Posts by mikezilla

  • Brothers in Arms : Hell's Highway Officially announced.

    Visual quality is a smaller factor in engine licensing than you'd think. It really isn't a trump at all. What really matters is the usability of the tools that come with it. Epic has a pretty huge team dedicated to tool management so the editor a slick little package where everything fits nicely into place. I imagine CryTek's stuff is quite a bit less usable and more suited for in house development... hell even Source is like that (.bat file based material creation, YOU FAIL.)

  • Brothers in Arms : Hell's Highway Officially announced.

    Hmmm not really with BiA specifically (although I think that idea would hold credence with other franchises.) Each game I've extended what the story is capable of farther and farther out. With BiA3 we have a really solid two game base to build on so the development of the characters is going much farther than ever before. When we started BiA and decided to follow one group of guys we knew we were going to go all the way with it, we knew what we were getting into. Market Garden is the point where it all comes crashing down... this is game where everyone loses something. I think more people are going to pay attention to what we're doing here because with this operation... the Allied didn't win. They completed their objectives at a very high cost only to give up and pull back with the British unable to take Arnhem. It's not a bunch of levels strung together for set pieces... it's a long highway and the story of 23 men's pursuit to get up it.

  • Brothers in Arms : Hell's Highway Officially announced.

    So we're official.

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  • SiN: Episodes

    its not cynical mathematics.

    if a normal studio can make a normal 10-15 hours game in a few years, a SMALLER studio can't churn out the same quality for 5 times the content.

    What it is- is a scam. So much filler it'll make your eyeballs bleed.

    But hey, it's your money.

  • SiN: Episodes

    Quote from Pericolos0

    hl2 also had exploding barrels near hordes of brainless enemies

    and i doubley hated it there because the game was so good.

    call of duty 2 also did it... only near 88's and other highly incendiary things. which made it even stupider.

    DOWN WITH EXPLODING BARRELS '06!!!

  • SiN: Episodes

    They said in an interview a few weeks ago that all half life 2 content had been removed.

    Having said that, I've followed the last few things that Ritual has done and was unimpressed (cs:cz, 25 to life.) They seem to follow a very strict old-school style fps strategy that I find alarmingly stale lately.

    Something to the effect of...

    You are a quiet bad-ass who throws out a few choice (and lame) one-liners as you dispense sordid justice on the end of the same old weaponry. You will meet characters who will serve no purpose other than to explain what a level designer was thinking but along the way you will need to pick up health packs to recover from the 9000 bullet holes you were penetrated with. This is capped off by an almost endless supply of enemies whose AI the developer has been touting for months, but in the end you can kill many of them at a time with little problem because they constantly seek refuge behind conspiciously placed inflammable barrels that explode on contact with a single bullet.

  • Revolution Gets Cooler

    Quote from The Postman

    MAN! Fucking sweet! I can't wait to re-buy all the games I originally bought instead of you know, downloading MAME games. This is a shitty marketing tactic that is really REALLY going to fall short in the long run.

    1) MAME is for arcade games. They are selling NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and TurboGFX 16 games.

    2) It's not a marketing tactic because they are offering a service. A service people want.

    3) Outside of the small hardcore gamer minority, the mass populace is not aware of emulation as a viable means to play old games. In addition, emulation of copyrighted games is illegal and some people don't like to do illegal things.

    4) I think it will be incredibly commercially viable. Nintendo has always had some of the strongest franchies out there, and I don't know many people that wouldn't shell out a couple bucks to play Mario 3 or Zelda : A Link to the Past again (or dare I bring up the Super Metroid, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger crowd.) This comes at very little cost to Nintendo minus some simple engineering costs. This means that even slow sales are profit.

    5) You're not rebuying them at anywhere near the cost. They aren't going to charge you fifty dollars to play Mario 2. It's a low price that's a lot lower than what you'd pay in a store for one of those older games (I see Gamestop charge 25+ for snes games that are good.) For certain people this is a good deal because they don't have the means to get another NES or SNES and set it up.

    6) The second this goes live I'll probably hit the buy all button.