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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11367 |  B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 27, 2006 - 12:00 am
| | Funny how I just posted about how consumers would be hurt by the ATI/AMD merger. Here is is. It's just the beginning of the end of the cheaper and faster video card competition between ATI and Nvidia. Mergers nearly always screw the consumer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11154 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 16, 2006 - 11:13 pm
| | With the cartoony scale of the characters, releative to one another, I'm wondering if it will be much easier to shoot the HW guy as opposed to the sniper. How are they going to keep this balanced? I smell exploits galore in the making. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11143 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 14, 2006 - 01:05 pm
| Looks like the paradigm has shifted. I hope this means we will start to see an increase in speed in CPUs again. AMD and INTEL have been resting on their laurels in the speed department for quite a while now.
Let the CPU speed war resume! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11129 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 14, 2006 - 12:49 pm
| In other words, TF2 is a half-assed mod for HL2. It is not good or substantial enough to be it's own game. It will be nothing like we have been expecting for the last 8(?!) years.
TF2-R.I.P.
I understand why Valve has gone in this direction. The game TF2 was promised to be came out years ago - it was called Battlefield 1942, and it's sequel BF2. Times have passed the original TF2 concept by.
At least someone else had the intelligence to make the game that Valve would not. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3075 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 13, 2006 - 12:39 pm » Edited on Jul 13, 2006 - 12:44 pm
| | Don't worry, these children will all be committing plenty of crimes on their own without the encouragement of their stupid immigrant parents. Then you will enjoy the privilege of paying for their incarceration, if they don't kill you first in one of the many carjackings they will commit. Thank goodness for the gangwars in East LA for thinning out the population of these rodents. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11121 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 13, 2006 - 12:33 pm
| Exactly, they show more of LV in CSI than the game will ever show. Not to mention the subject matter and graphic violence and body trauma and rape and murder and on and on.
This mayor is just another grand-standing political @ssh0le spouting off about that which he knows nothing about. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3075 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 13, 2006 - 12:52 am
| "All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in East Los Angeles. Magdaleno said the living room is large and the babies are small, but she isn't sure what the family will do when they get bigger."
Gee, I wonder if they crossed the border legally? Can we please stop the insanity? This story is just wrong on so many levels it's insane. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11095 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 12, 2006 - 01:40 pm
| I agree with him 100%. Episodic content is nothing but a cash cow concept buy the game industry.
Do the math. "HL2 episode 1" is a 4 to 6 hour game play proposition for $20. So we can expect about 8 to 12 hours for $40. I paid $40 for HL2, and I got, and continue to get, WAY more than 12 hours out of that game.
$20 is too expensive for 4 to 6 hours of play. If it was half that much then I could see it as reasonable.
Speaking of reasonable, does anyone else have a problem with the fact that the direct-to-consumer download service method of delivery (IE Steam) is actually costing consumers more, after cutting out all the CD manufacturing, packaging and retail price bumps of the traditional retail sales model?
Direct-download was supposed to be a big benefit to the consumer and the developer. Cutting out the middle man was going to result in cheaper games for the consumer, and more profit for the developer. So far, it's all adding up to a big rip-off in my opinion. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10945 | B.A.Frayd (342) Jul 01, 2006 - 01:46 pm » Edited on Jul 01, 2006 - 01:47 pm
| | Yes, with graphics that look dated two years. The pc's graphics are already as good or better than the 360. In a few years the PC will blow the doors off any of the next-gen console. Then add the physics capabilities that will soon be appearing for the PC... Flag this | Edit this post |
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