Okay, lets break down his comparisons.
Number one - "As disparate as Wii Fit and Heavy Rain are, at their core they are about personal investment" - what does that mean, "personal investment". Does it mean you have to invest your time to play it (every game pretty much does). Do you have to let yourself become immersed in the game (every game aims for this). Do you have to sacrifice a bit of your humanity at the start screen (no you don't.)
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Read the first sentence of my reply idiot.
I did, and it's dumb. His points make no sense. That's all there is too it. The games are not similar, at all.
You can make anything sound similar if you simplify it enough.
Wii fit was created solely because of America's (and other countries too, but fatass nation #1 was obviously the main one) obsession with losing weight the imaginary way, easily. It was made because it would obviously be very popular.
Heavy Rain is the exact opposite, it's venturing into unknown territory. Will it sell or be successful? who the hell knows. we'll see. Everyone knew that wii fit would sell ...
She's packing one hell of a chin, damn. I wonder what the kid looks like?
What if you don't have a hard drive? Then there is disk swapping. So Forza certainly didn't get around it for everyone.
And if were going by sales to determine who's on top, then the wii obviously wins. Now if you want to judge the consoles based on their games, then its an open discussion.
If some of you guys would use your brains you'd realize why he made that statement. Not to flaunt the game as being so great that failure would result in apocalypse (Denis Dyack approach), but to recognize that he game industry is very stale right now. Lots of developers making shooters, only because they are nearly guaranteed to be profitable. If heavy rain is successful, developers may begin to start thinking that with creativity and some support with a good publisher, like Sony or Microsof...
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Awesome game. Massively underrated. It's nice to see a shooter that requires brains to be successful.
I don't know, I could go for a few less texans in the world.
Some gamer's get very lonely...
Its not scheduled maintenance unless it's announced ahead of time.
Your overrating it massively with that statement. Mass Effect 2 isn't the first game to have a world impacted by the player. Not by a fanboy's wildest dream. Not saying it's bad, but it's hardly revolutionary. And it doesn't have to be either.
He complained that the game has a lot of technical issues that don't really show up until you turn up the difficulty.
Read the story, then make a smartass comment.
Ya this is the problem with the human race. not the racism, war, or famine, but someone having a wow wedding.
This guy thinks that Microsoft has come up with artificial intelligence smart enough to respond to whatever you say appropriately and in context with the story, and to then - without the need of a voice recording, mind you - speak the procedurally generated dialog back to you.
Something that the worlds most gifted scientists have been working on for years and years, and have yet to come close to, even with clusters of supercomputers costing billions.
Hype trains a r...
Anyone who thinks vanilla tastes better than chocolate is a moron. There I said it, and because I am the greatest human mind ever seen by this world, so sayeth myself and I, I can proclaim whatever I want and call anyone who opposes me inferior.
Ignorance is bliss.
Kavet, do you know what they are trying to show? Procedural generation. Those interiors are basically randomly generated, so no developer spent any time on them. It makes development faster and cheaper.
And its a tech demo. They don't really care bout the graphics. That's not what they want to show off.
Ubi didn't wait two years to release a finished game. It was scrapped or majority rehauled, or something similar to that.
Ken, jack and Peter all need to be taken off that list. Add Dyack, whoever the current Sony Euro guy is, and that Ninja Gaiden jackass.