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Section 8: Predjudice - Multiplayer FPS with potential that was cut short

Section 8: Prejudice had a lot of potential to be a fun multiplayer game- the problem is that nobody plays it anymore! Why is that? This question is explored.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 | Comments (0)

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On Mark T. Whitney's Blizzard should learn from its own games

"You could but I feel it's less accurate, because you don't have single player games, only private games. By default your friends can join in on them at any time unless you make it invite only."

About 20 hours ago

On Mark T. Whitney's Blizzard should learn from its own games

"It might help if you don't think about it as a single-player game.

Because it doesn't have a single player mode. Only multiplayer which you can play solo."

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

On Graham Zerebeski's Jita's Ashes: EVE Online teaches us something about player freedom

"To be fair, it was a gigantic undertaking by a great number or people - not just one person who sounds to be reasonably banned, and not spontaneous either- it was known in advance and people had plenty of warning.

I find stories like this so much more interesting than playing it, though."

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

On Graham Zerebeski's Jita's Ashes: EVE Online teaches us something about player freedom

"A spy has reported that they "killed ~518.5 billion isk in ships and cargo. To do this, we spent ~182.2 billion isk on thrashers, tornadoes and smartbombing battleships."

That's $20,771.44 USD in damages for a cost of $7,299.05 USD, using an online converter I found for ISK to USD."

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

On Carlos Alexandre's Archaic lives systems are pointless

"People seem really attached to lives and death penalties. I recall the lack of either was a gigantic criticism of Prince of Persia 2008.

Personally, I agree, though I always take a high life counter to be a sign of pride."

Monday, May 07, 2012

On Rus McLaughlin's The Wii U will fail

"Yeah, there are still some gamecube games that I still enjoy playing from time to time- though this is helped a great deal by the Wii's backwards compatibility. I know I'd be playing some of my PS2 games still if the PS3 had it anymore (and that it worked right in the first place?).

A failed console is the Saturn and similar in my mind (Jaguar, etc), with the Dreamcast being the weird buffer area- it definitely failed financially, but even though I bought the system brand new for cheaper than a video game costs these days, I still go back to it from time to time.

I guess I tend to judge consoles on the quality of their games more than sales or computing power."

Saturday, April 07, 2012

On Rus McLaughlin's The Wii U will fail

"Going by those numbers and the statements in the article, every single console except the PS1 and PS2 were failures.

I dunno, maybe it's because I don't have high expectations for consoles in general - I only recently picked up a PS3 a few months ago because there were finally enough games that I would like to play on it, combined with my 360 having to be sent back for warranty replacement a second time since I bought it a few years back.

As it will be HD or near-HD, it's already going to be more expensive than the Wii, I'd imagine, and the price point is the main reason the Wii did as well as it did. If it had been more expensive there would've been a price barrier keeping 'casual' gamers from picking it up,"

Friday, April 06, 2012

On Rus McLaughlin's The Wii U will fail

"Has any other console reached the Wii's numbers? I don't have the numbers, I don't know, but going by the article it would mean that anything that didn't match or surpass the Wii in sales is a failure.

That goes beyond 'not fair' as far as statements go, I think. Wii U is already more specialized than the Wii, and I don't think the Wii's demographic is the Wii U's demographic.

I'll get one when I know I can play Nintendo games in high def. That's pretty much the reason I buy any Nintendo console."

Thursday, April 05, 2012

On Rus McLaughlin's The Wii U will fail

"The reason to get one, as with any console, will be the games. There will either be games you want to play on it, or there won't."

Thursday, April 05, 2012

On Jordan Vincent's Launch-day downloadable content is a bonus

"I disagree, DLC in that case is specifically created for profit, and would not otherwise have had time devoted to it- it would have been cut as non-essential. The proof is that it isn't in the standard edition- it was considered incentive, not essential.

Quality and time devoted to something doesn't mean it was entirely made for profit. (The whole game was made for profit)"

Monday, March 12, 2012

On Andrew Hiscock's The Humble Indie Bundle is a sign of the times

"Great article, both highlighting social aspects of the world, some insight into why it could be, while also keeping it in tune with the humble bundle.

Myself, I tend to give the lion's share to charity."

Monday, December 19, 2011

On Rus McLaughlin's Halo Anniversary makes me worry about Halo 4

"Maybe I'm just spoiled as someone who has been playing FPSs on the PC since the days of Duke Nukem 3D (they go further back but that's the earliest one I had a computer that could play one) but I never felt the Halo series (or most console FPS games since) have really added much to the party. The original one had tons of identical areas and the same enemies throughout.

For the console crowd I can see how Halo was an FPS rennaissance perhaps, as previous PC FPS games always tended to suffer from porting (and still do- though now the norm is in the reverse), as it had a good bit of story attached to fun multiplayer gameplay. Online gameplay helps a lot, too."

Wednesday, November 16, 2011