Silus - Shard of Flame

I don't really understand. what exactly is wrong with porting it to another console? what makes it lazy? I am just confused and wondering if you or someone could explain.

There's nothing wrong with porting it, it's that the system they would be porting it to is very different and to really take advantage of those features, they would essentially be making another game, which most developers aren't willing to do.  So what ends up happening is a sort of copy/paste of the original game onto the different hardware, which, in the case of the Wii U, will fall short because it won't take real advantage of the features that people buy a Wii U to use.  Thus, in the end, it feels like a lazy port.

@Chaos They're different enough that a straight port to the Wii U will be instantly recognized and called out as lazy by the fans.  I'd rather they put their funds/effort toward other things, like nowhere's suggestion of bug fixing.

I'm in the same boat as Wyrmhero, PS3/Xbox 360 are the newest consoles I have access to because I just don't have the money to stay "up to date".  lordofsoup and I obviously have very different definitions of "expensive".  This is also why I don't do PC games for the most part.  I don't have a machine modern/powerful enough to run most current games, and when I've tried running games on my machine, it tends to bog it down for the things I actually need it to do.  (I'm pretty much in the same boat for my phone.)

The Wii U and the rest of the console lineup are so completely different that designing for both of them for the same game is like trying to explore two different planets simultaneously.  It just doesn't work.  The Wii U is it's own thing, it's really not comparable.  I think the Wii U is great, but doing both sides of that coin just isn't feasible for a developer.

As for the graphics, if the game overall is well built, the graphical fidelity, or rather, the level of extreme detail, doesn't matter to me.  The 360 and the PS3 have awesome graphics, and the difference between there and the next generation feels minimal to me.  I care about it being an awesome Mistborn game, and that isn't about the graphics, that's about atmosphere, and controls, and gameplay design.  If they can pull that off, then it's a great game, and no one is going to care about the graphical detail except for the most nitpicky.

Very limited, very good price, very interesting timing for my budget.  I will probably do it, that is, if I can get there before all of you ravenous FIENDS get there first.

I'm against the idea of premium membership, it just seems like a bad idea for the community as a whole to create such a noticeable divide. Plushies, t-shirts, ads, go for whatever you need, just not that.

Do I want this? I dunno, maaaybe.

And by that I mean, OH MY GOSH, WANT THIS SO FREAKING BADLY.

Who says they weren't? Maybe that's where all the people who register for the forums but don't post go!

The way he answers the Surgebinding focus question makes me think that he looks at Focuses in a different way than we do. I'm not sure what to make of it.

What does he mean exactly by "empathy for the metal"? And how would this relate to a full Feruchemist who can use all the metals?

Brandon has explicitly stated that Alloy of Law is a standalone, not the first of the second trilogy. He's said that the current plan has to do with an Allomancer SWAT team (which is AWESOME, btw). But that doesn't mean that there couldn't be more to come from this little adventure, seeing as another side project, Alcatraz, became four (hopefully five) books. The fact that it's a Cosmere book makes things a little more complicated, but things are in no ways certain, we are talking about Brandon here. XP

i wish I wasn't broke.

What, you didn't see the interview? Guess they didn't put it in the article.

I groaned aloud when I started reading. Even after getting hit a couple of times today, it still took me a bit to figure it out.

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You should link us to the "interview".

You just say that because of all the cosplay you do. I saw your deviantart, you can't deny it! (also, it's really cool and you go put that up, you deserve it) XP

It's a Harry Potter reference, but that doesn't make it not true.

Being a Brandon fan requires CONSTANT VIGILANCE! when it comes to Cosmere stuff like that.

WOW. I can't help but giggle like the fanboy I am while I read this. This is GOOD STUFF! A Splinter has never been human! Crazy! I'd say Atium and Lerasium would be, but he said we haven't seen a Splinter in Mistborn.

Don't go the Shadesmar on Sel, huh? Then how did Hoid get there! Tricky, tricky, tricky.

Synonym for Love or Compassion? How about Charity?

They keep messing up with the Allomancy in these write ups. You don't use Duralumin like that!

But yeah, that vamp is going DOWN.

When I go to download it, it gives a file that's either only a couple of minutes or 0:00 long.  What's up?

EDIT: Okay, I've listened to it now.  Thanks!  This is awesome!

And that's another thing!  Dan was there and I didn't even know until after he'd left!  Lame!  I wanted to see him!

Arriving at 11:20 and being promptly shuffled to the very back of the line meant that I missed out on EVERYTHING.  Oh, well, still lots of fun.  Though I liked yesterday's signing better.  Magic, Denny's and Gamespren.