InBlack wrote on Feb 18, 2013, 09:39:
So if any of that shit on Reddit is true, Randy and execs from Fox are the true villains in this whole fucking mess.

Redmask wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 23:55:
Someone dug up this comedy earlier: How Gearbox got the jump on the next gen in Aliens Colonial Marines

Yes well done Randy, getting the jump on the next generation with your amazing Aliens deferred rendering.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 21:31:

Beamer wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 21:04:
But to say that they are idiots for making another Haloesque game is asinine. This is their wheelhouse. This is what they do best. This is what they love doing. This makes them millions upon millions of dollars (no speculation needed.)

No, their idiots for making it for current-gen consoles and not releasing it on PC. And there's nothing wrong with criticising a company for whoring itself out.

I don't blame Bungie for sticking to a similar style of game but I resent them for making the same shitty mistakes.

Quboid wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 20:36:

Eirikrautha wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 20:01:

Beamer wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 19:00:

jacobvandy wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 18:51:
So they were brainwashed by Microsoft's Xbox Division and now that they're on their own again, they still have that warped view of what the FPS genre should be. Great... Really makes me interested in the horse crap you're pushing (not).

Yes, it should be what the know how to do best and what they created one of the best selling video game series and titles of all time.

I love when people say "oh, so they're doing something similar to what made them beloved and rich? What idiots!"

Is it sad that I knew this post was from Beamer before I even looked at the name?

Dude, I HOPE to God you are getting a cut of some game company's profits, and not just parroting the corporate line for nothing. I mean, at least a whore is making money... but a slut is just a slut...

Care to make an argument against what he stated, or is this just a drive-by ad hominem attack? What he stated is perfectly reasonable IMHO, but then I'm probably being paid too - after all, that's more likely than two people actually being dumb enough to have a different view to yours.

jacobvandy wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 18:51:
So they were brainwashed by Microsoft's Xbox Division and now that they're on their own again, they still have that warped view of what the FPS genre should be. Great... Really makes me interested in the horse crap you're pushing (not).

mag wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 16:53:
Shooting them down will likened to shooting a police officer.

netnerd85 wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 16:47:

Beamer wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 16:24:
Remember when Wesley Snipes was sued for saying Blade 3 sucked? Yeah, it'd be like that.

But but it had Ryan Reynolds in it

netnerd85 wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 15:40:
You still sound like you are defending Gearbox Beamer, big Borderlands fan?

Icewind wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 13:38:
For me, Nintendo died after the SNES. I haven't enjoyed any system they've made that has come out after that.

Wallshadows wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 11:01:
It's built on the Unreal Engine 3 so there have been various tricks used to improve visuals based on what would work on other titles sporting the same engine. Programs such as SweetFX were released the day after ACM released which pushes it a little more in the direction of the demo footage as far as visuals are concerned.

Comparison shots are included on the website.

It's not much, but I'll install these goodies and see if they can at least make an impact on the atmosphere and setting.

Verno wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 11:41:
Ugh Dorner talk. You have to be a psycho to go out shooting people for perceived injustice, it's like some bizarro repulsive far right revenge fantasy. It reminded me of watching Law Abiding Citizen which should have been marketed as a comedy. Let's not drag that bullshit into this discussion which has legit implications, it just muddies the water and makes it easier for people to dismiss concerns.

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 10:54:

Beamer wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 09:59:
WiiU sold under 100,000 in the US last month.

Who's surprised?

I am. The thing's never going to sell as well as the Wii but I thought it would do better than that. That said, Nintendo gets into stuff as a marathon, not a sprint. A light launch can be immediately rectified by good software which they have coming. Not a guarantee of course but historically, those who bet against Nintendo usually end up being wrong.

NegaDeath wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 11:26:
They had the same issue with the 3DS, gimmicks don't sell anymore. Then they dropped the price and games started coming out and it is doing quite well right now. Nintendo learns, eventually.

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 10:46:

Verno wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 10:24:

xXBatmanXx wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 10:04:

Here’s the drone the county sheriff wants to fly over your backyard.

I have no problem with this. The law says you have no expectation of privacy outside of your cartilage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtilage) - anything outside of the walls of your home is considered NOT PRIVATE. Anyone at anytime can "walk through your yard"....yea, those NO TRESPASSING signs....yea about those....

What the law says and what will happen when someone does that are two very different things. Also I don't want CCTVs and an overhead drone fleet watching my every movement, if that doesn't scream governmental abuse then I don't know what will. Instruments of control need to be applied very carefully on society as a whole, less is more.

The locals here priced it out to 8k a unit for the drones they wanted (which apparently have some form of rudimentary IR mapping) and did some "creative" budgeting to make it work, thankfully the town shut down the funding.

Now if people want to deploy drones for surgical strikes on patent trolls, that's something I can get behind

This ^ It's not like cops follow laws all the time either, just look at that Chris Dorner incident. There's no reason to have drones patrolling US skies, 1984 here we come, won't be long now, they just need to succeed in taking all the guns away first.

Ecthelion wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 08:05:

PropheT wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 00:48:

mag wrote on Feb 14, 2013, 21:57:
Still better than the 360 ones!

The 360 triggers are just about perfect.

So is the offset stick design that I see they didn't go with on the PS4 controller again.

I'm not being a troll; I'm genuinely curious. Why do people think sticks that aren't aligned are actually better?

When I'm holding a controller, aligned thumb sticks just feel natural to me. I've never owned a Xbox or 360, but every PC gamepad I've used has thumbs sticks set up roughly like the Dual Shock's ones.

Verno wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 08:59:
I just want less mushy triggers and shorter thumbsticks, the position is fine to me. A bit more heft and easily removable batteries would be nice too.

InBlack wrote on Feb 15, 2013, 10:35:
Beamer and Bats you are both forgetting or disregarding the leaps and bounds intelligent software is making with regards to going through mountains of data both textual and visual.

The NSA is already basically "combing" the desert with regards to internet traffic both domestic and international, and DARPA is developing blimp drones that will be able to monitor hundreds of square miles of territory up to a resolution of a few centimeters.

Manpower is not key here, smart AI like software is. And that shit is pretty damn smart already.