This week: Elder Scrolls MMO, Black Ops 2, Orion: Dino Beatdown controversy, Half Life 3, Notch and EA, Xbox and Windows 7 banned in Germany, no physical media on the next Xbox, and the cancellation of the La-Mulana port for the Wii.
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8 thoughts on “Gather Your Podcast 5”
I have never encountered a micro stutter in ANY Elder Scrolls game.
That may be true, but that doesn’t negate a long and well documented history of the bug appearing for other players in Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim.
I keep wanting to respond to you guys because I’m so used to talking to you on Mumble. It’s freaking me out.
The Gamebryo engine micro-stutter bug seems to be mostly an NVidia card thing, so the ATI users may have never heard of it.
Also, Singularity was amazing.
Coca-cola makes coke and sells it to supermarkets. The supermarket has no right know the secret process and ingredients that make the beverage unique much less change coca-cola’s product & still call it coca-cola. Independent developers have creative freedom to do whatever they want & then they strike a deal with a publisher, similar to companies selling their product to supermarkets….. Opposed to studios seeking funding from a publisher and or owned by a publisher which would be comparable to say Bacardi who is owned by coca-cola. Publishing an independently developed game by a reputable developer/studio is almost guaranteed profit. Why was that so hard?
You are exactly right, and that’s basically what I was getting at. An Independent developer is one who has the funds and calls the shots. You don’t see Epic Games getting pushed around by EA to “streamline” their games for a “wider audience” or any of that nonsense. The problem lies in the rise in the popularity of the word “indie” which has caused everyone to suddenly picture an independent developer as some dude in his mother’s basement with no job.
I think Tim was saying once you involve a publisher, you have someone you need to cater to (QA or otherwise). The true definition of independent is “not depending on another’s authority” so the only way to be truly ‘indie’ is to be self-published.
legit release on april 1st, HL3, calling it.