Captain Underpants

This is exactly why I haven't bothered with this game, even after it went free, and despite the fact that it looks like a complete hoot. I have no desire to join a 'community' that shuns new people, refuses to help them learn, and basically act like they're super special just because they've been playing their little game for a bit longer. At least the 'griefers and cheaters' still have a sense of fun about things.

Ultimately, all it will take is time. The majority will get bored and move on to the next thing, and the ones that want to get good at it will stick around. This time next year it will have all settled down, and the 'community' will only be the better for it, if that's what you care about.

I hear it's not going to have steering wheel support. Let that sink in - it's a driving game (the clue is in the name), and you CAN'T USE A STEERING WHEEL. Their excuse was that with all the swerving around you have to do, that players arms would get tired. Personally I find such assumptions to be quite insulting. No buy for me.

@The Cole Train You know, if you clear out the guard posts properly, and 'explore' them thoroughly, they don't respawn with guards any more. The game even tells you when you've done it, and the icon on the map changes.

Forget all that multiplayer fluff, Bioware. Give us SPACE COMBAT in this one.

I hope someone makes a TrackIR compatible headtracking application.

You know, the Wii doesn't suddenly stop working just because there's a new one. I even still have a functioning Gamecube. How charming is that? :)

Smiley helmet!

@Hong Dong Codies have sadly abandoned any Aussie content since Dirt 1. They used to have heaps. It was part of why I liked them. Still cracking games though. The new one's unlocking on Steam as I type.

@lockwoodisbored LOL. That's about the funniest thing I've read all day. Well played.

@KungFuChaosNinja Such a pity. Marketing should NEVER have any creative input into anything other than figuring out how to sell a game. You can guarantee if they do get their coke frosted noses into the development of a game that they'll gimp it. Bunch of risk averse, work-shy, inimaginitive wankers if you ask me.

If developers are leaving over a conflict with marketing, the company has a serious problem. Marketing is a secondary process to a devopment studio's business. What should happen is that developers hand a game to marketing and say 'now YOU figure out how to sell it'. We'll only keep getting the same sanitised, safe crap otherwise. Thank god at least indie developers are unencumbered by these parasites so we can still see the occasional new idea.