I am so looking forward to this. Love me some Dynasty Warriors.
If you can't leave a comment without hurting a person's feelings, perhaps you need to work on your articulation.
For fuck's sakes:
Do all you people ranting on about how she "doesn't have experience in gaming," genuinely fail to understand what the job of an executive manager is to such an embarrassingly level as that?
When you're heading a company of thousands of people across the world, if you have time to be a gamer as well you're doing your job wrong. If you have time to actually go making the games yourself, you're doing even worse. <...
@SilentNegotiator - it is objectification, though, and that's an equal problem to sexism.
What. A perfect fit for ebooks is flipping e-readers or Retina screens and such things. Because the technology is superior for ebooks.
Simple as that.
lol.
With eBooks, what is important is resolution, more than anything else.
The GamePad's resolution is incredibly poor compared to some other devices out there.
Ergo, there are better options out there for eBooks.
@klecser
It would be a pretty easy job if I got hired by Sony or Microsoft to remove region locking. Both already have.
You seem to being going on and on with this ridiculous assumption that if a console is region-free, then the people that make games for that console are somehow obligated to release their games in every single region there is. It doesn't work like that. The Japanese guys still make games for the Japanese audience in Japan on the PS3. Th...
What. Removing region locking doesn't suddenly mean that every game made for that console needs to be released in every market.
Lol. How silly.
Why I have a couple of Japanese PS3 games that were never released outside of Japan. I can play them on my PS3 because its not region locked. Simple as that.
Lol. The funniest bit is you go on to call people uneducated hypocrites who don't understand business. This, ladies and gentlemen, is t...
@Triforce079 - admit it, you didn't read the piece, did you?
What has that got to do with anything in the article?
One of the quickest ways to tell someone hasn't actually studied art - they say some tripe catch-phrase like "everything is art".
No. Anything CAN be art, but it depends on whether the artist takes that anything and works it in a way that speaks to the social or cultural context in which the final object belongs.
THEN it's art. That's why some art sells and some artists become famous, and other "art" fails to sell and other &q...
Well, that second paragraph goes without saying. If the masses got to determine what is and isn't art based on what is popular then Harry Potter and The Hunger Games would be the pinnacle of literature. Thankfully this isn't the case and there are people out there that read and study books that weren't written at a level where people with a lobotomy could understand what was going on.
The issue that this article speaks to (and I agree with) is that the games indus...
And just like that manageri in his/ her utter brilliance just proved that centuries of history and the study of art is completely irrelevant. All that matters is whether people stuff that makes them go "hurr, fun."
Congratulations on changing the entire future of mankind, Internet random person.
Yeah see, actually hoping that thousands of people go out of work is pretty sociopathic, even for an Internet personality.
There's a substantial difference between hoping that a company uses a mistake to its advantage, and hoping a company self destructs completely.
I just want it on the record that I (the author) completely disagrees with the above comment.
No.
Yeah. In your opinion.
Last I checked you weren't the supreme arbiter of quality.
Seriously. Anyone who claims that Ni No Kuni, XCOM, Tomb Raider, Frozen Synapse, and Fire Emblem are "crappy" games has more than a few screws loose.
Ace Patrol and Pandora's Tower are more niche interest games, I'll give you that much.
@eyeDEVOUR - doing us a favour? No. Making a game for us to play? Yes. And they have a right to make revenue from their IP.
"Why support a block on used games?"
Because some people like supporting the people that make their favourite games, rather than the pockets of parasitic retailers and consumers.
I'm the author of the piece, and I went back and read it again just to be sure.
I... didn't compare it to The Avengers. I positioned both this game and that film within the broad blockbuster genre of entertainment (as opposed to, say, independent entertainment or arthouse cinema/ games). I made no direct comparisons between the two at any stage.
Comprehension failure. Perhaps if you spent more time reading articles than getting halfway through and ju...
Oh I am so glad another publication enjoyed this. I scored it 3.5/5 for much the same reason :-)