june gloom on 15/11/2010 at 18:50
Quote Posted by lost_soul
They've even got netbooks with NVIDIA GPUs that can play half-life 2.
If you're referring to before they updated the engine, that's not exactly impressive. Find me one that can play Episode 2 reasonably well and we'll talk.
Yakoob on 15/11/2010 at 19:37
Quote Posted by Renzatic
As long as I've covered the costs of production and advertising, and am able to live comfortably on the profits to do it again
Just like most game developers, as we can see from majority of them struggling to survive or just failing outright.
Nameless Voice on 15/11/2010 at 19:39
San Andreas is hardly particularly complex. I'm sure even my rather elderly laptop with its ATI X300 Mobility could easily play it. Can't play Left 4 Dead though.
lost_soul on 15/11/2010 at 21:32
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Just like most game developers, as we can see from majority of them struggling to survive or just failing outright.
But how many of them are struggling to survive or failing? Sure there was 3D Realms. I had lots of fun with their games and played Duke3d religiously thirteen years ago. They hadn't shipped their big title though for *twelve years*. I'm all for goofing off at work, but at some point you need to get the job done or you get fired. What happened to them was their own fault. The other companies whose games I enjoy (Frictional, ID) are doing just fine.
Well there was Ritual too. I loved SiN, and was willing to buy the sequel if they had done it correctly. It would have been awesome on the Doom 3 engine with equal game length to the original game.
ID can make "just another DooM game" with the same old bag of tricks. As long as it is any good I will buy it. I don't demand innovative gameplay, just a good time and a lengthy experience worth the price of admition.
Nameless Voice on 15/11/2010 at 22:47
A lot of good developers have gone bankrupt; Looking Glass, Black Isle, Troika, to name a few off the top of my head.
Papy on 16/11/2010 at 00:32
Quote Posted by lost_soul
The other companies whose games I enjoy (Frictional, ID) are doing just fine.
I find it quite "funny" that you're saying this... here.
sNeaksieGarrett on 16/11/2010 at 01:51
I can't believe I'm actually siding with dethtoll on this. Deth, you sure can be an asshole, but I still found your post amusing and you had a point too. :laff:
@lost_soul: So your point was that you don't like NO CD patches because they're done by "some guy in a basement." Have you ever heard of antivirus? Or anti-malware/spyware programs? Are you so goddamn paranoid to download them simply because they were made by "some guy in a basement?" Come on, that guy in the basement could actually HELP and NOT attach malware and be competent in what he's doing. You act as though every single "hack" is going to be malicious. I bet you don't like mods either, because people "modify" the base games.:tsktsk: I understand being safe and cautious, perfectly acceptable on the internet. However, we don't have to be so fearful that we don't do things that could possibly help our situations.
While it's true physical media is dying off, it isn't gone yet.
Yakoob on 16/11/2010 at 15:54
Quote Posted by lost_soul
But how many of them are struggling to survive or failing?
ID, Looking Glass, Troika, Ion Storm, Appeal, Bullfrog, Rare, Krome Studios, Emergent, Instant Action, Midway, Acclaim, NCSoft, Flagship Studios, Mythic, Black Isle - need I keep going?
And that is just the big names, not including, every single indie studio out there you have probably haven't even heard about because they crashed before they gained stability.
