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Re: Game Reviews |
Oct 15, 2009, 10:55 |
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While the gameplay is still engaging and extraordinarily deep, it's sadly let down by poor graphics and controls that feel creaky and obsolete. There is no box select, so you can only control one mercenary at a time (not that this matters when you're in combat), but having to individually select each of your mercs just to move them to another sector is frustrating, not to mention time consuming.
Back off, man! Shame on you! Casting unwarranted criticism at poor under-appreciated JA.
If you're going to do a retro review, how about some context?
Yeah, JA graphics are dated...circa 1994! The game is 15 years old, and you're giving it grief over the graphics and controls? It wasn't cutting edge for its time, but definitely adequate - especially if you consider that it was a totally innovative first stab at a new genre.
I'm almost certain that JA had a "Select All" feature...and I know you could ctrl-Select. Individually moving squaddies is a user error, not a fault of the game. (SirTech manuals were notoriously sparse, but still...did you check?)
Oh, and Box select? Correct me if I'm wrong, that didn't show up until Command & Conquer - which was released in 1995. I'm annoyed that Hunt the Wumpus didn't render total darkness in glorious 3D, but hey...it was the 70s, so I'll cut some slack.
Kudos for reviewing an old classic like JA - but if you're going to point out flaws, stick to those that it legitimately earned (which, being a SirTech game, would be that it is totally unforgiving to the uninitiated and requires an irritating amount of inventory micromanagement).
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
This comment was edited on Oct 15, 2009, 11:01. |
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| News Comments > On PlanetSide Next |
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Re: On PlanetSide Next |
Oct 11, 2009, 14:03 |
JoeNapalm |
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Planetside had it's share of flaws, no doubt...but in its prime, it was one of the most fun and memorable gaming experiences I've ever had.
I really hope they can take it and make it better.
(Of course, they won't...they'll take it and bastardize it into some consolfied micro-transaction nightmare in an attempt to line their greedy greedy pockets, and in the end it will fail, dying slowly in a dark basement somewhere, its demise heralded as an object lesson that this type of game can't work, when really it would have shone like gold had they simply concentrated on making it the best game for its niche, rather than trying to milk the widest of all possible audiences.)
((But I'm not jaded.))
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
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| News Comments > Censored L4D2 Backup for Australia |
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Re: Censored L4D2 Backup for Australia |
Oct 7, 2009, 11:28 |
JoeNapalm |
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Agreed. Just don't release the games in Oz, eventually generating enough discontent amongst the masses to rise up and change their stupid oppressive system of censorship.
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| News Comments > Star Trek Online Ship List |
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Re: Star Trek Online Ship List |
Oct 5, 2009, 10:58 |
JoeNapalm |
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Maybe, just this once, I'll be tormented by having both SWTOR and STO vastly exceed my expectations and have to choose between them.
Right?
-Jn-
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| News Comments > More Warcraft Film Details |
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Re: More Warcraft Film Details |
Oct 2, 2009, 10:32 |
JoeNapalm |
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Uwe Boll's Dungeon Siege disaster was a far worse idea than Street Fighter.
I stand corrected.
My super-ego defensively blocks my awareness of Uwe Boll as a film maker. I think he should be prosecuted for his many crimes against humanity.
-Jn-
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| News Comments > More Warcraft Film Details |
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Re: More Warcraft Film Details |
Oct 2, 2009, 09:13 |
JoeNapalm |
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Unless this is basically an expansion of the opening cinematics, this is possibly the worst idea since the Street Fighter movie.
-Jn-
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| News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic Microtransactions? |
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Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic Microtransactions? |
Oct 2, 2009, 00:04 |
JoeNapalm |
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I want to be excited about this game, but Lucas and LucasArts have lost my trust - it's like an abusive relationship. I'm a battered Star Wars fan.
Add EA to the mix, and the analogy just gets sort of sick and twisted...LucasArts kneeling to a hologram of the EA Logo..."What is thy bidding, my Master?".
Listen up, George - you may have manipulated me into seeing Revenge of the Sith in the theater by exploiting Wookies in the trailer, but you're not tricking me, again. Never again!
-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate
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| News Comments > Wardell on GFWL: "They Take Over, I'm Done" |
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Re: Wardell on GFWL: |
Oct 1, 2009, 17:17 |
JoeNapalm |
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Ahah...please. You "desktop" power users are so cute, try actually working at an enterprise level before trying to use your elite home computer desktop experience to comment on the corporate world. Try this statement, 99% of Kim Kommando wannabe's wouldn't know a SAN from a DAG.
Obviously, if we're talking about the XBOX vs PC gaming market, we're not talking about servers. 99% of people buying games don't WANT to know a SAN from a DAG. 99% of corporate users don't get to choose their OS. 99% of them aren't root. They don't CARE how well it runs Minesweeper.
My point is that MS would be perfectly happy containing the vast majority of gamers/home-users to a proprietary console in the living room and no longer having to have a bi-polar OS on the PC.
And seriously? I think I liked the crazy random guy better. He was less insecure.
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
[Edited to reduce amount of scorched earth in response]
This comment was edited on Oct 1, 2009, 18:29. |
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| News Comments > Jack Thomson Sues Facebook |
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Re: Jack Thomson Sues Facebook |
Oct 1, 2009, 13:16 |
JoeNapalm |
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Who is filing these suits for him? 'Cause he's disbarred for life.
(Wow...it brings a grin to my face, just typing that! *Grin*)
Someone should nail this bottom-feeder for filing all these frivolous lawsuits. (And by "nail", Jackie, I mean counter-sue, fine, or otherwise punish in a lawful fashion for your continued disregard and abuse of our legal system.)
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
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| News Comments > Gamers for Digital Rights |
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Re: Gamers for Digital Rights |
Oct 1, 2009, 13:12 |
JoeNapalm |
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I don't need education on digital rights, I need someone to actually protect them.
Amen, brother! A-freaking-men!
-Jn-
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| News Comments > Wardell on GFWL: "They Take Over, I'm Done" |
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Re: Wardell on GFWL: |
Oct 1, 2009, 13:05 |
JoeNapalm |
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It's been fairly obvious for awhile now that MS wants to kill PC gaming, and that they would benefit from it immensely.
Think about it - IBM totally dropped the ball when they made the PC an open platform that anyone could build with off the shelf parts. Great for innovation, bad for IBM. Gates learned from that, learned from Intel - and the MS roadmap for gaming is clear.
They systematically buy up the development and publishing houses (especially those that threaten them with competition - Bungie, for instance, was snapped up right before it would have put HALO on the Mac), they build the XBOX, they bastardize and inconvenience PC gaming to the point where everyone moves to the XBOX - then they own the whole kit and kaboodle.
You have one box for all your entertainment, the PC is still Windows dominated for business, and they hold the keys to the kingdom for both platforms.
Think about how much MORE money they make when they own the developers, the software, AND the system - dev costs go way down when you're developing for a single box owned by you, you have total control over DRM, total control over the distro chain, and only have a couple other competitors to try to crush under your heel. As a bonus, you no longer have to worry about those annoying gamers whining about how badly the performance on your next OS debacle sucks...99% of business users are not power-users, and wouldn't know a good OS from a hole in the ground (hence the current MS dominated business OS arena).
This isn't some "M$ is da ebil!" rant...business is business - and for Microsoft, what's good for their bottom line in the gaming business is moving everybloodything to the XBOX.
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
This comment was edited on Oct 1, 2009, 13:07. |
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| News Comments > OnLive has Funding, Patents |
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Re: OnLive has Funding, Patents |
Sep 30, 2009, 10:10 |
JoeNapalm |
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While the idea of being able to play SWTOR with the graphics maxed on my netbook is compelling (almost as compelling as the idea of never having to upgrade my gaming rig ever again), I am still firmly in the category of "Skeptic."
I've yet to play around with some stuff like StreamMyGame to educate my opinion, I admit...but it just doesn't sound easy.
Major MMOs still struggle with lag - and they're not streaming this kind of throughput.
Which isn't to say that I don't wish them luck.
-Jn-
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