Clearly you can save money by cutting corners though. I've used the Dragon Age 2 example several times. 30 hour game, 30 minutes spent on making the environment. It's about the depth and breadth of the game. Dragon Quest 8 is a good example. Great graphics? No. Amazing storyline? No. Open world, good combat system, no boring cutscenes, and plenty to do pretty much as long as you want to. I put in 100+ hours on that game. Amazing. DA 2? Neat graphics, a decent storyline, BUT dumbed down gameplay, and REUSING THE SAME MAPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WEAK.
An achievement is something that should happen in a game, giving you satisfaction. Not a trophy that pops up and TELLS you that you have an achievement.
I think DA II would be winner of the award for "most gutted franchise game". Where they took the successes of DA, raped them, beat them, burned them down, then rebuilt 25% of it and called it a sequel.
So I can spend 50 -60$ on a 20 hour game? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm after. Sounds like a good way to keep development costs low and reap in more profit. I call bullsh*t on this.
But Macs are so pretty! And so counter-culture! All the cool people have iPods, iPhones, iLives and iCars. You will be iAssimilated!!!!!! The smugness of Mac people drives me crazy.
Winner! That is the straight up truth right there. Green is more an industry and sales pitch than anything else.
Though I might say these are slightly more green than normal glasses.... by a hair! ZING!
Good luck getting videos though..... which I wouldn't care about normally, but free video weekend cometh and I, and my refurbed 60gb console won't be able to watch them.
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WOW. So now it's okay to bigoted, just so long as it's against catholics? I'm atheist but fuck, that's unbelievably hypocritical.
Clearly you can save money by cutting corners though. I've used the Dragon Age 2 example several times. 30 hour game, 30 minutes spent on making the environment. It's about the depth and breadth of the game. Dragon Quest 8 is a good example. Great graphics? No. Amazing storyline? No. Open world, good combat system, no boring cutscenes, and plenty to do pretty much as long as you want to. I put in 100+ hours on that game. Amazing. DA 2? Neat graphics, a decent storyline, BUT dumbed down gameplay, and REUSING THE SAME MAPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WEAK.
It is a huge step backward. I don't think I'd buy DA3 without watching someone else play it for 10+ hours first.
An achievement is something that should happen in a game, giving you satisfaction. Not a trophy that pops up and TELLS you that you have an achievement.
I think DA II would be winner of the award for "most gutted franchise game". Where they took the successes of DA, raped them, beat them, burned them down, then rebuilt 25% of it and called it a sequel.
I didn't finish Dragon Age II. Largley because they reused the same damn map OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I think they will welcome this.
So I can spend 50 -60$ on a 20 hour game? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm after. Sounds like a good way to keep development costs low and reap in more profit. I call bullsh*t on this.
Was this contract found right next to George Bush's National Guard docs?
But Macs are so pretty! And so counter-culture! All the cool people have iPods, iPhones, iLives and iCars. You will be iAssimilated!!!!!! The smugness of Mac people drives me crazy.
Winner winner, chicken dinner. This is my favorite comment ever on /.
So Nebraska has something worthwhile! That is news!
It's like taking money from the Mafia to give to an orphanage. Sure good intention, but in the end it ends with broken kneecaps
Microsoft doesn't offer you cake!....unless it's cake made from dog poo and knives. (will anyone get this joke?)
AMEN! AMEN! The docking is nice too. Connection Manager is okay, but has all sorts of weird issues.
Can I leave this lousy moisture vaporator farm to join the rebellion? More seriously, I'd be way more impressed if they built a Star Destroyer.
rain. I'd have chocolate rain! BOOYAA!
Winner! That is the straight up truth right there. Green is more an industry and sales pitch than anything else. Though I might say these are slightly more green than normal glasses.... by a hair! ZING!
No, Illuminati is too keen for Micro$oft. Maybe Cybermen.
Seriously? Are they paid by Micro$oft to do this? Asshats.
This isn't a knee jerk reaction at all.
Somewhere the Daleks will be a spa.... EXFOLIATE EXFOLIATE
Good luck getting videos though..... which I wouldn't care about normally, but free video weekend cometh and I, and my refurbed 60gb console won't be able to watch them.
I think the hackers would disagree. I think they found it eminently useful.
If you need any help, let me know.
you shoulda made another Dragon Quest for the PS console. Dragon Quest Valley of the Cursed King was one of the greatest games ever.