I own 14 titles now for the PS3.
Some of the Killer Apps:
1) Warhawk (Have COD4, and the kids like it - but for Multi Player, they keep on insisting that we play Warhawk)
2) Eye of Judgment (The tech is amazing.)
3) Ratchet & Clank (Great game)
Don't know about Uncharted yet - have it on pre order - it will apparently arrive here on 13-15 December
Gamespot now has a tarnished reputation. Anyone who sides with them may suffer collateral damage. So the advertisers will jump ship. Who wants to be known as someone who buys blood diamonds? You rather pass the deal by than risk your reputation. And reputation costs billions to maintain with huge long term effects.
Serves them absolutely right. They played with the people - now they are seeing the revenge of the scorned gamers. And companies who try to sell you soda drinks - w...
Doubt if it will shift large numbers. Will be a niche market game. Sounds like interactive National Geographic for the PS3. Great for education I guess.
The homebrew titles will become better - will never compete with the Sony commercial development tools. But it gives a hacker great pleasure just to be able to achieve something like this. Should be great for some Linux programs. Now we will most probably see Beryl 3d Desktop interface... Not that it really does anything useful - just cool.
Some graphics editing programs like Gimp will benefit I'm sure.
Don't whine because your favorite platform will not get easy 10/10 reviews. I would like to read a review and trust it - not wonder if a backhander caused it to be good because it is for a specific platform, or downmarked because it is not on that platform.
The 10/10 scores for mediocre games, and 7.5 for stellar ones may please little minds because "their" platform is "winning". But in fact - we loose - because we can get duped in missing a great title, or...
The technology is maturing, the PS3 architecture is not the nightmare it was to work anymore, more people now have experience with it. EA will not cripple a game out of spite. They might lag behind in the development, but as the tools becomes better - so will the EA games become better.
Get over it kids. This is business. They won't make games for a platform that does not move their software units. And they will focus on the best one for the platform that sells the best. AS the...
They just did honest reviews - honestly. All those gifts and advertising revenues from some particular publishers coinciding with the high scores is just coincidental. Just pure chance. And the guy giving a low score to the one very generous publisher being fired is just coincidental too.
Honestly....
And so the reviewers little empire comes crumbling down. And the parent companies will take a credibility hike as well.
This game might actually sway me to get a Wii.
Seems like the media is really turning its attention to this. Biggest news is not games, but those who reviews the games and those who pay them to write favorable reviews. And about time it was.
Well - lots more revelations to come - sure of it...
My wife did not want me to get a Wii (maybe she thinks i am using mine enough???)
But a game like this would actually get her vote... then she don't need to go to the gym that often...
for an April Fools joke????
Or maybe it is just fools that work there...
People will be blaming others, pointing fingers, hiding gifts, cooking books, wondering if they should quickly redo some of the fudged scores...
In the end it is really simple...
Close the company. Take one or two insiders, even the ones with dirty hands - especially those with the dirty hands, start a new company - to publish investigations into the whole review industry fraud. Interview a couple of insiders - publish the cases where the money changed hands - he...
The parent company begins to duck for cover... This is gonna be a huge one...
CNET started commenting sooner than I though they would. Seems like they are feeling the pinch somewhere. Maybe the buzz is spreading all over the net already...
So... this one has to go all the way. Get the confessions... Rip the whole cesspool open... See who crawls out...
The word is out on the street - or - the web. All over their reputation is now shattered. The money they took better lasts, because their core market - the gamers - is leaving the building - accounts. When the visitors to the site dries up, the advertisers will leave - with the exception of the few who thought they might buy the positive reviews.
And this should be a warning to the rest out there as well. We can expect a number of other sites suddenly "correcting" th...
MS owns the company that owns GameSpot. Obviously they want their influence to further their own sales. The mass media who accepts huge gifts and advertising revenue is not about to bite the hand that feeds it. It will wag its tail and beg for more - and rather fire the employee that might cause the tap to close even a little bit.
Review sites like this lost their influence when they overplayed their hands with the 10/10 for mediocre titles and 7.5 for great titles. They took t...
They overplayed their hands, took the money - obviously took money to underscore some titles as well... and now... caught red handed with the hand in the cookie jar.
So this confirms what many has been saying now for a couple of months now... the scores are useless. If MS gave the reviewer a few gifts, imagine the gift the editor got...
And with the massive amount of Halo3 advertising - how much gifts exchanged hands for the 10/10 scores while admitting to flaws ...
I have Lair. The graphics is amazingly good. The number of enemies on screen is amazing. So why the bad scores - and even more - why am I so irritated with the game - even though I have a PS3 and about 13 PS3 games now?
First of - there is very little wrong with the gameplay. Sometimes it is actually some of the best gameplay that I have seen. Just that the developers seems to think it is all too good for you to enjoy. They do this by forcing you into an extremely linear and sc...
It has to do with the approach to programming for multicores. With the XB360 it is easier to port from PC's. But if you port from PC to XB360 the port from PS3 to XB360 will be better. That does not mean that the XB360 version will be better than the PS3 version. In fact the PS3 version will win easily.
It is just that the PS3 forces the devs to not program in the same way most are used to... So the funny thing is - if you want better games for the XB360 - then hope that the ...
Wow.. So if it a HD-DVD article they say PS3 owners don't buy BR disks, and if it is a game thread they say PS3 owners buy it to watch BR movies. Cant seem to make up their mind about this...
I have 13 games now
1. NFS Carbon
2. R:FOM
3. Motorstorm
4. COD4
5. R&C TOD
6. Sonic
7. Lair
8. Eye of Judgment
9. Rato..something
10. Pirates of the Caribean
11. Warhawk
12. Heavenly Sword
13. O...
This is how MS does business. They are only backing HD-DVD to undermine a single format which is from the biggest competitor - Sony.
But they did loose the war anyway. They will continue to undermine Blu Ray, and HD-DVD is just a vehicle to do just that. They know that digital distribution is a long way off, but they will still try to sabotage Sony.
They would have released the XB360 with build in HD-DVD drive if it was ready - now they are just doing the second...