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Evening Reading: RTS Madness!
by Brian Leahy, Feb 25, 2010 5:00pm PSTEvery once and a while, there seems to be a rush of games in a particular genre. Right now, the RTS is hot news, mister. Blizzard launched the beta for StarCraft II, EA's Command & Conquer 4 is also in beta, Supreme Commander 2 hits next week, and the first Dawn of War II expansion pack, Chaos Rising, drops the week after. It's the season for real-time strategy.
All of these titles have different gameplay systems and offer unique experiences. RTS gamers tend to get extremely focused on one game at a time, much like FPS players. It's a sad trend that makes a small genre even smaller. I wish the teams behind the non-Blizzard game all the luck in the world. It's still just in beta, right? How about a Game of the Evening?
Savage: The Battle for Newerth - "Savage was one of the rare attempts at RTS/FPS fusion. The incredible thing is that the gameplay worked, it was stable, it was fast and fun. More incredible is it somehow managed to be not as popular as it deserved to be. The FPS portion included multiple classes while the RTS commander gave orders, built units, and assigned buildings to be built. Each team supported up to 128 players." (LoioshDwaggie)
Daily required reading, Video Games 101:
- Alpha Protocol gets a release date, again.
- Plants vs. Zombies sold a bunch on the iPhone.
- Final Fantasy I & II are released on the iPhone.
- New Battlefield: Bad Company 2 videos make me happy.
Finally, I've spent way too much time today putting random phrases into TranslationParty, which translates from English to Japanese to English to Japanese and so on. Tip: StarCraft-related sentences are particularly amusing. Or this.
Oh, and the last ever (probably not) Day of Defeat: Source Shackbattle is tonight. So go play it with Shackers one last time!
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=124747&enterthread=y
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=126958&enterthread=y
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=126078&enterthread=y
http://www.overclock.net/ati/640270-ati-5xxx-vertical-lines-crashing.html
I find this to be ridiculous. I am not one with loyalty to any particular brand, in fact i've alternated video card manufacturer almost every generation. I understand that hardware fails and that sometimes shit just goes wrong, but I am pretty frustrated that there is basically a consensus out there for "GO ATI" for graphics cards. In addition I find the "fuck those guys who ask if ATI's drivers are fixed yet" mantra to be pretty misleading because their drivers are in fact not fixed for some ATI cards, so just a heads up for folks considering buying a 5770, it might crash multiple times a day for you. That doesn't mean nvidia is going to work perfectly, but at least do some research before buying into the whole ATI is the tits thing.
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Now, as to whether Nvidia's tessellation is superior performance-wise, we'll have to wait a month to find out.
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