There's maybe one puzzle in the whole game that is not intuitive and ends up disrupting the flow and throwing you out of the experience.
Since the puzzles do not form the primary mechanical elements of the game, having a hint system (that you can disable should you wish) to help you through them is more than fine. Most objections to that kind of system arise when they actively trivialise the components that aren't secondary - if it was like Enslaved and babied you t...
This is a good list. Legitimately shocked by this.
It looks pretty. Maybe it'll play alright as well this time, was so disappointed by the original.
By doing this, they have ensured the level of coverage will increase and the likelihood of individuals being spoiled prior to release has gone up. Unless you approve of BioWare getting embarrassed for making Bad Decisions (after suffering DA2, it warms my black heart), then I don't see why you'd be celebrating.
The idea that this should be treated as a serious question is a hilarious reflection on the low quality of gaming editorials.
BioWare have been circling the drain for a while now. Mass Effect 3 is their last, desperate shot at relevance once The Old Republic fails. Of course they're going to be protective of it.
Microsoft will probably keep pecking away at Japan until they either get decent mindshare or Sony or Nintendo actually take steps to drive them out of the market. Until trying to capture Japan hurts the bottom line too much, Microsoft isn't going to make a retreat, and it's silly to suggest they might.
PS3 games chart all the time - the thing is that all HD titles are "front heavy" with sales. Basically 90% of all the sales a game will see happens week 1, typically within the first 2 or 3 days. It's pretty normal for games more than a month old to be massively outstripped by new releases in weekly sales numbers.
As for the PS3 being "non-existent" in the UK, that's pretty much not true. It's behind in consoles sold, but its games chart all the time, and it...
Nah, we've effectively passed the point where it's possible for the mainstream media to silence anything. Games will be either protected as free speech or simply weather any storm of controversy because the medium's growing size and relevance makes it harder to attack.
Mary Whitehouse died fighting a losing battle.
Tekken isn't really hardcore. It's gotten more and more casual-oriented as time has gone on - there's a reason they spent more time fleshing out Scenario mode than they spent making sure their netcode was up to scratch (it wasn't and still isn't; whoops!). They honestly don't care about making a good games any more.
It's also easily the mash-friendliest and most juggle-heavy fighter you could play.
To add to this, it's not just this mode that was found concealed on the disc. There're a whole bunch of them, and Activision clearly intends to charge for them all.
Nintendo Power is still trucking, huh? That's quite impressive. I'd thought every publication but Edge and Famitsu had slipped into irrelevance and bankruptcy.
Craziest moment (certainly from this list) was definitely James Cameron. The rest is mostly silliness; James Cameron seemed to have actually gone off the deep end.
Not that the cosplayer isn't tasty, but Lum's not a video game girl.
This seems like the wise course of action. Atari aren't in a position of strength in a weak economy, they really can't afford to finance a full HD game. Especially one based on an old, dead IP with no guarantee of making back its costs.
I don't know that it's an especially interesting thing to know. My instinct is to call it nonsense, though, because there is nothing DS in there. Mario Kart Wii plus wheel (not vanilla Mario Kart Wii!) sold better over the course of the year than one of the strongest handhelds ever? Seems unlikely. I think something is off.
That this needed to be clarified at all says a lot about how poorly games journalists did their jobs. Too much getting caught in the hype.
It has some nice potential, but it seems remarkably easy to mess up mascot kart racers.
The things claimed here are largely true, but whether or not 2K said them is another matter entirely. Rapture as a setting is excellent.
These guys like to pick winners and back them even when doing so makes no sense. They - like the press - still think they're kingmakers; the high of helping the PS2 kill the Dreamcast before it even launched still hasn't fully worn off. And they see confirmation of their theories in everything, disregarding any other possible explanations or anything more complex than the kind of tribalism they whine about when people respond poorly to their bullshit.