ubergine • Comments

• Elder Scrolls Online: "You can compete with your friends to catch the biggest fish"

• ubergine 17/05/2013

  Stop carping on. Reply 0

• ubergine 17/05/2013

  What I'd be more likely to play, unless this is on console, is a mainline elder scrolls with some limited multiplayer - after years of swearing off just such a thing. I'm playing Minecraft on 360 and making equipment and exchanged gear to give to guests, then I play Skyrim and I have chests full of gear I don't want and can't give to anyone, I have quest lines I don't want and can't give away.
  
  I'm imagining Skyrim with up to four players in a world at a time, with the host able to lock off certain questlines for themselves but the little quests and faction quests can be done on first come, first served, and some repeatable ones can be be plate once by any player.
  
  The three heroes who join you against Alduin could be the NPC's or your friends. I think this could seriously be done without impacting the integrity of the single player negatively at all. Reply 0

• EA to discontinue Online Passes

• ubergine 16/05/2013

  Of course, this is being announced days before Microsoft reveal their console allows developers to instigate an online activation for the whole game, both online and offline components.
  
  Online Passes were an approach to second-hand console game sales. If they are dropping it, it's because Sony and Microsoft are providing a different approach I'd wager. Reply +8

• ubergine 16/05/2013

  I never actually objected to the online passes, I think it's a reasonable experiment. But then I don't play online games much anyway, I play single-player games, games that EA tried to tack multiplayer onto, and spent too little time developing, and deformed the game's genre to "broaden" the audience. Now that I think about it, Mass Effect 3 was the last EA game I bought. I guess I'm not their customer anymore and they can safely ignore me. Reply +6

• Silicon Knights is "very busy" and "definitely alive"

• ubergine 10/05/2013

  People Left: 1
  Location: Mom's basement Reply +43

• Free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG Ascend: New Gods re-named

• ubergine 07/05/2013

  I expect the name change from New Gods is because of that comic book. Reply +2

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

• ubergine 07/05/2013

  I think a "sequel" to this game should be to it as it is to Far Cry 3. Something completely gonzo in a different way. Like he goes to an undersea moon base in the sky with aliens and differing gravity and octicorns firing rainbows through portals into hell. Reply +4

• Microsoft cautious on Windows 8 success: "we realise that change takes time"

• ubergine 07/05/2013

  ... I wish I could buy a new computer Reply -19

• ubergine 07/05/2013

  Oh, wrong thread.
  
  Windows Hate is the Worst Thing Ever! Reply -21

• ubergine 07/05/2013

  Oh My God, Mass Effect 3 is the Worst Thing Ever! Reply -18

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

• ubergine 03/05/2013

  God dammit, I knew I felt like I should be playing an awesome new game at the moment, and that game was meant to be South Park. Hopefully this bankruptcy / delay will be over with quickly.
  
  I've only got one episode of Walling Dead left to play (downloading to my left as we speak) and then, what? Reply +3

• Google hires LucasArts, DreamWorks veteran as Chief Game Designer

• ubergine 03/05/2013

  (puts glasses on) Reply +7

• ubergine 03/05/2013

  Games for Google Glasses could be a spectacle. Reply +33

• Warner Bros. and 5th Cell targeted by Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat lawsuit

• ubergine 03/05/2013

  The owners of Pop Tarts should sue the Nyan Cat guy and everyone have a huge litigious circle-jerk over their shit "intellectual" property.
  
  Hey, I'm not flattered you made my one-joke meme a very minor cameo in your successful game, just give me a cut of your profits.
  
  I hope it is found to be fair use. Reply +1

• Face-Off: Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

• ubergine 01/05/2013

  Going for the 360 version for its optional install.
  
  Wait Reply +4

• Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition boxed release dated

• ubergine 01/05/2013

  This release has been dated twice previously, late April first time and June 4 second time. The disc was meant to have title update 9, which turned out to have game/breaking bugs prompting an emergency patch and another bug patch in coming weeks. Reply 0

• Despite Kickstarter shortfall, Defense Grid 2 development now under way

• ubergine 28/04/2013

  I quite enjoyed the first game on 360 and still pull it up on a regular basis to tackle a level I haven't done yet from the expansions. I'm not a huge fan of the genre (geodefense on iPhone is only other one I have time for) but found this far more interesting that the be-lightning-fast types of tower defence. Reply 0

• Gearbox acquires Homeworld

• ubergine 23/04/2013

  Gearbox can't be trusted unfortunately. They have some work to do before they come across as a credible developer and not some kind of money-shifting-around steal-from-one-IP-to-feed-another marketing-bullshit-factory. Borderlands 2's successes are soured by their poisonous antics. Reply +2

• Darksiders and Red Faction sold to Nordic Games

• ubergine 23/04/2013

  So I was tricked into clicking on this article after WHAT! A DOLLAR THIRTY-FIVE! and now am allowed to call Eurogamer deceptive cunt flushers. Reply +1

• Edge developer celebrates as Tim Langdell trademark finally cancelled

• ubergine 19/04/2013

  Now that prick is taken care of we can finally go after Kony. Reply +5

• Bethesda reveals video teaser, possibly Wolfenstein, possibly Project Zwei

• ubergine 17/04/2013

  With all the rampant, baseless speculation about new consoles and whatever games may appear on them when we are allowed to acknowledge that everything we know is happening is happening,
  
  I can't get interested or excited about teasers for eventual announcements. It's just a fucking irritation at this point.
  
  Say something or say nothing, don't be all "ooh! we have something to say, eventually... exciting!" Reply 0

• The next Xbox will be fully integrated into your TV via a cable box connection - report

• ubergine 11/04/2013

  Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 1984 Reply +8

• KOTOR2 dev Obsidian "sad" about LucasArts, "would love to" pitch a Star Wars game

• ubergine 09/04/2013

  I don't want to seem pessimistic, but there will never again be a good Star Wars game and we are all going to die horribly. Reply 0

• New Skyrim PC patch 1.9 "effectively removes the overall level cap"

• ubergine 09/04/2013

  I will miss that random naked postman. Reply 0

• Next Xbox reveal due 21st May, costs $500 or $300 with a subscription, reports suggest

• ubergine 08/04/2013

  I'm quite sick of Apple, so Microsoft's late-to-the-party attempts to ape them are off putting. There's also:
  
  I want a game-thing, not an every-thing.
  
  Online requirements sound onerous.
  
  I hate the latest versions of the Xbox dash
  
  I hate the look of Windows 8.
  
  I've been frustrated by Microsoft's attitude towards Indie developers, who are making all the interesting games now that AAA devs only make CoD clones and umpteenth-sequels.
  
  Microsoft have no one interesting making speeches any more. Reply +19