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SithMaster:

--- Quote ---just to spite GearBox for constantly pushing it back.
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 Personally I would say yay to sticking it to whats probably a 3d style game company... However, the reality of making a game is that it takes a lot of time and efforts.   Would you rather they released the game filled with bugs, crashes, and various problems?  Unfinished levels, unfinished sound / music...etc?  And what if they ran out of funding temporarily?   There are many reasons why things get pushed back... and usually, its for the better.  Not just to tick off a potential customer.

 I wont buy a game until Ive played it at least for a little while, to see if its even worth it.  Very few games have good enough gameplay balance and challenge, to make me even consider a purchase.


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I can't argue with that when I'm just being petty about it.  They do have to deal with Fox on this and probably shifted staff over for another big project that coming out sooner.

As far as immersion peripherals goes I really hope it doesn't come to that.  It would just become too costly for what you'd probably get out of it though I might be for the vr headset with surround sound since that seems equivalent to getting a receiver.  Even now companies need to deal with HD content and one could argue that helped give rise to the whole triple A gaming nonsense so the added cost will just be shifted to the consumer and any potential project that isn't considered cost effective by the big companies won't see daylight.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: SithMaster on June 12, 2012, 11:04:28 pm ---
--- Quote ---just to spite GearBox for constantly pushing it back.
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 Personally I would say yay to sticking it to whats probably a 3d style game company... However, the reality of making a game is that it takes a lot of time and efforts.   Would you rather they released the game filled with bugs, crashes, and various problems?  Unfinished levels, unfinished sound / music...etc?  And what if they ran out of funding temporarily?   There are many reasons why things get pushed back... and usually, its for the better.  Not just to tick off a potential customer.

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I don't disagree with any of your points, it's just that 3 years from the original expected release date is a long time to delay a game :)

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 10, 2012, 07:49:58 pm ---the fundamental intent since 3D games have emerged has been on simulating reality.

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I think this is nonsense. How does God of War simulate reality? How does Legend of Zelda? 2D games, with their bipedal (or quadripedal) characters and their gravity, etc., have always striven, to exactly the same extent, to simulate reality. Which is to say that we naturally create videogames that players can understand intuitively. Real life isn't pixelated. Does that mean that the move from the Atari to the NES was an attempt to simulate reality? I mean, actually sort of, but not in any way that is meaningful. The same goes for a system that can do 3D. How is Rez any more realistic than Sim City? How is Super Mario Galaxy any more realistic than Super Mario World, aside from the Z axis, of course? The point isn't to simulate reality. That's not the point at all. The point is to create fun experiences, just like it has always been. And there is no shortage of new extraordinary experiences to be had on new consoles--experiences that weren't possible on previous consoles. If you want to arbitrarily cut yourself off from them, that's find. But staking a claim to some kind of moral or intellectual high ground is absurd.


--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 11, 2012, 05:15:38 pm ---I don't watch many new movies, because there's not much new in the stories. I'm not reading anything lately for the same reason.

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You're not reading anything for the same reason? Wtf does that mean, you've read every old book worth reading? I guess you've exhausted Tolstoy and Dumas. There's no Twain or Steinbeck or Hemingway you haven't read? Nothing by Dickens or Austen has escaped your extraordinarily well-read eyes? Samuel Butler? Dostoyevsky? Defoe? Salinger? Heller? Orwell? Joyce? Voltaire? Shakespeare? Fitzgerald? Wilde? Faulkner? Hugo? Christie? Stevenson? Thoreau? Wells? And, like you say, god knows nothing worthwhile is being written today. It's not like we have Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving and Michael Chabon and Susan Clarke and David Foster Wallace and Edward Abbey and Douglas Adams and H.F. Saint and Mark Haddon and David Mitchell and Tom Robbins and Steven King and Junot Diaz and Chuck Palahniuk and Philip Roth and  . . . and so on.

Seriously, you've stopped reading altogether because there are no books left that are up to your standards? LOL. I guess I'm just not as impressive a person as you. For me, I'll just go on wallowing in the muck. No matter how much I read, my to-read list has always grown, and surely will always grow, faster than my have-read list. Same goes for movies, and there's no point even arguing that the quality of television is not leaps and bounds better than it's ever been before.

edit: p.s. I know that there are a couple of corpses on my list of modern authors.

loz1962:
A fully  interactive gamers paradise was built on " The Gadget Show " in the UK. It has a 360 projection, surround sound, Walking on game pad for movement and feed back Via paintball gun, Watch the video...
Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test (Full Video) - The Gadget Show

Just waiting for one to be installed near me ;D

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: SithMaster on June 12, 2012, 07:59:58 pm ---Perhaps the intent was to suggest that all the next gen marketing nonsense doesn't really matter and until something amazing comes along...it will just continue to be marketing nonsense. 
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This.


@shmokes: many things have been written, and well. Some of it I've read, a lot of it I've never wanted to read. There might be a few things out there I'd like to read, but I'd have to look a little for them.

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