Evening Reading
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 28, 2011 5:00pm PSTNow that the specs for the upcoming crop of next-gen handheld gaming devices from Nintendo and Sony have been revealed, there's a lot to be potentially excited about. I must confess, even having never been much for portable gaming myself, the tech is very exciting.
Bells and whistles aside, the one thing that could potentially sour my enthusiasm is cost. Pricing is still unknown for Sony's Next Generation Portable (NGP), though it'll likely be more expensive than Nintendo's 3DS, which is expected to retail for $250. That gives me pause, because as cool as the technology seems, I'm not sure I'm ready to pay roughly the same amount for portable gaming (hardware and software) than I do to play on the PC, Xbox 360, or PS3. In NGP's case, if it's just a matter of bringing PC and console-quality experiences to smaller platform, I expect I'd still gravitate to play the version I can experience on my TV, where I can get 10x the screen real-estate.
In other words, I'm cautiously optimistic, with a dash of wallet-panic.
Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games
Microsoft won't cater to 'traditional desktop PC gamers' with first-party strategy
Kinect for Xbox One coming to PC
Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities
Xbox One increases friends lists to 1,000
Xbox One achievements dynamic, not limited to single games
Battlefield 4 launching October 29; confirmed for Xbox One and PS4



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also, the semifinal between Cooller and strenx is great too http://tv.esl.eu/de/vod/view/22645
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thanks!
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What is the level of your app sales? Ratings are:
1 - Still paying for Apple equipment used to develop app
2 - Covering monthly gas and electrical bills
3 - Comfortable but definitely keeping my full-time job
4 - Smilin' on my yacht
if you don't even see a bandage on a level how are you supposed to know where it lies? does every stage have one? does every dark world stage have one?
i am on "the end" but there's another world available after that. i am surprised i've made it this far because super meat boy doesn't fuck around.
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Surprisingly, I kind of like it! Most other MMOs have hodge podged the lore and story but in this one I'm pulled into the universe and it tells me the story quickly but surely so I don't feel like I'm in another created land lost without a cause.
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FINALS
MVP (T) vs MarineKing (T)
Gonna be rad! TvT is the best matchup despite the bitching.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThvBJMzmSZI&feature=player_embedded#
It looks like they are pretty serious about this whole revolution thing. Pretty intense.
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I wish they would just take the good game franchises like that and Uncharted and keep them on a constant cycle of a new game every 18 months.
Then I could have God of War, then Uncharted, then God of War again, etc. Don't change anything about the core gameplay mechanics, just keep giving me new episodes, but full length games.
And of course in the middle we'll get awesome fun games like Castlevania LoS, Dead Space, Vanquish, Red Dead / GTA style games, etc.
KEEP ME ENTERTAINED.
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I'm going to turn off the lights, pull the chair up close, and wear headphones.
I CAN'T WAIT.
1. finish dinner
2. put baby to sleep
3. send wife to bed
4. GET FUCKING SCARED AND PUMPED WOOOOOO ALIENS YOUR ASS IS MINE TONIGHT
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I'm addicted to Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and Auction Hunters
anymore shows similar?
Hardcore Pawn?
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It would be just a ridiculous upgrade if I got that Dell IPS everyone's always talking about wouldn't it? My tax return is telling me to pull the trigger. I didn't realize how subpar the colors on my monitor were until I plugged it into my plasma the other day.
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Take Hollywoods "sequels" kick. Sequels every year for a long time, even Pixar has got the sequel bug. But #1 at the box office in 2009? Avatar, not a sequel. #1 in 2010, Inception, not sequel. On the list of top 100 grossing movies of all time, 80%, not sequels. The numbers just don't support this kind of thing.
Let's take video games now. "Streamlining" has become the big thing of the day. Bethesda's doing it with Skyrim, I'm not sure who else but maybe it's slightly losing popularity. But let's look at the real world. Modern Warfare adds an entire rpg system with menus and stats and etc. Essentially launches the highest (for single games) franchise in history. Fable 3 "streamlines", get's the lowest metacritic score of the series and is sitting for about $20 only a few months after it's launch.
So, maybe trends should be ignored altogether, and people could do what they think is right for their individual situations. This would be ideal, but the notion of "associative magic" runs so deep within the human race that even seemingly smart and successful people will think "let's get as popular as single case X by copying one aspect of that thing they did."
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A friend has been talking up Company Of Heroes Online to me for ages and whilst I found the single player games amusing enough, it just doesn't... click for me in multi.. you know what I mean?
It feels like work to play it, and that... that isn't good.
Homeworld/Homeworld 2 I enjoyed, the interface with the fleet command view was fast enough that I could meaningfully stay on top of things, anything with the more traditional isometric view though and I feel like I'm fighting the interface rather than making strategic calls.
tl;dr = I don't like playing clickathon games against other people :(
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