This one's not a flamebait, so kudos.
This "tricks for hits" habit has been around for years, now. Long enough for a whole generation of "journalists" to rise and live by that habit.
If the audience changes and wants factual articles, will the new generation be able to evolve ? Will the veterans be able to revert back ?
Will the profession even be able to recognize the need for that evolution ?
I'm actually quite curious of your view on this. As a...
You are still using the magic link between the lack of new IPs and the used games market.
It's like explaining the numerous empty suburb houses by saying that it's hot outside.
As for the online passes, try to find one sustainable reason for their existence. I can help with that one : there is none.
Aaaww...
Just saw this was a forum post and not an article. This reduces the tickling on my funny bone by at least 3 units.
Well.
Maybe if that guy can answer these questions he'll be able to see why he's so funny to me.
For each platform :
- What is the cost of the royalties.
- What are the contractual constraints applied to the project and it's development / post-launch sup...
Who wrote this ? I mean I see your name up there, but I can't decipher the entity that wrote this.
Loss sales, markets... Are you financially tied to game developers ? And if you are, what in the seven hells are you doing here ?
We owe nothing to the game industry. They live because we feed them. They can whine all they want about the second hand market, but the fact is, they are no different from the music industry, the film industry, the book indust...
I need to see that game. I'll decide afterwards if this news is exiting or frightening.
Both games were brutal, the American Revolution expansion even more so.
It even has the French OST. Didn't hear that in ages.
This article is based on a big pile of nothing.
"Western" RPGs are supposed to be about choices, for the genre is called Role Playing Game. They were derived from the ancient cult of table role playing.
When guys came together to experience an exercise in (hold your breath) imagination, during which they could do anything they wanted within a rule set (basically a leaflet).
What that guy wants already exists, it's calle...
Piracy can be a good tool.
I'm in France, and localization is generally crap for games. As an example, I had in Oblivion the (French dub) voice of Mojojojo (PowerPuff Girls) for a third of male NPCs. Quite ridiculous to have sunday morning cartoon voices in a "serious" game.
So before Steam, I would buy the French game, then download the English one. Having a double install and switching patches was fun too.
"Community feedback is what drives most of our decision-making for post-launch support especially, Because we want to see what they want more of ..."
Now THAT is comedy !
@Jdub895O
I have nothing against making the game look better, or get more stable.
Taking it to PSN or XBL will mean tempering with what the game is, as an official release has to comply to standards unreachable to this game.
A custom port, meaning minimum tempering, is a good thing. If you can sync your saves between your desktop version and the portable one, that is.
Elite being a good deal implies it's OK for a dev to charge you for things that are free ?
I don't know who you are, but let me show you what CoD should be :
http://www.codutility.com/i...
Please pay attention to the yellow number. It is 768.
768 free maps. Half of them are sub-par, a quarter are IW worth, the r...
Battlefield does expansion packs. The last one being Vietnam for BFBC2.
It had 5 BF maps, 15 weapons, 6 vehicles, soundtrack and voiceover. For 13€.
What that other game does is map packs, with 4 maps, for 14€.
Trying to compare is ridiculous.
PS : BF3 has a map pack, plus an early gear pack, which will be free with a pre-order done 2 days before launch.
Err... No. Making this game run on consoles would require a complete rebuild, and of course a slight streamlining (or butchering) of the gameplay.
Even if some genius managed to graft console gameplay without utterly destroying the game (won't happen), no company would see the release of a download game with more content than all this year's games combined as a good deal.
On the other hand, there is the possibility that (some) average gamers re...
Mature games for mature players. This is so far from the norm that it's almost scary.
There are very few games that are for mature (not just legally mature) audiences. Dark Souls, Diablo 3, maybe a couple others...
When the industry behemoths are rated M by the ESRB but are marketed (and adapted) to Tweens, something is wrong.
The kind of paradigm shift longed for in the article will not come from a developer that the average gam...
Sadly, this evolution (negative on numerous aspects) is a reality.
Deus Ex came from an industry driven by craftsmen. What we have now is PR firms, market research and shareholders.
Games have to comply with (sub) standards of accessibility, universality (or lowest common denominator) and fashion (expected Bling). I want to believe that developers do all they can to bring their vision to fruition, but am afraid this vision consists mainly of a risk/rewa...
This shouldn't be a surprise. One only needs to remember who are the "fans" they pretend to care for.
They care for players that recently discovered they have opposable thumbs.
If you started playing this with CoD4, they take you for granted. Don't you feel that they talk to the core fans like a pimp talks to one of his questioning girls ?
The one that brings a lot of dough but is still too good looking to hit ?
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Apparently, they forgot how useful batch files can be. Or how to actually use DOS commands.
Or that snowy rush map (the one in the beta). Attackers have to go down a rocky hill (the Wookie Hill) having only trees and one rock for cover.
And defenders have plenty of mounted ordinance to destroy said trees very fast.
More "secured" cover spots are a good thing.
I'll have to put this game on my watch list.