PropheT wrote on Oct 4, 2012, 01:54:

mlw wrote on Oct 3, 2012, 23:17:
One word to debate this idiot: Skyrim

Well, 4 words kind of put that to rest when the future of that series is "The Elder Scrolls Online".

Anyway...Isn't that "one word" kind of his point?

If you could come up with a few more words I think you might be on to something, but the two other single player games from the last year that came to mind also have some kind of online component (Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma).

There seems to be quite a few people here calling him an idiot when what he's saying is really, really hard to argue with if you look at the list of AAA games from the last few years. There's less than a handful of them each year. What AAA single player games have hit this year? Dragon's Dogma is the only one I can even think of, since its online component isn't actual multiplayer.

Skyrim and Batman: AC were last year, what else was there?

Dev wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 19:42:
BTW, last time I ran impulse client, it looked and worked mostly the same as before gamestop bought it. I've bought one or two indie type games from gamestop since they got impulse, it worked fine.

For some reason I had to think of the walrus meme..... sorry (And If there isn't a walrus don't care meme, there should be.. )

Beamer wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 06:44:

Jerykk wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 03:31:

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 18:39:

Flatline wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 17:41:

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 15:53:

Flatline wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 15:28:
The gameplay in that video looked totally pedestrian and a lot like... well... dumbed down call of duty.

And the new pictures look like they took the previously available artwork, compressed the hell out of it, and slapped it back up in all it's ugly glory.

Except with some kind of pausing and action points I didn't have time to watch but can't imagine is a great idea.

Which was done in some James Bond game or another, Brothers in Arms, and a bunch of other games. Situational awareness isn't terribly new.

But it's basically a pause menu to activate all the nifty squad powers you get. Your "action points" is just a mana bar.

I mean, it was done in Fallout, too, but Fallout had so many other things going on that I actually enjoyed combat being taken away.
Again, haven't watched this video, but the brief bit I did see looked slow. No other way to describe it. Not deep, slow.

Pausing/slowing down time to let you strategize and manage your squad worked fine in Mass Effect, Dragon Age and every Infinity Engine RPG.

As for the XCOM shooter, it just seemed boring to me. It didn't really have any tension and appeared to be completely linear and scripted, two things that go against what XCOM stands for.

Yes, but only one of those was a shooter, and its combat aspects weren't terribly good. We can list plenty of games that were real time with pausing, but none really compare to what the XCOM FPS is, given that they're deep RPS games and not FPS games...

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 18:39:

Flatline wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 17:41:

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 15:53:

Flatline wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 15:28:
The gameplay in that video looked totally pedestrian and a lot like... well... dumbed down call of duty.

And the new pictures look like they took the previously available artwork, compressed the hell out of it, and slapped it back up in all it's ugly glory.

Except with some kind of pausing and action points I didn't have time to watch but can't imagine is a great idea.

Which was done in some James Bond game or another, Brothers in Arms, and a bunch of other games. Situational awareness isn't terribly new.

But it's basically a pause menu to activate all the nifty squad powers you get. Your "action points" is just a mana bar.

I mean, it was done in Fallout, too, but Fallout had so many other things going on that I actually enjoyed combat being taken away.
Again, haven't watched this video, but the brief bit I did see looked slow. No other way to describe it. Not deep, slow.

Acleacius wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 23:44:

The Half Elf wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 20:40:
BTW, has anyone ever bought anything from Gamestop PC Downloads? Not that I would because 1) prices, 2) it's Gamestop.

Same here, haven't and most likely won't.

Thanks for the coupon, it's very tempting for Dishonored. I'm still having problems with it being published by Bethesda and their console mentality. Funny thing is if it was just Arkane doing Kickstarter I'd be on it in a flash. I trust Arkane even if it was a beta. I wonder if they will be releasing an editor, that would convince me.

Rewatching Kick Ass, prepping for a little Chloe Grace action, baby! I swear if Arkane wasted her, there will be payback.

Smellfinger wrote on Sep 29, 2012, 08:00:
Why are we arguing about a series that wasn't very good to begin with? There are plenty of platformers from that era that deserve much more praise than Tomb Raider.

I knew someone would complain about that, and almost took it out.
You're 100% right, but I'm not a Tomb Raider fan. I dislike platforming. I wish Uncharted, especially the most recent, had less shooting and more exploring/puzzles, but I'm pretty happy I rarely had to line up jumps.
So, to me, it's a similar game with better mechanics.

Overon wrote on Sep 29, 2012, 17:53:
It better not have shitty console fov!

Beamer wrote on Sep 28, 2012, 15:14:
It's hard to go back to old games when newer games have done the same mechanics better. Like the Tomb Raider games - I'd much rather play Uncharted.

The old games I still play are ones that were never really topped. No one has done turn based as well as XCOM and JA2, so I still play those (but JA2 did everything JA1 did, only better, so JA1 is mostly dead to me.) I played Civ1 until Civ4 because I thought it was better than 2 and 3, but could never go back. If I had a working joystick I'd probably play Red Baron or Aces Over from time to time.

I am now slightly concerned that new XCOM may ruin old XCOM for me.

avianflu wrote on Sep 28, 2012, 13:11:
I played TR Anniversary and it had particularly terrible enemy AI that pretty much broke the game combat-wise. The super blurry textures in the remake didnt help either. TR's remake was not a good example to use in the article.

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 21:57:

Creston wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 21:11:

nin wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 15:16:

Deathhead wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 15:06:
It does say that the expected delivery date is April 2014 on the kickstarter page

It does, but anytime the goal is vastly exceeded and additional goals get tacked on, it can push that back a bit.

Yeah, April 2014 was for the original game. They've since added quite a few goals, and if they add an entire region with quests etc, it would not surprise me if this is easily 2+ years out, making it... gulp... 2015.

Creston

I know we are all hoping for the best. But with these goals, additional goals you do wonder when they start to bite off more then they can choose. Many of these games are promising PC/Mac/Linux, time, time and more time. Then they put out options, if you do this you'll get more game options. Like how do we know they would have been in or not? And if not, that is more time. Hope most of these kickstarters work out, some great ideas no doubt. But it is somewhat questionable all of these things.

Matshock wrote on Sep 25, 2012, 22:58:

Jerykk wrote on Sep 25, 2012, 21:50:

Matshock wrote on Sep 25, 2012, 16:36:
Amazon is listing $60 for digital. I see Dell is doing $50 though.

Huh.

Amazon was at 50 for XCOM EU DVD for a while then went to 60.

Pricing is all over the place for preorders these days.

The deluxe edition of FC3 is $60. Regular is $50. XCOM DVD is $60 because it has a bunch of physical goodies included. Digital download is $50.

I get all that- let's set aside XCOM.

UBI is:

a) charging $60 for digital delivery

b) withholding actual value content (missions, weapons) from the $50 boxed set that PC gamers don't want as a release product anyway AND it costs UBI more to deliver

They're pushing to $60.00- that's obvious. They're being half-assed about it like they are about their DRM.

If they push a non-deluxe digital version I'll retract but right now they're pushing $60.