Recent content by ExiledCreature

With Ubisoft making these craploads of cash from franchises that release every half a year, you'd think they'd have the money to hire a PR department some time down the line.

"But actually I'm all about ethics in games journalism" I was waiting for that, lol.

I think it's too idealistic to draw a boundary between gaming "news" and game reviews - even if the staff on some website is separated in a news team and a reviews team. After all, a review is (free) advertising for the game. For example, getting bribed or influenced to write a good review of...

The issue we take is that they say 30fps feel "better" or "more cinematic". That's nonsense. On the other hand, Minecraft doesn't lie to you about its graphics being barebones.

This is not a console issue, it's all over the industry. Games get downgraded and locked at framerates for their PC release, too.

What's wrong with the Starcraft picture? That's not even from the game.

Well, the tray automatically closes itself right afterwards. Most games need the CD to play music or cutscenes or for DRM checks, the executable is installed to your hard drive and by that time is all in RAM anyway.

Simon the Sorcerer 3D: You get a CD in the game that you have to put into a computer. But that computer doesn't have a CD drive. To insert the CD, you need to open your physical CD drive (which is holding the CD you're currently playing on), then the virtual drive will open in the game.

I call foul for asking the poll question the other way around compared to the thread title.

Hm, I get the point of having to play a game yourself to see how good/bad it is if you're an invested fan of the series. Still it doesn't make sense to me to pay upfront.

The real question is: Why would you pay money now for something you're only going to get later? Doesn't it make more sense to wait and see until it's available? That way you can even rethink your purchase if bad reviews come out. It's not like they're running out of Steam keys on launch day.

What would be the advantage to this compared to just running a mainstream Linux distribution on your desktop or laptop computer? I can't really see it. It's obviously not geared for the kind of games that have appeared with SteamOS in mind like Civilization V, so I don't get the "competition for...

It'll probably not take long for that curator feature to be abused big time. I can imagine somebody bribing somebody else on placing a game on a curator's list. Are there any regulations put into place to prevent companies from just making a curator list of their own games?