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Rare talks Viva Piñata

Veteran developer Rare has been talking-up its bizarre Xbox 360 garden game, Viva Piñata.

During a chat with CVG, lead designer Gregg Mayles and fellow design bod Justin Cook defended Rare's cutesy game saying it's not just one for the kids. "I like to think we've made a game that anybody can play," said Cook. "We wanted children to play it so obviously some of the design decisions we made reflect that... A lot of the press you see about games over the last 12 months has been about how nasty and evil games are, so this is a kind of reaction to that."

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5 Of the Most Unlikeable Video Game Protagonists

There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.

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HealthGard2h ago

Abby deserves to be number 1.

He was created to appease the poison colored haired employees at Naughty Dog and their fantasy of hating all of their fathers for lack thereof. This was the worst case of a company that was in charge of a media hating their own fans.

Streamers would straight up be reported or even banned for letting Abby die in the boss fight while playing as a fake female that has a man's motion capture.

Abby as a human wouldn't exist in a ruined world with that musculature because there wouldn't be enough available protein in the world to maintain all that manly muscle mass unless cannibalism was Introduced.

Abby wasn't just terrible for the games narrative but in totality with the media reputation included. If that wasn't so tarnished the fans would have already gotten a 3rd game in the once loved series.

And with that flat chest having Abby as the main character would title the Game The Last of Us Tranz 3 Parts removed

GhostScholar55m ago(Edited 55m ago)

I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.

GooGobbler42m ago

What about that Forspoken Tw*t

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CS:GO fans now frantically dusting off their Xbox 360s as servers are still online

One of the only ways to play CS:GO on official servers is via the Xbox 360 version of the game.

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mandf1d 7h ago

4 or 5 players in a game is not players frantically dusting it off

Jin_Sakai1d 7h ago

We all know that videogamer.com went to each and every Xbox 360 owners house to watch them frantically dust off their 360s.

Vits1d 7h ago

I mean it is a 1000% growth in the player-base. /s

mandf1d 7h ago

Enough to write an article though. N4g new owners are insulting us for click revenue

Vits1d 6h ago

@mandf

Nothing to do with new owners. N4G has always been the trashcan for game news and discussion.

northpaws1d 7h ago

I love video games so much that I never have the time to replay the old one that I have finished, my backlog has only gotten bigger and bigger. I don't get how some people can play one game for years (except for mmorpg)

mandf1d 7h ago

It's an exaggeration to the extreme. A way making an exclusive seen grander than it is.

Profchaos1d 6h ago

Some people do I know someone who only ever plays dune 2000 which is rarely but still

RedDevils19h ago

Those Fifa or COD players do that every years.

Inverno1d 6h ago

Wonder why they've never ported this game over to last Gen and now current Gen. This game would be pretty popular right now, I think.

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Hands-On Preview: Alan Wake II \\ GameCrate

Alan Wake II looks to be another scary trip to the country.

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