DUUUUHHHRRRRR. Why do people go on review threads and discuss reviews and scores on them? I don't get it! Huurrrrrrr. So weird! MMmmmDAAAAAHHRRRRRRRrrrrr! And why do people talk about my Little Pony on My Little Pony forums? DDDUUHhhHuuuuHRRRRrrrr! I hate My Little Pony! I don't get it! NNnyyyAAAArrrhrrrrr!!!
If game reviews are nothing but expressionistic fiat, arbitrary feelings, and contrarian hyperbole then there is no point in having them or any value to them, beyond the author getting to vent, and reader deciding if the author sounds like a serious credible source of information and judgement, or not.
If readers can't trust reviews to mean something, to follow common conventions, to be accurate, specific, and sometimes even skeptical of their own feelings, observations, ...
1.) Halo 3
2.) ODST
3.) Halo: CE
4.) Halo: Reach
5.) Halo Wars
6.) Halo 2 (still good though!)
And I'll have to figure out where 4 fits in there when it gets here and I've played through it.
"Haven't played it...stop trying to make up for the bad reviews it's recieving. ;)"
All three of them(four if you count Blistered Thumbs)...the ones that don't make much sense?
Normally I'd agree with that, in theory, but Konami really has been doing some weirdly incompetent stuff lately. They seem to have developed some kind of corporate dementia where they can't do anything right include port old games into cheap HD collections that look and play better than their SD original. You have to wonder if that lack of quality maintenance might not eventually affect some of their AAA stuff too.
Not that Tom Chick has much credibility.
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The greatest praise and strongest criticism I can level at gamearena.com.au is that it sure is gamearena.com.au.
N'stuff.
Peace.
(drops the mic)
They do if they are paying for development costs.
If not then they just act like a distribution, marketing and support service for the developer and have very little say in how things are done, don't own all or part of the IP, etc.
It's just that most Dev's don't have that kind of money and don't want to risk it all on making a game that might not sell. This making a publisher a supporting partner is the best option for a dev making an e...
I liked the Halo2 campaign apart from switching to the Arbiter for about half of it when I'd rather be the Master Chief, and not having a real ending.
And some of those Jakal Snipers were pretty tough to get by even on heroic much less legendary.
But I loved the addition of dual wielding and wish I could have it back, and really didn't miss the health packs very much. I loved hijacking and being able to drive most of the vehicles (including wraiths) ...
I suspect the commercials that play with it, the Mountain Dew and the Doritios deals helped pay for it.
But yeah marketing for Halo stuff has almost always been pretty top notch and weirdly disarming.
The Halo 2 E3 trailer where chief dives out onto a Covenant vessel.
Halo 3's 'Kids -> Bubble shield' add. The Museum for the final battle against the Covenant shorts and interviews with old veterans remembering how the human ALMO...
Now GAF will eat his cyber-flesh and drink his e-blood and pile his gnawed virtual bones on the refuse heap right next to Denis Dyack's.
If you want to see physics fails in halo then go to Machinima and check out Fails of the Weak from Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter.
They have 110 + episodes of two guys making fun of multiplayer and campaign clips that people send them of stupid deaths, weird accidents, ironic coincidences, unintentional betrayals and strange physics.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I wish there was an optional piece of equipment, a tea-bagging mine, that goes off if someone tea-bags your corpse. It would make a nice armor mod or 'respect' perk that you could earn by playing a long time.
Also I think it could be cool if instead of banning rude people they were sentenced to a penal battalion for some period of time and got armor with prison stripes on it and a face shackle that represents that they are muted and everyone could have a filter on th...
3 Days? Nope. I got standard shipping. I might have it b thursday if I'm lucky. :( Guess I'll just work on my Mechromancer till then.
I'm not even planning to get a copy of AC III for a long while(next summer maybe? I dunno.) So, no worries.
The problem is sucky reviews from clueless people that fault Halo 4 for not changing to play like other "modern" COD clones such as Homefront or Killzone 3 (not 2, just 3) with overly-scripted "big" set pieces, waves of easy to kill respawning drone AI coming from monster generators until you advance to a point that switches the reinforcements off, very tight linear "haunted fun-house" type tunnel levels, and iron-sights.
If somebody doesn't...
Because they might decide not to spend $60 on new games, get the new console next year and might not renew their live sub. People HATE being ripped off. They tend not to buy stuff from companies that rip them off just because they got a game that they paid for shipped to them early and wanted to play it.
If the multiplayer is good then it is justified. Who cares if it is "needed" ? What does that even mean? Same thing with so-called "unneeded sequels". The question is whether the sequel is a well made, fun game, and worth playing not what some silly self important "game enthusiast" arbitrarily and unilaterally decides is needed.
Yes, this applies to Bioshock 2, the upcoming X-com real time third person squad shooter thing that used to be an FPS,...
Huh. That music near the end had me tearing up a little. Corny but effective.
I kind of hope they add a firefight mode eventually even if it costs money ($10-$15) as a DLC add on.
Poor Volition and Relic. I'ma miss 'em.