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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Mar 28, 2008 - 09:45 am
Yeah, even someone with only one good eye can see how stupid that prediction is.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Mar 28, 2008 - 09:42 am
Basically.

Her job seemed to be mostly PR anyways. She was a producer, not lead designer.

Producers don't make things, they make sure the people who make things have fresh donuts and coffee in the morning.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Mar 11, 2008 - 03:54 pm
CoD 3
KotOR 2
NWN 2
SimCity Societies

welcome to the club, Bioshock.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 28, 2008 - 10:01 am
If by that you mean stash in anonymous Swiss bank accounts, then yeah.


Lemme know when the EU sues Airbus, who holds a monopoly on making airplanes in Europe.
Lemme know when the EU sues Deutsche Telekom, who controls 90% of the broadband market in Germany.
Lemme know when the EU sues French cable and sat TV providers, whose proprietary set top boxes only work with French-made TVs.

Oh wait, those are European companies.
Nevermind.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 26, 2008 - 01:08 pm
SimCity Societies was not.


I shudder to think of what EA will do to Civilization (Take 2 owns Firaxis).

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 25, 2008 - 02:45 pm
Yeah, because MS has a history of just going away.

Hey, remember when IE first came out and everyone said "They'll never beat Netscape, they should just cut their losses and go away." How'd that turn out again?

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 19, 2008 - 06:00 pm
Can I just ask where these $60 a year figures are coming from?

Amazon: $44 for 12 month card

ChiefValue, aka Newegg: $40 for 12 month card

Is that $60 figure Australian dollars?

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 13, 2008 - 04:11 pm
I'm sorry, but I have to laugh at the idea of Intel kicking out MS for somehow retarding the growth of PC gaming.

The #1 graphics chip maker in the world is Intel, and they make nothing but integrated garbage that has retarded PC gaming for years because it was just barely good enough to play CS and is now barely good enough to play WoW.

As a result, people have been able to get away with having granny laptops and still play their favorite games, which means when games with actual requirements come out there's no installed hardware base to buy them.

Most people aren't about flexing their ePeen with tricked-out rigs, they're about being able to play their favorite games at the lowest cost. If they could get Halo on a DS they wouldn't buy 360s.

And if saving PC gaming is going to require some never-gonna-happen massive popular shift from Windows to Linux, we might as well eulogize and bury PC gaming now.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Feb 12, 2008 - 01:00 pm
Eh, stick a VC-1 movie on a Blu-Ray disc and all of a sudden Blu-Ray is MS too.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 30, 2008 - 01:38 pm
Pachter is the same "analyst" who keeps predicting every year is going to be "Sony's year." He predicted it about 2007, and has predicted it about 2008.

Before this gen started he said PS3 would have 55% market share and Wii only 10%, and that WoW would peak at 4 million subscribers before returning to a sustainable average of 1 million.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 30, 2008 - 01:28 pm
So without the kiosks as a brick & mortar presence in various states, does that mean Dell sales go back to being sales tax-free?

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 29, 2008 - 04:25 pm
It's more like the SACD vs DVDA war of a few years ago. Audiophiles bickered about the various advantages of each format the way videophiles argue HD vs BRD.

Consumers are sticking with CDs and DVDs. Most HDTV owners, let alone all consumers, don't know jack about HD content. Half of them think anything they see on a HDTV is HD content.

This "war" is the equivalent of arguing SLI'd 8800s vs Xfire'd 3870s. Sure it's fun and all, but at the end of the day the most popular graphics chip is still Intel Integrated.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 29, 2008 - 04:16 pm
This is stupid. Superbowl ads are like the Sundance Film Festival of advertising. They're about who can make the most creative or funny or whimsical ads, not about actually selling any product.

Toshiba would've been better off sinking that money into traditional advertising that actually gets people to buy things, not buying the corporate status symbols that are SB ads.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 24, 2008 - 12:33 pm
"Heh, heh, well that says it all doesn't it? That they have to call it "Sync" technology because nobody would know what the hell a Zune was if they were to mention it by name."

No, the reason they don't call it Zune is because it does other stuff besides interfacing with the Zune. Sync works with multiple bluetooth and usb devices - phones, PDAs, etc. Even iPods.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 23, 2008 - 12:28 pm » Edited on Jan 23, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Or maybe the fat kid would have used his increased hand-eye coordination from playing video games to become a life-saving surgeon, but instead goes to play in the woods and gets eaten by a bear.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 15, 2008 - 03:24 pm
I'd say a bit more than slightly overpriced, considering no optical disc drive, only 1 USB port, non-upgradeable RAM, and non-user-replaceable battery.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 15, 2008 - 11:51 am
He hit people with a car.

Researching the role would have meant him running around shooting people with a chaingun mounted to his chest.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 15, 2008 - 11:50 am
This is just a ploy to absorb game writers into the union.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 14, 2008 - 11:04 pm
It's more like using a laser pointer at the movies. The guy should be banned for being unfunny.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 14, 2008 - 04:00 pm
That would just turn consoles into the large majority of the PC gaming market, where some PCs run Game A faster than other PCs, but they all run it on Windows.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 09, 2008 - 04:15 pm
That's no deal. Sign up for AMEX Gold (much better card than SonyStyle whatever) and get $250 back = 40GB PS3 for $150.

... and a hard pull on your cred.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 07, 2008 - 05:11 pm
If Wright can re-capture his Sims crowd, Spore will sell like gangbusters.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Jan 07, 2008 - 05:08 pm
It would've done better with mini-games and little collectible critters.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Oct 04, 2007 - 11:25 am
It's a video game, not a coup. Calm down.

These Venezuelans are big whiny crybabies, just like the Mexicans who protested GRAW, and just like the whiny Vegas people who cried about Rainbow 6 Vegas, and just like the whiny church people in England about Resistance.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 28, 2007 - 10:10 am
Agree.

Wii's primarily appeal is to super-casual gamers, including tons of non-gaming parents and grandparents. These are people who follow gaming less than Maddenites. These are the people asking for game-buying advice from the clerks at Best Buy and GameStop, which of course is heard as "Which game are you overstocked on?"

In short, huge sections of the Wii consumer base have no idea what they're doing. They're the gaming equivalent of people who go to the track and bet on a horse because they like the name, or pick a team in the NCAA March Madness pool because the team colors are pretty.

Why should 3rd parties make great games for Wii when the consumer base won't appreciate them? It's so much easier to churn out shovelware and rake in the dough. I'm surprised there aren't 1001 ____ Tycoon games on Wii yet.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 27, 2007 - 12:00 pm
"And I had to add that yes a 7 cell core PS3 is more powerful than a quad core PC even with dual 8800 GTX cards ... when the developers are given the right tools that will be evident down the line. There is no game out now that once the devs learn the PS3 better can't be duplicated almost exactly on the PS3"

This is why a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The PS3 doesn't have 7 Cells, it has 1 Cell processor.
The Cell doesn't have 7 cores, it has 7 SPEs, 1 of which is entirely dedicated to running the OS and security.

The PS3's RSX (G71) graphics chip is equivalent to a 7900GT. Comparing it to dual 8800s (G80) is laughable. You're talking about a chip that's a generation ahead of PS3. RSX isn't even hardware DX10.

Of course, your PC can't teach you discipline in 4-D.

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 24, 2007 - 11:37 am
First of all, Socom and MGS aren't even FPS. I'm surprised you didn't mention Guitar Hero and Tetris. MGS2 was as much a disappointment as Halo 2, both largely owing to their lame secondary playable characters (Arbiter, Raiden).

"Refer to list above, but go ahead and add in Final Fantasy, Doom, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto etc etc etc..."

Did you stop playing Doom after Doom 2? Did you stop playing MoH after Allied Assault? Did you completely miss FFs XI, X-2, and Dirge of Cerberus?

Or are you just high?

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 18, 2007 - 09:28 am
Because a set number allows a user to stay right below it. If the limit is 10GB they download 9.9.

A wandering limit allows them to go after anyone they want at any time for whatever reason, no matter how much that person has actually downloaded.

It's basically "Comcast reserves the right to alter your service contract in any manner Comcast deems necessary at any time without your notice and/or approval."

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 17, 2007 - 09:28 am
Who needs paintball guns?

All a kid needs to "play" war, cops n robbers, cowboys n indians, etc., is a thumb and an index finger.

Quick, better chop off their hands!

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Click to view BubbaT's User Page BubbaT (160) Sep 13, 2007 - 07:40 am
It means the casual gaming market continues to be much larger than the hardcore gaming market. You're not going to see BioShock or Crysis outsell The Sims, either.

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