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Comment better live iPhone musical performances (Score 1) 65

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Friday December 04, 2009 @02:52PM (#30327020) Attached to: Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones

Trace Bundy does the live iPhone musical performance better, IMO. It also helps that he's obviously not taking himself too seriously, as the performers in the above video seem to be doing. iPhone music is an amusing gimmick, but not a serious musical art.

Comment Smells like a setup. (Score 1) 234

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @09:55AM (#29731257) Attached to: Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For <em>WoW</em>

So, am I still supposed to believe that Blizzard won't charge a monthly fee to play Starcraft II online? On the same exact network, with basically the same set of services as millions of monthly-fee WoW-ers?

Comment Re:Chronotron. (Score 2, Insightful) 106

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Friday September 25, 2009 @07:09PM (#29545133) Attached to: <em>Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time</em> Offers New Gameplay Mechanic

Thanks for posting. When I saw the headline my first thought was "Yes, if by 'new gameplay mechanic' you mean one that an entire game was built around in last year's PAX 10."

Comment New single & multi-player content in each rele (Score 1) 520

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Friday August 21, 2009 @02:20PM (#29149099) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

Unless they plan on adding extra multiplayer goodies to the subsequent "episode", then the real driver to buy anything after the first one would have to be a nice, solid single player-experience and plot-line.

From the official Starcraft II FAQ:

How will the expansion sets impact multiplayer gameplay?
The expansion sets will add new content to each race for use in multiplayer matches. This could include additions such as new units, abilities, and structures, along with new maps and Battle.net updates.

However, they are definitely not neglecting single-player. Here's the latest news on all the work they're putting into single-player, and here's a video with a glimpse of the campaign.

Comment How will removing LAN encourage more sales? (Score 4, Interesting) 520

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Friday August 21, 2009 @11:58AM (#29147221) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

What actual hard data does Blizzard have that led them to make such an about-face on LAN from Starcraft to Starcraft II? The ability with the original Starcraft to create a "spawn copy" that allowed friends to play for free in a LAN game was (IMO) a big driver of sales. Why remove such a successful feature? In what universe does removing popular features from your product and pissing off a large base of your fans somehow result in more sales?

Futurama Voices Could Be Recast 260

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 17, 2009 @08:15PM from the bite-my-shiny-metal-*** dept.

Svippy writes "According to reports surfacing on the Internet, Futurama may be recast. The animated series is due to return next year on Comedy Central, but may not be the same as we once knew it. 'As part of the announcement, the show's producers said stars including West, Sagal and DiMaggio had all signed on to return. Turns out that wasn't true. The stars had all expressed interest in returning. But with the budget for Futurama dramatically slashed, the salary offers came in well below what the thesps were asking.' Phil LaMarr posted 20th Century Fox's request for auditions on his Facebook page. However, some are skeptical about whether it's a real casting call or purely a stunt to reduce the salaries of the voice actors."

Comment Re:You call that "plenty"!? (Score 1) 251

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Wednesday July 01, 2009 @12:29PM (#28544167) Attached to: In Defense of the Classic Controller

1) My list was not intended to be comprehensive, it was just off the top of my head in 30 seconds. Yes, there are plenty of great 2D games out there, and still coming out today.

2) I've been "seriously" gaming since the NES (and before I saved up for my NES I played plenty of Atari 2600), so I've certainly got plenty of perspective. I still disagree with the original commenter's claims that "they" "just stop[ped] making 2D games" and that "2D games are not taken seriously."

You feel free to go ahead and keep complaining about the death of 2D games. If you don't mind, I'll just keep playing and enjoying the new ones that continue to come out. Thanks!

Comment 2D games "not taken seriously"? (Score 2, Informative) 251

by H0NGK0NGPH00EY on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:15PM (#28529831) Attached to: In Defense of the Classic Controller

Same thing with 2D sprite-based games. 3D comes along, and people at first thing Great! This 3D stuff is neat, now we can have 3D and 2D games. And good thing, because entire genres of games and styles of art are built around 2D graphics. There's no way people will just stop making 2D games. But the reality is that they do. After a while we only have 3D games after all, and 2D games are not taken seriously anymore.

Gotta disagree with you on the point of 2D vs. 3D games. Just off the top of my head...

I could go on and on, but the point is that there are still plenty of great 2D games being made in recent years. 2D games most certainly are "taken seriously" (whatever that means—I mean, we are talking about games here).

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