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June Gaming Sees Host of Releases
June gaming is certainly off with a loud roaring noise that should leave your wallet empty and your thumbs tired. Seeing titles like Ninja Gaiden II, Grid, Bourne Conspiracy, Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, The Incredible Hulk, and a whole host of games for handhelds and download is bound to make game reviewers weep with exhaustion.
Just stick with 'Indy' if it will help...
On how many products they can fit into a single slashvertisement.
The linked article is retarded.
June 12, 2008 MGS4
Slashvertisements abound!
Most of the movies sucked, so why should a cheap promotional videogame even be worth mentioning?
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
The articles title: "Shippin' Out June 2-6..."
Did I miss a memo where June has been reduced to a week?
...only movie-based games mentioned in the summary? Those are the games most likely to suck! The actual Gamespot page has titles like "Toki Tori" in its summary, which is a game that I was far more excited about than any movie rip-off. (It's a great game, BTW! Has a very Amiga-ish feel to it, too.)
That being said, the Kung-Fu Panda game does look interesting. The real questions are if the Wii controls really work as well as the previews suggest, and if the developers really put the time and effort into making the game interesting rather than a quick cash-in.
(Anyone remember back when Capcom used to NAIL Disney properties? Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers & Duck Tales are some of the best games ever made for the NES.)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
I for one am really looking forward to this title. If the demo is anything to go by, this will be one of the best non-rally racing titles ever to hit the PC.
Codemasters might redeem themselves with this one.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
What a shitty list of games in the summary. I can't really see anything in that list emptying out my wallet or making my thumbs sore.
Third biggest release OF THE YEAR, in June: "Metal Gear Solid 4"
And you spout a bunch of movie spinnoffs? And Ninja Gaiden II, which has been totally pwned by critics and in which the creator immediately resigned from the company in disgrace.
You just showed your lack of knowledge on the subject, prepare for a barage of hate mail.
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
When's the last time that a video game based off of a movie was relevant? Goldeneye for the 64, right? Bourne Conspiracy, Kung Fu Panda, Incredible Hulk... without even looking at the article, I'm not interested.
Also, Indiana Jones isn't an Indian.
Does he answer tech support calls?
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
(*) It boggles the mind that publishers ever don't provide this feature.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is also an important June release.
Twinstiq, game news
... comes out this weekend.
I hate sequels and licenses.
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I would hardly call a metareview of 81 "pwned by critics." I will withhold my own judgment until I play it, of course, but it sounds like it's doing pretty well, critically.
For a major series with the weight and respect of Ninja Gaiden, 81 is about the lowest you'd ever expect to see. Main installments of large series get just about an automatic pass into the 80+ percentile range, so an 81 for a large series game is pretty bad. For a smaller series or a non-series game, an 81% is not bad at all, however.
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
What's wrong with an 81 for any game? To me an 81 says that the game is good, if not great. Just because a game doesn't score a 95 doesn't mean it's not worth playing. Plus your double standard of whether a game is part of a "large series" or not is one of the big problems with game reviews these days.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
However, that's a good thing! I have many old games that I need to finish (a few to start!) and play online, but not enough free time (0-2 hours a week). Ugh!
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this is basically a list of summer blockbuster garbage. /.,of all sites should realize that you not talking to the average person, and nobody will be impressed with a list of shit no matter how long it is. i own a wi and a ps3 and i think MGS will be the only thing i buy this month....honorable mention to sid meyer and revolution coming out, as well as the long awaited alone in the dark, so, i really dont think this months gaming releases deserved its own posting on /. get your heads out of your asses guys!!
You're too trusting of video game reviewers to be non-biased, and non-paid-off. The bigger the game, the more weight is put on game reviewers to review them favorably. There's both financial pressure from game companies, and psychological pressure from outside the industry. When was the last time that a Final Fantasy scored a meta-review of below 90%... how many of them deserve that? I'm a huge FF fan, but even I'll admit that some (particularly FFX and FF12 IMO) didn't warrent that high a score.
All I'm saying is that, from my experience, large series are rated very differently from the rest of games, and an 81% is usually a pretty bad sign.
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
We suddenly seem to have an endless stream of non-stories about random events in the gaming world.
Do we really need endless stories like "So-and-so designer leaves Company A", "Company B says new game will be good", "Game you loved in 1986 possibly maybe to be remade"?
And I would be very happy to never hear about any game based on a set of Lego pieces based on a fictional franchise ever again. It has too many levels of nerdiness rolled together, even by Slashdot standards...
Read Pynchon.
Actually I don't trust video game reviewers at all. I just think that the concept of inflated game reviews is horrible. To me, an 81 says: "this is a good solid game, not perfect, but it's good." However, to the industry it's nearly the opposite. Why have a scale of 100 points when people only respect 10 of them.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.