Preorder culture expects gamers to trust developers more than ever, but how does that work when they inspire so little faith?
The "take cash now, provide content later" tactic is currently serving companies well, but with recent disappointments like Aliens: Colonial Marines demonstrating how falsely advertised a game can be, one suspects it's a plan that cannot last. It certainly shouldn't be allowed to go on.
Too many games aren't given a second shot. We at VGU choose which games we would love to see receive a sequel.
The Saboteur - criminally underrated and a fantastic mechanic of bringing colour back to Nazi-occupied Paris.
The article lists Bulletstorm, Sleeping Dogs, and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Player 2 takes some quiet time to look back at some of the most hyped failures of the past 10 years.
Can't argue with any of those really, but I would add Resident Evil Operation Racoon City and Metal Gear Survive to that list. Both terrible games from good franchises.
Bulletstorm, I actually liked the gameplay but the atrocious writing and characters made me despise the game by the end of it.
Thanks to a bustling mod community on Steam, Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines actually has a stellar multiplayer experience to offer these days.
Another awesome episode.
I'm not usually a fan of Jim Sterling and I don't agree with DNF necessarily being a "stinker", but in this instance I think he's definitely onto something as far as what's wrong with the industry right now.
LOL the ending...
HAHAHAHAHA
Whale Song of Sorrow.
(not a comment on Jims weight, but his singing ability. big people are just as awesome as small and medium people.)
I seriously LOLed at that ending.
The worst part ( at least in my eyes ) is always those review embargoes. I don't know I find that in some sense it hurts the game and perhaps reputation in the instance of Gearbox along with it's game Aliens Colonial Marines. I don't know if they could have done things differently had no such thing as a review embargo been enacted but certainly the fuss would have made them move perhaps?
100% accurate, as always.