The Gaming Den

Yeah, it mostly makes sense for professionals. If you're moving to 6 times and carrying the thing fucking constantly a 10 pound laptop is super annoying. If it's just going to sit on your desk, you wouldn't even consider an ultra portable. See, this, what are you all 2 feet tall? It's ten pounds, n...

Yeah, ME2 dials home lots more infomation than just the achievements - stuff like 80% of players played a male, most play soldiers, but most people did use the facial editor etc. Achievements just scratch the surface, but yeah it's helpful for developers to see what happens with their games 'in the ...

Airbook is nice piece of hardware, nice form factor if you need an ultraportable. Comparing the two is like trying to compare my leather folio and an orange though. One is for eating, one is for carrying documents in... Comparing the two what? A Laptop that weighs twice what an airbook does, has al...

Different form factors, it's hard to compare something with a touch screen vs a keyboard interface.

Airbook is nice piece of hardware, nice form factor if you need an ultraportable.

Comparing the two is like trying to compare my leather folio and an orange though. One is for eating, one is for carrying documents in...

Lots of games have a tutorial completion achievement that you can use to determine if someone actually played the game, like, at all. Mass effect 2 has the best stats on this and there have been a number of articles about the developers. Going back to Deus Ex - 88% of the players got to the point wh...

This is fairly standard. You can check games like Mass Effect 2 which has by chapter achievements as well if you'd like (Mass effect 2 is much less ambigiously a 'good game' than DX:HR though). The drop off between first and second boss is about 15% and a similar ratio between 2nd and 3rd. Portal is...

Vnonymous wrote:Deus Ex 2 was actually a bad game though - Invisible War sucked, and if that game had a decent demo then it would have fucking tanked.

I meant HR, DX2 doesnt have steam achievements, so I'm not talking aobut that one.

. Also that apparently he only wants to pay for things after he's used them. Could you show me where he said that or is this another hallucination I've already quoted it - he wants the full game so he can make an 'informed decision' with the entire thing. Implication is that he wants to watch the m...

Sure, but there is absolutely nothing the developer can do about it. Bioshock has great graphics. Graphics require large amounts of data. large amounts of data requires heavy use of storage. Why do you think that Bioshock is a 6 GB game whereas Quake fit on one cd? Therefore AAA titles are going to ...

The new android phones are shit software wise compared to the iphone, the giant sized samsung (which a giant sized friend of mine bought as its to scale for him), concluded with: "The hardware is amazing but apple shits all over the software" This is a qualified software engineer who works...

The funny thing is the guy never really addresses that - he's american, though he does talk about europe for a bit. But his conculsion there is that video game publishers should appeal for a new VAT. But doesn’t all this seem to suggest that the industry needs to start putting its collective weight ...

What the fuck am I reading? Are you seriously saying that "People pirate because they have no way of telling if a game is good or not due to the shit nature of demos and the ridiculously onerous policies regarding pc game returns" is equivalent to "Games have good graphics so people ...

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/pc_game_piracy/ Piracy is a solved question, pretty much. A significant part of that guy's arguement is that Piracy is caused by games having good graphics. I'm not even joking. He spends ages on this point. Number of words in article: 16336 Number of words talking abo...

Vnonymous wrote:http://insomnia.ac/commentary/pc_game_piracy/

Piracy is a solved question, pretty much.

A significant part of that guy's arguement is that Piracy is caused by games having good graphics.

I'm not even joking. He spends ages on this point.

It's my understanding that piracy generally has a neutral or even beneficial effect on sales. The thinking is, if a person has X dollars they are going to spend on entertainment then they are going to spend about X dollars on entertainment. If that person pirates media then they are going to go out...

iPhone currently offers a much more practical user experince than the adroid solutions. The downside is that the hardware is artifically gimped. Your iPhone's broadcomm chipset and provided antenna's can do FM transmission. So why do I have to buy a third party device to transmit FM? Overall though ...

Feng Shui, SR4 and D&D 3.5 are my favourite systems.

Focus on the following relative to 3.5ed. A) Improved resolution speeds and all sub systems operating on the same basic principles B) A few, complex classes with a board range of choices in each class. Choices should ideally be made out of session but be very configurable. C) Simplification of NPC a...

I'm pretty sure that for a number of locations solar is still better. For Australia for example, large scale solar is a no brainer (water is the main issue). You still need hydrogen fuel production to handle overnight loads. Realistically I suspect the best solution is going to be a hybrid. This is ...

Irishman is very setting dependent, it does not carry over to a non-Earth or even non-English setting, which seems unnecessarily limiting. What do they call the "Irishmen" in Raptured New York, or wherever? And it's also a quick gag that'll get old fast, whereas Saboteur never stops looki...

Greece should just default on all their bonds, congratulate their bondholders on their 80% haircut and move on with it's life. Nothing particularly bad will happen to greece and they won't get chucked out of the euro (amusing things will happen to ireland, space and italy because their bond rates wi...

The definitions he links to are much better. As you can see he's defining broken as powers that require GM intervention or oversight to manage, which is quite reasonable definition for players that can do by themselves what the entire party combined should be expected to do. Optimized is the term we...

Xpert Eleven is a really fun fantasy soccer manager game that can be played from or outside of facebook. It also doesn't spam up your feed with shit which is a major advantage.

Traditional complex hex and counter wargames have been functionally dead for years, computer assists make it so much easier. The result is market fragmentation, where they have moved to entirely computerised models (War in the Pacific) or leaned right down to stuff like Command and Colours wwhich ar...