Couple days early so you can prepare yourselves, change your diet, stretch, get extra sleep... Here are the contests we are running for June! Don't forget to enter to win a PS4 - http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Special note to April winners: There has been a snag in issuing these prizes, and I have confirmed that they will be issued next week.
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COMMENT LOTTERY:
Each comment you make on N4G during June = 1 entry. Comment 25 times? 25 entries. 100? 100 entries. You get the idea? Yeah, you do! (Hey, this includes Forum posts!)
DQ if you pick up a restriction during the contest period, and comments with negative labels (Trolling, Off Topic, etc.) don't count.
Prize: 3 winners - a $50 Amazon Gift Card each!
BEST USER BLOG:
You must post a User Blog in the month of June! The top 5 User Blogs as voted by cgoodno and me win! There's no limit to how many wonderful User Blogs you can write and enter, anything you author here on N4G during the month of June will be eligible.
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BEST USER REVIEW:
You must post a User Review in the month of June! The top 2 User Reviews as voted by cgoodno and me win! There's no limit to how many wonderful User Reviews you can write and enter, anything you author here on N4G during the month of june will be eligible.
Prize: 2 winners will be chosen and receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST:
Submit news and get a top News ranking in June and you can win up to $100!
The prizes are:
1st: $100 Amazon Gift Card
2nd: $75 Amazon Gift Card
3rd: $50 Amazon Gift Card
4th: $25 Amazon Gift Card
5th: $25 Amazon Gift Card
6th: $25 Amazon Gift Card
7th: $25 Amazon Gift Card
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*Just a note: I'm sorry the Daily Visit score isn't more 'every day' instead of its current 'every 24h1m', but that is just the front end tracking for you guys and when we run the lotto we pull from a more accurate list. So for those of you visiting every day diligently but not triggering the Daily Visit score reward, don't stress about it!
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2. Closing date is 11:59 PM EST 30th June 2013.
3. In the event of unforeseen circumstances N4G/HAVAmedia reserves the right to substitute the prizes for alternatives of equal or greater value.
4. Prizes are not transferrable.
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6. Failure to reply to ticket notification within seven (7) days results in forfeiture of prize.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 remakes are likely off the table forever, as new claims from anonymous Activision devs bury your hopes for good.
"Tony Hawk himself purported that plans were in place until Vicarious Visions’ obligations to Activision’s mammoth FPS game franchise, Call of Duty, got in the way"
Same what happened to Raven Softworks sadly
We'll never get Singularity 2
This is kinda pathetic on Activision. Hire someone else to do a remake if you have to. Not every dev needs to be working on cod
In a poignant announcement, Dutch indie developer Paladin Studios bid farewell after an impressive run spanning “almost 19 years.”
Despite No Man Sky's rocky launch, Hello Games managed to turn it into one of the best space exploration RPGs out there.
I hate the whole concept of "comeback story" because at the end of the day it doesn't remove the core issue we had in the first place, that we were lied to, it was disappointing and it launched with bare content to what was promised for years.
Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch but for me if you launch in a terrible state then you had your chance. I can applaud you for what you've done after but at the end of the day there's not much of a choice since most gamers would blank your next product if you ditched your last game so fast, it's not about repairing the game but spending your time repairing gamers trust before you launch your next product otherwise it would be dead on arrival.
With these stories and the games being updated, the only way is up most of the time so of course it's going to improve the game and feel better over all, getting better and better as time passes. No Mans Sky, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76 etc but then you have games like Anthem, Suicide Squad, Redfall and The Avengers where the devs just clearly moved on, now if they have another product people won't be as exited for it, I mean hell Guardians of the Galaxy was a great game but because of the Avengers it didn't help its sales since people were obviously still sour at that point.
I still think despite the improvements to games like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk along with being better now overall the games are still not up there to what was promised and hyped as for years.
If we keep celebrating these “comeback stories” then unfortunately it only strongly supports the concept that these studios / publishers can continue to push half arsed broken products out for the sake of quick sales instead of waiting until they are fully finished. We need to condemn this awful behaviour or sadly we lose all voice and power as consumers.
I feel the same way about Cyberpunk 2077. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm not a fan of comeback stories as well. But No man sky developer was a small indie team compared to CDPR. It's worse when it's coming from a AAA developer
"Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch"
You make it sound so simple and easy. It's not. After release Hello Games poured countless hours into getting their game closer to what they originally wanted, without charging a penny to anyone. That's not normal.
The reason NMS and HG are held in such high esteem and calling them liars is a weak stance is the amount of work they've put into it, for free. They're not chasing a quick buck, they've dedicated their lives over the last few years to giving their fans the game everyone wanted.
They are liars though...
We are not revising history here, I'm sorry but we're not
They built this game up for years and they launched it knowing full well it wasn't up to scratch to what they originally showed off or hyped it up to be.
"They're not chasing a quick buck, they've dedicated their lives over the last few years to giving their fans the game everyone wanted"
And like I said above most of that comes from the fact that if they had just moved on straight away nobody would have supported their next game. They've washed most of that sour taste away after supporting No Mans Sky so now they are doing a new game which more people feel like they can support and get excited for.
Anyway how can you say "You make it sound so simple and easy. It's not" and then make the point that "Hello Games poured countless hours into getting their game closer to what they originally wanted, without charging a penny to anyone"
This means that if a small team like this can turn a game around then big AAA games like Suicide Squad, Redfall, Anthem and the like should have been able to do it no problem, oh but that's right they didn't want to put the time or effort into it. They can do it but some people just decide not to.
I really enjoyed it at launch and had every trophy by August 2016.
The experience I had is no longer in the game: It was just me and my ship. It was a survival game and the feeling of loneliness in the universe was pervasive. There was no way to ruin too far from your ship and, in an emergency, you grenaded a hole in the ground to survive.
I miss that aspect, but since then, I love what they've done.
"Couple days early so you can prepare yourselves, change your diet..."
Are you suggesting my new profile pic looks fat?!?!
Here's to more blogs/reviews with great discussions. I predict an approved blog won't stay on the front page for more than 24 hours when E3 rolls around...and Mezzo being $100 richer when June's over.
June is gonna be CRAZY for blogs because of E3. I do not envy you and cgoodno the task you have ahead of you.
I will be posting a blog about my Sony Press Conference/E3 experience. Being that this will be my first time attending the event, I can safely say that I'm very nervous and excited at the same time!. I'll try my best to get as much coverage as I can to share with everyone.
(Sidenote: Something that I think will make this all-the-more interesting, is that I'm attending the event strictly as a gamer.. I do not own/run a gaming website, nor am I apart of the media. My invite came solely for being someone who plays games. I'll have more details about this in my write-up)
I wish I could write a blog but I get distracted easily, so half way through writing it I wou....oooh a butterfly!!!!
I'll write a blog if I automatically win a special prize.
That prize being that you have to slap Beans across the face.
Hard.
With a 4x2.
Edit: That'll learn him.