I buy something like 5 games a year, but I don't buy any games I haven't tried.
I play through the singleplayer, and if it was innovative, exciting and interesting enough then I pony up the money.
If I'm interested in the multiplayer, I'll either aim to try it in the beta or I borrow the game before buying.
If you're happy to buy sequels on the assumption that they'll be as good or better than the original or are will...
NUH-UH MINE IS BETTER
It reeked of me-too-ism but it had a couple of clever ideas and on the whole was still a step above the kind of dreary tosh that gets released nowadays.
You know what is also free and highly enjoyable? Wanking.
Most utterly idiotic argument I have ever heard.
A convincing argument for why FarmVille is wasting away the only life you will ever get? How about:
- It has no compelling storyline, no clever plot twists, no social commentary.
- It is artistically vapid and doesn't look much better than your average flash game.
- There is no skill involved. It is ...
Don't get me wrong, I don't like the idea of people not being able to sell their games second hand, but in cases where it's the retailers who are re-selling them and earning a huge profit, nobody besides them benefits.
What Activision should be doing is bringing down the price of older games faster so that buying new becomes preferable to buying used and they capture the profit instead of the middleman. Instead the way they're going about it here, used game bu...
u mad
Your question should be phrased "is there anything sexier than a hairy armpit?"
Console games have teething issues too, if not compatibility, then possibly server issues for example, so this is hardly a PC specific issue.
Sure PC games are arguably more prone to these kind of problems early on, but then the ability to build your on PC to your liking (presumably the cause of the issue in this case) is its own advantage.
The Witcher had a more focussed and involving story and definitely had a less generic and much more interesting ending but then Dragon Age had a HUGE scope. It wasn't so much the free world aspect, as there was just so much more content all up, and none of it was all that bad.
Anyway I think the worst change is the simplified dialogue options, everything else I generally don't mind. Single phrase options where half the time you don't know what you're really ch...
What I'm most surprised by is that people actually put up with this.
You really can't deny the game is geared towards even the casual gamer being able to find a way of racking up a large number of easy kills.
As if there aren't dozens of alternative games out there without these lame and cheap ways of getting kills. On PC especially, Team Fortress 2 is balanced to a crisp and is still receiving updates despite being released before the original M...
The mouse control with the Move is only one part.
Playing Starcraft 2 without a keyboard for hotkeys is like trying to use a controller without opposable thumbs. You'd need either a full keyboard plugin or another device with a hell of a lot more buttons.
The thing is, console manufacturers and distributors can expect the hardcore audience to keep on spending money regardless. They're the ones that already have a 360 (or PS3, or high-end PC) and will continue to buy new games for it, not the ones they're trying to hook in with this.
Not to mention casual markets are very much quantity not quality. The Wii has shown this well enough.
Dunno why you expected Kinect to offer anything for the hardcore audie...
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Man, I'm such a lucky guy. I always win those 1,000,000th visitor contests! Should be getting those 2 cruise liners, 5 private jets and 6 holiday resorts in the mail any day now.
I bet it will be just like every other gaming show, where the producers intervene and put some hip photogenic numbnuts on the screen who don't know a thing about gaming.
Couple of things:
The audience they're going for is not the one that can build a PC for $600, they're the kind who buy prepackaged PCs from a department store for $1500 only to find out later that it can has a cheap videocard which can't play any modern games.
The whole appeal of OnLive for more than just the casual gamers as I see it is, is being able to play games from ANY console. Sure the subscription seems steep, but what would be the compara...
I give him kudos for apologising but I still don't understand how he can even hold a personal opinion that games are not art (even if he's retracted it publicly) when he clearly admits he hasn't played any modern games.
Surely, as a professional reviewer he would know that opinions based on hearsay without actual experiences are just unwarranted preconceptions? Kind of undermines most of what he writes in the rest of the article.
The whole debate ...
Wait a sec, did everyone read the end right?
"But, as we stated regarding cross region support, it’s something we’re working to implement after the launch of the game and it will allow you to connect to other regions should you choose to do so; as I mentioned, we’ve taken steps and are continuing to work with local ISPs on ensuring Oceanic players have as fast as reliable a connection to our Southeast Asia datacentre as possible."
I've never hea...
+1 person who bought the Oddworld pack. Also, all 5 episodes of Tales of Monkey Island was too hard to resist at $11 US.
Two things:
1) I wouldn't buy this. I don't even own a PS3.
2) Well all I can say then, is enjoy wasting your money on rent shops instead of saving up to pay for another game.
What you're basically saying is you'd rather funnel your money to a middleman who has nothing to do with the development of the game for the 'privilege' of trying a game before you buy it, rather than saving that for another game purchase and act...