Auto Assault NDA lifted

[Trippy]

That promotion link is broken.

Whoops, sorry about that.

[Shockeye]

Hey look, a fanboy fellates it.

[Modern Angel]

This is not going to go well. There were some immensely slobbery fan boys made all the worse because they tended to be of the older, pseudo-smart variety as opposed to the average Blizzboy. Already said my two bits on how it plays but it's alot easier for a developer to dismiss dewdspeak than falsely intellectual crap defenses of their crap.

I don't know exactly where I was leading with that except that this game is not going to be faring too well three months from now.

[HaemishM]

Hey look, a fanboy fellates it.

To paraphrase the perpetually hot Tina Turner from her oh so sexy role as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, "Two cars enter. One car leaves." That best sums up the feeling you get when you drop into Auto Assault's vast, post-apocalyptic ravaged Wasteland and begin blasting everyone, and everything, in site

Sight, you fucking tit. Your first paragraph that is supposed to draw people into reading your review should not have such an obvious spelling error.

[Murgos]

I was kind of curious as to why he capitalized wasteland but then I thought of something else.

[Lantyssa]

I was kind of curious as to why he capitalized wasteland but then I thought of something else.

Maybe he was wishing he was playing that instead of Auto Assault.

[HaemishM]

I was kind of curious as to why he capitalized wasteland but then I thought of something else.

Maybe he was wishing he was playing that instead of Auto Assault.

Unpossible. Wasteland was actually fun.

[Krakrok]

AA full court press which includes this mind boggling quote of the day:

"There are those who are bound and determined to repeat their mistakes and those who want to find new mistakes," Gaffney said. "NetDevil falls into the latter category."

[Murgos]

How about instead of being determined to make new mistakes they just try not to make any mistakes?  Regardless they seem to have succeeded.

[Trippy]

AA full court press which includes this mind boggling quote of the day:

I like this one:

Gaffney said NCsoft chose NetDevil to create Auto Assault because the company "had the smarts" to pull off the ambitious project.

[Shockeye]

So who's going to buy this and give us a blow by blow account of release day server stability?

[Signe]

You?   

[Shockeye]

You?   

You're funny today. Stop it.

[Lantyssa]

Gaffer always did have a good sense of humor.

[Modern Angel]

http://boards.autoassault.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=124511&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1#124511

I can't see how a public catass race in a game with repetitive, limited content could possibly lead to bitching and burnout two months from now, do you?

[Murgos]

I actually liked Auto Assault more than Dungeons and Dragon Online.

Not giving either of them my money though.

[HaemishM]

AA full court press which includes this mind boggling quote of the day:

I love this:

For a seemingly affable guy, Scott Brown is perfectly at ease blasting through guard rails with automatic weapons, torching aliens with flame-throwers and setting forests ablaze, as he glides through a post-apocalyptic world in a futuristic combat vehicle.

Does every single fucking "mainstream" story have to start with a description of the main subject of the story being portrayed as the actual participant in their MMOG fantasy? Do we have to hear about Harry MacCatass is an affable guy who slays dragons and fucks sheep every night after work?

If this is "real journalism," I can see why game journalism is a bastion of ass-thumbing twi'lek humpers.

[shiznitz]

What I really want to know is if I worked on a game for 4 1/2 years, would I find it more fun than if I was seeing it for the first time? How can anyone at NetDevil who considers himself a gamer think that Auto Assault is a great game?

If the developers are honest with themselves about it, then how can they stand to play it day after day? And if they aren;t playing it day after day, isn't that a big red flag that it sucks?

There are certainly parts of my job that suck, but there are other parts that are great. Things are balanced. I just cannot imgaine spending 4 years on the same project and then having to play it even though it isn't actually enjoyable.

[Murgos]

If I had spent 4 + years on a project I would be totally blind to it's failures and utterly uninterested in it's successes.

[shiznitz]

If I had spent 4 + years on a project I would be totally blind to it's failures and utterly uninterested in it's successes.

That makes sense to me and probably explains a lot about MMOGs.

[Falconeer]

Amazingly enough, Auto Assault delivers some vintage fun, straight from the 8-bit era, but with a Diablo 2 flair.
And true to its 80s core, save for arenas that I couldn't test, it's basically a single player game with some marketable multiplayer online decoy functions.

I got it for free, of course, but I just made up my mind and I am giving it my money for some time.


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the Falconeer

[Signe]

I got it for free, of course, but I just made up my mind and I am giving it my money for some time.


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the Falconeer

What am I missing?  Should I know why you got it for free?     Are you, like, somebody?

Anyway, I got an early-ish beta spot but couldn't play it due to it being total rubbish.  That was early, though, so I dropped back in after it had been purtied up but still had that totall rubbish problem.  So... when did they fix the total rubbish bug?  Maybe it's not the game... maybe it's me... maybe it's my drivers.

[Falconeer]

What am I missing?  Should I know why you got it for free?     Are you, like, somebody?

Sorry, no. Forget that.
About the rubbish, it's still there. Most of it.
The game is far from polished.

It's just that it is fun. I find it enjoying in a retro kind of way, but with a slight layer of complexity (ie: crafting, tinkering, reverse engineering, random stats drops. I couldn't see that coming) that keeps it engaging. Especially for hyper quick destructive gaming sessions or some hours of optimistic storyline progression.

Far from me the idea of giving it a rating or hints of a positive review.
It's just that I played better games... without getting any fun from those.
Now, without a monthly fee it would be perfect.
Being a paying customer I expect them to justify the moneyleeching with promised arena-pvp-tournaments.

I know it's bad, dirty, and doesn't have a job...but dad... I am afraid I love him (it)...


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the Falconeer


P.S: Hello, I am new here. Sorry for not introducing myself. I am Drew the Falconeer from an unknown location in southern Europe.

[Murgos]

P.S: Hello, I am new here. Sorry for not introducing myself. I am Drew the Falconeer from an unknown location in southern Europe.

What?  Like this:

I didn't know that Falconeer's got free games as a matter of course, if I feed a pigeon in the park occasionally can I get a copy of tetris or something?

[Miasma]

I got it for free, of course, but I just made up my mind and I am giving it my money for some time.


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the Falconeer

What am I missing?  Should I know why you got it for free?     Are you, like, somebody?

Of course he got it for free, moles don't need to buy copies of the games they are supposed to hype  .

[Shockeye]

I got it for free, of course, but I just made up my mind and I am giving it my money for some time.


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the Falconeer

What am I missing?  Should I know why you got it for free?     Are you, like, somebody?

Of course he got it for free, moles don't need to buy copies of the games they are supposed to hype  .

The mole is in Italy or at least the proxy the mole is using is in Italy. Viklas.

[schild]

Neg. Viklas, well, Viklas can make proper paragraphs.

[Falconeer]

Of course he got it for free, moles don't need to buy copies of the games they are supposed to hype  .

And I asked to forget that :)
The point is just that I am a thief. I sneak into malls and get what I want claiming that Society stinks. It's Society's fault and Society made me what I am... just a 21st century schizoid man. There it goes my free Auto Assault copy.

That said, if I were a mole paid to talk high of AA I guess the F13 assignment would be my last one. /LFJ!

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the Falconeer

[Mesozoic]

This is what happens when we leave the door open. 

[Miasma]

Seeing as how you list yourself as a communist on your ICQ profile I can believe both your story about stealing the game and that you have deluded yourself into thinking society is to blame for your actions.

Italians seem poorly represented on f13.

[schild]

Italians were poorly represented in SW:G either. By which I mean, they were evil.

[Shockeye]

I'd argue Italians are poorly represented in Hollywood as well.

[schild]

Also, restaraunt chains.

[Mesozoic]

Also, restaraunt chains.

As if the two were related in some way.

[Shockeye]

Italy is falling