A trailer for an mmorpg! how exciting! and i bet it'll be all cgi, too!
The left out the ending for AC2 so they could make another game.
Kind of reminds me of Suikoden IV--an RPG so bad, they had to make a second game to try and make sense out of the trainwreck plot.
Easy: no.
Do these big companies have focus groups? Market research? There have been a number of really bad decisions lately. How was it that the guys who said, "hey, you know what PS3/360s gamers really want? A cheap knock-off of the wiimote!" weren't told so sit down and shut up? Kind of like the mystery surrounding why the man who conjured up the PSP Go wasn't immediately fired for proposing such a profoundly stupid ideas.
These things sh...
But most of the stupid hypocritical stuff seems to pop up around E3, which is good I suppose, because there's generally nothing else interesting going on that week.
And on the subject of Natal and Move... I just can't see why anyone cares in the least about either. Maybe it's because, owning both consoles, I'm not sitting in either aisle... but it seems to me that both 360 gamers and PS3 gamers should be upset at the lackluster performance on both sides.
...but it doesn't seem to really work in practice.
It's not news if it's been posted twenty times in two days.
My money is on a game, any game, that they will bill specifically as not being "Oblivion with X," X being whatever the single defining trait of that game is. And the game itself will simply be Oblivion with X.
If it's TESV, expect Oblivion... again.
Right. Because anyone who points out that the Bush administration committed war crimes MUST be some left-wing nut. As far as I'm concerned, the Obama administration is complicit in those crimes for refusing to prosecute.
And that dangerous precedent? THAT NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. That dangerous precedent you're so worried about is one of the key, if not THE key, republican principles. And no, I'm not talking about Republicans here--I'm talking about the actual...
Can't wait.
A bit sad we're getting IX before VI, though. Still... Dragon Quest IX!
1. It would delay the game.
If FFXIII taught us anything, it's the gamers don't really care about the content of their much-hyped product, so long as they get their grubby mits on it.
Whatever happened to that International War Crimes tribunal that was after Cheney?
Anyway, putting crap like that in games... it hurts. When we've got a president who freely admits to breaking international law, and a current president with no inclination to prosecute said war crimes... it's sad. The rule of law over here, it seems, applies only to the poor.
But does it make the PS3 version an equal value to the 360 version? I'd rather get it for my PS3, but I've got both. ~__~
I was more referring to the lack of press material than the release dates. But, certainly, I think we can confirm that there have been some development issues regarding Versus--so far, Square Enix has mismanaged every Final Fantasy title it has developed.
It's also possible Versus was only announced so soon as to capitalize/bolster FFXIII's hype. As much as we need to alter our expectations to conform to the Japanese industry, so, too, is the Japanese industry alterin...
I'd say there's a bit more to it than that... microsoft has been very shrewd this generation. Microcurrency is a psychological scam--obvious, yes, but very effective--plus the one year head start, plus the solid advertising campaign (which was, let's agree, assinine: my university book store was at one time infested with Master Chief cut-outs, posters, and other such junk) PLUS the very, very nationalist climate in the United States, which among other things, encouraged consumers ...
It's worth noting that the Japanese gaming industry is DIFFERENT than the western gaming industry. They typically don't release much material before a games release--and when they do, they typically wait until the game is very-nearly ready to launch. Whereas in the west, developers typically start shunting out screenshots and setting up previews with "journalists" to drum up hype for their product years, or even decades in advance. As anyone who has followed Japanese gaming ...
...or had some reason to think of Blizzard as a competent developer. Oh, yeah, I know the argument--the produce so many games of such high quality. But I don't really think that's so laudible a thing, given they've only made three different games, and even mild alterations to those three games take years and years to develop.
(Yes, I'm lumping starcraft 2, starcraft, warcraft 3, warcraft 2, warcract 1; diablo 3, diabloe 2, diablo 1 as single games. I don't...
I lost interest way back in the 90s. Still aimed solely at prepubescent teenage boys?
None of those games need a sequel. The only games that NEED sequels are games that were both well written AND whose stories were left unresolved. I can really only think of two games that fit--Freespace 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance. Two AAA games, left unresolved, that DEMAND sequels.
It wouldn't be a cliche if they actually focused on the Lord of the Rings proper... but by making these "original" characters, they are very, very much going for the cliche. And it's not a LotR cliche, either--it's a Dungeons & Dragons cliche. The inclusion of a Wizard should raise more than an eyebrow, considering how in LotR mythology there are only 4 wizards roaming around, and they're essentially angels given corporeal form. LotR wizards are NOT the same as D...
NWN2 was unplayable at launch, still buggy as hell today, and much of the story content never made it into the game. MotB was a step up, to be sure, but let's not kid ourselves: NWN was by no means, "good."
But I still think I'm right. You do have a point, snp... but the problem is that motion controls are to regular controllers what regular controllers are to mice--less sensitive. I would even say that by the time motion controls are perfected (which is still a long way off: Sony and Microsoft's offerings are still at the 1st/2nd generation level) mice will still be more sensitve, simply by virtue of offering an object to manipulate based on position AND movement.
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