78 or so chaingunners in th final stats! (more than any other monster) 

I think this is one of the most exciting ideas ever! The game experience didn't piss me off at all. It was 100% fun to the end!
It's time to evolve ideas people...
Would you rather pay $20 for a single game and the play it through.
Ok, cool.
What then?
Episodes will continue, the story WILL have twists, new stuff WILL be added, and if the unapreciative keep complaining about the price it WILL get cheaper, though I don't give a turd.
&20 is nothing for a short game if you ACTUALLY have a job.
This game is gonna kick-ass in the future.
Damn, I feel so out of place because I'm not WHINING WHINING WHINING.
JESUS! IT'S JUST A FUCKING GAME!
NOT A TERRORIST ATTACK!
And a great game might I add.
Can't wait for 2. 

 

It's time to evolve ideas people...

This sent fucking chills down my spine because it sounds like something you'd here in a boardroom full of business execs who know fuck-all about games.

It's fine that this is the route that Ritual has gone. They took a chance with episodic content and took a chance by aligning themselves with Valve, and what they came up with was decent but certainly nothing spectacular or particularly innovative.

The bottom line is that "episodic content" is catching on because it means the publisher gets to take even less of a risk and they can pay a developer even less to make a "full" game. Of course, this doesn't apply to Valve themselves but it's going to be fucking poison for 3rd party developers who start getting told to make episodic content or nothing at all.

For the record I do have a job (in the game industry no less) and I think most everyone else here who isn't in a university has a job. I saw the screenshots and read the reviews and I can tell you that the 20$ from my job will go to paying for groceries or bills, and I'll save my 50$ for a fully polished game like ET:QW or Crysis or whatever comes out to positive reviews and has more than 4 hours of gameplay. 

If Ritual decides that the sales on Episode 2 weren't to their liking, of course they will stop making any more episodes, and you will have paid 40$ for 2 "episodes" worth of half-baked shit. 

Damn, I feel so out of place because I'm not WHINING WHINING WHINING.

You're not out of place. Really.
At least not for that reason. 

As I understand it, both ritual and valve are making games on their own expences now, thus releasing episodic content makes more sense for them

We`ll see if it catches up. I can think of some reasons against this model too.

Also I bet you would be able to buy all the episodes once they are made for a lower price (probably 60). So you can wait and start saving those coins 

Uh oh. Looks like Sin has been scrozzled by Half-Life, and it won't be for the first time ^_~

The Masked Dude: get the piss out of here you shill - you need a better disguise 'cause the mask ain't working. 

with those ridiculous half baked synaptic things going on in his squirrely head, Kinn. Whether I have ten cents to my name or a million bucks to blow is irrelevant. I still expect value for my money in either case. 

 

hey is sin eps mappable? 

so i saw SiN Episode1 in Gamestop for $20 packaged... i considered getting it, but then it occured to me, for some wonky reason it might still want to install steam.... im not interested in steam, or anything it offers, i merely want to poke at the adjusting ai and find easter eggs with simple gunfighting.

so does anyone know if it would install it ? if not, i might spring the 20. 

You'll probably need to install steam just to activate it aynways.
But seriously, what's wrong with steam? I installed it a few weeks ago, bought a few things through it, and I can't really see why people seem to hate it so much, it's fine. 

Yeah, I really don't get why there's so much hatred and paranoia about Steam. It's certainly among the fairest digital content distribution systems around: Sign in on any PC and download and play any of the games in my account? Yes please. I may have ranted about billing problems in the past but that's all behind us and we're friends again now.

spd: Latest on SDK (and Arena mode) here: http://www.ritualistic.com/content.php/interviews/060615_sineps_01.php (Summary: Mapping SDK 'soon', full mod SDK later in the summer) 

The only time you absolutely need to be online is to initially activate your product which is still not ideal, but certainly worth the benefits of installing steam.

I've used the offline mode after I moved and didn't have internet yet to play HL2SP, edit maps, etc. and it works fine. 

What is actualyl good about steam? 

Since when did you get in the industry? When did I miss this news? What's UP man? 

I like buying my games online, donwloading them fast through a simple interface, cds and boxes and stuff just get in the way, but I understand many people like having those.