Famitsu gives a Final Fantasy game an astronomical score.
THERE'S a shocker.
I agree wholeheartedly.
1, 3 and 4 are irrefutably untrue. Nothing stops pirating. If a game is good OR bad, it will be pirated. If a game is cheap or expensive, it will be pirated. There will always be pirates. ALWAYS. It doesn't matter what your business ethics are. Cheap indie games are often pirated to death, for god's sake.
And why the hell do you people think they implement this DRM bullshit in the first place? Have you not figured out after over 20 years of consistent pirating that DE...
I don't know why people are disagreeing with you.
Obviously it wasn't the U.S. alone that won the war (not by any stretch of the imagination), but it's an historical fact that the Japanese underestimated The United States' power to mobilize their forces as quickly as they did after the attack at Pearl Harbor. And both Germany AND Japan underestimated the capacity of it's forces and technology many, many times during the war.
That conclude...
*sigh*
Pirating is not the answer either. It's like trying to cure a burn with fire. If there is a cause you want to sacrifice for, just don't buy the goddamn games.
The auction house is really the only thing I'm worried about. What the author is talking about is absolutely true. It's the same with any "pay what you want" service out there. The choice to pay or not pay isn't really a choice at all. If you don't pay, there's no way for you to stay competitive. It's just one more way the industry fat-cats are screwing over everyone but the pirates.
Who would disagree with that!?
They could have removed "about PS3 firmware update 4.0" from the title and it still would have been a perfectly valid article.
The fact that this is the headline story right now saddens me greatly.
I'm not clicking the link. Seeing as it smells a lot like troll...and I've already played the game and wholeheartedly disagree with the score.
What a wonderful idea! If only you had been here yesterday when the patch was released to spread your infinite wisdom with us!
It's not actually fixed for me. In fact it's nearly unplayable now because of the dragon and resistance-related bugs.
Which leads me to wonder what the hell Bethesda was spending all this time actually doing.
I think the article is referring to Skyrim players in REAL life...
Not that it's bad, but it sounds like the voice acting in just about every other Japanese game and anime. That is, you lose all the accents and nuances from the English performances AND unless you know Japanese, you're going to be reading subtitles. Which is fine for the dialog-only bits, but terrible for any action scenes that require you to play and read at the same time.
I'm just a firm believer that games should be played in their original languages. If Skyri...
Wonderful! Now I can afford that fancy remote holder that will really feng shui my room. And who knows, maybe I'll splurge and get those wonderful Mario shoe-laces that I'm sure no one will laugh at me for wearing.
There is only one way to vanquish evil, and it involves a skimpy two-piece.
It's still a great franchise, but Nintendo needs to cut some of the archaic crap out:
1. We don't need this much hand-holding. For chrissakes. We go through two-hour long tutorial sections, and we still get "partners" pestering us with instructions and directions through nearly the entire game. And why the hell do I have to sit through an explanation of what all this treasure is every time I boot the game up? I'll be honest. I thought that was just a min...
I will admit that the controls are not perfect. For instance, if you don't leave enough time in between swipes, it will begin to pick up directions incorrectly, and in general it can sometimes just be a bit finicky to do some things.
It certainly doesn't ruin the game, though. It's still easily the best example of motion controls available on any system.
Considering the only thing available to us is a context-less video and article...I would have to say yes, people are judging things prematurely.
Famitsu practices "courtesy scoring," almost openly. That is, they give scores that they think their readers want to see. A lot of Japanese magazines practice it, actually. Reviews are a very different thing in Japan.