Live and let die anyone?
@ WeAreLegion
Our continent doesn't have it anymore...
I initially watched it for the AAA games, but it's Gang Beasts that got me excited the most. Just like you said, they covered a lot of genres - except for racing games (why no GT7?)...
MediEvil, Spyro the Dragon and MoH:Underground.
Honorable mentions for Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Gran Turismo 2 and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. That's my childhood right there.
One of my closest friends is a professional test driver for Ford Europe and he's literally addicted to GT5-GT6. He isn't exactly what you'd call a gamer, but he bought a PS3 and DFGT especially for GT and will buy a PS4 when GT7 drops. Granted, there are better sims on PC, but I don't hear any of those stories involving the 'other' franchise.
Ever heard of action-reaction?
The way I see it, the less hype an exclusive game garners in the current climate of fanboyism, the higher its chances are to be embraced by review sites. The opposite of course has been proven to be true the last few months.
To me it seems that most reviewers nowadays enter a new game from the perspective of the public opinion. GT5 and Driveclub for example were going to change or at the least uplift the driving scene according to word of mouth and both got extremely harsh re...
Lol @ 4:00
It's like he wants to say "that is just bad design, how unfair can a game get".
I loved every second of this game and actually liked that the alien drops out of different vents. Sometimes you feel hunted non-stop while other times you can just complete objectives without ever spotting the xenomorph. That's actually how I managed to beat the Last Survivor DLC after 25 deaths on hard - the alien was suddenly absent for an entire mi...
@Yi-Long
True dat! I just saw the Miyazaki blu ray box set on amazon.co.uk and wanted to order it, but it seems it's only in dubbed English. I don't understand for the life of me how you can watch such brilliant and typical anime movies with a layer of Disney sprinkled on top.
But as you said, Americans can't stand "reading" movies or games, so entertainment companies adapt this reasoning to the rest of the Western market.
Anita to the rescue... oh wait...
Journey did this to me, especially from the point someone joined my play-session and stuck with me till the end.
We danced, flew through the sky, helped each other out, chimed back and forth, were curious, patient, caring.
When we walked into the light at the end, we spiraled around each other, drawing an endless double helix in the sand. It was like we were meant for each other, like we belonged together and shared a deep understanding. I was actually in man...
I didn't even finish Outlast because it got under my skin too much. The scariest I've ever been was playing P.T. There's a moment where Lisa starts panting if you approach the bathroom that really got to me. I was wearing a surround sound headphone playing in the dark and it actually sounded like she was constantly breathing down my neck, no matter which direction I turned. Incredibly well done.
I'll give Fear a try - my brother always told me that the bullet...
BTW, I hope South Park does an episode on this very topic. It'd actually be out of character for them not to do this, since gaming is becoming a recurring theme on the show. Maybe if someone explains it with simple cartoon characters and a nice morale at the end, her blind followers will start to see how foolish and thin the case she is trying to make actually is.
Anita calling out gamers as misogynists and potential rapists feels all too similar to Bush Jr. pointing fingers to the Middle East and calling everyone over there a terrorist. Those allegations may be true in the case of some individuals, but not enough to invade an entire country over IMHO.
Even their tactics are the same. Instill fear into the minds of people and make use of a few isolated incidents combined with a sh!tload of manipulated evidence (watch Anita murder strip...
Lol, I was already googling this too... Computer Entertainment as early as the 1930's, haha, even Nazi Germany couldn't dream of something so futuristic back in those days.
"Sooner or later your old console dies"
My old PSX is still going strong, as is my PS2 and obviously the PS3. By the time the PSX dies (if it ever does) I will probably have lost all interest in playing those really old games. The fond childhood memories I carry with me will also be worth a lot more than risking harming them by replaying 20-30-40 year old software.
P.S. This already kinda happened when I inserted MoH:Underground in my PS3 a few year...
I bought my Xbox360 exactly one year ago along with the entire Halo & GeoW collections and aside from Combat Evolved my favorite game was Halo 4. It's just like you said, the controls are super smooth while still retaining the Halo feel of the first games. Aiming is so natural that you feel like a bad-ass without the game holding your hands.
BTW, I feel the same way about the GeoW trilogy. While the first two games are really stellar titles, the third installment feel...
God of War III opening scene and titan battles FTW! Pulling of Cronos' fingernail was just pure awesome.
What Naughty Dog does is the best option IMO, where you can pause and select "resume" or "skip". I hate it when I get a new game and I accidentally skip the first cutscene by pressing start. There has to be a pause screen first.
First race I entered with full on raging storm and the lightning struck one of the electricity towers, throwing sparks all over the track. Brilliant!