BremXJones • Comments

  • The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2

  • BremXJones 21/02/2011

    Christ! As the article says, HL2 was costing a million a month to develop. Let's assume recoding the game to re-secure the source was revealed just took a month delay. That's a million he cost Valve. If it took a week, just under a quarter of a million.

    To be honest, if you fucked me over for 100 quid, I'd do far worse.

    KG     Reply +7

  • BremXJones 21/02/2011

    As awesome as the story is, for those who are tutting at Valve, it's worth remembering this wasn't a finished game leak. It was a source code leak. In other words, doing it meant Valve had to go back and change it so it couldn't just be hacked apart when it was released for whatever messed up purposes. We can argue whether or not leaks effect sales, but source code leaks certainly increase costs.

    KG     Reply +22

  • Games of 2010: Robot Unicorn Attack

  • BremXJones 30/12/2010

    I believe it was in a defence of Max Payne. Wasn't the feature about stuff which some people thought was over-rated? Or was it a Top 100 or something?

    Anyway, it nagged at me* ever since, because it's too good a line to nail forever to Max Payne**, so I figure I can use it again. It's been a decade, after all, and fits Robot Unicorn Attack better anyway.

    KG

    *No pun intended.
    **Which I dug lot, but it was a VERY GOOD LINE.     Reply +4

  • Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - City of the Daleks

  • BremXJones 22/04/2010

    Fogheart: With that date, you're far from the first. But certainly not the last.

    No, definitely not.

    When I interviewed her, I manfully resisted asking her "DO YOU REALISE YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE?".

    Because she is very, very pretty.

    KG     Reply +10

  • Frozen Synapse

  • BremXJones 20/04/2010

    You get 2 copies if you pre-order, as stated. So it's really 8.50. Pair up.

    KG     Reply +6

  • BremXJones 20/04/2010

    It's worth noting that in the standard mode, the sides are symmetrical. As in, you both get the same load out.

    (It's a little different in capture at the moment, but the bidding mechanism sort of turns that into actual game)     Reply 0

  • Games of 2009: Dragon Age: Origins

  • BremXJones 01/01/2010

    At least Dragon Age wasn't sexist though, eh?

    KG     Reply +2

  • Darkfall Online

  • BremXJones 17/07/2009

    For the record, I love Mount & Blade.

    KG     Reply +9

  • BremXJones 17/07/2009

    I wish I had a pair of new shoes :(

    KG     Reply +23

  • BremXJones 17/07/2009

    Mingster: I'm playing the PC one.

    KG     Reply +6

  • Retrospective: Earth Defence Force 2017

  • BremXJones 07/06/2009

    EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF!

    KG     Reply 0

  • The Sims 3

  • BremXJones 18/05/2009

    Jonny5Alive7: Yeah, I'd think it was the preview version. That said, it did go gold a couple of days ago - which means it *could* be the final one.

    LeChuckie: You can't officially date people, but you can totally have as many affairs as you like. Playing my date-10-people game, I was regularly setting up the next few while dating another. And getting slapped for it.

    KG     Reply 0

  • BremXJones 18/05/2009

    Yeah. Hopefully the online sharing stuff they've got built into the game will encourage people to actually buy it.

    KG     Reply 0

  • Plants vs. Zombies

  • BremXJones 05/05/2009

    Bobsuncle: But it totally *is* better than MGS4.

    KG     Reply +3

  • Drakensang: The Dark Eye

  • BremXJones 08/04/2009

    Re: Stealth Girlfriend. I was totally writing that thinking of you guys.

    KG     Reply 0

  • The Path

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    darleysam: The bit you're annoyed with is basically just it being Little Red Riding Hood the game, man. It's the starting point.

    I only now realise you haven't played it - I thought by your specificity of problems you were talking about experience rather than a generalised annoyance of stuff.

    KG     Reply +1

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    I really think that would have undermined the artistic effect. If you don't get that someone quoting some of the most famous disobeyed instructions of all time means, that's a real deep level of cultural illiteracy. It's putting you in a garden of Eden game and giving the DO NOT EAT THE APPLE command, y'know?

    KG     Reply +1

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    darleysam: Oh, c'mon. Expecting a little cultural knowledge from the gamer is fine. "Stay on the path" is what Red Riding Hood didn't do, despite being told to. In fact, if you do obey the rules without *understanding* the rules you *have* failed one of the game's few actual puzzles.

    (And I think through basic human messing around, you end up going off the path on first try too, even without the cultural allusion)

    KG     Reply +1

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    Tiger: It is linear as you play it is the point.

    KG     Reply 0

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    You know, when I read that line, I actually had a little shiver.

    Don't do it! You'll probably die for real.

    KG     Reply 0

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    Thanks. I'll say this much - it was a tricky one, y'know?

    KG     Reply +2

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    Oceanclub: I find it works best if you play a girl at a time. Maybe two.

    KG     Reply +1

  • BremXJones 06/04/2009

    $10.

    KG     Reply 0

  • Project: Aftermath

  • BremXJones 16/03/2009

    mal_reed: Thanks for taking the review philosophically. Add "Takes bad reviews well" to the many other things you guys are doing which I wish many other developers would try.

    KG     Reply 0

  • BremXJones 16/03/2009

    Tzetrik: Functional at best.

    KG     Reply 0