I think it most likely made him think "I can do better than this"
MGS had better graphics, better story, and the single player stealth-action gameplay was better done than the supposedly great set pieces of MW2. The MW2 AI is pathetic, the shooting feels like spraying a water hose (press L1/R1 and let fly) and multiplayer is just full of campers. After KZ2, it seems like trash.
KZ2 is about 2 million
UC2 was 2 million + pre-xmas, would be 3-3.5milliion by now, expect it to hit MGS levels of 5 million over its lifetime.
Alan wake should not flop - I hope it does not - but its worth remembering that AITD sold barely half a million on the 360, and Alan wake is coming in a much busier year. Even a million would be a sales flop considering almost 5 years of development and probably a 25-30 million development budget. Also, MS tends to spend their massi...
Games that get overhyped and are used to troll against competing games naturally come under attack/ If turn 10 had kept their mouths shut, nobody would care about them.
Very simple reason why Live is not worth $50
Imagine if MS made a PSN-equivalent service with online gaming free
And tried to charge $50 EVERY year for the addtional "services" Live offers: Cross game chat, slightly better friends list
How many people do you know who would pay the $50?
XBOX gamers do not pay $50 because its better. They pay because they have no option, every other system has free online and nobody, ever, asked for a paid premium servic...
Incidentally, the difference between Bayonetta visually beyween PS3 and 360 is much less than the massive gap in quality between ODST or L4D2 on one hand, and UC2 and KZ2 on the other hand.
And the reason its getting so muchg hate is because of the huge hype for a game that doesnt innovate much and is practically an improved version of DMC. Strange that Darksiders and Dante's inferno is getting relatively neglected.
Reasons for buying a PS3:
1. Better offline games. The biggest selling point for the 360 are online-oriented shooters such as Halo, but now there are enough multiplats such as BF:BC and CoD that offer the same on PS3. However, the PS3 has a large number of exclusives with a cinematic, story driven sigle-player such as UC2, Heavenly Sword or MGS4: the key thing here is story; there are other games that can compete with MGS on stealth for instance
2.Unique exclusives: you might not ...
The same way Killzone 2 lost to L4D!
Riddick?
My blurays (current and planned):
Planet Earth
Its a wonderful life
Sherlock Holmes (great movie, no matter what the critics say, London never looked better or dirtier!)
Tempted to buy Inglorious as well though
Anyway, not a surprise to see Blu-rays take up such a large chunk of sales. New DVD releases are not exactly cheap, could be like £15 typically, and anyone who can afford to pay that much could easily pay £5-10 more for the higher q...
For thats what it its. The PS3 is $299. The 360 elite with 6 multiplayer (forget wifi, blu-ray, etc) is $600. The wii with 2002-era specs is $200-250.
The bottomline is that Sony is selling the PS3 for half the price of the 360, despite the PS3 being better engineered and with superior tech. So either the people buying the alternatives wise up and stop paying for overpriced consoles, or Sony has to find ways to charge more.
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Please, no killstreak. The reason KZ2 multi was so good is because of the highly tactical element, with continous movement and squads trying to outflank each other and very little camping. I hate CoD's multi, so much camping, all because of killstreaks
The dual campaign idea is brilliant, especially because it would enhance playtime without adding much development cost, and most gamers would love to play both sides. I suspect the majority would prefe...
Downvote him and ignore him
The AI was a magnificent achievement I must say - havent seen anything like it before or after
Great article, and equally great bunch of posts. I really hope the developers at GG read this.
#1 on the wishlist is coop for both killone 3 AND resistance 3. Ofline and preferably online.
Would love to see some class based coop in KZ3 similar to Resistance 2 or UC2.
And a better story, thye just need to tap into the backstory a bit more, few other games have such a fascinating, layered setting as Killzone but most of it is not apparent in the game.
Also,...
Totally agree with you. And also one of the best realised open world / sandbox environments ever
The great thing about the story was that it wasnt fitted around some set pieces, but rather the plot flowed naturally through the different settings.
And while it has been pointed out what a down-to-earth main character Drake is, I find it surprising that most "best chicks in games" kind of articles seem to exclude Elena, because I found her to be one of the most attractive, yet realistic, video game characters ever. Neither a damsel in distress nor a politically-correct super...
Well, I will be playing heavy Rain, Last guardian, Demon's souls and Uncharted, millions of other gamers will not be able to or choose not to play these games. Sucks to be them, really.
As long as all of these sell around 1.5 million on average, that will be enough to make them profitable.
I am not familiar with this site, but this article seems ok. Good to get excited about all the exclusives coming to the PS3, and I am personally more excited about 2011 than 2010!
Also, lets kep FF14 out. Its annoying when PS3 or XBOX games are counted as exclusive when they are also on PC (Mass Effect 2 day one purchase by the way)
All the xbox haters dont get it - 360 wifi is better than PS3 wifi because you pay for it. Just like Live > PSN or the $200 360 hard drive is better than the PS3 one you can pick off the street or $200 HD DVD is better than free BR