

NOT FOR DUMMIES

 

The truth is that the concepts involved in 3d programming at a comercial level are so complex that you have to be a very smart to even consider programming in 3d in the first place.

 

I look at managed directx as a quick easy place to laern about the Directx API, but a game written in VB or C# will never be able to run on an XBOX or PS2 like a C++ one would.

 

Almost all professional games are written in C++ and there is so much documentation and books on the subject that it is very posible, if you know C++ and top level maths and 3d theroy to be able to use it succefully. Microsoft know that serious game programmers write there games in C++ so the can be easily ported to multi platforms.

 

As for a conspiricy to stop home users from competing with comercial gaming houses .... my friend who works for Atari in says that an average big game title has 150 highly skilled animaters, world builders, designs, story boarders, programmers and cut sequence people, ... etc. working for around 18 months to create one title that you would recognise. That means a total cost of US$5,000,000 or 430,000 man hours. So for one man thats about 11,000 weeks work or more to the point 211 years.

 

I know ever since window 95-98 everyone has bashed microsoft and has great conspiracy theories about them, but hey they do give alot of stuff away for free and thanks to them I have written cool text to speech stuff, GIS stuff and 3D stuff for the cost of a development studio.

[malcolm]

but at least.. make the managed documentation better.. its quite pathetic to see one liners.. in such a big sdk.. very sad..case for developers starting out on managed code..

 

i got stuck on rendering video.. to a texture.. using managed.. =(

[NK2000]

make the managed documentation better

 

i totally agree, i try to start such a project, but i dont know if it will be successful, since i need help of people...

 

so how will it work?

i am going to setup an environment like php documentation where everybody can post comments, and then just slowly take the best out of the comments and fill the docu, any ideas, which could help?