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News Comments > Evening Consolidation

The Orange Box cost me $45 (£20) and had 3 games, loads of content and many hours of gaming both by myself in single-player and online. You're forgetting that pretty much every HL-fan already had one of the games in that box. Gift option? Meh. I still have mine unused - as everyone I know who might be interested in the game and that I'd want to give it to, already has it anyways. I bought it for Ep2, personally. Portal was a very pleasant bonus but not something I'd pay for on its own unless it was priced very aggressively, and TF2 I've never played as I don't much care for online fps.. Online zombie-shooter _tailor_made_ for coop, though? I'd fork over $80 for this if I had to. Gladly. I guess people's perception of value differs This comment was edited on Nov 1, 2008, 19:30.

Re: Evening Consolidation

Nov 1, 2008, 15:17

News Comments > "Mom-Friendly" StarCraft II

Too bad the greedy pigs charge two arms and a leg for 120GB drives, though.. Giving gamers the ability to go with any drive for their PS3s is something Sony should get loads of cred for. They could easily have followed the same greedy proprietary peripheral route as MS. And let's not even talk about Nintendo. I'll definitely want to replace my 20GB drive now, but I doubt I'll bother until the time of the next RROD comes around and I exchange the whole box for an Elite... You could easily get a standard 500GB drive for what they're asking for the thing, and that stings a little too much in the general principle department. This comment was edited on Nov 1, 2008, 15:20.

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Oct 30, 2008, 18:13

News Comments > Tomb Raider: Underworld PC Demo for Halloween

Improve your AI, utilize multiple cores, and make units that can think for themselves; let me focus on strategy and orchestrating awesome battles. Telling AA units and repair vehicles to stay behind unit formations is not strategy, it's babysitting. Same goes for having to tell my units what way to face. Sounds like EndWar might be your thing. I know next to nothing about the game, but from the trailer I watched a while back, it does exactly this. Gives you fairly "general" control of larger units (ie squad 1, advance on objective) but not letting you micromanage.. How well it does it remains to be seen though. Voice control has the potential to suck greatly. At any rate it'll be impossible to play with other people in the house

Re: Tomb Raider: Underworld PC Demo for Halloween

Oct 28, 2008, 20:45

News Comments > Fallout 3 Warning

I just tried the 360 demo, I'm not impressed. The puzzle/paths you need to take are a bit confusing at times but the camera drives me nuts. It's hard enough to move around and look at the area but the camera keeps doing what it wants to do rather than what I want to do. That pretty much kills it for me, then. I really enjoyed Legend, but I can't stand a game where the biggest challenge is making the camera point where you want it to..

Re: Fallout 3 Warning

Oct 28, 2008, 13:40

News Comments > Hellgate End Date

A game developer who actually played games would always allow the option of the game to continue after the main objective is complete. They actually did include this in Oblivion.

Re: Hellgate End Date

Oct 24, 2008, 18:01

News Comments > Dark Horizon Demo

I'm sure both remaining players will be grievously disappointed.

Re: Dark Horizon Demo

Oct 24, 2008, 05:51

Nice. Review-headlines such as "In space, no-one can hear you yawn" coupled with negative word-of-mouth has pushed this far into my backlog for the moment. Now I'll at least be able to get some clue as to whether it's as bad as everyone says. I can almost buy a space-sim as an act of charity given the state of the genre, but not quite..

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Re: Far Cry 2 Widescreen Issue

Oct 23, 2008, 16:46

If you read the gamespy review for far cry 2 you would have read about this problem and the reason the game got 3.5 out of 5 rating. Too bad they didn't add a quick-travel system. Aside from the game being vastly improved, we could all enjoy reading rants from elitist pc gamers screaming their lungs off due to their precious game being dumbed down and infected with consolitis.

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Re: Far Cry 2 Widescreen Issue

Oct 23, 2008, 16:43

Lowest common denominator. Every dollar they spend on supporting tech that everyone won't benefit from is a dollar that could be in their pocket. So the reason for PS3/360 touting HD as the main feature would be.... what, exactly? Your argument makes absolutely no sense. In any case, with the amount of credit you give these silly brainless console zombies, they shouldn't notice 4:3 vs 16:9 issues anyway, right? Better to design for the enlightened crowd that is PC gamers! Pff. Give me a break.

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Re: Far Cry 2 Widescreen Issue

Oct 23, 2008, 16:28

I think it's a question of reward. Many companies design a game based on a console player experiencing the game. There is little to no reward for that company putting extra time and energy into making the game more appealing to the PC gamer crowd when you are trying to make a console game. LOL, how the Hell do you manage to make this a console vs. PC issue? As far as your claim goes, I'd wager most people with a next-gen console also have a widescreen HDTV to go with it by now... Put differently, I know far more people who own a widescreen TV-set than a widescreen monitor.

Re: Far Cry 2 Widescreen Issue

Oct 23, 2008, 13:10

News Comments > Mythic on The Old Republic

nothing that affected the gameplay experience at all. Not to mention that the widescreen mode was the one used by devs/designers themselves.. So actually, that so-called "butchered" view everyone complained about was the correct one, in that respect...

Re: Mythic on The Old Republic

Oct 22, 2008, 04:12

they are absolutely one of the premiere developers in the industry And all that talent is now going to waste making an MMO Bring me KOTOR singleplayer please, not yet another generic grind where the biggest impact you can hope to make in the hopelessly static&rigid world is removing yellow exclamation-marks over questgivers' heads.. Or give me more X-Wing/TIE-fighter goodness. The space-sim genre is highly underrated. Imagine a space-trader game like Freelancer set in the days of the old republic. Droolworthy indeed. On an interesting sidenote, my Dead Space pre-order arrived today, and while watching the intro where you drop out of hyperspace in your mini-rescue-ship into this nice vista of planet & debris, I suddenly found myself thinking "damn, I wish this game was about piloting this ship around the galaxy"

News Comments > Dexter on PCs

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Re: No subject

Oct 19, 2008, 05:12

I'm trying to still wrap my head around how they can actually make a game around Dexter... Point&click adventure is the best I can think of, personally. Might not hve been so bad.

News Comments > Game Reviews

Review

Oct 16, 2008, 04:05

On a side note, it's a bit interesting to see how everyone automatically draws the conclusion that negativity = good journalism&honesty. If you read the NMA thread, you'll see a crowd more jaded even than what you'll find here. Reading the comments is highly amusing, reminding me of that ridiculous topic which made headlines some months back. Naturally with that attitude, they're going to hate it no matter what. That said, a lot of the issues raised seem valid. If VATS sequences are not interruptible, this game will last me all of 5 minutes before I flip... Cut&Paste dungeons sounds highly plausible and Oblivion-esque, and I can fully see the world feeling overcrowded.Oblivion was reputedly bigger area-wize, and even that didn't really feel big. Distances would look big on the map but once you started walking, you'd be there in a couple of minutes. Even so, this is one of about two negative reviews/previews I've seen, out of at least ten. Why does everyone naturally assume THIS is bang on honest and accurate, and the other ones were paid for by Bethesda? Couldn't it also be the case that this writer picked the Slant-perk? I'll cling to my hopes this turns out nicely for a little while longer This comment was edited on Oct 16, 2008, 04:10.

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Re: Jeez, what's the big deal

Oct 15, 2008, 12:47

But 99% of people claiming they will 'cancel their pre-order' never pre-ordered the game. I'm in the 1% and 0.2%. I'm special! All in a day's work.

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Re: Well, so much for Far Cry 2...

Oct 15, 2008, 12:24

Does Fallout 3 or Red Alert 3 use it? Because those are the other two I planned on buying this month. Can't speak for RA3, but rumour has it FO3 will only use a simple CD-check.

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Re: Upgrade vs. new computer

Oct 15, 2008, 11:16

BZZT! Bioshock didn't require any user-side intervention - they just made the servers just accept activations rather than keep count. A server-side fix beats the hell out of no fix at all, but I'd prefer to have the garbage removed from the client-side. I'm willing to reluctantly accept this scheme (I did buy Bioshock in the end..), as it essentially amounts to online activation. I'm not thrilled about that either, though. Why should I have to dial in for SINGLEPLAYER? Anyway, FC2 is off my buy-list along with Crysis Warhead. Spore never interested me in the least anyway, so that's no loss in my book.

Re: No subject

Oct 15, 2008, 10:18

News Comments > Blizzard Video Interviews

Consider me in the 0.2% then. I just canceled my preorder. As long as they don't ship with a guarantee that they'll remove the activation-restriction entirely six months down the road, they can strike one customer off their list. I just can't be arsed to uninstall every single game individually every time I do a reformat. That's assuming the reason for the aforementioned reformat enables me to actually do that in the first place. This comment was edited on Oct 15, 2008, 10:21.

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Re: Don't Blizzard work on 5 games?

Oct 15, 2008, 08:04