You're only looking at DNF from right now. Why don't you go back to 1997 when it was originally announced, when they would be asking for these investments. "Hey guys, we want to make a new Duke Nukem game! Its going to be awesome! Summer 1998!" At that time that sounded great! Duke Nukem 3D was awesome, why wouldn't I want to help finance a sequel? Its a slam dunk sure fire seller!
Why don't you ask the people that actually did preorder the game how that turned out for them?
The first iPod Shuffle looked way better than the generic boxes the competition was pushing. Most people that want a small mp3-player for use during sports or commutes listen to music with the device in their pockets, so not having a screen isn't all that important.
I'm confused. If you're just stashing it in your pocket, why does it matter what it looks like?
When and if VALVe falls over dead, they will release a patch that will allow you to play your games unauthenticated.
That's what they say, anyway. We don't know if they really will do that until it actually happens.
Hopefully you've made backups of all your games since you won't be able to redownload them anymore. You could download someone elses backup, which anyone could do. With Steam no longer checking to see if you own the game, I guess that means every game on Steam will be free to anyone that wants it. No cracks. No hacks. Do you think all the publishers that have games on Steam would let that happen?
Your one game may bomb. You've put all your money into a single game and have it only sell 300,000 copies. By spreading the money out into 5 games, if each one sells only 300,000 then you're ahead. Or if 3 bomb and they other 2 take off you're still in better shape overall.
Dont put your eggs in one basket. Which I think is a better point to make.
It wont be. Thrax (Sierra guy currently working on Tribes: Vengeance) said this:
We licensed that to Loki, and the resulting game belongs to them, and not us (the intellectual property is ours, but we can't sell the Linux version). So it won't be made available. If we had the legal right to give it away, we certainly would.
Notrium is a very good freeware game that is (to me) quite original.
You have crash landed on an alien world, and must survive. You have to monitor your food, as you can starve. You also must watch your body temp...the nights are freezing, so move to keep warm or stand near a fire. The days get very hot, so seek the shade of a tree. Also various weather problems will have you looking for trees to hide under (acid rain).
If that werent enough, you aren't alone. Hostile aliens and robots roam different parts of the planet, and all you have is a tazer to stun them while you run away. You'll probably want to get something better to fight them off, which comes from the other really cool part of the game.
Parts from your craft are spread all over because of the crash. You can collect them and put them together to build new items and weapons. Having trouble finding food? Build a food replicator. How about a defensive turret to guard your "camp" while you rest? Build weapons to kill aliens (then grill thier bodies on a fire for portable food!). The eventual goal is to build an object that will either allow you to leave the planet, or allow you to live there for the rest of your life. Part of the fun is finding out how to do any of them.
I like to look around GameHippo for freeware games. Reviews and quite a large listing of games. The user comments are full of trolls, so don't take them all that seriously.
For those people with Quake 3, you can try out ARQ. The board is the same, with Q3 models reprisenting different pieces. When you fight over a square, you both get transported to the arena to fight it out. Of course, different pieces have different weapons and damage ratings.
It can be played on any Q3 map, which becomes the arena you fight in. Pretty cool.
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They care. A recent patch added an in-game audio player (no more Winamp in the background). And it only supports one format.
Guess which one.
Try 4D Shooter. (also here) A test version has been released. I'll just copy and paste the info:
4D Shooter is a 3D virtual reality game created in 2003, to look, sound, and feel like a retro 1991-esque 3D game, however, no one caught the idea of first-person-shooter then, and not much titles used the mouse creatively, so if Distinctive Software Incorporated (DSI) would take the FPS idea, this is what you'd get! (This project does not involve the actual DSI and 4D Rulers company, nor is related.)
How many polys are we talking about? A range from 2 to 78, playable on almost any computer.
This game is not yet released, no release date has been announced. The system requirements will hopefully, be a 486dx2 33MHz w/ Math-coprocessor. a 16MHz would be supported if the screen size was set to a minimum. We recommend a 486 66MHz for playing this game. It runs about 89FPS on my Pentium 166MHz in almost every place (320x200x8bit) with 5 bots, so I guess your excuses of not running it will be over.;) (486 66MHz fps estimate = ~24fps)
This game is based on id's Quake technology, and the game will be released free, the engine will be under the GNU GPL, while all else is public domain, making this a 100% legal product.
The sites have a bunch of screenshots, and the download fits on a floppy.
Outside of needing a subscription, which you can't sign up for at the moment (and has been like that for several months), theres a few problems with the Freeloader GTA games.
I was able to get all the GTA games from there last year. All the games are missing the music, and multiplayer support has also been removed from what I can tell.
If that doesnt bother you, go nuts (if you can).
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Moonbase Commander is really a terrific game. A few of us on AllOutGames play every once in a while. While the singleplayer is pretty dull, the multiplayer is great fun and worth the price alone. Play a 2 vs 2 game, and you wont want to quit. I wish more people would pick it up.
You'd really want a proper joystick for something like that, and not use the Xbox pad sticks.
Well, that mech game has that crazy huge controller....so who knows?
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The average game player is 34 years old and has been playing games for 12 years. At least according to the ESA. http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp
They would love to offer the games for cheap on Steam, but the game publishers don't want to piss off the B&M stores.
I'm sure they are crying their eyes out that they *have* to charge people more money for something that nets them higher profit margins.
You're only looking at DNF from right now. Why don't you go back to 1997 when it was originally announced, when they would be asking for these investments. "Hey guys, we want to make a new Duke Nukem game! Its going to be awesome! Summer 1998!" At that time that sounded great! Duke Nukem 3D was awesome, why wouldn't I want to help finance a sequel? Its a slam dunk sure fire seller! Why don't you ask the people that actually did preorder the game how that turned out for them?
The first iPod Shuffle looked way better than the generic boxes the competition was pushing. Most people that want a small mp3-player for use during sports or commutes listen to music with the device in their pockets, so not having a screen isn't all that important.
I'm confused. If you're just stashing it in your pocket, why does it matter what it looks like?
If the vendor is at fault, why is the customer the one being punished?
When and if VALVe falls over dead, they will release a patch that will allow you to play your games unauthenticated.
That's what they say, anyway. We don't know if they really will do that until it actually happens.
Hopefully you've made backups of all your games since you won't be able to redownload them anymore. You could download someone elses backup, which anyone could do. With Steam no longer checking to see if you own the game, I guess that means every game on Steam will be free to anyone that wants it. No cracks. No hacks. Do you think all the publishers that have games on Steam would let that happen?
You might be interested in dslibris. Takes a little fiddling because it reads xhtml files, but it displays the text sideways like Brain Age. http://rhaleblian.wordpress.com/dslibris-an-ebook-reader-for-the-nintendo-ds/
Yes, the boxed version comes with everything the Steam version comes with.
Your one game may bomb. You've put all your money into a single game and have it only sell 300,000 copies. By spreading the money out into 5 games, if each one sells only 300,000 then you're ahead. Or if 3 bomb and they other 2 take off you're still in better shape overall.
Dont put your eggs in one basket. Which I think is a better point to make.
Probably a bad idea to have this as a choice. There are no plans to release any mod tools. You cant even make custom maps for it.
Someone get terribly ill and wish for Sam & Max 2!
Notrium is a very good freeware game that is (to me) quite original.
You have crash landed on an alien world, and must survive. You have to monitor your food, as you can starve. You also must watch your body temp...the nights are freezing, so move to keep warm or stand near a fire. The days get very hot, so seek the shade of a tree. Also various weather problems will have you looking for trees to hide under (acid rain).
If that werent enough, you aren't alone. Hostile aliens and robots roam different parts of the planet, and all you have is a tazer to stun them while you run away. You'll probably want to get something better to fight them off, which comes from the other really cool part of the game.
Parts from your craft are spread all over because of the crash. You can collect them and put them together to build new items and weapons. Having trouble finding food? Build a food replicator. How about a defensive turret to guard your "camp" while you rest? Build weapons to kill aliens (then grill thier bodies on a fire for portable food!). The eventual goal is to build an object that will either allow you to leave the planet, or allow you to live there for the rest of your life. Part of the fun is finding out how to do any of them.
Anyway, a terrific game. Well worth the download.
is making BTB Airlines which, despite it's name, has cars. More of a Interstate 76 type mod.
I like to look around GameHippo for freeware games. Reviews and quite a large listing of games. The user comments are full of trolls, so don't take them all that seriously.
Guess we know why Worldcraft was changed to Hammer recently....
For those people with Quake 3, you can try out ARQ. The board is the same, with Q3 models reprisenting different pieces. When you fight over a square, you both get transported to the arena to fight it out. Of course, different pieces have different weapons and damage ratings.
It can be played on any Q3 map, which becomes the arena you fight in. Pretty cool.
They care. A recent patch added an in-game audio player (no more Winamp in the background). And it only supports one format. Guess which one.
Try 4D Shooter. (also here) A test version has been released. I'll just copy and paste the info:
;) (486 66MHz fps estimate = ~24fps)
4D Shooter is a 3D virtual reality game created in 2003, to look, sound, and feel like a retro 1991-esque 3D game, however, no one caught the idea of first-person-shooter then, and not much titles used the mouse creatively, so if Distinctive Software Incorporated (DSI) would take the FPS idea, this is what you'd get! (This project does not involve the actual DSI and 4D Rulers company, nor is related.)
How many polys are we talking about? A range from 2 to 78, playable on almost any computer.
This game is not yet released, no release date has been announced. The system requirements will hopefully, be a 486dx2 33MHz w/ Math-coprocessor. a 16MHz would be supported if the screen size was set to a minimum. We recommend a 486 66MHz for playing this game. It runs about 89FPS on my Pentium 166MHz in almost every place (320x200x8bit) with 5 bots, so I guess your excuses of not running it will be over.
This game is based on id's Quake technology, and the game will be released free, the engine will be under the GNU GPL, while all else is public domain, making this a 100% legal product.
The sites have a bunch of screenshots, and the download fits on a floppy.
Now they just need to rerelease Freespace 2. Good luck finding a copy.
Outside of needing a subscription, which you can't sign up for at the moment (and has been like that for several months), theres a few problems with the Freeloader GTA games.
I was able to get all the GTA games from there last year. All the games are missing the music, and multiplayer support has also been removed from what I can tell.
If that doesnt bother you, go nuts (if you can).
Moonbase Commander is really a terrific game. A few of us on AllOutGames play every once in a while. While the singleplayer is pretty dull, the multiplayer is great fun and worth the price alone. Play a 2 vs 2 game, and you wont want to quit. I wish more people would pick it up.
In Soviet Russia...these jokes are over.
You'd really want a proper joystick for something like that, and not use the Xbox pad sticks. Well, that mech game has that crazy huge controller....so who knows?
Quake was always dark. Did you try running IdGamma?