another one of your positive comments, eh?
perusing your comment history and I am genuinely wondering: do you ever have anything positive to say about....anything?
I'm not trying to be mean or insensitive with my comment, but just want to reiterate that there *are* other hobbies/outlets outside of gaming that might provide you some sort of happiness/satisfaction. Wish you well!
early development games?
....what?
I didn't care for the film myself. It was absolutely gorgeous to look at....And that's about it. It's inoffensive, passable entertainment with a few good performances (Jack Black was basically born to play Bowser, apparently) and so it's not a bad watch, just nothing extraordinary, either. I suppose that most who praise the film do so because it bucks the trend of terrible videogame movies, and wasn't the absolute dumpster fire that it could have been.
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listen, I love this dude, but there's absolutely zero reason why he should "retire" from his role. Especially for the games, I just can't imagine (beyond a few press events) that there's a massive time commitment, so why not do as the person who voices the gecko in the Geico commercials, and rock out for as long as possible?
Regardless, he will be missed. He's certainly earned his retirement. I just hope this isn't Nintendo forcing him out to g...
I haven't played the third Darksiders, have you? is it any good?
I appreciate the thoughtful reply (didn't realize you had responded but that was because you had to reply to your own comment, which is one quirk about N4G that is utterly obnoxious).
I didn't mention Amnesia because Dark Descent came out in 2010, but Penumbra definitely is up there (and it came out in 2007, with Black Plague and Requiem coming out in 2008)
I get that Crysis and Halo 3 aren't your bag, but regardless of our opinion one way or...
I had a friend who would rush through single player games, blow through the "critical path" without collecting anything, doing any side-quests, attempting any challenges, nor really "stopping and smelling the roses" to take in the game world, and then beat the game....just to say he beat.
I honestly wonder how many people out there have really soaked up all that a particular game has to offer before discarding it's empty husk and looking for the next...
I've owned many consoles. SNES, genesis, saturn, dreamcast, Gamecube, N64, PS1,PS2, PS3, Xbox, X360, and PS4, as well as their respective portable brothern (PSP, PSP-VITA, GB, GBC, GBA, GBA-SP, DS, DS-LITE) and I say all of that to say this: as someone who usually gets massive amounts of FOMO when not buying a platform, I feel absolutely nothing about this generation.
It is honestly baffling. It's not "bad" persay, it's just....middling, with perhaps ...
2007 had Bioshock, Halo 3, God of War 2, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Crysis, Uncharted, The Orange Box, Super Mario Galaxy, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Forza 2, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Unreal Tournament 3, Skate, Super Paper Mario, STALKER.
2008 had Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metal Gear Solid 4, Devil May Cry 4, Dead Space, Persona 4, Mirror's Edge, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Little...
the article is great, but the headline is super misleading. The author is just saying that the game deserved far more recognition and praise than it actually did.
Infinite was far from a bad game, but the first game was an absolute masterpiece.
People use hyperbole in describing games they admire. And that's wrong.
There, that's the article for you.
They usually do not sell well. I adored Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood, but the market just wasn't there, for whatever reason.
Just read through some of your comments to get a sense of who you are, and came away with two things:
You are *super* negative in 90% of what you comment on.
You speak in extremes, with hyperbolic language that it's hard to tell what you consider a major issue and a trivial one.
I disagree with your assessment on Control. The story and general exposition weren't "horrible" but felt intentionally obfuscated. I enjoyed the King/ Lynchian i...
I snapped my Ninja Gaiden (for the og xbox) disc in half literally 30 minutes in. Then went out a bought a new copy the next day, and then went on to beat it three times.
Good times.
People are far more concerned with the opinions of others than just enjoying the content for itself.
If this was a bad/faulty review targeting an indie game that lives and dies on any press it receives, then you can send a harshly worded email. But it isn't. It's a massive game by a massive publisher expected to do massive numbers. One "negative" review isn't going to tank the franchise.
I'm 31. Death threats targeted at game reviewers h...
@Darkrider
You understand that reviews are actually subjective. Not objective. Opinions will always be subjective. These are not facts. These are feelings. Saying "their points are wrong" is wild to me.
And *beginning* your post with "it's a trash review" comes across as condoning the behavior. It doesn't matter if the review was rife with spelling and punctuation errors. It doesn't matter if they played it in one stretch ...
No one is conflating quality with sales, but you sure are.
Even though this series isn't really my thing, I can totally see why people love them.
I'd like to think that we are hopefully moving past the days where AAA games no longer require massive day 1 patches to make them even remotely playable, and that developers/publishers understand just how imperative to launch as polished a game as possible on the very first day of release.
Just a few generations ago, games went gold and that was that. Shipped in a box, and what you got is what you got. The buggiest of titles couldn't redeem themselves, and the most...