Kastagir wrote on Apr 7, 2012, 14:13:

Beelzebud wrote on Apr 7, 2012, 12:53:
Reading that all of the original art and 3d models for the games were "lost" almost makes me want to cry.

It's astounding how short-sighted people can be at times.

That's precisely why I cringe whenever someone from Bioware mentions the "BioWare Vault." This stuff was either cast aside when EA bribed bought BioWare or it sits in BioWare's ass vault, never to be used by a respectable game developer again.

Dev wrote on Apr 6, 2012, 22:19:
Yes but did GoG games have UBISOFT titles from that era previously?

I didn't know these were some of the ubi DRM free ones on amazon, ubi anymore isn't something I look into when I see the name.

I agree though, $20 seems a bit high for both games at this point.

Jerykk wrote on Apr 6, 2012, 23:53:
Looks like Darkness 2 bombed. Same with Syndicate, Duke Forever, Space Marine and pretty much every other short, linear and completely scripted shooter. I think it's becoming pretty clear that gamers are getting tired of such shooters, which is definitely a good thing. Cliffy B even came out and admitted that he wants to make more dynamic and open-ended games.

Dev wrote on Apr 6, 2012, 06:59:

killer_roach wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 22:55:
$20 for games that are four and six years old respectively? The only way they make much of any value sense is if you buy them in that promotion.

They are DRM free though.

Now if ubi would just patch out the added layer of DRM in some of their steam games and I might buy them.

My guess is that ubi is testing the GoG DRM free waters with a couple more "recent" titles, seeing how much money they pull in.

Cutter wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 13:51:
Zackly. Le't just get a solid first product out the door first and then look at other stuff after.

Dev wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 00:06:

killer_roach wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 00:01:

Dev wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 23:00:

nin wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 21:33:
Grabbed this for HSL, which looks fun!

Same. Its not publicly out on steam yet I guess. And when it comes out its probably going to be more than the $5 the bundle costs.

It'll probably be a $5 game on Steam - it's not a very large title.

There were also a couple other games in the bundle I didn't have yet.

Dev wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 23:00:

nin wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 21:33:
Grabbed this for HSL, which looks fun!

Same. Its not publicly out on steam yet I guess. And when it comes out its probably going to be more than the $5 the bundle costs.

Dmitri_M wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 23:59:
At first I thought this was some small website poll and a gaming forum somewhere had decided to make EA the "winner". But 250 000 people chose EA over any number of giant corporations? They might be a greedy evil company in gaming, but honestly what are people thinking choosing something inconsequential like gaming as a "worst" amongst serious things like telecoms and banks.

SimplyMonk wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 23:16:
This poll isn't really saying that EA is worst than BoA. It is saying that EA is worst at making video games players happy than BoA is at making banking customers happy. Seeing as those customer bases have no metrics on them, the poll is meaningless.

coldcut wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 14:09:
Hmm, I was looking forward to this, I enjoyed the first two games, but when I saw the screenshots of this new episode... *sigh* another RPG Construction Kit Game (don't know how it's called, too lazy to Google).

nin wrote on Apr 4, 2012, 11:53:
2012 is the year of the kickstarter.

Hopefully 2013 won't be "the year all the KS games show up and they suck".

Fingers crossed! :)

Dades wrote on Apr 2, 2012, 21:51:

killer_roach wrote on Apr 2, 2012, 21:43:
Where your argument falls down is that you're assuming that, all things being equal, prices would have stayed in the $50-60 range otherwise. Considering the increase of costs in the industry, that seems highly unlikely.

Prices have stayed where they are because the market has grown significantly, not because big publishers are so nice to us. Let's embrace the alarmist view and say that without the publishers then prices would rise, so what? I would welcome paying more quality products and less for ones that don't merit the cost. People say the quality games are subsidized by the mass market titles but the publishers don't care to do that anymore. Everything has to move a few million units or there likely will not be a follow up at all.

Dades wrote on Apr 2, 2012, 18:42:

That's a pretty iffy argument. If it's an online game, then most likely your used copy is tied to an account and won't work anyway. As for maintaining servers, that's only done as long as it's profitable anyway, and then they are shut down, as we see happen all the time.

Preach it. Any business model where the price of simple operating expenses like servers isn't priced into the box is extremely flawed and can't be blamed on the customers. The servers and associated labour is often retasked from one game to another while abandoning the older software anyway. Many other industries deal with these things all the time and don't demand handouts from customers because they have to deal with resale.

Are the greedy console companies going to give people lower prices in exchange for their loss of rights? More sales like PC customers get? Fuck no.

LittleMe wrote on Apr 2, 2012, 16:50:
Great article. I'm shocked they'd release a console in 2013 with an AMD 66xx series GPU. That's archaic even when released. I would think at least a an AMD 7870 series GPU would be more up-to-date. Sheesh the PS4 will be dominated by PC tech right from day 1. Good news for PC gaming, if true.

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Mar 29, 2012, 13:04:

bhcompy wrote on Mar 29, 2012, 11:23:
For once I hope Pachter is right

I think the whole blocking used games thing is something all the console makers have thought of but none will do. Aside from the parasitic relationship they have to maintain with the likes of GameStop, this tactic would only work if all the console makers did it. If Sony or Microsoft does and the other doesn't, everyone will use the console that doesn't and the other one will get no third party support and be stillborn. I think this generation they will just make a big push into day-and-date digital releases like Sony's doing with the Vita and in the next generation (assuming you know, we aren't all just using iPads as consoles like the lazy gaming press is starting to say), they'll go digital only if there's enough broadband penetration and the big telcos aren't continuing to force unrealistically low caps.

JaguarUSF wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 20:27:
I'm on the review list for Confrontation, so we'll see what that's all about.

avianflu wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 12:25:
The problem with the "lite" is that it will be discontinued 16 months later for whatever MS has in store next.

Not sure it is a good idea for consumers unless the Lite is really cheap.