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| News Comments > New SimCity Only Playable Online |
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Re: New SimCity Only Playable Online |
Mar 28, 2012, 10:39 |
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I realise the game activists on Bluesnews didn't play it but this sounds identical to Anno 2070's online component. Essentially there are gameplay mechanics that all players vote on or take part in that have bonus effects on your SP gameplay. I imagine all Simcities will exist within a fictional country and players will be able to vote for "presidents" or global policies that have bonus effects within SP gameplay.
Your SP games are still available when the network is offline, just that certain of these meta features are not. |
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| News Comments > Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter Becomes TAKEDOWN |
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Re: Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter Becomes TAKEDOWN |
Mar 26, 2012, 22:08 |
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nin wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 21:57:
I don't see any mention of that (did a search)
From the kickstarter's page:
What will the $200,000 be used for?
$200,000 will bring TAKEDOWN to Alpha. Private investors are lined up, but unsure of the market for an old-school tac shooter. A successful Kickstarter campaign will convince them that this is a viable market. Along with their investment, pre-sales of the game (A $15 Kickstarter pledge is a significant discount on the final game price) will also contribute to completion of the project. Kickstarters will have access to a closed Alpha. |
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| News Comments > Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter Becomes TAKEDOWN |
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Re: Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter Becomes TAKEDOWN |
Mar 26, 2012, 20:33 |
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According the Ground Branch forums Sonedecker did at least 'talk' to the guys on the kickstarter. I think he's too invested in his own vision to allow it to be taken over and seems ok with slowly plodding along on GB's development (although he works fulltime on actual military grade tactical shooters..so GB development is probably a secondary concern). It's a shame because GB has actual art resources created, it's way beyond the concepts in the kickstarter project.
This comment was edited on Mar 26, 2012, 20:39. |
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| News Comments > GTA5 Details Leaked? |
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Re: GTA5 Details Leaked? |
Mar 26, 2012, 12:28 |
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bhcompy wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 10:35:
sitting on my couch with a controller Guys guys, give up arguing PC is better. He played the couch card. Console gamers love their couches. Couchcouchcouchcoochycoocouchbeerfartscouchconsolecouch.
My next major PC upgrade will feature a couch. |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 3 Patch Plans |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Patch Plans |
Mar 25, 2012, 08:47 |
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TangledThorns wrote on Mar 25, 2012, 00:12:
I'm very annoyed that MAV riding will be removed  It made the gameplay fun!
MAV riding was dumbshit for dumbshits. I got kicked from a server once because I was mortaring MAV rider positions on top of a skyscraper no one else could reach. It was funny as hell since clearly the admin and his pals thought MAV riding was some super secret exploit that put them into a position that made them immune from fire. Suddenly they were all being bombarded and then oh nooo the bitching began how dare you kill us.
Might as well include jumppads. |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 3 Patch Plans |
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Re: Battlefield 3 Patch Plans |
Mar 24, 2012, 18:15 |
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I enjoyed BF3. Yeah I wish it had mod tools, but hardly any titles these days do. I could bitch about the lack of LAN, but who LANs these days anyhow? LAN parties sadly went the way of sleepovers a long long time ago.
Far as player numbers reflecting dislike amongst the community. What are the top games right now? CS? MW? The current crop of gamers don't keep me playing multiplayer titles the way I might have in my youth. |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
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Re: Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
Mar 24, 2012, 15:46 |
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Dev wrote on Mar 24, 2012, 11:24:
Dmitri_M wrote on Mar 24, 2012, 08:37:
Dev wrote on Mar 23, 2012, 19:46:
And yet I don't see notch crying about it. I don't see him putting crazy DRM into his game Notch and Minecraft are an anomaly. You think he even expected the level of success he got? Obviously he's not crying about piracy.
You can't compare the occasional hit indie game to products developed for a specific target market with investors, publishers and deadlines. High budget titles are designed to succeed EVERYTIME, they're not created for "fun". I wasn't the one that started the comparison.
Shrug. I wasn't aiming anything specifically your way. There's enough people bringing indie games into this conversation though. I don't think those titles have much relevancy. Unless you're an idealist that believes large scale for profit enterprises should behave like mom and pop operations and do things for the "love of it". |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
Mar 24, 2012, 15:40 |
Dmitri_M |
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| Ignoring the really generic title, Wargame: European Escalation is an outstanding PC RTS. High quality stuff. |
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| News Comments > Linux and OS X Wasteland 2 Funded |
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Re: Linux and OS X Wasteland 2 Funded |
Mar 24, 2012, 11:13 |
Dmitri_M |
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space captain wrote on Mar 24, 2012, 09:02:
im sitting in my poop and it feels good its how i roll
That's a really weird remark, Space Captain. I must be the only person here who doesn't have you on ignore. |
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| News Comments > Prey 2 Cancellation Rumors |
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Re: Prey 2 Cancellation Rumors |
Mar 24, 2012, 08:46 |
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| Yeah it looked nothing like Prey. Based on the concepts they could rebrand it as a Bladerunner style cyberpunk game and no one would be any the wiser. I think the art style drew more attention than the Prey connection. |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
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Re: Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
Mar 24, 2012, 08:41 |
Dmitri_M |
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Jivaro wrote on Mar 24, 2012, 02:06:
Jerykk wrote on Mar 24, 2012, 00:28:
Exactly. It's been proven time and time again that a game's success or failure has nothing to do with piracy.
True, however if you prevent or at least delay piracy you might be able to sell more of a completely crappy game then if people can test it first. That is why we get less demos...and demos that expire after a game launches. Hide how crappy it is so you can still pawn it off. Again..screwing over the legitimate paying customer.
Actually most devs don't sit in large leather chairs with cats on their arms strumming their fingers on a mahogany desk thinking "Don't release the DEMO or they'll realise our plan for world domination!"
PC market isn't important enough\PC gamers sample games in other ways = not worth creating a PC demo. |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
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Re: Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
Mar 24, 2012, 08:37 |
Dmitri_M |
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Dev wrote on Mar 23, 2012, 19:46:
And yet I don't see notch crying about it. I don't see him putting crazy DRM into his game Notch and Minecraft are an anomaly. You think he even expected the level of success he got? Obviously he's not crying about piracy.
You can't compare the occasional hit indie game to products developed for a specific target market with investors, publishers and deadlines. High budget titles are designed to succeed EVERYTIME, they're not created for "fun". |
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| News Comments > Linux and OS X Wasteland 2 Funded |
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Re: Linux and OS X Wasteland 2 Funded |
Mar 23, 2012, 18:59 |
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Carcifier wrote on Mar 23, 2012, 15:55:
I would expect Icewind Dale, slightly modernized. How could you expect more with the money they've got to work with?
I would be extremely impressed if they managed anything close to Icewind Dale..
eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 23, 2012, 17:15:
Infinity Engine era graphics were all modeled textured and lit in a 3d-suite, then rendered to tiles and put together as a "map" - that is so far beyond "indy" that it would have been hilarious. Exactly.
People around here can be really clueless about the technicalities of their hobby. |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
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Re: Ubisoft's DRM Stance Softening? |
Mar 23, 2012, 15:38 |
Dmitri_M |
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No solution to any of this, beyond perhaps publishers resigning themselves to piracy.
Publishers will always see pirated games as lost sales even when that isn't the case.
There's a large group of gamers who will freeload regardless of how good a title is. Although I hesitate to call them "gamers". There are a lot of people who just pirate anything because they can.
These "gamers" who pirate major titles aren't the ones buying indie games. Gamer's boycotting titles because of DRM are way in the minority. Publishers probably lump you in with the pirates. No amount of arguing is going to change their view on you, no amount of stating that you're boycotting a game over the DRM is going to change much beyond your ego.
Sadly, those of us willing to pay for PC titles are stuck in the middle. It's going to be that way for the foreseeable future. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 22, 2012, 21:06 |
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I've seen people complaining about Tebow Mania all over the internet..
I don't live in the States. What is a Tebow. |
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| News Comments > Stardock 2011 Customer Report |
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Re: Stardock 2011 Customer Report |
Mar 22, 2012, 07:10 |
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Sepharo wrote on Mar 21, 2012, 22:10:
Stardock's money maker (before the one-time sale of Impulse/SDC) was their Windows customization products. I wonder how that fits into Windows 8.
Dev wrote on Mar 21, 2012, 22:18:
MS has removed the ability to go to classic windows mode from windows 8 to lock in everyone into the new metro UI (in other words, dumbing down PC's to make them closer to phone/tablet style). Everything is going to be full screen now. I don't even know why they bother to call it "windows" anymore. So yeah, if stardock can restore some of that, then they will make a pile of money.
Stardock are on Microsoft's UI fuckups like a fly on shit.
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
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