By all means go on. That is a short list taken over the entire history of the medium. For every 1 female protagonist, there are 20+ with a male, hardly even in number.
Developers don't always get to make they games they want. It is well know that publishers will refuse to fun/greenlight a game if it has a female protagonist. Remember Me is the newest game that ran into that issue.
Also I never mentioned about being annoyed over how females look, that was ...
XCOM: Enemy Within is good, when I can get it to work. It constantly crashes for no reason as far as I can gather.
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I agree, a gamer is someone who enjoys games. Games however have already had 'agendas' for a very long time. Cannon Fodder and the Metal Gear Solid franchise are anti-war, Miami Hotline is about the meaning of violence in video games, GTA 4/5 targets capitalism and the hollowness of the American dream, Defcon is about the futility of nuclear war. To think that messages are either new, or not there at all, is wrong. They have been part of gaming since the beginning. Tha...
Sorry, once again I will have to disagree. Games are not created in a vacuum. Game development, and therefore games, are informed by real life. Why? Because the people who create games are humans who have lives, ideologies and opinions. These bias, good or bad, make up much of what you do whether you realize it or not. Games have done, and will continue to, have messages and themes whether you realize it or not.
Dismiss me as a "weirdo" all you want, that doesn'...
So the only way a gamer can't be weird in your world-view is by only enjoying playing as a straight guy? That sounds rather limited and boring. That is like saying films with female leads are there for men to star at.
I like it when you call this whole argument pointless, because it is that sort of thinking is what necessitates the call for gender equality in the first place.
The problem with that reading of the issue is that it assumes games themselves never have an agenda, which they do. Sure, not every game has an underlying message/theme, but as gaming becomes more sophisticated an increasing amount of games have political or social messages.
On a lesser note, being a "gamer" doesn't come down to simply dismissing larger social issues. A well-written character is great, but we have a whole medium to explore that seems mainly inte...
Funny, I heard Marcus Beer say almost the exact same thing on Annoyed Gamer earlier today.
A better fix would be not use the system. Support the game, but not the micro-transactions that swarm around it like a horrid plague.
Beyond Good and Evil wasn't "underrated", critics loved it. It just didn't sell, which isn't the same.
That being said, the soundtrack was very good though, especially "Hyllian Suite".
Who would buy a £350+ console because they dislike it? That makes no sense.
You call it an "opinion review" as if there is any other type of review. There is no such thing as an "objective" game review, they don't exist because that would be boring as sin. It would read like "there are cars, you can drive them. You can also brake". Even by stating whether a game or mechanic is good or not you have made a subjective judgement, one that someone, somewhere will disagree with.
If you believe there is a reviewer who is 10...
1. Apart from the pistols nothing is new mechanically. It is still the exact same counter-kill experience since the first game.
2. It was played on the PS3.
3. I have played the entire series, but Black Flag much more than three. You have chests, fragments, maps, bottles, Mayan emblems, keys and shanties. Collect all fragments and all you get is a trophy. Yes they are optional, but if you take the time to collect 200 of anything in a game, you expect somethin...
Just one step closer to jacking into the matrix.
I don't want to watch this as I have yet to play the game.
While not huge, some of these names surprise me due to their common appearances on British TV.
Cool?
Perhaps the next Mass Effect game will focus on a smaller story/scope. If you can't top a universe saving mega-man/woman, then aim at something smaller and more personal.
It is just sad that the entire E3 trailer looked pre-rendered, even though they tried to make it look otherwise with some cheap gameplay UI over the top.
No real reasons given, ATLUS just decided to spend an age localizing the game. As a peace offering the pre-order bonus was a vinyl with 5 of the games tracks on it.
So a bit shit if you love the series but couldn't afford to show it.
Not in the UK, we only got it a few weeks ago.
I'd say it looks bad, but not that level of "special" bad.
Except if you notice 3/5 are expansions and 2 are added content that came out well after the original game that add hours of new content (400 Days + Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep).
There are no micro-transactions, nickle and dime DLC, or disc-locked content on this list. It is all good, thought out additional content for already great games.