Comments on: The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 24

By: Comment system, what comment system?

Comment system, what comment system? — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:16:07 +0000

I can vouch for Owen’s statement.

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:57:29 +0000

Oh and RPS is again, numero unio for Dustbins.

oh yes

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:08:35 +0000

Re: Is APB an MMO?

Despite what the name indicates, personally I have only one real criteria to differentiate between a standard multiplayer game and an MMO. Do I have to pay monthly?

By: Sovietmudkipz

Sovietmudkipz — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:06:53 +0000

Gameranger- giving pirates a way to play multiplayer since 2008 (lol macs don’t play games. wtf you talking aboot!)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:46:09 +0000

I haven’t played Far Cry 2, but the way you describe NPCs not telling you stuff of you turn away from them reminds me of SWAT 1. If you tried clicking to skip a cutscene an FMV of an instructor lecturing you, he’d get annoyed and start over from the beginning.

I guess some developer somewhere was rubbing his hands in glee about how immersive it would be, but I can live with a game reminding me it’s a game if it means I can get on with it.

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:13:57 +0000

Another smashing podcaast chaps. Thank you both. Also I am ready for another one now, so please do one within the next 24 hours ok?

Well go on! Stop reading this and damn well start recording.

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:08:12 +0000

ah, the Dig, i loved that game so much, i loved the music, the characters, exploring the weird alien planet thinking all the time “wth is that!?” and yet the puzzles weren’t *that* impossibly obscure……….. then one day i finished it………. the ending was sooooooooooooooo bad, the big “mystery” was so incredible stupid that it took all that love and turned into burning HATE! -_-

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:41:39 +0000

@ John:

It seems that RPS is no longer number one for the origin of dustbins. But it totally was. I have four independent witnesses!

Fear not, you can take solace in the fact that you're still number one for weighted companion cube slash fiction. Also that happy crack chappy who gives you $100 is part of the random character system. The random characters show up as a man shaped icon on the mini-map and trigger little side missions when approached. The chap in question has two or three further missions if you find him again.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:47:36 +0000

GTA IV – cinematic! What?! Personally I thought that was the most disapointing aspect of the gameplay. The world is very cinematic but the events so small and localized. Best example being the bank hiest. Soon as the Irish dude said bank robbery I emmediately thought Heat! 6 cars outside the bank and running down back alleys and underground routes. Heat’s bank robbery is cinematic. GTA IV’s is so… small.

By: ZenArcade

ZenArcade — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:59:38 +0000

“Jim and John squeezed into the RPS telephone box”

I love the idea of there being an RPS telephone box. Please make a real one.

By: aoanla

aoanla — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:13:17 +0000

The problem with Cloud Computing solutions to gaming is that the number of users scales badly with “centralised” resources (which is the irony about the use of the word “Cloud” to describe them). All the clever solutions to mass processing are now moving to BOINC style distributed processing, which is more like “p2p compute”, or a compute equivalent of what Skype does. So.
(And Sagan is quite right, “10 years in the future” technology should be so good that everyone will be able to afford a cheap machine, or cellphone, that can play basically any reasonable game. Honestly, even modern cellphones are pretty awesome…)

By: Sagan

Sagan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:07:16 +0000

Are you logged in to Google when you search for origin of dustbin? Maybe they just remember that you like RPS, and since they can’t find anything helpful, they just link you to a site you like.

And Gaikai will have to work now. Because if it only works in 10 years, it will be completely outdated. At that point you will likely have quad cores and high end graphic cards in your cellphone. And I don’t expect there will be many developers who will use any more powerful hardware than what we use now. Most developers now seem happy with what hardware was like 5 years ago.