Beamer wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 09:49:
If Xbox can do smart recording it's a huge, huge feature.

If.

1badmf wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 10:15:
best way to indoor cook a steak - sear it on both sides for 90 seconds in a fryer, then immediately transfer steak still in pan to oven heated to 450. time depends on thickness of steak.

my friend and i did this with some USDA Primes we bought at costco a couple weeks ago. they came out rarer than i usually prefer, but good god they were sublime.

Cutter wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 11:46:

avianflu wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 11:28:
looks like the devs played saints row the 3rd and then made this.

I take it you missed the 80s entirely.

McSterls wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 11:35:
Not sure about that game, but for a lot of them it just easier to buy new copies on GoG or Steam to get rid of the antiquated CD checks, especially if you can get them for three bucks on sale.

noman wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 18:55:

Creston wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 16:33:

noman wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:22:
Even Origin, UPlay and Games for Window Live provide much fewer hassles.

Oooo...kay. Time to put the crack pipe down, buddy.

In the current implementation, all the DRM schemes I mentioned allow far more freedom in how you play and install games on multiple PCs, compared to Steam, strictly from DRM perspective.

You know what, here's more to blow your mind..... SecuROM's implementation in Mirror's Edge, Crysis 1 or Burnout Paradise was the best and least user-offensive DRM scheme that I have ever seen. You could install games anywhere, with only install-time DRM server checks, de-register games, and have multiple simultaneous activations. If the purpose of DRM is to act as a deterrence for large scale misuse, while still allowing users to have a breathing room and flexibility, then it did succeed.

When we live in an era marked by massive oil spills, faulty foreclosures by bad banks, and rampant consolidation in the airline and telecom industry, what does it say about EA’s business practices that so many people have — for the second year in a row — come out to hand it the title of Worst Company In America?

Flatline wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 16:41:
Any Sammy would probably be getting init from the absurd 'ware they're carrying.

The entire metaplot for 4th edition though was "get the magic McGuffin!" The big deal with otaku becoming technomancers is basically ignored,

Oh, also, with 4th ed, it's way, way easier to *not* actually throw that stunball (which you're right is f*cking death), but to summon a force 14 spirit that throws Stunball 14 on your behalf. Oh, and that spirit basically has 14's for it's stats, so even if your sammy gets init, he's still f*cked. Joy!

Where earlier SR games were kind of a joyful mess, I have a particular dark spot in my heart for 4th ed. They did one thing very right (switch to static target numbers) and did everything else entirely wrong. Matrix rules are still a nightmare (the in-text introduction to basic hacking took, I shit you not, over 38 dice pool rolls in real life, for a 5 second hack), vehicle rules are borked to the point where riggers are barely existent, and magic/summoning is way overpowered.

And I won't go into the adventure where you go destroy evil Jew ghosts haunting a concentration camp so you can rescue the mystical knife that was used to experiment on all said Jews during their lifetimes. But that's a real, 4th edition adventure. True story.

noman wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:22:
Even Origin, UPlay and Games for Window Live provide much fewer hassles.

jacobvandy wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:40:

It doesn't allow playing *different* games simultaneously from the same account,

Untrue, I just launched multiple games right now. Unless you mean playing different games on different PCs on the same account at the same time? That's called piracy, and it's an unreasonable request.

mag wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:00:
I am still suspicious of it, though. Because I know that one day (and it is likely quite a long way in the future), either Valve will sell it to Ubi/EA/Actiblizzard, they themselves will become worse than the publishers, or they'll just go out of business.

And all of those games that I own license through Steam will become useless.

Flatline wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 14:22:
and while lately the setting has taken to suckling at the teat of "magic wins EVERYTHING" game design,

Bill Borre wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 09:22:
She looks great. Just like out of one of the comics.

Jerykk wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:31:

wonkawonka wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:22:

Harlequin wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:12:

Creston wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 11:58:
The fact they've been able to do this with the small small small budget (for game development) and in such a short time is amazing.

Speculation on my part but this is how I see it. The ~4mil is simply paying salary and overhead. Which 4mil buys a LOT. (Simple math average salary of a dev 50K the 4mil pays for more then 80 people for 1 year. Clearly they don't have 80 people working on it so that 4mil can be stretched for the 2 years or so they plan for development with ~30 people working on it). With that in mind, the company, obsidian will make money on the post KS sales on steam and such with most probably going to into the company coffers and the remainder to perhaps bonuses. If on KS they made 4mil even if they only do 33% of that on steam post-release its over a mil for the company.

If it was me this is how I would pay everyone and make the company money.

Your numbers are a little off:

Take the 4mil, remove 5% kickstarter fee. You're left with 3.8mil. Out of that, expect a good 10% cost of fulfillment for all the rewards (conservative). You're left with about 3.4mil.

Assume average salary at 60k, with a 1.6x total overhead, i.e. salary overhead at 96k a person. Let's go for 100k, a round number. You can now pay 34 people for one year only before your money runs out.

I can pretty much guarantee the team does not have 34 people. 15 people sounds more likely.

Verno wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 13:00:
It's going to be this years Snuggle Truck Christmas Time Prank gift IMO. Could we have found the one game Prez doesn't own?!

Wallshadows wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:36:
It's nice that they provided a film grain toggle since prior to this it was as if you were playing the game on a cctv,