Yeah, I agree. It's one of the games many failings. They tried so hard to steer people away from the association, but WoW's influence is pretty obvious...
Basically the game dropped all the gothic and dark fantasy tinges that made the original games so uniquely atmospheric.
Yeah, it's a cool looking game. It kind of seems to wear it's influences on it's shoulder, though.
Team Ninja just knows that a fighting game is nothing if you're not playing it with a boner at all times.
You mean it looks like the PC version of the game that's been out since 1998?
Hell, if all they had done was optimize it for widescreen resolutions and touched up the sound fidelity, I probably would have been on board at $9.99, but they apparently just re-released the 1998 PC version of the game with a bunch of DRM BS tacked on.
I didn't mean to suggest that I think we should "sit back and accept it." Only that this is not some ridiculous case of male vs. female. This is everyone vs. the corrupting power of online anonymity. So unless you feel like you have the power to abolish the presence of every-single-flipping prick out there that thinks it's funny to spew insults and bigotry and then hide behind a digital wall, well...I have some bad news for you.
YOU'RE IN THE SAME BOAT A...
Until they fix the drop rates, this really doesn't do anything for me.
I'm not ****ing paying to make it through inferno.
Ugh. How many times can this be reiterated?
The internet (and the anonymity it affords) by it's very nature is just a cesspool of insults, insecurity and general douchebaggery.
It is, in fact, a little selfish and close-minded to think of it as a simple matter of misogyny. I am CONSTANTLY assaulted by asshats when I play games like CoD and Battlefield. Black people are constantly being thrown derogatory terms. Dudes with effeminate voices are accused of b...
Those are some....odd choices. Not going to say "bad" choices, but definitely odd.
Yeah, I remember playing through and thinking how unnecessary Vaan and Penelo were as characters...and then I read that little factoid like a year later and it all made sense.
It's not that I necessarily think it's BAD to have young characters, but as far as context is concerned, older characters usually can be more believably exposed to deeper subject matter because writers don't have to compensate for their lack of worldview and inexperience.
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Yeah, I'm sure publishers all over are going to jump right on board with this tech...
...I don't know if you and srcbfm are just misremembering, but there was a huge stink when Halo and CoD both released entries that ran sub-HD. I remember it quite vividly.
Don't know why you keep using the term "pure hack and slash". Darksiders draws inspiration from a ton of disparate genres and past games. The exploration alone moves the game out of "pure hack and slash" territory, nevermind the puzzles, the RPG-esque loot, the dungeons etc. etc.
It's fine if you're not looking forward to it, but it sounds like you really don't even know what it is...
I didn't know that even video game COMMERCIALS spawn their share of elitist asshats...
I gotta agree with this.
I mean make no mistake, it is a BAD game. The shooting is loose, the AI is awful, the humor is all of the ridiculously cliched frat variety, and it looked about like an early build 360 launch title....but it's still quite a bit of fun if you can learn to enjoy it on the same level as, say, and Arnold flick.
I really think this game is getting more attention than it deserves. It's a fairly scary game the first time you play it, but after that you begin to realize just how silly and amateurish it is, even by indie standards.
It's not that I think DD is inherently bad, but it seems like publishers are pushing in that direction for all the wrong reasons. DD should make gaming easier and cheaper for consumers, but in fact it's just making things more profitable and easier to control for publishers...which would be fine except that it's at the cost of our consumer rights.
Given that games release at the SAME PRICE as physical copies, and DRM is becoming more and more restrictive and easy ...
Hmm. I don't understand why the game is scoring as well as it is. The music is undeniably great, but I'm kind of thinking that the people it would appeal to probably already own a good portion of it in one form or another.
Then the actual gameplay is ridiculously standard rhythm stuff.
And then, of course, you have SE already beginning to milk the DLC.
Oh my god. I just realized that everything in my room could be gold...
I don't know what to even say about this. Between this and all the other crap they've been putting us through with d3, my faith in blizzard has really faltered these last months.
Whoa. Didn't mean it like that, fellas. Did you guys seriously bubble me down to three for that?