Explosion.com's Dave Walsh takes a look at the phenomenon behind how games are rated and how they are perceived and that it is OK to not like every great game.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
of course its ok not to like every great game. I, for example, do not like GTA at all. any of them. However, that doesn't mean i think its a horrible game because i know there are people out there that love the crap out of it.
im not going to go around b*tching and whining and telling everyone that this game sux and they shouldnt play it simply because i dont like it. What a lame excuse that would be haha!
The influence of seeing a published "9/10" is pretty large. People really don't realise how much the media shapes them and their opinions. Not to sound like a paranoic, but it really is true.
It's ok to like a game with a rating below 8 too. There are some games I really like that scored in the 70s on metacritic, like Unit 13 and ps all stars.
Good...because I hated Skyrim and Fallout NV and Fallout 3 and Oblivion. I honestly don't understand why people like those games. I mean, I want to like them. Hell, I bought them all in an effort to like....but they are awful. Slow, lifeless treks across various woodlands or wastelands to do whatever menial task any asshole you meet wants. All of them had terrible combat. All of them were and buggy mess that were only playable after the PC modding community did what Bethesda and Obsidian should have during development.
Now, most people I tell that to call me crazy but in reality, YOU are the crazy ones...lol.