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10/23/09
My guess, it is a single- and multi-player, multiplatform reboot of the Unreal series. #unrealengine
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Compared to CoD4 sales, yes. Nobody bought TF2.
Look it up yourselft, TF2 has 10% the players of Counterstrike which outsells TF2 week after week after week. [store.steampowered.com]
But Valve really pulled the trick of selling TF2 to the media, so it is over-represented like hell. #unrealengine
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Counter-Strike is a bit like WoW, it is the big long term magnet. Multiplayer only competition such as UT3 or Quake Live, did not even leave a dent.
Especially with titles such as CoD4 or Halo3 around, there is no incentive to buy a multiplayer only game. You'd just get less. #unrealengine
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10/22/09
Mmh. Me thinks they may have been secretly working on Unreal II The Awakening sequel. Unreal III with UE3. #unrealengine
10/22/09
@Str8_Jihadin: It reminds me more of the new UPS logo. #unrealengine
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10/22/09
I wanted Unreal Tournament 3, not Gears of War: UT Edition Beta Remix +++.
If this IS a new UT, they better do a better damn job of putting it together, add some freakin color, and keep their console and PC versions (if there is a console version) SEPARATE! No more half assed releases! #unrealengine
10/22/09
I always thought the UT3 engine was a joke personally. I mean it's obvious when a game uses that engine. Everything is brown... gray... and looks like latex. Oh and let's not forget that all characters have ridiculously large muscles when they are put into the UT3 engine. #unrealengine
10/22/09
Something tells me you don't know what a game engine actually is. The artwork that people create for it =/= the actual engine. #unrealengine
10/22/09
No, no, and no. Everything is brown, gray, and latex when developers use the engine because (and I stress this) those developers are effing lazy.
The engine is capable of a lot more than lazy developers use it for. #unrealengine
10/22/09
@Ethyn: This times a million billion. UT3 was just a big let down to me. I've tried to get myself to really get into the game and everytime I just end up thinking, "I could be playing UT99 (or 2k4)." #unrealengine
10/22/09
@elevenoverzero: Nicely said.
While most people bitch and moan about unreal engine, in actuality its very nice to work with. It runs on all hardware (consoles, PC, etc) and its quite flexible, look at games like Mass Effect, Gears of War, Mirrors Edge, and pretty soon Natal games.
Just because games look like Gears of War, doesnt mean its the engines fault, its developers choosing to mimic the style in order to cash in on the wave Gears started. #unrealengine
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Learn 2 sarcasm. Most UT3 based games have gray, brown and giant muscles. #unrealengine
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@Str8_Jihadin:
Also all characters will now look like this. Only with Unreal. #unrealengine
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I think so... #unrealengine
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lol, not again! #unrealengine
10/22/09
That or something to do with the Make something unreal contest. Maybe new mod tools so us ps3 users can get the same goodies the pc fellas get. #unrealengine
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@PsychoNun: UT2K4 was pretty good as well. It didn't capture me the way the original did, but it was still pretty solid. I can see why the slowed down gameplay would give it a wider appeal, but for me UT has always been one of those eyeball bustin' shooters, so I was pretty disappointed. #unrealengine
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09/30/09
What excites me about this article, and what I fear may be getting lost on some readers, is that this study was not about the effects of playing video games, but rather it used video games as a medium to test a hypothesis about a broader concept. That is a significant move away from the botched and mishandled studies that attempt to show medium-specific correlations between video games and violence/aggression. This is a trend we are starting to see more of in the field and I find it very satisfying that researchers are beginning to find value in games as useful tools for conducting scientifically valid work.
Also, props to the researchers for developing a much greater test of construct validity in studies involving games as compared to many of the studies before it, particularly the daft, but oft quoted Anderson/Dill studies, which failed the criteria of the scientific method on pretty much every level.
09/29/09
i'm confused as to how this relates to gamers simply because they used video games, what was their control group to understand how gamers are different than any people in any sort of competitive task.
09/30/09
Otherwise, all I see is 'Competitive game makes people competitive."
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09/29/09
Then come back with your results.
09/29/09
I always thought we were addicted to winning. Perhaps we're actually addicted to the rush of chemicals when we win. I wonder what would happen if they designed an experiment where winners were under some sort of mechanism that blocked them from experiencing the rush of chemicals. Would we still be as driven to win?
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