grumbel commented on Oh Noes: Far Cry Releasing in Germany Only

"@Alex_Mexico: He gets video game licenses because he simply buys them for cheap."

grumbel commented on Brothers In Arms Trailer Not For The Squeamish

"@ChiChi_BBQ: The problem is that a game needs to have calm moments that give you room to think about your actions and their consequences."

grumbel commented on Brothers In Arms Trailer Not For The Squeamish

"@liveinabin: Operation Flashpoint does that somewhat, mainly by making the player just as vulnurable as the enemies."

grumbel commented on Brothers In Arms Trailer Not For The Squeamish

"Looks pretty crap, random WWII shooter, now with exploding Nazi head..."

grumbel commented on Cancelled Eight Days Had Awesome Animation, Makes Us Angry At EyePet

"Looks good, but doesn't really look all that different then most other games these days, so I wouldn't really call it 'awesome'."

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."