indeed there is

I can't remember a game that incorporates fanboyism in the narrative. Sure the author speaks some truth, but if you're a gamer at heart you can simply ignore the fanboy factor found on blogs and forums and just go play games.

I don't see how opinionated dribble of some 12 year old fanboy can detract from the overall experience of a game. It's just that the overall masses choose to sit and bicker about nothing (Soda Popinsky, Why Dis). Hell, at least Omega4 and morganfell, despite their favored platform, embrace some sense of structure and coherency within a civilized discussion, which is rare. It's just too bad people cannot express their preferences without getting in some stupid argument.

If you're that worried about the other side of this "console war," then note your observations and shut up.

My rant is over, bye.

Especially when it blinds you. Recently a friend came over to help paint my house. I haven't seen him since we graduated over a year ago. He was among the crowd that was like 360>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>ps 3 ftw. While we were working he asked if I got live yet, and i said no. Then we got into a huge discussion on gaming, and what we have been playing over the last few months. When I mentioned Killzone 2, he goes "whats that?, is it any good?" I took him inside and showed it to him. funny thing about it was when he figured out what he was watching was not a cutscene but gameplay. We walked outside and he looked at his brother and said,"the ps3 is better than the 360." I was like "see what you miss out on when you wear fanboy glasses?" lmao. anyway if you like something thats great, but dont try and pass it off as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Yeah we're all guilty of it and it's hardly surprising. With the advancements in technology and games like Bioshock, Uncharted etc. people do expect modern games to look good.

It's a shame that we sometimes take it to the point that we care more for visuals than gameplay but thankfully most come to their senses before too long lol.

Agreed. Gameplay always trumps graphics. Unfortunately graphics are often the first thing we see about a game and it tends to make us kind of visually fixated as we lead up to the release of a game.

I would always rather play a fun game with average graphics than an average game with great graphics. The best situation though, is if a game has great gameplay AND great graphics. Games like Uncharted, Killzone 2 and Gears of War spring to mind.

One reason why you don't have as many people buying these system is because the industry is forgetting why we even started playing. The guy that wrote this articule is a old schooler. I loved the neo geo back in the day for it's art not it's tech. Another thing is we all wanted powerful system because it could advance game play. Yet what we are getting is PC games with dumbed down content. Now imagine a bunch that grew up getting their a$$es handed to them to now just walk thur a game with out even know how to play it almost at all.

This is why people are leaving gaming and suddenly we get these emotional kids that have not idea why this very industry exists yet they claim that the HD console are progress. What they don't understand is this is not progress and actually a regression.

On top of this we all screamed don't kill 2d gaming, now you have young gamer who look down on 2d now. It has to be a sand box simulation with the same game play that wasn't addictive interesting or pretty to play.

You know your going in the wrong direction when companies start closing down.
The quality of studios is going down also.
Suddenly it went from you had to have talent to you must have 5 to 6 year experience to work with us LOL. I think the only chance most new comers have iws being scooped up by one of the big publishers EA or Ubi and we all know how EA operates. Another thing is talent in this industry is becoming more of a throw away thing. Over design and cloning is the name of the game now. It doesn't seem like any one is playing a large list of games any more on the dev side of things.

Lots of people think you get to such high heights in this industry by making pretty games when that is not true. You have to make fun games first. You have to have solid code also.

Art styles are graphics whoring are two different things. Graphics whore tend to only want a game with superior graphics. Gamers back in the day played games bacuase the artist had superior style not tech.

If you will notice i took Epic to have the tech advantage for them to truly come into their own. Yet even when they got to the top people still hated their style. Similar to how people loved Final fantasies old art yet started to hate the metro sexual style that it was evolving into.

Lots of people call these games reboots but seriously they are just coats of paint. We wanted huge carts so the challenge could be bigger! So that the art could be fully included. Gaming use to be more of a mix of things rather than just a few things. This is why we love console rather than PCs.

its still out selling ps3.....

ouch.

Well, put it like this, it has two SKUs cheaper than a Wii, but it has to compete with a console priced twice as much as it. In 2007 and 2008, the PS3 and 360 have sold equal amounts.

the next gen of gaming, also known as hd gamin started in november 2006 with the introduction of the PS3

I assume you're talking about multi-platform comparison video offered by the likes of GT and Lense Of Truth? Because I can't stand that crap.

Uh-oh, there's ultra spectacular ember effects in the Xbox 360 version of Ghost Busters that double the immersion of what is found on the PS3 version /Sarcasm.

This gen is all about playing sales and pixels. Quite sad, really.

Edit: It's a shame that people seem to be so caught up in the sports-fan like mentality that they are missing some real treasures this gen. cinematic or immersive games that simply were not possible or available 5 years ago.

It's a wonderful time to be a gamer, if you ignore the internet :)

Oh, and review scores need to be ditched altogether. Reading and interpreting someone's experience with a game is defeated as soon as a numerical value is stamped on it. People veer too easily towards the "number" and it's 'meaning' without examining any of the thoughts that led to that result.

I agree with you on the flawed aspects of game reviews. Most gamers have the mentality that a numerical value contributes to the quality of the overall game, when in fact it seems as though a score is stamped on a review to cater to the lazy and the illeterate. But most importantly, it's their for one simple thing.

My d!ck is bigger than yours.

That's right, the sole purpous of this unecessary score sytem is to boil down to an all-out pissing contest of epic proprtions, nothing more. Scores of reviews are also often looked at as a platform used in the console war.

And when it boils down to it, a game may be marked down in score for such a stupid, tedious reason that the reader may not even care about. Things such as game length and lack of co-op (don't even get me started on reviewing something that isn't there like in the KZ2 reviews) are all little nuances that some gamers may not even care about, yet they will not make a purchase simply because the score doesn't meet their desired standard.

Yet the reader that wouldn't mind these little nitpics will overlook this and interperet the score as their buying decision, which is really sad.

The scores that Heavenly Sword recieved are prime examples of what I'm talking about. If I had judged the game by scores and didn't actually read the reviews or play the game myself, I wouldn't have experienced such an awesome game. And you know why Heavenly Sword recieved such a low score compared to other AAA games of similar stature? The game isn't as long as people hoped. those six hours that people b!tched about were some damn good hours in my mind, and definately warranted the price tag.

But, unfortunately, many people ignored the game because of the score, and never realizing that the length was the only quality the game didn't prosper in.

me too!

But there are still some experiences found last gen that just simply cannot be combated. Such as Shadow Of The Colossus and Okami. I think that FPS gaming is the only genre that has truly trudged forward to the advancement of next-gen quality standards. All other experiences tend to miss the mark and mearly replicate what's been done in the previous console era.

Games such as Devil May Cry 4, RE5, Ninja Gaiden, Halo and many, many more have yet to be truly expanded upon.

In terms of online gaming there has been major steps forward this gen, but for single player all we have is improved graphics over last gen. Their have only been a few new IPs that are truely great(Gears, Uncharted, Bioshock) but as killjoy said alot of the well known games failed to step up to the plate.

Look at games like GTA4, RE5 and Halo3. All good games but nothing on their predecessors last gen.

In my honest opinion, I still enjoy Playstation 1 games more than any others. I'm playing my ps1 the most at the moment.

ps1 > n64 > ps2 > NES/SNES > PS3 > 360 > SEGA genesis

The older PC games like AoE2 and Commandos2 were incredible aswell. You just don't get the sort of gameplay anymore.

Thats the way I see it over the consoles worth mentioning :)

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm