Rayman Origins

[Cairnie]

Mr Shade's gonna try and find out about it and reckons it might be either press or "under embargo", meaning it can't be talked about until a certain date in gaming terms.

Hmm, not the best screens of the 3DS one, but hopefully the final product will be good. Unless there's download play as well I can't see this being multiplayer though.

[El Dango]

The many layers used for this game should make it look really good on the 3DS despite being 2D.

[spiraldoor]

I definitely like 1920x1080, however I can understand those people because I absolutely hate modern 200/240 Hz TVs while watching CGI animated movies with family, something makes the flow of characters "too natural and still not natural" for my tastes, and absolutely nobody gets it, though some people tolerate that.

Those crappy televisions you’re talking about use interpolation to generate additional frames. They’re the reason uninformed people think high framerates are a bad thing. They’re also irrelevant, as they have nothing to do with the issue of resolution.

Try watching a DVD and a Blu-ray side-by-side. The difference will be obvious unless there is something very wrong with your eyes.

Done it before. Don't see a difference. Taken eye tests, almost perfect eyesight.

This makes no sense. Blu-ray is far more detailed than DVD. This is a fact. Are you sure you didn’t just put a DVD into a Blu-ray player or something? Are your cables working correctly? Or perhaps you’ve managed to delude yourself into thinking they’re of equal quality for some bizarre reason.

No one could read through this whole thread,

Except for me and all the other people with more than passing interest in Rayman Origins.

[Haruka]

Come on boys, I have a Blu-Ray reader and my Avatar and How to Train your Dragon do look more detailed and colourful than the image I saw in the theathers. And I bought these two movies in Blu-Ray format.

Are your cables working correctly?

I think you should ask in a more correct way: Are even the cables HDMI, aswell the television?

[stan423321]

...I absolutely hate modern 200/240 Hz TVs...

Those crappy televisions you’re talking about use interpolation to generate additional frames. They’re the reason uninformed people think high framerates are a bad thing. They’re also irrelevant, as they have nothing to do with the issue of resolution.

Hey, I don't say I don't like high framerates (I actually don't care as long as it is >=24Hz), I hate those TVs, which include the interpolator put in them. And they are relevant, because they show "technology may suck".

do look more detailed and colourful than the image I saw in the theathers.

You have very nice theaters if this comparision makes sense, our old PAL Philips TV (with some more Hz and still having cool animation! WTF?) AND freaking TV made of Russian parts by some dude in town were always more colorful than picture in cinemas I've been to.

EDIT: typo

[Cairnie]

Oh you try watching the early Disney films on Blu-ray like Fantasia, you can see every single damn brushstroke ever and it's beautiful [though that's mainly Disney that do theirs the best, I hear some Don Bluth films on Blu-ray are grainy as shit].

[ParadoxJuice]

I'm not sure if my television even does HD. I was referring to those stores with large amounts of televisions, some HD, some not. And a friend of mine, who wasted a ton of money on HD. And websites that have comparisons, like this one.

[Haruka]

And websites that have comparisons, like this one.

The details can be even more seen when seen in a big HD television.

If anyone here has got the necessary equipment, I advice to try to watch the bit of E3 Press Conference of RO's gameplay in HD, and the E3 2011 Trailer. You will all drool.

[iambored2006]

Will you guys stop arguing about HD?! I really can't see the difference, anyway.
I think (and there's a very high probability that I'm wrong) that I found the link to the post when you enter the password, BUT it is only in code-
http://raymanorigins.uk.ubi.com/blog/wp ... nifest.xml
I think it's the link because this is the URL seen when you enter a wrong password-
http://raymanorigins.uk.ubi.com/blog/wp-pass.php
PHP is the way they protect the password. I think we actually have to get the password and can't get around it. If there is a real hacker here, please try something.

[stan423321]

Unfortunately, I don't have fast internet, so necessary equipment... eh.

[spiraldoor]

...I absolutely hate modern 200/240 Hz TVs...

Those crappy televisions you’re talking about use interpolation to generate additional frames. They’re the reason uninformed people think high framerates are a bad thing. They’re also irrelevant, as they have nothing to do with the issue of resolution.

Hey, I don't say I don't like high framerates (I actually don't care as long as it is >=24Hz), I hate those TVs, which include the interpolator put in them. And they are relevant, because they show "technology may suck".

My point is that those televisions aren’t a real advance in technology. They’re a rubbish sideway one that attempted to take a shortcut to higher framerates with no medium to accompany them. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who got their knickers in a twist over the wonderful announcement that Peter Jackson is filming The Hobbit in 48 fps, and it’s all because of those accursed televisions. They taint the public’s perception of high framerates in the way that post-converted 3D affects what people think of native 3D. I don’t see how pointing out an unrelated piece of shoddy technology has any bearing on the discussion of resolution; you might as well have talked about the atomic bomb if you only wanted us to know that ‘technology may suck’.

I'm not sure if my television even does HD. I was referring to those stores with large amounts of televisions, some HD, some not. And a friend of mine, who wasted a ton of money on HD. And websites that have comparisons, like this one.

Are you really sure that there’s nothing wrong with your eyes? The difference between the DVD and Blu-ray screenshots is crystal clear: the Blu-ray is far sharper and more detailed. It’s so glaringly obvious that I can’t help but wonder if you’re trolling us. Not to mention the fact that those Blu-ray screenshots have been downsampled so that they’re the same size as the DVD ones; the difference is even more significant in reality than it appears in this comparison.

Ah, your friend ‘wasted a ton of money on HD’. Perhaps this explains your apathy towards the objectively superior technology; he seems to have poisoned you against it. I would like you to know that the HD televisions you see in shops are often connected to DVD players, or Blu-ray players containing DVDs, thanks to the wisdom of the hapless employees who stack the shelves.

Will you guys stop arguing about HD?! I really can't see the difference, anyway.

Cool story, bro.

[iambored2006]

I'm right now playing in Land of the Livid dead, I'm at the second part of the tower after it is changed (a Hoodoo part), and I noticed that there is this kind of electrical humming similar to the one made by the Livingstones in RO when they protect a cage. A reference, maybe...?

[spiraldoor]

I doubt that a vague ‘electrical humming’ in the background of one R3 level is being mimicked by the Livingstones. If it is, it’s not a very good reference, is it?

[iambored2006]

I doubt that a vague ‘electrical humming’ in the background of one R3 level is being mimicked by the Livingstones. If it is, it’s not a very good reference, is it?

Well, compare them and you'll see what I mean.

[Haruka]

I think I found someone who bought the Nintendo Power issue of this month. I asked him if he could scan all and upload into a zip file online.

[iambored2006]

I think I found someone who bought the Nintendo Power issue of this month. I asked him if he could scan all and upload into a zip file online.

But isn't the issue going to be on sale only from July 5th? That's what the site says.

[Haruka]

Well he said he got it so its probably soldable over their website only day 5.

[Wiiola]

This may be stupid but has anyone tried to enter their WordPress password there, seeing as there's some relation with the blog?

[rayguy]

whatever the password is, I'm pretty sure it's only a single password and it's not per-user, since they don't even ask for a username...
It won't make sense otherwise (not to me anyway)

[Haruka]

It would be funny some hacker figuring out the password and spread the word.