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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20107 |  imfagentsamfisher (235) Mar 21, 2008 - 02:19 pm
| | This sure reeks of corporate politics. Why now? Why only Guitar Hero and Rock Band and not other music games? Because Activision is apparently getting unsteady in their support for Gibson and now they recognize Rock Band is also a nice, juicy target to go after. I'm generally conservative, but this is the kind of corporate BS that makes me want to picket big businesses with all the liberals. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20087 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Mar 20, 2008 - 12:57 pm
| How the hell do you do a Clancy MMO? That's probably the most dumbass idea I've ever heard. Hey, everyone, let's do an MMO Splinter Cell. Or an MMO Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon. All of which are based around small teams working together (in Splinter Cell's case *only one person*), all of which are pretty much the only team of their kind. (Only one Rainbow, only one Ghost Recon force last time I checked, and only a handful of Splinter Cells.)
I suppose you can do an EndWar MMO and get away with it, but the only reason anyone's paying attention to that title is the voice-control command (which admittedly very cool), so there's no real setting or reason to stick players there.
The only reasonable way for them to pull this off is to do a generic war game, like that WWII MMO done a while back, and it should be just as exciting. (Not.) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19690 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Feb 22, 2008 - 05:55 am » Edited on Feb 22, 2008 - 05:55 am
| I agree with you, though in response to your question of why they named it Far Cry 2 I have two reasons:
1) The game arguably keeps the same open-ended gameplay that made Far Cry work so well, though with a new twist. (How well that will play out we'll have to wait and see.)
2) This is probably the main reason: Which do you think people will pay more attention to when they walk into the store: Far Cry 2, or some new, unheard-of name? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19574 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Feb 14, 2008 - 01:36 pm » Edited on Feb 14, 2008 - 01:36 pm
| I don't buy it. Why not Jade Empire or Neverwinter Nights? (Baldur's Gate would be pushing it either way, it's a little old even if this were true.) Where's Star Wars: Battlefront, Destroy All Humans!, and Full Spectrum Warrior for Pandemic?
True, Black, Skate, and Boogie have all already come out, but very recently, and KOTOR 1 (BioWare's one, the only one they'd reference) is becoming an old game now. I wouldn't consider KOTOR 1 and those other games on the same level. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19534 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Feb 13, 2008 - 01:47 pm
| | The competition in the Blu-Ray will come from amongst the hardware manufacturers and the movie distributors themselves competing for customer's attention. Unlike HD-DVD, which only has Toshiba, Blu-Ray has multiple hardware manufacturers, which means that there will be multiple Blu-Ray drives competing with each other for consumer attention. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19273 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Jan 28, 2008 - 09:10 am
| Dammit, you beat me to the punch. I was going to say the exact same thing.
Bought Desert Storm, hated it. Tried Desert Storm II, wondering if they'd learned their lesson. They hadn't. Tried Global Terror, since it was a new setting, thought I'd give them another chance. Still sucked.
It's almost like Uwe Bolle, if you think about it. Each iteration sucks ass but somehow they keep getting made. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19080 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Jan 12, 2008 - 07:37 pm
| Agreed, the game's a classic because of it's impact and high-quality at the time. Today it's clearly outdated by the general progress of first-person shooters. Few games can really stand the march of time, and Goldeneye sadly isn't one of them.
But if they do come out with it, more power to 360 owners. It'll definitely be a good Arcade title, at the least. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19081 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Jan 12, 2008 - 07:25 pm » Edited on Jan 12, 2008 - 07:29 pm
| He's actually had this position for a while. I remember him talking about this same thing about a year and half back during an interview with NeoGAF.
I personally really like the idea. Is it such a bad thing to have one universal hardware standard--even if it's not the best it could be--in favor of more diverse choice selection of games that are also arguably higher quality because of, like Jaffe said, the ability of devs to focus on just one platform?
Think about it. If the important thing was the quality of hardware, then the Playstation 3 would be dominating Microsoft and the Xbox 360. Instead the 360 is beating out the PS3 because overall it has a more diverse selection of games. It's winning because it ultimately beats the PS3 on the software end of things.
I don't think it's very realistic: Console manufacturers will probably never agree to it, but I certainly like the one-console idea in principle.
EDIT: Possibly a better idea--I have no idea how this would be implemented--would be to have a universal software standard for consoles, so they all have the same games but also the same online services, which would allow for complete cross-platform multiplay (as well as download services, leaderboards, achievements, etc.), and also the hardware standards (CPU, video card, etc.) would be universal. The console makers then have to compete via price and console quality to get consumers to buy their console instead of their competitor's. This would be the best of both worlds, in my opinion. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18871 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Dec 23, 2007 - 09:07 pm » Edited on Dec 23, 2007 - 09:07 pm
| | Yeah, but this is saying that the novel indicates a direct sequel to Mass Effect. I'm saying that it should be old news, considering that, if I remember correctly, BioWare had said that they were planning an overall story arc covering three games. (Which, if you think about it, is pretty unusual for BioWare: The only sequel to their own game that they've done is Baldur's Gate II. All their other games have been original projects.) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18670 | imfagentsamfisher (235) Dec 10, 2007 - 01:33 pm
| | If I remember correctly, part of the whole "desperation" thing with HD-DVD players being so cheap was that Toshiba was actually losing a lot of money, therefore cutting prices would be seen as desperate. So if Samsung is losing money as well, or if my memory's completely off, you definitely have a valid point. Flag this | Edit this post |
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