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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23429 |  Knuckles (1557) Mar 31, 2011 - 03:05 pm
| Not to sound like a bloody commie or anything, but... Lets face it, large companies are in general unethical in their relations to customers, so isn't it ironic when others companies act in that way in their regard they get all upset.
Do they have some honor code like organized criminals that says that you shall not screw us (other criminal organization/companies), but it's ok screw them (the people/customers).
[I personally think the code is, don't screw with people that can afford lawyers] Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23423 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 30, 2011 - 05:28 pm
| Every time censorship topic comes up I am reminded of this quote: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
Although I don't see a problem with rating as a general guide, but I think it's bad if they get have power over what gets to sold, as it effectively gives them power to censors.
All in all I think this quote puts it in its place: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23384 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 19, 2011 - 04:47 pm
| The only real way to make sure people buy the game is to have on-line content that people want to use (not just pin it on afterwards), like for example BF/L4D/TF2 but not Bulletstorm. Any other DRM than a serial key is just punishing the customer for buying your product as the pirates are going to get the better deal. I know I have downloaded a few noCD cracks in my time to get away from having noisy CD drive/braking my CD drive. (And I have broken at least one, but most likely around 3, because of constantly having a CD in it)
Another reason we keep getting more invasive DRM is because we keep buying the AAA games that introduce it to us, like Bioshock/Mass Effect/Assassins Creed 2 and so on. So we can only blame ourselves, and me telling people to boycott it is not working. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23400 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 19, 2011 - 04:12 pm
| | Yeah I know what you mean, the highlighting is stupid, and it lacks the scale the first Deus Ex had (you felt you were in a big city or huge complexes), it generally looks more like number two (in more ways than one). But I am not giving up hope just yet, hopefully this first mission is just a short tutorial, still it could be even more consolified than in our worst nightmare. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23363 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 06, 2011 - 04:20 pm
| I stay way clear of casual gaming. I have though played once trough Plants vs. Zombies which is a pretty good game, but it has some very lame concepts like the garden where you water your plants for money. Of course I have also tried Bejeweled, which was pretty fun but simple compared to Tetris. Then there are the Tower Defense type games, that are similar to Warcraft/Starcraft levels where you build a static weapon placement (towers/bunkers) that you place strategically to automatically kill waves of enemies. But all of these games don't hold my attention long because you don't need much skill to play them. Unlike playing multi-player Quake/TF2/BF and so on.
But these new casual games get there replay value from what Darren talked about in his article about Gamification. Which is making dull activity into a game and constantly rewarding the player for simply playing the game. Or that the game allows you to rank yourself to other people or friends, and therefor pray on peoples vanity, which there is a lot of in social networking sites. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23353 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 04, 2011 - 09:37 am
| | We have some interesting shooters coming up this year: Rage, Duke Nukem Forever, Deus Ex 3, Battlefield 3 and Serious Sam 3. Of course not all of these games are going to live up to expectations but some must be good, but if shooters are not your thing I have nothing to talk about. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23356 | Knuckles (1557) Mar 03, 2011 - 01:23 pm » Edited on Mar 03, 2011 - 01:27 pm
| Here is my argument for copyright infringement or stealing of software as it sometimes called.
1. If I download a shareware version of doom and play episode 1, is it theft? No
2. If I download a retail version of doom and play any other episode than 1, is it theft? No, but it is a copyright infringement.
3. If I download a retail version of doom and play episode 1, is it theft? No, because you can't steal what is being given away.
4. If I download a retail version of doom and don't play it, is it theft? No, because I would be like a proxy, in the sense that I have on storage some bytes that I personally don't use myself. So if that would be theft then proxy servers would be illegal as well.
So what is the crime, the intent? but that wasn't acted on (the game wasn't played I mean).
5. If I buy retail version of doom, but loose/damage the disk, is it theft to download it? no. (only if I still own the recipe some would say)
6. If a friend comes over, who owns a retail copy of doom. Is it theft for him to play it on my computer? no
7. If a friend comes over, who owns a retail copy of doom. Is it theft to allow me play it on my computer? no (not if he is standing next to me at the time)
8. If a friend comes over, who owns a retail copy of doom, but forgets it. Is it theft for him to download it and play it on my computer? no (see number 5)
9. If a friend comes over, who owns a retail copy of doom, but forgets it. Is it theft for him to download it and allow my to play it on my computer? no (see number 7 and 8)
P.S.
So if this friend of mine goes it school/work between 9 and 5, and I go to his house to play his games, it that theft? no.
but what if I played that at my house instead (at times when he isn't playing them), is that theft? no, the only difference for me is the convenience for me not to go over to his house
to play his games.
So in reality there are sold millions of games that are only played short amount of time, and I am sure some "friend" is not playing his copy at this time, so I can play his.
P.P.S
I am sure some lawyer/smartypants will poke holes in my argument, as I am sure there are holes, but it is never the less fun to argue. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23345 | Knuckles (1557) Feb 27, 2011 - 05:56 pm
| I don't think more realism is necessarily better, just makes for a different experience.
But by advancing technology to the point were photo-realistic games are possible, I think that will expand the possibilities of gaming, but not make unrealistic games obsolete.
But if realism is taken to far, they risk that the game becomes work instead of fun. I like my games more on the arcade side like Quake instead of Rainbow Six. (and my racing like N4S instead of Gran Turismo).
I read an interesting article some years ago when crysis came out about graphics realism. The effect they were talking about was called uncanny valley (IIRC). But the article basically said that when things become almost life like they also appear ugly. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23344 | Knuckles (1557) Feb 26, 2011 - 04:52 pm
| I read the review, and at first I thought it was a little harsh (after reading other reviews) but then I played the game and must say your review is the most fair one out there.
But yeah, I'll give it another try in few days. What I think I will have the most trouble with is the game being only wide-screen (unlike every other game that I play). If the game was $20 I might have been more forgiving, but paying AAA game price for a game that isn't, doesn't seem right to me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23336 | Knuckles (1557) Feb 26, 2011 - 04:04 pm
| | Well I did think it was fun, until I started to think about why I thought it was fun. Then I realized what the fun part was, it was the excitement of the possibility of getting better items, and that getting better items was essentially meaningless so I quit playing. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23344 | Knuckles (1557) Feb 26, 2011 - 02:23 pm
| You are way too generous in your review, my experience has not been great, firstly took an hour to install, then it asked for a restart, just WTF, restarting after installing a game.
Then when I started the game, I was greeted by windows live, which is well known to be the biggest crap to hit network gaming since forever. So it told me I needed windows live account, which I have (but don't use) and had to login which took for ages, because I got repeatedly errors that I was not connected to the internet, but some how on my 5th. try it worked (probably their servers just busy or something). Next I have to download a update for windows live and restart the game, more annoyance.
Then I finally get in the game and notice the navigation system, totally console'ified, and very awkward to use with a mouse (like Dead Space 2).
So I start the first mission, and guess what, black boarders on top and bottom of the screen. Looks like they decided not to support anything else but wide-screen. I have a 19" 5:4 ratio monitor.
As for the rest of the game, the weapons sound weak and the textures are sometimes washed out, but maybe it's just my graphics settings.
But there were some slowdowns where everything lagged terribly. And controls, I have read in reviews that they are not perfect, I must say I found mouse accuracy way below compared to other PC shooters, maybe it has something to do with being a console port.
So with all that and the price tag, I suggest people just to wait for it to hit the bargain bin, which should not take long, maybe 2 months.
But thankfully I bought Marvel vs Capcom 3 as well (and I still have BF:BC2:Vietnam) Flag this | Edit this post |
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