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Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Mar 24, 2009 7:05am PDT

Oh my Tuesday, I can see that you've been rather busy this morning.

New Fallout 3 DLC? A cloud computing service that lets you play Crysis on a netbook? CryENGINE 3 footage? Ah, the sweet smell of Game Developers Conference.

I'm looking forward to discovering what other surprises this week has in store for us.


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    By: Cottc Cid x
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    Games that we want.

    I loved mechcommander. It wasnt the mechanics, since a large part of it (hitting and salvaging) was random, and it definitely wasn't the graphics. I think what I liked, besides the crushing difficulty, was the salvage. Each piece of junk you find on the battlefield really mattered. If your mech got damaged, and your LRMs got blown up, you found another weapon to put on your mech. I recently watched battlestart galactica, and I was getting the same vibe. "Oh shit, the water is gone. We are all gonna die. Oops, now we are out of fuel."

    I want a game where you are in charge of a vessel, and the large majority of the game is based around you keeping this vessel running and upgrading it. For the sake of argument, we shall say it is a train in a steampunk setting. You start with a little steamer, and run various jobs around town, learning controls. How to hook up train cars. How to read signals. You need to budget coal and water, how hard you press your engine, how well you treat your crew. Soon you get released into the big world. You go on long distance runs, have to carry extra food/fuel/water with you. You can have the option of stopping to hunt. You get attacked by rail pirates, and you need to defend your train with onboard steam powered cannons. One of the cannons explodes, killing your best gunner, so you have to man it yourself, in first person view, until you get into town to hire another gunner. Your company researches electricity, and you upgrade your train with an electric gun. Your engineer turns traitor, drives your train into a bandit camp, and you have to fight your way out with a hand cannon. You barely escape, but your boiler takes damage, and you launch a signal glider. You make a significant stock trade to the next passing train for them to carry you to town. Finally you tangle with the big boys: Your well tuned train now tackles the legendary monoliths protecting the platinum mines of Colorado, the hulking trains so large they take up 8 rails. The assault Zepplins of the Kargon Cartel. Aether cannons that teleport pieces of your train to alternate dimensions.

    Why aren't there more of these survival style games that aren't survival horror? I mean, conserving ammo is fun, but I want to see it on a larger scale.
    Mar 24, 2009 6:17pm PDT
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    By: zebosausamite x
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    iTunes Help.

    So my iTunes situation. My iPod headphone jack is screwed up, only playing audio out of one side. The digital connection at the bottom works fine. To listen to the audio at work, I plug in the iPod, turn on manual mangagement in iTunes, and I can play stuff off the iPod. The problem is, if i make any changes to the info of the file (comments, which I use as "tags" to make playlists, etc.) they're lost when I sync up at home. Anyone know how to get around this?

    TL;DR: iTunes sucks. How can I sync changes to file info from iPod to main computer?
    Mar 24, 2009 5:58pm PDT
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