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Reply #735 on: September 07, 2012, 01:39:11 PM

Hey, did we ever find out what company Sand(/whatever his old name) was actually ran?

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Reply #736 on: September 07, 2012, 01:46:57 PM

http://www.questoutdoors.com/

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Reply #737 on: September 08, 2012, 08:39:08 PM

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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Reply #738 on: September 09, 2012, 12:07:00 PM

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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Reply #739 on: September 11, 2012, 07:12:57 AM

This is just in: ArmA Devs are also spies for evil governments that want to bomb Greece:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-11-arma-dev-confirms-staff-arrested-accused-of-spying-by-greek-authorities




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Reply #740 on: September 12, 2012, 01:57:51 AM

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!   Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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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Reply #741 on: September 12, 2012, 11:55:39 AM

This is just in: ArmA Devs are also spies for evil governments that want to bomb Greece:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-11-arma-dev-confirms-staff-arrested-accused-of-spying-by-greek-authorities

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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Reply #742 on: September 13, 2012, 11:56:52 AM

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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Reply #743 on: September 13, 2012, 12:00:14 PM

I totally can't wait to never even use one.
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Reply #744 on: September 13, 2012, 12:06:46 PM

^ This. ^

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Reply #745 on: September 13, 2012, 12:08:53 PM

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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Reply #746 on: September 13, 2012, 12:10:01 PM

Oh man, now I'm totally still not giving a shit. Whoooo!
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Reply #747 on: September 13, 2012, 12:31:57 PM

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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Reply #748 on: September 13, 2012, 12:44:03 PM

Well the date and price was only just announced today, so.
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Reply #749 on: September 13, 2012, 01:46:48 PM

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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Reply #750 on: September 13, 2012, 01:50:01 PM

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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Reply #751 on: September 13, 2012, 01:59:25 PM

Capacity upgrades and a terrible launch title list. Woo woo.  rolleyes

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Reply #752 on: September 13, 2012, 02:02:59 PM

Capacity upgrades and a terrible launch title list. Woo woo.  rolleyes
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Reply #753 on: September 13, 2012, 02:14:49 PM

The shit hawks are circling, this platform is gonna be a hit!
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Reply #754 on: September 13, 2012, 02:25:21 PM

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).
« Last Edit: September 13, 2012, 02:28:55 PM by Rasix »

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Reply #755 on: September 13, 2012, 05:47:15 PM

1GB of ram for games is just hilarious.  It's like a mustang with a 1 gallon tank.
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Reply #756 on: September 14, 2012, 01:27:30 AM

1 GB of RAM is double what the Xbox 360 and PS3 have.
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Reply #757 on: September 14, 2012, 03:51:40 AM

Lots of RPGs on sale on GoG.
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Reply #758 on: September 14, 2012, 10:52:58 AM

Lots of RPGs on sale on GoG.

The BG Enhanced edition is supposed to launch on Monday Tuesday.

http://baldursgate.com/index.en.html
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Reply #759 on: September 14, 2012, 11:48:49 AM

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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Reply #760 on: September 14, 2012, 03:37:59 PM

Lots of RPGs on sale on GoG.

The BG Enhanced edition is supposed to launch on Monday Tuesday.

http://baldursgate.com/index.en.html

Aaaaaand...  I spoke to soon.

Delayed to Nov 30. 

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/4796/ship-date-delay
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Reply #761 on: September 14, 2012, 04:00:46 PM

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 ?  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

Old guys well past their prime, or back "to show how it's done"?

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Reply #762 on: September 14, 2012, 04:39:09 PM

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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Reply #763 on: September 14, 2012, 05:10:00 PM

Because it raises the per-unit cost by $20...   why so serious?

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Reply #764 on: September 14, 2012, 05:31:42 PM

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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Reply #765 on: September 14, 2012, 06:24:03 PM

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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Reply #766 on: September 14, 2012, 08:49:36 PM

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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Reply #767 on: September 16, 2012, 09:18:50 PM

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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Reply #768 on: September 24, 2012, 02:26:29 PM


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Reply #769 on: September 24, 2012, 03:43:09 PM

Well that's certainly unexpected.
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