Great game, and free alongside Uncharted Golden Abyss for PS+ members. I wish I'd waited to pick those up after hearing about that...
Not likely since kotaku was one of the chief defenders of the ending.
I just bought it for $30 after beating P4G, but sadly my PS3 died before I could play it, eating my just started copy of Spec Ops The Line in the process.
I'm not all that bothered by the online situation as I'll really just be playing it through to get more story and spend more time with the characters. Not good at, and not a fan of fighting games usually.
It's true that only a small percentage of people are vocal about how they dislike him, and most people who buy his games don't even know who Bobby Kotick is, but I always find it odd that the implied assumption is that everyone who doesn't express their dislike online approves of him and his business practices.
I find it hilarious Kotaku is the one criticizing this argument when they themselves have displayed the exact same attitude towards games in the past.
Hipocrisy at it's finest people.
How is Bioware on there as a runner up? Regardless of whether you liked ME3 it still created a fanbase shitstorm the likes of which we had never seen, one so intense that they were actually forced to scrap together a free epilogue dlc to try and placate the fans.
I don't think the company whose only game this year caused that much outrage deserves to be considered for developer of the year...
Its not a THQ quote its a 4a games guy who said it, they're just owned by THQ.
If anyone has the right to say it its the guys who made metro 2033. That was an incredibly atmospheric shooter.
That sounds too much like what I heard about ME3, which troubles me...
Feeling sorry for developers that don't deliver on promises, or even make sure the game works as intended, just lets them know they don't need to worry about cutting corners.
There's such a thing as being too whiny, or letting your grievances go to far, but people tend to forget that developers are made up of people as well, and some of them are just as bad as the fanboys that populate their forums.
Ok, so we're past caring about Peter Molyneux directly, so now what his children think is newsworthy?
Well this is the kind off stuff I expect from kotaku anyways...
Hope this doesn't affect Metro Last Light, and I'm also worried for Volition. Wasn't a fan of red faction, but Saints row 2-3 were what GTA4 should've been, and the Freespace series (R.I.P) are my favorite games of all time.
Unless his username is famous for that I don't see how you can know he's trolling when he only admitted to liking a few of those games...
Starhawk was actually pretty fun for awhile in my opinion.
Didn't play Halo 4 but definitely better than both ME3 and AC3.
What? I don't know how to cook as well as restaurant chefs but I'm still perfectly valid in getting pissed if they serve me half cooked discount meat.
That's like saying you can't judge corrupt politicians unless you ARE a politician.
I can understand that it's hard to make a game, but when I put down $60 I expect them to have done their job, not whine about how hard it is. The fact that others can do much better with the same tech is obvi...
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Gonna go ahead and say first I didn't play XIII-2
1) That's essentially the same thing, execution is almost always more important than concept. There are tons of games whose stories could have worked if they'd been done well, and games with crappy storylines can't simply blame it on the premise. I agree the backstories are there, but they're not interesting and the character development simply falls flat.
2) Eve...
"What they did was leave it very foggy and let the viewer decide what happened."
My problem wasn't that I wasn't able to get my closure, my problem was that they contradicted their established plot in such obvious ways and then told us we were entitled brats when we asked for them to pay attention to their own writing.
In fact DMC has one of the most hilariously bad line of dialogue I've ever heard with the whole "I SHOULD'VE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIGHT!!!!" bit.
That ranks up there with the FFX laughing scene or any given moment of RE.
Mass Effect 3, after that I learned to not buy games day one so I haven't run into such a giant disappointment since.
Another game that gets press solely because of the guy directing it....
I wish people would stop giving them attention, that way maybe they'd get the kick in the ass they need to start making decent games instead of relying on their previous games for recognition.
One of the best games I played all year, definitely going to platinum it over christmas.
There are some parts I found cheesy but even then it never stopped being enjoyable, and that's saying something for a game that took 76 hours for the initial playthrough.