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| News Comments > Just Cause 3: Sky Fortress Takes Off |
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Re: Just Cause 3: Sky Fortress Takes Off |
Mar 15, 2016, 17:45 |
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| If you paid $60 for it you didn't shop around very smartly. It was available in many places for about $40 on release day. And if you bought it later when the price was higher (for some reason) you should have seen the reviews suggesting it had problems. |
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| News Comments > Colin Johanson Leaves ArenaNet |
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Mar 5, 2016, 17:48 |
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| Thanks for the baseless speculation. Here's some of my own: He got headhunted by Amazon for whatever game/s they're cooking up, along with dozens of other veteran MMO developers from major MMO studios. |
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| News Comments > No Man's Sky in June; Preorders Underway |
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Mar 3, 2016, 23:49 |
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rudra wrote on Mar 3, 2016, 21:02:
nobody has even begun to tackle any kind of "procedural" storyline generation or quest structure... Except Skyrim 5 years ago with its radiant quest thing. Boring as hell but it was there.
"Procedural storylines" is just approaching it in the wrong way. Games like Crusader Kings 2 and Dwarf Fortress are all about generating stories, and they're amazing. But people usually think of "stories" like in movies or novels, like you need characters with motivations that they communicate in speech and so on. That's what's hard to do with games. But I can't figure out why anyone wants that shit in games. Games already do amazing things (see above examples) but everyone wants them to be more like movies. |
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| News Comments > Dark Souls III Trailer |
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Feb 25, 2016, 16:13 |
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| That's a very different kind of combat though. Dragon's Dogma is a lot messier. Dark Souls is much more finely balanced, and that would be hard to maintain if players could just hang off the back of a boss. |
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| News Comments > HTC Vive in April for $799 |
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Feb 21, 2016, 18:56 |
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theglaze wrote on Feb 21, 2016, 18:43:
VR is rushing to mobile phones, high-end PCs, and consoles at relatively the same time...this is unprecedented for any technology (that I can think of), and suggests that it's not just a fad but a shift by the electronics industry on how its consumers interact with future digital media. This is such an overstatement. One console manufacturer is making a VR device, while Microsoft's augmented reality is just an experiment at this stage. Some mobile manufacturers are making VR gear but whether consumers want to start strapping stuff to their face instead of using their phones in a more sensible way remains to be seen. And VR is expensive as hell on high-end PCs. At this stage it's still just an interesting technology that has a few good niche applications, but suggesting it's a "new era" and people are going to fundamentally shift the way they interact with technology is just silly. |
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| News Comments > HTC Vive in April for $799 |
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Feb 21, 2016, 17:37 |
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A killer app still isn't a guarantee that VR will be "the future". Nintendo had a killer app with Wii Sports, and nowadays they can't shift a console. No one cares about motion controls anymore, as Microsoft discovered very quickly. And yet VR tech is trying to bring it back.
The problem with VR is that once you get past the cool factor of looking around a virtual world, you realize you can't really do much of anything. Turning your head to look around a virtual world is cool, but why make the effort to turn your entire head when you could just move your mouse a few millimeters? Motion controls had the same problem. Cool for a bit, but it's a very limited control scheme.
VR has fad written all over it. |
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| News Comments > Warren Spector Joining Otherside for System Shock 3 |
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Feb 17, 2016, 21:39 |
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| In fairness, Doug Church has done even less game development (published anyway) than Spector in the past 15 years. People who have worked with him say he's a genius, but it's a bit hard to judge his ability nowadays. Especially since he's pretty reclusive. |
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| News Comments > Warren Spector Joining Otherside for System Shock 3 |
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Re: Warren Spector Joining Otherside for System Shock 3 |
Feb 17, 2016, 17:49 |
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SlimRam wrote on Feb 17, 2016, 17:04:
Squirmer wrote on Feb 17, 2016, 16:59:
SlimRam wrote on Feb 17, 2016, 16:48:
Wait... didn't Warren design Deus Ex: Invisible War DOH! No. Yes. No.
He was the studio director (a separate job, given Ion Storm was working on two games at once at this time). Harvey Smith was the project director, Ricardo Bare the lead designer (both of whom went on to make Dishonored). Spector was very deliberately hands-off during IW's development, and I remember him saying some of the team's decisions made him very nervous.
Harvey Smith freely admits the team fucked up that project btw. |
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| News Comments > Warren Spector Joining Otherside for System Shock 3 |
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Feb 17, 2016, 16:21 |
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Acleacius wrote on Feb 17, 2016, 16:16:
Iirc, Spector was an outside producer for SS1 (per in game credits and Wikipedia) and not sure he had anything to do with SS2(checked and he has no credits on SS2 Wikipedia, not to mention KLevine has posted here on Blue's stating as much). So not really sure he deserves any credit for the development or success of either System Shock, certainly not SS2. Spector was making Deus Ex at the time SS2 was in development. The teams on those games had similar backgrounds and influences, which is why the games are similar in a number of ways. |
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| News Comments > Warren Spector Joining Otherside for System Shock 3 |
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Feb 17, 2016, 16:19 |
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Creston wrote on Feb 17, 2016, 14:28:
Should be good, as long as Warren stops with his nonsensical "I'll make a one room RPG and it'll be the best thing you've ever played!" mantra.
It was "one city block", and he said it would be interesting, not the best thing ever. Pretty sure he only mentioned it a couple of times too, it's not a mantra. That Consortium kickstarter running at the moment is basically that idea put into practice.
Anyway, I'm not that excited about this. In most Spector interviews and columns I've read, he seems to be operating about 15 years behind everyone else, repeating criticisms of games that seem a bit old hat now.
I hope he plans to make SS3 a true immersive sim and doesn't pull a Levine by trying to tell a story full of half-baked philosophy or something. But I give more credit to Harvey Smith for the "immersive simness" of Deus Ex, so who knows what Spector will do with this game. |
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| News Comments > Evening Crowdfunding Roundup |
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Feb 3, 2016, 20:39 |
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Parallax Abstraction wrote on Feb 3, 2016, 17:57:
Alexander announces she's leaving games journalism by asking people to Kickstart a book for her Offworld site that was so unpopular, it didn't even make it a year before closing. And it's on track to smash its goal. You can't make this up. Sounds like enough people want it, then, so what's your problem?
And 750,000 visitors a month doesn't sound unpopular. |
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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Winter Patch |
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Jan 26, 2016, 22:23 |
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Sempai wrote on Jan 26, 2016, 22:15:
Does this mean you can outright fly, or just glide from to the ground from a high place you climbed? The latter. In the expansion area there are updrafts that lift you up, but these don't exist in the other areas, so you just glide. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Jan 16, 2016, 18:00 |
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The depiction of Aboriginal people is still racist though. You have to consider the political and social climate in Australia, where Aboriginal people are so disadvantaged, with lower life expectancies and poor life opportunities etc. Australian governments have a shameful history. A game like this will always come in for criticism in that climate.
This isn't like fictional "savages" in Rust or similar games. This game purports to show "real Aboriginals" and depicts them as primitive spear wielders etc. In truth, Aboriginal people are teachers, lawyers, business owners, and everything else. Depicting them like the game does is harmful to any attempts to overcome the extreme racism in Australia today. Yeah it's just one stupid game, but if you excuse one stupid game, you can excuse every other instance too.
This is kind of like in Vice City when the game instructs you to "kill all the Haitians", which made Haitian community groups complain. In response, Rockstar altered that text in future versions of the game. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Dec 28, 2015, 18:01 |
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| The headline is misleading. Should be "he never played the video games ... until he was offered the role and then he did play them." |
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| News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions |
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Dec 28, 2015, 16:30 |
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| Big numbers, but esports certainly don't have the same cultural cachet as regular sports. You won't see a US president do the equivalent of throwing the first pitch at a LoL match. |
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