Comments on: Epic Focus On Money 360

By: CrashT

CrashT — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:21:22 +0000

It’s interesting to consider his comments in light of the recent rumours of Microsoft possibly buying out Epic.

By: Gwog

Gwog — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:04:11 +0000

It’s actually quite fucking awesome, in my mind. Main complaints are a horrible interface and less gameplay types than previous incarnations.

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:36:23 +0000

Slightly off-topic. (But more interesting/useful IMO):
So, uh, can anyone tell me *why*, exactly UTIII was/is so horrible? I tried the demo and it seemed very much like UT, but with more shiny, and some War of the Worlds , er, “inspired” vehicles… I used to be a big fan of Unreal/UT, didn’t have the right hardware during UT03/04 era, so I’m not sure what the deal is… So is the new UT horribly ruined by something, or just horribly too much like its ancestors?

By: brynden

brynden — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:27:35 +0000

people people there is no need to worry cause these are all talks there is one thing that sets the bar and knows exactly whats going to happen in the future and its the HARDWARE companies, when u will see Nvidia Intel Etc withdrawing from the market then u can panic untill then have no worries cause they do not invest millions of dollars for nothing.
So cheer up

By: Max

Max — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:00 +0000

Right on, Frosty. :)

By: Wickedashtray

Wickedashtray — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:52:49 +0000

“Terrible times”?

we just came off one of the best years of PC gaming in history.

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:17:37 +0000

The LIVE implementation made me want to murder people. It lost my save many times, causing unnecessary frustration.

Also, the trend of moving AWAY from quicksaving is seriously beginning to irritate me. Can anyone enlighten me towards the reason why checkpoints as the sole method of saving progress makes any kind of sense on a PC?

By: Frosty840

Frosty840 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:16:10 +0000

I dunno, I thought the Gears PC port was pretty decent. Apart from the whole, y’know, game being utter, utter shite, thing.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:36:26 +0000

The PC becoming the casual gaming platform where Peggle and friendly MMOs dominate?

Actually, take that on one side and then ultra-hardcore stuff like Dwarf Fortress and EVE Online on the other. PC gaming is where all the crazy extremes are at, consoles are the middle of the road. Not the easiest place to be if you’re chasing the money, but awesome if you’re a gamer with weird nichey (ahem – cultivated) tastes like me!

By: Gwog

Gwog — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:54:35 +0000

Wow, a person who is the part-owner of a business reveals that his main motivator is money when making decisions related to that business. Shocking.

This is all very easy. Now we know that going forward, Epic’s PC games will be secondary, which happened to be exactly how they handled GoW. That situation resulted in a 4.5M unit selling console title getting a clumsy/halfassed port to the PC, a platform that many developers with a lot less money in the bank have managed to leverage to deliver games that aren’t screwed up. Gamers shouldn’t buy horrible ports that don’t work right, so there’s no reason for PC players to consider future Epic games. The End.

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:53:14 +0000

Which brings me onto another bug issue, why are so many laptop suitable games (Settlers VI anyone?) carrying system requirements that say “Lap Tops not supported”, surely they’ve noticed the market for lap top supported games following the boom in lap top sales???

I’m fairly sure this has to do with how horrendously awful the driver support is for laptop graphics chipsets. Unlike desktop cards where you can just get nVidia’s or ATi driver updates, the onus of keeping laptop graphics chipsets up to date with drivers is with the manufacturers, and most don’t bother.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:48:01 +0000

I dunno. Maybe I’m less fussy than you guys. But I didn’t mind UT3. The lack of map variety was my only big issue with it, and that’s fixed easily enough.

GoW I’ve had no issues with at all either.

So yeah, I think I’m more saddened than angered by them playing quitsies on us. Only Commander Keen can save us now….