My hat is tipped in favor of Uncharted 3. What a blockbuster experience. Very well crafted. Skyrim is sort of like the Grand Theft Auto of medieval games but I think it lacks the tight story telling and streamlined polish of Uncharted 3.
However, if we're talking expanse and replay value...Skyrim wins hands down. GOTY goes to UC3 though.
Yeah if it's Call of Duty, Uncharted or Gears of War.
But how on Earth do you finish a game like Saints Row, Grand Theft Auto, Skyrim, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or explore all the content of Just Cause 2 within a week?
There are a lot of other games out there as well that just can't be beat or summed up within a week, like Gran Turismo 5 or Forza 4, yet reviews pop up day-and-date for the release of these games. I can tell you right now that one week in GT5 is...
If a reviewer gets a review up day-and-date of the game's release it lets me know they didn't play too much of diddly squat.
I don't read reviews unless I'm sure the reviewer completely finished the game, otherwise he's just talking out of his dung hole.
Besides, a reviewer is given a free copy of the game (or in IGN/Gamespot's case, paid) so they're always going to have something nice to say even if they didn't finish it.
Of course they won't look like households of today but ten years ago consoles didn't look much different from today and 10 years before that they weren't much different.
You need to take into consideration that bigger experiences require more power, hence consoles -- in order to stay on the cutting edge of technology -- will not get significantly smaller unless they can find a way to produce the quality of a big HD experience without requiring the same kind of ha...
Nah, because people using phones for everything else including gaming makes it too susceptible for fail.
Someone commented on here about what if the phone dies and you need to make a call? You can't. What if the phone dies and you want to surf the web? You can't. What if the phone dies and you want to watch TV? You can't. What if the phone dies and you want to play a game? You can't.
The everything-in-one mechanic is good for people who want ...
Bubbles...
and I to agree that the apocalypse better include zombies or I'm gonna be pissed.
Very well said. Bubbles to you.
Next-gen is anyone's game and even less-so for Activision unless they have a new engine prepped and ready like RIGHT NOW.
The main issue with most shooter games now is bottlenecking and the console hardware just can't handle some of the more high-end features devs have in store. With the hardware bottleneck out of the way for next-gen consoels, I'm thinking CoD will instantly die unless Activision seriously upgrades...
Offer everything CoD has but better? That's not hard...actually, just about every shooter out there that isn't COD has more than COD in terms of content (I don't understand why people still pay $60 for those games) but as you mentioned it's all about the media blitz and advertising.
Activision was lying about the cost of production for COD games, which is basically something a group of modders could churn out within a year or two, but I do believe them about t...
I agree with the above posters....review scores are pointless.
At the end, if a review isn't summed up with:
Buy It, Try It, Skip It
Then I completely ignore the review. What does a 4.5 really say about whether the game will be a $60 purchase or a bargain bin pickup for $10?
The above assessment is the only assessment I care about when buying games these days because most reviews (especially at GameTrailers) are just about tooting...
"Why the heck would I want to play modded maps?"
Maybe because many of the maps you play in video games ON CONSOLES right now are designed by people who originally made modded maps? Gosh, gamers are getting dumber by the day.
Did you know that a lot of the map modders from Quake helped design maps for Valve's Half-Life? Herp, derp. You don't know much about gaming to throw a lot of money at it, do you?
You also don't ha...
Well said and bubbles to you.
I like your examples of DLC done right. Compare Borderlands' DLC to CoD's DLC and it's a night and day difference. I never finished any of Borderlands' DLC because there was just too much...can you believe it, too much? Crazy. Gearbox did right by that game.
Also, good point about the PS2/Xbox era games...Halo 2 had great play-life even though it wasn't my favorite...heck, the original Halo had great play-lif...
Ahahahaha,
There's this game, I'm not gonna say the name, but there's this game where you get a bunch of maps and you can shoot zombies and it's multiplayer. Guess what? All the additional maps are free and it has mod tools and mod support so I can get free guns, skins, maps and more...did I mention it's for free?
Now get this, Activision purposefully withheld mod-tools from MW3 so noobs like you CAN'T get any modded maps for free. Yo...
@jeseth
I'm sorry but you're an idiot. No one rails on Assassin's Creed and it's a yearly iteration franchise as well. Do you want to know why? I'm not going to say because it'd fly over your head anyway.
Regardless, people rail on CoD for more reasons than I care to list. But I will say this, Halo 2 still has more features than Modern Warfare 3 and it was released back in 2004. Explain why that is? Oh, you can't. See, that is why...
Because Uncharted is a top notch experience, that's why. You can literally SEE what Naughty Dog did from start to finish as an immersive triple-A game.
CoD is literally a copy-and-paste job. Literally. You're basically given the option to pay for more maps from a game you already bought with absolutely nothing new about it except that they removed character customization. Explain to me how removing stuff and then adding it back in so you can pay for it again makes an...
You're thinking about the Neo Geo. I can't say the games were worth it, and they were good but that stuff was way overpriced.
Then again, back during that time they didn't have proprietary engine tech like they have nowadays where there's procedurally generated maps, levels and AI where most of all the base work is done for the devs.
I've always had a problem with big publishers charging $60 for games they know they spent diddly-squat to make. And with some tools out there making it cheaper and faster to make games look triple-A I think many pubs are just using that as an excuse to charge extra even if they shouldn't.
The example of GoldenEye Reloaded was perfect, because that game gives you 10x less than Halo: Anniversary but it costs more than Halo. Lame.
A 7870 XFired seems reasonable. I doubt they would go the route of a 7850. And releasing in 2013 or 2014 would put the price down enough to not only make it affordable but also make the Xbox 720 future-proof.
Haha, my 5770 OC'd already runs multiplatform games and makes the console version look like poop. Just Cause 2 on the highest settings with 4xAA and 16xAF runs at a breezy 52+ FPS. Crossfired the 5770 running DX11 games isn't even a comparison to what's available on the 360/PS3.
I imagine Xfire'd 7xxxs would probably be able to emulate PS3 and Xbox 360 games with ease. My single 5770 can already run Wii games at 101 fps with 9xAA, 16xAF and all the per-pixel s...
Graphics are great, what kind of system are you running it on? The 32bit version is a mess yeah but it was designed for 64bit systems so if you aren't running it on a 64bit system it will look like crap.
The controls are almost pitch-perfect, it even has support for Xbox 360 controllers for people familiarized with playing Saints Row or GTA on the consoles.
I'd ask how long you actually played the game but you're out of bubbles. I admit the game...
I know you're out of bubbles and I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, but I did want to point out that software will far exceed hardware.
Did you hear about the new Euclideon Engine? You mention that budgets will bloat trying to make a game more realistic, however the Euclideon Engine actually makes it cheaper and can run without dedicated graphics units. In some regards, the engine does coincide with what you say, having more games from the mainstream access...