People not buying new IPs was the death of new IPs. You can't blame the mass market for that, you can only blame people who don't bother buying the games they claim to want at launch.
The Vita doesn't store trophies locally, unless the games have been played on the Vita, on that account, without changing accounts/rebooting factory settings. You can't just sync your trophies and get them back, you need to connect to the internet.
My guess is that the new way of fetching trophies is to basically connect to the same place the Vita connects to. I've found comparisons to be far quicker (my girlfriend and I have 5000+ trophies between us and comparin...
@bubblebeam
I see it all as a matter of perspective. You're not offended by the picture, so it's a trivial thing. On the other hand, Americans complained massively about Six Days in Fallujah - even supposedly liberal gamers - to the point where a publisher dropped it and no other publisher picked it up, despite the controversy guaranteeing sales.
It's doubtful that very many people in the world would be offended by that game, even in most parts of...
But that's presuming that time and effort would be put into those holes if it wasn't for DLC. While I agree there's nothing worse than a developer putting a lead in a game and then making you purchase the full thing (Dragon Age?!), the reason they do that is to make you buy. It's terrible - unless the DLC comes out 8 months later, of course - but it's because the DLC is already planned, not because they've removed it from the game.
Without the extra in...
@Godmars
Your comment confuses the hell out of me. Mass Effect 3 should have been a better game and this shouldn't be DLC. By your own admission though, you wouldn't have enjoyed it if it had been in the original game. So by cutting it and offering it as a paid item - which you won't buy and play - Bioware have done you a favour, surely?
So do you agree or disagree with my original post?
@Colonel179
For every fant...
@John2
"The sad thing here is (apart from the fact that it was obviously cut from the main game) that this DLC feels like a filler episode of a TV show and not like one that is centered on the main story."
And for that reason it should have been free and completed for release 8 months earlier?
Either it was cut and shouldn't have been or it is being released and doesn't feel like it fits, you can't have it both ways.
So now not only should developers not work on additional content before the game is shipped, but they shouldn't plan it either? Not only are they not allowed to fully code DLC, but they're not even allowed to reference it - especially if it had meant to be in the game early on and, for whatever reason, didn't make the cut?
People are unrealistic about DLC and about the process it goes through in creation. This pack is coming out, what, 8 months after release? And ...
@KingOfOldSchool
When does a console stop being a console then? If the Big Picture OS machine allows you to edit photos, write manuscripts, create videos, play games, upgrade hardware, calling it a console would be a stretch, but calling it a fully functioned PC would also be a stretch.
If that's a console, then what's the NES?
Consoles as we know them will not always have a market, and that will become more obvious over the next coup...
You're wrong on both accounts, I think. For a start, there's no way of knowing how many PC owners - across multiple OS - use their PC for gaming. My guess is that it's more than you think, with Facebook pushing it constantly. The only way you can say that only a small percentage use them for games is if you move the goal post on what you class as a game. Sure, the people who use Steam are going to be a relative minority, but the people who play games on Facebook or flash sites is ...
It depends on how you look at it. Sure, the PC isn't going to die off completely when there are people who can find reason to use it. I sit at a computer probably 40+ hours a week - more if you count the time I use it for gaming - and I can't imagine how difficult my life would be without it exactly how it is today.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, doesn't use it at all these days. Everything she would use a computer for is available on a smartphone.
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In all fairness here, Sony need to decide if the people saying "it's too expensive" are saying it's too expensive because they would genuinely buy it at a slightly lower price point or just because they can't afford one and the current price point is like a months wage for them.
Looking on the internet and seeing a bunch of people saying "it's too expensive" isn't necessarily an indication that it's too expensive and Sony will have ...
The problem is this: reviewers giving the game less than 5/10 are focussing too much on the negative stuff to justify their score, rather than giving an unbiased view and raising the number.
Take a look at the Destructoid review. The one thing that stood out to me was that Sterling took two or three paragraphs to complain about the co-op, but focussed in on the odd occasion during which one player was given something to do and the other wasn't. I can only think of two occ...
There's a link in the comments of the original Paul Gale article to a forum where somebody who says they have "a source" says they took four characters out of the game to give as free DLC to first-time purchasers.
Somebody said that somebody said, but it'd certainly make sense as to why Superbot are suddenly saying there will be only 20 characters on disk.
It's implied the tanker mission might be VR (Raiden, who represents the player and they're inexperience, says he played it in VR) but the plant mission is real. The similarities to Shadow Moses were put in place by Ocelot. They had hoped to create a hero like Solid Snake, but who could be controlled by the Patriots. The real Snake was always something of a rogue factor and he continued to be in MGS2.
Edit: although it 'd make no difference if it was VR, So doesn&...
@denett316
See, this is what people are getting wrong. Butler wasn't just a role that Lambert played, it was a character in a series of advertisements. He was selling a brand. Comparing Lambert to Laurie in House is completely off-base. You won't ever see Rowan Atkinson advertising a debit card that isn't from Barclays using a character similar to Johnny English; you won't ever see "Monkey" advertising Sky TV or Virgin Media.
If Laur...
@cl1983
Exactly. Sony are saying that Nintendo (through Bridgestone) are using the goodwill and publicity of the Kevin Butler character to advertise a rival product. It doesn't matter if the contract is up, that's just not on legally.
It has nothing to do with Lambert's likeness per se, but to do with what that likeness currently means. If you want proof that people think of him as Kevin Butler, you only need to see the articles when the video was...
Because they know there are better things out there. Current consoles are absolutely fine and developers are proving you don't need massive specs to make fantastic games, but people know that there ARE massive specs out there and that the longer Sony/Microsoft wait, the more likely it is that they're going to end up underwhelming.
Square Enix and others have also commented on the fact that the length of this generation is having unexpected knock-on effects, such as lo...
@cl1983
Nobody is talking about copyrighting anything. What I'm saying is, Sony could easily say that Nintendo (through Bridgestone) is trying to cash in on the goodwill/publicity that Sony has built (which is what they ARE saying) and that Jerry Lambert was accomplice to that.
All it would take is for a judge to rule that the above was their intention - and given Lambert's popularity as Kevin Butler, it's not going to be hard for their lawyers to...
It's not even a question though. Whether the contract is valid or not, it's up for a judge to decide whether Bridgestone (and Nintendo) have benefited from a character created by Sony.
If Sony can prove damages to their brand, it's an open and shut case. And given that around the web people were saying "hey look, Kevin Butler advertising Nintendo," it shouldn't be that hard to prove.
What exactly SHOULD they add then?
If a whole new story, a ton of new guns and maps, plus a whole new way of playing a hugely successful spin-off mode isn't enough for you, what the hell is? Do you ever actually buy any games?
By those standards I can't see how anything can live up to your expectations.