Yeah, right off the bat they've been using Apple to take down other games on the iOS marketplace for infringement.
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I'd say in Angry Bird's case that it was at least the right game at the right time. People wanted something to play on their iPhone and it was one of the better options right around the time the iPhone started taking off.
GasBandit
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Probably so. But it's still just "Crush the Castle" with a cartoon art overhaul. Much like Candy Crush is Bejeweled.
Addictive? Yes. Successful? No.
The point stands that the only reason Candy Crush and Angry Birds were successful was because of their marketing vs the games they ripped off. They did not bring anything new to the genre they came from except more appealing make-up.
GasBandit
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Actually, if you look at it mechanically, Plants vs Zombies was actually a bit of a regression in the tower defense genre. There was very little "strategy" to it compared to the Apex of the TD genre, Desktop Tower Defense.
But again, cutesy cartoon easy fun the filthy casuals can enjoy, right?
That's my point!
And here I was complaining about the 30s. You have my sympathy and understanding.
GasBandit
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You need to uninstall Tiny Death Star. It's turning your posts obliviot-tastic.
In related news, King has successfully blocked Stoic Games' trademark filing for "The Banner Saga". Not Saga, but The Banner Saga. Apparently King has decided they should own the word saga in media too.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/candy-crush-dev-opposes-banner-saga-trademark
I guess they're going to just prey on small indie devs.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/candy-crush-dev-opposes-banner-saga-trademark
I guess they're going to just prey on small indie devs.
I realize I'm the only person on this board that cares about Blood Bowl, but I don't care. 
Blood Bowl 2 is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, made by Cyanide Studios. Anyone that's played Blood Bowl knows that it's a super fun game, and also that Cyanide is a super shitty developer. It's a buggy, badly coded, terrible UI driven game that is fun in spite of all of the shortcomings you have to work around. Because cyanide is such shit, everyone's biggest hope was simply that BB2 would be the base blood bowl board game that was feature complete. The current version is missing a lot of star players, has 23 of the 25 races, and is missing lots of other content such as play cards that can be induced in the board game for special rules. All players wanted was that stuff added in, and we didn't care about anything else.
What is Blood Bowl 2 launching with?
Improved graphics: eh, ok, not a huge draw. The new graphics are pretty, but unnecessary
Upgradeable stadiums: Does absolutely nothing and is purely cosmetic, I hope they didn't put a lot of development time into this.
8 playable races: .... WHAT THE FUCK?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Whelp, so much for adding features. Let's just take away 15 team races.
Blood Bowl 2 is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, made by Cyanide Studios. Anyone that's played Blood Bowl knows that it's a super fun game, and also that Cyanide is a super shitty developer. It's a buggy, badly coded, terrible UI driven game that is fun in spite of all of the shortcomings you have to work around. Because cyanide is such shit, everyone's biggest hope was simply that BB2 would be the base blood bowl board game that was feature complete. The current version is missing a lot of star players, has 23 of the 25 races, and is missing lots of other content such as play cards that can be induced in the board game for special rules. All players wanted was that stuff added in, and we didn't care about anything else.
What is Blood Bowl 2 launching with?
Improved graphics: eh, ok, not a huge draw. The new graphics are pretty, but unnecessary
Upgradeable stadiums: Does absolutely nothing and is purely cosmetic, I hope they didn't put a lot of development time into this.
8 playable races: .... WHAT THE FUCK?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Whelp, so much for adding features. Let's just take away 15 team races.
Square Enix will crush them, considering they own a series of games called SaGa and have been releasing them for years... and that is just assuming this doesn't get thrown out of court, considering Banner Saga actually uses the word in it's historic context and not a purely descriptive one.
They're going to bleed out their own success on frivolous bullshit.
Got GameInformer today and saw a couple items of interest:
Evolve - Game by the makers of Left 4 Dead, 1-5 player matches pit four humans against a slowly-transforming monster on an alien world. Hunters have different classes with different skills, while monsters change as the game goes on, becoming stronger as they survive into larger stages of metamorphosis. Reading the several-page article, it sounds pretty damn cool. Unfortunately, it's only PC and non-Wii U next-gen, so I likely won't get to play it.
Alien: Isolation - Survival-horror where you play as a person trying to stay alive while a xenomorph hunts you. Seems to take a page from Amnesia in lack of combat and high intensity. You even have to hold your breath so the xenomorph doesn't hear you, and the AI is sense-based. I'm intrigued by an Alien game that's trying to be scary instead of a shooter.
Got GameInformer today and saw a couple items of interest:
Evolve - Game by the makers of Left 4 Dead, 1-5 player matches pit four humans against a slowly-transforming monster on an alien world. Hunters have different classes with different skills, while monsters change as the game goes on, becoming stronger as they survive into larger stages of metamorphosis. Reading the several-page article, it sounds pretty damn cool. Unfortunately, it's only PC and non-Wii U next-gen, so I likely won't get to play it.
Alien: Isolation - Survival-horror where you play as a person trying to stay alive while a xenomorph hunts you. Seems to take a page from Amnesia in lack of combat and high intensity. You even have to hold your breath so the xenomorph doesn't hear you, and the AI is sense-based. I'm intrigued by an Alien game that's trying to be scary instead of a shooter.
figmentPez
Staff member
We can only hope that some sort of sanity takes effect before Stoic suffers too much harm from having to put up with the court costs and who knows what other fall-out from having to defend against such abuse of the system.
Sounds pretty similar to that whole Bethesda/Mojang Scrolls bullshit from a few years back. Of course now Minecraft is as indestructible as ever and ESO is lined up to be the big blunder of 2014.
So here's an update on the whole Candy Crush thing... apparently Kings doesn't even have the copyrights yet, but are going after everyone to show that they have a case for ownership, mostly because about a billion people have made copycat games. The irony of a copy cat having copy cats is apparently lost on them. In any case, their entire excuse isn't that they want Banner Saga to change it's name (they know it's not a copy cat and would probably give permission), but that if they don't go after it then the copy cats can point to that case as a reason why the copyright shouldn't be given.
So they acknowledge they are being dicks but don't believe they should be held accountable for it, because they are fighting off other dicks.
So they acknowledge they are being dicks but don't believe they should be held accountable for it, because they are fighting off other dicks.
I just went back to playing the board game, sorryI realize I'm the only person on this board that cares about Blood Bowl, but I don't care.
Blood Bowl 2 is scheduled to be released at the end of this year, made by Cyanide Studios. Anyone that's played Blood Bowl knows that it's a super fun game, and also that Cyanide is a super shitty developer. It's a buggy, badly coded, terrible UI driven game that is fun in spite of all of the shortcomings you have to work around. Because cyanide is such shit, everyone's biggest hope was simply that BB2 would be the base blood bowl board game that was feature complete. The current version is missing a lot of star players, has 23 of the 25 races, and is missing lots of other content such as play cards that can be induced in the board game for special rules. All players wanted was that stuff added in, and we didn't care about anything else.
What is Blood Bowl 2 launching with?
Improved graphics: eh, ok, not a huge draw. The new graphics are pretty, but unnecessary
Upgradeable stadiums: Does absolutely nothing and is purely cosmetic, I hope they didn't put a lot of development time into this.
8 playable races: .... WHAT THE FUCK?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Whelp, so much for adding features. Let's just take away 15 team races.
Easier, better. Not on line multiplayer, but eh 
GasBandit
Staff member
What an atrocious company.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/22/the-candy-crush-banner-saga-saga-stoic-speak-up/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/22/the-candy-crush-banner-saga-saga-stoic-speak-up/
I was gonna skip The Banner Saga because I never seem to play the PC games I buy even when I can run them, but I might get it just to spite those Candy Crush fuckers.
Not to mention that the name "Sega" is awfully close to saga... it could confuse consumers and hurt their brand.
http://www.bethblog.com/
John Cleese, Bill Nighy, Kate Beckinsale, Alfred Molina, Michael Gambon, Lynda Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Stormare, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jennifer Hale and Jim Ward.
The voice cast for Elder Scrolls Online. It's a pretty impressive cast. I still don't know anyone who is really excited for this game. It is shaping up to humble The Old Republic in MMO failure
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John Cleese, Bill Nighy, Kate Beckinsale, Alfred Molina, Michael Gambon, Lynda Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Peter Stormare, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jennifer Hale and Jim Ward.
The voice cast for Elder Scrolls Online. It's a pretty impressive cast. I still don't know anyone who is really excited for this game. It is shaping up to humble The Old Republic in MMO failure
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GasBandit
Staff member
Yep, as the Architect said in the Matrix... "It was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure."
Hey Bethesda? I would've suggested diverting some of your voice acting budget to your team working on gameplay. Cause people aren't saying the voices aren't famous enough, people are saying the gameplay is unattractive.
Actually, y'know what, scrap ESO entirely and divert that budget to Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 4.
Yeah, I highly doubt the nemesis system will be all it's cracked up to be.
However, that video still does a pretty good job of selling the game. I didn't know anything about this game before today, but now I'm interested.
Movement and identification is like AC, but the way the world interacts with your character is so much more. Seeing it in action here, it's as great as what I read about. I was hoping for a release date, but it's probably still early for that.[DOUBLEPOST=1390536710,1390536583][/DOUBLEPOST]
From the articles I read, I doubt that, because the nemesis system is supposed to be the whole point of the game. I don't think they're going to ditch their core system just to do branching convos.