Lukiopimp wrote on Jan 7, 2023, 07:31:
the EU has enough ministers to deal with that.

They're too busy taking bribes and promoting Qatar...

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Undecided, but I'd buy it for a dollar..

That should probably be Visual Studio 16.7, or more specifically Visual Studio 2019 v16.7.

Sure, Nightdive did make a big screwup there, no doubt. But the implication I got from the messages, referencing the "Dues Ex/Daikatana situation", was the potential of history repeating itself with one company name with two sub-studios. One in Austin led by Spector making a well received game, and the other studio screwing up their game. That similarity would apply to Underworld Ascendant vs. System Shock 3, but not really to this remake, as Otherside isn't involved.

saluk wrote on Mar 20, 2019, 14:28:
I know it's probably a Dues Ex/Daikatana situation, but I'm still too peeved about Underworld to trust this.

Sounds like you might be confusing this with System Shock 3. This is the System Shock 1 remake, which Otherside Entertainment (Underworld/SS3) has no hand in.

Darks wrote on Mar 13, 2019, 12:25:
My problem with Epics store is how they are going about it. They are being very devious about how aggressive they are going after peoples wallets and offering these exclusive deals to developers by low balling the competition just to get their business on their platform.

I hope you still aren't an Amazon customer, otherwise one might take your stance as being conveniently hypocritical

https://youtu.be/5maXvZ5fyQY?t=588

NVIDIA creates cutting-edge technologies for gamers.

NVIDIA apologizes for the typo. That was of course meant to read

NVIDIA creates cutting-edge technologies for miners.

Of course ZeniMax would be there. Whose board of directors include Cadet Bone Spurs' brother.

For all anyone knows both "I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence" and wiping 92% if his HDD could be true. Maybe he just figured it was best to wipe out his embarrassing porn collection before anyone gets their hands on his computer, which wouldn't be evidence relevant to the case.

thecakeisalie wrote on Jun 2, 2010, 12:27:
As always, lube is optional

It's Activision we're talking about, lube is prohibited, sandpaper condoms mandatory.

The Cayman Islands International Bank wants to thank the OnLive investors

The original System Shock probably even had more atmosphere than that, too. I truly felt I was on this space station

word! SS oozes atmosphere out of every pore, anyone saying otherwise is a console tard and should get off bluesnews


(I hope it's painfully obvious that the last part was just a joke)

I've already written this one off when they first announced the changed direction (back with the original dev), and everything I've seen/heard since has just cemented the choice further, but I just got annoyed again watching the movie. The guy spouting the everyone wants to be a captain bullshit. That's not true. My first choice would have been engineering, and it was back in TNG/DS9 watching days aswell.

Just because you are for example an engineer doesn't mean you'd be stuck in engineering pushing buttons until you level up to some other position. How often isn't the chief engineer (and all other "classes" for that matter) along on away missions and stuff in the shows, there's plenty of wiggle room there to make a fun game.

Simplifying the gameplay to match your developement capabilities is one thing, but stop trying to cover it up as "but that's what the people want!".

That sounds a bit misleading like Remedy is making the sequel.

Where is ... System Shock 3?

Where it should be, resting in peace. There is neither a game business climate nor a company that would make this game anything but a huge clusterfuck.

why am I picturing this whole thing as

concept specification,
phantom 2.0:
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gfx: Glaze3D or Pyramid3D
network: BigFoot Networks' Killer NIC
game service distribution backend: xStream
investors: morons that fulfill criteria 'greed > common sense'

In the first one they killed off his wife and kid. In the second one they bumped off Mona. Who's gonna get it in this one? His dog? Poor guy.

yes, and the game will end with Max embarking in a new career in country music

and how long before a PC dev has to pay MS for each sold copy (just like console games)

That's an impossibility.
Not only is it an open platform (for developing on,) but the lawsuits over what defines a game and what defines an application would be insanely costly. You'd have devs start bundling basic word processors with their games to get around it.
Furthermore, why would MS be so stupid? They know damn well that every other platform on the market is open to any development. They know the reason why theirs triumphs is the amount of applications available for it. If they start charging people to develop for it they give incentive for people to develop elsewhere, which gives consumers incentive to investigate other markets.

I think you're missing a couple of important details. What I was saying was, if DX and GFW become so big/important, that in order to create a competetive game you need to use those, then you have to pay MS what they want. Right now DX is free so no problem, GFW is not. Since MS owns both, they have every legal right to introduce fees and royalties to any of those components. Which in the long run can mean the scenario I was describing.

Yes, the windows/pc platform is open, so you can still make apps and games without paying MS royalties, but I was talking about doing comptetitive games (meaning once it's at a point where a consumer wouldn't look on any game not having GFW and DX12 stamped on it).

The DX dependcy is especially critical when it comes to 3D HW, we're already witnessing the trend that the new HW generation will have functionality, only accessible through DX10. If that trend continues, at what point is OpenGL no longer feasible, leaving the developer no choices of API/OS/platform, again if they want to stay competetive. (also even when doing GL games today it's pretty usual to use some of the non-3D parts of DX.)

I'm not saying this necessary will happen, and it's not some anti-MS rant. I'm just being cautious about the whole thing, I don't like the fact that one and the same company (not that it's MS in particular) would be in control of all the crucial components.

I also wonder when games will start to be vista only and not playable on xp

Alan Wake comes to mind, sure it's not out yet if that's what you meant.