Cutter wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 19:38:

jdreyer wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 14:57:

Verno wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 10:40:

That's not how the Republican party as a whole is, pretty wide generalization there. It has good and bad apples just like the Democrats. Let's not pretend the Republican party is the only one with some baggage here, there are plenty of left leaning groups I would consider to be on Becks/Tea Party level of idiocy. I'm a pretty moderate Republican and I think Beck is a crazy moron, the trouble is the media keeps giving him an outlet and the audience that comes with it.

Actually, no. "Both sides do it," is false equivalency. The Dems are your garden-variety corrupted party. The Repubs are a radical extreme party pushing agendas that the vast majority of Americans disagree with. There may be liberal groups that are batshit crazy, but they are the fringe and irrelevant. Beck/Tea Party are the mainstream of the party and control it. Even more moderate Republicans parrot Tea Party rhetoric to avoid being primaried from the right.

This is true. Christ, look at the last election where you had two GOP guys running for congress who made those comments about rape. And the civilized first world - not just the US - all went "What?!" That was fucking mind boggling!

The Democrats are the party of inclusion - sometimes too much so - and as a lefty-centrist even I shake my head sometimes. However, the GOP are the staunch opposite of that - but not when it comes to farming out domestic jobs or importing cheap labour. Not that the Dems fully oppose it either but at least they insist on things like a living wage - versus minimum wage - universal healthcare, and all the other requisite governmental controls that make life better for working people in general.

This is the disconnect that the hardliner rank and file on the right don't get. Push for a civilized work week, no child labour, overtime, vacations, food and drug standards, etc. etc. etc. this has always been the purview of the left and bitterly opposed by the right. Hell, only until the last 20 or so years even most honest Republicans would admit that the economy does better under the democrats - because it does, and that unchecked laissez-faire capitalism is a danger to any economy. That's one thing I give Bush senior, even though a lot of it was politically motivated he - and the last stock of old school GOP at the time - opposed the industry bailouts that private enterprise was crying for at the time.

The Democrats aren't angels - and they're not really true Democrats anymore then we see true Republicans anymore - yet they're still the lesser of the two evils. Anyway, you guys need to find third - and fourth and fifth - party alternatives where possible. I've actually been listening to a lot of what Jesse Ventura has been talking about over the past year or two and if I was a US citizen I'd be backing him right now.

4D-Boxing wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 18:18:

nin wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 17:00:

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:10:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:05:
Bohemia to brick and mortar outlets: HAHA you won't be able to return all the unsold copies of our unoptimized buggy as fuck military rehash ver 3!

I thought you were complaining that there is way too much negativity on the Blues forums lately.
I see you are helping out by bringing all the positivity.

Trollindunder's gotta troll...

nin,

I think you used to many big words. Looks like he needs clarifications.

CJ_Parker wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 18:15:
End of an era? WTF? A bunch of advertising platforms go offline and it's the "end of an era"? Yeah. Of a mighty shitty era. Good riddance to these fuckers. The less, the better.

nin wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 17:00:

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:10:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:05:
Bohemia to brick and mortar outlets: HAHA you won't be able to return all the unsold copies of our unoptimized buggy as fuck military rehash ver 3!

I thought you were complaining that there is way too much negativity on the Blues forums lately.
I see you are helping out by bringing all the positivity.

Trollindunder's gotta troll...

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:10:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:05:
Bohemia to brick and mortar outlets: HAHA you won't be able to return all the unsold copies of our unoptimized buggy as fuck military rehash ver 3!

I thought you were complaining that there is way too much negativity on the Blues forums lately.
I see you are helping out by bringing all the positivity.

Callaway wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 16:02:
Bohemia to Origin: "Suck our nuts."

Darks wrote on Feb 21, 2013, 09:26:
Here’s part of that 4 or 5 other games worth of content that didn’t make it into the game.

Verno wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 15:54:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 15:51:
Eh it's not like he's wrong, you really don't see the majority constant stream of negative on say RPS that you do here.

Oh boy this again, it really adds to the discussion and we totally need to rehash it every day

Quboid wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 14:03:
Well, I'm glad that someone who makes a living selling games thinks an upcoming game is going to be good. This takes all the tension out of things like previews where you wonder if the author is getting paid - now we know he is! How convenient!

Slick wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 11:22:
hate on blues posters, hate on, i'd expect nothing less.

Your bad grammar is quite ironic. Assuming you meant "hate on, Blues posters", you actually summed up all you seem to do here - hate on Bluesnews posters. I've been critical of people here in the past but that's all you seem to do.

nin wrote on Feb 17, 2013, 20:30:
I just want to say that when the insanity of trollindundar shows up, you people brought this on yourselves...

Cutter wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 23:15:
And fuck MS and all those cheap, ageist assholes corporations. Saying there aren't enough qualified people in any sector in society is bullshit. It's entirely about cheap labour politics. This why people need to get political. And this is the case for unions.

wtf_man wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 10:33:

nin wrote on Feb 20, 2013, 10:07:
I remember my trips to London (a decade or more ago), and hitting every HMV I could find, as well as the Tower (Piccadilly Circus, I think?). I swear to god, it seemed like there was a HMV about every block.

There was a Tower and Virgin stores in Vegas I'd always hit, too, but they're both gone...

Well... Barnes and Noble still sells CDs and Blu-Rays... but ridiculously expensive... can get the same Blu-Ray in a Walmart for $10 cheaper... and the CDs are still the same cost as 15 years ago??? Hah! (The only reason I'd get a CD is for ripping to MP3)

Also, with e-readers and tablets starting to sell e-books... I'm not sure how long Barnes and Noble, and Borders will be around. The Borders book store in my town, shut down 2 years ago. I have to drive 30 miles to get to Barnes and Noble, if I want a book right away. But otherwise I just order those online too.

gravity wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 17:52:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 17:39:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 16:28:

gravity wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 16:07:
Wii-U would support it (doubtful - they're talking Next-Gen stuff)

If the X360 and PS3 are supported then there's no reason not to do a Wii U port, especially given how similar the architecture is to the X360. That said, the other entries look suspicious and given that Wii U and PC versions weren't announced it's either a very moronic omission or it speaks to how important they consider those platforms.

I dunno, doesn't make sense to do a hardcore shooter on the Wii U, isn't really the target audience.

Bingo - that was my point, plus the fact that the Wii-U isn't really 'next-gen.' It's more 'current-gen' than 'next-gen.'

Yosemite Sam wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 14:50:

nin wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 09:20:

ShadyPete wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 09:14:
clearly something happens to the human brain when it becomes a public official.

It's all abut keeping people in fear. And compliant.

It's Canada nin, we don't live on the fear train like y'all do, eh.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 16:28:

gravity wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 16:07:
Wii-U would support it (doubtful - they're talking Next-Gen stuff)

If the X360 and PS3 are supported then there's no reason not to do a Wii U port, especially given how similar the architecture is to the X360. That said, the other entries look suspicious and given that Wii U and PC versions weren't announced it's either a very moronic omission or it speaks to how important they consider those platforms.

Creston wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 11:24:
I'm not sure why Ken Levine seems to think that that is somehow a plus point for his game.

Creston

Quboid wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 10:16:

Beamer wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 09:26:

RollinThundr wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 08:54:

Beamer wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 08:38:

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 08:29:
You know it sucks that people this clueless manage to get rich. *sigh*

He was also the lead on Myth and Marathon, the two games people that hate Halo cite as reasons why Bungie used to be great.

Eh Bungie isn't particularly great then either, if Myth and Marathon are considered their "great" period.

I'm not making the claim. I have no fond memories of either.

Plenty of fond memories of Halo 1 PC, which makes me in the minority, and of Halo 3, which is the closest thing we have to a spiritual successor to GoldenEye/Perfect Dark. We did a couple of, well, kind of LAN parties a few years back. 2 TVs, 2 Xboxes, 16 people rotating on and off in groups of 8. Very few other games let you do 4 per system. Online, too. Which makes it far and away one of the best party games and one of the only hardcore party games.

Never has a statement been so undered! (Wait, that's not right.) Never has an underer statement been uttered! (Hmm, no.) That's an understatement! (Yeah! Got it!)

I first played Halo on the PC, although naturally I'd seen plenty of Xbox footage. What the heck was the fuss about? If that was want consolers thought was a good FPS, well, that's almost adorable.

Verno wrote on Feb 19, 2013, 12:38:
I don't know, Titan would have to be something very interesting and different to get me stoked. I am all MMO'd out, been there done that etc.

Announce a Warcraft RTS game again, I'd be interested in seeing if they do something derivative or try to break new ground. Sadly I suspect we'll just see the usual suspects - some D3 expansion info, a Warcraft MMO expansion tease and etc.