Simond
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Hey, did we ever find out what company Sand(/whatever his old name) was actually ran?
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Merusk
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Rendakor
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Some indie game dev is advertising his own game by giving it away for free on thepiratebay. Here's a link to the game's site, and the front page of TPB has an image advertising it.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Kail
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Oh, McPixel. Bleh.
Yeah, this seems to be the new thing since Notch made that tweet in January about how piracy is basically free publicity for indies. I dunno how well it carries over to studios which are smaller than Mojang (i.e. everybody else) and especially McPixel (which is the definition of a bite sized game), but they've been flying since they got featured on Giant Bomb, so whatever. It's currently on Greenlight if you want to see it on Steam.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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calapine
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This is just in: ArmA Devs are also spies for evil governments that want to bomb Greece:
Now that's a very sensationislt way to put it! According to the greek article linked as source they were arrested and pictures of the military base where found on their cameras and camcorders.
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Amaron
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It would be nice to see the Streisand effect take off here. Greek military base mods for Day Z all around.
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Rendakor
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Wii U's launch date confirmed as Nov. 18 in US, Nov. 30th in Europe, Dec. 8th in Japan. Two models coming out: an 8g for $299 and a 32g for $349. Still no firm list of launch titles yet.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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schild
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I totally can't wait to never even use one.
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HaemishM
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^ This. ^
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koro
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Wii U's launch date confirmed as Nov. 18 in US, Nov. 30th in Europe, Dec. 8th in Japan. Two models coming out: an 8g for $299 and a 32g for $349. Still no firm list of launch titles yet.
For what it's worth, launch titles, all out by December 8th: Nintendo Land New Super Mario Bros. U Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper Assassin’s Creed III Zombie U Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
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schild
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Oh man, now I'm totally still not giving a shit. Whoooo!
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Malakili
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Maybe I just don't travel in the right circles anymore, but the fact that the Wii U is coming out in 2 months and I had no idea blows me away.
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koro
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Well the date and price was only just announced today, so.
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Malakili
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Well the date and price was only just announced today, so.
Right, but I had like, no concept that it was even going to be out this year.
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Goreschach
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Wii U's launch date confirmed as Nov. 18 in US, Nov. 30th in Europe, Dec. 8th in Japan. Two models coming out: an 8g for $299 and a 32g for $349. Still no firm list of launch titles yet.
Well, consoles have patches and copy protection now. Might as well start selling them at different performance specs to complete the shit-trifecta. It's almost like while pc gaming was becoming consolized, console gaming decided to steal all the shitty parts from pc gaming to level the playing field.
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Rasix
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Capacity upgrades and a terrible launch title list. Woo woo.
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schild
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Capacity upgrades and a terrible launch title list. Woo woo. It's the Microsoft 3Shitty.
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Salamok
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The shit hawks are circling, this platform is gonna be a hit!
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Rasix
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Hit or not, it'll still suck.
edit: Seriously, that's just a really unappealing launch title list (although I have no idea what Nintendo Land is).
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« Last Edit: September 13, 2012, 02:28:55 PM by Rasix »
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Amaron
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1GB of ram for games is just hilarious. It's like a mustang with a 1 gallon tank.
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Trippy
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1 GB of RAM is double what the Xbox 360 and PS3 have.
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lamaros
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Lots of RPGs on sale on GoG.
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Hawkbit
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Amaron
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1 GB of RAM is double what the Xbox 360 and PS3 have.
Exactly. The 360 and PS3 suffer from this heavily. They're completely bottleknecked on visual quality due to the memory issue. Now the Wii U comes out with 3x the video processing power but they're going to feed it with 1 gig? That's insanity.
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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Lucas
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So, for a CRPG "blast from the past", (both in the form of personalities and design approach, this one at least in theory :P) now we have: - Baldur's Gate EE - Brian Fargo's Wasteland sequel - Obsidian's Project Eternity - Divinity: Original Sin - Age of Decadence To that, you can also add graphic adventures, with: - Ron Gilbert's The Cave - Tim Schafer's Adventure (Double Fine) - Jane Jensen's (Gabriel Knight) new adventure And finally Chris "I'm back in the cockpit" Roberts. Now, where are Geoff Crammond, David Braben and Doug Church ? Old guys well past their prime, or back "to show how it's done"?
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Samwise
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1 GB of RAM is double what the Xbox 360 and PS3 have.
Exactly. The 360 and PS3 suffer from this heavily. They're completely bottleknecked on visual quality due to the memory issue. Now the Wii U comes out with 3x the video processing power but they're going to feed it with 1 gig? That's insanity. I don't understand the reasoning. I just bought a cheap-ass laptop (under $300) to use as a netbook, and it has 4GB of RAM with room to double it. Even if none of your launch titles need more than 1G, or even half of that, why not slap a little more in there so you'll have room to grow with future titles?
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Minvaren
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Because it raises the per-unit cost by $20...
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trippy
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Which matters to Nintendo cause they try and make money off the hardware from the the start, unlike Microsoft and Sony.
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Amaron
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Which matters to Nintendo cause they try and make money off the hardware from the the start, unlike Microsoft and Sony.
That's true but there are more logical places to cut costs. The box needs less horsepower and more memory plain and simple. Add 2 gigs and take out twice the cost in horsepower. The whole box would be cheaper and produce higher quality visuals.
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Ingmar
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It probably doesn't need more memory. A console doesn't have nearly the memory overhead that a box running a consumer OS does. The processor probably is a lot more bang for the buck than added memory in that kind of configuration, I suspect.
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Yegolev
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You can try to argue for roomy hardware with Nintendo, but they have decades of empirical evidence that debunks your theories.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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koro
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Well that's certainly unexpected.
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