Speak for yourself; you'd technically be in that group considering when I joined.

That sounds great, TFX!

Two-fold:

1) Web 2.0 is based around meta-connections. Why SHOULD I have to visit a whole other site to view a snippet of content? That's so 2000.

2) It expands the reach of Newgrounds' influence. They need to build mindshare again against the YouTubes of the world and sitting here alone isn't gonna cut the cheese.

I want to embed my Flash movies into my web pages and other pages.

When's this happening?

Damn that's a stupid reply.

Yeah, the place just isn't quite the same as it used to be.

TeamXbox :)

Hopefully I get it done early. W00t.

http://files.filefro..8193;;/fileinfo.html

Xbox 360 Controller running on Half-Life 2 (PC)

Got my 360 controller so this is the first video evidence of someone on the outside using a 360 controller to play HL2 or a game not designed for it.

At 7/6/05 02:23 PM, Maus wrote:

At 7/6/05 02:16 PM, TFX wrote: That entry was terrible.

If stuff like that is winning Review Crew Picks . . . wow, something's terribly wrong.

Duly noted that you did not review it.

Honestly people...that's what reviews are for. To give feedback. It can't be helped that some people enjoy these flashes, and if you can't deal with the fact that around 40 (out of HOW many users?) people left a good review, maybe you should start leaving constructive criticism. You can leave reviews with a score of 1-5 as long as your review isn't 'You guys suck, I hate you, Blam this piece of crap!!1!' or 'Stop submitting this shit' or whatever.

It doesn't matter, they've won all the awards they can while I wasn't paying attention. I doubt they care what people say about their movies, they just wanted to rig the system.

That entry was terrible.

If stuff like that is winning Review Crew Picks . . . wow, something's terribly wrong.

At 6/22/05 04:47 AM, 40k_Bloodthirster wrote: ALL consoles currently out SUCK ASS! I mean look at them the Xbox has a pentium 3 and a very small graphics card and people call it "Good Graphics!' it is not good graphics it's graphics are just better than all the other consoles graphics. And they have the nerve to call PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution "Next-Generation Consoles" that is pure bullshit, Look at the latest Alienware P.C and then compare them with the upcoming consoles. They are not next-gen we have that technology already.

I'll forgive you of your naivety because you're young. Consoles are custom-built for gaming, a fixed platform for all. Consoles are incredibly efficient, by that flipside, PCs are incredibly inefficient and only rarely do programs ever take advantage of a particular set of PC components (3DSM for rendering, Maya, stuff like that). That's why with a handful of exceptions, the average Xbox game looks better than the average PC game, because many PC developers aren't developing for 1.5GHz machines (which is what the Xbox CPU is THEORETICALLY because it has virtually no overhead like a PC does) they're developing for slower machines, because the PC is a moving target and most of the targets are on the low end.

A next-gen console with 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2GHz (which would be like tying a few PC CPUs together) coming out at the end of the year is ENORMOUS power.

And did you know that if the goverment and such supported companys such as NASA with lotsa money we would have already been able to travel to other solar systems. Damn it it pisses me off seeing how the government and other things dont support those companys with enough money. Most of the guns the army uses are around 50 years old! Its about time we got some new guns.

It is physically impossible for us to travel to other solar systems no matter how much money the government put into NASA. Honestly, the less the government takes of my money, the better.

And you're way off about the gun marks.

Does anyone else share my annoyance?!

You should do some research before you look silly next time.

Well, I had some credibility for you, Crimson, until you said this:

The PS3 has double the power that the X-Box 360 will have. The specs of both have been released. Just do some simple searching on www.gamespot.com.

No, the THEORETICAL FLOPS of the PS3 is twice as high as the 360, but they're designed differently. For one thing, even as J Allard said, FLOPS are only 20% of the gaming processing equation, integer performance is the other 80%. Xbox360's CPU has 6 hardware threads, vs. Cell's 2, allowing for triple the integer performance. They both have similar amount of transistors and while PS3 can say a bigger number, 360 architecture is smarter.

Another example is the Xenos, which is the 360GPU. The RSX (PS3 GPU) sticks to tried and true ideals of what a GPU should be, while the Xenos does new things, like a universal pixel/vertex shader pipeline, meaning that unlike the RSX, which will probably run 60% efficiency because either the pixel or vertex shaders lie idle, the Xenos can run at 100% efficiency off the bat because both vertex and pixel shaders fill in the same pipeline, meaning that the GPU is hardly ever idle, increasing GPU power.

I dare not mention the 10MB EDRAM ON THE BOARD of the Xenos that allows for free 4xFSAA and other rendering effects, or that the PS3 split up the main memory, inconveniencing developers, or so on and so on.

PS3 can say all the theoretical numbers they want, they're just hyping it up. The 360 is simply the better designed machine.

*Sigh*

You have a very skewed view of computer gaming.

I've been playing PC games for over a decade and most of my favorite games are PC games. Nice try.

1. Computer gaming is much easier to manipulate. Mods can be created for games to change them into completely new games. Can't do that with a console.

They can, but most mods are trashy amateurish stuff. Sure, it's nice that you can mod games, but it's usually only a handful of games that mods ever take off past the 'oh, let's duct tape a flash light to a gun' stage.

2. Computer gaming is much faster. Halo 2 is fucking boring as hell online. The action is slower than shit, even on the smallest of maps with a decent number of players.

That's why it's one of the most-played non-MMO games in the world, right? The action is slow for pacing. Halo 2 isn't UTx where you run around and click on each other, you've actually gotta think about what guns you pick up, which vehicles to drive, strategy, teaming, so on, which usually never ever happens in ANY PC online game and I've played tons of them.

3. Computer gaming allows you to set the game to how YOU want it, unlike consoles where you are limited to what you can do to the settings of a game.

That doesn't really make sense. Outside of modwork, many of the same options stay the same platform to platform.

4. Computers are used for more than JUST games. Having a decent video card is usefull for 3D rendering programs. Having a decent sound card is NEEDED for decent recording. Having that added ram is almost NEEDED for photoshop.

But we're not talking about utility rigs, we're talking about gaming rigs. We're talking about spending thousands just to play a handful of nice-looking games on your PC. Being able to run Photoshop smoother is just a nice benefit.

Your view on computer gaming is extremely skewed. Consoles are fine, but the true great games are CPU only I.E. Half-Life, Age of Empires, Warcraft, EQ, and many others.

HL showed up on the PS2 and HL2 shows up on the Xbox. The rest I'll hand you because they're the PC's bread and butter.

At 6/22/05 05:09 AM, capn_g wrote:

At 6/22/05 04:44 AM, TFX wrote:
Many of the major gameplay innovations of the past 10-15 years have been from Western developers. Japan keeps spinning in it's own circles, hence Japanese-oriented games sell like crap outside of Japan.

The Japanese? You mean the people who invent, oh EVERYTHING in this industry? You don't think the DS is innovative? Gimme a break.

It's nice for the quirky and minorly innovative games that Nintendo cranks out for it, but ofr anything else, it's meh. It's a tried-and-true control method (stylus) tied to, basically, GBA and N64 games.

And as opposed to what, what we produce in the west? Like that 50th FPS? Yet another RTS? Madden insert-year-here? All crap. North american developers choke on creativity because the publishers DON'T CARE. They want clones, sequels and remakes and that's IT because they want guaranteed SALES. Innovation is secondary. Good gameplay isn't even on the radar.

You're also looking at the bulk of the industry. The bulk of the Japanese gaming industry is crappy anime games.

Western games have pushed the RPG genre incredibly far in the innovation genre, wide open worlds that you can do anything you want, morality scales, then you have online all together, which Japan has barely touched on. Online is an incredibly new and innovative feature for any game in any genre, but the Japanese are completely adamant about jumping on board.

Then you get full-immersion FPSs like Half-Life 2, where you never leave the first-person perspective, giving you a totally unique feel of the entire game from beginning to end. What about tying RPGs to FPSs for much-further in-depth not only immersion, but storytelling. No one can beat Deus Ex for a complex conspiracy tale. MMOs? That's Western, too.

What does the Japanese market stick to? Linear turn-based RPGs decked out with 2 DVDs of CGI to watch or if we're real lucky, we'll get a quirky Nintendo GameBoy game that we can manipulate with a stylus instead of a button. Oh, I'm sorry, a DS game, nevermind that we've probably been playing the same quirky games, made by people in the US, here on Newgrounds even. But, it's innovative because Nintendo put their name on it and allowed you to control it with a stylus instead of a mouse. How gratifying.

At 6/22/05 04:45 AM, Cyberchotic wrote:

At 6/22/05 04:41 AM, TFX wrote:

Yeah, so where are the PC sports games that don't suck? Where's the SSX, the Amped? Where's the Halo 2, the God of War, the Ninja Gaiden, the Super Mario Sunshine, the Project Gothams, the Full Autos, the Forza, the Gran Turismos, the Mario & Luigis, the Viewtiful Joe and so on and so on.

Yeah well...barring Halo 2, I didn't like those games.

Not a very good cop-out of an answer. You should practice that.

Regardless as to what you THINK of those games, the PC receives a much much smaller sliver of genres than the consoles do. If you only play FPSs, MMOs, and RTSs, then you're in luck, because there's not much beyond that.

I'd chalk it up to Japanese developers who haven't really pushed the gameplay envelope in years, instead, just douse themselves in newer and better CGI to try and pull the eyes away from the story (or worse, try to tell the story with it, see Xenosaga).

Many of the major gameplay innovations of the past 10-15 years have been from Western developers. Japan keeps spinning in it's own circles, hence Japanese-oriented games sell like crap outside of Japan.

At 6/22/05 04:35 AM, Cyberchotic wrote:

At 6/22/05 04:33 AM, AgainstMe wrote: honestly... consoles are turning into PC's what's so cool about that?
Save the cash and upgrade your CPU

Agreed. I don't entirely see the point of consoles anymore. They release all the big games on PC anyways. Halo, GTA...almost all of them.

Yeah, so where are the PC sports games that don't suck? Where's the SSX, the Amped? Where's the Halo 2, the God of War, the Ninja Gaiden, the Super Mario Sunshine, the Project Gothams, the Full Autos, the Forza, the Gran Turismos, the Mario & Luigis, the Viewtiful Joe and so on and so on.

Yeah, save your cash, upgrade your CPU, so you can play your one or two games that tax your system 10% faster and you only spent more than a console and a few games. Upgrade that video card, you'll only upgrade it again 3 years down the road when it can't support the new rendering methods that new games come out with or the new DirectX shader/vertex techniques.

Don't get me wrong, I like PC gaming, but $1300 for a decent PC gaming rig so I can play a handful of games at max settings is seriously compensating for something, nevermind having to dump another $500-$600 every five years (no games mentioned) to keep upgrading it, nevermind new productivity software, failed components, operating systems . . .

Holy Shite, am I the only one who went to E3? On second thought, it's pretty likely....ANYWAY, at E3 they announced that the Xbox 360 will have around a 300$ price tag, the controlers will work for up to 20 feet (in any direction), and I can assure you the removable faceplates do not make the system look deformed.

I don't know what E3 you went to, then. First off, they haven't mentioned any price at all, they won't for a little while, nor have they a date. Anything that you heard about a price point is false because they haven't said anything. They have also not said a range on their wireless controllers, but my wager is it's gonna be much much more than 20 feet. The 360 wireless controllers use a proprietary technology that allows for better communication between the device and the system, especially with the headset.

Nvidia has licensed tech to Microsoft to help with the b/c process because the alternative, aka reverse engineering, would've been a legal nightmare.

Wow, this brings back memories.

Changing the face of animation? There are some good animations on here, but nothing cataclysmically industry changing.

*'self not excepted*

At 3/30/05 04:54 PM, Seizure_Dog wrote: They're put on the front page because they're popular. Because they're WANTED. It's good press. You're forgetting that Newgrounds does NOT just cater to the people that have been here forever, it also tries to draw in new people.

Besides, it lessens the load on the data base :| If you don't put the things people are looking for on the front page they're just going to search for it and create a strain on the server.

That's fine and dandy, but in years past, entries have gone up that weren't attention getters, they were there because NG wanted to expose them. My second ZW movie is a good example. It didn't last long, but the exposure was definately nice. They don't really seem to want to do it at all anymore.

'PLAY ALIEN HOMINID FOR EVERYTHING BUT XBOX! (sorry, slight rib)'.

It's out on Xbox...in Europe.

Yeah, it's a shame I live in Colorado.

You're basically giving them advertising for free.

And they give US advertising for free. :|

Site A has 10 people a month, advertises Site B for free. Site B has 2 people a month, advertises Site A for free. Who's the winner here?

Hey, why don't you get rid of all those ugly half-naked chicks on the front page and start charging those guys for all the exposure you give them?

eventually Newgrounds will just be a big advertisement with no identity left at all.

Without advertising we wouldn't even exist.

You're right, but look at bigger sites that don't have nearly the advertising that NG has with much more traffic. NG is a billboard. I wouldn't mind paying $5 a submission, you'd get a lot less crappy submissions sucking up a lot less bandwidth, increasing revenue, decreasing the amount of ads you have.

"Staying free" for Flash submissions is a noble effort, but it's a much better business model than simply putting up 5 more ads when the bandwidth needs go up.

I've been on Newgrounds for about four and a half years now. Not as long as some of the others on here, but I can remember back to a simpler day when you could go to Newgrounds and it was amazing because the site seemed to enjoy being itself.

Now it seems that Newgrounds is just grabbing every opportunity to find popularity to keep afloat, instead of being the proud home of all things weird. Entries get put on the front page because they just got spotted on Fox News or VH-1, rather than being new or interesting entries. Newgrounds tries to chase down pop culture like a rabid band of ambulance chasers, rather than trying turning the spotlight onto the interesting entries that make up the bulk of Newgrounds that aren't video game parodies or sequels to mindless violence whiz-bang entries.

Plastered everywhere is 'BUY OUR STUFF, BUY OUR STUFF, BUY OUR STUFF' or 'PLAY ALIEN HOMINID FOR EVERYTHING BUT XBOX! (sorry, slight rib)'. I was one of those here before they pop-ups became commonplace in web culture. They had them here, then got rid of them for a little bit then brought them back in full force. Hey guess what guys: You're being robbed blind of revenue by the people you support. The people like XGen Studios who put DEMOS on Newgrounds (which is frowned upon everyone else who does it), redirecting back to their site or Randy Solem or I-Mockery. You're basically giving them advertising for free. Hey, why don't you get rid of all those ugly half-naked chicks on the front page and start charging those guys for all the exposure you give them? You'd make bundles, just makes sense to me.

When I started, NG used to have cool little gross cartoons on the front page with Shok's original awesome theme, the theme of Newgrounds. It ended up getting nixed because of bandwidth concerns. All the graphics that they have for the front page probably take up ten times the bandwidth that silly little cartoon did.

I love Newgrounds and this is still the first place I put my new Flash movies and stuff, but it's definately taking turns for the worse. As site traffic increases (NG claims traffic similar to half the traffic of, say, Penny Arcade and they don't have hardly any ads at all) eventually Newgrounds will just be a big advertisement with no identity left at all.

That'd be a terrible waste.

I played Motherload a couple months back. Cool music, but not as fun as his other games.

I still have no idea why the best selling console of Holiday 2004 is denied Alien Hominid? There's like no logic in that decision at all. In fact, it probably would've been cheaper to do an Xbox version than the other two systems.

Ugh. That's one less copy sold until it comes out for Xbox.

At 3/30/05 03:47 PM, MegaGold wrote: Holy cow! Somebody snagged Weekly First from Krinkles. They were all pretty good this wee. My fav's were the Android and Madness.

Madness is neat, but they're getting old.

There's only so many times you can see a guy perfectly slaughter an army of goons using the same tactics over and over and over and over and over . . .

They should put Cityscape on the front page. Lord knows NG needs more thought-provoking entries.

w000t!

5th place!

I actually have a full screenplay written and it's under reading by Paramount right now. Don't think this draft will go through, but a later version will.

Yes, I'm dead serious. Zero Wing: The Movie.

What do you mean no Xbox version planned for NA?

What do you think the best-selling console of the holidays was? Now all those kids are gonna be without AH.

A little while ago there was a thread linking to some pics of Avril flashing a crowd or something. I'm trying to prove that she's actually done it and I can't find it with the NG search for the life of me.

Or was that thread deleted/pics fake, because they looked genuine.

It looks like the Xbox version is still coming.

Unfortunately, Newgrounds doesn't get my money until then. I hope it'll be that much more spasmastic for Xbox.

They better not cancel it, either. Considering the Xbox has been the best selling console of the past two months in North America (and the only console comping up in sales year over year), it would be a tragedy to simply shun that section of the audience.

What about a Zero Wing collection?

*runs for countryside*