You're not missing a joke you're just failing to comprehend basic computer jargon. With 8gb of RAM on a PC - not Nintendo, no nintendo system has or will ever have 8gb of anything - you don't need to worry about over-optimizing the model for one boss. Metroid is also not on PC nor ever will be, officially, so that statement made no sense.
EA has turned out a lot of really good games, like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno, which their actual internal studios made. They've also turned out a lot of pure money-grubbing shit like The Sims or the new Sim City, Or Battlefield 3/4.
One of my fav things is how EA ruined Visceral Games.Granted, Visceral Games was EA Redwood Studios and I'm pretty sure they were never an independent studio at any point, but EA still ruins everything. You can't say Visceral sucks either. Dante's Inferno and Dead Space 1 were both masterpieces of games. Even Dead Space 2 was still quite good. As soon as EA put the pressure on them even more, they dropped the ball and EA axed dead space.
Well most of what you said is accurate but you're completely false on the 4th paragraph. I don't agree with copyright by any means, most people don't, but what you said is simply contradictory to reality. Customers do not own anything that is copyrighted, after they purchase it. Copyrighted material is not a box of poptarts you can do whatever you want with. If the customer owned the rights to the game they bought, that would completely invalidate millions of dollars of investment and years of man-hours from dozens of people that went in to creating the product. So that's completely ignorant.
You may not agree with copyright - again, there's little reason to - but it is does have one legitimate purpose and that is to protect the creator. Without copyright it's completely fine for every bum on the street to sell something and profit off of it without a single cent going to the people who are supposed to get money, and that's not okay.
Also, crowdfunding does not equal a free copy for every contributor. Your contribution was not made with the agreement that you get the game for free, it was made in bona fide because you supported the cause. Nor should it.
More a matter of them downsizing because they have failed hardcore in the past 2 years at everything and are not doing well at all. Step 1. fire everyone.
Rifling != gun. Firearms in the crudest sense were invented centuries before Europeans ever thought of the concept. Ever heard of a rocket? Invented by the Chinese. A long ass time before the most crude arquebus and other firearms were.
I like the wording in this article.:
"While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy."
A desire by whom, praytell? No one who uses the internet wants any legislation PERIOD. We don't want explicit protection, we want absolute laissez faire internet the way it is supposed to be. A desire by "lawmakers"? It isn't their job to come up with the ideas behind the legislation. It's their job to do what their constituents want. While, admittedly, the majority of America is retarded and increasingly so - increasingly falling prey to mob opinion and misinformation from every level so that they are still willing to be spoonfed this Constitution-shredding bullshit, I HIGHLY doubt that each district is going out saying "REGULATE OUR INTERNETS".
Not happening. Anywhere.
A) Game critics, aka professional game media journalists, know nothing. There are a limited few who actually studied game design in college. Those few who did, still are at about a 40% chance of having any sense what they are talking about. Most PC gamers who aren't in the double digit IQs, especially those who got their degrees in IT and maybe even some in game design, including those who worked on mods in the early days of the online gaming era or beta tested or are just generally driven to learn about things, know very very well what makes a game good and what makes it bad or makes it broken. GameSpot gave the game a 5, which is what it deserves, because the infrastructure behind the very core of the game - the mandatory online experience - is broken. It is non-functional. That is aside from the fact that they are forcing you into an online single player where you can't even save the game to your own computer.
B) SimCity 5 does work fine, when you can actually play the game. Maxis has been making this game for 20 years, they know how to make the SimCity part work. Despite that, it is mired by design decisions like region size and mandatory road placement before you even get into your city plot. They also changed the zoning significantly and the game is of course dumbed down like SimCity 4 was but yea.
That will never happen. EA has their hands in every god damn cookie jar in the industry. They own the exclusive rights to major league sports. If nothing else they will scrape buy on the yearly purchases of pseudo-gamer sports fans alone. With Ubisoft, Nintendo, Activision-Blizzard, and Sony, EA is one of the biggest names in the industry. They also happen to publish most of the uncalled for horrible movie tie-in games. True, PC Gaming is going back to kickstarter projects and indie games at an increasing rate, but the fact remains that EA still produces most PC games as well. Everything Maxis comes from EA. Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Command and Conquer, and countless other brands. Aside from that you have some Ubisoft, some Sega, and some Valve, and Actiblizzion, not much else.
PC Gaming will never die obviously, but it has come very close with the current generations disastrous policies of developing multi-platform titles that absolutely abandon the PCs advantages. If EA gets out, god damn it will be a good day, but I don't see it happening.
And mostly because it was an unremarkable game that abandoned the core concepts which made the franchise good in the first place. Funny to see how once Dead Space was heralded as the maybe return of survival horror and within a short 3 years it failed completely, just like Resident Evil except that within 3 years with the 3rd game coming out, the franchise kept going.
Maybe Capcom just doesn't know how to quit. I wish they did.
800 out of a ton of people means nothing. Whereas it is an obvious indicator that the game is broken, EA gives no fuck. Maxis does and I feel bad that Maxis is involved in this because it tarnishes their otherwise respectable reputation, but I don't even know what to say. The game was designed this way at its core, to be online and annoying.
EA is a major violator but this happens with every online game. Diablo 3 was simply unplayable for over a day after release. WoW was the same way with patches, release, expansions, and on a daily basis with overcrowded servers. Completely agree though.
There is no Tea Party. It isn't 2008. Quit with the bullshit. The Tea Party was never real - it was a legitimate idea started by his father that tons of ignorant rednecks who didn't understand the concept latched onto and ruined. At this point there are constitutionalists - Americans - and there is everyone else - Nazis, Socialists, Fascists, Globalists, whatever you want to call them - they aren't on your side.
Wrong. Try again. Facebook has always been and should forever remain free, and you should have been able to message everyone regardless of connection in the first place. Stupid.
Stockholm syndrome has been the case with not only apple but most consumer-electronics companies for years. Especially with the entire gaming industry and companies like capcom.
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You're not missing a joke you're just failing to comprehend basic computer jargon. With 8gb of RAM on a PC - not Nintendo, no nintendo system has or will ever have 8gb of anything - you don't need to worry about over-optimizing the model for one boss. Metroid is also not on PC nor ever will be, officially, so that statement made no sense.
EA has turned out a lot of really good games, like Dead Space and Dante's Inferno, which their actual internal studios made. They've also turned out a lot of pure money-grubbing shit like The Sims or the new Sim City, Or Battlefield 3/4.
One of my fav things is how EA ruined Visceral Games.Granted, Visceral Games was EA Redwood Studios and I'm pretty sure they were never an independent studio at any point, but EA still ruins everything. You can't say Visceral sucks either. Dante's Inferno and Dead Space 1 were both masterpieces of games. Even Dead Space 2 was still quite good. As soon as EA put the pressure on them even more, they dropped the ball and EA axed dead space.
Grammar please. Imperfect subjunctive. Would have had to happen.
Well most of what you said is accurate but you're completely false on the 4th paragraph. I don't agree with copyright by any means, most people don't, but what you said is simply contradictory to reality. Customers do not own anything that is copyrighted, after they purchase it. Copyrighted material is not a box of poptarts you can do whatever you want with. If the customer owned the rights to the game they bought, that would completely invalidate millions of dollars of investment and years of man-hours from dozens of people that went in to creating the product. So that's completely ignorant. You may not agree with copyright - again, there's little reason to - but it is does have one legitimate purpose and that is to protect the creator. Without copyright it's completely fine for every bum on the street to sell something and profit off of it without a single cent going to the people who are supposed to get money, and that's not okay. Also, crowdfunding does not equal a free copy for every contributor. Your contribution was not made with the agreement that you get the game for free, it was made in bona fide because you supported the cause. Nor should it.
More a matter of them downsizing because they have failed hardcore in the past 2 years at everything and are not doing well at all. Step 1. fire everyone.
Rifling != gun. Firearms in the crudest sense were invented centuries before Europeans ever thought of the concept. Ever heard of a rocket? Invented by the Chinese. A long ass time before the most crude arquebus and other firearms were.
To quote a breaking bad meme/quote, SCIENCE, BITCHES!
Representatives are not Senators.
I like the wording in this article.: "While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy." A desire by whom, praytell? No one who uses the internet wants any legislation PERIOD. We don't want explicit protection, we want absolute laissez faire internet the way it is supposed to be. A desire by "lawmakers"? It isn't their job to come up with the ideas behind the legislation. It's their job to do what their constituents want. While, admittedly, the majority of America is retarded and increasingly so - increasingly falling prey to mob opinion and misinformation from every level so that they are still willing to be spoonfed this Constitution-shredding bullshit, I HIGHLY doubt that each district is going out saying "REGULATE OUR INTERNETS". Not happening. Anywhere.
Hello? Michael Crichton touched on this in Next, years ago. Was he completely right? Yes.
A) Game critics, aka professional game media journalists, know nothing. There are a limited few who actually studied game design in college. Those few who did, still are at about a 40% chance of having any sense what they are talking about. Most PC gamers who aren't in the double digit IQs, especially those who got their degrees in IT and maybe even some in game design, including those who worked on mods in the early days of the online gaming era or beta tested or are just generally driven to learn about things, know very very well what makes a game good and what makes it bad or makes it broken. GameSpot gave the game a 5, which is what it deserves, because the infrastructure behind the very core of the game - the mandatory online experience - is broken. It is non-functional. That is aside from the fact that they are forcing you into an online single player where you can't even save the game to your own computer. B) SimCity 5 does work fine, when you can actually play the game. Maxis has been making this game for 20 years, they know how to make the SimCity part work. Despite that, it is mired by design decisions like region size and mandatory road placement before you even get into your city plot. They also changed the zoning significantly and the game is of course dumbed down like SimCity 4 was but yea.
Many companies already to this. God forbid you encounter a third party premium support team.
That will never happen. EA has their hands in every god damn cookie jar in the industry. They own the exclusive rights to major league sports. If nothing else they will scrape buy on the yearly purchases of pseudo-gamer sports fans alone. With Ubisoft, Nintendo, Activision-Blizzard, and Sony, EA is one of the biggest names in the industry. They also happen to publish most of the uncalled for horrible movie tie-in games. True, PC Gaming is going back to kickstarter projects and indie games at an increasing rate, but the fact remains that EA still produces most PC games as well. Everything Maxis comes from EA. Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Command and Conquer, and countless other brands. Aside from that you have some Ubisoft, some Sega, and some Valve, and Actiblizzion, not much else. PC Gaming will never die obviously, but it has come very close with the current generations disastrous policies of developing multi-platform titles that absolutely abandon the PCs advantages. If EA gets out, god damn it will be a good day, but I don't see it happening.
Thomas Jefferson has spoken! I agree entirely.
And mostly because it was an unremarkable game that abandoned the core concepts which made the franchise good in the first place. Funny to see how once Dead Space was heralded as the maybe return of survival horror and within a short 3 years it failed completely, just like Resident Evil except that within 3 years with the 3rd game coming out, the franchise kept going. Maybe Capcom just doesn't know how to quit. I wish they did.
800 out of a ton of people means nothing. Whereas it is an obvious indicator that the game is broken, EA gives no fuck. Maxis does and I feel bad that Maxis is involved in this because it tarnishes their otherwise respectable reputation, but I don't even know what to say. The game was designed this way at its core, to be online and annoying.
EA is a major violator but this happens with every online game. Diablo 3 was simply unplayable for over a day after release. WoW was the same way with patches, release, expansions, and on a daily basis with overcrowded servers. Completely agree though.
Go vote for Obama and cede what remains of the Bill of Rights for the sake of unnecessary national security.
No, it hasn't. The president has no power to make proscription lists of people to be killed. They never have.
There is no Tea Party. It isn't 2008. Quit with the bullshit. The Tea Party was never real - it was a legitimate idea started by his father that tons of ignorant rednecks who didn't understand the concept latched onto and ruined. At this point there are constitutionalists - Americans - and there is everyone else - Nazis, Socialists, Fascists, Globalists, whatever you want to call them - they aren't on your side.
There are democrats who voted against. They voted against. Idiots.
Wrong. Try again. Facebook has always been and should forever remain free, and you should have been able to message everyone regardless of connection in the first place. Stupid.
Stockholm syndrome has been the case with not only apple but most consumer-electronics companies for years. Especially with the entire gaming industry and companies like capcom.
Hey look, Apple is being Apple. How shocking.