Interesting note: We're actually nearing the 120th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island."
I seriously don't understand this fixation of calling an adventure FPS an "Uncharted rip-off" or an "Uncharted wannabe." There's no patience to discover what possible new ideas the game may contain.
The reason I typically refrained from typical male/female body types in past posts about this was...simply because you have a point. The variation of 10/10, unrealistic male body types is pretty darn close to unbelievable female body types (although the variation in males characters can be absurdly different). Through some of my past comments on your feminist blogs, I've tried to show why it's not a problem for guys like us, like it is for women:
- In Part 1, I show...
I was going to post to say I disagree with the assessment of its quality, but like your ideas. I suppose the nuanced gameplay was the aspect that constantly stuck out to me as the weakness.
Bioware has the most successful sci-fi franchise of all time, creates entire new worlds with breathtaking scale, a jaw-dropping amount of voice talent, and yet still only wants to employ a few variations to the same formula? As much as I love the game, there could have been so much mor...
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Before any discussion takes place, I want to reaffirm the notion that nobody is infallible when it comes to the misuse of the term "clone." I actually fouled up with this recently when it came to All-Stars Battle Royale. I only saw the announcement, a few facts, and a video impression and I already jumped on the "copying Super Smash Bros. bandwagon" (one of my most played series). Soon after that, I was corrected by other...
If it's essentially the 3D take of a $0.99 iOS game, maybe the reviewer doesn't think that concept should be charged for 800 MS Points ($10) as the starting price.
Yes, RE 2 + 3 were re-released for the gamecube, but they didn't receive a cosmetic makeover like REmake.
Article: "I wanted to compile a list of what I thought was the top five best call of duty maps from Call of Duty 4 and on."
With a title like "of all time" I expected to see at least one map from the CoD WWII era. There are especially some under-appreciated maps in CoD3 (DLC had a few awesome designs).
I beseech thee, o merciful admin, avatar of cheerful demeanor and eyes like that of black obsidian, to impart one of these alpha codes to such a hapless poster as me.
No, surely even the menial task of PMing me a code is too much to ask of this undeserving wretch. How could I have thought Cat would relinquish digits worth more than all of King Midus' gold to me?
Woe is me in this time of anticipation!
4J's response to map size question: "We do intend to look at that longer term."
I think the problem that's been developing with the industry is some sort of "the year it could have been syndrome" (<-name soon to be registered by the Amer. Psy. Assoc. :P). At the beginning, we announce the games we're most hyped for and typically see them get pushed through to next year:
-Last of Us
-Last Guardian
-Bioshock: Infinite
-etc.
(*Some of those didn't have a solid 2012 release date planned, but ...
From the compliments I heard from the co-op (probably inspired by Resistance 2), it sounds like it deserves to have a decent community for a long time.
"With the original Alan Wake game on the XBox360 being referred to as ToS's Game of the Year 2010, . . ."
I like these guys already. XD
1.) Yes, I did notice the updated outline on her kickstarter page and I still don't see how that, and her recorded bias, is enough for anyone to attack ANY argument that has yet to be made. Whether it is an outright assault or not is irrelevant to my point. It's unfair to preemptively state "any of these problems stated in my blog are only your fault" towards her (and others) when none of her points have yet to be carefully articulated.
I'm not trying...
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1.) I'm sorry, but I don't see how that gives you grounds to preemptively create 2 projects against her debate when only the outline of her argument has been released. That's basically the same thing as judging a 12-page (a vid ='s a page in this instance) body + conclusion by only reading the general outline of an APA-styled research paper.
I'm not saying you don't/won't have concrete counterpoints, only attesting ...
The reason I applauded the now Part 1 of this feminism rant is how I construed the crux of your complaint against Sarkeesian: you mention your sisters and compare and contrast the feminist movement of old to now, which in turn produces a chance for a rousing discussion regarding that with other posters. Perhaps this kickstarter project could act as some sort of poison for "new-feminists" using political correctness, among other complaints, in the gaming-sphere for their own persona...
"Did I say you couldn't believe/read/play what you want? Nope."
True, you didn't say the community couldn't do what they pleased; however, you did specify that game creators should "keep religion out of my games."
The problem in using the "off-chance they'll get pregnant LATER so let's give them (on average) 15%-20% less than what men make NOW" excuse, which I still fail to see why anyone would think this a legitimate reason, is that women's median weekly earnings actually shows a wider disparity to men's median as they reach those menopause and retirement years.
The chart is about a 1/5 down the page:
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You're just giving it that to drop the its average on metacritic.
Tuxedo_Mask is right in stating that God has been in videogames before; in fact, I just bought El Shaddai a few weeks ago, which is loosely based on the non-canon Book of Enoch. But I understand the spirit of this discussion is essentially asking if God should be more prominent in games as the main drive behind the game's story. Personally, I'm a bit hesitant in jumping on board an idea like that when other works are more captivating to the observer when they attempt to "find&q...
I wanted to personally point out that the "antagonist" part at the end, among discussing other facets of the argument, has been clarified by DragonKnight (blogger, if you didn't know :P) through PM.