My one issue is this: if there's an embargo for reviews and review dates, why in the world do you HAVE to give your review right after that? This is not a 4 hour single player game ONLY. It has an online component. Is someone going to fire these guys if they wait and play the multiplayer first? That is the only excuse I will accept for people giving shoddy reviews (I don't care if they're negative or positive, they just HAVE TO BE THOROUGH).
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I'm sure it is, but I didn't want any of the scary parts spoiled either :) I'd like to crap my pants for real instead of going, meh, I've seen it.
Overall I liked the video. I really skipped the single player stuff, because I don't want to spoil it for when I play, but I wanted to see the multiplayer, which is ... interesting. I agree, it probably won't last like CoD, but there really is no chance of that anyway. But it looks fun to try for a couple matches at a time.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I'm not a fan of being able to go prone. I like how it was in Bad Company 2 that you could only duck, not go prone. That kept the sniping to a respectable minimum, while still allowing skilled people to do it with ease. For example, in every other CoD: Black Ops game, I can't go through 1 life without seeing at least 1, and more likely 2 or 3, people prone; they just camp and camp and rack up kills. For me that's not really fun.
This is a surprise? Bashing on ps3 exclusives is almost a national pastime. It's been happening since ... well, since the ps3 came out, and it'll keep happening in the future. There's always a feeling of trying to bring down epic games on the ps3 while trying to raise up mediocre games on ... "other" systems.
Can the xbox 360 handle it technically? Yes, I believe so. It was nothing ground-breaking graphics wise; there's no reason the 360 can't handle it.
Will the 360 users buy it? There will be some sales, so it's a good idea.
Can the 360 userbase "handle" it? i.e. the difficulty? Hmm, as if there's not enough 10 year-old's whining during CoD and Halo, what's going to happen if THIS game comes to the 360? Maybe murders.
Well, rentals are a bit different because the store you rented from bought the game. They paid full price for it, usually, and if enough people rent it they will buy more than 1 copy. So they DID pay something for it to the publisher, so that at least can make you feel a bit better.
@mrcash
C'mon, even you can't believe that argument. I have seen this one line so many times that it makes me wonder if it's a conditioned response. "those people probably weren't going to buy it anyway." No offense, but that is such crap.
Like I said in a comment above, think about it this way: you're saying that if piracy didn't exist ANYWHERE, that the game would have sold 0 more copies than it did? If someone pirates a g...
I hate Activision as much as anyone, and I will never buy another game from them, but that's a dumb way to think about it. All it takes is for one guy to hate some publisher (not even a developer) and they will try to justify pirating their games.
Think about it this way: do you think that Activision will feel much if you pirate their game? If the game is stolen enough times, it will not affect them too much, a company that size; it will just make them pay developers les...
Do you actually believe that if piracy didn't exist, those games would have sold 0 more copies? That what they sold is the exact same number that would have been sold if there were no pirated copies of the games out there, that pirates are just people "on the fence" about which game to buy or play? The popularity argument is very weak.
@AndrewRyan
What do you consider free? Air is free, water is sometimes free (if you get it from a river or something), life/liberty are/should be free, there's not really much else that is free in this world.
Piracy is stealing of someone's work, period. I think everyone and anyone who pirates something should go to jail for it. We live in a messed up time where people collect pirated software to compete with other people's pirated software, like...
What you said is true, but the question was whether Gears 3 will be the saving grace on the 360 for hardcore gamers, not whether it will be able to compete solely against the entire ps3 lineup. I believe that is IS a saving grace, because so far MS has not promised much on the system that will appeal to hardcore fans (as far as exclusives).
I for one can't wait for this game. This is the gears game that 2 should have been (dedicated servers -> NO LAG).
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The one good thing about this article is knowing this generic site's reviews are not used on metacritic.
Completely agree. The last FF I played was XII, and it was the most boring game I had played in years. I know a lot people might have liked it, but it felt like playing an MMO ... alone.
Now I just wonder who the hell is even still working at Square and if they are being whipped into releasing cookie-cutter title after title. I feel bad that I don't like their games anymore because I played almost everyone until XII. But for me, they just haven't made a good game in ...
The only thing wrong with your logic is you (or someone with your same mindset) will make fun of EA (even though as you said the PC version is completely superior and great) for putting the game at $60 when call of duty or starcraft, etc. are at the same price and people will buy those up without complaint.
I don't understand some people's arguments about one company who does it (i.e. EA) when another (i.e. Activision) can get away with it so easily. CoD is the same r...
Vanquish for ps3 and 360: it was MAYBE a 5 hour game through the story. It had GREAT graphics, good ideas, pitiful dialog and story though, but it was a fun game. But $60 for that?
Like you said, they will continue to offer games for that price, if not more, because people will buy them. And if they don't, publishers would rather the development studios go under than lower the price point under 60 (i.e. you should have made a better game that sold more copies). Games lik...
What was actually wrong with the pc version for Dead Space 1? I have it (from the EA store, not steam or anything, so I don't have to worry about any steam issues), and besides the silly mouse lag issue (which is not really mouse LAG, it's basically the exact copy of the 360/ps3 version so the mouse moves slower like in those games) which is easily fixed if you search online (but it makes it easy, so you have to ramp up the difficulty level to compensate), the game is perfect. It has ...
I think they'll ban consoles, but they might wait. They'll wait until there's a good number of them going online, then ban them all at once. If they tip their hand now, then hackers will just come up with something better and they'll have to work on it all over again.
Of course, this is just wishful thinking. If it was me, I'd put every game/movie, etc. pirate in jail.
The only thing I really hate that you mentioned is the save games which can't be copied. Everything else is either also on the 360 or I don't see as such a problem (I have no issue with the xmb, updates are a GOOD thing, and BC is not on every ps3, so it's not that big of an issue).
Talk about stating the obvious.
New Patcher claim: "It's cold in the winter."