Lol, that was my first thought too. So much time and so little accomplished.
This feels like both a subtle admission that SE knows they failed this gen and an affirmation that they fully intend to keep failing next. He talks about how "some developers" do badly one gen, then wait around for the next to start fresh. Since that next gen never showed up, "some developers" went looking elsewhere and helped develop iOS and web games, and now don't want t...
Lol, judging from the likes/dislikes, someone on this board is unhappy with Telltale and not saying anything. I'm with the guys above, Telltale's The Walking Dead is doing a great job capturing the feel and atmosphere of the show. Can't say whether its doing the comics justice or not, but they're great games and I can't wait for Ep3.
As for Activision's involvement...meh, I won't write it off because that'd be close-minded, but their track re...
Where are you based that the game costs $50? I bought it off Steam for $30 the day it came out. Australia maybe? /=[
You were very polite to JellyJelly, so kudos, but JJ was making a joke about the fact that MW3 and MW2 have the same engine. Yes, this is in MW3, but having played 100+ hours of MW2, this looks identical. The engine hasn't changed a bit. That's not necessarily a problem, it's just funny there have been no graphical improvements to the series in three years.
@Tsuru: Um, I'm not sure what you're arguing here? Isn't playing alone online the equivalent to playing single player offline? So Blizzard thinking ahead and developing an offline mode for "playing alone" wouldn't have helped the issues?
What scares me is the thought that Nintendo thought what they showed on stage was the best of the bunch. If those were the money beets, I'm a little nervous about what the rest of these titles look like.
Or, I suppose Nintendo might have just felt like touting their own software (even if that meant showing 4 Mario games) and forgot they had decent third-party titles like Rayman to show off instead.
Nintendo are kind of perpetrating this misunderstanding though. Every time they speak about Wii U, what do they do? They show videos of the controller and all the great gimmicks it comes with. They haven't shown what the console itself looks like at all, and barely touched on the fact that it has different/better specs than a standard Wii. If I wasn't a gamer, and I watched the conference, I'd be thinking Wii U was a tablet peripheral to the Wii as well; that's the way the...
@Betrayed Game: how could you be missing Mario? He has multiple games per year on each Nintendo platform, doesn't he?
I was shocked too. I'm a big Sony fan and was excited about hearing about Wii U, but Ubisoft (Flo Rida silliness aside) was the best show to me.
Judging from the disagrees here and above, at least one person has a giraffe neck themselves and finds this offensive.
@Endersproject Lol, yeah, I don't get the disagrees. The $99 XBox has been in the rumor mill for a while now, and this is the time to show it. Although as much as we've heard about it, that won't be much of a surprise in and of itself unless it comes with cable or something.
Yeah, Gears fans rejoice, though all these leaks are taking the anticipation out of the MS conference for me. Are Gears and (maybe) Alan Wake 2 the only surprises they had up their sleeves, because we all know about those now. What's the big surprise supposed to be for 2012 now?
Forget the hair, what happened to her neck? /=|
Yep. I've said it once and I'll say it again and again if I have to: artists rely on patrons to pay for their art, and gamers are developer's patrons. Art is either for yourself, or for someone else (commissioned), so you're either pleasing yourself for no money or trying to please a consumer.
Bioware is a GREAT developer, and I'm glad I've supported them in the past. They flubbed the ending (imho), and my faith was shaken. If they successfully enh...
@WrAiTh I don't think it would've made the cover of Game Informer if it was DLC; maybe a "should have been DLC" like Halo: ODST, but it'll be a full $60 game guaranteed.
As for the reveal: really? Another year of "Halo, Gears, Kinect, and Xbox-is-awesome-goodnight-folk s!" hype? They've been doing the same show for three years it feels like.
The title isn't the whole story though. Zimbardo says they cause these things BECAUSE they condition us to need immediate gratification, and that work, school, and girlfriends require time and thus become undesirable. I'd have to read his book to be certain, but his argument assumes that our preferences in entertainment are what drive us; it's strongly debatable from a psychology standpoint since he's presuming the needs for companionship, financial security, or personal gro...
Alright, as a summary for the TLDR crowd, Zimbardo and the co-author say video games (and porn) condition us to expect immediate gratification; since schoolwork (studying to get a degree to get a good job) and relationships (talking to flirting to dating to bedroom) both require patience to see a payoff, gamers tend to avoid or fail at both. Furthermore, he cites Annual Review of Public Health research linking video games to aggressive behavior, and cites the Anders Behring Breivik massacre ...
"It's art, they shouldn't have to change it." Well, you're right, they don't HAVE to. We have no legal right to demand any changes, nor do they have any moral obligation to fulfill our expectations. Artist have the right to create whatever they want and call it art, but the public has the right to criticize and refuse to patron any art they think is bad. Bioware's fans bought the game, said "we hate this art and want you to do something different," ...
I doubt it. PC gaming is still going pretty strong, and they haven't had used games in years.
@gaffy He says straight up he wants consoles with "easier" architecture, and the PS3 was, according to a lot of devs, the hardest to develop for. I'm not saying your wrong, they SHOULD have taken regional console sales and fan support into account, but if we'd known this was his philosophy from the beginning we could have predicted just about every blunder that company has made this gen.