That's definitely saying something too. The atmosphere in 2033 is bloody amazing.
That's the hamburger hill scenario you're talking about. Very occasionally can a stationary defense spot be really neat, and I'm thinking of a few instances in the Half-Life 2 episodes as examples (although a couple of them were a little irritating).
Most concretely I'm thinking the Antlion charge in Episode 2. That scene had such great build to it, as your defenses keep getting more and more tested.
Ah, but Bungie has the very rare situation where the full rights to intellectual property they're developing belong to them, not Activision.
That's a pretty big deal, and it also has heavy implications that Bungie won't have to worry too much about Activision cramping their style. Because of their attitude and design philosophy, a lot of analysts didn't think Bungie would be able to handle working in a Microsoft environment, but they got by just fine it seems...
Average at best?
Myth, a series which created and defined real time tactics also featured a detailed, amazing story.
Marathon, an FPS whose physics, world-detail, and story completely obliterated Doom in terms of quality on every level. The only reason it's not more well-known is because for a long time it was Mac only. To this day, I still think the Marathon series offers one of the best narratives of any game.
Oni was about their worst ...
God, those dwarf bombs could be so wonderfully unpredictable. I once had a line of satchels ignite and launch a dud bomb right back into my poor little Ebi.
I also once used 80+ charges to wipe out the entire group of ghols worshiping at the Godhead.
I truly hope that there's a very tiny number of individuals who would refuse to play a good game simply because the developers were exclusive to a different plastic brick for a while.
Yeah, I'd actually agree. Considering the high use and prevalence of smartphone/tablet style devices, coupled with the gap-bridger to said style in the Chrome OS, I can imagine a lot of computer OS design changing in the near future.
@wallis
Aside from the expensive purchase of the new operating system, my guess is the new console which may or may not be coming out soon probably won't have reverse compatibility. I can just see it now, "What better way to play your old 360 collection than on the brand new Windows 8 operating system?"
@Drekken
Consider it as a product of software sales. You've already stated that you wouldn't ever own a 360. However, suddenly you can play the games on your PC.
I'm in the same boat as you. I don't have any interest in owning the console, but there are a few games I'd buy. Assuming there's more than just you or I who might do the same, what would be lost? Even if a fair number of individuals decided to forego buying the plastic bric...
Opening up software sales to an untapped market would by no means be shooting themselves in the foot, unless said sales aren't sufficient enough to cover development cost of emulation or if they're concerned about losing overall sales to piracy (which seems horribly unlikely).
Whatever it means, Microsoft is probably trying to add as many bells and whistles as possible to their newest OS in order to not continue losing large portions of the technology market to Google...
The advantage would be to open up the possibility of more software sales to an as yet untapped audience.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but I don't own a 360; I tend to not care for Microsoft business practices, and there just wasn't very much which interested me enough for a purchase.
However, I would probably buy at least a few games if it were opened up.
Assuming the cost to create emulation like that isn't staggering, it'...
@NathanExplosion
Generally, as in most cases follow this trend, multi-plats tend to appear pretty similar to one another regardless of the unit's processing power. Very rarely are there significant differences.
But standard hardware has changed enough since the previous console gen to where an upgrade to latest and greatest (or at least close to it) would create a difference.
Of course, fidelity is getting to the quality point where you&...
They've put together some really great games, and they really know their way around a narrative. Sometimes it gets a bit clunky though, as evidenced by early AoC and Dreamfall(which I still loved to death).
I like how kramun talks about *exclusives* in a particular way which benefits only his argument in favor of the Wii but still manages to list several non-exclusive games.
Fact is, Mass Effect, RDR, BioShock, and so on to infinity aren't exclusive to the PS3, but they cannot be played on the Wii.
Since you're using the word *exclusive* as a means to display the games on Wii which cannot be played on PS3, then any list of PS3 games should include everyt...
It's amazing how little interest I have in alsmot anything on handheld's list.
Aside from the fact that several are most certainly not exclusives, about half of the games are from the over-milked, long-running franchises that ceased being interesting a generation ago.
I'm not going to posture about "real gaming" or get into pretentious bullshit, but rehashed stories that were rudimentary at best are just not enough to justify interest in...
Most of the PC games I see via Steam, assuming they aren't collector's editions or something of that nature, remain at the $50 price tag when first released.
Now, granted I tend to wait several months for the price to drop, so I can't be fully certain, but I only know of a couple of PC games released at $60. Modern Warfare 2, StarCraft II, (though not a Steam game), and Dragon Age 2.
Now, there is a bit of a difference between EA and Activision in...
I heard somewhere that Steam holds 80% of the digital games market.
That means GoG, D2D, Games for Windows Live, Impulse, and so on splits the other 20%.
There's a very good reason why, and it's not because Steam had a head start.
I think Steam would be pretty hard-pressed to offer games cheaper. I rarely spend more than 5-10 per game there.
Valve and Steam run on a customer-centered business model. By taking good care of customers and providing a great service at low costs, they end up with an overall solid profit.
It's a much more risky endeavor than simply pricing around the normal levels. Sometimes sales don't generate more purchasing. Sometimes a good reputation isn't...
I was not impressed with *insert somewhat popular trailer/game/movie/book/magazi ne/boxsocial/radioprogram/polit icalspeech* and felt the need to express it to maintain my hipster cred.
See what I did there?
It'll probably be 35 on Steam during the Christmas sale.