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AusGAF 8 - Worksafe Wankers
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You know, that would almost perfectly pinpoint when I started to lose interest in Hyper. Also, I wonder if there's some correlation between that phenomenon and when the gaming journalism industry started to lose their way. Assuming they were getting paid to put up their marking material as the cover, I'm going to say... yes.Yeah, I've long held the opinion that modern games magazines started losing their appeal when they moved from originally commissioned art to using publisher-supplied images.
I mean compare these
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I was only shitstirring
Planet_JASE
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Lumines is about 700mb. The capacity of Vita carts is... whatever they want it to be. They can theoretically use flash memory of any size but the largest game so far has been about 3.2gig. I think.
Hey Fred, you were saying yesterday? :lol
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/urine-v...nd-plumbing-20130208-2e24x.html#ixzz2KFZbABJO
How incredibly stupid can you get.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/urine-v...nd-plumbing-20130208-2e24x.html#ixzz2KFZbABJO
How incredibly stupid can you get.
reptilescorpio
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LOL MYSTERY
WE DUNNIE KNOW HOW THE PISS GOT IN THAR!
I agree that having your cover look just like every other one on the shelf is boring as fuck.
My favourite PCPP cover was one that Paul Steed had made up for them especially when he had an interview with them for Quake 2. Just looks random as fuck, which really draws your eye to it.
WE DUNNIE KNOW HOW THE PISS GOT IN THAR!
Wait, we aren't allowed to say the n-word around kids?
I think that was mainly laziness and pinching pennies more than anything else. Using assets they get given for free is a lot easier and cheaper than finding an artist to do something cool.
I agree that having your cover look just like every other one on the shelf is boring as fuck.
My favourite PCPP cover was one that Paul Steed had made up for them especially when he had an interview with them for Quake 2. Just looks random as fuck, which really draws your eye to it.
bodyboarder
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I vaguely remember that... not the cover itself, but something about it. All I know of custom covers (given I never really bought UK mags) was what Matt Hatton did for Hyper. I'm pretty sure that the only early ones he didn't do were #1 (Chun-Li) and number... 4, I think (NBA Jam, with a flaming basketball on the front). For some reason, I distinctly remember buying that one in the Virgin Megastore in Melbourne CBD. Weird, huh?
ClivePwned
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http://www.imaginesubs.co.uk/subscribe-to-retro-gamer
https://www.imagineshop.co.uk/magazines/retrogamer.html
we can't all be awesom, I guess.
reptilescorpio
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If this was fiction you'd think it was too far fetched to be believable.
Also CMI scored higher than Quake 2
Haha, 1998: Are singleplayer games doomed?
reptilescorpio
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Dat ADSL on the horizon!
To be fair, compared to 1998 they kinda are.
Maybe AAA wise, but there are tonnes of indie and arcade SP games.
Trudat.
codswallop
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I wonder how much that $15,000 "fastest games PC in the world" PC is worth now and if the winner still has it.
I recently found my old PCPP issues, some of them from 97 and 98. I'll post some Beast specs when I get home tonight!
reptilescorpio
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I would expect that my son's Leapster Explorer has stronger specs lol
Holy indeed!
reptilescorpio
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Dat delay
We already knew it was coming even before it came out on WiiU, some Ubi guy had said they would look at porting it to other platforms in a pre-release interview.
EDIT: Oh wait, they pushed all versions back? LOL
reptilescorpio
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Lower than expected WiiU hardware sales have led to publishers putting WiiU projects on the back burner as their projected break even budget point is looking less likely to be hit in a reasonable time frame at this point.
Move projects to launch in the holiday period when install base is hopefully larger to improve probability of game release turning a profit.
Unless Nintendo are willing to moneyhat ala PS3/360 launch years.
This should have never been a surprise though to anyone.
The only really good Nintendo systems that had 3rd party support, Heck I would say even better games on the systems than Nintendo themselves, was the NES and SNES.
Since then it's all been about Nintendo IPs pushing their hardware. There was nothing about the Wii U that said anything differently.
So it's not a surprise that rayman is coming out on other platforms. I guess the actual surprise is the delay involved, They could have easily released it on the wii u and shoved it out on current gen 6 months later.
Putting a game on other systems isn't abandoning Nintendo systems really.
codswallop
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The only difference I can see is Iwata has specifically called out third parties as something they aren't doing well (did they do this on Wii? Probably not considering it's success), as well as potentially putting his job on the line.
A previous exclusive is a bit weird.
When it was announced specifically as something that could only be done on Wii U, and used to push the system at launch before being delayed in the last week, then delayed + port announced 2 weeks before its final release was due - that's a clusterfuck of misdirection for anyone who bought the system for this game.
Something like Ninja Gaiden 3 being ported (again) wouldn't be surprising at all. But this sure is.
Happens all the time to the 360. Third party platform exclusives died in the 360/PS3 gen for the most part.
reptilescorpio
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How did ZombiU sell? Could be part of the decision to delay Rayman. Ubi probably diverted employees from solely working on the WiiU version a while back.
Platform holder moneyhats have become less regular due to just how damn expensive some games are to make at this point, so opening up customers on more than one install base is a no brainer really. Especially if a publisher is desperate to make a heap of money.
Platform holder moneyhats have become less regular due to just how damn expensive some games are to make at this point, so opening up customers on more than one install base is a no brainer really. Especially if a publisher is desperate to make a heap of money.
360 is the platform which has "taken" most of the platform exclusives into the multiplatform market. As in, everyone expected series like Final Fantasy or DMC would stay on PS3, and MS had enough carrots to make them multiplatform.
The context is a bit different on Nintendo systems though. Since they have long had a stigma of only being bought for first party games, there have been a couple of prominent incidents of exclusives being announced as multiplatform in the month before release. One major example was Resident Evil 4, for example.
If third party exclusives are rare now, that makes it a bigger deal when they are announced as such, as Rayman Legends was. The fact it was developed with a touchscreen helper character in mind made it look far more likely to be Wii U specific, and any other (completely likely) Rayman Origin/Legends game would come to the other systems without that specific mechanic.
It does come across as a dickish move by the publishing/marketing arm of Ubisoft.
Plus, It's Rayman. Let's be honest here, That IP hasn't sold well in terms of units in forever. It's pretty much a dead IP and while the Rayman game we got last year looked pretty and was favourable with reviews, It didn't set the Rayman IP back on fire.
So this is pretty much them going, fuck, we need to actually sell units to justify making this thing. All three consoles it is!
So this is pretty much them going, fuck, we need to actually sell units to justify making this thing. All three consoles it is!
Crapitalism
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Bugger Rayman, did you hear that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate's online has been confirmed region locked??
Again??
Damn you, Nintendo.
Again??
Damn you, Nintendo.
FormallyMegadrive
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What, you mean exactly like the original MH3?
reptilescorpio
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In the Ubi conference call this time last year they said Origins turned a profit and they were going to make it one of their continual IP's, so it's one of their top level franchises at least.
Not that it means much the way this gen has gone lol
It seems obvious they really want to try and make the Rayman brand popular once again. Origins and it's spinoffs were put on 50 different systems, so it's not surprise they were able to actually make some profit from it.
With the Wii U selling so so though right now, It's obvious they need to ditch the exclusivity to continue to push the IP as best they can.
They probably won't but you should still totally go anyway!
Crapitalism
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It was a horrible experience last time. A man is allowed to dream, Yagharek, a man is allowed to dream.
Box of Bunnies
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Rayman going to other platforms doesn't bother me, I'm all for as many people as possible being able to play what looks like a quality game. Pushing the Wii U version back half a year so close to release, unless they're reworking or adding content, is a dick move.
reptilescorpio
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The only logical reason I can think of is to make it a marketing blitz at the end of the year rather than try and do 2 seperate marketing campaigns 6 months apart, which would be a less efficient way to spend the marketing budget.
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