BUT....TMI VIOLATION!!!*LOL*
ADVERTISING!!! How many commercials and magazine adds did you see for MW2 compared to those exclusives??? Exactly! I probably saw more MW2 ads than ALL of those exclusives combined. If you were a NEW PS3 owner, and not a hardcore gamer, you probably wouldn't know about those games until someone that already owned a PS3 told you how good they are. The game stores usually only really push the "newest, hottest" games. Plus, COD has HUGE brand recognition. Most of those exclusives, asid...
GameStop/EB Games is listed on the official website as one of the companies that will have the beta keys. You should probably check back or call them. Sometimes, especially around now, you will get the seasonal employees that don't know ANYTHING about games or just the ones that aren't really interested in the industry...they just needed work.
that the point of this is NOT HALO the ACTUAL game, but a "quality" title that creates the same kind of "gotta have it" buzz that the HALO franchise exudes. I won't argue the merits of HALO as a game, but as a franchise it is a MONSTER. EVERY one of the console companies would die to have a franchise that is instant money. It is the idea of HALO more so than the game HALO itself. Right now HALO=XBOX, MONEY, LIVE, MORE MONEY, BRAND LOYALTY, MORE MONEY!!! I think ANY company...
His intent to make this game is to push gaming to a point where it CAN be like movies. Some movies are made for children, some for adults, and some ride the fence. For far too long gaming has been seen as a kid's industry despite the fact that adults are predominantly are the ones that drive the industry. What is in this game is FAR from pornographic. However, it IS an intense and potentially sexual situation (read: FOR ADULT ENTERTAINMENT). There is no splintering of the demographic simply b...
You DO realize that the porn industry goes all of the way back to the sex chambers of Egypt don't you? Sex has ALWAYS and WILL always be a part of life. It is a NATURAL instinct in animals to procreate. It just so happens that human beings get PLEASURE from it. Yes, it has become a marketing ploy for magazines and movies. However, it is the social stigma that has been placed on SEX and NUDITY that has caused it to be such a marketing ploy in the first place. As people have stated and I will r...
ONLY because I think that Madden needs the competition to be great. Back in the days of the early PSone days and into PS2, the sports genre was somewhat of a battlefield. Several companies were vying to be the number one franchise in each sport. For every players taste, there was a different game. Flash forward to 2009 and there is no real competition in the sports genre. Would anybody show up to a horse race with only two horses? What about NASCAR...just 2 cars and 500 miles? This is the pro...
Hip Hop as a culture grew out of poverty. It was people in the mid to late 70's that were tired of being ignored by the masses. They had a message that they wanted to get out to the world and they did it through lyrical expression, dance, dj-ing, and graffiti. The reason that rap came to prominence was not due to those same people listening to the music. It was actually the masses (non poor and non minority) that came to view rap as an alternative. It was not unheard of to have a club that fe...
I don't claim to be the epitome of a RAP Ph.D. candidate, but I can state...without doubt...that ALL of rap does NOT stand for ONE thing!!! Sure, if you are cornered into listening to certain artists...then you will get one aspect. However, just like any genre of music from jazz and classical to rap and rock there are various facets to the music. This is because there are individual artists that want to express a specific sound, vibe, or notion. There are PLENTY of artists that don't express ...
Cage is defending ACTUAL ATTACKS. This is not a preemptive defense...this is a defense based on the fact that the forums are FULL of ignorant gamers claiming that ALL THAT THIS GAME IS...IS QTE. There is a HUGE difference between that and the Too Human devs. The most of what was heard in the forums about that was IT BETTER BE GOOD CUZ IT TOOK SO LONG.
Although I would disagree with you that counseling is a JOKE, I would say that your attitude toward this child lacking the proper guidance and discipline from his parents is exactly the problem. These parents are the classic example of positively reinforcing negative behaviors. Behavior in itself is about conditioning...and this child has basically been conditioned to think that no matter how he acts...he can get whatever he wants. Now the courts have been asked to set the limits that his par...
You defined the fanboy perfectly by using the word FANATICAL. That is what fanboyism is all about. Fanaticism at it's very root is usually based in logic but quickly loses its way. Sometimes I think that people just get bored and type crazy fanboy rants to get people in an uproar. However, there are TRUE fanboys that will take it to the extreme...spewing forth page upon page of bilious drivel with the intent to discredit another console.
It's cool to be a fan of MS, Sony, or Nintendo fo...
I am a teacher...and I have witnessed fanboy wars in SCHOOL!!! Once it actually resulted in a REAL fight. Kids were suspended for 10 days for a REAL console war...that was TRULY pathetic.
Or MAYBE we just weren't blessed with MICROSCOPIC vision!!!*LOL*
I kid....sometimes!?!?!
Well...because THEY feel that they were led astray by the business practices of Sony. Do I agree? Not completely. But I understand WHY they are attempting to sue. Most times big business could keep most of their problems to a minimum by just handling customer service in the correct way. However, the bottom line for ALL business is MONEY. I get that. However, when money comes at the expense of customer satisfaction and loyalty...which ALL businesses attempt to garner through the release and su...
That was pretty much my idea as well. We ALL fall victim to laughing at sophomoric humor from time to time. However, those that produce this kind of thing have a responsibility for what they put out into the world. If ANYBODY thinks that the acronym was just an accident...then you are just naive. IW was attempting to assuage their core audience, which is this tweener generation that has no qualms about the use of this and other types of offensive language. They believe that words DON'T have p...
with Band1t and ChillBilly on the graphics. Though they are NOT of the KZ2 quality, they are MORE than passable. They are on par with COD4. However, they point is that they convey the mood that is being set. All too often we get caught up on graphics with this HD era. I get it...I didn't spend all of that money for my next gen console and HDTV either. But, sometimes I think we as gamers go a bit too far with this graphics push and DON'T think about WHAT the devs are trying to do. MAG is pushi...
For the PSP...you can't knock the graphics. There's not ANOTHER handheld that could reproduce that kind of graphical fidelity. It looks like the game delivers ALL of the old fun...PLUS it's portable!!! Sounds like a WIN for everybody.
Check gametrailers and IGN...think they BOTH did VIDEO reviews!
I would say that I would disagree with some of what you said. First, the PSP is Sony's FIRST handheld console. Sony is the only company that has stood up to the Nintendo juggernaut of hanheld supremacy and managed to survive. 50 million consoles sold and counting is nothing to scoff at. There was lackluster support from third parties in the beginning simply because PSP was more powerful than most handhelds of the time. That meant that devs struggled to define what type of experience to make....