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XboxPants posted:Thanks. I see what I was saying but yeah, that "half as successful" quote was just silly. The great thing is that probably doesn't even rank in the top 10 doofiest XBP ouya comments. Suspicious Dish posted:It seems like a very arcadey, couch multiplayer kind of game. I wouldn't expect it to sell well on PC. That and no online. Despite the PC having the functionality for couch gaming to match consoles for years, most people would probably rather just use a console. raditts fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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raditts posted:The great thing is that probably doesn't even rank in the top 10 doofiest XBP ouya comments. So, I wonder what our old OUYA enthusiast, James Andrew Coote (he who somehow dropped his OUYA out of a tree, which will never stop being funny to me), has to say about OUYA now! His most recent blog post on OUYA is from January: http://www.crystallinegreen.com/?p=1091 quote:Without being an expert in video games retail, I’d guess OUYA would likely have to pay for additional in-store space that would otherwise be taken up by more profitable trade-in games from other consoles. edit: I have changed my mind, please read his game idea where you use the oculus rift to get naked: http://www.crystallinegreen.com/?p=1127 theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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theflyingorc posted:That is actually probably my favorite one. The man reinvented strip poker but made it rapey-er
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Also lol I presume he's straight and his first game was against another dude alone with a third dude watching
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Cardboard Box A posted:Ah thanks.
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Can't beat 'em? Join 'em!quote:A new cloud-based game streaming service has launched on Ouya.
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raditts posted:Despite the PC having the functionality for couch gaming to match consoles for years, most people would probably rather just use a console. Play couch coop on PC regularly and Towerfall is a ton of fun. Some PC coop titles I've tried suffer from poor controls (that recent Sonic kart racer is awful) or a complexity that doesn't suit drunken gaming, but Towerfall has the right balance of accessibility and depth and hasn't gone all hosed up yet. Shame there aren't more like it.
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ALFbrot posted:Man, you are having a really tough time comprehending these numbers Just to make it clear. The guy himself estimates he made $100k from the OUYA version. That is rather respectable given the lovely install base etc. Then again it was basically one of the only games on the system worth buying so... And yeah, it is really more of a couch game than PC game.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Some PC coop titles I've tried suffer from poor controls (that recent Sonic kart racer is awful) Translation: "I tried to play it with mouse and keyboard like some kind of weirdo". It played exactly like the 360 version (I.e. great) if you use a 360 controller as God intended.
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randombattle posted:Bringing triple a titles back to television. I initially read this as "triple a titties" and was really confused for about twenty seconds.
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O Hanraha-hanrahan posted:Shame there aren't more like it. Windjammers, Samurai Gunn, Nidhogg, Sportsfriends (which is itself a 4-pack of Hokra, JS Joust, Super Pole Riders, and BariBariBall), Crawl (which will be out soon), etc. There are a lot of really great 2-4 player couch co-op games.
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sleepwalkers posted:Windjammers, Samurai Gunn, Nidhogg, Sportsfriends (which is itself a 4-pack of Hokra, JS Joust, Super Pole Riders, and BariBariBall), Crawl (which will be out soon), etc. There are a lot of really great 2-4 player couch co-op games. Yeah, it's pretty much a burgeoning subgenre right now. If you're looking for more go out and search, there's a bunch of great poo poo happening right now. #IDARB & Gang Beasts are another couple that are on the way. Towerfall nails that "simple, but not too simple" sweet spot pretty hard but every one of those others ones are worth looking into as well, especially if you're just looking for something to mix things up.
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Midjack posted:I initially read this as "triple a titties" and was really confused for about twenty seconds. You heard it here first, OUYA is expanding into the adult entertainment market.
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Morglon posted:You heard it here first, OUYA is expanding into the adult entertainment market. That would un-ironically be the most/only profitable move they could make.
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Munin posted:Just to make it clear. The guy himself estimates he made $100k from the OUYA version. If he sold 7,000 copies at $15, he made about $70k after OUYAs cut(and before taxes). Which I wouldn't mind making that kind of money off a fun game I made, and it was certainly a lucrative move for him, he only got that much after the company threw their full advertising weight behind him. It's like that only 4-5 developers total made an amount of money on the system that they wouldn't have made much, much more working a minimum wage job during the hours they spent on the game.
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theflyingorc posted:If he sold 7,000 copies at $15, he made about $70k after OUYAs cut(and before taxes). Which I wouldn't mind making that kind of money off a fun game I made, and it was certainly a lucrative move for him, he only got that much after the company threw their full advertising weight behind him. It's like that only 4-5 developers total made an amount of money on the system that they wouldn't have made much, much more working a minimum wage job during the hours they spent on the game. I wonder if the awareness of the game he got off it wasn't more useful. Like, I bet that $70k was enough to fund him as he ported it to some other platforms, but if people didn't know it was a good game that wouldn't have been nearly as helpful.
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XboxPants posted:I wonder if the awareness of the game he got off it wasn't more useful. Like, I bet that $70k was enough to fund him as he ported it to some other platforms, but if people didn't know it was a good game that wouldn't have been nearly as helpful. I suspect this is the case. He's also now made a bit of a name for himself (I know he was an indie developer of "note" before, but this was still great personal PR). If one person benefited from the OUYA, it was Matt Thorson. Probably doesn't make up for the people who spent 3-4 months of time working on a game that only sold like 200 copies (Secret of Universe Alpha). It's also worth noting that OUYA gave everyone $13.37, so you could get towerfall for $1.63 if you wanted it. ...ouch, it might be less than that - Secret of Universe Alpha has 28 reviews with a score of 3.5 stars. It's O-rank is 328 out of the 769 titles currently on OUYA. I know I said it a thousand times, but people basically funded the opportunity for a re-do of the Xbox Live Indie Games section, except I think it is overall people did better on XBLIG. edit: The game with the most reviews is Amazing Frog we live in the stupidest possible universe. (XBMC has more reviews, but is not a game) double edit: Also, I found a guy doing a Kickstarter for an OUYA review series. Which he started 5 days ago. I do not know how you could possibly think that was a good idea. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588784967/nevermore-studios-video-series theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 16:29 on May 2, 2014 |
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Imagined posted:Translation: "I tried to play it with mouse and keyboard like some kind of weirdo". Alternative translation: I was using controllers, because come on it's a racing game, and all four of us agreed the UI was getting in the way. I'm sure the game is great and all but it wasn't working for a bunch of drunken idiots with short attention spans. If we're not having fun within a minute of the game loading it gets rejected. FICKLE. sleepwalkers posted:Windjammers, Samurai Gunn, Nidhogg, Sportsfriends (which is itself a 4-pack of Hokra, JS Joust, Super Pole Riders, and BariBariBall), Crawl (which will be out soon), etc. There are a lot of really great 2-4 player couch co-op games. Nice, thanks for the suggestions, will check 'em out. Crawl looks like the good poo poo! it dont matter fucked around with this message at 17:38 on May 2, 2014 |
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We may have a new contender in the "worst console wannabe" space.http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/02/report-comcast-preparing-deal-allowing-customers-to-stream-ea-video-games/ posted:Comcast Corp may soon allow customers using its butt-connected X1 cable box system to buy games from Electronic Arts Inc through their televisions, according to five sources briefed on the plans.
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Ah yes, Comcast, my trusted and valued source in electronics and entertainment
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gschmidl posted:"butt-connected" You just outed yourself as a "cloud-to-butt" extension user. 
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So apparently the Washington state attorney general filed a lawsuit against a couple guys who didn't deliver on their Kickstarter project, for violating the Consumer Protection Act. It's still a long shot, but if this case goes through, people seeking crowdfunding might become legally liable for failing to ship the backer rewards that they promised.
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Colosmicon posted:So apparently the Washington state attorney general filed a lawsuit against a couple guys who didn't deliver on their Kickstarter project, for violating the Consumer Protection Act. It's still a long shot, but if this case goes through, people seeking crowdfunding might become legally liable for failing to ship the backer rewards that they promised. As much as I want to see OUYAcorp punched in the grundle, making Kickstarter-type project creators legally liable to deliver is probably the quickest way to ensure that no one can crowdfund without an existing corporate structure in place. That's fine for the Double Fines and Veronica Mars of the world, but it really puts a huge burden on the little guys if some guy who didn't get his fetish playing cards fast enough is going to be able to actually sue instead of just threatening it every other post. Example: I just kickstarted some Arkham Horror dice from a guy who is basically pooling people's money together in his apartment and sending out for manufacturing at a bulk rate. I don't think those type of things are viable anymore if he's potentially on the hook for $2,000 per ~$15 dice order.
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What Fun posted:As much as I want to see OUYAcorp punched in the grundle, making Kickstarter-type project creators legally liable to deliver is probably the quickest way to ensure that no one can crowdfund without an existing corporate structure in place. That's fine for the Double Fines and Veronica Mars of the world, but it really puts a huge burden on the little guys if some guy who didn't get his fetish playing cards fast enough is going to be able to actually sue instead of just threatening it every other post. Even if the only penalty was "you have to refund people if you can't deliver" it'd still be a pretty huge problem. Since companies probably wouldn't know they can't deliver until after they've spent a significant portion of the funds, and no longer can just easily refund pledges. Yeah it'd probably result in people putting more effort into their business plans, but it'd also cut down in risky interesting campaigns. And that's kinda the best part of KS.
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I've barely been keeping up with this thread at all but is Towerfall fun?
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You guys think consumer protection is a bad thing because some lovely amateur Kickstarters might never see the light of day?  what the gently caress is wrong with you
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A Bystander posted:I've barely been keeping up with this thread at all but is Towerfall fun? I think that it's not as good as Samurai Gun.
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Nauta posted:You guys think consumer protection is a bad thing because some lovely amateur Kickstarters might never see the light of day? The problem you're having is that you think Kickstarter is a website where consumers buy things. It's not. If there's protection needed there, it would be something to make sure the campaign people actually spend the donations on what they've said they're going to spend it on. If someone makes a good faith effort to succeed with the project, and they spend the money raised as promised, and they still fail, and thus can't give the rewards or even refunds, where's the criminal act?
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randombattle posted:I think that it's not as good as Samurai Gun. Don't know what that is, but if it's good, that's a shame, I guess.
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XboxPants posted:The problem you're having is that you think Kickstarter is a website where consumers buy things. The problem is that's what 95% of people who visit kickstarter think it is though, and if you look at it, it technically is a site for pre-ordering products more often than not.
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randombattle posted:I think that it's not as good as Samurai Gun. This. After reading in this thread ages ago about how Towerfall was so amazing, I bought it on Steam to try it with some friends. After ten minutes of trying it out we went to Samurai Gunn because it it approximately twenty-five times more enjoyable to play.
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SilverWingedSeraph posted:This. After reading in this thread ages ago about how Towerfall was so amazing, I bought it on Steam to try it with some friends. After ten minutes of trying it out we went to Samurai Gunn because it it approximately twenty-five times more enjoyable to play. From what I've seen of Samurai Gunn, Towerfall has a lot more depth to it than Gunn. Not the item bullshit, but the basic mechanics are much more layered. Which is not to say at all that it's better; some of the best games ever made are quite simple. Depth does not equal quality. But it does man that while you can get a pretty clear picture of everything that's going on in Samurai Gunn in 10 minutes, the same is not true for Towerfall. There are a lot of techniques and subtleties that aren't obvious at first (catching arrows, double-jumps, etc). A lot of people seem to warm up to Towerfall over several sessions, rather than just jumping straight into it and thinking it's great, like Gunn. And maybe that makes it a worse game. But it's probably a mistake to write it off as uninteresting after only 10 minutes. Rudager posted:The problem is that's what 95% of people who visit kickstarter think it is though, and if you look at it, it technically is a site for pre-ordering products more often than not. It sure is a pet peeve of mine when people use the word "technically" to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means. "Technically" and "effectively" are not interchangeable. XboxPants fucked around with this message at 10:05 on May 3, 2014 |
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XboxPants posted:It sure is a pet peeve of mine when people use the word "technically" to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means. "Technically" and "effectively" are not interchangeable. So answer me this then mister English, did you back the kickstarter because you wanted it to succeed or because your wanted a "dev kit"?
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Rudager posted:So answer me this then mister English, did you back the kickstarter because you wanted it to succeed or because your wanted a "dev kit"? Because I wanted it to succeed, that's the only good reason to back any Kickstarter. I was certainly hopeful I'd get a system out of it, but that wasn't the main reason I backed. Feel free to go back and check my previous posts, I've said this many times. edit: I looked one up. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3532967&userid=91732&perpage=40&pagenumber=21#post416986089 XboxPants fucked around with this message at 10:29 on May 3, 2014 |
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