Just a small town girl ...
Yes, because when I think "gritty realism," I think The Legend of Zelda.
Nintendo also announced today that the DS is close to reaching "Gender Harmony", with 47% of DS units sold last year purchased by girls, 50% bought by guys, and 3% that just aren't sure.
Yeah ... turns out there's white people in Africa.
Sorry, Viewtiful. ;)
I've always wondered why so many games feature a white, rich, American hero. I actually just did a paper on white patriarchal capitalism continuing to dominate the "ideal" in Hollywood films. Say what you will about Tomb Raider, but Lara is still important as long as she breaks down that barrier for women in lead gaming roles.
I don't mean to point fingers, but let's face it ... being a white, comfortable, American male is what everybody seems to assume is the best situ...
If Capcom revived Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and put a machine next to Steet Fighter IV cabinets, they could single-handedly revive the American arcade.
You hear me Capcom? I WANT MY ARCADE BACK!
In a related story, the Pope does, in fact, s*** in the woods.
It's hard to sell a game when it comes attached to an internet full of wolverines ... no matter how good it is.
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"The ratings are voluntary."
Also, the enforcement of those ratings have been voluntary by each retailer so far.
Sometimes I react to sentences I read before reading the next ones too. It's ok ... it happens to all of us. :)
You're damned right it's unnecessary, and a giant pain in the ass.
Good on ya, Ron Carmel.
P.S. Mr. Carmel, your last name makes me hungry.
GTA has a place on every console. Frankly, I'm surprised Nintendo didn't license a GTA game sooner, and I hope they do more in the future.
As far as competing on the DS, though, it's hard for me to see GTA as a failure at #6 when it's up against the likes of Pokemon and other similarly GIGANTIC DS titles. Just the fact Chinatown Wars made the top 10 is impressive in my book.
I mean, seriously, how did the games industry get so boring overnight? We didn't have any trouble finding interesting stuff last week ...
You know, the most incredible thing happened the other day. I was in an electronics store, and they had Wii's on the shelf. Right there, plain as day.
Poor Nintendo.
It really doesn't help when you have all kinds of lines being blurred between news and speculative entertainment.
Sometimes it feels like integrity has just been thrown out the window by some of these major news corps in the interest of gaining viewers by any yellow-journalistic means necessary.
CNBC? Fox? CNN? If they'd stop pretending that what they do is journalism, it wouldn't be so bad.
Count me in!
I never understood the hatred for Vin Diesel. He knows as well as I do that his movies are awful in the most awesome way possible.
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I have to disagree ... RE5's controls completely turned me off to it.
I could move and shoot at the same time way back in Oregon Trail, but not RE5? There's a lot wrong with that.
Now Valve ... THERE's a company that knows their audience.
In RE5, you can't shoot and move at the same time.
In Oregon Trail for the Apple IIe, you could.
Get it together, Capcom.
I knew Thompson was gonna try something like this in Utah.
I didn't expect it to go over so one-sided, but I suppose some accountability for retailers isn't such a bad thing.
At least he's not trying to get stuff pulled from shelves this time.
Does anybody else want to see Kratos time-warp to the 30's and play a gritty, trench-coat-wearing, hard-boiled detective with a weakness for brunettes and bourbon?