To AMD
Recently, I had a problem, my rig died in a water incident, since then I have been searching for a way to build a rig while still saving for my OH to come to this country, we are applying for her VISA soon and it costs enough that I do not have cash to spare.
I have the remaining parts from the original rig, but don't know which is faulty and have no way to test, I also have a C2Q 6600 and could buy a board that took DDR3, but alas! only 2gb modules are supported.. I have 4x4GB. My first reaction is ..to build one of your fine APU offerings, best IGP money can buy, can even game at 720 properly ..or partially at 1080.. this is some feat and I congratulate you on such a task undertook.
But now to what I discovered.. it boggles the mind.. WHY if I buy a 7850k and a R7 250 are the extra shader cores disabled??
The 7850k has 512 shader cores and the highest Dual Graphics Radeon supported card has.. 384.. crossfire NEEDS these to be equal or it shuts off shader cores!! why why why?? .. was this just an oversight..please tell me this was just an oversight.. please DON'T WRECK your plan for system on chip, by thinking marketing ploys will still work for APU's.. for APU's it doesn't work the same way it did in the past..
For example.. a motherboard manufacturer wants a price cap, they say, this is our low end motherboard its marketings responsibility to price it accordingly..they come back the R&D and say, we want to limit the features... to justify the price..*usually* they limit the RAM speed..but Homer Simpson DOH! APU's relies so heavily on RAM speed.. you are gimping your product.. and so the whole platform. the LOWEST RAM speed for APU mobos, at the poor end should be 1866 here.. the high end enthusiast being 2666mhz. supported and QVL'd.
In a more complicated way you are doing a similar thing, by thinking you can have different specs for cards and APU's. you can't..well, you can but you destroy the idea of apu's being a platform.
your highest APU the 7850k has 512 shaders, 32 texture, 8 rendering cores.. so you needed only ONE card in the Radeon line up to match this EXACTLY for YOUR idea to work..you spent.. xxxxx dollars already developing and marketing the idea to your customers and fans, spending money to create a building structure for PC builders to find easy to understand. but.. POOF.. gone!! when marketing decided.. 'erm lets put the cores at 384'. And if you wait for the next hardware refresh to fix this.. it will be even worse in the mind of consumers.. why? because the gamers & builders..like myself you have now screwed, with no performance upgrade path, by ending the 990FX chipset chain.
please just for once.. be sensible and respond to a glaring oversight. release a R7 255 Dual Graphics card. matched exactly to your top apu.
You can't price cap these things in the traditional way.. it works differently. you can cap the CPU side yes, and it slows ..everything.. down..but capping the gpu or cards slowly 'chips away' at the work you have already done building the idea of what a apu should be. YOU AMD are the leader in this field..you can't make such gaffs and hope to fix it later.. fix it now, people will respect your honesty and forgive.. fix it later and you look like goofs.
I have been using AMD since I started in 2006, I have blogged many times about your products, and all this passionate writing comes not from a position of opposition but from one of your own fans.
Yours Sincerly
David Shaw
aka Dava
Friday, 5 September 2014
Friday, 29 August 2014
Dava's Hitchhiker's Guide to 'End of Life' ..so long and thanks for all the chips!
[Here is a lighthearted look at 'End Of Life' known also as EOL, when a product moves from the support phase to a coffin somewhere in the ethernets of a Skyrim graveyard.. or no longer supported by the manufacturing company, while this is not always the worst thing ever to have happened in existence.. try paying £4000-12000 for a MacPro and tell me in 6-10 years if you feel like a little cry :'(
Now please listen to the hitchhiker's guide music, and have a reasonably astute voice in you head, for the duration of the proceedings. ~ahthankyou]
Once upon a time in the 1970's of 'earth' The Planetial Conglomeration Interstellarfractuation, also known to the locals as IBM, realized once consumers worked out that the original company that sold them their 'Till device', was then responsible to help them use it for a unlimited number of years, they became aware & alarmed this was going to be all too costly.. negating the disastrous PR problems that occurred with a Till that tallied the wrong outcome this would come second and third place.. oh my!
By the 1980's every major company had just assumed the humans were stupid and would accept; 'when a new model comes out we stop supporting the old one' and many stupid humans did, even though they paid the same price for a system as you would for a kidney on the black market, they just said 'okay' and bought the new model.
Two companies did not think they should be so mean to the stupid humans.. IBM and Apple, in the early 80's it was IBM offering extended support, and in the mid-80s to 1990's it was Apple giving up to 6 years EOL support, today Apple offers 6 years half-life support, with a full life of 10.
One may note another.. Clive Sinclair, whose systems he made sure were backward compatible.. possibly the first human to do this on a whole range of computers, and so risk losing money.
By 1995 the idea you had support what-ever-on-earth you were selling had caught on, and people would get quite cross ..if you sold them junk and disappeared to china they would report you to Interpol because they would have nerd-rage if something didn't work *exactly* as stated!
By 2000's graphic chip vendors, became proud of their place within the community, offering much laxed policies on RMA and EOL, even cards from those eras still receive support today.
*
Don't let the talking whale delude you, all of this was hard fought, with many angry letters about amps and millivolts .. usb ports with strange colors that no one knew what they meant.
In history there has been many strange occurrences of faulty goods, like the hypnotic vacuum cleaner incident of 2070, where as you know, many people where convinced that cleaner was working but in-fact it had no motor and only a MP3 player and a speaker... or the woeful tale in 2102 of the faulty electric massage underwear, .. so many lives lost, they will be missed.
People enjoy knowing who to trust.. now if you just pop in the scales and I'll warm up the probe..
.. ohw you *have* lost weight, must be all the seaweed we feed you. .. its vibrating .. oh! i think that means its ready..
notes----
*Shixxor of Reddit's Flying Whale. great artist!
Now please listen to the hitchhiker's guide music, and have a reasonably astute voice in you head, for the duration of the proceedings. ~ahthankyou]
Once upon a time in the 1970's of 'earth' The Planetial Conglomeration Interstellarfractuation, also known to the locals as IBM, realized once consumers worked out that the original company that sold them their 'Till device', was then responsible to help them use it for a unlimited number of years, they became aware & alarmed this was going to be all too costly.. negating the disastrous PR problems that occurred with a Till that tallied the wrong outcome this would come second and third place.. oh my!
By the 1980's every major company had just assumed the humans were stupid and would accept; 'when a new model comes out we stop supporting the old one' and many stupid humans did, even though they paid the same price for a system as you would for a kidney on the black market, they just said 'okay' and bought the new model.
Two companies did not think they should be so mean to the stupid humans.. IBM and Apple, in the early 80's it was IBM offering extended support, and in the mid-80s to 1990's it was Apple giving up to 6 years EOL support, today Apple offers 6 years half-life support, with a full life of 10.
One may note another.. Clive Sinclair, whose systems he made sure were backward compatible.. possibly the first human to do this on a whole range of computers, and so risk losing money.
By 1995 the idea you had support what-ever-on-earth you were selling had caught on, and people would get quite cross ..if you sold them junk and disappeared to china they would report you to Interpol because they would have nerd-rage if something didn't work *exactly* as stated!
By 2000's graphic chip vendors, became proud of their place within the community, offering much laxed policies on RMA and EOL, even cards from those eras still receive support today.
*Don't let the talking whale delude you, all of this was hard fought, with many angry letters about amps and millivolts .. usb ports with strange colors that no one knew what they meant.
In history there has been many strange occurrences of faulty goods, like the hypnotic vacuum cleaner incident of 2070, where as you know, many people where convinced that cleaner was working but in-fact it had no motor and only a MP3 player and a speaker... or the woeful tale in 2102 of the faulty electric massage underwear, .. so many lives lost, they will be missed.
People enjoy knowing who to trust.. now if you just pop in the scales and I'll warm up the probe..
.. ohw you *have* lost weight, must be all the seaweed we feed you. .. its vibrating .. oh! i think that means its ready..
notes----
*Shixxor of Reddit's Flying Whale. great artist!
Sunday, 3 August 2014
PC Satellite Devices.. or Homer Simpsons asks 'Can.. my Monkey.. Have a Pet??'
Hi Guys!
These days we all have smartphones.. like a satellite device for our PC's.. a mini part of our computing life 'on the go'.. there is talk of smartwatches that satellite our phones, while this *has* happened it's yet to catch on.. I think this a great idea!
It would give us a second smaller screen for our phones, linked via bluetooth, we can check our notifications just by turning our wrist, naturally, and we can have traditional wired headphone headsets running up our sleeve, to saving us from the often strange looking mono electricity using bluetooth headsets, we can store & sync more data and have a place to exchange data on our person, when we run out on the move. We wouldn't have to reach to our pocket to take our phone out, which is handy for both security reasons and a more elegant solution.
This would facilitate phablets a bit more, for mobile movie watching too, as most other small tasks would/will be shown on the smartwatch, answering & ending calls, viewing text and fb messages.. although replying requires the phone, we can be patient until we are seated, or have hot-presets like 'ok' 'yes' 'no' 'thanks' 'yes please' 'no thanks' and user defined ones via the our phones. A camera on the side of the watch for easy skype, making it easier to play cameraman.
tbh I really don't like Tablets, I know its a matter of taste, but I don't see the point in them other than for the lady in your life. large and cumbersome, without the nice little luxuries of a laptop, i'd rather keep that to the foray of the phone.. but i could be wrong, as many seem to be making the move to combine laptop and tablet as one device..but i'm still not convinced.
But there seems to be a major fault in the pricing, afterall this is a *watch* we are talking about.. many many if not all, seem wildly overpriced even prohibiting the market into being a grown market and a established technology. Many charge from £300 to £5/600 which is ridiculous! again, you do realize this is a WATCH .. many pay around £30 to £150 for their watches.. so starting at £75 for a basic Android Samsung/HTC/Sony then having a top wall of £150 makes this an *actual* possibility of buying one and becoming a market. I think they got greedy or had starry eyed expectations as far as pricing, but its new tech and no one knows what price it should be at first, but I think we can all see now it's been out for two years.
So... in five years.. 'SmartRing' anyone? :)
Dava
These days we all have smartphones.. like a satellite device for our PC's.. a mini part of our computing life 'on the go'.. there is talk of smartwatches that satellite our phones, while this *has* happened it's yet to catch on.. I think this a great idea!
It would give us a second smaller screen for our phones, linked via bluetooth, we can check our notifications just by turning our wrist, naturally, and we can have traditional wired headphone headsets running up our sleeve, to saving us from the often strange looking mono electricity using bluetooth headsets, we can store & sync more data and have a place to exchange data on our person, when we run out on the move. We wouldn't have to reach to our pocket to take our phone out, which is handy for both security reasons and a more elegant solution.
This would facilitate phablets a bit more, for mobile movie watching too, as most other small tasks would/will be shown on the smartwatch, answering & ending calls, viewing text and fb messages.. although replying requires the phone, we can be patient until we are seated, or have hot-presets like 'ok' 'yes' 'no' 'thanks' 'yes please' 'no thanks' and user defined ones via the our phones. A camera on the side of the watch for easy skype, making it easier to play cameraman.
tbh I really don't like Tablets, I know its a matter of taste, but I don't see the point in them other than for the lady in your life. large and cumbersome, without the nice little luxuries of a laptop, i'd rather keep that to the foray of the phone.. but i could be wrong, as many seem to be making the move to combine laptop and tablet as one device..but i'm still not convinced.
But there seems to be a major fault in the pricing, afterall this is a *watch* we are talking about.. many many if not all, seem wildly overpriced even prohibiting the market into being a grown market and a established technology. Many charge from £300 to £5/600 which is ridiculous! again, you do realize this is a WATCH .. many pay around £30 to £150 for their watches.. so starting at £75 for a basic Android Samsung/HTC/Sony then having a top wall of £150 makes this an *actual* possibility of buying one and becoming a market. I think they got greedy or had starry eyed expectations as far as pricing, but its new tech and no one knows what price it should be at first, but I think we can all see now it's been out for two years.
So... in five years.. 'SmartRing' anyone? :)
Dava
Sunday, 27 July 2014
A Tree! A Rock! A Bush! 20 Answers on the misconceptions of distance in games
Hi Guys,
In my journey of understanding.. learning much more about pixel counts and how much of a gaff I made about how many pixels my TV could *actually* do.. I learned this:
1.the measurement for textures vs distance in 1080 is wildly wrong.
2. the closer you get to a rock/object the sharper, NOT vaguer, the object should be.
3. Downsampling exists, even though I found it by accident. innocently.
4. Downsampling 'corrects' the 'error of view' in many ways.
5. 3k textures at a sample of 3200x1800, but only have 1920x1080 active pixels, adds three times the 'Perspective Of Correct Distance' (POCD) to coin a phrase.
6 There is still a very long way to go before we fill 1080 correctly in games. but even by then, we will have moved on to 4k/8k by the time we have 'accidently' corrected it.
but by then the 4k and 8k distances will be even more incorrect and.. its backward to human nature, the closer we come to an object the more we see.. not less.
at 4k and 8k you need to load 12k and 24k textures to hope to correct the POCD.. hmmm.. downsampling screen + sophisticated drivers + high textures = POCD.
I feel it should be a standard expectation on the part of the games maker to provide much higher textures to consumers than even the consumers think they need.
Did anyone see the original Bioshock 2 assets in the unreal 4 engine? Feb. 2010.. over 4 years ago. nice huh?
An open modular engine, would be able to adapt to the things i mentioned here, it would not need to have a lifespan, much like an API, if someone used a tool, we as consumers have the plugin tool as part of the initial install.
7. time constraints for devs made me feel cheated but I knew I was just being a baby and should suck it up.
8. DEVS ARE being crappy using DX9. period.
9. To understand distance Rene Magritte is a great example, he is using the thin stick of reality as a counterpoint of distance.. and making it an illusion.. devs need to reverse this process and make an illusion become distance and 'prose a reality'.
10. .. ten does not exist. I think I made my point.
oohw needed that off my chest playing a lot of Skyrim.. kept thinking the trees and rocks and paper christmas trees were awful.. and I already got the super high texture pack too.
and... thanks for reading my rant :)
have a great day!
Dava
In my journey of understanding.. learning much more about pixel counts and how much of a gaff I made about how many pixels my TV could *actually* do.. I learned this:
1.the measurement for textures vs distance in 1080 is wildly wrong.
2. the closer you get to a rock/object the sharper, NOT vaguer, the object should be.
3. Downsampling exists, even though I found it by accident. innocently.
4. Downsampling 'corrects' the 'error of view' in many ways.
5. 3k textures at a sample of 3200x1800, but only have 1920x1080 active pixels, adds three times the 'Perspective Of Correct Distance' (POCD) to coin a phrase.
6 There is still a very long way to go before we fill 1080 correctly in games. but even by then, we will have moved on to 4k/8k by the time we have 'accidently' corrected it.
but by then the 4k and 8k distances will be even more incorrect and.. its backward to human nature, the closer we come to an object the more we see.. not less.
at 4k and 8k you need to load 12k and 24k textures to hope to correct the POCD.. hmmm.. downsampling screen + sophisticated drivers + high textures = POCD.
I feel it should be a standard expectation on the part of the games maker to provide much higher textures to consumers than even the consumers think they need.
Did anyone see the original Bioshock 2 assets in the unreal 4 engine? Feb. 2010.. over 4 years ago. nice huh?
An open modular engine, would be able to adapt to the things i mentioned here, it would not need to have a lifespan, much like an API, if someone used a tool, we as consumers have the plugin tool as part of the initial install.
7. time constraints for devs made me feel cheated but I knew I was just being a baby and should suck it up.
8. DEVS ARE being crappy using DX9. period.
9. To understand distance Rene Magritte is a great example, he is using the thin stick of reality as a counterpoint of distance.. and making it an illusion.. devs need to reverse this process and make an illusion become distance and 'prose a reality'.
10. .. ten does not exist. I think I made my point.
oohw needed that off my chest playing a lot of Skyrim.. kept thinking the trees and rocks and paper christmas trees were awful.. and I already got the super high texture pack too.
and... thanks for reading my rant :)
have a great day!
Dava
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Apples, Pears and Oranges.. or How to 'short-sell' In a Global Economy ..
Hi guys!
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firstly, I am quite sick and have been for a couple of months, I have been focusing more on my OH and trying to feel better. We've been trying to get her here to Scotland and that is still going on :)..if I am sporadic in posting, please grant me grace. thank you.
now, on with the article...
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How do you 'build a brand'?
MS is King at this.. there is no other company with such success in the whole world (Sony, Apple and oil companies coming in close after)..
how do MS do it??
Quick answer: they 'short sell' at a loss. not directly to consumers.. but to OEM's with their OEMAct licences for Windows, in fact its a little like a ponzi scheme, but no one loses, the bottom rung has the most benefit. everyone wins! however MS is hugely benefited in the indocturine stage.. someone who uses windows when young will probably use when old.. and that lends major clout to a company.. if you can say to potential investors, 'We're going to be around for another 60 years' and MEAN it that's 1. impressive 2. prooveable 3. no other software company in the world has such a chance for that to become fact.. even Apple with the super fancy iPhone and OSX iOS and a reference to the Tree of Knowledge (it was actually a fig not an apple..but we get the point)..then yes is the resounding answer from investors, being able to claim longevity in an industry where they have seen so many companies die and it be PLAUSIBLE is a feat in itself.
and... Apple never short sell. they provide the longest support of all the companies or have done so far, and MS do support via compatibility, but Apple give a 10 year full life cycle for products and even a 6 year half-life, compared to MS's half-life 4 years and full life of 8.
Oranges..
This is all an alien planet to Ubuntu fans.. the open market is in no way *practically* the same. the Linux Companies ie Canonical, exist on person to person interaction, a few websites and mostly video sites, which every video posted could seen as an advert for their OS. grassroots.
and of course, the great big jelly beanstalk in the sky that is Android! :)
Without XP OEMAct on PC's MS would have DIED dragging their heels on DX9 for 8 years..they didn't even use DX10 on their own consoles. But somehow they survived.. not just survived managed to stay relatively stable AND increase brand growth-age.. wow!
These days with win8 they have learned to short sell.. you can pick up the top consumer version for around £50.. that's smart ..and beneficial to end users.
Congratz to MS for nearly 40 years in the Biz!
peace
Dava
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note: I am MS neutral.. pro-Linux/Ubuntu.. although to quote the TARDIS 'you're like 14 year old trying to repair a motorbike in his bedroom'.. pro-Apple but with some grievances.
The first of January 2015.. will be MS's 40th anniversary of being founded.
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firstly, I am quite sick and have been for a couple of months, I have been focusing more on my OH and trying to feel better. We've been trying to get her here to Scotland and that is still going on :)..if I am sporadic in posting, please grant me grace. thank you.
now, on with the article...
----
How do you 'build a brand'?
MS is King at this.. there is no other company with such success in the whole world (Sony, Apple and oil companies coming in close after)..
how do MS do it??
Quick answer: they 'short sell' at a loss. not directly to consumers.. but to OEM's with their OEMAct licences for Windows, in fact its a little like a ponzi scheme, but no one loses, the bottom rung has the most benefit. everyone wins! however MS is hugely benefited in the indocturine stage.. someone who uses windows when young will probably use when old.. and that lends major clout to a company.. if you can say to potential investors, 'We're going to be around for another 60 years' and MEAN it that's 1. impressive 2. prooveable 3. no other software company in the world has such a chance for that to become fact.. even Apple with the super fancy iPhone and OSX iOS and a reference to the Tree of Knowledge (it was actually a fig not an apple..but we get the point)..then yes is the resounding answer from investors, being able to claim longevity in an industry where they have seen so many companies die and it be PLAUSIBLE is a feat in itself.
and... Apple never short sell. they provide the longest support of all the companies or have done so far, and MS do support via compatibility, but Apple give a 10 year full life cycle for products and even a 6 year half-life, compared to MS's half-life 4 years and full life of 8.
Oranges..
This is all an alien planet to Ubuntu fans.. the open market is in no way *practically* the same. the Linux Companies ie Canonical, exist on person to person interaction, a few websites and mostly video sites, which every video posted could seen as an advert for their OS. grassroots.
and of course, the great big jelly beanstalk in the sky that is Android! :)
Without XP OEMAct on PC's MS would have DIED dragging their heels on DX9 for 8 years..they didn't even use DX10 on their own consoles. But somehow they survived.. not just survived managed to stay relatively stable AND increase brand growth-age.. wow!
These days with win8 they have learned to short sell.. you can pick up the top consumer version for around £50.. that's smart ..and beneficial to end users.
Congratz to MS for nearly 40 years in the Biz!
peace
Dava
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note: I am MS neutral.. pro-Linux/Ubuntu.. although to quote the TARDIS 'you're like 14 year old trying to repair a motorbike in his bedroom'.. pro-Apple but with some grievances.
The first of January 2015.. will be MS's 40th anniversary of being founded.
Friday, 20 June 2014
I long to hear the Zelda upgrade music.. DUH DA DUH DA! or why don't NV and AMD open up to more than 4 gpu cores?
As we approach a new era of gpu usage, and gpu scaling becomes tighter and better than ever before.. I think now is the time for Nvidia and AMD to start planning for the next year or two to release our cards from the 4 card restriction.. they have both done an excellent job this last ten years, congratz kudos and fanfare deserved!
now we are *firmly* in the 2010's.. time to look ahead to the next few short years, and I feel opening up the protocol to however people like use their hardware and putting the driver to work instead is the smart way to go.
more powerful cards yes.. thank you thank you yes! but also a choice about how we wish to assemble our system.. its smarter for you to open up mid-range cards.. why? if you don't take their money someone else will with another component.. 4 way 5 way.. as many ways as motherboard manufacturer/chipset manufacturer can fit on a board, as many ways as customers like.
Imagine a horse, a thoroughbred, he can run the track in record time, but a trap brace can go much faster.. can be funded over time, and do not need to be thoroughbreds .. I would like to own two thoroughbreds, but money does not allow, and as such is a pipe dream, which comes with a luxury yacht and two Filipina models and it's this kind of thinking that may be holding back the industry, 'make an elite' with price points..so another company from another component field receives my money.
peace
Dava
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Inde AA and Major Publisher AAA.. or Sagat vs Ryu
David Shaw
3 April · Edited
It's the hip thing these days to have a few inde games under your belt but If you are a AAA title only guy, I personally think thats okay too, coz you do what you enjoy!.. however I do enjoy inde games and have a few inde titles in my steam list myself, I have two categories, Inde and Inde AA.. the AA are the ones I felt were the best titles, and that's what I'd like to share in case you missed them. .. but rem with inde titles always youtube them first. word to the wise there.
'Nightsky'. It's a chill out puzzle game. atmospheric. level driven.
'The Stanley Parable'. anti-story within a story that never ends that's actually an anti-story.. that might be a story. narration driven.
'Splice'. DNA puzzle game. level driven.
'Kairo'. I'm new to Kairo..but I think the idea is excellent. exploration driven.
Couple of semi-indes too
Black Mesa. a remake of Half Life. available on Desura. ..just wow! .. I'm not HL fan, for Valve I'm a Portal guy, but this is 100% prime steak for free guys.
..did you also know Sniper Ghost series is ..inde?
Digressing slightly.. there has been offenders in the past.. EA.. who used to claim all physical media as their own, yes including the stuff you bought from them.. you were 'renting'. Ubisoft.. ooft! I don't know what your religious preferences are guys.. but I'm a believer and I don't expect to pay £40 to be insulted. y'see its not a game makers job to ridicule me or my beliefs no matter what they personally think of them.. why? because they make you pay for the game first, not decide whether you want to pay after.
To note though, since Origin.. EA have become much more friendly to the community.. they are giving away Dead Space right now for free on Origin.
And Ubisoft have yet to apologize
So why shouldn't people look elsewhere. and shake the foundations of every self serving company? every company *COUGH* CAPCOM *COUGH* that doesn't do any dev work and skates it to starving low level dev team for buttons. IP skating is a community crime of which Capcom, now pumps out as standard.. that they don't invest any money in their IP..how on EARTH they expect to grow their dying franchise portfolio, is beyond me.
So even if you love AAA, which I do too.. there are more reasons than you might think for checking out inde games..
Dava
3 April · Edited
It's the hip thing these days to have a few inde games under your belt but If you are a AAA title only guy, I personally think thats okay too, coz you do what you enjoy!.. however I do enjoy inde games and have a few inde titles in my steam list myself, I have two categories, Inde and Inde AA.. the AA are the ones I felt were the best titles, and that's what I'd like to share in case you missed them. .. but rem with inde titles always youtube them first. word to the wise there.
'Nightsky'. It's a chill out puzzle game. atmospheric. level driven.
'The Stanley Parable'. anti-story within a story that never ends that's actually an anti-story.. that might be a story. narration driven.
'Splice'. DNA puzzle game. level driven.
'Kairo'. I'm new to Kairo..but I think the idea is excellent. exploration driven.
Couple of semi-indes too
Black Mesa. a remake of Half Life. available on Desura. ..just wow! .. I'm not HL fan, for Valve I'm a Portal guy, but this is 100% prime steak for free guys.
..did you also know Sniper Ghost series is ..inde?
Digressing slightly.. there has been offenders in the past.. EA.. who used to claim all physical media as their own, yes including the stuff you bought from them.. you were 'renting'. Ubisoft.. ooft! I don't know what your religious preferences are guys.. but I'm a believer and I don't expect to pay £40 to be insulted. y'see its not a game makers job to ridicule me or my beliefs no matter what they personally think of them.. why? because they make you pay for the game first, not decide whether you want to pay after.
To note though, since Origin.. EA have become much more friendly to the community.. they are giving away Dead Space right now for free on Origin.
And Ubisoft have yet to apologize
So why shouldn't people look elsewhere. and shake the foundations of every self serving company? every company *COUGH* CAPCOM *COUGH* that doesn't do any dev work and skates it to starving low level dev team for buttons. IP skating is a community crime of which Capcom, now pumps out as standard.. that they don't invest any money in their IP..how on EARTH they expect to grow their dying franchise portfolio, is beyond me.
So even if you love AAA, which I do too.. there are more reasons than you might think for checking out inde games..
Dava
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