Comments on: Doom: The Classic vs Modern Debate

By: peter

peter — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:59:32 +0000

i want to playing later

By: peter

peter — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:56:26 +0000

By: Y3k-Bug

Y3k-Bug — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:53:35 +0000

Meaningless (and quite late at that) aside, but to the RPS Hivemind that do own iPhones:

Yo dawgs, you be jailbreakin’ yer shit?

By: SiUnit

SiUnit — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:36:31 +0000

I have both an iPhone and an awesome gaming rig. Tbh i really couldnt give a shit about gaming news for iphone. At first I was really interested, saying things like “Woah dude! I poke it and it moves! AWESOME!”. Now its more like “stupid fingers getting in the way of my screen” and “dammit! why dont the controls work properly?!” followed by “AHHHHHHHHH! Why am i trying to game on an Apple product?!”

Just make sure you let me know when a FFVII port comes along =D

By: Muzman

Muzman — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:38:56 +0000

I find iPhone coverage a little ‘hmm’ as well even though “it crashes just like a PC!” or whatever. It’s still a phone, with an ‘i’ on the front to boot.
As mentioned above; somewhere further along the spectrum in the PC direction (in attitude and execution) is the Pandora. I’d be ok with that being covered. What about y’all?

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:02:29 +0000

I don’t really know if anyone will get this far, because I actually read most of the posts and I’m mentally exhausted. Reading the comments thread on RPS always reaffirms my faith in humanity, and that the way forward, with human interaction on the internet, will not be like 4chan or the comments threads on X-Gaming-Blog. Some people are snarky, but this is by-and-large enlightening.

On the subject, normally I would object to iPhone coverage, having watched countless printed and internet gaming coverage locales fall to the inevitable march of non-PC games. However, so tremendous is my faith in the RPS staff that I’m not afraid they will completely fall by the wayside. I don’t doubt that their iPhone coverage will remain “PC-Centric,” and if it doesn’t, I always have the right and privilege to not read it. There’s plenty of stuff on here that I simply say “meh” to and not read, so it’s not as if an iPhone coverage will sneak into my dreams and haunt my consciousness. I’m a real boy. I can get over it.

I’m confident that RPS won’t steer me wrong, whatever they decide to do, and I won’t begrudge them their interests. Ever.

By: veerus

veerus — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:49:50 +0000

This post is quite simply about a classic PC game that was ported over to another platform. Surely that qualifies as PC-related news.

By: James T

James T — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:41:45 +0000

The Internet Men are angry today.

Whereabouts?

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:50:20 +0000

Make the required quality to cover an iPhone game extremely strict, then tack the coverage onto Sunday Papers, which already covers non-PC gaming (and non-gaming) shit when it’s interesting enough.
There, problem solved.

By: catska

catska — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:30:28 +0000

All this iPhone bickering is just masking the fact that PC news has dried up so much that this site has to resort to covering mobile phones.

By: Razor

Razor — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:43:38 +0000

I’m going to make this quick, as I have some classic Unreal waiting for me to play (The Sunspire and Bluff Eversmoking FTW). Being a person that understood the technical details of what Carmack was talking about I think this article was very relevant to PC gaming. I, like many here, have a dislike for certain aspects of Apple (but prolly for different, technical reasons and not merely religious zealotry). I still found this article interesting, bringing a nice technical perspective in taking an old PC class (Wolfenstein or DOOM) and porting it to newer hardware.

So Alec, I would not feel bad about this post. The relevancy might not be seen by all but it was seen by me, and I would have hated to miss that little bit of Carmack insight into one of my favourite game of all time.

By: Surgeon

Surgeon — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:29:28 +0000

I tried to drop a couple of disco/funk mixes onto the wifes iPhone for the first time the other day.

The whole experience made me want to smash up her iPhone and forcefully and painfully insert it into Steve Jobs.

In our usability training last year, there was a quote from Mr. Jobs used as an example…

“Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes *could* have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

How about saying yes to drag and drop then, you git.