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Re: Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition Trailer |
Mar 26, 2017, 12:06 |
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Ozmodan wrote on Mar 25, 2017, 04:20:
Definitely overpriced. Will wait for it to go on sale. Gearbox will go out of business before the price drops on this, and their decision to not even offer a loyalty discount for a rerelease of a game it is currently impossible to play will be the last nail in the coffin. |
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| News Comments > PlayStation Now Coming to PCs |
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Re: PlayStation Now Coming to PCs |
Aug 23, 2016, 18:26 |
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This would almost be a good idea if they collect usage stats to figure out which games should get ports.
Almost. To actually be one, they also have to sign a contract with the devil to fix the US's broken as shit internet situation. Stable 5Mbps ain't happening for the vast majority of us. |
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| News Comments > Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Sequel Plans? |
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Re: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Sequel Plans? |
Aug 15, 2016, 18:19 |
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Jerykk wrote on Aug 15, 2016, 16:11:
I think you're underestimating how much it costs to make a AAA 3D FPS/RPG. Here's a clue: significantly more than it costs to make a city-builder or 4X strategy game. They don't cost that much, it's just that most AAA publishers are rabid about using those easy selling genres to step on their competitors' dicks. So, they budget that much, with a completely ludicrous amount of that budget going to marketing. Paradox tends to be a bit more sensible. Bloodlines is a niche product and will be marketed like one if they have any sense. |
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| News Comments > Killing Floor 2 in November |
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Re: Killing Floor 2 in November |
Aug 13, 2016, 03:20 |
007Bistromath |
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MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Aug 12, 2016, 21:36:
Whoa, full release in November? They still have at least 2-3 perks to even release in Early Access... and quite a bit of fine tuning to do, although that will probably just go on after the official release anyway.
SWAT, Martial Artist, and maybe another perk? I forget. SWAT is in the beta version now (separate from Early Access version), but is missing the shield people were actually hoping for.
Good luck, Tripwire. 
I think they're only doing one more perk, and they've said it's not going to be the Martial Artist. The katana is a Berzerker weapon now, and it was always supposedly going to be for MA. So, I'm pretty sure they've cut MA and replaced it with whatever the unannounced tenth class is. I'm pretty sure they always said there would be ten classes on release.
No idea what it's going to be. It seems like they're already struggling to differentiate a few of the classes they have, though they're all fun to play. Commando just isn't worth the bother on full servers though, it's always less effective than something more specialized when you have a team big enough to cover all the bases.
Still, really great game, the beta has been cool. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 14:45 |
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Slick wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 14:37:
But that does absolutely nothing to discount the irony that the most secure platforms to have a clean competitive match today is on fucking consoles. Maybe people should wise up a little and stop trying to have serious competitive scenes online. Serious mode used to mean a LAN party. Pretty hard to get away with this shit if a guy can watch over your shoulder. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Jul 26, 2016, 14:09 |
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Slick wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 13:53:
But do you really not get the potential upside of a walled garden? I read what you wrote, I just don't care. There is nothing within five conceptual miles of "walled garden" that has a meaningful upside. This is like telling me to consider the upside of being the middle of the human centipede.
"A class of app that can't be fucked with in the first place?" Are you high? Anything can be fucked with, and with all that money floating around in e-sports, life will find a way. Meanwhile, devs producing legitimate products will have to divert part of their budget to coding around Microsoft's mistakes, and many attempts to do so will fail or be buggy as shit. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 13:35 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 13:25:
Yeah as I said  Niche games (And it's totally OK if you didn't like Tidalis) and GoG just don't mix.. which is why I consider Steam absolutely vital. I mean there are tons of games I don't like on Steam.. but personally I want to see them on GoG and Steam because I like competition and choice, and GoG curating for reason X (certainly for genre: niche puzzlers | v-novel | kinetic novel etc.) is not how an *open* platform behaves. Steam is an open platform and GoG certainly stopped being that a long time ago. Which is why I am even more annoyed by UWP games than usual, nobody is served by another curated store. The curator might have shit taste, a bad day or whatever and robs you of seeing and finding the 1 game you love above all (however unlikely)
And remember, if you didn't have the contrast of bad games on Steam you wouldn't really have a way to build up a proper taste in games
Anyway, not faulting GoG, just saying that GoG is not an open platform anymore even though for the most part they still sell truly online DRM free games... but that boundary is blurring. GoG has lots of point-and-click adventures. Arguably, they're part of the reason the genre is making a comeback; those things were as niche as it gets for a few years. I don't know what their curation standards are at all, and maybe that's really the problem. Nobody does. Has anyone ever asked?
As for the idea of needing "contrast," there's a pretty broad spectrum of quality available without dipping into the pits of Greenlight hell. The sheer volume of crapware infesting it currently is definitely more of a pestilence than a boon, because it allows people doing scummy and illegal nonsense to hide under the garbage heap. For every jackass hawking broken or stolen content on Steam that gets called out, there's a dozen more who don't. I feel like some kind of quality standards are an absolute necessity, and it annoys me that Valve gave up on even attempting to enforce any a long time ago. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: Windows 7 is FINE |
Jul 26, 2016, 13:26 |
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RedEye9 wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 13:19:
In truth, for most PC users there's no Windows 10 enhancement, new feature, or looming security threat that makes upgrading a must-do proposition. You do not understand security at all. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 13:16 |
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Slick wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 12:56:
Tinfoil hat club is in effect!
1) UWP is not exclusive to the microsoft store. Nobody is saying it is. They're saying that changes already made will make it easier for them to attempt to make it that way. It seems to be what they want to do, and whether or not they pull the trigger will hinge on how the market moves. It should not move to UWP.2) This idea that forced patching will make other services break is chicken little territory. Dude, patches already do that constantly by accident. If you're forcing them on the users, the clear intent is to make them accept changes they don't want that go beyond fixing security holes. My understanding is that MS has a history of making certain things hard for developers in order to ensure that their product is better than competing ones.3) UWP will need to create value for it to be of any interest to developers, or consumers. Last I checked they recently added the ability to enable V-Sync. And there's exhibit A. They had to add that. Why was it removed in the first place? The answer is that they're doing all kinds of shit with the rendering pipeline. I don't understand most of it, but I know I've heard developers complaining about it. Particularly obnoxious is how they're making it difficult to run in fullscreen rather than borderless window. The stated reason for this change is to make it easier for them to stick overlays on everything, and if this causes performance issues then too bad for you.
Add to this the fact that the sandboxing breaks anti-cheat solutions and makes any game using this mess unstreamable without using their software, and there's a whole lot of fucking bad shit here. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 12:58 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 12:50:
Games like this
http://arcengames.com/tidalis/
Notice in GOG genre selection there is none for puzzle games :/
And as for Eroge games, remember GoG has this
https://www.gog.com/game/huniepop
Which is listed under... Simulation (like.. what?)
So I feel like there is some disparity there... If Huniepop made it on there which is a objective and time based match game then Tidalis should be there too imo.
I wonder if one were to dig and scour indy forums how many other great puzzle games were never accepted by GoG
And well.. as for how GoG behaves..
https://www.gog.com/game/double_dragon_trilogy
Read the reviews ,)
I don't have an axe to grind here, I know Tidalis because I worked with the devs before (not on Tidalis, mind you) and they make great niche games. Huh. This confuses me somewhat. Why would the store that built its reputation on selling stuff DRM-free be pushing a client in this fashion? I knew they had one, of course, but I didn't know they were tying multiplayer to it. That's stupid.
As far as them not selling most puzzle games, it's their business if they want to leave money on the table. And you know, maybe they do; Valve is raking it in with all the asset flips and other shovelware turning Greenlight into a pig sty. Perhaps GoG believes that stricter curation will have a better payoff in the long run. I don't think they can be faulted for that.
If you want to my thoughts about Tidalis specifically, well... http://bottomlinegamereviews.tumblr.com/post/146645971860/bottom-line-tidalis |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 12:22 |
007Bistromath |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 12:19:
Wesp5 wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 11:32:
eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 10:48:
Except GOG is the real closed platform. Try talking with some indy devs who were flat out refused with no reason given... Steam doesn't pull such bullshit. You pass Greenlight = you get on Steam.
Yeah, and we all know how many bad games made it onto Steam because all Valve cares about is money and not game quality. I guess GOG is just avoiding this for now...
If it were about quality.. but GoG does not select by quality, they select by genre and personal mood of whoever it is that decides this. That is the literal meaning of a closed platform. Quality is no deciding factor to get on GoG Some examples? I'm unaware of GoG disallowing any particular genres on their service. I mean, I'm guessing they probably don't have any eroge. But other than that... |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Jul 26, 2016, 12:19 |
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panbient wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 12:09:
here are my 2 cents
1 - I have 3 days left on the offer... should I bother upgrading?
2 - Do people really think MS cares about the gaming market more than the corporate office market as far as OS functionality is concerned? From a corporate perspective something like UWP makes a lot more sense - as just about anyone who's ever fought with conflicting versions of legacy software to address someone's refusal or inability to upgrade from some antique piece of technology will attest.
Seriously, by the time 2020 rolls around I don't think I should have to deal with command line interface applications in an office setting (as a clerk!) anymore. 1) Yes, do it. If it turns out to actually have functionality-destroying problems down the road, you're going to want to switch to Linux or something at that point anyway. Having an old OS is only a good idea if the machine running it is never connected to the internet. The good reason for the forced patching scheme MS is going with these days is the very real security risk posed by legacy systems online.
2) We'll see. If they don't care about our money, Valve has given us a place to flee to. I suspect knowing what the problem is and having that option will give them pause. These bad things might never happen, because they don't want to waste the effort on it if they know they'll have to walk it back.
I'm 100% with you as far as getting ancient machines off the network and out of the office goes. There's good reasons for some of MS's decisions here. But UWP contains lots of changes to things that only gamers and devs are likely to care about. MS might be more focused on the corporate space, but they know we're an important part of their market, and some of what they're doing is clearly calculated to take control of our experience. The only hope of stopping them is to have somewhere else to go if it gets too shitty.
PS: Why do my quotes keep not quoting? I'm getting real tired of having to edit these in. -_-; |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 12:10 |
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Bumpy wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 12:03:
I see it as MS trying to be more like Apple. Don't see anyone screaming about them and their closed systems or requirements. People flock to their products.
The shift towards subscriptions is what bothers me. I don't like renting things, I want to own them but this seems to be more and more a thing of the past.
That's because Apple was always like that. The people who use Apple products don't care about that kind of thing. That's why it took years for Mac gaming to really be a thing after it mostly died in the 90s. It's also why PC users always make fun of Mac users. They are mostly people who know nothing about the machines they're using, and don't want to.
Trying to make the PC more like Mac is darkest heresy, and there will be an outcry. |
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