"...people love playing games on their iPad..."
Seriously, who are these people? All the gamers I know find iOS games only a fun distraction from the real action.
Giving too much credit to tablet/phone games is like saying 'Transformers' represent the entirety of the film industry--sure, lots of people watch those movies, but any *serious* conversation about film omits many of those 'casual' blockbusters.
Sometimes I...
True, but he did say:
"...we exist to gratify and entertain..."
...which is totally hypocritical considering ACM. If sales aren't everything you'd think they'd have spent the last year 'completing' ACM instead of developing a fake-gameplay trailer and jamming the real game out the door.
I find it hilarious that most of the press-complaints were the lack of hardware and price.
When was the last time a console was revealed this early before E3? There is no strategy in showing ALL your cards early. This way, we have an epic introduction to the PS4, then an anticipated E3--that's more PR than anything MS has done lately.
Well played Sony.
You're forgetting a couple things.
DINNER PLATE: the controller. imagine holding this beast during a 4-hour skyrim sesh---AINT GONNA HAPPEN. touch controls won't help a damn. I'm sorry, but if you consider absolute reaction time, looking at my damn controller SUBTRACTS FROM THAT. pretty colors and flashing screen notwithstanding.
ONLINE: jesus christ. When is Nintendo going to swallow their pride and admit THEY DONT GET ONLINE. i was born and rais...
...but the alternative is to give the game a lower score which would haunt the title forever (even after online issues are solved).
As a reviewer, it should be necessary to mention the terrible MP launch, but hesitant to forever-burden the game's score for what is (in most cases) a temporary issue.
The picture is from the document and is actually a capture of the PSX's VRAM state during gameplay. Pretty interesting stuff.
I heard this was a sleeper hit last year (this and Spec Ops). I might have to check it out.
I hope Ubisoft won't touch Saints Row. They have enough open-world games in their portfolio. I think Darksiders would be a great addition to them.
I agree with you 2K choices!
Get off your dial-up connection; high speed brah. My PS3 CoD'ing is smooth.
- The median for the K/D graph in the AAR is set to 1.0 instead of 0.0.
I have no idea how this simple/obvious bug got past the testing phase.
Poor you. Darksiders 2 is one of the best games this year, and my Sleeper-GOTY of 2012.
It's from the comments section, 'Aleph the Hater' said it. Misleading article summary.
Jesus, you need to stop playing Assassin's Creed games--sounds like you're getting tired of them. AC3 was great!
Old news.
Yes, don't ruin this franchise--it has incredible potential.
If you're not hardcore enough and willing to wait an unknown amount of months (years?) for the possibly of [whatever] free game via PS+...well then you're just not hardcore enough.
The rest of us would be day one'ing the Uncharted's, etc. regardless.
What honest collector would have all this stuff? Did he go around buying an N64 every week? And if so--wtf? Collectors *collect* rare and valuable items, not horde commonly-found stuff.
I can't help but think either most of this lot was purchased from liquidated inventory or they're stolen goods from a big retailer (a lot of them are labelled 'Toys R Us').
After seeing the lousy score IGN gave Darksiders 2, only to then rate that trashy RE6 a higher score, reminded me how out of touch IGN reviewers are from today's gamer (not to mention 'bought and paid for').
Thank the gaming gods they cancelled that travesty.
While most opinion pieces are worthwhile, the sheer amount of ads on that site lead me to believe this is a hit generator peice with little foundation outside of "what if".
MS would be shooting themselves in the foot by delaying release. While Sony has the upper hand MS is no slouth, they must have something up their sleeves. No doubt MS has been developing the next Xbox for the last few years, Sony's reveal probably did little to hinder that.