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Game journalism is no different than journalism for the film, music, television, and book industries. Generally critics, reviewers, and journalists are just not on the same level as your average consumer. Thats not to say the average consumer is dumb, but that the journalists often have a bit of an elitist attitude in their chose field and they seem to hype the positives too much, and make the negatives bigger deals than they really are sometimes.

5260d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Your Elite premium membership says you get things on PS3 before regular members on PS3. Thats the system you picked so stick with it and don't worry about what people on the other systems get.

5267d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

If the gamers that buy and play the game outnumber the whiners then they will keep making it. If it keeps growing more and more every year then they know more than the armchair industry analysts. Its only milking when the sales decline. Shame on businesses making decisions based on making money. How sad are people that they would rather blog and comment on the things they supposedly hate instead of going towards the things they like.

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I thought it had plenty of color, more most games. The thing about environment color is that most things are what they are. Snow is white, grass is green, wood most likely a shade of brown, steel and metal objects are going to be in brown to gray range. This majority of the map color is going to be based on the setting of the map. I'm fine with games taking some liberties with the maps so they don't have to be completely connected to games story. A rundown carnival in MW3, a golf cour...

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While I believe the Japanese devs need to stay true to their culture and style, they also need to evolve somewhat. Society evolves and peoples taste change. There isn't a perfect formula but they need to find a balance in doing what got them their in the first place, innovating, and also giving people what they want. All the Japanese developed games feel like they have barely moved forward from last gen.

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Well it depends on how we define release. When Halo 4 releases this fall will it be on a new Xbox system. Hell no. Both the XBox and 360 were officially announced a good 18 months before they launched. Don't count on a new console this year. Its possible you could see a fall 2013 release for a new console and then a re-release of an optimized Halo 4 for the new console launch. It won't release this fall on two consoles, but could release on two consoles over the life of the game. Don...

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First, I don't feel we should be comparing 3rd person shooters with FPS games. Its fine for casual discussion, but each category has plenty of depth to be compared within itself and there are just too many differences between the too. Gears and Uncharted should be compared to each other not up against COD and Battlefield. And why do we continue to compare the single player focused games like Bioshock and Borderlands with the multiplayer focused games. Once again, apples to oranges. No ma...

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The first thing people need to realize is the general customer base is not the hardcore gamer who follows the gaming news daily, contributes to forums regularly, and treats every game as if its a major release. The broad library of PS3 exclusives might not appeal to all consumers. Especially in this day when consoles sales are around 50 million, Call of Duty games sell 10+ million on a console yet other games that sell that are hits sell maybe 1-2 million. The crowd out there that are COD-onl...

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PS3 elite members get it before PS3 non elite members. Thats what you paid for, thats what you should be worried about. You just paid for all the content up front instead of by the pack like in the past. Even when you got map packs a month later in the past everyone still paid the same price right? Just like always, Xbox gets them first because Microsoft paid the big bucks. If you choose to play on a certain system then you are choosing the games, services, and rules for that system. You ...

5286d ago 3 agree2 disagreeView comment

Nice hit grabbing headline. No mention of Arkham World at all.

5297d ago 9 agree0 disagreeView comment

Well this is kind of misleading. There is no mention of an hard expiration dates being set. Just that they can post of notice prior to things being removed. Im sure if people to a hard look at tall the user agreements we enter into online I'm sure will see the same type of thing with every company. But usually we just hit accept and move on. Companies have been doing this as long as online gaming has been done. If the amount of active online users falls to a point where it costs too much ...

5305d ago 6 agree3 disagreeView comment

Its still that price on the website now. You either have to find it in store or buy online and have it shipped to a store. It won't allow you to ship to your home.

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Well seeing as the previous COD titles are still doing better than previous titles, looks like the staying power is also in CODs court. Battlefield 3 is no more of an advancement over Bad Company 1 and 2 than MW3 is over Black Ops and MW3. You can only change so much before you lose the formula that makes a game franchise successful and turn it into one of the other franchises. Let Call of Duty be Call of Duty, let Battlefield be Battlefield. Lets just enjoy them both for what they are and no...

5312d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

Give me all the maps from the last 5 games and I'll be good for bit.

5312d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

Hasn't this video already been confirmed as fake?

5313d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Only 1 reason is needed. Trolls. Over the past few years Metacritic has had a history of fanboys down voting games. At first it was system exclusives, now its just moved onto Call of Duty. Seriously these anti-COD people are pathetic. If you don't like a game then move along. Don't waste your time waging some war against a game that obviously millions of people enjoy. And while you are at it get of your high horse thinking that only the uninformed and casuals like cod. You elitist ...

5321d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

First off, everyone uses this "same game" argument. If people really believe that they are uninformed or just have an agenda against the game. You could make a long list of things that are different or improved. But everyone acts like each game must be 100% new, and thats never been the case a mile long. I'm pretty sure when I played all the COD games or Assassins Creed that they didn't hoodwink me and just give me the same game again. Critics are allowed to say games are ...

5323d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

You can't call COD the same game every year, without saying every other game that is the next successive title in a franchise the same game every year. There is a certain formula that has to remain in the game to keep it within the bounds of the franchise. Unfortunately because COD is the juggernaut of the industry and because so many hate it just because it is so popular, that now I feel it no longer gets the same treatment in reviews as other franchise games. And its really not fair to...

5323d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Everyone who paid for the premium before the end of Nov. it s Founder. Everyone else who has a FREE membership to the FREE portion might have to wait a little while. Paying members should have the priority.

5323d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

the trolls look for every reason to hate on the popular games that they can find.

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