In response to your reply, absolutely. That cynicism doesn't come from nowhere.
The overlying messages in Zero Punctuation, that modern gaming is crammed with a lot of unneeded practices, are very justified.
Street Fighter II gets released a LOT.
I'm really starting to believe that this "resolution-gate" issue is going to be persistent throughout this entire console generation.
While I agree that toning the violence down in the "definitive" edition is ridiculous, the Definitive Edition of Tomb Raider was not developed by Crystal Dynamics on either system. On PS4, it was Nixxes. On Xbox One, it's United Front.
I agree. Less combat, more exploration please.
When it comes to having control options, technical specs and a very convenient layered dashboard, it's great. As everyone said, it's a very, very proficient piece of hardware, small flaws aside.
@abzdine
I have to disagree with you on Sony supporting Vita so rigorously. Sony let the Vita out on the market and pretty much let it fend for itself. That's a very bad way to get people to buy your system. While the PS4 hype was building, Vita exclusives have bee...
The system is priced rather reasonably for what you're getting, but those memory cards...
It's a very dangerous industry to work in these days and an even harder one to get started in. In some cases, a single game can determine whether or not an entire development house stays alive or not. With so many studios closing in just the last few years, the business side is becoming too big for its own good.
Focus on big budgets is only bringing market and sales expectations higher. Eventually, it's going to give way and the entire industry is set for a huge chang...
People want a bottom-line answer. That's why the internet refers to Metacritic all the time. They don't have the time or energy to actually read a review and would rather base their purchase on a single number.
I'd rather read the review because there are some things in games that I can tolerate better than others. Say a game gets a score of 3/5 due to its short length. Some people might be instantly turned off if a game is less than 10 hours long. I personally am...
Yahtzee's entire Zero Punctuation series is basically a parody of professional reviews. He's widely known for being very critical of games, but that's really his act talking.
He's an intelligent guy, all things considered. While everyone is raging over his "reviews", he's looking at professional review sites and just throwing a pie in their face.
Call it weird, but ZombiU really isn't a horror game to me, at least not in the same field as Amnesia or RE4 is. ZombiU was scary more in the way that Dark Souls was scary: fear of death and losing all your progress. I wasn't really scared of what was killing me, but more the fact that I was being killed in the first place.
It certainly has the horror aesthetic of zombies, and while it definitely emphasizes the "survival", I have trouble calling it "hor...
"DLC I felt I NEEDED to buy"
I noticed that with the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3 that raised the level cap. Something as simple as that can add a lot of replay value, even if you don't touch the story content that came with the DLC.
It really depends on what the DLC is and, like you said, how much of an impact it makes on your own gaming experience.
Lots of love for Criterion and Bioware. Can't really argue with that, though. If only Criterion could do a Road Rash reboot...
Did the original Earthbound on Super Nintendo even release in Europe? It released on Virtual Console, but I don't recall it ever getting a physical release. Could that mean anything?
Agreed. Incredible way to make real characters out of figures that don't even have faces.
"better, not bigger"
THANK YOU.
This is the exact same page as the other submission. In fact, other sites debunked the rumor before Kotaku even posted the first one.
How about editing the original N4G submission stating what's really going on instead of having two articles for double the web traffic to Kotaku, while the first article's misleading and inaccurate headline is still gathering clicks?
This is ridiculous.
This. Changes. EVERYTHING.
You mean this one, because there's a lot of trolling here: http://n4g.com/news/1442978...
If you're talking about the Kotaku one, there wasn't much going on there at all.
I can see people being upset with buying a game that technically is still in the works. However, this isn't kept in secret or anything. As long as the early access is advertised as being "in development", then gamers shouldn't be pointing fingers at the developers.
War Z was a big problem, I totally agree, but I think it was also a lesson that digital distribution services need to take early access games seriously and not let just anything pass on the storef...