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Stux posted:no im in the uk playing with US ppl so even with my sick nasty fibre connection i get a 100ms ping. still own all the noobs with extremem prejudice regardless of their latency advantage. on home turf im a god damnd monster. Stream your play. I want to see this in person. Not that I don't believe you. I like watching game streams is all  CrashCat posted:Can we get a source that isn't some rear end in a top hat's tweet Instruction Manuel fucked around with this message at 21:51 on May 10, 2016 |
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If it's true it's kind of extra rueful because they have just finally gotten around to clearing the Infinity 2.0 poo poo out of stores to make sure only the 3.0 poo poo is in there. I guess there's finally something tied into new Star Wars that wasn't a record smashing success.
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Here's an official statement about the discontinuation by the by. Nobody knows what's going to happen to Johnny V. at this time though.
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Incredible Crisis was a cool game. The actual minigames were pretty poo poo but I can appreciate the weirdness.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Here's an official statement about the discontinuation by the by.  WOW, that's pretty huge.Man this whole thing is such a huge clusterfuck. Why didn't Disney just keep LucasArts around?
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Guy Mann posted:Incredible Crisis was a cool game. The actual minigames were pretty poo poo but I can appreciate the weirdness. I liked the ads for this when I was a kid  In retrospect what was a somewhat racist joke about Japanese culture accidentally depicts real Japanese corporate culture.
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Zaphod42 posted:
Well, Battlefront apparently sold pretty well actually going by reports that came out today. I don't know how well the retention rate for the game has been over the last few months but it certainly lived up to the "Have Star Wars, Will Sell" mantra they were probably hoping Infinity 3.0 would embrace.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Well, Battlefront apparently sold pretty well actually going by reports that came out today. I don't know how well the retention rate for the game has been over the last few months but it certainly lived up to the "Have Star Wars, Will Sell" mantra they were probably hoping Infinity 3.0 would embrace. I enjoy Battlefront but that seems entirely tertiary to me. You could still keep LucasArts and do game development on other Disney IPs with the same talent, and you could sell the Star Wars IP to DICE to make Battlefront while you do it. Nothing says that if you keep LucasArts they have to be the ones who do battlefront, what, because of the name? They could just call them DisneyArts from then on or whatever. But sounds like the answer I was looking for was just "Disney was convinced they could do better" which... boy did that not end up being the case!
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Good, maybe I can get all those figurines at fire sale prices now. The Infinity games are total poo poo but the figurines are pretty good quality, better than those games deserve. I hope Lego Dimensions is next on the funeral pyre because the prices for that poo poo are even more absurd than Disney Infinity. raditts fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 10, 2016 |
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raditts posted:Good, maybe I can get all those figurines at fire sale prices now. I wonder if they're going to keep the Infinity servers up long-term considering even the fans of Infinity will tell you the real meat of the game aren't the play sets but the online community made stuff.
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May 10, 2016 22:35
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Viewtiful Jew posted:I wonder if they're going to keep the Infinity servers up long-term considering even the fans of Infinity will tell you the real meat of the game aren't the play sets but the online community made stuff. With that in mind, you'd think they would have wised up at some point and allowed more compatibility across game versions, rather than making a new release every year that's largely incompatible with the stuff that came before. You'd think that somewhere along the line someone would have realized what an awful idea that was.
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I don't care about Disney Infinity but if Nintendo Amiibos die there will be hell to pay because it means no more Griffin's Amiibo's Corner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVwgiZ3xao Broseph Brostar posted:I liked the ads for this when I was a kid Any game that opens with a ska rendition of Also Sprach Zarathustra isn't all bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_hK5QeYCVM
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corn in the bible posted:
Whoa, what is this? Looks like Warcraft 1 mixed with dwarf fortress.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Well, Battlefront apparently sold pretty well actually going by reports that came out today. I don't know how well the retention rate for the game has been over the last few months but it certainly lived up to the "Have Star Wars, Will Sell" mantra they were probably hoping Infinity 3.0 would embrace.
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I think Amiibos are the only part of the toys to life market that still has legs, which is odd considering that the most common complaint about them seems to be their lack of in-game utility. Are Skylanders still as much of a thing as they were a few years ago? The kids at the daycare where my wife worked seemed to be crazy about them back then but I haven't seen or heard much hype for them in a good long while now.
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Wamdoodle posted:Stream your play. I want to see this in person. Not that I don't believe you. I like watching game streams is all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5HynVo3WKg
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raditts posted:I think Amiibos are the only part of the toys to life market that still has legs, which is odd considering that the most common complaint about them seems to be their lack of in-game utility. I haven't been keeping up but I have to imagine that skylanders is a mint. If anything Infinity probably flopped because Skylanders already owned the market, and who wants to buy figurines for some other figurines game that don't play with the figurines or game you already have? Amiibos will survive because Nintendo is a loving powerhouse, but Skylanders otherwise have a lockdown on the toys to life market. And Amiibos aren't really even all that "-to life" compared to skylanders, there's not a ton you can do with each. (Unless you really like smash bros bots I guess) But they're collectible Marios so they'll sell anyhow.
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CrashCat posted:Like did it just do okay or did it actually exceed projections? Cause if it didn't it's as good as garbage to business
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Zaphod42 posted:Whoa, what is this? Looks like Warcraft 1 mixed with dwarf fortress. https://www.mobygames.com/game/war-along-the-mohawk it's interesting and overly ambitious, like all the best games
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corn in the bible posted:https://www.mobygames.com/game/war-along-the-mohawk Oh its an actual retro game, I assumed it was indie or open source or something. Haha just posting your old mobygames floppy-disk game in the may games thread. But hey power to ya guy, looks like fun. Looks like basically the revolutionary war in the warcraft 1 engine. (Not really that engine but definitely from that era!)
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i told them to dig hole traps for the french, but then on the way back they fell in them and died. france wins i guess
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They closed down Avalanche Software as well. That's like 300+ jobs right down the drain. Tragic stuff. 
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Palpek posted:It was the 4th best selling game of 2015 behind CoD, Madden and Fallout 4. I'm only half kidding
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Zaphod42 posted:Oh its an actual retro game, I assumed it was indie or open source or something. you can tell its from early days since the back of the box touts that it's just like a regular turn-based game, but in "real-time"! with the real time in quotes and everything
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Quest For Glory II posted:knowing little about cod multiplayer, that map at an aquarium looks cool.. blops 3 ha smany cool and fun maps imo. future cod owns.
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JordanKai posted:They closed down Avalanche Software as well. That's like 300+ jobs right down the drain. Tragic stuff. Working in games kinda blows most of the time unless you're invaluble one way or another, and even that isn't too safe.
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Motto posted:Working in games kinda blows most of the time unless you're invaluble one way or another, and even that isn't too safe. 
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corn in the bible posted:im pretty sure kojima is set for life People probably thought the same thing when Romero went off to make Daikatana.
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JordanKai posted:They closed down Avalanche Software as well. That's like 300+ jobs right down the drain. Tragic stuff. Not to be confused with Just Cause and Mad Max developers Avalanche Studios. Still sucks, but I figured I'd clarify that.
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corn in the bible posted:im pretty sure kojima is set for life
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FanaticalMilk posted:People probably thought the same thing when Romero went off to make Daikatana. Man, I remember back last year when Romero was auctioning random retro games he had lying around signed by him on ebay. Sounded like he had some serious debts to pay.
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It shocks me that the company that developed Mortal Kombat Mythologies survived for 19 more years only to die with a Disney property.
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