june gloom on 15/8/2012 at 09:44
itt subjeff forgets that not everyone is rich -- again
faetal on 15/8/2012 at 09:50
It's not even that I can't afford it. I just don't desire a TV and buying one just for a game seems disproportionate. Even if I was loaded, I wouldn't be able to justify it. Emulator might be worth a go though.
demagogue on 15/8/2012 at 09:56
For Shadow of the Colossus, an emulator is worth a go. That's how I played it. One thing (depending on the emulator maybe), you might need to toy with the acceleration or frame-skip options so it doesn't play in slow-motion.
faetal on 15/8/2012 at 09:57
Back on piste - it would be incredibly intriguing to have a GTA-style game with persistent effects resulting from player actions. Obviously, if done wrong, it could totally fuck up the game, but if done right...
demagogue on 15/8/2012 at 10:17
Well this is one thing I liked about my beloved Hardwar. It was an open world with a working economy (resources getting mined, getting sold to the refiners, then sold on to make into goods like ship-parts, then sold on to the consumers), and because it was a real economy, you could totally unilaterally mess with the supply and demand and control a lot of what happens in the world, have the NPCs build what you supply them to build, or cornering a market with a monopoly and cashing in, or purposefully waaay underselling and pushing everyone else out of business... You can do it a little with controlling what villagers build in Minecraft, but that didn't have the whole chain of people from "farm to plate" you could mess with as in Hardwar. (And it's not like a top-down sim; it's still a first-person world you're flying around in.)
But yeah, neither it nor Minecraft have the same kind of open social world that GTA has, with 1000s of NPCs and a full-on city... So bringing that kind of gameplay to a GTA world could be epic IMO.
faetal on 15/8/2012 at 10:19
I think if the mechanic wasn't perfect, but someone wanted to dip their toe just in order to gauge how popular it is and crowd source feedback on the flaws, having it as a game-mode might be worth a shot, though developing a whole world framework just as a game mode may not fly with AAA devs in terms of worthwhile use of time.
SubJeff on 15/8/2012 at 10:42
Quote Posted by dethtoll
itt subjeff forgets that not everyone is rich -- again
Maybe if he spent more time making money and less time snarking on perfectly innocent posts... :p
And how can you say that? :( I'll have you know that I'm well aware that not everyone has the same amount of disposable income.
faetal on 15/8/2012 at 10:51
I only snark on posts if there is some amusing* riposte to be had - it's nothing personal.
* - to me, I'm well aware it may actually be too droll.
june gloom on 15/8/2012 at 17:50
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
And how can you say that? :( I'll have you know that I'm well aware that not everyone has the same amount of disposable income.
Are you? Because sometimes I wonder...
Renault on 15/8/2012 at 18:32
Quote Posted by faetal
I don't own a TV and don't really want one.
Regular PC monitor will do just fine.
