Mr. Crecente has been collecting photos of developers’ gaming setups, and posted the whole batch today. Petroglyph is represented by Mike Legg, Adam Isgreen, and myself.
My setups, in immediately viewable form:
Finally, after 30+ hours of play, too many disc unreadable errors, and 185 game saves, I finished Mass Effect.
Aside from a clunky UI (3-4 steps to save a game, a step that must be taken after every major action lest ye be devoured by the elevator load of death) and cumbersome inventory management, I really enjoyed the game. I’ll probably play through again on the hardcore difficulty down the road for the achievement (why do they have such sway over me?) but it’ll be a speed run as I really took my time with this, knocking out every secondary quest and even completing the collection sidequests, something I rarely do. Unfortunately, playing through the second time as a Renegade isn’t really an option for me; I’ve got enough of a guilty conscience that even pretending to be evil makes me feel bad.
My biggest takeaway from the game? An intense desire to own a Big Trak again. Seriously, I’m watching two on eBay right now.
The biggest thing happening in the Gaming Showcase was probably the ECA booth.
There’s a very brief look at Gas Powered’s Demigod today on 1UP, where they reveal that the title will be borrowing more than a little inspiration from the possibly more popular than Warcraft III itself Warcraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients, or DotA-Allstars as the most common incarnation is known.Good for them!
As I’ve been proselytizing to pretty much everyone within earshot for some time now, DotA-style gameplay on the consoles is the next big thing. You just wait and see.
And honestly, the whole reason I just posted this article was so I’d have an excuse to test image uploads and embedded content, so uh, here’s some embedded content.[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y]
So here I go again.
Why am I doing this, when already a significant portion of my day is spent writing words? Eh, it’s something I’ve been meaning to get back into for a while, and this page will give me an opportunity to spout off outside the official venues of studio officialness. Besides, community management is still one of those nebulous paths in the game industry, the more of us out there talking about it, the better.
Although to be perfectly honest, I give myself a week before this whole thing devolves into pet photos and entries about the crap I buy.