there is no standard anymore.
journalists slap around 10 scores like it's nobody's business.
Edge is totally entitled to their opinion, but i think we've already established over the course of the last 4 years that their opinion is worthless.
Bayonetta is certainly not a terrible game. it's in the same vein as Devil May Cry, but if Bayonetta is a 10/10, then i can't imagine what games that push the genre FORWARD have to be scored.
and if peo...
Jaffe had a hand in creating Mickey Mania on the SNES and Genesis, one of the best Mickey Mouse games ever, as well as the Twisted Metal series and the awesome and criminally underrated War of the Monsters. God of War is the series that put his name on the map, however.
Jaffe can say whatever the f*ck he wants because he lives in a free country. if you don't agree with what he has to say, you are totally and truly free to do that as well.
i find it funny that when a ...
Jaffe is (working in the video game industry is NOT all fun and games; no pun intended...i think), i can see how a simple, relaxing, yet incredibly gorgeous game like flower would be his personal choice for game of the year.
on an artistic level, the game is beautiful. on a technical level, the way they implemented their grass physics is quite impressive.
i still play flower every once in a while when i'm trying to relax at the end of the night, before bed. it's surp...
that every major PS3 game's previews are always about why the game will annoy or irritate you in some way.
seriously, look at the pre-release coverage of games like Uncharted, LBP, Killzone 2 (especially that one), Resistance 2, inFAMOUS, etc, etc, and so many of them are about how the game will either "disappoint," "not live up to the hype," "not justify the cost of the PS3," "not be fresh or innovative, therefore not worth the time - by the wa...
but at work, i work with the Xbox 360 more than the PS3.
at the end of the day, i find Xbox LIVE easier to work with because i think it's a bit more integrated into the Xbox 360 DNA than the PSN is to the PS3 DNA.
HOWEVER, paying to access my internet connection to play online is retarded, and if online play was available to Silver members, i'd use my 360 to play online.
as it stands, why pay when the PS3 offers practically 95% of the features LIVE does,...
but since i have a fully BC PS3, i'm gonna go with PS3 as the best console of the decade. lol. i get the best of 3 worlds! PS1 classics like FF Tactics, Castlevania: SOTN, MGS, etc. i get PS2 classics like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, MGS3, etc. and i get now PS3 classics like LBP, Uncharted series, and MGS4.
so yeah, thank you PS2 for being so awesome, and thank you BC PS3 for being able to play those awesome PS2 games.
even though the genre is familiar, what Naughty Dog did in terms of graphics, storytelling, characterization, and level design (ie, the train level and it's physics/feel) has never been accomplished in console games before. there were a lot of great games released this year, but Uncharted 2 was hands down the best.
my personal top 10 games of the past decade would be:
10) GTA Series (III, Vice City, and San Andreas of course)
9) Prince of Persia Trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, and Two Thrones)
8) Knights of the Old Republic Series
7) Sly Cooper Series
6) Ratchet and Clank Series
5) Metal Gear Solid Series
4) God of War Series
3) inFAMOUS (that series is going to blow up with part 2)
2) Uncharted Series
1) Ico and Shadow of the Co...
that sounds like a plan...as long as you don't run me off the road in that "death proof" car of yours...
i recently pre-ordered it at my game store along with White Knight Chronicles, and Heavy Rain is slated for a February 16th release. White Knight Chronicles was slated for February 2nd.
i'm extremely excited about both. i feel like playing Indigo Prophecy again as a refresher before Heavy Rain.
it was 3rd party, from Ubisoft and Free Radical.
Sony had nothing to do with the development of Haze.
Lair wasn't a bad game either, it just suffered from a lack of refined controls. by the time i beat the game, however, i was a Dragon flying master.
in truth, outside of Lair, and maybe Genji (which only suffered from a poorly implemented camera, because the actual game play was fun), most of the real 1st and 2nd party PS3 titles have been quality.
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games since i got my hands on an NES at age 6 in 1985, and i am still a single player and co-op gamer to this day.
i prefer single player games, because i just don't care much for competitive mp. don't get me wrong, i most certainly had a ball with Warhawk, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and Uncharted 2 competitive MP, but i don't have the desire to put in the hours that the more hardcore MP gamers do. i don't care about joining in clans, or competing in tournaments, i just want to pl...
i don't care. i have BC PS3.
it's not my fault that people b*tched so much about the price of the PS3 during it's first 3 years on the market that Sony had to make some cuts to unnecessary features like BC.
if i had a PS3 Slim, i'd most certainly miss BC. but i DON'T have a PS3 Slim.
i figured i'd like to go back and play PS2 games at some point while owning a PS3, and instead of keeping my PS2 hooked up to my HDTV, i opted to spend the extra dough on a ...
i REALLY wish the gaming media would stop with this BS.
Dante's Inferno is certainly fun. i wasn't going to buy it until i played the demo, but it's NO God of War 3.
it felt more like God of War 1 than God of War 3.
the reason why GoW3 is so good is because it's the third iteration of the franchise. Santa Monica studio was able to take what they've learned over 2 previous GoW games and improve upon it.
Dante's Inferno is the first in this ne...
how many PC owners can go out, pick up Crysis, an run it the way it's meant to be run?
to actually enjoy Crysis the way it's meant to be enjoyed (that is, maximum specs), you need a pretty monster PC. certainly more than a $300 console.
now, on the flip side, how many PS3 owners can go out, pick up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and run it the way it's meant to be run?
100% of them.
that, to me, is what puts Uncharted 2 above Crysis.
lucky me...
i don't play sales. i play games.
i will be playing The Last Guardian when it releases.
i see he conveniently overlooked the fact that Ico's successor, Shadow of the Colossus, sold over 500,000 units and landed on the Playstation Greatest Hits line (reserved for games that sell 500,00o\0-1,000,000 or more).
but, whatever, people will continue to downplay Playstation 3 exclusives until the end of this generation, apparently.
as long as the qu...
you do know that EVERY game is targeting a specific audience, right?
not everybody likes FPS, or Action/Adventure, or RPGs, or Sandbox, or Multi-player, etc, etc.
the point of a proper console is to have a broad range of titles that appeal to a large variety of gamers with unique individual tastes.
it's something that the Playstation brand has been very good at the past 15 years.
if i had to recommend games for a new PS owner, i'd suggest: ...
but that video cracked me up.
the lyrics were so spot on, and the chorus was catchy.
the only people complaining are those that are butthurt that Modern Warfare 2 got shown up something fierce by Uncharted 2.
there were a lot of great games this year, but Uncharted 2 simply shone above them all.
i found it ironic that so many of the things people were wowed with in Uncharted 2 were the same things they ignored when evaluating Uncharted 1 (li...
certain individuals proclaiming that if the Playstation 3 was as powerful as the Xbox 360, where were the games that looked as good as Gears of War?
fastforward to games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, and Uncharted 2, and people are STILL refusing to admit that the PS3 is capable of producing phenomenal visuals.
however, the shoe is now on the other foot. the Xbox 360 has been out a year longer than the Playstation 3, and is easier to develop for.
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