Which may be an indicator that the deadline should be roughly at the five year mark at the latest.
Most EA games, actually. Me personally, ME3 was another big indicator. They wanted it done in 18 months, which is nowhere near the amount of time ME3 needed and we all know what we got in the end: a product that only loosely matched, if at all, what the developers were saying about it.
EA is the worst offender of this, in my experience.
It's Zenimax Online (Bethesda's parent company), not Bethesda. The only reason Bethesda's name is on it is because it says "The Elder Scrolls".
It's easy to claim a game's story and characters were bad when you never actually played the game.
"...unless you're really paying attention". I feel "... if it is even shown at all" should be added to that but I know he'd likely get in trouble if he said that.
While it is a tired theme, at least this one was done in such a way that it actually makes sense. But I do agree that the whole "Batman trumps Superman" thing is extremely overdone. However, it wasn't Batman that beat Superman. It took another Superman to beat Superman, as it was clear that Batman was not going to win without Superman on his side.
Best-selling doesn't mean it doesn't need innovation or improvement. A large chunk of the sales come from stupid parents blindly buying for their idiot kids. The majority of the CoD community are composed of idiots claiming it's great because they've never played anything but CoD and refuse to. Besides, they're already alienating their fanbase by re-releasing the same game over and over with nothing but a new coat of paint and bouncing from Nazi's to Russians to Chines...
They think their opinions are important to everyone else because it is their opinion. That's the main reason for it.
I have a hard time seeing that due to the gaming industry's growth over the past generation.
As much as it sucks to say, it most likely will never happen.
I would rather them put resources into making a Part 2 for the story. I want to see what happens after Pandora's Box was opened (but let Part 2 be the only sequel!).
True, but one could argue that this is more about IGN being less trustworthy than they make themselves out to be due to how their employees have a tendency to attack random nobodies, including your average gamer, for having anything negative to say about them or their review process.
When IGN employees go out of their way to contact a person who disagreed with them just to attack them with increasing frequency, and it has been increasing, it stops being about the journalists...
It's mainly those who like a flat, no-surprises stage for a straight and balanced fight that is solely dictated by how well you play. Many who play Final Destination stages also play with items off. I know I can't stand stages like the Battlefield type, but prefer flat stages like FD.
I'm not saying it wasn't a shady way of doing business because it was. Their original vision and how they handled all who had anything negative to say about their original vision ensured Microsoft will not get another console purchase from me.
I'm merely saying that he was responding to the fact that someone said it was EASY to do. Only someone who is ignorant to the development process would disagree with me on how it is not easy to just up and change something ...
It doesn't matter what console they favor, what matters is that IGN often goes far out of their way to find something to attack someone about. Just look at ME3, they went out of their way to attack anyone who had anything negative to say about ME3. It isn't just ME3 they've gone on a crusade against random nobody gamers disliking a game or disagreeing with a rating several times. Not to mention how they barely even read their sources, if they read them at all, and make articles ba...
IGN: the Fox News of the gaming industry.
Nelson didn't get mad or upset, he made a valid point in that you don't know if it was just a flip of the switch for a fact. It is sort of like saying Bethesda can de-bug one of their games with the flip of a switch, it takes a lot more work than people think.
He responded to the assumption that it was easy, not to the fact that DRM could be removed.
How so? The average gamer is in their mid 30's, early 40's. The teacher was in his early 30's.
I know some high school band and chorus teachers that often try to get authorization to play orchestral versions of music from video games. I was speechless when I heard that their "surprise" when they first pulled off getting authorization was doing a full version of Mass Effect's "Suicide Mission" theme lol.
What does being a woman have to do with it? Nothing.