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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4000 on: June 19, 2013, 11:42:33 AM »

No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".

Let's be honest, here. Even when it was still a privacy-invading, consumer fucker-over, the Xbox One was still going to outsell the Wii U.
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« Reply #4001 on: June 19, 2013, 12:49:03 PM »

No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".

Let's be honest, here. Even when it was still a privacy-invading, consumer fucker-over, the Xbox One was still going to outsell the Wii U.

You should change your name to Kotaku.
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« Reply #4002 on: June 19, 2013, 01:04:03 PM »

"Win" and "lose" aren't really valid metrics here.  Will MS gain back the customers it lost because of this?  Probably a few, but for the most part the camps have been drawn up - hardcore gamers on the PS4, social gamers on the XBox, and Nintendo pretty much coasting along on the strength of its first party titles like it has for almost 20 years now.  Anyone who actually cares about the XBox's DRM requirements aren't going to just shrug and forget about them, and no amount of catching up to Sony on policy matters is going to change the fact that their machine costs $100 more and has something like half the graphical capabilities.  Microsoft's main advantage is going to be that the 360 managed to be the de facto platform for multiplayer (despite being the one that forced you to pay for it) and that sort of social network carries a lot of inertia with it - one guy in the clan or whatever migrates to One to play the new Colladuty, and now everyone else has to get the same system to stay with the group.  Beyond that, they don't have much of a convincing argument, and "Not as terrible as originally thought" doesn't really substitute.

History has shown repeatedly that the qualities of the console itself don't really matter for a hill of beans after the first year, though.  Winners and losers are determined solely based on the system's library.  Between the two competitors (Nintendo is really off in its own dimension), XBO's got the advantage with a Halo, but it's too damn early to say that that alone is going to help them "win" this generation, especially since Halo isn't really the silver bullet it used to be (who else here forgot that Halo 4 was already released?).  So there's no point in opening up a casket for Microsoft no matter how badly they fuck with the system, at least not until some major publishers make noise about abandoning the platform, which probably just happened somewhere in the back rooms and is probably the real reason Microsoft has started to backpedal.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4003 on: June 19, 2013, 01:07:50 PM »

There's more cross-platform releases than ever this generation.
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« Reply #4004 on: June 19, 2013, 04:54:14 PM »

It probably said something about the final "closeness" of the player bases that people were willing to make Xbox and PS3 versions of a lot of different titles.
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« Reply #4005 on: June 19, 2013, 05:04:59 PM »

Don't forget that also a lot of people just own two (or all) the consoles, perhaps picking up one every year or two. This is especially feasible for those who aren't early adopters.
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« Reply #4006 on: June 20, 2013, 12:05:23 AM »

There's more cross-platform releases than ever this generation.

But how often if ever can the Playstation and Xbox crowds play together online?
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4007 on: June 21, 2013, 10:46:43 AM »

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it's puzzle pirates for ipad
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4008 on: June 25, 2013, 05:31:40 PM »

Someone set up a neat little widget site that lets you play Cards Against Humanity online for free: http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp
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« Reply #4009 on: June 27, 2013, 02:19:14 AM »

So the 1950's XCOM game might actually be good.

It looks like it's going to be a Shooter/RPG hybrid like Mass Effect, but with a massive emphasis on squad-based tactics. So much emphasis, in fact, that in the entire demo the player character doesn't fire a single bullet and instead succeeds purely through issuing orders.
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« Reply #4010 on: June 27, 2013, 02:34:23 AM »

the player character doesn't fire a single bullet and instead succeeds purely through issuing orders.

That's actually something I've been waiting for a long time and genuinely surprised hasn't been done well before. Really interested in seeing how that plays out.
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« Reply #4012 on: June 29, 2013, 02:17:39 AM »

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The statements “lol” and “jk” — meaning “laughing out loud” and “just kidding” — indicate that Justin’s statement was entirely sarcastic, said his father.
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« Reply #4013 on: June 29, 2013, 04:41:55 AM »

Well, apparently people need to be told that, since the kid's been in jail for months.
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« Reply #4014 on: June 29, 2013, 06:31:21 AM »

The good news is that it shouldn't be hard to find a good free speech lawyer to take this case on contingency.

I'm not a lawyer, but I have a hard time believing this could pass muster under the true threat doctrine, even in Texas.

Lawsuits are a long road, but I'm hoping it's a road he's willing to take.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4015 on: July 18, 2013, 01:26:13 AM »

Hey, GIA's back.

As a Wordpress blog with four posts on it so far, but I am perfectly okay with that.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4016 on: July 18, 2013, 07:22:27 AM »

Earthbound on wii u virtual console.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4017 on: July 18, 2013, 10:59:11 AM »

New 2.5D Strider game announced at ComicCon. Also a teaser:

Strider - Announce Trailer
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4018 on: July 18, 2013, 11:02:43 AM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4019 on: July 18, 2013, 11:16:02 AM »

That is correct.
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