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[Apple Master]

Driver: San Francisco.

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[RF]

Not sure if here or another thread, but didn't someone say Ubi wouldn't try anything like the always-on DRM again because of all the bad PR? You are sadly wrong again. (Its not for From Dust, its for whatever 'Driver:SanFran' is.) The console versions have Uplay as well.

Ubisoft: Leaders in the industry of retardation.

[mr. macduggan]

Is it actually out for xbox at this time? I'm interested in finding some sort of let's play for it, and I can't find one. I know there are people out there with capture cards, so the platform shouldn't be an issue for that...

[Saint]

a month on a cosmic scale isn't even a microscopic dot.
In the cosmic scale it's not even close to important that you wait nearly a month for something, even in the average lifespan you posess, it's not even that much of a wait.

Awwww, it thinks it's being deep and meaningful.

It?
I think you're just trying to find things to insult me on because you're mad about a game not beling released for a few weeks. Cry more, it's not that long of a wait.

[Mephansteras]

Damnit Ubisoft! I wanted this game, but I refuse to get it if it's got that horrid DRM.

[Rakonas]

it's not that long of a wait.

Maybe if you've lived for 60 years and month to month everything is the same, but not for most people who frequently play video games.
Many conditions can change in a month, and a game being playable in July can be a massive difference from a game being playable in August.
Hell, even "on a cosmic scale", playing the game in august instead of july could cause a chain of unpredictable events that could define what path someone's life may take, if the stars are right.

[Soulwynd]

On average, over 4500000 people die in a month. Every month.

You could be one of them.

I'd rather die after doing something I wanted to do than before. Be it something as meaningless as playing a game. He has every right to be annoyed by a delay and everyone else has every right to be annoyed at someone being annoyed by delays. So lets all be annoyed together and try not to be a number in some death statistic.

This certainly doesn't help your blood pressure.

[zakkeh]

Is it actually out for xbox at this time? I'm interested in finding some sort of let's play for it, and I can't find one. I know there are people out there with capture cards, so the platform shouldn't be an issue for that...

RPS posted an impressions article recently

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/27/from-dust-review/

[buckets]

it's not that long of a wait.

Maybe if you've lived for 60 years and month to month everything is the same, but not for most people who frequently play video games.
Many conditions can change in a month, and a game being playable in July can be a massive difference from a game being playable in August.
Hell, even "on a cosmic scale", playing the game in august instead of july could cause a chain of unpredictable events that could define what path someone's life may take, if the stars are right.

Well yes, but if the stars are right that'll mean beneath the waves Great Cthulu no longer lies dreaming. And while it may change everyones lives for the better, it unfortunatley has little to do with games.

In other news, anyone played the game yet? My friend got it for Xbox, I certainly am jelly. Apparantly the path finding's amazing, along with the everything else.

Seriously, he was telling me that at one point he capped a volcano, so the lava burst out the side of the mountain.

[forsaken1111]

Does anyone know if the game suffers at all on the 360? I am tempted to go buy it but I have a much better computer than my 360 could ever hope to be, and I feel like it would run better on my PC.

[nenjin]

That RPS review did a lot to cool my jets for this.

It's a very refined puzzle game with some cute physics going on, but the reviewer definitely felt a lack of interaction and supreme awesomeness. This is definitely not the game to play expecting to, at the end, be throwing comets and shit at stuff. At the stated price I still might get it, but were it any higher I think I could safely ignore this one until it went on sale. I want Populous Reborn, and this ain't it.

[Tarran]

RPS posted an impressions article recently

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/27/from-dust-review/

My expectations have dropped a decent bit.

[forsaken1111]

And see, if they hadn't delayed the product for this DRM then we'd have bought it before the review.

[nenjin]

It's not like we're immune to the pleasures of passively controlling the lives and deaths of tiny people—see also Lemmings, Populous, and SimCity—but this game lacks the charm of those titles. Your job consists of being a magical bulldozer, and that gets old quickly.

There are more complicated play mechanics that come into the game as you advance through the stages, but instead of gelling together into a cohesive experience, it begins to feel like one thing after another. When things became frantic I often felt like I was fighting against the camera and physics engine as much as I was trying to solve each puzzle or save my tribespeople.

This isn't a bad game, and there is a demo available if you'd like to try it, but it simply lacks the polish that would make it a good game. It's as if someone created a beautiful sculpture but didn't understand how to breathe life into it. From Dust is still more interesting than most games on the market, and it's certainly worth trying, but it falters when delivering the game's mechanics and never completely recovers.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/from-dust-lets-you-build-worlds-and-frustration.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

[Carcanken]

Is this game out yet?