Asking this question on N4G is like asking a dog if he likes bacon.
Perception management. He who controls what you see and hear controls what you think.
Yeah, you don't have to go back that far - American invasions of Panama, Haiti, Grenada, Lebanon, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Timor... All in last twenty years.
And that's not including the nations we bombed or destabilized, like Syria, Serbia and Sudan.
hmm a third person game where you shoot zombies in a shadowy subway station. With a flashlight.
Gordon freeman looks up from his whiskey and gently shakes his head.
Honestly what is the big deal about this game?
we need more gameplay in games to elevate the medium.
Why bother 'elevating' to the level of mediums which many people find irrelevant...
You cannot put true 'drama' in most games. Angry birds with deep emotional attachment? Mass effect with a heart rending scene involving disabled kids and heroin?
You drop anything more than $299/$350 on the next PS console you are a fool.
this is nothing new, companies do this all the time to pump up prices.
It must be really hard for some people to watch their childhood icons screw up so badly... look to tomorrow, I say.
Yeah that mud brown color palette from GoW is so appealing.
If you have an 'art department' or an 'art director', then you ain't creating art.
Games are light consumer entertainment. Just because you dump all your time into it and imagine that they are the biggest and mostest awesome thing ever, does not change the fact that they are disposable products tailored to demographic expectations.
If you define games as art, then you must also define the packaging for a thirty count frozen pork rib slab ...
Internet 'journalism' is all about clickthrough ads and viewers.
Sites owned by absolute human garbage who would write articles praising Hitler if they thought it would get hits.
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Look at the most successful properties in gaming right now and re-evaluate that post.
I have a blu ray player in my PC and I never use it since everything I watch/play is from 'da cloud'.
Game journalism does not exist.
All we have are paid PR schills for game companies, or human garbage trolling for hits on their awful website with empty articles.
I am sure there are legit journos out there, just don't see any. Just see paid placement and soft sells of trash product that has less and less depth and gameplay every year, to the point where low budget PC titles from fifteen years ago look good.
And while we are at it, let's recast all blockbuster Hollywood movies with short, dumpy women with no figure but great personalities.
Are you serious?
Xbox gave domestic developers a platform. Xbox live invigorated the indie scene. HALO was being developed as a PC game, and Msoft chose it as their flagship launch title.
If it wasn't for a US company entering the console market, gaming would have stagnated - look at the quality of the stuff being put out by Japan. It's mediocre at best.
And I don't even play on consoles that much.
And saying that...
I'd like to hear a few things which set this apart from the glut of survival horror zombie games.. so far it seems little more than hype among a small number of diehard PS3 fans.
Amazing how people can be talked into throwing money at someone who shows absolutely nothing in regards to concept work, budgets, runway, business plan, technology, or even a single sketch of an idea.
Just talk of products that were released over a decade ago.
When you give money to kickstarter, you are not an investor, you sign no contract. You have no rights, no control, no stake, and no reward if the project actually bears fruit.
The Japanese simply do not have the money, technology and talent to compete with Western dev houses.
Their fate was sealed the moment Msoft got behind the Xbox. I remember thinking that an American console had no chance ... how times have changed.
THQ produced triple-A single player games like Darksiders. They are now bankrupt.