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MattCD42
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Honestly why would anyone buy Saint's Row? It seems like you could just make a game like it, use a different title, and be everyone's new favorite on the block. That's cheaper right?
Maybe I'm just deluded...
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MattCD42
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:43 pm |
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| end of the world wrote: |
| http://www.xblafans.com/japanese-developer-cites-microsoft-currency-policy-as-barrier-to-xbla-development-62266.html |
this coupled with the Skullgirls thing? Is there anything else with XBLA right now?
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MattCD42
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:13 pm |
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| Winona Ghost Ryder wrote: |
http://www.edge-online.com/news/the-next-xbox-always-online-no-second-hand-games-50gb-blu-ray-discs-and-new-kinect/
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What I don't understand is at that point, outside of Gears and Halo, what is even the point of owning a new x-box? I mean I can plug an X-box controller into my computer, and with Steam's prices the only reason to get a console are for exclusives like the ones mention above or 'console exclusive' (is there a better term for this?) games like Anarchy Reigns which I don't' believe will come to PC at all. With the library available to you online without the restriction of a console it seems like a death stroke to me.
I know people were arguing something similar during the early days of the 360 and PS3, but steam was not the force it is now in the gaming market, atop the fact that PC gaming reaches far beyond Steam to things even like 'Microsoft Gaming' which would seem like they're competing with themselves, though from a business standpoint I guess it's a net profit so m3h.
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Did he say that Spec Ops is good, or just that it's something measurably different from most FPSs? |
I was wondering that as well. I find it bizarre that 'reviewers' wouldn't look at the game as anything more than a bundle of mechanics. Is that a symptom of the job? I mean movie critics tend to get bogged down by the 'predictable' types of movies but when something odd comes down they usually still respond to it like a human instead of some robot with pre-programmed criteria, right?
But I am off, don't most people react to their games like other mediums 'art' if you will, one of the most loaded words there are, 'art'. But didn't each MGS game give you something to chew on about conflict and power on several levels? Didn't Deus Ex have you interact with the notions of progress? Din't the Bouncer make you believe a Panther could fly? I mean to go though the whole experience and not have it make you question/think about/ or enjoy something about the game outside of the moment where you're playing the game, how can it be a great title? How is that not a measure of quality?
Of course there are games that don't do this, but how many of them are really great games?
Also Gary Oldman (heh) I too am turning to a series of questions after a week of basically being called an a-hole, GOOD TIMES.
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MattCD42
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:44 pm |
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so I guess people are going nuts over some movie thing with valve and jj abrams. which makes me wonder: why the fuck does the internet love jj abrams so much?
he did something with Alias, which is a show noteworthy for being a soap opera staring Jennifer Garner's tits; then he did Lost, which had one pretty good season and then promptly spent something like a decade parodying itself; then he went into that mode where a famous guy attaches his name to a hundred crappy projects that all bomb; then he did the Star Trek movie, which is straight terrible I don't care what anyone says. somehow he hit that middlebrow nerd space where he became an untouchable goldmine. I don't get it. |
Preach it brother! Especially the point about Star Trek. JJ Abrams is good at creating dramatic situations and that is about it. The writing in any project he touches is borderline incoherent. Almost nothing that happened in Star Trek or Lost had any logical grounding.
I don't get the idol worship either. Ridely Scott, a man much more deserving of a place on a pedestal than Abrams, is rightly criticized for some of the plot elements in Prometheus, but Abrams's Star Trek got mostly a free pass from what I saw. The only sensible conclusion is that geek culture is just as brain dead as pop culture. Well, at this point I guess they might just be one and the same. |
OMG SB just became MovieBob... I don't know what to believe anymore.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:01 pm |
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| thestage wrote: |
you definitely are not asking him to produce criticism. you say game reviews need to be more like book reviews or movie reviews or whatever, but when was the last time anyone got anything useful out of a movie or book review? "review" in general is a useless category of writing. you're yelling at a twinkie for using fake sugar instead of real sugar; it's still a fucking twinkie, you shouldn't be eating it. the second mr. video game reviewer deviates from his template to talk about his 'feelings' as they apply to dead space 3, we're going to link that review and make fun of him for writing a piece of shit. because he'd have written a piece of shit. the consumer review and the book review you want the consumer review to turn into (which is still a consumer review) are both shitty spheres of writing produced by industry inertia and PR demand. you're acting as if we should be allergic to discussing mechanics or design. what would you rather have, an in depth critique of the mechanical development of a given game, or the kinds of crap that gets shoved out in a movie review? there are people who divorce, problematize, or otherwise deprioritize "emotional response" in the criticism of books and movies too. we call them scholars, and we value them more than we value Michiko Kakutani (in theory). "how did dead space 3 make you feel?" is not an automatically progressive question, it does not enjoy unquestioned privilege over all other possible means of discussing video games simply because we already have an entrenched, processed social idea of what culture is supposed to mean, which is just another way of saying what it is supposed to produce.
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... touche :shock:
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:17 pm |
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Big news the Skullgirls IndyGOGO is A-GOGO! They already pretty much have their first stretch goal in less than two days.
I'm excited to see how far they get.
http://igg.me/at/skullgirls-dlc/x/371551
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| Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:48 pm |
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S.Wes... that was a pretty fascinating point, there.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:16 am |
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I think if there's a lively fanbase getting enough to help launch a AAA game, to completely pay for production could be a bit much. Skullgirls did well, but they're asking for an astromical amount of money beyond that, and I don't think they'll end up getting 625,000 thousand. Considering how many people have donated, and how much has been donated, I wonder how many sales that game will see on PC post-release.
For something like shenmue, who knows?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:21 am |
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the new turtles wigs me out man...
unless you mean any artist on the comics besides Andy Kuhn...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:45 pm |
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It's bullshit though. You bought the game, on XBLA, if they need to bring those games into another presumably vastly similar peice of hardware, there's a list and it's ticked off that I bought X Y and Z, I should be able to download all of that again.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:35 pm |
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| Winona Ghost Ryder wrote: |
http://www.vgleaks.com/durango-xdk/
It seems the next Xbox will always be connected online, require the Kinect to be hooked up in order to operate, require installation of all disc games to hard drive - reading/streaming from discs not allowed.
Out of their hubris from current dominance, Microsoft has become Nintendo in 96/Sony in 06. |
Will it also require a DNA sample to log into your account, and your social security number and photo ID to make Live2.0 purchases?
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:09 am |
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can't wait for your reaction to Anarchy Reigns Felix.
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:54 pm |
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| The Troops wrote: |
| too human was my demon's souls |
Really? I remember kind of enjoying and getting to the final boss and hating the game after that.
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MattCD42
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 6:47 pm |
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| SuperWes wrote: |
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| Warren Spector's whining seems way off-base here. |
Not really. His whining has very little to do with Wolfenstein. He's mostly criticizing the game industry's unwillingness to break away from gritty shooters.
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Is Deus Ex and Thief and system shock not gritty? I mean they have different things for sure not 'just another FPS' but gritty.
Also of course there's going to be another Wolfenstein, it's one of the proto-FPS games, some say the first. Of all the properties to come back it seems like the weirdest one to get mad at.
That said I see his point, and that preview at first made me think they were doing a Watchmen Video game. The bad use of licensed music, the gritty voice, and basically nothing from the game. Just seems forgettable.
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| Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 9:33 pm |
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Is it weird that the game I'm most excited for with all the next gen, and the summer coming up, and all this buzz is still just Mercenary Kings?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:57 pm |
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Man so when is Mother or Mother 3 getting released?
My guess, this is why people pirate games.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:30 pm |
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GUYS MERCENARY KINGS BETA IS OUT!
I'm so excited!
but, for some reason it downloads super slow.
Anyone else trying this out?
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MattCD42
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| Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:54 pm |
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| BotageL wrote: |
| i had the mercenary kings beta for a couple months now but i never played it much because why would you play a co-op thing alone |
Well if you wanna play with me I'd love to, this has been an amazing experience so far. The only aspect I haven't gotten to try yet is setting up a private match. But if everything else is any indication it should run flawlessly. then you can always use steam to chat.
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| Downloaded it, hoping to get to try it out tonight. |
Curious on your impressions, this is pretty much everything I could want from this kind of vidja.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:04 pm |
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| Takashi wrote: |
| I guess Nintendo sold slightly less WiiU consoles this quarter than last quarter, but don't worry, adding Reggie to the new Smash Bros will surely solve this. |
But Did Nintendo sell any games?
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