Hmmm. I wonder if the reason the street date for this game was broken early was to get ahead of the torrent of awful reviews?
While aggregating reviews I normally give some allowance for some reviewers' biases, quirky tastes or outright mistakes. One, two or even three poor reviews I can reasonably disregard as within this margin of error (same with overly generous ratings). But any more than that can no longer be explained away so easily. This game has now earned enough thumbs down to convince me that the complaints against it are more real than made up.
I feel bad because I had high hopes for this ...
I have just about had it with this "only possible on blu-ray" crap. A game may yet come that will demonstrate the benefits of the extra storage capacity, but this also-ran is definitely not it. Did they fill the disk up? Doubtless. But the question is, with what? Sometimes more is better, but other times more is just... more. I'm not saying this game is no good, far from it. But tagging it as "only-possible-on-blu-ray " does nothing but raise more unreasonable expectations...
In this specific case, some negative buzz may actually be beneficial. Too much hype can lead to unreasonable expectations that even a good game cannot meet. Recently we've seen how miserable some people felt when certain highly anticipated titles received mixed reviews. That's the danger of promising too much. There's already so much excitement surrounding Mass Effect that it may be wise to dampen things a bit so that the game isn't robbed of the opportunity to deliver some pleasant surprises...
This piece of FUD has already been busted. Whatever copy protection there is does not meet the definition of a "root kit." The source article had already printed a retraction before this was approved.
PS3 devotees must reward Ubisoft with not just good, but great sales for its painstaking approach. Otherwise, it and other developers will not find pouring such extra effort into PS3 titles economically viable and will adopt the more expedient approach of EA.
Let's see how this title does at the charts.
Rub it in, will you?
I've said this before and I'll say it again. I don't believe the wii competes directly with the 360, or at least not yet. No serious gamer looking for a 360 will settle for the wii, and not many casual or first-time gamers drawn to the wii's simplicity will immediately warm up to the more intimidating 360. Each machine offers a vastly different gaming experience, and thus caters to a different market. Based on my own personal experience, they complement, instead of supplant each other. The w...
You kids should read the actual text of the review instead of fixating on the numerical score. Praise has been pretty unanimous thus far. The only remaining argument is whether it's "just" very good or very very good. It's telling that a 9/10 is viewed with disappointment in this case.
I'm intensely curious about this game and really want it to turn out well, because then I'll have that much more to look forward to when I get around to buying a PS3. But it seems that the initial trickle of reviews all come from friendly publications. This smacks of a deliberate marketing strategy to generate early positive momentum either to counteract or even to discourage potential negative reviews down the road. Nothing wrong with that really, but it worries me because it betrays an unde...
Oh, just you all wait. Some no-name reviewer is going to pan this game and ding it with a lowball score just to make a splash and generate site traffic. It's done to great movies and I don't see why they won't do it to great games.
I bought my 360 Elite as soon as the 3 year warranty was announced. That was before the price drop, and I'm not even sure mine has the beefed-up heatsinks. Since I made my purchase Microsoft has improved the hardware and cut the price. If that's supposed to make me feel bad then I'm too dumb to figure it out, because so far it's been no skin off my nose. I enjoy my console the same way now as I did before the improved version came out. If you have a job and a real life, then you would know t...
Moore's point, whether you agree with him or not, is that Sony absolutely needs to do well in Japan. MS did try to do better there and should certainly be disappointed that nothing it has tried seems to be working. But the difference is that MS has always been prepared for the possibility that it may flop again in Japan. Its global business strategy remains sustainable even if it does poorly there. Sony, on the other hand, cannot afford to be a distant second on its own turf while it is third...
The three-year warranty was enough to persuade me to finally buy one a couple of days ago. Am I worried that the hardware may be flimsy? Sure. But this flimsy console has a ton of games out right now that I've been itching to play for a long time, and I can't wait anymore. I'm currently having a blast playing Gears, and as soon as I'm done with that I have Crackdown, Oblivion, GRAW and Lost Planet lined up. I would have bought more games but I freakin ran out of cash, and since I have a real ...
I personally can't get with the whole premise of this article. While I've recently bought a 360 (3 year warranty did me in), that didn't suddenly make Sony "the other side" as far as I'm concerned. I don't self-identify based on which consoles I own. I own the consoles, not the other way around. I won't waste any time wishing Sony's exclusives get ported becuase that's just dumb. If I want them badly enough I'll get a PS3 to play them. Problem solved.
I wasn't in any ...
It may be too early to declare a winner in the console race, but is it too early to declare a loser? Despite blistering sales, the wii hasn't caught up with the 360 yet. If we assume the wii will take the lead by the end of the year, it will have taken about a year for the wii to make up the 360's head start. But if the wii takes that long to get it done, is it still realistic to expect the PS3 to do the same within the lifespan of the current generation? For the PS3 to surpass the 360 within...
I don't think the wii is competing directly with the 360 or the PS3. Nobody that wanted either the 360 or PS3 is going to settle for a wii, and lots of people buying the wii were never interested in a 360 or PS3 in the first place. The closest direct competitor to the wii is actually the PS2.
A price drop for the PS3 will trigger a matching drop for the 360, cancelling out most of the benefit to Sony while increasing its per unit loss. Unfortunately, now that the cat's out of the bag, they might as well go through with it, because people are going to postpone purchases until the discount arrives. How dumb was it do discuss this in public?
At least, talk of a PS3 price cut will likely cause people to hold off on buying 360s as well.
That's spreading it on a little too thick.
Nowhere in Ubisoft's official statement is the verb "drop" used. By paraphrasing the announcement, the poster effectively changed the entire meaning of the original statement. "Drop" tends to imply that something that had been in the works has been permanently shelved. But if one closely parses the words Ubisoft PR used, that is not what they mean at all. In fact, after adding in all that junk about "future partnerships" they actually end up saying nothing new de...