Video Games...Discuss Them

[Fezzik]

I just bought FIFA 13 for the PC for $15 on Amazon. Very happy

[Skitch]

I loved 2. That's the only one I've played. 3 was supposed to be a huge letdown from the 2nd so I never got around to it.

3 suffered the same problems as 2 imo, biggest of which is that you're always more powerful than your adversaries. I don't know if I died more than a dozen times combined playing through both of them. I really enjoy the series, warts and all. They are far from perfect, but I really like the fighting system. Its simple. Duke, you're kind of a fan of RPG's I consider outside of my ability to play, so I imagine you won't be terribly impressed with the series, as it isn't very deep.

[Morris Schæffer]

More or less completed Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. What can I say? I'm glad I'm done. Have I run out of patience to soldier through such ginormous videogames? Of course, it's up to me whether I do all the side-quests, but it's not that easy. On the one hand, it doesn't feel like I have to, but since I paid for the game, and since side quests may reveal some really cool bits, it feels like I'd be missing out to skip most of them. Anyway, cool game with a particularly accomplished sense of time and place. Not as fresh as part 2, but still memorable. I'm always amazed at how chimneys, rooftops and whatnot line up in perfect succesion to allow for that perfect parkour run. The storyline involving Desmond is sort of ho-hum, and the finale does make me curious about what really happened, but it's really about Ezio and fighting the Borgia's for me. All the rest feels pretty tenuous. Some glyph puzzles were brutal, and solving them didn't make them any clearer as per how they got solved. Not sure I'm gonna get Revelations, but AC III I may yet in the near future.

On to Max Payne 3 now. I mean, every so often I wanna play a more recent videogame instead of lagging behind years all the time.

[Dukefrukem]

I just beat Half-Life 2 for the 32243242th time. 100% achievements this time around.

[megladon8]

On to Max Payne 3 now. I mean, every so often I wanna play a more recent videogame instead of lagging behind years all the time.

Awesome! Enjoy!

One of last year's best, and one of the all-time best video game stories.

[Dukefrukem]

:-o @ Sony!

[D_Davis]

I'm betting it will have more to do with (possibly) preventing piracy than it does with preventing people from playing used/borrowed games.

I'm all for that.

If, though, it prevents me from playing used/borrowed games, I will not be buying the next Sony console. Period.

[Dukefrukem]

It's an RFID patent. It doesn't look like the game will work with any other system. It will be tied yours.

[Dukefrukem]

There's also no evidence this will be in the next system but they definitely filed for the patent.

[D_Davis]

It's an RFID patent. It doesn't look like the game will work with any other system. It will be tied yours.

Yes, I know, I read through the publication today at work. It could also be used as a measure to help prevent piracy. The machine would have to read any RFID to play the disc. It could be simply to stop pirated discs from being used on a machine.

But, it could also be used for that other use, and that would not be good!

[Dukefrukem]

Ah I see what you're saying. Let's hope it's for piracy.

[SirNewt]

Finally got around to playing through Saints Row III. It's pretty much what I thought GTA would be this generation.

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The ending was kind of unsatisfying though. Hopefully Volition will survive the THQ rout.

[Skitch]

Any system that blocks the use of used games will be a failure. That's my personal prediction.

[megladon8]

Even though I don't personally buy used games, I would still be in the camp that would boycott a system that doesn't allow them to be played.

That's a really shitty move.

[number8]

In either case, I assume it'll drive up the cost of games if they have to embed a chip on every game disc.

[Ezee E]

In either case, I assume it'll drive up the cost of games if they have to embed a chip on every game disc.

Even more of a reason to steer clear. $60 is already pushing it.

[bac0n]

In either case, I assume it'll drive up the cost of games if they have to embed a chip on every game disc.

And if the game manufacturers no longer have to compete with the second hand market, that'll drive up prices too.

[Skitch]

Bottom line: there's no way I could afford to be a gamer with out used games. NO way.

[SirNewt]

In either case, I assume it'll drive up the cost of games if they have to embed a chip on every game disc.

It almost certainly won't be a chip embedded in the disk. It will probably just be an NFC sticker in the box.

If this diagram represents the bulk of the patent this is definitely something that is too broad to warrant getting one.

[D_Davis]

It almost certainly won't be a chip embedded in the disk. It will probably just be an NFC sticker in the box.

Yep, and this tech is very cheap.

[Ezee E]

Played XCom forever last night. Strange that I feel bad for my soldiers.

[Yxklyx]

Played XCom forever last night. Strange that I feel bad for my soldiers.

Is it pretty much like the original? I've heard they removed some aspects, like Stunning. And your bases are never attacked?

[D_Davis]

Your base never gets attacked, but the game is hard enough without having to worry about that!

[Dukefrukem]

In either case, I assume it'll drive up the cost of games if they have to embed a chip on every game disc.

RFIDs are pennies. Like the discs they are printed on. In mass production the extra cost is null.

[D_Davis]

Let's say this RFID thing is to tie games to systems, then the consoles will just be even more like PCs. You can't loan the games you've purchased on Steam to other people, and you can't sell/buy digital downloads as used games. Games are tied to your Steam account, and from what I can gather from my glorious PC Overlords who remind me at every chance, PC gamers love Steam. This is the main reason why we have rarely, RARELY seen PC games for rent at stores.

So the more I think about it, the more I'm OK with it.

Worst case scenario is you have to pay the publishers an extra $5 to unlock the used game to use on your system. This will mean that stores like Gamestop will have to lower the already-too-high prices on their used games, and maybe more money on used sells will go back to the publishers and developers, and not into Gamestop's pockets.