eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 17, 2012, 02:21:
But that is a direct result of lack of innovation. I am sure if they cared, they could make great unique or very fun PC and Console games, even if both run on both platforms. As long as controls/settings are fine.

My point merely is that big studios do not innovate. Look at RTS or FPS genres. No innovation, literally NILL. And Activision -> COD -> Starcraft 2 -> Diablo 3 perfectly demonstrate the point. COD is COD... Starcraft 2 is a direct SC1 clone (stagnation). Diablo 3 does less things than Diablo 2: LOD (regression!) and sadly people buy this crap by the boatload. And wonder why no new cool games come out from the big studios.

Despite the crap DRM, only Ubisoft actually releases (some) non-standard games. I just wish they would drop this stupid DRM because that would net em so much good-will.... but meh

Kastagir wrote on Jul 11, 2012, 03:22:
Steve Balmer is late to the party. Microsoft was out-innovated by Apple a long time ago.

The problem with these guys goes all the way back to Bill Gates, who said that the tablet wasn't a product Microsoft should make. Or a smartphone.

Jedi Master wrote on Jul 10, 2012, 12:07:
It was like TF2 crossed with Borderlands, but not in a good way.

After all, they already did BL and BL2 is about to come out, presumably with a few DLC releases afterwards. Do they really need to turn BIA into a BL clone? TF2 is TF2, leave it be.

The video game industry has become enthralled with this "me too" attitude and I really can't stand it anymore.

Sure new ideas may fail, but so will yet another CoD clone! At least TRY before you throw in the towel.

The industry could use more games like the first Portal. A short SP-only game that proved a concept and could be sold for $20. THEN you make the full-sized Portal 2 later to turn it into a total game.

MajorD wrote on Jul 7, 2012, 00:43:
How about some game footage; I just hope it isn't the goofy cartoon graphics ala the current Walking Dead game, or TF2, etc. I just can't take those games serious. If I want a cartoon, I'll watch Wall-E.

I don't have high hopes, but time will tell...

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jul 5, 2012, 14:24:
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What happens then? Costs spiral and games start costing $10 instead of $0.99. Then $20. Smaller indie players can't compete, the publishers take over and we're right back where we are now.

Mobile has revolutionised gaming and for the better in many ways but I'm getting real tired of hearing lazy press outlets talking about how all we'll be doing is playing games on tablets in 5 years and how $0.99 is the future and we're somehow going to be playing AAA blockbusters for that soon. It's just ridiculous to think that way. The industry needs major change but all that's happening right now is everyone's moving from one broken model to another model that they're trying their damndest to break again.

RailWizard wrote on Jul 1, 2012, 11:46:
It's basically a gold farmers wet dream economy, and Blizzard is right there grinning and drooling along side them.

Slashman wrote on Jun 29, 2012, 09:13:

Flatline wrote on Jun 29, 2012, 02:28:
*Flexes left hand*

Yup... I can still feel it. Holding down the left trigger button basically for 17 hours non-stop in Prototype injured that hand slightly, and do this day I can just barely feel the stiffness and the burn. For the longest time the first joint of my index finger was sore as f*ck as a direct result of playing that stupid game.

So for creating a game where I had to hold down the left trigger to basically do *anything* for 10+ hours and contributing to soft tissue damage, Radical can go fuck themselves.

Not sure why I'd ever want to play this with a controller. Mouse and keyboard worked more than fine for me. Nice to be able to look one way and run another. I had pin-point perfect control.

Creston wrote on Jun 27, 2012, 17:12:

Flatline wrote on Jun 27, 2012, 15:41:
I always thought it would be funny to have the mega weapon actually function as a massive, epic version of a mass effect relay, and you get the entire goddamn galaxy of intelligent beings together in Sol system, and everyone is there fighting the Reapers, and Shepard blows the weapon, and it evacs all non-reapers to another galaxy. BAM!. Non Servium. We choose to get off this goddamn merry-go-round. Keep the damn galaxy. There's a hundred billion others to inhabit.

Hahaha, that would have been fantastic.

It made more sense than the whole "oh look, we found a Mcguffin JUST as the Reapers invade, except it doesn't work without a Catalyst, that nobody has EVER met (the catalyst says so himself), yet somehow we know is required for the Crucible to function, even though the Crucible is basically just a BIG FUCKING BATTERY."

But eh, whatever. Mass Effect is fantastic for ~ 119 hours and 40 minutes, and turns a bit stupid for the last 20 minutes. At least the endings are no longer vomit inducing.

Creston

Creston wrote on Jun 27, 2012, 13:54:
I wished they had just kept it a mystery. Like what Sovereign said, that their motivations are so far beyond us we'll never understand it. Failing that, then make their motivation simply self-serving. The Reapers are an extra-galactic race that can only procreate and grow through absorbing entire cultures. It makes them very similar to the Borg, but at least the Borg made sense.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Jun 26, 2012, 17:51:
People still play Diablo 3?

SimplyMonk wrote on Jun 25, 2012, 17:20:

Cutter wrote on Jun 25, 2012, 15:40:
Whenever I see a term like "collectible cards" I just read it as 'money sink'.

Being a recovering CCG enthusiast, I can wholeheartedly agree. I still enjoy the games for the strategy, but I can no longer tolerate the collecting aspect. Not only do you have to be good at the strategy, but you also have to pay to not be at a severe disadvantage. Not exactly "Pay to Win", but close enough for me.

Des wrote on Jun 25, 2012, 10:28:
Wow, I've totally forgotten about this game. Does anyone play this?
I remember playing the beta or something, was fun if I remember, but I think BFBC2 was out at the time and also http://battlefield.play4free.com/ is better.

Anyway for free to play games, I'm totally hooked on Tribes Ascend, good old T2 (ish) action.

wtf_man wrote on Jun 25, 2012, 10:11:
Even if it is true that Apple changed the port... there will be adapters. About the only things that will be obsolete are cases (which are regularly obsoleted by the design changes), and the external battery products that connect right against the phone.

A bunch of rukus about nothing.

Dev wrote on Jun 23, 2012, 08:33:

MisterBenn wrote on Jun 23, 2012, 00:43:
and how much will it detract from the monetisation of the next product.

I think you give them too much long term credit.

Prez wrote on Jun 23, 2012, 10:51:
Ñone of this sounds like your typical big corporation arrogance to me. "Headless chickens" was mentioned earlier and all of Blizzard's behavior recently smacks of this exact thing. Seemingly gone is the Blizzard swagger and confidence of the earlier years, replaced by what looks more and more like anti-consumer policies, reactionary panic moves and a distinct lack of competence. It all adds up to the fact that Blizzard today is not the Blizzard we knew in the Warcraft/Starcraft days. At the risk of using a tired cliche, this is not the Blizzard you are looking for. Blizzard and Bioware both - how damn discouraging is that.

RollinThundr wrote on Jun 22, 2012, 14:35:
I don't think anyone is against helping out small businesses (not that 38 Studios really fits into that category) or having a safety net for veterans or people who are truly disabled that can't work.

Enahs wrote on Jun 23, 2012, 11:01:
This is what I said a while back about the ME3 ending, and I stick to it:
Why Enahs thinks you are all to simple minded to actually get the ending....! :)