Nightshape

"The main point though is that anything done for the consoles will work on PC" No. Please don't make silly assertions like this.

I have to admit, what I saw of it today impressed me.

As did the last Hesburger product I had to eat. Strange, it's hardly gourmet, but in my personal experiences Burger King has beat whatever we have available on the fastfood burger market. Of course, there's really nothing like a Hilton Bacon Burger, but at 20 euros + drinks, it's not exactly in the same ballpark. Guess it's just the greener grass and all that. The Hesburger I had in Helsinki was nice. My main problem is I've had multiple bad experience's at Burger King, and yeah I'll choose McDonnalds over BK.

To be honest I met alot of hostility from folk because they basically expected a fantasy ME, which it is now becoming from the looks of it.

I was always more of an A&W man, but you could never get those in the UK... Anyways... You're right about the doner kebab, I get cravings but I have them under control.

Needless to say, me neither. BioWare should do something useful with the DA team like a cookie rpg DA2 will probably sell more copies, I'd like a cookie RPG though.

Oh dear...

Hesburger > Burger king. The impossibility of that equation had me stuck in a time/space continuum loop for a week. Random droppings from an outhouse coated with too much mayonnaise = Hesburger Haven't had a single decent burger from Burger King, I honestly can't think of anywhere that I've been in the world that despite location deals up crap food like Burger King. Hesburger really is superior. Which reminds me, the last Burger King I had made me ill.

I think the community is split, those that have been playing Bioware games since BG, having experienced the PC only titles, and those that started with KOTOR, and the console titles. It's sad to say, and I'm sure Bioware will enjoy alot of success, but I doubt we're going to see anything like what we've seen in the past from BIO again. Much as Bethesda with FO3, they don't need the core hardcore crowd, so f*** 'em. Out with the old in with the new. This isn't a good or bad thing mind, just means that BIO is different.

I'm not even a tiny bit excited about this game .

Merely pointing the man at a turn based RPG, and he turns round and says "I want Fallout"... *Sigh*, had I known that I wouldn't have said a word. That said, Eschalon knows what it is, and while it's not on par with Fallout, it's certainly turn based, and I've had fun with it. It's also a good example of the kinds of games indie developers can bring to the table. Edit: Basically small indie's could certainly churn out games like FO with relative ease.

I take it that you didn't like Eschalon?

I agree with the Estonian...

Am inclined to agree. Company of Heroes online (free) will have micro-transactional content (paid for) which you could win if you had time to grind and earn it. It's an ingenious way of increasing the longevity of a four-five year old game, and MMORPGs will go the same way. Core game = free. Modules / premium content = paid. It's entirely fair you can't complain as the consumer. My personal beef is the trend / effort to segue gaming with social networking (I can see the suits in meetings cracking whips to get the devs to squeeze a cent from the false synergy between WoW and Facebook). As a social networking hater, who sees it as nothing but cynical data harvesting industry, I don't want gaming to become a wing of it. Cheers MC Gaming is already a large part of social networking sites. I believe its the fact that these games encourage coop gaming on a massive scale which has set them apart, they certainly appeal to new female players, but that's not to say men out there aren't playing. I know that there is a desire to integrate gaming into people's daily lives, using technology to record actions, and giving real life rewards. If you brush your teeth after eating a meal, you get a discounted dental bill, just for example. Rewards for excercising resulting in cheap health insurance etc... etc... That stuff scares me... I've always wanted to see gaming step towards immersive simulation of worlds, escapist, not make this world into a game.

Lets not make the thread about Volo. We all know he's ignorant. We all know he's tiresome. Personally I find the move towards micro-transactions interesting, especially when you consider the likes of say farmville, who'd have thought something like that would catch on? I'm not worried about the PC dying as a platform, though in terms of games retail through retailers, yeah that's dead... The PC will, as its always been, blaze a trail towards the technology we shall expect to see in the next generation of consoles. Next five years are likely to indicate that the PC gamer gets all their games via digital distribution, physical media is likely to fall to the wayside. The next generation of consoles are very likely to be focus'd towards digital delivery, but I'm not wholey certain that we can expect the death of physical media for consoles. I'd expect that one of the big three will likely take a big gamble and do it. In terms of games development, I'm fairly certain that we can expect to see the rise of the developer giants, with publishers holding less power than they do currently. I also expect there to be a whole cluster of smaller indie developers creating cool small games, Hello Games is a good example of a micro studio producing some excellent software, and media molecule is also a fairly small studio which is out there on the world stage. Or in short, the views expressed in the video mirror my own, and its pretty much the vibe I'm getting from all industry professionals that I've run into. But lets not forget, we're all liars, Volo said so.

The current retail model, and development model is changing. The way things have worked up until now is dying, sure, but games themselves are not. Quit being an ignorant jerk Volo.

You haven't watched the video, else you wouldn't be ranting about the BS sensationalist title, I can't help that... I'm speaking specifically about the content there in. And if you have watched them, and this is still your stance, STFU, you're not being constructive.

The whole England and bad food thing is a pile of crap. Bad food, look to the French.

Hesburger > Burger king.

It's merely a comment on the direction the industry is heading.

I'm sorry did I actually say anything negative? Merely that the S/N reminded me of an experience I once had. Frankly it was chilling, and grim, and evil. Never said I had a problem with it though...

Okay... Point taken, you're Finnish, so I'll stop doing it. Honestly though, Volo isn't worth more than a google search for a picture. So, I post a link to a bunch of interviews with industry professionals etc... Detailing their thoughts on the industry, everyone comes back and says "This is retarded". *sigh* I give up. Let ignorance run amok. FML

Loll.

I found this and I thought I would share it as it mirror's alot of what I've been banging on about when talking about the future of the games industry and distribution methods etc... Anyways Discuss..