Definitely.
The tide of games will go out sometime after Christmas, at which point we can start catching up on games. This works fine for single-player games, but I worry that by the time I get to (say, CoD4) there won't be a good multiplayer community.
I used to play Magic a lot, and this is certainly great for players on a budget. With my friends I used to play with proxy decks (i.e. cards with labels instead of the cards themselves) because I couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars I'd have to spend to get the right cards (either through getting rares out of packs and trading them or just buying the specific card I needed).
However, this absolutely sucks for Sony, who is now only going to make money through the sale of the Eye and the game itself. Unless it comes up with some extremely clever way to entice people to keep buying the actual cards themselves. (Each box has a unique super card that can only be registered once or something.)
While we're on the subject of gratuitous comments.
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I think the idea behind the article is that there are still games which guarantee you will be hit - for example, where it'd be impossible to go through bullet-hell on one life. In fact, the bullet-hell you reference is exactly what he is asking for - not impossible, but very challenging.
The free alternatives you speak of aren't even close to on par with what XBOX Live provides as a service. In fact, XBConnect isn't even related to Live; it's a tunneling service to play certain games online. And while we're talking XBConnect, you have to pay to get all the features of that service, anyways.
My point is just that Steam and GfW are essentially the same thing, except one is free and has more games I enjoy.
While we're at it, I don't see why I should have to pay for an extra step between me and my game. Most PC games have free services to at least connect you to other people in multiplayer games (save MMORPGs), so why should I pay instead of just walking a few blocks to my local Gamestop for a game?
It is a PC-only game, and it is single player only. That is part of its beauty, though; a lot of the story comes from the NPC characters, which would be sorely missed if you had a party of untalkative PCs.
Thank goodness it only had to do with ropes hauling things. For a second I thought that the Ruskies were practicing the Rope trick effect for battle in outer space.
No. CBS and WSVG (strangely) seemed to have two different video crews... I'm a little confused by it all.
In terms of watching the actual performances and matches, I think WSVG's footage was far superior. I mainly paid attention to the Guitar Hero competition (since I competed in it) and CBS had to cut out a great deal of each song shown. WSVG is largely uncut.
Also, if you search YouTube for "WSVG" you'll find tons and tons of video, as they didn't seem to care at all if you filmed while there.
FYI, it was online. You could watch the games streamed live during the events, and afterwards they put up lots of videos you could view any time.
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Your anecdotal evidence is hardly convincing of a "very buggy" game. For example, I've never BSODed in the game.
If there were widespread reports of huge bugs in the PC version I'd be more worried, but I have a hard time calling a game very buggy that works perfectly on my machine. Instead I'd say that, like many games, there are bugs and some users will have trouble; but unless you can point me to the masses of people having the same troubles as you I'm not going to blindly believe its bugginess from one report.
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Definitely. The tide of games will go out sometime after Christmas, at which point we can start catching up on games. This works fine for single-player games, but I worry that by the time I get to (say, CoD4) there won't be a good multiplayer community.
I used to think a six hour game length (CoD4) was much too short. I'm beginning to understand a little better now why we need them that low.
Two players... playing at once! I've SOLVED it!
I used to play Magic a lot, and this is certainly great for players on a budget. With my friends I used to play with proxy decks (i.e. cards with labels instead of the cards themselves) because I couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars I'd have to spend to get the right cards (either through getting rares out of packs and trading them or just buying the specific card I needed). However, this absolutely sucks for Sony, who is now only going to make money through the sale of the Eye and the game itself. Unless it comes up with some extremely clever way to entice people to keep buying the actual cards themselves. (Each box has a unique super card that can only be registered once or something.)
The cake is a lie.
Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it to let you copy 16,401 files!
I think the idea behind the article is that there are still games which guarantee you will be hit - for example, where it'd be impossible to go through bullet-hell on one life. In fact, the bullet-hell you reference is exactly what he is asking for - not impossible, but very challenging.
Very true. Also, if you happen to be re-playing the game again sometimes you want to skip some of the more mind-numbing cutscenes.
The free alternatives you speak of aren't even close to on par with what XBOX Live provides as a service. In fact, XBConnect isn't even related to Live; it's a tunneling service to play certain games online. And while we're talking XBConnect, you have to pay to get all the features of that service, anyways. My point is just that Steam and GfW are essentially the same thing, except one is free and has more games I enjoy. While we're at it, I don't see why I should have to pay for an extra step between me and my game. Most PC games have free services to at least connect you to other people in multiplayer games (save MMORPGs), so why should I pay instead of just walking a few blocks to my local Gamestop for a game?
...Except Steam is free and has more games that I want.
Also it's supposed to be spelled "stretegery".
It is a PC-only game, and it is single player only. That is part of its beauty, though; a lot of the story comes from the NPC characters, which would be sorely missed if you had a party of untalkative PCs.
Description is slightly off; it's been available for pre-order for a while, but people have actually been receiving their copies recently (see here).
Thank goodness it only had to do with ropes hauling things. For a second I thought that the Ruskies were practicing the Rope trick effect for battle in outer space.
Guys... why do we need to hate games. Why not just play and love both.
No. CBS and WSVG (strangely) seemed to have two different video crews... I'm a little confused by it all. In terms of watching the actual performances and matches, I think WSVG's footage was far superior. I mainly paid attention to the Guitar Hero competition (since I competed in it) and CBS had to cut out a great deal of each song shown. WSVG is largely uncut. Also, if you search YouTube for "WSVG" you'll find tons and tons of video, as they didn't seem to care at all if you filmed while there.
FYI, it was online. You could watch the games streamed live during the events, and afterwards they put up lots of videos you could view any time.
Your anecdotal evidence is hardly convincing of a "very buggy" game. For example, I've never BSODed in the game. If there were widespread reports of huge bugs in the PC version I'd be more worried, but I have a hard time calling a game very buggy that works perfectly on my machine. Instead I'd say that, like many games, there are bugs and some users will have trouble; but unless you can point me to the masses of people having the same troubles as you I'm not going to blindly believe its bugginess from one report.
I think it'd be quite fun to see the blue screen and a black screen battle in a fight to the death.