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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24738 |  Labotomizer (1674) Mar 27, 2012 - 05:17 pm
| Yes, sadly, it will. Keep in mind a large portion of modern console gamers never played Diablo 2 or the original. Blizzard can pull in huge numbers but we're looking at, realistically, a couple million in the first month? Outstanding by the PC metric. Fair by some of the modern console games.
Perhaps MP3 won't actually hit those numbers but there are lots of console people who think Rockstar is a better developer than Blizzard. A quick jaunt to some of the console-centric forums around the interwebs will confirm as much. Do I think that's the case? Of course not.
The only way Blizzard comes out ahead is if they count the people who get D3 free from the 1 year WoW sub as people who "purchased" on release. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24739 | Labotomizer (1674) Mar 26, 2012 - 04:06 am
| | AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations were all based on the same thing with the same basic mechanics. Story wise they were all good and gameplay wise they were all really fun. AC3 was started before AC2 was completed and that team has been working on it the entire time. So the frequent releases shouldn't impact this games potential, which appears to be sky high. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24579 | Labotomizer (1674) Jan 19, 2012 - 08:48 am
| | After seeing the Kinect integration on XBox I may just pick it up for that instead. Voice commands to the party and for ammo/weapon switching sounds pretty sweet. Combined with forced Origin on PC and my burning desire to finish the series XBox is looking more and more attractive. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4719 | Labotomizer (1674) Jan 17, 2012 - 03:21 pm
| Imagine if someone had stepped in during the American revolution to free us. I'm pretty sure that would have just solidified the American people against the intruder moreso than rallied us against the British. Social change has to happen from within when the people want it to happen. It doesn't take a whole lot of people for it to happen, just enough who aren't afraid of things getting messy. The American Revolution had the support of about 3% of the population when it started.
I'm pretty sure we could find more than 3% today who are fed up with the way our government has been behaving. If only we could find the more than 3% who are willing to sacrifice what they have for a better future for the rest. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24566 | Labotomizer (1674) Jan 13, 2012 - 09:41 am
| It will be at least $999. You're missing the point though. A laptop is just a laptop. This would be functional as a laptop, a tablet and a desktop depending on what you needed. That's assuming the controllers are removable.
We don't know how well Ivy Bridge graphics will perform. I'd be okay with the integrated Ivy Bridge graphics when functioning as a tablet/laptop. As long as they could have a dock with a high end graphics card in it to use when in desktop mode this thing would be perfect. Also include ESATA or a built in mechanical drive in the dock. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24566 | Labotomizer (1674) Jan 12, 2012 - 06:38 pm
| Of course it will support Steam. It's a Core i7 based tablet running Windows 8 which means all existing x86 apps will work. It will also have a gyroscope and accelerometers so it will support motion controls. And it will have bluetooth so keyboard/mouse won't be a problem.
I'd pay $1500-2000 for this if it was fast enough and had a dock so it could double as my desktop. Which is exactly what I'm hoping for from a Windows 8 tablet.
And Razer, take note. Have a GPU in the dock so you can have a better experience when driving a larger device and this thing would be money. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24541 | Labotomizer (1674) Dec 27, 2011 - 10:47 am
| That game made the list of all time worst DLC recently if I remember right. $3600 normal price for all your trains and BS. Absolutely insane.
A sucker is born every minute. I hope there aren't people on Steam that would fall for that though. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24529 | Labotomizer (1674) Dec 18, 2011 - 04:57 pm
| I agree. Although I'm not sure how you add more depth to the MMO genre. Assuming you're trying to get people to pay their monthly fee it has to be built with the carrot and stick mentality. They have to provide you with constant "rewards" in order for you to keep clicking the mouse and paying the subscription.
If they can get people to stick around long enough the game itself stops being the reason they stay but rather the people they play with. I know I played WoW at least a full year longer than I wanted to simply because of the friends I had made in game and enjoyed spending time with. It's like shopping with your wife/girlfriend. You may dislike shopping but sometimes it's worth it to spend time with her. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24529 | Labotomizer (1674) Dec 18, 2011 - 04:53 pm
| Had I been replying to the OP my post would have been in response to his. My response was to Bwohl, which is where it was in the logical order of things. And he said, and I quote, "Maybe that's my problem; after numerous online games with out a monthly fee - It's hard for me to put down something like BF3 (free) to spend money monthly. My wife calls me cheap - I prefer frugal".
I'm not sure if you think I'm a complete moron who can't respond to the correct post or if you don't understand the outline format most posts use but you're completely wrong. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24529 | Labotomizer (1674) Dec 17, 2011 - 07:17 am
| I'm not really sure what that has to do with the current discussion. Obviously if you don't like the game you wouldn't spend money on it. However the comments were basically saying they thought spending money on a game was a problem. There was no mention of dislike of the game itself. To not play a game you like that has 100s of hours of content simply because of $15/month seems crazy to me.
It's not like someone is expecting you to even pay the base cost of a game you don't like... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24529 | Labotomizer (1674) Dec 15, 2011 - 03:41 pm
| It's $15/month... If you get 8 hours/month out of it it's still about the cheapest form of entertainment on a per dollar basis.
Never understood why people act like MMOs are so expensive, or that they don't understand why they should pay monthly for a game that dwarfs something like BF3. And some of those same people will buy a map pack for a game for $15 for 3 extra maps. It makes my head hurt. Flag this | Edit this post |
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