Japan isn't the market it once was, but you can't just ignore it. That could potentially have reverberations in other Asian markets around the area. Japan's still influential, even if not at the massive scale it once was.
Plus leaving Japan would be seen as a slap in the face, which I don't think developers would appreciate.
The Windows Store will allow people to download on demand, much like you would on-demand titles on Xbox Live. You can't inherently just play any XBLA game -- they'd have to port them over to Windows, which is possible.
Honestly, it just doesn't stand out. There's no major marketing push for the game (unlike other AAA exclusive shooters like Halo, Killzone, Gears, etc) and there's very little it's done to differentiate itself.
I seem to recall there being much more marketing for the second game.
The first Assassin's Creed title was garbage, IMO. I don't see how a series with a poor leadoff game can be the best this generation.
To each his own.
I don't agree with the lawsuit, but the motive behind it is that Sony acted improperly before the hacking. That holds no bearing on the company's future services.
It's still a stupid lawsuit, though. The only reason they're suing is because it's a potential payday. Ah, lawsuits: letting the lazy attempt to get rich.
Geez, it seems like every Gunstringer post is met with a ton of trolls.
If you're considering getting it, do. It's fantastic.
@rocky047586: Having an opinion means I need to "get over [myself]"? Please. Just because my opinion differs from yours doesn't mean I need to get over myself. Get a grip.
I have seen the pictures of Max Payne in New York, so please don't patronize me. There is also a brief clip of that in this video, if you didn't catch it. It would be extremely odd for Rockstar to release a trailer that isn't indicative of the storyline in the actual game.
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That's not very nice, Netflix. What'd Mexico ever do to you? Didn't your mother and father ever teach you not to hit someone?
Young corporations today, I tell ya!
Even if we did, they likely wouldn't slash the prices of the custom consoles.
I don't care what it looks like, it doesn't look anything like Max Payne to me.
This could end up being a good game, don't get me wrong. But there's no reason to slap the Max Payne name on it when you're taking all the story elements out of the game, like Far Cry 2 did.
To all the people saying 'we haven't seen the full story though!': so you think Rockstar is trying to mislead us with the storyline by giving us this trailer? ...
A shared ecosystem. You keep your friends across devices, keep achievement progress and avatar settings through devices, communicate across devices, watch/stream Zune movies/music across devices, etc. I'm sure there will be some games that will be designed for both platforms, too (likely XBLA/Windows Phone games).
It's a game from a quality developer, why would you expect such low scores? You guys act like Kinect and Move are plagues. If a game's designed from the ground up for those technologies, developers can make some great games.
I played The Gunstringer for a little over an hour, and it's fantastic. I hadn't bought Fruit Ninja Kinect (knew I was getting Gunstringer), though, and lost track of how much I was playing it (three hours), hah.
I'm guessing they finally realized they can't keep up the technical arguments with DICE over Battlefield 3, so they conceded the point.
EA's official site right now: http://www.ea.com/
"CRYSIS COMING TO XBLA AND PSN IN OCTOBER"
I think some people just read the first line of my post and disagreed.
I never said Blu-ray isn't better than DVD. I said that, at this point in time, you can't add it to the 360, because it wouldn't matter since Microsoft wouldn't let developers use it for games (just like no games used HD DVD).
Blu-ray's great, but let's get real here: it would be of no benefit on the 360 at this point. Microsoft would never allow developers to put games on it, because it would fragment the userbase. Want to confuse consumers? Offer a DVD-version and a Blu-ray version of a game, and the less tech-savvy ones will be trying to play the Blu-ray version on their Xbox 360 without a Blu-ray add-on (or console version, which is even more doubtful).
And, honestly, most of my movie a...
OK, I love the Uncharted series as much as the next guy, but "always compared to Hollywood's best"? By whom?
I fully agree this is flame bait, but you're greatly over-exaggerating the story in Uncharted. You're also flame baiting Gears of War fans ("dirt-low standards"). Not saying it's not a good story, just not what you're implying. (I'm sure that won't stop people from downvoting me into oblivion, though.)
I love the smell of a flame war brewin' in the morning.
I believe you mean Crysis Wars, not Warhead, which was the singleplayer.
The problem wasn't the formula changing, the problem was the bugs and lack of fixes. Instead of fixing some of the game's problems (massive host advantage, grain bug, etc), they released map pack after map pack for no reason. Yeah, it's great that they want to keep people interested, but you do that by fixing the errors, not by throwing more map packs out there that people won't buy until...
Here's the irony in the whole thing: Jim Sterling is getting mad for Cliffy for being defensive about his game, when Sterling is getting incredibly defensive about his review. Hell, he even wrote an entire article about it. If that's not defensive behavior, I don't know what is.
When you put work into something and hope people will see what you see, then yeah, you're going to be defensive when you don't think people get it or are being overly critical of c...