Farzlepot • Comments

• Avalanche Studios' mysterious steampunk sandbox game has been put on hold

• Farzlepot 16/05/2013

  Of course it's been put on hold. It sounded remotely like a creative idea. Reply +11

• Former THQ president reveals Metro dev's terrible work conditions

• Farzlepot 16/05/2013

  @CamberGreber
  
  ... and conditions akin to those of a sweatshop, apparently. Reply +12

• EA to discontinue Online Passes

• Farzlepot 16/05/2013

  Some people are praising EA for doing the right thing here, when in reality this is the equivalent of a murderer deciding that he's going to stop murderising people. Reply -23

• Dream is a video conceptualising how visually sumptuous next-gen games could be

• Farzlepot 15/05/2013

  @TOOTR
  
  I've always wanted to shoot passion at people. Reply +5

• Farzlepot 15/05/2013

  Yes, I too can imagine what next-gen might look like. The difference, however, is that I'm too busy drinking beer / lack the skills to make a video about it. Reply +4

• Sid Meier's cultural victory

• Farzlepot 15/05/2013

  Anybody who Pirates! Sid Meier's games deserved to be killed. Reply -2

• Gran Turismo 6 is official, boasts 1200 cars

• Farzlepot 15/05/2013

  PS5 launch title confirmed. Reply +38

• 2008 PSN hack suspect smashes PCs, hides HDDs, gets off lightly

• Farzlepot 14/05/2013

  @Marrrfooo
  
  He smashed them and they don't have hard drives, and he's hardly going to toddle off to Curry's to get another now.
  
  
  
  Oh, and I don't care that my personal details are floating around out there - 20 years and a quarter million fine for this is just obscene. Murderers get less, and being deprived of life is considerably worse than being hacked. Reply +9

• BioShock Infinite sells "significantly" more than series predecessors

• Farzlepot 14/05/2013

  TakeTwo's problem these days is that it seems to exist purely as a GTA factory, with other games on the rota simply to plug the financial hole between iterations. Which is fine, except GTA might not always be there to come to the rescue. Reply +2

• Ouya launch delayed a few weeks as another $15 million is raised

• Farzlepot 09/05/2013

  @BonzoBanana
  
  Minecraft was originally created by one dude in his spare time on a shoe-string budget. I've spent more time on that than I have any game this generation bar the big hitters like Skyrim, Fallout and Mass Effect (and, if I'm honest, maybe more than a couple of those too).
  
  And graphically, it looks like a cube shit a bunch of other cubes all over the place.
  
  I'm not particularly interested in the Ouya, but your nonsense about 'bigger budgets and sparklier graphics = better games" is exactly that - nonsense. Reply +1

• GAME plans to open 18 new shops by July

• Farzlepot 08/05/2013

  @FortysixterUK
  
  Helpful tip: I used to work on the electrical department at Tesco. Most of their 'pre-owned' games aren't actually pre-owned at all. Because the service is under-used by customers, they don't have enough traded in games to fill the allocated shelf space, and so they simply tear the cellophane off new games and stick them out there in Safer Cases.
  
  You can tell which are which quite easily*; Tesco slaps their own barcode labels on the back of pre-owned games. The ones with yellow labels are genuinely second hand. The ones with white labels, however, are not. I got some pretty good deals out of this, buying effectively new games at pre-owned prices.
  
  * This method of identification is only true of pre-owned games shipped to stores from Tesco. Those which have been traded in in-store and put straight back onto the shelves (incidentally, no form of checks are carried out, and those handling the process are usually clueless about games) will have smaller, self-made white-and-yellow barcode labels. Reply +3

• Farzlepot 08/05/2013

  @davidlpool1982
  
  That's because OpCapita don't "save" companies; they bleed them dry and then discard them. They did the same thing with Comet.
  
  Game's time on this Earth is limited. Even if the retail market for games picks up, they won't be around to enjoy it, at least not in their current form. I remember cringing when I heard that OpCapita had "saved" Game; regardless of my problems with them, I don't want to see them go under. Unfortunately, that's exactly what's going to happen now that OpCapita is involved. Reply +1

• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sequel possible, says Michael Biehn

• Farzlepot 07/05/2013

  Best. Reloading. Animations. EVER. Reply +3

• Obsidian's next-gen game "already looking great" says Feargus Urquhart

• Farzlepot 03/05/2013

  @Bertie
  
  In that case, Godspeed and good luck! Reply +9

• Farzlepot 03/05/2013

  @X3Entente
  
  Great, as if being teased by the possibility of KotOR3 isn't enough, now somebody brings up HL3 as well. Reply +4

• Farzlepot 03/05/2013

  Don't tease us with KotOR3 hope, Purchese. That's just mean. Reply +24

• Three more games accepted on Steam Greenlight

• Farzlepot 02/05/2013

  Papers, Please! is actually a genius game, given the frantic pace it gets as you progress further. Reply 0

• Intel unveils Iris - its next-gen graphics tech

• Farzlepot 02/05/2013

  Didn't Intel promise similar things the last time around? I seem to remember people raving about their last generation of GPUs right up until they released. Reply +19

• Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 spotted for PS3, Vita release

• Farzlepot 01/05/2013

  @Architect_z
  
  I ripped them off the original game CD back in the day. It was treated as an audio CD, like so many PC games were back then. Reply +1

• Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition boxed release dated

• Farzlepot 01/05/2013

  @DozyKipper
  
  You needed convincing? Reply +1

• Lovefilm Instant PlayStation 3 app finally gets HD streaming

• Farzlepot 01/05/2013

  Have they fixed the god-awful interface yet? Or the loading times? Reply +3

• Batman voice actor won't return for Arkham Origins

• Farzlepot 29/04/2013

  Erm, unless by younger we mean adolescent, OS there really a huge need to find a younger voice actor? Reply +1

• Star Trek: The Video Game review

• Farzlepot 26/04/2013

  @Nephirion
  
  Elite Force says hi. Reply +1

• Farzlepot 26/04/2013

  Given that the new movie was nothing more than a Hollywood blockbuster with lots of explosions and not much plot, I don't know why anybody was expecting anything more from the game. Reply 0

• Rayman Legends release date brought forward to August

• Farzlepot 25/04/2013

  Hoping for a Vita version. Origins is my surprise favourite game on that platform; it's just a perfect fit for it, particularly the colourful artwork on that gorgeous screen. Reply +1