too bad its elusive to their dumb toy.
Kinda adds insult to injury if they throw it up on the market place and just say OH NO EXCLUSIVE ONLY!
[QUOTE=Binladen34;44790184]too bad its elusive to their dumb toy.
Kinda adds insult to injury if they throw it up on the market place and just say OH NO EXCLUSIVE ONLY![/QUOTE]
You don't see it unless you have a shield or a direct link
[QUOTE=matty928;44789141]I just bought a shield [B]2 hours ago[/B] from a friend for 50 quid!
Best timing in the history of man![/QUOTE]
holy shit man my 2 year old nexus is probably worth more than that, great job
[sp]is it a lemon?[/sp]
how does this even play though, i mean like half-life probably works fine on controllers but portal always required quick mouse skills for me
[QUOTE=Binladen34;44790184]too bad its elusive to their dumb toy.
Kinda adds insult to injury if they throw it up on the market place and just say OH NO EXCLUSIVE ONLY![/QUOTE]
Not sure why you say "dumb toy", I have one and it's fantastic.
Besides, they never said it would [I]always[/I] be exclusive. In fact, I'm pretty sure they said they were planning on making it work with other devices too.
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how does this even play though, i mean like half-life probably works fine on controllers but portal always required quick mouse skills for me[/QUOTE]
Portal 1 and 2 are on consoles, so probably like that.
[QUOTE=Medevila;44789672]If I can play Doom 3 on my device it can handle HL2. Waiting on a way around the device restriction assuming it doesn't truly require Tegra[/QUOTE]
i mean you could probably just buy the game, download the files and side-load it onto your tablet with some rooting
Considering that it was ported by Nvidia
its safe to assume that Tegra is definitely required, shield APIs possibly
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;44789320]I hope there's somehow a port of it by modders to other devices. I think they'd run fine on my Nexus 7 (2013).[/QUOTE]
Heres hoping :)
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;44790712]Quick, someone port it to normal android devices so I can enjoy Half-Life 2 on my Nexus 4.[/QUOTE]will probably require the latest snapdragon chipset or equivalent.
[hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-lmiK8wH4[/hd]
This is amazing, I wish the shield had more support.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;44790565]Considering that it was ported by Nvidia
its safe to assume that Tegra is definitely required, shield APIs possibly[/QUOTE]
People have gotten games that supposedly only work on Tegra chipsets on other devices just fine in the past.
[QUOTE=ghost901;44790731]will probably require the latest snapdragon chipset or equivalent.[/QUOTE]
The source engine can go pretty low detail, pretty sure a Nexus 4 would be fine
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[QUOTE=Dr. Ocsid;44790452]Portal 1 and 2 are on consoles, so probably like that.[/QUOTE]
Portal 2 on PS3 worked great, you can turn pretty quick so there's no issues
[QUOTE=SteveUK;44789539]It means 10-50 people have it installed.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was some DRM.
Fuck I'm retarded.
Does the Android app store have decent enough games to warrant buying an Nvidia Shield to use exclusively as a portable gaming console? I don't really care for the typical "mobile game" fare.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;44791423]Does the Android app store have decent enough games to warrant buying an Nvidia Shield to use exclusively as a portable gaming console? I don't really care for the typical "mobile game" fare.[/QUOTE]
It's got the PS2 era GTAs, Max Payne, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Quake I-III, Doom, Hexen, Doom 3, Heretic, Sonic 1,2, and CD, and lots of emulators. With the streaming, you have even more games.
I'd say getting a Shield is worth it.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;44791462]It's got the PS2 era GTAs, Max Payne, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Quake I-III, Doom, Hexen, Doom 3, Heretic, Sonic 1,2, and CD, and lots of emulators. With the streaming, you have even more games.
I'd say getting a Shield is worth it.[/QUOTE]
Ooh, you can do emulators on it? No fuss about jailbreaking and all that? That's actually pretty tempting.
I can't do the streaming thing at the moment because I have an AMD card but all the rest of that does sound kinda tempting.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;44791487]Ooh, you can do emulators on it? No fuss about jailbreaking and all that? That's actually pretty tempting.
I can't do the streaming thing at the moment because I have an AMD card but all the rest of that does sound kinda tempting.[/QUOTE]
You can kinda do the streaming with Splashtop THD. The only downsides are that you can only stream windowed games, and it may not be as smooth as Nvidia's streaming solution. I used it on my TF201 a while back, and it worked OK until my card got Nvidia streaming support.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;44791487]Ooh, you can do emulators on it? No fuss about jailbreaking and all that?[/QUOTE]
Have you never used an Android device? It's open to install whatever you want on it, so of course emulators can be installed
Makes me wanna get a NVIDIA shield now.
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Someone should make an affordable version of one of these for all phones... Too bad portal 1 doesn't have workshop support.. Imagine being on a bus and being able to download new maps to try out.. Oh the possibilities..
I almost want to buy one now just for the potential, but I've already played both of those games like 10 times each, probably more with HL2.
Also I know there's other game addons like the one I linked but they are pretty crappy IMO
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;44790565]Considering that it was ported by Nvidia
its safe to assume that Tegra is definitely required, shield APIs possibly[/QUOTE]
You'd have to hack the api that manages controls, but it renders using OpenGL ES 2-3 just like all other android games.
[QUOTE=Cold;44791596]You'd have to hack the api that manages controls, but it renders using OpenGL ES 2-3 just like all other android games.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, you just have to add standard controller support in your app/game for it to work with the Shield, so it may be using the controller input built into Android. Spoofed my old Nexus 7 to look like a Shield to the Play Store, and I'm currently looking at HL2 to see if its another "Tegra only" app that doesn't really use any Tegra specific features.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;44791736]Seems they've fixed all of the issues from the Orangebox updates that the PC version still has.
Watch as Valve doesn't back port the fixes and leaves the PC one unchanged. :v:
I can see why they wanted to make this exclusive. Hopefully it'll be made for all versions of Android later on.[/QUOTE]
I give it 48 hours max, until it runs on something that's not an Nvidia Shield.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;44791763]Does this have mod support too? People have done their own source ports of some popular games (Quake 1,2,3, Star Wars Jedi Knight 1 and 2, Doom 3, Duke Nukem 3D, etc..) for Android already and they tend to have full mod support just like the PC versions.
It'd be a damn shame if this doesn't have it.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, but this got me thinking. I'm pretty sure Garry can't be bothered to port Gmod to android even if it's possible, so maybe some guy could make a clone of Gmod to run on android.
Of course, this is all just wishful thinking at the moment. We don't even know if people can make mods for this. The one thing I hope most is the dev console being available.
Great. [i]Greeeeeat[/i].
Half-Life 3?
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44791519]Have you never used an Android device? It's open to install whatever you want on it, so of course emulators can be installed[/QUOTE]
No, come to think of it. I'm shamefully out of the loop with smartphones because I don't really care about using my phone as anything other than a phone and occasional twitter thing. :v:
But an Android-based actual dedicated gaming device that you can stick emulators on with no fuss and it isn't godawful like the Ouya? That sounds like a real winner.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;44791462]It's got the PS2 era GTAs, Max Payne, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, Quake I-III, Doom, Hexen, Doom 3, Heretic, Sonic 1,2, and CD, and lots of emulators. With the streaming, you have even more games.
I'd say getting a Shield is worth it.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely not a deal breaker or anything, but you can also put Playstation Mobile on it if you root it for even more games, and that service is normally exclusive to Playstation Certified phones.
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Someone should make an affordable version of one of these for all phones... Too bad portal 1 doesn't have workshop support.. Imagine being on a bus and being able to download new maps to try out.. Oh the possibilities..[/QUOTE]
Moga Pro Controllers are pretty affordable
[QUOTE=Dr. Ocsid;44791809]I don't know, but this got me thinking. I'm pretty sure Garry can't be bothered to port Gmod to android even if it's possible, so maybe some guy could make a clone of Gmod to run on android.
Of course, this is all just wishful thinking at the moment. We don't even know if people can make mods for this. The one thing I hope most is the dev console being available.[/QUOTE]
Would need a full SDK. For this the best that can probably be done is alternative maps, materials, models.
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