If you think the 360 flopped, then you need to put the PS3 right next to it. I honestly think neither deserves to be on this list, but don't let that stop you from earning that paycheck from Sony's marketing division.
@Apocalypse Shadow: The bias is unbearable. PS3 copied Xbox Live Achievements... and they even did it poorly. Plus, they had a whole year to implement their trophies to launch with the system, and 5they failed to. Meanwhile, Achievements still ranks as one of t...
...right. Film grain, good. Clear picture, bad.
This is why I hate AV nerds. I like HD as much as anyone, but when you are skewing the features that make an image pop, like dejudder, you know you have been listening to some principled asshole who thinks his ideals of a "preserved" image trump what actually looks good.
I went through the same thing as Bravo. I got my Battlestar Galactica Blu-ray set, and the first thing I saw was a disclaimer that the fi...
If they think Vista was a bigger flop than Windows ME, they must not have used ME. It was a nightmare.
Profit should still be the defining factor. If you would allow me to oversimplify, you spend $60 million on making the game, and you sell a million (at $60 each), you break even. That's not a success. If you spend $500,000 and you sell a million, that's a huge success.
We have this concept of best that only serves the backwards logic of fanboys, but the reality of the situation is very different. We don't need to inflate the "success number" to exclude deserving gam...
True. Halo is immensely important to Xbox.
I love Halo. It did a lot to define MY decade of gaming...
BUT I'm not about to claim it's the most important game in a DECADE. I think it did some important things and brought some important innovations to the genre, and it might be the most important if you want to look at total sales of the entire series. But I'm not about to pretend it satisfies all the potential measures of "most important", and I would ne...
Honestly, I'm not so sure there is a viable "Best" criteria here. They both look great in some ways that the other comes up a hair short.
Of course, those with a bias towards the incumbent GT series will probably continue their pigheaded drive.
I, on the other hand, secure in the fact that I HATE simulation driving games, care not...
It has an HD player. It's just not Blu-ray. And no, I'm not talking about the HD-DVD drive. That's just dead in the water. I'm talking about the 1080p, instant-on streaming.
Which works. Believe it or not.
Ok, so Sony selling more than Microsoft for a handful of months is cause for dancing in the street, but Microsoft's success invokes reminders of how far in the hole they are?
Let's start talking about how Sony squandered their amazing profits from PS1 and PS2 developing a septuple-core processor that most developers without a red-telephone-hotline to Sony have trouble with? They are aren't exactly in the black either.
Agree w/Remember:
No need to bash the PS3 on this. As long as Sony can maintain their humility and not stumble headlong into a pit again, I look forward to seeing what they accomplish. It's not about who wins and loses... it's about a healthy market and gaming ecosystem.
Commercial betas do nothing to help the game, bug-wise.
People talk about how MW2 should have had a beta. Oh it did... an internal beta with a handful of people. Not the unwashed masses. And at the same time, who's to say that the people who find the best hacks are going to share and get them patched? Isn't it to their advantage to find a glitch and be the only one who knows how to exploit it?
Just more hate for a good game.
And what's wrong with being "noob friendly"? Not everyone is a super-human pro-gamer. Do you really want to whittle the market down until it's just one person who is the most uber-hardcore?
Think of it this way: without being noob friendly, who is there to shoot? Do you really want to exclude the people who are worse than you?
I have my doubts about the validity of the whole thing. I mean... ALL the categories were decided in an ONLINE POLL! You know for a fact that fanboys love to game those polls to validate their beliefs.
I'm not going to diminish UC2's achievement (err...trophy), but how do we know game studios aren't stuffing the ballot box?
And how the hell did Batman end up with such a prominent placement. It was good... but not as good as these awards would indicate.
Funny how people don't seem to get it. This software development stuff.
MW2 is a very popular game, so there are MILLIONS of people analyzing the game, looking for any cheat. I might grant that many of these glitches could have been avoided, but come on. Do you really think a public "beta" would have helped? You know people who get into betas are more interested in bragging about that fact than they are about helping test the game. And who's to say an enterprising ...
@Pillage05:
So, you wouldn't ban people for exploiting the game online and ruining everyone else's good time, but you would ban for glitching a totally meaningless rank system, perhaps for trophies?
I think protecting the people playing the game is more important than protecting the experience system.
So, wait a second... as long as they give the game YOU, Saaking, think should get it, it's right and they are "redeemed"? I'm not going to argue that UC2 is a good game. To win the GOTY in any publication, you have to be good. You hear that: Uncharted 2 is GOOD!
But EVERYONE knows you are the biased, token PS3 fanboy. You show up in ANY remotely relevant post to give services to Sony you should probably send them an invoice for... and at worse, services they should...
Regarding Spartan reproduction, one of the female Spartans retired and had a family. If I understand correctly, they didn't modify their DNA, so the child would be a normal, average human child.
If you read a few of the books, you will realize they are practically male. They themselves are military hardware, so not a lot of fem left.
Look at Nicole from DOA4. She looks and feels consistent with what most of us expect from Fem-Spartans in Reach.
Bayonetta is on my short list right now because the demo was fun. And if a game has a bad demo, I'll skip it, right there.
Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I need to explain to some of you. "Fun" is the reason you play. For some of you, you think it means "cinematic" or "immersive". In fact, for some of the best games in history, immersion and graphics have little to nothing to do with it.
I was somewhere between lukewarm and hot on MGS4. Certainly worth playing. I won't argue that.
I was ice-cold on that piece of sh!t multiplayer, though.
MGS4: The microwave tunnel was... ehh... ok. There were better parts of the game to look at... like the fight between two Metal Gears, or the fight on top of the sub. You know... parts that had real gameplay to hold them up, rather than overwrought Snake nuking.