<![CDATA[Comments from MaxS]]> <![CDATA[Comments from MaxS]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented]]> @WorldMaker: Surely, he's named after my boss Thierry Ackerman =)

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS clipped Super Chuck Norris Bros. — Wait, This is *Real*?]]> <![CDATA[MaxS clipped Test Drive Spore Prototypes]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Warhammer Ready To Hammer Russia]]> Bash, why didn't you mention who's localising and publishing it in Russia? I'm reading this from my phone, can't check any links.
It's kinda important to know, since good localisations are still rather rare in Russia. Sometimes it's better to just stick with the original.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Red Alert 3's Cocktail Menu]]> @Communist_Gamer: You win, comrade. The prize is a cocktail of Stolichnaya vodka and Buratino lemonade (1 litre each) while watching Russia-Turkey eurocup finals :D

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Does This Latest Update Prove Diablo III? (Or Not??)]]> Anyone knows any runewords with Shael and Hel? :D At least we're getting -20% Requirements with the latter, hehe.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Win The Laser Etched PS3, Now Under More Dire Circumstances]]> Oh, the irony of PS3 being the cure for cancer... At least it might be a painkiller if Dave goes to see his father. Best of luck to on this one, WhaleMenace

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Inevitable Spore Creations, Part XLVII]]> I guess I'm gonna be slightly more original (though not unique) if I ever play Spore. A planet full of rabbids will simply blow me mind away.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on New Asus Gaming Rig Is Actually The Fifth Cylon]]> @shak_0: Not for gaming, they don't. Photoshop or video editing, yes.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Blizzard Website Teasing Something Cold]]> If they did the same thing as last year - that is, changing the splash pic every day as a kind of countdown, - that'd be cool. Gonna check tomorrow if it does. =)

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on A Week In Comments]]> @InsidiousTuna: Oh, it's me who should be thanking you, reading that in the morning made my day ;)

Also, Kyattsuai can have a wakka or tow

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS clipped Free-To-Play MMORTS Dreamlords Launching Wednesday]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Fan-Industry Interactions: the Case of Fallout]]> That paragraph has nothing on my lecturer's vector calculus notes :P

The first six pages I read in this text didn't look that bad, but I didn't really find the subject interesting enough to read it through.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Interview: How Cloud Computing Changes Trion's Game]]> *thin-client -_-

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Interview: How Cloud Computing Changes Trion's Game]]> If I get this correctly, they're planning to do a full-blown MMO in think-client format. Kinda neat. It's nothing new, really - just look at all the browser games out there. But I guess they're going for the scale of a "noraml" MMO like WoW or GW or anything, and if they're gonna pull this off, I'm going to be impressed (but I already am with Van Caneghem being involved). If someone doesn't know what a thin-client is - imagine playing a modern MMO without the need to install some 10GB client and the same amount of patches. Basically, the server does everything for you, so you don't need a fast machine to play, and in theory it could be the same on any platform.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Trion Also At Work On First-Party Van Caneghem MMO, PS3 Titles]]> I was wondering for a long time what had happened to Van Caneghem after NWC went down. If I'd be to judge what's coming from this Trion thing by the stuff that he did for Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic (the first 6 and 3 titles, respectively), this is going to be awesome. I still think HoMM with all its add-ons is the best turn-based strategy game ever.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV]]> @Tori Floyd: Glad to see someone pointing that out =) "Equal rights" is not the same as "more rights"

Thank you, Leigh, for a fine article and good analysis.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Just Spend £50 And Sing On A USB Mic]]> Yeah, somehow I missed that point. Still expensive, though.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Just Spend £50 And Sing On A USB Mic]]> Hm, so you can use the SingStar mic, which comes with a PS3 game. In that case, since Rock Band is only out on xbox in Europe right now, you either have a PS3 as well as the 'box, or you lose out. Great.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on The History of RPGs: The Game List]]> Seems there's too many JRPGs :/

Also, the list needs ADOM right next to Nethack.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on AMD Holding Up Their End Of The PC Gaming Bargain]]> @dv8godd: I wanted to answer something to that, but got lost in a whirlwind of thoughts by the time I got to the end of your comment. But kcm117 has a point here - there's thousands of books available now on upgrading pcs, but most people don't even go to bookshops these days.

Anyway, I find it strange that I see people who'd complain today about PC games industy not doing enough to stay competitive, and tomorrow they'd moan about the first steps it's doing in the right direction.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on AMD Holding Up Their End Of The PC Gaming Bargain]]> @dv8godd: A) Upgrading PCs is simple - you just get a part that you need, plug it in and install some drivers. The problem here is the huge choice of components that consumers are offered. When you've got a dozen of products to choose from, an average joe would surely get confused.

B) Most games that come out on PC don't require top-end hardware, if you don't put the settings too high. And still, even if you're using medium or whatnot you'll probably get a better picture than most console games.

C) PC never really was competing with consoles, cause it's not an exclusively gaming platform and you can do so much more with it.

In fact, gamewise it actually has a much broader scope than any console. No xbox live or playstore will give you the amount of indie, flash and open source games that the PC has apart from the usual big releases. And no console will (in forseeable future) give you the possibilities for modding and total conversions that give the games a much longer lifespan.

In short - PC gaming stands apart from the consoles and has it's own gaming world, a much more diverse than on the consoles. The only place where it's struggling against the products of MS, Sony and Nintendo is in the heads of some people who think that if it's not as good as consoles it's doomed.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on AMD Holding Up Their End Of The PC Gaming Bargain]]> Those aren't simply stickers - to get one a pc would need to meet certain spec criteria and certification, so that what you get is really capable of running games at decent performance. Thus peeps will get what they need even if they dont know anything about hardware, unlike vista-(un)ready crap you get at pcworld. The specs for certification will also be updated twice a year so they wont fall behind.
PS Amd beats intel and nvidia at that it produces cpus, gpus and m/b chipsets all at once.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Hell for Gamers]]> @KamuZ: I just did that in 5 seconds with my index and middle fingers :P

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Hell for Gamers]]> It would be a lot of fun to watch someone try to play Wii without thumbs. Even if you manage to hold the 'mote with only 4 fingers, using only 1 button is a bit over-simplified.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on "theGAYERGamer" Gets Xbox Live Ban, Microsoft Explains]]> Whatever happened to the first four definitions of the word? :(
Gay -adjective
1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
4. licentious; dissipated; wanton: The baron is a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Chinese MMOs Go After Tibetans ... Er, 'Drug Smugglers']]> Show me a country where the media isn't biased towards some point of view or the other. I'm not taking any sides here, but it annoys me when someone tries to use a great cultural event to push their agenda.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Prince William Kicking Ass, Taking Names (At Wii Sports)]]> @phicaluk: Hey, I know that! I hear those poor sods screaming from the dungeons whenever I go for a stroll down the Thames banks. I've actually meant his first comment.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Prince William Kicking Ass, Taking Names (At Wii Sports)]]> It's scary to see so many people to freak out because - o shocker! - they didn't see the joke a guy made. You probably expected fluffy, politically correct bunnies all over the internet, am I right?

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Foldit Makes Protein Folding A Game]]> I am amused at how people are getting all excited about doing "science", er, that is all the trial-and-error brute-forcing when all the analytics have been done for them. It's like marking physics exams using a reference answer sheet.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on A 70-year-old's Take on GTA IV]]> Sweet. First we had Fahey's mom commenting, now it's Crecente's dad and GTA. You at the Kotaku Tower are an awesome lot, keep it up!

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Fallout 3 Lead: "We're Console Players Now"]]> I'll wait and see what we actually get in the end, but it seems that us PC gamers will have to turn to the indie developers to get any kind of proper games now.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on UK Mother Blames Nintendo For Badly-Behaved Kids]]> >What is constructive about [...] watching a hideous pink pony trot around a pink palace decorated with shells?The only sensible statement ever to come out of Daily Mail

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Ian Bogost on Advertising in Games]]> @Makoto: He was a guest editor here at Kotaku a few months ago

On the topic - I think Anarchy Online had one of the best (and probably one of the first) in-game ads, at least in MMOs. I mean, when I first saw Alienware billboards in the cities on Rubi-Ka (the planet where the game takes place) I didn't even know what the hell it was, and it didn't look out of place in an alien world =) Also, I think they had adverts of some gunmaker, but not sure about that. And taht was before they signed a contract with Massive, the online ads company.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Five Ways to Simplify Complex Controllers]]> Most games I play use a keyboard, and you probably can't get any more complex than that. But it does the job well. And, you get an attachment peripherial - a mouse. ;)

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Okamoto Warns Of Atari Caliber DS Crash]]> Here's a solution, Nintendo. You create a new division that makes DS Housewife Edition and software (I'm not calling that games) for it. And then you leave game-making and everything else to real developers. Deal?

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Okamoto Warns Of Atari Caliber DS Crash]]> Why don't Nintendo just create a new division that would make a DSHousewife edition and spit out that kind of software (I'm not calling it games) for whoever wants it? And give us some actual games that are good...

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Grade the Draft!]]> Max Payne has enough charisma to talk his enemies to death, and we're not even talking about his arsenal yet.

Plus, he's my namesake, which makes him ten times as awesome.

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS commented on Stalin Vs. Martians]]> @Sogarth: Your post is true on so many levels :thumbsup: The line "We're Russians and we possibly know the subject better than you" sums is up rather nicely.

I shall put this game on my wishlist for a lack of other good humorous games. And for comrade Stalin!

]]> <![CDATA[MaxS clipped Going Off the Deep End: Has Gaming Grown Up?]]>