Don't take the title too literally. He's clearly making the case that the Australian's are getting ripped off.
But they get continually ripped off by the games industry anyway. Given the low costs of digital distribution, the publishers should just reduce the prices, but they need to keep their pathetically antiquated retail partners happy.
And so was Team Fortress, and so was Counter-Strike.
No one cares when they're AAA.
Set it in the 80s, use the backdrop of the big bang, the IRA, the clash of thatcherism against the unions.
Essentially, remake the Long Good Friday in video game form. What a film.
Do you have any data for that?
Computational power, maybe. But if it were so space efficient, guys like Youtube would be using it. You say smaller file sizes, but you could just compress it less - and get better quality.
Can someone who actually knows, tell me the advantage Bink has over more commonly used standards such as H.264?
The N64 was the pinnacle of Nintendo arrogance. Nintendo chose cartridges just so they could exert more control over the third parties.
It's a shame that these cartridges were ridiculously expensive, and could hold little information in comparison to a CD. £50 games with sh*tty textures?
Playstation rightly deserved to dominate the market.
It's not going to redefine gaming, because it was already defined by Fahrenheit.
That being said, I liked what Fahrenheit was trying to do, and hope that Heavy Rain will improve and refine on the concept. David Cage has always been trying new things - but I'm still longing for a sequel to The Nomad Soul.
The comment the co-founder made, relates way back to the PS2 days, showing Sony PR in a negative light for unwarranted pressure - such as attempting to block an import review.
The current blacklisting is more likely due to contractual issues regarding NDA and embargo breaking.
Don't break contracts.
Maybe everyone *here* thinks they're a joke.
I'm sorry if you think reviewers should second guess the Metacritic average rather than offer their opinion. I'm sorry that you think that the Metacritic average is an objective qualifier for a game's quality.
Yeah, I'm cool with that. Everyone has their own preferences when it comes to critical review, some may prefer the "holier than thou" approach, others may prefer the "man of the people" approach.
I was just appalled at the cries to censor opinion just because people don't like it. Crying that the PS3 community abhors said publication - is the same as saying that the Transformers 2 community abhors every critic in the land.
Their voice is irrelev...
That's because the PS3 "community" aren't worth taking seriously - look around you.
Sony continue to advertise in Edge and they continue to give them exclusive stories.
Maybe Sony actually appreciate an independent voice, whereas the PS3 "community" would rather reviewers try to second guess Metacritic averages instead of actually voice an opinion.
Buying a game based on hype alone is pretty fanboyish. Sure, yeah - he might put in the time and get something out of it - but why not just buy something else, something better.
It's like spending your money on seeing the Street Fighter movie, buying Susan Boyle's albums, and eating raw effluence at a restaurant.
They've put the original PC version on because it was developed by Rebellion who are doing the new version.
AVP2 was done by by Monolith. Nevertheless, with the influx of new AVP fans, it'd be a good move to get the thing onto Steam.
When's the filter coming into play? Such uninformed pieces such as this should not make the sub pages, let alone the front page.
He clearly knows nothing about the PC landscape, or the gaming landscape as a whole. He's looking up from the well, and then declaring that the sky is a tiny circle of blue.
The PC continues to pioneer digital distribution, casual gaming, social gaming and MMO. Everything happens on the PC first, it's an open platform, the most connected...
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You're right. But it's a shame that the ever dwindling JRPG hardcore continue to stick with their conventions, and loudly dismiss any progressive idea, preferring to stick in their decaying comfort zones.
Yeah, just make FFVII again, right.
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High praise for Dark Void and Vancouver 2010 too.
GamesRadar has a point, that the actual game may be better than the one they played, that a community may form around the game, and maybe they'll sort out the network issues and turn it into a solid experience.
However, it was a REVIEW event. The developers and publishers said, "Hey! Play our game in this environment, it's fit for review", you can't really blame the writers from following those words.
Kudos to GamesRadar for holding out nonetheless, but I...
It's a Flash v9 exploit. We're on v10 now.
Man loses account.
Blames Blizzard.
No, the ones with the small brains are the ones drawing conclusions based purely on a number - 7.
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Edit - summary of Edge's Heavy Rain Review criticisms (from rllmuk.com)
Main complaints are not being able to tell what some actions do beforehand, and a lack of scene setting - you're plunged into situations without exposition, and even the character thoughts don't say why you're doing what you're doing. At one point you investigate a crime you don't k...