I feel like "arcadey" was probably the worst way I could have put "the gameplay was considerably better than FIFA's", and I'm glad somebody's come along to correct that. I'm not much of a fan of football as a real sport, but have, until the more recent attempts to copy... whatever it is FIFA's trying to do (which started around about the Xbox 360 and PS3 era, I believe) always considered PES the more enjoyable of the two to play.
Of course, the power of licenses outdoes quality for the majority of people, and that definitely didn't help PES in the long run.
The Lords of Shadow sub-series for PS3 and XBox 360. It's kind of disingenuous of me to refer to them as a "clone" of a more popular game - but they're third-person action games in the same vein as God of War, with a very similar emphasis on being "cinematic" - whatever that means. The combat's the usual "mash light attack until a symbol pops over their head and use a QTE to execute them" fare you'd expect from God of War and its ilk; and the games have absolutely nothing in common with the exploration-based platformers ("metroidvanias", if you must) the series has been known for ever since Symphony of the Night.
I admit, my dislike for Lords of Shadow is at least partially influenced by the fact it's nothing to do with "proper" Castlevania, but the fact there are much better examples of the kind of game it is definitely helps.
Kojima's been trying to break away from the Metal Gear series for a while now, to be fair. His other notable works; Snatcher/Policenauts, Boktai and Zone of the Enders are all fantastic games; and his ego or arrogance never really imprints them -that- much... or it fits in better with the more fantastical settings of those games.
As for the Metal Gear series getting any better, I don't think I trust Konami circa 2015 to do the franchise justice. Castlevania's name is forever tarnished by subpar God of War clones; Pro Evo Soccer has been floundering about in some attempt to copy FIFA, forgetting all about the more arcade-styled gameplay that set the series apart to begin with; Gradius, Contra, BomberMan (yep, they own that now!) and more franchises than I can remember are essentially dead to them; and the franchises they do still make games for just aren't making them any money due to a complete lack of advertising or just being shoddy products in general.
Bogus reports; either in the form of some hack trying to grub money or somebody reporting a bug that wasn't a bug at all, perchance? Considering the amount of money on offer, I can see both being pretty goddamn prevalent.
they'd give me maybe 13GBP for it, or 16 if it wasn't "scratched". They'd then sell it second hand for 30GBP (or 28 if it doesn't come with instructions or a box).
Funny that you mention that game. The GAME nearest to me is selling it second-hand for £39.99. A quick search on Zavvi tells me that they're selling the Xbox360 version, brand new, for £36.95
The other big game that they're not selling new, Mass Effect 3, is also £39.99 second-hand in my local GAME branch. I'd check prices for that, but I'm lazy, and can confirm seeing new copies being sold for somewhere in the £30 range.
As for price reductions for copies of games without boxes or manuals... you're a funny man. Another example from my local GAME branch - Lego Star Wars 2 on Nintendo DS. £15 with the original box and manual. The same game, minus manual and in a generic "we do not have the cover for this game" box... £15. Hell, that price tag is no guarantee of me getting a working cartridge/disc, either - they do reduce trade-in values if your disc is scratched, but it's a total crapshoot whether they'll, you know, clean the discs before putting them on the shelves. If they don't, it sets the eventual buyer back another £3. Or in the case of cartridge games, leaves the buyer with a paperweight. To be fair, they probably don't clean the discs deliberately - it's £3 of pure profit on top of the already ridiculous mark-up; and at one point, they actively rewarded sales assistants who managed to upsell disc cleaning for pre-owned games.
I've given Cinnamon 1.2 a go over the course of a few hours. Sadly, the Mint Menu is mandatory, much to my own disappointment (it's usable, but I prefer the "proper" GNOME menu). That said, it's GNOME 3 done right - outside of a few incredibly minor gripes (the Super Key opens the menu rather than the activities pane; you have to move your mouse to the top left hand corner of the screen to open the activities pane though I'm sure it'll be easy enough to change that behaviour in a future version), I'm loving it so far, and can't wait to see what future releases will bring from both Clem and the wider mint community.
The Circle Pad Pro, as Nintendo have taken to calling it, is by no means required. Certain games (Ace Combat, Resident Evil Revelations, Metal Gear, Monster Hunter and many others I'm too lazy to name) use it as a second analogue stick (optional camera controls, basically), but none of them -require- it. In fact, I play Monster Hunter on my Japanese 3DS without the Circle Pad Pro; and it works just fine.
On top of this, none of the games announced to have support for the peripheral actually -require- it, yet. That might change over the next year or so, but until then, the Circle Pad Pro is far from a required add-on.
As a fellow Linux user, I was tempted to try out Desura thanks to the fact that most (if not all) of the bundles so far have Desura keys for those who want 'em. Not all of the games have had Linux builds added to Desura just yet (understandable - Desura's Linux version is just an Open Beta for the time being), but getting 75% of the HIB games in a "click install and play with no hassle" format is a sight to behold, especially considering all the wrangling it took to make Crayon Physics work on Debian - in the end I gave up and "borrowed" packages from Ubuntu.
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And there's now an Open Source remake/re-imagining, OOlite. I'd post a link, but I'm at work and I'm sure you can all use your search engine or package manager of choice to obtain it.
To display and browse network shares in Thunar. There's also the rather unfortunately named Gigolo, which provides out of the box share access. It's a stupid workaround, yes, but it's worth mentioning.
I dunno, I'm actually half-tempted to buy this game because they're taking the inevitability of piracy, and getting a little bit of humour out of it.
That and, unlike the two companies you've mentioned, the developers of this game are not actively prosecuting pirates. If anything, they're rewarding you for pirating... if you like pirate-themed games.
I dunno, I use a PS2 controller for the vast majority of my emulation, and a modified Super Famicom controller for, well, Super Famicom/SNES games (and pretty much every other 8-bit/16-bit system, for that matter). Point is, the PS2 controller suffices for Ocarina of Time (although using Wii64 with a classic controller on my modded Wii is my preferred method of playing N64 games these days).
I'd have to agree there, with some notable exceptions, Square-Enix's only good games post merger have been new IPs (The World Ends With You being the most notable) and... Dragon Quest. That's it.
This is, of course, excluding their constant re-releases of older games (mostly FF, Dragon Quest and a whole host of Square's PS1 games).
Kinda. The rules state nobody under 18 can browse 4chan, not that this is much of a deterrent for any actual underage users - the sensible ones just don't outright state their age.
Kind of like what they did on Myspace a few years back; and what kids do on facebook now. Then again, this is to be expected - most age-verification attempts online are quite pathetic in the grand scheme of things and can be subverted by any idiot.
I'd have to agree with that. My first thoughts when reading the title were "I hope to god they make something to do with the Rabbids". Even better if Ancel oversees the creation of a Rabbids movie/series.
Failing that, a Beyond Good and Evil movie would be fantastic, too.
Thing is, a retail boxed copy of the game comes bundled with DLC. About $15 worth of it, no less. And when you're already paying $50 for a game, I can't think of a reason to not download the $15 of content they're withholding from you otherwise.
Not that I've bought anything by Bioware in a good few years. I was half-tempted to buy DA:O, too, but so much for that.
Or you don't see the advertisements in the first place because you use a proper browser with decent advertisement blocking. Either way, in this day and age, you can avoid pretty much every scam or advertisement with a little bit of common sense.
Funny that you mention that... lots of game companies are, shall we say, less inclined to include documentation with their games these days. I can name at least 5 games in my collection where the "manual" is less than 10 pages (three of which are published by Activision, no less); and this is excluding all the PC games that forego a paper manual for a PDF file on the disc. Now, I understand that companies have got to look after their profits; but when Nintendo can include a 100-or-so page manual (that serves as a quick guide to the first few hours of gameplay) with Dragon Quest 9, you really have to wonder why other companies put next to no effort in to their own documentation.
Going back to the point where PC games usually just have a PDF manual on disc - I can sympathise with why people would pirate games like that. Why buy it when you can torrent it and get exactly the same product, manual and all? Of course, that could be my own opinion, since I love a good manual, but I'm more inclined to keep hold of a game (rather than just sell it on when I'm done) if the publishers at least gave enough of a damn to include a decent manual.
Creative software (music creation, video editing and so on) for Linux is pretty scarce (excluding proprietary in-house software used by companies like Pixar). I'd be inclined to say that this is because Linux users aren't very creative people, but considering some of the solutions I've seen for problems on the coding side of things (and some of the themes I've seen on Gnome-look.org), that's far from the truth. In reality, it's because companies in that market don't see the point in supporting what is, in the mass market, a niche operating system. So that's supporting a niche market within a niche market (linux users who need professional standard creation tools); far from a good idea.
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Of course, the power of licenses outdoes quality for the majority of people, and that definitely didn't help PES in the long run.
I admit, my dislike for Lords of Shadow is at least partially influenced by the fact it's nothing to do with "proper" Castlevania, but the fact there are much better examples of the kind of game it is definitely helps.
As for the Metal Gear series getting any better, I don't think I trust Konami circa 2015 to do the franchise justice. Castlevania's name is forever tarnished by subpar God of War clones; Pro Evo Soccer has been floundering about in some attempt to copy FIFA, forgetting all about the more arcade-styled gameplay that set the series apart to begin with; Gradius, Contra, BomberMan (yep, they own that now!) and more franchises than I can remember are essentially dead to them; and the franchises they do still make games for just aren't making them any money due to a complete lack of advertising or just being shoddy products in general.
Bogus reports; either in the form of some hack trying to grub money or somebody reporting a bug that wasn't a bug at all, perchance? Considering the amount of money on offer, I can see both being pretty goddamn prevalent.
they'd give me maybe 13GBP for it, or 16 if it wasn't "scratched". They'd then sell it second hand for 30GBP (or 28 if it doesn't come with instructions or a box).
Funny that you mention that game. The GAME nearest to me is selling it second-hand for £39.99. A quick search on Zavvi tells me that they're selling the Xbox360 version, brand new, for £36.95
The other big game that they're not selling new, Mass Effect 3, is also £39.99 second-hand in my local GAME branch. I'd check prices for that, but I'm lazy, and can confirm seeing new copies being sold for somewhere in the £30 range.
As for price reductions for copies of games without boxes or manuals... you're a funny man. Another example from my local GAME branch - Lego Star Wars 2 on Nintendo DS. £15 with the original box and manual. The same game, minus manual and in a generic "we do not have the cover for this game" box... £15. Hell, that price tag is no guarantee of me getting a working cartridge/disc, either - they do reduce trade-in values if your disc is scratched, but it's a total crapshoot whether they'll, you know, clean the discs before putting them on the shelves. If they don't, it sets the eventual buyer back another £3. Or in the case of cartridge games, leaves the buyer with a paperweight. To be fair, they probably don't clean the discs deliberately - it's £3 of pure profit on top of the already ridiculous mark-up; and at one point, they actively rewarded sales assistants who managed to upsell disc cleaning for pre-owned games.
Now, be fair. It's available for the low, low price of one thousand pounds or thereabouts, last time I checked. Bargain.
I've given Cinnamon 1.2 a go over the course of a few hours. Sadly, the Mint Menu is mandatory, much to my own disappointment (it's usable, but I prefer the "proper" GNOME menu). That said, it's GNOME 3 done right - outside of a few incredibly minor gripes (the Super Key opens the menu rather than the activities pane; you have to move your mouse to the top left hand corner of the screen to open the activities pane though I'm sure it'll be easy enough to change that behaviour in a future version), I'm loving it so far, and can't wait to see what future releases will bring from both Clem and the wider mint community.
The Circle Pad Pro, as Nintendo have taken to calling it, is by no means required. Certain games (Ace Combat, Resident Evil Revelations, Metal Gear, Monster Hunter and many others I'm too lazy to name) use it as a second analogue stick (optional camera controls, basically), but none of them -require- it. In fact, I play Monster Hunter on my Japanese 3DS without the Circle Pad Pro; and it works just fine.
On top of this, none of the games announced to have support for the peripheral actually -require- it, yet. That might change over the next year or so, but until then, the Circle Pad Pro is far from a required add-on.
Hell, why use computers at all? Let's go back to smoke signals!
As a fellow Linux user, I was tempted to try out Desura thanks to the fact that most (if not all) of the bundles so far have Desura keys for those who want 'em. Not all of the games have had Linux builds added to Desura just yet (understandable - Desura's Linux version is just an Open Beta for the time being), but getting 75% of the HIB games in a "click install and play with no hassle" format is a sight to behold, especially considering all the wrangling it took to make Crayon Physics work on Debian - in the end I gave up and "borrowed" packages from Ubuntu.
And there's now an Open Source remake/re-imagining, OOlite. I'd post a link, but I'm at work and I'm sure you can all use your search engine or package manager of choice to obtain it.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure thunar
To display and browse network shares in Thunar. There's also the rather unfortunately named Gigolo, which provides out of the box share access. It's a stupid workaround, yes, but it's worth mentioning.
They prefer to call it "enhancing the truth".
Not that any self-respecting human being would mind if sankaku was blocked by their ISP.
Most of us comb our own neckbeards, you insensitive clod!
I dunno, I'm actually half-tempted to buy this game because they're taking the inevitability of piracy, and getting a little bit of humour out of it. That and, unlike the two companies you've mentioned, the developers of this game are not actively prosecuting pirates. If anything, they're rewarding you for pirating... if you like pirate-themed games.
I dunno, I use a PS2 controller for the vast majority of my emulation, and a modified Super Famicom controller for, well, Super Famicom/SNES games (and pretty much every other 8-bit/16-bit system, for that matter).
Point is, the PS2 controller suffices for Ocarina of Time (although using Wii64 with a classic controller on my modded Wii is my preferred method of playing N64 games these days).
I'd have to agree there, with some notable exceptions, Square-Enix's only good games post merger have been new IPs (The World Ends With You being the most notable) and... Dragon Quest. That's it.
This is, of course, excluding their constant re-releases of older games (mostly FF, Dragon Quest and a whole host of Square's PS1 games).
Exactly. I should probably have pointed that out in my comment. Still amuses me greatly that it's newsworthy when people *gasp* lie on the internet.
Kinda. The rules state nobody under 18 can browse 4chan, not that this is much of a deterrent for any actual underage users - the sensible ones just don't outright state their age.
Kind of like what they did on Myspace a few years back; and what kids do on facebook now. Then again, this is to be expected - most age-verification attempts online are quite pathetic in the grand scheme of things and can be subverted by any idiot.
I'd have to agree with that. My first thoughts when reading the title were "I hope to god they make something to do with the Rabbids". Even better if Ancel oversees the creation of a Rabbids movie/series. Failing that, a Beyond Good and Evil movie would be fantastic, too.
Thing is, a retail boxed copy of the game comes bundled with DLC. About $15 worth of it, no less. And when you're already paying $50 for a game, I can't think of a reason to not download the $15 of content they're withholding from you otherwise. Not that I've bought anything by Bioware in a good few years. I was half-tempted to buy DA:O, too, but so much for that.
Or you don't see the advertisements in the first place because you use a proper browser with decent advertisement blocking. Either way, in this day and age, you can avoid pretty much every scam or advertisement with a little bit of common sense.
Funny that you mention that... lots of game companies are, shall we say, less inclined to include documentation with their games these days. I can name at least 5 games in my collection where the "manual" is less than 10 pages (three of which are published by Activision, no less); and this is excluding all the PC games that forego a paper manual for a PDF file on the disc. Now, I understand that companies have got to look after their profits; but when Nintendo can include a 100-or-so page manual (that serves as a quick guide to the first few hours of gameplay) with Dragon Quest 9, you really have to wonder why other companies put next to no effort in to their own documentation.
Going back to the point where PC games usually just have a PDF manual on disc - I can sympathise with why people would pirate games like that. Why buy it when you can torrent it and get exactly the same product, manual and all? Of course, that could be my own opinion, since I love a good manual, but I'm more inclined to keep hold of a game (rather than just sell it on when I'm done) if the publishers at least gave enough of a damn to include a decent manual.
Creative software (music creation, video editing and so on) for Linux is pretty scarce (excluding proprietary in-house software used by companies like Pixar). I'd be inclined to say that this is because Linux users aren't very creative people, but considering some of the solutions I've seen for problems on the coding side of things (and some of the themes I've seen on Gnome-look.org), that's far from the truth. In reality, it's because companies in that market don't see the point in supporting what is, in the mass market, a niche operating system. So that's supporting a niche market within a niche market (linux users who need professional standard creation tools); far from a good idea.