Recent content by maturin

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    Tanks!

    The Challenger 2 has better *frontal* armor (probably, since these things are classified). Neither the Abrams nor Challenger has ever suffered a penetration from the frontal arc, so the service records don't really differ. But with upgrades, Abrams side protection is markedly superior, which is...
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    Tanks!

    Calling the T-34 "not good" takes a whole lot of nerve. It is a medium tank that kills all other medium tanks better than they can kill it back. Quality and Quantity both. For a brief moment that Germans had very little that could pierce its armor, which was thicker than anything but their...
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    Next-gen AI and Next-gen BS

    Shamus, you must have never played ArmA. The only reason AI doesn't usually require lots of system resources is because gaming AI is so incredibly limited and dumbed-down. The minute you try to do something ambitious with 'combat AI' (like in ArmA, where the poor little guys have to do...
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    Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry Screens, Launch Trailer Revealed

    Maroon community in the Caribbean? You mean my dream setting, the most fascinating context for a swashbuckling story possible?!? Boom.
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    Witcher 3 Dev: Open World Development is "Very Challenging"

    I agree with what you say about Bethesda and beef gates, mostly, but I'd like to point out that your example is completely backwards. Morrowind had no artificial beef gates. Like every element of the game, the difficulty level of areas was tied in to the extremely coherent logic, aesthetics...
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    Stealth Games Don't Have to Be About Killing People

    So about optional stealth. What about a game where the alternative to stealth is not violence, but flight? Waiting for your moment to slip through a gap in the shadows can be fairly dull. However, when you're not sure that stealth is the right decision at all, and your window of possible...
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    WarZ Removed From Steam

    You sound like a 'gritty remake.' Valve's hard-nosed, cynical strategy for insidiously building dependency in their customers is by treating them well. Ethical, responsive, business practices that prioritize honesty and value for the customer. And it works, and they deserve the praise they...
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    Features shooters desperately need.

    You're right, sorry. Clearly I meant to quote the person who actually said that, but the Escapist has an awful layout where the Edit and Quote buttons are thinly separated from adjacent posts by a tiny line instead of clearly adhering to one or the other.
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    WarZ Removed From Steam

    Because it's a fallacious, non-existent point. It's an argument without a premise. There's no connection between Valve's action and Day Z. If Day Z was a fully-owned, ordinary retail game, there would still be no grounds for complaint or refund and Valve wouldn't have to do anything. Valve is...
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    WarZ Removed From Steam

    You're repeating yourself. Day Z gives no grounds for refunds, much less legal complaints. There is no legal grey area, just blinding white. If all those people bought ArmA 2 to use as toilet paper and christmas presents for terrorists, it wouldn't make a whit of difference. In this case, the...
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    Features shooters desperately need.

    Does the vast stupidity of this post bother you? No, it doesn't because it's such a common stupidity. Who wants blood and guns and all that nasty real world stuff in a game anyways? Why don't you play Mario instead? At the very least you should get rid of that stupid realistic 'reloading'...
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    WarZ Removed From Steam

    It's decidedly not bullshit when doings things any differently is a logical, legal and logistical impossibility. Plus, Day Z isn't broken and provides no grounds for refunds except in this vast sea of entitled whiners incapable of making informed decision. The only equivalency between it...
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    Spec Ops: The Line [HERE BE SPOILERS]

    You were supposed to quit. The game even said so.
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    Bethesda Has "No Timeline" for Dawnguard on PC and PS3

    I don't understand how this is possible.