Invites - UGame network

I have 5 invites for the Facebook for gamers community site UGame Network.

UGame is a community site, currently in its beta, which functions like Facebook, but for gamers. The site allows you to upload pictures, share your achievements, rate games and create groups (private and public). In my opinion, the site is nothing special. If you are a Facebook addict, there are apps that you can install if you want to connect with other gamers.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Far Cry - The Movie

Uwe Boll does it again. The “let’s make it into a movie” game cinematographer, this time around, has brought us Far Cry.

After watching the movie trailer, it think that it looks more than decent. In many people’s eye Uwe has the reputation of being the man with the ability to take a great game and turn it into a total shit movie. I have seen number of his movies and I do like his work. I have also watched interviews with him and at first he can come across as an arrogant prick, but he is “cool” and gets the job done, when others can’t event get off the ground.

Good cast also.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Adventure games.

Last night, in the quick chat, on Abandonia someone said “This site should be renamed “dedicated to adventure games”.”. My response to this was “That’s what games used to be back in the day. Now they are all about is this shiny enough? Yes! Can we make it cheep and sell it quick. Yes. Then f**k quality.”.

Yes, games used to be all adventure. I love playing the old quest games. Today’s games are all about “pushing” the limits of the hardware, but when it comes to console gaming, this concept is just a “concept”. Unlike PCs, consoles cannot be upgraded, unlike PCs, you can’t swap the hard drive, CPU or video cad for a bigger, better, faster model. With consoles you cannot use your favorite brand of hardware. You are STUCK with whatever is the cheapest and decent peace of hardware that the manufacturer can trow in the case. There are adventure games, and there are few that are great, and there are some, which are awesome – BioShock, Half-Life and Half-Life 2.

To conclude I will simply quote something I read long time ago, but I am not going to bother looking for who the heck said it or where it was published. It went something like this: “Console gaming is retarding games and staling the rapid advancements in hardware.” To paraphrase this, back in the day hardware like CPU and VGU were constantly in the development process, because PC gamers demanded more and more power. But in today’s gaming world, the console has the majority stake in gaming, it is used by people who could care less about more power, and because there are 5 to 7 years between releases of new generation consoles, hardware manufacturers are not “pushed” to develop new, better and faster components as fast. Game developers are forced to retard graphics and functionality of games just to make them compatible with today’s console variation.

I am sticking to PC gaming, when possible!!

Popularity: 13% [?]

Someone … Join My Server … Please

I came accross this video, while on my daily lunch break gametrailers.com session.

Is this video supposed to represent what happens when no one else will join your server, except someone random during a moment of incredible boredom, or while waiting for open slots on their favorite server?

I have been on both sides of the coin. I can say, it feels pretty much the way the video shows it. I am sure that most gamers, who play online multiplayer shooter games or have plaid at one point , not MMOGs, have experienced the same.

Kind of long and repetitive, but that’s the whole point.

Good job Lit Fuse.

Popularity: 23% [?]

LEGO Indiana Jones!!!

Early, early this morning I was looking for a video of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance on GameTrailers.com, which by the way I was surprised to find out that it belongs to MTV Networks, when I noticed a link titled - LEGO Indiana Jones. I guess Lucas released the video at the Comic-Con 07. Continue reading »

Popularity: 36% [?]