I read the interview in the newest Edge magazine, and it does sound pretty amazing….even though the journalist does take a fairly critical point of view on it.

Anwyays - as with all hype, we just need to wait and see…

Don’t get me wrong, Heavy Rain’s storytelling ambitions sound very intriguing, but if the core gameplay is as half-assed as Fahrenheit’s was, that just kinda ruins it for me.

Let’s hope Cage at least manages to write a proper ending to this story, as opposed to the big old mess Fahrenheit turned into about half way in.

I was really interested in Heavy Rain until I saw that gameplay video. Heavy reliance on quicktime events is generally a dealbreaker for me, and Heavy Rain looks like it’ll be using them just as much as Fahrenheit did.

Plus, I have a really bad relationship with the horror genre.

My problem with Vista standby is that, when I boot up, none of my USB devices work. I have the same problem on both my desktop and my laptop - so when I boot up from standby, I can´t use the keyboard…meaning I can´t log in

But the place where I really feel like Vista is moving faster after activating two processors, is during the crapware load sequence. Before it took me about 30-45 seconds to load up after log in, now it is nearly instant. Especially loading the Windows sidebar used to take forever, now it is there instantaneously.

It should be noted that I have been optimizing with Powersuite at the same time I activated two processors, so it might be a combination of the two that makes my boot experience faster

Do you have any benchmarks on how much faster it is or references to some?

I usually use standby for my laptop because it is not only fast, it’s pretty much instant! Also, Vista boot takes ages on the laptop, one thing is getting to the login screen, but after that it’ll still take ages to load all my crapware!

- Jacob

Ej jeg har faktisk et meget ambivalent forhold til PHP. Jeg foretrækker nemlig ASP.NET men havner altid med at skulle kode ting i PHP.

Så den her uge er helliget PHP og hvordan man kan mikse det og få en lidt federe udviklings oplevelse ved at bruge MS produkter.

F.eks. er Expression Web 2 nok det bedste værktøj jeg endnu har brugt til at kode PHP med - det er faktisk overraskende så overlegent det er i forhold til alt andet jeg har prøvet.

Men der kommer mere i ugens løb…. det kunne være jeg tilsvarende skulle lave en ASP.NET uge snart for at kompensere :-p

Du blogger rimelig meget om PHP, hvilket jo ikke helt lever op til det uofficielle MSP kodeks!

Skal du endelig blogge om script sprog, må du jo have fat i noget IronPython, så du kan holde en respektiv tone i dine indlæg.

Puha

I found my lost notebooks on a couple of back up DVD’s i did last winter. Apparently i didn´t copy them to my new PC back then.

And yes - it will most likely suck.

Experience teaches us it’s going to suck so bad.

Thing is…it will work amazing as a MMO….but probably suck at everything else :-/

The game is now set up more or less as an MMO…each class has a role in the group (Defender/Striker/Leader/Controller) and if they don’t do their job, the entire group dies… just like in most MMO’s (at least when you get to higher level) - LEEROY JENKINS!

But….perhaps we will see a (new) D&D MMO soon?

And as you say, if you don’t like the way the guild is heading, you can just bugger off. Usually you join a guild because you want somebody to play with, and then it rarely matters if you get a huge say in what the guild is doing. Am I right? People play MMOG’s because they’re more community-focused than singleplayer or regular multiplayer games, and taking orders from somebody higher-level than you or somebody with more initiative is just a community activity.

The user interface in DX itself is pretty standard FPS, and it doesn’t change during combat, but it’s a lot slower and more clunky in DX than in eg. UT or Half-Life. That’s because DX is meant to be more tactical and realistic, but I agree it makes the combat a lot less fun. It’s more about taking aim and being careful than jumping around like a mad acrobat.

But yeah, as a shooter, DX isn’t really great. But then DX isn’t really a shooter, it’s a stealth/RPG/adventure/FPS (in that order). So I think it’s okay if the FPS part isn’t comparable to pure FPS games

But seriously - i didn´t much like the Deus Ex control scheme, feel, and overall UI. But the funny thing is that i can´t exactly put my finger on “what was wrong” with it. But i think it was a combination of strange movement (i hate when you just glide across the screen) and a strange (or perhaps i should say “new”) way of interacting with the environment. Also i felt that the UI in combat was sort of second grade FPS compared to other games at the time - which was probably why i never finished it.

(You knew you were gonna get that comment from me when you picked that example)