Zero Punctuation: E3 2013

[Evonisia]

And no mention of Project Spark... Why not? Everyone seems to have forgotten about it.

It's actually the exclusive I'm looking forward to most if I get an Xbox One.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

I do think it's funny how the only company who actually tries anything outside the box is Nintendo. AAA devs just HATE having to go for depth over spectacle

But with Nintendo you just have to eat severely tenderized horse meat. Sure the meats fine, but something in the back of your mind just won't shut up about about the fact it's a dead horse.

And if you took away the exclusives then there would be absolutely no point in ever buying a Wii-U or an Xbox. A bit of a cop out, but it's true.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

And no mention of Project Spark... Why not? Everyone seems to have forgotten about it.

It's actually the exclusive I'm looking forward to most if I get an Xbox One.

I have a theory that most people just don't have a thing for building stuff and seeing it in action. Too bad really.

 

[Evonisia]

And no mention of Project Spark... Why not? Everyone seems to have forgotten about it.

It's actually the exclusive I'm looking forward to most if I get an Xbox One.

I have a theory that most people just don't have a thing for building stuff and seeing it in action. Too bad really.

Yeah, they must have a thing for building stuff then posting it on YouTube... *cough* Minecraft.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Yeah, they must have a thing for building stuff then posting it on YouTube... *cough* Minecraft.

Hey, I WANT TO BELIEVE, OK? Just sayian, if Project Spark didn't attract that much interest then what is going on?

 

[Evonisia]

Yeah, they must have a thing for building stuff then posting it on YouTube... *cough* Minecraft.

Hey, I WANT TO BELIEVE, OK? Just sayian, if Project Spark didn't attract that much interest then what is going on?

Not sure to be honest, but me thinks that Project Spark's going to under perform because of the Xbox One, Xbox One Minecraft and Minecraft PC

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Yeah, they must have a thing for building stuff then posting it on YouTube... *cough* Minecraft.

Hey, I WANT TO BELIEVE, OK? Just sayian, if Project Spark didn't attract that much interest then what is going on?

Two things:

Xbox One

Windows 8

Killed my interest with a vengeance.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Two things:

Xbox One

Windows 8

Killed my interest with a vengeance.

Perhaps. But barring that, you can't deny it looked pretty good.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Two things:

Xbox One

Windows 8

Killed my interest with a vengeance.

Perhaps. But barring that, you can't deny it looked pretty good.

Not enough for me to buy an overpriced multimedia unit and install a tablet OS respectively.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Not enough for me to buy an overpriced multimedia unit and install a tablet OS respectively.

Who said you had to get Windows 8 to use all its features?

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Who said you had to get Windows 8 to use all its features?

At this point there is no word on a Windows 7/Vista version, only Windows 8 is confirmed.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I think Evil Within looks good, despite the weird floor thing. Not enough gameplay was shown to really get a handle on what it'll look like. The chainsaw thing seemed like it was there to impress those looking for blood and guts so there's always the possibility that it'll be better.

I'm surprised at the lack of Murdered: Soul Suspect, though.

 

[Falsename]

... Is it just me or has half of what Yahtzee says go straight over our heads?

When I hear a line like "the elitist self preserved powers that be of the gaming industry of highly funded and endorsed gaming industries with juxtaposition that contemplates the existence of a lawyer on speed".

It just kind of... flies right over my head. I can't keep up.


Is Yahtzee talking faster or am I getting slower?


But the jokes are at a slow enough pace that I can laugh. So I shouldn't complain.

 

[Evonisia]

... Is it just me or has half of what Yahtzee says go straight over our heads?

When I hear a line like "the elitist self preserved powers that be of the gaming industry of highly funded and endorsed gaming industries with juxtaposition that contemplates the existence of a lawyer on speed".

It just kind of... flies right over my head. I can't keep up.


Is Yahtzee talking faster or am I getting slower?


But the jokes are at a slow enough pace that I can laugh. So I shouldn't complain.

He's actually been really slow this year, slower than 2007 and his first two videos actually.

If you think he's going too fast now, you should watch some 2008-2010 videos.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

The problem with emulating the XBox 360 and PS3 is that it requires way too much computing power. Even the most powerful desktop PC doesn't have the power necessary to emulate the current gen consoles, the PS4 and Xbone certainly don't have the necessary processing power to do software emulation of the PS3 or 360. The only way to do backwards compatibility would be with a hardware solution, basically stick a 360 or PS3 into the new consoles to make the old games work, and that would jack up the cost significantly. This is simply what happens when the console makers decide they want to change CPU architecture every god damn generation.

Absolute nonsense. [http://xbox360emulator.net/system-requirements.html]

You can just about run it on hardware from 2006 onwards, with a few graphical tweaks. Heck, any mid-range computer made in the last 3 years or so should manage it fine. The next gen consoles (with an 8-core jaguar APU, 8GB of RAM and a modified HD 7850) should have no trouble whatsoever.

Just to add to this guy's point, here's a few games I tend to run quite often:

- Command & Conquer Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Sacrifice
- Total Annihilation
- Rise of Legends

And they run perfectly fine - with a ten month old gaming machine that's a low - mid level machine that can run most modern games at a steady clip. Even for some that do not, nine times out of ten there are community patches and fixes around to make them work.

So yes. Nonsense.

 

[xdiesp]

Just wait until he reviews the next Thief. There will be fireworks.

 

[-Dragmire-]

The rant against exclusivity made me happy. It's obvious anti-competitive and anti-consumer behaviour, and not enough people give a fuck.

How is it anti-competitive? Doesn't it encourage console manufacturers to make systems game devs actually want to make games for, and doesn't it imply that having good devs make good games would make more people buy your console?

It's one of the reasons i bought a PS3 over the 360; because the PS3 had exclusives i wanted and the 360 didn't and everything else was multiplat or uninteresting.

The heart and soul of capitalism, the reason it's the best economical system we humans have been able to come up with, is competition. However, you can compete in (roughly) two ways: by improving your own product (better quality or lower price), or by spending time and energy to hinder the competition. Obviously, only the first kind of competition actually benefits the consumer and society in general.

For an AAA developer, there's virtually no technical or financial reason why a game shouldn't be made cross-platform, especially in a generation that uses exactly the same CPU architecture. The cost of porting to all the consoles and PC is much lower than the benefits of reaching a much larger audience. So a game developer will only agree to make something exclusive to a platform when there's considerable compensation.

Exclusivity is a form of anti-competitive behaviour, because it's a case of the console manufacturer spending money to ensure that the competition does not get something desirable. There is no reason why console exclusives can't be made cross-platform, they're only not cross-platform because MS and Sony actually spend money to prevent these games from coming to other systems. This money is not spent on improving their own product but on making the competitor's product less desirable; that's pretty much the definition of anti-competitive behaviour.

While I can see your point, would you extend that opinion to games made by devs the console owner owns? I just can't get my head around making games for the competition. When it's third party stuff, I completely agree though.

 

[The Enquirer]

Or Deadpool?

Didn't that game just come out yesterday? Just saying...

Which makes it more surprising that none of the reviewers I count on haven't reviewed it yet. Most reviewers get early copies (Not sure about Yahtzee though).

True, but he has stated numerous times that comics aren't his favorite thing in the world so why would he review it first thing then when there are other titles out there that have been out for longer? Granted this video isn't exactly about one game in particular but the point still stands. Even if he did get an early copy it probably won't be played for quite some time. I would be interested in his opinion on the game, but I feel like he might say deadpool annoyed him. Don't quote me on that unless it turns out I'm right of course

Or Deadpool?

Didn't that game just come out yesterday? Just saying...

Yeah, but still.

Yeah, but still what? It came out the day before this video and Yahtzee is particularly going to jump at the chance to play a game about a comic book character.