Computer Games Thread

[WorMzy]

Just found my Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP. As far as I know, I haven't used it since the original DS came out in 2005.

Turned it on.

Still has charge.

Nintendo technology.



Now if only I knew where the charger was.

[VizardAmata]

It's looking seriously likely that Silent Hills is cancelled. Shit.

[Jobdone]

Finally got around to hitting the GTA5 single player instead of just hitting friends with hammers online.

It's fucking great holy shit. The slow start to San Andreas, and generally awful GTA4, they've fixed themselves right up with this. It's fun, it starts quick, and the characters so far are actually interesting as fuck. They've all got personality and emotions and motivations. It's great.

[Johnny Tightlips]

It's looking seriously likely that Silent Hills is cancelled. Shit.

Yep its official now apparently.

[VizardAmata]

I'm bitterly disappointed... I don't what the hell happened between Konami and Kojima, but Konami are seriously digging themselves a deep hole at the moment.

[Applecore]

From what I read, Kojima was more interested in getting on with Metal Gear Solid.
Sucks, as I really liked the look of the PT demo they put out, and was definitely going to check out the full game once I upgrade.

Joe, I'm also playing through the GTA V main story, but only because my PS3 has gone screwy and won't recognise me as the creator of any of the save data. So I'm in an annoying limbo where my data is there, but I can't use it..
Not that I'm complaining too much, as the games I've completed and kept are fun as hell, so I'm actually kind of happy to play through them again.

[Smindas]

I'm really curious what the story behind the really rather brutal falling out between Kojima and Konami. Whatever happened, Konami have handled it very badly - even if it was down to Kojima making one eccentric demand too many.

Still, apparently Konami have also taken themselves off the New York stock exchange as of today. I think they might be making a conscious effort to move away from being a games publisher and presumably focus on their pachinko business, or whatever their other business arm is. If that's the case, it'll be the end of an era and a very sad end to a once great company.

[CrappyMike]

Finally got around to hitting the GTA5 single player instead of just hitting friends with hammers online.

It's fucking great holy shit. The slow start to San Andreas, and generally awful GTA4, they've fixed themselves right up with this. It's fun, it starts quick, and the characters so far are actually interesting as fuck. They've all got personality and emotions and motivations. It's great.

GTA V is my favourite GTA. I have sunk 20 days and 19 hours into online and a fair bit of time (although nowhere near that) on single player.

[Potato-Jim]

Steam tried to implement a purchasing system for Steam Workshop mods and charge for all mods, and then retracted it 4 days later when enough people complained

[Jobdone]

Steam tried to implement a purchasing system for Steam Workshop mods and charge for all mods, and then retracted it 4 days later when enough people complained

It's made for a great circlejerk. I've been loving it over the past couple of days.

Also their "We're removing it" message it great. They never say "It was dumb", they just talk about how this is the wrong iteration, and my favourite one, the sob story about how it was totally in peoples interest:

"our main goals were to allow mod makers the opportunity to work on their mods full time if they wanted to"

25% of the cost (Usually about 3-4 dollars, so about a dollar p/ download) goes to the modder. Yeah man, quit your day job, you can be making literally tens of dollars.

[VizardAmata]

Yeah, the cut they got was the main issue, but it wasn't the only one. The way they tried to implement it was horrible and brought a host of awful problems. Glad they pulled it.

[JamieH]

For some daft reason I've decided to try 100% Cs:Go. Let's see how far though the 167 achievements I get before I give up

[Smindas]

To be honest, I don't know the full details of how the Steam Workshop thing was executed, but I would say in general I'm pro modders being able to charge for their content. Yes, the Steam cut of costs was probably a bit messed up and needs to be better implemented. But I do think some modders should be rewarded for the sheer amount of work they put in to what they do; if it wasn't for the modding community, there would be nothing like Dota2 or League, two of the most commercially successful games out there. Modding is an amazing breeding ground for dev talent.

[JamieH]

To be honest, I don't know the full details of how the Steam Workshop thing was executed, but I would say in general I'm pro modders being able to charge for their content. Yes, the Steam cut of costs was probably a bit messed up and needs to be better implemented. But I do think some modders should be rewarded for the sheer amount of work they put in to what they do; if it wasn't for the modding community, there would be nothing like Dota2 or League, two of the most commercially successful games out there. Modding is an amazing breeding ground for dev talent.

From what I gathered it was steam putting a charge on mods that were free and giving the creators of said mod a percentage, but of course steam took the vast majority. Though I may be wrong.

But it did make me think of something else. Within Cs:Go there are different skins for all the guns, all of which are created by community members, submitted to the steam workshop, then the ones that get voted up are put in game via the weapons cases which randomly drop at the end of each game (or sold on the marketplace if unwanted), but you have to pay steam £1.59 for a key to open the case and you get a random skin from that case. Do the people who create the skins see any of that money? Considering there are skins that sell for £500+ on the marketplace I would hope so, but at the same time it is highly unlikely..

[thehairyone]

It was 30% to Valve and 45% to Bethesda, which a lot of people couldn't get their heads around. I can see why they did it, but it was done in a rather hamfisted way and other options might have been better. Gaben has that in the 2 days it was up Valve earnt about $10,000 from it and it cost them over a million due to complaints.