Video Games

[kiri2tsubasa]

I just have one game from Ubisoft (Gold's Gym Dance Workout), but I make the occasional trip to their website to try and register it and their servers fail EVERY TIME. Their customer support isn't. I can understand why Ubisoft is losing sales, and PIRACY ISN'T IT.

These days Ubisoft games are really designed for the consoles first and foremost and PC as an afterthought, if even that.

[MrBogosity]

This is a console game: it's for the Wii.

[Virgil0211]

Guess who just got into the weekend beta of Star Wars: The Old Republic? =D

The game seems good so far. The only problem is that my laptop isn't up to playing the game except on the lowest graphics settings. I'm installing it on my Dad's laptop to see if that works better. The voice-acting is top notch, I love the story premise, the cinemas are awesome. I'll write more about the gameplay when I've played it a bit more.

[kiri2tsubasa]

This is a console game: it's for the Wii.

Really, considering the BS you went through I figured it was a PC game.

[evensgrey]

Ubisoft have been pulling stupid shit with their games for a LONG TIME.

Consider what happened with IDSoftware's Doom games.  There were all manner of editor programs, including software to help you make full conversions, and people did amazing stuff, and the games stayed popular for years.  Eventually, it was opensourced, and the game is still being developed that way, and people still play it.  They did the same with Quake.

Ubisoft put it in their EULA that you won't even TRY to do anything like that.  It can't be an issue with the engine licensing (to Ubisoft, I mean) as Thief: Deadly Shadows uses the same engine and there was no problem with community content development at all (now, the engine turns out to be pretty nasty to develop for with the available tools, and you tend to get all kinds of wacked shit in it as a result, but the publisher didn't try to get in the way of a community forming).

(As a fun little aside, Doom 3 wasn't very good, BUT the engine behind it is pretty nice, and scheduled to be opensourced.  With the collapse of the original Thief development house and the general disappointment with the third game, the engine of Doom 3 was used as the basis for http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ a game-building kit designed for Thief-like gaming, without any of the copyrightable elements of Thief.)

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Isn't the Doom 3 engine what the Call of Duty games are built on? I know its some version of id Tech

[VectorM]

It's their own engine, but it was build on the Quake 3 engine, supposedly.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

Finally beat Uncharted 3, definitely a must buy for PS3 owners. Not quite the same step up from Uncharted to Uncharted 2, but there are some great set pieces.

[Anpanman]

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[AnCap Dave]

DIS FUCKIN' GAME



Flash game of the year. [SPOILER]Every year.[/SPOILER]

[VectorM]

Link doesn't work for me. Google to the rescue!

[AnCap Dave]

Link doesn't work for me. Google to the rescue!

Fixed the link.

[kiri2tsubasa]

Dark Souls is just one of those  games that you got to punish yourself to get through.  Might also put my Playfire profile down.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I picked up Demon Souls when Best Buy had it on sale for $20. Somehow that game managed to make me get around my usual complaints with RPGs.

Maybe it is because I like playing games like Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, and God of War on their highest difficulty settings, but I didn't find Demon Souls to be the soul crushing experience many claimed. It wasn't an easy game by any stretch, but not quite what I was expecting.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Gotten mixed statements about the Demon/Dark Souls series.  Some have said it's legitimately challenging and others have said the challenge comes in the form of cheap shot deaths there's no way you could be reasonably expected to see coming, making the game mostly trial and error.