It's true. Devs have kind of the perfect storm to shift the industry to a more consumer-restrictive model right now.
They ignore variables like the world-wide recession and the smartphone boom (not to mention their own terrible DLC and DRM policies), and instead throw up straw men like used game sales and pirating as excuses for their floundering franchises...and it all sounds so reasonable to the vast majority of idiotic consumers out there, so they end up taking more an...
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In all fairness, that's because most of those devs already have their fingers in the pie.
Congratulations, you are the first person I have ever seen use the word "daft" that wasn't referencing that one electronica band...um....what was their name again?
Wait...what?
Get back to me when you've tamed a bear for bareback riding.
Or should I say...bear back riding.
Did anyone else think it was kind of....odd that they only showed like two seconds of zoomed out game footage during that whole presentation?
It was a story about video games and yet all we got was an eyeful of a bunch of porcelain vases you might see in some rich old ladies inherited mansion.
Oh yeah, absolutely. It's almost impossible to argue, however much a person may like them, that MMO's are able to achieve and sustain the same level of immersion that singleplayer games do.
There's just too many variables. Obviously you get the immersion-breaking asshats that like to troll and gank, but the story in these games always has to be built to accommodate thousands and thousands of players, so no matter how hard the developers try to create the illusion ...
@Jokesonyou
The problem here is that you are thinking of it in terms of crackpot conspiracy theories. No, Microsoft is obviously not trying to spy on us fapping or selling us out to the government for some offhand joke we made about blowing up a government building, but you have to look at this from a more realistic viewpoint. If you were a company like Microsoft and you developed a piece of technology:
1. That was always connected
2. Had a camera tha...
Can't argue with that
^ Chrono Cross?
I agree, though. I would much sooner compare the N64 to the PS1 than the PS2.
It's very different, but I loved it, personally. There is a very interesting narrative that unfolds as you walk around the island (and the island is beautiful), but that is literally all you will be doing: walking around an island.
If you pay attention to all the little details, though, it's very interesting and eerie.
You, like so many defenders, miss the point entirely.
Big business is a game of precedents. It's about companies seeing how many consumer rights they can subvert to maximize profit for the least amount of effort.
Microsoft (among others) is setting a terrible precedent with digital distribution.
Instead of saying "hey, let's provide a digital distribution service so that things are cheaper and easier for consumers," they'...
Well, I actually liked Enslaved very much, but I couldn't in all good conscience label it "amazing." There was just too much wrong with it. I loved the two main characters (give Andy Serkis another game to write for, for God's sake), but there was something wrong with just about every other category in that game.
It's really not MEANT to be that shocking, haunted-house kind of scary that you get from most games. As you said, it's more meant to present an unsettling atmosphere with random bits of extreme tension thrown in from time to time. That's by-and-large what Lovecraft's writing was known for and I think Amnesia captured that as well, if not better, than any other game out there.
And just to nitpick the article a bit, I actually appreciated that the environment se...
I don't think they're necessarily in the WRONG, but I do find it a little ridiculous and greedy of them.
"Let's play" videos are by and large just a means of enjoying and spreading the community of gaming and in many ways they strengthen the fanbase for many franchises. I would be surprised if anyone out there felt like they had fully experienced any of these games after watching a simple video of them.
So Nintendo trying to squeeze a fe...
Not really familiar with Monarch, but the Blizzard ones are top notch.
Kerrigan especially is...like, spot on.
I didn't misunderstand him. They asked him what the Xbox One will open up "for console gaming" and his first response was to gush about the features that have nothing to do with gaming. How is that a misunderstanding?
The whole interview was nothing but veiled, unenthusiastic praise. Microsoft was presumably just off screen with a vice-grip on his ever-recessing genitalia.
No mention of any of the "controversial" bits...no surprise there.
AND I kind of lol'd that he suggested the TV and multimedia features impressed him..."as a gamer."
Yes. That makes total sense, Geoff. The features that have nothing to do with gaming really appealed to your gaming sensibilities. Yes, I totally get that.
I HOPE this is not just a brand loyalty thing for most of these folks, because this is a much bigger issue than a simple proclivity toward any one of the major console makers. This is about the direction the entire industry could potentially move toward in the coming years.
Most people are simply complaining about consumer rights, and I have absolutely no problem getting the pitchforks out for that kind of stuff.
You have to understand that what Microsoft (am...