Evening Reading
by Xav de Matos, Aug 24, 2010 5:00pm PDTBrian is off at a press thing for a few days and Alice is on vacation. Thankfully, the industry was pretty quiet as to not make me go mad with piles of work. As soon as I wrapped up this morning's chatty post I realized talking mess about Lord of the Rings was probably a bad idea. Thankfully, I've hired an intern to start my car from now on until forever. He gets school credit or something (if he lives).Make sure to check out Garnett's review of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting Post-Launch PC Mod Tools
- Forza 3 'Ultimate Collection' Inbound?
- Final Fantasy XIV Producer Blames PS3 Delay on Memory Restrictions
- Microsoft is Trying to Shoot You in the Heart with Emotionality for Reach
Links from Morning Discussion
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
http://www.dropbox.com/jobs
# Musical culture: Complete music studio equipped with drums, P.A., amplifiers, etc...
# Whiskey Fridays.
# Gaming! Starcraft 2, Rock Band, DDR (yep, a real machine) and Laser Tag in the office.
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They changed the TF2 icon! Or did they? Used to be a pyro, and now it's the heavy.
http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4245&p=
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEwHJX95QE&feature=av2e
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I think the game wants me to win this time. I'm chock full of healing potions and potions of heal wounds, and have a ton of other useful things. For instance:
+5 Robe of Resistance (Fire/Cold resist, started at +2)
+2 Cloak of Poison Resistance
+0 Boots of Running (Will be dumping my next armor scrolls into these)
Artifact necklace with electricity, poison, teleport, and negative energy resistance, as well as +1 ac/evasion
Artifact hat that slows me down (counteracts the boots) with +3, 5 intelligence, 10 mana, and magic resistance.
For weapons, I swap between a staff of cold and a +4/+7 dagger of venom that started at +2/+1. I have a scroll of vorpalise, but I haven't found a weapon I want to use it on yet.
Having to get into melee is what kills you in this. It gives casters time to nail you with debuffs or summon up things. Not to mention the monster types that can kill you in 2 hits.
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COLORBLIND EDITION!
MercFox1 : 74.83.233.187:25566
Haxim : 199.216.192.102
zuff : 75.178.46.57
AgentPothead : shackcraft.sytes.net
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
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I just spent about 2 hours with the game and yeah, I think it could be the best thing ever.
It remains to be seen if the gameplay depth is there but so far it is overflowing with potential awesomeness.
The interface seems weird and clunky at first until you figure it out. As others have said, it could really use a tutorial.
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Two Irishmen in the early 19th century murder 17 people to provide bodies for dissection. The punishment for one of them was to be publicly hung and then publicly dissected. His tanned skin was then fashioned into various items, including a pocket book. The skeleton still hangs in Edinburgh's medical school.
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http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm
Looks interesting.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNCXyVtni8
"i do smoke; if this bothers anyone in the audience, i recommend you looking around at the world in which we live in, and shutting your fucking mouth"
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http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEwNTI1MTYwOQ
It is incredibly seemless... great app
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This sounds like complete and utter shit. http://soundcloud.com/rhinorecords/cowboys-from-hell-album-version?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Frhinorecords%2Fcowboys-from-hell-album-version
How the hell is this better than the original in any way?
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http://kotaku.com/5621274/rumor-50-million-video-game-cancelled
I don't get the pre-hate for the game. The gameplay videos that they had shown off looked neat and the writing was funny :(
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That is a single piece of carrot carved there, impressive.
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Another gem of a quote from EA Partners head David DeMartini:
"I don’t think there’s any one right budget for any game. It kind of depends on how big the idea is and what the team needs to be able to make a 90 percent-rated game with the idea that they’re working on."
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"Consumers are so much more informed. Before you occasionally used to be able to slide a clunker out there and still do well, but now people are so informed by the various outlets that I don’t think anybody makes an uninformed purchase anymore."
I can think of one example of a "clunker" that did well: Crackdown 2. Metacritic rating of 70, and it's sold well enough for people to speculate whether Realtime Worlds could have avoided administration if they had developed and released it instead of Ruffian.
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lol
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I've never seen a game where it takes a group of 10 npcs 10 minutes to beat a boar to death. That's Gothic 3 in a nutshell, even after the much vaunted community patch. Some people swear its the best game they've ever played after the community patch, but how, I don't know.
RIsen is like someone took all the cool things about the Gothic 3 engine and made it work, plain and simple. But my problem with the game is that it feels like it's on rails, something I hate more than anything. The "chapters system it uses really re-enforces that feeling. Does it ever truly open up?
Gothic 2 apparently doesn't have proper widescreen support, another thing that kills my eyes :(
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