It's a question of accents. Not language.
In AC2 everyone Italian had an Italian accent. And in AC1 the accents varied but had a definite middle-eastern twang.
Now in a French game they've decided to go full blown varied English accents, from posh RP to cockney? Is a little bit problematic.
But it's not like it's a dealbreaker!
So you're generalising the 25+ dialects of English across the UK to ONE accent of 'inbreeding' and 'poor dental hygiene'?
When some people from the west of England can't even understand people from the north of Scotland because the accents are so different?
Even though dental hygiene has only became a thing in the early 1900s and inbreeding has been massively frowned upon for centuries?
Good luck with that.
Well said on the outnumbered and outgunned thing. I never thought of it that way. Probably the reason I love The Last of Us so much too- it's always you with almost no resources again 5-8 really capable, hard-as-nails guys. You have to play really dirty to win. A.Wake nailed that edge-of-your-seat survival gameplay too.
Nice one- and yeah I knew Sparrows were the smaller bikes you get from the start!
4 days to go!
@Above:
Aren't Shrikes the bigger vehicles which were in the Crucible adversarial multiplayer mode?
Sparrows are the speed bike-like things, Shrikes are the heavier one-seater weaponised ones, right?
I totally agree.
MGS2's story was trite and mostly cutscene, but the gameplay was a totally next generation experience at the time.
MGS3 is perfect in almost every way.
MGS4's gameplay is possibly the greatest gameplay ever created- but the mostly bullshit story and 15 hours cutscene time utterly ruined what could have been a masterpiece. Not to mention act 3 and 5 are really lame (except 5's dramatic climaxes).
I...
Really nice to see someone here who actually has perspective on feminism, what it means, and the true issues it opposes. Keep it real, man.
I don't feel too strongly against Anita- a lot of her analyses are HORRIBLE and contrived- but at the same time, many of them highlight really problematic patterns in gaming, which have to go.
What's wrong with 'casual'?
It doesn't get in the way of hardcore gaming at all. Both strands are seeing massive increases across the board. They are mutually exclusive, basically.
Perhaps Nintendo are the exception, because they made a move towards casual which has caused problems- but this is the only hardcore/casual overlap I can think of.
I've got a sinister feeling they aren't just going to release MGO3 as a separate download, but that they are going to make us pay for it.
Imagine MGO3 being a standalone game like MGSV: Ground Zeroes was. You pay £10-20 bucks and get the online portion of MGSV.
Though they could go the Uncharted 3 route and make it F2P, with microtransactions built in to make it economically viable.
I don't think I'd be able to forgive Ko...
Sorry, I should have clarified- when I said everything was 50/50 in the 80s, I meant from a marketing perspective. I wrote that badly. Misleading. We do NOT know the exact numbers of who played what.
But @Qrphe, counting only the arcade scene is totally reductive and doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.
In the 80s, all games marketing had girls, boys and parents playing games together. It reckons right that there must have been fairly equitable ...
"their numbers are almost exclusively on the fringe."
Source?
Nobody knows the numbers from the NES era. And the only reason we think there were more boys playing than girls is because Nintendo made all the marketing focus on boys to boost sales after the industry crashed.
The only reason anyone thinks males play more than females is because Nintendo made it up. Think about that.
Polygon, despite the abomination it is, had an incredible piece written by a freelancer about this. In the 80s everything was totally 50/50,...
Yeah. What the hell criticism is this person talking about. I don't think I've read one negative comment about the game- not counting people saying it's too far away from Silent Hill stylistically. Which isn't entirely valid due to the "it's not Silent Hill" disclaimer the developers put on it.
All the Silent Hill games take place in huge parts of the town. Even the first one.
The way they dealt with technological shortcomings was to make everything dark and to reveal it using a flashlight. Basically the original, classic Silent Hill flashlight mechanic was created simply because they couldn't render much of the town.
But all the levels have been pretty big. Still claustrophobic and creepy, but big!
Yeah, I see no problem at all. The second I get a "HDD is full" message, I just delete the 9/10 games I no longer play, with the absolute freedom to redownload them in an hour or two whenever I want.
500GB is more than big in enough if you erase games you haven't played in a few weeks- and that's usually all but one or two games.
Until game sizes reach the 100-200GB mark (totally feasible), 500GB is absolutely fine.
If you see my comment above, I knew that. Because it's blindingly obvious. I thought I wouldn't have to clarify that, obviously, plenty of console games have been 60FPS. I was referring to current-gen stuff, namely since high-FPS became some massively important talking point.
When I wrote that comment up there, I was on the cusp of adding "brand new for HD 3D games, that is." Because obviously plenty of games have been 30FPS or above.
I decided to leave that clause out, and within a day, a ton of disagrees jump on the tiny crack in my argument... It was clear what I meant. This fucking website, man.
Brand new for consoles. Still tiresome as heck though. Fps is function over fashion for me. Over 30 and i'm happy. One sensitizes to fps and resolution really quickly so it barely matters anyway when it's lower/ higher.
Apparently the main point of First Light is the developers experimenting with new level/ mission structures.
I recall them saying stuff about getting tired of the "main mission + bunch of area based side missions" structure, so I think they're trying out more fully-sandbox stuff in First Light.
I reckon that's going to fix a lot of the issues with inFamous. I bet First Light's going to be a ton of fun.
All radical feminists are rude and obnoxious.
But not all feminists are radical feminists.
This is a huge logical fallacy used everywhere on articles like this.
The majority of feminists are normal, pragmatic people, many of whom become feminists after reading feminist texts (as new and interesting and forward thinking as texts like Darwin's Theory of Evolution were in that time). Imagine radical feminists as the vocal 1%. As with anythin...