Interesting how when this guy talks, his love for cars and for what they are creating shines through.
And can we stop pretending Forza is in the same class. GT has better graphics, 1080p, 16-player online, night/all-weather, possibly track creator, more cars, WRC/Nascar, a revamped online, next-gen damage model, better in-car models and deformation, its so far superior it relegates Forza and NFS to the same level as Mario Kart.
And when I hear people praise Forza's physics model, ...
So now its "PS3 only beat 360 by just 60,000 units - Sony fails"
I can see 2011: SOny climbs ahead of 360 in installed base but takes 4 years to do so - Sony is doomed!
Looking forward to playing jena and Austerlitz
Whats interesting is that post-2008, how many games have come out and just "delivered" - i.e., no dissapointments or major flaws, excellent 90+ or mid 80s scores (despite being judged on a higher standard than Halo/GTA)
Batman
Borderlans
AC2
UC2
KZ2
infamous
R&C: ACIT
You would have expected some of these to flop but all these games have been consistently good.
And seems like ME, Splinter cell, heavy rain, BF:BC, MAG a...
1st game comes out with crippling flaws which are ignored to justify high scores
2nd game remedies some of those massive shortcomings - and reviews use that as a reason for high scores.
If these issues were so important, why were the initial titles scored so high?
For instance
ME1: texture pop-in, weak graphics, poor combat, massive load times
Halo 3/ODST: generic combat same as XBOX1, horrendously poor graphics and animations
Gears 1/2: imbalanced w...
imo, among the 360 exclusives, fable 3 or Splinter Cell 5 are more likely to have great graphics than Halo reach - Halo has never been known for graphics.
And no God of war = fail. Maybe they were a bit embarrassed to have a Sony exclusive 1-2-3-4: GT5, GoW3, Heavy Rain, Last Guardian
50,000 sales confirmed year one - no console like the 360 for JRPGs
I am sure Edge would look for some really innovative gameplay before they score this more than 7/10, right Edge?
I have played a fair few matches on KZ2 where both sets of opponoents were working together, as a team - those were among the best moments in my gaming life. Its all about tactics, teamwork, working towards the team objective rather than trying to rack up kils for yourself
Best stealth game ever - the way they handled stealth was brilliant, and excellent story/characters to boot
Sony is a failure, and the PS3 is proof of that.
-The cell processor is useless for gaming, and developers will never make any games for the PS3 because it is too hard to program.
- The PoS3 has no games.
- The split RAM / weaker video card means that PS3 games will never look as good as 360 big-hitters such as Halo 3.
- The blu-ray is a waste, even the biggest titles such as FF or MGS will never use more than a DVD capacity and PS3 games will also load slow as a r...
Well, look on the positive side - at least BFBC2 looks far better than the best looking 360 exclusives
A console that is not backward compatible. Apparently that was a very bad thing when PS3 dropped it, does that hold true for natal as well?
Less than 1.5 years from the release of Fable 2 - interesting.
That does raise a fundamental question - with so many games providing a weak single-player experience, and focusing on online, you wonder how many gamers feel cheated because they prefer to game offline. Of the 70 million odd gamers on PS3/360, more than half possibly never go online. Which means that when they pay $60 for say MW2 or Halo 3, they get barely a few hours of gaming.
Well, last gen PS2 and XBOX were heavily inferior to PC almost as soon as they launched. Byt this time, console / PC gaming are still very comparable, except for a few titles such as Crysis. OF course, latest PC rigs can play at very high resolutions, but the fact that you are so far from the TV takes away that disadvantage for console games.
COuple of things that are sure to annoy me about most reviews of the game:
1. Huge amount of criticism on the graphics, animations and gun sounds. All of which, to be honest are not great. But MAG is about gameplay and massive squads, not graphics, and these same sites gave a free pass to L4D2 or ODST, and they are as poor in these areas. Even MW2 is weak compared to the best in class (KZ2 and UC2).
2. Dismiss the game as "generic" or similar to other shooters. ...
Mass Effect 1 sold less than average shooters like Lost planet, barely crossing 2 million. FF on PS3 outsold ME in 2 weeks in Japan alone. Might be a good idea not to hype this as a champion for the 360, as with such poor sales, it wont be long before EA is forced to port this to PS3
Well Resistance 2 got mid-80s scores despite a quite brilliant class-based online coop, and improved graphics.
Gears 2 got 90+ despite a broken, glitchy online, unbalanced weapons, ridiculously weak story and characters.
Only one of these seems overrated
I bet you are the kind of guy who thinks Halo is the definitive shooter sim and CoD is the definitive infantry simulator