Steam is an excellent example of digital distribution done right. If you're going to offer DRM-driven digital distribution, then it better be ridiculously cheap, accessible, and reliable.
Digital distribution is ABSOLUTELY a raw deal when you're paying the same amount you were for physical copies of the game.
I don't know what that means. Maybe you could explain yourself? Do you mean they were trying to make it more like Mass Effect?
It sure is pretty, I'll give it that. I wish everything else in these two entries was up to the same quality.
Maybe a little premature of me to say, though. I'll wait until I've played this one.
I like it. I know the trend is to compare it to WoW (and I won't say that's unfair), but the similarities between the two really end at the gameplay.
The world is beautiful and unique. The stories are more interesting, better written and, probably most importantly, better presented than any other MMO out there. The setting is pure Star Wars, and that's really more important than many people seem to realize. I mean, it's fine if you're not a huge Star Wars ...
I would expect Dragon Age 2 to be making it onto quite a few of these lists. I still can't believe what they did to it.
I mean, I'm not one of those guys that thinks PC gaming is the end all, be all in the least, but if there's a bad way to "console-fy" a franchise, Dragon Age 2 is a textbook example.
Wow. Girl gamers talking about being girl gamers. THERE'S a surprise.
A lot of folks will be grinding vigorously, if you know what I mean.
...I'm talking about pleasuring themselves sexually to the game.
FINALLY a game from Japan in which we can see the panties of ambiguously underaged girls!
Not surprised to see so many Japanese games in general. In fact, they're ALL Japanese games.
No HL2:Ep2. No Mass Effect. No Braid. No Beyond Good and Evil. No Heavy Rain. etc. etc.
Ugh.
There are honest and legal channels to take advantage of to stop this bill. We're not to the point of revolution yet. Hacking is only going to scare people that aren't tech savvy into supporting extreme bills like this. Anonymous is such a tool.
You can't deny that there's been something of a zombie renaissance in gaming over the past few years. Yes, we've had zombies in games since their inception, but it wasn't until recently that nearly every genre in the medium was inundated with zombie games. Even the puzzle genre has a few zombie games for chissakes.
It's not that there's anything wrong with zombie games. Companies just have a way of twisting fads into bats and bludgeoning us over the h...
He's a drunk eight year old.
^Author of the article.
Sweet nectar.
My interest is piqued.
Though I gotta say, even though it may have been a conscious decision by the developers, the world looks a little barren and boring at this point.
It's still the best in the series as far as I'm concerned. It was the first game I ever REALLY got emotionally invested in. It had the melodrama and twists and turns that are present in the sequels, except at that point it wasn't COMPLETELY off the deep end to the point of self-parody.
And it's still got some of the cleverest little details in all of gaming: the Mantis fight, the cigarette smoke trick, the codec code on the back of the CD case, etc. It's ...
^ He WAS doing an American accent. He plays a former police officer from New York. It certainly wasn't his normal Scottish accent.
And we're not talking about Hugh Laurie, who admittedly has a notoriously accurate American accent. We're talking about Gerard Butler, who does not have a notoriously accurate American accent.
Tom Hanks was speaking a made up language in The Terminal. He could have sounded like whatever he wanted and it technically would have been accurate.
Gerard has a terrible American accent. Go look up a trailer for *cringe* the Bounty Hunter. He kind of sounds Norwegian or when he tries to sound American.
In the game's defense, it does open up and become much more fun after about the 30 hour mark. I agree with what you said in general though.
The only sensible comment here...