Recent content by Phishfood

And so continues the greatest marketing campaign for a film in history.

Well written. I also 100% agree - I've seen absolutely zero evidence that piracy can increase sales. Sure, you might be able to stop the pirates for a while but that alone has no benefit. Most pirates are from poorer countries or just jobless students and literally can't afford the current price...

OK, I fired it up and actually wrote my % to hit vs hit and miss. Overall it does seem to come out about right, I'm hitting roughly the shots I should be hitting. However of note is the distribution of the hits, including a 6 miss spree. 25% - miss, 45% - miss, 65% - miss, 45% - miss, 65% -...

Nailed it. Everything about that remake seems like the original wasn't quite understood. Major point in the original - picking and choosing missions. However in the original it was an emergent, fluid thing. Maybe your team was all in sickbay from a nasty terror mission or you'd just managed to...

Pretty much what I'm thinking. It's not just the really strange decisions MS are making, it's their comments after that are REALLY baffling me. New x-box can't be used vertically? "It's fine, only 1/5 of our customer base ever wanted that, we can ignore them!". You don't want our always online...

Three announcements. 1) ????? but I will eat my hat if it's hl3. 2) Steambox 3) Family sharing.

How? offline characters are stored on the local PC, online characters are stored on the server. If Blizzard don't put any way for offline characters to be imported to the online servers, there is no way to do it, without hacking the blizzard servers. If you are going to hack the blizzard servers...

You are missing my point - maybe online only is the only way to secure the auction house, but there is no reason we couldn't also have "offline" characters with zero access to the auction house. These could be played offline at will, we could hack away and do whatever we wanted with them. There...

Simple - ban offline characters from the AH, don't have a way to import offline characters to online ones, but have a way to export online characters for offline play. Hack proof and no need for always on.

Do these companies think we are stupid? EA claims it needs always-on to "offload processing". Blizzard claims it needs always on "for the auction house" Both times it is nothing but bullshit. There is absolutely nothing stopping Blizzard doing what they did in earlier versions and what...

Well, good. Did they really have to play the games for themselves though? really? I mean, if there were the slightest truth that video games made people violent, professional wrestlers and boxers should be shooting up the place every other day shouldn't they?

The moon landing. I win /thread.

So, it's ok for me to punch you in the arm since it is a part of the body least likely to be damaged by me punching you?

I fully agree. To the point I even prefer mediocre props to CGI sometimes. Having a solid object correctly lit looks a lot better than having a CGI object lit differently to the rest of the scene, even if you can see the injection mold seem on the object. Even some of the best CGI just looks...

This last bit is what gets me. I'm ok with devs spending $100M making a game. If it then only sells 5M copies and makes a loss, well - that's business for you. What absolutely terrifies me is the amount of blame being passed to the consumer over this shit. I have not heard a single triple A say...