Posts by Izuno

  • The Bourne Legacy

    Thrik, I'm no audio engineer but the best way I can describe it is some kind of mix of a synthesized horn or brass instrument washed out (ie, dominated by) a grinding type of static. MW3 and BF3 both used variations on this kind of tone, as did Inception as mentioned above. My "horn or brass instrument" inclusion could be totally off, but I get the trend Minos and Mazy are talking about.

    Otherwise, yeah Mazy I would add a W in it so it would be "BWHHHAAAA" or something.

    Might want to listen to other recent Hans Zimmer work...such as the Christopher Nolan Batman movie soundtracks. They get some industrial type sounds in there, as well, and since he did the Inception soundtrack (wait, didn't he?) it's just starting to paint a broader picture of the trend.

  • dear zynga

    Related news...

    http://www.edge-online.com/news/apple-p ... -app-store

  • THQ going down the pan

    Yep, got my eyes on this closely. THQ is a survivor so we'll see how many lives it has left. Axing the kids stuff was long overdue. Still, the best path to survival is [shocking]make better games that people want to buy![/shocking]

    Think of Homefront. Metacritic is not the end-all-be-all but imagine that game if the consensus of was 85% instead of 70%. Realistically, more of us probably would have liked it. (OMG really?) While I had serious issues with the game, it grew on me, making me wish they had done a better job but more importantly, it made me want a better sequel. Maybe non-American's couldn't care less about the setting, but the US is still a big games market to sell into and UK gamers tend not to mind as much about US centric games as compared to other places. A Homefront 2 release that fixes the issues and is, well, better overall, would get me to buy it day 1. Can THQ deliver on that and WWE, UFC, Saints Row, new IP etc.? Lot's of challenges ahead for them to survive.

  • The Hunger Games

    Huh...if I were posting about They Hunger, one of my favorite SP HL mods ever, I would have posted about it in Game Discussion. Sorry if you felt misled.

    Regarding The Hunger Games, I am now reading book 2 of the trilogy ("Catching Fire") and am loving it. The fist book (uh, "The Hunger Games") is going to be a movie coming out in March and I'm predicting an epic box office tally. And that's whether it's great or is just so-so given how much buzz I'm sensing (obviously not on Mapcore).

    I keep coming back to the concept of 24 teenagers forcibly put into a deathmatch by a sadistic authoritarian government. Very Orwellian. Not entirely original i'm told but just so well written and blunt.

  • The Hunger Games

    Ok...before you pull up your flamethrowers hear me out. My wife read this book "The Hunger Games" and said it was the best novel she's read in years and that I would love it. I've mainly only been hearing about it from women so I thought it was a chick book like the Twilight books which I never read and was totally bored by the movies when we rented one.

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT I WAS WRONG. The Hunger Games is nothing like crappy Twilight.

    Yes, the main character is a teenage girl but the raw brutality in this book and direct, unpretentious writing style is amazing. It's almost like reading Michael Creighton (may he r.i.p....my favorite author of all time).

    Anyway...The Hunger Games has a romance angle in it but it's soooooooo much more about the pseudo post apocolyptic and very sadistic society that puts 24 teenagers into a giant arena in a battle to the death. The survivalist element reminds me of STALKER in a way (just no mutants and exclusion zones and shit). I have never been this unexpectedly floored by a book I just assumed was another trash chick novel. It's nothing at all like that.

    [Blocked Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Hunger_games.jpg]

  • dear zynga

    Sorry but I find this issue very interesting.

    Quick update (and on topic, too!):

    http://www.industrygamers.com/news/copy ... -it-legal/

    tl;dr version: what Zynga did is legal. Unsavory, but legal. Perhaps Nimblebit's 3 man crew's best recourse is based on the following assumptions:

    1) They appear to be more creative than Zynga's 2,789 (or however many) people are allowed to be

    2) They also appear to be much, much more, ahem, nimble

    3) They have vastly smaller overhead than Zynga

    4) This (https://s3.amazonaws.com/nbpromo/dearzynga.jpg) was brilliant at creating more awareness of Tiny Tower. Not everyone appreciates its sardonic nature, but it helps put Nimblebit on more people's radar and screams "David vs. Goliath"...and most people will root for the underdog, especially given Zynga's reputation.

    So...Nimblebit: just keep doing what you do best as I'm sure you've already concluded.

  • dear zynga

    Well....

    One way to think about Zynga's game, given the assumption it is the exact same gameplay just with different art direction, is what does it cost to play? If I want to get a certain amount of enjoyment out of it in a certain amount of time, how much would I have to spend? Then ask the same for Tiny Tower. Then one game might be a better "value" to the group of consumers who are actually willing to spend. Or maybe they are exactly the same? Sure, many people don't spend any money on these games but a small % of users of these types of games do indeed pay, and some pay a lot.

    If someone could show the "value curves" for each game are roughly the same, then the next question might be "Where do you want your money to go? Zynga or Nimblebit?

  • What are you playing now?

    Yeah I may be totally in the wrong here about Rage. I have to go back and try it more but after the first real mission that's all I could think about...the looting system and how it wasn't really fun. It's not that looting is supposed to be this awesome experience, it's just when it's not tuned quite right I found it more distracting than I would have expected. Yeah, in Borderlands have to click on every damn piece of loot but it works. Also, from afar in Borderlands you can see where the loot is based on the vertical light beams (like looting in SWTOR...and other RPGs...) which is kind of cartoony but FFS it worked well. And you could just move your character over the area and click away and grab it all so quickly if you wanted to. Just doesn't feel like that in Rage. Not as fun.

  • What are you playing now?

    Ok...been playing Rage. Here's my main gripe with it on a console (yes...stop bitching I play PC games too): looting. When you loot a body (or anything) there is a very small tolerance for where you are aimed to loot. In other words, you pretty much have to look right at a body or whatever before you get the prompt allowing you to, well, loot. I find this rather annoying and it slows down the flow. Borderlands, a similar game that had lots of looting, didn't feel this way.

    I should grab screens to illustrate, but I'm so lazy I can't even do that to explain how lazy I am. Yeah, this is a nitpick, but I really found it distracting. I haven't tried it on PC and I assume some/most (?) people here who did play it played it on a PC?

  • Star Wars The Old Republic

    Fixed it.

    I run off a fairly new Macbook Pro using Bootcamp. Stop screaming because before the 1.1 patch it ran pretty well. After the 1.1 patch you know the deal.

    The problem was running the game in a window on a secondary screen. Once I rebooted, unplugged the secondary screen it ran again.

    So the launcher seems to have issue with dual screens...which I agree might be a driver issue and the screen problem is the symptom, not the problem itself.

    By the time I started playing WoW in...2007?...I rarely had stability problems so this may just be early jitters for SWTOR which is to be expected I guess.

  • Resident Evil 6

    Quote from PogoP

    Why the fuck are there people with guns to fight against? Resident Evil is NOT about fighting other people with guns... That really pissed me off in RE5.Get rid of the guns, bring back the scares.

    One thing for sure is that Capcom has slowly made the RE series more shooter-like with each iteration since RE3.

  • Resident Evil 6

    Hmm...I agree RE4 was a pinnacle of the series...but RE5 wasn't terrible by any means...just a little different I guess. This feels more like what I expect in RE even if the trailer doesn't overwhelm. I think the way some of the Japanese publishers produce/edit trailers don't always do the games justice so I'm willing to see more of this. If the gameplay is solid then the setting looks pretty sweet, even if is "Raccoon City all over again" as is said in the trailer.