Beamer wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 09:36:
Yup, I'd expect the monthly-payment-subsidized version, too. Not just XBL subsidized. That would actually be good for someone like me, as I will get XBL. It'll be just a subsidized. $200 down, $10 per month on top of XBL.

For $500 the Xbox needs to do something new. Every console since the NES has done something new:
1) SNES. Drastically improved graphics, tripled the number of buttons, all allowing for much more intricate games
2) N64/PS. 3D, again, allowing for more intricate games
3) GC/Xbox/PS2. Dual analog sticks, making 3D games more playable
4) 360/PS3. Big jump in RAM, plus online connectivity, allowing for huge hits like Oblivion or COD4

Not sure what will happen next. We already have enough RAM for huge worlds - yeah, it could be better but the development costs become unreasonable. I don't see them fixing most of the online issues because, often, they're design choices.
Of course more power and more RAM will make games more interesting, but more expensive to develop, and will they really be $500 more interesting?

Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 09:41:
Is it just me, or are the numbers unusual on this KS? $1.9m but only 22k backers?

nin wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 09:41:
I'd love to know how exactly much of a COD budget goes towards development vs marketing.

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 08:38:
Just saying, but thank you.. I didn't expect you to actually explain it properly

I find this science field one of the most interesting of all and so I was sad that nobody ever takes time to explain things anymore. (I mean, things from a basic level upwards, which is what one needs when one learned the COMPLETELY WRONG PHYSICS (apparently) in school).

Can you let me ask 1 more random question?

wouldn't the Silver atom detector experiment be explained by the Higgs Field doing it's thing? Or is this another matter entirely...?

yuastnav wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 08:19:

Overon wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 08:04:

mag wrote on Apr 7, 2013, 23:05:

Overon wrote on Apr 7, 2013, 21:59:
*Minor spoiler* The gist of the plot is what is called "the many world interpretation of quantum mechanics." It's not exactly fantasy rubbish. Additionally there is meaning in almost everything in the game which supports the plot and this is what sets it apart from other games.

The MWI is totally fantasy rubbish. It doesn't deserve to be taught as physics.

Currently it occupies a weird space in science because it has not been tested and may not even be testable in principal . It's an interesting possibility, an idea, where the math can work somewhat, that's the way I understand it.

A theory that cannot be tested is not much of a scientific theory, no? I do not know whether it can be tested or not but being able to be tested is kinda important.

InBlack wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 08:12:

jdreyer wrote on Apr 7, 2013, 15:11:
Skyrim is the freakin' Energizer Bunny of PC games.

Yeah this. This gives me hope that the next ES game will be their best. (Right now Morrowind is king)

Sadly the next TES game is going to be a mmorpg.

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 07:25:
I don't understand this at all. A proper experimental proof has never multiple interpretations. Why don't they just test each interpretation for validity?

As long as you can't tell me "Quantum mechanics work EXACTLY like this -> ....." exactly that long I won't consider quantum mechanics as anything more than a science that nobody working in it so far has fully understood. I mean, if they had understood quantum science, why can't they explain to us in layman terms how quantum mechanic works?

And what impression does it give when quantum scientists can't even agree among themselves what scientific fact is, and what speculation/interpretation is.

Someone really needs to explain this properly. Please I don't wanna become a quantum scientist, just explain to me what is the scientific truth. Without interpretation. Raw, experimentally deduced facts.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 7, 2013, 15:11:
Skyrim is the freakin' Energizer Bunny of PC games.

Tanto Edge wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 09:41:
While I don't give two shits about the MMO, I operate the D&D P&P game and get to hand out rewards to players of the MMO.

Flatline wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 19:50:

Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 18:52:
Agreed, D3 was much more of a fail than SC2. SC2 was probably what most people wanted, which was really SC1.5 -- and that's what they got. SC2 wasn't terrible, I did buy it. But it just didn't manage to grab me like the original did. Plus, despite playing WoW for 6 years, I find myself in the "I want my single player games to be offline" crowd. It was "okay", a minor stumble. D3 however was a clear fail, even prior to launch. I didn't even consider buying it.

SC2 took 10 years to put out. An *expansion pack* (and please, when 90% of the functions of the game are identical and you get new maps/story mode, that's an expansion) took 3 years to put out. The human story was forgettable- Rebel against Mensk, get some psychic tuner thing, get Kerrigan, roll credits. Oh, and cameo of the chick from StarCraft: Ghost that we'll never, ever get to see, and from Zeratuul.

It just... wasn't A-list level. Which is understandable, because the A-list devs are on Titan supposedly.

deqer wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 00:57:
Do not buy Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition

nin wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 09:44:

InBlack wrote on Apr 4, 2013, 09:33:
Im also thinking that this source code release is timed too well to be a coincidence. Maybe they are already in talks with Disney about making another Jedi Knight game? I know wishful thinking, but how cool would that be....

Anything that's written/designed now will have to fit in with any changes they make for the new movies...LIKE CHEWBACCA NOT DYING.

(Sorry, I'm still a little upset over that one, years later.)

I'd also like Disneys stance on a non-molested Original Trilogy release on blu.