PS3 hack confirmed (via NeoGAF)

 

So the PS3 has now been fully hacked, hide your children.

do the people who hack consoles know that computers exist? cause those usually come pre "hacked" as far as i know...

I just bought two games I already own off of Steam: Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and Stalker: Call of Pripyat.

 

They are on 75% sale and I am weak.

damn, you know a deal is good when it makes you spend money on something you already own just to make yourself feel like you got a deal....

 

steam must facilitate a ridiculous amount of transactions

No, the game should change for the sake of improving it. TB system ought to be obsolite by now - pause is perfectly acceptable way of managing units in RT tactical games.

See, that is exactly the attitude that killed off good tactical games (and a lot of other genres). Why turn it into RTS #237 when there are already 236 pre-existing ones? They are re-skinned action games with the focus on action and it's games mechanics designed aroung keeping up a certain pace.

 

It joined the club of Action-Roleplaying games (more action, less rpg), Action-Adventure games (more action, less adventure) and now Real Time (action) Strategy (Lots of action, strategy paid a token lip service to) etc.

 

Like it or not, there are still a group of people (i.e. ME!) who likes things the other way around and slap their foreheads when people out there wants whatever franchise in a completely different genre to turn into an Action-Something (more action, less something), hence my previous comment about grey goo. It just becomes a remake with no relevance other than name recognition.

No, the game should change for the sake of improving it. TB system ought to be obsolite by now - pause is perfectly acceptable way of managing units in RT tactical games.

See, that is exactly the attitude that killed off good tactical games (and a lot of other genres). Why turn it into RTS #237 when there are already 236 pre-existing ones? They are re-skinned action games with the focus on action and it's games mechanics designed aroung keeping up a certain pace.

Really?

So that

I just bought two games I already own off of Steam: Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl and Stalker: Call of Pripyat.

 

They are on 75% sale and I am weak.

Why wouldn't they include Clear Sky? Seems kind of weird to just leave it out.

 

 

As for why they hacked the PS3, it's because they could.

Breaking news: Beyond Good And Evil 2 will be perfect.

 

Yves Guillemot, captain of the Ubisoft ship, has asked that you are patient with the development of Beyond Good & Evil 2. What Michel Ancel is creating, he said, will be "perfect".

As is the thought that JA2 is somehow inevitably tied to TB combat solution and that the game consist of nothing else of importance.

See, this is where you go wrong. The very thing that makes JA2 is its combat and its combat mechanics. Sure, it has some quirky characters and fun dialogues, but at its heart, it is the combat you spend 90% of the time doing. It sure isn't the generic island setting or the simple gfx. So, take out the 90% of the game that made it stand out from the crowd and make it yet another rts? What would be it's selling point? Grey goo #238?

 

A pox upon Westwood Studios

 

All because they decided to compensate for a mediocre and uninspired Dune release by adding more "twitch" to Dune 2, hoping that it could make up for it's short comings by adding a contrived sense of urgency by moving all the counters on the board at once. Unfortunately, it turned out in the long run to be financially successful formula that killed off innovation.

 

Therefore we are still, 20 years later, stuck with same old, same old. Sure, sometimes they tried changing the viscosity of the goo, sometimes trying lighter or darker shades of grey, but in the end, it is still the same old stale, grey goo.

Jagged Alliance 2 wasn't about the action; it was about the thinking. TB is perfect.

Guild Wars 2 Human Walkthrough (cam)

Diablo 3 crafting walkthrough featuring interface shots and crafting.

 

You can now add sockets to any item and they still have repairable items and hardcore mode.

I'm not impressed. Not unimpressed, mind you, but not impressed either.

This caravan will 'follow' you from town to town and can be upgraded? Seems odd. Also, if you pause the video I notice that one attribute of an item is "increases vendor value"....oh boy? I do like being able to craft more freely via a NPC rather than everyone rushing to that Act quest.

 

Breaking down stuff for parts could be useful, but knowing Blizzard the chance of getting good parts from that will be 1 in 7 trillion. hehe

 

And...is that 20 detached human feet he has in inventory, or just hunks of meat, or something else? I can't quite tell.

oh wow... I am speechless. Diablo 3 actually looks like **** now compared to what I remember seeing a year ago when they introduced barbarian. it's so sad

What is all the negativity? I though Diablo III was awesomesauce?

 

Not that it matters much what the Obsidian forums think, considering that it will sell tons regardless.

What is all the negativity? I though Diablo III was awesomesauce?

 

Not that it matters much what the Obsidian forums think, considering that it will sell tons regardless.

Just a bitter old man being a bitter old man.

It looked pretty polished/good for an action rpg to me, but I'm not a fan of the first two, and generally not a fan of random loot and things like that.

I have bags of faith in Blizzard, D3 will be awesome, polished and basically the best thing to happen to gaming a year either side of it's release date.

 

See y'all on Battle.net

I have more faith in Torchlight 2 now, jeez. I liked the early gameplay footage so much, and now I see this video and it just doesn't click

Going through a bunch of menus while a guy explains the crafting system isn't exactly thrilling gameplay.

 

I do appreciate all the crazy little things they're doing outside of the actual action part.

gaming for science

Edited August 22, 201015 yr by Serrano

Ehrm.. you've probably inverted the text that should have appeared in your message and the url.

 

And you corrected that too.

Edited August 22, 201015 yr by WorstUsernameEver

Speaking of science, has anyone tried NASA's free Moonbase Alpha on Steam?

Edited August 22, 201015 yr by Purkake

I did but just for like 3 minutes. Unskippable cinematics are unskippable ggrrr.

They are also free

They are also free

 

Which means that I don't feel bad if I ragequit the game and set it aside for something else!