Oh thank god.
I was waiting for someone to finally point that one out.
I honestly wouldn't cry to see a remake either. I know it's faulty to compare things, but the original has a pretty shoddy AI (gotta love that run side to side, crouch, side to side, crouch again), and it don't look too pretty no more.
I do love that game though, warts and all.
The current market for bandwidth just needs to catch up. The biggest companies are charging ridiculous rates because they can and are raking in the money.
The bandwidth required for OnLive isn't that bad, in either case.
"...big throbbing Italian meat missile..."
Quoted for horrifying imagery.
Guild Wars and Lord of the Rings: Online have mild to moderate success, but still nowhere near the sheer profitability of WoW.
Both FFVII and MGS are spectacular games with excellent execution of narrative... mostly. To put them on a top ten worst is asinine and, as others mentioned, flamebait.
MGS, especially number 4, suffered from over-writing concepts that are explained in as excess detail as card games duely-things in Yu-Gi-Oh! This, of course, is due to the creative control exercised by the rockstar developer (Kojima). They're all great, but they could have used a bit of editing to trim ...
BioWare probably isn't going to switch their policy. Heck, it was mostly EA's influence that convinced them to even put DA on PS3.
Multi-plat is a good thing, especially in the case of a really good title. That way, more people get to buy and play it.
The list is fine, but, like most lists, what's there seems to be completely arbitrary. Out of hundreds, thousands of excellent bosses, a few were drawn out of a hat.
ND is great, spectacular even, but the best?
It's a heavy-handed statement motivated by hero-worship. I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but I think Valve, BioWare, Blizzard, and Tim Shafer (mostly kidding) have enough strong points to merit discussion on that.
Oh, and for the record, Bungie made a large number of spectacular games before Halo. Not that many folks really played them, but hey...
Ah, but will the business users be enough to sustain an employee base of near to 90,000? Or will the company shrink to a manageable size?
Of course, there's also a slight blending of the consumer/business world: tablets and smartphones becoming a part of office life. Heck, there's plenty of conjecture that computers themselves will be utilized less and less. What happens if Google puts out a PC OS that's better than 7? Does anyone really doubt they could do it...
...and then we can all hold hands and sing Kumbayah while loving Mother Earth.
I think the general point is that Blizzard easily could have snatched up the rights to DOTA and had the perfect marketing position as the primary platform upon which the original was created.
Actually, he has provided many, many statements disparaging gamers across the board. As a whole, what he has said has strongly implied that anyone and everyone who plays video games as a hobby is unintelligent and not worth his time, regardless of their age and education. Indeed further from that point, he has made many religious-based references that everyone gamers, again regardless of their life-status and beliefs, are concretely hell-bound.
His character is really as real as real can get, just like Stephen Colbert.
/sarcasm
Curious. Then how should they respond? Their only option to make things fair would be to charge $7 for the DLC on Steam as well. In a way, they're not really doing anything differently than normal; Valve has always had big sales to coincide with more free DLC.
Direct the irritation to the bean counters in Microsoft, who don't understand the concept of a loss leader.
There's also the fact that digital distribution creates significantly lower cost. Valve has already seen a significant profit from L4D2, so why not have a sale to coincide with a release of free DLC?
The sale, in turn, boosts the amount of copies purchased by a *huge* margin; well more than enough to justify the lowered profits from selling it for less. Steam's been doing this for a long time. Every time a TF2 update (every one of which has been free) hits, they do...
I've got my money on a Pimps At Sea MMO.
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Not at all trying to contradict, but I'm honestly curious. You said it was the third in sales in terms of the OS...
I admit I'm no superb knowledge of cellphones, but isn't the Android and RIM OS on several different phone models? If so, that may skew the results.
If that's the case, then Apple being third for phone sales with just one (plus previous generations, I suppose) product should be somewhat... well good, right?
Where have you people been?
Most gaming review magazines/sites have been rating on a 7-10 scale for the last several years.
7's are seen as generally average, as in, middle of the road. Now, my math might not be what it used to be, but I thought 5 was in the middle of 1-10.
Though probably a large pile of wishful thinking as far as this being a Valve-related announcement, it's possible that creative control rested with the folks running the VGAs instead of anyone at Valve. This *could* (again, wishful thinking) imply that particular references aren't as static.
Though a weak explanation, radiation itself blah blah, has decay and half-lives and whatnot. Weak, but not impossible. Maybe I just bloody want Ep. 3, or maybe I just want them...