Yeah, people looking for a substantially better looking game are going to be disappointed. It seems id translated the game over to idTech5 purely for optimization reasons.
Though, it's really only disappointing because id promised noticeably improved "lighting and rendering" in the first place. If they had just said they were going to clean up the hud and optimize it for 16:9, people wouldn't have been disappointed in the least. I don't know why develope...
Only in the original Doom and Doom 2, because they're carbon copies of the XBLA releases. They scrapped the Doom 3 co-op from the Xbox version.
I don't know why so many j-fans are so conflicted about this. There's absolutely nothing wrong with feeling a slight moral aversion to the current trend of sexualizing seemingly underage girls in so many niche j-games (and anime) these days.
I mean, I'm not looking at it on the same level as like child pornography or anything (because obviously these girls aren't real), but it still feels more than a little creepy looking at ridiculously young girls flash thei...
This means very little for Western audiences, really. If they continue their trends, then all we'll really be seeing is a few more middling MMO's popping up here and there.
But then, maybe growth will also translate into branching out a bit.
Good news for them regardless, though.
I have to say that it is unfair that Western games don't get the same critical eye that Eastern games get from Western critics, though I don't necessarily think Western developers are too hard on Eastern games. Reviews are meant to be critical, after all. I think they're just way, WAY too forgiving toward Western games.
It often amazes me the issues that Western critics are willing to overlook in Western games but not in Eastern games. Just to be clear, though, t...
Seriously, I don't think they understand the concept of "generosity."
Though they are nice, expansions are NOT a token of goodwill toward gamers. If Blizzard didn't think they could milk the WoW phenomenon anymore than they already had, they almost certainly would never have released those expansions. Again, not that I'm trying to badmouth expansions, but "generosity" implies a bit of self-sacrifice. It's not like they're GIVING us thos...
You're getting into the corporate semantics that birthed the term in the first place.
The VAST majority of books termed "graphic novels" these days are actually trades, or collections of issued comics usually assembled according to arcs. Fables, for instance, is an ongoing, serialized comic, so even by the definition you suggested Fables is not a graphic novel.
There ARE some comics out there that forgo the traditional comic book structure, but ...
Yeah...? It's a dirty, viscous, liquid-based fuel source, much like...fossil fuels.
Perhaps you just skimmed past "vaguely reminiscent" on your first read through.
No, you're right. It's a pretty widely used term at this point, nothing against the author of this article or Willingham in particular. Just ranting, hehe.
A Fables p&c sounds pretty awesome, honestly.
Why does everyone keep calling this Steampunk, I wonder? It may be set in a sort of alternate Victorian England, but the technology is all very electrical, even modern industrial. Everything seems to be running on a fuel source vaguely reminiscent of fossil fuels.
Plus aesthetically, the game is very blue and white heavy as opposed to brown and copper.
Not really a big deal though. Just an opinion. Game is boss.
It makes people feel better, for some reason. I think it's because they're too ridiculous to admit they enjoy a medium that nerds everywhere have been enjoying for decades.
It's like referring to some books as "literary fiction" because god forbid they're reading a genre that could be mistaken for anything that's not "literary"....whatev er that means in the first place.
Yeah, for those of us that don't necessarily like looking at seemingly underaged girls dress sexy (or, I'm sorry, dress "cute"), it's kind of an annoying trend in Japanese niche games these days.
Still, most of the time it's just an option, so it's not all up in our faces at least.
I still love loot hunts, though what I will say is that games need to move away from stat-based loot.
I love finding one gun in Borderlands that maybe lights folks on fire and has a nice zoom, and then a completely different gun with a very high rate of fire and great range. It's game changing and very significant when you find good equipment in the world.
Now compare that to most MMO's (and Diablo 3, a game that thinks it's an MMO), which basical...
I'm with you, dude. It really just baffles me. I adjust the temperature in my house if my hands are hot or cold while gaming. Why the hell would anyone want a technology that artificially induces uncomfortable hand temperature?
Yeah, the art style makes up for a lot of the technical shortcomings. There are some muddy textures, but for the most part it looks pretty beautiful to me.
I get the feeling it's been a very, very long time since you've played an FPS from the 90's.
Good god. That's some heavy shit right there, man.
Funny enough, when I was suffering from severe depression way back when, I had to disassociate myself with videogames for a very long time. I know it's different for everyone, but for me, getting lost in video games only made it harder to come back to reality.
If it's the idea of "rubbing, pinching and poking" young, ambiguously aged girls that has you disgusted, then you might want to skip most ecchi games these days altogether. There's always AT LEAST one. In fact that one on the right looks like she could be the token loli.
Though if it's truly going to be chibi, then it just means they're going to be hyperdeformed. Anatomically, they're not really going to look like anything...
QFT there. Usually I see this crap as the journo bait that it is, but with other M...they genuinely "housewifed" Samus up, I've gotta say.
I mean good god: Metroid other M... M.O.M? Really?
^ AND CD Projekt is a very big proponent of DRM-free gaming. That's a huge plus in my book. I tend to like it when I'm not treated like a criminal.