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| News Comments > EA on Game Streaming |
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Re: EA on Game Streaming |
Jul 29, 2017, 20:19 |
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EA basically went invisible to me once they pulled their games from Steam and distributed via Origin-only. It's not that I have anything against Origin - it's not quite as functional as Steam but it's not really much worse than Valve's offering either - but I just don't have the time or inclination to monitor another digital storefront. If I'm looking for new games, I go to Steam and if the one I was looking for isn't available, well there are a host of other titles that will catch my interest instead.
So it doesn't matter if EA streams all their games available via a Netflix-like subscription, I'm still not going to be playing them because - as far as I am concerned - they've walled themselves into a tiny corner of the Internet. And I can't believe I'm the only one who feels this way.
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| News Comments > Friday the 13th: The Game Free Content Tomorrow |
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Jun 19, 2017, 20:36 |
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Oooh, some skins, hurrah.
The game is fun, but it is severely lacking in content. It needs more maps, more game-modes, the promised single-player, even a tutorial. It's a one-trick pony and while it does that trick very well, right now it doesn't offer the longevity of gameplay that you would expect from a game priced as expensively as this one is. Apparently the devs are working on getting us that content, but until it comes I can't really get that excited about some new skins. While a nice gesture, it's not going to make me come back to the game or even recommend it until there is more of a game to play. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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May 25, 2017, 19:25 |
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| Wow! With Windows 10 Creator Update, "you can watch a video in a small window while working in the rest of the screen." Such innovation! |
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| News Comments > Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Plans |
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Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Plans |
May 9, 2017, 19:28 |
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| I don't know if this is good or bad news. All I know is that the original Call of Duty Black Ops was so awful, it was enough to sour me off the entire franchise. The later games may have been tremendous improvements but that one game left STILL leaves such a foul taste in my mouth that even were I to return to Call of Duty, I'd /never/ play another Black Ops title. Personally, I'd retire the entire sub-franchise. |
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| News Comments > Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days This Month |
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Re: Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days This Month |
May 4, 2017, 20:19 |
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Wow, and I thought they couldn't mis-use the Resevoir Dogs license any worse after they abused it with the 2006 game.
That one actually wasn't totally awful - it wasn't great, but it had its moments - but it was a total waste of the license, and at least it tried to stay a little bit true to the feel and mood of the movie. This one though... I'm getting Ghostbusters (2016) flashbacks.
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| News Comments > Morning Crowdfunding Roundup |
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Apr 7, 2017, 20:58 |
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| Loderunner was /the/ game for me in the mid '80s. I played it so much that whenever I read a book, I saw the little dude running atop the lines of text. Unfortunately, none of the remakes since the original have ever matched the experience of the first game, and this game doesn't look to change that trend. |
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Mar 6, 2017, 19:57 |
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| I used to be a huge fan of MPC, but went to VLC a while back and never looked back. Its interface might not be as polished, but not having to worry about dodgy CODEC packs more than made up for it. |
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Feb 1, 2017, 19:22 |
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Not a fan of H1-B - it's been terribly abused by companies wanting to hire cheap foreign labor without the bother of going overseas - but I don't really support this change. For one thing, I don't think it's really going to change things much - the revamp is as full of abusable loopholes as the original.
More importantly, H1-B is part of the Immigration and Nationality Act, passed by Congress, and I do not agree with the idea that the President can overturn the act on a personal whim. If he disagrees with it, he needs to work with Congress to update the law rather than just change it by Presidential fiat.
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Dec 15, 2016, 19:39 |
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I'll just leave this here, shall I?
3DFX Tribute
There really was something awe-inspiring about 3DFX; everybody who came from software-rendering jaws dropped when they saw what 3DFX could do. Bad decisions - both on the technological and business sides - sealed their fate but there is no doubting that they greatly influenced gaming. Newer GPUs may be magnitudes more powerful but none of them create quite the same excitement as when I learned there was a new Voodoo card available for purchase...
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| News Comments > Full Throttle Remastered Trailer |
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Dec 2, 2016, 21:20 |
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| I loved the original so I'm thrilled this is getting re-released. Still, there's something about the new graphics that really rub me the wrong way. Maybe its just that the low-resolution of the older game made everything look like it was hand-drawn, but this new version looks like a cheaply-made Shockwave/Flash game. Given the choice, I think I'd prefer the original. |
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| News Comments > Euro Truck Simulator 2 Vive La France Next Week |
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Re: Euro Truck Simulator 2 Vive La France Next Week |
Nov 29, 2016, 21:46 |
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I wonder how this is going to affect the TSM Mod, which already added a lot of roads and cities to France. Frankly, I find their maps far superior to anything created by the game developers, and I'd be annoyed if they had to remove their content to make way for this DLC...
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| News Comments > etc., etc. |
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Oct 19, 2016, 19:43 |
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| Oh, Frontier Elite II, yeah, I remember that game. It was that awesome single-player open-world space-sim that I could play without an Internet connection. It's a shame they don't make games like that anymore. |
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| News Comments > BATMAN - The Telltale Series - Episode 2 Released |
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Re: BATMAN - The Telltale Series - Episode 2 Released |
Sep 20, 2016, 19:04 |
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I think I'll wait until the series is complete and on sale. I'm getting rather tired of these episodic games, both because of the game play and how it ruins the pacing of the story (e.g., each episode has to start with a brief recap, they have to end at a climax, whether its good for the narrative or not, and then you have to wait a month or two to find out what happens). It made sense in the beginning for Telltale - a cash-strapped independent developer - to make episodic games but at this point - now that they've made with some success - I wish they would drop the format (maybe keep the first episode as a freebie teaser) and sell the game as one complete piece.
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Sep 12, 2016, 20:09 |
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While I too am surprised that Blizzard simply cancelled the game rather than trying to salvage it, I do agree that it wasn't ready for prime-time in its current state. Adventure games were a dying genre, and "Lord of the Clans" wasn't even a very good adventure.
While most of the animation and visuals are quite nice, the actual gameplay is pretty poor. There's very little real interaction with the game-world, and of the few things you /can/ click on, most of them result in some form or another of "I can't use that". The puzzles aren't very good, and the dialogue (and sound FX) is pretty awful. There are also a number of areas where the graphics look pretty poor.
I don't think their releasing the game would have been a disaster; Blizzard probably would have broken even just from sales to Warcraft fans alone. I doubt it would have seriously affected the marketability of the soon-to-be-released Warcraft 3 RTS. But I have no doubt that it would have quickly been relegated to the "old shame" closet, there to languish forgotten with "The Death of Superman", "Blackthorne" and "RPM Racing".
I think it speaks more about how comfortably situated Blizzard was /even before World of Warcraft/ that they could choose to swallow the development costs rather than even slightly sully their reputation with a mediocre - not bad - game.
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| News Comments > Otherland Launches |
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Re: Otherland Launches |
Sep 9, 2016, 19:47 |
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Although I didn't much like the novels, his descriptions of online-gaming greatly influenced my expectations of what an MMO should be. The fantasy role-playing game played by Orlando and Sam in the book were the ultimate example of what I expect from an online game and - sadly - no game has come close to matching those expectations (Ultima Online, which was in beta at the time the first novel was published) was a good start, but rather than improving on that foundation the industry seems to have moved backwards). It's sad to see such an innovative franchise re-imagined as yet another characterless F2P game filled with grind and monetization.
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