But it's not 4-0.
It's 3-0.
The internet may be saying that the PS4's won but it hasn't yet if pre-orders are to go by.
I bought an Xbox specifically to play Jet Set Radio Future - and also liked it for Outrun 2 too.
But the original Xbox disappointed me in so many ways. The advertising for it was frequently childish. It was all about bad mouthing dudes across the internet, trying to be a 'man'.
The original Xbox, all brute force crammed in to a huge box compared to Sega's more elegant consoles, didn't ever seem really worthy to me to pick up Sega's offerin...
Hello! I am a PS3 owner , never owned an Xbox360 due to general disappointment over RROD and exclusives, liked Sony's presentations on the PS4, was despondent at Microsoft's XboxOne beige-like reveal and am not particularly bothered about having the Kinect but, once the games were announced, I am considering an Xbox One now (but not ruling out a PS4 later on).
I was never put off in the slightest by the used game policy. I buy new and the family share plan sounded goo...
Yes, that will happen to each individual in time. We just wish that, in some cases, it happened in a monetary sense as a result of nobody wanting to advertise on their site.
I've no real doubt that Microsoft probably have a kind of policy of shafting the exclusives line up in the second half of every console that they release for the purpose of having a better launch line up for their next console.
The problem is - I don't really hate them for it.
If all they wanted me to do in the second half of the Xbox360 was play Kinect then that's their call.
I do hate them for not allowing me to play online for no extra ...
I disagree about the part that says 'I'm religious'.
I don't disagree that you might be religious but I disagree that I am. Religion is a representation of the need for a universal ego, an umbrella to shelter all, no matter whether innocent or entirely sinful, against life's storms. Not an umbrella that I want to crawl under, regardless of whether there is actually a God.
The guy in that picture looks like Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor.
I sympathise with both aspects of the argument.
I'm someone who played the demo of Journey and just would have found it too pseudo-artsy to play for long spells. I just don't seem the point. Couldn't I have got a similar feeling from playing a Team Ico game last generation?
On the other hand, The Unfinished Swan, The Cave- these are games with not just a sense of wonder but also some humour,
"There's one mistake that they all make, and that mistake is listening to their customers."
Exactly!
If something is worth having, it is worth having on its own terms. Not on the terms of people who do not take a large financial risk and who had no design or marketing input in to the thing. People are not called 'CONSUMERS' for nothing - they will CONSUME all the profits of your business if you let them.
I personally was...
The Commodore 64 had a few games that the Spectrum didn't have but the Amiga was really an unparellelled leap as a percentage - from 64k to 512k in one generation!
It's the Amiga that needs unambiguous praise - although it did have the less popular Atari ST as an equivalent.
Hear hear Rip Cell. Look at Resident Evil 4 - universal critic praise but now - any Resident Evil fan worth their salt tends to say that part 2 was the best.
I would still like to play Resident Evil 4 again because it is often a very good horror game. But it is far too cheesy sometimes hence why Devil May Cry was actually a spin off from early attempts at making RE4.
Rage is a decent game that has a scary atmosphere. I thought that the AI was brilliant - too brilliant as it was so easy to get in to a deadly situation. Some beautiful graphical effects if you can overlook some pop up textures.
If you have a surplus of supplies in The Last of Us it'll be because you've been scavenging in between fights. You fulfilled your duty in helping yourself to stand more chances of 'survival'. If you didn't pick up anything, a) why are you playing the game not to try to be a survivor? and b) you would have found it harder.
It's odd how the accusation against Microsoft (too many shooters) isn't levelled at Sony. Sony probably have MORE shooters - Killzone, Resistance, Infamous's powers, The Last of Us, Uncharted, all the PSN Move light gun games (even some of their platform games have shooting - Ratchet and Clank).
And when Microsoft launch something that is definitively not about shooters - the Kinect - people say that it's too childish.
The Xbox One has got a r...
I had no problem at all with Microsoft's original policy on used games. This grubby trade (you'll never know where that disc has been - give it a good wash) clogs up games shops, leaving a tiny new games area.
For the sake of saving just £3-£5 in some cases, games shops will strongly suggest that you buy second hand from them because of the profit margin.
If it means that games shops can afford to bring down the price of new games faster may...
Rare had fairly nice launch games in Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo. People still have fun on PDZ to this day and maybe its weird cheesiness is part of its charm in that respect- but it wouldn't get away with that if, underneath that, there wasn't still a fairly decent shooting game for the time that showed off the new console's shiny HD visuals.
But even so Deep Down looks very interesting.
I don't know whether any console that doesn't contain a game by Rare or Remedy can definitively be called that.
If a game is given 3 out of 10 it's not necessarily bad, least of all by hard scoring (though not necessarily right scoring) Edge.
The self awareness of it will arguably make it worth seeing for some at some price level along the line.
Xbox Live prices are the main reason to hate Xbox.
Oh.. and with his penetrating gaze and hare lip, Brian Barrett looks like the 'creepy uncle' he talks about.
Don't throw around metaphors if you can't take being called it yourself.