The Arcade Random Thoughts Thread

[leaffan]

NES, SNES, and N64 emulator and bowling simulator

fixed

[IamMedellin]

finished "The Amazing Spider-Man"

...s'aight/10

rushed game thou..

[jms493]

no gaming allowed in the US today! Go outside you freaks!

[Swarley]

no gaming allowed in the US today! Go outside you freaks!

This was my temp gauge today. So you can shut your whorish mouth. VIDEO GAMES!!!

[SethMode]

I won't say that I would go back on my opinion on Game of Thrones, but holy fuck does the game just seem to fall apart at the best part of the story. It has a rocky buildup, but one you can see, and seems to be at least somewhat carefully done...and then towards the end...fuck, just seems to meltdown like a game with a time limit. It's a shame, really. There is a lot about the game to like.

[Twigg4075]

finished "The Amazing Spider-Man"

...s'aight/10

rushed game thou..

Of course it was. It's a movie tie in.

[leaffan]

This was my temp gauge today. So you can shut your whorish mouth. VIDEO GAMES!!!

Like I said in the chatbox last night it was 105 on wed and I still went golfing.

Fuck heat and fuck staying inside. I have all winter to do that.

[seaplus]

no gaming allowed in the US today! Go outside you freaks!

good thing i am in France ... actually i would trade a day of not playing video games to be rid of this country

[Leftwich]

Like I said in the chatbox last night it was 105 on wed and I still went golfing.

Fuck heat and fuck staying inside. I have all winter to do that.

We had a couple pass out on 17 on Friday. Paramedics drove their ambulance right over the green. I thought my boss was gonna fucking murder someone.

[padman59]

I was cracking up when I ran into this guy in The Witcher.

[Guest]

Like I said in the chatbox last night it was 105 on wed and I still went golfing.

Fuck heat and fuck staying inside. I have all winter to do that.

Depends on the person. When I wasn't working during the day I was out golfing regardless. A friend of mine loves to play pickup basketball, so he will play outside or inside, no matter the temp.

[Swarley]

I don't mind the straight heat. I just fucking hate humidity, which it's been humid as fuck here the past week.

[Guest]

I don't mind the straight heat. I just fucking hate humidity, which it's been humid as fuck here the past week.

There is that too. I can deal with 100-110 straight heat, but here around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, you can get 90 days with 100% humidity and those are beyond terrible.

[KNUBB]

There is that too. I can deal with 100-110 straight heat, but here around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, you can get 90 days with 100% humidity and those are beyond terrible.

lol at your 3 months of 100% humidity. We have that 365 days a year in Louisiana.

[IamMedellin]

Battlefield 3 Sells 15 Million, Prompts EA to Give More Games the “Premium” Treatment


Battlefield 3 has been a huge success for EA and the recently launched "premium" service looks like it'll be a big success as well. So much so that EA Label's President Frank Gibeau thinks it's time to bring the idea to other franchises.

Speaking to GamesIndustry, Gibeau didn't pull any punches when talking about the competition:

"We actually think our Premium service exceeds what [Call of Duty] Elite does - from a value standpoint, from a content standpoint, and longer term we think that we can bring more properties into that offering and that'll be great for the business."

However, he is not too proud to admit that great artists sometimes steal from their competitors and that Premium borrowed heavily from Elite in order to improve upon it:

"They [Activision] did something really innovative and if your competitor does something innovative and you think it applies to what you can do, then there's no harm in doing that. This is an industry where people have a lot of oneupsmanship and if somebody innovates, you match it or you exceed it."

What's promted all this boasting? Well, the sales of Battlefield 3 for one. Gibeau remarked:

"We're quite proud of what we did with Battlefield 3. We sold about 15 million [units] on that game, which was the number two game in the marketplace last year by a country mile.

Before he took yet another jab at the competition:

"It's important that we don't get into a position where we're just milking the franchise and just mailing it in and shipping bad games... We''ve got to stay constantly paranoid about meeting and constantly exceeding expectations on the game design and fun factor."

So what exactly does this mean? Can we expect to see Need for Speed Premium, SSX Premium and FIFA Premium showing up over the not too distant horizon? I'd say that's a safe bet and I bet Gibeau would say it's just good business.

http://kotaku.com/5922548/battlefield-3-sells-15-million-prompts-ea-to-give-more-games-the-premium-treatment