Unfortunately, lawmakers, parents, media heads take an opposite approach to game ratings that they do to movie ratings. If a movie is rated R and has controversial content, it is usually justified and upheld by the rating. "Well, it is rated R so kids won't be exposed". On the other hand, games are assumed to be in the hands of kids under age regardless of the rating. "Come on, who are they fooling by putting an M rating on that game, kids will get it anyway". This is...
The logic Pacther uses is that they will add services and make it more appealing to the point they can justify the $100 price tag. The main service 95% of the XBox Live customers find appealing is multiplayer. Twitter and Facebook services are just noise. Something MS can put on a bullet list on PowerPoint slide and have their marketing team go nuts over. Adding more services akin to Twitter won't make it that much better to a typical user. MS is just using that to justify the price inc...
I'd be curious to know from those who run small sites. When you have an article that hits big, you get a huge jump in traffic, but when it subsides, does it go back to what it was or do you slowly (or quickly) gain more daily traffic?
I know from my own navigation that I won't visit that site unless another article directs me there. There's just too many small sites to visit that I wouldn't have the time.
"The higher the monkey climbs, the easier it is to see his ass."
That's great. I never heard that expression. I'm going to have to incorporate that into my daily conversations.
Insomniac has been one of the best developers by far for the PS3, but they need to come up with an out of the park homerun like Naughty Dog did. Their games are great and alot of fun, but not too memorable after the fact. I'd like to see them start a 3rd franchise instead of doing R3 next go around. Move away from the FPS and platformer scene and do something new.
I never understood why companies kept sequels such a secret. The game did well, sold well and of course there will be a sequel, why hide it? Most successful franchises have at least 3 (or 10) games before they pack it in.
Exactly. Uncharted ruined PoP for me.
I just started play Red Faction and when I first heard Alec Mason's voice I thought oh no not Nolan again. Thankfully, it isn't him but sounds alot like him.
In no particular order:
1) Deciding not to sit through the 17 minutes of credits only to find the game does have one of those sneaky "extra game" parts after the credits and doesn't save nor register that the game was completed until the credits end.
2) Finding out the sequel (cough cough ME2) will use all your decisions from the first game even if you were a total a$$ in the first one.
3) Finding out after the fact you were one shot, one gren...
Read the interview with the solider at the end of that article. A very good interview. You get some fresh perspective from someone that isn't just towing the company line or trying not to offend someone.
The best line, talking about real soliders gaming against gamers:
"if you put any one of those Special Ops guys who's not a good-quality gamer against a 30-stone, sit-in-a-rocking-chair, eating crisps, drinking pop eight-hours-a-day gamer, [then] the fat guy a...
Nolan North has voiced so many video games it will make your head spin.
Just check out 2009 alone. He is in no less than 18 games this year. That's crazy. His voice might becoming too recognizable now.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm...
Couldn't you say that about any game that comes out after the fact and has bug fixes and additional content added? 99% of the time the delayed version is going to be improved. I prefer the delayed versions for that very reason. I'm not in a hurry to get to a lesser game quicker.
I've never really pay attention to Famitsu scores. Have to see how the scores roll in when it comes out in the West. I just envisioned this game to be more of what he did with DMC.
I think Brucie and Greenburg are doing the old double Dutch rudder with each other.
I wear my Snuggie everywhere. I've only been beaten up twice at sporting events and I don't even think the Snuggie was to blame for one of those.
Interesting if you dig around a little more on them. Duncan killed herself by overdosing on Tylenol PM chased with Bourbon. Blake killed himself a week later by taking a one way swim into the Atlantic Ocean. Apparently, both of them were a little on the paranoid side fearing Scientologists were coming to get them.
When should this game release? Beginning of 2010 is going to be more crowded then holiday '09. Do they really want to hold off until summer, nearly a year away? By then the game will have sat too long and lost some of its appeal. I say release it now and see how it does. MW2 is still a month away and Dragon Age is nothing like this game, so I wouldn't be too concerned.
"Yes, who the hell really fun to look for a way to have - except scouts and Jager Schnitzel?"
I have to totally agree with this. Last time I played a game with Jager Schnitzel, I swore it was GOY material.
Note: Jagermeister actually makes it even better ;)
Please tell me that English was this persons second language.
Here's the difference between a guy like Evan Wells and a guy like Cliffy B. You hear Cliffy's tongue wagging for 12 months on end when he has an upcoming game. You hear from Evan a handful of times around release, yet I have much more respect and admiration for Evan than I ever will for Cliffy.
"I don't think that word means what you think it means... that's inconceivable!"
I hate to be a grammar nanny, but proscribe???
1. to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful.
2. to put outside the protection of the law; outlaw.
3. to banish or exile.
Sky's Stephen Nuttall:
"To be honest we're kind of neutral about how people access our content and don't feel we should proscribe how people should be watc...