You seem to think that people will pay a shitload of money for something that requires them to exert more energy. The home of the 360 (America) is a monument to the path of least resistance. You really think people will spend $150 to move their whole arms and hands to control the dashboard versus paying nothing and moving their thumbs? These are the same people who drive to the end of the street or ride a Segway to get the mail rather than walk. Or buy one remote control to cover everything r...
$150 is too much for Natal, or whatever the hell they decide to call it, to make any kind of significant impact or to achieve mainstream penetration. MS would be asking an minimum of $350 for new users for an arcade which is mostly useless if you want to do anything besides just play games with the 360. So that pushes the price to $450.
Natal coming out at $150 essentially kills it before it even gets going. Who is really going to spend $150 on an add on that most of the game...
I wish people who run blogs would stop acting like they know better than developers as to what they should be doing. It's asinine and insulting to the developers.
I predict that all the fanboys will claim that their system of choice kicked the shit out of everyone else.
Insomniac was one of the first studios to share information about developing for the PS3. Also, while their games might not be as well done as some of Sony's other first party games, Insomniac's games are always fucking solid at worst, and they put out games twice as fast as almost all other developers. There is also something to be said for them being voted one of the best companies to work for, especially considering their development tempo, for 5 or 6 years in a row.
I just find it funny the people so exited by this and yet when Insomniac was only on Playstation they said that Insomniac games were too kiddy and gay.
It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Tony Hawk was being pumped out every year with minimal improvement so people got tired of it BEFORE Skate came out. Activision is doing the same thing with CoD that they did with Tony Hawk and if Respawn creates a new franchise that disrupts the status quo then CoD will fail as well.
Call of duty will continue to sell ridiculous numbers for at least a few more years until either Activision gets stupid and puts out 3 CoD titles a year or Respawn creates a new franchise that completely makes people forget about CoD. Tony Hawk went about 10-12 years before they finally figured out it wasn't working any more.
Cool story, bro.
Hunting is part of the world. The animals exist in the world and react to what's going on in it. Some animals will run away from you, others will attack you. There were several times I died when 3 Grizzlies came out of nowhere and fucked me up. The hunting part of it is just killing the animals that exist in the world.
It is in no way Grand Theft Horse. While there is an abundance of killing, the world's morality doesn't necessarily make it a crime. Also, there are very few missions where you are required to commit crimes, e.g. stealing, murder, etc. Again, since the game is set in the old west, murder is not as black and white as in GTA.
The story is more about redemption, hence the title, rather than being an asshole/criminal.
The biggest thing that annoys me is that I have yet to find an accurate list that has all the animals on it. Going for the Unnatural Selection trophy is a bitch when you have no idea how many more animals you have to find.
Except you can't fuck the whores in this one.
A "perfect score" does not mean the game is perfect. No game can be objectively be determined as perfect. All a "perfect score" means is that, in the reviewers opinion, the game is really fucking good, great even.
Of course, if all the assholes that complain about "perfect scores" would try games that rated less than an 8, then maybe the review scale could widen out from the 7-10 range it's at now.
Is there another version we don't know about?
I think the point zorglub is trying to make is while it's a parent's right to control what their kids see, it's kind of ridiculous to be so uptight about sex, something that almost everyone will experience and is generally considered a good thing, more so than violence, something that most people won't experience firsthand and is generally considered bad.
I wish someone would redo battlechess. That game was fucking awesome.
Pachter's been accused of being a 360/MS fanboy for years and he's just throwing it out there to fuck with people.
All it will take for people to realize it is for Respawn to release a game. Everyone knows that non-Infinity Ward CoDs aren't as good as the one's produced by IW. Now that Infinity Ward is no more, CoD will slowly circle the drain for a few more years until Respawn releases their new IP.