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This isn't that awful of a decision, blizzard are long known to push a release date. So there is some decision to hold back with the online part. Just balancing online play can take ages. Every game I've used the multiplayer on undergoes constant balance patches.

Even aside from that they could be doing a multitude of things, after wow they likely know all the things they need to have right for a multiplayer arena to be excellent. Things they wanted to improve upon, ...

5200d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Seems to work pretty well for nintendo, and activision.

This isn't something thats just an issue in japan. The west is just as mired in its nostalgia. It can be seen in games having endless similar sequels.

That's not to say there's a problem with sequels themselves just the fashion the entire industry has been going about them.

Often a publisher will push a developer to release three games in fairly quick succession, if the fir...

5201d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

Or knights of the old republic.

5203d ago 6 agree0 disagreeView comment

It's true, but I don't mind first person games in general. I liked mirrors edge, though it was a bit rough. Skyrim of course, though it could use a combat system a bit closer to demon souls. Dark messiah, umm other games. There's not as many as there are shooters. In any case first person games damn well better have a better fov. Third person games should as well.

I'm playing kingdom of amalur right now and it's narrow fov hides how beautiful the world is...

5206d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

That rumored tech to kill used games is evil sounding. The publishers will love it but find me one consumer that wants that. Who isn't a drooling fanboy.

I think if they do that customers just won't buy the machine. Sure a few retards will but as soon as word gets around the normal people it'll die out. They have to know that, it wouldn't even be a gamble.

5207d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Of the newest. Skyrim, with hd texture and bump mapping mods, all settings to ultra. Portal 2 an highest, GTA episodes from liberty cities, kingdoms of amalur, just cause 2, mass effect 2, saints rough the third. And many more older games.

I don't own battlefield 3 I'm pretty sure I would be able to run it at medium to high settings though which would definitely be better than a console can do lol.

Oh yeah card is an hd 5700

We would ...

5207d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Really it's idiotic?

They wouldi rather spurn potential paying customers to keep their product at prices they like.

Piracy isn't a theft problem so much as it's a service problem.

Here I can provide you a couple informative videos that have helped shape my view point one is by extra credits
http://penny-arcade.com/pat...

and one is ...

5207d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

Well said. as expected from a green brother.

5207d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

They need to take into account that these products are widely free online. Roms are plentiful and the emulators do a better job of providing the game than nintendo seems to do (and sega with those awful arcade classics that aren't upgraded in any way). price at 4.50 and sell not many, price at like 1.50 or so and everyone will buy it. Thats not even an amount people really think about most of the time.

5207d ago 2 agree3 disagreeView comment

Which would be kinda sad. Mostly because it would mostly kill ps3 backwards compatibility. It might help with b/c going forward but unless it's super powerful it won't be emulating ps3. Maybe they want an excuse to rerelease games.

I probably wouldn't buy it until very late in it's life cycle. I'll just move full over to pc.
Pc gaming is becoming cheaper than console gaming anyhow.

The computer I'm running now cost me about ...

5207d ago 2 agree2 disagreeView comment

The creative director for it said it's only supposed to be played through once.

5207d ago 5 agree0 disagreeView comment

A release date.

I would like it if they took the whole relationship friendship simulator part out of the game. If I wanted to play that I would find a japanese highschool manga dating sim game.

5207d ago 1 agree3 disagreeView comment

No. Just no. Let rockstar evolve GTA in the direction they've been going in.

There is saints rough for whimsical wackiness. GTA can take things in a more serious story bent kind of arc.

Though I do think they should take the story in the same direction the gameplay moves in. Have the story follow around a brutal mass murdering psychopath.

5208d ago 15 agree6 disagreeView comment

They also said the kinect was a revolution.

Going by the article XBLA isn't going to go anywhere. Their just going to merge small games and retail games into one server.

The psn already does this.

So essentially it'll just be a name change from XBLA to the X box network or some shit.

5208d ago 1 agree2 disagreeView comment

I'm wantin it.

But they probably wouldn't bring it back like that.

5208d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

over a bare mid section of body. Honestly. A teensy bit overblown this issue is.

Additionally I saw nary a breast in the gameplay vids I saw.

Maybe this is becoming a larger issue because of the recent soul caliber fiasco but this is no where near as sexualised as soul caliber.

Get uppity over something that actually matters.

5208d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

It's mostly happened on pc's, and entirely so on phones. There's not much to help against it by a decade or so.

5209d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

They should also release it with all the features they show off before release. So far every console releases with incomplete software.

PS3 couldn't do a great many expected things at launch, the psp never realized the potential of remoteplay, the vita released unable to play psone games, many psp games etc.

5212d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

They've learnt their lesson on pricing. It won't come out anywhere near the 600 dollar mark, they know it's unpalatable for consumers. It'll most likely be in the 450 range. Give or take 50.

Whether that means that they scale the specs down for it a bit, or wait longer for parts prices to come down more.

I think if one of the big console companies were real smart they would buy onlive and use that instead of a next console. Would prefer playstat...

5212d ago 1 agree6 disagreeView comment

It's actually quite well written and unbiased. The title is fairly misleading

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