Why? I'm totally addicted to Geometry Wars. If it was $50.00 it'd be discouraging, but it's the price of a soda and a couple of burgers in exchange for many hours of pure entertainment. He's saying that of the Xbox Live Arcade games, it's the top pick. It really is that good.
Gamerankings already changes a review's score to work on a 0-100 scale. If they know that an "average" score for a site's reviews is a 3-4 and that compares to a "7" on other sites, they'll just mark them down as a 7.
Besides, the whole thing smells of sour grapes to begin with.
Most unbiased indications are saying that XBox 360 is not doing quite as well as they would have hoped, especially in Japan where the reception has been lukewarm at best.
What the hell are you talking about? The thing is sold out everywhere BUT Japan.
As an addendum to this, I must say that while I certainly plan on buying a PS3, after having played the 360 the lack of a centralized, integrated community will be one of the PS3's biggest disappointments (should it not materialize) no matter how profound its technical aspects or great its games. That's saying something.
Achievements and scores on the 360 are the real "next-gen" feature of the XBox 360.
Forget the graphics (although they're great) and forget the other much-touted features of the 360 - achievements and high scores take that old-school high score competitiveness from yesterday's old-school arcades and make them relevant once again!
This is great for someone like me - a guy in his early 30's who doesn't have many gamer friends anymore and certainly none on XBL - because it brings back that arcade competitiveness right to my living room: enhancing replayability, upping the tension factor, and generally just making the games more fun. Whoever decided to make integrated Live and Achievements mandatory for all XBox 360 games was a genius.
Well, no shit. The DS costs about 1/3 the price of a 360, has cheaper games, and has been on the market longer. What did you expect to happen? The GP's points are certainly valid.
This is, surprisingly to me, one of the better features of the XBox 360 - the XBox Live Arcade - it brings smaller, original apps that would never, ever see shelf space to the market at a reduced, almost impulse-buy price. I can't think of a better way for a smaller/startup studio to get itself off the ground than to produce a hit game for such a platform and be able to distribute it to the world digitally (providing, of course, that you can get your hands on a 360 Dev Kit). I think it's fantastic and can't wait to see what else Microsoft puts on Live Arcade. The elegance of the design and implementation very much caught me by surprise.
Unfortunately this is all too, true. In an industry where early access is an absolute must in order to stay competitive, there's so very little room for true journalism.
That's nothing...I have 43,353,213 subscribers to mine. Of course, I haven't seen a single cent because I don't require registration, sign-ups, or charge a fee. Additionally, it doesn't need any hardware or infrastructure because I still have to write the game. So, yah, I'd say I'm doing pretty well in the MMORPG market.
I have a PSP, and UMD movies are nothing more than a fad. Contrary to the Hollywood executives' beliefs, I don't exist to line their pockets every time they decide they need to have me re-buy my movie library on a different format.
I'd have to disagree and cite the "slippery slope" argument. If vendors see dollar signs in any quantity doing this, you can expect it to almost certainly be ubiquitous in the years to come. I can just see it now in games like World of Warcraft - "Cool, the Is It In You - Sword of Gatorade just dropped!!11":\
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Why? I'm totally addicted to Geometry Wars. If it was $50.00 it'd be discouraging, but it's the price of a soda and a couple of burgers in exchange for many hours of pure entertainment. He's saying that of the Xbox Live Arcade games, it's the top pick. It really is that good.
You've obviously not played Geometry Wars.
Gamerankings already changes a review's score to work on a 0-100 scale. If they know that an "average" score for a site's reviews is a 3-4 and that compares to a "7" on other sites, they'll just mark them down as a 7.
Besides, the whole thing smells of sour grapes to begin with.
Link to UI please?
made up numbers
Only in Mark McGwire's case, but I'm not here to talk about the past.
Most unbiased indications are saying that XBox 360 is not doing quite as well as they would have hoped, especially in Japan where the reception has been lukewarm at best.
What the hell are you talking about? The thing is sold out everywhere BUT Japan.
As an addendum to this, I must say that while I certainly plan on buying a PS3, after having played the 360 the lack of a centralized, integrated community will be one of the PS3's biggest disappointments (should it not materialize) no matter how profound its technical aspects or great its games. That's saying something.
Achievements and scores on the 360 are the real "next-gen" feature of the XBox 360.
Forget the graphics (although they're great) and forget the other much-touted features of the 360 - achievements and high scores take that old-school high score competitiveness from yesterday's old-school arcades and make them relevant once again!
This is great for someone like me - a guy in his early 30's who doesn't have many gamer friends anymore and certainly none on XBL - because it brings back that arcade competitiveness right to my living room: enhancing replayability, upping the tension factor, and generally just making the games more fun. Whoever decided to make integrated Live and Achievements mandatory for all XBox 360 games was a genius.
Well, no shit. The DS costs about 1/3 the price of a 360, has cheaper games, and has been on the market longer. What did you expect to happen? The GP's points are certainly valid.
Ah, yes, who can forget these amazing NES accessories:
http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/nes/nes.jpg
This is, surprisingly to me, one of the better features of the XBox 360 - the XBox Live Arcade - it brings smaller, original apps that would never, ever see shelf space to the market at a reduced, almost impulse-buy price. I can't think of a better way for a smaller/startup studio to get itself off the ground than to produce a hit game for such a platform and be able to distribute it to the world digitally (providing, of course, that you can get your hands on a 360 Dev Kit). I think it's fantastic and can't wait to see what else Microsoft puts on Live Arcade. The elegance of the design and implementation very much caught me by surprise.
Packaging and said "bundles" are up to the specific retailers (which doesn't dispute the fact that bundles were prevalent in pre-sales).
Unfortunately this is all too, true. In an industry where early access is an absolute must in order to stay competitive, there's so very little room for true journalism.
Because the companies the media would harm owns them.
You're not special.
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Coincidence??? Hmmmmmm, I THINK NOT!
...hype to get more people eager to get one?
Grammer was abysmal. ;P
Well, at leest you didn't clame there speling was abyssmal
That's nothing...I have 43,353,213 subscribers to mine.
Of course, I haven't seen a single cent because I don't require registration, sign-ups, or charge a fee.
Additionally, it doesn't need any hardware or infrastructure because I still have to write the game. So, yah, I'd say I'm doing pretty well in the MMORPG market.
Notorious, but not near as much as this guy!
To follow up with your thought, if follows that they should be sending me a new CD/DVD if/when mine breaks then, right? Of course not...
I have a PSP, and UMD movies are nothing more than a fad. Contrary to the Hollywood executives' beliefs, I don't exist to line their pockets every time they decide they need to have me re-buy my movie library on a different format.
Color me impressed.
You must be new here.
I'd have to disagree and cite the "slippery slope" argument. If vendors see dollar signs in any quantity doing this, you can expect it to almost certainly be ubiquitous in the years to come. I can just see it now in games like World of Warcraft - "Cool, the Is It In You - Sword of Gatorade just dropped!!11" :\
Don't you think you should be doing something productive instead of browsing /. on your PDA? =)