grumbel commented on Operation Flashpoint 2 Is "Vast, Merciless"

"@wild homes has adopted...: The console conversion of Operation Flashpoint on the Xbox1 had one big flaw and that was that it came out way to late, i.e."

grumbel commented on AMD Graphics Chip More Powerful Than Every Game Console Combined, Says AMD

"There are 60 million of this generations consoles in peoples homes, there are exactly zero RV770 chips in peoples computers. While from a pure technical point of view its cool to see new stuff, from a gamer point of view it really doesn't matter much, since there is zero chance that this chip, just like all before, will ever be used to its full potential."

grumbel commented on Give Developers A Wish And They'll Wish For...

"@Datheron: I don't think that every game should try to be a simulation, my problem is simply that these days no game tries to be a simulation."

grumbel commented on Give Developers A Wish And They'll Wish For...

"I am jumping quite a bit between genres, so yes, what I describe might not have ever existed exactly like that, but it would have existed if trends of the past would have continued. Once up on a time flightsims pretty much where mainstream, maybe not the main-mainstream, but far from an obscure niche."

grumbel commented on Give Developers A Wish And They'll Wish For...

"@Datheron: The point isn't to frustrate players by not telling him where to go next, but to require him to understand why he should go there and where that 'there' actually is. In way to many of todays games I do what I do because a 'big blinking arrow' told me so, not because I understood the situation, the terrain or because I communicated with the NPCs and that is something I find incredible annoying, since it simply destroys the immersion and also makes it way to easy to just ignore basically all of the game except that blinking arrow."

grumbel commented on Give Developers A Wish And They'll Wish For...

"@Datheron: To a certain degree true, but its not just an issue that the graphics are better, but also an issue of the games getting overly simplified."

grumbel commented on Give Developers A Wish And They'll Wish For...

"Lazlo: Already invented, see NaturalMotions Euphoria Engine. My wish would be that somebody would stick the depth back into the game."

grumbel commented on Mass Effect On PC? NOT A PORT

"I hope by "conversion" they mean that they will write a proper userinterface for the PC instead of just slapping some crappy mouse control over an interface originally designed for the controller."

grumbel commented on Formula 1 Comes To Gran Turismo

"Nice, but lack of damage model will be even more obvious with a F1."

grumbel commented on A Look Back at the Games of Star Wars

"@megahurtz: Todays console gamepads have tons of buttons and sticks, mapping X-Wing Alliance to them really wouldn't be that hard if they tried, especially since most of the functions could be stuck into a simple menu and wouldn't need a real button."

grumbel commented on How Brutal Legend Fighting Works

"I still have some serious doubts about this game, what Tim Schafer is really good at is story, character and puzzles, not action based gameplay."

grumbel commented on Which Game Would You Unmake?

"Doom: In the hope that FPSs would never gain as much momentum as they did Monkey Island 3: So that there is still hope to get a real Monkey Island 2 sequel"

grumbel commented on Sam And Max Versus The Nipple Ring Vampire

"@HAHNCHEN: It is true that the episodes don't feel like a 'full' game, but, well, thats kind of the point, they are episodes after all."

grumbel commented on Dungeon Siege Movie Tanks, None Surprised

"@Altgod: He doesn't fail, his movies actually do make some money over here in Europe, DVD sales also seem to help."

grumbel commented on Dungeon Siege Movie Tanks, None Surprised

"So how many of the Boll bashers have actually seen the movie, just wondering?"

grumbel commented on Zero Punctuation on Super Mario Galaxy

"Wasn't a bad review, but I think he left out a bit."

grumbel commented on Another Brilliant Johnny Lee Wii Vid

"@MADMINSTREL: The special sensorbar is very cheap, most people already have a second Wiimote and even multiplayer shouldn't be a problem, the Wiimote can track four IR dots, figuring out which of those belong together shouldn't be to hard."

grumbel commented on Science Is Fun! - Physics In Games

"@Insomniabob: Absolutely agree, while gaming moves forward all the times, far to often we stop looking back at all the things that already have been done in the past and got forgotten along the way."