somekindofmike
look at mario games.. there lots and lots of sequels but some of them can be quite different.. 2D/3D. the only thing the same can be the character. super mario on ds, paper mario, mario 64, mario sunshine are all sequels but with different styles altogether.. so basically, if you can call mario 64 and super paper mario sequels then you may as well say every games within a genre as sequels - this is what i mean by all games within a genre as sequels... i don't agree w...
almost every game can be considered a sequel unless it is a new genre.
for example, uncharted could be a tombraider sequel but with a bloke instead of a girl.
saints row could be a sequal spinoff to gta. like wise for the godfather. change the name of the mafiosi to nico and you effectively end up with another GTA sequal.
the reason sequels exists is because a good franchise comes with it's own free marketing. people buy a title because the recognise t...
what sony and guerilla games should have done was announced Killzone2 as being available for both consoles (ps3 and xbox 360) so when it gets reviewed empire will give it 100%. but of course delay the xbox version indefinitely.
"Killzone 2 may not be the killer game it promised to be, but it’s still worth owning a PS3 just to play it." - empire
and they gave it an 8???????????? a game worth buying a console to play for is a pretty good game if you asked me.
"In our opinion, Killzone 2 has managed to avoid becoming a victim of the hype, but we still think it’ll be bashed by the same narrow-minded naysayers all the same. To those people, we say: experience it first (play, not YouTube), express your amazement afterwards."
that would be sad.. maybe what they should have done was spunked 50 billions dollar away on the subprime and CDS market and then they would have got bailed out by the US government...
their problem was they didn't lose enough money to be eligible for the TARP bailout.
wii sales are weak.. maybe it is because every man, woman, children, dog and pet hamster has bought one?
who is this guy? is he just some random guy spewing hate?
disagree with me if you think you are a paedohpile
paedophiles and red rings.. now that is a bad combination.
seriously, i think everything that involves a gathering of people will have paedos, pyschos, nazis, pervs and terrorists - just look at N4G for example.. lol
nothing new there. pointless article. smacks of "journalist need to justify my salary" syndrome.
articles like these give gamers a bad name.
i own GTA 4 for the xbox 360.
RIGHT NOW, don't think many ps3/xbox owners will care about dlc. many players haven't even completed the original game so i doubt they would stump up for the dlc. hence it isn't an insecurity issue.
HOWEVER, by offering exclusively dlc for the xbox GTA 4, MS made sure that people who couldn't decide which version of the original to get were more likely to be tempted by the xbox version.
this was the main reason why ms went ...
it's not a game because you need to own the original to play it i.e. it's an expansion pack. for me a game is an item that works standalone without the need for the atcual full game. just like the recent mgs lbp expansion is an expansion pack and not a game.
semantics really. before everyone rush in to disagree, i am not saying anything about whether the dlc is good or bad.
of couse sony is . the collapse in eurjpy and usdjpy had a huge impact on sony's earnings.
i rather my updates more frquently thanks.
jonondaspot, yeah you might be right. i think i was very conservative in my calculations. even in my conservatism going xbox exclusive would mean EA taking a $20million dollar hit on gross revenues. That is a heck of a lot of revenues.
mass effect 2 on ps3 will sell about 1 million worldwide (as a benchmark i used fallout 3 sales for the ps3 which sold 1.1mio copies).
20$ x 1 million = $20 million dollars worth of gross revenue to EA.
EA is a developer who have no allegience to any systems. EA also has game engines in place for ps3 games which bioware could use so development cost would be relatively light.
if ms doesn't pay for exclusivity (around $5m AT THE ABSOLUTE BEAR MINIMUM met...
my point is by inference from your comment you should be loving the ps3. but you let your 'biasness' get in the way of 80% of your posts.
"People view the PS3 being like the Gamecube an insult... At times I started playing my GC more than my PS2... It was an amazing console that was under rated and had great exclusives that didnt get the attention they deserved and the games quality never reflected the consoles" - gametimeuk,
look at metacritic, gamecube (a great console) has a 127 titles rated higher than 80% in 4.75 years (2001 - 2006). ps3 has 85 titles rated higher than 80% in less than half the tim...
people will listen to you more if you are more balanced in your views... gamers love games not consoles.
but that is my whole point you are missing here..
all the main mario (platform ones) games involve mario rescuing princess peach via a platforming gameplay etc. you can consider them sequels as much as you can consider bioshock 1 & 2 to be sequels.
the point is the author has no idea what bioshock 2 universe will be like so how can he say that they shouldn't make bioshock 2 because it is a sequel. for all we know bioshock 1 could be completely different to bios...