Recent content by Longsight

Now this is a thread I can post in without getting angry. The best beers in the world right now are coming out of the USA. I say this as a Brit and a beer-lover: the US is the place to be for beer at this moment. I know this might be confusing and terrifying to hear, but it's true. Okay...

Someone said something about there not being enough Mancs, so I should probably add my tuppence. Poor game against the Scouse today, but it turns out we can get a draw at Anfield with only half a team, which gives the entire attacking lineup time to rest up for the real game to come in...

I largely agree with you, and salute the smaller companies that are taking alternative routes towards producing content and charging for it. And, for the mostpart, I agree that people are going to prove less and less willing to charge through the nose in order to prop up companies that are...

Sure, but that still comes back to the point that your business model, whatever form it takes, has to remain profitable overall. Free-to-play games with optional premium extras work because enough people pay for the extras to cover overall development, on the basis that the extras themselves...

I see all your points, but you're destroying a different argument. I'm not saying that they're lost potential sales, under different circumstances; they're just lost sales in terms of the real-world price point, because it's not economically feasible for the major game companies to price their...

Everyone bringing up World of Goo and the first Humble Indie Bundle need to remember a couple of things: firstly, that the statistics you're quoting are merely percentages of the total, and say nothing about actual sales figures; and second, that a pirated copy does not directly equate to a lost...

Definitely. I never did make Portal maps in large numbers, but I crave more difficult puzzles, and the P2 additions make going all-out in terms of madness and difficulty worthwhile.

I call shenanigans on this; Steam didn't exist in 2001. I'm not normally one for posting funny captcha codes, but the hell is with ofewdo Δswitch? That's a delta symbol right there. That's not even on my keyboard, I had to google it.

This only happens with pre-loaded games though, because you download them in encrypted form and then they're unlocked on release - meaning that on release you only have, say, a 10-minute wait to decrypt them rather than a 10-hour wait to download them. Honestly, if you're ok with the concept...

You'll never find anything like it. There are other, more mundane things too, of course - a couple of days of sleep deprivation tends to do fun things to your sensory experience too.

A finished one. Like, as of today. Hopefully, come July or so, I'll be a graduated one.

I suppose, but the problem is it was a pretty damn perfect prototype at the time. It was new, it was unexpected, and as Yahtzee pointed out, it was perfectly fuckin' formed. Portal may have technically been a prototype, but its release was equivalent to accidentally pooping the Koh-i-Noor. It...

If they really did securely hash their passwords, I'll give them a cookie. Until more details about this particular attack emerge, I'm not throwing blame about. Doesn't exactly make Sony look wonderful though.

The most likely consequence of geohot's actions is that a custom firmware was developed which allowed too much information about the PSN to be revealed - which again is down to Sony's failings more than anything else. He might have enabled further exploration of the system, but that doesn't...

Ha, awesome. Yeah, I've been posting it around a bit lately to try to quell the tide of misinformation a bit.