This is going to show my ignorance but.....Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Originally posted by: Soviet
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
C&C series.
C&C3 was a pretty faithful clone of the old gamestyle, but thats the problem. It was like playing the same exact game again, with shiny graphics. The series has no innovative future.
Yeah, remniscent of doom 3.
Exactly. But even doom 3 introduced more modern FPS concepts to the game than C&C3 did to the C&C game formula.
Originally posted by: shortylickens
This is going to show my ignorance but.....Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Originally posted by: Soviet
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
C&C series.
C&C3 was a pretty faithful clone of the old gamestyle, but thats the problem. It was like playing the same exact game again, with shiny graphics. The series has no innovative future.
Yeah, remniscent of doom 3.
Exactly. But even doom 3 introduced more modern FPS concepts to the game than C&C3 did to the C&C game formula.
What concepts?
Originally posted by: Fadardo
Ubisoft is tainted as well, as they are now 15% owned by EA, after EAs hostile takover bid of Ubisoft. I blame EA for ruining Assassin's Creed
Originally posted by: Fadardo
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Soviet
Dont vivendi own blizzard though?
I believe so, but the Blizzard name will sell pretty much anything. If Blizz decided to break with Vivendi and become an independent developer, they'd have no problems self publishing.
Vivendi owns Blizzard and can make business decission that bypass those of the Blizzard CEO or high level execs.
They've already tasted the mmorpg money pot, and have decided blizzard will be making 4 or 5 new mmo games every 2 years for the next 10 years.
Other divisions of Vivendi have gone through some major financial loss as Vivendi as a whole has lost over 1billion dollars last year. Vivendi Shareholders are eager to recupe those losses and Vivendi is looking to mmos to poor in the money.
Expect a Diablo and starcraft mmo.
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
C&C series.
C&C3 was a pretty faithful clone of the old gamestyle, but thats the problem. It was like playing the same exact game again, with shiny graphics. The series has no innovative future.
Originally posted by: adairusmc
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
C&C series.
C&C3 was a pretty faithful clone of the old gamestyle, but thats the problem. It was like playing the same exact game again, with shiny graphics. The series has no innovative future.
If it is not broke, then why fix it?
Originally posted by: microAmp
At least EA won't able to ruin Activision.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071202/vivendi_activision.html
Under the arrangement, the companies said that Vivendi would pay $27.50 a share and make a cash infusion of $1.7 billion to acquire a 52 precent stake in Activision, valuing the entire company at $18.9 billion. Vivendi will subsequently fold its games operations into those of Activision in a new company to be called Activision Blizzard.
The combined company also plans to repurchase $4 billion worth of its shares for $27.50 a share, a move that the companies said would raise Vivendi?s stake to 68 percent. [q/]
100K population limit? I've built a few cities with over 1 million residents. I found it rather easy to create balanced cities, within "normal" confines, and then I moved on to creating cities which exploited a few of the simulator's quirks and technical shortcuts.Originally posted by: Regs
Sim City 4 had a lot of promise but had a lot of traffic bugs and the fact you were limited to a population of 100k. My town has a pop of 45k and we don't need subways and 1000 bus stops to help traffic move. The zoning was also off balance as you never had enough residential to supply the commerice, and you never had enough commerice to supply any jobs.
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: shortylickens
This is going to show my ignorance but.....Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Originally posted by: Soviet
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
C&C series.
C&C3 was a pretty faithful clone of the old gamestyle, but thats the problem. It was like playing the same exact game again, with shiny graphics. The series has no innovative future.
Yeah, remniscent of doom 3.
Exactly. But even doom 3 introduced more modern FPS concepts to the game than C&C3 did to the C&C game formula.
What concepts?
You pickup PDAs with tidbits of plot, crude puzzles were implemented that involve finding the PDAs to gain access codes to weapon lockers, and they place a "gimmick" into the game, the soulcube.
People want FPS / RPG hybrids these days (see Oblivion, Deus Ex, and Bioshock), Doom 3 is obviously not one.
Originally posted by: T2k
And the point is...? Sorry as much as I hate Starforce and its arrogant, loser creator I have to admit it would be the last thing to take a website's word as objective when it starts with Boycott Starforce and Wiki does not have a word about it...Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: T2k
Starforce did not brick anything - educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce#Controversy
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under Windows XP, if packets are lost during the reading or writing of a disk, XP interprets this as an error and steps the IDE speed down. Eventually it will revert to 16bit compatibility mode rendering a CD/DVD writer virtually unusable. In some circumstances certain drives cannot cope with this mode and it results in physical hardware failure (Most commonly in multiformat CD/DVD writer drives).
It has been reported by many users that the slowdown caused by StarForce on some recent multiformat DVD writers can cause irreversible hardware failures on those drives (they aren't recognized anymore)