"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin.
Games can be an artistic medium, but as a whole. Not all of them are actually art.
The same can be said about any artistic medium.
Books.... Stranger in a Strange Land = art. Anything by Brian Lumley = not art.
Movies... The Godfather = art. Anything by Michael Bay or Kevin Smith = not art.
Music... Charles Gounod = art. Lady Gaga= pretentious nonsense.
TV... Monk = art. Anything with any one of the Kardashians = not so much.
Painting...
The really sad thing about #4 is Augmented Reality is smartphones and Tablets superimposing a game onto the real world. What the article is actually describing would be ALTERNATE reality.
"Right them in the comments section...."? Really?
After the first Assassin's Creed, I wasn't expecting much from the sequel. Then I played it. The words, "vast improvement" just about cover it.
Would you and your copy of CoD like a little privacy?
The old Palladium RPG Rifts would make a nice MMO.
Three tons of character classes.
A pile of skills
Magic
Psychics
Monsters
Bionics
Robots and power armor suits
If it's done right, it would be epic, in the strictest sense of the word.
Be thankful that they're not just catering to you. Sony couldn't afford to publish all these awesome games if you were their only customer.
Edit: kidding.... kind of.
I was going to say that. And Road Rash. There seems to be a shortage of motorcycle racing.
That's where I'd put the preorder DLC. I see your point though. I only had room for five. That would have been #6 or 7, right behind different preorder stuff at different stores.
Five more things next gen doesn't need.
1. Recycled games - I don't mind sequels. I have four Assassin's Creed games. But let's make sure the sequels do SOMETHING new. Ok?
2. Overpriced DLC- DLC is fine. Just don't try to sell me a $5 map pack for $15. Or freebies for $5. Or a $20 expansion for $60. Be more reasonable with the pricing.
3. Unfinished games - Don't ship it until it's ready. I know games are complex monstro...
98% of the world's people are weirdos.
So weird is normal.
Keeping up with the Kardashians = normal
enjoying the story in Heavy Rain = psychopath
Makes perfect sense.
I couldn't decide whether to give you a well said bubble, or a funny bubble.
I went with funny. I think that's what you were shooting for.
Agreed. The three best aspects of the PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation were, in random order.
1. Variety
2. Variety
3. Variety
People have no respect for gaming journalism; reason #27.
"Seeing an animal that is nearly instinct," EXTINCT, sir, extinct.
Unfinished really is a word. No need for the hyphen.
"Let alone yearly franchises make more money," let's try the word furthermore next time.
"When next generation roles around," ROLLS. Role is a noun. Roll is a verb.
Do not write another article until you have bookmarked dictionary....
Women in provocative outfits pose with.... whatever: Games, game systems, cars, mashed potatoes, the Tardis, power drills, rappers, weapons.
Men say, "take mah moneyz, naow!"
So who's really being exploited?
I have to disagree with a relatively minor point in the article.
If the PS4 were going to be released next year, then it would have been announced at E3. Then we would have seen more about it, features and launch titles, at E3 2013.
The rest of the article seems plausible. It may or may not be accurate. For all we know, Kojima may not even be working on MGS5.
It would have to be a prequel. After the ending of MGS4, a direct sequel featuring Solid Snake wouldn't pass the logic test.
I'll concede that point. Some official info from Rockstar would be optimal.
"We've been killing americans in video games since the dawn of video games."
I don't remember killing any americans in Space Invaders, or Pong, or Pac-Man, or... oh wait maybe Donkey Kong was an american.
I'm kidding. We've played games as career felons, freelance terrorists, aliens, monsters, and demons. Why is playing as an assassin killing templars such a big deal?