Recent content by Enai Siaion

EVE Online?

Death mechanics are just a problem if 'not dying' is the entire point of the game. This is almost never what the story is about. The story is about killing Dr. Apocalypski before he launches his atomic robots. The actual game is about running the gauntlet to his base and then surviving until...

Mandatory logins are like speed limits. You may be a responsible driver who adapts his speed to the circumstances. A lot of other people are not and they may crash and kill you, unless there is a speed limit and cameras. The publishers KNOW people are annoyed by this. It costs them money...

So basically it isn't too obvious that you can save $5. I WONDER why it isn't obvious. League of Legends pulled the same stunt: the game is free, the version on the boxed dvd is exactly the same as the free version but if you buy the box you get a code to redeem for extra characters. Too bad...

Rogue Trip. (PS1 Twisted Metal spinoff by the original TM2 developers while the new team made the awful TM3 and TM4. It was actually good)

Sometimes you hear people claim that a game is 'repetitive'. Which would be just like soccer: all you do is kick a ball into a goal, over and over and over. Where are the vehicle sections? OMG this sport sucks. If I buy a sci-fi shooter, I buy it because I want to shoot things in a sci-fi...

I can't help but notice -again- that the existence of a link between violent games and violence does not imply a causal relationship. I don't play MW2 because I don't like gunning down realistic people with realistic guns. That happens too much in the real world. But an abstract, tactical...

Exactly. If the game has a bug that gives you an advantage, you have to be an idiot not to make use of it. There is no reason why we can't hold developers accountable for bugs in the same way we can hold them accountable for badly designed games or games that crash on the loading screen. If...

If the game is so broken that there is one cheap winning tactic, the game sucks. Find another game to play.

Blame the pirates. Making an internet connection required to play is the ONLY way to prevent rampant piracy and third party LAN-emulation networks. You can probably still pirate single player, but that defeats the point of Starcraft II.

Seems to work fine for League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth. It's just that Demigod sucked. Suggestion: make games actually worth playing online, and tie your account to a cd key. How many people pirate League of Legends? None. How many people pirate WoW? A very small amount. Stop...

Hmm. This kind of service will work in the cities of the future with fibre to the home - Shanghai, Beijing... It will not work elsewhere in the world. It only takes a bad ISP to have a hell of a time playing games. This might exclude entire countries like Spain, Italy, all of Eastern Europe...

How is it a problem that massing is a viable strategy? The difference between Starcraft and all the other crap is that it isn't the only viable strategy. Does any other game even have meaningful worker harrassment? Is scouting important in any other game? Didn't think so either.

I'd prefer to see the cutting edge graphics on consoles where there are no issues with drivers for that 1 month old video card and the price can be reduced through volume. There could be a midterm system upgrade, sold separately like the old 64 memory upgrade, to keep up with current technology...

This is all way off topic. The reason they're doing this is to make doubly sure that nobody could find a loophole to allow mods in the game, because they want to sell DLC. Also, by not allowing people to find good servers and form communities around those, they are taking away the aspect...