If you never saw Crazy People, a 1990 film starring Dudley Moore, I highly recommend it. Basically, an advertising agency is taken over by the insane, who decide that honesty—the anathema of marketing—is now the best policy. Volvos are sold as "boxy, but they're good." Another stunt offers "a free plant for fat slobs." And a poster featuring an attractive couple frolicking on the beach invites the viewer to "Come in the Bahamas."
The kicker to the whole movie is a brilliant fake ad for Sony, in which a smug Japanese man declares that their products are better because shorter Asian engineers are closer to the circuitry, while "caucasians are just too damn tall." Twenty-two years and three Xbox 360 failures later, I'm thinking maybe that movie was on to something
By Owen Good
Video games are no longer just a simple past time. Today's games are evolving into true works of art. Offering intriguing narratives, cinematic setpieces, and profound messages, games can entertain us for hundreds of hours.
I never got around to mass effect - I’m skeptical that it would hold up if I were to try it now
Originally launched in 2011, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is coming to Nintendo Switch, so It's time to look back at the original.
Still have my ps3 copies. Bought it at launch and another one when I found it cheap and in perfect condition about 10 years ago. I wouldn’t buy it on Switch but if they made a PS5 version I would. I still have one of my PS3 Fats hooked up so good to go either way.
Id play it again on the switch. I wished my 360 version was bc but this is still a good way to play.
The artist behind Fallout 4’s Deathclaw reveals just how bad things got back when Bethesda took over the series
People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,
But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.
It still boggles my mind how Microsoft basically got off scott-free with its fanbase with the 360's hardware failures (let alone Microsoft's blatant shift to "soccer mom gaming" with the Kinect).
But people will always defend something when they're way too emotionally invested into it.
Hmm...
I've only owned one 360 which died several times. The hardest thing in the world to do was to sell off the 70 games I owned and not buy another poorly made console. It's tough walking away from all of those games, all of my gaming friends, 6+ months of Live left in my sub, over $400 in accessories like wifi/headsets/controllers, and a ton of DLC that I will never see again.
I REFUSE to give MS any more money. I shouldn't have to. I understand that electronics fail. But I've never seen anything like the 360 or the people that stand by such a poorly made console.
The Xbox 360 is the worst console in gaming history. Some people won't like my saying that, but those same people drudge along buying 2 and 3 of them and pretend like that is normal. It's not. MS built a cheap console built with spit and bubble gum and I was stupid enough to buy one...but not stupid enough to buy another.
Now, when I say worst console, I'm not talking about the software. The 360 has one of the strongest libraries in gaming but all of those awesome games mean nothing when you lose your console for weeks at best, forever at worst. It's downright shameful that everyone I know that owns a 360 has had it die on them. Bad luck? Not when it's EVERYONE YOU KNOW...meanwhile, my PS3 and Wii are still going stong.
I remember it like yesterday. 3 days before Christmas(2010), my 360 tanked for the 2nd time while installing the second disc of Forza 3 ultimate. At least it was kind enough to die before I spent more money on Xbox games. I got the thing fixed again and it tanked for the last time while playing Just Cause.
You never forget the games that killed your 360..
Now, I'm sure I'll get bombed here and labeled a fanboy for speaking to my own experience with the console, but whatever. If i cared what others thought, I'd make a Facebook account...
I'm on my third 360. I had to send my current one in for repair as well. I got it back two weeks later, only to find cosmetic damage to the machine that wasn't there when I had shipped it in. The kicker? Not one customer rep could tell me what was wrong with my console, or what had been fixed. Once this machine goes, I'm done with MS. I shouldn't have to buy three of the same console within a six year period.
It's ludicrous that Microsoft released the 360 with a massive failure rate just so they could get it out before PS3 and ripped off A LOT of parents who bought them for their kids and those same kids aggressively defend Microsoft like it's their child or something!! It's laughable!!
I have had my launch 360 since 05 in 08 it got RROD so I sent it in(extended warranty).Just recently this year its started to over heat, but I am getting it fixed. I just want it to last till the next Xbox. So I can say I only had to buy 1 360 and it lasted a whole generation.
However Microsoft better not release faulty hardware when the next Xbox launches.