Recent content by Varil

I'd define "game" as an activity used for entertainment which has a clearly defined goal(short-term or long-term). This doesn't necessarily mean a "win" or "loss" condition, but merely something the player is supposed to accomplish. Sports are all games because they are primarily meant to be...

There! See yonder marauder, robbing travelers of their belongings? Tis' sad truth that such lowly sort does travel these roads, preying upon the weak and unwary. This blight upon our land, thieves and murderers, should we let them stand unhindered? Should we leave them, to continue their immoral...

Okay, the ability to use external media is great, but...why the hell did they even bother shipping a model with *8* Gb of memory? That's embarrassingly low. I wouldn't even buy a flashdrive with less than 32.

If they quit that early on, I'm not sure their drive to succeed is really big enough to be so ambitious with their project goals. If they can't even see their Kickstarter through to the end, how are we supposed to trust them with taking our money to produce a game? It sounds like they might...

I vote face #10.

:| Right now they're showing their inability to plan ahead. They hit the lottery, at just the right time, with just the right game. But, you don't plan to hit the lottery twice. You take your money and invest it. They talk about maintaining momentum, but, like a bird from a slingshot, once...

Squeeeeeeee! ^_^ Now, Capcom. CAPCOM. Look, looook. Listen to me. Do not, LISTEN DAMMIT, do not screw this up! I know how excitable you can be and sometimes you get a little ahead of yourself. That's okay, we all make mistakes. But so help me, if you make a mistake with THIS I will personally...

Yeah, most companies would have made sure he didn't get jack.

Makes sense to me. After all, would you say EA/Activision/Ubisoft is successful because of, or DESPITE their executive decisions?

I consider it "grinding" if you're doing a repetitive task in lieu of actually advancing the game in some way. Doing a sidequest because it's fun and offers an interesting task(A special dungeon, an interesting side-story, something) is fine. Doing a sidequest because you need like 1000 more...

Curb stomping the Dragonlord with my overleveled descendant of Erdrick. Good times, good times.

This made me laugh. And personally, I prefer Valve. Yeah, yeah, they're in it for the money too. Duh, if I managed to make a living making videogames I'd want the payout as well. But I also think that they genuinely enjoy their work(or at least let their employees enjoy their work), and want...

Aw man, and I thought that was a sassy misspelling of Recettear. Mind you, I love that game, but the idea of Yahtzee playing a game about a little girl running an item shop makes me giggle, even if he would probably viciously maul it with his words.

I'm not getting it pretty much solely because of the DRM. I'm generally pretty bitchy about DRM in general, but seriously, SecuROM? What is this, 2003? There have got to be better alternatives out there. Or, just skip the DRM on the ancient game that everyone who wanted to pirate already did.

Don't see yourself "investing hugely" in a mouse and keyboard setup? You mean giving a single coder a few hours to code key binds? Yeah, great. Does anyone actually BUY Ubisoft PC releases anymore, given their track record?