Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Oct 20, 2008 6:49pm PDT

25% more webserver power in the cluster! Can you tell!!?!? Yeah me either. Oh well.

Almost exciting. Maybe.

Microsoft touch is
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/tech/cnettechnews/main4531944.shtml">getting
hot

Moon dust for
concrete

New strong
paper

The electric mini is
here

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Max Payne movie makes some money

Call of Duty: World at War PC open
beta

New Bungie game could hit PS3

Midnight Club: LA launch trailer

Sony to reward trophy winners

Far Cry 2 Adult Swim trailer

Recalled LBP copies on eBay

Get early access to the Xbox 360
dashboard update

Microsoft patents real-time
censorship

Left 4 Dead is being advertised a
lot

EndWar heading to handhelds

Unreal Tournament 3 expansion
content

PCGA wants to make money on
pirates

Left 4 Dead zombie screenshots

Weekly PC games sales

ESA spends money lobbying

Muslim group pissy over LBP
censorship

Sonic Unleashed trailer

Old overcrowded E3 coming back.
:(

Lastly, as most of you have probably noticed we have little game rating bars now on

game specific news items. What you may not realize though is that you are now allowed to

change your 'hype' level for a game once per week. So if the initial video kicks ass and

then you see that trailer that shows actual gameplay sucks ass you can rate the game as

such. This thing will be fun, really. So make sure to update your hype on

games when you see new info! We'll have the overhauled game library and tracking systems

to you as soon as we can.

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I want to repost this because ER ruined any talk :(
So I finished Dead Space, This will probably be the best surprise of the year. I was expecting a half-decent easily forgettable game but it turned me upside down and beat me up and I wanted more.
I don't think i've ever played such and intensely scary game, horror in games has always been a cheap gimmick but Dead Space did it oh so well.

The monsters could of used some more variety, it seemed like there was bipedal #1/2/3, Baby #1/2, Annoying Wall guys, Brutes and that was about it.

The End Boss was very fucking easy, I was disappointed. Its patters were the easiest to predict in the whole game. It did look awesome though, especially with the asteroid coming down above it and the ending, Thats it? it was like 1 minute... also disappointing

It also has some of the best sound i've ever heard in a game, you need surround sound for this game.

And EB just called me to let me know Bioshock will be in tomorrow, w00t!

Oct 20, 2008 7:18pm PDT

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I want to repost this because ER ruined any talk :( So I finished Dead Space, This will probably be the : jayares
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  honestly, I think its right up there with Bioshock as far as single player experience goes. : Degenerate
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    what a ringing endorsement! : randomposter
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      I cant tell if youre being sarcastic or not :(` : Degenerate
      
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      is that drool? I'm not. : randomposter
      
      herpes simplex 10! : Degenerate
  - thats how I feel as well, except Bioshock had imo, much more original art direction. both were superb sp ... : Unleashed
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  I just got to chapter 7. The end boss in chapter 6 was awesome! I'm continually amazed that is a EA game,... : mmt681
  - I am at that boss now, the depth of field effect when you first see it is stunning. : gmd
  - i just beat that guy 5 min ago. best boss fight i've had in a long time. i'm gonna go back and fight th... : vassili_zaitsev
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  What was your play time? : Edges
  - I ended up with about 10 and a half hours. : crewmaac
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  reduced monster variety is a result of the higher fidelity of the models. So much work and testing goes ... : filthysock
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    Honestly, I'd rather have five types of awesome/memorable/signatur baddies than 30 varieties of generic c... : Gonzo
    - I like that there's a reasonable variety of enemies unlike a certain underwater game in recent memory. ... : Vincent Grayson
    - well, i compare hl1 to hl2. The first game had such variety, the game seemed so alive. What with the gian... : filthysock
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    I kind of like the few monsters idea.. I mean, what with the way the story goes, how these are the crew o : Juno
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      I'm really glad that (end game spoiler) Dr. Mercer didn't turn out to be this enormous badass monster guy. He was just a human like everyone else and it would have made no sense to have him become the ultimate endgame badass.
      
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      I'm really glad that (end game spoiler) Dr. Mercer didn't turn out to be this enormous badass monster guy : mittense
      
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      I anticipate reading your reply once I'm finished with the game! : Juno
      
      as am i. : deathofrats
      
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      yea i thought he was gonna turn all im a super regenerating monster that cannot die thing : inc77
      
      yeah I was convinced that I would run into him at some point : Degenerate
  - DooM3's monsters were pretty awesome and there were alot of them. : Pneum0
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  I've only just started chapter 3 but I love the game so far, but they should have just called it System S... : phate81
  - I really want 1st person for System Shock 3. 3rd person doesn't feel natural for it. : pigvomit
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    Agreed. I'm pretty confident that the Dead Space team could pull off a Shock 3, at least atmospherically. : Dan[WSB]
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      From what I'd heard over the years, this project basically started out as System Shock 3. : Chris Remo
      
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      Shane on 1up yours also said it was a "badly kept secret" that dead space started life as SS3. : cdbeckman
      
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      Well there you go. : Chris Remo
      
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      Wow. Now that I think about it the game really does have some System Shock vibes. The atmosphere is gre... : manlyman
      
      Yeah, I was talking to some guys working on the game before I'd heard about it - they were describing it ... : xsoulbrothax
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  i want this game but have no money! : papaskot
  - That didn't stop me! : Drewus
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    i'm wondering if blockbuster will carry it or how their mail dvd program works : gyokuro
    - taking rented games from people's mailboxes is a federal offense dood . : papaskot
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  I still love the fact of no conventional HUD, everything being built into the suit amplifies the immersio... : gmd
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    Not to mention the really nice visual touches when you enter or exit a vacuum, along with the muffled aud... : Dan[WSB]
    - Yeah the whole audio/video/text log story telling never breaks the immersion, I love this game. : gmd
  - ^^^ This is what is setting this game apart right now I think. The game just oozes polish. The UI/HUD is ... : pancake humper
- I just finished Chapter 1. The environments looks amazing and so far it's been fun. : Pneum0
- I thought the ending level and boss was really kind of awesome (difficulty issues aside) and ran contrary... : mittense
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  Just finished chapter 4. Got that stupid annoying part everyone was bitching about on the 2nd try (on ha... : mwasher
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    what stupid annoying part? I just finished up chapter five, so I'm past it. : Juno
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      Asteroid blasting, I'm guessing. : mittense
      
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      oh fuck yes I had already erased that from my memory : Juno
      
      That one part sticks out so singularly from the rest of the game. Even the (chapter 7-8 spoiler?) part wh : mittense
  - I don't understand the hate for shooting asteroids, it took me one try to do that. Now ZBall, theres s... : jayares
- Honestly, they could have just stuck a goatse sign to the torsos of all the monsters and I'd not have not... : mittense
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  Hilarious moment playing Dead Space today: (chapter 6) In those zero-g, but oxygenated rooms, I was looki : Vincent Grayson
  - Wow, no judgment or anything but I'd never let my 3.5 year old watch that game. Hope she doesn't have nig... : gooblerampling
- I just got started last night, but the sounds and use of shadows are winning me over so hard. : ieGod
- Dead Space... I'd love to actually get this game. Every fucking store I've been to in Taipei city is so... : MacemanInTW

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