He's the worst member of TGS imo.

Now I wanna see if I could any notable spazz outs.

Weekend News Edition
 

According to a recent rumor, Yu Suzuki might considering using Kickstarter to help fund a potential Shemue 3 project.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...ckstarter.aspx

That is so sad.

I had fun with Shenmue xD

I need to protect my honor! but first it's time to pet this kitty, go to the arcade, drive a forklift, go on a date, eat, give the kitty a new box b/c now it's raining and then I can mebbe do some training

Watched Game Grumps play Shenmue and, even with the comedy commentery, I still thought the game looked pretty dull.

I'm sure, at the time of release, it was amazing but it doesn't look like it held up.

Shenmue is an unrecognized successor to a lot of stuff we see all the time in games, particular open-world sandbox games with varying degrees of side activities to do outside of the main narrative.

Really, though, people wanna finish the damn story.

Latest blog makes a case for why Battlefield 3 handled DLC and microtransactions better than many franchises this console generation. Thanks for reading/skimming.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Update to Square Enix trademarking a new Deus Ex name as it was revealed to be for the upcoming film from CBS Films.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/upda...rademark-movie

2) According to a new trailer released by Epic Games, Gears of War Judgement will contain an unlockable campaign called "Aftermath" and deals with what Cole and Bard were doing at the end of Gear of War 3.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...led-aftermath/

3) According to reports, co-founder Jason West has left Respawn Entertainment with the unofficial reason being related to family issues. West and Vince Zampella were the co-founders of Infinity Ward before their split with Activision a few years ago.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ja...ment/1100-4594

Retarded, a wait time to play a single player game. Good job EA.

Yeah fuck perpetually online games.

That is really bad.

I'm waiting for this kind of thing to completely infect console gaming aswell.

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It's not a single player game.

Yes there is an option to play a single player game, unconnected to other players cities, but you need to be online even for that.

Jesus Christ at that fat guy though.

Which makes it a multiplayer game that you're choosing to play alone - like playing solo in an MMO.

Looking at the reviews, solo seems the only way I'd play it because the cities are so tiny that I'd want to build up the entire region by myself.

Hate the design decision anyway. Have to be online even with a solo region because the server is doing some of the calculation. Then cities have to be tiny so the game will run on some old mans PC. I'm betting the server does so little on a private game that a server emulator comes out soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if cooperative play was required for topping the challenge leaderboards, but otherwise, yeah, I don't want to particularly play with other people. Except for the global market thingy.

Once the launch problems are sorted out, my boyfriend and I are going to work on a region together. And wow, there are a lot of launch problems. It reminds me of when WoW launched.

These Sim City bugs are getting hilarious now. This poor dude just had this happen and because there's no terraforming, he's essentially boned

http://i.imgur.com/CbRnT9p.jpg

From what I've heard, the launch of Sim City has been a disaster.

EA have tweeted that if you can't get on a server, try a different one!

Which would be great and all, but if you've started a city, you can't transfer it over to a different server. It stays on the same one.

Jesus, that guys voice is ridiculous.

I sincerely hope this trend of "always online" dies horribly in the worst fire ever. First with Diablo III and now this. If there is EVER an option for "single player" in a game, it should NOT require online connectivity. Otherwise, don't advertise as single player.

Sorry Poit, this isn't a multiplayer game, it is a single player game with the option of co-operative play, like Diablo 3. EA calling it "multiplayer" is just them trying to justify always on DRM.

He's got a point. It's not like this was marketed as a single-player experience.

Maxis Development Team on SimCity (Reddit)". Reddit. March 10, 2012. Wasn't marketed as MP either, simply said it was a "component".

Although the Senior VP at Maxis did say this about the DRM issue Dec 10 (reddit again), 2012:


Because ActiBlizzard proved that always online DRM works well against "bots" hacks, or otherwise non-mentioned piracy/illegal engineering of the software :|

Why is there no terraforming? That's retarded.

Because it is "too violent" and games cause people to go nuts and kill other people.

Seriously, wait a few weeks. The DRM will be found to have been USELESS and there will be some awesome mods (if it even takes that long).

It is actually doing shit on the server, so they'll need to fully emulate that. They still haven't done it for Diablo 3 yet. At least not fully.

Not FULLY, but functional none the less.

Either way, hiding behind DRM as the main reason for required online connectivity is complete bullshit.

Far Cry 3 patch is out, that lets you reset outposts.

Like how MMOs have a multiplayer component?

Is there any evidence to suggest that the multiplayer is just a justification for the DRM?

MMO? What, pray-tell, does MMO stand for? Massive MULTIPLAYER ONLINE. K, do I need to go further, or are you the only one that bought the Sim City MMO?

Also, their justification for DRM is for micro-transactions AND anti-piracy. It has been proven that DRM does NOTHING to combat piracy, especially in titles that have a huge role in the gaming world, like the name "sim City". Bottom line: It doesn't matter WHAT their justification would be for making it always online. It is simple enough to connect an individual user account to said server WHEN they authenticate.

Say, there is a button to click "Multiplayer". THEN the system tries to connect to the server, blah blah blah. The problem THAT brings into play is when the games system files are able to be viewed/deciphered/etc.. That data can then be used for reverse engineering opening the doors for piracy and cheats.

If DRM is to be implemented in a game that has a "single player" mode, it should have zero impact on the user unless they choose to participate in the multiplayer mode.


Sadly, it has become all about the $$$$. That is good, because they need to make money, but not at the cost of alienating the single player user base.

I actually do think this new game is like a SimCity MMO.

You confuse me.

Sorry, instead of :| I will use /sarcasm next time.

And you may think it is an MMO, as many others as well. It was not marketed as an MMO, and was also stated that multiplayer was a PIECE of the entire puzzle, not the puzzle itself.

MMO =/= RTS.

drave's just pissed he didn't read the box before he bought it.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Telltale Games announce Season 2 of The Walking Dead has a release date of Fall 2013 and extra Season 1 content will be released in the near future.
http://www.destructoid.com/the-walki...e-247930.phtml

2) The boss of Valve, Gabe Newell, announces prototype versions of the Steam Box will start to arrive within the next 3 to 4 months and will be available to the public.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...o-four-months/

3) Capcom announces Lost Planet 3's release date has been pushed back with the new date of June 25 for North America and June 28 for Europe.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/lost...troduces-story

4) EA claims they made a mistake by stating all future EA games will contain microstrancations and now are claiming to only mean the feature will be supported but not necessarily used. They did reiterate all mobile games will use the feature because they are all "free-to-play" games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-corrects-cfo/

5) Edios Montreal officially debuts Thief 4 with details including the game being a reboot of the series, a planned 2014 release date, and will be released on both PC and next gen consoles.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-gen-consoles/

Bonus) Some recent speculation and theories involving EA's exclusive partnership with Microsoft for the next Xbox might involve Origin becoming the basis of the next version of XBLA.