Recent content by Unrulyhandbag

Have to say I was a little shocked reading 600 thousand. It's a film franchise, they almost always make money even if the game is a turd. This film consistently resells with minor edits so there is a market. If they are worried that only sequels sell then stick a 2 on the end as there has...

No such thing as the obscene publications act? Is child pornography illegal in your country? I'm pretty sure for almost all readers of the Escapist that it is. In the UK the line of disgust a just a bit wider and the act lays out the specifics; brutal or non-consensual sexual images are...

"Nintendo hard" isn't the only way games used to be hard. Generally just dumping you in the game with all your abilities active and leaving you to figure out the mechanics and combinations was the normal way of things. Or presenting you with situations that required logic (or map making. You...

Almost as pretty as Crysis; the first one. I hope they actually have some fantastic story in the game to back up this advertising campaign. Island-wide zombie avoiding with an involving story would be bloody awesome. And? Deep Silver is the indie publishing arm of Interactive...

Well it LOOKS pretty awesome but the download isn't a world. It's something that claims to be a schematic but MCEdit won't import it. :( EDIT: Well I was just being an idiot. Needed to import the level.dat as a schematic. on another note 81.6 million blocks ... holy shit

I hope the claim to be deepening the game is true and the rest is just marketing crap, after all almost everything the EA execs and marketing types said about the first dragon age was pretty much misleading shite. Nice comic mind. also I have to ask (not like anyone will answer) how much...

The campaign was an utter turd and the multiplayer isn't strong enough to stand alone in the market. Yup the game may have been the issue. You may be right. Lack of a real single player game never held back Battlefield2, Quake3 or the unreal (barring the fantastic original obv.) games from...

Not quite true. It now seems that prior to the early bronze age all Teutonic peoples lived in what is now Sweden. They took their myths with them when they settled across most of northern Europe. Calling the Teutonic tribes Germanic is a hangover from archaeology that is now out of date and...

While I really couldn't care less about this specific example ... ..that is a pretty awful sentiment to my mind. If you want to depict a particular race or a particular culture\mythology then I think you really should try to cast to fit the role. I find both whitewashing and...

Don't worry I doubt that that snippet tells the whole story. He makes stuff and an awful lot of creators are unhappy with their past works, taking every chance to point out the flaws. Its what drives them to do better; the inability to create the exact vision in their mind combined with...

And yet it's a really good one for throwing out product at the first glimpse of something sexy. :) Of course taking risks as a third party is the only way to build a market into more than first party masturbation. If more devs would take the early risks on systems we might have had less...

How about going back to the shareware way of selling games; only without the dependence on magazine cover disks? Break the game into 3 or 4 parts and make a slightly inferior version of one of them easily accessible for free. These days you could use in browser openGL from a social site to...

Nice, I can see a pretty cool game there but three things bothered me. 1) could they not have waited for a day when she didn't have a cold (or does she always talk through her nose)? 2) I hope she didn't directly design that level or that she's really bad at playing. The 'stealthy option'...

More than that; an indie developer of a developer for an emerging platform HAS to innovate. A single hobbiest can work on his clone game indefinitely without worries of profit, time limits or receiving market. The vast amount of half finished versions of old or bigger games you can find on...

Actually I have to counter: The graphics are truly luscious in Baldurs Gate. Hand painted massively detailed scenes that make most things made today look bland in comparison. These were the pinnacle of 2D graphics and they still stand strong. What has dated is the user interface and...