Thats annoying. Nissan must be absolute crap at making engines. Going by hondas and stuff with 4 cylinder engines, I should be getting 250 - 280HP from my car if i had the same HP per cylinder.

Hondas make a lot of HP per litre, but doesn't mean jack tbh. You cannot compare engines like that.

Good luck trying to extract 250hp out of an straight 6 (N/A) that's like 15 years old in design.

This is my new car - Prelude SiR 97 BB8 model

Pics after an hour worth of washing and waxing: Click on any of the pics to see them larger





I know the plate is inexcusable - I just need to get a screw for it so it sits right because it keeps falling down.
 

LOL. Nice.

Some of those photos were taken in Europe - big school trip (in b4 rich school - Wellington College is a public school).

ZOMG! It's the nanomachines

"LLLLIIIIIQQQQQUUUUUIIIIDDDDD" cough splatter cough

Wonder when I can be transformed into Raiden so I can't protect Old Snake

Here's a pic of me pwning Gekko's tbh

Spoiler :

You know - that was exactly what I was thinking when I was reading OP.

Gold post +rep

Ok - that's just taking it too far on a public forum.

New case update guys, cheers for all who voted and helped out

I avoid PCPacific - REALLY expensive shipping.

PBTech I avoid too because the Wellington shop owner is dodgy as... Tries to sell you shit that's supposedly 'top of the line', tried to sell me a 6200TC said best graphics card with TurboCache up to 512mb.

I think games need to be able to have an open environment, but they need to have direction. Take GTA4 for example, despite an open environment (developers didn't lock out sections), I felt safer to stay in the ghetto until I actually got my first gun, by then I felt I knew everything about my area. That kind of gameplay with natural but not forced directions makes games good.

Graphics is important but shouldn't be first priority because then games become superficial and we lose the depth of games. I think the best example of this is Crysis, the focus was graphics, essentially we're left with an interactive graphics test.

Metal Gear Solid 4 comes pretty close in my book to a perfect game, storyline is great, graphics looks good, but there is limited replayability. However, with Metal Gear online, that really helps alleviate that aspect. Although MGS4 is mission based and you MUST move onto the next objectives, there are bits in the game where you feel compelled to play to reach that point again (Rex vs Ray - YEEEEEAAHHH!!!)

With COD5 going back to WWII, I feel somewhat disappointed as I liked the move to modern warfare.. Again, the question stands, are the developers doing it for the money or for the players. I think it would be the latter this time because the WWII games fanbase across the world is pretty damn big.


With releases like Battlefield: Heroes and America's Army 3.0 in the near future, this will bring FPS to a new level, as they're both free games. This forces developers to rethink their approach as A grade titles like those are  being released for free with continued support for a few years to come.

With MMOs, I think in order to attract new players, the cost of playing such games should be reduced, however I'm more than happy to pay for more for a good quiality game that I can play for years although I think reduced fees would bring more players. WoW is great as it pioneered a successful MMO model but I don't think it'll bring more players to it as MMOs that did fail but have good concepts (Fury and Tabula Rasa) will be brought into the mainstream limelight as players look for WoW alternatives.

In terms of RTS, we've gotta see the problems with CnC3 or Red Alert or even Supreme commander as they all require a lot of time.

In general, game developers need to ask themselves whether they're building a game for realism or a game people can pick up and play for a few hours and walk away feeling satisfied. If realism is the way they're planning on going, they need to research their stuff and not market it to everyone as a mainstream game because they know it'll just give a worse response than it actually is (America's army is the prime example of this).

Well that was my wall of text on games and it's future.
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