The Independent: "In the pantheon of competitive sports is there room for a universally recognised digital event?"
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
TheGamer writes, "Some weapons resist the test of time."
This person obviously doesn't realize just how poorly made most olympic games really are. They are the worst of the worst. The only decent one is Mario & Sonic.
The English would buy any olympic type games right now simply to rep their country, which is understandable, but they won't be playing any quality olympic game.
Saw a video recently of USA vs. Japan in a Street Fighter 4 tournament.
Honestly, it was laughable. USA won the first round of fights, commentaters where having sly digs at the Japanese player, crowd were chanting 'USA, USA' etc then the entire USA team got owned by the next Japanese player. Hardly a word was spoken in this time.
I persoanally loved how the USA commentators attitude changed from 'getting owned son!' to 'Street Fighter 4: Arse Edition' when losing but most will just see that as childish.
Anyway, EVO basically fills this requriement.
The problem is gaming in a professional sence is no where near popular enough and has great amount of negative stigma. I agree archery,shooting.... require more skill than physical effort and in that way are similar to gaming but gaming still has this immature side to it that makes traditioning into an olympic style thing almost impossible. I feel the whole industry would have to change to a more mature attitude before we can start thinking about this.