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| News Comments > On Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC and Boss Battles |
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Re: On Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC and Boss Battles |
Sep 23, 2011, 16:00 |
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Overon wrote on Sep 23, 2011, 15:00:
Some people still don't get it. Confronting the people that killed all those employees of Sariff Industries is not the problem (the Boss fight is no the issue). The fact that you have KILL the boss is the problem.
Why wouldn't Adam kill them? They tore him apart, killed his girlfriend and a bunch of other people, and are apparently coming back for more. Stealth and pacifism is a gameplay mechanic, not a story mechanic, especially for a guy like Adam who's decked out with military grade combat hardware and a chip on his shoulder. Stealthing around and not killing anyone isn't something he's doing because he's some kind of pacifist monk.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Sep 23, 2011, 00:00 |
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Pretty sure this is just Jim trolling for hits again, but...This isn't a consoles gripe, this is a PS3 gripe. I can't think of one single time I've been stuck waiting for my 360 to update firmware so that I could use the store or download a patch so I could play a game that took more than 10 seconds. Gears of War 3 needed a patch when I put it in this week to first play it, and it took all of 5 seconds to download and restart the game...my PS3 often takes half an hour or more just to see what's new on the damn store.
I prefer my PC to either of them but that's because I have some control over what I'm using on it with mods or performance, not ease of use. This stuff does suck, but give credit where it's due here and point the finger at Sony where it belongs.
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| News Comments > Diablo III DRM Problems |
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Re: Diablo III DRM Problems |
Sep 22, 2011, 18:25 |
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DeadlyAccurate wrote on Sep 22, 2011, 17:28:
As soon as I heard of the always-on DRM, this became a no-buy for me, too. I had a situation a few weeks ago where my Internet connection kept flaking out. It's rare, but it does happen. And good grief, checkpoints on top of that? It's a PC! Let me save anywhere I want.
You couldn't save wherever you wanted in the other Diablo games either. The checkpoint system isn't exactly something new for the series.
It's not simply always-on DRM for the internet connection, there are features in the game that require it; it's stupid to call this always-on DRM like it's the same as UBI's internet connection requirement for the sole purpose of preventing piracy.
Not being able to pause is BS, though, when I'm playing single player. There's no good reason not to implement that. |
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| News Comments > IW Doesn't Care if Three People Play MW3 |
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Re: IW Doesn't Care if Three People Play MW3 |
Sep 22, 2011, 00:00 |
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Jerykk wrote on Sep 21, 2011, 23:50:
The issue here is that he's clearly lying. Activision (and all publishers) are driven by profit alone.
Sure, but the quote isn't by Activision. It's by one of the guys making the game.
I'm riding on the Kotick-is-a-douchenozzle train just like everyone else but this guy isn't the conductor, he's just a passenger who's making the best of what he's got. If it's a great game, then we win...if Activision gets their money for the games because they sell well, well, that's kind of the point of the whole industry. All I really care about as a gamer is whether the games are good or not.
And like the business model or not, like the games or not, the last few Call of Duty games have been successful because they've been good games. They haven't been just cheap shit pumped out on a yearly schedule to make financials look good...and I'm saying that as someone who hasn't really liked a CoD game since they left WW2 behind. |
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| News Comments > IW Doesn't Care if Three People Play MW3 |
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Re: IW Doesn't Care if Three People Play MW3 |
Sep 21, 2011, 21:54 |
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Omni wrote on Sep 21, 2011, 21:36:
lol really what a fucking idiot.
I don't get it. Why?
They set out to make a great game that people want to play instead of just focusing on selling copies. That's...kind of what we want, right?
I get the impression that there'd be a thread full of people saying how stupid this guy was no matter what he'd said here. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Sep 21, 2011, 16:22 |
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Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2011, 13:15:
NHL 12 makes $27 mil in week one? Who the fuck keeps buying these garbage games?!
What do you like, Captain Negativity? There's nothing wrong with the NHL games. |
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| News Comments > Quoteworthy |
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Re: Quoteworthy |
Sep 20, 2011, 22:15 |
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siapnar wrote on Sep 20, 2011, 21:43:
I see it as him referring to the budget allotted for RAGE. If it weren't for the booming number of console players, they wouldn't have nearly as much money to play with.
Then again, I could be wrong and indeed, his comment would warrant face palm fest
He is talking about the budget. It's an earlier part of the quote that can be seen in the video on the link.
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| News Comments > Diablo III Closed Beta Begins |
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Re: Diablo III Closed Beta Begins |
Sep 20, 2011, 20:11 |
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Cutter wrote on Sep 20, 2011, 19:59:
Contrary to what some people think, this is, in fact, a very big deal. When things go horribly wrong it always starts with these small steps that most people think is no big deal. Then before you know it you're neck deep in it. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard and more if they can.
No, it really isn't.
It's just a video game. If people don't like it, they won't play it. If people cared about this that much, they wouldn't buy it. We both know that the game is going to sell millions of copies regardless of this, and that's because it just plain doesn't matter that much to the tens of millions of people who have given up more information and a mandatory internet connection to play a certain MMO with the same company.
In any case, it's a pretty big difference between an always-on connection in Diablo 3 because they have features that use it (even for single player) and an always-on connection being required by UBISoft games with the sole purpose of DRM.
If you really hate the stuff that much, just don't buy it. The slippery slope conspiracy theory stuff is pretty out there, though, and kind of ridiculous.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Sep 20, 2011, 15:43 |
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Umbragen wrote on Sep 20, 2011, 15:25:
The GoT series is much better than the hooks. Martin's writing is so tedious and protracted you'll likely loose interest long before the pages run out. Enjoy the shows and hope Martin can live long enough to finish the last two books before HBO runs out of source material.
I sure didn't think so. I love the books; they're some of my favorites, and I've read a lot. The show I didn't care for at all in comparison since it seemed so jumbled and rushed to piece things together that it seemed like it would have been incomprehensible had I not already known what was going on.
The show has its moments but some of the things they did in it, like Varis and Littlefinger's insipid veiled threat fight, just didn't work on film. |
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| News Comments > Netflix Renames DVD Rental Service, Adds Video Games |
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Re: Netflix Renames DVD Rental Service, Adds Video Games |
Sep 19, 2011, 20:54 |
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Beamer wrote on Sep 19, 2011, 10:58:
People keep mentioning this, but it's wrong.
Does your high definition cable count against bandwith caps?
Nope.
Does it take bandwith?
Yep.
It's this transition we want. Consumers can't do much to fight bandwith caps, but content providers can. The last thing the cable companies want is to piss off the content providers. They'll be the ones to force change.
If the content we were talking about here was readily and easily available through regular cable service that didn't count on your bandwidth cap, I doubt anyone would be even having this conversation.
The only content providers cable would be pissing off by limiting streaming aren't the ones funding those cable providers through big contracts.
Either way, in most of the country there's not enough competition for broadband access for them to care. Being able to cancel your service and go somewhere else isn't an option throughout a large portion of the U.S. right now.
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| News Comments > DC Universe Online Goes Free Next Month |
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Re: DC Universe Online Goes Free Next Month |
Sep 19, 2011, 17:46 |
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Jivaro wrote on Sep 19, 2011, 12:30:
What exactly does DC Universe bring to the table besides it's license?
It really doesn't play anything like City of Heroes, although that's a pro and a con.
The gameplay in DC is fun, there just isn't enough variety to either how you play or the characters you can create. It's a great game for a month, and then you've probably seen what you want to see anyway.
It's another game that does the inexplicable MMO design choice of giving you something to play however you want until you hit the level cap, at which point you are forced to either PvP in the same areas ad nauseum, or raid, because the game you enjoyed enough to hit the level cap with ceases to exist. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Sep 16, 2011, 23:34 |
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Cliff has a pretty good point, actually.
The last line of the article kind of makes the point, really:
I mean, it's not like the game will be a "flop" like Bulletstorm, right?
Eurogamer gave Bulletstorm a 9.
Eurogamer is inconsistent with their review scores as it is, and it's not unusual for them to throw out a score that just doesn't go with the written review that can only be so they gather some site hits to see why. |
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| News Comments > Dead Island Ships 1M in North America, Approaches 2M Worldwide |
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Re: Dead Island Sells 1M in North America, Approaches 2M Worldwide |
Sep 15, 2011, 18:09 |
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Asmo wrote on Sep 15, 2011, 11:44:
The only problem I've found is after a long play session you get texture tears but this can be fixed by quitting/restarting.
If they're the same weird stretching things as the ones I've seen (GTX570), you don't even need to do that much. Just a quick alt-tab and you're back in the game with the textures sorted back out, only takes a second or two and you're good again for a while. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Sep 15, 2011, 11:33 |
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Verno wrote on Sep 15, 2011, 11:10:
Wishful thinking Sony, it's been tried unsuccessfully in several industries already.
The supreme court ruled in April that it was legal for companies to include provisions to their terms of service that served for consumers to waive their class action lawsuit rights.
Can read about it here.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Sep 14, 2011, 14:21 |
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Kajetan wrote on Sep 14, 2011, 13:03:
People need to learn, that a trailer IS JUST A TRAILER AND NOT THE GAME. People need to learn to avoid such emotional hype traps, which they all create by themselves. No "The publishers marketing is evil!". Well, it is evil most of the time  but not with trailers which have clearly no actual gameplay in them.
It's not even just that, but that those moments ARE in the game. The story told through the cutscenes isn't spectacular, but the story told through actually playing the game is. With what they did give us, you get to see the death throes of a society torn apart by the outbreak and the polarization of people into their own tiny camps to survive.
Hell, in one quest you are actually tasked with going to a man's home to kill the zombies his family became because he can't bring himself to do it. I don't see how that's any less poignant than what was depicted in that trailer, and it's far from the only thing like that in the game.
Until the technology moves well beyond where we're at, we're not going to get unscripted and open ended games where that kind of emotional impact snapshot is possible outside of just being a movie attached to something you play. The trailer is a movie doing what's possible with movies, but games aren't movies and I don't want them to be. It's just a trailer, and the game is great for what it is. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Sep 13, 2011, 22:25 |
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xmb1121 wrote on Sep 13, 2011, 21:03:
I think when 3D input devices mature (Wiimote/Move/Kinect), 3D gaming will take off.
The technology would have to most past the point where there was enough 3D TV saturation and a lack of requirement for active-3D glasses that cost as much as the damn PS3 does.
I own a 3D TV that I've never used the 3D features for just because of that. Doesn't do much good to have a 3D device, even a pretty good one like mine, when it would require another investment in glasses that can be half as much as the TV for an average sized family to watch it together. |
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