PHJF wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 23:45:
Dungeon Defenders is 3GB (shitty engine, shitty developers)

Dev wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 21:55:

Stormsinger wrote on Jan 19, 2012, 21:49:
2 GB on your hard drive? WTF kind of tower defense is this?

Dunno, but mine says 200 megs. Before it says no steam content servers are configured to let me have it.

Sidenote: Defense grid has over 1 gig of install. Thats a fun tower defense game.

Beamer wrote on Jan 16, 2012, 18:08:
At this point people are thinking it could be a fire sale ("we're having a fire... sale") The stock was $2 3 months ago. It's closing in on 50 cents now. Hell, 4 years ago it was over $30.

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jan 16, 2012, 13:00:
SR3 apparently sold crazy well so if THQ fails, someone will buy them and Volition I'm sure.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 23:03:
And still you feel compelled to spew out crap about it, even though you didnt check everything.

Well, ok. Facts cant compete against blind hate I guess.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 21:22:
Maybe you should have actually read that Anandtech article and watched the video with the HD 4000 running the game live instead of just looking at the picture.

But ok, I see that some people think the Windows score is the ultimate benchmark. lol... Geez...

Muscular Beaver wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 20:45:

DNForever wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 20:22:
WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?? I HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN HUMANITY!! IT'S SO TERRIBLE, OH SO TERRIBLE. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY LIED AND DECEIVED ME, GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN US. PLEASE MAKE THIS RIGHT AND SHOW THE GAME BEING PLAYED FOR REALS.

Yes, I almost cut my wrists too.
But then I realized that this originated from the biggest AMD fanboy site there is and I watched the video myself. Yep, now my stash of razor blades wont have to suffer today.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 19:53:
Heh, having a blast playing Worms Reloaded multiplayer with my relatives recently.

Cutter wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 12:54:
Yeah, it's a console game to be sure. Definitely a wait and see. How they think this is going to get PC players excited for a follow up MMO is beyond me.

Beamer wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 16:28:

killer_roach wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 16:03:

Beamer wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 15:13:

Would love to have the ability to radically reskin a console's system UI, but, sadly, I doubt that would ever happen.

What would you do?

Not sure exactly, besides experiment... there's a lot of things that could be done to revamp console system UIs. I have some ideas that I'd like to see somebody try, some of which drawing from other device operating systems (in particular OS X and Android).

Two operating systems I'm not a big fan of. I'm not even 100% certain how I'd describe Android, given that it's so rare to see it without the manufacturer's incredibly ugly skin.
Of course, I think WP7 is fairly beautiful, so my opinion is probably questionable (beautiful on small screens, mind you, and when not gunked up with tiles that do not fit the aesthetics, as most 3rd parties fail to do.)

Part of what holds back console UI is the lack of understanding of what it will be viewed on. Will it be on a 60" 1080p display or a 22" CRT running 480i (how does this new Metro display look on that, speaking of?)

It's a curious exercise. I'd guess HDTV will be a going assumption next round and they'll cut support for CRTs, but we'll see. That will certainly open up possibilities. I'd love to see a keyboard included, too, turning consoles into something more akin to GoogleTV, but that doesn't seem likely (especially as GoogleTV is mostly a failure thus far.)

Beamer wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 15:13:

Would love to have the ability to radically reskin a console's system UI, but, sadly, I doubt that would ever happen.

What would you do?

Beamer wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 14:33:
Also, I've seen people say they liked the Blades better.


Really?
Really?
Blades

So bad. Worse than what the PS3 has, and the PS3 is an empty shallow feature phone setup menu (with a pretty decent store layout hindered by horrible sort options.)

PS3
Someone in another topic called me an idiot for comparing that vast, blank empty space of pointless iconography to featurephones and saying it's infinitely worse than anything Xbox has had since the original Blades, but I think the picture speaks for the experience. It's a dead, lifeless shell sparsely populated with options and little to know interaction with the outside world.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 00:48:
Here's a question: Why on earth does the US army have a vaccine research division? Is it part of the biowarfare research division or something? This is awesome research, but coming from an unexpected source. I'd expect this from Pfizer or some large university, not the US Army. But kudos to them!

Jerykk wrote on Jan 7, 2012, 02:08:

Both publish for the PC, but their habit of publishing for the PC exhibits no rhyme or reason.

It's pretty random. Namco published Witcher 2 in Europe and they published a Warhammer RTS a few years ago. Konami has released half-assed ports of some of the MGS and Silent Hill games, though they aren't even bothering with ports with anymore. Both Namco and Konami have gone in the opposite direction of Capcom, which has embraced the PC market in recent years. It's a shame because there are some Namco and Konami games I'd like to play, such as Dark Souls.

Jerykk wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 22:56:
Namco? Porting a console game to PC? Good luck with that. Namco and Konami are probably the only remaining publishers to show almost no support for the PC.

Prez wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 22:53:

eunichron wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 22:31:

Cutter wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 21:19:
Hopefully these will be the last consoles. Let's face it no one really wants or needs these one-trick ponies anymore. Not unless they add keyboard and mouse support - which is pretty much a requirement now with social media, texting, etc. - and in which case why not just use a PC where you can do all those things and more?

This doesn't make any sense, how are they "one-trick ponies"? Consoles do a hell of a lot more than just play games anymore, and as my friends get older and play games less and less, they have begun to use their consoles for more media streaming than gaming (Netflix, Hulu, home network streaming). I think this next generation will be moving away from social networking and more toward content streaming of games, movies, and music, and home media networking, which their current UIs handle just fine without a mouse/kb.

I tried streaming movies over my kids' console. It was atrocious. Trying to navigate the menus was sort of liketrying to thread a needle in the dark with frozen fingers.

Prez wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 21:55:

Bhruic wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 21:00:
I'm confused. We aren't supposed to listen to the one review because the reviewer supposedly didn't review a "final" copy. Therefore he is lying, and shouldn't be trusted. Instead, we should trust a different reviewer who... also didn't review a "final" copy? Simply because the second one happened to enjoy the game?

Someone obviously doesn't understand how the "review" process works (or is supposed to work when you don't pay off your reviewers).

Well to be fair he pointed to the Gamespot review, which isn't exactly glowing either.

And what was so bad about the video? Aside from the atrocious sound, it looked kinda cool. In a goofy, Flatout sort of way.

Dev wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 21:39:

killer_roach wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 19:44:

Dev wrote on Jan 6, 2012, 18:53:
I'll say it again. With Gabe's "obsession" (his word, not mine) with employee health (both physical and mental) he's never going to take the company public.

I'd also argue that by keeping the staff to the minimal levels that he has would make it a) that much easier for them to go public and b) would have a lot less disruption to their operations should they go public. It's a double-edged sword.

If they were bought out or went public they would NEVER be able to keep their no management, wheels on desks, people work on whatever they want, style. So, thats why Gabe never will.