Some people were upset about the Potato Sack deal on Steam, calling it greed when all it really did was promote indie devs like crazy.
Some people are upset about silly and trivial Day One DLC. It's honestly such vestigial content that only really serious collectors or enthusiasts will snag it. It adds nothing to the overall appeal to a massively great game, but for some reason people who won't buy it like to complain that it exists.
So yeah, I have a...
Here's an interesting thought about EULAs.
Most of these agreements are reached after purchase and installation. In essence, you buy the thing, and then you agree to the EULA. If you, for example, read the agreement and decide to say no to the stipulations found within, you happen to be completely out of luck.
Couple this with the fact that at least certain types of titles can't be returned to the store any longer (as in, someone bought up store copie...
Grrrr. The ending sequence always pissed me off. I kept getting the early death bug, so I had to get a trainer to crank up my character's speed so he wouldn't die.
Except MGS4 doesn't really tell the story via environments.
It tells the story through cutscenes. Lots of them.
@Midnyt
The words "too soon" apply very keenly in this case.
The funniest thing about this is Microsoft wouldn't appear so foolish now if they hadn't donated any funds at all and hadn't attempted any marketing gimmicks.
You can probably name a thousand companies who haven't donated, and no one thinks twice about them. Nor would anyone criticize them for doing the same type of marketing strategy in a, "Help starving children in Africa" drive.
The problem is that the Japan incident is shocking a...
@upturned
A noble sentiment, but you'd be fooling yourself if you thought it was all about "the games" or "the features" for most people.
For most, it's arbitrary: whatever they decided (or their parents decided) to purchase at the time. Since money was spent, the purchase needs justifying. How do you do that? By hopping on the internet and spewing garbage about how every other system sucks.
As per usual, most people dive into the comments section to spew their uninformed joy regarding their personal favorite without actually reading the article.
Yes, the title is flamebait; there's no doubt about that. However, most of the article relates how Apple hasn't ever embraced much in the way of gaming and further speculation on what could happen if they did.
Don't forget that the iPhone and iPod Touch has been encroaching upon the handheld ...
Eh, it's a decent theory, but there's plenty of people who still have their bloody PS2's laying around, so HD remakes aren't really that big of a deal. In addition, it'd be different if they made no changes or improvements. Sure, HD is a small addition, but it's better than just a repackaged nothing.
BGE also has a pretty solid cult following. Most folks who play it have the reaction, "Wow, I never realized how good this game was."
Hopefully, a little more interest in the game will speed along the slow development of BGE2. They say they're still working on it, but it sounds like the team if *very* small at the moment.
"The game released a stream of angry bees at me, but do I complain about it?"
There are no laws that state any CEO has to act in the best interests of the shareholders. Of course, any CEO would get fired pretty damn quickly if he/she didn't.
The main objection is in itself your point: games production is run as a corporate money machine as opposed to an intriguing, artistic endeavor (not getting pretentious here). This means innovation (risk) is limited, and carbon copies of things that work are spun out with vigor.
Shallow, same...
If all-digital content is the wave of the future, and by god there are plenty of devs that want to do it, then whoever has Valve and Steam in their corner has a helluva leg up on the competition.
I heard somewhere that Steam accounts for 80% of the PC digital market. This includes Direct2Drive, GoG, Games for Windows Marketplace (oh look, Microsoft is already failing there).
It also doesn't quite work to put a primarily multi-player experience game on a list of single-player titles.
@Longrod
You really ought to tell the government about that time machine of yours. They're going to end up getting it anyway.
But wait, you should already know that.
@Blacktric
I'm not saying it's right, wrong, good or bad, but generally it doesn't reflect well upon the story when someone has to hop online for a rudimentary explanation of what the crap happened.
Don't forget the article actually used the words "Man Cave."
There is absolutely nothing of redeemable worth to salvage the horrible images that "Man Cave" brings up.
We'll move on when someone makes a better game.
Aragorn?
Old Spice has been doing commercials in a similar humorous style for yeeeeeears now. Bruce Campbell did a bunch of them.
Kevin Butler commercials are definitely good, but the concept is not totally original.