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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Apr 4, 2013, 13:02 |
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SpectralMeat wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 12:51:
Quboid wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 12:47: Is there any suggestion that you would need a paid subscription for Live? I'd be amazed if they were that dumb. Right now you need a paid subscription to Live to use the Netflix app. on the 360. I did not realize that until my Live Gold subscription ran out and I was trying to watch Netflix. Good thing I have a PS3 also, no need to pay anything there. Oh. Wow. That's terrible. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Cities in Motion 2 |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Cities in Motion 2 |
Apr 3, 2013, 16:31 |
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How much content is there? CiM only had 3 cities IIRC, with lots of DLC to flesh it out. I can't find a good Let's Play, I couldn't hear 2 and the other 1 was played by someone who had little idea what they were doing.
This comment was edited on Apr 3, 2013, 23:02. |
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| News Comments > Company of Heroes 2 Closed Beta Begins |
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 Closed Beta Begins |
Apr 3, 2013, 10:45 |
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Thanks Verno. I liked CoH but never really got into it. I haven't played it for a while now but I seem to remember it looked washed out. I don't really get what True Sight is, it sounds like what every game in this genre would claim to have.
What is ROF? If Rate of Fire, isn't it being low a bad attribute, which would help balance it?
What is APM?
What is vCOH? A mod? A typo? |
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| News Comments > U.K. Charts |
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Re: U.K. Charts |
Apr 3, 2013, 10:03 |
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InBlack wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 04:50: Its kind of ironic that in the example of the great national sport that the english invented, you mention two players who both play their football in Spain and are Brazillian and Argentine respectively. Oh certainly, the English suck at playing football. Their taste in national sport is unsurpassed, not their ability to actually play them.
(Says the Northern Irishman, throwing stones from his glass house.) |
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| News Comments > U.K. Charts |
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Re: U.K. Charts |
Apr 2, 2013, 22:15 |
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TurdFergasun wrote on Apr 2, 2013, 19:57:
dj LiTh wrote on Apr 2, 2013, 11:36: The English have never been known for their tastes in gaming. or food, dentistry, or national sports....
but they make some damn fine comedy and car shows. Football is the purest form of human interaction, a higher plane of existence. Look at Dani Alves' pass to Messi tonight, that's artistry fit for the greatest halls of mankind.
Food and teeth, yeah, the English suck at those. |
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| News Comments > SimCity 2.0 Plans |
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Re: SimCity 2.0 Plans |
Mar 30, 2013, 12:09 |
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Dev wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 16:15:
Quboid wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 15:01: Wow, Dev, take a deep breath.
He said "If you take away the DRM aspect" so not much of your rant is relevant. I wouldn't say it's as bug-free as most AAA games these days but it's not bad. Aside from the DRM, the underlying simulation is the problem but that's not really a bug, it's defective by design due to massive compromises on the original vision. Yes, but to him, the DRM aspect is just a matter of semantics. I.e. this would have all gone away if they had just called it "Simcity Online" since this was really just a mere marketing failure, and then people would have expected online only and then the launch would have been smooth as silk.
I'm saying thats not the case. That regardless of what they called it, nearly all these problems were going to happen. Feel free to go read his previous post on the subject from a few weeks ago. I did when I clicked his nick. There might have been more understanding of the messed up launch but not much, and it doesn't change the problems with the simulation. I don't agree with him on that. |
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| News Comments > Tomb Raider Sets Sales Record |
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Re: Tomb Raider Sets Sales Record |
Mar 29, 2013, 21:26 |
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Ghola wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 20:26: the article states that it doesn't include digital sales which probably account for more than 50% of the people that purchased TR. What about console gamers, what percent of console games are sold online? |
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| News Comments > SimCity 2.0 Plans |
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Re: SimCity 2.0 Plans |
Mar 29, 2013, 15:01 |
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Wow, Dev, take a deep breath.
He said "If you take away the DRM aspect" so not much of your rant is relevant. I wouldn't say it's as bug-free as most AAA games these days but it's not bad. Aside from the DRM, the underlying simulation is the problem but that's not really a bug, it's defective by design due to massive compromises on the original vision. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 28, 2013, 14:01 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 28, 2013, 13:37: Quboid, were your comments intended to be positive? Because this is what I got out of your comments: "It is okay for the first 30-60 minutes." That's pretty much it. It's excellent for the first 3-4 hours per city, but gets steadily worse thereafter. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 28, 2013, 12:58 |
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Creston wrote on Mar 28, 2013, 12:19: And one who said that it was sorta okay when he could get on.
Creston That was probably me. It's quite surprising how much I enjoy the game at times. Building a city up to a population of around 5000 (unfudged number) is excellent. The simulation holds up and the façade works. Things (appear to) connect up well, make sense and tick over beautifully. Then it starts to slip, after 10K population some things just stop making sense (you need an RCI ratio of about 10:2:1) and after 25K, the illusion is thoroughly destroyed.
If you have the game, load a large city with a recycling plant. Open the garbage menu, switch on the garbage data map and watch the recycling lorries. Watch them drive straight past buildings with recycling. Watch towers with masses of recycling get ignored. Watch trucks turn into clean, empty streets rather than into the street with mountains of recycling to pick up. Watch and weep.
They're the worst but all the vehicles are just terrible. They don't seem to consider other vehicles intentions, which I'd have thought would be the most basic consideration. I've seen 3 coal trucks drive to the same power plant, the first one drops its load and the other 2 turn around and drive off to deliver it somewhere else. Same with emergency vehicles. Probably the same with buses, which makes them play a game of follow the leader.
In a small town with quiet streets and not much for your single school's buses or your fire station's engines to get lost in, balancing a growing city's budget by micromanaging which classrooms are open, it's fun and I have lost hours enjoying this world.
I always stick to unfudged numbers in my comments but in-game, I've actually re-fudged the numbers as unfudged 2/3 of my population is workers which doesn't seem right. Assuming a worker works half their life and that 2/3 of people have a working life, that's 1/3 of the population is working at any one time. I doubled the number, that's probably a bit much but it's handy to be able to divide it in my head when thinking about the real figures.
Edit: I should clarify that reaching 5K population is more than it sounds; it takes more time and space than it did in previous editions. That 5K (or 10K as I have it re-fudged) involves as much game-time as a 20K city in SC4. It's not quite as pathetic as it sounds ... but it's still pretty pathetic.
This comment was edited on Mar 28, 2013, 13:15. |
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| News Comments > Square Enix Reports "Extraordinary Loss" - President Resigns |
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Re: Square Enix Reports |
Mar 26, 2013, 15:02 |
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If they've lost $100M through write-offs and only $30M net loss, doesn't that suggest that they've been operating at a loss for the last few years and have been hiding that, the opposite of what's being suggested here? Perhaps now they've run out of ways to hide the loss so they're taking it off the books in one big hit, and kicking out the guy who has been making losses for years.
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 26, 2013, 12:41 |
Quboid |
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Darks wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 12:18:
wrlwnd wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 11:09:
Verno wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 09:46: The game isn't perfect but after spending some time with it I have no problem recommending it to people for $60 or less.
Sorry, but 15 hours of gameplay isn't worth $60.
I'll wait until it hits about the $20 price point. I’m sorry, but I have to laugh and shake my head when I read this kind of comments. So, 10 to 15 hours of game play is not worth 60 dollars. But many of the same people claiming that this game is not worth that price will go out and have gone out and spent just as much on a 5 hour game like COD.
How do you all justify that reasoning when this game is far superiour in all regards? I’m truly baffled at comments like this. Just because a game does not have MP does not make that game any less of a game especially when the game play and story are far better. Are you sure about that? A great many people play CoD for multiplayer, which gives them hundreds of hours play. I doubt that many people who are claiming this isn't worth the price bought the latest CoD just for single player. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 22, 2013, 14:41 |
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That Avatar's new? I wasn't sure. Very nice, but it doesn't beat a cat's head in silloette.
I read the IGN review before reading these comments, I shouldn't have given them the hit. If anyone's wondering, surprisingly enough they really like it! Who'd have thunk!
9.4 AMAZING
In total, BioShock Infinite is a brilliant shooter that nudges the entire genre forward with innovations in both storytelling and gameplay. It trips over itself in a couple of spots, but not in any way that should keep you from embracing it with your utmost enthusiasm. I'm off to barf. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Mar 21, 2013, 17:42 |
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Just a hunch, but I'm guessing effort isn't the problem with low income voters, more the cost.
having voter ID wouldn't hurt the GOP anyway just the democrats Exactly.
I bet it's not just her too, I'd be amazed if it was. It's sure to be quite a few others, from both parties. Fighting voter fraud, be it individuals voting several times or one of the two parties trying to fix whole states should be cracked down on, but if you put a price on voting, you exclude the poor. That's useful to the party of the rich, but it's not democratic.
(PS: I changed my previous comment when I realised I might not have answered your point, sorry to confuse things.) |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Mar 21, 2013, 17:18 |
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RollinThundr wrote on Mar 21, 2013, 17:02:
Quboid wrote on Mar 21, 2013, 16:30: Weasel wording is wording that's true, but leaves a false impression. Saying there was voting fraud in the 2 elections he won is true, but it implies that there wasn't voting fraud in other elections and that the voting fraud had the slightest jot of relevance.
The left is generally against it? Perhaps because it's totalitarian, more likely, as GOP officials have admitted, because it's designed to stop legitimate voters who have difficulty getting photo ID from voting - voters with low education and who don't speak English as a first language. Voters who overwhelmingly vote Democrat. That's voter fraud which could actually make a difference. Why haven't they been made accountable?
Edit: I see you've now moved the goal posts from photo ID to absentee ballots. Handy. LOL you need a picture ID for a ton of day to day shit as is. Don't give me the flimsy it's "too hard to get one" excuse. That's the biggest bowl of bullshit. If you can't make the effort to stand in line at the DMV for an hour or less, then you don't fucking deserve the right to vote. Voting law opponents contend these laws disproportionately affect elderly, minority and low-income groups that tend to vote Democratic. Obtaining photo ID can be costly and burdensome, with even free state ID requiring documents like a birth certificate that can cost up to $25 in some places. According to a study from NYU's Brennan Center, 11 percent of voting-age citizens lack necessary photo ID while many people in rural areas have trouble accessing ID offices. (source) |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Mar 21, 2013, 16:30 |
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Weasel wording is wording that's true, but leaves a false impression. Saying there was voting fraud in the 2 elections he won is true, but it implies that there wasn't voting fraud in other elections and that the voting fraud had the slightest jot of relevance.
The left is generally against it? Perhaps because it's totalitarian, more likely, as GOP officials have admitted, because it's designed to stop legitimate voters who have difficulty getting photo ID from voting - voters with low education and who don't speak English as a first language. Voters who overwhelmingly vote Democrat. That's voter fraud which could actually make a difference. Why haven't they been made accountable?
Edit: I see you've now moved the goal posts from photo ID to absentee ballots. Handy.
This comment was edited on Mar 21, 2013, 16:40. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Mar 21, 2013, 15:42 |
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Why do lawmakers on the left want to reduce the availability of high power weapons? Gee, I don't know, maybe because people are being killed by them, in elementary schools, cimenas, amongst other places. What threat to them in the long run? Not much. Do you have a problem with politicians not acting out of self interest?
You're getting off topic there, but it's interesting that you consider being against requiring picture ID to be totalitarian. I'm sure the voter fraud (weasel wording again, not just his 2 wins but every election ever) made a big difference. Hilariously, that guy's almost definitely a Republican and certainly anti-gun control. |
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