TSGK Clan Forum

Lawitz · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 19:28 Post subject: interesting new DRM

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/02/17/you-maniacs/
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/things_you_should_boycott_assassin%E2%80%99s_creed_ii_and_its_god_awful_drm

this new DRM is a beauty never seen before, it requires you to be online constantly. if your internet connection gets lost while playing, you are thrown out of the game losing all your unsaved progress, how awesome is that? Laughing

this includes their servers failing as well.

StonedCabbage · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 21:41 Post subject:

oh dear, add it to my boycott list along with COD:MW2 Cool

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 22:03 Post subject:

Game development is steadily becoming a safety net for shitty film school failures to show off their huge lack of talent and story structure (mass effect 2,Drakes Uncharted Cliche adventures, Modern Warfare series etc.).

The companies backing them are wasting millions of dollars on DRM and secure rom that effect only the paying customer, because it will be cracked 100% guaranteed.

While reading an article packed with pretentious babble featuring Robert Bowling, spouting off how infinity ward will beat the hackers and crackers, on the other side of my screen is a tutorial of how to play pirated modern warfare 2 online multiplayer from the IWNET lobby against paying customers.

Gaming is speeding downhill.

Freelancer · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 21:35 Post subject:

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 23:43 Post subject:

I dig it.

Robert Bowling is a crackhead bro, he really thinks his "team" is so close to stopping pirates forever. Hackers too.

I'm all for stopping the hacking in games but he thinks removing the developer console and using vac was like a huge breakthrough to stop cheaters, he even brags about it on his twitter account.

Asinine

The road gaming is traveling looks bleak, considering the people they actually allow to make movies (not including talented directors I mean the hacks that slack their way through film school on mommies change) they want to make an A-Team movie that doesn't feature Mr.T...

They want to make a GI Joe movie where the main character is not American, they have absolutely no talent, they follow what they learned from the book step by step churning out cliche garbage films.

Gaming companies are picking up the people that couldn't even manage that, and letting them plan games around their 50 year old heavily used and dated plots.

Games don't need crescendos, they don't need mainstream voice actors and they most certainly don't need love scenes ffs mass effect 2. When I see the mass effect 2 commercial I naturally expect to hear the overly throaty narrator say RATED R IN THEATERS FRIDAY.

RANT!1111

Freelancer · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 02:20 Post subject:

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 06:59 Post subject:

HERE HERE!

StonedCabbage · Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 15:45 Post subject:

they will never stop hackers, so the game needs an inet connection to play, so you modify the game to thinking its connected to a valid server 24/7, the circle goes round and round Rolling Eyes

Lawitz · Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 15:59 Post subject:

even more stuff: http://kotaku.com/5476404/command--conquer-4-no-lan-or-dedicated-servers-either. no lan, no dedicated servers and your internet connection has to be online.

Xmeagol · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 17:12 Post subject:

MW2 is good and i don't really care what you peeps say tbh, and the lag isn't bad, only 1 in 10 games get laggy, remember that there are laggy dedicated servers too.

It's a very well polished game, the only thing that pisses me off is matchmaking, i have to constantly leave lobbies to get to the map i want since it's a random map cycle. Hackers are a problem too, but well, all games have hackers..

Good thing about hosting is that i can lag the shit out of the hackers, by downloading vintage porn. But since it lags everyone else i refrain from doing so.

Never liked mass effect, Assassins Creed, not even bioshock. (I've heard good things about Bioshock 2 and I'm tempted to try it out sometime..

Battlefield BC2 was a huge disappointment for me, i for one did not play any battlefields before and the game looked so good, so i grabbed a beta key and tried it out.. Honestly, the game doesn't look good enough for the low fps i get, and to be honest it's boring as shit, no action at all..

Left 4 Dead 2 is the big winner for me this year (last year i mean)

I had, and am having a great time with these games (MW2, L4D2, etc) and i believe that's what matters in the end, having a great time.

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 23:10 Post subject:

My friend to call modern warfare 2 polished is absurd, it doesn't work right on half the graphics cards out today (that claim to be supported) it was a direct console port including dumbed down textures a decent PC would smirk at.

Even on the cards it does work on half of those are plagued with errors including fonts missing and textures that will not load, not to mention a save file the game can't find even though it's very much on the HDD.

The game was sloppily released with heavy hands that wanted the money now.

Infinity Ward had the talent to be the next Valve but they fell into the abyss of shit developers that allow executives to call the shots on their creation.

Bad company 2 has better graphics and a highly functional/interactive engine so lower FPS is to be expected, at least they tested their game on every card they claim to support unlike Infinity Ward (seriously who doesn't do that).

I never thought I would see the day I was impressed by Electronic Arts but they have done it, it is by far the most impressive cross platform engine ever designed and they took their time with it.

Not to mention everything in BC2 is at least 80% destructible so if you're fps lagging it's time for an upgrade if you choose to play BC2, because it is not a photo copy of the first engine unlike the COD series (COD5 was a rehashed COD4 and COD7 will be a rehash of COD6) and the crytek engine 1-2-3 all rehashed from original code.

So you're used to that performance, but if your PC can't handle this engine then your PC isn't on par with an xbox 360.

You were right not to try ME2 or Bioshock 2 they are more rehashes for more $, but to claim Modern Warfare did anything remotely right by choosing no dedicated servers is ridic.

How many years have the top developers strained to balance their games toward total equality for the players, now that's out the door with no dedicated servers because the host is advantageous all day every day, you say the lag isn't that bad well it's a simple point and shoot game and thanks to the console being gone you can't notice the huge amount of choke and loss you are experiencing due to the fact you're playing

ON A HOME COMPUTER THAT HASN'T BEEN REFORMATTED IN A YEAR FULL OF MALWARE RUNNING A RESIDENTIAL CLASS INTERNET CONNECTION PROBABLY PREPARING TO DOWNLOAD A TORRENT OF MILEY CYRUS.

tldr: I beg to differ

Xmeagol · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 22:15 Post subject:

CryEngine 2 is a rehash of CryEngine 1

Somewhat true, but so what?

It's not like game developers are going to spend millions of dollars and write a next generation engine from scratch.

That and Source is a reshash of GoldenSource which is a rehash of the quake II engine, so there.

But MW2 is polished believe it or not, there's barely no bugs, Crysis is buggy as shit, but i still love it anyways.

Anywho Infinity ward was created by 2 guys, who were funded by Activision, so Activision calls the shots pretty much, they're still a good developer and Activision deserves a shotgun blast to their metaphorical balls.

Still BC2 lags like shit (FPS wise of course), Yes it has physics, but so does Crysis, and i get way more fps at maximum settings so there's nothing you can other than IT WAS A BETA, that will change the reality

It was a beta anyway, performance always changes.

I did not say to not Try MA2 or Bioshock 2, i just said i didn't like them
and btw ur tldr's are awesume

tl;dr : OMG CXOOKIES