Verno wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 13:07:
Just having a solid internet connection isn't enough though. Routing, hardware outages and provisioning are just as likely to be affected. Many factors are outside of your control, I remember people in the Diablo 3 thread who were like "my internet is always fine hurrrrr" who didn't understand that's just one of dozens of things that could interrupt sessions.

Verno wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 11:38:
The concept of a personal computer will continue for a long time, they just might not be a monolithic tower that sits in a corner of your house. All I care about is capability, if I can get a good form factor that is portable with most of the power I want then I'm happy either way, I don't give a shit what its labeled as.

deqer wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 12:10:

HorrorScope wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 10:35:
I don't have an issue with always on

You like being owned, and being told how long you are allowed to play? Okay.

Verno wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 08:40:

jdreyer wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 07:48:
There is no way MS is this stupid.

Oh I disagree, there is every indication Microsoft could be exactly this stupid

Decades of arrogance, GFWL, Windows phone bombing (again), bumbling brand efforts and their latest attempt to bludgeon Windows 8 into the collective through product placement on every single TV show, the list goes on.

They think they have a stranglehold on the gaming market with Xbox Live and do whatever they want with no consequence. I hope gamers wise up to this.

Axis wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 18:26:
And beamer, you have a terrible habit of putting words in peoples mouths aside from being consistently contradicting. I never said this one will be huge in many years, I said it will be huge but will take time - i.e not an overnight success (like every good open source project ever created).

Creston wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 17:19:

NegaDeath wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 16:48:
Roger Ebert passed away.

Two thumbs WAY up!

Creston

Axis wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 16:18:
That article is laughable. David Pierce's title is "can an indie console take on Sony and Microsoft" which to anyone but the immensely stupid recognizes is not anywhere near what the Ouya is.

I'll say it again, the ouya is going to be huge. It will take time because there's just so many stupids like David Pierce who want to keep promoting their Halo 8 at all costs, but good open source always prevails - mark my word.

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.

Verno wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 09:11:
Indie and smaller dev houses are becoming more important for next gen platforms, filling in the blanks between AAA releases which are getting longer between. Microsofts treatment of those devs over the past three years might come back to bite them in the ass.

RaZ0r! wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 07:13:
id should not have sold out, that's a no brainer. They should reach into their pockets and buy themselves out of that hole.

Hellbinder wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 22:32:
A decade ago really?

I will never understand why these game developers sell themselves to big publishers.

There was no reason to ever make doom 4. They should have done what they mentioned a few times. revisit the world of the original quake.

Rattlehead wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:34:

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:20:

Rattlehead wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:19:
Welp, there goes any hopes of a proper kotor sequel. Thanks Disney.

Uh... how so?

LucasArts didn't make them.

Because Disney is a shit company that like all the other swine of the industry sees no profit in traditional games anymore and believes all the money is in micro transactions, F2P and mobile games. I highly doubt they will give EA, Bioware or Obsidian the rights to another large production AAA game, especially on a scale of something like KoToR or ToR.

I truly believe the future of Star Wars games are the lego series, upcoming movie tie ins, and shit facebook games. You can kiss goodbye high production Star Wars games, because Disney doesn't believe in that kind of shit. Hell I don't even think we will SEE another Star Wars game until the next Abrahms movie is out.

RollinThundr wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 17:16:

Orogogus wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 17:11:

Rattlehead wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:34:

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:20:

Rattlehead wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:19:
Welp, there goes any hopes of a proper kotor sequel. Thanks Disney.

Uh... how so?

LucasArts didn't make them.

Because Disney is a shit company that like all the other swine of the industry sees no profit in traditional games anymore and believes all the money is in micro transactions, F2P and mobile games. I highly doubt they will give EA, Bioware or Obsidian the rights to another large production AAA game, especially on a scale of something like KoToR or ToR.

I truly believe the future of Star Wars games are the lego series, upcoming movie tie ins, and shit facebook games. You can kiss goodbye high production Star Wars games, because Disney doesn't believe in that kind of shit. Hell I don't even think we will SEE another Star Wars game until the next Abrahms movie is out.

What do you even know about Disney as a gaming company? I mean, what is any of this based on?

You must be new, Beamer thinks he knows everything about everything when it comes to the game industry.

Rattlehead wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:19:
Welp, there goes any hopes of a proper kotor sequel. Thanks Disney.

Verno wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 16:07:
I'd like to see Rockstar make a Star Wars game so maybe this won't turn out so bad after all. Telltale with some of those old LucasArts adventure IPs would be nice too.

Panickd wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 14:54:

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 13:33:
Keep in mind this is from 2000. Tim was right, too. Making expensive, niche games isn't economically viable. This is why people stopped doing it. Now, 13 years later, we have ways for people to make inexpensive niche games, and niche games are rising rapidly.

Yes, and look where we are today. We have an industry awash in retreads and copies of copies of copies of what was, once upon a time, an innovative title (Epic is as guilty of this as anyone, it's their bread and butter these days) because that's what sells to the masses of humanity. I'm really not seeing those "cooler life forms" he talked about. It's become like the whole movie industry: there are Hollywood movies with tens of millions dollars worth of CGI effects in them that are sure to do hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office and then there are the smaller films that win tons of praise and lots of awards at film festivals (and the occasional Oscar) but will never really make anyone any real money. The difference is most people never hear about that second kind of movie unless one comes up for an Oscar but there aren't any Oscars in the gaming world.

El Pit wrote on Apr 3, 2013, 14:50:
LucasArts died a long time ago. Disney only shot a bullet into the brains of the zombie that was still shambling along.