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optimaximal commented on the blog post Cliff Bleszinski: How I’d design an Uncharted game 1 week, 4 days ago · View
And no doubt it would be Xbox 360-only, carry a subscription fee with DLC-escalator and the smallest male character would dwarf a roid-raging wrestler.
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optimaximal commented on the blog post What’s Google doing wrong with Android? 2 months, 1 week ago · View
I think it’s got less to do with the device capabilities & more to do with the inability for anyone other than the developers of productivity apps to get people to pay for stuff on the Android Mark… sorry, Google Play. Even in-app purchases aren’t working, because the users just seem to prefer the ad-supported [...]
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Titan Quest was “hurt” by piracy, high system requirements and cheating, says dev 3 months, 1 week ago · View
I thought it was also hurt by the early implementation DRM that intentionally broke an early quest, preventing the game from turning some of its pirates into paying customers. Oh, and then there was the whole Immortal Throne mess where the expansion radically modified the core gameplay, making it almost essential for multiplayer. It was [...]
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Microsoft “have cock blocked us,” says Stranger’s Wrath HD CEO 4 months, 1 week ago · View
For the record, the PC hasn’t yet received the HD content update. We still have the bog-standard Xbox version.
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Half-Life 3 revealed, kept close to Valve’s chests 5 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Because this wouldn’t be worn to generate rumours?
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optimaximal commented on the blog post PS Vita could have the power of a PC – hardware dev 8 months, 1 week ago · View
Intel’s Core 2 line pretty much showed the benefits of multiple efficient cores running at slower speeds than single cores choking under the weigh of hyper-threading. It’s a balancing act, but definitely the way to go. Infact, it’s a shame that NVidia & AMD haven’t really pushed the same dual-core GPU format into the graphics [...]
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Crysis 2 multiplayer designed for “accessibility” but mistakes cost us – Crytek 10 months ago · View
I think the problem was GameSpy…
Obviously the game wasn’t going to feature Steamworks, but they could quite easily have roped in some networking know-how from DICE to write a proper backend rather than the broken system eventually implemented in C2.
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Origin platform exclusives “made sense”, more to come – EA 10 months, 4 weeks ago · View
It makes sense for a platform holder to hold exclusives for their platforms – it’s the simple ‘USP’ argument, but forcing people to use a specific service on a platform rather than their preferred one?
What a fucked up statement by a man who really doesn’t understand the PC at all!
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Harley Quinn receives new voice actor for Batman: Arkham City 1 year ago · View
Not ‘saddened’, but it’s a shame that they’re not maintaining the complete original cast.
Any official word on why Sorkin didn’t reprise the role? It’s a shame the cast is disintegrating, what with Mark Hamill stating this game will be his final ever ‘Joker’ performance.
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optimaximal posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
I wouldn’t call that a rant, but thx
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optimaximal commented on the blog post Machinarium to hit PS3; devs snub Microsoft after initial refusal 1 year, 1 month ago · View
It’ll never hit the iPad because the game is built in Flash.
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optimaximal became a registered member 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Welcome aboard Optimaximal ! Be that avatar from Monkey Island?
Either way, sending you 50xp me’ earty…. arrrrrr….
*Pirate rant over.
I wouldn’t call that a rant, but thx
Would you believe after my pirate ” Session” I actually forgot to give you the points :p
Piratism does that to me. Sent.