Videogames: The Official Thread

[ifear]

i did caveat it with the ranty developer bit, so there should be a degree of salt-pinch-taking anyway.

read another piece today about how the no-tail purchase model is killing off aa titles, which got me thinking:
- in the age of xbla/psn/etc is that even a loss?
- is there such a thing as a single-a title?
- who came up with this bullshit nomenclature?

[walt whitman]

define this "no-tail" purchase model and examples of AA titles (as opposed to AAA or A titles)

i guess we won't need to worry about these issues if the rumors come true and the new xbox and PS4 lock out used games

[nakedlunch]

that will kind of buttfuck gamefly too

[Gehrig Industries]

i just want console gaming to die already unless theyre gonna do novel things with the hardware

[Gehrig Industries]

its 11:59 AM and I am transferring xenogears to my laptop via USB im just conceding that i am goign to fail at life today

[ifear]

define this "no-tail" purchase model and examples of AA titles (as opposed to AAA or A titles)

i guess we won't need to worry about these issues if the rumors come true and the new xbox and PS4 lock out used games

for most titles, 95% of sales occur in the first two weeks, which has a whole chicken/egg relationship to the games the high street shops will stock (i.e. top 25 and no backlist).

re: aa games, i don't know how you'd define it, but ones with non-trivial development costs that aren't expected to sell in the millions, i suppose. for context: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... -aa-titles

[Gehrig Industries]

i mean obviously game budgets should be shrinking right now

not a bad thing

[Gehrig Industries]

the new silent hill is running on the RE4 engine and was inspired by carnival rides

let's have a nice round of applause for video games, everybody

[ifear]

i mean obviously game budgets should be shrinking right now

not a bad thing

i'll stick my neck out and say that with the indie game scene the way it is at the moment, there's a golden age around the corner

[Gehrig Industries]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/145 ... come-again

i'm going to be so disappointed if this succeeds

[MADONNA WAYNE GACY]

its 11:59 AM and I am transferring xenogears to my laptop via USB im just conceding that i am goign to fail at life today

i'm so sorry

[kreepmode]

holy shit, have you guys talked about star wars kinect in this thread yet?

[This Guy]

holy shit, have you guys talked about star wars kinect in this thread yet?

That looks fun as hell, and since the prequels have already ruined the franchise for me so why not.

[Guffaw]

yeah that looks like the best star wars related thing since the first KOTOR

[miss black america]

somehow going to be ending 2013 with a new wasteland, a new shadowrun and some new jane jensen games

going to start running my pc through ms-dos so i can recapture that 90s feeling

[Blackeyed]

I suggest everyone go grab that Silent Hill HD collection for like $30 bucks.

[Gehrig Industries]

legend of grimrock is getting some good press

eye of the beholder type game. out on steam next week

[Petty]

Yeah, sort of excited about that, but it doesn't look like it has a lot of variety in dungeon environments

[walt whitman]

I suggest everyone go grab that Silent Hill HD collection for like $30 bucks.

i think there was a kill screen piece up recently that criticized the graphical overhaul of the game - to paraphrase, SH1 & 2 apparently have glitchy animation problems and the high-def removes a bit of the grainy-ness and mystery of the original titles. confirm/deny?

[ifear]

so notch's elite-meets-firefly game is called 0x10^c.
nice to see him keeping it accessible.

[snowcones]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/161 ... un-returns

watch my old boss get a bunch of rubber toys thrown at him

then give them 15 dollars

[miss black america]

is snowcones admitting to having a hand in the shadowrun fps

[snowcones]

I had two hands a foot and I have a bot in the game named after me

[Gehrig Industries]

god bless kickstarter

[snowcones]

The highest kickstarter tiers for this game development paradigm should give people designer credits

they go in for an interview and depending on how smart/dumb they are they are given a infinitesimal-to-small part of the game to pseudo-design and paid min wage as a part time temp

[snowcones]

I'd rather like, design a hack-spell and use it to pad my resume than have one of their guys come to a shadowrun pen and paper game and tell me what I can/cannot do

[Blackeyed]

I suggest everyone go grab that Silent Hill HD collection for like $30 bucks.

i think there was a kill screen piece up recently that criticized the graphical overhaul of the game - to paraphrase, SH1 & 2 apparently have glitchy animation problems and the high-def removes a bit of the grainy-ness and mystery of the original titles. confirm/deny?

It's very grainy and extremely dark to me. I'm sure playing with your video settings you can adjust it to your preference.

[pablito]

so notch's elite-meets-firefly game is called 0x10^c.
nice to see him keeping it accessible.

just read about this
http://0x10c.com/

multi-player space game set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD. Besides the usual space battles, trading and mining we have come to expect from these kinds of games, 0x10c will also feature a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that will control your spaceship and which will be fully programmable by the player.

As if having a programmable computer at the core of the game wasn’t enough, 0x10c has what must be one of gaming’s geekiest premises: the reason it is set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD is due to the simple fact that in 0x10c’s parallel universe, the space race never ended and that a computer bug in a new “deep sleep cell” introduced in 1988 caused a large number of people to sleep for 0×0001 0000 0000 0000 years instead of the planned 0×0000 0000 0000 0001 years.

apparently he's not going to stop players from making viruses for the ingame cpus, which is fun
i sort of resent minecraft but i don't deny that this guy is really smart and what little concept for this game that has come out is great

[Locke]

I'm stuck in Super Metroid.

[deadaswarhol]

can't think of a better place to be stuck