There is no difference. I've seen intelligent bloggers and stupid "journalist". This stuff about passion being misaimed is great and all, but it's a blanket statement and really just separates stupid people from not stupid people.
I think the real difference between a blogger and a journalist is a pay check.
As shallow and meaningless I think the point of achievements and trophies are, I think this article has a point. The in-game achievements in wii games never sold me on the product, but did provide a certain goals to set myself up for.
I think I heard somewhere that the 3DS is planning on implementing an achievements system, so it would seem like Nintendo is considering it.
The overblast thing is easy if you know how to do it. Sucking is not the same thing as something being too hard to execute.
Seeing as games pretty much phased out until Donkey Kong was released, life without Miyamoto would probably be without video games.
If someone is to be offended by a game, let them express that by not buying it. I thought we lived in country that lets people have enough freedom to make choices for themselves.
I can't believe this game is coming out. It can't possibly live up to the hype, but I bet it will still kick a lot of ass.
It doesn't matter, it's perfectly fine that he's doesn't want it because it has the Taliban in it. As long as he doesn't go around saying how evil video games are because of this or that gamers have no respect for the people in military service because of it. Cause then, it would be a problem.
What really is maddening that the article points out, is that this game is being used as a weapon against video games as an art form. I thought once Jack Thompson and Anderson Cooper were proven to be liars and crazy that the whole idea that gamers and game developers are violence obsessed and disrespectful people was gone. But no, it continues and this Gold Star Mom person seems like she is using her son's death as a way of pushing her own conservative agenda forward.
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Saying something is the "worst" Metroid game BY far doesn't mean it's a bad game. The worst Metroid game could easily by an 8 and still be reviewed lower than the others.
Fact is, the game doesn't play itself. Its starts off pretty easy at first, but you won't get far without doing a little exploring and you will die if you don't pay attention.
I've never had the chance to play the other Metroid games except for the Prime series, and I loved everything about this game.
Based on the opening movie that was leaked a while ago:
Samus seems more troubled by the fact that a being that thought of it as its parent recently DIED protecting her and she is still pretty grief stricken. Considering that canonically, Samus has this thing where people and things that love her DIE, she seemed a lot more monotone, cold, and sad than anything high-school cheerleader type personality.
Also, seeing as before this I think Samus had one game th...
People also apparently have problems with how the review is written in terms of what it focused on.
Even then, that seems like the complete opposite of what Samus originally did. Samus was one of the the first positively portrayed female game characters, even designed so that under her suit, you could not tell her sex.
The idea of fleshing out a back story and giving her vulnerabilities and weaknesses isn't setting back any feminist movement or anything like that, in fact, I would imagine that it producing a stronger image for women in the medium considering she still ...
It seems as if the people most upset about the game, are those who projected their escapist fantasies onto the mute heroine that is Samus Aran. Like, they were suppose to. The only flaw this game seems to have from a story-telling stand point seems to be making the character more human based on her canonical backstory as opposed to more recognizable one-dimensional bland characters that makes up most other games.
That's what people said about Metroid Prime for moving into first person and look how that turned out.
Of course, none of us really know that for sure do we?
You can't wait for Zero Punctuation's review of a Wii game?
The guy who complained about the story in Super Mario Galaxy 2? The guy who expected scripted events to happen every time in Monster Hunter Tri, and said it was the game's fault for not initiating the event in different scenarios? The guy who is more likely to somehow say a Wii game is bad simply because it's on the Wii? That Zero Punctuation? That's hardly giving the game a chance.
I want to know what games were used in the study. I always see these kinds of studies without a list of the games they polled, which is always highly suspicious, especially since I would think games that a lot of popular games would instantly be removed from this list making the pool almost too small to actually matter.
I think these are common locations to use. Heck, almost every setting in Uncharted 2 is in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, and the Indiana Jones games came out first I think.
Interesting, maybe I should give it a try.