The Brad Muir Thread: Also Starring Giant Bomb

SCREECH OF THE FARG

Stilts wrote: »

SirEtchwarts wrote: »

One of my favorite uses of the DS specifically was a thing in Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

On one screen was a seal, and you had to somehow get it onto the other screen which had a map on it. The solution was to shut your DS and open it back up again, pressing the two together.

I couldn't figure it out but had to close the DS to go somewhere, so I was pleasantly surprised when that ended up being the answer.

Hotel Dusk did it first.

Another Code did it firster

HyperAquaBlast

I would like a 360 controller that was split in half and went the nunchuck route.

Poorochondriac

I have defeated all the martial arts clubs in Slippy Dags, leaving untold scores of shattered knees in my wake

Right after, I did the mission where you hijack the van of a wedding cake thief by leaping onto it from a high-end luxury sedan

This game is p. great

Diarmuid

That reminds me, I've been slacking off in my mission to break every leg in Hong Kong.

PaperLuigi44

It felt really good to beat up a bunch of people in a fight club, walk across the docks and buy the Lamborghini analogue with my winnings.

Peewi

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

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Peewi

Maddoc wrote: »

I mean the whole point of Dota 2 is that it pretty much literally just is Dota 1 though, isn't it?

Like, they haven't even improved it on any significant level aside from visuals because it would in some fundamental way alter the balance of gameplay, at least that's the dumb reason people give me for why the UI is so huge and shitty like the game thinks I have a monitor the size of a quarter.

As someone way deep into the Dota hole, what do you think is bad about the UI? The view-area probably isn't about to get changed, so even if the HUD was made smaller, the view would be further zoomed in at the same time.

agoaj

I played the dota tutorial
watched 2 minutes of match
then alt-f4

Mr. G

The Dota 2 tutorial is terrible

It teaches you how to play Weird Diablo, but not Dota

Good Looking Fat Guy

Call me jaded/cynical, but I find it hard to believe that a publisher would reject ways to make more money off of their products. It feels like Deep Silver is trying to pass the blame off onto retailers.

Henroid

Gamasutra has this pretty neat article up regarding choice presentation in video games. It draws ideas from a study done about sequential vs. simultaneous presentation of options, and also points out the difference between Amazon and Steam sales. Thought it was worth sharing with people.

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieMadigan/20130513/192135/A_Tale_of_Two_Talent_Trees.php

Ceno

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

Ceno I remember your predictions being wrong the last time, maybe give Brad some credit.

I'm just joshing around.

Shabooty

Mr. G wrote: »

The Dota 2 tutorial is terrible

It teaches you how to play Weird Diablo, but not Dota

it's not finished

Kwoaru

Shabooty wrote: »

Mr. G wrote: »

The Dota 2 tutorial is terrible

It teaches you how to play Weird Diablo, but not Dota

it's not finished

how do you mess up a dota tutorial

Stilts

SCREECH OF THE FARG wrote: »

Stilts wrote: »

SirEtchwarts wrote: »

One of my favorite uses of the DS specifically was a thing in Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

On one screen was a seal, and you had to somehow get it onto the other screen which had a map on it. The solution was to shut your DS and open it back up again, pressing the two together.

I couldn't figure it out but had to close the DS to go somewhere, so I was pleasantly surprised when that ended up being the answer.

Hotel Dusk did it first.

Another Code did it firster

Oh, right, I forgot that Trace Memory came out before Hotel Dusk.

For some reason I thought HD was the first DS game that Cing made.

Vargas Prime

Good Looking Fat Guy wrote: »

Call me jaded/cynical, but I find it hard to believe that a publisher would reject ways to make more money off of their products. It feels like Deep Silver is trying to pass the blame off onto retailers.

That's because they pretty much are.

It's no secret that pre-orders have become a huge thing in the last few years. It's at the point where any retail release that doesn't have pre-order bonuses attached to it actually seems out of place.

Metro is a big release, but it's not a BIG release, so who knows if Deep Silver was pushed into offering a pre-order incentive by certain retailers? If that's the case, I can 100% support their decision to make the "extreme" difficulty the shaved off content, rather than story bits or extra weapons, or whatever. At least it's something that the devoted fans of the series would want, and would likely pre-order for anyway.

Now, if they were NOT pressured into offering a pre-order bonus in some way, then it's just shady. But it's so far from the worst thing that they, or most other big publishers, have done that it's really hard for me to get riled about it.

LockedOnTarget

The Dota 2 tutorial doesn't even have towers in it.

Vargas Prime

Henroid wrote: »

Gamasutra has this pretty neat article up regarding choice presentation in video games. It draws ideas from a study done about sequential vs. simultaneous presentation of options, and also points out the difference between Amazon and Steam sales. Thought it was worth sharing with people.

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieMadigan/20130513/192135/A_Tale_of_Two_Talent_Trees.php

That's kinda neat. I always prefer a skill tree where I can see everything, the paths to what I want, and how I can most efficiently get there.

Although, regarding Steam Sales, there is a bit of the "sequential hesitance" there, because while everything is on sale simultaneously, you're really better off waiting to see if the games you want are put up for a Daily deal at some point in the sale, because they will invariably be offered at a deeper discount than the normal sale price. So unless a game is part of a Daily Deal or a Flash Deal, you really should just wait until the final day of the sale in order to be sure you get it at the lowest possible price.

Shabooty

the dota 2 tutorial isn't actually finished

it's a work-in-progress

that's why it has that world map.

LockedOnTarget

I'm not sure "it's not finished" is a good excuse for the tutorial not even teaching you what the actual goal of the game is.

Tef

As someone who just recently started playing Dota 2, I can say the tutorial is only really helpful in terms of teaching you how to click around and move your guy, which is fine.

What they need to sort out is making the recommended builds shit working properly. It reularlt bugs out and won't display for me, particularly when I am trying to practice against bots. The fact it hasn't yet displayed builds for me during practice mode makes me wonder if it designed that way and if it is, that is INCREDIBLY stupid

Balefuego

LockedOnTarget wrote: »

I'm not sure "it's not finished" is a good excuse for the tutorial not even teaching you what the actual goal of the game is.

well technically the game is still in beta

Peewi

Tef wrote: »

As someone who just recently started playing Dota 2, I can say the tutorial is only really helpful in terms of teaching you how to click around and move your guy, which is fine.

What they need to sort out is making the recommended builds shit working properly. It reularlt bugs out and won't display for me, particularly when I am trying to practice against bots. The fact it hasn't yet displayed builds for me during practice mode makes me wonder if it designed that way and if it is, that is INCREDIBLY stupid

The only time I've had problems with the builds system at all was when I didn't realize I had to press OK for my selection to stick.

Mr. G

PSA: Metro Last Light is in RedBox

Speed Racer

so in fire emblem is there an easy way to move your troops around at the start of a battle or do you have to keep deselecting and reselecting guys to make the game shuffle them around

because man i would like to just tell my troops which slots to occupy

DouglasDanger

Poorochondriac wrote: »

I have defeated all the martial arts clubs in Slippy Dags, leaving untold scores of shattered knees in my wake

Right after, I did the mission where you hijack the van of a wedding cake thief by leaping onto it from a high-end luxury sedan

This game is p. great

Sleeping Dogs is definitely part of my Top Ten. I won't say it is the perfect game, but it is the most fun I have had in a game in a long, long time.

I continue to be terrible at the races. I do enjoy them, and I guess I could just tell myself Wei is not a good racer... The Bisai race in Central is funny and frustrating. It is funny because the little tiny Bisai cars are hilarious before anything happens, and they remind me of Mario Kart. It is frustrating because the cars are so low to the ground hitting a curb sometimes causes your car to just bounce two feet in the air and fall right back down. And those light poles, parking meters and handrails you just shear off in another car stop you dead, even a parking meter laying on the ground.

The Betman

There's either a 'map' or 'formation' button before you start a chapter, use that and you can shuffle them around

captaink

Can we talk about how Precursor Games have now launched an actual Kickstarter, to supplement their fake kickstarter? They're asking for another $1.35M. This can only end poorly.

Ceno

captaink wrote: »

Can we talk about how Precursor Games have now launched an actual Kickstarter, to supplement their fake kickstarter? They're asking for another $1.35M. This can only end poorly.

The first one built up so much trust, after all.

agoaj

They'd raise more money with Dennis Dyack in a dunk tank.

agoaj

and ex Silicon Knights employees get to pee a little in the tank.

Henroid

Vargas Prime wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Gamasutra has this pretty neat article up regarding choice presentation in video games. It draws ideas from a study done about sequential vs. simultaneous presentation of options, and also points out the difference between Amazon and Steam sales. Thought it was worth sharing with people.

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieMadigan/20130513/192135/A_Tale_of_Two_Talent_Trees.php

That's kinda neat. I always prefer a skill tree where I can see everything, the paths to what I want, and how I can most efficiently get there.

Although, regarding Steam Sales, there is a bit of the "sequential hesitance" there, because while everything is on sale simultaneously, you're really better off waiting to see if the games you want are put up for a Daily deal at some point in the sale, because they will invariably be offered at a deeper discount than the normal sale price. So unless a game is part of a Daily Deal or a Flash Deal, you really should just wait until the final day of the sale in order to be sure you get it at the lowest possible price.

Well, in that respect Steam is in some weird middleground, but it still seems far and away better than whatever Amazon has going.

As for video games and choice presentation, yeah, I like seeing everything at once if possible, at least within a tree. I never considered presentation meaning anything but it makes a lot of sense.

captaink

Ceno wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

Can we talk about how Precursor Games have now launched an actual Kickstarter, to supplement their fake kickstarter? They're asking for another $1.35M. This can only end poorly.

The first one built up so much trust, after all.

Haha it's "due to popular demand". Demand that has seen their not-kickstarter get about $150,000 (out of $1.5M) in a week or so.

Snowbeat

based on the standard dyack dev time, we should be expecting this for the next 3-4 years, right

Kilroy

dennis dyack as the video game industry's deadbeat dad is one of the best images ryan has ever conjured

Ceno

And just before release, Nintendo will do a heelturn and shut the whole damn thing down.

captaink

Ceno wrote: »

And just before release, Nintendo will do a heelturn and shut the whole damn thing down.

If they got that far, I don't think Nintendo has that power. It's not Eternal Darkness 2. It's a 'inspired by' Eternal Darkness.

Ceno

All jesting aside, I really did like Eternal Darkness and the idea of a proper sequel does inspire the occasional heel-click.

But Dyack ran any semblance of trust and goodwill into the deep dark ground long ago, so I'd rather see someone else actually make the game. This kickstarter stuff is... well, I suppose "sketchy" will have to suffice for now.

Vargas Prime

Ceno wrote: »

All jesting aside, I really did like Eternal Darkness and the idea of a proper sequel does inspire the occasional heel-click.

But Dyack ran any semblance of trust and goodwill into the deep dark ground long ago, so I'd rather see someone else actually make the game. This kickstarter stuff is... well, I suppose "sketchy" will have to suffice for now.

Exactly. The notion behind the entire project is precisely a thing that I want to happen, but there's no way in hell I'm gonna help fund it. Gimme a finished product and I'll buy it.

The thing that rubs me most about the current round of funding is that it's only really to get them through episode 1. They're planning 12 episodes, which means that even if they get their 1.5M this time around, once episode 1 is in the can, we could very well be seeing a new round of crowdfunding for the rest of the episodes, or hell, even maybe a new round for EACH episode.

Some developers have certainly earned enough cred with me to warrant that kind of faith, but I can't invest in that based on one game that I enjoyed from 10 years ago.

Ceno

It's looking like that new Thief game has a subtitle now.



Urgh.