Overon wrote on May 18, 2012, 16:10:

1AngryGamer wrote on May 18, 2012, 15:48:

Creston wrote on May 18, 2012, 15:46:

Overon wrote on May 18, 2012, 15:23:
Will torchlight require a persistent online connection for single player and/or a login like Diablo 3?

No, it won't.

Creston

OH NO ITS SO BAD TO HAVE THAT EEEEK!!! I CANT HANDLE THE YEAR 2012!

You mad bro?

space captain wrote on May 18, 2012, 14:03:
for most people, the core of life experience is an almost absolute irony... i.e. all their problems are caused by themselves, which they blame on everything else

Burrito of Peace wrote on May 18, 2012, 09:32:
Wake me up when we start making games called "Gratuitous Nudity and Big Ass Explosions".

WarChilde wrote on May 15, 2012, 16:21:

Slashman wrote on May 15, 2012, 15:16:
You actually lose progress when your game drops. You can't save so you are plunked back in the game with whole areas that you had explored now fogged out again(at least according to one of the first impression reviews). I mean I can't imagine what it would be like to have just nearly beat a hard boss and have your connection drop(either on your end or Blizzard's servers and have to do over the whole section that you just played through).

This is nearly the same as D2 (both single and online play). But in D2 you always restarted in town. In D3 you start at the last checkpoint.

UttiniDaKilrJawa wrote on May 14, 2012, 22:27:

Cutter wrote on May 14, 2012, 22:02:
Well, thats what happens when you try to make a console/pc hybrid/wow clone. I couldn't even bother finishing it. Far too repetitious in art assets, tedious quests, combat, etc. No jumping sucked. They went far too much for style over substance and that is why they fail. How on earth they think an MMO with the same crap is going to be some huge hit is beyond me. The taxpayers of RI should tell the govnor to pull the plug while they can.

Actually, I never even made it that far to find out all that stuff. As far as I was concerned the story just seemed extremely generic and failed to hook me at all. Which I found really dissappointing because I really like RA Salvatores stuff.

nin wrote on May 13, 2012, 12:18:

nofb wrote on May 13, 2012, 12:05:
Portal 2? It's quite old... how come?

$7 and all the free maps you can eat?

WarpCrow wrote on May 11, 2012, 12:34:
It's funny that Blizzard have been able to take the same thing PC gamers crucified Ubisoft for, take it to even further extremes, and successfully sell it as a feature.

Teddy wrote on May 11, 2012, 14:08:

MacLeod wrote on May 11, 2012, 12:19:

Cutter wrote on May 11, 2012, 11:59:
If George is so passionate about the series he should bloody well finish it instead of playing rockstar.

Yea, really. I'm concerned that he's going to croak before he finishes the damn thing. Then we'll get someone like Kevin J. Anderson to finish the series and I'll have to smash my head in trying to read it.

Then again, I'm sure even if he finishes it, KJA (and maybe, deciding to branch out from ruining his father's works, Brian Herbert) will decide to write prequel and sequel books that were found on spiral notebooks buried under the floor of his house with notes for another 5 book ideas.

Man, am I bitter over those crappy Dune prequel/sequel novels.

The scary thing is George RR Martin has said multiple times that he hates the procedure traditionally involved in writing. He doesn't do notebooks full of stuff, character boards, plot charts, or anything of the sort. It's all in his head. So if his mind goes (one way or the other) then so do the vast majority of the details on what was intended for future books.

It's also probably why it takes him so long to write a damn book, but then for all we know, it's part of what makes his books so good.

zombiefan wrote on May 10, 2012, 22:27:
...I'm all over this like stink on rice.

Acleacius wrote on May 10, 2012, 15:37:

RollinThundr wrote on May 10, 2012, 11:09:
Oh boo hoo poor PB. No one holds a gun to their head with contract signings, or prevents them from hiring more staff.

I'm glad your here to clarify PB's contracts and budgets. It's good to know your a legal expert on developer and publisher contracts.

nin wrote on May 9, 2012, 18:48:
Appreciate your honesty, Arthur.

Creston wrote on May 9, 2012, 12:33:
Point in case. Keep letting devs get away with this kind of shit, and you'll keep getting buggy games. And again, it's not THAT much to ask for a dev to fix a MAJOR gamebreaking bug like this, even if the publisher doesn't pay them for it. Bruno whatever had enough money to work on a new game for two-three years out of his own pocket, but he couldn't afford the... what? A week? Two weeks? to fix this bug?

You want to know why games on the PC are generally released in such a terrible state? Because gamers keep putting up with it and happily buy whatever next bug-ridden game comes out from the same developer.

/shrug.

Creston

Creston wrote on May 9, 2012, 00:29:

Slashman wrote on May 9, 2012, 00:22:
I have a huge number of hours in Titan Quest. There is an occasional hitch where the game seems to jump forward for half a second. Is that the 'dreaded' rubber-banding bug?

Its so infrequent as to have almost zero impact on the game. What the hell would you hold a grudge over something like that for?

Because unlike you where it seems to jump forward for half a second occasionally, for quite a lot of people it happens approximately every 10 seconds, and the jump is 3-4 seconds.

Now imagine playing the game like that.

Creston