Jay's Random Thoughts

I am not sure if anyone has seen this, but Rare has been a staple on the Nintendo platforms. These guys developed Golden Eye and Perfect Dark on the N64. Both games were fantastic and these guys are renowned for developing games which push the limit of system hardware. I am really excited about this. Just imagine a next generation version of Golden Eye. That game on the N64 was way ahead of its time. It had the best multiplayer action on any platform and only recently has been surpassed by Halo. The only downside is that it will take at least a year for the first game to come out.

Here is a link from Usenet that is quoting from the site xbox.ign.com

Mike S. in CA just purchased an XBox and so he and I have been playing online a bunch in the last few days. I forget how fun but also how annoying playing the XBox online is. I was having more problems yesterday playing. We start these games and the pings would like fine and then all of a sudden they would sky rocket and we woudl get horrible lag. Sometimes it was me and other times it was other people. There has to be a better way. I am hoping that XBox live works as promised. Online gaming is a blast when it works, but man what a head ache when it doesn’t. I can’t help but wonder how Microsoft is going to effectively manage the bandwidth and overall connectivity to prevent these
kinds of things from happening. The addition of voice in Live will make bandwidth management even more important. I am really very curious and looking forward to the public release of Live in November. I am still hoping to get in on the Beta test, but it is currently unclear about whether that will happen.

I have grown a bit fed up with my XBox as of late. There are just not that many good games out for the system right now. HALO is still by far the best IMO, but I am sick of the single player action since I finished the game. Come on MS, I want some more games! On the bright side, my GameCube simply rocks in the single player area. Earlier in the summer, I played and finished Resident Evil. It was a great game with fantastic graphics. I am now focused on Eternal Darkness. Once more this is just a great game. You play as a ton of different characters in various centuries. Very cool and ver diverse environments. I have to finish this one.

I am not sure if anyone saw this,but Microsoft just announced Halo 2 and Team Gotham Racing 2. H2 should come out late 2003 in time for the holidays while TGR2 is not coming out until 2004. It is great news that the announcement occurred, but it is also disappointing that it will take so long for new versions of both games to arrive.