Morgoth

Game looks a bit dated, but overall I enjoy the style. It's Arkane so I'm gonna get that game day 1 anyway.

I like variation too, Volourn.

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There's also another problem: What if the next Xbox and the next PS home consoles differ too much in terms of horsepower and functionality? PS3/Xbox 360 are pretty even. You can actually cross-platform them, with some more or less effort. Also the controllers are basically the same in terms of button layout. If that equilibrium isn't there anymore for the next home consoles, game development will just become even more expensive and complicated, and everybody will be a loser as a consequenz. So yeah, a collaboration between MS and Sony makes sense. Remember, even the Cell was a collaboration between Toshiba, Sony and IBM. When they can do this with chips, why not with end products?

Releasing a new iPhone every 18 months is one thing, releasing a new home console in that period is another. So no, I disagree. I still enjoy playing on PC and PS3, both are great platforms that get great games.

Yeah, what we need is more hardware specifications and APIs and drivers to worry about. Damn, why do we have this bloody useful USB interface? You can plug in a printer, scanner, camera, anything! Every hardware device manufacturer should develop it's own proprietary interface! Everything would be better then, right?

Meanwhile, Socialistic Canada continues to prop up failed game companies

Yes, one version, say PS3 vs. X360, runs 5fps faster than the other. But it's still the same game, same experience. Programmers should work to bring the medium forward, not work problem orientated. Having more and more hardware platforms just means more technical obstacles that hampers the medium as a whole. So now you're just saying the opposite. I thought you enjoy variation. There will always be competition, even with a single home console format. The competition will be driven by the software developers, that's the whole point. All parties involved will eventually turn profits through software (and software fees)

I like variation too, but there's no difference playing on a Playstation or a Xbox (or a Wii U, for that matter). It just means more development costs. We can have a single home console future, or we can have a future were more quarreling competitors like Apple or Google jump into the game hardware market, where we will have one and the same game released on 5-7 platforms. Well congrats! Am sure programmer like you are going to enjoy the overheat!

Personally I would welcome a single console future. It would make sense. But it's probably something else. Or a hoax.

Microsoft registers Sony-Microsoft.com and Microsoft-Sony.com Not sure if serious.

Now you're just making fun out of cripples, Gorgon. That's very insensitive you know?

That was actually funny. But I didn't need to laugh.

I mean, the guy can't even wank... But whatever.

So, I just clicked on the link, and not only is the cripple a career gamer, now he also wants to become a game designer. Okay, I think I'll stick with stupid.

Dutch hospitals always get somehow "rid" of useless elderly people. Maybe they have "fixed" that loophole in the meantime but I wouldn't be sure. Euthanasia should be legalized in any civilized country. Nobody should endure the enormous pressure being labeled as a useless couch potato.

Nobody wants to live a life like that. If I couldn't move my hands and legs, I'd file in for euthanasia at some Dutch hospital.

If I couldn't move my arms and legs I sure as hell wouldn't try to play video games. It's just not meant to be played that way.

Some people are physically disabled, others are stupid. And then there are those who are both.

Well Europe isn't growing anymore, except through massive immigration. It's the e that people don't get. The e is the new religion!

Speaking of nationalism, and just for the record, I'm a huge advocator of the EU. It's the only way to move on as a civilization and the only way to avoid the same mistakes especially Europeans tend to repeat, like the gruesome wars in the 19th and 20th century. Once we're all united, we can all sit together and talk about Star Trek.

Yes, soon Webster will be brandmarked a traitor and terrorist and deported by Homeland Security into some dark place for telling the truth where he will comply to the God Emperor Obama while being suffocated my downing water on his face. Just because somebody sounds bonkers doesn't mean he is bonkers.

Big deal.

He won't budge so easily, not without more bloodshet. And when he's gone, everything that follows will be probably worse for the Libyan population, even if the West sells us the war as a success. That's how things work.

Lol, that's what you call reputable? type in words such as: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, antisemitism, usa, serial killers, women, drug dealers, George W. Bush, etc. I deal quite well with all of this. I'm open for any discussion. It's just you who keeps avoiding tough accusations. Don't know about "homogenous" Austria. 20% have immigrant background, 40% Viennese have immigrant background. Your point? So you had some bad experiences in Europe, I see. Ohh, what country(s)?