@ Catfrog, I fully agree with you and was going to post something very similar. A digital future leaves the consumer with no rights.
I agree with what this article is saying. I'm a collector myself and like having physical copies of what I buy. I like knowing that in ten years time I can dig out an old game, dust it off, boot it up and enjoy some old times.
I have an android tablet with Kindle on it and do download and read eBooks, but like the writer ...
I love Nintendo, but you have to admit that they made a lot of business this gen by managing to attract that particularly large group of consumers that are always chasing after the next 'Big Thing.' The problem is that once these consumers no longer consider the Wii the next big thing, they drop it like an old hat. This is why sales have been dropping so dramatically.
Hopefully Nintendo will use the money they made this gen to try to strike a better balance between...
In the U.S. it is legal to buy used games and I don't think that MS or Sony should have the right to play the government by deciding what's legal or not, nor should they be allowed to play the police and enforce their own laws.
That said, what really bugs me about these rumors if they are true is that I enjoy buying and playing old games. Once a system becomes obsolete, buying games used is usually the only way to get games for it. If these rumors do turn out to be ...
I'm not a fan of the series, so I didn't buy ME3, but from what I've heard from other gamers, is the Bioware lost because they lied.
What bothers me is that gamers are being called whiners because they're unhappy at being cheated. If anything, I commend the gamers who had the guts to stand up to being cheated. (However this doesn't mean I condone those who went too far and started harassing Bioware.)
I grew up on adventure games and still enjoy them. I have noticed that they have been returning lately. It's like with the 2d side scroller, people are starting to realize that just because something new comes out, it doesn't mean that the old has to die.
I guess I'm guilty, my phone is made by Apple, but that's about it. Oh and I have an Apple IIc and a Mackintosh LC in my closet somewhere, guess you could count them too.
Though I'm a PC gamer, I have no interest in standing up to play games. I could see it handy for monitoring your head movements to change the view in racing games and flight simulators, but there are already cheaper devices out there that will do the same thing.
No real gamer would consider a console dead just because it's successor was released. I still buy and play NES, SNES and Genesis carts regularly. Even though I have a PS3 and Wii hooked up to my entertainment center, I also keep a PS2 hooked up which I still game on quite regularly. This is also why real gamers want backward compatibility.
Anyone who considers a console dead just because it's successor came out is gaming for the wrong reason.
I agree, I'm in no hurry for the next generation of consoles. Besides that, when a console is first released most games are all graphics and little else. It usually takes a year or more for the really good games to start coming out. I'll probably wait at least a year after release before getting any next gen system, unless of course half the rumors I've been hearing about next gen are true, then I may just op to skip next gen and stick with the PC.
The one exce...
I have an Android tablet and while it's great as an ereader and wonderful for picking up and reading the local news while I drink my morning tea, but as a gaming device, it's terrible. Trying to play games while holding a big clumsy tablet in my hands is just not my idea of fun at all.
Maybe that's just me though as my brother-in-law plays games on his android tablet all the time, but on the other hand he's more of a casual gamer.
"Quite simply, Sony would be taking away consumer choice...."
Actually they wouldn't be, consumers will still have the choice not to buy Sony's product, which is exactly what I'll choose to do if this turns out to be true.
Looks fun to me, I like games with a retro look. I don't own an Xbox, but if I did, I'd grab it.
If done right it aught to make a pretty good game. I've always been under the impression that Adventure Time took a lot of inspiration from old CRPGs, you know the ones where you would go adventuring in a fantasy dungeon accompanied by a magical pet companion.
I recently purchased Shantae for the iPhone and it is a lot of fun, so I can say that they certainly do make good platformers, but given the choice, I'd rather see Adventure Time as an action RPG, as it seems l...
I didn't like Jade Cocoon, but Grandia was my favorite RPG on the PSX. It never received a worthy sequel, though the third game came close to being one. Breath of Fire was a wonderful series too until they completely destroyed it with that awful excuse for a game they released on the PS2.
Here are a few game series I'd love to see revived;
1. Grandia
2. Breath of Fire
3. Suikoden
4. Earthbound
I'd like to see FF...
Personally I thought Drake was pretty annoying myself, but not nearly as much as his buddy Sully. But that's just my opinion, just like this article is someone else's opinion. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean you have to insult them, that's pretty immature.
I'm under the impression that most developers think gamers are idiots regardless of whether they're core or casual.
MS is the one that needs to watch out. If PC gamers don't like it, they'll just stay with older OSes which developers will be forced to support if they want their games to sell well. That's why currently most games still support XP. If Valve's numbers are to be believed, then somewhere around 40% to 45% of PC gamers still prefer Windows XP over 7.
I use and game on both Xp and 7, and from personal experience consider XP to be the more stable of the two, so ...
It's not just the developers and publishers that are concerned. I think a lot of gamers are concerned too. Besides lack of innovation and costs, another thing that bothers me is the way DRM is getting more and more invasive on the consoles. Though I am a PC gamer at heart, I have been doing a lot of gaming on the consoles this generation to avoid the draconian DRM nonsense that is flooding the PC market, but if things are going to get just as bad on the console front, I'm wondering...
The iPad is a nice piece of tech and I wouldn't mind having one as an eReader, but it's way too expensive to compete as a mainstream gaming platform. Most people who buy it are probably doing so for other reasons than gaming and gaming on it as a bonus. This is probably why most games for it so far are shovel-ware casual games with only a trickle of truly worthwhile games available.
To say that it's about graphics to all gamers is pretty untrue. In actuality it's more of a division than a unity. I've noticed that there is basically the gameplay camp and the graphics camp.
It's easy to tell who's from which camp. For instance, those who are in the graphics camp will say things like they're only interested in the newest game systems and care nothing for the old ones. They're the ones that always defend their systems and game...