Tim Post

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Time to get a Playstation 3

Watch this video before you read any further and start to get excited.




Absolutely amazing. Obviously it's a very early video (the first video of Nico that went on to be Wanda and the Colossus was completely different in theme to the final game), but the implications of this trailer are obvious. Ico established pathos by linking you with a character for the entirety of the game, and Colossus established pathos by having you kill huge, majestic beasts while questioning the validity of your actions. Trico looks like a return to the warmth and niceties of Ico, while still retaining the huge creatures of the previous games. It also looks set to be even more heart wrenching than Ico, Leon and Bambi all shoved into a sack and chucked in the canal. It's pretty obvious that it's going to be the best thing ever made.

So fast it HERTZ

So while I should but getting on with other stuff I just remembered our discussion about framerates last night and thought I'd google it for interest. Out of it I got a cool BBC white paper, the Wikipedia entry and a wierd gizmo that translates DVDs to play at movie framerates, as long as you've got a compatible tv.

Conclusions:

• Since the advent of the talkies in late 1920s the industry standard for movies has been 24Hz
  
• CRT TVs (tend to) run at the frequency of the native power supply (50Hz in American/NTSC territories, 60Hz in UK/PAL territories)
• LCD TVs usually run at 60Hz, although some companies are pushing 100Hz sets, which are completely pointless until they are given similarly high frequency sources to display
• Blu-ray operates at 24Hz when using progressive scan (or upto 60 when interlaced)
• (I think) Snow White and other early Disney animations used a method of animation known as animating on 2s, meaning each drawn image was used for 2 frames of film, effectively reducing the framerate to 12Hz
• I've spent far too much time on something no one reading this will care about

I also found something about Snow White on blu-ray, surely a pointless exercise when the original material isn't in HD?

And finally,

The hell u talkin boy?!?

"WTF?!?!?!?!?! 
The hell u talkin boy?!? u must aint got ought seedz in ur nutts talkin wreckless and preverse like that... Dont u know this is a true classic?! besides even tho it was ONE HIT kills ,thats what made it bonafide, because those 10minute samurai fight scenes u see in hollywood aint shit, it real life a fight only lived for ought seconds, one move , one window, one kill... SO appreciate this magnum opus boy!!! and get some damn seedz in those there nutts."

ALFJONES87 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7WZf6Q_QR4

In all honesty, I'd have to agree.

A Tribute

Also, type 'Harlequin type ichthyosis' into google images,
i would've put it up but it made me feel too sick :(

Ahhh!

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

First English language trailer! And a definitive title as well. I preferred the literal translation of the Japanese game to be honest: Miles Edgeworth: Perfect Prosecutor. Oh well.

The character animation is a lot more detailed than I was expecting. Kind of reminds me of my beloved Clock Tower.

Shouting 'Eureka!' into the microphone is a bit shit by anyone's standards though.

Good god no.