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People that make articles like this are freakin' artisans, love the page.
People that make articles like this are freakin' artisans, love the page.
Agreed. A couple of people here have pointed out that it's broken for them, or they don't like wasted pixels or something (somebody think of the pixels!) - but technical problems aside: this, and the PS4 review change my views of what an online article should be. It obviously doesn't apply to all content, but for a review of next-gen game consoles it really adds a sense of... tactile-ness? I dunno. But they are fanta…
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
Scrolling is broken, I couldn't scroll to the bottom to see the score it kept bouncing back up.
I agree the artwork is really impressive but for a console review it should be content over presentation, right? It genuinely appears that the page was a big custom job and the prose was scratched up in an afternoon.
Does anyone think this is over-engineered? I can imagine looking back at this in ten years as we do with blinking marquees. I agree the artwork is really impressive but for a console review it should be content over presentation, right? It genuinely appears that the page was a big custom job and the prose was scratched up in an afternoon.
After seeing what the kinect sensor is capable of - not a chance of having such device in my house without having root on it or being able to work completely offline. It is too creepy. And too potent.
Didn't Nintendo have a patent for the cross D-Pad? Hence all the other "fun" ideas from Sega, Sony and Microsoft.
Edit: Yep, the patent expired a while ago:
U.S. Patent 4,687,200 (expired in 2005) - Nintendo's multi-directional switch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-pad#Patents
Also going from that review
> It's ugly
> It's huge and has an external PSU
> Launch lineup sucks
> Some games run lower res than it's $100 cheaper competitor
> 8.0
Sounds more like a 6.0 to me, way more negative points listed than positive.