Really? I haven't really seen many insults from the writer of this blog. Only some spirited debate from either side of the fence which is good. The blogs this month have been quite high-quality recently.
I hope it continues.
Man, I loved playing Blood.
I slightly disagree on 10k Wii U flocking to buy Rayman Legends because it's not like Nintendo won't have titles out as well when September comes around. Would people flock to Rayman or a previously established franchise on the Wii U? Rayman was already a niche title and to release it during the September season is absolute madness to me.
Don't get me wrong. Rayman Legends looks great but it looked a lot better when there wasn't any other titles stealing the s...
Legends would've had a better chance of selling more on February than it has in September. Going head to head with GTA V is suicide and the numbers will reflect that Rayman Legends will have died a peasant's death.
I believe that there was deception involved here.
There have been two notable cases recently where companies have transferred resources to work on other projects. Silicon Knights for instance were transferring resources to work on a Eternal Darkness 2 demo while they were working on XMen Destiny; as well as deliberately misleading Activision by showing off assets of the game like character models, levels etc.
Another would be Pandemic who were accused of tran...
Wow. This was really well-written. Actually, most of the blogs have been a joy to read for me. It's good that there are some really good writers on N4G.
On topic of this whole next-gen thing, I believe it will be a generation of change. Some of it good. Some of it horrible. I can see a lot of companies falling to the wayside because the signs are all around. The amount of closures that this generation has had to deal with, all of the big 3 posting losses; it will be inte...
Hmm. I will believe it when I see it. I could imagine it being a part of PS + but I have some misgivings when it comes to cloud gaming and whether or not it's feasible to do it. Not mentioning the problem of internet bandwidth and latency when it comes to cloud gaming; there would have to be a clever, cost-effective way of doing it.
I will be most interested to see what they have in store on the 20th.
Explain Hicks. Aliens 3's opening credits show him dead, impaled by a loose support beam. Who was the impaled guy? Why would Weyland capture him on the Sulaco and torture Hicks? Actually, the Sulaco was reported to be in orbit of Fury 161 in Alien 3; so why was it orbiting LV-256? What information were they hoping to gather from Hicks? What information could he possibly have that would be of use to the Weyland corporation? If he was a witness, why not just kill him? Also, why did Cruz be...
Y'know. I can deal with bad, even terrible graphics if the game has something about it. However, when you mess with the canon of an established franchise, it's far more insulting and horrible.
I won't tell you all the ending but it's really terrible and doesn't make any sense.
Microsoft's botched launch of Windows 8 and the consequences of attempting to follow Apple's business model of gaining money via the Windows 8 app store has/will result in a loss of consumer/designer confidence. It will be interesting to see what they come up with but the game has changed. All of the big three are going to have trouble reaching out and appeal to gamers unless they bring something genuinely new to the table. The good ol' days are gone and they have been for a long ...
All of the big 3 have suffered losses.
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EA's share price has plummeted from the good ol' days of 2009.
The good ol' days are gone and EA should think twice if they think that they are too big to fail.
If I may be so inclined to butt in at this moment; FPS shooters on the PC were a huge factor in allowing Microsoft to enter the console market. Now here me out. Back in the good old days, there used to be quite a lot of LAN parties were people would participate in playing Doom, Unreal, Quake etc, Microsoft probably saw a demographic that could be swayed if it offered a similar experience on a console.
N4G should just ban Pachter articles on this site. His predictions are either slip-shod at best or embarrassingly wrong.
What's this? Sequels to established franchises are not selling millions as expected on a new console without an established userbase or a userbase that has already bought them for different consoles?
Colour me surprised./s
A game that is a sequel to an established franchise shouldn't be expected to sell millions to a fanbase that never had them in the first place. That's a load of frittata.
I looked at the list and while it's from the writer's own personal opinion; I cordially disagree with it. In terms of scale, in terms of ambition, in terms of the things that you could do that I wrote in my previous comment; Daggerfall easily curbstomps the competition in terms of content. Granted, it's probably one of the more unstable of the Elder Scrolls games, but it's certainly not the worse. That dubious honour should go to Battlespire or Redguard, even though they are a...
It's gotta be Daggerfall for me. In Oblivion, there are about five factions/guilds you can join. In Daggerfall, there are a lot. There are about ten seperate knight orders in Daggerfall and that's just one guild. Not to mention various other political factions, vampire bloodlines, temples, witch covens etc.
Not to mention you can turn into a vampire, a werewolf and a werehog. You could also own houses (which you can have the option to protect from burglary), a horse, ...
"Nintendo gets a free pass because that's Nintendo and they are everyone's little darling who could do no wrong."
I've seen plenty of anti-Nintendo articles from various news outlets over the years.
You should check out NeoGaf. They really love Nintendo over there.
I think it's interesting. I'm fairly sure that the youth of today don't use the word "nigga" more than the word hello. I think that's a slightly preposterous argument to make, as I'm fairly sure that youth these days don't go to everybody and scream it out in active conversation. Also, from what I've watched of Tiny Tina on youtube, I've yet to find any racial slurs; only common slang used in the hip-hop community and white people have every right to ...
Once the multiplayer first person shooter bubble bursts; there will be a lot of pain. It's just a shame that most of the industry had decided to follow this formula.