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Apr 21, 2006, 04:33 |
cronik |
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Apr 16, 2006, 04:36 |
Rseman |
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Unreal Tournament... Unreal Tournament 2003... Unreal Tournament 2004.... Absolute tons of free-shit from Epic and it's community at no charge during 2003/2004 versions...
I have to admit, I'm not really following you....
Quake, Quake2, Quake3, Quake4, Quake Wars (just upgraded for this, so it better be out this year;)).... SOF, SOF2... please god, be a SOF3.... and that's a game that would be perfect for episodic... give me some key missions based on recent world events.... HL, OpFor, BS, HL2 and more than a few of us are waiting eagerly for Ep1...
You could go on forever with this.... Ultima, Warcraft, yada, yada, yada.... if something is good, people want more of it.... IMO, Epic are rank amateurs when it comes to milking a franchise compared to some.
Now the Sims on the other hand....lol;P
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Episodes |
Apr 16, 2006, 03:54 |
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What ruined episodic games was Unreal Tournament. They milk that game until its just deader than a dead donkey.
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Apr 15, 2006, 20:28 |
ventry |
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Released on Steam???
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........ Ah you know the rest.
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Apr 15, 2006, 20:25 |
cronik |
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I waited until Max Payne 2 was about half price before I picked it up because although it was a good ride it was a fairly short game that lacked any real replay value.
I played it once through, enjoyed it but haven't touched it since.
HL2 on the other hand was a game I knew I would get my moneys worth out of so I had no hesitation in preordering it all full price.
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Re: Boycott? |
Apr 15, 2006, 18:01 |
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Steam is a license to release rushed crap. In the words of dubya, you get fooled once, you can't get fooled again. I got burned with dod:s and I am no longer supporting a company that puts out a mediocre, incomplete game like that, no matter how great the graphics are.
Besides, the only thing ep1 has going for it is the story, which I can simply read about on the net.
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Re: Boycott? |
Apr 15, 2006, 17:03 |
vacs |
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Do we boycott this?
Of course. I already started boycotting the episodic format when it was first announced. No game developper is going to see any money from me for episodes.
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Apr 15, 2006, 16:01 |
nin |
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the fire between my legs can only be extinguished with your fluid
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Re: I'm not gonna buy it |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:48 |
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While that's pretty valid Voodoo, even if the game is a certain amount of hours hardcore players tend to play those hours all in a row. Which then causes the game to seem even shorter. A 5 hour game could be played 5 hours straight or an hour a day for 5 days. Which is going to seem more fulfilling?
I don't think I've ever timed myself on how long a game has lasted me. I either beat it or get bored of it. Most games I just get bored of. HL2 I played it starting at 2am [or whenever they released it on steam] and was finished by the afternoon of that day. Although fun the game seemed extremely short to me because it barely gave me a day of play. I didn't measure the exact hours on it but I had fun and wished I could have had fun for longer. I don't know the hours Far Cry claims but it seemed like it took me forever to bear because of how I played it. Half-Life one also seemed to take me forever.
The problem I forsee with Episode One is that I'm going to approach it as I approached HL2 and I'm going to play it non-stop and feel very cheated after those minimal hours are up despite the fun I may have had.
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| [I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr |
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Re: I'm not gonna buy it |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:36 |
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I have to agree with CROCO...who are these people who play through the game lightning fast and don't stop to smell the roses. The same people that feel they need to race levels for no other reason than to say they got there first.
cuz it just doesn't seem like a coincidence that whenever someone comes in and says, "oh, I finished the game in X hours. Its always followed very closely by someone else who says they beat it in X-Y hours. competition is all fine and dandy..but this is is a single player game we're talking about. I mean really, do you watch movies at 2X speed just so you can say you watched it faster than your peers?
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Re: No subject |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:33 |
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I like valve, I like their games, but they are becoming a little high and mighty about their all knowing development process. What makes the game good? Smart people + a 5 year development cycle, it isn't rocket science.
As for this episodes shit, I dunno, it's the way the industry is turning, my $70 game then my $20-40 a month nickel and diming shit they drop on us.
To be fair, Episode One should be free, I want at least part of the ending I should have gotten when I bought the game, the rest you can charge me for, but I still probably wont get it.
Eventually games cost $100-$200 for a single bloody game, just because it's on some BS payment plan over the course of a year doesn't make me happy about it, that's pretty much when I stop playing those games.
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Re: No subject |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:12 |
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sounds like a bunch of liberals in here
Is that 'liberal' used in the context of not actually knowing what the word means?
Freespace 2: Lost Souls
http://www.sectorgame.com/aldo/ |
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Re: I'm not gonna buy it |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:06 |
Bhruic |
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you could see 2 crap movies for $20 and have less to show for it.
Or you could go to the library, and read as many books as you want for free.
But hey, don't let that stop you from making bad comparisons.
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Re: I'm not gonna buy it |
Apr 15, 2006, 15:00 |
Wildone |
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you could see 2 crap movies for $20 and have less to show for it.
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Boycott? |
Apr 15, 2006, 14:46 |
mOOzilla |
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No subject |
Apr 15, 2006, 13:39 |
nin |
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get a piece of fat and slide off
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Re: No subject |
Apr 15, 2006, 12:40 |
Masa |
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sounds like a bunch of liberals in here
Come forth, libertarian, and thus spout from your facial sphincter the essence of a declined fecal logic in which you constantly summon upon the evolved ear lobes of the others whom should pay you no heed.
I don't care so much about length. Max Payne 2 was extremely short and plenty of people thought it was worth $50.
Well, at least someone agrees with me. I thought Max Payne 2 was the closest anyone's every come to making a game "cinematic." Though I noticed that term's not being thrown a lot anymore. I thought MP 2 was kind of a odd case, too, of everything just about working perfect with each other. Yeah, it was short as hell, but the storyline and presentation, action, and other elements made up for it.
Fragmaster coined a term for this: Happy Sappy Delusion Syndrome
Wow, haven't heard about him in a long time. Honestly, the last time I remember him was back when he was still running Planet Halflife and that was ages ago.
Exactly. Though RPGs seem immune to this effect. I went through fallout 2 again a little over a year ago and enjoyed it immensely. Same thing with the old Forgotten Realms Goldbox games. Archaic graphics and design, yet they were still very fun to play.
I've always thought that had something to do with the gameplay, more than the graphics. I mean, there seems to be some acceptace among those games that you won't get the best looking stuff, but you'll definitely get the best gameplay by far.
Ah well, I'm happy as hell that there's a new SiN and HL content coming out. I probably won't get either for awhile until I see how this pricing scheme goes, though. Just seems like something that should have more of a concrete answer coming from the companies than is already given.
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Re: I'm not gonna buy it |
Apr 15, 2006, 12:30 |
CR0C0 |
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400 hours of gameplay for 50$ seems better to me.
im nearly a hundred hours into oblivion so far and only explored 25% of the map
anyhow you just got to take your time and enjoy the game when you play it. people put the game on easy then rush through as fast as they can on a speed run to be the first to get to the forums and whine that the game was too short. you can play them again too you know.
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Red Orchestra |
Apr 15, 2006, 12:10 |
BicycleRepairMan |
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So how many of you guys have gotten Red Orchestra yet? Theres a new trailer in the update... Also there will be a demo, but they are focusing on fixing some issues with the game first.
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Re: This is great news! |
Apr 15, 2006, 11:50 |
War |
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>does that imply that even though it's a fraction of the size, the same kind of bugs will be present as a full game?
Half-Life 2 came out almost entirely bug free for a game of that size. A tiny minority had problems with sound, and an even smaller had some activation issues on launch day, but those were little irrelevancies compared to, say, Dungeon Lords. The vast majority of H-L2 patches in the last year and a half were multiplayer fixes and technical improvements.
>And how are they going to handle patches for episodic content?
The same way as in full games. Each episode runs on the same engine and codebase, but is an independent game as far as everything else is concerned. It's not a 'mod' in the sense it'll have its own executable, DLLs etc.
This comment was edited on Apr 15, 13:56. |
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