Actually people play Halo for both.
But Halo 2 was part of a trilogy and thus ended in a cliffhanger. It's actually not less/more satisfying than Mass Effect 2 which also ended in a cliffhanger, Or Half Life Episode 2 which ended in an even worse cliffhanger.
The top controversial endings should go to Monkey Island 2 mentioned here, and to the first Half Life.
Actually, if you read previous reviews from him (both harsh ones and ones full of superlatives) you will know that what Surfaced wrote about him wanting to be "that" guy" is quite ridiculous. In over a decade of game reviewing, Tom never really care aboud being any kind of guy.
Tom highly favors good gameplay over narrative, and Journey is quite lacking in that department as he wrote himself in the review:
"There’s no challenge and no real gameplay...
We already saw the "new big daddy" in earlier videos. It's that SongBird thing:
http://upload.wikimedia.org...
But hey, what do I know? I'm not a rabbi fan... ;)
This reviewer actually failed twice: once because he criticized other people's opinion instead of focusing on his on review, and the second time because he fails to realized that most of those 100/100 scores are actually from review outlets that have a 5 or 10 points system with no fractions. Review outlets using the full decimal scale usually gave the game a slightly lower score.
So when even he himself admitted that he "still found 95 percent of the game to be stel...
Well, when a PS3 version is being neglected, you always seed those "lazy devs" thorough the comments section.
And here? Not only that the word "lazy" hasn't even been thrown around, you instead get those "just buy the ps3 version" and "How does it feel Xbox 360 owners?" from insecure fanboys.
@MrBeatdown
I am actually surprised by the Gamasutra analysis, and for different reasons than the anomaly Evildead mentioned.
This is because when MS announced that they believe 2012 can be a bigger year, I assume that they are talking about the whole ecosystem and not just console sales.
Just think about it: all those people who bought the console last year? They're part of the increased userbase now. Most of them will buy games, and others will subscribe to servi...
Review scores here:
Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS) – 10/10/10/10
Yakuza Black Panther 2 (PSP) – 10/10/9/9
Ninja Gaiden III (PS3/360) – 9/9/9/9
Attouteki Yuugi: Mugen Souls (PS3) – 8/8/7/8
FIFA Street (PS3/360) – 8/8/7/8
Little Busters! Converted Edition (PSV) – 8/8/7/7
Hakuouki: Bakumatsu Musou Roku (PSP) – 8/7/7/7
Pac-Man Party 3D (3DS) – 7/7/6/8
Hime Girl Paradise: Mechikawa! Age Sakari Sensation! (3DS) – 7/7/6/7
DJ...
Still nothing that pushes me to actually buy the device for 100$.
Coolbean, you got that pretty much correct.
Obsidian are a bunch of incapable developers, but very capable storytellers.
On one end of the spectrum we have Bethesda which make games that are about presentation via exploration and lore, but their dialogs and script are piss-poor to say the least.
On the other end we have Bioware games which are all about dialog and character interactions that help conjuring a believable world, but those dialogs are oft...
Quite the opposite @BitbyDeath, quite the opposite.
Check out the number of games released on each platform so far any you'll see.
Logic in general pisses people off. It requires them to stop and think, and this task can be painful for some.
Actually no, another way for cutscenes to be interactive is to give the player control over his character (either only camera control or full movement).
QTEs are probably worst way to make a cutscene "interactive" because it's basically identical to a non-interactive cutscene with an added success/fail switch. It actually makes you pay less attention to the scene and more attention to idiotic button prompts on the screen.
Here's the full list to save you the bother of clicking through 5 pages:
Game of Thrones RPG
South Park: The Game
Dragon's Dogma
The Witcher 2: Asssassins of Kings
Borderland 2
Personally I don't have high hopes for Game of Thrones, but well see. I'm still deep in Skyrim and both Mass Effect 3 and Kingdom of Amalur are on my to-do list, so this year is getting real crowded real fast with RPGs anyway.
Some people here need a reality check, after throwing names of some aging game series past their prime.
Just for reference, here's a list of the best selling game in each series this generation a-la vgchartz:
New Super Mario Bros. Wii: 25.13
Modern Warfare 3 Xbox version only: 15.93
Halo 3: 11.48
Mario Galaxy: 10.00
GTA IV Xbox version only: 9.45
Gran Turismo 5: 7.29
Zelda Twilight Princess: 6.43
Gea...
What an amazing analyst! Didn't Epic already say that themselves quite some time ago?
http://www.oxmonline.com/ep...
Cage's games are halfway interactive movies anyway, hardly games. A bit of redundant QTEs here (press X to shout...), and some very confined and limiting puzzle rooms there (unlike classis adventure games), but that's about it.
The best thing in his games is probably in the emotinal side and presentation - characters and dialogs. But even that's a bit limited narrative wise compared to the dialogs in classic adventure games (monkey island for example) or in RPGs l...
"Lack of variety"? Only someone playing the wrong games can make such a delusional claim.
When I look back at my favorite games from 2011, there's such a big variety in types of gameplay and scale (from refreshing small budget indie games to polished AAA blockbusters) that I am simply amazed on how varied our game experience nowadays compared to years past.
Sure, some people complain about the hugh influence of COD and how "suddenly" everyone i...
ziggurcat got it right.
It makes sense that the character model is on the Disc, since they might want to reserve the option to use it in multiplayer without requiring everyone to download it.
The DLC mission however is not available on the disc, so this article is misleading and should be downvoted.
What's worse is the claim in this article that you can "use your 360 controller as it should have been in the first place", but then only point to a ...
February is a name of a month. The first month in which the Vita was available.
Welcome to the fine world of reading comprehension.
Who should you trust? A doctor giving you medical opinion on that weird thing that just grew on your skin, or a bunch of random strangers with no qualifications whatsoever giving you their own opinion on the subject matter, some without even seeing it first?