Yeah that looks like an awesome game, a shame there won't be a playstation version as it looks incredibly coolQuote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
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Yeah that looks like an awesome game, a shame there won't be a playstation version as it looks incredibly coolQuote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
There are rumours that it will be, just delayed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Tempting. A HD version of Zelda: the Wind Waker, the best in the series and without a doubt the bestlooking game ever made. Drawing distance was kinda painfull on the gamecube, it was no problem in the dungeons but the game could certainly benefit from mch sharper graphics in the overworld.
http://www.gamespot.com/the-legend-o...ailer-6409772/
I thought Zelda 64 looked better, or I simply don't like that cartoon style.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Whether it's the best in the series is debatable, and whether you like the art style is of course a matter of preference. As for me, I didn't like it when I first got the game, but by now the style has grown on me. This is as much Zelda to me as Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
But there's no doubt that this is going to be the best-looking version of Wind Waker ever, and probably something similar to a Director's Cut. For instance, they've already confirmed a few small changes (spoilers):
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Personally, I'm hoping they also decide to add in the dungeon that was cut for time reasons in the original.
It's just another CoD game. That sequence looks like it was heavily scripted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
Just another COD with insane parkours-skills and massive robots then. It looks like a riot to playQuote:
Originally Posted by rickinator9
Matter of taste, I absolutily adore the Windwakers artstyle. Sailing around with a storm comming up is simply pure gaming magic. It was a bit too easy but the HD-version will have an optional harder difficulty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
The steambox controller looks pretty intruiging. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...oller-revealed
Valve has the habit of knowing what you want before you know you want it, and this looks good. I wonder if it will really be as precise as a mouse, but analogue control over your movement of course beats a keyboard hands down.
In a different thread
New SteamBox blows the PS4 and Xbone out of the water in terms of specs.
Edit: Blows my PC out of the water too...
Steam controller demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeAjkbNq4xI
Just got this in an email today:
Wonder if they can get this one right, Stardock has not been having much luck lately with games.Quote:
The wait is nearly over: Stardock Entertainment is finally taking the wraps off of Galactic Civilizations III. You can get beta access and give us your input on the game by becoming a founder today - and get $10 off the purchase price for the privilege. You can also go big with the Founder's Elite Edition, which includes all future expansions and DLC, even earlier alpha access, and the right to name a planet for $99. We'll be unveiling the expanded alien roster, the awesome new ship designer, and much more over the coming months, so stay tuned to www.galciv3.com.
This looks awesome http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...lmost-anything
Good voice acting as well
The game devs for Day One: Garry's Incident files unjustified copyright claim on popular youtube channel which was critical of the game.
Kinda astonishing to be honest, Im expecting the claim to be overturned as many other less-popular gaming youtube channels (also monetized) have panned the game yet were not pulled. Pretty disgusted with the devs on this one.
Being honest, who was actually expecting that game to be any good?
I dont think anyone was. The kickstarter for it failed, they probably only got Greenlit by bribing people to vote for them, I really hope this doesnt become an industry standard, taking down critical videos.
I'm more concerned that game publishers will work to pull bad reviews if they have any screenshots or video of gameplay or even just talking about it because "They're making money off our game!"
Sega of Japan already abuses this feature from Youtube for merely featuring any content of theirs whatsoever if it rises above their official videos.
Nintendo uses an auto-claim which is pretty indiscriminate also abuses this system.
If this stuff continues I believe that quality content when it comes to gaming on Youtube will disappear.
Movies I get and music I get too but why filter out game footage? Are they that afraid that people will see the game sucks? Who goes "Wow that game looks cool, but I've watched some YouTube clips on it so I'm not going to buy it now. Watching it is as good as playing it."
Anyone played the Stanley Parable yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB4AR5Crb54
A friend of mine did a bunch of videos of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by naut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP2EnOtPTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8IgsL4Huo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8IgsL4Huo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOVKmrjMes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfReeUvjFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EiUTqx7prU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xkAl6O7ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VElFcvLIVzE
Been playing the HD remake. It gets a little dull after few hours of running around, but the first experience was fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by naut
Kevan Brighting has done a stellar job as the voice of the narrator. In fact that is what makes this game so much fun. Good voice acting made this game.
NVIDIA shows off their new PhysX technology FLEX;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF1_Lo3Z3G4
Some very impressive coding and dynamic interaction between rigid body, deformable, and fluid systems. I definitely recommend watching.
CR
That's really nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
I missed the part about NVidia at first and feared it may be some startup developer technology that noone ever adapts. :sweatdrop:
Wow. Why I will never buy an xbox-one, and will give it away if I got one for free. Micro-transactions in a fully priced game are bad enough to deserve to raped by a T-Rex, but buying a car in Forza for almost 40(!) euro? Have they gone absolutily insane? Sony, don't you do something like this as well because I absolutily want a ps4.
Now I am going to stare with Bambi-eyes to Ninty :sweetheart:
That is a publisher, not console specific-issue. If Forza is on the PS4, it would be the same exact thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Nope, Sony and Nintendo don't cater this business modelQuote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
(for now at least, Nintendo never, Sony maybe anyway)
Nintendo :sweetheart:I would marry that Wii-U if they make it legal, awesome console
Edit: screw you Sony. No ps4 for me
Bit of the Resident Evil:Revelations demo, it's pretty cool. It controls like third-person shooter now, which will no doubt anger some fans but it's all for the better. It's obviously a port from the 3ds that didn't get a lot of love from Capcom, but because it's Capcom that was to be expected as their ports and HD-remakes are always a joke that's not funny at all, it looks like a game that the ps2 could easily handle. It has a nice spooky atmosphere though, and since I am atmosphere-whore I am going to buy it once it gets as cheap as Capcom's efforts to make a decent port or HD-remake. Which means very cheap.
So the Arma 3 dev team launched a new contest today: the "Make Arma, not war" contest.
Basically, make mods for Arma 3 and you could win a cash prize. Prizes total something like 500,000 Euros.
Crazy, cant wait to see what people can come up with!
Wii-u not next-gen, think again http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=APWTJMyM4qg
Might be the succesor to Xenoblade Chronicles
A ploy by the law firm to get their name in the press, which appears to of worked rather nicely for them.
Regardless of their intentions, I find this whole case interesting. If this law firm wins, it will set a legal precedent that people can sue game companies for not delivering on their promises for their games and/or shoddy releases.
The likelihood of that outcome being somewhere between zero and less than zero.
You mean a precedent that rich people like investors and analysts can sue gaming companies for lying to them while the whole part of lying to the customers is not of any interest here.
Maybe these investors should assess their risks better next time and then the market will fix itself instead of suckling on the court's teet to get money back that they invested into a risky business known for similar disasters. :toff:
I do like the like the affected tones of morale outrage, I really do.
As for the market, while I have no sympathy for these shareholders, I'm also not stupid enough to consider it remotely close to sufficiently transparent in terms of completeness of information to all participants to not have concluded long ago it's rigged.
Oh, and back to the real news that pulled me in here in the first place, go click on the links I posted about 5 or 6 messages back up the page. Way more intriguing than this legal story. :yes:
Ok, if No Man's Sky didn't blow your mind, perhaps a bit of space nostalgia will do the trick: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...ite-dangerous/
Coupled with Star Citizen and it would appear we'll be up to our eye balls in space sims next year, and I for one, having been into PC Gaming from the very beginning, love seeing the return of this genre of game.
I have fond memories of Elite back on the Commodore 64. Loved that game. This updated version sounds very encouraging.
Doesn't that just support my point that the shareholders shouldn't have invested in the first place? How does it reduce the responsibility of investors if they invest into a completely intransparent business without being aware of the risks?Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
No Man's Sky looks intriguing, don't know about Elite, never played the original.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
Right, we're in agreement here, although I would just consider a drop in EA to this degree a buying opportunity if I held any shares in this company (just cost average to a better position). My point as to the transparency of the marketplace wasn't just about EA, more of a comment on the nature of the market as a wholeQuote:
Originally Posted by Husar
I can't get too hopeful, but I'm having a hard time. A procedurally generated universe open for exploration in space and at a planetary level is amazing. As for Elite, it's just sort of in a class of early space games that anyone playing them for a long time looks back on fondly, Wing Commander falls in that category for me as well.
What I'm hoping here for is that with so many coming out over the next year at least one of them will "get it right".
http://kingdomcomerpg.com/
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Mount&Blade + Cryengine + Skyrimish influence = Low-Fantasy Openworld RPG with good graphics.
It does look interesting!
Resident-evil revelation, it's a scandalouly bad port of what is obviously a 3DS game, a ps2 could easily pump this out, but because it's released by Capcom that is hardly a surprise, all their ports are sloppy beyond believe. The game is fun though if you can get to terms with playing a 3DS game on the surprisingly powerfull Wii-U that can easily handle the current state of next-gen offerings. But it's Capcom so it's a really lazy product. Still having a blast though.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...efeat-this-lot
Dark Souls 2 looks truly stunning. Looks even more bleak and desperate. These demons look terrifying, awesome art.
Game of Glens, and mashup of many popular mobile games, with a Scottish theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRG-fYjFruo#t=47
This has the be the worst pr-fail in the history of console wars ever http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ditch-your-ps3
People get paid to make this up? It must be the worst deal ever LOL at phil Harrison.
Edit: lol, count the times you see the word desperate in the comments. Trading in a ps3 with the absolute wealth of free triple a titles for the same price as just playing online on the xbox costs. The extensive library. You can keep your ps3 and buy a ps4 on tops and the xbone still costs more. Of course I am really desperate to play Kinect Sports anyway. On a much much weaker machine that plays Tomb Raider at 30fps at 1080 while the ps4 runs at 60fps with the same resolution. Really. Fail to the max.
Ps4 is a much better deal, it's much more powerfull (tomb Raider runs at 50/60 fps at 1080 on ps4, 30fps on xbone, and it's much cheaper. You pay extra for kinect, and why would you want kinect.
Oh ouch Microsoft, after Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid 5 is also running on 1080/60 on the ps4, and 720/60 on the X1. If it wasn't for Titanfall I'd call the X1 an overpriced pile of :daisy:
Even more painfull, they are marketing it as a multimedia device, but the results on the ps3 are actually better than on the X1.
Apparently Valve's anti-cheat program VAC reads the domains you've visited and stores the info;
http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffens..._have_visited/
Gabe Newell posted on the particulars of it;Quote:
Decompiled module: https://i.imgur.com/z9dppCk.png
What it does:
Goes through all your DNS Cache entries (ipconfig /displaydns)
Hashes each one with md5
Reports back to VAC Servers
So the domain reddit.com would be 1fd7de7da0fce4963f775a5fdb894db5 or organner.pl would be 107cad71e7442611aa633818de5f2930 (Although this might not be fully correct because it seems to be doing something to characters between A-Z, possible making them lowercase)
Hashing with md5 is not full proof, they can be reversed easily nowadays using rainbowtables. So they are relying on a weak hashing function
You dont have to visit the site, any query to the site (an image, a redirect link, a file on the server) will be added to the dns cache. And only the domain will be in your cache, no full urls. Entries in the cache remains till they expire or at most 1 day (might not be 100% accurate), but they dont last forever.
We don't know how long this information is kept on their servers, maybe forever, maybe a few days. It's probably done everytime you join a vac server. It seems they are moving from detecting the cheats themselves to computer forensics. Relying on leftover data from using the cheats. This has been done by other anticheats, like punkbuster and resulted in false bans. Although im not saying they will ban people from simply visiting the site, just that it can be easily exploited
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...vac_and_trust/
An interesting insight into cheat makers (cheat DRM!) and anti-cheat programs.Quote:
Trust is a critical part of a multiplayer game community - trust in the developer, trust in the system, and trust in the other players. Cheats are a negative sum game, where a minority benefits less than the majority is harmed.
There are a bunch of different ways to attack a trust-based system including writing a bunch of code (hacks), or through social engineering (for example convincing people that the system isn't as trustworthy as they thought it was).
For a game like Counter-Strike, there will be thousands of cheats created, several hundred of which will be actively in use at any given time. There will be around ten to twenty groups trying to make money selling cheats.
We don't usually talk about VAC (our counter-hacking hacks), because it creates more opportunities for cheaters to attack the system (through writing code or social engineering).
This time is going to be an exception.
There are a number of kernel-level paid cheats that relate to this Reddit thread. Cheat developers have a problem in getting cheaters to actually pay them for all the obvious reasons, so they start creating DRM and anti-cheat code for their cheats. These cheats phone home to a DRM server that confirms that a cheater has actually paid to use the cheat.
VAC checked for the presence of these cheats. If they were detected VAC then checked to see which cheat DRM server was being contacted. This second check was done by looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in the DNS cache. If found, then hashes of the matching DNS entries were sent to the VAC servers. The match was double checked on our servers and then that client was marked for a future ban. Less than a tenth of one percent of clients triggered the second check. 570 cheaters are being banned as a result.
Cheat versus trust is an ongoing cat-and-mouse game. New cheats are created all the time, detected, banned, and tweaked. This specific VAC test for this specific round of cheats was effective for 13 days, which is fairly typical. It is now no longer active as the cheat providers have worked around it by manipulating the DNS cache of their customers' client machines.
Kernel-level cheats are expensive to create, and they are expensive to detect. Our goal is to make them more expensive for cheaters and cheat creators than the economic benefits they can reasonably expect to gain.
There is also a social engineering side to cheating, which is to attack people's trust in the system. If "Valve is evil - look they are tracking all of the websites you visit" is an idea that gets traction, then that is to the benefit of cheaters and cheat creators. VAC is inherently a scary looking piece of software, because it is trying to be obscure, it is going after code that is trying to attack it, and it is sneaky. For most cheat developers, social engineering might be a cheaper way to attack the system than continuing the code arms race, which means that there will be more Reddit posts trying to cast VAC in a sinister light.
Our response is to make it clear what we were actually doing and why with enough transparency that people can make their own judgements as to whether or not we are trustworthy.
Q&A
1) Do we send your browsing history to Valve? No.
2) Do we care what porn sites you visit? Oh, dear god, no. My brain just melted.
3) Is Valve using its market success to go evil? I don't think so, but you have to make the call if we are trustworthy. We try really hard to earn and keep your trust.
CR
Interesting http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rep.../1100-6417875/
I don't own a ps4 yet, but this just might make me jump on earlier then I expected I would.
Thief 4 reviews are in, everything screams meh.
That seems to be the case indeed. Unfortunately, it is precisely the echo I expected...
Apparently Creative Assembly is making an Alien game;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF85LNxj1-U&feature=player_embedded
A cautiously optimistic preview;
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...-isolation-pc/
CRQuote:
We have all been burned by past Alien games and I would like us to maintain a healthy scepticism about Creative Assembly’s recently unveiled Alien: Isolation, which I went to see and play just before the turn of the year. With this in mind, I believe it an obligation, before we begin discussing this new threat, to observe a moment of silence in which we can all remember the brave souls we lost to the Colonial Marines disaster.
*an eerie hush envelopes the world as billions of people solemnly mute Spotify*
Thank you.
The good news is that, despite keeping that scepticism intact, my recent hands-on with Isolation has given me cause for hope. With luck (and no small amount of effort from the development team) we are a little closer to having an Alien game that actually captures the feel of the original movie.
I bet the Aliens will have Flaming E.T.s. ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
I read about the game 'Banished';
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls8FBFFjMxk
Which apparently is a rather hardcore settlement building game just released, as exemplified in this series of screenshots; http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/03/13/ba...harsh-winters/
In other settlement builder news, Gaslamp Games is making a sort of dwarf fortress game set in Victorian times in a world of "Lovecraftian horrors" called Clockwork Empires.Quote:
After The PCG Herald heard about the town’s struggle to survive in the wilderness, I was dispatched as a field reporter to document its early years. What I found was a harsh reality where 10-year-olds work fields in driving rain and snow, a bad harvest kills families, and a single misstep leaves the town frozen during winter. In the end I was embedded in Dolothia for 25 years, chronicling its struggles and triumphs in photos and timelapse gifographs. This is the life of a Banished town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1iLpQjULA
CR
Here's an RPS article on it: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...pires-preview/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/0...for-2-billion/
So much for the Oculus. ~:rolleyes:
Wonder how much Carmack gets to walk away with.
On the bright side, funding for the Oculus just hit the jackpot.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
I guess it will demand that developers integrate virtual 3D Like-buttons in their games, so that you can Like the 2nd legion in Rome 2 right from your strategic map. And maybe the banners of units in tactical battles will have "People you may know". At the end of his pre-battle speech your general goes "And by the way, your friend xyz abc has invited you to play marble ballz!"
The possibilities are endless, good times.
Notch is out on the Oculus, and quite a few of the Kickstarter contributors are not happy. From a business standpoint, it just doesn't make sense. The only thing Facebook sells is your data, there is no product development or marketing footprint for a Facebook physical product.
Yeah, Im not to happy I contributed to the kick starter only to watch Facebook take it over. Damn you zuckerburg and obama.
It is kind of depressing but I'm cautiously optimistic. It might mean cheaper hardware.
For me, it spells the end of all interest in this particular VR set.Quote:
Originally Posted by rajpoot
Facebook will gather absolutely all data about you that it can when you use the device. That's up to and beyond retinal tracking (tracking what you're looking at). They will use that to sell you ads.
Plus the push from facebook will be for "social" apps and ways they can sell ads.
CR
Sony is making one too btw...Morpheus.
This looks like a good scarefest http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-a-creepy-boat
So have a free sniper game why don't you: http://store.steampowered.com/app/63380/
But hurry, this doesn't last long...
If anyone hasn't picked up FOTS yet, there's a pack on sale at GMG for 10 bucks that appears to include the game and most of the DLC (been so long since I bought all that I don't recall all of what was originally available for it, looks to be a pretty good deal on what I thought was a really solid expansion: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/e...ai-collection/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-with-splatoon
What a fantastic idea, this gives battling for territory an awesome twist.
That does look pretty cool. Shame it'll never be on PC so I won't get to check it out. If you ever end up picking it up let us know if it turned out as cool as that video made it look.
I am sure I have seen a similar concept before somewhere but it never looked anything as polished as that video.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
Don't worry about that personally, Nintendo is like Valve, they don't stop untill they get everything right. Rabid perfectionists.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
File me under interested http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...g-silent-hills
Love the series, first 3 were awesome, the ones after that good but not great.
This could be great.
Yeah this one surprised me too given his reputation and the attitude he has held about the big 'uns in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
But I'm thinking as long as the deal hasn't been finalized there is still hope. Maybe it's just because I want to believe there is at least one principled man in the industry.
Id sell my mother for 2billion. Sorry to say but everything has its price.
The game has sold 54 million copies across all platforms. In the past 24 hours it has sold more than 8000 copies on the PC alone. And the number is increasing every day. Notch is already a millionaire and has been for a while.
Everything must have its price but even from a business standpoint I don't see why anyone should sell such a profitable venture unless they already had plans to stop adding new content to the game and were just looking to get rid of it.
I was told lately that the seller is never to blame, only the buyer for what he does with a company.
Then again I'm not sure what's so bad about Microsoft and games. Apart from the next title coming for XBox first that is.
Of course Microsoft's PC Business was better when they still made Flight Simulator and Age of Empires but I do not remember them being a bad publisher. Should be happy that he isn't talking to Activision.