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Re: Terraria Content Update Plans |
May 24, 2013, 14:27 |
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Creston wrote on May 24, 2013, 14:17:
Okay, so can someone summarize what Starbound is? Terraria in space?
Creston
The basic idea is that it's a scaled up version of Terraria with a lot of procedural generation. You get a universe with up to, I believe 100 procedurally generated planets/moons. Each one is a particular "biome" with its own sub-biomes. So you'll have a lava world, or an ice world, or a weird tentacle world, forest world, etc. they haven't revealed all the biomes. You have a ship that you can customize and decorate in addition to whatever you build on planets.
A lot of the monsters are procedurally generated creatures, kinda like Spore. So you'll have a different set of enemies on each planet. Weapons are a mix of unique and procedurally generated, kinda like Borderlands.
Each planet has a difficulty level. This affects the difficulty of the monsters, and I believe also what kind of materials you can find there. So there's a progression to the planets.
Player characters can be male or female of one of a number of different species, and each species gets its own set of armor sprites, and some various other species-specific abilities. There's a research system where you can research new gadgets and abilities to improve your character beyond just your armor and weapon. Special attacks, that sort of thing.
It's much larger in scope than Terraria, and hard to explain everything. But that's the basics.
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
May 24, 2013, 13:53 |
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Quboid wrote on May 24, 2013, 13:33:
NKD wrote on May 24, 2013, 12:54:
Yeah, it's some Orwellian bullshit
My first thought too, although even George Orwell couldn't have dreamt up the idea that people would be paying a few hundred bucks for the pleasure. If he'd written about people queuing up overnight (as well very likely be the case) to plonk down cash for their surveillance system, he'd have been laughed out of his publisher's office.
Hah. Yeah. People are all too willing to voluntarily give up their freedom and privacy inch by inch. They'll even pay a company to do it! Since it happens slowly over time, people don't even know it's happening.
The worst part is that it isn't even the government. People aren't being forced to give up anything by threat of imprisonment or violence. They aren't being oppressed, because these big entertainment companies literally have no leverage on them. If everyone changed their buying & watching habits, they could kill Big Content in a matter of months. When it comes to people vs. big consumer industries we literally have ALL the power, but choose not to use it.
By simply holding on to our money instead of spending it, we could collapse whatever company we wanted in a matter of months. People act as if they are under the heel of the big boot of the corporations, but the truth is, they are under our heel, and the bulk of us are too stupid to get together and squish them. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
May 24, 2013, 12:54 |
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jdreyer wrote on May 24, 2013, 12:41:
As for that visual DRM, that sounds like it violates the warrantless search clause of the USA constitution.
You need to brush up on your Consitutional Law. The 4th Amendment refers to search & seizure by the police or agents acting on their behalf. It doesn't apply to voluntarily submitting to a visual search by a non-governmental entity protecting its non-government interests.
What a company and it's customers agree to via a EULA or other means is outside the realm of the 4th Amendment, and most other Constitutional issues because the Constitution is about telling the government what it can't do, not telling private citizens and private companies what they can't do.
Yeah, it's some Orwellian bullshit, but the Constitution doesn't become relevant until Microsoft starts sending the data it gathers to the government and thus becomes an agent of law enforcement. |
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| News Comments > Terraria Content Update Plans |
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Re: Terraria Content Update Plans |
May 24, 2013, 11:09 |
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| Shameless shilling: The kind of spiritual successor to it, Starbound, is coming along nicely as well. The Starbound devs are doing daily updates on their progress over at playstarbound.com |
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| News Comments > Square Enix America President Departs |
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Re: Square Enix America President Departs |
May 24, 2013, 06:50 |
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Cutter wrote on May 23, 2013, 13:47:
Who the hell would hire someone like that? It never ceases to amaze me. Fucking suits basically destroy a company while getting paid an obscene amount, walk out with a golden parachute, and move on to do it somewhere else. Meanwhile, most people are lucky if they can hold on to their job for the slightest infraction. Tell me again how we're free?
I know you're probably just doing more of your usual hit and run ranting and don't want an actual discussion, but for the benefit of other people:
In the absence of any hard information showing incompetence or malfeasance, you can pretty safely assume that sudden CEO departures are the results of internal pressure from shareholders and other insiders looking for someone to blame. CEOs are scapegoated like a motherfucker in the corporate world, and more than any other consumers, gamers love to play along.
So, to answer your question, "Who the hell would hire someone like that?" People who know how the game is played and have been in this guys shoes before. I haven't seen any reports that this guy was incompetent or did anything shady while at Square Enix. The further you get up the corporate ladder, the more likely you are to be canned for politics, rather than for cause. People get their golden parachutes because while a company may have to get rid of you to shut some whiners up, they aren't going to punish you when they know full well you're just being railroaded.
Hell, even minimum wage slaves can tell you about times they've seen perfectly competent co-workers fired just because the manager or owner didn't like them.
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| News Comments > Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in August |
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Re: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in August |
May 23, 2013, 20:44 |
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| It's really unusual that they've spent so much time and money basically redoing the game instead of just flushing it down the toilet. I wonder if it's any good now? |
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 23, 2013, 02:22 |
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Kajetan wrote on May 23, 2013, 01:58:
NKD wrote on May 22, 2013, 21:41:
You're the second person to make a comment like this, and honestly, people said the same thing a decade ago. But a decade ago there was no incentive to abandon Windows as a gaming plattform. Now there is. The circumstances have changed. MS does no longer support PC gaming.
I really don't see any more incentive today than there was 10 years ago. Sure, Microsoft doesn't really make first party PC games anymore, but they've done nothing to hinder Windows as a games platform either.
It's still the best platform for making PC games, and will continue to be for the forseeable future unless something drastic happens.
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 22, 2013, 21:41 |
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TychoCelchuuu wrote on May 22, 2013, 21:27:
Yawn. Steam's taking baby steps onto Linux - in a decade I wonder if anyone's going to have to care about Windows at all when it comes to gaming.
You're the second person to make a comment like this, and honestly, people said the same thing a decade ago.
Even if by some miracle Linux was to take off as a gaming platform, what exactly do we gain other than saving a few bucks on a software license every 4-6 years? And that's only for those who didn't just pirate Windows anyway (come on, who actually pays?)
You can already develop a game for Windows without paying MS anything, and distribute it however the hell you want, and there is an immense amount of libraries, APIs, and middleware out there that are entirely free to use, and the Windows install base is already omnipresent, with no need to convert people from another OS.
If there's something holding back PC game development, it ain't Windows. Linux at best is a sideways move, and quite frankly in its current state, a step backwards for game development. |
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 22, 2013, 20:32 |
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ASeven wrote on May 22, 2013, 20:10:
This is the beginning of the end for MS as a relevant company, calling it right here.
So when can I call you on being wrong? Never? because "beginning of the end" is so vague as to mean nothing? Let's put a year on it. When does MS go out of business? |
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| News Comments > Morning Interviews |
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Re: Morning Interviews |
May 21, 2013, 20:57 |
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Former Porn Star: Why I'll never take a stranger's dick in my ass again.
Who cares? |
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| News Comments > Xbox One Announced |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
May 21, 2013, 19:40 |
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Fion wrote on May 21, 2013, 19:22:
And Beamer, I'm rather surprised they even went with that big a HD. After all they make a fortune selling 60gb xbox 360 HD's for $90.
Since you can attach whatever USB 3.0 external storage to the thing and use it for anything the internal drive is used for, they probably aren't going to be making a lot off selling their own drives. |
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| News Comments > Evening Patches |
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Re: Evening Patches |
May 20, 2013, 22:19 |
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Rattlehead wrote on May 20, 2013, 20:30:
I find it funny that Microvolts is on Steam, considering it's just another Chinese knock off.
I believe it's Korean... |
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| News Comments > Obsidian Joins Skyforge Team |
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Re: Obsidian Joins Skyforge Team |
May 20, 2013, 00:16 |
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Slashman wrote on May 19, 2013, 23:42:
How is it that large publishers and developers still think that WoW clone MMOs are the cash cow of the future?
Who knows. Even fucking SOE knows the WoW-clone EverQuest descendant is dead. Their next EQ game is gonna be some kind of sandbox game. |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
May 19, 2013, 15:30 |
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Quinn wrote on May 19, 2013, 14:55:
There's no crime in ridiculing religion. If you ask me, it's high time to do so.
Yep. People need to stop tip-toeing around religion and making excuses for it for fear of offending people. It needs to be exposed as the kooky fairy tale it is, and people need to learn that you can be a good person without threat of eternal damnation.
I think people have the right to believe in their kooky fairy tales, but I don't think they have a right to try to impose it on the rest of us via legislation and excluding non-believers from holding office. |
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| News Comments > Obsidian Joins Skyforge Team |
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Re: Obsidian Joins Skyforge Team |
May 19, 2013, 14:55 |
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Creston wrote on May 19, 2013, 14:39:
So how big is Obsidian these days? Because they're working on quite a lot of projects at the moment.
Creston
You can do a lot with a relatively small employee count when you don't hire any QA! *zing* |
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| News Comments > Game Reviews |
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Re: Game Reviews |
May 19, 2013, 02:31 |
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| Guy is going to hell for even playing that game, so... |
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| News Comments > Trion Layoffs |
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Re: Trion Layoffs |
May 18, 2013, 23:01 |
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Parallax Abstraction wrote on May 18, 2013, 22:09:
NKD wrote on May 18, 2013, 13:03:
The real reason Cutter thinks he's always right is that every time he is right, he points it out. Every time he is wrong, no one gives enough fucks to call him on it. Someone could literally go through his post history and list hundreds of times he was wrong, but he knows no one is going to waste that kind of time on him.
Plus, like you said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you say everything sucks and everything is going to fail in an industry wher e most things do suck, and most things do fail, you're hardly showing any kind of special insight. You're just making the safe bet.
So you're saying that Cutter is actually Michael Pachter's Blue's persona? 
Wow... now that you mention it... |
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| News Comments > Trion Layoffs |
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Re: Trion Layoffs |
May 18, 2013, 13:03 |
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Redmask wrote on May 18, 2013, 12:53:
The thing about 50/50 guesses...they don't make you some sort of visionary 
Cutter is one of those vaccinations cause autism clowns? El oh fucking el.
The real reason Cutter thinks he's always right is that every time he is right, he points it out. Every time he is wrong, no one gives enough fucks to call him on it. Someone could literally go through his post history and list hundreds of times he was wrong, but he knows no one is going to waste that kind of time on him.
Plus, like you said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you say everything sucks and everything is going to fail in an industry wher e most things do suck, and most things do fail, you're hardly showing any kind of special insight. You're just making the safe bet. |
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| News Comments > Trion Layoffs |
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Re: Trion Layoffs |
May 18, 2013, 11:33 |
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Cutter wrote on May 18, 2013, 11:27:
winnetou wrote on May 18, 2013, 04:38:
I didn't like Cutter's remark either, but let's keep RL references out of here.
It's not my fault I'm almost always right. It does, however, tend to piss off other people. Shit, truth hurts I guess.
Alright, this can't really be Cutter. He's always overcompensated for whatever sad little person he is IRL, but this is reaching parody levels. I wonder if Blue can check IPs to make sure nothing shady is going on here. |
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| News Comments > Trion Layoffs |
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Re: Trion Layoffs |
May 18, 2013, 04:32 |
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Cutter wrote on May 17, 2013, 20:02:
Good riddance to this company!
Comical coming from someone who works for Monsanto. |
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