The idea of trying to fly a TIE fighter, or X-Wing, with Kinect sickens me, and not because it would be so realistic as to give me motion sickness.
I'd gladly by a force-feedback flightstick though, if this used it.
You know its a 580 GTX or *maybe* a HD 6990. Why would they shoot for anything less?
Considering that this would be on $2000, 12GB RAM, 750W PC hardware, and next gen consoles may only be a couple years out, I'd have to say that this actually DOES look "next gen" -- because the next gen just won't be as big an upgrade as the last, due to tech advancement issues.
The PC titles coming out in the past couple years is what the next gen of consoles will look like, folks, if we're lucky... except the Wii U, of course.
Smith & Tinker is already bringing MechWarrior 5, as I recall... or at least they were.
They & MS have been awful quiet about it for a while now.
Tie Fighter was better. It was epic.
Great series though, I concur with the article author. It might suck on consoles, sadly, and the number of PC gamers with flightsticks is abysmally low these days.
They are very similar to SS, however.
Games like SS, and the original Alone in the Dark (PC, a long time ago), as well as the original Resident Evil games (although they came several years after the PC games I mentioned), basically define horror in the video game format, and both of the games I mentioned are very much along those lines.
I'm not trying to knock your/her opinion of what a "good" horror game is -- rather I'm trying to explain t...
The aithor is "is determined to find a decent horror game this generation if it kills her", while claiming System Shock one of her favorite classics. Apparently she's never bothered to play BioShock or Dead Space -- neither may have been quite as revolutionary as the original SS, but they *are* good horror games. Very good, in fact. And, they are both very much derived from SS.
There have been a ton of great entries in the Horror genre this gen... the two I m...
This is exactly why mobile gaming will never succeed with the core gaming crowd. It's fun as a short diversion, but it can never truly replace handheld gaming as it exists on the DS and PSP.
5.5 is too generous for a $10 game of this quality. It's honestly worth 0.99, on any platform, and no more.
"One studio that makes dozens of games, instead of dozens of studios that only make one game… every two years."
Lol. This guy has no clue as to how much structural prowess it would take takes to pull something like that off, and still have some creativity. Every game super studio would need to have its own internal engine, with dozens, maybe hundreds, of support engineers. In other words, every super studio would need its own internal Epic Megagames, Havok, or Cr...
There may be several good reasons. To name a couple:
The hardware manufacturing facilities some, or several, components of this new hardware may not be ready. The Japanese launch may be as much as those facilities can produce hardware for, by the end of this year.
Some release games aren't ready. There may be titles that are critical to the Western release that are just not finished.
The date a new console releases is bound by MUCH mor...
How many AAA games, as opposed to knockoffs of big franchises on better systems or mini casual games that are simply very popular, are actually notable on phones? The only one I can think of that even come close is Infinity Blade, and frankly, its just not that profitable, relative to serious hits on serious handhelds.
I can't think of another one. Every one of the "big" games on iOS and Android is basically a weaksauce casual game, that I would never play in ...
Producing... weak apps, for chump change. as a side thing to existing major franchises, and they are barely profitable.
Epic has no interest in chump change apps. My point is made.
@Melon:
"Does toyota charge you when you bought your used camry?"
Used parts, bud. Even the 3rd party replacement parts pay a fee to the original manufacturer.
"Does DC Shoes charge you when you pick up a used pair at the salvation army?"
Shoes last a couple years when new. Used shoes even less. Clothes, in general, have an appeal called "fashion", that drives new sales, as well. Games are di...
...or ever, for the kinds of games Epic makes.
Mobile gaming is a phenomenon, if the game costs $0.99, and the publisher didn't spend more than $250K on making it.. if that.
I don't think most serious gamers are ever going to be pleased with a game that costs less than $250K to make, especially on hardware like the Tegra 3, etc.
Mobile gaming needs to get popular in the $10-$15/game range before any serious publisher will make serious...
Pretty sure that no one cares if you won't buy used (i.e. don't get online pass for free).
Used sales don't count as revenue for publishers or devs, and used sales don't count in VGChartz fanboy software totals, either. Only the used retailers care about your statement.
Also:
"Online Pass is the latest in a long line of schemes that punish the paying customer."
How are you a paying customer of a publisher, i...
I think the blonde Shep 5 is totally fine and normal. What I don't understand is the makeup.
Why use makeup, when you are simply a space bada$z, looking to save the universe (again)? Being blonde is immaterial. Being "pretty", at least by means of face paint, is something Shep wouldn't care about.
All of the Sheps were wearing makeup -- the blonde one is no different in that regard... she just shows it more, thanks to her hair color. Hon...
Actually, you got that totally backwards. It's ND that does a lot of the shared engine work. SSM is mostly just designers and artists -- they have very few engineers, by comparison.
ND, GG, London, and Zipper are the tech workhorses of Sony -- you can see it in the early Move support, 3D support, Eye support, networking tech, etc.
Bring on the PSN version. Torchlight was a GREAT game. Anyone who missed the original should grab it... and I mean right now.
What I don't understand is why a "phone gamer" even visits N4G.
I mean, Zenonia and Angry Birds are pretty far from the core gaming norm you tend to see on a site for people who spend a lot of their time gaming.
My theory... this guy works on mobile gaming apps.
Dude, you know that the average phone game earns like $8500 over its effective lifetime on the iStore, and the biggest phone games of ALL TIME (like Angry Birds) are bar...
So.. what's stopping GameStop from bundling an online pass with used sales, again?
Oh yeah... greed.