Recent content by Bad Jim

I liked it. But stuff like the fact that you are always going down throughout the whole game despite being on the ground at the start, while symbolic, is clearly not realistic.

That's probably 90% of the problem. If you develop a game and make it pretty, your marketing department can easily show the gaming world that it is pretty. If you make the AI smart, it's not so easy to show, and even good AI can be made to look stupid. Developers can do this stuff, but it's just...

Every ranking system I have heard of works in a way that slowly diminishes your old results. Usually this is because the amount of points you win or lose depends on the ranking difference, so low ranked players climb faster and fall slower. I believe the system changes your rank more if it is...

Apparently, when pitching a game idea to major shareholders, it is more or less expected that you overestimate its profit potential to a ridiculous degree. Then the game becomes a "disappointment" in the sense that it did not meet that arbitrary estimate, but it could still be doing very well in...

But you got some good freebies right?

Goodnight Chimpzy and thank you. May your dreams be filled with free bananas.

I imagine it's because the Switch is a handheld, and is in it's own league in terms of power. If someone with plenty of money wants to play MK11 on the go, they will want to have it on a Switch. If you're thinking of how overlooked the Wii-U was, the Wii-U didn't have much to recommend it in...

"From the original creators of Fallout" Wow

It's a multiplayer game. That means the server, not your PC/console, decides what happens in game, and the server probably doesn't even know your frame rate. Now it is true that a similar thing can be done to single player games, that you can have the logic run at a fixed 60fps and generate...

That pic is one of the Commandos games I think.

Actually I think that is possible with a technique called the Monte Carlo Tree Search. A standard Min Max AI like Stockfish can beat you at chess but Civ just has too many possible moves. But a Monte Carlo tree search is basically doing thousands of random playthroughs, so it can see obvious...

I believe the main reason for the controversy was that it's main selling points were things that should have been in the original PC version, specifically high resolution support, 60fps and keyboard/mouse support.

Awesome. Thank you very much Chimpzy. I've been waiting for a good deal on that ever since it came out.

I'm thinking of his glory days at Bullfrog. There is definitely janky stuff there. For example, in the first two Populous games, gameplay is dominated by the task of making flat land for your followers to settle on. In the second game, there is an AI assistant that automatically flattens land...

Why not? If Peter Molyneux was Polish, most of his stuff would count easily. He definitely has the ambition/unpolished thing down.