The figures for DE:HR. if correct, are on the weak side.
This would be the first five days, including pre-orders....
NCAA Football 12, in its second month of sales, was only 4,000 copies behind the top spot.
Perspective:
L.A. Noire sold 1.6 million first 7 days. (new franchise and a tough sell).
Fallout 3 sold 4.7 million first week.
Crysis 2 sold over 600,000 first week.
(not including downloads).
lot of unwelcome popup ads accompanying that link....
better to go directly to Amazon for info....
what would you recommend as the system requirements to play DE:HR on a PC?
I don't mean the minimum requirements, i wouldn't want the game to struggle....
I am interested in having the best graphics possible...
I would be interested in learning more about how the first boss can be defeated without firing a single shot.... (give or take)
I had (still have) a character whose augmentations were invested in improving his stealth characteristics: to me, in a role-playing game one should be allowed to make choices that have some bearing on every future major action in the game. I was NOT expecting to "sneak" by any Bosses... but i also wasn't expecting to have all my augm...
When a game impresses me, I usually play it thoroughly and get every achievement/trophy. That will not be the case with Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The fact that it encourages a player to believe that he or she can create a distinctive identity (say, as a Stealth expert) but then contradicts its own premise by throwing in Bosses that can only be defeated through extreme combat -- is enough to make me question what is going on.
I also question enemies popping ...
I knew next to nothing about OnLive until my attention was drawn to its existence by Gamestop.
I checked out the website ( http://www.onlive.com) and was amazed by the sophisticated service being offered, at very reasonable prices.
On Sept 30th there is a special Deus Ex; Human Revolution gaming event, the winners get a 3-day trip to Montreal to meet the game's designers -- there is obviously a since...
Amazon offers Deus EX: HUman Revolution for PC, unopened, not fiddled with, with free shipping and with a $10 discount.
Verification: http://www.amazon.com/Deus-...
As for Gamestop, I understand that their revised policy (now, several days into the controversy) is to return sealed games with the "offending" ...
If it's any consolation, Amazon is offering $10 off the regular PC price of $49.
(Also, Amazon does not open your game and fiddle with its contents.)
$10 Credit Order Bonus
Order the standard edition of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and get a $10 promotional credit toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com
It would be better to improve the Achievement system rather than remove it.
This article suggests that we need to ban the achievement system in order to protect people from themselves; which is Nanny-state thinking.
Nothing compels me to hunt for achievements, if the requirements for getting said achievement are ridiculous or boring. It's just a matter of learning to say NO, whereas the author of this article wants to rely on NO CHOICE.
Do they "own" every copy of a game until they sell it? Or are games there on a consignment basis? Not sure what the business contract terms are in cases like this.
I understand from a later news story that Gamestop is now returning its copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- that is, those with a coupon they found objectionable but did not publicly say they found it to be so objectionable it had to be (surreptitiously) removed.
It's my understanding, according to this news story, that Gamestop is pulling Deus EX: Human Revolution from its shelves and returning them to the manufacturer.
http://www.pastemagazine.co...
Can't be the end of the story, though. Presumably a new supply will soon be in the pipeline, sans coupon, removed by the manufacturers. ...
I suppose one could ask, at one point would you care?
to buy a game that has a DLC bonus offer removed (with no external notification that your purchase has been tampered with)?
to buy a game that has had its booklet and warranty information removed?
or even had its disc swapped for something else? You seem to be suggesting that it is a "buyer beware" marketplace and that game distributors have no responsibility for anything they d...
In my view, i am entitled to receive the game, intact, unopened, and not interfered with: I want the game as offered by the manufacturer.
That is what I regard as 'my game" -- the right of a consumer to buy a game as advertised.
Wrong choice of words? Perhaps. But let's not have pedantry triumph over the obvious ethical issues involved in this case.
I was not in the market for the PC version of DE:HR -- but hearing about this unethical business practice will put a stop to my ordering any more games at Gamestop.
Even if Gamestop apologizes. They had a moral obligation to tell their customers that a well-advertised special offer had been removed.
Whose game is it, anyway? Mine or theirs?
movies: i rely entirely upon downloads as my source (Netflix, iTunes, even HD torrents) through high-speed Internet. Haven't bought a disc-based movie in nearly two years.
games: (I have both consoles); i install to hard drive immediately, for better performance. I expect that both DVD and Blu-ray will become less important as they are already irrelevant to those with high capacity hard drives and fast download speeds. I am also, once more, becoming more interested in co...
I tried the demo and it did not make me want to buy it.
I, too, wanted to believe in the game...but honestly couldn't.
in what city, what state, which court?
just asking for minimal coherency in journalism.
I played DA:2 on the XBox and got all of the 1250 achievement points.
Does that mean i really liked it? (Well, not exactly...)
I thought most of the companions were very annoying (except for Varric and Aveline). Isabella was, at least, amusing; but Anders was a treacherous neurotic, with Merrill and Fenris not far behind. The makers of the game may have believed that "conflict is the essence of drama" but who wants a bunch of drama queens for com...
Since I own both consoles, i play what i like and couldn't care less about whether a game is an "exclusive" or not: i am much more interested in a game's inventiveness and overall quality.
Personally i would hate to be confined to any one console... let alone having to make one console into a passionate and intolerant religion.
Worth noting: "has shipped" is not the same as "has sold"
NPD reported rather weak sales in North America first week.
The dust hasn't settled on "the truth" here. Remains to be seen.