hell sounds like it could do with a visit from the health and safety inspector.
Woods of Suicide? River of Boiling Blood?
It's all a lawsuit waiting to happen!
Woods of Security People with Attitude and the River of Lukewarm Blood sound much better anyway.
When I'm a grown'd up, I aim to own an Apple.
Call it the influence from 'House' if you want, but everything seems cleaner and seems to run better on a Mac. I'm not talking games or applications in particular, just the OS itself.
Perhaps it's just because I've never used one outside of PC World, the grass always looks greener on the other side, right?
Name drop! :P
I've just bought this but haven't got around to attempting the download yet (I got it in the Steam sale as well). Majorly looking forward to it now, although I tend to find open-world games a little over-whelming and if this doesn't have any hint of a linear plot then I'm in major trouble.
Having played a little more Mass Effect, I kind of feel they tried to branch away from the RPG elements a little too much. Final Fantasy might be a little linear at times, but it knows exactly what it is and what it's doing.
I mean, there don't seem to be many low points to Mass Effect, but there are some high points and some not so high points.
Does Mass Effect 2 refine the non-RPG portions much?
i was thinking about this today actually.
Because of the way the different sub-genres are structured, you always play as a 'lone wonderer' in a WRPG. Basically.
You will occasionally get followers, but because you're focusing so much on the main character you don't really find too much out about the others.
The additional characters in Fallout 3 had to be so carefully constructed and add so little to the plot because, chances are you wouldn't meet half o...
Sounds like I have a way to go before I'm competeing with you :P
But I have to say, the way the deals on Steam work, I may soon be catching up with you in terms of games. I've been tempted by every single game this past fortnight, even Farcry 2 which I ACTUALLY DETESTED.
So they've made me an ideal customer really.
I went out and bought a wired 360 controller for eases sake. I managed to get the PS3 controller working on my old system, but I was having t...
I have to completely agree with you, and that's why I've spent so much money over the last few weeks.
One of the major things console gamers overlook when it comes to PC (I know I did) is that, yes, it may cost a little more to get started but in the long run you end up saving. As you say, new releases are cheaper on PC than consoles and DLC is sometimes free.
My major problem is that, at the minute, I'm playing on a little netbook. It's a pretty hardy little thing a...
I enjoyed 1943, for what it was worth. Got 100% achievements at it anyhew.
What I mostly enjoyed about it was the kinda...epic feel it had. You'd be travelling across one of the islands, bored as anything, wishing you'd managed to get into the car before some idiot drove off on his own without checking for team mates. Just as you're about to give up and head back, an aeroplane would fly over you full pelt in a crazy dog fight.
I loved that feeling of the battle being...
the amount of fanboyism jumping around this article.
Which is great, because anybody who really kicks off about this being an article that is anti-ps3 well...they obviously haven't read the article.
There is no hidden agenda. I could care less about hits. I DO, however, see this as a nice chance to discuss an important part of gaming that, in the long run, will affect us all - mainly financially.
There is a certain amount of pride in their work, and that is what truly pushes innovation.
But games are a product, like any other.
"Right. This is a good product that our fans will love and that we can be proud of. Let's cut development and release."
The problem is that games have a VERY short lifespan in terms of impressing their audiences. Gran Turismo looks fantastic and, even on a non-hd laptop, that picture above blows most other things ...
There is plenty to do on the PS3, can't argue. I love my PS3 beyond belief.
But the 'PS3 exclusives' bit is more of a segue into a broader line of thought. I know that GT5 will be an awesome game, again there is little discussion.
It'll sell by the barrel load and be in the charts for years. It'll be a defining point of this generation.
But will delaying the game another 3 or 4 months make the game any better? Will fans be any happier now then they would...
You may have done. But for reasons that we can't actually ascertain the first time we put this up it simply failed approval despite no reports and hours to go.
I, at least, feel that this deserves another shot at discussion.
Are games now taking too long and costing too much to make? Do you feel any better playing an awesome game that has taken 5 years to make over how you feel when you play an awesome game that has taken 18 months to make?
Just a few i...
That was one of my points in the article.
Are all these millions of dollars and hundreds of delays going to make us, as gamers, look at these games any differently?
Killzone 2, as fantastic as it was, had massive flaws in that the control system just wasn't comfortable for so many people.
It's easy to say that it was different from Call of Duty, and that is the only reason why people complained. (Which is true, by the way. The Killzone system was perfec...
I think he might have meant that you can play Mass Effect on PC.
A valid point, I guess, if you want to be strict about it. But, for the majority of gamers I think, PC purchases aren't always an option...
Pc gaming will never completely disappear. It appeals to a more dedicated type of gamer with a better grasp on what they want.
Personally, I find it easier just to turn on the PS3 or Xbox.
Thanks :)
I have to agree. The Final Fantasy series will continue forever, simply because people do keep buying them day one. As much as I hate it, I am one of those people.
No matter how the game does critically, sales are for definite.
Definitly. Something that will shock us instead of just sell units.
Those games really are no shock to anyone, especially now that the PS3 is selling a little faster.
This whole generation has had developers operating only within their comfort zone, things they are certain will sell huge amounts. More innovative titles have either been banished to Live Arcade/the PSN or canned all together.
The former isn't too bad, but still limits the amount of people who will have access to such content.
I get the feeling that by the ...
always interested in what comes out of the PC gamers mind.
If this came out for the PS3 or 360 you'd hear a million people complain about the graphics and oldy feel to it.
Not for the PC though, it's just another interesting game.
It's why I'm starting to get more interested in PC gaming.