That is exactly it.
If we still want creative new IPs the publishers and independent devs need to be able to have the funds to risk. Lowering their costs and letting them be flexible to reactions to their initial outing could help them be more confident.
Also there's the fact that most people simply cannot afford in time or money to play so many big games. They end up just buying the Modern Warfare 2s and may miss out on the awesome Uncharted 2s or Heavy Rain becau...
Man as a kid I remember reading that story. Oh I'm old.
Haven't seen the movie and am not inclined to play the game either though.
Agreed.
Gung-ho shooters annoy me too. I like the co-op focus, but this game doesn't have the story, characters, or environments to attract me. I didn't like Killzone 2 for the same reason though...
@ OZ
I watch Bones and Castle for the characters and stories rather than the bodies. I have to admit I sometimes cringe with some of their bodies...they can do such a realistic job these days. What I don't like is when they overdo it and do montages of practically fondling the disgusting corpses while trying to be scientific inquiry. We don't need to see that, they can tell us about it!
About Heavy Rain, if you've seen the (spoiler) father finger and saw scene that...
So true! Gladiator the movie was considered highly gory- yet here in Oz it is rated M, not MA 15+ like others because most of the violence is implied.
Gory violence has become gratuitous lately. Mind you I remember that Cerebral Bore in Turok 2, but it wasn't as graphic and realistic. I don't think I'd like it now....ewww brains.
@ Godem
So is it "put up with"? That sort of implies that it doesn't bother you but that you'd prefer they didn't?
The more they try to up the gore and violence, the more games get banned here in Oz and people use it as negative ammunition against gaming as a hobby too.
Not that I'm saying we should only have Mario and Pokemon...
It depends if the magic is just exorcisms or more stuff from fantasy genre.
I'd prefer more historical focus like AC with realistic possibilities (there were in fact little guns invented in Ezio's Renaissance period for example).
On the question of gore- I can understand some within context, but lately games seem to be trying to make their games more and more gory and violent just to show how 'realistic' and advanced their graphics and physics can be and because the ...
This title could be really good if they get it right and the 13th Century period is fantastic if it goes for historic rather than fantasy and horror.
I am sick of games that go for the whole hell or completely destroyed look too. Oblivion had that element (which were my least liked environments) but also had towns that changed (destroyed and then fixed etc. as time went by). Most of it was vibrant and pleasantly intact medieval. The downloadable Shivering Isles expansion was t...
Yeah but non MS devs shouldn't care about that...they should care about making their game even more attractive to buyers to buy and KEEP.
Actually I'm reminded of one of the funniest moments in mulitpayer ever:
We were playing 007 Nightfire on Xbox split screen multi with the various James Bond bot characters with or against us when one of my co-players started shouting excitedly in panic:
"Here comes P*ssy, here comes P*ssy!!!"
whithout even realising what he was saying. Of course he was referring to the P*ssy Gallore bot, but it was the funniest thing seeing his express...
Well 360 does have a couple of games that use bots: gears of war 2 (horde mode), Perfect Dark Zero, and the Left 4 Deads. Does Sony have any games on PS3 that use bots in multi?
Though I don't advocate X-botism...just wondering...
I agree that bots and split screen need to be more a focus again with developers. No matter how online has grown it still has its limitations and only a few games keep getting played. With offline and bots then the games's multi can be played forever.
Also I like how a couple of games (Gears of War 2 Horde mode and Left 4 Dead) are using bots within a co-operative multi (online or off)framework.
But definetly more offline split screen and with bots too to go ...
I kind of wish more DLC is reviewed so we know if it is worth it or not, be it tracks or extra levels in other games.
I liked the approach...tried to come up with 10 bad things about the game but faltered there at the end...lol.
There is a score for this, even though it looks at 10 negative things about the game: 9.5/10- You might want to put that in the section above.
Totally agree. You can't go to a French town in the old COD games and read English signs...that's stupid.
I also disliked in Assassin's Creed the fact Altair had an American accent...they fixed that for Altair in the PSP Bloodlines game where he at least had an accent and Ezio was well done in AC2.
Sounds pretty freaky! I wonder if gamers will get to know about this one, or if it will be like Condemned and only attract attention after release and word of mouth...
I enjoyed the mechs in Lost Planet....but not sure if this game can compete with the rest at the moment.
The first one was so much fun and being the Big Daddy at the end was great.
Hopefully this one is as fun!
I'd hate to see hard copy discs and especially Collector's Editions go, but I have changed my opinion from a few years ago and now think it is inevitable if the industry is to flourish and not limp around on sequel legs.
With the example in the article, sequential smaller chapters would not be released on say a blu ray disc.
That doesn't mean there cannot be disc versions and even limited edition disc versions at the completion of a 'series', like the article states ...