Rhett wrote on May 20, 2013, 20:27:
The ironing is delicious.

Fibrocyte wrote on May 19, 2013, 16:54:
Don't Starve is good but... when you die you lose everything and that's very discouraging. I don't think they should change that, but perhaps up the survivability a little. I spent a lot of time exploring the game w/o reading anything online so I died when night came... and I died when sanity got too low and my hallucinations were attacking me... and I died when the hounds first came because that was very unexpected... and I died by freezing once because I thought I had a little more time to reach my campfire at base.

Now that I know most of what will kill me, it's stupid mistakes that end up getting me. For example, I was collecting manure and accidentally clicking a beefalo instead of the manure pile and the entire herd massacred me in 1/2 a nanosecond.

Still, the game is very neat and well done. I've also not touched Adventure mode, yet.

DrEvil wrote on May 1, 2013, 23:24:

Rhino wrote on May 1, 2013, 22:23:
Fish has made his feelings on the PC very well known. How can I, or anyone, possibly believe that he will have made a strong effort in this port, or in any post release support, if every indication is that he didn't particularly want to make it in the first place?

Because Phil Fish is the designer, not the programmer. The main programmer is Renaud Bédard, who is an excellent individual worthy of respect. His presentation on the technology behind Fez is well worth reading.

Other people worked on Fez, besides Phil Fish, and they deserve to have their work rewarded. I only hope that Renaud and the other people that worked on Fez will get a cut of the sales going forward.

ViRGE wrote on Apr 15, 2013, 20:08:

Mickey is back and he looks fantastic.

I wouldn't know. The trailer is completely pre-rendered.

Warskull wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 22:40:
If I recall, someone had a relative on medical equipment die because they couldn't pay the power bill after EA maxed out their card.

nin wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 14:42:
A moment of silence for TIE Fighter, Maniac Mansion, and all the rest.

Sho wrote on Apr 1, 2013, 14:07:
Geez, people feel entitled enough to bitch about an April's Fools not living up to their expectations now?

I came in cold and thought it was pretty well-done. Heck, I'd play it ...

HorrorScope wrote on Mar 30, 2013, 21:33:
Google, Amazon and WalMart are all getting into the local sameday delivery business.

btallas wrote on Mar 27, 2013, 10:36:

nin wrote on Mar 27, 2013, 10:34:

I read this site every morning and evening and I've yet to see anything positive written by you and your roving pack of emo hipsters. Seriously, if you don't like games or gaming in general, why do y'all even come to this site?

Perhaps you should stumble over to the bioshock threads and pay attention?

And looking back at the thread, unless you have another login named nacelle, I wasn't referring to you.

But hey, you read this site every morning and evening, so I'm sure you knew that.

Oh my god!! One game in what, 10 years?!! Someone call Guinness!!

Mikus_Aurelius wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 13:54:

Rhino wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 10:02:
I remember playing Tropico 1 back in 2001 (as well as every other one since). All residents have specific names, skills, personalities, residences, jobs. I'll admit to not being an expert but I would think that after 12 years adding persistent homes and jobs would still be possible without severely impacting performance on such small cities.

Tropico cities top out in the mid hundreds. Even in Tropico 4, there's a population cap well south of 1000, IIRC. Simcity is working on a bigger scale. Having said that, I'm totally in the camp that doesn't need to see power/water blobs. Abstract that shit and put in bigger cities.

Beamer wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 12:10:

Verno wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 12:08:
There's another explanation you're ignoring, that they want to sell larger city sizes later on in an expansion pack.

I doubt this, because it's the dumbest idea possible.

Yes, I'm aware, that, given the circumstances, my logic may be flawed (in the doubt, not the dumb.)

Verno wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 22:30:

s1mon75 wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 20:31:
By 'Free Game', im sure they mean 'Free DLC for SimCity that would have shipped with the game had it been released 5 years ago'

No, that will come later in the Subways + larger city expansion that everyone knows is coming because EA plans to milk this shit into the ground. The only reason to go this nuts with DRM is to kill any kind of mods in favor of DLC and mine data on the users.

It'll be your choice of a copy of Dragon Age 2 and Medal of Honor or something along those lines. Just adding to the shitshow we've seen so far. Damned shame whats going on EA at these days, I don't know if anyone saw that leaked letter from an employee but even some of them seem to question just WTF management is thinking. There are ways to make money without resorting to this sort of anti-consumer crap, I feel like its a short term gain for long term loss thing and I hope it comes back to haunt them later.

Redmask wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 23:45:
It'll probably be from a list of $5 EA games. I'd like to be less cynical but this is the company that said they would give refunds then did exactly the opposite. You can't trust them with anything anymore after this disaster.

Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 23:21:
From the "Something For Your Trouble" update linked below. (Thanks for linking, btw!)

More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta.

OK, we agree, that was dumb

No shit?

Anyway, it obviously heavily depends on the free game (Download Medal of Honor:Warfighter now! For Free! Please? Anyone?), but that's still a nice move. About the least they can do for all the poor fools that still bought this 'game', but hey, it's something.

Creston