edgecrusher said:

Recommended specifications:

• OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
• Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHZ (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHZ (8 CPUs)
• Memory: 8GB
• Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD7870 2GB
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
• HDD Space: 65GB
• DVD Drive

Specs for GTA 5 PC. My machine is literally basically one upgrade beyond what they list here. Unlike many PC games spec sheets, this one seems legit.

Yep, I exceed the sys reqs which is accurate to most new games (there are few I have to play on the lowest settings).

SupremeAC said:

I said I was going to write a bit about the latest game under podcast.  So here I am, writing about it, and more specifically, the whole discussion about Sir (Madam), you are being hunted.

Firstly: I didn't play the game.  And why is that?  Because I don't believe in charging people with €20 for what is, in essence, a very limited indie experiment.  Like Foolz said: it looks horrible and apparently runs bad as well.  Apparently Aspro the Benevolent thinks it's a good thing that self publishing allows for stuff like this to be made.  Stuff that, while in essence a cool idea, just isn't made of the right material to support a decent game.  I do not agree with that view.  This might just be me being old-fashionned.  After all, I don't have a facebook account and I don't understand why idiots with nothing to say are flooding the internet with home made video's.  I just don't think it's right to charge people €20 for something that is clearly a bit crap.


Also, remember De Blob?  That originated from a student project.  They didn't just release the student project and charged €20 for it.  Remember Portal?  Same story.

On to the next issue raised by Sir, you are being hunted.  Kickstarter.  I don't agree that there is less pressure to produce something good if you get funded through kickstarter.  It doesn't matter how you are funded, you are never entitled to release a game that is crap.  And should you do so, and aknowledge that it's rough around the edges and a bit limited, at least have the decency to not charge more than €5 for it.  If these guys were working for a developer and thought something like this was ready to ship, they would get fired.  Or that would be the case up till 2014, where AAA publishers showed us it's perfectly acceptable to release stuff that just doesn't work as it should.  So now I have to say they ought to get fired.

Which leaves us with procedural generation in games.  Procedural generation should be a tool which can lift some of the burden from designers.  Need a mountain?  Press a button and have it generated for you.  Need the player to cross that mountain?  You'd better sculpt all the ledges and passes yourself to make sure they're interesting.  In this particular game, it just comes off as an admission that the developer could either not be arsed with creating a map or just wasn't capable of doing so.  Leaving the creation of interesting gameplay situations up to sheer luck is a bad decission.  Maybe the dev figured that the actual environment didn't have an impact on the gameplay experience they were trying to create.  Obviously, they were wrong.

I don't know which Sir impressions you were listening to (mine or Aspro's?) but if you were listening to mine, I thought I said that the procedural generation actually had certain advantages in the design of the game, though it certainly had its disadvantages also. Which is not to say what you're saying is wrong, as you're presenting it as a question of design philosophy, just that Sir is not a perfect argument against procedural generation.

The problem with arguments against crowd funding that use elitism as their base, is that elitism doesn't actually exist to a necessarily greater degree in standard publishing than in crowd funding. Standard publishing has a greater air of elitism simply because it's already an established phenomenon. Even though this elitism is often completely false. The people who developed the latest Asassin's Creed are some of the most highly paid and successful developers in the videogame industry. They're also not going to get fired. And even if they did, they're not going to have much trouble getting hired again because they worked for the motherfucking Ubisoft!

phantom_leo said:

Anyone want Monster Hunter 4 demo codes? I got 3 NA ones...

I feel Loopy.

EDIT: Just noticed I have 1000 trophies even on the Playstation. Congrats to me.

Oh God, the atrocity!

travo said:

Oh God, that's hot!

I assume your auto-correct is messing with your posts again. I fixed it for you!

Is anyone interested in Code Name STEAM yet?

I think the game looks BUTT ugly. Even the Fire Emblem characters look BAD, like sub-GBA-quality, bad...

...but it's made by Intelligent Systems...

...it reminds me of XCOM for some reason...

...and they liken it to Valkyria Chronicles too!

So. Very. Conflicted!

Not the sexist looking game, but I like everything I've read about it so far. It's on my watch list. Unfortunately I'm getting more and more disenfrachised with handheld gaming, so I think I may end up passing it up just because of that.

Dvader said:

Gone.

Even after they said The Monster Hunter Bundle was sold out, I was able to pre-order it online for launch day. 'Course now that means I have three systems pre-ordered in different places...

...at least I was able to get ONE Limited Edition one...