MrBeens • Comments

• Layoffs at Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier

• MrBeens 17/12/2012

  @Ignatius_Cheese Yes they did. They are mentioned in the credits of the game Reply 0

• Failing Kung-fu Superstar Kickstarter proves hardcore gamers' "hatred" for motion control

• MrBeens 29/11/2012

  @ctankep WTF is up with all the ' instead of letters? Reply +1

• Ex-Free Radical devs reveal why publishers turned down TimeSplitters 4

• MrBeens 27/11/2012

  @Der_tolle_Emil Although the makers of Goldeneye no longer work there. Reply +6

• Hotline Miami review

• MrBeens 24/10/2012

  @Utilero keyboard Reply +2

• MrBeens 24/10/2012

  @Utilero I'm playing with no issues Reply +2

• Deathtrap Dudgeon: 90 minutes with Borderlands 2's Mechromancer

• MrBeens 10/10/2012

  I guess this was written in advance before they decided to release it 2 days ago :) Reply -12

• "There is something we haven't told everybody about when you play the cube..."

• MrBeens 02/10/2012

  What a bunch of reverse psychology bullshit.
  "If a million people get the game it would be a disaster!"
  "My game is such a perfectly crafted experiment it will only work if a set number of people get it and interact with it at the rate I want"
  
  Because it's free and because it Molyfuckingdeux it's going to get shit loads of downloads. His precious layers are going to be covered in drawings of dicks before they are stripped away within 5 days (see Diablo III "Inferno will take months to beat" claims). Reply +21

• State of Decay is one hugely ambitious open-world zombie game

• MrBeens 20/09/2012

  @SweetMrGibs And? Emergent strategy doesn't mean that what he has described has never been done before. Reply +12

• Borderlands 2 review

• MrBeens 18/09/2012

  Wait - loot is not instanced this time round? Booo!
  Still can't wait to play it. Reply +1

• How Gearbox broke the bank for Borderlands 2

• MrBeens 14/09/2012

  Could the photos be a bit more blurry please, I can just make out some details in some of them. Reply +21

• Lego LOTR features openworld Middle-earth

• MrBeens 12/09/2012

  @Old_Books Agreed. I had no desire to replay Batman 2 after completing the story. The city was "too" open and was annoying to navigate.
  Hopefully LoTR will be more like Harry Potter. Reply 0

• Lost Humanity 11: Games TV, Again

• MrBeens 05/09/2012

  @Kami Fun fact. Emily works at EA now in game production. Reply +4

• Guild Wars 2 Trading Post/auction house now available for all

• MrBeens 04/09/2012

  @jonfon All of the city karma vendors sell cooking ingredients - this is not a bug. You are not meant to get stuff like blood and leather from them. Reply 0

• Molyneux: we can't use Curiosity name because of NASA

• MrBeens 23/08/2012

  @craigy How about drumming up free publicity to fill the gap between when it was due to be out and it actually being released. Reply +3

• Ghost Recon Online Review

• MrBeens 20/08/2012

  @dogmanstaruk Why aren't you reading the comments already posted and realising that this has already been addressed? Reply 0

• Fluid Football "is bloody brilliant" says New Star Soccer dev

• MrBeens 17/08/2012

  @kittenkilla Are you talking about HandEgg? Reply 0

• Warren Spector: Hey Carmack, Sweeney, stop rendering and start making believable AI

• MrBeens 15/08/2012

  @Kami Both of those issues are not because we cannot program AI characters to deal with those situatons. Both of those situations are specifically designed to do what you are flagging as "problems" because the people who made the game think that the behaviour is more fun.
  
  The chances are that in case 1 at one point they did have a more robust searching behaviour and it made it frustrating as you could never get away.
  
  The chances are that in case 2 at one point they had many more characters attacking you at once. Playtesting revealed that the optimum number of characters to be fighting at once is 2.
  
  I've done a lot of work with game AI, and you would be suprised at what we can make those collections of pixels do. A lot of those things though are not fun in the grand scheme of the game. Reply +3

• Molyneux: $50,000 Curiosity DLC "nothing to be ashamed of"

• MrBeens 07/07/2012

  Did this really need to be a second news article after the first one - you are just feeding the troll. Reply +2

• Someone has finished Diablo 3 already

• MrBeens 15/05/2012

  Finished normal in 12 and a half hours. Sounds good to me.
  That isn't "finished" Diablo though.
  Why is this news? I'm sure there are other people who have also completed normal in the same time or better.
  
  What a pointless waste of an "article" Reply 0

• The Diablo 3 Starter Edition is a free trial/demo

• MrBeens 14/05/2012

  @Gun-Nut No. For the first 30 days after launch you have to use a guest pass key to try the starter edition.
  After 30 days it will be available without a pass. Reply 0

• LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias on iOS tomorrow

• MrBeens 10/05/2012

  @cukydoh They are giving away the first game for free.
  
  The controls on the first one were patched to give you the option of a much more intuative "flick and tap" system for jumping and moving. Works really well. Reply 0

• GOG.com relaunched to sell newer PC games

• MrBeens 27/03/2012

  @Alcock I think the Game.com website is free? Reply +19

• Guild Wars 2 open beta begins in March

• MrBeens 23/01/2012

  @roquey But he doesn't use the phrase open beta. Ramping up the size of the testing group so that many (not all) is not the same as open beta. Reply +9

• Notch steps down as lead developer of Minecraft

• MrBeens 02/12/2011

  @hypoBla5t Don't call me Shirley Reply +5

• Making an XBLA Game: The Inside Story

• MrBeens 22/11/2011

  @RexRunti "The menus have to have the right items and when they unplug the controller it's gotta do this, and blah blah blah. The leaderboards, the Achievements, the Avatar items were a real pain in the ass."
  
  Yeah these are standard things that all console games have to adhere to, there are TRC requirements you have to meet to get certified on PS3 and Wii as well.
  Making your game not freeze or crash if you unplug the controller is not a pain in the ass, it is making a stable game. Reply +6