Comments on: North American Section 8 Beta Freed(Ish)

By: Pace

Pace — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:23:20 +0000

Oh my. Well if you’re that worried about the extra “ern” in that graph, read the whole article then.
If you want a better example, then take this quote from Fowler’s Modern English Usage as referenced in that article: “”the term ‘North America’ may be used to mean the United States and Canada together.”
All I meant before is that there isn’t one rigorous definition for what North America is. Hell, in some parts of the world the continent is just America (North, South & Central all in one.) (like on the olympic rings.) Anyhow, most of the time it seems with regard to games for release dates and regional releases and such, North America means the US and Canada.
And my goodness I certainly meant no offense, apologies if you took it that way.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:53:07 +0000

Pace, I’d invite you to examine the map you linked.

There is no North America on it. There is a “Northern America”, which is not the same thing as “North America”.

“North America” is a continent. “Northern America” is apparently a UN-defined “geographical subregion”. This post title says “North America”, not “Northern America”.

I invite you to use a little more care in the future to prevent another embarrassing incident in which you fail to demonstrate the ability to read.

By: Pace

Pace — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:24:08 +0000

depends on your definition Mark.

By: Mark M

Mark M — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:32:56 +0000

Mr. Rossignol:

Legend tells of a third North American nation that is neither US nor Canada… if such legends were true, the post title could not be considered informative.

By: autogunner

autogunner — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:02:05 +0000

your right it isnt that much fun….

By: dsmart

dsmart — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:07:18 +0000

@ idmmao

And lastly, dsmart is obviously deeply biased, though it’s always fun watching him rip into any game that isn’t his and any developer who isn’t him.

Since thats obviously rubbish as regulars here can attest to, I’m not even going to grace that nonsensical remark with anything other than this.

By: argh

argh — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:43:53 +0000

Takes a million shots to kill someone no thanks. Not to mention all the noobie indicators to help you, an arc indicator to show you where the nade lands, no recoil, etc.., cmon.

Why can’t someone just copy the original tribes with better graphics and call it a day? Competitive FPS gaming has gone downhill ever since they had to cater to console gamers.

By: autogunner

autogunner — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:34:01 +0000

damn lack of edit function:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/03/03/what-is-section-8/

By: autogunner

autogunner — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:31:22 +0000

What? that had nothing to do with what I was talking about. If you dig up all the rps coverage on this game you can see that the team really seem to love what they i doing, surely you can respect that?

By: Redford

Redford — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:00:58 +0000

Odd, because I feel this game is brilliant. Even though the basic concept of the game is nothing new, they’ve added tons of new touches and polishes all over the place, and have managed to take everything I hated about the wide-theater FPS and change it to happiness and goodness. No more 1-hit KOs, no more movement issues, no more artillery which can be accidentally be used to kill half your team.

But perhaps I have already said too much.

By: idmmao

idmmao — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:44:25 +0000

I at least had no problem signing up, downloading, signing in, and joining several servers. It makes me think of enemy territory: quake wars more than anything else.
And lastly, dsmart is obviously deeply biased, though it’s always fun watching him rip into any game that isn’t his and any developer who isn’t him.

By: dsmart

dsmart — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:03:33 +0000

Yah, because 90% of the games coming out are not a rehash of something else. Are you a gamer?