"There's an easter egg on Twitter that may tangentially link to the next game's title, and that title of course means that the next Mass Effect games will be prequels, and this is why this is the best thing ever."
Look, when I have these dumb-ass speculative conversations with my friends after a lot of alcohol at 3am, they're welcome.
When it's a bunch of people I don't know, pretending that alcohol-fueled, sleep-deprived "...
It's probably less about trying to get on Konami's good side are more about GI trying to help Gamestop move a good portion of those 1,000,000 that are sitting on Gamestop shelves right this moment.
Staying on Konami's good side is probably a distant second.
"This is a marathon, not a sprint."
Then why in God's name did you sprint to get the damn thing out the door?
I don't know any successful marathon runners that haul ass for the first mile, and then crawl for the next 12, before resuming a normal pace.
Put your console out when you're ready to support it, and let it coast at a SOLID level instead of a shitty one.
I don't know. Has it lost "it is" way?
That is not how that works. Video game developers don't develop games on spec.
You want an idea to never be looked at? Send it unsolicited to someone whose business it is to make products that your idea would be used for.
If you're a CEO in America, and you get fired, somehow, companies will still think you're qualified to be CEO.
If you're not the CEO at your company, and the CEO gets fired, you will never get to be the CEO.
It means that Xbox is now being run by a guy whose last name is "pole" spelled backwards.
Wow. "Could be a must-buy"? Do you even understand what words mean, reviewer?
It's either a "must" buy in your opinion, or it isn't.
I think there needs to be some general outcry for people to get reviewers to review games from a customer's perspective.
There are tons of games that I wouldn't mind playing for free, but once I plunk down $40-$60 on them, I'm far less happy about my experience. Maybe instead of a 1-10 score, it can get a "Full Price/Half Price/Rental" or a "I'd Pay X".
Length doesn't affect a game's QUALITY, but it definitely does affect its VALUE.
Movies are 2 hours of entertainment. They cost $10 opening weekend. Why am I paying 4x for the same hit?
Answer: I'm not.
I look forward to it, I just haven't ever really been all that thrilled by it. Some of the XBLA games have been decent time killers, though.
I think it's VERY important that we all remember this as the Microsoft/Machinima Debacle. It's the only way to make sure that the guilty party is appropriately shamed.
Also, anyone who was caught participating should be shamed, as well.
You're getting disagrees because, no, not all companies do this.
All companies DO "get their hands dirty" with questionable advertisement.
However, I've yet to see Nintendo, Sony, or even freaking EA pay a content delivery network to pay their users to stealth advertise a product for them. It's the shadiness of the particular act that's got everyone pissed off, and you're trying to sweep it under the rug, hence the disagrees.
Let's not forget here... Microsoft is kicking down the youtube guys a couple bucks per 1,000 hits.
But they're forking over a FUCKTON more to Machinima.
One side is getting off pretty scot-free here, and that's some straight-up bullshit.
They're saying a lot of good things in the job description... But job descriptions have a way of being just as much BS as press releases.
Here's hoping that they get someone worthwhile.
No, this looks like a game that will be so bad that it's possibly fun to watch other people play.
It pretty much looks like that's what they did.
You use $200 of electricity per month? My roommate runs a server 24/7, we both have high end PCs in addition to the server, a 60-inch TV, AC, fridge, washer/dryer, 2 360s, and our bill is $100/month.
I think you're probably overlooking the value of "studies" like this and could be saving yourself a significant amount of cash on your electric bill every month.
This is pretty ridiculous. If Jack were being a nice guy, he wouldn't tell them to "sell it", he'd have GIVEN it to someone. Probably via official Sony channels, with a big to-do. Some kind of "click here to win Jack Tretton's PS4" event.
So many people reacting and not reading. Click on this link to understand what happened here:
http://www.pcworld.com/arti...
Here's the salient, damning quote from the article:
"[T]he unsealed documents showed the reason the FBI didn’t challenge Microsoft’s petition. The agency had obtained the information...