Thursday Next
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Chill out, I'm not dusting off my red jacket just yet. I was told off by an American colleague for putting 24hr format in a contract, so I thought I'd see what the general consensus was here. Globally, most countries (from experience, my European and Asian colleagues) seem to use 24hr (certainly in writing), European countries use it in speech too. I was wondering if the 24hr clock gets taught in the US, or if it's a relatively alien concept outside of the military. To me 24hr seems like the most certain, least ambiguous format. No amount of bad hand writing will make 17:00 look like 05:00, but a scrawled pm could look like an am, so it's the one I prefer to use.
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Let's talk about time... Apparently in the US&A you do not use the 24hr clock. I've been told (well told off more to the point) that in America I will be looked at like some sort of nutter if I wrote 23:59:59 in a contract.
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Is Borderlands GotY worth £11.99?
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I played by myself for a few hours and I didnt enjoy it. Its obvious that its supposed to be played with other people. It doesnt have a good story, very few cutscenes, and very little dialogue. Its very repetitive. The gameplay is ok, but nothing to warrant how repetitive I thought it was. Not a good single player game.
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Yes, definitely get the GotY edition. You get all 4 DLC packs, and each pack sells for 9.99 US. The GotY edition is 29.99 US (last I saw on Steam), with the standard being 19.99 US. So if you buy just the standard and then just one DLC pack, you basically already paid the same price as the GotY. The only DLC worth getting is General Knoxx, though.
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I'm still miffed at my copy because all the DLC were once-use codes, but a friend of mine got it too and they were all on a disc.
BAAAAAW
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Will have to add some of you chappies for BF3 action.
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Star Wars is not "fairly popular". Comparing Star Wars to Warhammer is like comparing Lord of the Rings to A Song of Ice and Fire.
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This is the problem with offering access to an event so far in advance. Lots of things can change along the way and what might have originally been intended to be a much bigger, longer running event may get pared down to something much less exciting.
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Agreed Yant. It's all marketing BS.
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If electrons can travel through time though... that does mean one thing to me... Computers that will have done shit before you tell them to already did it!
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I heard that BF3 is going to be the first AAAAA game. Seriously, what a load of rubbish. I thought "triple A" was a ridiculous enough "110%" style of saying your game is great, but now we have "quadruple A"? Give me a break.
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Pretty much agree with Yante. Games are goal oriented. Get a high score, get to the end of the level, save the girl, etc. If you can add smaller goals along the way you sustain the players interest. Being rewarded is great, having an achievable reward just around the corner is even better. I can't count the number of times I've played one more round to get the last 500, 1,000, 100,000 exp needed to get the next upgrade, unlock or what have you.
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It does.
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Ummm... so like, it's all infinite goods right, and I don't even like half the games I play to completion, and this one time I downloaded a game to demo it and finished it inlike 6 hours, but I didn't get all the collectibles, so no way am I paying for that. I mean it's exactly like if I buy a car and there's a game in it, and I keep it, does a tree fall in the woods? ITLaPD
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DRM, Online Pass, Project Ten Dollar and the like
Thursday Next replied to Yantelope's topic in General Gaming Chat
:-O I totally said this same thing... stop pirating my thoughts! EDIT: Yeah! Here it is. Brain Pirate! http://forum.pressxordie.com/index.php?showtopic=425&view=findpost&p=62198 -
Platformers jumped to the top before either of those...
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Pacifist Trophy is annoying. I didn't kill anyone, but it seems that someone died by misadventure, while being dragged or something. Lame.
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I don't see how you can say "FPS's are neither dumb nor simplistic". The genre itself has no special protection from dumbness or simplicity. Simplistic, dumb shooters are both simplistic and dumb. Just like simplistic dumb rpg's are. There are a great many FPS's made these days, as a result there are more simplistic dumb shooters than there are simplistic dumb RPG's even if the % is the same. It should also be borne in mind that with so many shooters, and the average length of the shooter being far less than an rpg, ideas quickly become stale, while the rpg tends to take longer to build up the mechanics and they often change between iterations. Take for example the FF series where the combat mechanics change greatly from game to game, while Halo has kept the same weapons, enemies, tactics and so forth throughout the 3/4 games in the series. In Halo you used plasma weapons to take down Elite shields, then projectiles to finish them off. You do the same in Halo 3. FPS are seen as dumb because the core mechanics don't change from game to game, there's no (or little) learning curve in a new game. In RPG's the learning curve is more obvious as you start weak and increase from there. You can't start a lvl 1 in an RPG and headshot everything, you can in an FPS.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americentrism?
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That comment thread is amazing. Seriously... so much tea...
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True, early adoption is a risk, that said, I did ok with my Sony purchases in the past. The PS, PS2, PSP and PS3 all served well (the PS2 lasted the full generation, died just after the PS3 launched and the PS3lasted about 5 years before the ylod). The PSP hardware wise never let me down. Software line up was spotty at first.
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That person is an idiot. If you pull the release catch the PSP will eject the disc. Solution? Don't pull the release catch. I bought a PSP on day one, never had this problem, never heard of anyone else who had it either.
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"Let Me In" was (according to my sister who has seen both - I've only seen "Let the right one in") a shot by shot remake of the film. The dialogue was identical, in fact about the only thing that did change was the voices and that the boy had blonde hair in the Swedish one and the girl brunette, which was reversed for the American version. It's a remake because it is clearly derived primarily from the other film and not from the source material. I think you'll find Jackson's Hobbit will bring more from the source than there is in the animated film. Mark Kermode (I think he's a bit of a marmite bloke, but I like him) talks about American remakes here: http://www.bbc.co.uk..._right_one.html He also calls it "the most redundant remake of the year." Oh and this... http://www.bbc.co.uk...tive_let_m.html Other things that point to the film being a remake are that Hammer first approached the director of "Let the right one in" to remake it into "let me in". EDIT:- Ummm my post did a remake of itself... purely unintentional.
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And with that, the WiiU's USP becomes not so U. At the risk of fan-boy baiting, Sony seem to be getting everything right with the Vita, the hardware seems good, the price is not too steep, the features they are announcing are all a nice progression from the PSP... Nintendo on the other hand, seem to be misstepping all over the place. The only bright side for Nintendo is that if the PS Vita does well and the remote play stuff takes off, third parties are more likely to develop it for two platforms (WiiU and PS3 + PS Vita) than just for the WiiU.
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Fanatical love for a game or series?
Thursday Next replied to Keywork's topic in General Gaming Chat
I've got a soft spot for the Legacy of Kain series. Blood Omen 2 wasn't great, but still, wish they'd make another game. -
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There is a case to be made for that sort of confusion when there are so many Battlefield games out there with different subtitles (bad company, heroes, 1943). Now, Scrolls and Elder Scrolls, on the other hand...
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So what would be the reasoning behind going after small dev commissioned to make the game rather than The BBC who came up with?
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It's not about "going after" anyone. EA wanted the name changed, that's it. No compensation, no money, nothing. If we made a video game of the 1992 Beyond the Call of Duty film, Activision would come talk to us about changing the name, they wouldn't talk to the original film makers, they'd talk to us. Essentially, Slitherine brought the Battlefield Academy name into EA's world, so they got the letter.
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Terribly, terribly pleased that I cancelled my pre-order of this device. I'd have been massively disappointed. I've not learned my lesson though, I'm still clinging on to my Vita pre-order.
