This is a great article and very well written. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
Here is my comment from the site:
"You asked for commentary on the seemingly flat alien races, so I am here to contribute.
I see where you are coming from with your criticism of the “human-alien” that is dominant in Mass Effect 2. However, I believe that in many ways this was the point. Throughout both games there are many comments on how humans are incredi...
There's a lot of crap in them there hills, but many many gems.
Some of my favorite games from days of yore include:
Baldur's Gate (1 and 2, plus expansions)
Neverwinter Nights (1 and 2)
Battlefield 1942 (Multiplayer anyway... might not be worth it now. Much better than 1943.)
Knights of the Old Republic (1 and 2... though two was kind of disappointing near the end. Since, you know, they didn't really finish it.)
E...
And since it's marked 'Article' and not 'News' or something similarly inappropriate, I honestly don't see why not.
Then again, maybe if it had some tits in it, the approval would go a little faster...
I specifically mentioned Mass Effect, an Xbox 360 exclusive. It's not that I don't agree with you--pretty much every other Xbox exclusive has been pretty bad--but there is an exception and it's a big one.
... but at least you posted that in the Open Zone...
But in all seriousness... how about Mass Effect? Mass Effect 2? The third one?
I dunno... just that series makes the purchase and the wait worthwhile for me.
Don't use punctuation much? :p
If I'm reading that right, you're saying that PC gamers tend to be more dedicated to their games and platform than the typical console gamer. Is that correct?
I think I might actually agree with you (though your writing hurts my head). Back when I was a PC gamer, I used to play through the commercial content and almost immediately move on to user generated content. Many times the user generated stuff was better than the stuff the st...
@ColdFire
You make a good point re:not purchasing games from a shop. I wonder if a lot of these folks bemoaning the end of PC gaming are taking into account the success of Steam and other digital distribution angles (Digital River, etc).
If they're not, they are missing a huge sales avenue in their calculations...
http://social.bioware.com/f...
It sucks that they pulled it, but I have to say that if my specializations were nuked because of it I would have been royally pissed...
I just wish BioWare/EA would straighten themselves out here--since the release they hav...
I can't wait... ME1 had an amazing soundtrack. I used to just let the map music play in the background while I did other stuff.
And thought FFVII was the beginning of the end... :p
Despite that, I think you're totally right though. Regardless of the amount of fail in the new games, the franchise will keep selling because it is so tightly tied with the essence of gaming. Without a new FF game every few years, things would just feel... wrong.
So in that respect, I guess the answer to the question posed in the title is: 'No. There will be more.'
I mean, hell, the entire article is based around a fanboy statement (not to mention the title):
"I am going to come flat out and say this right now. Sony's PS3 is the system for hardcore FPS fans."
There is inflammatory and then there is downright ridiculous. Doesn't this violate the rules of article posting already?
"When Natal was announced, I cringed. Not because it was a motion sensing peripheral but because it was obvious what they were trying to do: crack the 'casual' market.
The way they were selling it on stage, the applications that they showed us all reeked of "we want our own Wii and this is the way we're going to do it." (Imagine that same sentence but in an old folks' home. There's a feature film in there somewhere.)"
That's from the excerpt up ab...
Would it make you feel better if it was entitled: "How Project Natal May or May Not Be Better than the Wii at capturing the Casual gamer market"?
I'm sorry, but the title is completely appropriate... it's not like the "Obama is a Racist!" headlines that ran a few months back...
@Roper316 -- Touché. Your wit is immense.
I want it to kick ass... I'm really looking forward to it, but I can't say for certain what types of games I'd like to play with it. :\
It's about the marketing of the product and target demographic. The idea here is that it doesn't matter if the product kicks major behind, it's the analysis of what will happen if they continue down their current marketing avenue; i.e. 'casual' gamers.
At least reply with something that indicates you may have taken the time to read the article before freaking out over the title...
This is a great opinion piece and I find myself agreeing whole-heartedly with his assessment of Natal's target market and how it will fail.
Does this mean that the rest of the gaming world is going to ignore such a cool new piece of technology? Probably not, but people like the my parents or your grandparents pic aren't going to give two sh*ts if they can do DDR in real-time.
I spent forty-five minutes with a group of friends trying to play a single online match back before the last patch.
We landed in a no-time-limit-double-points-18 -player-Rust-match every time during the course of that night.
By the end we just opted for our own Private Matches...
The next night I somehow managed to pop into one of those No Reload/Unlimited Ammo matches and recorded the TV while I played through. I could only do one though... it's not ...
World at War had a multiplayer campaign co-op mode (and Kiefer Sutherland voice-overs)...
Actually, I just wrote an article about it that is getting buried on the third page of Pending articles now that compares Call of Duty 4 to Modern Warfare 2.
Honestly, after spending the time thinking about it, I found MW2 to be discouragingly underwhelming when compared to its predecessor. That's pretty friggin' sad... :\
@ 3.5
"Always on" connections like cable and DSL do have dynamic IP addresses assigned and while they tend to stay the same, it is never a guarantee. After a certain amount of time, any ISP will re-use an available IP address.
For example, if you lose power to your house for a couple days or there is some billing messup, your modem goes off and someone else gets a modem activated in the same IP block after that predetermined amount of time, there is a chan...