There's SO much potential.. i'm just scared they're going to ruin it all on wii rip-offs. They could truly do some groundbreaking stuff here (like that guy on youtube who did that picture-frame/glasses-less 3d thing with the wii setup) and I really hope they don't waste the potential.
Greenberg: "it also knows when you're masturbating, and sends a video capture directly to Microsoft's central office"
Most of the people I know who hacked theirs did it because Sony didn't put out enough PS1 games for it. They all loved the prospect of playing their favorite PS1 games on a portable and would've gladly paid $5-$10 for games, but it's not until now that Sony put a heavy emphasis on doing so. They could've easily supported this sooner.. the PSP is capable of so much more than Sony does with it, they need to realize the potential of their own machine. Hopefully the go will change this.
Aren't all of their games technically DLC?
Gears and Killzone just have a stylish bleakness about them to reflect what's happening to the game world. Even from playing the 1st killzone they talk about how Helghan is a very ugly place, and for say Gears 2, so much of it takes place underground that it makes sense to have a sort of dreary color palette. I really don't mind in games like that, because it fits and contributes to the overall atmosphere (though I would've liked more sweeping vistas in KZ2 to show off the engine more).
I'm extremely excited about this, but I have to say that all these previews have left me with a ton of questions. If you're with a party on a quest, who makes the dialogue choices? Do you have to decide who gets to talk and make the decisions? What if I'm questing with someone and I decide to save that captain, and then the other person turns around and kills them and screws up the plot progression I wanted for my character? The more I think about this, the more I want to go it alone and ...
No prob, 50 cal. Glad to see people believe me, despite the fact that I'd never advise anyone to believe some random commenter on a website lol.
While it's certainly worth the value, if they dropped the price I have a feeling the sales would skyrocket. They simply can't do it yet, though, because they're still losing money on each console they make. Until they get those production costs down, a price cut would only cause them to lose more money regardless of how many units they move.
The camera's definitely an issue, the same way it is in say Wolverine. Imagine having to control the camera in God of War, trying to do combos and moves with the face buttons while also trying to use the right stick to see what's going on around you.
Edit: you know, now that i think about it, the face button controls are the same as god of war. square/x is regular attack, triangle/y is heavy/special attack, circle/b is grab, and x/a is jump. Only you need to move the camera a...
Wow, I can't believe it got that good of reviews.. my prediction in my comment above has already been proven wrong apparently. It's really not a good game.. it's not unplayable, but it's uninteresting. I was so burnt out on mediocrity after the long-winded exposition that I had to stop playing.
I've played it, and it's bad. Not horrible, but barely decent. The controls are sloppy, the narrative is atrocious and instantly makes you adverse to caring about the plot in the slightest, and the graphics look like PS2 graphics at times (though in all fairness, they look better than GTA4 at other times). It's obvious they had a load of preorders for it and didn't want to lose them so they held off on the demo and made everyone hold off on reviews.
No, I can't actually prove ...
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with them taking their sweet time to make it perfect. But they teased us about showing SOMETHING (more than concept art), and now I have blue balls.
Source engine isn't exactly one engine, it's a hodge-podge (love that term) of tools and assets that they sort of cement together into an engine. They update it one piece at a time, currently they've only been focusing on the AI and doing the whole director thing.
EDIT: at least that's what i remember from reading interviews, i don't wanna go stating this and have it turn out to be completely false
People, people, c'mon. Let's all calm down and b!tch about the real issue here.
WHERE THE FLYING F@CKITY F@CK IS EPISODE 3!?!?!?!?! Maybe my memory is a little shotty on account of my years of wild hedonism, but I'm pretty sure Lombardi said they were going to reveal it before 2009, or at least a month or two after the year change.
I really hope they let you pause to select suit powers this time, a la bioshock. holding the middle mouse and pointing around the wheel while getting shot at just didn't feel natural to me. I have a feeling the console versions will have this, but the PC version won't.
This seems like the first big game in a while to not have any reviews posted before it's released.. coupled with them stating that no "pre release" demo would be put out, it makes me wonder if they know the game is bad and they don't want to lose all those hype-based presale orders.
I really hope it's a good game, it has so much potential.
Sev! Good to see you back so soon.
Man, i'll be so pissed if they water it down for the US. With Sony publishing it's unlikely, unless the ESRB gives it an AO rating and gamestop won't sell it (retarded policy in my opinion, given that they check IDs more thoroughly than most bars).
It has so much potential, yet unfortunately it feels like they're only going to use it for pointless wii bullsh!t to try and move in on Nintendo's market.
I can't help but feel that this really won't help allay those reports of sexual harassment and pedophilia on XBL.
And yes, I know you're referring to Milo and not real 10 year old boys.