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Re: EA Adds SimCity Servers; Promises Free Game |
Mar 10, 2013, 18:19 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 10, 2013, 10:51:
"The text for this review is currently unavailable. Please check back later." I'm not sure if that is supposed to be the review, but either way it's funny.
I wish reviewers would stop stealing it from that British guy who came up with it four days ago.
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Mar 10, 2013, 18:14 |
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UK set to give videogames Tax breaks. Up next, EA, Ubisoft et al open EA UK, Ubisoft UK etc. And this is how they can have billions of dollars in revenue, yet report losses every year.
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| News Comments > Homeworld IP & Games Kickstarter |
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Mar 10, 2013, 18:12 |
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I wish them well, and I'll gladly buy a copy when it's available on Steam.
However, the fact they have a lender, and investor financing, and are going to be looking to the mod community to help make this, gives me very little hope that it'll come to fruition. Especially not without either the lender or investor demanding that it be online only or some other type of EA'ishness. (my new word for bullshit. Trying to see if it'll catch on.)
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| News Comments > Max Payne 3 Steam CD Keys Exhausted |
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Re: Max Payne 3 Steam CD Keys Exhausted |
Mar 10, 2013, 18:08 |
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Techie714 © wrote on Mar 10, 2013, 16:26:
I enjoyed MP3 thought it was a good game. I know some thought the game was lacking.
It's not so much that it was lacking. Lengthwise it was pretty good, the story was decent, the action is balls-to-the-walls Max Payne, and it's a genuinely difficult game, especially at Hard.
It's just that the game NEVER.EVER.EVER.STOPS interrupting you every 10 seconds with a fucking cutscene. Empty hallway? Cutscene of Max walking through the empty hallway. Door? Cutscene of Max opening the door. Group of baddies in a room? Cutscene of Max WALKING INTO THE FUCKING ROOM with his dick out and going "HIYA FELLAS! WHY YOU SHOOT AT MAX?!"
Ugh. I hate games that take away your control constantly. At one point you're in this bar in this shitty favela, talking to some dude, and you see four bad guys come in.
Cutscene unfolds of Max trying his best to make the bad guys leave him alone, which, surprise surprise, doesn't work. Queue you being given control while a baddie with a sawed-off shotgun fires at you. You have approximately 0.5 seconds to initiate a shootdodge or you're dead. And even then you're in bad shit because it's a small bar and the bad guys don't fuck around.
Why couldn't this simply unfold in-game? So if I want to see the 'cutscene', it acts out in-game, but at any one point I can choose to just open fire. Because I would have opened fire the second those bad guys walked in the door.
NOOOOPE.
Fuck. I tried to replay it a few months ago, stopped after about half an hour and my 30th cutscene.
It's a good GAME, when it allows you to play it. Sadly, that's only for about 20% of the entire time you'll spend in it.
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| News Comments > Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstart Update |
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Re: Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstart Update |
Mar 10, 2013, 01:07 |
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nin wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 21:55:
Never heard of the guy until this last update, but it's an awesome thing he's doing.
Yeah, he backs a ton of projects from small teams that normally have no chance to get developed, etc. He's backed several games from indie developers. He genuinely seems like a great guy.
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| News Comments > EA Adds SimCity Servers; Promises Free Game |
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Re: Which free game? |
Mar 10, 2013, 01:05 |
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Jivaro wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 21:52:
Creston wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 21:17:
It is? I did a google on it, and I didn't see a site called SimCity UK offhand, but obviously they may have a different name than they do on FB.
Creston
Yep, it's a fan site. I am not sure it really makes it so much better...just stupid for a different reason.
Well, at least it's not EA touting its own horn. In that instance. So, my bad. 
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Re: Which free game? |
Mar 9, 2013, 21:17 |
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PropheT wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 20:02:
SpectralMeat wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 18:10:
Creston wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 17:53:
William Usher wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 14:57:
http://tinyurl.com/aufbgnu
http://tinyurl.com/b7dr6hm
HAHAHAHAHAA. So typically EA, fantastic. "Simcity UK: Fantastic Game! Worth Every Penny!"
They are so fucking pathetic.
Creston
ROFL !!!
Might be worth pointing out that SimCity UK is a fan site and not EA, so at least that second screenshot doesn't mean what you or the person responding to it thinks it does.
It is? I did a google on it, and I didn't see a site called SimCity UK offhand, but obviously they may have a different name than they do on FB.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Mar 9, 2013, 17:28 |
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We should get rid of the whole fucking DST bullshit to begin with. It serves no purpose whatsoever, but at the same time studies seem to indicate that it leads to a high point in medical issues.
But yeah, "losing" the hour on a Wednesday would be much, much better.
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| News Comments > Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter Passes $2MM |
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Re: Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter Passes $2MM |
Mar 9, 2013, 13:05 |
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Jerykk wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 05:41:
Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 12:03:
InBlack wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 09:35:
When is Project Eternity due? In fact, has any Kickstarted game been released yet? When is the first one set for release? Does anyone know?
There have been quite a few releases, though none of the "Major" ones are done yet. I think Shadowrun is first, and it should be out somewhere this Summer. (that was their latest projection anyway.)
Wasteland 2 is scheduled for August. P:E is not due until 2014. I have no idea about Doublefine's release date.
Creston
I think DFA is almost over-budget, if the recent documentaries are anything to go by. DF is already looking at alternate revenue sources (the main reason they ported Brutal Legend to PC) so they can actually finish the game. DF really didn't have much a plan going into the Kickstarter. They hadn't even done any pre-production, which is a big no-no when you have tight budgets. $3 million sounds like a lot but it really isn't, especially when a large portion of the budget will be spent on pre-production. I'm sure they'll be able to finish the game and make it good but their situation serves as a lesson to other devs looking to kickstart their own projects. You need to have a plan and you need to hit the ground running. inXile seems to meet both these requirements so I have high hopes for WL2 and Torment.
I hadn't heard that. Ouch. The fact they had no plan whatsoever was basically the reason I didn't back DFA... Sad to hear that they're having difficulties.
I just hope the other big ones will do better, though they did come in with (it seemed) much better ideas of what to do and how much stuff would cost.
Shadowrun seems great so far, if a little more "generic sci-fi RPG" than real Shadowrun than I would have liked.
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| News Comments > Lord British Announces Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues |
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Re: Lord British Announces Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues |
Mar 9, 2013, 13:01 |
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Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 01:55:
I can't tell you how many times I walked back and forth on bridges waiting to get troll encounters.
I'd guess around a million? That's about what I did. And then when you FINALLY get a Bridge Troll encounter, there are no chests! ARGH!
Rinse, repeat. Heh, that might have been the first instance of grinding. But those chests always had a ton of gold in them.
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| News Comments > SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
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Re: SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
Mar 8, 2013, 23:26 |
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nin wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 23:24:
The consensus among critics and players is that this is fundamentally a great game.
Well that's certainly open for debate...
If you ignore all the reviews that say that it's fundamentally broken (not even considering the always-on DRM), then you can say that the consensus is that it's not broken.
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| News Comments > SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
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Re: SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
Mar 8, 2013, 23:21 |
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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
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| News Comments > SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
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Re: SimCity Marketing Campaign Paused |
Mar 8, 2013, 23:16 |
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nin wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 22:01:
LOL at "open port 80"...
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Mar 8, 2013, 23:09 |
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zombiefan wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 22:22:
I picked it up during the last Christmas sale and had a decent amount of fun with it. It's not as granular as SimCity 4 when it comes to management and construction; you won't have to fiddle with taxes or adjust zones to maximize your police coverage, for instance. The only real fiddling comes with managing people's pay and providing them what they are demanding (ie. medical facilities, churches, police). Regarding construction, there's no water pipes, electrical lines, etc, just dirt roads/streets. Things seem to move a lot slower as well in the game; you'll be playing on the fastest speed most of the time. Watch a Let's Play to get more info that I could go into.
All in all, it's only $7.50. You can hardly eat at McDonald's for that amount anymore. And I guarantee you you'll get more satisfaction from Tropico.
Thanks man, I appreciate the mini-review.
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