Who thought this was a good idea? Nintendo is from Japan, where even holding a handgun is illegal to the average citizen. Do they really think Nintendo would let them use it's likeness for pro gun lobbying?
On the actual subject of gun control, this is the internet discussing a thorny issue so anything I saw is probably going to be buried by bile from both sides in short order, so I'll keep it short.
To anyone who believes you should be able to buy a ...
Not to be passing judgement on a retcon before I've seen how it's handled, but that's a terrible reason to defend it. The fact that the game didn't explicitly state all conduits were killed doesn't mean it wasn't implied. The ending shows conduits all over the world keeling over from a weapon designed to kill all conduits, and while it doesn't explicitly say it killed ALL conduits it also gives no indication that any survived.
Let me use an example...
The problem is more that this project should not be on Kickstarter in the first place.
Kickstarter is for people who need help to get enough funds to make their goal a reality. PA straight out says in the campaign that they don't need the money and were planning to do this anyways. They're asking for money to make a podcast they were going to do all along.
Even if people backing this don't ignore another project due to limited funds, even if the a...
Ummmm ok?
I can't say I see having licensed cars as a selling point in games other than racing sims like GT5...
I remember having a ton of fun playing vanilla WoW, even hopped back in for awhile for BC, but I can't have any fun if I try to play it now.
I used to love leveling up and seeing the new areas for my level range, but questing is a joke now, no one does it. Judging for what I saw in a free trial back in WOTLK everyone just sits around in a major city and queues up for instances to get to raid levels, and THEN you can start actually doing stuff.
I'm go...
While I loved Metro 2033 to bits, I'd argue that it didn't really bring all that much interesting to the table in terms of gameplay mechanics.
Rather I'd say the gameplay mechanics they introduced worked well because they helped set up the atmosphere of the game. Your breathing became ragged as your filter started to run out, you'd see your visor get cracked and start to frost over. You constantly need to crank your light back up to working condition. To view ...
Isn't this exactly the situation that the major kickstarter projects are trying to resolve?
Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns, Torment ect are all games that are made by experienced studios and are looking to provide much more content than a typical indie title can and yet are clearly not a AAA title in terms of production values. That sounds like mid-tier development to me.
I think the days of large publishers funding mid tier games are de...
Freespace 1&2.
Musta played those games over a dozen times, not even counting the mod campaigns.
Probably because most other popular mass murdering protagonists are soldiers or warriors of some kind.
Nathan Drake is some treasure hunter/thief who rushes off to seek fame and fortune while killing dozens of men and making upbeat quips. There's usually some "Save the world" element that gets revealed near the end, but the games all start with Drake chasing it for the money.
It's the same problem people had with the old Lara Croft. She'...
I remember my sister getting me into the original Sims. I never could work up the patience for a day to day routine, so I just cheated using the rosebud code for money and spent time building a huge mansion.
Then I'd inevitably get bored and either drown my sims in the pool by removing the ladder, or have them die in a fire by getting them to set off fireworks indoors when I'd removed all exit points. Frankly I'd argue it was natural selection.
Th...
Mass Effects fans weren't pissed because Shepard died. The entire ending was the problem, what with how they used insane logic to explain the Reapers and solve the plot with an almost literal Deus Ex Machina. Believe what you want about whether or not the audience has the right to try to correct the author, but the reason people got mad was much more complex than fans going "Shepard died! I DON'T LIKE SAD!".
In terms of Skyrim, I bought it on PS3, and it was...
Piracy is going to happen no matter what. I've got nothing against Steam but having to connect and verify that you own a game still screws anyone without a constant internet connection.
Steam has an Offline mode, but really not many games of mine have worked when I've tried using it.
I'd much rather companies went with the GOG route, no DRM at all, you buy the game, and you can make as many backups as you want. You can't match pirates in terms...
But remember in dark souls what Havok was responsible for, the crazy ragdolling of corpses caught between your feet.
Don't forget, Havok is SERIOUSLY bug prone, how many times have you seen objects get stuck partly inside walls and/or start twitching uncontrollably. Half Life 2 was probably one of the best examples of Havok and Valve had to modify the crap out of Havok to get it to be that stable.
I'm really looking forward to this game. Metro 2033 nailed the atmosphere of a post apocalyptic world perfectly.
I do hope last light has some better voice acting though, most of it was at least decent, but the voices of the children in that game made me want to get a vasectomy.
If gaming hates animals because we've been trained to massacre large amounts of them, then gaming must REALLY hate people since most of the real life creature I kill in video games are human.
Well played sir, you just reduced me to uncontrollable fits of laughter.
That's still a bit limiting.
There's nothing saying a shooter needs guns, it just needs the ability to shoot. You could make an archery game, a catapult/trebuchet/ballista game. As long firing projectiles is the main gameplay mechanic it doesn't really matter what you are firing.
In terms of genre definition itself though, video games are kind of screwed up as is. We define genres in games by their mechanics, FPS, RPGs, Puzzle Games, and games ar...
I'm pretty sure Gods and mythical beasts are not covered under the Geneva conventions...
[Flying Circus Mode: On]
*Leaps out of doorway*
NOBODY EXPECTS THE DRAGON AGE INQUISITION!!!!
If they are going to do a spin off they should go full out and make a Monkey Island style humourous point and click adventure game starring Conrad Verner.
I'd probably buy that.