id Software's engine is called "id Tech 5", and is being used in a game called "RAGE". Epic Game's engine is called Unreal Engine 3. id Tech 5 may become one of the more popular commercial game engines, if it proves as technically impressive as Carmack suggests, and has good tools, but I don't think many people expect it to eclipse the Unreal Engine's current status. If anything, CryEngine3 will probably start getting a lot more popular after Crytek releases their free-to-use version, to compete with the Unreal Development Kit and Unity for indie game developers.
So you would rather buy a $300-500 console than a $150-200 video card? Sure you may want to buy two of those video cards in a given console 'generation' to keep up with the Joneses... But it still evens out to about the same price - if you only buy one console. And don't argue that a gaming computer costs more than the video card, because most people already have to buy a new, more capable computer in about the same time-frame as a console generation, for things other than gaming. The only expense specific to a "gaming computer" is the video card. Not to mention PC games are less expensive, and console piracy is a quickly growing problem, so I wouldn't be surprised if console gamers have to start dealing with more and more DRM, and things like EA's "Project Ten Dollars" in the near future.
Not trying to argue that PC gaming is superior to console gaming - Just that the tired old arguments that PC gaming is more expensive, and more DRM laden are becoming much less relevant.
I fail to see where Randy made any absurd claims in the interview, or in his follow-up. He was just stating his opinions on something he obviously cares about, and has a lot more insight into than most people. I for one appreciate him bringing the subject up, as it is something I have thought about a lot. I too love Steam, and I want to see it keep growing - but at the same time, I would hate to see it alone totally take over PC gaming, leaving one company in charge, like with the various console platforms. I like what I have seen and heard from the people running Impulse, and I hope they can gain some ground, but they too are run by a company that also develops their own games.
In closing, I already have your game pre-ordered on Steam.
Herein lies the problem. People who have never worked retail don't understand how it works. I worked at CircuitCity for a little while, and it was generally enjoyable. I liked my managers and co-workers, and it was nice selling stuff I knew about (computers). We weren't on commission, but I was still occasionally annoyed with the constant little pushes from the managers to sell more 'protection plans' and Firedog services. But that is somewhat understandable, since they are a couple of the few things that they actually make a profit on, since they have to see actually computers pretty much at-price, or even at a loss, to compete with online stores, and even BestBuy/Walmart. Every day I came in, I am all of my fellow sales associates did our best to greet every customer, and help them out. I think our store had excellent customer service... But do you know what drove me to quit working there? The customers. You. There were plenty of customers that came into the store to do some shopping, and sure enough, I and them had a perfectly enjoyable experience. But then there are the customers that come in looking for a hard time, and sure enough, they get a hard time, and so do the sales associates.
On the subject of the liquidation prices... Ofcourse they weren't giving everything away on the first day. They are still in the business of making money up through the last day they will be open. The liquidation prices have nothing to do with the old CircuitCity prices. That 10% is off the MSRP... And most stores sell things like computers and TVs at way below MSRP already, so ofcourse the first days of the liquidation werent going to have the best deals. As long as someone will buy it, they aren't going to lower the price, which is why they progressively raised the % off over the course of the liquidation, to something like 80% off most things on the last day for the store near me. But ofcourse the store was picked clean of anything actually useful by that point. Though I did manage a couple open HDMI cables that had been used on displays for $2 each.
Another upcoming Stardock game, that I assume will be DRM free, is Demigod. Their official website doesn't have that much information, but there is a video from PAX, where I played through their demo and was very impressed.
Ive seen a lot of people commenting that the Cops in the video are idiots, and a few saying that the student was an idiot.
I move that all involved parties are atleast a little retarded.
The student was stupid for refusing to leave when asked politely, then complaining and screaming when told by police officers to leave. Then more idiotic yet for not cooperating after being tased, and told he would be tased more - something he obviously knew he wouldn't enjoy. The whole time screaming about how our justice system is working. Yes, my good sir... the police officers are in place to enforce rules set in place by society - rules you certainly knew you were being violated by yourself, even after being told to stop.
The cops are idiots because they continued to tase the student when he obviously was set on not cooperating, after being tased multiple times. theres a point when you have to go old-school and just haul his out kicking and screaming.
But in the end, ive really gotta side with the cops in the situation... Tasers are a nice piece of equipment. they definately made too liberal of use with theirs, but i think calling "police brutality" in the situation is too much. People who intentionally violate laws need to understand that being arrested wont be a pleasant experience if you resist.
I find it particularly funny/ironic when people say they buy Sony products over Microsoft, because they hate Microsoft as a company. Now last time I looked, Sony wasn't a bunch of saints. They are an enormous company, and as i understand they have done pretty much all the same crap that Microsoft has... probably to a greater extent. Sony is not a happy little company whos sole purpose is to make toys for people to enjoy. They are out to get your money, in any way possible. And apparently they are doing an even better job of tricking consumers into giving it to them than Microsoft.
Seriously.. I'm not worried about the majority of Wii games making my arm sore after an hour of play, or 4 hours of play... Most games will not require you do wave the controller around madly, atleast not often. Liekly it wont require much mroe movement than usign a computer mouse. Also, its not like you are wavign around a 10lb weight... it looks like its probably lighter than an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller.
Hell, i might even invest in some wrist and ankle weights to wear when playing the Wii... would give me a tiny workout, and stop me from wasting too much time, since I WOULD get tired after a while;)
Now this is probably unlikely... But I know the Halo game concept started out as a RTS, and Bungie later decided to scrap the project, and make an FPS out of the universe they were creating. Perhaps that is what inspired these modders to start their project. But beyond the fact that MS and Bungie woudl make no money from a Halo mod for C&C, you have to look at the possibility that they are acting in advance to protect themselves from loosing money in the future... It would not be a stretch of the imagination to think that one of Bungies current secret developents, or an already planned future development is in-fact a Halo RTS game!
I know technically you're saying 'cancelled' but on the basis that Firefly ran for only 1 season, I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state 'it was ended prematurely'.
When something that should have been ended 9 or so years ago is finally laid to rest, then THATS 'canceled'.;)
That sounds pretty interesting... I had a game of Civ IV with my brother over the summer, where we started it sometime early in the afternoon, and didnt finish it till about 4:00 the next morning, only breaking for dinner and a few other small interuptions. We must have played a good 10-12 hours.
It seems that whenever Mizuguchi is mentioned, people talk about Lumines and Rez... Am I the only person that thinks Meteos is the most fun Puzzle game ever? Wheres the Meteos love?
On the game box infront of me for a T rated online game, right under the "T: Violence" part it says "Game experience may change durring online play.". How about when a publisher submits its game to the ESRB, one thing they have to tell them is if the game will have any sort of SDK, for creating mods. If so add "This game may be modified to reflect a different rating". Seems like that would be fair enough warning to parents, even though the majority would still ignore it and complain later...
It is pretty rediculous for a developer/publisher to leave content such as nude skins in the game, to be easily unlocked... Almost as rediculous as changing the rating of a game because of two nipples. The movie Titanic was rated PG-13 for fucks sake... and as I recall that contained nearly full frontal nudity.
While I can't say that I'm thrilled with the new name... Is it really that bad?
Lets look at the names of its main competitors:
Xbox 360 - Am i the only person that laughed out loud when i first read that name? It sounds like they gathered a bunch of 12 year old boys and told them to come up with the coolest name possible...
Playstation 3 - Wow... What a clever name "Playstation"... And its the third one... atleast it gets its point across quite effectively.
Now the name Revolution was nice as a codename, but really wouldnt work as the final name for a console, imo. And atleast they tried to be creative with the name.
Finaly, this is Slashdot... isnt everyone here supposed to love Open Source Software? And isnt the entire point of Open Source Software development to make an application just so you can have fun coming up with the most random, unrelated, silly name for it? I would have though you guys would love the Wii name!
Maybe you were just exaggerating your lack of FPS, but i have a 9700 Pro, and run it with medium settings, with bloom, and draw distances at max, on 1024x768 res, and i get pretty decent FPS, concidering its not an incredibl fast paced game. If it werent for a bug with a certain effect that apears once in a while, that doesnt work well AA and a lack of shader 3, i would be running it with 4xAA aswell, with a tiny drop in framerate.
I dont really wanna turn this into a big debate abotu wetehr or not GoW is innovative or not... but have you seen videos of GoW gameplay? the kinda of cover use is a lot different than finding objects to hide behind while beign shot at, like ive seen in many other games.
With our $2000 development kit, indie developers will now be able to make simple, addivtively fun, original games for a console, and distribute them over the Nintendo network, and people will be able to buy them for a proportionaly low cost.
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id Software's engine is called "id Tech 5", and is being used in a game called "RAGE". Epic Game's engine is called Unreal Engine 3. id Tech 5 may become one of the more popular commercial game engines, if it proves as technically impressive as Carmack suggests, and has good tools, but I don't think many people expect it to eclipse the Unreal Engine's current status. If anything, CryEngine3 will probably start getting a lot more popular after Crytek releases their free-to-use version, to compete with the Unreal Development Kit and Unity for indie game developers.
So you would rather buy a $300-500 console than a $150-200 video card? Sure you may want to buy two of those video cards in a given console 'generation' to keep up with the Joneses... But it still evens out to about the same price - if you only buy one console. And don't argue that a gaming computer costs more than the video card, because most people already have to buy a new, more capable computer in about the same time-frame as a console generation, for things other than gaming. The only expense specific to a "gaming computer" is the video card. Not to mention PC games are less expensive, and console piracy is a quickly growing problem, so I wouldn't be surprised if console gamers have to start dealing with more and more DRM, and things like EA's "Project Ten Dollars" in the near future.
Not trying to argue that PC gaming is superior to console gaming - Just that the tired old arguments that PC gaming is more expensive, and more DRM laden are becoming much less relevant.
I fail to see where Randy made any absurd claims in the interview, or in his follow-up. He was just stating his opinions on something he obviously cares about, and has a lot more insight into than most people. I for one appreciate him bringing the subject up, as it is something I have thought about a lot. I too love Steam, and I want to see it keep growing - but at the same time, I would hate to see it alone totally take over PC gaming, leaving one company in charge, like with the various console platforms. I like what I have seen and heard from the people running Impulse, and I hope they can gain some ground, but they too are run by a company that also develops their own games. In closing, I already have your game pre-ordered on Steam.
Herein lies the problem. People who have never worked retail don't understand how it works. I worked at CircuitCity for a little while, and it was generally enjoyable. I liked my managers and co-workers, and it was nice selling stuff I knew about (computers). We weren't on commission, but I was still occasionally annoyed with the constant little pushes from the managers to sell more 'protection plans' and Firedog services. But that is somewhat understandable, since they are a couple of the few things that they actually make a profit on, since they have to see actually computers pretty much at-price, or even at a loss, to compete with online stores, and even BestBuy/Walmart. Every day I came in, I am all of my fellow sales associates did our best to greet every customer, and help them out. I think our store had excellent customer service... But do you know what drove me to quit working there? The customers. You. There were plenty of customers that came into the store to do some shopping, and sure enough, I and them had a perfectly enjoyable experience. But then there are the customers that come in looking for a hard time, and sure enough, they get a hard time, and so do the sales associates.
On the subject of the liquidation prices... Ofcourse they weren't giving everything away on the first day. They are still in the business of making money up through the last day they will be open. The liquidation prices have nothing to do with the old CircuitCity prices. That 10% is off the MSRP... And most stores sell things like computers and TVs at way below MSRP already, so ofcourse the first days of the liquidation werent going to have the best deals. As long as someone will buy it, they aren't going to lower the price, which is why they progressively raised the % off over the course of the liquidation, to something like 80% off most things on the last day for the store near me. But ofcourse the store was picked clean of anything actually useful by that point. Though I did manage a couple open HDMI cables that had been used on displays for $2 each.
Another upcoming Stardock game, that I assume will be DRM free, is Demigod. Their official website doesn't have that much information, but there is a video from PAX, where I played through their demo and was very impressed.
Ive seen a lot of people commenting that the Cops in the video are idiots, and a few saying that the student was an idiot.
I move that all involved parties are atleast a little retarded.
The student was stupid for refusing to leave when asked politely, then complaining and screaming when told by police officers to leave. Then more idiotic yet for not cooperating after being tased, and told he would be tased more - something he obviously knew he wouldn't enjoy. The whole time screaming about how our justice system is working. Yes, my good sir... the police officers are in place to enforce rules set in place by society - rules you certainly knew you were being violated by yourself, even after being told to stop.
The cops are idiots because they continued to tase the student when he obviously was set on not cooperating, after being tased multiple times. theres a point when you have to go old-school and just haul his out kicking and screaming.
But in the end, ive really gotta side with the cops in the situation... Tasers are a nice piece of equipment. they definately made too liberal of use with theirs, but i think calling "police brutality" in the situation is too much. People who intentionally violate laws need to understand that being arrested wont be a pleasant experience if you resist.
I find it particularly funny/ironic when people say they buy Sony products over Microsoft, because they hate Microsoft as a company. Now last time I looked, Sony wasn't a bunch of saints. They are an enormous company, and as i understand they have done pretty much all the same crap that Microsoft has... probably to a greater extent. Sony is not a happy little company whos sole purpose is to make toys for people to enjoy. They are out to get your money, in any way possible. And apparently they are doing an even better job of tricking consumers into giving it to them than Microsoft.
Since when is software considered "gadgets"?
Someone inform Leon Kennedy.
Google and the CIA?
How many milliseconds did it take you to come up with that gem?
So does that mean 50,000 of them didn't crash?
I dunno... That sounds pretty good for MS!
Seriously.. I'm not worried about the majority of Wii games making my arm sore after an hour of play, or 4 hours of play... Most games will not require you do wave the controller around madly, atleast not often. Liekly it wont require much mroe movement than usign a computer mouse. Also, its not like you are wavign around a 10lb weight... it looks like its probably lighter than an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller.
;)
Hell, i might even invest in some wrist and ankle weights to wear when playing the Wii... would give me a tiny workout, and stop me from wasting too much time, since I WOULD get tired after a while
Now this is probably unlikely... But I know the Halo game concept started out as a RTS, and Bungie later decided to scrap the project, and make an FPS out of the universe they were creating. Perhaps that is what inspired these modders to start their project. But beyond the fact that MS and Bungie woudl make no money from a Halo mod for C&C, you have to look at the possibility that they are acting in advance to protect themselves from loosing money in the future... It would not be a stretch of the imagination to think that one of Bungies current secret developents, or an already planned future development is in-fact a Halo RTS game!
I know technically you're saying 'cancelled' but on the basis that Firefly ran for only 1 season, I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state 'it was ended prematurely'.
;)
When something that should have been ended 9 or so years ago is finally laid to rest, then THATS 'canceled'.
Well, the next-gen consoles had a good run... But it looks like PCs are back in the lead...
Wait... How many of the next-gen consoles have been released sofar?
1. Make Extremely Adictive Game. 2. Charge Monthly Fee. 3. Profit. 4. Make Millions of Already Addicted Players Buy Additional Content. 5. Buy Solid Gold Yacht.
That sounds pretty interesting... I had a game of Civ IV with my brother over the summer, where we started it sometime early in the afternoon, and didnt finish it till about 4:00 the next morning, only breaking for dinner and a few other small interuptions. We must have played a good 10-12 hours.
It seems that whenever Mizuguchi is mentioned, people talk about Lumines and Rez... Am I the only person that thinks Meteos is the most fun Puzzle game ever? Wheres the Meteos love?
"Now, which one would it be?" Obviously it would be the greatest piece of all... The Long One!
They stole the motion sensor from Nintendo!
EVIL!
On the game box infront of me for a T rated online game, right under the "T: Violence" part it says "Game experience may change durring online play.". How about when a publisher submits its game to the ESRB, one thing they have to tell them is if the game will have any sort of SDK, for creating mods. If so add "This game may be modified to reflect a different rating". Seems like that would be fair enough warning to parents, even though the majority would still ignore it and complain later...
It is pretty rediculous for a developer/publisher to leave content such as nude skins in the game, to be easily unlocked... Almost as rediculous as changing the rating of a game because of two nipples. The movie Titanic was rated PG-13 for fucks sake... and as I recall that contained nearly full frontal nudity.
While I can't say that I'm thrilled with the new name... Is it really that bad?
Lets look at the names of its main competitors:
Xbox 360 - Am i the only person that laughed out loud when i first read that name? It sounds like they gathered a bunch of 12 year old boys and told them to come up with the coolest name possible...
Playstation 3 - Wow... What a clever name "Playstation"... And its the third one... atleast it gets its point across quite effectively.
Now the name Revolution was nice as a codename, but really wouldnt work as the final name for a console, imo. And atleast they tried to be creative with the name.
Finaly, this is Slashdot... isnt everyone here supposed to love Open Source Software? And isnt the entire point of Open Source Software development to make an application just so you can have fun coming up with the most random, unrelated, silly name for it? I would have though you guys would love the Wii name!
Maybe you were just exaggerating your lack of FPS, but i have a 9700 Pro, and run it with medium settings, with bloom, and draw distances at max, on 1024x768 res, and i get pretty decent FPS, concidering its not an incredibl fast paced game. If it werent for a bug with a certain effect that apears once in a while, that doesnt work well AA and a lack of shader 3, i would be running it with 4xAA aswell, with a tiny drop in framerate.
I dont really wanna turn this into a big debate abotu wetehr or not GoW is innovative or not... but have you seen videos of GoW gameplay? the kinda of cover use is a lot different than finding objects to hide behind while beign shot at, like ive seen in many other games.
With our $2000 development kit, indie developers will now be able to make simple, addivtively fun, original games for a console, and distribute them over the Nintendo network, and people will be able to buy them for a proportionaly low cost.