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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3620 on: July 30, 2012, 01:58:19 PM »

NewEgg is a pretty reasonable operation.  If you shoot an email to customer support they'll probably be able and happy to issue an account credit or something.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3621 on: August 08, 2012, 03:58:27 AM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3622 on: August 08, 2012, 05:14:13 AM »

The game DNF wasn't.

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3623 on: August 08, 2012, 05:44:17 AM »

They also confirmed the God and Dog mode power ups at the reveal during Quakecon. ROTT has the best God mode ever, if anyone didn't know, and the only Dog mode ever. They're about equally powerful.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3624 on: August 08, 2012, 07:19:15 AM »

The firewall
The ridiculous jumps
The ripped 16khz voices
The Goin' down the fast way

Is... is this what it feels like to actually be excited about a game announcement?
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3625 on: August 08, 2012, 07:42:05 AM »

Yes.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3626 on: August 08, 2012, 07:53:54 AM »

That said, I do see Raspberry Jam.  That's not a minor nitpick; it's a big part of why DNF lost its spirit.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3627 on: August 08, 2012, 07:58:39 AM »

In fairness, that's someone else's jam. He just got some on him.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3628 on: August 08, 2012, 08:01:23 AM »

Oh, there's also a toggle to turn on 100% original sound effects, if you want to. Music, guns, enemies, player quips, everything.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3629 on: August 08, 2012, 07:00:41 PM »

So is The Secret World fun? I really want it to be fun.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3630 on: August 08, 2012, 07:35:27 PM »

It is very, very fun.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3631 on: August 10, 2012, 11:31:07 AM »

So I can not in any way shape or form condone what Robot Entertainment decided to do with Hero Academy on Steam, charging $5 per team instead of $2 and bundling in their dumb avatar packs with them as a required purchase instead of being a seperate freemium transaction like on iOS.

But the game is still really fun and I really wanted the TF2 team so I bought the basic pack anyway since all my other stuff is unlocked from iOS already.  :(
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3632 on: August 14, 2012, 09:05:20 AM »

You are all WEIR-

the decision -- made by Activision Corporate, not the developers themselves --

...DOoooh shit.

EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD GO GO GO HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3633 on: August 14, 2012, 09:25:25 AM »

You are all WEIR-

the decision -- made by Activision Corporate, not the developers themselves --

...DOoooh shit.

EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD GO GO GO HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE

This post is hilarious in isolation like this.   :glee:
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3634 on: August 14, 2012, 11:30:30 AM »

Agreed.  I think we should leave it.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3635 on: August 17, 2012, 12:21:25 PM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3636 on: August 17, 2012, 01:16:58 PM »

Ahead of its time.

I really do think cheap generic hardware + streaming game service is the way things are going; it's interesting seeing the way it's developed -- first Phantom, which introduced the basic premise but never actually managed to produce a product, then OnLive, which put out a product but still couldn't sell it.  Ouya's the next evolution; it's doing pretty well out the gate but the proof is in the pudding.

I've said it before but it bears repeating: in the coming years the latency problem is going to get mostly-tackled and we're eventually going to see consoles that are just dumb terminals that accept controller inputs, send them to a server, and then send back the audio/video/force output.  This is desirable from the publishers' standpoint because it is the only way DRM can ever actually successfully work (because it is the only way that does not involve copying the program into the client's memory), and it's desirable from players' standpoint because it will mean cheaper hardware, up to and including handhelds that perform on par with consoles.

Ouya complicates things a bit because it's an open platform, which means fragmentation.  The cost is a consistent user experience; the benefit is a competitive market of both hardware and software.  I'm a Linux guy so I don't have to tell you which side of the divide I stand on, but monolithic It-Just-Works platforms certainly have their appeal.

What Ouya's got is Android, making for easy portability of existing games.  Then again, OnLive ran Windows.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3637 on: August 17, 2012, 01:19:47 PM »

The people of OnLive, like everyone who ever worked on DNF, should just take pride that they managed to make the thing actually happen, and leave it at that.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3639 on: August 17, 2012, 03:01:42 PM »

Waitwaitwait

Heeeeeeeeeey

I thought private equity was supposed to create jobs

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey
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