Comments on: Gaming News: What’s hot at E3, APB and the embargo of doom, WAR drops producer, Microsoft still has no sense of humour shock

By: Se7en Tidbits: “The Destruction of My Moral Compass” or “Warden Boner” « Are We New At This?

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:46:07 +0000

[...] and most casual blogs also treat foolish press embargoes with the disdain that they deserve.” Spinks mirrors my thoughts on the APB review embargo. “Without a clear path, I am more likely to fall back on old MMOs [...]

By: Jomu

Jomu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:34:31 +0000

did they confirm they removed the red LED, orrr..? I’ll believe it when i see it

By: Stabs

Stabs — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:46:11 +0000

“concludes that neither of the two motion controllers seem to be aimed at the hardcore gamer.”

I’d already guessed this based on their user friendly name.

Move – has instructions on how to use it in the name.

Kinect – because it’s kinnected to your computer.

By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:53:19 +0000

APB for me was horrible. I played the beta for the allotted 5 hours I was given and it just seemed that if you didn’t ALWAYS upgrade your gun, you were dead. The game doesn’t account for skill at all, since headshots deal just as much damage as body shots apparently … and there’s the ever-present tactic of Counterstrike-jumping in the game.

If I ever made an FPS, it would have NO jumping at all.

Anyway, other parts of the game seemed fun, but poorly executed. The cars were VERY still and lethargic, unless you got a speedster, and then it was just unwieldly and you’d crash into walls all the time. The trucks seemed to handle the best and after a bit I got to understand how they wanted you to control them, but it was far from natural.

Really the game could be fun for people who run it in a group. Otherwise … well all the stuff I mentioned above applies

By: Rhii

Rhii — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:05:24 +0000

3D gaming sounds like it will cause motion sickness on a grand scale. Maybe not on the DS with its little screen, but certainly on my full sized television… When PS1/N64 first came out, the early quasi-3D graphics were really hard on my stomach. To this day I can’t play anything in first person for that very reason.

I know I’m not alone in the motion sickness problem. I will be sad if I can’t play a whole series of games because of it.