No shit idiot, why do you think Shodan addresses us as "panting and sweating as you run through my corridors". It's isn't because we're fucking marathon runners.
Actually, "Panting and sweating as you stand still in my corridors" would have been just as accurate.
Fun System Shock Fact : Shodan deliberately disabled as many elevators as she could, because she figured instead of hunting down the access codes in radioactive areas filled with Cyborg Death Nannies* and the zombies from Thief BUT FROM THE FUTURE, the fat basement dweller that was the only survivor of the digital apocalypse wrought upon Citadel Station would simply attempt to use the stairs instead and die of exhaustion before reaching the second floor.
Unfortunately her downfall was that her programming didn't take into account the sheer determination of the human nerd to avoid all exercise.
*("The same killer instinct as human nannies, but now with robotic parts!")
I agree totally. Every game that comes out on the PS3 and Wii needs to have the option to control it with a normal controller.
Not everyone wants to play games with a remote control or swing their controller around for specific events, but we still want to actually play those games. I was thinking specifically of those two next gen consoles, but the DS is another great example.
You either end up with games that are simply less fun to play because of the fact that there is forced motion sensing (Lair, Excite Truck), or you get good games where the motion sensing crap feels like the obvious gimmick that it is (Folksoul, Ninja Gaiden Z).
"It's controlled purely with the normal controller, but when you want to suck the souls out of stuff, you yank the controller upwards". Awesome. Why not just let us pull the right analogue stick back as an alternative?
Sure, there are once in a blue moon games where the game needs the 'special' control system to work (Lost Magic, RE4Wii), but they really need to be the exception, and not the lazy rule.
Yeah this is the core of the problem. It's not that the Shadowrun game is inherently bad; it's actually a pretty decent game. If you feel in the mood for yet another team FPS. Personally I could have lived without it.
But it's been labeled all wrong. It really did need to be Generic Sci-Fi Fantasy FPS X : Elves with Guns Edition and not THE NEXT-GEN SHADOWRUN GAME (OMG). Although, having said that, not labeling it Shadowrun would have meant it probably faded into obscurity (even) quicker than it already might be.
But at the end of the day, the next-gen Shadowrun game is an FPS, and shortly after the studio responsible closes down. Color me surprised. Even if it wasn't a true RPG, it could have been even an action RPG and it would have been better received.
I kinda didn't pay much attention when it was realised that it was going to be an FPS, but I think I vaguely remember that the devs or PR was quite indignant in the face of all the nerd rage.
Told you so / What goes around... (circle as appropriate)
"Look, the only point I tried to make was that the Sony guy was wrong to say that there was never a time when a single game would be critical to the success of the Playstation."
And what I'm telling you is that you are wrong. With regards to prior consoles, it's absolutely correct to suggest that The Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 never had a single game that was critical to their success. There simply wasn't. I'll admit that at launch it appeared as though this would be the case for Playstation3 though, although having said that I'm not even sure which game would have been the one that ensured the success of the console as nearly all of the launch titles sucked. Then again, they did for the Xbox360 as well, and now there are at least half a dozen must own titles.
Just because GTA3 was a popular game doesn't mean that the PS2 would have gone any worse had it not been a PS2 exclusive. It would have benefited the Xbox1 had it been a multiformat release, but the PS1 and PS2 have both had at least a dozen games that have been real system sellers, so that taking away any specific one would not have impacted greatly on sales.
Besides, logic would dictate that if you take away a single game exclusivity among a dozen titles, it's not affecting sales noticably as people are going to say, for example, "Well I can get GTA3 on PS2 and Xbox1, but I'll have to stick with the PS2 so I can play Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2. One PS2, please."
Also, just so you're aware, whether or not you actually like those games isn't related to this fact. I hate most of the PS2 system sellers (FFX, MGS2, GT3 for three quick examples of games I don't like) but it doesn't mean that I don't recognize them as big name games that will make purchase decisions for people.
Close to the only successful console in recorded history that lived or died by the success of a single game would have to be the Xbox1. Anyone that can't see that it would have really struggled had it not been for Halo is kidding themselves. Microsoft surely dodged a bullet with picking up the publishing and exclusivity rights to that title.
Oh, and I think the Jaguar sold the exact same number of copies as were sold of AvP. Also see : 3DO/Need for Speed. Although I did say 'successful' consoles.
Yeah, and my bad on the MGS2/4 mistake. I think your point was so obviously lacking in gaming history/knowledge that missed that.
"probably the most fun racing game I've ever played/owned"
That's a bit extreme isn't it.
Besides, it's hardly a 'proper' racing game. It's a party game more than it is a racing game anyway. The race is only there to give a start and finish to proceedings and to award extra stars. It's an coin eating arcade game with the have-a-couple-of-goes-and-come-back-in-a-week mentality, but at home to be played to death and bored with in an hour.
"Sure, I don't play it all the time, but for the hours of time spent sitting around laughing my head off while playing friends, it is DEFINITELY worth the price."
And here we are, back to the original point about price, finally. Pay PS3 price for your Wii and then tell me how much fun you have collecting stars. Or swinging your remote like a bat. I'm hearing echoes of "I paid a grand for this?" coming to mind.
It's "entertainment" versus "gaming", just to make shit up.
The Wii reminds people that don't play actual games of those entertainment units they see in the arcade after watching a movie and wish they could take it home.
The price becomes relevant after they play it for an hour or so and realise why those sort of things are kept in arcades for people to play a few times in a row at best and weeks apart, and not constantly.
To assume your first response, I wish this was a troll, have you ever played Excite Truck? I kinda felt sorry for my friend, and hoped he has a lot of sit-around-and-play-games parties soon, otherwise it's gonna start gathering dust real quick.
Halo made the Xbox succeed, almost no doubt about it. Presumably PGR helped, but at the end of the day, I'm not convinced it would have been pretty had Halo not been bought over to Xbox from PC (from Mac).
To suggest that the PS2 would have struggled without GTA3, is just stupid. There are a dozen headline titles that are used in the "I bought a PS2 purely to play [game]" sentence.
Besides, your own comment supports the opposite of your point. You named _two_ games that the console is specifically purchased for. You're already moving away from the 'no single game' argument the sentence after you disagree with the point. Sigh.
Any reply to the effect of 'well name them then' just supports my suspicion that you have no idea what youre talking about and are basing your comments on your experiences with your three of four console owning schoolfriends.
You've paid us for some of these games that you say show no originality. Our goal with regards to your input into our business model has been met. From this point on, unless you want to give us more money to actually exceed our goals, we really couldn't give a a fuck what you have to say.
You have to be trolling, surely. The wikipedia page has the box art, and looking at it I can't possibly see how you could have decided to give it a whirl based on that, given you sound like such a pussy anyway. I'm not even sure my mom uses the phrase 'absolutely horrified'.
"Head office must have sent advance warning that any open-box refund requests should be quickly granted on this game."
Hahahaha. No. You were grossed out by a video game so you then conclude that a specific memo was sent saying that anyone that complains about the the most graphically poor yet violent game since Custer's Revenge should be given their money back. Unlikely.
For years now EB has had a 7 day no questions asked return policy, that obviously includes open games, as they specify when you purchase it that "for any reason, even if you don't like it, bring it back within 7 days for a full refund".
The fact that you're a moron that purchases games based on cover art, and sound like the kind of person that if EB hadn't had in place a money back policy regardless of open boxes etc, that you would have stood in the store and made a dramatic scene until you did get your money back - which I imagine the manager would have done just to get you out of there - suprisingly enough, has nothing to do with it.
3) block characters less than level 10 from whispering to other players not in their guild/party. I would have said map zone but then the level 1 char just gets walked up to SW/IF and spams there. I pointlessly suggested this in game one time and got what I presume was a higher level gold farming character tell me that it would be too hard to implement and couldn't be done. Except that's exactly what is done with trial accounts.
Hopefully this 'Report as Spam' button is something that will be monitored both ways as well. If someone makes a lame joke in IF chat and morons don't like it and mark it as spam, then a warning or something would be great. Maybe have a 2 minute timer icon in the top right hand corner that is like an 'Are you sure' button that allows you to re-think your decision. Either that or I hope they bought new servers to handle the spam reporting load.
1. Please make it turn based or KotOR style combat.
NO. Turn based, or don't bother. Seriously. Pause time combat is shit. It made KotOR suck, and it wrecked the first recent UFO game as well. I know they want to make a game that will sell on consoles as well, but if the console crowd can't handle a game that actually stops constantly for the next turn, then screw them. Or tell them it's like Baseball or NFL, but with brahmin.
And I'm afraid to think that number 3 even needs mentioning. The world-levelling system of Oblivion is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. If they ever pull that shit again then, well I'm not sure what I'll do, but you can rest assured it will affect no one outside my own personal world space.
although you know there will be hero, hereo, hi'ro, protaginist, profagonist, protagoni'st, etc etc, about a million of us, all with swords chopping up people as they walk thru the door.
Of course the 'best games ever' are going to be old if your definition of 'old' encompasses the majority of games ever made.
Yes, except the 'new' ones. That how we differentiate old from new. FYI.
Also, you might wanna check your clipboard contents. I think it has 'Wii Sports' in it and you accidentally hit ctrl-v while typing this out. Just in case you put it in something more important later in the day.
I'm totally fucking confused here. I have mod points, and yet I don't know what to do with them. You've really made this hard.
"I guess the interesting thing to consider is with all this extra space, is it really needed in the PS3."
This is kinda stupid. It's HD gaming, they want as much space as they can. But in theory - and possibly Xbox fanboy land - it could start working it's way towards a valid point. You know, with a bit more background than a vague question, sans question mark. I don't know colin, is it that interesting a thing to consider, I mean, you're only guessing, and yet you raised the point.
"To my knowledge the PS3 is not powerful enough to even take minimal advantage of the huge amount of space provided by blu-ray."
This is mind-bogglingly, galactically, weapons-grade retarded. If it were at all possible possible to a) make less sense than this and b) make it any more obvious you have zero fucking idea about anything you're talking about, I'm unaware of it.
"Or is this just another way to sell movies."
Yet this... this is +5 Insightful. +6 even. Is there a way to maybe highlight the relevant text and mod that part up, thus ignoring all the nonsensical crap that has to share tenancy with the special stuff?...
"Earth Defence Force 2017 is a pretty basic game, it has sprite icons for bonus pickups, zero story line, very simple shooting mechanics, and yet, I get to shoot 8 story tall robots in the junk "
No doubt other game stores will stock these but this is the main one I use. Lucasarts ARE releasing a lot of their old games. For dirt cheap too. All AUS$10.
You speak the (subjective, but I share your opinion) truth, but you will go down for it. In fact, you already have. I'll do my best to give you some company on your descent.
The game is overhyped to the point where it comes very close to eclipsing the most overrated game of all time. The only people that don't know what that game is are the total fanboys for it.
I couldn't finish the game single player in GoW because I got bored witless by the end of chapter 3, and thinking co-op would save it I bought a second controller, invited a friend over, and we were sick of it by the start of chapter 4. We did start from the beginning, I'm not saying that a single fight had him bored. He was much like me, he thought it was impressive to begin with, then mid chapter 2 we were starting to wonder if it was every going to change the environment or maybe even the gameplay. Then there was the incredibly boring underground section. I'm past finishing games that I'm not enjoying. If I'm three chapters in out of five and I'm already starting to drift off, then the game goes back on the shelf.
Thankfully we got more enjoyment out of co-op Assault Heroes, and the wired 360 controller works perfectly in my PC.
It's just kill.switch with a graphics patch, and appeals to the crowd that think the main meathead characters are cool, and that like to describe people as 'total badasses', or something. Character depth isn't something important.
I'd be more pissed off, but I picked up the collectors edition with the polo-shirt and dogtag bonuses, and after selling those to the sucker fanboys on ebay for AUS$50 and AUS$25 respectively I only paid AUS$25 for the game, which is like taking a chance on a budget title and finding out it's actually pretty crap; you just put it aside and figure you might give it a go again sometime later when you're bored.
Believe the hype? Give me a break. Hasn't this games 15 minutes run out yet? Seriously, this wildly overrated game has been overhyped to fucking hell and back, which is probably the only way it's been noticed. It's just kill.switch with a fancy graphics patch. Epic probably had this game finished months ago but knew that it would need a late year release to scoop the GoTY awards because any earlier and people would have forgotten it by then. They would do well to start hyping the sequel asap.
The sheer amount of gayness in your post is sending shivers down my spine.
Gears of War might be a fun if amazingly overrated game, but that trailer - which was very cool - and that song - which is very cool - have combined to totally negate each others coolness and create a coolness void, where all that you're left with is something that reeks of trying too hard.
Hell, the Tears for Fears version would have worked better than that. Someone should totally dub that.
Thats a shame because F.E.A.R. is a great game, but I was saying it should remove Halo from it's undeserved throne without actually ever trying the console version. I just presumed it was as enjoyable to play as the PC version. What I find amazing is that Timesplitters Future Perfect never got a look in as a superior console FPS. That is a great game. I wish there was a way to remove the totally retarded aiming style from TS2 because I feel that would be an even better game without that moronic aiming. I don't know why it never bothered me much in Goldeneye, but I couldn't play much further than the helicopter in TS2 before just going crazy and returning it to the video store.
The issues you mention sound very much like Far Cry on console as well. New areas actions etc but it still felt like you were trying to console a mouse/kb driven game with a console controller. Awkward...
Ports also work exactly the same in reverse when they go to PC. Massive reticules, auto-aiming and/or mouse smoothing that you can't turn off, the feeling that you're playing with your face pressed against the screen. Also the other thing I find that console FPS seem to totally lack the ability to make it actually feel like you're shooting something.
Project Snowblind is the best example that instantly comes to mind of all this. IIRC the PC version had no way of turning off the auto-aim, and successfully managed to incorpate all the above complaints. The final straw was after an hour or so of play the feeling that I was shooting mannequins got too much and I uninstalled it.
Condemned is a great console FPS as well, even if it is in a different style. The aiming acceleration is stupid but tolerable. I ended up getting it on PC anyway but regardless it was great, and a perfect way of how to actually do a console->PC FPS port. Except for the whole bit about leaving talk of the achievements in there.
Oh yeah, and if you want good AI, there F.E.A.R. is where you want to be. I never really bothered enough with Halo 2 to see if the A.I. was any improved over the non-existant first version. I played as far as becoming a bad guy and that was enough for me.
To be perfectly honest (and to unavoidably be marked as a troll no doubt) I think it's primarily a by-product of the fact that people constantly creaming themselves over Halo grates after a while. It's not just 'I like Halo' posts, it's where people really go above and beyond normal fanboyism to reach new hights of irritation and bullshit.
Stuff like this is exactly what I'm talking about, it's almost embarassing to read. It's only a few posts about this one.
They're one of the few game companies that I feel really elevate gaming to an art.
Holy shit. I mean, I can literally picture this guy reaching for the tissues. Whether it's because the game has brought him to tears or to orgasm is an exercise left to the reader. I try not to think about it too much.
It's basically just a generic, actually quite poorly done shooter that was only successful because it came out on console, where people had rarely seen FPS, deathmatch, or the magic of Co-OP FPS. No one (well, maybe the parent of your post) is arguing that people aren't allowed to like it, it's just that watching something so ordinary get 9s and 10s across the board when most of that score is clearly for co-op/DM (which makes almost any FPS better) and having to listen to a constant stream of retarded fanboy bullshit can get tiring to the point where you lose all sense and feel like you should respond.
I mean, to judge console FPS by the criteria that Halo is praised - graphics, story, AI (lol, seriously guys, Halo has no AI, come on, there could be a full post written on the rose colored glasses the fanboys wear when discussing this), gunplay... right about... now F.E.A.R. should be destroying Halo and taking it's rightful place and king of the console shooters. But it's not going to happen, because while F.E.A.R. is a better game in every way, Halo is loved for it's DM/Co-OP more than the game itself.
And while nothing is inherently wrong with that, can people just shut the fuck up about Halo already.
You like it.
We get it.
It's really not as good as you think. And most people are so fucking tired of hearing it.
That's a pretty cynical approach. I always wonder how people arrive at this logic. Surely you could stretch that out to not wanting to release more than one iteration of a franchise per console so people don't abandon one at the expense of another. People like more of the same thing if it's done right. See : GTA.
8. Forza Motorsport
* Review
* Xbox 360 compatible? Yes
(Yes, I know you're right, I just wanted to argue for arguments sake)
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No shit idiot, why do you think Shodan addresses us as "panting and sweating as you run through my corridors". It's isn't because we're fucking marathon runners.
Actually, "Panting and sweating as you stand still in my corridors" would have been just as accurate.
Fun System Shock Fact : Shodan deliberately disabled as many elevators as she could, because she figured instead of hunting down the access codes in radioactive areas filled with Cyborg Death Nannies* and the zombies from Thief BUT FROM THE FUTURE, the fat basement dweller that was the only survivor of the digital apocalypse wrought upon Citadel Station would simply attempt to use the stairs instead and die of exhaustion before reaching the second floor.
Unfortunately her downfall was that her programming didn't take into account the sheer determination of the human nerd to avoid all exercise.
*("The same killer instinct as human nannies, but now with robotic parts!")
I agree totally. Every game that comes out on the PS3 and Wii needs to have the option to control it with a normal controller.
Not everyone wants to play games with a remote control or swing their controller around for specific events, but we still want to actually play those games. I was thinking specifically of those two next gen consoles, but the DS is another great example.
You either end up with games that are simply less fun to play because of the fact that there is forced motion sensing (Lair, Excite Truck), or you get good games where the motion sensing crap feels like the obvious gimmick that it is (Folksoul, Ninja Gaiden Z).
"It's controlled purely with the normal controller, but when you want to suck the souls out of stuff, you yank the controller upwards". Awesome. Why not just let us pull the right analogue stick back as an alternative?
Sure, there are once in a blue moon games where the game needs the 'special' control system to work (Lost Magic, RE4Wii), but they really need to be the exception, and not the lazy rule.
Yeah this is the core of the problem. It's not that the Shadowrun game is inherently bad; it's actually a pretty decent game. If you feel in the mood for yet another team FPS. Personally I could have lived without it.
... (circle as appropriate)
But it's been labeled all wrong. It really did need to be Generic Sci-Fi Fantasy FPS X : Elves with Guns Edition and not THE NEXT-GEN SHADOWRUN GAME (OMG). Although, having said that, not labeling it Shadowrun would have meant it probably faded into obscurity (even) quicker than it already might be.
But at the end of the day, the next-gen Shadowrun game is an FPS, and shortly after the studio responsible closes down. Color me surprised. Even if it wasn't a true RPG, it could have been even an action RPG and it would have been better received.
I kinda didn't pay much attention when it was realised that it was going to be an FPS, but I think I vaguely remember that the devs or PR was quite indignant in the face of all the nerd rage.
Told you so / What goes around
"Look, the only point I tried to make was that the Sony guy was wrong to say that there was never a time when a single game would be critical to the success of the Playstation."
And what I'm telling you is that you are wrong. With regards to prior consoles, it's absolutely correct to suggest that The Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 never had a single game that was critical to their success. There simply wasn't. I'll admit that at launch it appeared as though this would be the case for Playstation3 though, although having said that I'm not even sure which game would have been the one that ensured the success of the console as nearly all of the launch titles sucked. Then again, they did for the Xbox360 as well, and now there are at least half a dozen must own titles.
Just because GTA3 was a popular game doesn't mean that the PS2 would have gone any worse had it not been a PS2 exclusive. It would have benefited the Xbox1 had it been a multiformat release, but the PS1 and PS2 have both had at least a dozen games that have been real system sellers, so that taking away any specific one would not have impacted greatly on sales.
Besides, logic would dictate that if you take away a single game exclusivity among a dozen titles, it's not affecting sales noticably as people are going to say, for example, "Well I can get GTA3 on PS2 and Xbox1, but I'll have to stick with the PS2 so I can play Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2. One PS2, please."
Also, just so you're aware, whether or not you actually like those games isn't related to this fact. I hate most of the PS2 system sellers (FFX, MGS2, GT3 for three quick examples of games I don't like) but it doesn't mean that I don't recognize them as big name games that will make purchase decisions for people.
Close to the only successful console in recorded history that lived or died by the success of a single game would have to be the Xbox1. Anyone that can't see that it would have really struggled had it not been for Halo is kidding themselves. Microsoft surely dodged a bullet with picking up the publishing and exclusivity rights to that title.
Oh, and I think the Jaguar sold the exact same number of copies as were sold of AvP. Also see : 3DO/Need for Speed. Although I did say 'successful' consoles.
Yeah, and my bad on the MGS2/4 mistake. I think your point was so obviously lacking in gaming history/knowledge that missed that.
"probably the most fun racing game I've ever played/owned"
That's a bit extreme isn't it.
Besides, it's hardly a 'proper' racing game. It's a party game more than it is a racing game anyway. The race is only there to give a start and finish to proceedings and to award extra stars. It's an coin eating arcade game with the have-a-couple-of-goes-and-come-back-in-a-week mentality, but at home to be played to death and bored with in an hour.
"Sure, I don't play it all the time, but for the hours of time spent sitting around laughing my head off while playing friends, it is DEFINITELY worth the price."
And here we are, back to the original point about price, finally. Pay PS3 price for your Wii and then tell me how much fun you have collecting stars. Or swinging your remote like a bat. I'm hearing echoes of "I paid a grand for this?" coming to mind.
It's "entertainment" versus "gaming", just to make shit up.
The Wii reminds people that don't play actual games of those entertainment units they see in the arcade after watching a movie and wish they could take it home.
The price becomes relevant after they play it for an hour or so and realise why those sort of things are kept in arcades for people to play a few times in a row at best and weeks apart, and not constantly.
To assume your first response, I wish this was a troll, have you ever played Excite Truck? I kinda felt sorry for my friend, and hoped he has a lot of sit-around-and-play-games parties soon, otherwise it's gonna start gathering dust real quick.
Halo made the Xbox succeed, almost no doubt about it. Presumably PGR helped, but at the end of the day, I'm not convinced it would have been pretty had Halo not been bought over to Xbox from PC (from Mac).
To suggest that the PS2 would have struggled without GTA3, is just stupid. There are a dozen headline titles that are used in the "I bought a PS2 purely to play [game]" sentence.
Besides, your own comment supports the opposite of your point. You named _two_ games that the console is specifically purchased for. You're already moving away from the 'no single game' argument the sentence after you disagree with the point. Sigh.
Any reply to the effect of 'well name them then' just supports my suspicion that you have no idea what youre talking about and are basing your comments on your experiences with your three of four console owning schoolfriends.
Dear Brian the Pot Smoker,
You've paid us for some of these games that you say show no originality. Our goal with regards to your input into our business model has been met. From this point on, unless you want to give us more money to actually exceed our goals, we really couldn't give a a fuck what you have to say.
Regards,
PopCap
You have to be trolling, surely. The wikipedia page has the box art, and looking at it I can't possibly see how you could have decided to give it a whirl based on that, given you sound like such a pussy anyway. I'm not even sure my mom uses the phrase 'absolutely horrified'.
"Head office must have sent advance warning that any open-box refund requests should be quickly granted on this game."
Hahahaha. No. You were grossed out by a video game so you then conclude that a specific memo was sent saying that anyone that complains about the the most graphically poor yet violent game since Custer's Revenge should be given their money back. Unlikely.
For years now EB has had a 7 day no questions asked return policy, that obviously includes open games, as they specify when you purchase it that "for any reason, even if you don't like it, bring it back within 7 days for a full refund".
The fact that you're a moron that purchases games based on cover art, and sound like the kind of person that if EB hadn't had in place a money back policy regardless of open boxes etc, that you would have stood in the store and made a dramatic scene until you did get your money back - which I imagine the manager would have done just to get you out of there - suprisingly enough, has nothing to do with it.
I knew violence wasn't the answer, I deliberately misunderstood the question.
3) block characters less than level 10 from whispering to other players not in their guild/party. I would have said map zone but then the level 1 char just gets walked up to SW/IF and spams there. I pointlessly suggested this in game one time and got what I presume was a higher level gold farming character tell me that it would be too hard to implement and couldn't be done. Except that's exactly what is done with trial accounts.
Hopefully this 'Report as Spam' button is something that will be monitored both ways as well. If someone makes a lame joke in IF chat and morons don't like it and mark it as spam, then a warning or something would be great. Maybe have a 2 minute timer icon in the top right hand corner that is like an 'Are you sure' button that allows you to re-think your decision. Either that or I hope they bought new servers to handle the spam reporting load.
1. Please make it turn based or KotOR style combat.
NO. Turn based, or don't bother. Seriously. Pause time combat is shit. It made KotOR suck, and it wrecked the first recent UFO game as well. I know they want to make a game that will sell on consoles as well, but if the console crowd can't handle a game that actually stops constantly for the next turn, then screw them. Or tell them it's like Baseball or NFL, but with brahmin.
And I'm afraid to think that number 3 even needs mentioning. The world-levelling system of Oblivion is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. If they ever pull that shit again then, well I'm not sure what I'll do, but you can rest assured it will affect no one outside my own personal world space.
I BAG THE AVATAR NAME HIRO PROTAGONIST ...
although you know there will be hero, hereo, hi'ro, protaginist, profagonist, protagoni'st, etc etc, about a million of us, all with swords chopping up people as they walk thru the door.
Of course the 'best games ever' are going to be old if your definition of 'old' encompasses the majority of games ever made.
Yes, except the 'new' ones. That how we differentiate old from new. FYI.
Also, you might wanna check your clipboard contents. I think it has 'Wii Sports' in it and you accidentally hit ctrl-v while typing this out. Just in case you put it in something more important later in the day.
I'm totally fucking confused here. I have mod points, and yet I don't know what to do with them. You've really made this hard.
... this is +5 Insightful. +6 even. Is there a way to maybe highlight the relevant text and mod that part up, thus ignoring all the nonsensical crap that has to share tenancy with the special stuff? ...
"I guess the interesting thing to consider is with all this extra space, is it really needed in the PS3."
This is kinda stupid. It's HD gaming, they want as much space as they can. But in theory - and possibly Xbox fanboy land - it could start working it's way towards a valid point. You know, with a bit more background than a vague question, sans question mark. I don't know colin, is it that interesting a thing to consider, I mean, you're only guessing, and yet you raised the point.
"To my knowledge the PS3 is not powerful enough to even take minimal advantage of the huge amount of space provided by blu-ray."
This is mind-bogglingly, galactically, weapons-grade retarded. If it were at all possible possible to a) make less sense than this and b) make it any more obvious you have zero fucking idea about anything you're talking about, I'm unaware of it.
"Or is this just another way to sell movies."
Yet this
"Earth Defence Force 2017 is a pretty basic game, it has sprite icons for bonus pickups, zero story line, very simple shooting mechanics, and yet, I get to shoot 8 story tall robots in the junk "
You know, I think this could work.
I don't suppose the OFLC wants to spare us the indignity of yet another garbage weekly release and do something about TMNT from a week or two ago.
The game never got around to being classified so it was never allowed a release in Australia on XBLA.
Which is of course, retarded.
Which is of course, par for the course for the OFLC.
No doubt other game stores will stock these but this is the main one I use. Lucasarts ARE releasing a lot of their old games. For dirt cheap too. All AUS$10.
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Curse of Monkey Island - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
Full Throttle - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
Grim Fandango - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
Sam & Max - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
Jedi Knight + Addon - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
Star Wars Racer (I don't know why either) - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
The Dig - http://www.dvdcrave.com.au/products/product.jsp?p
It's a small point I guess but
"The Dreamcast games Last, Hope Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games"
should actually read
"The Dreamcast games Last Hope, Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games"
The games are
Last Hope
Karous
Trigger Heart Exelica
You speak the (subjective, but I share your opinion) truth, but you will go down for it. In fact, you already have. I'll do my best to give you some company on your descent.
The game is overhyped to the point where it comes very close to eclipsing the most overrated game of all time. The only people that don't know what that game is are the total fanboys for it.
I couldn't finish the game single player in GoW because I got bored witless by the end of chapter 3, and thinking co-op would save it I bought a second controller, invited a friend over, and we were sick of it by the start of chapter 4. We did start from the beginning, I'm not saying that a single fight had him bored. He was much like me, he thought it was impressive to begin with, then mid chapter 2 we were starting to wonder if it was every going to change the environment or maybe even the gameplay. Then there was the incredibly boring underground section. I'm past finishing games that I'm not enjoying. If I'm three chapters in out of five and I'm already starting to drift off, then the game goes back on the shelf.
Thankfully we got more enjoyment out of co-op Assault Heroes, and the wired 360 controller works perfectly in my PC.
It's just kill.switch with a graphics patch, and appeals to the crowd that think the main meathead characters are cool, and that like to describe people as 'total badasses', or something. Character depth isn't something important.
I'd be more pissed off, but I picked up the collectors edition with the polo-shirt and dogtag bonuses, and after selling those to the sucker fanboys on ebay for AUS$50 and AUS$25 respectively I only paid AUS$25 for the game, which is like taking a chance on a budget title and finding out it's actually pretty crap; you just put it aside and figure you might give it a go again sometime later when you're bored.
2. Gears of War (Xbox 360) - Believe the hype.
Believe the hype? Give me a break. Hasn't this games 15 minutes run out yet? Seriously, this wildly overrated game has been overhyped to fucking hell and back, which is probably the only way it's been noticed. It's just kill.switch with a fancy graphics patch. Epic probably had this game finished months ago but knew that it would need a late year release to scoop the GoTY awards because any earlier and people would have forgotten it by then. They would do well to start hyping the sequel asap.
The sheer amount of gayness in your post is sending shivers down my spine.
Gears of War might be a fun if amazingly overrated game, but that trailer - which was very cool - and that song - which is very cool - have combined to totally negate each others coolness and create a coolness void, where all that you're left with is something that reeks of trying too hard.
Hell, the Tears for Fears version would have worked better than that. Someone should totally dub that.
Thats a shame because F.E.A.R. is a great game, but I was saying it should remove Halo from it's undeserved throne without actually ever trying the console version. I just presumed it was as enjoyable to play as the PC version. What I find amazing is that Timesplitters Future Perfect never got a look in as a superior console FPS. That is a great game. I wish there was a way to remove the totally retarded aiming style from TS2 because I feel that would be an even better game without that moronic aiming. I don't know why it never bothered me much in Goldeneye, but I couldn't play much further than the helicopter in TS2 before just going crazy and returning it to the video store.
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The issues you mention sound very much like Far Cry on console as well. New areas actions etc but it still felt like you were trying to console a mouse/kb driven game with a console controller. Awkward
Ports also work exactly the same in reverse when they go to PC. Massive reticules, auto-aiming and/or mouse smoothing that you can't turn off, the feeling that you're playing with your face pressed against the screen. Also the other thing I find that console FPS seem to totally lack the ability to make it actually feel like you're shooting something.
Project Snowblind is the best example that instantly comes to mind of all this. IIRC the PC version had no way of turning off the auto-aim, and successfully managed to incorpate all the above complaints. The final straw was after an hour or so of play the feeling that I was shooting mannequins got too much and I uninstalled it.
Condemned is a great console FPS as well, even if it is in a different style. The aiming acceleration is stupid but tolerable. I ended up getting it on PC anyway but regardless it was great, and a perfect way of how to actually do a console->PC FPS port. Except for the whole bit about leaving talk of the achievements in there.
Oh yeah, and if you want good AI, there F.E.A.R. is where you want to be. I never really bothered enough with Halo 2 to see if the A.I. was any improved over the non-existant first version. I played as far as becoming a bad guy and that was enough for me.
Not quite yet, the Paypal transfer from Monolith hasn't arrived.
To be perfectly honest (and to unavoidably be marked as a troll no doubt) I think it's primarily a by-product of the fact that people constantly creaming themselves over Halo grates after a while. It's not just 'I like Halo' posts, it's where people really go above and beyond normal fanboyism to reach new hights of irritation and bullshit.
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... right about ... now F.E.A.R. should be destroying Halo and taking it's rightful place and king of the console shooters. But it's not going to happen, because while F.E.A.R. is a better game in every way, Halo is loved for it's DM/Co-OP more than the game itself.
Stuff like this is exactly what I'm talking about, it's almost embarassing to read. It's only a few posts about this one.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207010&
They're one of the few game companies that I feel really elevate gaming to an art.
Holy shit. I mean, I can literally picture this guy reaching for the tissues. Whether it's because the game has brought him to tears or to orgasm is an exercise left to the reader. I try not to think about it too much.
It's basically just a generic, actually quite poorly done shooter that was only successful because it came out on console, where people had rarely seen FPS, deathmatch, or the magic of Co-OP FPS. No one (well, maybe the parent of your post) is arguing that people aren't allowed to like it, it's just that watching something so ordinary get 9s and 10s across the board when most of that score is clearly for co-op/DM (which makes almost any FPS better) and having to listen to a constant stream of retarded fanboy bullshit can get tiring to the point where you lose all sense and feel like you should respond.
I mean, to judge console FPS by the criteria that Halo is praised - graphics, story, AI (lol, seriously guys, Halo has no AI, come on, there could be a full post written on the rose colored glasses the fanboys wear when discussing this), gunplay
And while nothing is inherently wrong with that, can people just shut the fuck up about Halo already.
You like it.
We get it.
It's really not as good as you think. And most people are so fucking tired of hearing it.
That's a pretty cynical approach. I always wonder how people arrive at this logic. Surely you could stretch that out to not wanting to release more than one iteration of a franchise per console so people don't abandon one at the expense of another. People like more of the same thing if it's done right. See : GTA.
8. Forza Motorsport
* Review
* Xbox 360 compatible? Yes
(Yes, I know you're right, I just wanted to argue for arguments sake)