Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 5:41 AM
Sat Nov 14
47 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us: tips@kotaku.com
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
Email | AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
Email | AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
Email | AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
Email | AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
Email | AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
Email | AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/13/09
11/13/09
Hehe -- so are we in a "chicken-and-egg" situation now? #fallout
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
Though there should be a player limit to servers to keep it wastelandy. Instead of a wasteland....covered with people. :|
11/13/09
11/13/09
That, and it seems difficult to scavange in a world full of people...maybe there'd be a character limit, and EACH CHARACTER would have their own finds?
meaning, each character has every item ont he map available to collect, like in Fallout 3. Even if someone else got it, you can still get it, for your character. That way everybody can search for leftovers, there's no strangeness going on with respawning leftovers...
And then you can use raiders and enemies to get extra stuff. I think that would work nicely. #fallout
11/13/09
11/13/09
Also this could bomb bad. I think many current Fallout fans will of come from Bethseda's crack at the IP and be expecting something that plays out like FO3.
But we'll see, but unless interplay have pulled in a fair few new elements from FO3, it's not gonna do so great.
11/13/09
Sure, Bioware's never made an MMO before, but neither had Verant (Everquest) or Blizzard (WoW.) At least they have a very solid history in RPGs, and that goes a long way in my books.
For me, it'll mostly come down to how much grouping up is encouraged. I'm all for being able to solo stuff, but make grouping fun so people will want to do it. I'm far too much of a social MMO player (blasphemy, I know) to wait until endgame raiding to meet people.
The only downside is my wife isn't a fan of scifi games, so it'll be hard to convince her to play with me.
Plus I'll need new computers for us to play this on. Our 5 year old computers don't play much these days. #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
:) #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/13/09
Seems strangely familiar...why does he seem so familiar? Oh, right.
Joss Whedon is my master now. #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/13/09
Also the Operative didn't use a sniper rifle. #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/13/09
11/13/09
The character art seems rather generic as well... Shame.. #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/13/09
Though I still wish they would have focused on making a KoTOR 3 instead of this - ultimately, I'll take whatever they are willing to give. #starwarstheoldrepublic
11/08/09
11/08/09
Even if it's designed to be easily rolled out on more titles in the future?
Here's a post on NeoGAF - I don't know - does that get your attention, even if it's actually well written and describes the entire time-line of the in-game advertisement project..
[www.neogaf.com]
(Look - it's fricking NeoGAF, editors! WHEE! Must read! Yelp, yelp!) #lawsuit
11/08/09
Eh, people whining about in-game advertising need to give it up and stop acting like immature children. It's not like your game is getting interrupted by commercials, it's just part of the game art, get over it. #lawsuit
11/08/09
Have you seen it in /this particular case/? It's tv-style advertisements on the loading screens. Loud, fractured, flashing. Not in the game's art style, not unobtrusive - and the background downloading affects the game significantly.
And all this is retrofitted to the game long after I've bought it for full price.
I mean, why the f.... why would I complain about a few billboards, or a product placement? #lawsuit
11/08/09
The third? Well, I didn't notice anything huge that it mentioned. So what's that headline supposed to read? "New Wipeout Update Makes Loading Slightly Quicker By Tweaking Ads"?
Yeah, it's a bit effed up that Sony agreed to such ridiculous parameters for those advertisements in the first place, but this isn't really the time nor the place to discuss it. May I suggest "Talk Amongst Yourselves"? #lawsuit
11/08/09
[kotaku.com]
Already done. The difference this time is that update 2.10 affects gameplay in ways that 2.0 didn't. And it's clear that the system is meant to be put into any game with loading screens. It differs from for example what EA has done with billboards and so on that you download a package of tv-spot ads to be rotated endlessly. It's not a development tool to assign random ad-resources to textures around the game-world. It's a separate application drawing resources during gameplay. And no, it does not "fix" the loading time problem, like Studio Liverpool says. Anyone playing the game now can tell. #lawsuit
11/08/09
Wait, they're actual commercials, with sound?
Are you fucking kidding me? #lawsuit
11/08/09
11/09/09
So sue me.
@out-phaze: ..yes. Loud, tv-spot type ads right up to the start of the race. #lawsuit
11/09/09
BTW load time was not any longer but actually seemed shorter as I was being entertained. #lawsuit
11/10/09
"Hell, yes", you want ads in a game you already paid for.
Seriously, I give up. Consoles, console fans, console players, console fanatics, console publishers - go to hell. #lawsuit
11/08/09
I actually knew someone who said they planned on suing game companies because games are hard to play due to problems with his hands...
Call me insensitive, but if you're unable to do something, you're unable to do it. People shouldn't have to bend over backwards to open every activity up to everyone. I mean, ramps I can understand. Web readers I can understand. Subtitles and closed captions, yeah... But taking an experience that's centered around a sense and suing them because it doesn't accommodate your lack of it...
Ugh... That's just too much #lawsuit
11/07/09
Not only do they have more money, I've also rarely played a 360 game on an SDTV where I could actually read the text - and my vision is perfectly normal. #lawsuit
11/07/09
'auhhauhahghauh ahguh auhghuah nuahunauyagaun uahnu fuhauhanuna ufhaunua.'" #lawsuit
11/07/09
NOW IT MAKES SENSE! #lawsuit
11/07/09
That'd be like me suing Capcom because they wouldn't listen to my emails about including Jill Valentine in more games, Resident Evil or not... #lawsuit
11/07/09
There's a guy that lives in my area who is notorious for hunting down small businesses, who frequently violate the ADA by accident or because they can't afford not to, and sues them into oblivion to make an income. #lawsuit