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Starhawk MLG Tourneys: $20k Competition, Smaller Skill Challenges

Check out this huge Starhawk MLG tournament, and the smaller, weekly skill challenges you can get in on right now!

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ChronoJoe4220d ago

It's cool this game is supported like this, but I feel it's missplaced. Starhawk sold terribly, Sony should have ensured things like this were available for games like UC3 instead (or as well as), because games like those, and Killzone always had large competative communities that were never supported by worthwhile tournaments. Which is a shame, mean while Starhawk has done little to nothing to earn this attention, the game is dead, what is the point in a $20,000 tournament when there are only around 100 good players on the game?

Ducky4220d ago (Edited 4220d ago )

Has more to do with the game's design than popularity (partly due to poor advertising)
Everyone starts out the same, has to procure additional weapons on-site, and there's a secondary layer of managing resources to build offensive/defensive structures.

There's a decent amount of strategy involved, and that leads to a metagame element. UC and KZ don't exactly have that. UC2/K2 at least had some elements of competitive play, but their third iterations have gone a bit more on the casual/arcade side to fit directly into 'pro' gaming.

ChronoJoe4220d ago

Rubbish. No offense intended.

Games like Call of Duty, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, prove that design isn't conducive to competitive support. The only reason this game still has competitive support is because it was designed to be a successful game and Sony are just following through with it's marketing strategy.

R3 had the same push for competative support too by the way but it died out. R3 again, another game that wasn't particularly conducive to a competative environment, but as I say, it becomes a bit of a joke when there's only 10 good players out there. (which is what R3 pretty much got to after like a month).

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Best Sci-Fi Games on the PS3

From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3

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zaanan13d ago

Not a single Reistance? Fuck this article.

mastershredder13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.

Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.

Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.

FreeckyCake13d ago

Nobody should listen to you either with that attitude.

OtterX12d ago

I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.

I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.

Friendlygamer13d ago

The riddick games are some of the best stealth titles ever, highly underrated

YourMommySpoils13d ago

What games? All recall plating was Escape from Butcher Bay.

Friendlygamer13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'

( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )

jznrpg13d ago

Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything

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Roundtable: Dead Game Franchises We Miss

With every big game now belonging to a big intellectual property, there are those that have become redundant. Here are the series' we miss.

RPGer1089d ago

I miss Dark Cloud I mean damn, Dark Cloud 2 is one of the best Action RPG game ever made. The game have: Rich Worlds, different setting, tons of contents, vareity in gameplay like never before (and even after), best buliding mechanics, crafting system like no one did and finally impressive graphics.

Most underrated game ever. It deserved the popularity and sales of Zelda and Final Fantasy. ut unfortunately, Level-5 and Sony didn't advertise it at all.

titans99991089d ago

My franchises I wish would make a come back, are Battlefront by pandemic studios - galactic conquest was the best, mercenaries 1 and 2, and prototype 1 and 2...great games!

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Pure Reminiscing: Starhawk

Pure PlayStation: Pure Reminiscing is a brand new feature from our very own Kyle Durant. It’s… different. Think of it like a mini-novel full of Kyle’s most weird and wonderful musings about games of yesteryear. If nothing else, at least it’s long enough to give you something to do on your journey to work in the morning….

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