Posts by Taylor

It’s true though; the mainstream is really stagnant. Nobody seems prepared to make risks because publishers like cash-money, and the majority of the paying public doesn’t really seem to care they’re playing the same FPS again only pumped through a more spangly engine.

There are plenty of innovative games out there, though they're lost by the wayside for being cult or hardcore. But you can't expect them to come from production-line behemoths who know a roster update of a sports game will get a hundred times the profit.

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Contrary to this, everyone I know with a Wii hardly plays the thing since there's basically nothing decent out for em over here right now. Well except Mario Charged Strikers which is top Pretty much everyone I work with at Sony has a PS3 except me (too skint) but this is no surprise since we were sold em internally at a discount.

Outside of work I know only 1 person with a PS3 at the mo, pretty much everyone I know into gaming is hooked up on the 360, 'cause of the great range of games on it. But yeah back to the point Wii is getting horribly stale right now, there's just not enough quality stuff to play yet.

Well glad to see I’m not the only one. I know a lot of people with a Wii, but they don’t play it anymore because once the Wii-Remote shtick wears off it’s a collection of poor games with poor graphics (one said it was "just a hat for his xbox"). As a party console it’s vaguely enjoyable, but when drunk we just got pissed off at Wario’s seemingly random winning and losing criteria.

I know a few people with a PS3, and every single one of them is a ‘gamer,’ the only person who I know that’s into the Wii in a big way is quite the opposite. If I was to get one, it would purely be for the new Zelda game.

Anyway, verging off-topic here. I think the original article is a dirty lie.

Why would they do this for the Playstation 2, even if they put it out who is going to make games for this new joypad? And the Playstation 3 controller already has motion sensors in it, just not to the same extreme as the Wii.

To be honest if this were true I don’t see anyone, developers or gamers, giving a crap about it. But it may put emphasis on the Wii effectively being a giant gimmick most people don’t care about anymore. Anyone know someone with a Wii that isn’t caked in dust?

I think your closing sentence should’ve spelt it $ony for good measure...

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It really is, but it seems a novel idea to me to actually try to do this right instead of my usual hackjobs.

It's probably worth pointing out that after posting this the first thing I did (after go to work for 9 hours, eh details) was do 2 quick changes to make my site W3C compliant.

Looks nice and clean, writing might be a bit small for most people but I guess it’s okay for the clientele you expect to visit.

Conforming to w3c is sucking up to The Man.

martyr.core

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Wait didn't I hear somewhere that this game was created by some guy and distributed for free, then some other guys ripped it off and sold it to valve/steam whatever?http://gridwars.marune.de/

Only reason I heard about it is because the lunix guys were all 'omg it was created and lunix and ported to windoze lollool we win one!'

Gridwars was a clone of Geometry Wars, not the other way around. It was so close to the Geometry Wars that the creators suggested he take it down before Microsoft make him take it down.

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incitti":c4u1hmoh]We're beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales via Microsoft now and are beginning a process to begin to more robustly protect our copyright and intellectual property. Therefore, I'd like to ask you in an amicable fashion to stop infringing our IP and pull the game 'Grid Wars' from the internet for download. I hope you understand and are able to do this without us having to take further steps.

Discrediting Geometry Wars as being an Asteroids clone and because the graphics look bad.

Mapcore, oh how the mighty have fallen.

Every Extend (Extra (Extreme)) is within the same vein if you like this, only instead of shooting enemies you blow yourself up next to them, hoping to create enough points in the chain reaction to get your life back.

Burn!

It's what they do on the PS3, cheap games you can't refuse. Super Stardust HD is on there for like £4. How can you not buy it?

I have it set to design, and sometimes there's dirty texture and code stuff in there, but apart from that it's the best homepage a man can have.

As far as I know, all the new consoles are region-less anyway. So just import it if you care for it, there’s no reason not to. Rockstar do have a chance to appeal, if it goes through they’re going to make some obscene money after this publicity.

I can’t say I really agree with their methods these days, okay the Grand Theft Auto stuff was ludicrous, but then there’s Bully just to incite the press, and this game that’s taboo for the sake of it. They’re painting the negative picture of the games industry the mass media wants to see. I’d hope if this stays out the stores they’ll approach things with a bit more subtlety in future.

The game your gathering data for had better be stupendous after all this!

Dungeon Siege is an obvious one not on the list, I’ve burnt countless hours on that with a friend and it’s good fun. Like Diablo 2 it hooks you on advancement while having pretty basic gameplay – a few extras and quite mod-friendly, though nobody really took advantage of it as far as I know.

Neverwinter Nights was quite funky, had some really good features like the Dungeon Master, where one guy floats around with uber powers placing down enemies or writing out some pretentious speech. Again easily mod-friendly but I personally didn’t see anything too ground breaking for it.

Guild Wars, unlike the other two, is highly competitive. And unlike, say WoW, it’s competitions are vaguely balanced (though hasn’t the money to host any tornaments or such like). I personally loathed it, but lots of people out there like it. I’ve heard it classed as a MMO which is a scandalous lie.

World of Warcraft is technically an Action MMORPG – as it’s not turn-based and that seems like the only requirement. Again, like Diablo 2 and Dungeon Siege it grabs plays with amazingly simple mechanics and holds them with promises of progression. Only is substantially more catass.

The common features through this list are simple gameplay and very solid progression – mainly through gear. Lots of people walk away from every game mentioned here and say “why did I play that with a friend through my entire summer?” because the gameplay is bland, but compelling. It’s the tiny little upgrades that feel substantial and things to aspire too that keep people playing these games. Your little troupe of friends getting stronger and overcoming things by the power of right click and number generation.

Edit: I R CAN'T TYPE.

I played EVE during beta, so don't take what I say as gospel as it may have changed. When you first get it, it’s really cool, the music and graphics really draw you in, there’s a lot to aspire to and there is a feeling of "this is it! Elite online!"

But there’s a lot of gameplay mechanics I totally don’t agree with, mainly the ones that have new players playing catch-up forever. It has a lot of interesting concepts – such as the skill system, diplomacy and economy but their actual implementation I don't particularly care for. I imagine starting now would be somewhat suicidal unless they open up a new server.

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Still playing WOW (lvl 46 druid on Mok'Nathal) cause all my clients expect me to know WOW inside and out. I love boring grinding cause it's funzors!

They probably should've give everyone full rested untl 60 when the expansion launched to be honest, since that stuff doesn't compare to end-game. But hey, look at it this way, WoW less leveling grind that most other MMORPG's... Yeah, treadmill is fun.

Personally, when not on WoW pleading with my friends we play something else, I've got Crush and Okami. Finished with God Hand and Disgaea 1's Etna mode has brought me to tears.

And I'm trying to convince myself FFXII is worth finishing. The initally cool mechanics are its downfall later on because of the level of cheese and automation available. Oh a monster, I shall push the joypad towards it and watch my party kill it with no interaction, oh a boss, I shall proceed to wipe and come back with gambits that trivalise the encounter. Bah, I want to like it!

I've found that sticky keys boss is quite hard.

I thought the implication was, because the whole thing is one texture opposed to multiple tiled and reused, they can do whatever they want there without indirectly making somewhere else look pants. Which is kind of duh, but an obvious an obvious quirk of the megatexture.

Anyone know a decent desktop post it/notes program for lol windows? I’ve tried a few and I usually get annoyed with obstructive skins.

I wish people would stop getting offended by things for the sake of it.