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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:45:25 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>Xocyll wrote: 
>
>>Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>>>On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:49:14 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:08:32 -0600, "rms"
>>>>><rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>So watch the video and see if it appeals to you. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Looks like a well-made game to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>rms
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes, once you factor in the gameplay itself, the art and music quality
>>>>>it seems almost under priced.  However being newcomers they're
>>>>>probably doing the right thing toward establishing themselves by doing
>>>>>that.  Exposure on Steam should sell them a lot of copies.
>>>>>
>>>>>Neat to see indie developers still innovating.
>>>>
>>>>The cycle of the gaming industry it seems;
>>>>New company forms, makes innovative game (or at least a game with some
>>>>innovations in it,) crafts it carefully with lots of attention to
>>>>detail, tests it fully and sells it at a reasonable price.
>>>>
>>>>Then they become big since the game is a major hit, and follow it up
>>>>with something a bit less well crafted or well tested and the price goes
>>>>up.
>>>>Repeat until borged or until they become an UBI or EA and just produce
>>>>the same old crap over and over again until; a new company forms, makes
>>>>an innovative game ...
>>>>
>>>>Now if only some of the giants would just die already and stop flooding
>>>>the market with crap games and lowering the expectations of the public.
>>>>
>>>>Currently playing Path of Exile and even in Beta, it's everything
>>>>Diablo3 should have been.   It's got a few warts, but those are probably
>>>>there deliberately for the beta (the fast reset of zones for one) or
>>>>will be addressed before the game goes live.
>>>>
>>>>All Hail the Indies!  
>>>>PC gaming will never die as long as the Indies are around.
>>>>
>>>>Xocyll
>>>
>>>A lot of the really great games used to come out of nowhere from yet
>>>unheard-ofs (small teams that were kind of the equivalent of todays
>>>smaller indie teams).  There was a time when the good games just
>>>appeared as though they teleported onto the scene.  
>>
>>Oh I remember.
>
>DOOM shareware. That f-ing game was everywhere in a week. Unbelievable.

Yeah I remember that - playing 0.99 which had no sound because the sound
blaster settings didn't work yet unless you had an SB Pro.

>>>And you could tell
>>>the stinkers a mile away, because they could be easily identified by
>>>how much pre-release hype had been created around it (like Romero
>>>making us his bitch, etc).
>>
>>Although funnily enough since I didn't read trade mags I never
>>encountered Romero's Daikatana posturing.
>>I did hear about the Battlecruiser 3000 issues though.
>>
>>These days I mostly ignore gaming news;  If a game is good it'll be
>>mentioned here, usually with a review.  What the game companies claim
>>their game is about/will do seems to rarely be true these days, so why
>>bother listening to them in the first place?
>>
>
>And G4 is becoming the Esquire channel, so I think you're in good
>company. Too bad for Sasuke, though. I'm going to miss crazy Japanese
>obstacle courses.

Not sure if I ever watched that.

I got kind of sick of gaming news when they became little more than
repeats of the company press releases with a lot of added RAH, RAH, RAH!
Ditto gaming mags that gave fantastic reviews to shit games because the
company bought a shitload of advertising.

If they're not telling the actual truth it's not news, it's just a
story, and frankly I have better things to do than listen to e-list
pseudo-celebrities yammer on about what they think the game might
actually be like based on some interview they had with a developer once
before the game was even an alpha or worse yet, they show a carefully
crafted, pre-rendered "gameplay video" that bears no resemblance to
anything you'll actually find in the game at release.

Most of gaming news nowadays seems to be little more than "we repeat
whatever the publisher told us and we don't check to see if it's true."

Bonus points if there's at least two hosts to the show and they spend a
significant amount of time bantering between "reviews" and "news"

I just don't see the point in watching tripe like that.

Xocyll
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