I don't actually get it. What is this, the 80's? Who the hell is going to go out and buy a Playboy mag or pay a subscription fee to see a decent cosplay of Bayonetta?
Why not choose an advertising partner that is still relevant?
Except with none of the satire or artistic merit.
It's closer to a movie like Hostel.
I'll throw my hat in that ring. Still my favorite too.
"AAAHHHH yes, we've been expecting you. You'll have to be recorded before you're officially released. There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice is yours..."
That whole intro part is permanently tattooed on my brain, haha.
We, as gamers, have to be very careful about how we interpret these reviews now. The whole point of GamerGate was (allegedly) to insure that journalists could give these games the score they thought they deserved, without any fear of corporate coercion.
It is perfectly fine to disagree with a review like, say, the IGN review of Alien: Isolation, but we also have to learn how to live with dissenting opinion. It's not so much that reviews hold no value, it's that we don...
You're not going to find many gamers out there, even fans of the game, that won't admit that Destiny has quite a few problems. Even a month after it's release, it's still not much more than a beautiful shooter with solid but dated mechanics.
The issue has ALWAYS been where we draw the line. I think even people like Dragon would draw the line just shy of people getting directly mentally or physically abused in the name of "art."
Take something like child pornography, for instance. It is technically art and would therefore fall under "blanket acceptance of freedom of expression," even though children are being actively abused to create it.
Or take the various forms of "snuf...
@Tomshoe
Motivation and context is a very large portion of our moral compass. GTA has never been a game centered around killing innocent people. It has always only ever been a byproduct of the open design...well, for the most part, anyway.
I think I'm with most other gamers on this one, though. I have nothing against the game getting released, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I have absolutely no interest in playing it, nor do I have any respect f...
No, you can believe in the right for the game to exist but still personally feel that it crosses a moral line.
For instance, I think this game should be allowed to be made and released to the general public, but I also hope it fails miserably because I have always had ZERO respect for shock art.
Cars were way too sexy in this game. Polygon had to decrease the score because they realized it was objectifying cars everywhere.
If I recall, too, there were at least a couple of articles prior to the release talking about how boring the game was.
I don't know. Maybe Creative Assembly and SEGA didn't give them enough free steak dinners.
In a way I agree with Fireseed. There are other places to get more objective information on a game. Reviews are purely subjective articles. Meaning, when you read a review, you are literally reading it for the opinion of that reviewer. It is a way to gain perspective.
What people continually misunderstand is that even reading a review that you wholeheartedly disagree with (which we have a prime example of from Polygon) doesn't necessarily make it invalid. The Polygon crit...
It is a game with a horrific beast perpetrating horrific acts of violence. It may not be as over-the-top gory as a lot of other horror games, but it's certainly got the atmosphere.
I'm just glad so many people seem to be enjoying it despite that handful of retarded reviews, to be honest. Maybe gamers really are starting to move away from being led by the media.
Yeah, I think the point is that the VAST majority of gamers would be more sympathetic to this stuff if they weren't constantly being called misogynists. The problem is that a lot of these women automatically see this as a male vs. female situation when it could actually be a female and male vs. crazy person situation.
But nope. Gamers are misogynistic pigs.
"I don't have the right to misrepresent my product,"
Perhaps you have been living under a bridge. This "gamer entitlement" has been building for quite a few years now not because gamers think they deserve more, but because gamers feel like these games genuinely ARE being misrepresented, both in the media and in advertisements/previews.
And to be perfectly clear, consumers absolutely DO have the right to decide if you owe them more game...
There's not a whole lot in fiction in general that "scares" me in the traditional sense anymore, but the atmosphere and tension still makes horror games interesting to play for me.
And yeah, listen to Adexus. Dead Space 1 and 2 are MUCH better horror games than 3. Again, not because they will necessarily scare you to death, but because the atmosphere is just much, much better.
Yeah, aside from the "big" game sites that seem to just be frustrated with the game's difficulty. I don't think I could disagree with the IGN and Gamespot scores more. The game has it's problems, but it has felt like a bunch of dopey journos have had it out for this game from the beginning. I don't know what the deal is.
This is like a bigger, longer, prettier Amnesia / Outlast, and I have honestly never seen a game company nail the aesthetics of an ...
I don't mind where the franchise heads from a gameplay perspective as long as it's fun (and I honestly thought the combat was pretty fun in XIII), but they REALLY need to move away from the ridiculously over-the-top melodrama schtick they've got going right now when writing the story and characters.
Not even FFVIII dipped so deeply into the emo pool. It's groan inducing.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Vita, but the VAST majority of games I play on it are games I've already played. They're almost always Classics I've bought off PSN or HD Remasters or Collections or re-releases of older indie games. Even it's greatest game (Persona 4 Golden) is a port of a PS2 game.
It makes it hurt even more when we get truly great exclusive games like Danganronpa, Soul Sacrifice and Tearaway because you realize how badly Sony (and third par...
It's never bothered me that the MAIN character can be either gay or straight, but it has always bothered me slightly that every supporting character in the game is made seemingly bi-sexual. There should be gay, straight and bi supporting characters. Making everyone bi just seems like pandering and it inevitably makes some characterization seem forced and inorganic.
Still, it seems like such a stupid thing to argue over.
Or, you can very rightfully be skeptical of the blatantly one-sided media coverage of Gamergate.
I know that I am not a psycho. I have honestly not met any psycho gamers in real life. From what I can tell, most supporters here at N4G aren't psychos.
So how is it that I, a man who is steeped in the gaming culture, have not met one crazy psycho gamergater that wants to rape or kill women, and yet the media is unable to track even one level-headed gamergate...