Video Game News and Miscellany
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What... the... actual... freaking... fuck?
There were no video games in the 50's, so at least there were no racist video games.
...right?
--Patrick
Does "Ballad of Gay Tony" count? I mean you don't play Gay Tony, but he is a major character in the game.
Also, its at least free to play right? Because if they expect to make money on awful attempt at offensive humor they probably need to sue whatever community college they went to. Nothin' but a poor man's Thrill Kill.
Also, its at least free to play right? Because if they expect to make money on awful attempt at offensive humor they probably need to sue whatever community college they went to. Nothin' but a poor man's Thrill Kill.
I don't know. It's very cool, but it would be quite hard to make puzzles that are still a challenge, or you'd have to use pretty "barren" levels, or restrict what can be interacted with. Yes, some sort of Portal-like "test chamber" setting might work - but it'd also make it less cool.
Either the puzzles are fairly trivial, or they're fiendishly difficult games of hide-and-go-seek (in a size changing level, should you grow to 50x original size and go looking over the walls, or shrink to 1/50th and find the exit on the bottom of a chess pieve in the corner? How do you tell?). The second could be great fun, but will be more-than-likely completely ruined by the Interwebs.
That said, a game making good use of these mechanics could be great and the next Portal. (as a trend/game type, not as "Portal 3: the Portalling").
Cautiously optimistic.
Either the puzzles are fairly trivial, or they're fiendishly difficult games of hide-and-go-seek (in a size changing level, should you grow to 50x original size and go looking over the walls, or shrink to 1/50th and find the exit on the bottom of a chess pieve in the corner? How do you tell?). The second could be great fun, but will be more-than-likely completely ruined by the Interwebs.
That said, a game making good use of these mechanics could be great and the next Portal. (as a trend/game type, not as "Portal 3: the Portalling").
Cautiously optimistic.
figmentPez
Staff member
I think the real trick would be to do something other than just "make it to the exit". If they can come up with other objectives, and figure out different ways to limit manipulation of objects (red border objects explode when dropped too hard, maybe), then this could have a lot of potential.
I'm thinking of pre-ordering an Atlus game that isn't Shin Megami Tensei. Really hoping I don't get burned.
Conception II seems fun. Like Persona-lite with a little Fire Emblem Awakening child-soldier making thrown in there.
Conception II seems fun. Like Persona-lite with a little Fire Emblem Awakening child-soldier making thrown in there.
Club Nintendo rewards update is tomorrow. Will it be trash or treasure? (Or both?)
... I'm betting the former. There were too many good ones near the end of 2013 for them to keep going.
... I'm betting the former. There were too many good ones near the end of 2013 for them to keep going.
Not that it makes this any less horrid, but the game was created by a gay man. I have mixed feelings about it.
On the one hand, I kind of dig the idea of subverting stereotypes.
On the other hand...what the gay hell?????
Don't forget this little number:
So, in the "too little, too late" category, Maxis is removing the online requirement for Sim City.
"Awesome!" said absolutely no one.
"Awesome!" said absolutely no one.
They bumped it a day. -_-
Thanks. I was trying to find a video for two games but couldn't. That was one of them.
--Patrick
Rust has become EVE to me. The game I don't want to play, but fucking love hearing people talk about or reading their writing about it.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/01/13/rust-the-importance-of-being-naked-and-afraid
The Shawn he refers to is definitely Shawn Elliott, formerly of GFW magazine and the best gaming podcast of all time and now currently a dude works for Irrational Games.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/01/13/rust-the-importance-of-being-naked-and-afraid
The Shawn he refers to is definitely Shawn Elliott, formerly of GFW magazine and the best gaming podcast of all time and now currently a dude works for Irrational Games.
I'm really really considering getting this for the sole reason that houses can't be broken into. It gives me a reason to try even if I get slaughtered constantly.
Heh, I wonder if anyone has ever thought to troll burglars in games like that. Put all of your money and resources into your house's security but nothing else. If that's possible. I'm talking making it almost its own dungeon with traps, monsters, etc. Make people think it's something worth breaking into. But then there's NOTHING for them to get. 
GasBandit
Staff member
The reviews for that game make it really intriguing.
"I love this game, I built a house around a guys house and made him my prisoner, I fed him cans of tuna and cooked chicken when it was available, and some times I would drop in spare logs of wood(when they were available). The best part. he talks to me, keeps telling me his clans going to raid my structure and save him.. I simply respond with .” It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again” and by hose I mean I dump charcoal on him." -Manikin50
"A lot of naked men throwing rocks and trying to survive against zombies, animals and other naked men. " - Starscre4m
"Killed a deer got chicken meat out of it, BEST GAME EVER. 20/10 " -(Dis)Obey the Lawson
"I love this game, I built a house around a guys house and made him my prisoner, I fed him cans of tuna and cooked chicken when it was available, and some times I would drop in spare logs of wood(when they were available). The best part. he talks to me, keeps telling me his clans going to raid my structure and save him.. I simply respond with .” It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again” and by hose I mean I dump charcoal on him." -Manikin50
"A lot of naked men throwing rocks and trying to survive against zombies, animals and other naked men. " - Starscre4m
"Killed a deer got chicken meat out of it, BEST GAME EVER. 20/10 " -(Dis)Obey the Lawson
Sold.
Shawn Elliott and his gang of sociopaths creating a blood sport for the less fortunate on their Rust server.
This is seriously the most fascinating game ever.
http://www.twitch.tv/mitchyd/c/3555607
There's a fucking bear loose in the arena!
This is seriously the most fascinating game ever.
http://www.twitch.tv/mitchyd/c/3555607
There's a fucking bear loose in the arena!
So, apparently King, makers of Candy Crush, now have a trademark on the word candy in relation to video games and clothing in the USA. The trademark system is completely fucked.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/21/stealing-candy-from-babies-king-embrace-the-aristocracy/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/21/stealing-candy-from-babies-king-embrace-the-aristocracy/
GasBandit
Staff member
I like the suggestion that somebody launch a game called "Edge of the Candy Space Marine Scrolls."
They won't be able to successfully defend it. The term Candy is simply to generic and widespread, so the moment that someone with money decides to fight back King will lose the case and the trademark. It'll be overturned and their trademark will be stripped.
Also, what the fuck is Candy Crush Saga?
The game everyone with a cell phone plays.
GasBandit
Staff member
Candy crush's mobile platform app. It's only "Candy Crush" without the saga if you're playing the short version on their website. If you have the app with multiple levels, jellies, "lives," social media etc, you have Candy Crush Saga.
I've been to bars and college parties and yet I've never seen group addiction as bad as Candy Crush. My alcoholic smoker mother can wait until after a conversation to feed those addictions, but not Candy Crushers--they just got another life they didn't have to pay for and goddamn do they gotta use it.
953 games with Candy in the title.