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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Apr 11, 2013, 09:02 |
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| Yeah, smart move Microsoft, get embroiled in a big war with the cablecos. Most of them don't want you anywhere near their STBs, they want their VOD/subscriber revenue protected. One only needs to look at TiVo to see how that ends up, their subscriber base continues to dwindle and they exist solely because of their patent trolling. |
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| News Comments > Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
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Re: Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
Apr 11, 2013, 09:00 |
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noman wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 19:35:
This much idiocy in one paragraph should be a felony.
So you don't have an actual response then? He had some good points and your failure to answer pretty much defeats your entire argument here. |
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| News Comments > Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Footage |
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Re: Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Footage |
Apr 11, 2013, 08:59 |
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Demons Souls has more memorable bosses and characters but the mechanics are a bit rougher and it has weird unbalanced stuff like buyable healing items in unlimited supply.
I did like its hub world design, the inter-connected levels in Dark Souls are fine and it lends some credence to the world building but I do miss The Nexus. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Footage |
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Re: Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Footage |
Apr 11, 2013, 08:44 |
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Wooot Dark Souls 2! Never been so happy to see a sequel.
Like what sort of shortcuts and secrets?
When you get to certain points you can kick down a ladder to provide access between areas, open up a gate, stuff like that is what I'm assuming hes referring to.
The spawning system in Dark Souls makes sense, without it people would just cheese the levels. It isn't a hindrance anyway, eventually your skill at the game increases to the point where you can run the whole thing easily. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Apr 10, 2013, 19:00 |
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Cutter wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:46:
Verno wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:28:
The municipalities make the whole process even more annoying than the incumbent issues. Annoying and expensive permit issues, potential conflicts with local unions, hostile residents, etc. It's not uncommon to deal with bribery and corruption too. Getting fiber laid anywhere is a fucking nightmare, when I worked at UUNet we would basically spec out a project then multiply our final figure by three to account for municipality bullshit and other problems.
And what about the many cases where the Telcos/Cablecos aren't picking up the slack and actually suing municipalities who want to build and maintain their own infrastructure because they have no other option. No, the big COs are the real problem.
I've actually worked in the sector and there is no one single problem, there are a series of them and they're all cumbersome. Of course modern incumbents are throwing their weight around and being stupid, that doesn't excuse all of the issues municipalities introduce into the equation though. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
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Re: Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
Apr 10, 2013, 15:46 |
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noman wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:22:
Steam is one of the worst DRM's around. It doesn't allow playing *different* games simultaneously from the same account, let alone running the same game on different PCs. The offline mode is still not fully functional, in the sense, that you often have to be online to go offline.
Nah you can launch multiple games at the same time I think, I remember doing it by accident once. You can't be logged into the same account at the same time from different locations for obvious reasons. Also the offline mode works fine now, they finally fixed it up a few patches ago. If you get unplugged there's a time out period then it asks you to go into offline mode, I use it all the time on the road. The spawned copy concept of games has unfortunately died out too so I can't really fault them for not having that. Most of your points would need cooperation/permission from the industry as well.
I'm all for criticizing Steam for its faults (jumbled and conflicted UI, lack of direction and roadmap, Friends downtime, no trading of old games, etc) but many of yours seem outdated.
I do wish there was a shared library feature where 2 people could both purchase and play games from the same library but sadly people would abuse the shit out of it and commit piracy on a massive scale. I think per user accounts is an acceptable compromise for the features Steam provides in exchange. I'd also like to see the ability to give away older games but that will never happen, the gaming companies would cry bloody murder. Steam is the way it is because this is what the industry would accept and even then it was an uphill battle the whole way.
This comment was edited on Apr 10, 2013, 15:52. |
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| News Comments > Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
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Re: Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
Apr 10, 2013, 15:34 |
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| What's really sad is that the Aliens RPG looked really neat and it got canned in favor of this turd. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - ShootMania: Storm |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - ShootMania: Storm |
Apr 10, 2013, 13:39 |
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| I can't bring myself to play something that looks absurdly generic and is literally called "ShootMania" without a hint of irony. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
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Re: Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
Apr 10, 2013, 13:00 |
Verno |
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It's going to be this years Snuggle Truck Christmas Time Prank gift IMO. Could we have found the one game Prez doesn't own?!  |
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| News Comments > SQUARE ENIX on Tomb Raider Shortfall |
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Re: SQUARE ENIX on Tomb Raider Shortfall |
Apr 10, 2013, 12:32 |
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BitWraith wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:52:
Verno wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:42:
Source for what exactly? The Uncharted 3 numbers or that Tomb Raider used to be a big franchise?
For "Tomb Raider used to be one of the biggest franchises in gaming." Biggest is probably a stretch. Big, sure.
It is unquestionably one of the bigger PC franchises given its relative popularity and popular culture awareness over the past fifteen years. Bigger doesn't have to mean sales but even those are pretty impressive considering how small the market was for the majority of its lifetime. Square-Enix still had unrealistic expectations but that's not exactly out of the norm for the Japanese side of the company, they've been guilty of that with many of their own projects as well.
My opinion is that Tomb Raider suffered from continual rebooting which has damaged the brand and the most recent entry appeared at a bad time in the gaming industry in general. This will go a long way toward addressing that in the future though hopefully. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Apr 10, 2013, 12:28 |
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| The municipalities make the whole process even more annoying than the incumbent issues. Annoying and expensive permit issues, potential conflicts with local unions, hostile residents, etc. It's not uncommon to deal with bribery and corruption too. Getting fiber laid anywhere is a fucking nightmare, when I worked at UUNet we would basically spec out a project then multiply our final figure by three to account for municipality bullshit and other problems. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
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Re: Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
Apr 10, 2013, 12:26 |
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SlimRam wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 11:05:
I'm done with single-ply toilet paper! After a explosive night of tequila shots and nuclear hot wings I don't need to be reaching for 20 feet of paper when I'm in gastro-intestinal distress!
Uh, sorry, that was just a wee bit off topic...sorry 
Hahah well played sir. |
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| News Comments > SQUARE ENIX on Tomb Raider Shortfall |
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Re: SQUARE ENIX on Tomb Raider Shortfall |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:42 |
Verno |
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| Source for what exactly? The Uncharted 3 numbers or that Tomb Raider used to be a big franchise? |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:38 |
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| Sony apparently walked that language back after the fact, I think they will just let publishers do their own thing. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:36 |
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Whoops double post  |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:35 |
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| Breaking Bad is such a weird show, describing it to others makes it just sound totally insane and stupid but somehow it's amazing. I like the people who still seem to have hopes for Walt even when the entire show is about his gradual moral disintegration and over compensating arrogance. It's been a treat from start to finish, when its over I'm just going to delete it so I never spoil it with a rewatch where you start picking it apart. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:30 |
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| Blame the municipalities who making laying fiber a fucking nightmare. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
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Re: Aliens Colonial Marines Patch Patched |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:29 |
Verno |
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InBlack wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 09:27:
I think that at this point Gearbox should probably just forget about this game and pretend it never existed, because constant patching will only keep it fresh in the memory of everyone who witnessed the fiasco and polishing a turd wont make the turd smell any less bad....
If nothing else, standing behind a product is something people can respect so I totally disagree with you. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Hardware Reviews |
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Re: Hardware Reviews |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:27 |
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| The Crucial M500 is like $0.60 per GB for a 960GB unit, crazy prices for a great drive. |
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Playing: Faster Than Light, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS
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| News Comments > Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
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Re: Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
Apr 10, 2013, 10:27 |
Verno |
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| I'm ultimately fine with this simply because I get other things from Steam in exchange for the DRM. I can see how people who really care about DRM would dislike it but sadly the industry hasn't really embraced GOG the way people were hoping. |
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