THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: archie4208 on November 05, 2009, 05:27:32 PM

Title: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: archie4208 on November 05, 2009, 05:27:32 PM
http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2009/11/dedicated-servers-and-rage-news-you-probably-dont-want-to-hear.html

smh
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Jansen on November 05, 2009, 05:29:19 PM
:lol
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: MCD on November 05, 2009, 05:37:10 PM
Carmack does it again.

:bow
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 05, 2009, 06:00:35 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Grecco on November 05, 2009, 06:01:24 PM
Superior Master Race not so Superior anymore. PC  Bourgesie? Time to play with us Console Proletariat.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 05, 2009, 06:02:47 PM
smh
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: cool breeze on November 05, 2009, 06:03:25 PM
cool, I didn't know Rage even had multiplayer. 
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 05, 2009, 06:09:49 PM
let them eat peer-to-peer cake :smug
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 05, 2009, 06:15:29 PM
It shouldn't be quite as bad as the MW2 situation, since Rage is more of first-person RPG ala Fallout 3 and Borderlands. Probably won't support more than 4 people in multiplayer.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: MCD on November 05, 2009, 06:16:03 PM
Carmack indicated he believed the servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming.

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Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Grecco on November 05, 2009, 06:21:13 PM
Is that Dennis Dyack?
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Diunx on November 05, 2009, 06:22:12 PM
Game looks like shit anyway, wont even bother pirating it.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 05, 2009, 07:06:53 PM
Quote from: Diunx on November 05, 2009, 06:22:12 PM
Game looks like shit anyway

:rofl
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 05, 2009, 07:12:34 PM
This betrayal will not stand! Save us, Gabe Newell-sama! :bow2
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Sho Nuff on November 06, 2009, 02:50:05 AM
Carmack will take you down and jujigatame you and make you promise that next time you bang your lady, you'll make her call you John
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 06, 2009, 02:52:55 AM
Get on the bandwagon now before I pioneer standardized console specs and an industry consortium.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 06, 2009, 07:49:38 AM
Time to declare that Rage looked liked shit, none of id's games were ever that fun anyway, and how Carmack is just a mean poopy head.

Then make a smug remark about still being better than the console proletariat, standing on the upper deck of the sinking ship known as PC gaming.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 06, 2009, 09:28:39 AM
Quote from: Edge™ of Kosma on November 06, 2009, 08:04:34 AM
I thought this was single player only.

Yeah, this is the first I've heard about multiplayer, unless some passing comment was made at Quakecon that I just happened to forget.

What I saw of the game made it look somewhere between Fallout 3 and Borderlands. You've got a huge, open world, vehicles to travel between points on your map, quests to pick up from the locals, and bandit encampments to raid. Multiplayer will probably be similar to Borderlands.
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: chronovore on November 06, 2009, 05:28:11 PM
Quote from: archie4208 on November 05, 2009, 05:27:32 PM
http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2009/11/dedicated-servers-and-rage-news-you-probably-dont-want-to-hear.html

smh

I've not played multiplayer PC games since the heady early days of LAN parties on Win 95 and NT.

What's the big deal about this? Is it just that a game's MP will only work for as long as the publisher is willing to offer support?
Title: Re: id puts another nail into PC gaming's coffin.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 06, 2009, 08:02:07 PM
Quote from: Edge™ of Kosma on November 06, 2009, 05:55:42 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on November 06, 2009, 09:28:39 AM
Yeah, this is the first I've heard about multiplayer, unless some passing comment was made at Quakecon that I just happened to forget.

What I saw of the game made it look somewhere between Fallout 3 and Borderlands. You've got a huge, open world, vehicles to travel between points on your map, quests to pick up from the locals, and bandit encampments to raid. Multiplayer will probably be similar to Borderlands.

Good point. It will be coop I guess, no need for dedicated servers for that.

Unlike a game like Call of Duty, you're probably not going to have 20-30 people playing with their clans on custom maps.