Game sounds great. I'm really looking forward to it. My only concern with how he described the karma system is that you really have to go one way or another. Being kinda good or kinda bad won't unlock the better attacks. This means when you come to a decision you have to stay on the path you started or you will just wind up waffling back and forth in neutral. Would be nice to be able to make a decision on the spot rather then trying to pick the decision that keeps you on the evil or good...
My kids (7 and 9) are hopelessly addicted to anything Pokemon. Most of the things they get addicted to like Harry Potter or Star Wars are passing fads (last about 6 months), but they have both been into Pokemon since they were about 5 respectively and show no signs of letting up. Yesterday, all I heard was when they could go pick up Pokemon Platinum. They promised to do chores, pay for half of it, go to bed on time. You name it, and they promised it.
I'll be the first to admit I like news as I imagine most of the people here do or else you wouldn't be on News 4 Gamers :) but I also have to think game devs probably get a little peeved that big name companies come in and use their conference as their own platform.
and Bubbles to you guys for all the rational responses!!!
Not putting a gun in your hand was a risk that I hope pays off for Ubisoft in this game. It opens up alot of avenues that a gun closes. Now you have to deal with situations by dialog, environment and smarts as opposed to shooting anything you come across (like most games do). Say what you will about Assassins Creed, but it was new and unique and hopefully that trend for Ubi continues with this game.
When did the Game Developers Conference become an announcement platform for the console makers? As a gamer I always welcome fresh news, but it would seem to me that this conference should be for game developers to discuss game development. Isn't that what E3, TGS and all that is for?
I'd like to see this game do well. It probably won't and releasing near Halo Wars was probably not a good idea. Their Viking game was not all that bad even though the reviews weren't great (except for that final boss battle). They have RTS down on the PC, just need to extend that to consoles.
Zipper technology, huh? Interesting.
People don't want to see Sony fail, what makes for good newsprint (or web print in this day and age) is watching the king fall from grace and watching the underdog rise to the top. It's human nature and it happens everywhere: Lakers falling apart a few years ago, Pistons jumping in to beat them. Tyson taking a fall and Buster D. taking him out.
Sony has been on top and now they are in a tough fight. Nintendo came out of the ashes to rise again. What would gaming sites talk ...
I question how much a demo helps sells a product. Sure there are cases where a dark horse game had a killer demo and got the attention of the masses, but there's also been times it has gone the other way and the demo hurt sales (Turok, Area 51). I make it a point not to play a demo for games I plan on getting anyway, just deflates some of the excitement.
As far as DLC, publishers might start passing the extra cost on to the consumer by raising the price. Will be interesting t...
"We launched the platform against an older, more tech savvy, urban, male consumer"
Sony, I thought I meant more to you than this! I'm just a TUMC and I don't know if I can go on :(
Console gamers are about to be swarmed by MMO's in the not too distant future:
Agency
DC Universe
Champions Online
Free Realms
KOTOR MMO
It will be interesting to see how it shakes out and what can survive. You can bet not too many people can afford a monthly subscription to all of that.
The problem with gaming media and journalism everything has to be black or white. Either Haze has to be great or total garbage. In reality Haze was somewhere in between. I played through it to the end and it was largely a forgettable game. It has its faults that many have talked about, but they weren't game crushing faults. The nectar idea was a neat concept, but many FPS's nowadays rely on one new concept to the fault of everything else (like Fracture).
The fact it was a ...
"...It destroyed their lives and destroyed their marriages. You just can't do that anymore."
I guess it was ok to destroy their lives before.
Except he failed to mention that the ice cream store would spend millions to buy out all the top ingredients for the prime flavors and thus kept the Smoothie store from being able to enjoy those flavors.
If he stumbled upon a group of female Chimera wishing to make his acquaintance, then the phrase may be apres po.
Bioshock had a scary atmosphere. Not sure if it can be in the top 10 though. Dead Space should be in there.
Reviews are good for 2 types of games: Those games that are under the radar that turn out to be great( Valkyria Chronicles) and games that are hyped but crash and burn (Haze and Too Human). They alert you to the games you might have missed and they keep you from spending too much on games that under perform.
If you are a hardcore gamer you are going to play the titles in the genre(s) of your choice regardless of what a reviewer says.
The only thing you can safely blow in a game is someones head off.
In fairness to KZ 2, this list might have been compiled before the game had come out (although reviewers had an early copy).
This might show that Jack is indeed getting desperate with his campaign. If he wasn't running out of options he would approach these bills like he did in Utah state by state to try and take a grass roots approach. Instead, he is appealing to the President using hysterics to try and get his point across when all he comes across is an extremist.
Do you think that Jack really is a victims advocate or has he somehow lost the big picture of his campaign in his zest to condemn violen...